Re: [newbie] Updating Mandrake.

[Aaron Peters]

For Quicken, check out Crossover Office.  It (reportedly) allows you to use up 
to Quicken 98, with the added bonus of Office 2000 as well (if that can be 
construed as a bonus).  I plan on picking it up as soon as I have 9.0 
installed, it's gotten very good reviews.

Incidentally, have you found that Quicken works well under Wine by itself?

On Friday 27 September 2002 14:03, et wrote:
 On Friday 27 September 2002 12:55 pm, you wrote:
  I am running Mandrake 7.2, but would like to upgrade to 8.2, which I
  presume should be better. However when I tried to do an upgrade, I lost
  all my Wine settings. I need to run Wine, so I can use a couple of
  Windows applications, which  do not appear to yet have Linux equivalents.
  They are Quicken and Agent.

 ohh please, pan wipes agent out the door, just get the latest version, and
 don't get 8.2, get 9.0, and Gnucash may not be better than Quicken, but no
 reason not to think it is just as good for almost every usage. Heck the
 Apps I don't see for linux are the US income tax prep and send and you can
 use the online html versions of those

  It appears that Wine now stores its config files in a different location
  and uses a different syntax. Is this correct, or can I still use my old
  configure file.
 
  I also lost read/write access to my windows partition except when logged
  on as root. There did not appear to be an easy way of changing
  permissions, but perhaps I could not find it. I tried editing my fstab
  file but then go errors on boot up. Again can I preserve my present fstab
  file, or is there an easy way of giving users full access to my windows
  partition.

 keep (move) the current fstab as fstab-old so you can look back and see the
 changes and edit the new file the way you want, I like to have only root
 able to write to the fat partition, it makes sure nothing from an e-mail
 ever gets to screw with the fat partition. use the superuser mode to write
 to fat, any one can read from it. just my way.

  I hope someone can find the time to answer these queries, or perhaps the
  only interest is in people using versions 8 onwards.
  Bernard Victor
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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Re: [newbie] Using a USB hub?

[Aaron Peters]

Remember sda1 and sda4 aren't DIFFERENT devices (in theory anyway), but 
different partitions on the same device (first and fourth partitions on the 
first SCSI disk).  Seems like supermount is trying to mount the first 
partition on the zip disk, which doesn't exist (for some reason zip disks 
are always sda4).  If maybe you could assign the CF reader to a different 
device file (sdb1, for example) it might help, but I'm not quite sure how 
you'd go about doing that (from the hardware section of the Control Center?).

On Monday 02 September 2002 10:01, Terry Sheltra wrote:
 Good morning all,

 Since the mailing list ate my question over the weekend, I shall repost
 it again to see if someone can answer it.  I just bought a hub for my
 laptop to share my one USB port with a 250 MB zip drive, and a SanDisk
 ImageMate CompactFlash reader.  I made the necessary entries in my
 /etc/fstab file with the following:

 none /mnt/zip supermount
 dev=/dev/sda4,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0

 /dev/sda1 /mnt/media vfat rw,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev 0 0

 Either of these devices work perfectly when connect to my laptop without
 the hub, but when i connect the hub, only the zip drive works.  I can
 open USBView, and see both devices listed, but cannot access them both.
  When I try to mount the reader using:

 mount /dev/sda1

 I just get an error message saying that /dev/sda1 does not exist.

 Any suggestions?

 TIA



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