Re: [newbie-it] kernel e patch(era scheda Tv+ kernel patchato)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 01:15, luned 26 maggio 2003, miKe ha scritto: credo che ricompilare il kernel linus non far male alla tua mandrake, anzi puoi riciclere il config-2.4.21... che trovi in /boot adattandolo comunque al tuo caso, e togliendo tutto quello che non ti serve (make oldconfig) attenzione poi a affiancare il 2.4.20 al kernel originale e non sovrascrivere niente dopo la ricompilazione perderai il supermount e dovrai risompilare almeno iptables e gpm che lavorano a stretto contatto col kernel (perdendo le patch di mandrake altri programmi minori che si appoggiano a queste potrebbero non andare, capisci quali andando a spulciare nel cd quali aggiunte abbiano fatto al kernel, spero sia scritto da qualche parte..) Fatto! Ricompilato il kernel, vabbe` ho usato il vecchio config senza eliminare niente, pero` ora la scheda TV funziona! Vedro` col tempo cosa non funziona (iptables non lo uso perche sono gia` dietro ad un firewall). Intanto grazie per l'aiuto: e` stato la mia salvezza! alla prossima! - -- Non temo i computer. Temo la loro penuria. -- Isaac Asimov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+1I34TvJtVxCNwP4RAovJAKCxfKgEYzyzP2XI/YlGVmBc86+yrACeIGeh M2YgPZq7La+CptJCchZhtmM= =rOFm -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie-it] Problemi audio
Colgo l'occasione di salutare tutti come nuovo entrato in questa email-list. Il mio problema principale è che non riesco a capire perchè mi succede questo con l'audio. Ho istallato Audacity 1.1.1 su Mdk 9.1 con KDE scheda audio Creative Live 5.1. Per un po di giorni ho registrato da sorgenti audio esterni (line in) tranquillamente. Ora non ne vuol piu sapere!!! premetto che le impostazioni audio non sono mai state cambiate nel senso che i solo cambi sono stai da aumix. E un problema analogo lo sto riscontrando con L'audio di Gnomemeeting in quando nelle prove audio di registarzione non mi ritorna il registarto dopo 5 secondi quindi in collegamento mi da problemi sul full duplex. Grazie. Michele
Re: [newbie] Re: Pekwm (Wohoo!)
I just cvs'd and noticed that the themeset stuff is commented out of menu. My email is too blurry, now, though, so i will have to go to bed and try it tomorrow with the latest files. I just mailed the pekwm list about that. It seems there is supposed to be a file called pekwm_themeset that is missing. Also, the wallpaper switch script I sent you no longer seems to work. Hopefully I'll get an answer soon, and I'll letcha know what's up. g'night eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WM's in general
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 12:51, Femme wrote: When drak first time comes up it gives you the option (in KDE anyway) to choose which WM to run on top of KDE itself. Like Enlightenment. NOw I chose that option once, couldn't figure out how to undo it. Silly me. Simply run this wizard again? I do not know the name but it is distributed as a separate rpm so you can figure the name out using urpmi database. Wahur Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Surprized At Updates
Won't that job run both commands at the same time? don't you need a ; rather than to separate the 2 commands? Tony. -Original Message- From: stormjumper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates if you have urpmi properly set up and working, setting a cron job to run, say, every morning at 3am urpmi.update -a urpmi --update --auto-select --auto should keep your system properly updated with security updates - Original Message - From: Cody Harris To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 08:44 Subject: [newbie] Surprized At Updates I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download dependences easier and software installs would work better. It would also improve security by downloading and installing the newest version of software like samba and other apps. I don't know how many people wish this existed, but i sure do. -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS!| | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating archive
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 17:57, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I want to create a tarball from my home directory, but I'm confused about one thing. When I do: # tar -zcvf homearchive.tar /home/marco or # tar -zcvf homearchive.tar.gz /home/marco seems to have the same result. Both are compressed archives with the same size. It appears to me that the only difference is the file extension. Is that true? Marco You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? John John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: newbies and off-topic stuff
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 6:43 am, eric huff wrote: On Tue May 27 2003 12:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Did you try a search on mail? :) You get a hit for every page! eric I've just tried searching. I put 'newbie' into the box on the top line, and it came back with a not found - I think it's looking for a page called that - with another search box offered, and newbie already entered in. I hit the go button (searching the body text, this time, I think), and it came up with 6 page references, ConTributing HowTo MailFilter MandrakeReferences NewbieFriendly WhereIsSupport Not quite true - I tried it. But when you think that every page that references a subscribed member contains a mail address, as well as every topic that has any reference to it (and there are many), you would end up with a long list. I can only suggest that if you are seriously looking for anything on mail you would have to skim the list and discount personal pages. If you use tabbed browsing it shouldn't be too much of a pain to find what you want. Incidentally, I hadn't noticed before that low down on the WebHome page there is a quick search box which searches the whole site - better than the route I suggested before. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:26 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:55 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 9:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: snip When installing SO you have to enable it's networking capability to allow all users acces. To do so, become root, go to the directory where you have all the binaries ( its located a few directories below the main one), find the file named *setup*. - And - at this point, I would open a console, su into root, verify once again that the *setup* file is there ( easy : type ls setup) and then issue the command : setup -net (earlier on, in my OS/2-days it was setup /net, so if one doesn't work, try the other). This should open the installation process, enjoy. Then - if everything goes OK, back out of root (close all windows) and as a normal user, go back to the very same directory once again. Now, issue the command : setup. That way you'll only install about 1.5 MB in every users /home/user directory. Very cool. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Is it worth making this into a HOW-TO for the twiki? Anne /snip You decide, Anne. But on the other hand there is extensive info in the readme file of SO. Couldn't harm, though. Kaj Haulrich. Not for me to decide, at all. But I would say that newbies often don't find files like this until later, and help files don't come into play if they haven't managed to start the program. So, if you wouldn't mind doing a write-up on this, I think it would help. Particularly if, having talked them through what's needed you also point them at how to find the relevant docs. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1
Pilagá wrote: El Lun 26 May 2003 09:32, Anne Wilson escribió: I refused to let k3b alter my fstab - I did the same under 9.0 and all was fine - but it doesn't work at all well for me (9.1). I've given up on it and gone back to XCDRoast, which has always served me well. Now it can see my cd-dvd (no scsi-em) I'm very happy with it. I still struggle, though, to find the way to burn an iso under XCDRoast. Anne Anne, try this steps: If you downloaded an ISO-image (e.g. a linux distribution) you have to copy that big file (extension should be .iso) first to an image-directory of X-CD-Roast. You specify these directories in Setup at the HD Settings tab. These are the places where X-CD-Roast will look for audio (.wav) or data tracks. Now you enter the Create CD menu and you will see your image-file displayed nicely in the Image-Information window. Go to Write Tracks - click on Layout tracks tab, add your image-file, click on Accept track layout and finally a click at Write tracks will write that image perfectly to your CD-R/RW. Suerte. Yep, that works. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:01 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 04:51 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:17 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 03:13 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote: Graham Banks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anybody got a boot setup allowing different combinations of disks/partitions to be accessible in windows linux? I've got two hard disks, the second of which is online only for occasional backups. The first has 5 partitions: a windows one, a dos one and 3 linux ones (in that order). At present I use a boot manager for Windows, called xosl, which manages the dos/windows side of this perfectly. snip I currently have 1 of my computers running win98SE, win2000 (for program compatibility) and MDK9.1 I use XOSL as a boot manager on this machine as I can setup passwords for the different oses and make booting the winblows partitions a little more secure. All I did was to install lilo on the MDK partition that contains the /boot. I then pointed XOSL to this partition, labelled it Mandrake (as the default os of course). I set the bios to boot only fron hard drive and viola! - works flawlessly (did so with MDK8.2 and MDK9.0 as well) I set lilo to boot after 2 seconds and removed the options for the windows boot options. But all you have done really is replace the windblows bootloader with this XOSL loader,and I'm guessing, in the MBR of whichever first partition is Windblows , and then installed lilo as a linux loader in chain loader fashion. Now, perhaps this XOSL loader is more secure than windblows own, but if so I doubt by much, since password configuration to both windblows has been a feature of W98 and W2K from the start.You only have to choose to set it. So why bother with all this XOSL stuff, just let lilo be installed in the MBR of which ever windblows OS is first and chain load as before. I think he wants different combinations of FAT partitions to be visible in DOS and Windows. lilo will let the Microsoft systems, when booting, make their own decisions as to what is visible, which is precisely what he does not want. Now there is a utility called letterassign that runs in Windows, (and probably in Dos too, but I'm not sure) that allows you to tell a Windows system what partitions it is to see, and which partitions are to correspond to which so-called drive letters. I've used it with Windows 98SE, and it seems to work. -- hendrik OK, but I have never had any problem with getting any windblows OS to recognise any number of FAT 32 partition, whether before or after linux partitions. So it must be in DOS itself, but does anyone actually use DOS anymore ?, and in anycase your sayng DOS cannot recognise FAT32 partitions ?, really ? Really. In fact, I don't think win95 can, either. Fat32 wasn't 'invented' then. FAT32 Introduced in Win95 OSR actually. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.m icro soft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q154/9/97.aspNoWebContent=1 And yes people still use DOS. I have a couple of DOS systems being used as dialup routers - more secure for this purpose than any of the network enabled OS's. Frank My mistake, then. I thought win95 was fat16. Anne The original Win95 was indeed fat16 only - and therefore 2G limit. I made a typo - Win95 OSR2 introduced fat32. There were four versions of Win95, three of which support fat32. That fits my memory of it - except that I didn't know there were 4. I only remembered 2. Thanks for clearing it up. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unknown bridge resource?
Thomas Williams wrote: I'm running 8.1 and I updated the kernel. Before I updated it I was getting one error message every time I boot up: Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent. After updating I'm still gettting that plus a bunch of other messages. Here's the error log file in its entirety: May 25 00:36:53 localhost kernel: Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming It says that to everyone who doesn't have Intel processor, but normally only once. May 27 16:44:17 localhost kernel: devfs_mk_dir(sound): using old entry in dir: c12765c0 So like what's going on here? What is a Unknown bridge resource and how do I fix it? And what's all the other stuff its complaining about? Tom Your problem isn't that it's saying it but why is it repeating itself. What processor do you have, and maybe the mobo ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:09, Derek Jennings wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to spend ages composing the command. (well I would) I am surprised no one seems have to made use of slocate in a GUI based file search tool, but AFAIK there is not one. (Please correct me if I am wrong) derek snip In konquerer file manager: tools - find file :) HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:19 pm, John Drouhard wrote: At the login screen, login in to a user, then su to root. After that, go to /etc and edit the file inittab. Change the default runlevel to 5 instead of 3 like this: # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrake Linux are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:5:initdefault: Once again, this is the file /etc/inittab Hope this helps! -John Drouhard This is linux - there's always more than one way to achieve anything g Enjoy Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating archive
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? On my right-click menu it offers Bzip2, tar and zip. Can you define the difference, please, Stephen? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Pekwm (Gkrellm is cool)
On 28 May 2003 13:32:35 + Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 04:08, Joe Hill wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2003 22:12:20 + John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been googling around for the transparent skin, but cannot seem to find it. Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks! http://www.muhri.net/ I dl'ed the tarball from there, but none of the skins in there are transparent. What's the name of the skin in question? = I think the one called glass-2 or something like that is basically tranparent. Mike -- The man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life --Muhammad Ali Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Support questions
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:16 am, rikona wrote: Hello, I just signed up for support for the 9.0 Powerpack I bought. I thought I might be able to access another set of info about setting up Mandrake, but that does not seem to be the case. It seems to be asking me to open an 'incident'. Is this 'support' really effective? Can one see all the questions and answers that have been discussed, as is the case on this list? You folks here have been VERY helpful[thank you, again]. Does the above 'support' really add something that this list does not provide? For example, I have been looking for packages to install (Octave, for example). When I search, the primary source seems to be the Mandrake Club. I thought this was part of the above 'support', but that does not seem to be the case. It seems as though I would still have to pay to use the Club. Is that true? I think ,( but am not sure) that your Powerpack purchase entitles you to temporary club membership. Run drakclub as root to register and set up the club urpmi source. Make sure your Mandrake updates are up to date first because there was an incompatibility between the way the club download server is configured and urpmi. An updated urpmi fixes it. Club membership entitles you to download the 'commercial' packages (most of which are on your Powerpack CDs already), and the member produced packages, as Greg has already mentioned. You get to discuss and vote for new packages, and there is a forum for user to user help, with some contribution from MandrakeSoft employees. No one should join the Club expecting to get valuable products and services. You would only be disappointed. Mandrake have a fundamental problem in that they feel strongly about making a fully GPL distro with free access to ISO's the moment it is released. So of course a *lot* of Mandrake users download the ISO's for free and MandrakeSoft do not earn a single penny from these users. Club membership is a way for those users who want to show their appreciation for the distro to contribute something, and get a few benefits in return. In the Octave example, I found a Mandrake rpm, but it needs quite a few libs. The Club seems to have all of them, otherwise, they seem to be spread around all over, with different versions and types (non-rpm, for example). For a newbie, it is a bit confusing to make sure I am getting all the proper pieces to make it work OK. If your urpmi sources are set up correctly you should never have to worry about libraries. Nor will you need to hunt for rpms across the web. The important things to remember are :- Make urpmi sources for update, contrib, and plf Then optionally make sources for texstar,Club, unsupported/MandrakeClub Do NOT make a source for cooker (unless you consider yourself an advanced user and want to run a *9.2* system. In which case you need no advice from me ;-) In the sources listed for urpmi, the Mandrake Club is listed, but that seems to be from an ftp I added at the suggestion of someone here. I assume that this is NOT the real Mandrake Club (that seems to be complete) because urpmi *can't* find all the missing parts. If there is no username/password in the ftp address then that is probably 'unsupported/MandrakeClub' i.e. club RPMS released to the public. What's the best way for newbies to get complete packages and/or support? Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to how these pieces go together. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:47 am, Technoslick wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 07:14 pm, Derek Jennings graced me with: snip Install the slocate package and then in a root terminal type 'updatedb' It will index every file on your computer and you can perform a quick search with the command 'slocate string' The database will update itself weekly, but first you must install the 'anacron' package. Derek, I've been using 'slocate', but have been manually invoking 'updatedb'. I have 'cron' already loading on boot-up as a service. Will it matter if I also have 'anacron' running as well as 'cron'? What's the difference between 'cron' and 'anacron' in the sense of why I have one over the other, or why I would run both? Thanks in advance for clearing this up for me. T The trouble with cron is that it assumes your computer in on 24/7 It only runs a job when the clock rolls over to the time of the next job. Anacron looks at the cron configuration and checks to see if there are any jobs scheduled whose time has passed. It will then run those jobs. So you should have both cron and anacron installed. Anacron was installed by default in Mandrake up to 8.2, but then it was removed because of all the people who complained (on this list and elsewhere) that their harddrive kept going 'berserk' 15 minutes after they switched on their computer. Now instead people complain about having huge log files. ;-) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating archive
On Wed, 28 May 2003 06:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? On my right-click menu it offers Bzip2, tar and zip. Can you define the difference, please, Stephen? Anne I think I'll usurp his job and add my 2 cents... Tar simply puts all the files/directories into a single archive. Zip actually compresses it. Used together you get a .tar.gz, where you get the benefit of archiving an entire directory tree (if you wish) with compression. Bzip2 was written by Julian Seward, it's a block sorting compressor, and on some files you can make them literally 10 times smaller than zips. But not all Windows computers can read them (WinZip can't). Regards, _nasturtium -- _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please Reply All/cc to avoid mail being lost in filter problems. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[3]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?
At 10:58 PM 5/27/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello FemmeFatale, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 10:25:02 PM, you wrote: F See Attachment for explanations. Thanks for the notes. I was looking for a complete list, since one of the web pages mentioned there were many others. Dunno where it is though. :-)) Actually, the sys was not frozen - it was responding quite well. The problem was that about a dozen previously open processes on the screen seemed to have disappeared, along with the 'process' bar at the bottom of the screen. This happened when MD 'woke up' after a mouse move to bring it to life. Any ideas what happened to those dozen processes, and the work I was doing in them(also lost)? -- Thank you, rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like some app went nuts Just froze your processes. IE: Took up 100% cpu usage. Happens sometimes. Kill X after saving everything to buffers Stuff..lord i shouldn't write this half-corked... and you should be able to restart X easily enough. Other than that... I dunno. Got my own problems... sigh. Fubared my own installation in record time. Sorry I'm not much help. - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1--- 2nd attempt
Pilagá wrote: El Lun 26 May 2003 09:32, Anne Wilson escribió: I refused to let k3b alter my fstab - I did the same under 9.0 and all was fine - but it doesn't work at all well for me (9.1). I've given up on it and gone back to XCDRoast, which has always served me well. Now it can see my cd-dvd (no scsi-em) I'm very happy with it. I still struggle, though, to find the way to burn an iso under XCDRoast. Anne Anne, try this steps: If you downloaded an ISO-image (e.g. a linux distribution) you have to copy that big file (extension should be .iso) first to an image-directory of X-CD-Roast. You specify these directories in Setup at the HD Settings tab. These are the places where X-CD-Roast will look for audio (.wav) or data tracks. Now you enter the Create CD menu and you will see your image-file displayed nicely in the Image-Information window. Go to Write Tracks - click on Layout tracks tab, add your image-file, click on Accept track layout and finally a click at Write tracks will write that image perfectly to your CD-R/RW. Suerte. Yep, that works. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:50 am, Pilagá wrote: El Lun 26 May 2003 09:32, Anne Wilson escribió: I refused to let k3b alter my fstab - I did the same under 9.0 and all was fine - but it doesn't work at all well for me (9.1). I've given up on it and gone back to XCDRoast, which has always served me well. Now it can see my cd-dvd (no scsi-em) I'm very happy with it. I still struggle, though, to find the way to burn an iso under XCDRoast. Anne Anne, try this steps: If you downloaded an ISO-image (e.g. a linux distribution) you have to copy that big file (extension should be .iso) first to an image-directory of X-CD-Roast. You specify these directories in Setup at the HD Settings tab. These are the places where X-CD-Roast will look for audio (.wav) or data tracks. Now you enter the Create CD menu and you will see your image-file displayed nicely in the Image-Information window. Go to Write Tracks - click on Layout tracks tab, add your image-file, click on Accept track layout and finally a click at Write tracks will write that image perfectly to your CD-R/RW. Suerte. I think that the problem was that I was trying to burn from an image stored in another data directory. I guess it's not much of a problem to temporarily copy such an image to the required directory - just didn't realise what was causing the blockage g Thanks Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1--- 2nd attempt
Pilagá wrote: El Lun 26 May 2003 09:32, Anne Wilson escribió: I refused to let k3b alter my fstab - I did the same under 9.0 and all was fine - but it doesn't work at all well for me (9.1). I've given up on it and gone back to XCDRoast, which has always served me well. Now it can see my cd-dvd (no scsi-em) I'm very happy with it. I still struggle, though, to find the way to burn an iso under XCDRoast. Anne Anne, try this steps: If you downloaded an ISO-image (e.g. a linux distribution) you have to copy that big file (extension should be .iso) first to an image-directory of X-CD-Roast. You specify these directories in Setup at the HD Settings tab. These are the places where X-CD-Roast will look for audio (.wav) or data tracks. Now you enter the Create CD menu and you will see your image-file displayed nicely in the Image-Information window. Go to Write Tracks - click on Layout tracks tab, add your image-file, click on Accept track layout and finally a click at Write tracks will write that image perfectly to your CD-R/RW. Suerte. Yep, that works. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating archive
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? On my right-click menu it offers Bzip2, tar and zip. Can you define the difference, please, Stephen? Anne No mention of Tar in my right-click menu. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 3:05 am, rikona wrote: Hello Joeb, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 6:58:13 PM, you wrote: J ctl-alt-backspace will restart the window manager. That might be J all that is needed instead of a complete reboot. Thanks very much for the tip. Maybe should have waited, but already rebooted. Both replies used key strokes. Is there a 'master list' of MD keystrokes I could get (not from the MD box, for times like this)? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/doc/90c/en/Starter.html/troubleshooting-system-freeze.html -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos
At 11:14 AM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: I think he wants different combinations of FAT partitions to be visible in DOS and Windows. lilo will let the Microsoft systems, when booting, make their own decisions as to what is visible, which is precisely what he does not want. Now there is a utility called letterassign that runs in Windows, (and probably in Dos too, but I'm not sure) that allows you to tell a Windows system what partitions it is to see, and which partitions are to correspond to which so-called drive letters. I've used it with Windows 98SE, and it seems to work. -- hendrik Lets finish this thread. IF he wants partition hiding all the fun usefulness of running DOS/Win98/XP/Linux/another Linux Distro all at once, Use XOSL say fuck LILO. Cause frankly, it sucks for this kind of thing. How do I know? There was an article about it in Maximumpc about a guy who runs 32 (!) OSes. He uses XOSL. Nothing else works. So...take his lead. lord i gotta stop posting when i'm stoned or drunk... my language goes to hell in a handbasket. sigh - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:37 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 01:09:26 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to spend ages composing the command. (well I would) I am surprised no one seems have to made use of slocate in a GUI based file search tool, but AFAIK there is not one. (Please correct me if I am wrong) derek Many file managers offer somewhat hidden find features. ROX-filer does, as does the new xffm for xfce4. See, for example http://clevername.homeip.net/rox-find.png and http://clevername.homeip.net/xffm-find.png for screenshots. Todd Hmm For some reason the 'Find' facility does not work on my Rox. When I select 'Find' the cursor changes to a cross and nothing happens. But do these searches use the slocate database, or are they just brute force, ' look at every file' type searches? derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot
This makes me think: I've gone through a lot of WM's (but not pekwm) and I've more or less settled on Blackbox as the best for me. But I would like to set up a kind of launchbar for a few apps on the desktop to avoid rummaging through the menu's. Or even a kind of command line box, maybe one that remembers recent commands so you can select from a drop-down box. Regards, Hendrik Martin -Original Message- From: John Drouhard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 May 2003 22:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot On Tue, 27 May 2003 20:20:52 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya know, when it gets right down to it, a lot of actions are actually faster if you do them on cli and not on a gui. Course you have to know the commands and what files to edit. but even so it looks faster than opening up MCC etc. Ya, I used to use GUI's for almost everything, but I got sick of rummaging around the menus, clicking on the different buttons, etc. I then began learning what the GUI's actually did, and began to learn how to do everything by hand. Everything seems to go faster now. And I am all for ease of use. -John Drouhard -- Tue May 27 20:28:27 UTC 2003 20:28:27 up 10:33, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.01, 0.00 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 File: message.footer Disclaimer: http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm http://www.sabc.co.za/disclaimer/emaildisclaimer.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:57 am, g wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: You could be right, there. Thinking about it, I've mainly been importing Netscape mail into different Netscape versions, and to some extent Mozilla mail into new Mozilla installs. Netscape did seamlessly take up my Mozilla mail setup when it trashed the Mozilla one - but perhaps that is to be expected, too, as a commercial proposition. Perhaps not. They certainly look the same, but of course it is possible that they carry some sort of identifier that sets them apart and makes them unusable. data files, '*.msf' may be diff between moz and ns. in moz, each email file has a 'fn.msf' file. each directory is a 'dir.sbd', along with 2 files. a '0' size file and an msf file. I'll look some more at this when I'm not as pushed for time. It was netscape 7 in linux that I was trying to import to moz in linux. I'm very puzzled by it all. I seem to have trashed the files now, and it wasn't all that important. you forgot 3 magic words, 'backup, backup, backup'. No, I do have backup. As I said, there is nothing important there, it's just that I wanted the convenience. With the old versions of netscape you could keep your data files anywhere you wanted (i.e. not in a subdirectory of ntscp). If you then, from a new install, attempted to create a profile with a matching name and pointed it at the correct directory it would say that there was already a profile with that name, and do you want to use that data? Nice, and a lot more convenient that the way moz and the new netscapes handle it. I don't see it as a security risk either, in linux at least, since the permissions would still hold. _never_ use 'active files' for test purpose. _always_ use copied paths for test. _no_ exceptions to this rule. What is more interesting, not to say frustrating, is that there seems to be no way you can set up for moz to collect mail from a netscape.net account. have you verified this with netscape? Didn't even try. I once tried contacting netscape with a tech query and got an automatic answer that netscape do not support end users. That was ntscp6 under windows. It was the best solution I had found so far (didn't know about moz), but it strongly put me off them as a company. No big deal. If it can't do what I want there are plenty of isps who can. Meanwhile, my address is still valid, and so long as I use it very carefully it will only get black hole posts into it. Thanks, g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:46 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:09, Derek Jennings wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to spend ages composing the command. (well I would) I am surprised no one seems have to made use of slocate in a GUI based file search tool, but AFAIK there is not one. (Please correct me if I am wrong) derek snip In konquerer file manager: tools - find file :) HTH, -Frans Isn't that just a brute force 'Look at every file' search? It certainly takes a long time. Rikonia is looking for a graphical way of searching the slocate database. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Creating archive
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:22 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? On my right-click menu it offers Bzip2, tar and zip. Can you define the difference, please, Stephen? Anne No mention of Tar in my right-click menu. John Are you checking it against a file or a directory? It's on my directory right-click, but not on the file one. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] pdf to KSpread format
Hi all Does any one know how I can convert a pdf file to a Kpread format for editing. Thank you benjamin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates
At 09:00 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download dependences easier and software installs would work better. It would also improve security by downloading and installing the newest version of software like samba and other apps. I don't know how many people wish this existed, but i sure do. Didn't you ever hear of URPMI? Yes, but i've been told it needs a source to be set up to update. I don't know what source to use. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++
Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
Ok I found a fast graphical interface for slocate. In fact I found three :- xlocate - I did not find a download site, but it will be out there somewhere. klocate2 - Two versions. One for KDE2 and one for KDE3 http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/latest I tried to compile it, but so far without success. kio_locate - A kio slave plug in for konqueror. There is an RPM in contrib and in texstar so 'urpmi kio_locate' is all you need to install it. kio slaves allow you to enter a special url line in konqueror. To use kio_locate just type locate://regular_expression in the url line BTW: Another really nice kio slave is kio_fish. It is installed by default in Mandrake 9.1. Just type 'fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the url line and you will be able to manage the remote file system on any ssh capable computer. Much better than NFS IMO HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Checking for new Hardware
Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] namp/firewall behavoir
Two nmap/firewall questions: 1) I am using the firestarter firewall. When I try to scan a server with nmap I get repeated operation not permitted and my firewall's logs show blocked hits from MY ip. why is this? 2) when I stop the firewall and type nmap -sF -F -O xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on a serveur which I know for a fact is up and running and which I can ping - I get nothing (even without the flags). Nmap returns nothing at all. what am I doing wrong here BTW - when I run nmap on 127.0.0.1 it works just fine. thanks in advance! Andrei -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 06:29 am, Cody Harris wrote: At 09:00 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download dependences easier and software installs would work better. It would also improve security by downloading and installing the newest version of software like samba and other apps. I don't know how many people wish this existed, but i sure do. Didn't you ever hear of URPMI? Yes, but i've been told it needs a source to be set up to update. I don't know what source to use. Well, if you knew about it, why did you make like it did not exist? If you wanted to know how to use it, ask how to use it. You need 'urpmi.setup'. If it is not installed, type as root 'urpmi urpmi.setup' and then 'urpmi.setup' and set up your sources. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 03:26 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Won't that job run both commands at the same time? don't you need a ; rather than to separate the 2 commands? The prevents the second one from running if the first one does not complete successfully. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6 - solved
I saw DrewMartin's got a similiar problem with oo. I added line unset SESSION_MANAGER in swriter-script, and voilá: it wuks grate! Life is wunderbar! (pity I didn't read it in the first place...) OllimaX! Congratulations Ollimax - I did'nt know that ! As you have just demonstrated, all roads leads to Rome, and in Linux there are roads all over the place. Kaj Haulrich. Actually, I was wondering last night how did I ever stood alive for all these years with this intelligence of Winnie the Pooh!!! After my cheerful message about the solved problem I found out that I was still a root. Logged in as an ordinary user and tried again:no Star Office! I kicked the cat and went to bed. Anyway, I'll try these other suggestions when I get my computer back from the pawnshop, and tell you how will I succeed then. regards, Ollimax, who is quite pissed off right now! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:40, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:46 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:09, Derek Jennings wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to spend ages composing the command. (well I would) I am surprised no one seems have to made use of slocate in a GUI based file search tool, but AFAIK there is not one. (Please correct me if I am wrong) derek snip In konquerer file manager: tools - find file :) HTH, -Frans Isn't that just a brute force 'Look at every file' search? It certainly takes a long time. Rikonia is looking for a graphical way of searching the slocate database. derek Yes, I found that out after I send my email and tested it :( -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:53 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 06:29 am, Cody Harris wrote: At 09:00 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download dependences easier and software installs would work better. It would also improve security by downloading and installing the newest version of software like samba and other apps. I don't know how many people wish this existed, but i sure do. Didn't you ever hear of URPMI? Yes, but i've been told it needs a source to be set up to update. I don't know what source to use. Well, if you knew about it, why did you make like it did not exist? If you wanted to know how to use it, ask how to use it. You need 'urpmi.setup'. If it is not installed, type as root 'urpmi urpmi.setup' and then 'urpmi.setup' and set up your sources. Greg - I have to say that when I first met this I did not find it at all easy to set up. You have to know what it is expecting to achieve anything - at least unless they have changed it a good deal. So I'm going to quote an old email that might help: qhote Contribs are rpms that aren't officially in the distro and are semi-supported by MDK in that they are actually packaged by the community not by MDK's people. (Rough explanation... sorry for any inaccuracy.) A good place to find info on mirrors and get the instructions you'll need for adding them to urpmi is http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php (Yep plf to the rescue!) just click in the box on the left choose your mirror and at the bottom it will spit out the string you need to enter to make urpmi aware of it. Contribs btw is the second one from the top. /quote Of course updates is the one you want, but you should find it from here. HTH Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6 - solved
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw DrewMartin's got a similiar problem with oo. I added line unset SESSION_MANAGER in swriter-script, and voilá: it wuks grate! Life is wunderbar! (pity I didn't read it in the first place...) OllimaX! Congratulations Ollimax - I did'nt know that ! As you have just demonstrated, all roads leads to Rome, and in Linux there are roads all over the place. Kaj Haulrich. Actually, I was wondering last night how did I ever stood alive for all these years with this intelligence of Winnie the Pooh!!! After my cheerful message about the solved problem I found out that I was still a root. Logged in as an ordinary user and tried again:no Star Office! I kicked the cat and went to bed. Anyway, I'll try these other suggestions when I get my computer back from the pawnshop, and tell you how will I succeed then. regards, Ollimax, who is quite pissed off right now! If you have run it first as root it should have set up a user directory for you. OTOH, if something you have done has foobarred that, it will give you headaches, so I suggest that you look for the hidden file .openoffice and rename it .ooOld, or similar, then try to start up again as a user. It should create a new one for you. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:37:11AM +0100, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:37 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 01:09:26 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to spend ages composing the command. (well I would) I am surprised no one seems have to made use of slocate in a GUI based file search tool, but AFAIK there is not one. (Please correct me if I am wrong) derek Many file managers offer somewhat hidden find features. ROX-filer does, as does the new xffm for xfce4. See, for example http://clevername.homeip.net/rox-find.png and http://clevername.homeip.net/xffm-find.png for screenshots. Todd Hmm For some reason the 'Find' facility does not work on my Rox. When I select 'Find' the cursor changes to a cross and nothing happens. But do these searches use the slocate database, or are they just brute force, ' look at every file' type searches? derek That cross is confusing, but it's asking you which directory you want to search in. Then it will prompt you for every subdirectory unless you tic Quiet. I'm not sure if it uses the database or not. It probably does a `find` rather than `locate`. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gFTP
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 17:32, RichardA wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:26:18 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g I meant I haven't tried uploading to that site. I use gFtp myself, and it's easy. Let us know how you go on. Anne Anne, quick gFTP question: I put my user name and password in the fields at the top, pressed the connect button on the left, but it still tried logging in to the site as anonymous according to the log window below. Where do you put your details? Richard Gftp is not easy to configure, but it goes as follows. Connect to the FreeBSD-ftpserver. You will see how the FreeBSDserver is filled in. Change this settings towards your own settings. Connect now. Bookmark your settings. Done. Each time you want to go to your website use the bookmark. Toran Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] gFTP
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 17:32, RichardA wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:26:18 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g I meant I haven't tried uploading to that site. I use gFtp myself, and it's easy. Let us know how you go on. Anne Anne, quick gFTP question: I put my user name and password in the fields at the top, pressed the connect button on the left, but it still tried logging in to the site as anonymous according to the log window below. Where do you put your details? Richard Personally I advise to use kBear. Toran Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 08:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Greg - I have to say that when I first met this I did not find it at all easy to set up. You have to know what it is expecting to achieve anything - at least unless they have changed it a good deal. So I'm going to quote an old email that might help: qhote Contribs are rpms that aren't officially in the distro and are semi-supported by MDK in that they are actually packaged by the community not by MDK's people. (Rough explanation... sorry for any inaccuracy.) A good place to find info on mirrors and get the instructions you'll need for adding them to urpmi is http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php (Yep plf to the rescue!) just click in the box on the left choose your mirror and at the bottom it will spit out the string you need to enter to make urpmi aware of it. Contribs btw is the second one from the top. /quote Of course updates is the one you want, but you should find it from here. HTH Thanks for adding that. To further clarify, the urpmi.setup config app was created to be a gui alternative to adding sources at the command line. Some people like the cli, others like the gui. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware
On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:22:12 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you sure it's spending a long time checking for new hardware or the step that follows (and just hasn't displayed the text of that step, yet)? Also, per chance, do you have an empty memory card reader attached? If so, it might be timing out waiting for the virtual drive to come active (which it will never do, because it's empty). If so, try putting a card in it or unplugging it from the USB port and see if that speeds things up. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos
snip FemmeFatale wrote: IF he wants partition hiding all the fun usefulness of running DOS/Win98/XP/Linux/another Linux Distro all at once, Use XOSL say fuck LILO. Cause frankly, it sucks for this kind of thing. How do I know? There was an article about it in Maximumpc about a guy who runs 32 (!) OSes. He uses XOSL. Nothing else works. So...take his lead. The great thing about GNU/Linux systems is choice... there are many ways to do what you want to do - if it don't break your setup, or how YOU want to do things - then no problems! When you start to mix things up eg; operating systems - multiple versions of different operating systems - with expectations about how things SHOULD be then I certainly don't have any definitive answersHell I'm still a newbie who lurks and LEARNS and posts about something when I know for certain that it works for me and how I want to do it. If the way I have my setup is broke, . then I'll leave it broke 'cause somehow it works for me. Tom, Joe, Stephen (your advice/recommendations are second only to your incredible SOH,) Anne, Femme - with the pink hair... (and all you guys - to numerous to mention individually - who make this list what it is) keep up the great work. When the reference is made to the Mandrake Community, it is people like you who make it so. I have worked for about seven years in my local neighbourhood for a community organisation and we have a saying...If you want a Community, you don't have to give freely to to make your community what you want it to be . I find myself reading articles where now, I feel I know a response may be appropriate and I feeling confident that I can respond without fear of ridicule. That I can post a response that answers a request, or elicits debate is something that makes me feel empowered. I run GNU/Linux by chioce, and Mandrake is my preference and knowing that you guys are using/learning/living and sharing your knowledge/experience here on this list is something I look forward to daily. I'm proud to use Mandrake and thankful to benefit from being a member of this list. A big thankyou to you all Regards Graham -- Proudly powered by GNU/Linux Mandrake-9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Registered Linux User #309089 Machine #195076 A7N8X XP2700+ 512RAM Gf4Ti4600 80Gb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos
Graham Banks wrote: snip FemmeFatale wrote: IF he wants partition hiding all the fun usefulness of running DOS/Win98/XP/Linux/another Linux Distro all at once, Use XOSL say fuck LILO. Cause frankly, it sucks for this kind of thing. How do I know? There was an article about it in Maximumpc about a guy who runs 32 (!) OSes. He uses XOSL. Nothing else works. So...take his lead. The great thing about GNU/Linux systems is choice... there are many ways to do what you want to do - if it don't break your setup, or how YOU want to do things - then no problems! When you start to mix things up eg; operating systems - multiple versions of different operating systems - with expectations about how things SHOULD be then I certainly don't have any definitive answersHell I'm still a newbie who lurks and LEARNS and posts about something when I know for certain that it works for me and how I want to do it. If the way I have my setup is broke, . then I'll leave it broke 'cause somehow it works for me. Tom, Joe, Stephen (your advice/recommendations are second only to your incredible SOH,) Anne, Femme - with the pink hair... (and all you guys - to numerous to mention individually - who make this list what it is) keep up the great work. When the reference is made to the Mandrake Community, it is people like you who make it so. Whoopscorrection - that should be If you want a Community, you have to give freely to to make your community what you want it to be . Graham -- Proudly powered by GNU/Linux Mandrake-9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Registered Linux User #309089 Machine #195076 A7N8X XP2700+ 512RAM Gf4Ti4600 80Gb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
