Re: [newbie] Using the rm command
On Saturday 09 April 2005 06:29 pm, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi ~ the following is in reference to Acrobat Reader only. I have been reading about Acrobat5 and Acrobat7 and am looking at installing the later. I understand that I need to remove all of Acrobat5 and that is OK by me. The README advises: To uninstall Acrobat Reader 5.0.9, simply delete the directory where it was installed. However, in doing a search : # slocate acro I have found that it is spread through quite a number of directories. Though I am prepared to track them down and remove them all individually I was wondering if there is a way to use the rm command to search and remove them all at one time ? And even better ~ if there was a way to check everything rm wanted to remove first without having to say Y to every file one by one ? Still, this is only a thought and not essential but if you know then please share. TIA Wouldn't a pipe do the trick? As in: locate string | rm string I suspect I don't have the syntax correct so you might want to test it a little before you blame me for hosing your system. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] source build problem
I am not an expert in rebuilding rpms from src.rpms, but I have done it from time to time. I am now trying to build rpms for firefox 1.0.2 using the src rpm from cooker. However the process aborts after about 20 minutes with the following message: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77790: line 96: fg: no job control error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77790 (%install) line 96 of the aforementioned file reads: chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2/chrome/rc.d/generate-chrome.sh The permissions on the file /var/tmp/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2-buildroot/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0.2/chrome/rc.d/generate-chrome.sh are -rwxr-xr-x Can someone please explain what the problem is and how to solve? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xmms and sound
Any ideas why I can't get any sound out of xmms but realplayer, totem, and the system sounds work fine? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] extracting cd audio files
Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What about converting between audio file formats? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] configuring update source
I am trying to configure mandrake update so as to grab Thac's kde 3.4 rpms. The relevant files are in: ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/pub/linux/rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/kde-3.4.0 But this directory does not contain a hdlist.cz file The parent directory contains hdlist.cz, but it points to evey thac rpm in the parent directory and all it's sub-directories. How can I configure update to look only in the kde-3.4.0 sub-directory? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kmail - delayed send
Is there any way to have kmail send a message at some defined time in the future? I often write a message that I don't want sent until a specified time. MS Exchange allows a message not to be sent before a specified time, but I haven't found a similar feature (yet) in kmail. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices
I have a laptop that is normally connected throught a dock to an external monitor and keyboard. I can suspend it, disconnect from the dock, awaken, work, resuspend, return to my desk, re-connect to the dock and re-awaken. After re-awakening at the dock, none of my USB devices are reactivated and I am forced to work on the internal laptop keyboard or reboot. Any ideas on how to get USB devices working without having to reboot. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Un-suspend and non-working USB devices
Is it possible to set this for different message classes? That is, can I leave it as my address for personal e-mails, but change it for messages sent to the list? P PS - When sending to the mailing list, please do not have Reply-To: set to your address. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] startx options
What is the syntax for startx on tty2 in order to start a 2nd X session when X is already running on tty1? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] startx options
startx -- :1 works, but icewm -- :1 returns: IceWM: Can't open display: none. X must be running and $DISPLAY set. What's up with this? P On Sunday 20 February 2005 04:46 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 20 February 2005 21:38, Paul Kaplan wrote: What is the syntax for startx on tty2 in order to start a 2nd X session when X is already running on tty1? TIA Paul startx -- :1 Or if you wish to use a different Window Manager, then start the window manager explicitly. For example icewm -- :1 Or if you are already in KDE and want another KDE session. MenuStart new session Ctl+Alt+F7, Ctl+Alt+F8 toggles between the sessions derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] laptop batteries
Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable, inexpensive source of replacement laptop batteries? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OpenOffice builds
I have MDK10.1 on two different systems. They're set up similarly, but not identically. The X and KDE environments however are the same. OpenOffice 1.1.4 runs fine on both, but I wanted to test 1.9.74 (the current 2.0beta). On one box it runs fine while on the other it constantly crashes and causes X to hang. Any ideas. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Unified login with Windows
I use an mdk10.1 laptop to connect to a W2K Server based network at work. (I have no administrator rights to the network.) Every time I need to mount a network volume (locally via samba) or access the MS Exchange mailserver, I need to enter my domain, username and password. Is there a simple way (is there more than one, and if so, what are the advantages/disadvantages of each) to let me login to my box once in the morning and have the login info passed to the network when needed? On the network side I need access to only one domain, which never changes (although I do occasionally attach my box to a simple home home network which obviously doesn't use that domain name). My network password is forced to change every 60 days and I handle the change via a rare W2K boot/login. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Non-persistent panel configurations
When I change the icons for application buttons on the kpanel using the properties menu item that appears after right-clicking the button, the changes don't persist after I reboot. It then ocurred to me that the properties are inherited from the menu items of the same name, so I tried using menudrake to edit BOTH the user menu entries AND the system entries (as root). This time, the old icons re-appear after re-boot and both the revised menu entries and an original version appear in menudrake. I'm using the club kde 3.3.1 on mdk 10.1 How can I get the chnages to persist? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Non-persistent kpanel configurations
When I try to make changes to icons of buttons on the kpanel via the right click properties, they do not persist after re-booting. It ocurred to me that the buttons might inherit their properties from the menu items of the same name so I used menudrake to change the menu entry for BOTH normal user AND the system (as root). After re-boot, the original icon is present and there is both the revised and original menu item in both the normal and system menu listings. How can I get changes to persist through a reboot. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
Short answer is no since the Word file format is proprietary. Abiword is another open source solution and offers similarly close compatibility. You might find that it does a better (or worse) job for a particular formatting issue. KWord doesn't do so well, but for some issues it might work. If you're looking for (nearly) perfect compatibilility you have 4 options. Wine will let you run the native Word binary under Linux, but AFAIK, Word needs to be already installed in a Windows partition on the same machine. A couple of years ago it needed to be on a W95/98 installation, but that may have been upgraded. I suspect it suffers from some of the compatibility issues that also affect the Codeweavers product and Win4Lin. Codeweavers Wine ($), will let you install MS Office (and some other Windows) apps into a fake windows directory within Linux. It is pretty close to perfect for Word 97 and Word 2K, but has some minor imperfections w/ XP. Most of the problems seem to be with documents embedded within other documents or very table/figure references within documents. They do provide good support and you will find that most bugs are at least evaluated by the staff. Win4Lin ($) is similar to the Codeweavers product, but you need Windows 98 compatibility. It requires a specially modified Linux kernel (which is generally available). VMWare ($) is a true virtual machine system. It lets you install an actual copy of Windows (or any other i386 OS) onto Linux (or vice versa) and then install MS Word into that version of Windows. As far as binary compatibility, this is the best solution, but requires at least 2Gb of free disk space and is the slowest solution to your problem (you have to boot or at least unsuspend Windows after you boot Linux), although as virtual machines go, it is almost as fast as running natively since it doesn't try to change processor architecture. All are available for 30day demos. Bochs is another open source virtual machine, but it once took me 12 hours to install W98 into a Bochs virtual machine on a Pentium II box. Perhaps it is a bit faster now. HTH Paul On Saturday 11 December 2004 05:12 am, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. The OpenOffice Writer is quite compatible with Microsoft Word, but not at 100%: when you save a file with Writer, and then open it with Word, some information turns out to be lost or modified. Isn't there in the Linux world any application that be *completely* Microsoft Word compatible? Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word
According to Paul Kaplan exhaustive report on the matter, I'll try Abiword and Wine, hoping they can help because the problem is really 'serious': I won't be able to avoid using MS Windows until a solution will I find. But, please: excuse my ignorance: what are OO documents? I hate getting involved in flame wars. OO documents are docs created OpenOffice...in your case OpenOffice.org Writer. Also a technical comment. If your goal is to create a highly formatted document on Linux that is MSW compatible, perhaps you need to use some less complex formatting. For example, instead of using a hanging indents, try using tabs. Limit your use of fonts and keep them to common ones like Arial and Times New Roman. While it's not an elegant solution, it is workable. Another alternative is to create your highly formatted document in your Linux word processor of choice and save as a pdf file, thus eliminating the need for your Windows friends to depend on Word! And back to flame wars...When your friends complain that they can't edit the pdf files without paying big bucks for Adobe Acrobat, point them to the kde3.4 version of kghostview which is supposed to solve that problem ;-) Good luck, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 09:56 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: If by chance you are about to be offended, this is an etiquette rule we have all pretty much agreed on and is explained more fully here: It takes far more than this reply to do so ;-) P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 03:55 pm, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, is there anyone that knows where (If it is at all possible to access) in the Mandrake filesystem one can find files that is the virtual machines files ie c:\ in W2000 And now I know how to do this. You need to have the smbclient program installed and the virtual machine running. I used LinNeighborhood to probe my virtual machine by it's name in order to identify it's IP address. It will be an internal address (mine was 192.168.???.???). In konqueror enter as a URL smb://192.168.???.??? using the IP address you probed. I had to enter the administrator's password, but that resulted in display all of the virtual machine's disks in a konqi. Thanks for starting me thinking about the problem. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question
Do it from LM using k3b. I've not had any problems with the k3b versions available under LM10.0 or 10.1. Both were simpler and more flexible any of several tools I had under W2K on the same machine. Paul On Tuesday 07 December 2004 05:22 pm, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:58:19 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot access from linux filesystem, that is one disadvantage of vmware. Windows filesystem is stored in one or two big files in your home directory. OK; that is a shame...anyway, the next question then will be, how can I burn something with ie Nero in VMWare, it seems not to be possible as the CD-Rom seems to be read-only and not possible to burn with. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] totem
I have two machines with mdk10.1. The only difference is the processor type (P4 vs. Centrino). On one the P4 totem movie player is unable to load any files. It gives an error message saying only that an error has occured and that I should inform the developers. There are two buttons; one to restart and one to quit. Nothing else informative. I have tried re-installing and compiling from the src rpm with no changes. Any thoughts? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare question
I have found the following site useful for windows problems: http://www.petri.co.il/ You might also try the VMWare forums accessible from the VMWare support page If you have a working installation of w2k, you should be able to modify the following instructions to roll your own bootable copy of w2k: http://www.4saad.com/WhatsNew/Fresh_XP_Install/index.htm The instructions worked as advertized for XP. I have found that installing OSes onto VMWare using real CDs to be a PITA because the drive is only indirectly connected to the VM. It goes much faster if you create an iso image of your CD and point VMWare to the iso file. Lastly, I always thought my w2k cd was bootable, but I only ever tried to install in VMWare where it didn't boot. Since it wouldn't boot in VMWare, I ended up installing w98 and then upgrading to w2k completely overwriting the w98 installation. You could probably also upgrade from w95 or even 3.1 if you can read the CD. It has been working (as well as windows can) for 15 months. I suppose it's possible there's a bug in VMWare. HTH, Good luck. Paul On Friday 03 December 2004 05:56 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello there, I am having a problem with getting VMWare running, as I try to install Win2000 as a virtual machine in VMWare, however VMWare says that the CD I am using is not bootable, however if I reboot normally it boots up fine, now does anyone be able to point me to some ideas why this is so. I would rather not have to install W2K normally so to speak. Perhaps not the right place to ask but I'll start here and also look on VMWare's web of course. I run Mdk 10.0 BTW.and no floppy either /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Automounting a USB memory stick
When I insert a USB memory stick into the USB port under a newly installed mdk 10.1, it doesn't mount or appear on the desktop. I have to manually mount using mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable. Even then, the device is neither readable or writable by a normal user unless I create an appropriate entry in /etc/fstab. I thought 10.1 was supposed to handle automounting of USB sticks. I don't need a desktop icon, just the automount/autounmount. What needs configing and how? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Java and konqueror
I installed jre-1.5.0 from sun onto mdk 10.1. I am able to get the java plugin to work for firefox 1.0 and for opera 7.54, but not for konqueror. I tried having konqueror look for the java plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.0/plugins/ /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/ and /usr/java/jre1.5.0/lib/i586 (the way opera handles java), but no luck. Any suggestions? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] USB mouse
I have a laptop setup with an external keyboard and a wireless mouse attached to a powered USB hub. The wireless mouse doesn't work unless I unplug it and reattach to the hub. How can I get it to be seen without the unplug/plug excercise? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] what can I do ?? Please help - Urgent
can you install mc (midnight commander)? F4 puts you in edit mode, F2 is save. P On Sunday 21 November 2004 07:21 am, H.ERTAS wrote: Dear friends, I just installed nvidia driver on Mdk 10.1 CE and configured xorg.conf . But when I reboot , the system can not go into X ( kde ) . startx commande fails. I know I can reedit xorg.conf but I can not do that from console. jed the editor is not installe . I dont know to use vi and vim ditors. what can I do !! Thnks H.ERTAS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] runlevel
Where do I set the system to boot to runlevel 5 instead of 3? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 VMWare
Has anyone gotten VMWare 4.5.2 to run on a 10.1 host? It installed fine from the rpm, but when executing vmware-config.pl (as a normal user or root) it ended with the following: ... make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-12mdk' cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o make: execvp: cp: Permission denied make: *** [auto-build] Error 127 make: Leaving directory '/root/tmp/vmware-config2/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module ... This was followed by some pointers to potentially helpful sites, which weren't very helpful. Any thoughts? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Download vs. Powerpack
Can someone provide a list differences between the 10.1 OE Download CDs and the Powerpack CDs? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Too much RAM/Too much free time
It looks like I should be able to run a screensaver as my desktop background under kde 3.2. How would I specify a particular screen saver module? What about a module for XScreensaver? Any idea if I could specify different modules for different screens under Xinerama? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Partitioning new HD
I suggest increasing / to 10-15Mb, then putting everything but /home there. I find this leaves me plenty of room to modify an installed system. If you need more space for personal files, you can always add an external drive. Keeping /home separate allows you to destroy / and leave your personal stuff untouched. P On Tuesday 05 October 2004 04:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to install the 10.1 release of Mandrake on my new notebook. I would like to partition my HD so I will not have to format partition with my data each time I try to fully reinstall linux distribution. My question is, how I should partition my HD and what directories should be on which partition? I was thinking about something like: Partition | Mount | Size GB | Contents ---+--+-+-- Root |/ |5| /boot, /etc, /usr, /var, ... Data |/mnt/disk | ~65| /home, /usr/local, /tmp Windows|/mnt/win | 10| Swap |swap |0.5 | More questions: - Do I need to have /usr on a root partition? - What FS would you recommend? Is it possible to have / as ext2/3 and /mnt/disk as reiserfs? The station is meant to be mainly desktop/development machine. Currently I am Debian user. Thanks, Stefan -- http://stefan.agentfarms.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1CE
My initial impression is that 10.1CE is faster than 10.0 Official. Can anyone confirm or would people like a sample of what I've been smokin'? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 kde3.3
Yes, but how were you able to do the install? Did you avoid installing any kde packages and then install kde afterwards, or is there a way to install 3.3 during the 10.1 setup...I didn't see any kde3.3 packages during the package selection phase of the installation. P On Wednesday 29 September 2004 06:21 pm, John Layt wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:18, Paul Kaplan wrote: I tried a new intstall of 10.1CE club edition (which includes CD4) and nowhere do I see an option to install kde3.3 instead of 3.2. The former rpms are on CD4, which is asked for during the install. I thought I read somewhere that mdks 3.3 works better if installed cleanly at setup rather than over a 3.2 install. What gives? How do I get to the 3.3 rpms? TIA Paul You need to add the KDE3.3 directory as an source for urpmi. Do that through the Control Centre. And yes, I did get better results doing a clean install rather than an upgrade, but results vary depending on what 3.2 packages installed. kdepim and kdewebdev were the biggest problems. John. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 kde3.3
I tried a new intstall of 10.1CE club edition (which includes CD4) and nowhere do I see an option to install kde3.3 instead of 3.2. The former rpms are on CD4, which is asked for during the install. I thought I read somewhere that mdks 3.3 works better if installed cleanly at setup rather than over a 3.2 install. What gives? How do I get to the 3.3 rpms? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] shorewall samba
Since I installed shorewall, I am unable to get to administer samba through samba-swat (http://localhost:901). The error I get says the browser could not connect to host localhost (port 901). Any ideas? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Club iso vs. Download iso
I noticed that the 10.1CE club isos (CDs 1-3)have different md5sums than the public download isos. Does anyone know what the differences are? Do the club isos contain different packages or have the public download isos been updated from the club isos? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] commerical CD
Can anyone provide a (link to a) list of rpms on 10.1CE CD5, the commercial rpms? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kwifimanager
Kwifimanager (on kde 3.2.2/MDK10) defaults to monitoring the eth1 connection. How can I get it to monitor a different connection (ath0)? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 802.11g PCMCIA
Can anyone recommed an 802.11g PCMCIA card to run on mdk10? Any special drivers needed and are they available as rpms? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] newbie archive
Can anyone provide a link to an up to date archive of the newbie mailing list. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IBM X30
R40 T40, but not X30. Check the thinkpad mailing list at linux-thinkpad.org. Paul On Monday 02 August 2004 04:37 am, Ryan Raz wrote: Hi Guys, Anybody here have tried installing Mandrake 10 Official on IBM Thinkpad X30 Notebook? Any problem Encountered on hardware? Let me know Please... Thanks ryan __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] IBM X30
Nope. I needed to disable Network Hotplugging to get networking working. Paul On Monday 02 August 2004 06:33 am, Ryan Raz wrote: Did you encounter any problem? --- Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R40 T40, but not X30. Check the thinkpad mailing list at linux-thinkpad.org. Paul On Monday 02 August 2004 04:37 am, Ryan Raz wrote: Hi Guys, Anybody here have tried installing Mandrake 10 Official on IBM Thinkpad X30 Notebook? Any problem Encountered on hardware? Let me know Please... Thanks ryan __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] connection sharing
I have a laptop I use at work that has an unused wireless connection. The work LAN is thru a 100 mbs wire. I have another machine at home that is connected via a wire to my home LAN and also has an unused wireless connection. The home LAN goes through a router to the net. I can get to the net with my work box at home by plugging a wire in to the wire, but I thought it would be educational to just use the two wireless connections to the work box connected to the net at home. Shouldn't I be able to share the wireless connection on my home box to do this, effectively making my home box a second router? Can this be done directly through MCC or do I need to do additional configuration? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Supermount?
I am running 10.0 on a laptop. I have a USB2 external drive. When I originally added the drive it was formatted as a single vfat partition which mounted at /mnt/removable. I subsequently re-formatted it into three ext3 partitions /dev/sda1-3 and set them to mount at a different location. After mounting the drives DiskDrake asked if I wanted to record these changes in /etc/fstab, to which I said yes. Now when the drive is not attached to the laptop, I can't boot into linux. Commenting out the lines referring to /dev/sda1-3 solves that problem, but the drive no longer automounts, although I can still mount with the mount command. What do I need to do to get the partiions to automount when the drive is connected without preventing the box from booting when the drive isn't connected? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kcron DrakSync
How does one configure kcron or DrakSync so that a backup is automatically executed? I can get DS to execute by clicking on Synchronize and I can get kcron to launch DS every day at the same time, but I haven't figured out how to tie the syncing to the cron job so that I don't have to intervene. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] weird df output
Nice script.
Question: On one LM10 machine it works fine. On another I get the following
error:
[execution directory]: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token 'done'
[execution directory]: line 13: done
with no output.
What gives? Where should the line breaks be?
TIA
Paul
On Sunday 27 June 2004 12:46 pm, mike wrote:
Frank wrote:
Yeah, it is the way the kernel actually sees the drives or some such
mumbo jumbo. So much simpler crunched the old way.
Try:
# fdisk -l [Note-as root]
Regards
Frank
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Registered Linux User # 324213
Eric Huff wrote:
Did anyone ever come up with a solution to the screwy df output?
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part13 1.8G 1.2G 642M 66%
/stuff
I saw this go by way back when in 9.2, i ended up skipping 9.2.
I did look thru the archive. I thought someone had a fix or script
or something to make it look like it used to, but i couldn't find
it.
thanks,
eric
I'm starting to get used to the naming scheme, kinda wish it wasn't
so long though :-)
Heres a script I found in a forum post by Paul Morgan (I lost the
original post). Might need some work to line things up a little but
works ok.
#!/bin/bash
# Purpose: Convert devfs device names in df output to legacy device
names
# Invocation: mydf [DFOPTION]... [FILE]
# where DFOPTION is an option associated with the df command.
# author: paul morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 01/27/2004
IFS=X
df $*|\
while read dfline ; do
{ echo $dfline|grep -q '^/dev/.*/host[0-9]/bus[0-9]/.*'; }\
eval dfline=$(find /dev -name 'hd*' -lname ${dfline#/dev/})
echo $dfline
done
I named it mydf made it executible and put it in my /home/user/bin.
Mike
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Re: [newbie] weird df output
Never mind...figured it out.
On Monday 28 June 2004 08:39 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote:
Nice script.
Question: On one LM10 machine it works fine. On another I get the
following error:
[execution directory]: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token 'done'
[execution directory]: line 13: done
with no output.
What gives? Where should the line breaks be?
TIA
Paul
On Sunday 27 June 2004 12:46 pm, mike wrote:
Frank wrote:
Yeah, it is the way the kernel actually sees the drives or some such
mumbo jumbo. So much simpler crunched the old way.
Try:
# fdisk -l [Note-as root]
Regards
Frank
Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve.
Registered Linux User # 324213
Eric Huff wrote:
Did anyone ever come up with a solution to the screwy df output?
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part13 1.8G 1.2G 642M 66%
/stuff
I saw this go by way back when in 9.2, i ended up skipping 9.2.
I did look thru the archive. I thought someone had a fix or script
or something to make it look like it used to, but i couldn't find
it.
thanks,
eric
I'm starting to get used to the naming scheme, kinda wish it wasn't
so long though :-)
Heres a script I found in a forum post by Paul Morgan (I lost the
original post). Might need some work to line things up a little but
works ok.
#!/bin/bash
# Purpose: Convert devfs device names in df output to legacy device
names
# Invocation: mydf [DFOPTION]... [FILE]
# where DFOPTION is an option associated with the df command.
# author: paul morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 01/27/2004
IFS=X
df $*|\
while read dfline ; do
{ echo $dfline|grep -q '^/dev/.*/host[0-9]/bus[0-9]/.*'; }\
eval dfline=$(find /dev -name 'hd*' -lname ${dfline#/dev/})
echo $dfline
done
I named it mydf made it executible and put it in my /home/user/bin.
Mike
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Re: [newbie] XF86 config issue
What's your objective; 2 monitors different content? You need to enable Xinerama among other things. 2 monitors; same content. There's probably a FN+-- keyboard combo that cycles the video output thru displaying on the internal monitor, the external, both. Then you should be able to CTRL+ALT++/- to increase/decrease the video res to match the monitor. Learn to edit XF86Config-4 manually for a variable video config. Lastly, go to Linux-laptop.net and dig around. You might find exactly what you need. Good luck, Paul On Thursday 17 June 2004 10:50 pm, Joe Rice wrote: I've got Mandrake running on a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. I got X working with the laptop monitor but now I'm using it in a docking station with a Dell flat panel monitor. I've tried using all the configurations I can think of in XFdrake but so far no luck. Can anyone point me to an xconfig that might work? Or is there something else I should be investigating? New drivers? I'm sort of at a loss as to where to go next. Thanks, Joe _ Watch the online reality show Mixed Messages with a friend and enter to win a trip to NY http://www.msnmessenger-download.click-url.com/go/onm00200497ave/direct/01/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Read Linux partition from WinXP
proprietary ($30), but it works: www.mount-everything.com On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:33 am, OOzy wrote: Is there a Windows program that reads my USB Linux Partition from WinXP? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MDK 10 runs, no Inet connect - similar but different
Pardon the late post...did you turn off network hotplugging? On Friday 04 June 2004 06:30 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 05:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, have similar problem, but a little different. Mandrake 10.0 is working fine but not Internet. I have linksys router and network printer, exactly the same configuration works on W2k and not on mandrake However I can log to router, and can print via home net, but no access to Internet. Conclusion hardware is working and problem is in software. My guess is DNS configuration, how to change dns servers because when using harddrake can't change them. Second guess is some firewall rules. I tried different solutions from previous posts and no luck. This is crucial for me, first really important obstacle in going in to the linux world. Adrian You say you have no problem using your local network so it might be a routing problem or a DNS problem. If you can ping an IP address in the Internet, then it is not a routing problem. If you can't, check that your default gateway is pointing to the router IP. You can use the route command to get this done. After solving any routing problem, you can check for DNS problems. Take a look at /etc/resolv.conf and make sure that there is at least one line reading: nameserver ipAddress.of.YourISP.DNSserver Good luck Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] pearpc
Has anyone been successful in getting any version of Mac OS X to run on pearpc under MDK 10? Specifics please. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] rar
What program can be used to unpack .rar archives and where might I find it? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] how do I open....
koffice 1.3 - free openoffice.org 1.1 - free or if you need more general MS Office compatibility you can use Wine (free) or Codeweaver's wine (free demo, but $), Netraverse ($) VMWare ($$$) and run Excel natively. On Thursday 27 May 2004 12:44 pm, M.Schild wrote: I received an Excel .exe attachment. I know it is safe. How do I open it, please? I have Mk 9.1 Thanks Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OT: annoying spam filters
I'm looking into a problem my high school reunion chair is having. Apparently most of his e-mails to the class are not making it to classmates with known active e-addresses. Since the e-mail has ~200 names on the To: list, I suspect it's being picked up as spam by some ISP bent on blocking our class reunion. Does anyone know if my hypothesis is reasonable and how one might get around such a filter (other than by sending 200 e-mails)? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] archiving large files
I would like to burn CDs containing copies of virtual machine disk images. These image files are larger than 700Mb. Does anyone know of a way to archive a large file so that I can burn a portion of the file to a CD and the remaining portion onto a second CD. If I do this, how do I restore the original file. I don't have a network or second hard drive option for backup at the moment. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] archiving large files
Cool; pre-made directions! Thanks. On Thursday 20 May 2004 01:12 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2004 11:48 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I would like to burn CDs containing copies of virtual machine disk images. These image files are larger than 700Mb. Does anyone know of a way to archive a large file so that I can burn a portion of the file to a CD and the remaining portion onto a second CD. If I do this, how do I restore the original file. I don't have a network or second hard drive option for backup at the moment. TIA Paul Does this help? http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexr eq=viewarticleartid=222 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 CE does not properly shutdown
Since 9.2, I've had a similar problem with the standard kernel. Try using the enterprise or i686-up kernels. They seem to shutdown fine. I haven't bothered to run down the config diffs. Paul On Wednesday 05 May 2004 10:01 pm, G-Love wrote: Installed 10.0CE a few days ago and am quite happy. However, I can't get my machine to properly shutdown. It hangs while unloading some USB drivers (unfortunately I don't have the exact message). However I think I've seen some posts about this being an improper USB patch in the 10.0 kernel. BTW, I'm running kernel v2.6.3-9. Otherwise, everything works fine, but this is a bit annoying. -Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Internet on 10.0
Not sure if this will work for wireless, but I had two boxes with fresh 10.0 installs in which I had to disable network hotplugging to get any internet access to work. Paul On Monday 03 May 2004 12:55 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: Derek Jennings, in this list, led me through the process of enabling Internet for Mandrake 9.2 and a wireless adapter. I now have another computer which I want to run with Mandrake 10.0, but the configuration which worked in 9.2 doesn't work for this version. What Derek taught me: Mandrake (9,2) loads 2 drivers for the wireless adapter (SMC 2662W VS..3) I have plugged in that computer: atmelwlandriver, and at76c503c. The problem was to exclude the first and use the second. He had more than one ways to do it. First, write the lines: usbvnet_rfmd usbvnet_r505_2958 in /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Then, make a configuration file for wlan0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts called /fcfg-wlan0, which is this one: DEVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=172.16.1.36 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=172.16.0.0 ONBOOT=yes BROADCAST=172.16.255.255 WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=94:41:94:54:75 WIRELESS_RATE=11M WIRELESS_MODE=managed WIRELESS_ESSID=2WIRE193 Either I made a mistake, or I have to do things in a different way for 10.0. Derek, if you find you can have a little time for considering this, I will appreciate it. Teilhard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] write access to NTFS partitions
According to the linux ntfs driver project (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net), you can write to NTFS partitions as long as the filesize is 512b and you don't change the file size, but they caution it's experimental. There's another project, captive, that seeks a similar goal (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/). It has been reported to allow write access to NTFS partitions used by WinXP, but not those used by NT and W2K. Don't know how reliable it is. I have an ext3 partition that I share between W2K and linux. On the w2k side I use Paragon software's mount ntfs, a proprietary ext2/3 driver for win2k/XP that allows full read/write access to ntfs partitions. Using a fat32 partition also works, but requires periodic defragmenting, which ext2/3 are not. Finally for NTFS partitions on a remonte machine, use Samba and set up the Lin box as a server. HTH Paul On Friday 30 April 2004 09:00 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 05:33 -0700, David Lasry wrote: Hi all, I am new to this mailing list. I run Mandrake 10 and have complete read access to all my NTFS partitions. I was wondering how i can set it up so that i have write access as well. Any help is welcome The conventional wisdom seems to be that it shouldn't be attempted, as it's not well enough supported yet? and is rather risky. If you need to read and write data from both Windows and Linux, better to set up a shared FAT partition for doing so. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 2.6.3 config
Can someone point me to the kernel configuration gui used in MDK10? What options are compiled into 2.6.3? Also, is there a list of kernel boot paramers? man bootparam yields a file that is several years old. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] T40 X4.3
Last November I was able to configure X 4.3 on a Thinkpad T40 (257551U -Radeon M7 w/ 32Mb) with Xinerama enabled so that the internal LCD and an external LCD monitor formed a single contiguous desktop. This was using Mandrake9.2 I recently upgraded to Mandrake10 with kernel 2.6.3, but still uses X 4.3. The same XF86Config-4 file no longer allows two monitors...specifically, only the external monitor is used. There are no hardware changes. Any ideas what might have changed to cause the problem. TIA Paul --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] default browser
Where do I set the default browswer to use for embeded links for kmail in mdk 10? It is currently set as mozilla and I'd much prefer konqueror. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] default browser
That certainly causes konqueror to open, but I then get an error message: The file or folder URL does not exist. However, if I clear the dialog box and then click on the Go button, I am taken to URL. Shouldn't I be able to get right through to the URL? P On Sunday 25 April 2004 05:54 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: On Sunday 25 April 2004 12:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: Where do I set the default browswer to use for embeded links for kmail in mdk 10? It is currently set as mozilla and I'd much prefer konqueror. TIA Paul Simple, in the K Menu: Configuration -- KDE -- Components -- File Associations enter html at the Find box. Click the plus sign by the 'text' entry, clich the 'html' entry and move up the browser of your choice... Good Luck, ::. Amichai Rotman The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 --- PLEASE READ: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mdk 10 networking problem
I recently setup Mdk10 Community on a Thinkpad R40. I have set the Force noapic bit in lilo, which prevents DrakX from choking on the networking config screens. However, I am still not able to get networking to function. The machine connects is connected through a router (192.168.0.1) and I can't ping the router with DHCP. Ping returns Network Unreachable. The same machine worked fine with mdk9.2 and with WinXP. Can anyone help? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10 networking problem
I had to disable hotplugging to get dhcp to work which seems to be part of the problem. Now I have my LAN working, but am unable to get to the internet. DrakConnect doesn't accept any input. In fact it seems to hang on testing the lan connection. So I'm still stuck. Hardware is fine since the LAN works, the router isn't blocking the machine's access since it works fine under mdk 9.2 or WinXP. Do I need to enter my router's local IP address as a gateway? How? If not what else is there to try. TIA Paul On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 06:53:29 -0400, Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Kaplan wrote: I recently setup Mdk10 Community on a Thinkpad R40. I have set the Force noapic bit in lilo, which prevents DrakX from choking on the networking config screens. However, I am still not able to get networking to function. The machine connects is connected through a router (192.168.0.1) and I can't ping the router with DHCP. Ping returns Network Unreachable. The same machine worked fine with mdk9.2 and with WinXP. Can anyone help? TIA Paul Paul; Check to see if Shorewall or Iptables are running on the laptop. Disable both and reboot. Doing so, will clear the rules and policies which are currently loaded. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.2 RPMs for MDK 9.2
ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 Paul On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:36 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, Can someone direct me to a download source for KDE 3.2 pre-packaged for MDK 9.2? Thanks, .::. Amichai Rotman, The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin! Short text-only e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.2 RPMs
ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 On Saturday 21 February 2004 09:28 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Does anyone know where I can get KDE 3.2 RPMs for Mandrake? I know I've seen a thread like this before, but I couldn't find it. Thanks, Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
Presumably you are using mdk 9.2 as well. You may have to run down each of the dependencies and grab the correct rpm from a directory of all mdk9.2 rpms (your install media or a download mirror). AFAIK urpmi only handles dependencies for rpms in the urpmi directory. In my experience all the dependencies could be solved by existing 9.2 / 9.2 update rpms... but you might have upgraded 9.2 packages to something outside mdk or from cooker. cd to the kde32 directory post the output of rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test. This should list your path to dependency hell (append rpm.txt w/o quotes and you'll dump the output to a text file). Paul On Sunday 15 February 2004 11:09 am, Dale Kosan wrote: Okay, here is what I did: Downloaded all of the rpms from your sight, put them all in a kde32 folder. Added that folder to my urpmi.cfg with urpmi.addmedia KDE32 file://home/dale/kde32/ with hdlist.cz, that went fine. Went into the graphical software install program, I was in Gnome when I did this, and the the kde32 entry was there, selected everything and tons of dependency conflicts appeared... Do not know what I am doing wrong... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lanman Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On February 14, 2004 09:54 am, Dale Kosan wrote: No joy, tons of warnings about conflicts. This come from a stock 9.2 install. Could it maybe be my choice of mirrors and contrib.? Could you send me your urpmi.cfg file? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lanman Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download the whole folder from my server as i have to shut it down on Saturday. Once you have it on your PC, then use the following command which assumes that your KDE32 folder is in /home/dale urpmi.addmedia KDE32 file://home/dale/kde32/ with hdlist.cz Just copy and paste that line into a root user's shell or console. Modify the path if you store the KDE32 folder somewhere else. Lanman OK, let's do this by the numbers. 1) Download the KDE32 rpms to your PC before i have to shut the FTP server down - it goes down in 2 hours. 2) Make a note of where you saved the KDE32 directory and let me know where you have placed it. 3) We'll move ahead after you get back to me. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kde 3.2 revisited
Are you using rpms made for 9.2 or cooker rpms? If the latter, you're going to have some real headaches regarding dependencies. Better to get a set of 9.2 rpms. (see pclinuxonline.com about 10 days ago for a link to a site with 9.2 rpms. If you follow the read more.. link, you'll also find a bittorrent file for them and a faster mirror.) If you download all the 9.2 rpms to a single directory, you can rpm -Uvh *.rpm from that directory and it should handle all the dependencies since you're upgrading a 3.1 installation (yes?). Any external dependencies should be minimal and you can probably track them down quickly, possibly through Install Software. Paul On Saturday 14 February 2004 02:22 pm, Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Folks Sorry to bring this up again, as I'm sure its been asked, but where are the newbie archives these days. I only seem to be able to find up to November last year. I have downloaded all the 3.2 RPM's, but having a tough time trying to install them, lots of dependency problems. Google hasn't been much help either. Please could someone point me at some means of installing 3.2. By the way I'm running version 9.2. Many thanks as always. Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
1. downloaded all the 9.2 rpms to a directory (including libs and qt3.2) 2. separated out those that I didn't want to install to a subdirectory 3. cd to the directory with the rpms you want to install 4. tested the remaining rpms with rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test 5. resolved the dependencies (some were in the excluded directory, some I had to track down on rpmseek.com or rpmfind.net) by adding the appropriate rpms to the directory and retesting. 6. installed with rpm -Uvh *.rpm 7. renamed original ~/.kde directory from 3.1 installation 8. restarted kde (I boot to runlevel three so I start with startx rather than using a display manager so I can't help with that piece) This isn't as elegant as with urpmi, but in only took about 15 minutes (with a fast internet connection to deal with #5), but I've had no problems since installation. On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:09 am, Dale Kosan wrote: So, has anyone been able to get it to work right? What steps did you use to do it? Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] konqueror 3.2 fonts
Thanks. Regarding the K...There are several resolutions of menuk-mdk.png - that's the star. You will also find several versions of kmenu.png. Find the one for your theme and over-write the menuk-mdk.png files using the appropriate resolutions. Paul On Wednesday 11 February 2004 02:27 pm, robin wrote: Paul Kaplan wrote: Why are the fonts under konqueror 3.2 SO BIG!!? I am using the same font setting as under 3.1.4 on the same installation. How can I get them back to normal? I found everything in 3.2 came out big, but you can change back using the KDE Control Center. Now I just need to work out how to get the K back. It's not that I really mind the star, but all the verbal and written tips I've given my wife and co-workers refer to the 'K' in the corner! Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde screensavers
The kde 3.2 environment created with konstruct generated several dozen screen saver modules, many of which appear to have been derived from Xscreensaver, while the 3.2 environment created with the Mandrake rpms created only about a dozen vanilla screen savers. What files do I have to copy from the konstruct version to get the mandrake version to imitate. Note to Mandrake...why muck with what the kde folks generated? I like the convenience of using the kde screensavers, but much prefer the Xscreensaver options. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] konqueror 3.2 fonts
Why are the fonts under konqueror 3.2 SO BIG!!? I am using the same font setting as under 3.1.4 on the same installation. How can I get them back to normal? TIA Pauln Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] System tray(s)
Under mandrake rpms for kde 3.1.x and 3.2, once you add a system tray to a panel, you can't add one to a child panel (at least I haven't been able to under M9.2). The command to add a tray under Panel MenuConfigure Panel is greyed out and unavailable once a tray is present on the master panel. However the kde 3.2 environment created with the KDE-supplied konstruct allowed me to add the system tray to a child panel as many times as I want to. Any ideas how to get this to work with the mandrake rpm setup. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] K menu icon
The mandrake rpms for kde 3.2 that recently appeared changed the K-menu icon from a K to a mandrake yellow star. Where is the icon for this panel button located? I'd like to either re-use the K or create my own. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde context menus
How can one add text to a (right-click) context menu under kde3.2? How about adding a new command to the context menu? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms
ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 These links were provided in the feedback to the note on pclinuxonline.com. Paul On Monday 09 February 2004 05:30 am, anton wrote: Is there someone out there with a webserver and a nice traffic policy like to mirror this so this guys server doesn't get bogged down? And so unlucky b'stards like me on dialup can have a go without leaving the rest of the community waiting for ... well, days? ftp://voidstar.dyndns.org/mirrors/kde32-for-mdk92/i586 Cheers Anton -=-=- ... What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde3.2 reprise
A note on pclinuxonline yesterday that there are kde3.2 rpms rebuilt from cooker for 9.2. (There's a note buried in the thread giving an alternative download ftp and a bittorrent file). I've tested the install so I have the dependencies under control, but I'm a little gun shy to install as I'm on a critical machine. What are people's experiences with the resulting installation? Does everything work? Does anything get hosed? (I know you need to use a clean .kde directory) Do the benefits of 3.2 outweight the hassles of upgrading/reconfiguring? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde3.2
Rather than wait for 3.2 rpms for M9.2, I thought I'd give konstruct a try. It worked well for me for koffice 1.3. However I want to be able to uninstall and return to my current config if I need/want to. According to the README after installation one has to issue: export QTDIR=~/kde3.2 export KDEDIRS=~/kde3.2 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/kde3.2/lib export PATH=~/kde3.2/bin:$PATH export KDEHOME=~/.kdetest to get 3.2 to start instead of 3.1. OK The output of env tells me only my current QTDIR. How do I findout what my current KDEDIRS and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde3.2
OK, but how would I unset the changes I have to make to get kde3.2 to work (if I want to go back to 3.1 or change to any rpms that might get released). P On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:01 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2004 02:20 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: The output of env tells me only my current QTDIR. How do I findout what my current KDEDIRS and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are? If it is not in the output of your env, it isn't set at all and the program default will rule. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] shutdown
B, Thanks for pointing me in this direction. I got several commands working well this way, but shutdown is still a problem. I added a line as you suggested for the shutdown command, but when I try to shutdown as the user, I get a request for a password. The root password gets rejected and using the user password locks me out of the ability to issue the command. So I have to go back to su-ing to root and then shutting down. I also tried creating /etc/shutdown.allow file with a single line containing the name of the user. No luck. Any other thoughts? Paul On Sunday 18 January 2004 02:51 pm, bascule wrote: you can use the 'sudo' command to allow a use to issue any particular command that ordinarily could only be run by root, you need to edit the /etc/sudoers file to specify what user and what commands and whether the user needs to specify a password, to edit this file you need to logon/su to root and run 'visudo' this opens the file in a mode of vi that will check for errors on the file upon closing you will need to read the man pages for 'sudo' and and 'sudoers' but as an example i added the following to my /etc/sudoers to allow me to run urpmi without suing to root: bascule mycroft = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/urpm*, /usr/bin/urpm* note that to run urpmi as bascule i have to issue: $ sudo /usr/sbin/urpmi as /usr/sbin is not in the path of my normal user and that 'mycroft' is the name of my machine bascule On Sunday 18 Jan 2004 7:31 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: How can I allow a single normal user (me) to execute the shutdown command without changing the suid bit on the shutdown executable? This can obviously be done if I were using a display manager, but I don't. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] shutdown
How can I allow a single normal user (me) to execute the shutdown command without changing the suid bit on the shutdown executable? This can obviously be done if I were using a display manager, but I don't. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba 3
Try the samba mailing lists @ samba.org. A very helpful group. On Friday 26 December 2003 09:23 am, robin wrote: Has anyone here used Samba 3.0.*? I've got smbclient3 working, but smbtar3 seems to be broken - I get error messages about an unacceptable user-password combination, even thought the same password works in smbclient3. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MS Project equivalent in Linux?
I looked hard about 6 months ago to find something, including installing MSP and some other commercial programs on Codeweavers Crossover Office. No luck. Codeweavers also isn't planning on working towards MSP compatability unless someone is willing to support them. There's apparently some heavy duty proprietary formatting in those MPP files. Bummer. It's the only app I haven't found a good Linux replacement for. Let me know if you uncover any solutions. Paul On Wednesday 17 December 2003 09:08 am, Ed Smits wrote: Is there a Linux app that can read and write MS Project files? I looked at MrProject, it can't read an MPP file as far as I can see. I assume that it or another app can do an equivalent job of creating project plans, however I am forced to use Project and need true compatibility. Any help or ideas appreciated. Cheers Ed Smits (a true newbie) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Odd Konqueror config problem
In recent days, the behavior of the Forward, Back and Up buttons in Konqueror (9.2, / KDE 3.1.3) has changed. Formerly, when I clicked on any of the buttons I would move to the previous or next page/directory viewed or up to the parent directory. If I clicked and held down the left mouse button, I got a dropdown list of the previous/next pages. Now, I only get the dropdown list and I have to select from the list even if I want to go directly to the previous page. I haven't found any configuration options that control this behavior. Does anyone know how to restore the button functionality? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] login display managers
IBM Thinkpad T40 w/ ATI Radeon M7. I forgot to mention that startx works perfectly from the command line. On Wednesday 10 December 2003 10:24 pm, E. Hines wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2003 02:48 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I'm having some odd problems with kdm and xdm on 9.2. If I configure the system to boot to kdm, it launches fine. After entering a username and password, the dialog box disappears, showing the default background, then the screen blanks for a few seconds and then X restarts and I'm back to the kdm login screen. With xdm, I can login and launch a window manager just fine, but when I logout from the WM, I am returned to a blue screen with a partially drawn login dialog box and a frozen system. None of the virtual terminals are available and I can't ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X. The only way out is a hard reboot. I've tried reinstalling kdm but nothing changes. Any thoughts? Paul Sounds like a video problem to me. Is this a notebook with an ATI Mobility card, by any chance? e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] k3b grief
Runor is that it's a mandrake problem in the dvd customization in cdrecord. P On Wednesday 10 December 2003 01:43 am, Paul Harrison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Kaplan wrote: | Try rpmseek.org and pick the most recent (highest version #) cdrecord rpm for | mdk 9.1. I didn't have any dependency problems with the cdrecord downgrade | and I doubt there will be a problem with cdrdao. This was great advice Paul. For the record, got cdrecord-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm from the Mdk 9.1 branch of rpmseek.org, simply double-clicked it, it removed the more recent version of cdrecord - - no dependency problems at all. I can write CDs again! Are the developers of cdrecord looking at this buffer underrun problem? Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/1sCXq+i2H9Bw1yoRAuKOAKCXojY9h4tmTp26Famk7KgizC5zWgCgjUs9 CJNwLrpE7eSwkRf0r2qvF98= =EQYw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] login display managers
I'm having some odd problems with kdm and xdm on 9.2. If I configure the system to boot to kdm, it launches fine. After entering a username and password, the dialog box disappears, showing the default background, then the screen blanks for a few seconds and then X restarts and I'm back to the kdm login screen. With xdm, I can login and launch a window manager just fine, but when I logout from the WM, I am returned to a blue screen with a partially drawn login dialog box and a frozen system. None of the virtual terminals are available and I can't ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X. The only way out is a hard reboot. I've tried reinstalling kdm but nothing changes. Any thoughts? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] k3b grief
Try rpmseek.org and pick the most recent (highest version #) cdrecord rpm for mdk 9.1. I didn't have any dependency problems with the cdrecord downgrade and I doubt there will be a problem with cdrdao. On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:30 am, Paul Harrison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Kaplan wrote: | See my post and reply from a few days ago. Thanks for that Paul. I missed that post due to experiments with Thunderbird that went horribly wrong... | I had the same problem (different | CDR) under 9.2. After downgrading the cdrecord package to the one supplied | with 9.1, Now which version is that? I've found a page of RPMs for Mdk9.x with various versions. Also, does not changing cdrecord lead to dependency hell for all CD writing software on Mdk 9.2? Not that I can get *any *of it to work, but hey... Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/1Wv+q+i2H9Bw1yoRAoVtAKCc8S0xMIGpV6LEWb939zBdu9eauACglUKt OFytKeRC2YEtgULIA7DGkVc= =dOph -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] k3b grief
See my post and reply from a few days ago. I had the same problem (different CDR) under 9.2. After downgrading the cdrecord package to the one supplied with 9.1, I think this solved the underrun problem without having to also downgrade cdrdao. Needs more testing however. On Monday 08 December 2003 05:29 pm, Paul Harrison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No matter how hard I try, I can't get k3b to write a CD without a buffer underrun happening (I have an Artec WRR-52Z) - in fact, I can't get *any* CD writing package to work. Are there any handy guides? I've tried k3bsetup but that didn't help either. This is holding me back from going (almost) 100% Mdk waving bye bye to ~ XP for everything but video capture. Thanks in advance, Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/1PtNq+i2H9Bw1yoRAvU0AKC9MHItKiZ4HSwZvpK64z0rB4VTHwCglnv+ puurMrvzX7Xz6Qp6k1Xra2c= =cxhg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare problems! Please Help!
Which OS is your host and which is your guest. Which version of VMW are you running? Which version of MDK are you running? How are you partitioning? I installed VMWare 4.02 4.05 onto a mdk 9.2 host in order to run W2K w/ no problems. P On Monday 08 December 2003 02:07 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: I have been trying to get VMWare working for a little bit now. I have been trying to get my Win98 OS working on my HDA parition. The problem is that every time I try to launch the OS LiLO causes and error where this: L 07 07 07 07 07 07 07, etc. is displayed over and over and over again. Does anyone know how to fix this. I've tried diabling Lilo and making a boot disk, but my disk won't boot properly. I've tried using boot floppies and CDs in VMWare and VFAT crashes. What can I do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] k3b
On Saturday 06 December 2003 11:45 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 06 December 2003 5:29 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I'm running 9.2 on a IBM thinkpad T40. k3b doesn't work. When I try to burn an iso image it starts and then chokes with no error messages. Careful inspection of the CDR shows that something has been done by the laser to the innermost 2-3mm, but the disk becomes unuseable. If I try to simulate a burn, k3b returns a buffer underrun error. I've tried reinstalling k3b and the cdrecord package, but to no avail. Any ideas? TIA Paul If you start k3b from a terminal do you see error messages or does it still silently die after making a coaster? I'll have to try. I'm on another machine now. What drive are you using with it? Make model etc. how it's connected to the lap top... Matsuchita, don't have the model. It's the std IBM config. In fact all worked well under M9.1. Interestingly hardrake is convinced I have 7 cdwriters attached at /dev/scsi/lun0/part0 to 7 all mounted at /dev/cdwriter or some such strange listing. (what happened to /dev/hdb used in 9.1?) IIRC someone else was having difficulty with k3b. Posted on the expert list I believe. He got around the problem by using cdrecord from 9.1 I think but I don't recall what the problem was or why that worked. Check the expert list for subject CD burning problems with 9.2. There's a whole thread there. Hell I'll even do it for you. g http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertm=106988726318759w=2 should take you right to it. I hope. (-: I'll check it out on Monday. Good luck. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 09:30:26 up 2 days, 12:39, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.05 Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/0geSZqvqlrLPr5YRAm96AJ9exUE3KvZF0cx2cPVMU2FEB0B82wCeJ49w yRUdbUIiV/dojTopSnls+gM= =M+a4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] XF86Config-4
I run 9.2 on a laptop and have reason to switch between different XF86Config-4 files. Historically, I have booted into runlevel 5 and have therefore had to shuffle the XF86Config-4 files and then restart the X server. It seems to me that I should be able to boot into runlevel 3 and then use startx or some similar command with a switch that calls the desired XF86Config-4 file. How would I do this? Under this scenario how would I call different window managers? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Backups
Any recommendations for a good easily configurable backup program? I'd like to backup my working files to a company network drive (w2k) that I can r/w to. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Laptop X/different configs
I set up 9.2 on an IBM T40, which has an ATI Radeon 7500 and in internal LCD at 1024x768. At the time I set it up, I had an external keyboard (with a built-in trackpoint AND trackpad), mouse and 1280x1024 monitor attached through a port replicator. Setup correctly detected and configured the external devices. However, when I boot the machine without being attached to the port replicator, X still presents the 1280x1024 desktop (only the upper-right 1024x768 pixels) and the internal pointing devices (a trackpoint and a trackpad) are non-responsive. How do I configure X (4.3) so that it autodetects whether the external monitor and pointing devices are attached and sets the video output appropriately? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2
I was the intiator of the previous thread a few days ago. I discovered that 9.2 didn't install a .bashrc file into the /home/[user] directory on my box. Sounds like it didn't on yours either. Just copy it over from the /root directory and (as root) change the user's copy's ownership. From there you can edit it as described. If you leave it unedited, the bash prompt wil be [EMAIL PROTECTED] directory]$ Paul On Friday 31 October 2003 09:36 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:26:47 + Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: NIC - Cable company's set top box, it works O.K in 9.1 so I must have setup something differently in 9.2, damned if I can see it though. There seems to be a pattern I'm seeing here with 9.2... One person had some probs with their prompt similar to yours, but that was solved by editing the ~/.bashrc: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/ Then there's the problem with output from df being abnormally verbose, not just outputting partition/usage, but hostname/partition/useage. I wonder if something was changed in 9.2 to do with either the global /etc/bashrc config or network settings... Anyone have any thoughts on this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Alternative configurations
I use a Thinkpad T40 w/ 9.2. At my desk, it is connected through a port replicator to an external monitor 1280x1024 and through a USB2 connector to an external keyboard. The keyboard is further connected through it's own USB1.1 port to a mouse. Works fine. When I try to boot when not attached to the port replicator, X starts at the external monitor's resolution, not the internal 1024x768, so only the upper left 75% of the display is visible AND neither the internal trackpad or trackpoint pointing devices are active, so I have to run GUIs using keyboard commands only. How do I get the system to detect the difference in states and activate the pointing devices and call the correct screen resoultion. It did this in 9.1, but I never made any specific settings to do this. (I'm less conerned about the screen since I know I can change that in Mandrake Control Center.) TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] df command output
But these are symlinks in 9.1 as well...so what is different about df in 9.1 and 9.2 and how does one get the old behavior back? P On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:19 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 4:57 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:05 am, Eric Huff wrote: [snip] tom $ df -h -x supermount FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 8.5G 1.7G 6.9G 20% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 46M 9.3M 34M 22% /boot /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 12G 4.3G 7.6G 36% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 25G 11G 15G 44% /stor /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 56G 46G 11G 82% /stor2 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 13G 8.5G 4.0G 69% /stor3 So that doesn't clean it up. IIRC, this 'new' output from df appeared early in 9.2 development (maybe sooner). I believe it was explained on the cooker list as being due to changes, improvements in devfs. Since /dev/hda1 is a symbolic link to /dev/blah/blah it should be possible to write a script to convert the output. Who wants to learn bash/cut/sed etc. and wants an interesting and rewarding project? (or maybe just perl) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
You could try installing both and give them each a whirl before removing the one you decide against. Lilo should be auto configed to give you the both choices (check the config using Mandrake control center to determine which entry points to which kernel). I found that the standard (mdk) kernel wouldn't accept my 1Gb RAM config no matter what I passed to it because the 4Gb memory option wasn't enabled. The enterprise kernel did. So chose the latter. HTH Paul On Wednesday 29 October 2003 04:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Just for a giggle I rolled this kernel last night, kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm this is what I had in the morning, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 [EMAIL PROTECTED] i586]# ls kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-tmb-enterprise-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm kernel-tmb-source-2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk.i586.rpm I've never had 3 kernels before, do you install all 3, and if so will it produce one set of kernel and initrc files or 3 of each. I guess you only install , kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm but ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] df command output
In every other distro I've used, the df command returns the free disk space on each device attached to the system and lists the file systems as /dev/hda1, dev/sda1, etc. In 9.2 the file systems are listed as /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc/part1 or something related. My computer may be a P4, but my brain is only an i386 and I just can't process that much info. How can I get df to output the old style device file name? TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
