Re: [newbie-it] La stampante funziona !
Alle 00:27, sabato 28 settembre 2002, hai scritto: Volevo ringraziare gli amici della mailing list per il supporto comunicando due notizie: una buona ed una meno. La buona, più importante, è che la stampante Epson 760 Stylus funziona. La seconda, meno buona, è che non saprei dire con esattezza perchè. [CUT] Effettuata la reinstallazione senza che apparentemente fosse cambiato qualcosa ho provato a stampare e questa volta la stampante faceva il suo dovere. [CUT] Probabilmente ho pasticciato qualcosa dopo l'installazione perchè al momento della stessa ho fatto la prova di stampa con successo. Salute a tutti. Francesco ... l'importante è il risultato! ;-) Buone stampe... ciao! Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] script e crisi
Il ven, 2002-09-27 alle 09:46, Mario Lodi Rizzini ha scritto: -- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:35:30 +0200 Subject : [newbie-it] script e crisi ...cut... #!/bin/bash #copia i file rtf su floppy mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy cd /mnt/frodo/da_ARCHIVIARE/SF/RaccontiBallate/Romanzi/Arwan/*.rtf /mnt/floppy Forse dico una grande scemenza però a me era successo che non mi montava il floppy perchè dovevo mettere /dev/fd0 o /mnt/floppy e non entrambi altrimenti occorrevano i privilegi di root. biss
[newbie-it] Creative Sound Blaster 16 SB non funziona
Ho installato Linux mandrake 8.2 con kernel 2.4.18-6 e KDE 2.2.2 - Il pc non suona all'avvio di KDE e il lettore di cd non suona. Lo posso utilizzare solo con la cuffia. Ho verificato i seguenti dati in Mandrake Control Center : VOCE : HARDWARE LISTA HARDWARE SCHEDA AUDIO : CREATIVE LABS SB 16 Nella finestra accanto compare : Produttore : Creative Labs Modello SB16 Modulo del Kernel SB Tipo di bus : ISA OPL3 : SI MPU401 : SI DMA 2/16 : SI sotto compare poi l'invito esegui programma di configurazione clicco e mi trovo l'elenco delle schede audio con già evidenziata la Creative Labs SB 16 Più sotto compaiono le seguenti opzioni : I/O IRQ DMA DMA 16/2MPU401 I/O OPL3 I/O 2105 8 O 330 388 Vado a dare l'OK ma si apre una finestrella che mi segnala : STOP - MODPROBE : CAN'T LOCATE MODULE ISA - PNP Chiudo la finestrella e non posso salvare le modifiche fatte. Per completezza informo che ho anche provato tutti i parametri di DMA16/2 per vedere se c'era un esito positivo. Non sono riuscito quindi nell'intento. Cosa posso fare ? Grazie e saluti. Francesco
Modules install Errror ! was: [newbie] kernel fine tuning.... (=athlon)
Em Sex 27 Set 2002 10:46, Tom Brinkman escreveu: Hi! I have followed all steps until I got this after make modules_install : make:** [_modinst_] Err 1 ln: when there are many links to be made the last argument must be a directory (my translation! my install was in pt-BR!) How can I fix this? TIA Ricardo On Friday September 27 2002 01:15 am, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: Hi, To fine tune the kernel from i586 to athlon. is it just take the source of the currente kernel (mdk) and select athlon (menuconfig) and proceed with the regular make's ? For testing only, this is the only modification I would like for the moment! Using mdk8.1(Intel) and 8.2(athlon)! []s Ricardo Castanho If all you want is to take Mandrake's 'stock' configuation, but compile it for Athlon, then (as root) o Install kernel-source rpm o cd /usr/src/linux o cp .config k7config (note, older kernel-source pkgs might not have the stock .config included. In this case you'll need to get the one in /boot, eg cp /boot/config-2.4.xx-xxmdk k7config ) o use a txt editor to make these changes to k7config # Processor type and features (showing only the lines to change) # CONFIG_M586 is not set CONFIG_MK7=y o edit Makefile and change EXTRAVERSION = this part, and uncomment the line export INSTALL_PATH=/boot o make mrproper o cp k7config .config o make oldconfig o make dep make clean make bzImage make modues o make modules_install make install. o Done, the new kernel is ready (as a choice) when you reboot On the Intel system you'd be better off stickin with i586 -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM 9 scsi problem
I installed Mandrake 9 yesterday, no apparent problems. I tried using my HP 5p SCSI scanner today and xsane can't see it. If I do cat /proc/scsi/scsi both my SCSI devices are recognized. I have a CD burner set up as IDE-SCSI that had been working fine along with the scanner. Now neither work. I notice when I boot the system the first message I get is that the scanner SCSI card driver doesn't get loaded, then I get insmod exited abruptly. Where should start looking for the problem? It's beginning to look like a general SCSI problem. Thanks, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Saturday, September 28, 2002 Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Easy way to have 2 linuces (MDK) running on 2 diff partitions.
FemmeFatale wrote: At 08:45 PM 9/26/2002 +1200, you wrote: large surgical incision Point me or kick me in teh right direction pls!? --- Femme You should be only allowed to have one /boot. I am fairly certain LILO insists on it. Copy these files to a floppy: /boot/vmlinuzXXX /boot/initrdXXX /etc/lilo.conf Make sure the /boot/ files are the real thing and not pointers to the real thing. Then wait one day to make sure i gave these instructions correctly ;-0 RESCUE your old system LILO setup (details given heaps of time on here). Boot to the old (good) install. Copy the vmlinuz and initrd into /boot. Back up lilo.conf. Copy the relevant stanza from the floppy lilo.conf into the active one. Reboot and Bobs your uncle, (Bobs my brother, are you my niece or daughter?) -- Michael From what i've read here on the list and in books, you should have 2 boot partitions ... each one for a different installation. I did ask once about a single /boot partition for all my linux installs but I was told that can be quite tricky. I Know i tried it once, and i ended up fuxoring my whole set of 2 installs in one day :P Not that I mind... It just means I have more to learn More to do. :) Ty for your input Michael. Should call ya Saint Michael just b/c you're so sweet in taking time to answer ppls questions :) Sir Robin certainly believed me... hehe I knighted him a while ago ;p --- Femme There's dual linux boot with a single /boot partition the simplest way to do it. There is dual linux boot with NO /boot partition at all.In this case, there are two boot directories one in each base / of each OS, in which case the boot directory of the second install is the dominent working one and the kernel and initrd files from the first OS install are copied across to the boot directory of the second OS.It's more complicated to set up but works just as well. The simplest way is to create a /boot PARTITION, and let drakX do the rest. As I recall you had a problem with yours because you had a file system that was not ext2, and for some reason the installer would not let you have a kernel install in your /boot partition because of this none ext2 file system. If you had had an ext2 /boot partition I'm sure it would of gone well for you. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] standard edition vs download edition?
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 03:54:59 +0500 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I want to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0, and I want to know if the standard edition from Mdk for $30 USD is the same as the download edition, content wise? I can remember reading somewhere that in Mdk 8.2, there was a difference in the content of the standard cd's from Mdk, and the download version. That the download version actually was more complete. Was that just an anomaly w/8.2? I really want to support Mdk, and $30 is certainly little enough to pay for the cd's. I was wondering about the content though. I'm on a dialup, and downloading large packages is a real pain. ;-) There's been quite a lot of discussion about this on [cooker]. I believe that the 'standard edition' is the download edition plus some commercial demos or similar; the last CD of the download edition is 150MB short because the demos were deliberately left out to save about 10 per cent of total bandwidth per download. I don't know what the demos are, but they could well be things like Hancom Office. From what I've read 9.0 has been carefully set up so that the download edition and the 'standard edition' are interchangeable (less maintenance, and if urpmi asks for CD 2, you can use either CD 2 without confusion setting in). Apparently this was not the case with 8.2. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writer
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 09:57 pm, you wrote: Hi, Can you be more specific about what Toshiba DVD writer you use? The software that you're talking about (MPlayer, Ogle) are only movie player. The software that I'm looking for would be similar to Nero burning in Windows. I'm not quite sure whether X-CD-Roast or gcombust will work with DVD writer. Thanks Vinh N. Pham Vinh, my apologies. I missed the part about you wanting to know about a DVD *writer*. I'm just using a regular DVD drive. Again, my apologies. :-( When I last looked,Mandrake did not appear to have any DVD writer software to work with DVD writers as such, though I did find a version of cdrecord available for a price from that website. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting mount -t smbfs to connect to a windowsFileserver share!
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 00:44, Ralph M. Los wrote: Hey all, Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Always seems to fail no matter what with an error message I can't seem to figure out. Command I'm trying to use: Mount -t smbfs -o username=me,password=pass word //10.0.2.1/share /mnt/win Try the following things. 1) execute the command without the password parameter. Allow smbfs to prompt you for a password after it connects. 2) For some reason ip addresses do not work as well as netbios names sometimes. Use the machine name instead of it's IP 3) if you are still having trouble, I have one magic word for you: Komba2. HTH, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PNY compactflash cardreader works in 9.0
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:36:07 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yessiree, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, the PNY card reader for my Kodak DC3400 camera works like a charm. I use konqueror to open up the /mnt partition and there is memory_card. Click on it and a list of my jpegs shows up, and I can move them all to a folder on my hard drive with no problem. That is the last thing I needed window for, and now I don't. Need windows at all, that is. Ho,Ho,Ho. This might be because, in the Release Client phase, I tried to put _two_ solid state memory readers in at the same time and there was a most entertaining display of fireworks (kernel panics etcetera). A few MB of logs and emails later it was fixed, and I find the 9.0 solid state memory support to be ... solid. Far better than 8.2 - no confusion about whether the device is read+write or read-only, for example! Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] standard edition vs download edition?
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 03:54:59 +0500 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I want to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0, and I want to know if the standard edition from Mdk for $30 USD is the same as the download edition, content wise? I can remember reading somewhere that in Mdk 8.2, there was a difference in the content of the standard cd's from Mdk, and the download version. That the download version actually was more complete. Was that just an anomaly w/8.2? I really want to support Mdk, and $30 is certainly little enough to pay for the cd's. I was wondering about the content though. I'm on a dialup, and downloading large packages is a real pain. ;-) There's been quite a lot of discussion about this on [cooker]. I believe that the 'standard edition' is the download edition plus some commercial demos or similar; the last CD of the download edition is 150MB short because the demos were deliberately left out to save about 10 per cent of total bandwidth per download. I don't know what the demos are, but they could well be things like Hancom Office. From what I've read 9.0 has been carefully set up so that the download edition and the 'standard edition' are interchangeable (less maintenance, and if urpmi asks for CD 2, you can use either CD 2 without confusion setting in). Apparently this was not the case with 8.2. Alastair Many thanks Alastair, exactly what I wanted to know. I think I will order the Standard Edition from Mdk. I don't know if I can wait till probably the end of Oct though 8-( I do have access to a broadband connection (not at home unfortunately), so I may try to download the iso's in the meantime. I can well imagine the servers are very busy right now. Thanks again. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber Reg. Linux User #278931 -- __ Download the FREE Opera browser at www.opera.com/download/ Free OperaMail at http://www.operamail.com/ Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Easy way to have 2 linuces (MDK) running on 2 diff partitions.
At 10:17 PM 9/27/2002 -0300, you wrote: From what i've read here on the list and in books, you should have 2 boot partitions ... each one for a different installation. I did ask once about a single /boot partition for all my linux installs but I was told that can be quite tricky. I Know i tried it once, and i ended up fuxoring my whole set of 2 installs in one day :P ROFL!! ... sorry i don't mean to laugh at you Femme, that sounds just like what i would be constantly doing with my computer if i were not forced to keep it working for my parents to use... aaah the phun i would have.. OMG the PHUN !! ;oP~~ i make one post in the whole day, and all i can come up with is this nonsense.. aghh enough 'stand-by mode' for my brain. i'm off. Damian hehe ya well it can be a total PITA sometimes... and lately I haven't had time to screw things up. Im prepping for three jewellery shows that I attend as a vendor/merchant/jeweller (pick one hat or all). And no offense taken luv --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] standard edition vs download edition?
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:03:41 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that the 'standard edition' is the download edition plus some commercial demos or similar; the last CD of the download edition is 150MB short because the demos were deliberately left out to save about 10 per cent of total bandwidth per download. I don't know what the demos are, but they could well be things like Hancom Office. From what I've read 9.0 has been carefully set up so that the download edition and the 'standard edition' are interchangeable (less maintenance, and if urpmi asks for CD 2, you can use either CD 2 without confusion setting in). Apparently this was not the case with 8.2. The 3 cd dl edition is the same as first 3 cds to be used in the PowerPack. The pkgs contained in the dl edition are partly selected to ensure that any depends required by the commercial apps, which are also to be included in the PowerPack, are met and that such depends and other apps are installed in the proper order. The standard edition is not built in this manner, and though most of the included pkgs will be the same they may not be on the same cd, there will also be some pkgs that are not included because of reason above, and others which are not on the dl that will be included in the standard edition. Charles --- It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writer
On Friday 27 September 2002 09:57 pm, you wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2002 06:50 pm, you wrote: Hi, I'm looking to buy a DVD writer. What brand name that I can use under Linux? Also, what software I should use? Thanks, Vinh N. Pham Hi. I'm using a Toshiba here, and it works fine. I use MPlayer and Ogle. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi, Can you be more specific about what Toshiba DVD writer you use? The software that you're talking about (MPlayer, Ogle) are only movie player. The software that I'm looking for would be similar to Nero burning in Windows. I'm not quite sure whether X-CD-Roast or gcombust will work with DVD writer. Thanks Vinh N. Pham the more recent versions will, as long as you have upgraded the command line utilities they use also, and include one called dvdhack (or somtin like dat) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What kind of program we can run using Win4Lin?
On Friday 27 September 2002 10:12 pm, you wrote: Hi, What kind of program we can run on Linux using Win4Lin? I would expect some program like Office to work but how about program that demand some kind of special communication with the hardware? For example a DVD writer program, a sound card program. My sound card (Turtle Beach) works in Linux but the voice is so low and flat. I'm wondering whether using Win4Lin, I would be able to run the setup program from Turtle Beach to get a better sound? Thanks, Vinh N. Pham just an opinion, but linux runs s much better using it's own filesystems and partitions, that you miss running linux as an emulator. give it it's own install and partitions, and really see it fly, and use the utilities as they were designed to be used. the filesystems and lower level stuff that win4lin fakes with M$ really some of what make linux so damn good. just install it from a cold boot with the cd in the cdrom reader, and it works so smooth you (like most of us) will only go back to M$ when forced (or coerced for money) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM9.0 Hard Disk install problems.
On Friday 27 September 2002 11:08 pm, you wrote: s wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 09:17 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0 using the Hard Disk install procedure and that is where I came across some problems. The installer asked me about the directory or ISO file of the Mandrake Linux Distribution. I gave it the path to where I had the three ISO files. It came back with this error message: I can't find the Mandrake Linux Distribution in the specified directory, (I need the Subdirectory /mandrake/base/). Here's a short extract of the files in the Directory: Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso md5sum.90 Then I tried again and I gave it the path as ./Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso and it proceeded with the install. However it gave me many error messages saying that some rpm files were missing, like the Open Office files and many others. It appears it did not see the other ISO files. Is there a work around to make see the other ISO files? Well, this may not be the way you want, but I found it works well. I mount the isos as loop one at a time and copy them to a directory to install from. Fast accurate installs result. For example: mkdir /mnt/loop mkdir /path/mandrake mount /path/Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake/ umount /mnt/loop mount /path/Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake umount /mnt/loop mount /path/Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake umount /mnt/loop hth, -s I will try this and see if it will work for me now that the base system appears to be working. However, shouldn't the initial install be able to see all three ISOs? It is able to read one why can't it read the other two? I think that would have been better. Thankx, Seedkum are you mounting the isos as an iso filesystem? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0 install problem
what utility did you use to create the partitions? (MS fdisk is not the same as linux fdisk) On Saturday 28 September 2002 12:46 am, you wrote: Hi, all I just download 9.0 and have installation problem here. My disk has 3 partition: #1 - reserved (8G) #3 - mandrake (8G) #4 - swap,data on extend (4G) When I finished DiskDrake mounting partition #3 as /, I got error message like this: ...invalid argument ...fs.pm line 725 and I can't proceed. Any idea to solve this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PNY compactflash cardreader works in 9.0
On Saturday 28 September 2002 01:36 am, you wrote: Yessiree, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, the PNY card reader for my Kodak DC3400 camera works like a charm. I use konqueror to open up the /mnt partition and there is memory_card. Click on it and a list of my jpegs shows up, and I can move them all to a folder on my hard drive with no problem. That is the last thing I needed window for, and now I don't. Need windows at all, that is. Ho,Ho,Ho. congrates, makes me wish I had spent the money for a broadband connection out here in the woods befor now. (but running the cable would sure be expensive) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] I need to configure Xfree/monitor screen black bliking problem
hi, may you help me about this problem? my monitor blinking when I run kde. I need to configure Xfree. I am running Mandrake, I don't know how it is done. I am using: Graphic card: atimach 64 mandrake linux ppc 8.2 kernel version 2.4 .18.6.1 Xfre86 monitor choose/Imac/powerbook: 640x480(15 bits) I run KDE version 2.2.2 thanks for help rhp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 22:50, Jim Fazio wrote: List, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. I believe in reliability in case of crash or power failure, so I use ext3. Civileme likes XFS for it's performance and multimedia abilities. The last thing I read from Sridhar, I think he was messing with Reiser. Not sure what Dfox is doing these days. ;) There are advantages and disadvantages to all the jfs's. Ext3 is rock solid, with a slight performance hit. But it gives you very good recovery, almost trouble free if your hardware is pristine, and it is the only filesystem that offers data journaling mode. The others are metadata journaling filesystems; ext3 does both. XFS can handle terabyte sized files (I think) but cannot support the full set of file attributes that ext3 can. Reiser is reputed by most to be fast, by others to be trouble free, and yet others have had problems. I'm not sure about full file attribute support in Reiser. I suspect most of the reported Reiser problems were with early versions of reiserfs (whic, like much UNIX-speak, I initially mis-read - as REI-serfs!). I managed to completely mangle a Reiser box after a crash by injudicious use of the associated FS tools, but to be fair, the package did come up with one of those big cheery warnings along the lines of This is experimental software and using it can result in your computer being reduced to a heap of melted silicon or whatever. I think recent versions of reiserfs are pretty stable. Having said that, I may try ext3 when I get round to installing 9.0. I have a box at work with ext2, which I definitely don't want (given the frequency of power failures here) so I'll test it on that. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Thank you Carroll! I check the Linux Mandrake site often, so I'll keep looking there for info. Thanx again! Dre---Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Thanx again for your help! Dre---Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
Re: [newbie] Drakfont is dead
Vinh N. Pham wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Windows Fonts to MK 9.0. I had done this sucessfully before with MK8.2. However, this time, after the copying windows font step (to whatever directory I don't know), the drakfont GUI hang there forever without doing the conversion and other steps. I tried to install Windows fonts from a directory but it doesn't work either. Anyone has a way to fix this or a way to install and convert the font manually? I've found Drakfont will sometimes hang for ages, irrespective of the version. Sometimes it eventually gets the job done; sometimes it has to be put out of its misery. Are you sure you didn't install new Windows fonts between tries with Drakfont -usally it's a font it doesn't like which makes it hang. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 06:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Andre Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Thanx again for your help! Dre--- Samba allows networking between Windows and Linux/Unix computers. It comes in 2 parts Smaba-client and Samba-server. Samba-client allows you to browse Windows computers and mount their shares. It is very easy to set up. Just install it and you are then able to mount windows shares. There are many ways to mount the shares. My favourite way is to install a package called komba2 which will give you a nice GUI very like Windows Network Samba-server is more difficult, and allows Windows computers to access shares on your computer. You have to define which folders can be accessed and set up the security system for those who are allowed to access them. You can configure the server in 3 ways. 1/ By editing the file /etc/samba/smb.conf by hand. - This is actually quite easy since the file is full of comments and examples. 2/ By using a web based utility called SWAT Install the samba-swat RPM and then browse to localhost:931 3/ By using a web based utility called webmin. Install the webmin RPM and then browse to https://localhost:1 Webmin manages lots of other services other than Samba and is very good. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On Saturday 28 September 2002 09:05 am, you wrote: Thank you Carroll! I check the Linux Mandrake site often, so I'll keep looking there for info. Thanx again! Dre--- - Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! samba can do all sorts of kwel stuff, but was (as far as I know) first for connecting windows boxes to *nix boxes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] make modules failed and where is the SCSI support?
Hello! I cannot find all the modules for the SCSI support. In the Mandrake 7.2 there was the next modules Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support SCSI emulation support which are now impossible to find! I choose the others modules, I type make dep, make clean, make bzImage and everything is OK. But with make module I have the following messages : [root@localhost linux]# make modules make -C kernel CFLAGS=-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/modversions.h MAKING_MODULES=1 modulesmake[1]: Entre dans le répertoire `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/kernel' make[1]: Rien à faire pour `modules'. make[1]: Quitte le répertoire `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/kernel' make -C drivers CFLAGS=-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/modversions.h MAKING_MODULES=1 modulesmake[1]: Entre dans le répertoire `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers' make -C atm modules make[2]: Entre dans le répertoire `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/drivers/atm' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/modversions.h -g -DKBUILD_BASENAME=eni -c -o eni.o eni.c In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:13, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/prefetch.h:13, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/list.h:6, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/module.h:12, from eni.c:6: /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/page.h:97: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/page.h:97: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/page.h:97: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/page.h:97: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/page.h:97: parse error before `577f4bff'/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/page.h:97: `do_BUG_R_ver_str'declared as function returning a function/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/page.h:97: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/prefetch.h:13, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/list.h:6, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/module.h:12, from eni.c:6: /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:51: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:51: field `loops_per_jiffy_R_ver_str' declared as a function /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:72: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:72: parse error before `0657d037' /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:72: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:252: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:252: parse error before `7413793a' /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:252: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:256: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:459: missing white space after number `7e9' /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:459: parse error before `7e9'/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:459: `kernel_thread_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/asm/processor.h:459: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype In file included from eni.c:6: /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: parse error before `62dada05' /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: `inter_module_register_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: warning: function declaration
Re: [newbie] Drakfont is dead
robin wrote: Vinh N. Pham wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Windows Fonts to MK 9.0. I had done this sucessfully before with MK8.2. However, this time, after the copying windows font step (to whatever directory I don't know), the drakfont GUI hang there forever without doing the conversion and other steps. I tried to install Windows fonts from a directory but it doesn't work either. Anyone has a way to fix this or a way to install and convert the font manually? I've found Drakfont will sometimes hang for ages, irrespective of the version. Sometimes it eventually gets the job done; sometimes it has to be put out of its misery. Are you sure you didn't install new Windows fonts between tries with Drakfont -usally it's a font it doesn't like which makes it hang. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi, I did install some fonts for Windows between the 2 tries. However, I forgot what font I installed. All of them works fine under Windows though because right after I install fonts, I tested it. That come to the question how I can manually, or semi automatically convert fonts to Linux. What I mean by manually is what specific command line I have to type for each step of the process. That way it would be easier for me to spot out the font that cause the trouble. For the semi automatic approach, I edited the /etc/fstab file to remove the mount to the NTFS file system and copy the fonts to a ext3 directory. Drakfont some how stubbornly refuse to install the font from my directory. It keeps saying it can't find any windows font in directories /win*/fonts. Do you have any suggestion? Thanks Vinh N. Pham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] no spell checker in Kmail (9.0)
I can't seem to find the spell checker for kmail in 9.0, I have aspell and Ispell installed. It's probably right in front of me, but I can't find it. no spellchecker icons, nothing in edit or kmail settings..?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:45:45 +, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 22:50, Jim Fazio wrote: List, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. I believe in reliability in case of crash or power failure, so I use ext3. Civileme likes XFS for it's performance and multimedia abilities. The last thing I read from Sridhar, I think he was messing with Reiser. Not sure what Dfox is doing these days. ;) There are advantages and disadvantages to all the jfs's. Ext3 is rock solid, with a slight performance hit. But it gives you very good recovery, almost trouble free if your hardware is pristine, and it is the only filesystem that offers data journaling mode. The others are metadata journaling filesystems; ext3 does both. XFS can handle terabyte sized files (I think) but cannot support the full set of file attributes that ext3 can. Reiser is reputed by most to be fast, by others to be trouble free, and yet others have had problems. I'm not sure about full file attribute support in Reiser. I suspect most of the reported Reiser problems were with early versions of reiserfs (whic, like much UNIX-speak, I initially mis-read - as REI-serfs!). I managed to completely mangle a Reiser box after a crash by injudicious use of the associated FS tools, but to be fair, the package did come up with one of those big cheery warnings along the lines of This is experimental software and using it can result in your computer being reduced to a heap of melted silicon or whatever. I think recent versions of reiserfs are pretty stable. Having said that, I may try ext3 when I get round to installing 9.0. I have a box at work with ext2, which I definitely don't want (given the frequency of power failures here) so I'll test it on that. I've been following the writings of Daniel Robbins, leader of the Gentoo Project and author of the Filesystems Guides at IBM DeveloperWorks. He wrote that ReiserFS has had problems in the past, but in the last few kernel releases it has been very solid. The Gentoo documentation has also been changed to reflect this. If you plan to use LVM, or better yet EVMS, ReiserFS is a good choice. It is both fast (particularly for smaller files) and reliable, and ReiserFS filesystems can be grown and shrunken. XFS can only be grown, and since it is not an official part of the 2.4 series kernels it can interfere with some kernel performance patches, like the low-latency and kernel preempt patches. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan ... _no_ major software project that has been successful in a general marketplace (as opposed to niches) has ever gone through those nice lifecycles they tell you about in CompSci classes. Have you _ever_ heard of a project that actually started off with trying to figure out what it should do, a rigorous design phase, and a implementation phase? -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
On Saturday 28 September 2002 11:45 am, robin wrote: Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. Take a look at this page and see if it helps: http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LinuxFilesystems If you (or anyone) can add to it (or correct anything) please do -- it is a wiki! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no spell checker in Kmail (9.0)
On Saturday 28 September 2002 07:22 am, Dale Morris wrote: I can't seem to find the spell checker for kmail in 9.0, I have aspell and Ispell installed. It's probably right in front of me, but I can't find it. no spellchecker icons, nothing in edit or kmail settings..?? Ok, I found it, whew! glad this is a newbie list. But is there a way to have it on automatically so it will spell check when I send the message or as I type? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need to configure Xfree/monitor screen black blikingproblem
Since no one here seems to have the answer to your question, you might try searching the XFree86 website, searching their lists, etc. Quote below is from XFree86's website: ( http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Status6.html#6 ) 6. ATI *3.3.6:* Accelerated support is provided for the Mach8 chips (by the XF86_Mach8 server), Mach32 chips (by the XF86_Mach32 server), the following Mach64 and Rage chips: GX, CX, CT, ET, VT, VT3, GT, RageII+DVD, RagePro (GB, GD, GI, FP, GQ), VT4, Rage IIC (GV, GW, GZ), Rage LT Pro (LD, LB, LI, LP), Rage LT, Rage XL or XC (GL, GM, GN, GO, GR, GS) and Rage Mobility (LM, LN, LR, LS) (by the XF86_Mach64 server). Unaccelerated support is provided for most of the above (except some early Mach8 and Mach32 adapters), as well the old VGAWonder series chipsets (18800, 18800-1, 28800-2, 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-6) by the XF86_SVGA server with the ati driver. Accelerated support is provided for the Rage 128 chips by the XF86_SVGA server with the r128 driver. *4.2.0:* Accelerated support is provided for Mach64, Rage, Rage 128 and Radeon chips by the ati driver, as is unaccelerated support for all of the others except the Mach8 and some early Mach32 chips. *Summary:* All hardware supported in 3.3.6 is also supported in 4.2.0 except for Mach8 and some old Mach32 chips. You might also try the Mandrake Expert lists. Erik rhp.mac wrote: hi, may you help me about this problem? my monitor blinking when I run kde. I need to configure Xfree. I am running Mandrake, I don't know how it is done. I am using: Graphic card: atimach 64 mandrake linux ppc 8.2 kernel version 2.4 .18.6.1 Xfre86 monitor choose/Imac/powerbook: 640x480(15 bits) I run KDE version 2.2.2 thanks for help rhp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] display manager
How do I get Mandrake to open in a command prompt, rather than kdm. I tried the Mandrake configuation - hardware - xserver and configured it to not start x. It told me to log out to save changes, but when I log back in I'm in the splash screen. What to I do, rpm -e kdm ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] display manager
On September 28, 2002 07:58 am, Dale Morris wrote: How do I get Mandrake to open in a command prompt, rather than kdm. I tried the Mandrake configuation - hardware - xserver and configured it to not start x. It told me to log out to save changes, but when I log back in I'm in the splash screen. What to I do, rpm -e kdm ? Mandrake Control CentreBoot Configuncheck graphical start. You will start at runlevel 3 ;-) Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I need to configure Xfree/monitor screen black bliking problem
in a text console, without the quotes ; su, enter, put in password for root, enter, init 3 enter, login again as root when prompted type XFdrake, enter select the video card and server and display and save and exit and type init 5 and see if that is better? On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:53 am, you wrote: Since no one here seems to have the answer to your question, you might try searching the XFree86 website, searching their lists, etc. Quote below is from XFree86's website: ( http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Status6.html#6 ) 6. ATI *3.3.6:* Accelerated support is provided for the Mach8 chips (by the XF86_Mach8 server), Mach32 chips (by the XF86_Mach32 server), the following Mach64 and Rage chips: GX, CX, CT, ET, VT, VT3, GT, RageII+DVD, RagePro (GB, GD, GI, FP, GQ), VT4, Rage IIC (GV, GW, GZ), Rage LT Pro (LD, LB, LI, LP), Rage LT, Rage XL or XC (GL, GM, GN, GO, GR, GS) and Rage Mobility (LM, LN, LR, LS) (by the XF86_Mach64 server). Unaccelerated support is provided for most of the above (except some early Mach8 and Mach32 adapters), as well the old VGAWonder series chipsets (18800, 18800-1, 28800-2, 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-6) by the XF86_SVGA server with the ati driver. Accelerated support is provided for the Rage 128 chips by the XF86_SVGA server with the r128 driver. *4.2.0:* Accelerated support is provided for Mach64, Rage, Rage 128 and Radeon chips by the ati driver, as is unaccelerated support for all of the others except the Mach8 and some early Mach32 chips. *Summary:* All hardware supported in 3.3.6 is also supported in 4.2.0 except for Mach8 and some old Mach32 chips. You might also try the Mandrake Expert lists. Erik rhp.mac wrote: hi, may you help me about this problem? my monitor blinking when I run kde. I need to configure Xfree. I am running Mandrake, I don't know how it is done. I am using: Graphic card: atimach 64 mandrake linux ppc 8.2 kernel version 2.4 .18.6.1 Xfre86 monitor choose/Imac/powerbook: 640x480(15 bits) I run KDE version 2.2.2 thanks for help rhp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: DVD? was: [newbie] standard edition vs download edition?
On Saturday 28 September 2002 06:12 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:03:41 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that the 'standard edition' is the download edition plus some commercial demos or similar; The 3 cd dl edition is the same as first 3 cds to be used in the PowerPack. Anyone know what's on the workstation dvd? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] display manager
On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:24 am, et wrote: Mandrake Control CentreBoot Configuncheck graphical start. You will start at runlevel 3 ;-) Spence or if you only need to boot one time with out a GUI, at the first prompt (in lilo) hit tab, and type linux 3 and it will start at run level 3, or to get there from a text console in X windows the command init 3 will kill the x server and change to run level 3 What is the equivalent with Grub? Thanks, Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] display manager
On September 28, 2002 10:44 am, leeg100 wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:24 am, et wrote: Mandrake Control CentreBoot Configuncheck graphical start. You will start at runlevel 3 ;-) Spence or if you only need to boot one time with out a GUI, at the first prompt (in lilo) hit tab, and type linux 3 and it will start at run level 3, or to get there from a text console in X windows the command init 3 will kill the x server and change to run level 3 What is the equivalent with Grub? Thanks, Lee It doesn't matter if you're using Grub or Lilo. The idea is that you are booting to runlevel 3 with either framebuffer or non framebuffer linux. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Postfix configuration question??
I need to configure Postfix so I can use mutt and slrn. Postfix seems pretty simple but I'm a little gunshy because the only other time I configured it, it worked fine but I ended having my root mail go directly to the administrator at mail provider. He got pretty upset after a while.. Here is my scenario: machine name: lymond.lvcm.com email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] user directory: /home/dlm smtp forwarding address: smtp.lvcm.com (I would prefer to send mail directly from my machine and not use lvcm.com) According to the way I understand the documentation, all I have to do is edit my /etc/postfix/alias file and change the file to reflect: root: postfix (change to) root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] then I need to postalias command to rehash the alias database.. Is that all or have I missed something? thanks dale Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cd-burner and cd-rom
I'm having some trouble with xcdroast seeing my normal cdrom drive (ide). It sees the burner, which has scsi emulation, but I'm not sure how to set up the cd-rom properly, MDK 9.0 didn't ;-) fstab --- /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr/local/media ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 --- [brosen@delirium dev]$ ls -l cdrom* lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 sep 28 08:09 cdrom - cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 sep 28 08:09 cdrom0 - cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 sep 28 08:10 cdrom1 - cdroms/cdrom1 cdroms: totalt 0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 jan 1 1970 cdrom0 - ../ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 34 jan 1 1970 cdrom1 - ../scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd Ideas? Thanks, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 17:14, Jim Fazio wrote: List, Thanks everyone for the comments. One last question on the subject. When I read that ext3 is slower or takes a performance hit, does this mean compared to the other journalized filesystems or also compared to ext2? In other words is ext3 even slower that ext2? Jim F Try this URL for some interesting information on Ext3: http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/ext3/why.html As for the performance, I'm reminded of Mark Twain's quote: Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated. There's been alot of hype over this, but from what I've seen it's related very strongly as to how the ext3 filesystem is tuned. If you are not paying attention to how it's tweaked, then yes you can get some very bad numbers. I've got a lowly 900 mhz Athlon workstation here and I've never been dissatisfied with the performance (yet). In other words, there's sort of a mob mentality with regard to these ext3 performance issues. Since it's Red Hat's filesystem of choice, it is under quite a bit of scrutiny. I saw some benchmark numbers at Red Hat (which I can't locate anymore) that put ext3 performance in a light that was more or less on a par with the other journaling filesystems. One thing that you will notice quickly when you get on google and start looking for filesystem performance links is the jinormous amount of no information you will get. As Preed in Titan AE would say, A virtual carnucopia of NOTHING. If you are able to locate benches I would suggest you ignore anything prior to the third quarter of 2001. HTH, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] display manager
On Saturday 28 September 2002 12:59 pm, Spencer wrote: or if you only need to boot one time with out a GUI, at the first prompt (in lilo) hit tab, and type linux 3 and it will start at run level 3, or to get there from a text console in X windows the command init 3 will kill the x server and change to run level 3 What is the equivalent with Grub? Thanks, Lee It doesn't matter if you're using Grub or Lilo. The idea is that you are booting to runlevel 3 with either framebuffer or non framebuffer linux. Ok so how do you tell Grub to boot to runlevel 3 if inittab says to go to 5? With lilo, you type linux 3 at lilo's prompt. Grub's prompt uses different commands. I've tried some (like an obvious one, boot), but then it says the kernel must be loaded, etc. I was wondering if there was a simpler choice like lilo has. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM9.0 Hard Disk install problems.
On Saturday 28 September 2002 04:39 am, et wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 11:08 pm, you wrote: s wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 09:17 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0 using the Hard Disk install procedure and that is where I came across some problems. The installer asked me about the directory or ISO file of the Mandrake Linux Distribution. I gave it the path to where I had the three ISO files. It came back with this error message: I can't find the Mandrake Linux Distribution in the specified directory, (I need the Subdirectory /mandrake/base/). Here's a short extract of the files in the Directory: Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso md5sum.90 Then I tried again and I gave it the path as ./Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso and it proceeded with the install. However it gave me many error messages saying that some rpm files were missing, like the Open Office files and many others. It appears it did not see the other ISO files. Is there a work around to make see the other ISO files? Well, this may not be the way you want, but I found it works well. I mount the isos as loop one at a time and copy them to a directory to install from. Fast accurate installs result. For example: mkdir /mnt/loop mkdir /path/mandrake mount /path/Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake/ umount /mnt/loop mount /path/Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake umount /mnt/loop mount /path/Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake umount /mnt/loop hth, -s I will try this and see if it will work for me now that the base system appears to be working. However, shouldn't the initial install be able to see all three ISOs? It is able to read one why can't it read the other two? I think that would have been better. Thankx, Seedkum are you mounting the isos as an iso filesystem? HI, When I was using the Hard Disk Install procedure I was not yet mounting anything. I was booting from an hd.img floppy. I copied the hd.img from the cd1 ISO onto floppy then I proceeded to do a complete install. That is how I came upon the problem. To complete the install I had to go and do what Mr./Ms. s suggested. That was not a very user friendly' install and I do not think it was intended to be like that. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] display manager
Hi-lite your choice of boot kernel. Press e. Add runlevel 5 and press enter. - Original Message - From: leeg100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] display manager On Saturday 28 September 2002 12:59 pm, Spencer wrote: or if you only need to boot one time with out a GUI, at the first prompt (in lilo) hit tab, and type linux 3 and it will start at run level 3, or to get there from a text console in X windows the command init 3 will kill the x server and change to run level 3 What is the equivalent with Grub? Thanks, Lee It doesn't matter if you're using Grub or Lilo. The idea is that you are booting to runlevel 3 with either framebuffer or non framebuffer linux. Ok so how do you tell Grub to boot to runlevel 3 if inittab says to go to 5? With lilo, you type linux 3 at lilo's prompt. Grub's prompt uses different commands. I've tried some (like an obvious one, boot), but then it says the kernel must be loaded, etc. I was wondering if there was a simpler choice like lilo has. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burner and cd-rom
On Saturday 28 September 2002 01:20 pm, Bo Rosén wrote: I'm having some trouble with xcdroast seeing my normal cdrom drive (ide). It sees the burner, which has scsi emulation, but I'm not sure how to set up the cd-rom properly, MDK 9.0 didn't ;-) you didn't say if you were passing scsi emulation for that drive to the kernel at boot time. If you haven't, you may need too in order to cp from it. add: hdc=ide-scsi (whichever device your cdrom drive is) in the append line and run lilo and see. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] display manager
On September 28, 2002 12:17 pm, Spencer wrote: I meant runlevel 3;-) Hi-lite your choice of boot kernel. Press e. Add runlevel 5 and press enter. ^ - Original Message - From: leeg100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] display manager On Saturday 28 September 2002 12:59 pm, Spencer wrote: or if you only need to boot one time with out a GUI, at the first prompt (in lilo) hit tab, and type linux 3 and it will start at run level 3, or to get there from a text console in X windows the command init 3 will kill the x server and change to run level 3 What is the equivalent with Grub? Thanks, Lee It doesn't matter if you're using Grub or Lilo. The idea is that you are booting to runlevel 3 with either framebuffer or non framebuffer linux. Ok so how do you tell Grub to boot to runlevel 3 if inittab says to go to 5? With lilo, you type linux 3 at lilo's prompt. Grub's prompt uses different commands. I've tried some (like an obvious one, boot), but then it says the kernel must be loaded, etc. I was wondering if there was a simpler choice like lilo has. Lee --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] display manager
On Saturday 28 September 2002 01:44 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:24 am, et wrote: Mandrake Control CentreBoot Configuncheck graphical start. You will start at runlevel 3 ;-) Spence or if you only need to boot one time with out a GUI, at the first prompt (in lilo) hit tab, and type linux 3 and it will start at run level 3, or to get there from a text console in X windows the command init 3 will kill the x server and change to run level 3 What is the equivalent with Grub? Thanks, Lee either tab or esc, I ain't sure Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
Ditto Damians remarks. It's a fairly subjective choice with lots of strongly held opinions. I use a number of different file systems on a number of distributions. RH7.3: ext2 for boot and ext3 for everything else. Never any problems can convert ext2 to ext3 (which is a journaling fs) non-destructively. My subjective impression is that it's slower than the two other journaling sytems I describe below. Mandrake 8.2: Reiser and ext2. I did have a filecorruption problem a long time ago with the reiser fs but it was fixed without any lost data by reiserfsck. Gentoo 1.2: ext2 (for boot) and XFS. Gentoo is very negative about Reiser and offers kernel source optimized for XFS. So I went that route. No problems to date (about 2 months for my main system). Seems about as quick as Reiser. The problem is that RH 7.3 doesn't support XFS and so I can't mount my XFS partitions under RH (but I can mount RH under gentoo which is generally how I'm running). YMMV. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 23:26, Damian G wrote: On 27 Sep 2002 21:50:20 -0500 Jim Fazio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. TIA, Jim F well, this is usually something like which is better KDE or Gnome however, for what i know, all of them work quite well, ReiserFS is supposed to be the fastest, however i notice little or no difference, and it is the only one that has ever crapped out on me -- after 20 or so consecutive unclean shutdowns -- some PAM files broke and the installation started refusing all logins, so i had to reinstall on that machine. And, i've heard wonders about XFS. it is regarded as the best by many people, and it probably is the one i'll attempt to break next :o) Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] display manager
Ahh... now that's what I was looking for, thanks! Lee On Saturday 28 September 2002 02:17 pm, Spencer wrote: Hi-lite your choice of boot kernel. Press e. Add runlevel 5 and press enter. - Original Message - From: leeg100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] display manager On Saturday 28 September 2002 12:59 pm, Spencer wrote: or if you only need to boot one time with out a GUI, at the first prompt (in lilo) hit tab, and type linux 3 and it will start at run level 3, or to get there from a text console in X windows the command init 3 will kill the x server and change to run level 3 What is the equivalent with Grub? Thanks, Lee It doesn't matter if you're using Grub or Lilo. The idea is that you are booting to runlevel 3 with either framebuffer or non framebuffer linux. Ok so how do you tell Grub to boot to runlevel 3 if inittab says to go to 5? With lilo, you type linux 3 at lilo's prompt. Grub's prompt uses different commands. I've tried some (like an obvious one, boot), but then it says the kernel must be loaded, etc. I was wondering if there was a simpler choice like lilo has. Lee --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
On September 28, 2002 01:53 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: OK, quick question - how can I tell what's installed? Moreover - what's the command to see which partitions are using which file systems? Thanks - sorry to be such a noob. [snip] df -T will give you what you want Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chcase
Ron Bouwhuis wrote: snip So it looks as though I can use chcase to change the file names from what ever they be when downloaded into date order, for instance ? my experimental folder:- root/Desktop/mont root]# cd /root/Desktop/mont mont]# ls DSCI0001.JPG DSCI0004.JPG DSCI0007.JPG DSCI0010.JPG DSCI0013.JPG DSCI0002.JPG DSCI0005.JPG DSCI0008.JPG DSCI0011.JPG DSCI0014.JPG DSCI0003.JPG DSCI0006.JPG DSCI0009.JPG DSCI0012.JPG chcase -x 'tr/DSC1*/dd/mm/'*.jpg Now I don't ecpect that to work because for one thing it will create a lot of files that may possibly end up with the same name, or would it, presumeably it would addopt the numerical progression as well. What would be your thought here Jan,or maybe you have a better suggestion. FYI: ls -t will list files in date order. Ron. Thanks Ron, You are of course quite right, if you ls -t it will list the files in the directory in date order, like this, [root@localhost mont]# ls -t DSCI0014.jpg DSCI0011.jpg DSCI0008.jpg DSCI0005.jpg DSCI0002.jpg DSCI0013.jpg DSCI0010.jpg DSCI0007.jpg DSCI0004.jpg DSCI0001.jpg DSCI0012.jpg DSCI0009.jpg DSCI0006.jpg DSCI0003.jpg However , actually that in not what I meant. I want to create a system. A system that combines many directories of files whose contents will have files that will unfortunately include files of the same name as files in another directory. This is because a Camera once the existing images files have been formatted off the smart card begins again with exactly he same numenclature, ie DSCI0001, DSCI0002, etc etc. Maybe I just have to accept this. However this perl scrip suggests to me that maybe I can get it to rename each batch of files to include the date which by definition means they will all be disimilar provided that the individual file number is retained. So to use the above examples , maybe DSCI0014.jpg becomes dsci1014.10.09.0002.jpg the second file becomes dsci0013.10.09.02.jpg . This idea looks a bit ungainly I suppose. Perhaps putting the date first would be better, so, 10.09.0002dsci1014.jpg which is easier to run the eye over when looking for something because we can often remember a rough date when a picture was taken. In due course there are enough image files to write to disc as a record. As it is apparent I am trying to get myself organised. I will be getting, I hope , image files from various sources, some my own camera, some from other peoples camera, some will be scanned image files, and in linux they seem to be .pnm files and so though I had thought that by keeping to a date system maybe it would be workable without too much hastle, but I do not have a monopoly of ideas so if anyone has alternative suggestions, feel free. Now is the time to suggest them . regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] md5sums.9.0
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 12:45, s wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 09:33 pm, Brian Parish wrote: OK, got the ISO's. Now before I burn them I'd like to check them with md5sum -c md5sums.9.0 The mirror I got the ISO's from doesn't have md5sums.9.0 and every other mirror in the world seems to be overun, or only have the beta versions. Anybody out there care to post the three lines of text required? TIA Brian here ya go: f7a093af34b8cbe1abc165213fea9deb Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso 05a3ccafaacc37d6d1e2f260fc274549 Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso 1a2fd731fb6e30d39b0b99f504b231b3 Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso -s Thanks Jim and s. Let the burning begin! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burner and cd-rom
lör 2002-09-28 klockan 20.36 skrev s: you didn't say if you were passing scsi emulation for that drive to the kernel at boot time. If you haven't, you may need too in order to cp from it. add: hdc=ide-scsi (whichever device your cdrom Thanks, I knew I'd forgotten something simple. Works perfectly now. Cheers, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
OK, quick question - how can I tell what's installed? Moreover - what's the command to see which partitions are using which file systems? Thanks - sorry to be such a noob. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralphatboundariezdotcom | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Terry Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0 Ditto Damians remarks. It's a fairly subjective choice with lots of strongly held opinions. I use a number of different file systems on a number of distributions. RH7.3: ext2 for boot and ext3 for everything else. Never any problems can convert ext2 to ext3 (which is a journaling fs) non-destructively. My subjective impression is that it's slower than the two other journaling sytems I describe below. Mandrake 8.2: Reiser and ext2. I did have a filecorruption problem a long time ago with the reiser fs but it was fixed without any lost data by reiserfsck. Gentoo 1.2: ext2 (for boot) and XFS. Gentoo is very negative about Reiser and offers kernel source optimized for XFS. So I went that route. No problems to date (about 2 months for my main system). Seems about as quick as Reiser. The problem is that RH 7.3 doesn't support XFS and so I can't mount my XFS partitions under RH (but I can mount RH under gentoo which is generally how I'm running). YMMV. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 23:26, Damian G wrote: On 27 Sep 2002 21:50:20 -0500 Jim Fazio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. TIA, Jim F well, this is usually something like which is better KDE or Gnome however, for what i know, all of them work quite well, ReiserFS is supposed to be the fastest, however i notice little or no difference, and it is the only one that has ever crapped out on me -- after 20 or so consecutive unclean shutdowns -- some PAM files broke and the installation started refusing all logins, so i had to reinstall on that machine. And, i've heard wonders about XFS. it is regarded as the best by many people, and it probably is the one i'll attempt to break next :o) Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
Got it - so...can you convert to a different filesystem (I'm apparently using ext3) without losing everything, ie reformatting? Just curious, read a little of some of the other web pages and they talk about disk-swapping, copying partitions from one disk to another, holy moley! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralphatboundariezdotcom | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 5:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0 On September 28, 2002 01:53 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: OK, quick question - how can I tell what's installed? Moreover - what's the command to see which partitions are using which file systems? Thanks - sorry to be such a noob. [snip] df -T will give you what you want Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0
On September 28, 2002 03:26 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: Got it - so...can you convert to a different filesystem (I'm apparently using ext3) without losing everything, ie reformatting? Just curious, read a little of some of the other web pages and they talk about disk-swapping, copying partitions from one disk to another, holy moley! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Ralph | Internet Systems Security + + Boundariez.com | -Specializing in Paranoia- + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +ralphatboundariezdotcom | Never understimate the power + +AIM: SekurityWizard | stupid people + +ICQ: 2206039|in large groups+ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -Original Message- From: Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 5:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0 On September 28, 2002 01:53 pm, Ralph M. Los wrote: OK, quick question - how can I tell what's installed? Moreover - what's the command to see which partitions are using which file systems? Thanks - sorry to be such a noob. [snip] df -T will give you what you want Spence The only easy one is ext2 to ext3. All the rest take a considerable amount of work and a very good knowledge of linux. Not really worth the trouble unless its a production machine. I use ext3 and find it more than enough for general purposes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0 install problem
What is diskdrake and is it a substitute for partition magic? TIA bob At 12:46 PM 9/28/2002 +0800, you wrote: Hi, all I just download 9.0 and have installation problem here. My disk has 3 partition: #1 - reserved (8G) #3 - mandrake (8G) #4 - swap,data on extend (4G) When I finished DiskDrake mounting partition #3 as /, I got error message like this: ...invalid argument ...fs.pm line 725 and I can't proceed. Any idea to solve this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot install OpenOficce1.0
Todd, On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:44:03 -0500 Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I cannot install OpenOffice1.0. Could possibly teach me how to install OpenOffice on my computer step by step pelase? I am using Mdk 8.2 and Gnome. I know that this is a very stupid question, but I am a beginner for Linux. Thank you for your help. First, take a look at the Installation_Guide.pdf, in the install.tgz. Here is the general method for Linux, if you have the downloads from OOorg mirrors. If you have Mandrake rpm use the Package Manager: From the directory where you uncompressed ...install_es.tgz: (need approximately 250 MB free disk space) as root:# ./setup -net (install to /opt/OOo101/) now, change to /opt/OOo101/ as user:$ ./setup (install to /home/user/OOo101/) pick the Workstation install. Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes. Works fine on Mandrake. Richard. http://es.openoffice.org Regards, Oyaji __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Configuring e-mail Web-url location
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:00:27 -0400, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:56:09 -0400 Richard Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 01:54:25 -0400, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have found the greatest e-mail program sylpheed. It is a keeper, I've used it for a few hours and love it. One problem; When I highlight a URL, and up pops a window that asks which browser to use...I want to use Mozilla. It has 3-4 other browser choices that work, but I want my Mozilla. It lists Mozilla as a choice but my new install of Mozilla is I guess in a different place. In KDE where do I look to point this web-url thingy to my new mozilla install? I tried the suggestion below and nothing happened/ same as before, no change. How does Sylpheed know where to find Mozilla? *Is there a config file?* Or can I type the path directly in the dialog box? Also tried having a Mozilla page open on the desktop, no joy. You'll need to re-read the installation instructions for Mozilla. I remember that is had to be run the first time as root after installation to set up some config files, then you could run OK as user. Seems like this was with moz1.1 or something. Sounds like moz is not in the path as expected. Richard. In Configuration|Common Preferences| (press the little to see more, then) Other|Web Browser I'm using: opera -newwindow '%s' you should try: mozilla -newwindow '%s' I've not tried it with mozilla but the other goes straight to opera. HTH. regards, Richard. Mndrk 8.2 Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 September 2002 7:16 pm, Bob Garsson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba replaces network neighberhood, VNC and rfbdrake replace pcanywhere. - -- I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said free firewood and I said who is firewood and what did he do? shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9lmtKBwq+ZwvIN/oRAroAAJ9G9NFHU8HSwispbJDRfgpT6cdoGwCfbLcI sRB+mP5M/W4XszS8I6d/ekg= =EAAA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of Mandrake Linux on an old machine
El jue, 26-09-2002 a las 19:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I installed on an old Compaq Deskpro 566. I have 32MB of ram. I also have two disk drives. One is a 500MB drive and the other is a 1G drive. I installed the root on the 500G drive with swap and home on the 1G drive. Problem: I installed KED. I saw it install but when I boot up all I get is the text only command window. Do I need more memory? Thanks, Dave Capuano I'm not sure what the minimum requirements are, and we would need to know which version of Mandrake and KDE in any case. But I can say that with your older system KDE is not an option. You will find a lighter window manager like IceWM or Blackbox to be much faster and probably more stable. If you can put more memory in the box, do it. Linux uses RAM very efficiently and so there's no such thing as too much RAM. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
El vie, 27-09-2002 a las 12:42, Andre Stevens escribió: Are there any sites that explain how to set up internal modems and printers for Linux? For printers, see http://www.linuxprinting.org/. For modems, you'll have to first identify it. I have a sinking feeling that you have a so-called winmodem, so take a look at http://www.winmodem.org/. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install of Mandrake Linux on an old machine
On September 28, 2002 08:41 pm, Warren Post wrote: El jue, 26-09-2002 a las 19:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I installed on an old Compaq Deskpro 566. I have 32MB of ram. I also have two disk drives. One is a 500MB drive and the other is a 1G drive. I installed the root on the 500G drive with swap and home on the 1G drive. Problem: I installed KED. I saw it install but when I boot up all I get is the text only command window. Do I need more memory? Thanks, Dave Capuano I'm not sure what the minimum requirements are, and we would need to know which version of Mandrake and KDE in any case. But I can say that with your older system KDE is not an option. You will find a lighter window manager like IceWM or Blackbox to be much faster and probably more stable. If you can put more memory in the box, do it. Linux uses RAM very efficiently and so there's no such thing as too much RAM. In order to do a graphical install, you need a minimum of 64megs. You need 32 megs fot text install. If you wish to use KDE or Gnome you need a minimum of 64megs. I have managed to run IceWM down to 32megs but it's extremely slow. Scrounge around and find as much memory as you can and stuff it in there. Spence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
To Anyone. I am using Mozilla browser, which I assume is a derivative of Netscape. I am unable to get any sound when I open up web pages. I have downloaded flashplayer, but can't seem to get it functioning. Can someone tell me how to get sound for my browser. Java is checked, but still no sound. I would really appreciate some advice. Thank you... Eric S. Dye, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network
Ok, I've tried a lot of things, but I cannot figure out how to connect to my wife's Win XP computer (home version). I get a message which is something about needing a password. I turned off all the passwords, protections, and other junk on her computer that *should* allow it to network. I can *see* the computer but cannot network to it. I've set up the workgroup and am using Komba2 to access her computer. I can do this quite successfully to a W98 box on the network, so I know the network is sound. By the way, I can't network the W98 boxes to her computer either and I refuse to run the special Microsoft program to set up *older* versions of Windows to network to XP. I'm actually kind of glad that Micro is shooting their own foot off. Other people as frustrated as I might give up and switch to the vastly superior Linux OS. In the meantime, I can't convince my wife so I'm stuck still trying to network her computer. Any help, web sites, or just plain commiserating is welcome. Linus On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:05 pm, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote: Are you, by any chance, mean that samba takes the place of pcanywhere? no, samba takes the place of ms file and print shareing serives, Xfree86, and a OS that works correcxtly will allow you to export an XFree86 session (if the network is fast enough) and that will allow you to run the desktop as if you were at the machine... a real OS. At 05:23 PM 9/28/2002 +, you wrote: Andre Stevens wrote: Hi Derek! Thank you for the reference. I'll check it out as soon as I get soem free time. With reference to the Samba networking, will it allow me to connect my Winodze computers to my Linux computer? Or is it specifically designed for UNIX based systems? Samba is specifically for Linux-Windows connectivity (UNIX-type-only communication is more normally handled by NFS). It has two parts: a client (smbclient) that allows a Linux box to talk to Windows boxes (e.g. read/write files or print) and a server which does the opposite - your Linux box will show up in Network Neighborhood on Windows. Sir Robin -- Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes
On Saturday 28 Sep 2002 11:51 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Most serious problems are best approached as user hardware OS/ software ... in that order. Users who seem to have the most problems, usually tend to approach in reverse. YM and results MV Yes, of course. I just seemed to have got stuck on the hardware bit - IOW didn't move on to the OS or software bits. -- The box said Requires Windows 95 or better so I installed Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] accessing win2000 partition without samba
Hi everybody, I#180;m new here. I read somewhere that I can access my win2000 box without running Samba. It would be very easy to set up, I remember ,but it would not allow windows to access anything from the linux box. Does anyone know how to do this? Is it possible to read or read/write ntfs partitions using Mandrake 9? Cheers, Fifner -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting mount -t smbfs to connect to a windows Fileservershare!
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 00:44, Ralph M. Los wrote: Hey all, Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Always seems to fail no matter what with an error message I can't seem to figure out. Command I'm trying to use: Mount -t smbfs -o username=me,password=pass word //10.0.2.1/share /mnt/win Try the following things. 1) execute the command without the password parameter. Allow smbfs to prompt you for a password after it connects. 2) For some reason ip addresses do not work as well as netbios names sometimes. Use the machine name instead of it's IP 3) if you are still having trouble, I have one magic word for you: Komba2. HTH, LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com You can also try using smbmount instead of mount: smbmount //10.0.2.1/share /mnt/win -o username=me You must have the smbclient (samba client) package installed and you may need to set the WORKGROUP setting in /etc/samba/smb.conf to your workgroup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
