Re: [newbie-it] firewall
At 09.42 20/03/02 +0100, you wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, SkyHeart wrote: Ciao, vorrei configurare un firewall semplice, semplice (nn ho particolari esigenze..ma vorrei imparare) cosa mi consigliate? link? software? Grazie Ciao, io uso ipchains che piu' che un firewall e' un sistema che permette di filtrare i pacchetti. E' molto interessante e si impara un mucchio di roba. (Magari se interessa potrei postare un file di configurazione tipo) Posta, posta pure. Preparati però poi ad essere subissato da moltissime domande, almeno da parte mia. Se lo posti veramente un ringraziamento in anticipo. Paride
Re: [newbie-it] Connessione satellitare
At 12.27 27/02/03 +0100, you wrote: Ciao a tutti, Sto analizzando la possibilità di connettere ad internet un computer veramente remoto(in una missione in Africa) e di installargli Linux Mandrake. La missione attualmente è dotata di una connessione dial-up lentissima (c'è un solo server in tutta l'Etiopia ed è a 1200Km di distanza dalla missione). Velocizzare questa connessione porterebbe a tanti vantaggi per la trasmissione dati tra la missione e una base logistica in Italia. Attualmente la quasi totalità della trasmissione è..manuale. Ogni tanto qualcuno va là e porta a casa, disegni, fotografie,ma la cosa non è molto funzionale. Da tempo sento parlare di connessioni con modem satellitari, ma non ho mai avuto grosse info. Vi volevo chiedere alcune cose: - Chi produce questi sistemi - Compatibilità con Linux - Costi sia dei modem che delle connessioni - Esistono anche dei modelli che lavorano in modalità bidirezionale (piuttosto che solo in download) - Aree geografiche coperte - Idee alternative al modem satellitare - . Qualsiasi info può essermi utile per provare a realizzare questo progetto che ora è solo in embrione. Un saluto a tutti Enrico Non voglio dire una cavolata, ma perchè non provi a chiedere a tiscali che ha il servizio TISCALI SAT? E' un impianto bidirezionale, potresti, sempre se coperto dal servizio, impostare poi una vpn tra i due computer ed il gioco DOVREBBE (il condizionale è d'obbligo) essere fatto. Ciao, Paride
Re: [newbie] How to edit video mode when in failsafe?
On Friday 14 March 2003 00:52, Leendert wrote: I tried 16 bit, also tried the super vga interlaced now, but still no result... I think I just download and try 9.1rc tomorrow, ok, it's a rc, beta, whatever, but maybe that one works :). Control+alt+backspace didn't work (maybe because that was not implemented in 8.2?) so I had to restart each time. Meaning the machine hangs on the test:o( And oh yes, it was implemented on 8.2 all right. I've had similar problems on an old machine (ditto screen) with an old maxtor IIRC. Mdk always hung on the gui. I had to change settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config (this is thé file controlling your gui-settings) manually i.e. remove all the settings above 16 bits and setting the default to 16 instead of 24 bits. That would be in Section Screen DefaultColordepth 16 and in the following Subsections delete (or comment out using #) all Depth and Modes that are too high. Maybe needless to say: Make a back-up copy of the files in your /home/leendert/ directory (or anywhere, as long as it's not on /etc/X11 under the same name) first!! Or send it to us so we can see what's up. Take a peek in /etc/X11/ you'll find more XF86Config's there but the it should be using the first, i.e. the one without extensions. You probably won't need to change the other XF86Config files I hope as now it should work IMO. Slackware8.1 installed fine on the same machine using framebuffer so it had to be something like that. Tip: Using mc (midnight commander) on the commandline gives a Norton Commander like interface making navigation and file tweaking a little easier. Just type startx or XFree86 on the CML and see whether X will start or what errors you're getting. Hoping the box doesn't hang anymore, but keep yer fingers crossed anyway. I also found that HOWTO on the net, that is a little too complicated for me, but if 9.1 also won't work I'll try it for sure! On the other side, I need to buy a new monitor anyway, this one sucks... Well 9.1rc2 certainly rocks but 8.2 is rocksolid and I doubt if there's a 9.1-ppc version already. Get yourself a nice big one. That way all the eye-candy is more fun:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Recovering erased folders and files
Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.5 ~ KDE 3.1 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files
Op Friday 14 March 2003 09:44, schreef Piero Piutti: Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! When you type rm --help it says that it should be possible to recover them. Unfortunatly it don 't says how , I can only give you hope , maybee someone else knows the answer . greets, Bart. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files
There are a few howto's on the net but usually it is impossible to do. You have to generally know the area (inodes) on the HD that the files were on and you read a hex dump of those inodes to verify and then you cat that information to a file that you want to save it in. I have read a few howtos but i have never tested it and i think this is the only way unless you have a trash program installed before you delete such files. http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/ http://lde.sourceforge.net/ http://www.r-tt.com/RLinux.shtml Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Piero Piutti Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.5 ~ KDE 3.1 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Windows XP Co-existing
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 03:47, Eileen Lopp wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marshall Lake Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Windows XP Co-existing I have version 9.0 of Mandrake. My hardware is an HP Media Center 873n. I'm having a problem getting Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 to co-exist. I understand it's better to have Windows already installed when you try to install Mandrake. Is this correct? During the Mandrake installation process at disk partitioning time I have three choices (paraphrasing): 1. Erase entire disk. 2. Use the free space on a Windows partition. 3. Custom partitioning. The biggest problem here is that you're using an HP-provided disk to install XP. HP ships restore or recovery disks, not install disks with their systems. You aren't actually installing XP with that disk, you're copying a drive image, which is why you don't get any options when running it. Contact HP support and demand a real install disk -- they'll send one if you insist on it. Failing that,it's probably worth investing in Partition Magic - makes it simple to resize and shift XP partitions around and convert a data partition from NTFS to FAT32 so that it's writable from Linux. Have the space above the XP partitions Unallocated and install Mandrake 9.0 in the unallocated space. Install LILO boot loader and you should be able to boot to XP or to Linux OK. -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files
Bart Salien wrote: Op Friday 14 March 2003 09:44, schreef Piero Piutti: Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! When you type rm --help it says that it should be possible to recover them. Unfortunatly it don 't says how , I can only give you hope , maybee someone else knows the answer . greets, Bart. Midnight Commander also has a tab for recovery, but does not say anywhere how you do it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 19:44, Piero Piutti wrote: Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! Theoretically, it IS possible; but then again, time travel is theoretically possible, too. -- Fri Mar 14 22:30:00 EST 2003 22:30:00 up 4:00, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.29, 0.25 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Today is the last day of your life so far. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Windows XP Co-existing
Hi Just a quick note! Although partition magic is extremely powerful and easy to use, it can cost you a buck or two. There are many alternative including 'line command' option which you can find instructions to in WinXP help. Also try Kazaa for partition magic (if I dare suggest that). Good luck Oren -Original Message- From: Douglas B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 March 2003 10:45 To: Beginners' Mailing List Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Windows XP Co-existing On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 03:47, Eileen Lopp wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marshall Lake Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Windows XP Co-existing I have version 9.0 of Mandrake. My hardware is an HP Media Center 873n. I'm having a problem getting Windows XP and Mandrake 9.0 to co-exist. I understand it's better to have Windows already installed when you try to install Mandrake. Is this correct? During the Mandrake installation process at disk partitioning time I have three choices (paraphrasing): 1. Erase entire disk. 2. Use the free space on a Windows partition. 3. Custom partitioning. The biggest problem here is that you're using an HP-provided disk to install XP. HP ships restore or recovery disks, not install disks with their systems. You aren't actually installing XP with that disk, you're copying a drive image, which is why you don't get any options when running it. Contact HP support and demand a real install disk -- they'll send one if you insist on it. Failing that,it's probably worth investing in Partition Magic - makes it simple to resize and shift XP partitions around and convert a data partition from NTFS to FAT32 so that it's writable from Linux. Have the space above the XP partitions Unallocated and install Mandrake 9.0 in the unallocated space. Install LILO boot loader and you should be able to boot to XP or to Linux OK. -- Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux
Could I defrag my Win98SE disc from linux? It's a bit difficult to do in Windows, as it insists on writing to the disc for no reason while defragging, which slows it down a lot. __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Windows XP Co-existing
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 22:29, Tsur, Oren wrote: Hi Just a quick note! Although partition magic is extremely powerful and easy to use, it can cost you a buck or two. There are many alternative including 'line command' option which you can find instructions to in WinXP help. Also try Kazaa for partition magic (if I dare suggest that). Good luck Oren There are demo versions of Partition Magic floating around - you can always try the PowerQuest website for it - luckily, I've got Partition Magic complete sets from version 3 upwards to version 8 (grin) - just the luck of the industry I'm in, I reckon... -- Fri Mar 14 22:50:00 EST 2003 22:50:00 up 4:20, 4 users, load average: 0.45, 0.45, 0.47 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb. -- Spaceballs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 22:50, Luke Stutters wrote: Could I defrag my Win98SE disc from linux? It's a bit difficult to do in Windows, as it insists on writing to the disc for no reason while defragging, which slows it down a lot. __ Disable your screensaver, close/kill any antivirus programs, and literally anything else that isn't necessary (especially tray icons - because they represent TSR programs) and then try doing your scandisk/defrag again. You should be able to complete it with that done. -- Fri Mar 14 23:00:00 EST 2003 23:00:00 up 4:30, 4 users, load average: 0.21, 0.21, 0.31 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Brace yourselves. We're about to try something that borders on the unique: an actually rather serious technical book which is not only (gasp) vehemently anti-Solemn, but also (shudder) takes sides. I tend to think of it as `Constructive Snottiness.' -- Mike Padlipsky, Elements of Networking Style Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Visual editors for XML
Hi all, I need to create XML files from DTD files for JasperReport and/or JFreeReport. Does anybody know of good visual editors for XML? Any pointers are appreciated. TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel-headers and VMWARE
Op Friday 14 March 2003 02:32, schreef Greg Meyer: On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:20 pm, Bart Salien wrote: Op Thursday 13 March 2003 20:37, schreef Frans Ketelaars: On Thursday 13 March 2003 19:13, Bart Salien wrote: Hi all , I'm trying to install Vmware on my MDK9.0 , i get this message when he asks the dir for my C header file /usr/include The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.18) does not match your running kernel (version 2.4.19-16mdk). Even if the module were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel. These header files are the ones that are installed by MDK 9.0 , and Vmware will not continue the install . On the net i found this kernel-headers-2.4.19-7mdk.x86_64.rpm . Can i remove the 2.4.18 headers and install this one , or could this cause problems for other programs ?? Thanks , Bart . I think you must install the kernel-source RPM corresponding to the kernel you are running. It is on your CD's. HTH, -Frans Frans , i checked that , and kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk.i586.rpm is the only one on the CDs (Download and ProSuit editions) . Vmware is the only program until now which gives problems. greets , Bart. The kernel-headers is part of the glibc packages and is required by glibc. The kernel-source package includes header files also and will be used by the GCC if it is installed. Don't worry about the difference and install the kernel-source package urpmi kernel-source I finaly got VMware to install after installing the kernel-source and glibc-devel-2.2.5 . Thanks a lot for the advice . Bart. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux
From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 22:50, Luke Stutters wrote: Could I defrag my Win98SE disc from linux? It's a bit difficult to do in Windows, as it insists on writing to the disc for no reason while defragging, which slows it down a lot. __ Stephen Kuhn replied: Disable your screensaver, close/kill any antivirus programs, and literally anything else that isn't necessary (especially tray icons - because they represent TSR programs) and then try doing your scandisk/defrag again. You should be able to complete it with that done. * In addition to Stephen's good advice, if you still are having something writing to disc and causing restarts of defrag or scandisk, you might try doing them in safe mode. HTH. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.--James Thurber *** *Reg. Linux User #278931* *** *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* *** -- ___ http://www.operamail.com Now with OperaMail Premium for only US$29.99/yr Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] four shots into his Dell laptop Sunday (3/2) morning
this cpu had to be running windoz caz linux would have fought back LOL http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/georgedoughty1.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files
Bart Salien wrote: Op Friday 14 March 2003 09:44, schreef Piero Piutti: Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! When you type rm --help it says that it should be possible to recover them. Unfortunatly it don 't says how , I can only give you hope , maybee someone else knows the answer . greets, Bart. Midnight Commander also has a tab for recovery, but does not say anywhere how you do it. John Later If you type mc in a terminal you get midnight commander, then select Command , then Undelete files (ext2 only) you get a field where you type /#undel:hda(n) where (n) is the number of the partition that has the deleted files on it. you then get , Undelfs:loading deleted files info- It then checks through all the inodes on the patition looking for the deleted files and makes a copy to a new directory /#undel , only it takes so long I could not wait for it to finish. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Windows XP Co-existing
Stephen Kuhn wrote: There are demo versions of Partition Magic floating around - you can always try the PowerQuest website for it - luckily, I've got Partition Magic complete sets from version 3 upwards to version 8 (grin) - just the luck of the industry I'm in, I reckon... and there's a shareware offering (a work-a-like) called 'Bootit NG'. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:50:59AM +, Luke Stutters wrote: Could I defrag my Win98SE disc from linux? It's a bit difficult to do in Windows, as it insists on writing to the disc for no reason while defragging, which slows it down a lot. __ You could make a complete backup of your FAT partition containing Win98SE, (I used tar), then wipe the partition clean (using rm), and then reatore from backup. Of course, they you had better have enought space for the complete backup somewhere. I used a remote NFS-mounted partition on another machine for the backup, which Windows installation would have a hard time trashing (especially if you dosconnect the net!). It worked for me, while I was still installing Win98SE. During installation, it would repeatedly crash in different ways -- once I had the basic system working and had to install proper video drivers, printer drivers, etc. By backing up before installing each component, and, in case of failure, wiping and restoring from backup, I was able to get the thing working on only two or three days. Otherwise it would have taken over a week. All the time, Mandrake Linux worked just fine (although I did make sure to have a boot disk, and I did test it before I relied on it. So, I needed Linus to install Windows! I was worried that Windows might have position-dependent information that would become dislodged by this process, but in my installation, at least, that wasn't the case. I can't say if there would be something that would make it all fail on your system. But if you are worried, you might try making an extra backup af all user data, and when everything faile, reinstalling Windows from acratch and then restoring user data from backup. Of course yopu't better make sure you have a Mandrake bootdisk first, or you won't be able to get to Linux at all after the reinstall. -- hendrik Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.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] Burning CD help
I got that error once, and it turned out I did not have the appropriate permissions to run the /usr/bin/cdrecord command. The command was set as executable by the a certain group, but I was not a member of that group. To solve the problem, I think I just added my user to the appropriate group. - Kathy On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 15:57, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Not for me - a friend of mine at our local LUG sent this to me. I'm not familiar with the error he is getting - is anyone else? Thanks! PS I just sent him an e-mail to verify whether or not he has all IDE or IDE and SCSI mixed. --- Ron I think that I found the problem , other than the obvious loose nuton the key board. I tried the drag n drop using one of the other roasters my cd is listed as /dev/hdd and the burner is dev/scd0 . when I try to burn an ISO I get the following message warning contreactions.c 131 popen_rw_unbuffered execv0 returned. not sure what it means . tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to edit video mode when in failsafe?
On Friday 14 March 2003 22:02, Leendert wrote: Tried 9.1 today, that one didn't hang on the test, but returns after a few secs. I tried much monitor settings, also the custom with the correct values, but no good result. However, some settings gave me an image with readable text, only colors messed up and flickerings and stipes when moving the cursor like on a TV with a bad antenna, so I started X with that setting to test if I will run into other problems, but all works correctly. Now I'm going to try more settings and/or writing my own file. One question: how to edit config/text files without booting X (command prompt)? And can I submit the correct settings somewhere to help other users with the same monitor? Leendert PS: I also couldn¹t edit the config files in etc/X11/ because I don't know how to edit files in the command promt/terminal/whatever yet :/ You could use vi for that but it isn't that easy for some-one who'se never used it before. Try my tip on using mc it works you quite well. It isn't installed by default on MDK9.1 IIRC so you'll have to install it yourself. Type urpmi mc on the CML as su/root to do that, it will prompt you for the correct CD. It's very similar in it's functions to Norton Commander or Wincommander so if you've used any of those before you'll feel right at home. Good Luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hard Drive
Using /dev/hdxhow can I tell what is on what drive? In other words, I want to know what files / directories are on that specific drive? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burning CD help
On Friday 14 March 2003 04:16 pm, K Montgomery wrote: I got that error once, and it turned out I did not have the appropriate permissions to run the /usr/bin/cdrecord command. The command was set as executable by the a certain group, but I was not a member of that group. To solve the problem, I think I just added my user to the appropriate group. - Kathy Thanks Kathy! I'll pass that tidbit along to my friend in our LUG. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive
In reply to Paul's mail, d.d. Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:27:35 -0800 (PST): Using /dev/hdxhow can I tell what is on what drive? In other words, I want to know what files / directories are on that specific drive? Check /etc/fstab, or run 'mount' to see what partition is linked to what mountpoint. If e.g. /home is on a separate partition like /dev/hda2 you can be sure that all files on /home are on /dev/hda2, and so on. Only trick could be symlinks, they can point to another partition. Paul -- To have what we want, is riches; but to be able to do without, is power. -George Macdonald http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 08:27, Paul Dimitriu wrote: Using /dev/hdxhow can I tell what is on what drive? In other words, I want to know what files / directories are on that specific drive? Is the drive mounted? If not, then create a directory under /mnt (mkdir /mnt/nameofharddrive) ...and mount it (mount /dev/hdx /mnt/nameofharddrive) ...then you can open a file manager and browse as you wish... -- Sat Mar 15 09:10:00 EST 2003 09:10:00 up 1:05, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** alta, v:To change; make or become different; modify. ansa, v:A spoken or written reply, as to a question. baa, n: A place people meet to have a few drinks. Baaston, n: The capital of Massachusetts. baaba, n: One whose business is to cut or trim hair or beards. beea, n:An alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops, often found in baas. caaa, n:An automobile. centa, n: A point around which something revolves; axis. (Or someone involved with the Knicks.) chouda, n: A thick seafood soup, often in a milk base. dada, n:Information, esp. information organized for analysis or computation. -- Massachewsetts Unabridged Dictionary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Strange strange strange
Ok - so most y'all already know that I'm fully on with the 9.1rc2 stuff and never reverting back to my previously horrible nature of being a RedHat person. With that understood, here's a poser: After a reboot, and when I first do a login, my KDE desktop has these three wonderfully strange icons that pop outta nowhere - they've got icons as devices, but the rest makes no sense to what I can figger out. The names are: * dynamicProbing * dynamicAdding * dynamicProcessing Now, I happily delete them, but this is getting rather old. Happens with ALL users and even root. Meanwhile, something I've noticed - if I set the system to runlevel 5, more memory is used, churned, burned; if I start in runlevel3 and hand start my Xwindows sessions, I have more speed, more memory and less worries. I started doing this because the other day TWICE the entire system locked up tighter than a drum and I couldn't even telnet into it from another machine due to it's complete and utter lack of response; the CPU fire applet was off the scale...but whilst starting Xwindows by hand, it nary moves a molecule and flies like the dickens... -- Sat Mar 15 09:25:00 EST 2003 09:25:00 up 1:20, 4 users, load average: 0.19, 0.50, 0.39 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** I don't want a pickle, I just wanna ride on my motorsickle. And I don't want to die, I just want to ride on my motorcy. Cle. -- Arlo Guthrie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] using a camcorder in Mandrake
Hi I have been holding off on buying a camcorder for a long time but finally found one for a price I could not pass up that was within the family budget. It does not have all the latest features but will work for what I need it for and was only $248 from Amazon.com. It is a Sony CCDTRV108 Hi8 Camcorder with 2.5 LCD that had excellent reviews. It does not have a USB or Firewire port but does come with an S-video out. I have a Panasonic EggCam video camera with a Bt848 video capture card that is curently connected to my computer and works well with Mandrake Linux 9.0. Can I use this card with my camcorder to play back the tape and capture individual frames to edit the tape or save a still image? I am new to this as one can tell. Are there any other options for using this camcorder in Linux? Many thanks for the help! Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dell Latitude notebook
Hello folks, Since just acquiring this fine thing I was wondering if anyone has had an experience installing Mandrake onto one ? 400 Mhz 128 meg RAM 3com cardbus fast ethernet texas instruments pci 1225 cardbus controller neomagicmagic graph 256 AV display neomagic magic media 256 AV sound /audio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to edit video mode when in failsafe?
I've got it to work by selecting ATI Radeon 8500 as graphic card and the custom monitor settings all looks perfect, however, I'm pretty sure I have a radeon 7500 installed (the hardwhare info from x also says that), so it's very strange this works and the driver that should work doesn't. I also don't have 3d hardware acceleration now (I think so because the game chromium that was included with the install (yes, I looked around a bit :) ran at about 0.5 frames/sec.), but I'm already happy that I can finally explore and use this OS. I'll try to edit that config now (I want all to work, including 3d acceleration ;). After it installed mc I can just type mc file-to-edit or man mc, mc tab or help mc? I'm also going to post more questions in the list (sorry, I'm really a newbie) about some plain things. Thanks! Leendert On 3/14/03 10:22 PM, H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use vi for that but it isn't that easy for some-one who'se never used it before. Try my tip on using mc it works you quite well. It isn't installed by default on MDK9.1 IIRC so you'll have to install it yourself. Type urpmi mc on the CML as su/root to do that, it will prompt you for the correct CD. It's very similar in it's functions to Norton Commander or Wincommander so if you've used any of those before you'll feel right at home. Good Luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dell Latitude notebook
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 10:15, Dennis Sue wrote: Hello folks, Since just acquiring this fine thing I was wondering if anyone has had an experience installing Mandrake onto one ? 400 Mhz 128 meg RAM 3com cardbus fast ethernet texas instruments pci 1225 cardbus controller neomagicmagic graph 256 AV display neomagic magic media 256 AV sound /audio Holy Cow! Dang - that thing sounds like an absolute SCREAMER mate! Dunno if there's an OS that can handle such a monster machine! Don't think that OS/2 has drivers for it yet...but hey, I'll be it can defrag faster than dirt! JOKING! I installed RH on a machine like that - about a year ago - the only thing I had a problem with was the onboard video - so I think that due to it's age, you shouldn't have a problem with drivers in MDK 9.0 (or even MDK 8.2) Have you tried booting up the first CD with it yet to see how far you get or if the graphical installer takes over? -- Sat Mar 15 10:20:00 EST 2003 10:20:00 up 2:15, 5 users, load average: 0.07, 0.29, 0.26 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] using a camcorder in Mandrake
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 10:07, Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I have been holding off on buying a camcorder for a long time but finally found one for a price I could not pass up that was within the family budget. It does not have all the latest features but will work for what I need it for and was only $248 from Amazon.com. It is a Sony CCDTRV108 Hi8 Camcorder with 2.5 LCD that had excellent reviews. It does not have a USB or Firewire port but does come with an S-video out. I have a Panasonic EggCam video camera with a Bt848 video capture card that is curently connected to my computer and works well with Mandrake Linux 9.0. Can I use this card with my camcorder to play back the tape and capture individual frames to edit the tape or save a still image? I am new to this as one can tell. Are there any other options for using this camcorder in Linux? Many thanks for the help! Jim If your BT848 has an SVIDEO in, then you're in biz. -- Sat Mar 15 10:25:00 EST 2003 10:25:00 up 2:20, 5 users, load average: 0.01, 0.13, 0.20 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Cleanliness is next to impossible. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to edit video mode when in failsafe?
On Saturday 15 March 2003 00:11, Leendert wrote: I'll try to edit that config now (I want all to work, including 3d acceleration ;). After it installed mc I can just type mc file-to-edit or man mc, mc tab or help mc? No, just type plain mc on the CML and hit enter and the program starts in the console. Most other commands work with command /path_to/filename or for more info command --help or man command As to the 3d, I'm not aqainted enough with your card to be suresomebody else will have to chip in:o/ Good hunting, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange strange strange
On Friday 14 March 2003 01:30 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Ok - so most y'all already know that I'm fully on with the 9.1rc2 stuff and never reverting back to my previously horrible nature of being a RedHat person. With that understood, here's a poser: After a reboot, and when I first do a login, my KDE desktop has these three wonderfully strange icons that pop outta nowhere - they've got icons as devices, but the rest makes no sense to what I can figger out. The names are: * dynamicProbing * dynamicAdding * dynamicProcessing Now, I happily delete them, but this is getting rather old. Happens with ALL users and even root. Meanwhile, something I've noticed - if I set the system to runlevel 5, more memory is used, churned, burned; if I start in runlevel3 and hand start my Xwindows sessions, I have more speed, more memory and less worries. I started doing this because the other day TWICE the entire system locked up tighter than a drum and I couldn't even telnet into it from another machine due to it's complete and utter lack of response; the CPU fire applet was off the scale...but whilst starting Xwindows by hand, it nary moves a molecule and flies like the dickens... Well right-click on those icons and select properties and find out what you can... Also, look in ~/Desktop and look at the files and dump them at us. That seems dumb enough that I really want to know. You are correct, kdm and gdm and even xdm have an overhead for starting apps and it can be very heavy for the more recent ones who want to offer services an experinced person like yourself does not need (cause you already know to type shutdown -h now in a terminal to quit or -r reboot to a different OS) I made a little convenience program for those who like to start in runlevel 3 and login there then use a window manager it is called Xtart and it is but a few lines of Python code. It should be available under 9.0. urpmi Xtart should fetch it after that, go in on runlevel3, and type Xtart ... then you will be able to choose any WM from a menu (or type 0 twice to bring up X with only a terminal) Using Xtart and appropriate files placed in /etc/X11/wmsession.d you can nominate other programs for WM status. I have used emacs for that, and it is interesting, almost as amusing as emacs for a shell. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange strange strange
On Friday 14 March 2003 06:58 pm, you wrote: They are Where in America? On Friday 14 March 2003 01:30 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Ok - so most y'all already know that I'm fully on with the 9.1rc2 stuff and never reverting back to my previously horrible nature of being a RedHat person. With that understood, here's a poser: After a reboot, and when I first do a login, my KDE desktop has these three wonderfully strange icons that pop outta nowhere - they've got icons as devices, but the rest makes no sense to what I can figger out. The names are: * dynamicProbing * dynamicAdding * dynamicProcessing Now, I happily delete them, but this is getting rather old. Happens with ALL users and even root. Meanwhile, something I've noticed - if I set the system to runlevel 5, more memory is used, churned, burned; if I start in runlevel3 and hand start my Xwindows sessions, I have more speed, more memory and less worries. I started doing this because the other day TWICE the entire system locked up tighter than a drum and I couldn't even telnet into it from another machine due to it's complete and utter lack of response; the CPU fire applet was off the scale...but whilst starting Xwindows by hand, it nary moves a molecule and flies like the dickens... Well right-click on those icons and select properties and find out what you can... Also, look in ~/Desktop and look at the files and dump them at us. That seems dumb enough that I really want to know. You are correct, kdm and gdm and even xdm have an overhead for starting apps and it can be very heavy for the more recent ones who want to offer services an experinced person like yourself does not need (cause you already know to type shutdown -h now in a terminal to quit or -r reboot to a different OS) I made a little convenience program for those who like to start in runlevel 3 and login there then use a window manager it is called Xtart and it is but a few lines of Python code. It should be available under 9.0. urpmi Xtart should fetch it after that, go in on runlevel3, and type Xtart ... then you will be able to choose any WM from a menu (or type 0 twice to bring up X with only a terminal) Using Xtart and appropriate files placed in /etc/X11/wmsession.d you can nominate other programs for WM status. I have used emacs for that, and it is interesting, almost as amusing as emacs for a shell. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange strange strange
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 10:58, civileme wrote: The names are: * dynamicProbing * dynamicAdding * dynamicProcessing Well right-click on those icons and select properties and find out what you can... Also, look in ~/Desktop and look at the files and dump them at us. That seems dumb enough that I really want to know. When I recreate them, I'll blast 'em online to y'all; rather strange... You are correct, kdm and gdm and even xdm have an overhead for starting apps and it can be very heavy for the more recent ones who want to offer services an experinced person like yourself does not need (cause you already know to type shutdown -h now in a terminal to quit or -r reboot to a different OS) ...or reboot ...or poweroff(have my druthers to login from a console anyways - better for troubleshooting and mucking around with stuff...keeps the wife and kids away when they see a console login as well... I made a little convenience program for those who like to start in runlevel 3 and login there then use a window manager it is called Xtart and it is but a few lines of Python code. It should be available under 9.0. urpmi Xtart should fetch it ...been using it since I started mucking around with MDK 9.0 - couldn't live without it (well, I could, but life would be so much more boring). Using Xtart and appropriate files placed in /etc/X11/wmsession.d you can nominate other programs for WM status. I have used emacs for that, and it is interesting, almost as amusing as emacs for a shell. ...speaking of which, just using xterm is rather interesting - and even found a great wm called screen which is just that - a screen - console screen - but you can have unlimited screens (for those that LOVE to be in the console)- ditto with RatPoison...yet another cool low resource wm...(going to try to get OpenLook Virtual Window Manager working on here as well - can't seem to live on a computer without it - nostalgia...) -- Sat Mar 15 11:45:01 EST 2003 11:45:01 up 3:40, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.20, 0.25 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** I'd rather laugh with the sinners, Than cry with the saints, The sinners are much more fun! -- Billy Joel, Only The Good Die Young Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange strange strange
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 11:05, Robert Boggs wrote: On Friday 14 March 2003 06:58 pm, you wrote: They are Where in America? Who the hell is in America? I'm an EX American, mate. Civilme is in Alaska - BARELY America. I'm in Australia, NOT America! Ha! Put Cheezwhiz on that and eat it! (grin) -- Sat Mar 15 11:55:00 EST 2003 11:55:00 up 3:50, 5 users, load average: 0.12, 0.10, 0.16 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** I don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon. -- Howard Chaykin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Could someone please explain Segmentation Fault
On Thursday 13 March 2003 04:16 am, Jerry Barton wrote: On 13 Mar 2003 23:15:02 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though you might have all the requirements met, you might have either some stale libraries, or bad links to libraries, or not have certain libraries in your paths. Check your /etc/ld.so.conf and you might find that you can add a few path statements to that - so that your searches for libs is at least out of the way. If you make any modifications, you're going to have to run ldconfig again to rebuild the lib path cache. The seg faults can be caused from many different issues - one being that if a binary is linked against a conflicting library - that is certain to crash an application. Thanks, Stephen, I'll look into the libs. When I first set up Mandrake 9.0 I remember seeing threads about ld.so.conf and ldconfig so that was one of the first things that I did was to make sure that anywhere I have libs that they are in ld.so.conf and tried (successfully as far as I can see) to make sure that duplicate libs didn't get installed to say /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib (thought there are a few symlinks here and there to libs). Tuxcart I think is definitely a lib issue since it won't run at all but immediately exits with Segmentation Fault gyach, I'm not so sure of since it can run sometimes for 2-3 minutes then it happens, or it can run for 5-6 hours before it happens. That was the reason I was wondering if it was a memory issue. I played around with it a bit and I've noticed that it doesn't happen hardly at all under IceWM, never under PWM (at least not yet-it was up for 7 hours one day), sometimes under fluxbox and WindowMaker... I've been away from KDE/GNOME for Also when I mentioned all requirements met, I meant that durring the ./configure there were no looking for x no (there were at first but i noted these and installed them before compling completely. gyach was a program i wanted to run stably.) though possibly it could have been built under a different (probably older) version of a lib or ap that I have installed and that may be the problem, yes? Thanks for your help :-) Jerry As far as explaining segmentation fault check the old archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg40291.html Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] crontab -e doesn't work
I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop and have run into some oddities. The first is crontab. If I do 'crontab -e', it brings up my editor (emacs), but when I exit it, I get the message crontab: no changes made to crontab The only way I can create or change my crontab entry is to: edit a file, e.g., crontabstuff crontab -r crontab crontabstuff Why? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] using a camcorder in Mandrake
On Friday 14 March 2003 18:07, Jim Snyder wrote: Can I use this card with my camcorder to play back the tape and capture individual frames to edit the tape or save a still image? I don't know about the aspect of editing a tape. However, I can tell you in Linux I sometimes watch tapes and capture images from tapes by plugging into the composite video jack of my WinTV card and using xawtv or KWinTV. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing Tar.gz
I guess that I have led a blessed life until now and have never had to install anything that was not a Mandrake RPM packege. But now the time has arrived when I need to install a tar.gz I have looked around and so far have been unable to find any good documation explaining how to install a application from a tar.gz file. Anyone know of any good online doc's tutorials ect. ? Thanks -- Marc KM5KW Powered by Mandrake Linux 9.0 and Kmail. This is a 100%Windows and microsoft free computer For a superior OS, virus and crash resistant go to http://www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive
Using /dev/hdxhow can I tell what is on what drive? Depends greatly on how your system is partitioned. The simplest answer: if your linux is all on one partition then all your files (linux files) are on that drive. You could have other files on other drives, if you run another OS on that drive/partition. If this is not the case, type 'mount' and see what partitions are mounted where. You might see an output like this: /dev/hdb7 on / type reiserfs (rw,notail) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) /dev/hdb1 on /home type reiserfs (rw,notail) none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount (ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0) none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0) /dev/hdb5 on /usr/local type reiserfs (rw,notail) /dev/hda1 on /var type ext2 (rw) /dev/hdb6 on /var/spool type reiserfs (rw,notail) If you ignore the 'noen' entries and just concentrate on the 'dev' entries then it lets you know that (in my instance) I have / on the 7th partition of /dev/hdb (second drive). / is the beginning of the file tree, so everything is on that parition unless part of the tree is mounted somewhere else. Here, I have /home on /dev/hdb1, the first partition of the second drive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Tar.gz
I'm sure documentation is all over the distro but the procedure is straightforward. 1. uncompress the archive (tarball): tar xvzf pkg_to_be_installed.tar.gz A directory named 'pkg_to_be_installed' will be created inside the working directory. 2. change to that directory: cd pkg_to_be_installed Check to see if it's a 'standard' source protocol situation. There should be a file 'configure' that is executable and another file 'Makefile'. If so the next set of commands will finish things up. If not then write back to the list and include a listing of the new direcotry. BTW, there should be text files README' and INSTALL in the directory. Read them as they'll have specific instructions for compiling and installing the package. BTW2, you must have a compiler, gcc, the appropriate libraries, etc. installed. You get this by selecting 'development' during the installation of Mandrake. If you haven't installed this software do it now. You won't be able to proceed otherwise. 3. make sure you're logged in as root: su rtn root_password rtn 4. type './configure' (note the 'dot' before the 'slash') 5. If all OK, type 'make' 6. If all OK, type 'make install' You're done! On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 03:25, Marc Oestreicher wrote: I guess that I have led a blessed life until now and have never had to install anything that was not a Mandrake RPM packege. But now the time has arrived when I need to install a tar.gz I have looked around and so far have been unable to find any good documation explaining how to install a application from a tar.gz file. Anyone know of any good online doc's tutorials ect. ? Thanks -- Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux
parents) come along and tidy it because we can hardly get the door open. That's defragging! So the diff between window$ and linux is the diff between being well brought up or not;o) Hey, I've been running Linux for years byt you should see my apt. :) HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Recall: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Windows XP Co-existing
And by the way, I own the patent on that folder-and-envelope metaphor for filesystems, so if any of you use it anywhere else, I'll sue your asses ;-) Yeah, that was a very good explanation - I'd offer a twist - the pages are stored in a number of different 'subject' folders, which are of course directories. The only difference with Windows is that oftentimes your maths homework pages end up being put in the folder for psychology :). Of course, the OS can find it in the right folder, but only after rummaging through all the pages that tell it where to look. That's the File Allocation Table (FAT) in Windows. It's reminding me of a story I read as a child where the kids were trying to help Mommy by washing all the cans in the pantry -- when after a while they found out all the labels were gone from the cans. Dutifully, they tried to reglue the labels, but of course that didn't help. :) Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux
Go to Lake District for the weekend. When you get back Sunday evening all will be defragged. And those people must not get much work done, going on vacation every weekend :). John (nz) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work
Although I can't explain why, I know that crontab -e has a problem with eMacs. I use MicroEmacs and experience the same thing. Hmm, I should have brought that up in Bugzilla. Miark On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:18:47 -0800 Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop and have run into some oddities. The first is crontab. If I do 'crontab -e', it brings up my editor (emacs), but when I exit it, I get the message crontab: no changes made to crontab The only way I can create or change my crontab entry is to: edit a file, e.g., crontabstuff crontab -r crontab crontabstuff Why? andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Miark wrote: Although I can't explain why, I know that crontab -e has a problem with eMacs. I use MicroEmacs and experience the same thing. Hmm, I should have brought that up in Bugzilla. I just tried 'crontab -e' after changing my EDITOR shell variable to vi. And it worked! Can anybody explain this? Emacs works fine for crontab in both 8.1 and 8.2. Are we into holy war here? andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Tar.gz
I have looked around and so far have been unable to find any good=20 documation explaining how to install a application from a tar.gz file. What are you ttrying to install? Usually (but now necessarily) tar.gz files are compressed archives of source code. I assume that's what you're trying to install. And tar.gz files can just be like any archive of files - no 'install' really is done, only de-archiving. If you've ever used zip or unzip on DOS or Windows systems, a tar.gz file ss similar. Usually you'll start out by first looking at what directories and files are there (most zip files in DOS are a couple of single files, but in Unix they're typically a number of files and subdirectories). Then you'll extract it somewhere, usually in the current directory. First step is to look at it: $ zcat xtrs-4.5a.tar.gz | tar -tvf - (I just happen to have a handy-dandy tar.gz file here). You do that, you should see something like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dfox]$ zcat xtrs-4.5a.tar.gz | tar -tvf - drwxr-xr-x mann/staff0 2001-05-04 23:18:22 xtrs-4.5a/ -r--r--r-- mann/staff14611 2000-12-15 15:21:10 xtrs-4.5a/trs_memory.c -r--r--r-- mann/staff 4733 2000-05-16 19:37:44 xtrs-4.5a/cmddump.c -r--r--r-- mann/staff 1383 2001-02-16 23:23:46 xtrs-4.5a/error.c -r--r--r-- mann/staff18401 2001-05-01 17:52:20 xtrs-4.5a/debug.c -r--r--r-- mann/staff13926 2001-02-17 17:32:18 xtrs-4.5a/trs_io.c -rw-r--r-- mann/staff 424 2000-07-21 21:55:02 xtrs-4.5a/fakerom.hex -r--r--r-- mann/staff 150593 2001-02-16 23:32:20 xtrs-4.5a/trs_chars.c -r--r--r-- mann/staff 808 2000-05-16 19:40:40 xtrs-4.5a/trs_printer.c -r--r--r-- mann/staff 716 2000-05-16 19:37:45 xtrs-4.5a/config.h -r--r--r-- mann/staff 7223 2000-07-21 18:37:02 xtrs-4.5a/z80.h -r--r--r-- mann/staff 5439 2001-05-01 20:29:21 xtrs-4.5a/trs.h -r--r--r-- mann/staff 7048 2000-05-16 19:37:29 xtrs-4.5a/README -r--r--r-- mann/staff 1447 2001-04-27 14:41:39 xtrs-4.5a/README.tpm and so forth. On this particular file, all the files are going to be in the 'xtrs-4.5a' subdirectory. Not all tar.gz files are encased within subdirectories. This is the time then to repeat an adage I used to tell others -- always -tvf before you -xvf'. In other words, always see what the tar is going to produce before you actually extract it. Otherwise, you may end up with a hodge-podge of files strewn all over your home directory. Now, let's extract: $ zcat xtrs-4.5a.tar.gz | tar -xvf - Now, you'll just see a flurry of filenames on yuor screen -- that is tar telling you what it is extracting. Once this is done, you have a new subdirectory 'xtrs-4.5a' and if you change into that directory, you'll see all the files. Now, what you do with that is up to you, but in this case xtrs-4.5a.tar.gz is a tar source archive of a TRS-80 emulator for X/Linux, and of course to install this puppy we need to compile and install it. Normally, building consists of four steps: ./configure make su root make install Of course, there are going to be variants fo that process; for instance less complicated programs don't need a configure step, but you might need to edit some files beforehand. Often there is a README file (just as there was in DOS shareware zips many years ago) or a INSTALL file -- that contains the directions on how to use the package. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi is hanging
Strangely enough, but now when I want to update my urpmi setup, it's sitting there hanging. I'm doing 'urpmi.update -a' and it's just hanging all at the first site (ftp1u). I didn't change my configuration at all. Anyone elese experiencing problems connecting to sites? here, ftp1u is off of gatech.edu, maybe that's the issue. traceroute is hanging. Guess Georgia is off the net :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work
On Friday 14 March 2003 09:08 pm, Andy Davidson wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Miark wrote: Although I can't explain why, I know that crontab -e has a problem with eMacs. I use MicroEmacs and experience the same thing. Hmm, I should have brought that up in Bugzilla. I just tried 'crontab -e' after changing my EDITOR shell variable to vi. And it worked! Can anybody explain this? Emacs works fine for crontab in both 8.1 and 8.2. Are we into holy war here? This rings a bell for me. I ran into something like it and if it's similar it's the exit value from emacs - check by editing a file using ls test; emacs test; echo $? Betcha the exit value is non-zero. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] FYI - SCO sues IBM for $1 billion for
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=4639 Good idea... This reminds me of when I first got into Linux. Back then, there was a few commercial possibiliities for Unix, and there was Coherent. Coherent was a version of Unix for the x86 but it lacked many of the functional necessities that Linux gave the user and gradually Linux and other free clones won out and Coherent went out of business. I remember attending a panel discussion at a local LUG several years ago - there were Linux and 386bsd (another variant) and Coherent people. At the end of the discussion the Coherent guy looked kind of flustered :). but at least Coherent didn't sue. And now SCO seems to want to sue at least IBM - they've done considerable gppd for Linux in the last year or so. Personally, I don't see how SCO can compete - it's like if a mechanical clock maker sued an electric clock maker because the latter had a dial and hands :(. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. -- The Boss, Dilbert --=.J+p_0t6E'FuVDS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+cJYHLdkkmwSdOLQRAmbSAJsFn+h+LIFF+jotVTKdETee8OXhWgCfVw83 MRxAwSgjrn1BXAtUbaGMhs0= =9uCg -END PGP SIGNATURE- --=.J+p_0t6E'FuVDS-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Local zone time isn't sticky
On a dual boot laptop (Win98 and Mandrake 9.0), the BIOS time is set to the local zone: Pacific Standard. In Mandrake, I go into Mandrake Control Center and set the time and the time zone (PST8PDT) and answer 'No' to the question Is your hardware clock set to GMT? When I select 'OK' the screen blanks for several seconds, then comes back. But eventually over the next several hours, the date/time reverts to GMT. I set up a cron job to save the date/time each hour and this shows up in /var/log/messages: Mar 14 18:01:00 tribble CROND[3623]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Mar 14 18:05:00 tribble CROND[3638]: (andyd) CMD (/bin/date $HOME/date.out 2 $HOME/date.err) Mar 14 19:01:00 tribble CROND[3641]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Mar 14 11:53:55 tribble CROND[3666]: (andyd) CMD (/bin/date $HOME/date.out 2 $HOME/date.err) Note the sudden time change on the last line. What is going on? And how do I fix it? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:22:04PM -0700, Russ Kepler wrote: This rings a bell for me. I ran into something like it and if it's similar it's the exit value from emacs - check by editing a file using ls test; emacs test; echo $? Betcha the exit value is non-zero. Nope. It's zero. andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dell Latitude notebook
I'm running a laptop that sounds identical to yours is it an LS400? Mine works fine with Mandrake 9.1rc1 as it did with 9.0. I would recomment using 9.1 if you use GNOME (a lot of bugs were fixed) but KDE seemed fine on both. Mandrake's installation routine knew exactly how to handle the Neomagic cards just make sure yo select the right one. You will have to compile drivers for your winmodem. This needs too be done after you have installed linux. Be sure to put the files on a disk because you won't have internet access unless you leave a windows partition on. The drivers are at: http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/dists/mandrake or http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/dists/mandrake Download the file called 8.1_devfs_info.tar.gz I recommend reading as much as you can here: http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/ Let me know if you have questions -Noah On Fri, 15 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 10:15, Dennis Sue wrote: Hello folks, Since just acquiring this fine thing I was wondering if anyone has had an experience installing Mandrake onto one ? 400 Mhz 128 meg RAM 3com cardbus fast ethernet texas instruments pci 1225 cardbus controller neomagicmagic graph 256 AV display neomagic magic media 256 AV sound /audio Holy Cow! Dang - that thing sounds like an absolute SCREAMER mate! Dunno if there's an OS that can handle such a monster machine! Don't think that OS/2 has drivers for it yet...but hey, I'll be it can defrag faster than dirt! JOKING! I installed RH on a machine like that - about a year ago - the only thing I had a problem with was the onboard video - so I think that due to it's age, you shouldn't have a problem with drivers in MDK 9.0 (or even MDK 8.2) Have you tried booting up the first CD with it yet to see how far you get or if the graphical installer takes over? -- Sat Mar 15 10:20:00 EST 2003 10:20:00 up 2:15, 5 users, load average: 0.07, 0.29, 0.26 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi is hanging
On Friday 14 March 2003 10:13 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Strangely enough, but now when I want to update my urpmi setup, it's sitting there hanging. I'm doing 'urpmi.update -a' and it's just hanging all at the first site (ftp1u). I didn't change my configuration at all. Anyone elese experiencing problems connecting to sites? here, ftp1u is off of gatech.edu, maybe that's the issue. traceroute is hanging. Guess Georgia is off the net :) I was having problems with errors and not getting an install from the cooker mirrors so I deleted my ftp main site and added it back in and all works like it should again. I can not explain it cause the source edit would not add the main ftp site back in until I did the delete and reinstall. No idea why but maybe it will work in your situation. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RSA encryption in 9.1
There does not seem to be any 128 bit encryption in the 9.1rc2 + cooker updates. I have tried installing krsa-0.1.4 but run into a problem with QT: error message is: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= 1.42 and 2.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! I installed qt-1.44 something and still get the same message so I must not have something pointing in the right place. Anyone have 128bit encryption active in konqueror or mozilla web browsers? and how did you do it? I have java jre-1.4.0 working but no encryption. Any suggestions will be appreciated, Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RC2 and networking
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 04:44, Mark Weaver wrote: personally I'd like to see at least one more RC come out before 9.1 goes final. There appears to be some nagging issues that have yet to be resolved. For me, the only one I've got is the application filesystem nav windows in KDE that don't work unless you type the path in the look in field. It's actually a bug in KDE 3.1 - I've posted on the kde-linux group and that was the answer back - no fix yet, but it was recommended to change the mouse settings - which I did, but still didn't fix. Ah well...if it ain't one think, it's another... I posted this on cooker, but it's been sitting there for two days without so much as a peep. the only app nav window that works is the one that is in Kate which works perfectly. The strange thing is that this behavior is only seen while running KDE. If I've got an app running in any other window manager the nav windows work as they're supposed to. Even the native KDE apps like Kwrite. Well, then it does go to show ya that it's a core KDE 3.1 issue - and actually, I'm going to do some further digging today to see what I can come up with... I'm still not happy with Gnome 2.2.0 - ain't been happy with Gnome since they started moving away from the 1.4+ base - it's been more than six months and they're just frigging up more and more - only the hard core Gnome lovers are sticking to it, and it's getting worse and worse reviews; and being that I run Galeon and Evolution, problems with Gnome tend to cause me aches in Evolution at times...but easily resolved - just to delete the damn .gnome* files and fire it up again...bloody theme engine chokes and pukes. Meanwhile, last time I tried to reply to yer email, it hung for days in limbo cuz it couldn't find your server...hope you got that bit resolved mate... Here goes..! -- Sat Mar 15 08:30:00 EST 2003 08:30:00 up 25 min, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.10, 0.12 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. -- Richard P. Feynman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
