[newbie] Connection sharing config.
Hello! I tried to configure the connection sharing on Mandrake 9.1. beta 2. It keeps asking me for installation CD 1. I put the CD, click OK, the tray closes, the CD spins, it seems to do something, but still stops and asks for CD1. I tried CD2 just in case it was a typo, but nothing helps! Is there any way to circumvent the problem? Thanks! Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] installation
Bonjour! D'abourd, pourriez-vous eviter d'ecrire en HTML. Merci. > Comment installer une Mandrake 8.2 ? > Je n'ai pas de graveur de cd, suis-je obligé de > télécharger tout le répertoire /mandrake et /install; > qui pour volume fait 2 giga et non pas 1 giga comme > décrit sur le site ou puis je tout de même télécharger > les images iso et lancer une installation à partir > de disque dur ? > Je téléchargeais de belnet belgium (pour les 2 giga). > Je ne peux pas m'offrir les cd pour l'instant. aidez moi. Le plus simple, si vous n'avez _vraiment_pas_ les moyens d'acheter les CDs est soit de trouver une personne qui vous les telecharge et vous les grave, soit emprunter un graveur pour le faire vous meme. Ceci dit, le lot de 3 CDRoms coute tres peu par exemple chez cheapbytes: http://www.cheapbytes.com Un extrait de la page: > Want to Order Mandrake Linux 8.2? > 3 CD-ROM Install Set > Now Shipping! $5.99 Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hard disk speed.
On Wed, 10 July 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote For video recording, I have read in many places that speed of HDD should be 7200 RPM. It's like saying that when you move, you need a 40 cubic meters truck. It depends on what you have to move. As for video, it depends on the bitrate of the video and the rate at which the disk can store data. I have one 8.1GB and 20 GB seagate HDDs. On the label I coudn't find anything. Any software to find out? Not really a software, but you can try that: - open a terminal; - type time dd if=/dev/zero of=junkfile bs=1024k count=100 (don't type the quotes ) - What it does: The command time calculates the time during which an application was run. The dd command converts and copies files. Here, the source is zero, so it keeps copying empty blocks to the output file. The parameters: I asked to copy 100 blocks of 1 megabytes, so I get the time needed to put 100 megabytes on the disk (3.15 seconds in my exp). So I can expect to copy roughly 30 megabytes per second to the disk. Results:I obtained: 100+ records in 100+ records out real 0m3.015s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.630s On another machine, I got 5.65 seconds. As for your problem (storing video), I guess it will not depend only on the disk. The example I gave were made without any other software running. However, doing the same while running a program that uses the filesystem, it took more than 30 seconds to complete instead of 3.15. Now it also depends on the bitrate of your video stream. I would say that in most of the cases, the bit rate is less than 1 MBytes/s, so even a slow disk can make it. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
Hello (again!) I always wanted to try out BeOS, but by the time I was ready to install it the company was ready to fold :( I guess I'll wait and see how the BeOS clones like OpenBeOS develop before trying those. Yes, the OpenBeOS is progressing nicely. I hope it will reach the BeOS R5 sometime this year. Compared to other systems, it becomes slowly outdated (no support for recent hard, for instance ATA100, ATA 133, etc... But compared to the latest Windows I have used, it still holds a respectable place, althogh it wasn't upgraded for years. Well, that's it. It's not the proper place to talk about BeOS anyway. But watch OpenBeOS, it may become interesting soon. Pascal. Sridhar Dhanapalan I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense -- I deserve it. -- Jean-Louis Gassée, founder of BeOS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
Hello, On 2002.06.30, at 06:16, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 29 Jun 2002 9:56 pm, Barry Michels wrote: So, are there any recommendations on size for these different partitions? I've got a 60gb drive that I want to dedicate to Linux. The 100GB and 120GB are going to be for miscellaneous storage. Recommendations? Hmm.. Well first of all remember that almost everyone changes their partitions when they upgrade because they got it wrong first time :-) Also *everyone* has their own opinion. There is no 'right way'. Here is what I have at present (and why) / 2.3GB 28% full /usr 6.5GB 30% full (almost every app goes in here so it needs to be big) Yes, these are reasonable figures. And if you take into account that there are 7 CDs for one distro, and that you have 2 cds of source, 5 CDs if you install everything (very unlikely), will represent 5 x 650 = 3250 MBytes. Mandrake's auto-format creates a 3.4 GB root partition, at least if your HD allows it. So it sounds like in most of the cases, you will not install more than 3.4 GB in the root partition. So with a disk like 60 GB, I would simply let Mandrake installer take care of everything. Pascal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pro's con's for separate partitions?
Hello! What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc? You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories when you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0. Yes, the advantage of having /home, /opt, and /etc _DIRECTORIES_, as you write yourself, no doubt about that. But is there any benefit of having these on different _PARTITIONS_? Performing an 'upgrade' to a distro is still not as reliable as users would like, and many people are more comfortable with a fresh install right down to reformatting the partitions. But if you want to install, you don't have to reformat the partition. The installer will install every file (thus replacing all the files having the same name), and it will work exactly as it would on a clean partition, the only difference being that the files that are not use anymore would still remain. as far as the installer installs all the necessary files, I cann't see any reason that could make it less reliable than a clean (i.e. with formatting) install. As for upgrade, you may be right. It depends how the upgrade is done, which files are kept and which ones are overwritten... If you have just one big '/' partition that would mean you would lose all your user data in /home, Only if you reformat. I use Mandrake's default formatting, so in case of installing a new version, I format the partition in order to clean everything, but it's not mandatory. BeOS used a single partition and it was perfectly possible to install without formatting, and without loosing your previous settings. all your configuration settings in /etc and all your 'extra' applications you mat have put in /opt. So by having separate partitions you can reformat '/' and '/usr' without destroying all the other data. Also if you were running a heavy duty server you would want to have different partitions to optimise HD performance, but that is not usually a consideration in a desktop system. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [OT] [newbie] i am so glad i use linux
Hello! On 2002.06.25, at 22:43, robin wrote: Franki wrote: Don't laugh.. it might be a good thing if they bring this in.. Then you'll have Palladium users, and the rest of the world.. Sorta like the microsoft network when it first started.. they wanted their own internet, unfortunatly noone else did. besides.. they'd end up in court again so quickly... True - it's tempting to be overawed by the MS Empire, but we should remember their revolutionary projects which went belly-up almost immediately: MSN, active desktops, Windows ME MS relies on its being a de facto standard (as opposed to a real standard): people want to exchange Word documents, share data with Access, share viruses with Outlook and so on. Splitting that community by creating a new standard would remove Microsoft's only advantage. Not necessarily. I guess if they build a Mac-like close environment, and also sell the hardware, they have many advantages: - They cannot be accused anymore of monopoly practices (1) because they build software for their own hardware. - Of course, they will ensure backward compatibility with formats like word, powerpoint, excel, etc. And build the corresponding software tools, so it will make sense for business. - As they have a huge market share, they can build very cheap hardware which will be hard to compete with (therefore get it build in China, put a MS stamp on it and sell it, like Mac does). - They will also build IE and Outlook products with an option secure mail only. This way, they ensure backwards compatibility with existing mail, but because people get fed up with spam, the move towards secure mail will be done. You're talking of a new standard? yes, they will. With the well known embrace and improve technique. At the beginning, it is not a standard, or it is the standard plus a little more. After 2 years, since most of the computers are equipped, move to the nonstandard stuff (secure mail) and you lock everybody else out. One thing is sure: they have been thinking (spending thousands of man-month study) about it and you cannot judge the eventual effect just because you spent 5 minutes reading an article or a mail about it. And one of the basic rules of the art of war (Tun Tzu): never underestimate your enemy. Especially if your enemy is 9 times stronger than you (in a 90% windows world). (1) I mean the practices that aim to put exclusively MS products on OEM hard. They can still be accused of monopolistic practices by keeping their data format secret. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Japanese Input
g2 wrote Hi, how can I input Japanese characters in Mandrake Linux 8.2? Is there something like IME where in i can choose my input locale? what RPMs should I install? thanks! I installed Japanese a few times (since 8.0), but each time, I choosed japanese as the install language. It goes very fine in 8.2. Basically nothing to configure. The input method is kinput2, which is installed automagically. If you want to install Japanese on an English system, you have to install the input method (kinput2), but also Japanese fonts. And to toggle Japanese / Latin characters, press shift-space. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Japanese Input
g2 wrote Hi, how can I input Japanese characters in Mandrake Linux 8.2? Is there something like IME where in i can choose my input locale? what RPMs should I install? thanks! I installed Japanese a few times (since 8.0), but each time, I choosed japanese as the install language. It goes very fine in 8.2. Basically nothing to configure. The input method is kinput2, which is installed automagically. If you want to install Japanese on an English system, you have to install the input method (kinput2), but also Japanese fonts. And to toggle Japanese / Latin characters, press shift-space. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Japanese Input
On Tue, 25 June 2002, g2 wrote Hi, its me again. i successfully installed kinput2 and freewin RPM on my Linux Mandrake 8.2 as well as the Japanese fonts, but shift+space and ctrl+/ is still not working. how can i input hiragana, katakana and kanji? what applications do they usually can be used for? i tried it on advnace editor and kWord but still not working. is there something i missed? my default language is English and I just like to make Japanese available for my console cause my job requires some Japanese documents. Sorry, I forgot to mention it yesterday, but kinput is a kana / kanji server. So if you want it to catch the shift-space command, it should run first. - Open a terminal; - Type kinput2 return Then try shift-space i an application that supports Japanese. It should work. also, i already configured my keyboard to 106 japanese but none of those extra keys work. I tried to edit the key binding configuration but it cant detect the extra keys. The keyboard should not matter. I mean, if the keyboard is wrong, it may not work properly, but for sure, toggle the Japanese input with shift-space will work. I use a plain qwerty keyboard (settings = US, not international). is the windows key really not working in mandrake? What is the windows key? What is windows, by the way? any suggestions? last. how can i have my own Linux User number? Do i have to pay for that? thanks! -- g2 intelligence, acquired; wisdom, inherent. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Connection sharing question
Hello, I have some trouble sharing one ADSL connection (8Mbps) for a local area network. I did it at home and it works well. The modem assigns an IP with DHCP and there is basically no other configuration except running the connection sharing setup. Now I am trying to do the same for a school. They have also a 8 Mbps modem to which I am supposed to connect by DHCP, and I have also run the connection sharing setup. Now the differences: At home, the IP assigned by the modem (or by the provider via the modem) is something like 20x.xxx.xxx.xxx, which looks like a reasonable value. The connection sharing works at home, or at least it used to work with 8.1. I have no linux machine at home now. At school, the IP assigned by the modem or by the provider via the modem is 192.168.0.1. I thought this was reserved for a private network. Can this cause the failure? By the way, the symptoms: none of the connected machines can connect to internet. If I connect directly (put the hub at the output of the modem), it works well, but the server is meaningless. I have tried to set my second board to another value so there is no conflict, but it does not work. Any idea? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Small question about command line
On 2002 April 16 Tuesday 02:39, you wrote: 'su' means _superuser_, not 'substitute user', which it does. From man pages: NAME su - substitute user identity SYNOPSIS su [-Kflm] [login [shell arguments]] etc... Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] abiword not in 8.2?
Hello, On Sunday 07 April 2002 19:51, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 01:12, Robin Turner wrote: 1. A fully featured office suite compatible with the dreaded MS Office. OpenOffice is pretty much on track there. I think this is probably true for most users who work exclusively in one European language. But for those of us whose work requires dealing with multi-language texts, unfortunately, OpenOffice (along with the Linux platform as a whole, along with its apps) is still in the Dark Ages compared to the international language support MS began to offer with Win/Office2000. Trying to run Mandrake with either Gnome or KDE and do Asian language input and display an array of international fonts in any kind of application (except for Mozilla) is still a hopeless enterprise, and I never see improvements in version upgrades. Probably we don't use the same Mandrake 8.2 ??? As for my experience, I do see improvements in every version. Ex: 8.0: install in Japanese didn't work without setting a memory parameter at boot time - I gave up. 8.1: installed fine, but the menus were all garbage characters, and kinput was not installed by the japanese installer and had to be added afterwards. - I managed to get it work well, thanks to Pablo and a few other persons. 8.2: Apparently works out of the box. The menus are well displayed. I didn't try to write Japanese yet, but as I reported the kinput issue in 8.1, I guess it should be fixed. Since I am at it, there is a bug at logout. The small window asking reboot / shutdown / ??? displays garbage. I have been able to use Mandrake in Japanese since 8.1, and I write most of my mail in Japanese with kmail. By the way, I don't do any special settings to do that. Every time, I save my data on a CDROM, and I perform a clean install, just to verify that it works out of the box. Basically, I don't even follow the installer instructions. I press enter everywhere except for installation language selection and area / network setup. In 8.1. there were further settings to get menus working, but for 8.2, Pablo co made a great job. No extra settings. Chuck Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail Question
Hello! On Monday 08 April 2002 16:11, you wrote: Is there a way to reply-to the person this question was sent to? In the present case, the person the question was sent to is the list, right? By default, kmail replies to the list when pressing the reply button. IE, in the To: field is the newbie list address, I want to reply to that address I don't get it. The reply button replies to the list, without changing any setting. By the way, with a single click on the address, you can get a mail editor window set up to the address you want to write to. But the subject is not set up and the body is empty when I hit the Reply: Button in Kmail. I hope that makes sense. It seems not to work, where in Netscape mail it does? Thx Femme But there is something strange in the addresses display. For instance, if somebody writes to me, in his message's header, there is my address in the To field. But kmail displays: [Subject] (in large bold characters) From: MyFriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This doesn't seem too logical. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
2002 4? 4 ??? 16:43??: Ha there folks, Well, a new machine and same result. From your previous mails and also this one, I got the impression that you are one of the most unlucky person from earth and its suburbs. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shutdown does not turn PC off
Hello! I have a similar problem. I use a dual pentium machine, and I have never been able to shutdown. At the end of the shutdown process, the terminal-like screen says power off and stays like that forever, until I press the power button for more than 4 seconds. I have alrready posted this question a few times about a year ago, but never got a reply, so I ended up thinking I was the only one to experience this problem. I don't remember the board type, and I have no driver at hand to open the case, but I have the same problem at home with an old Abit dual processor board with 2 celerons. Pascal 2002 4? 4 ??? 10:10??: +1 more... Soyo K7ADA, Duron 1.0 Reboot works, but halt goes to the point where the PC should be powered off and then I get an abend displayed on the console. This appears to repeat after about 20 seconds, but goes too fast to read and I haven't been able to find any logs -- appears everything has been closed. Shutdown worked on 8.1. Roger On Tuesday 02 April 2002 07:11 am, Onur Kucuk wrote: RK Hi everyone, RK I've seen a user having the same problem as me - when shutting down RK the computer, no matter if using shutdown -h now, poweroff or halt -p RK (yeah, haven't tried telinit 0 ;-) the computer goes through the usual RK shutdown process as in MDK8.1 and then at Power down. it just turns RK off the disks and stops. It should turn off the computer but it RK doesn't. RK I haven't changed a thing since 8.1 and even PnP OS is set to No if RK that matters. There doesn't seem to be a visible difference in the RK scripts in /etc/rc.d/ which are probably responsible for shutdown (as RK far as I figured). RK Since another user has already asked the same question, I wonder, has RK anyone else come across it meanwhile? RK BTW: My computer is an Athlon 750 on an ABIT KA7 mainboard, 128MB RK SDRAM. RK TIA RK Roman +1 Intel i845 board + 512 MB SDRam + Nvidia Geforce2MX Exactly the same Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake
Hello! john rigby wrote: [...] BTW; FOR REAL NEWBIES: NEITHER OF THE LINKS WORK IN SRIDHARS MESSAGE - JUST DROP OFF THE "( )"s That must depend on what browser you use. Everything works fine here (with Netscape on Mandrak 8.1 and on MacOS 9 X). Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake
Hello! shane wrote: On Monday 18 March 2002 20:15, Pascal opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: That must depend on what browser you use. Everything works fine here (with Netscape on Mandrak 8.1 and on MacOS 9 X). and konq, and opera from kmail. maybe it is just low quality MS programs that screw it up? :-D That's exactly what I meant! Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Pascal, try "KreateCD". Way easier. If it isn't on your distro, try : http://www.kreatecd.de/download.php They have a "ready-to-go" RPM for Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1. I suppose it's on the cooker as well. Thanks! I'll try it this week-end. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?
john rigby wrote: Hi Shane, Sorry you are disqualified, too! :-) You are obviously very techo if not Geek! What I'm chasing is whether any non-tech/geek people have ever succeeded. These are Users. People who simply want to make/improve their earning capacity via increased productivity. People who are ancient - like over 30. At last I found a field in which I can qualify! Vis: Anyone who has previously successfully installed any kind of Network is disqualified. :-) Oops! I am disqualified! I happened once to plug a localtalk cable to a laserprinter. And it worked. Anyone who LOVES the challenge of computer exercises. The THRILL of recovering trashed records, totalled systems. No, seriously this time: As for the success history: I have bought Mandrake 8.0 powerpack. Once I inserted the disks, I had to follow the menus only and I didn't have to reply to obscure questions Every board was detected, the printer worked at once. As for the network, yes, I had to condigure it (i.e. I had to choose "DHCP" to connect to my modem), and that was it. KMail worked at once, KWord, K-everything. So to summarize, I didn't have to configure anything except DHCP and the screen resolution after first reboot. As for FrontPage, I don't know, I have never used it. But netscape's editor works well for all what I want to do. As a comparison, I didn't success to fully install Win 98. it asks obscure questions, it needs 4 or 5 reboots + one extra reboot after each driver install. And the top, the cherry on top of the cake: when you install a driver, Win is not even able to find the driver itself in the floppy / CD you insert. You have to point the path. It is not even capable of knowing that it has to search not in the NT directory, but in the W98. This was the end of my w98 experience. Fortunately, I didn't pay for it. Well, this is way off-topic. Sorry. Back to Mandrake. Now the critics: - Installing the system in Japanese is not smooth and there is some work to be done. Not very geeky, but nevertheless it has to be done. I am looking foreward to installing 8.2. to see how it works (I couldn't get an error-less download yet, so I guess I'll have to wait for the CDS). - CD burning software is geeky (at least for me). I opened the GUIs for CD burning, and there are tons of buttons, asking me whether I want ISO something, Joliet (or was it Romeo???) or whatever. So I bought a G4 and I fry my CDs with it. By the way, does anyone know a _SIMPLE_ GUI for CD burning on Linux? I mean an interface with 3 buttons: burn, erase, and open file? A further choice music / data / disc image would be acceptable although it should be the burner's job to decide what to do according to the contents. All the geeky stuff should be in the prefs. As for the productivity, it never freezes. Win used to freeze once a day, or at least several times a week. From that point, it was as stable as MacOS. But now, I didn't freeze Linux over about 1 year. I also like the ability of writing pdf files, and I have a high compatibility degree with my colleagues. I really hope Japanese will work out of the box for later releases in order to start Linux evangelism here. That's about it for the "usable out of the box" subject. As a conclusion: - as long as you install an english (and probably all other western language) system, you get everything working at once without computer knowledge. All the network / ISP parameters are on your ISP contract. - There are still a few geeky softwares that you have to get used to. Although this is not an OS issue, the average end user does not necessary understand where the OS / application border is. Yes, there are some first go success stories with a very minimal knowledge. Well, if you don't know what a mouse is, like president Chirac, I'm not sure you will success. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Appletalk printer
Hello, Does anyone know how to convigure an appletalk laserprinter (without VI'ing /etc/printcap and co). Is there a GUI allowing to see all the appletalk printers around (i.e. other than nbplkup in a terminal) and to set one as the printer I want to use? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: no windows
Hello! I was looking for a cheap laptop to install Mandrake. Unlike home made towers, it is quite difficult to buy parts, so I had a look at the net in order to find computers without windows. I found an interesting home page: http://www.bestpricecomputers.ltd.uk/products/nowindows.htm At the beginning of the page, they give a few links related to Microsoft's unfair practices, with sounds good at a first glance. But in the paragraph Not to worry, I'll install Windows myself, they say: We do not ship PCs with blank hard disks.. When reading a bit further, you understand that this means, we will not ship without windows. Basically, if you want to buy a computer, you should provide them with your windows registration number = YOU SHOULD OWN A WINDOWS COPY. And I am not sure of that, but maybe it will not work if it is an OEM registration number The sentence: Trust the experts. We have the resources and time to keep abreast with the latest drivers and patches. That makes a big difference to the performance of your PC. Your PC will be better for it. is also worth mentioning. Basically, we are idiots. And the cherry on top of the cake is the last paragraph: Basically, they would really like shipping linux machines, but there is not enough demand for such a thing. Now fasten your seat belts: If you must have Linux/Unix on your PC the only way to do it is to receive the PC with Windows format the drive. It's a minor inconvenience for a great PC at a great price... a minor inconvenience that implies that you own a copy of microshit. especially bearing in mind that most mail order companies insist you buy Windows with your PC; they in fact just bundle it in with the price of the machine :-) Read the whole page. That's a good example of commercial hyocrisy. Pascal Sorry for your time, I couldn't help spreading this. I wrote them a mail to tell them what I think. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please
Hello! Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user capability, telnet (how many simultaneous sessions), file system comparison (journalling), crash recovery, users and group administration, etc. Rather than a philosophical comparison with praise or blame I would simply seek an objective technical/factual comparison of the compare and May I remind you that the first philosophical comparison with praise / blame etc... came from you? Are expressions like I don't think, I don't trust objective / technical / factual for you? For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even open source with their next OS is anything but opportunism born out of dire need. As for their OS - look at Linus T's comments about it in his book. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com I would simply seek an objective technical/factual comparison of the compare and ontrast type. Many thanks in advance, Andrei Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
. For instance, I don't know how to write Japanese and French in the same message. That's more a kmail than a Mandrake issue, but as Mandrake distributes kmail... In the meantime, I use MacOSX for Japanese mail. At the time, I cannot have both (Japanese and French in a single message). I am not saying it is not possible, I am saying it is not easy to configure, and trying to think like a computer illiterate (I am close to that anyway), I don't want to know that I should encode in iso-2022-JP for Japanese and iso-8859-15 (?) for roman characters with accents and euro-enabled, or unicode, utf-8 or whatever. It should be the mail client's job to set the encoding to ascii if I write plain english, to switch to iso-8859-1 if I write an accentuated character, and further switch to unicode if I add a chineese character. We (on this list) can cope with this, but as for a person coming from MacOSX world where the 3 points above work perfectly, I guess it is not easy and for them, Mac is still the only solution that works out of the box, without any other config. That's true. I'm sure free software will get there; it'll just take some time :) Well, sorry, i was a long shot. And many thanks if you read until here. Pascal By the way, is there any standard way to find a file like crtl-f (or something like) in windows's file manager and command-f in MacOS finder / BeOS tracker? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!
Hello, Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X? For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even open source with their next OS is anything but opportunism born out of dire need. As for their OS - look at Linus T's comments about it in his book. Id depends on what you want. For most of the people of this list (including me), Mandraje provides everything for the daily use. As for my frustrations: - No consistent cut paste; - No way to reassign the shortcuts consistently to mimick Mac's behaviour. At least not in KDE, and the changes don't apply consistently everywhere. - Fonts / encoding problems as soon as you don't use an english platform. I am still unable, for instance, to send a message that contains French AND Japanese in the same page. Either the accents or the kanjis are unsuported. We (on this list) can cope with this, but as for a person coming from MacOSX world where the 3 points above work perfectly, I guess it is not easy and for them, Mac is still the only solution that works out of the box, without any other config. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Full Linux Network
Le 02.2.6 à 13:11, Chris Ashmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) écrivit: Here is the story / question. There is a small intercity private school that has NO money at all. So they get these computers donated to them P2's with some RAM and 10 Gig HDD's, monitors all that. Minus the OS. They dont have enough money to by windoze lisence for all of them. What will it take to buld a Lunix Network, with centralize administration, home folders on a server. I have a local ISP donating the internet connection, and I am setting up email for the teachers and turning on squid w/ squid guard so the kids cant go to xxx.com. Most of the Network hardware is being donated wire, hubs that sort of stuff. I am donating a lot of time to this project mostly because I want this to work. I have heard of remote Xterm (simuliar to Citrix), and a few others. I was just wondering if there was a good solution to this? Any ideas would be helpful. Hello, It depends on what you call no money at all. I am currently building a network for the French school in Kyoto. All the machines they have also come from donations. As for Linux, I use Mandrake, and the idea is to register as a club member which is cheaper than buying a package, and which is a net profit for Mandrake. They have a few old PCs (400MHz, 10 Gig, 128 MB), and old macs (PPC 7300s). I have bought everything to build a server (1 GHz celeron, 40 GB disk, 256 MB memory), 2 network boards. Everything under 500 $. Since they don't have too much resources, the server will also be used as a PC. The internet connection is a 8 Mbps ADSL which is the cheapest solution in Japan (even cheaper than a 56K modem, about 16~17$ a month). I will try to have the printer shared, as they have only one printer. Appletalk, connection sharing and net browsing work fine on all the machines. If you want to share your experience, you can contact ma at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not sure of who will help the other most, but that can be interesting. By the way, if somebody of this list can contribute, we are looking for French keyboards. If you have one you don't need, please inform me before trashing it. Contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We would of course pay the shipping. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Opera in spanish?
Le 02.2.6 à 4:07, Joan Tur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) écrivit: Hallo! Does any of you have opera (5, 5.05TP1 or 6TP3) running in spanish language? Opera in Spanish is quite rare. Most of the Operas I know of are in Italian or German. And Opera doesn't answer... Opera never answers. It just puts you under hypnosis until the curtain closes. Thanks! Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 8.2 beta bug report
Hello, I am trying to contact the site http://qa.mmandrakesoft.com for bug report issues, but I cannot find it. Does anybody know the exact address? Apparently it is badly linked, or the server might be down... Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Web sharing does not survive a reboot
Hello (again)! I have built a new machine in order to use it as a small server (about 10 machines for the time being). I have an ADSL modem to which plug an LAN cable conneced to the first ethernet interface (eth0). The other interface is for the LAN (eth1). Using the network setup tools, I have configured eth0 to connect by DHCP to the modem, and eth1 with the address 192.168.0.1. After that, I have configured the web sharing, and it works without any problem. I can access the mail from other machines, use internet browsers, ftp, etc... The only problem is that I have to start the web sharing manually everytime I boot. Is there a way to automate the startup so that the server can work as a server simply by power on, and without logging into it? Thanks for any hint! Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] printing from MacOS to a Linux server
Hello (Last one for today) I have installed a Linux server for about 10 clients. There is a printer connected to it with the parallel port (an inkjet printer). I have installed appletalk (netatalk) which runs fine. When I run nbplkup, 3 zones are shown. Don't ask me why, but most of the machines here show 3 zones, so I assume it's normal. I still cannot see the printer from the client machine. I found many pages explaining how to do for the server side, but close to nothing about what I should do from the client. Am I supposed to see the printer in the chooser on MacOS9, or with the printer tool in MacOS X? I forgot to mention that CUPS runs. Can anybody figure out what I have missed? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TNT graphics card problem
Hello! I sent this mail yesterday but didn't get it back from the list, so maybe it hasn't been sent properly. Sorry if you get it twice, and sorry also for the two following messages! I have a problem installing Mandrake on a new machine. I bought a TNT2 board. I could use the installer so basically it works in a low resolution / low color definition mode. When the X server starts, or just before it starts, the text mode screen flashes, The period of the flashes is about a second, it lasts for about 1 minute, and after that it says something like: respawning too fast. Stop for 5 minutes. At that point, I can log in text mode and perform all operations you can perform in text mode. 5 minutes later, it retries to launch X, flashes again, and then stops for another 5 minutes. I have tried to download the latest TNT driver. On the same page, there is also a linux kernel that I have downloaded and installed. The symptoms are exactly the same. I am almost sure the problem is within the driver because: 1. The TNT board does not work on another Mandrake 8.1 machine after replacing its card and drivers; 2. The TNT board works perfectly with BeOS in full color, 1280x1024. Any hint to solve this problem? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] printing from MacOS to a Linux server
Hello (Last one for today) I have installed a Linux server for about 10 clients. There is a printer connected to it with the parallel port (an inkjet printer). I have installed appletalk (netatalk) which runs fine. When I run nbplkup, 3 zones are shown. Don't ask me why, but most of the machines here show 3 zones, so I assume it's normal. I still cannot see the printer from the client machine. I found many pages explaining how to do for the server side, but close to nothing about what I should do from the client. Am I supposed to see the printer in the chooser on MacOS9, or with the printer tool in MacOS X? I forgot to mention that CUPS runs. Can anybody figure out what I have missed? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shell Script
On 2002.01.07, at 23:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This brings up a question about permissions ... So a script (or any executable, such as a perl script written for cgi) cannot be run by anyone other than root, if it was created by root? I mean, root can't give permission for a root-owned script to be world executable, even if the administrator wanted to? While I can see how doing that would be a very bad idea, in terms of security, I'm just asking in order to learn more about linux file permissions. No, you should not confuse permissions and ownership. Ownership and permissions are independent. When you run ls -al from the shell, you have the permission string first and then the owner and the group. As root, you can allow anybody to run anything. Suppose your script is called rootownedscript, you can allow anybody to run it by typing chmod o+x rootownedscript (o means other, x means execute, therefore chmod o+x = make executable for other). Well, if you read the manual (type man chmod from a terminal), you will know everything about chmod. But as a warning, be careful to what you allow to your users... I wouldn't recommend to allow diskdrake or other funny tools to be allowed to all users... I had written a perl cgi script, and it wouldn't run from the web page, as it turns out because I had created it as root. Then chmod o+x your_script. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
Maido maido! On Thursday 27 December 2001 15:01, you wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Yes, freeWnn. In my case, it was awfully simple since I have installed in Japanese (i.e. I have chosen Japanese from the installer when booting from the CD). Note: the installer in Japanes did not work in 8.0. In fact, there was a workaround by setting a boot option (set memory to 50 MB or something like that). So I will suppose you install from 8.1. Here are the things you should do: 1. Once installed, you reboot, and you will notice you have absolutely no menus. The reason is that the default font does not support Japanese, so you have to the following menu: config - KDE-look feel - fonts and set a font that supports Japanese. 2. Logout and restart x server, then login again. You should have all your menus in Japanese. 3. You should install kinput2 otherwise you cannot write in Japanese. It is in one of the CDs, so just start the intall engine (don't remember its name), then search kinput2, install it. 4. Something that is not documented: The default for starting kinput is ctrl-space or shift control space (don't remember). But to stop kinput2 client and write in english, you should press ctrl-backspace. (this one is not documented). You can change the default settings (I changed ctrl-space to shift-space in order to be consistent with the standard (at least with what I am ised to, BeOS and Mac). But I couldn't find any way to stop kinput2 client with the same combination. If you can do that, please tell me. Well, sorry, I have to leave, and I will be back at work in mid January. If you want more info, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo Pascal, Osaka Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?
On Friday 28 December 2001 04:57, you wrote: i am working for a japanese-owned company and am the only one using mandrake here. it is one of the reasons why i cannot make my officemates try linux here in the office. Japanese language support is pretty much a black art to me right now. i can receive email with alias sy='export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP sylpheed;sylpheed ' but aside from that i cant do anything in nihongo. im using an english QWERTY keyboard so it would be beneficial if there would be a mandrake how-to to enable me to work in english or japanese like in Windows (the reason why i dual-boot here in the office). Wine is out of the question. i found somebody in the sylpheed mailinglist that can write in mandarin while still maintaining an english linux installation. he said the principles were the same but he was using some chinese-centric applications. as far as using japanese while maintaining an english installation (aside from the TWO Mandrakes solution)... HELP! ciao! Well, a very quick reply... I will try to post a howto. I use Japanese at work, and Mandrake is the most flexible machine I know. I can create english accounts and Japanese accounts easily depending whether people prefer their menus in Japanese or in English. I guess it should work with any language. Japanese input is not standard, but it is possible with an english keyboard. I write most of my mail in Japanese every day. If you want some hints, write to the following address, since I jave to leave now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye! Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 13:34, you wrote: I *do* think a warning in the installer would be a good idea though! it's *in* the *documentation* that you must *read* Well, that can be endlessly discussed. There are two kinds of people: those who read the docs and those who don't. My experience tells me that the second group is way bigger than the first. If you are a car manufacturer, you can write in the docs that you should at least press the clutch or set the gear to neutral before starting the engine. But the best solution is to put a switch on the gearbox so that it is simply impossible to start the engine with a gear. So, you're right, people *should* read the docs, but as many don't, there *should* be a warning. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LAN settings
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 19:33, you wrote: Can anyone tell me where and how put my net numbers (ip,netmask etc) ? I'm new to Linux so... Congratulations! Good choice! you could send your example(file) too. Example file? You mean you want to do the setup without the GUI? In this case, I don't know. Otherwise, there is a GUI which allows you to setup your net parameters, and also configure the net sharing in case you have other machines connected to your Mandrake station. It's really painless and should take about 5 minutes, tests included. Net setup: 1. Open Mandrake control center ; 2. Choose Network and internet (click the little +); 3. Clic the connection icon; 4. Click setup (right bottom) and then the settings should be obvious Tego nie znajdziesz w adnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] Have fun. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom
On Sunday 02 December 2001 13:43, you wrote: Hi, You might try kwikdisk. It's in 'start', Start? Are you sure we use the same OS? :-) Regards, Bill W. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] can't eject cdrom
On Sunday 02 December 2001 14:31, you wrote: All right, right-click on any vacant area of the screen if you are using KDE and select Create New and then CDROM Device and then look at the Device tab and select the item that says (/mnt/cdrom) as part of its name. Do it a second time and look for (/mnt/cdrom2). You will now have your devices on your desktop, and if you left click them it opens them and mounts them same time. If you right-click those Icons once you have mounted something (and provided you are done with it and have closed any directories or terminals logged to it) you will see Unmount and Eject as choices. You can Unmount and then push the button on the CD Drive or you can Eject and the drive will eject automatically. Indeed, it works. However, in 8.0, the software installer used to do that automatically (i.e. when more than 1 disk involved in a software install, the installer used to open the tray in which the expected CD had to be placed. This was better, I think. And if it could be back for 8.2, it would be a step towards user-frindness. Civileme Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dying connection
Hello! I have noticed that my internet connection dies after a (relatively long) timeout when I don't use it. I have an ADSL router, and it is supposed to allow 24 h /24 connection time, so I guess the timeout might be internal (I mean, depending on the OS). I don't care too much for my home connection, but if I want to install a server... Is there a setting somewhere? Can there be another reason causing my network connection to shutdown? By the way, yesterday I wanted to restart the network from the internet setup GUI, but it didn't work. I found no better solution than reboot. Thanks for any hint! Pascal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Shutdown problem
Hello! Not a big issue, but... I run two dual processor machines and both are unable to shutdown completely. It stops at the black screen saying power down, but I have to press the power switch. There was a kernel setting on BeOS to allow complete shutdown. Is there a similar trick in Mandrake? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Another find-related question
Hello! Today there were a couple of posts about how to find files. I didn't know locate, and it is very fase compared to find. I have been wndering for a while: is there a kde shortcut calling a utility that uses locate or find? I mean, an equivalent of MacIntosh's apple-F, or BeOS's Alt-F... Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 01:23, you wrote: Hi gang, Hello! I'd like to add a high speed internet connection via a cable modem. My local cable TV company (Adelphia) will lease me a cable modem, provide wires, etc, and hook me up via Windows (no Linux support), etc. I am not sure how a cable modem works, but in case it has an ethernet plug, you can certainly connect to it by DHCP. It works for my ADSL connection, and config has been very easy (open the network config, choose configure, click dhcp, say yes when it says you have to restart networking, and you're on line. I can now enjoy downloading a Mandrake ISO within 12 minutes vs impossible with a modem. The plando their install under Windoze and then switch to linux. In case of DHCP, there is nothing to install (except a network if you don't have one. So a couple of questions.. Is it reasonable to expect LM to detect the cable modem (I'm assuming that lots of folks on this list are using cable hookups)? Any pitfalls/traps? In case you connect by DHCP, it will probably not detect the modem itself (I don't remember having seen my modem), but it will detect the network board which is all what you need. I need to buy a NIC before I hook up their modem. Will any network card be OK? Except if you use a very exotic network board, I would say there are 99% chances it will work. You didn't make your board yourself, did you? :-) I bought the cheapest NIC for 750 yen (about 6.5 $), and it works. TIA. Terry Smith Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar command ?
On Monday 19 November 2001 11:30, you wrote: Hi! I like to zip all my /var/named files in one zip files. I need the command how to tar it. tar cvf archive.tar /var/named Can someone email me the command ? Best regards, SKLIM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] cdrecord broken in 8.1?
Hello! I have a problem on 2 machines. One at home and one at work. I was used to burn iso files using an alias, and it doesn not work anymore. Here is the respons of cdrecord in a shell: % cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?g Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. In the past (in the downloadable version of 8.1), cdrecord was working well. Has anybody experienced the same problem? By the way, login as root is not a solution. I have tried, just in case, but it produces exactly the same result. Anyway, I am in the cdrom group, so it should work. The 2 machines are dual processor PCs but I don't think it is related. The motherboards and processors are different. Beside that, I didn't change anything but clean-installed the root partition on both. Any hint? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord broken in 8.1?
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 12:05, you wrote: Yes, I have the same problem and have been working with the guys in this group in trying to resolve it. I might go back to 7.2 since it was working OK there. I haven't been able to get internet sharing to work on 8.1 also. For your info, it works on Mandrake 8.0. I mean, CDRW works on 8.0. I have also other problems on 8.1 with CDROM: sometimes, there is no way to remove the CD by pressing the CD button. As for internet sharing, I use it on 8.1 and it works well. But I remember I had some trouble to get it work. Apparently, the setup is not _exactly_ the same as on 8.0. Something is different, but I don't know what. It might be something like the DNS setting. I find this parameter ambiguous. Which DNS? The name server of my ISP that resolves names from the internet, or the DNS to resolve names on my lan? Anyway, try to modify some of the parameters, and it might work. As for reinstalling cdrecord, I have downloaded it and tried to reinstall, but I got an error. This might also be a 8.1 issue, but there are a lot of errors when installing a package. A lot more than on 8.0. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord broken in 8.1?
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 15:19, you wrote: Yep Been there got the T shirt. Its the new devfs system which auto populates the /dev folder. It requires the drivers to be aware of it, and the scsi driver used by cdrecord isn't. All you have to do is edit /etc/lilo.conf and change the line append= hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet to append= hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount quiet Then re-run lilo with /sbin/lilo and reboot Yes, it works. Thanks a lot! By the way, it looks it works without having to reboot. The funny thing is that the scsi emulation was already seen from the system, at least it was listed in Mandrake control center - Hardware - CDROMS, so I couldn't suspect a config problem. Thanks again! Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] netatalk
Hello! Did anybody success in installing netatalk on Mandrake 8.1? When I want to install it, the installer complains about an incompatibility with glibc. It doesn't surprise me since there is usually no way to get software running at once, but I really would like to install it. Maybe it would be a smart idea to have a native support in one of the next Mandake releases... Thanks for any hint. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?
Hello! Don't forget MacOS and MacOSX. The latter could qualify as a form of Unix. I wonder why MS sees Linux as a threat and not these other Unices. I suppose since it can run on the x86? Because Linux is dangerous for MS, and MacOS, HP-UX, Solaris, etc are not. The reason is simply that Linux is free or at least low-cost is you consider that you should buy a distribution. Workstations are expensive, and therefore will never get a significant share in the consumer world. Therefore, MS can keep a large share when competing with non-free systems, but is threatened by Linux boxes (very low-cost OS with tons of freeware, very reliable, almost insensitive to viruses, that can run on cheap hardware, and with lots of very cheap hardwares supported). Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Burn directly from ISO OR decompress first - any difference?
Hello, On Wednesday 17 October 2001 18:14, you wrote: Burning from win I have a limited choice of burn-apps Nero/Cdrwin/Winoncd. None of these seem to handle burning the ISO's After spending lots of thime reading Nero-howtos and burning Useless ISO cds (Just one big useless file on the entire cd) I was wondering if it made any difference if I unpacked the ISO images first and then burned them Unpack? You mean, you have a compressed image file, something like xxx.iso.gz? In this case, yes, you have to uncompress it before burning. P By the way, I made two aliases in prder to burn images. This is easier in the case you want to burn a plain CD image like for instance Mandrake Linux CDs. These aliases are used like this in a command tool: 1. Burning myfile.iso is done by: burniso myfile.iso 2. Blanking a cdrw: blankcd You can get the best of both worlds: a nice GUI when necessary, and a very quick utility when you want to burn a single image. If you are interested, here is my .bashrc and some explanations to configure your environment: -- # .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions export CDRDEV=0,0,0 export CDSPEED=8 alias blankcd=cdrecord dev=$CDRDEV blank=fast alias burniso=cdrecord -v dev=$CDRDEV speed=$CDSPEED -data $1 # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi -- You have to edit it and if necessary change 2 variables for your machine: 1. Device: in my case, it is 0,0,0. If you run cdrecord -scanbus in a terminal, you will get a list of the devices and their parameters. You have to enter the 3-number sequence (separated by commas) corresponding to your burner. Change the line export CDRDEV=0,0,0 accordingly. 2. Enter the speed (8 in my case). But this is not too important. It works even if I set another number, preferably greaer than 8. Change the line export CDSPEED=8 accordingly. One never knows. Once you're done, type source .bashrc so that your command line tool takes the new config into account. Then you can use the two commands burniso and blankcd. That's about it. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDevlop questions
Hello! I am starting using kdevelop right out of the box. I didn't change anything to its configuration. The documentation looks great, but there are points everywhere. Ex: QCanvasText . ( . QCanvas . * . canvas . ) . It impedes the readability. Apparently every blank (tab or space) is replaced with a point. I thought it might be a font problem but changing fonts in Options-Documentation browser didn't solve the problem. Any hint? Another thing I would like to change is the editor behaviour. It is currently possible to go beyond the end of a line with the arrow cursors, and I am not used to that. In the other editors I am used to (Mac Metrowerks editor or BeOS), right arrow at the end of the line means next line which sounds logical for the file contents point of view (at least to me). Is there a way to change that behaviour? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDevlop questions
Hello again! Sorry, I found the solution for my 2nd question: the behavior of the editor is configured... by option-editor. My first question is still not solved. I am starting using kdevelop right out of the box. I didn't change anything to its configuration. The documentation looks great, but there are points everywhere. Ex: QCanvasText . ( . QCanvas . * . canvas . ) . It impedes the readability. Apparently every blank (tab or space) is replaced with a point. I thought it might be a font problem but changing fonts in Options-Documentation browser didn't solve the problem. Any hint? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CPU question
Hello! Anyway, the original Celeron had the multiprocesing pins messed up. The moire recent ones had the pins disconnected internally (more properly, never connected at all). Intel was very cautious about letting the Celeron compete against its Pentium II/III/IV line and has always kept it crippled in some regard. Ity is likely that you _can_ overclock some celerons, especially older slower ones simply by kicking the bus to 100. A 300MHz Celeron becomes a 450 when properly cooled and placed on a 100MHz bus, but above 366, the processors had to be individually tested, which is what Computernerd did so very well. Civileme In fact, what I would like to know (sorry, muy question was badly formulated), is whether Intel modified the newer chips so that it is IMPOSSIBLE to run even on a dual processor board. The 2 400 MHz I have run fine, the kernel 2.4.8 smp loads, and the performance tells me that it is really running fast. Same for BeOS, where I get the dual CPU load properly displayed. I am just worrying about the upgrade. Will I get 1 cpu at 800 MHz / 100 FSB or 2? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CPU question
Hello, I am running Mandrake on a Abit motherboard (Abit BP6) with dual celeron. It looks like the smp kernel works fine. The celerons I use are quite old (400 MHz) and their FSB clock rate is 66 MHz. I was thinking I would upgrade to more recent CPUs (about 800 MHz each, 100 MHz FSB). But I was told that the 100 MHz celeron may not run an SMP machine. In fact, it may work on a single processor only., so there is (according to that person) no point in upgrading. Does anyone have data about this issue? Does anybody use a BP6 with 100 MHz celerons? Thanks, Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] religion in linux
Hello, 16:9 And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes. 16:10 "The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. 16:11 If then you haven't been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will entrust you with the true riches? 16:12 And if you haven't been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you your own Localization comment: For American readers, 16:9 ... 16:12 should be read 4:9 PM ... 4:12 PM. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.1 release schedule
Hello! Wanna spoil all the excitement? We have a release schedule in mind, but it always unravels, so we just let it be thrilling and don't make liars out of ourselves. Having a schedule in mind is good if you are alone. As soon as you have customers, you need to pull your schedules out of your mind. And as soon as you are on the stock market, you have to keep the schedule public and stick to it. It will be ready when it is ready. What about releasing it the 3rd Thursday of November? You launch it the same day as Beaujolais Nouveau, and as a marketing campaign, you offer 1 (or more) bottle(s) of Beaujolais Nouveau to all the customers who order it on that day. For American customers, I think Beauolais Nouveau is called Coca Cola over there, so 1 can will be fine. Civileme Well, beside that, 8.1. is great. I have just started using it. I hope it will improve at the same rate for years. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What's Raklet?
From Robert Collins French/English dictionary, raclette: a. scraper (tool) b. Swiss cheese dish. Anyone sees a connection with 8.1? Raklet has apparently as much relation with 8.1 as Traktopel with 8.0 or Rhapsody with MacOS. I prefer Rhapsody (as a name, I mean), and it would be great to name Mandrake versions with more attractive names, I think. Maybe Traktopel as a bulldozer-like tool was meant to open the way to a large public, and raklet (raclet) as a smaller tool is meant to attract the less exposed people that Traktopel failed to gather... Pascal Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Setting up a new mail server
Hello! I noticed Mandrake had a distribution called corporate server. I am setting up a new mail server for my small company. What should I use to get started. A copy of Mandrake 8.0 set up as a server or the corporate server 1.0.1? I tried out corporate server and it seemed extremly old. I have never tried the corporate server. However, the reason might be that for a server (i.e. a box lying in the corner), you don't need a nice graphical interface. You set it up and it should run forever, at least until the cleaning agent unplugs it to plug the vacuum cleaner. I don't know what you call a small company, but if it's for a few users, I would use Mandrake 8.0. It is very easy to install and you can configure it basically without even popping a terminal. If you're an experienced sys admin, that's another story, you will feel frustrated if you don't use a terminal an vi a few config files. Thanks, Kevin Have fun! Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Staroffice 5.2
Hello! I tried using StarOffice 5.2, and it sounds like it is rather buggy. At least the display is not good. The piece of text around the cursor is partly hidden, backspace leaves some black pixels (i.e. it does not eras prefectly) etc. Is there a way to get it work fine? Thanks, Pascal
Re: [newbie] text file viewer/previewer
Hello, Does anybody know of a good text file browser? One that I can use to quickly look through my files and read the textfiles as I browse through them. If it is plain text, there are many that can do the job, for instance emacs, vi, with powerful features. And if you prefer a more GUI like editor, kedit? I'm not sure I get the question... Pascal -Paul R
Re: [newbie] text file viewer/previewer
Hello, Thanks, but I mean something more like a GUI file browser, like nautilus or explorer (or PowerDesk for windows) that allows me to browse easily through a large number of text files in a folder and preview (read) them in a side window while that file is highlighted. Similar to GQview, but for text files, not pictures. But it exists by default, or at least very close to what you are describing. I use KDE as my desktop environment. The Konqueror browser does that (i.e. you get all the tree structure at the left - by default at least - and you can browse the directories. Now if your text files are in a given directory, select that dir in the left section, so that it opens and that you see your text files. A single click to any file opens the file (be it text, a tar erchive, a zip file (as long as you have zip installed), etc...) I am not sure, but probably it exists in GNOME as well. As for the text file only, I don't remember, but I guess you have scrollbars and search features, otherwise I would have noticed. By the way, I have never been able to configure the font to browse text files, and that's why I use the good old emacs. Does anybody know how to configure Konqueror so that it displays with a larger font? Konqueror's settings or preferences menus do ot have any influence on the text browsing font. Probably because Konqueror borrows an external editor. I have tried to set the font of the editors around, but no way... Pascal
[newbie] Telnet
Hello!
Newbie again...
I have problems installing a cvs server on a Linux
Mandrake platform.
On one cvs troubleshooting page, it was said that I
should try first to telnet to myID@hostname 2401. It does
not work. Then, I simply tried to telnet to that machine,
and it does not work either. Then, on that machine,
telnet localhost does not work... (connection refused in
all cases).
I opened the setup tool (Mandrake control center),
and tried to figure out what's wrong. As there is a telnet
item, I wanted to start it. I got a "telnet : unrecognized
service" error message. As there is also a CVS button
(which is the purpose of my efforts, I pushed that button
as well, and got the same message.
I opened the installer and searched for telnet in
the "installable" area. There is nothing anymore, since I
have installed already. Same for CVS, everything is installed.
Beside that, this machine works fine as an IP router.
As I have 1 IP address for a few machines, I use this box
to do the job.
I would greatly appreciate some hints to help me to
solve these problems.
Thanks,
Pascal
[newbie] Dual/tripple/multiple boot...
We have a PC at work which is used for development. We use it to program old boards, Eprom, processors, etc. I need to make the PC work with multiple boot. I.e. I need to have DOS, Windows 98, WIndows NT, Windows CE and Linux. I don't need X in linux, just the terminal. Does anybody know the steps to follow to have this. I was thinking of using Grub or Lilo, but I'm not sure how to configure them.
RE: [newbie] I can't install L.M 8.0
I had the same problem. I used another CD-ROM and it solved the problem. I also saw some poeple re-burning the image and it worked. I still don't understand why it does that from time to time, but I hope this helps -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D. Hoyem Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:07 PM To: Marco Batista; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I can't install L.M 8.0 Marco, When you try and start the install, are you doing the install from windows, or are you doing the install on start up? Don --- Marco Batista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I try to install L.M. 8.0 he give this error msg: error in exec of stage2 :-( FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/O ERROR I can't recover from this. You may reboot you system why he give me this error after he boot kernel image. Tanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
[newbie] PCI
I have a PCI soundcard which is trying to use irq 11, (if I'm not mistaken) The problem is my video card is taking irq 11. So I can't get my sound card to work. Actually, if my sound card is physically in it's PCI slot, HardDrake crashes when booting up. The only way I can boot my machine with the sound card in is with the interactive method and by skipping HardDrake. Does anyone have ideas???
[expert] Photovista extension inmMime.types
How is it possible to add Photovista extension in file mime.types ?
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Ralph De Witt wrote: Bruce: In the future please do not post in html. A large majority of Linux users do not have the capability to read html formated messages, and most consider html formated messages as rude, and just ignore them. So turn of html formating for your sake if you are expecting any one to answer. LM just went to Beta 2 status so I would expect a shipping version some time in about mid to late April depending on bugs found and production schedules etc. Way cool!!! I am just waiting to go out and buy the Deluxe version if it is like previous versions. I want to get all the extra goodies including VMware so the rare few times I have to use windows I don't have to reboot. So has anyone dared try the new beta 2? I am not running a server so I don't care if its not super stable but beta 1 seemed a little to unstable for my liking. Just looking for a good excuse to upgrade though ;^) PS. Cool Signature file :^) Ralph - -- It said uses Windows 98 or better so I installed SuSE 7.1 Proud user of SuSE 7.1 Professional Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Pascal Poirier 8^) ** "Time is just one damn thing after another!" -Anonyms Fifth Year Electrical Engineering Daltech, Nova Scotia **
[newbie] NVIDIA screen brightness
My screen and card have always been a little darker then normal especially with the loopback for the Hollywood Plus card. I was wondering if there is someway of adjusting the brightness in KDE or in xfree86 (which ever one is possible or easiest)? Any help would be great so I won't have this rather dark screen to look at. PS The card is a NVIDIA TNT card Pascal Poirier 8^) ** "Time is just one damn thing after another!" -Anonyms Fifth Year Electrical Engineering Daltech, Nova Scotia **
[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 beta 1
Just wondering if anyone has given it a try? I know its not super stable but how unstable is it? I don't want it crashing all the time but I have nothing mission critical. I want some of the usb support along with some of the new packages and figure it may be easier (and possibly less hassle with package conflicts) to give 8.0 a try. So exactly how stable or unstable is this beta release for anyone who has given it a try? Pascal Poirier 8^) ** "Time is just one damn thing after another!" -Anonyms Fifth Year Electrical Engineering Daltech, Nova Scotia **
[newbie] Using precompiled kernel
I downloaded kernel-2.4.1-5mdk.src.rpm. Did rpm --rebuild kernel-2.4.1-3mdk.src.rpm Got error message : error: failed build dependencies: libbinutils2-devel is needed by kernel-2.4.1-5mdk egcs is needed by kernel-2.4.1-5mdk OK I didn't install egcs. I know it's on my distro. No problem with that. But where can I find libbinutils2-devel ? Couldn't find it on ftp sites. Anybody can give me a hint?
[newbie] @home and Mandrake
Just asking a quick question for a friend that I am helping install mandrake. She is on the @home network and is having trouble logging in. There are directions on the mandrake user website on how to do it for a static ip and I am looking to do it for a dynamic one since she has had little luck with a static one. Not to mention that the directions given are very unclear (maybe because they where written with an older version in mind?) and I am not sure of some the setup procedures... I want to help but I my self have DSL which with simple autodetect on everything. So if anyone has a up to date and simple procedure for the @home network let me know. Pascal Poirier 8^) ** "Time is just one damn thing after another!" -Anonyms Fifth Year Electrical Engineering Daltech, Nova Scotia **
Re: [newbie] Nutzo-insane RPM software
OK, I apologize for funnin with ya. But Michael's right, you'd only get that error with a current cooker, or an incompatible RH7 package. Please post the rpm's full name that you're tryin to install. It's possible to install cooker/RH7 rpm's, but you have to be very careful as to what, or you'll break your system. Current cooker RH7 is almost completely incompatible with 7.2 due to abrupt changes in glibc, rpm-4, gcc 2.96, etc. Your best chance is to get a cooker src rpm and rebuild it with 7.2's gcc-2.95.3/glibc-2.1.3. As simple as 'rpm --rebuild package'. Even then, the resulting rpm can be a system buster (which would be a 'user'error' ;). So what're ya tryin? Well that explains why me trying to go to upgrade my system somewhat was bombing all the time... Has anyone one managed to find a somewhat easy way to upgrade the system. There are so many interdependencies for the new kernel its a mess... I might try the above but would perfer to know if it will break the system before I do it... that way I can have my disks ready :^) Pascal Poirier 8^) ** "Time is just one damn thing after another!" -Anonyms Fifth Year Electrical Engineering Daltech, Nova Scotia **
