[newbie-it] Sound
Ho un soundblaster del tipo creative AVE 64, qunado guardo su DarkConf vedo cche e installato, pero se qunado voglio ascoltare qualce CD or qualce Mp3 non sento nesun sound. Cosa posso fare, sono un pricipante su Linux? Grazie
R: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk
io sono riuscito instalare linux sul secondo disco solo da instalazione expert facendo partycioni. -Messaggio originale-Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di emi80Inviato: sabato 7 aprile 2001 0.09A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Oggetto: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk Un po' di tempo fa c'era stata una discussione sul fatto che linux mandrake potesse essere installato sul secondo HD. A riguardo avrei una domanda da fare: ho aggiunto un altro hard disk al mio computer e vorrei installare linux sul secondo. Il problema e': se sul primo installo win e lascio vuoto il secondo (senza formattarlo) e faccio l'installazione raccomandata, linux viene installato sul secondo? Faccio questa domanda perche' tale installazione e' l'unica che mi funziona. Se cerco di fare le partizioni da me, sebbene sono certo che siano giuste, mi da' errore nell'installazione. grazie
R: [newbie-it] Re: Modem Conexant
E' bello vedere che SIAMO riusciti a superare un ostacolo cos difficile! Le prime volte che ho utilizzato il driver Olitec avevo cambiato anche la stringa di inizializzazione da ATZ in AT e risultava l'unico modo per far funzionare il mio modem. Adesso non funziona +! Ho provato con la stringa di chiamata ATX3DT, che ha funzionato una sola volta... Da allora il risultato solo un antipatico NO DIALTONE. E' possibile che utilizzando queste soluzioni "precarie" abbia danneggiato in qualche modo il modem? Demis Cortello (dex) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] SUSE 7.1
Con Linux Magazine di aprile e' uscito il CD di SUSE 7.1. Volevo provare questa versione con il kernel 2.4 ma il cd non parte all'avvio.Ho provato in vari modi ma non ci sono riuscito. Sul readme si legge che alcuni bios non potrebbero supportare il boot di questo cd . Come devo fare per avviare l'installazione ?
Re: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk
Potresti impostare l'HD ide per Linux come primario e quello con Win come secondario ( come ho fatto io... ) e in questo modo mandrake si installera' direttamente sul primario senza alcun problema e senza nessuna partizione. - Original Message - From: bartosz szarata To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 10:43 AM Subject: R: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk io sono riuscito instalare linux sul secondo disco solo da instalazione expert facendo partycioni. -Messaggio originale-Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di emi80Inviato: sabato 7 aprile 2001 0.09A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Oggetto: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk Un po' di tempo fa c'era stata una discussione sul fatto che linux mandrake potesse essere installato sul secondo HD. A riguardo avrei una domanda da fare: ho aggiunto un altro hard disk al mio computer e vorrei installare linux sul secondo. Il problema e': se sul primo installo win e lascio vuoto il secondo (senza formattarlo) e faccio l'installazione raccomandata, linux viene installato sul secondo? Faccio questa domanda perche' tale installazione e' l'unica che mi funziona. Se cerco di fare le partizioni da me, sebbene sono certo che siano giuste, mi da' errore nell'installazione. grazie
Re: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk
emi80 wrote: Un po' di tempo fa c'era stata una discussione sul fatto che linux mandrake potesse essere installato sul secondo HD. A riguardo avrei una domanda da fare: ho aggiunto un altro hard disk al mio computer e vorrei installare linux sul secondo. Il problema e': se sul primo installo win e lascio vuoto il secondo (senza formattarlo) e faccio l'installazione raccomandata, linux viene installato sul secondo? Faccio questa domanda perche' tale installazione e' l'unica che mi funziona. Se cerco di fare le partizioni da me, sebbene sono certo che siano giuste, mi da' errore nell'installazione. grazie io, da perfetto ignorante, ho fatto esattemente come te...e tutto ha funzionato...ho aggiunto un secondo hd, sul primo ho uindos e sul secondo ho linux e le partizioni se le create lui in fase di installazione...io gli ho semplicemente detto di utilizzare il secondo hd... spero di esserti stato di aiuto... ciao, osva salutatemi a bilgheiz
RE: [newbie-it] SUSE 7.1
On 07-Apr-2001 Francesco Speranza wrote: Con Linux Magazine di aprile e' uscito il CD di SUSE 7.1. Volevo provare questa versione con il kernel 2.4 ma il cd non parte all'avvio. Ho provato in vari modi ma non ci sono riuscito. Sul readme si legge che alcuni bios non potrebbero supportare il boot di questo cd . Come devo fare per avviare l'installazione ? Forwardo da un'altra ml, fermo restando che puoi creare un floppy per il boot dell'installazione utilizzando rawrite e l'immagine di boot contenuta nel cd stesso(insomma come si faceva una volta quando i cd-rom non bootavano): Salve, SuSE fornisce una patch per rendere avviabile il CD di Linux, trovatetutte le istruzioni al seguente indirizzo WEB: http://www.suse.de/it/linuxmagazine_bootfile.html Scusandoci per l'inconveniente, Le auguro buon proseguimento di giornata.
Re: [newbie-it] linux sul secondo hard disk
bosva ha scritto: emi80 wrote: Un po' di tempo fa c'era stata una discussione sul fatto che linux mandrake potesse essere installato sul secondo HD. A riguardo avrei una domanda da fare: ho aggiunto un altro hard disk al mio computer e vorrei installare linux sul secondo. Il problema e': se sul primo installo win e lascio vuoto il secondo (senza formattarlo) e faccio l'installazione raccomandata, linux viene installato sul secondo? Faccio questa domanda perche' tale installazione e' l'unica che mi funziona. Se cerco di fare le partizioni da me, sebbene sono certo che siano giuste, mi da' errore nell'installazione. grazie io, da perfetto ignorante, ho fatto esattemente come te...e tutto ha funzionato...ho aggiunto un secondo hd, sul primo ho uindos e sul secondo ho linux e le partizioni se le create lui in fase di installazione...io gli ho semplicemente detto di utilizzare il secondo hd... spero di esserti stato di aiuto... ciao, osva salutatemi a bilgheiz Anch'io non ho avuto problei con l'installazione sul 2 hd, basta dire a mandrake di utilizzarlo e provvede a lla formattazione da solo, cliccando su alloca automaticamente, se usi l'installazione automatica. Se vuoi puoi anche ridimensionare una eventuale partizione fat indicando la dimensione voluta, per solo con la procedura custom. Saluti
Re: [newbie-it] napster C.
ioadamo wrote: ciao a tutti Qualcuno di voi sa per caso indicarmi qualche clone di napster che funzioni sotto linux e i risultati che avete ottenuto. Io ho usato Knapster, Gnapster, Lopster, napster, ma non sono riuscito a scaricare quasi nulla perch molti server rifiutavano la connessione e molte connessioni si interrrompevano frequentemente. Grazie per ogni vostro consiglio. ciao fede Io uso Gnapster, mai avuto problemi; usi Napster sotto Windows? Problemi, l? Corrado
[newbie] Space
Hi All need more space how can i do this with out reinstall O's Mandrake 6.1 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/hda7 1.9G 1.7G 144M 92% //dev/hda1 23M 786k 21M 4% /boot/dev/hda5 5.6G 3.0G 2.2G 58% /home/dev/hdc 612M 612M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom/dev/hdd 631M 631M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom1 Michael FalzonLast Of The BBs SysopMozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBshttp://mozysswamp.yi.orgRegistered Linux user #204397
Re: [newbie] a.out .. I couldn't run it
Did you try: ./a.out ? Also, I'm not sure if it matters or not, but is the path of a.out in your .bashrc file? Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde
RE: [newbie] ADSL setup
Dave, Thanks in advance for the help.what's already been provided is greatly appreciated. 1. Ran netconf. verified corrected outlined info. 2. Quit netconf; had to manually restart network. A. error reported: done-with error Bringing up interface eth0 determing IP info for eth0 via dhpcd...failed. /sbin/dhpcd already running /sbin/dhpcd:if not then delete /var/run/dhpcd-eth0.pidfile 3. #locate dhcpcd-command not found #find dhcpcd-no such file or directory 4. #ifconfig Link Encap: Local Loopback net addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX Packets: 2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX Packets: 2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txquelen:0 Hope this covers any dx need dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Sherman Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ADSL setup Dan, As root, run netconf and make sure you are using dhcp for your ethernet card. Click the "Host name and IP network devices" button. In the next dialog, click the "Adapter 1" tab. The Enabled box should be checked (indented), and Dhcp should be selected. The Net device should show eth0, and the Kernel module should show your NIC driver (eepro100, for the Intel Pro/100 NIC I received from Qwest). Accept any changes. Next, click the "Name server specification (DNS)" button. You should have Qwest's domain name server IP addresses in the text boxes for "IP of name server 1" and "IP of name server 2". If not, enter them. If you don't know, use 204.147.80.1 for the first, and 204.147.80.5 for the second. You do NOT need to check the "DNS is required..." box. Accept any changes. Quit netconf. If you made any changes, then netconf should prompt you to restart networking. If it doesn't, you will need to do it manually (in a terminal, as root): /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart If the command fails, then read the error message. It may be that dhcpcd (the dhcp client daemon) is not installed, and therefore you are unable to use dhcp to get your network config. If this is the case, run rpmdrake and install dhcpcd. Then start networking again, as with the restart command above. If you're not sure, try locate dhcpcd. My output looks like this: [root@numidea dave]# locate dhcpcd /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.cache /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid /usr/share/doc/dhcpcd-1.3.19pl1 /usr/share/doc/dhcpcd-1.3.19pl1/README /usr/share/man/man8/dhcpcd.8.bz2 /sbin/dhcpcd [root@numidea dave]# Note the last item, /sbin/dhcpcd. This is the actual program you need. If you have dhcpcd installed and running, then in a terminal, run ifconfig. You output should look something like this: [root@numidea dave]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:1B:EC:68 inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:17014 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5943 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 [root@numidea dave]# Note the IP address of device "eth0". If you only have "lo" but no "eth0", then your network card isn't initialized -- probably because the dhcp client is either not installed, or not running, or else the driver module failed to load. If you know which module your NIC needs, try "modprobe modulename". If you get an error message, troubleshoot -- wrong module? hardware conflict? module already loaded (this one is ok, that means the driver is already running)? Try restarting networking again (see command above). Next, run route -n. Here's my output (sorry about the column formatting): [root@numidea dave]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 [root@numidea dave]# See the third line, starting wiith 0.0.0.0 -- this is your default route. Notice that it is linked to eth0 (last column). Notice the Gateway column. The Gateway entry is the internal IP of your Cisco 678 router. It might not be 10.0.0.1, I don't know if Qwest configures them all the same or not. But if you have a default gateway entry, then it is timie to try and get online. Just launch Netscape. Hopefully a page will load. If not, then try pinging 64.37.137.83 (www.sony.com). If you can ping the IP
Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 LM 8.0 Beta 3 experiences
El Sbado 07 Abril 2001 11:58, escribiste: Alan was gracious enough to try an help with the KDE 2.1.1 update for LM 7.2, but to know avail, all I got were pages of dependancy errors. So i reinstalled LM 7.2 two more times after that because once software updates would not work, and could not send email, now I think it is stable just a few update problems LICQ and KDElibs. I follow the Eric Indiogine instructions, and everything go fine: 1. download all the rpms to a directory 2. test using: rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm 3. take care of all mising stuff (go to www.rpmfind.net and do search there) Personally, I only need to download libfreetype.so.6 and sgml-tools 4. cd directory with kde rpms + files downloaded at 3. 5. rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm (Eric sugest rpm -Uvh *.rpm, but for me don't works) 6. rpm --rebuilddb 7. update-menus -v 8. restart PC Good luck Carlos
[newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Value
Many thanks to all those who helped with my problem of upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 .. I was finally able to get things working (after spending literally hours weeding through all the dependency issues there were). Everything seems to work just wonderfully, except for my sound card. The module is loaded correctly at boot, and within KDE. The KDE Control Center recognizes the sound card just fine, but no sound comes out. Any ideas? Terry __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Shutdown with power down; how?
On Saturday 07 April 2001 11:24, Craig Hagerman wrote: While I am on the subject, where can I change permissions to allow non root users to shutdown from a terminal. (I am the only user.) Tried using sudo?
[newbie] Verisign Digital IDs and Linux. Do they work?
Hi everybody, Has any one bothered to get a digital ID from Verisign? And, what is a challenge phrase? Is it worth getting? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Turbo Charged Penguin Email
Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live! Value
On Saturday 07 April 2001 11:23 am, you wrote: Many thanks to all those who helped with my problem of upgrading to KDE 2.1.1 .. I was finally able to get things working (after spending literally hours weeding through all the dependency issues there were). Everything seems to work just wonderfully, except for my sound card. The module is loaded correctly at boot, and within KDE. The KDE Control Center recognizes the sound card just fine, but no sound comes out. Any ideas? Terry __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ Do you possibly have a list of the files you had to install and what version they are? I gave up after about 12 hrs of trying cause the dependency list was growing at an exponential rate : )' -- Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
[newbie] linux on a notebook
hello can anyone tell me if i can fit mandrake on a notebook/and how to do this i am using 7.2 thanks in front
Re: [newbie] linux on a notebook
A notebook PC is no different than a desktop PC. If you have enough hard drive space, RAM, and a powerful enough CPU (at least a Pentium), you can install Mandrake Linux on it. However, you should be aware that Mandrake might not have full support for your hardware. This is less of an issue now than it was a few years ago, but brand-new hardware is sometimes still not supported, because a driver has not been written yet, or it is only available in beta quality. Check the hardware compatibility list at Mandrake's website. Just follow the instructions for installation, and you should be fine. Dave On Wednesday 04 April 2001 04:44, thus spake inf rarood: hello can anyone tell me if i can fit mandrake on a notebook/and how to do this i am using 7.2 thanks in front -- "...[W]e preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God." (1 Cor 1:23-24)
Re: [newbie] Creating Calendars
On Monday 02 April 2001 09:57, you wrote: Dear All, I do a bi-montly 5 page newsletter using MSWord. I use the calendar Wizard for the calendars and events. I want to begin to do this I wonder if you could take the template file from MSWord that does the calendars (I'm not sure what it is though) and bring it into staroffice. Also, Word Perfect could probably do it, but I don't think the templates are included in the free version, or maybe they are limited. I did note when I tried WP on linux (free version) there were very few fonts included. I used WP (Corel Suite 8) when I worked at the local Census office, and I made calendars for recruiting with test schedules etc. and it worked rather well. I don't know if that functionality will be repeated in the Linux version. I just downloaded the iceSculptor demo from Cnet.com but to buy it is expensive, I think-$79.99. This program is supposed to be able to create LaTeX :). You can do anything with it, but the learning curve is quite steep. It's more of a text processing language than a word processor, since you edit the files in any plain ascii editor and then process them through LaTeX. But it's been around for years on Linux (predates it in fact) and you can probably find style files to do what you want. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] Partition Corrupted.
On Tuesday 27 March 2001 08:21, you wrote: I have 64 MB SWAP in my Linux Mandarake 7.2 box, i want to make it 125MB, can i do it without re installation ? Can i do it without data loss ? i If you have extra space somewhere else, you don't even have to resize your partitions if you add secondary swap space as a swap file. Swap files are slower than regular swap partitions, but since part of your swap already is a partition, you might not notice that much of an impact. As root do something like: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M size=64 # mkswap /swapfile # swapon /swapfile This sets up, formats, and attaches a 64 meg area called swapfile as additional swap space. If you want to make it available on boot, then you'll also need to add it to your /etc/fstab. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 LM 8.0 Beta 3 experiences
g wrote: I just erased LM 8.0 beta 3 and went back to LM 7.2 because i was having problems with screen resolution and other oddities. I haven't had the greatest experience yet with LM 7.2, and it could be because my pc is about 5 or 6 years old Dell Dimensions XPS R400 addl 256K Ram Neither 7.2 or 8.0 beta recognizes my sound card (Crystal Semiconductor) or my graphics card STB nVidia ZX 8MB, get the message Propriatery hardware go to linux.aureal.com - which doesn't appear to exist. So i have to use FBDev for graphics card w/LM 7.2 (there is no FBDev for 8.0 Beta 3, at least that I could find) There is STB 128, but that fell short on the screen resolution - shifted to right and off top of screen I have no clue what to do about sound...Altec lansing speakers are now dust collectors and paper holders. Over the past 3 weeks i have installed LM 7.2 at least 30 times, 8.0 Beta 3 at least 3 times. Alan was gracious enough to try an help with the KDE 2.1.1 update for LM 7.2, but to know avail, all I got were pages of dependancy errors. So i reinstalled LM 7.2 two more times after that because once software updates would not work, and could not send email, now I think it is stable just a few update problems LICQ and KDElibs. It's been an interesting experience - wife and kids want to kill me because none of their software works (MS windows 98 -Math Blaster and Jumpstart collections) I couldn't get LM 7.2 to install with Windows so i wiped out windows, oppps. i even tried to go back to windows 98 but when I go to format the hard drive it errors out, so i'm stuck with Linux until i get another computer for the kids and wife to put MS Windows back on. But for some unknown reason it's addictive, or maybe it's the challenge, not knowing anything about Unix but willing to stake your home life and computer on it. Total spend on my LM 7.2 forray $37, $25 for the LM 7.2 software via Walmart, $12 for CD's so my neighbor could burn LM 8.0 Beta 3 for me. If anyone wants the CD's (2) of LM8.0 Beta 3, send me a self addressed return envelope with postage paid and i'll ship them to ya. They ain't doing me any good. Drop me a note and I'll send ya my address. gwhat size is your hard drive? -- Alan
[newbie] hjow do i resize my /home partition?
i need a little help on how to resize my /home partition, i have a 1.2 gb hdd. i want to resize the area of my harddisk where my programs are installed for linux. since i dont need a whole lot of /home space, i would resize the area where packages are installed so i can load more. i have a 512mb hdd i use for windows 98 (seeing thats the only way i can use my DAMN LT WINMODEM!). rabius 200MHz MMX processor 32 mb of ram 1.2GB, 512MB hdds 2mb S3 vision 964 PCI video card SB AWE32/64 soundcard (recognized but not working uder linux, help if you can..) __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
RE: [newbie] linux on a notebook
--Original Message-- From: "inf rarood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 4, 2001 9:44:05 AM GMT Subject: [newbie] linux on a notebook hello can anyone tell me if i can fit mandrake on a notebook/and how to do this i am using 7.2 thanks in front if you have a hdd big enough you can install linux mandrake. for a big install a 2.5 GB hdd should suffice. if your like me a 1.2GB hdd will do too. __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
[newbie] XFree86-4..
Hello everyone, I've been looking all over the place: How do I get Mdk 7.2 NOT to use XFree86-4.x..x. but good old XFree86-3.3.6 when starting X. I mean which file (and where) can I edit, using DrakConf etc. is not an option if Xwindow will not start. Otherwise: how do I uninstall version 4.0.1 in favour of 3.3.6 as during installation Mdk doesn't give me a choice and 4.0.1 doesn't like my old thinkpad much. -- Semper avanti,sailing on Linux, Harm Bathoorn Free evermore. Hoek. NL. |~ | _ ___|__.__\_|_||_... \___\_|__||_|__|__ _\_Triade__NL__/
[newbie] KDE 2.1.1 + Mozilla 0.8.1 for LM72
Dear friends: Just wanted to pass on the good news that KDE 2.1.1 (the upgrade from KDE 2.1) is now available in i586 rpm format from: http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org All of these i586 rpms (just issued on April 7) have been built from the Cooker site and made available on LM72 (i.e. using our version 3.0 rpm instead of the version 4 rpm required for Cooker's i586 rpms. Another big news item: The new Mozilla 0.8.1 files have also just been made available as i586 rpms for LM72. But please remember: these are UNsupported rpms. They are NOT supported officially by Mandrake. Yours, Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] linux on a notebook
Check out this site http://www.linux-laptop.net you should find anything here. Enjoy yourself R.F. Trettel - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey C." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 4:43 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] linux on a notebook --Original Message-- From: "inf rarood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 4, 2001 9:44:05 AM GMT Subject: [newbie] linux on a notebook hello can anyone tell me if i can fit mandrake on a notebook/and how to do this i am using 7.2 thanks in front if you have a hdd big enough you can install linux mandrake. for a big install a 2.5 GB hdd should suffice. if your like me a 1.2GB hdd will do too. __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
[newbie] Removing a full directory via command line
Hi all, Is there a way to delete a non-empty directory via the command line without going through the trouble of removing every file and sub-directory first? -- Thanks, Andy Mandrake 7.2 KDE 2.1 kernal 2.2.17 Registered Linux User # 202836
Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line
Andrew Iovannisci wrote: Is there a way to delete a non-empty directory via the command line without going through the trouble of removing every file and sub-directory first? rm -r directoryname Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde
[newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!
Dear friends: My deep apologies. I assumed that the KDE 2.1.1 files (and the Mozilla 0.8.1 files) at Texstar (http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org), which claims be an exclusively LM72 rpm site, would have produced rpms that work with LM72's rpm version 3.0 and that they would also supply rpms for all dependencies. That's why I didn't even bother to test their KDE 2.1.1 before making my announcement. Furthermore, while their Mozilla 0.8 (based on the Feb. 17, 2001 version) installs and works perfectly (except for Mozilla's fonts bug in Preferences), their Mozilla 0.8.1 installs with two major error messages, neither of which I understand: 1) runtime mismatch 2) leaking context I've therefore aborted installation of both KDE 2.1.1 and Mozilla 0.8.1. Perhaps Texstar is not aware of the rpm incompatibility issue (LM72 uses rpm version 3, LM-8, i.e. Cooker, uses rpm version 4). My apologies again. Yours, Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 LM 8.0 Beta 3 experiences
gwhat size is your hard drive? 400MHz internal/ 100MHz external L1 cache = 32 KB L2 cache = 512 KB System Chip set = Intel 440BX AGPset Data bus width = 64 bits Address bus width = 32 bits DMA channels = 7 Interrupt levels = 15 Sys BIOS chip = 2 Mb (256 KB) Sys clock = 100 MHz 30 GHz hard drive
Re: [newbie] Vmware
many thanks I'll try to set to these :) On 6 Apr 2001, at 20:09, Nima S. Panahi wrote: Well, I guess I will answer since I don't see anyone answering this. Correct me if I am wrong, but are not the ports at /dev/par0 and the such /dev/parport and the such? /dev/lp0 and the such? On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Syamsul Anwar wrote: I am presently evaluating VMWare too. Which device in /dev points to the parallel port? I have no idea what to get VMWare to use for parallel port emulation. Thanks!
Re: [newbie] Update problems
I've found that force is never good. When using updates, I tell it to quit and then get what it says it needed, then retry. If what it needs isn't on the update list, check your cds (in rpmdrake), or even rpmfind.net. -s On Saturday 07 April 2001 09:32 am, you wrote: I am running LM 7.2. I just completed the updates via DrakConf, Software Updates. Problem: When i get to gtk+licq-0.39-4mdk i get the following error msg Licq s0.85 is needed by gtk+licq-0.39-4mdk Force or Quit. i choose quit I then go to licq and try to update that first, but recv same msg. Same for Kdelibs needs kdelibs-sound Again force or quit So i quit. How do you update these?
Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line
On Saturday 07 April 2001 20:30, you wrote: Yeah, use rm - r directory name make sure that there is no alias for rm that asks for confirmation for deletion, otherwise if you delete a large directory structure, you will get to confirm lots and lots of files. Ahh, I have an alias rm="rm -i" that is forcing me to confirm the deletion of every file. So, how do I get rid of the alias? -- Thanks, Andy Mandrake 7.2 KDE 2.1 kernal 2.2.17 Registered Linux User # 202836
Re: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!
I just installed the KDE 2.1.1 rpms from texstar without a hitch on 7.2. Works fine here. Stan - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar! Dear friends: My deep apologies. I assumed that the KDE 2.1.1 files (and the Mozilla 0.8.1 files) at Texstar (http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org), which claims be an exclusively LM72 rpm site, would have produced rpms that work with LM72's rpm version 3.0 and that they would also supply rpms for all dependencies. That's why I didn't even bother to test their KDE 2.1.1 before making my announcement. Furthermore, while their Mozilla 0.8 (based on the Feb. 17, 2001 version) installs and works perfectly (except for Mozilla's fonts bug in Preferences), their Mozilla 0.8.1 installs with two major error messages, neither of which I understand: 1) runtime mismatch 2) leaking context I've therefore aborted installation of both KDE 2.1.1 and Mozilla 0.8.1. Perhaps Texstar is not aware of the rpm incompatibility issue (LM72 uses rpm version 3, LM-8, i.e. Cooker, uses rpm version 4). My apologies again. Yours, Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line
Andrew Iovannisci wrote: Ahh, I have an alias rm="rm -i" that is forcing me to confirm the deletion of every file. So, how do I get rid of the alias? unalias rm Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde
Re: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!
Dear Stan: Could you please send us a copy of your TexStar KDE 2.1.1 directory of rpms and a second directory of DEP (any dependencies which you had to install prior to installing KDE 2.1.1? This would be a great help, indeed. Thank you so much. Benjamin On Sunday 08 April 2001 01:04, you wrote: I just installed the KDE 2.1.1 rpms from texstar without a hitch on 7.2. Works fine here. Stan - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar! -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line
Prefix it with a backslash. That overrides aliases. \rm -r /home (just kidding about the /home part) Andrew Iovannisci wrote: Ahh, I have an alias rm="rm -i" that is forcing me to confirm the deletion of every file. So, how do I get rid of the alias? -- Thanks, Andy -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
[newbie] Trying for the KDE 2.1 from KDE 2.0
i was not able to update all my LM7.2 packages under DrakConf, Sotware update, rcvd following msg when i tried updating gtk+licq, licq, kdelibs and kdelibs-sound licq is needed by gtk+licq Force or Quit Same for kdelibs and kdelibs-sound I choose quit on both these. So i then went and pulled down KDE 2.1 and followed Alan's instructions and here's what I got. Does the above have anything to do with these error messages or they are not related? [root@dhcp-173-12 Download]# rpm -Uvh * error: apmd-3.0final-12mdk.php3 does not appear to be a RPM package error: autoconf-2.13-6mdk.php3 does not appear to be a RPM package error: automake-1.4-14mdk.php3 does not appear to be a RPM package error: enscript-1.6.1-15mdk.php3 does not appear to be a RPM package error: flex-2.5.4a-13mdk.php3 does not appear to be a RPM package error: gettext-0.10.35-16mdk.php3 does not appear to be a RPM package error: libjpeg-devel-6b-15mdk.php3 does not appear to be a RPM package error: mtools-3.9.7-4mdk.php3 does not appear to be a RPM package error: pciutils-2.1.8-5mdk.php3 does not appear to be a RPM package error: ppp-2.4.0-3mdk.php3 does not appear to be a RPM package error: failed dependencies: pciutils is needed by kdeadmin-2.1-1mdk mtools is needed by kdebase-2.1-2mdk ppp is needed by kdenetwork-2.1-2mdk apmd is needed by kdeutils-2.1-1mdk autoconf is needed by kdevelop-1.4-4mdk automake is needed by kdevelop-1.4-4mdk flex is needed by kdevelop-1.4-4mdk enscript is needed by kdevelop-1.4-4mdk gettext is needed by kdevelop-1.4-4mdk libjpeg-devel is needed by kdevelop-1.4-4mdk How do i fix this?
Re: [newbie] XFree86-4..
I was able to get the option on which version of XFree86 to install when installing in expert mode. I also choose development, but don't think that should matter. The Mandrake installer asked me I think right at the X server configuration. Steve - Original Message - From: "H.J.Bathoorn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 6:15 PM Subject: [newbie] XFree86-4.. Hello everyone, I've been looking all over the place: How do I get Mdk 7.2 NOT to use XFree86-4.x..x. but good old XFree86-3.3.6 when starting X. I mean which file (and where) can I edit, using DrakConf etc. is not an option if Xwindow will not start. Otherwise: how do I uninstall version 4.0.1 in favour of 3.3.6 as during installation Mdk doesn't give me a choice and 4.0.1 doesn't like my old thinkpad much. -- Semper avanti,sailing on Linux, Harm Bathoorn Free evermore. Hoek. NL. |~ | _ ___|__.__\_|_||_... \___\_|__||_|__|__ _\_Triade__NL__/
Fw: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!
- Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Stan Finley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar! Dear Stan: Thanks so very much. I will try again. May I ask if you could send this message to the Newbie list. I think it will be of help to many others. Thanks so much again. Benjamin On Sunday 08 April 2001 02:19, you wrote: Hello Benjamin - I used the link below to download all of the rpms (except those obviously out of country). It was suggested by the texstar site that two other files were needed, ie, freetype2-2.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm and freetype2-devel-2.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm, which I got from a link on the texstar site. I installed the two freetype files first and then started in on the kde rpms from the link below. The unsatisfied dependencies were very few, and were taken care of with the rpms that I downloaded. I found that if unsatisfied dependencies could be fixed with the downloaded rpms, a --nodeps worked fine when required. ftp.du.sp/disk1/mirrors/kde/stable/2.1.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/RPMS That's about all I did. Took about 30 minutes to do it. I even did most of the work while in KDE using the package manager. Good luck with your install. Stan - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Stan Finley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar! Dear Stan: Could you please send us a copy of your TexStar KDE 2.1.1 directory of rpms and a second directory of DEP (any dependencies which you had to install prior to installing KDE 2.1.1? This would be a great help, indeed. Thank you so much. Benjamin On Sunday 08 April 2001 01:04, you wrote: I just installed the KDE 2.1.1 rpms from texstar without a hitch on 7.2. Works fine here. Stan - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar! -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 LM 8.0 Beta 3 experiences
Alan Shoemaker wrote: g wrote: I just erased LM 8.0 beta 3 and went back to LM 7.2 because i was having problems with screen resolution and other oddities. I haven't had the greatest experience yet with LM 7.2, and it could be because my pc is about 5 or 6 years old Dell Dimensions XPS R400 addl 256K Ram Neither 7.2 or 8.0 beta recognizes my sound card (Crystal Semiconductor) or my graphics card STB nVidia ZX 8MB, get the message Propriatery hardware go to linux.aureal.com - which doesn't appear to exist. So i have to use FBDev for graphics card w/LM 7.2 (there is no FBDev for 8.0 Beta 3, at least that I could find) There is STB 128, but that fell short on the screen resolution - shifted to right and off top of screen I have no clue what to do about sound...Altec lansing speakers are now dust collectors and paper holders. Over the past 3 weeks i have installed LM 7.2 at least 30 times, 8.0 Beta 3 at least 3 times. Alan was gracious enough to try an help with the KDE 2.1.1 update for LM 7.2, but to know avail, all I got were pages of dependancy errors. So i reinstalled LM 7.2 two more times after that because once software updates would not work, and could not send email, now I think it is stable just a few update problems LICQ and KDElibs. It's been an interesting experience - wife and kids want to kill me because none of their software works (MS windows 98 -Math Blaster and Jumpstart collections) I couldn't get LM 7.2 to install with Windows so i wiped out windows, oppps. i even tried to go back to windows 98 but when I go to format the hard drive it errors out, so i'm stuck with Linux until i get another computer for the kids and wife to put MS Windows back on. But for some unknown reason it's addictive, or maybe it's the challenge, not knowing anything about Unix but willing to stake your home life and computer on it. Total spend on my LM 7.2 forray $37, $25 for the LM 7.2 software via Walmart, $12 for CD's so my neighbor could burn LM 8.0 Beta 3 for me. If anyone wants the CD's (2) of LM8.0 Beta 3, send me a self addressed return envelope with postage paid and i'll ship them to ya. They ain't doing me any good. Drop me a note and I'll send ya my address. gwhat size is your hard drive? -- Alan Whoa, Alan! And I thought MY experiences were bad. -- Daniel T. Sampsel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Internet security + Harddisk optimise danger + Wheel mouse.
Hi, I've just installed Linux Mandrake 7.2. It's early days yet, but after years of frustration with that other poor excuse for an OS, I'm really looking forward to a stable, sensible environment. All is going well so far, but I do have a couple of concerns, mentioned below. I very much appreciate any advice from the list. -- Harddisk Optimise Danger -- During the installation, I selected 'Use harddisk optimisations', even though there was a warning about possible data corruption in some cases. Is there a real risk of data corruption ? If there is corruption, will it be immediately evident, or might my file system suddenly disappear 6 months down the track ? In case its relevant, my system has a Quantum Fireball Plus LM 15GB disk and a Pentium III 733MHz processor on a Gigabye GA-60XM7E (Intel 815E AGPset) motherboard. -- Internet Security -- Another concern I have is internet security, an issue I unfortunately know very little about. I use the internet throught a dialup connection (PPP) and browse/download with Netscape. I don't forsee any additional needs in the near future. I simply want to ensure that no one can "snoop/mess with" my system while I'm online. I've read a couple of earlier mail's on the subject and I will try the pmfirewall configured with all the defaults (except external interface which I'll set to ppp0), in conjunction with portsentry. I hope this will do the job ? I am not altogether sure what command line arguments I should pass to portsentry or what mode to start it in. Also, can I automate the process of starting portsentry, so that it will be running whenever I make a PPP connection (I understand that pmfirewall does this somehow) ? -- Wheel Mouse -- I have a Trekker Wheel mouse, but haven't been able to configure my system to recognise it. The mouse works fine, as a two-button mouse, under the default configuration, but I've found the wheel/third button very useful under Windows. Does Linux support the wheel, and if so, how might I configure the system to use it ? If there are any other important first steps I should take after a fresh installation, I'd like to hear of them. I think updating the RPM's might be something to look into, but I want to be sure of my internet security before I spend too much time downloading. Thanks for any advice, regards, Charlie.
Re: [newbie] XFree86-4..
On Saturday 07 April 2001 18:15, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello everyone, I've been looking all over the place: How do I get Mdk 7.2 NOT to use XFree86-4.x..x. but good old XFree86-3.3.6 when starting X. I mean which file (and where) can I edit, using DrakConf etc. is not an option if Xwindow will not start. Otherwise: how do I uninstall version 4.0.1 in favour of 3.3.6 as during installation Mdk doesn't give me a choice and 4.0.1 doesn't like my old thinkpad much. When rebooting go to console not in X and mount ur cd-rom if it is not mounted. ie: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt /cdrom Now that Ur cd is mounted insert the mandrake cd and type, cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS We want to use the rpm command to install or overwrite these packages. rpm -Uhv --force XFree86-server-common-3.3.6-18mdk.i586.rpm Now that we have the 3.3.6 server installed, we want to configured Xserver again with the XFdarke graphical program.. type, XFdrake --noauto --expert Configure your card and monitor and Reboot . Hope that solved UR problems ;)
Fwd: Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 and XFree86 4.0.3
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 and XFree86 4.0.3 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:33:27 -0600 From: Salvatore "Eric" Indiogine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], msoltys [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recently I upgraded KDE 2.1 - 2.1.1 with XFree86 4.0.3. I had no problems, but be carefull and follow the instructions. 1. download all the rpms to a directory. 2. test using: rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm 3. take care of all missing stuff ( go to http://rpmfind.net a do search there) 4. su - root 5. telinit 3 6. cd directory-with-kde-rpms 7. rpm -Uvh *.rpm 8. rpm --rebuilddb 9. update-menus -v 10. shutdown -r now 11. login to new KDE Take care, Eric Indiogine On Monday 02 April 2001 07:57, msoltys wrote: Hello All, I installed KDE 2.1 from the rpms and would now like to upgrade to 2.1.1 as 2.1 has some minor annoyances. I notice that the Sourceforge directory where the 2.1.1 fpms are located, also contains rpms for XFree86 4.0.3. Do I need to upgrade XFree in order to run KDE 2.1.1 ? Has anyone tried XFree86 4.0.3 and what do you think. I am running LM 7.2 2.2-17. Thanks, Mickey Soltys ---
Re: [newbie] Internet security + Harddisk optimise danger + Wheel mouse.
I can address only one of the issues, and that is security. I have installed PMFirewall in the past, but now use Linux-Bastille. It is a free firewall and has a very nice gui for configuration. It will explain a bit about what each of the selections are about and advise what is the best thing to be done, although some choices may not fit your setup, in which case you can elect not to take the advice. Anyway it seems to be thorough and lets you know a lot more about what is going on than does PMFirewall. Current release is stable and is a final release candidate. Take a look at the website and then you can decide,http://www.bastille-linux.org/ Enjoy On Saturday 07 April 2001 22:21, you wrote: Hi, I've just installed Linux Mandrake 7.2. It's early days yet, but after years of frustration with that other poor excuse for an OS, I'm really looking forward to a stable, sensible environment. All is going well so far, but I do have a couple of concerns, mentioned below. I very much appreciate any advice from the list. -- Harddisk Optimise Danger -- During the installation, I selected 'Use harddisk optimisations', even though there was a warning about possible data corruption in some cases. Is there a real risk of data corruption ? If there is corruption, will it be immediately evident, or might my file system suddenly disappear 6 months down the track ? In case its relevant, my system has a Quantum Fireball Plus LM 15GB disk and a Pentium III 733MHz processor on a Gigabye GA-60XM7E (Intel 815E AGPset) motherboard. -- Internet Security -- Another concern I have is internet security, an issue I unfortunately know very little about. I use the internet throught a dialup connection (PPP) and browse/download with Netscape. I don't forsee any additional needs in the near future. I simply want to ensure that no one can "snoop/mess with" my system while I'm online. I've read a couple of earlier mail's on the subject and I will try the pmfirewall configured with all the defaults (except external interface which I'll set to ppp0), in conjunction with portsentry. I hope this will do the job ? I am not altogether sure what command line arguments I should pass to portsentry or what mode to start it in. Also, can I automate the process of starting portsentry, so that it will be running whenever I make a PPP connection (I understand that pmfirewall does this somehow) ? -- Wheel Mouse -- I have a Trekker Wheel mouse, but haven't been able to configure my system to recognise it. The mouse works fine, as a two-button mouse, under the default configuration, but I've found the wheel/third button very useful under Windows. Does Linux support the wheel, and if so, how might I configure the system to use it ? If there are any other important first steps I should take after a fresh installation, I'd like to hear of them. I think updating the RPM's might be something to look into, but I want to be sure of my internet security before I spend too much time downloading. Thanks for any advice, regards, Charlie. -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Removing a full directory via command line
I think I sent that message to your real e-mail address instead of the list. Whoops. :-) Anyway... At the command line just type: unalias rm Then rm will no longer be aliased by the shell. Just please PLEASE remember never to run rm -r as root or you face the very real danger of trashing your system. Also, be VERY careful if the directory you are deleting contains symbolic links, because rm -r will follow them. If you have write permissions to the files the link points to, they will be trashed as well. Dan On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Andrew Iovannisci wrote: On Saturday 07 April 2001 20:30, you wrote: Yeah, use rm - r directory name make sure that there is no alias for rm that asks for confirmation for deletion, otherwise if you delete a large directory structure, you will get to confirm lots and lots of files. Ahh, I have an alias rm="rm -i" that is forcing me to confirm the deletion of every file. So, how do I get rid of the alias? -- Ad astra per aspera. [To the stars by aspiration.]
[newbie] Bt878 ATI TV Wonder VE
I have this Tv card and didn't even think it would work in linux but it shows up in HardDrake. So I went looking around and saw that it should work with bttv. It doesn't work with Kwintv as is. Before I start downloading kernel 2.4 and switching around stuff I'd like to make sure that it's not something trivial I need to do to get it to work. Ok HardDrake shows the following: (twice for some strange reson theres two entries for the card) Vendor: Brooktree Corporation Model: Bt878 Kernel Module: bttv Bus Type: PCI and modules.conf has these lines for the card alias char-major-81 bttv alias tvcard0 bttv I just installed Mandrake Freq 3/16/01 on this pc for the first time but I've used linux for awhile. I've never needed to mess with the tv card in it though. If a kernel upgrade and configuring everything by hand will be better than it's no big deal because it's definately going to be needed soon anyway since the net card in this box needs the new tulip and I'd rather use iptables for my network anyway. Thanks in advance for any help with this card. Jeff __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] KDE 2.1.1 for LM72 -- Success After All!
Dear friends: Well, looks like I was wrong again. But this time it's a pleasant surprise. Let's go back to the KDE 2.1.1 upgrade for LM72 site from Texstar at: http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org This site has i586 rpms for LM72 that will allow you to upgrade your current KDE to the final version 2.1.1 I just sucessfully upgraded my KDE 2.1 to KDE 2.1.1 using the instructions and files at Texstar. See my instructions and explanation below. All of these i586 rpms (just issued on April 7) have been built from the Cooker site and made available on LM72 (i.e. using our version 3.0 rpm instead of the version 4 rpm required for Cooker's i586 rpms. Another big news item: The new Mozilla 0.8.1 files have also just been made available as i586 rpms for LM72. But please remember: these are UNsupported rpms. They are NOT officially supported by Mandrake. INSTRUCTIONS: I'll take the blame for my share of the responsiblity for misleading everybody earlier (not once but twice) but the author of Texstar should take his share of the blame, too. When you arrive at Texstar, AVOID any links on the main screen (FTP or HTTP links, etc.). That was my mistake earlier. This is NOT the entrance to the KDE 2.1.1 files. Instead, look at the top left corner of the screen. You will see a penguin (that is NOT a link but should be one). Right below it you will find the link you want: Pclinuxonline. As you can see, it is underlined. Click on it. Now look for the section pertaining to KDE 2.1.1 for LM72. First, download the two freetype2 files freetype2-2.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm freetype2-devel-2.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm and install them first. Then create a KDE-2.1.1 directory and download all the files INDIVIDUALLY. I don't think there is any other way. Here is what my directory looks like. I call it KDE-FINAL: [sher@sher07 sher]$ cd KDE-FINAL [sher@sher07 KDE-FINAL]$ ls XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-devel-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-doc-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-glide-module-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-libs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-server-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-static-libs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm arts-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeadmin-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-devel-static-libraries-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-nsplugins-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-devel-static-libraries-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdepim-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdepim-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesdk-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesdk-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdevelop-1.4.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdoc-2.1.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm koffice-2.0.1-7mdk.i586.rpm koffice-devel-2.0.1-7mdk.i586.rpm libarts2-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libarts2-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libqt2-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm libqt2-devel-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm qt2-Xt-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm qt2-designer-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm qt2-static-libraries-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm [sher@sher07 KDE-FINAL]$ Now, after installing the 2freetype2 files, install the KDE files (all 53 of them, 120.1 meg) as follows: #rpm -Uvh --nodeps --replacefiles *.rpm When I first did an rpm -Uvh *.rpm I got an error message telling me that there was one failed dependency, namely, that kdesu was not installed. That's not true because kdesu is included in kde-base (and is not available separately in LM72). So, there are NO failed dependencies. But some files in KDE2.1.1 must replace certain files in earlier versions of KDE 2 (you must first install KDE 2.0 or KDE 2.01 in order to upgrade to KDE 2.1.1. Installation was a success. All 53 files returned 50 hashes each. There was one error message about a certain font but it said: "skipping." so I am sure everything installed OK. After installation, exit KDE, then in the console do a: #rpm --rebuilddb (rebuilding the database) and #update-menus -v Then reboot and you've got KDE 2.1.1. You can check the Control Center to see the new version number. My thanks to everyone who helped. Hope I have been of help to others, especially to other newbies like myself. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] do you remove a sound card
Hi All Just one thing how do you remove a sound card Why ? had a old sb 8 bit card, with the new m/b it does not have 8 bit ISA port so i had to remove the old card Michael FalzonLast Of The BBs SysopMozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBshttp://mozysswamp.yi.orgRegistered Linux user #204397
