Re: [newbie] Re: Wine or VM
On Thursday 03 April 2003 07:53 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: Depends what U wanbt to run... Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. More information can be read in the articles Why Wine is so important (http://www.winehq.com/?page=why) In VMWare u need a Windows license to install in it. VMware Workstation is virtual machine software for technical professionals. It lets you run multiple versions of operating systems simultaneously on a single computer. Quit wasting time configuring hardware, installing software, rebooting/reconfiguring systems. Spend more time developing, testing, and deploying applications and delivering support. I think this is the most important thing to say. [Deleted] I dual boot between LM9.0 and win2k. The win2k applications I want are already installed on the win2k. Will I have to install them again on LM9.0 in order to use wine? Or can wine on LM9.0 run those applications that are already installed on the win2k (the win2k is on a FAT32 partition). Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mounting compressed DOS Hard Disks
Hi, I have the following old Double Space compressed DOS disk: -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 20393984 Jul 18 2001 386spart.par -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 128761856 Jul 18 2001 Dblspace.000 -r-xr-xr-x1 root root64246 Jul 18 2001 Dblspace.bin -r-xr-xr-x1 root root 77 Jul 18 2001 Dblspace.ini How do I mount it on my LM9.0? Thanx, Seedkum, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found.
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 2:57 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Monday 03 March 2003 01:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:35, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I can see the taboo OS machines from my MDK9.0 box running samba but they cannot see anybody on the network. They get the following message when they try to connect to the network: WORKGROUP not accessible The network name cannot be found snip This is the /etc/samba/smb.conf listing: [global] log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m dns proxy = no smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd load printers = yes printer = ML4600 netbios name = bnsee printing = cups server string = Samba Server %v socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 workgroup = netgroup This suggests to me that you have some machines addressing netgroup and others on workgroup. Have you checked that? Certainly something is making it look for 'workgroup'. Anne The WORKGROUP is netgroup. I was referring to it generically. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found. SLOVED
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 07:45 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Tuesday 04 March 2003 01:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 2:57 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Monday 03 March 2003 01:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:35, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, [Deleted] I re-installed SAMBA and the problems seems to have gone away. No clue as to what they were. I also installed SWAT for the first time but it seems to hang when I try to start it from the command line. It seems to start ok when I select its icon using KDE. Whe I give the command: swat -s /etc/samba/smb.conf and then: jobs [1]+ Stopped swat -s /etc/samba/smb.conf Can anybody tell why it is stopped? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] VIM in KMAIL and KNODE
Hi, How do I make KMAIL and KNODE use VIM instead of the default? I know that KMAIL allows the use of an external editor. KMAIL configuration has a place where to specify the editor required but I do not know what to put in there. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found.
On Monday 03 March 2003 07:15 am, et wrote: On Monday 03 March 2003 02:35 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I can see the taboo OS machines from my MDK9.0 box running samba but they cannot see anybody on the network. They get the following message when they try to connect to the network: WORKGROUP not accessible The network name cannot be found The network was working fine before. Can someone help me get it running again? Thanx, Seedkum worked good before? ?? before what? what does cat /etc/hosts say? err, before it stopped working. I know I upgraded the dreaded webmin lately, but I do not think I did anything with it. I do not even know how to try to do anything with the monstrosity. I do not think I am guilty. I uninstalled the old version of webmin and then I installed the new version. Then I uninstalled the new version of webmin and reinstalled it because I started getting bootup messages saying that some related samba conf file was missing. I do not get any warning or error messages anymore. However, when I use the Mandrakee Control Center rpmdrake uninstall window to veiw the version of the installed webmin rpm I get webmin-0.990-6.1.mdk but when I use the install window of the Mandrake Control Center rpmdrake it tells me that the same package is installable. I went and used the command line urpmi and did this: urpmi --test webmin I got the following message: everything already installed How should I proceed to get the network working again? BTW, this is what the /etc/hosts file contains: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] network name cannot be found.
On Monday 03 March 2003 01:06 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:35, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I can see the taboo OS machines from my MDK9.0 box running samba but they cannot see anybody on the network. They get the following message when they try to connect to the network: WORKGROUP not accessible The network name cannot be found The network was working fine before. Can someone help me get it running again? Thanx, Seedkum Maybe you could post your /etc/samba/smb.conf file for us to see so that we can pick through it for ya mate? Today as I booted LM9.0 it had problems mounting the SMB file system. I am listing three files. This is the /etc/samba/smb.conf listing: [global] log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m dns proxy = no smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd load printers = yes printer = ML4600 netbios name = bnsee printing = cups server string = Samba Server %v socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 workgroup = netgroup valid users = has,,hus,,seedkum encrypt passwords = yes security = user max log size = 50 [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = has,seedkum,hus writable = yes [printers] printer = ML4600 writable = yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. printable = yes path = /var/spool/samba comment = ML4600 valid users = has,seedkum,hus create mode = 0700 [print$] valid users = has,seedkum,hus path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = @adm,@root [pdf-generator] comment = PDF Generator (only valid users) valid users = has,seedkum,hus print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u %L%u %m %I printable = Yes path = /var/tmp This is a listing of /etc/fstab dev/hde8 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hde3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 //seedkumlaptop/zip250 /mnt/seedkumlaptop/sip250 smbfs defaults 0 0 //bill/D /mnt/bill/D smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.bill.arie 0 0 //bill/E /mnt/bill/E smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.bill.arie 0 0 //bill/F /mnt/bill/F smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.bill.arie 0 0 //bill/SharedDocs /mnt/bill/SharedDocs smbfs defaults 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos16 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hde7 /mnt/fat32 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 //has/seedkum /mnt/has/seedkum smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.has.seedkum 0 0 //has/has /mnt/has/has smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.has.seedkum 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win2000 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde5 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hde6 swap swap defaults 0 0 This is a listing of /etc/mtab dev/hde8 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hde3 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos16 vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hde7 /mnt/fat32 vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win2000 vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hde5 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 //bill/D /mnt/bill/D smbfs 0 0 //bill/E /mnt/bill/E smbfs 0 0 //bill/F /mnt/bill/F smbfs 0 0 Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] network name cannot be found.
Hi, I can see the taboo OS machines from my MDK9.0 box running samba but they cannot see anybody on the network. They get the following message when they try to connect to the network: WORKGROUP not accessible The network name cannot be found The network was working fine before. Can someone help me get it running again? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory limit?
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:33 pm, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday February 26 2003 11:23 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: While there's already 64 bit production machines, that use gigs of ram, there's also already Linux performance optimized [Deleted] just 32 bits to work with. BTW, I believe filesystems are also governed by the same mathematical laws and bits ;) I'm mostly doin some educated guessing about all the above, Civileme, Juan, Warly, or Todd probly knows. Yep 1G requires 30 bits (plus a sign bit) to address properly.. since address arithmetic should be unsigned, this represents the easiest way to implement address arithmetic using 32-bit signed arithmetic registers. 2G is as high as one is likely to go with 32-bit addressing using signed arithmetic in the registers, unsigned comes extra, unless the hardware also supports unsigned arithmetic (the C compiler supports unsigned arith whether the architecture does or not, which means subroutines to add subtract multiply and divide unsigned 32 bit numbers if the architecture does not offer such arithmetic) C compilers have target memory models as well, so that the compile is efficient for the expected runtime environment. This is where the sizing of 32-bit CPU kernels comes into play as well as the optimizations of the kernel itself. Now the more recent Windows systems supposedly support a file size of 2 Terabytes... I think that is 2 to the power 41 bytes which indicates a 41 bit address if unsigned and 42 if signed. 64-bit linices generally address either 8 or 16 exabytes (2 to the power 63 or 64 bytes), and file sizes are at least that large, potentially. One compiler, xbasic, which works on any 386 using windows or linux with X, actually offers a 64bit signed fixed-point data type. Some interpreters offer arbitrary number sizes in fixed point (like the Python BIG=1L). Limits are limits only because there are performance hits associated with size, given the architectures available. Civileme As suspected, the memory management performance penalty is due to architectural limitations and not sloppy software. Because the registers used for address employ signed ariithmetic, using more higher order bits or increasing the size of the registers would introduce compatibility issues. AMD will not do that. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Memory limit?
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says it has 1572864 memory, so I think the machine sees the memory, but for some reason Linux is not seeing it all. Do I need to change some setting on my system? You need to either, install the 'enterprise' kernel, or compile your existing kernel from source and config the 'high memory' option. There's good reason why this is not in the 'regular' kernel. Kernel memory management above 1 gig is slower. If you don't just have to have 1.5 gigs of ram (video editing?), you'd be better off leaving the regular kernel as is. Yes, the enterprise kernel will see all your ram with no problem, but your system will be slower. Probly be a better idea to take one of those 512mb sticks out and sell it ;) Pretty soon all the PCs and laptops will need to have more than 1GB of RAM. What is happening here is probably an early signal for the kernel developers to revamp memory management. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Unauthorized link.
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 11:32 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:52, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I was surfing some web sites last night using Konqueror and I warning window popped up saying that something or other has an unauthorized link to my machine. What does that mean? is it a virus or a hack attack or what? Thanx, Seedkum That pop-up was an advertisement - aimed at Windows users - or really, anyone that is dumb enough to click the link in the window. It's a highly illegal means by which to advertise - but it IS an advertisement. With the amount of surfing that I do, I get those incessant buggers often - and they suck. You're running linux - no one's just going to link to your machine...not unless you set it up, configure it and administer it. The pop-up window did not show me any link to click. The pop-up had only an OK button. Is that how it would show up on Windows? or does Windows pop-up show a URL it asks you to click on? The pop-up appeared to me like a warning pop-up from the operating system (LM9.0). Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Fortran compiler
Yes. I remember the Ferranti Pegasus. I ran Fortran II and earlier on it. That is one machine that I used paper tape for. I also remember the Algfol60. I was in England then. Seedkum On Monday 17 February 2003 10:54 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:11:18 -0800 Seedkum Aladeem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip snip snip - I remember those good old days. If you guys are nostalgic on the seventies, I am also nostalgic on the sixties. I remember those stacks of punched cards and machines and the punched paper tapes. I still have a bunch of rolls of punched paper tapes. I do not have a paper tape reader though. Do you know where I can get my hands on one in the San Francisco Bay area? And do you remember having to patch them up by hand or unravelling a room full of the stuff when it got tangled? Anybody remember the Ferranti Pegasus (8k memory) and Mercury Autocode? Or Algol60? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Fortran compiler
On Monday 17 February 2003 08:06 am, Terry Smith wrote: Six inches thick! musta been runnin' some paltry code :-)). Ahh.. the grand old days (late 1970s),,, I was in grad school working in an ecosystem modeling group. We ran, and re-ran and re-ran (usually a keypuch error!) a FORTRAN IV program which simulated all the interactions in a large northeast US estuarythree boxes of cards worth! took about 40 minutes to read the stack. This is in a room not much larger than a good-sized bathroom, with a tty console (talking to the main frame on another campus), three keypuch machines, and high speed printer...all going non-stop, 12 hours a day. No wonder I have a hearing loss! Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:38, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 17 February 2003 03:48 am, civileme wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:53 pm, laura wrote: I'm new in Linux. Before asking, I tried to use g77 or f77, but I don't have them on the computer. I have the gcc installed and I can compile C programs without problems, but I can't compile Fortran programs. I only wanted to know where I can find this compiler. Laura. big snip I grew up with Fortran, back in the days when there were compilers such as Fortran-IV, Fortran-G, Fortran-H, Fortran-IV with Watfor and WatFIV... It is still an interesting compiler and language, but these days I use almost exclusively Python because I am a bd habit programmer and I need something that forces me to code cleanly and clearly, even at the expense of features. If that isn't enough Ooh, fortran IV, nostalgia hits the brain, the good old days of punch cards and sorters. Never , ever drop a stack of cards 6 inches thick. Can ruin your whole day. Hehehe -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I remember those good old days. If you guys are nostalgic on the seventies, I am also nostalgic on the sixties. I remember those stacks of punched cards and machines and the punched paper tapes. I still have a bunch of rolls of punched paper tapes. I do not have a paper tape reader though. Do you know where I can get my hands on one in the San Francisco Bay area? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Fortran compiler
Sorry I do not have a 9-track drive. Seedkum On Monday 17 February 2003 02:23 pm, Terry Smith wrote: Sorry, no paper tape reader:-( Do you have a 9-track drive?...I still have those programs on a reel laying about someplace here... Terry Smith On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 14:11, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Monday 17 February 2003 08:06 am, Terry Smith wrote: Six inches thick! musta been runnin' some paltry code :-)). Ahh.. the grand old days (late 1970s),,, I was in grad school working in an ecosystem modeling group. We ran, and re-ran and re-ran (usually a keypuch error!) a FORTRAN IV program which simulated all the interactions in a large northeast US estuarythree boxes of cards worth! took about 40 minutes to read the stack. This is in a room not much larger than a good-sized bathroom, with a tty console (talking to the main frame on another campus), three keypuch machines, and high speed printer...all going non-stop, 12 hours a day. No wonder I have a hearing loss! Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:38, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 17 February 2003 03:48 am, civileme wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:53 pm, laura wrote: I'm new in Linux. Before asking, I tried to use g77 or f77, but I don't have them on the computer. I have the gcc installed and I can compile C programs without problems, but I can't compile Fortran programs. I only wanted to know where I can find this compiler. Laura. big snip I grew up with Fortran, back in the days when there were compilers such as Fortran-IV, Fortran-G, Fortran-H, Fortran-IV with Watfor and WatFIV... It is still an interesting compiler and language, but these days I use almost exclusively Python because I am a bd habit programmer and I need something that forces me to code cleanly and clearly, even at the expense of features. If that isn't enough Ooh, fortran IV, nostalgia hits the brain, the good old days of punch cards and sorters. Never , ever drop a stack of cards 6 inches thick. Can ruin your whole day. Hehehe -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I remember those good old days. If you guys are nostalgic on the seventies, I am also nostalgic on the sixties. I remember those stacks of punched cards and machines and the punched paper tapes. I still have a bunch of rolls of punched paper tapes. I do not have a paper tape reader though. Do you know where I can get my hands on one in the San Francisco Bay area? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:23 pm, civileme wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 08:54 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: OK I just read some stuff about VI Emacs. Now I'm not one for super complex editors of text. Having said that I realize it behooves me (Correct context for behooves? sp!?) to learn one or the other so I can edit files on any system. I realized a while back those 2 editors are standard to Any *nix environment. OK... so whats the real diff between those 2 editors which one is more newb friendly? If neither is newbie friendly, well name something that is and is more or less standard on most *nix's. For the moment I'm leaning to Emacs b/c it is modeless ergo less of a headache/more intuitive. - FemmeFatale Not a flame--just something I saw in a sig... Daddy why do we have to hide from the police? Because we use emacs, son. They use vi. Civileme I used emacs for a long time. It is so big and slow that it can do your washing for you if you let it. I am a system on chip engineer and when I design or verify multi-million gate chips some of the files become so big that emacs just almost grinds to a halt and you stay waiting forever for the screen to update every time you did anything. And that is on powerful 64 bit SUN machines with multi cpu and 16G bytes of RAM. emacs was impractical for that. I had to look for an alternate editor. I tried VIM which is a superset of the VI editor and is free. I found it to be exceedingly fast and powerfull. It probably could do anything emacs does and maybe more. I swallowed my pride and converted my relegion and I never looked back. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] WINE.
Hi, I have a dual boot system and I am getting tired rebooting from one OS to the other. How good and how reliable is wine in a system that already has the DLLs of W2K? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: NDN: [newbie] WINE.
Hi, When I post a message it gets posted and at the same time I get this message saying that it did not get to some place. Why am I getting this message? Is there someting wrong with the Mandrake server? Thanx, Seedkum -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: NDN: [newbie] WINE. Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 01:17:53 +0800 From: Mailer-Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linux-mandrake newbie,emc (The name was not found at the remote site. Check that the name has been entered correctly.) --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WINE.
On Thursday 23 January 2003 06:26 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Thursday 23 January 2003 17:16, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have a dual boot system and I am getting tired rebooting from one OS to the other. How good and how reliable is wine in a system that already has the DLLs of W2K? Thanx, Seedkum which apps would you be trying to run? Damian I was happy with Open Office for a while but, because I started to run into incompatibility issues, I dual booted for the Redmond Office Suite. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WINE.
On Thursday 23 January 2003 07:02 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: I was happy with Open Office for a while but, because I started to run into incompatibility issues, I dual booted for the Redmond Office Suite. Well, there's a rumour that the latest wine release can do MS Office pretty well. However i have not tried it (i don't have windows installed, so...) you could give it a shot and see for yourself. Latet wine CVS can be found nicely packaged here: http://wine.dataparty.no/rpm/unstripped/ Good luck. the first run will take very long as wine will build some kind of fonts database. It will get nicer afterwards. Damian Do you know if this latest WINE will be in LM9.1? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] WINE.
On Thursday 23 January 2003 08:40 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: Do you know if this latest WINE will be in LM9.1? Probably. There was some discussion about it on the cooker list not too long ago. why? Damian If this new version of WINE is going to be in LM9.1 then I may persevere a bit until LM9.1 is release. How long will it be before LM9.1 is released? Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update.
Hi, Is it ok to use the KDE Mandrake Update to update KDE? Or do I have to use URPMI for that? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update.
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 19:30, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, Is it ok to use the KDE Mandrake Update to update KDE? Or do I have to use URPMI for that? Thanx, Seedkum That should work alright - but if you really want to update KDE, you might want to just grab the latest RPM packages and do an upgrade over your existing KDE installation. I thought the KDE Mandrake Update utility does what you are recommending. Doesn't it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPM GPG.
Hi, I was trying to install an rpm package using the software installer that came with LM9.0 and its KDE gui. Using Konqueror, I right clicked on the rpm package on the source ftp site then I selected software installer from the pop-up window. A short while later I got this message No GPG signature in package. Do you want to install anyway? I was trying to install the following package: ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/v0.6/RPMS/verilog-0.6-0.i386.rpm How dangerous is it to go ahead with the install? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 09:40 pm, Brandon wrote: I have a SoundBlaster 16 and I have just installed Mandrake 9, i have no sound. What can i do to fix this? Is it an ISA card? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Keyboard lock/screen saver behavior.
Hi, I have LM90 installed and the KDE that comes with it. I disabled screen saver in favor of the power saving features and keyboard lock (lock screen). However when I lock the keyboard I get screen saver like display until the monitor gets powered down by the power saving features I enabled. How can I disable this screen saver like behavior when in keyboard lock. Screen saver updates eat up CPU number crunching power. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 10:04 pm, Brandon wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 03:44, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Wednesday 09 October 2002 09:40 pm, Brandon wrote: I have a SoundBlaster 16 and I have just installed Mandrake 9, i have no sound. What can i do to fix this? Is it an ISA card? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Yes, it is and ISA card. This is what I did to get it mine to work. A) Install LM9.0 to start the graphical user interface (i.e. X) at boot up. I found that the sound card would not get configured to work unless this is the case. B) After boot up and before you login using the GUI, switch to another Virtual Console using the Hot Keys Ctl-Alt-Fx, where Fx is any of function keys 1 to 6. C) login as root and issue the command sndconfig without the quotes. E) Select OK whenever it request an action from you. F) It will auto-detect the ISA sound card. It will take a while to do that and it will appear to have stopped. Wait until it comes back. G) It will play a sample sound after it comes back. H) tell it OK then logout. I) Hot switch back to the Virtual Console 7. That is the one you were in originally. J) Login and you wilkl find that the sound card is working. HTH Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound
Brandon, some people find it necessary to switch to a Virtual Console. You may find that too. Seedkum On Thursday 10 October 2002 02:31 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I did something similar, even though I did not find it necessary to switch virtual console. Just open a shell under X and type 'sndconfig' as root. You might ned to install it: 'urpmi sndconfig' as root will do the trick. good luck, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Ksirc
Hi, I get the following error messages when I try to run Ksirc. Can someone tell me how to get it to work. I installed Ksirc with LM9.0 install. I did not do anything fancy. The documentation does not help. Thanx, Seedkum [11:06:43] Welcome to sirc version 2.211; type /help for help [11:06:43] Loading filter parser... [11:06:43] Filter Parser Loaded [11:06:44] Loaded KSirc.pl [11:06:44] With: Super Willy Enhancements, LotR's exec [11:06:44] Connecting to MSN, port 6667... [11:06:44] Bad arg length for Socket::pack_sockaddr_in, length is 0, should be 4 at /usr//bin/dsirc line 182. [11:06:44] DSIRC IS DEAD [11:06:44] KSIRC WINDOW HALTED [11:06:44] Tried to run: /usr//bin/dsirc [11:06:44] DID YOU READ THE INSTALL INTRUCTIONS? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail issue.
I understand that is the way Kmail behaves now. It is nice that those files grow and shrink with the amount of mail kept in Kmail window mail folders. But it does not sound to me a good thing that the files remain even when the mail folder is deleted from the Kmail window. The user can have a legitimate reason to keep creating and deleting Kmail window mail folders. His Mail directory would just keep growing full of garbage that way. The user would have to go in and clean the Mail directory manually. It does not appear to me a nice thing that Kmail behaves that way. Seedkum On Monday 07 October 2002 09:45 pm, Ashar wrote: You can think of these files are Kmails own file system. It needs someplace to store mail, and this is where it stores them. The files index, index.ids and 'index.sorted may get bigger or smaller but they will always be there. Ashar At 10:18 AM 10/07/02 -0700, you wrote: Hi, I noticed that if I delete a mail folder from the Kmail window, the corresponding files index, index.ids and 'index.sorted in the Mail directory do not get deleted. As far as I am concerned those files are just clutter. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM9.0 Xtart, Virtual Console and sndconfig problems.
Hi, I re-installed LM9.0 and I took the option to boot without X. I installed the Xtart command for use when starting KDE. I booted the machine and before starting X I logged in as root and issued the sndconfig command because the install program gave me the message that I should run sndconfig to configure my ISA sound card. The sndconfig program went to completion and played the sample sound. I then logged in as a regular user and started X. The KDE came up but the sound was not working! Apparently sndconfig only works if I take the install option to start X at bootup and issue the sndconfig command on one of the Virtual Consoles with no X. Regardless of whether I issued the sndconfig command or not, I see error messages and system complaints when I switch back to the Virtual Console from which I started X. Nothing that I can understand. Is there a way to capture these error messages so that I could show them to somebody? I tried: Xtart filename but it did not record any error messages, perhaps the error messages appeared after the Xtart command has finished executing. There were many error messages but I have no way of relaying them to you. Some linux guru should recreate the scenario and look into these issues. Despite the fact that I installed LM9.0 with the option not to start X at boot time, I see boot time message saying that the X server has started! This looks fishy. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail issue.
Hi, I noticed that if I delete a mail folder from the Kmail window, the corresponding files index, index.ids and 'index.sorted in the Mail directory do not get deleted. As far as I am concerned those files are just clutter. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom eject.
On Sunday 06 October 2002 01:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 05 October 2002 07:04 pm, you wrote: Hi, When I try to eject the cdrom using the eject in a popup menu or an eject entered on the command line, the CD pops out from the CD drive but it quickly gets pulled back into the CD drive. How can I change the CD? Thanx, Seedkum What version of Mandrake are you using...and what syntax did you try from the command line. I think Todd from Mandrake posted a reply/message about this somewhere on the list. Did you do a: eject /mnt/cdrom or a: eject /dev/actual device name Worst case - disable supermount and it should work (but you have to redo your desktop icons). Hi, I tried the command line eject in the following two forms and I got the same result: eject cdrom eject /dev/cdrom Then I went and pressed the button on the cdrom drive to make it eject. The same thing happened. Also this time the cdrom directory disappeared from the Konc window and did not come back even after I clicked the cdrom icon again. Later I issued the following command in a Konsole window: ls /mnt/cdrom The response to this command was (correct): Boot/ Mandrake/ After that, the cdrom directory showed up in the Konc whindow spontaneously. The eject selected form the pulldown menu behaved the same. The wiered behavior continued after this excercise. I will try to find Todd's message. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom eject.
On Sunday 06 October 2002 04:56 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Sunday 06 October 2002 01:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: [Deleted] Hi, I tried the command line eject in the following two forms and I got the same result: eject cdrom eject /dev/cdrom Then I went and pressed the button on the cdrom drive to make it eject. The same thing happened. Also this time the cdrom directory disappeared from the Konc window and did not come back even after I clicked the cdrom icon again. Later I issued the following command in a Konsole window: ls /mnt/cdrom The response to this command was (correct): Boot/ Mandrake/ After that, the cdrom directory showed up in the Konc whindow spontaneously. The eject selected form the pulldown menu behaved the same. The wiered behavior continued after this excercise. I will try to find Todd's message. Thanx, Seedkum Sorry. All that is happenning with LM9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail select all messages does not work with closed threads.
Hi, I noticed that if you select all messages from the Messages menu, messages in closed threads are not selected. Is that intentional? Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail import.
Hi, How do you import mail folders from Kmail 2.2 of LM8.2 into Kmail 3.0 of LM9.0? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no sound in MDK9.0 with ESS1688 ISA card
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 12:44 am, Kristjan Klementi wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:23:21 -0700 Seedkum Aladeem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 12:53 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 03:38 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I have an old ISA ESS1688-based sound card. That same audio card worked fine in MDK8.2. After MDK9.0 installations, I see that: - kernel detects an ISA PnP card, but does not seem to load the sound modules (at least, I do no see any specific message in /var/log/info or warnings) - there is no /dev/sound directory - Mandrake Control Center does not display any sound card. Any suggestions for what to look for? thanks, raffaele If sndconfig is not installed, then install it and just run sndconfig. I just did a from scratch Mandrake 9 install and that's what I wound up doing. Cheers, I have the same problem with my sound card. I issued the sndconfig command and it looks like it went into the probing stage and never came out of it. You have to click OK to get it to probe. Probing can take some time... I had to kill the KDE window in order to get it to stop. My sound is still not configured. LM8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 configured the same sound card automatically during the install without any intervention. How did LM8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 do it then? Thanx, Seedkum Well it's often advised to run sndconfig in a virtual console and not under X. ML9.0 doesn't automatically configure ISA soundcards because it hung some people's systems during install (IIRC from the cooker list). I don't know how ML8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 configured the soundcard. I am quite sure though that it can also work in Dolphin :) For most soundcards there are both OSS and ALSA drivers available in ML9.0. The ALSA ones in Dolphin are based upon ALSA 0.9.0rc2 while 8.2 had the 0.5.x series ALSA drivers. What would be nice is if you still have your /etc/modules.conf from 8.2. Oh, what soundcard do you have and were you using ALSA (sndconfig is OSS only) ? Good luck! -Frans Frans, I booted LM90 in command line mode without gui and issued sndconfig on the command line. The program found the sound card and did the sample sound test without problem and edited the sound configuration file. But still KDE thinks that there is no sound card. Harddrake lists no sound card. The /etc/sysconfig/soundcard file now contains the following lines: # THIS FILE IS WRITTEN BY SNDCONFIG # PLEASE USE SNDCONFIG TO MODIFY # TO CHANGE THIS FILE! # There should be no spaces at the start of a line # or around the '=' sign CARDTYPE=SB16 The /etc/modules.conf file noe contains the following lines: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias eth0 8139too alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb isapnp=1 Tnakx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no sound in MDK9.0 with ESS1688 ISA card
On Monday 30 September 2002 12:53 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 03:38 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I have an old ISA ESS1688-based sound card. That same audio card worked fine in MDK8.2. After MDK9.0 installations, I see that: - kernel detects an ISA PnP card, but does not seem to load the sound modules (at least, I do no see any specific message in /var/log/info or warnings) - there is no /dev/sound directory - Mandrake Control Center does not display any sound card. Any suggestions for what to look for? thanks, raffaele If sndconfig is not installed, then install it and just run sndconfig. I just did a from scratch Mandrake 9 install and that's what I wound up doing. Cheers, I have the same problem with my sound card. I issued the sndconfig command and it looks like it went into the probing stage and never came out of it. I had to kill the KDE window in order to get it to stop. My sound is still not configured. LM8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 configured the same sound card automatically during the install without any intervention. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM9.0 Hard Disk install problems.
On Saturday 28 September 2002 04:39 am, et wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 11:08 pm, you wrote: s wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 09:17 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0 using the Hard Disk install procedure and that is where I came across some problems. The installer asked me about the directory or ISO file of the Mandrake Linux Distribution. I gave it the path to where I had the three ISO files. It came back with this error message: I can't find the Mandrake Linux Distribution in the specified directory, (I need the Subdirectory /mandrake/base/). Here's a short extract of the files in the Directory: Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso md5sum.90 Then I tried again and I gave it the path as ./Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso and it proceeded with the install. However it gave me many error messages saying that some rpm files were missing, like the Open Office files and many others. It appears it did not see the other ISO files. Is there a work around to make see the other ISO files? Well, this may not be the way you want, but I found it works well. I mount the isos as loop one at a time and copy them to a directory to install from. Fast accurate installs result. For example: mkdir /mnt/loop mkdir /path/mandrake mount /path/Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake/ umount /mnt/loop mount /path/Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake umount /mnt/loop mount /path/Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake umount /mnt/loop hth, -s I will try this and see if it will work for me now that the base system appears to be working. However, shouldn't the initial install be able to see all three ISOs? It is able to read one why can't it read the other two? I think that would have been better. Thankx, Seedkum are you mounting the isos as an iso filesystem? HI, When I was using the Hard Disk Install procedure I was not yet mounting anything. I was booting from an hd.img floppy. I copied the hd.img from the cd1 ISO onto floppy then I proceeded to do a complete install. That is how I came upon the problem. To complete the install I had to go and do what Mr./Ms. s suggested. That was not a very user friendly' install and I do not think it was intended to be like that. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LM9.0 Hard Disk install problems.
Hi, The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0 using the Hard Disk install procedure and that is where I came across some problems. The installer asked me about the directory or ISO file of the Mandrake Linux Distribution. I gave it the path to where I had the three ISO files. It came back with this error message: I can't find the Mandrake Linux Distribution in the specified directory, (I need the Subdirectory /mandrake/base/). Here's a short extract of the files in the Directory: Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso md5sum.90 Then I tried again and I gave it the path as ./Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso and it proceeded with the install. However it gave me many error messages saying that some rpm files were missing, like the Open Office files and many others. It appears it did not see the other ISO files. Is there a work around to make see the other ISO files? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM9.0 Hard Disk install problems.
s wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 09:17 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0 using the Hard Disk install procedure and that is where I came across some problems. The installer asked me about the directory or ISO file of the Mandrake Linux Distribution. I gave it the path to where I had the three ISO files. It came back with this error message: I can't find the Mandrake Linux Distribution in the specified directory, (I need the Subdirectory /mandrake/base/). Here's a short extract of the files in the Directory: Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso md5sum.90 Then I tried again and I gave it the path as ./Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso and it proceeded with the install. However it gave me many error messages saying that some rpm files were missing, like the Open Office files and many others. It appears it did not see the other ISO files. Is there a work around to make see the other ISO files? Well, this may not be the way you want, but I found it works well. I mount the isos as loop one at a time and copy them to a directory to install from. Fast accurate installs result. For example: mkdir /mnt/loop mkdir /path/mandrake mount /path/Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake/ umount /mnt/loop mount /path/Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake umount /mnt/loop mount /path/Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake umount /mnt/loop hth, -s I will try this and see if it will work for me now that the base system appears to be working. However, shouldn't the initial install be able to see all three ISOs? It is able to read one why can't it read the other two? I think that would have been better. Thankx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LM9.0 Hard Disk install problems.
s wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 10:08 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0 using the Hard Disk install procedure and that is where I came across some problems. The installer asked me about the directory or ISO file of the Mandrake Linux Distribution. I gave it the path to where I had the three ISO files. Then I tried again and I gave it the path as ./Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso and it proceeded with the install. However it gave me many error messages saying that some rpm files were missing, like the Open Office files and many others. It appears it did not see the other ISO files. Is there a work around to make see the other ISO files? Well, this may not be the way you want, but I found it works well. I mount the isos as loop one at a time and copy them to a directory to install from. Fast accurate installs result. For example: I will try this and see if it will work for me now that the base system appears to be working. However, shouldn't the initial install be able to see all three ISOs? It is able to read one why can't it read the other two? I think that would have been better. I agree, but I'm sorry I don't know how to do that. Last time I tried with the iso, I got the same thing you did and didn't know how to get around it. It might involve something to the effect of alt+f2 (or f3 or which ever) to the install console and umounting the one and mounting the other, but I never tried it. That's why I do it this way. :D Maybe someone else will chime in with better info on this for ya. I have not tried your initial suggestion yet but even if this alt+fx were to work the install program mould have to promt for one of the other three CDs, but it does not. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] C++
Assalamu alaikum,
can you compile these programs and tell me what you get?
Ayoub
//: C13:PStashTest.cpp
// From Thinking in C++, 2nd Edition
// Available at http://www.BruceEckel.com
// (c) Bruce Eckel 2000
// Copyright notice in Copyright.txt
//{L} PStash
// Test of pointer Stash
#include PStash.h
#include ../TICPP-2nd-ed-Vol-one-code/require.h
#include iostream
#include fstream
#include string
using namespace std;
class Counted {
int id;
static int count;
public:
Counted() : id(count++){
cout Constructed id = id endl;}
~Counted(){ cout Destructed id = id endl;}
friend ostream operator(ostream os, Counted a);
};
ostream operator(ostream os, Counted a) { os a.id; return os;}
int main() {
PStash intStash;
// 'new' works with built-in types, too. Note
// the pseudo-constructor syntax:
for(int i = 0; i 25; i++)
intStash.add(new Counted);
for(int j = 0; j intStash.count(); j++)
cout intStash[ j ] =
*(Counted*)intStash[j] endl;
// Clean up:
for(int k = 0; k intStash.count(); k++)
delete (Counted*)intStash.remove(k);
ifstream in (ch13_3.cpp);
assure(in, ch13_3.cpp);
PStash stringStash;
string line;
while(getline(in, line))
stringStash.add(new string(line));
// Print out the strings:
for(int u = 0; stringStash[u]; u++)
cout stringStash[ u ] =
*(string*)stringStash[u] endl;
// Clean up:
for(int v = 0; v stringStash.count(); v++)
delete (string*)stringStash.remove(v);
} ///:~
//: C13:PStash.cpp {O}
// From Thinking in C++, 2nd Edition
// Available at http://www.BruceEckel.com
// (c) Bruce Eckel 2000
// Copyright notice in Copyright.txt
// Pointer Stash definitions
#include PStash.h
#include ../TICPP-2nd-ed-Vol-one-code/require.h
#include iostream
#include cstring // 'mem' functions
using namespace std;
int PStash::add(void* element) {
const int inflateSize = 10;
if(next = quantity)
inflate(inflateSize);
storage[next++] = element;
return(next - 1); // Index number
}
// No ownership:
PStash::~PStash() {
for(int i = 0; i next; i++)
require(storage[i] == 0,
PStash not cleaned up);
delete []storage;
}
// Operator overloading replacement for fetch
void* PStash::operator[](int index) const {
require(index = 0,
PStash::operator[] index negative);
if(index = next)
return 0; // To indicate the end
// Produce pointer to desired element:
return storage[index];
}
void* PStash::remove(int index) {
void* v = operator[](index);
// Remove the pointer:
if(v != 0) storage[index] = 0;
return v;
}
void PStash::inflate(int increase) {
const int psz = sizeof(void*);
void** st = new void*[quantity + increase];
memset(st, 0, (quantity + increase) * psz);
memcpy(st, storage, quantity * psz);
quantity += increase;
delete []storage; // Old storage
storage = st; // Point to new memory
} ///:~
//: C13:PStash.h
// From Thinking in C++, 2nd Edition
// Available at http://www.BruceEckel.com
// (c) Bruce Eckel 2000
// Copyright notice in Copyright.txt
// Holds pointers instead of objects
#ifndef PSTASH_H
#define PSTASH_H
class PStash {
int quantity; // Number of storage spaces
int next; // Next empty space
// Pointer storage:
void** storage;
void inflate(int increase);
public:
PStash() : quantity(0), storage(0), next(0) {}
~PStash();
int add(void* element);
void* operator[](int index) const; // Fetch
// Remove the reference from this PStash:
void* remove(int index);
// Number of elements in Stash:
int count() const { return next; }
};
#endif // PSTASH_H ///:~
//: :require.h
// From Thinking in C++, 2nd Edition
// Available at http://www.BruceEckel.com
// (c) Bruce Eckel 2000
// Copyright notice in Copyright.txt
// Test for error conditions in programs
// Local using namespace std for old compilers
#ifndef REQUIRE_H
#define REQUIRE_H
#include cstdio
#include cstdlib
#include fstream
#include string
inline void require(bool requirement,
const std::string msg = Requirement failed){
using namespace std;
if (!requirement) {
fputs(msg.c_str(), stderr);
fputs(\n, stderr);
exit(1);
}
}
inline void requireArgs(int argc, int args,
const std::string msg =
Must use %d arguments) {
using namespace std;
if (argc != args + 1) {
fprintf(stderr, msg.c_str(), args);
fputs(\n, stderr);
exit(1);
}
}
inline void requireMinArgs(int argc, int minArgs,
const std::string msg =
Must use at least %d arguments) {
using namespace std;
if(argc minArgs + 1) {
fprintf(stderr, msg.c_str(), minArgs);
fputs(\n, stderr);
exit(1);
}
}
inline void assure(std::ifstream in,
const std::string filename = ) {
using namespace std;
if(!in) {
fprintf(stderr, Could not open file %s\n,
[newbie] Cannot mount file system messages.
Hi, When I boot LM8.2 from hard disk I get the message that the local file system mounting has failed. Later, before the boot up is completed, I get a message that amother file system mounting has failed. However the boot up goes to completion. I am able to login and seemingly the system is functioning without any problem. I tried to use fsck on the hard disks but it would not work on disks that are mounted. Can someone help me figure out why those messages are appearing? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How can I speed up Konqueror?
Hi, I am using Konqueror to browse HTML documents on my hard disk and the speed is painfully slow, especially when the file is first read. How can I speed it up? I am not out of CPU cycles, I am not out of memory, I am not out of swap and the machine is not the problem. BTW. I am too chicken to try KDE 3.0.1. I am still using KDE 2.2.2. Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Integerateed Development environment.
Hi, Can somebody share some wisdom on which to use, Xbasic, KDE IDE or other integrated development environment for C/C++ primarily. I looked up the KDE sites and it appears to my newbie eyes that the KDE IDE is optimized for producing software very narrowly targeted at the KDE platform. I do not know if this targetting will constitute a trap. I found no info on Xbasic. Can somebody share some wisdom about Xbasic, KDE IDE and other open source IDE. I am also interested in perl. To my dismay I found out that the Open Perl IDE is for the Redmond platform! Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount survey...
On Monday 13 May 2002 08:27 am, you wrote: I'm just curious, and would like to get everyone's input on Supermount. After running so long without it under v8.1, and now using it again under v8.2, well - I'm just about ready to disable it again. Can everyone just comment on whether or not they are using it, and maybe some pros and cons? Thanks! My experience is bad. I have problems with it. Somehow the system gets confused wether the floppy is mounted or not. I get in a situation inwhich it would not unmount a floppy saying it is busy when Konqueror is closed and there is no applications running. It is just horrible in 8.2 just like 8.1. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i586 v i686
On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:31 pm, you wrote: i586 will work on machines with a Pentium class processor or newer. That is, anything newer than a 486. i686 will work on machines with a Celeron, Pentium II, or newer. Thus my AMD K6 box can use RPMs for either i586 or i686, but my AMD K5 box can only use RPMs for i586. Something is not right. My machine has an AMD K6-2 but the arch program Tom mentioned gave me i586 for the CPU. I think the arch program is probably mistaken. I think the difference between the i586 and the i686 is that the i686 has the MMX instructions and the i586 does not. I think the arch program should have detected a i686. Can somebody correct me? Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] i586 v i686
On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:31 pm, you wrote: i586 will work on machines with a Pentium class processor or newer. That is, anything newer than a 486. i686 will work on machines with a Celeron, Pentium II, or newer. Thus my AMD K6 box can use RPMs for either i586 or i686, but my AMD K5 box can only use RPMs for i586. I propose that Mandrake writes a program, if such thing does not already exist, to test the CPU and tell the user which rpm to use, i486, i586, i686 or god knows what is next. I propose that this program also be part of the os installation hardware detection. The CPU is just a peripheral that requires its own driver, after all! Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set
On Monday 06 May 2002 12:50 pm, you wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 11:51, Anne Wilson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have often wondered why people hold The Register in such regard. because the other choices are what... zdnet? cnet? when the compitition sucks, being one of the best is easy. thank goodness there are other linux distros, or who would mandrake compete against for quality? ms? ;) I am a linux fan/advocate etc. Let us not kid ourselves. The competition is in Redmond. The world belongs to linux but linux shoots itself in the leg. There is no point denying that. Linux will get there eventually, but it will get there faster if it stops shooting itself. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained
On Thursday 02 May 2002 04:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Just a quick note on SO6. I have seen claims here that it opens everything faultlessly and that it crashes and is totally useless. It turns out that both are true :-) Try to open a word doc file received as an attachment with the Open in StarOffice dialog - crash! Try to open a word doc in the same way from Konq - crash. Open SO6, then use the File Open on the same docs - no problem. It may not be faultless, but used this way it looks pretty good to me so far. Hopefully Sun and/or Mandrake will make the open with way of doing things work soon. Could actually be a Mandrake issue I guess. HTH Brian I am using the OpenOffice version of StarOffice. I have not had any problems with it. I open Micorosoft documents (Word, Excell), edit them and save them in those formats without any problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi problem.
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 10:50 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:50:38 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 01:44 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Try manually editing /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg.
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:58:46 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
When I use urpmi I keep getting the message that some media files do
not exist. In an attempt to eliminate those messages, I used
rpmi.removemedia trying to remove the problem media, I got the same
messages urpmi gives. I show these error messages below. Further down
I show the files that actually exist in the direcotry
/var/lib/urpmi/.
Can somebody show me how to remove these annoying message that come
from urpmi?
Hi Sridhar,
This is all there is in that file (I see nothing that looks related to
the extraneous messages):
ger2 Â {
 hdlist: hdlist.ger2.cz
 with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
 list: list.ger2
}
update_source  {
 hdlist: hdlist.update_source.cz
 with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
 list: list.update_source
 update
}
rmpdir file://mnt/fat_32/rpmdir {
 hdlist: hdlist.rmpdir.cz
 list: list.rmpdir
}
us1 Â {
 hdlist: hdlist.us1.cz
 with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
 list: list.us1
}
Try this:
Firstly, back up /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg and delete the original. Then run
rpmdrake and use the GUI to configure new sources. Then try urpmi again.
No joy resulted. The extraneous messages remain. The urpmi.cfg file now looks
like this:
[root@grumpy urpmi]# cat urpmi.cfg
usa1 {
hdlist: hdlist.usa1.cz
with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
list: list.usa1
}
[root@grumpy urpmi]#
BTW. I used Software Manager. I found no rpmdrake.
Thanx,
Seedkum
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[newbie] urpmi problem.
Hi, When I use urpmi I keep getting the message that some media files do not exist. In an attempt to eliminate those messages, I used rpmi.removemedia trying to remove the problem media, I got the same messages urpmi gives. I show these error messages below. Further down I show the files that actually exist in the direcotry /var/lib/urpmi/. Can somebody show me how to remove these annoying message that come from urpmi? Thanx, Seedkum [root@grumpy rpmdir]# [root@grumpy rpmdir]# urpmi.removemedia disc\ 1\ Download\ Edition\ Installation\ CD\ \(x86\)\ \(cdrom1\) unable to take medium disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1)] exists unable to take medium disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (disk1) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (disk1)] exists unable to take medium disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2)] exists unable to take medium disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (disk2) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (disk2)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom3) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom3)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom4) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom4)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk3) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk3)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk4) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk4)] exists unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u)] exists trying to select inexistent medium disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1) read synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.rmpdir.cz] [root@grumpy rpmdir]# [root@grumpy rpmdir]# [root@grumpy rpmdir]# ls /var/lib/urpmi/ compssUsers.flat depslist.ordered descriptions.update_source hdlist.disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1).cz hdlist.disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (disk1).cz hdlist.disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2).cz hdlist.disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (disk2).cz hdlist.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom3).cz hdlist.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom4).cz hdlist.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk3).cz hdlist.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk4).cz hdlist.ger2.cz hdlist.rmpdir.cz hdlist.Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u).cz hdlist.update_source.cz hdlist.us1.cz list.ger2 list.rmpdir list.update_source list.us1 provides synthesis.hdlist.disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1).cz synthesis.hdlist.disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (disk1).cz synthesis.hdlist.disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2).cz synthesis.hdlist.disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (disk2).cz synthesis.hdlist.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom3).cz synthesis.hdlist.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom4).cz synthesis.hdlist.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk3).cz synthesis.hdlist.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk4).cz synthesis.hdlist.ger2.cz synthesis.hdlist.rmpdir.cz synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz synthesis.hdlist.us1.cz 8 substitutions on 8 lines Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi problem.
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 01:44 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Try manually editing /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg.
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:58:46 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
When I use urpmi I keep getting the message that some media files do not
exist. In an attempt to eliminate those messages, I used
rpmi.removemedia trying to remove the problem media, I got the same
messages urpmi gives. I show these error messages below. Further down I
show the files that actually exist in the direcotry /var/lib/urpmi/.
Can somebody show me how to remove these annoying message that come from
urpmi?
Hi Sridhar,
This is all there is in that file (I see nothing that looks related to the
extraneous messages):
ger2 Â {
 hdlist: hdlist.ger2.cz
 with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
 list: list.ger2
}
update_source  {
 hdlist: hdlist.update_source.cz
 with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
 list: list.update_source
 update
}
rmpdir file://mnt/fat_32/rpmdir {
 hdlist: hdlist.rmpdir.cz
 list: list.rmpdir
}
us1 Â {
 hdlist: hdlist.us1.cz
 with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
 list: list.us1
}
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Re: [newbie] Software Manager crashing.
On Saturday 27 April 2002 07:44 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Friday 26 April 2002 01:00 pm, civileme wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the older version but the KDE Software Manager crashes when trying to do that.. I have, for example, the e2fsprogs-1.27-1.1mdk.i586.rpm and the e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm on my system by the Software Manager. When I select the 1.26 version in Software Manager and click uninstall, the Software Manager program just disappears from the screen and I do not have any error messages from it. When I use the Package Manager to do the uinstall instead, it does not crash but it gives me the following message : [root@grumpy seedkum]# rpm -e e2fsprogs;echo RESULT=$? error: e2fsprogs specifies multiple packages RESULT=1 When I give the rpm command from the command line I get the following [root@grumpy seedkum]# rpm -e e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm error: package e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed How do I go about cleaning the mess I have? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com rpm --rebuilddb abd if that doesn't work urpmi rpm and install every package that comes up then it will work Civileme I tried the first suggestion above and it came to an end without printing any messages, but it failed to remove the unwanted packages. I tried the second suggestion. It gave me the error message below. The file tout was not created. The unwanted packages remain in the system. Any more suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Seedkum [root@grumpy seedkum]# urpmi rpm tee tout unable to take medium disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1)] exists unable to take medium disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (disk1) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (disk1)] exists unable to take medium disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2)] exists unable to take medium disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (disk2) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (disk2)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom3) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom3)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom4) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom4)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk3) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk3)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk4) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk4)] exists unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u)] exists curl: (7) Couldn't connect to host installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdetoys-2.2.2-8mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed, some files are missing. You may want to update your urpmi database [root@grumpy seedkum]# I tried to install the kdetoys-2.2.2-8mdk.i586.rpm using urpmi it would not get installed. urpmi just gave the error message that an error occurred without any explanation. I then used rpm to install it. This time the installation was successful. I checked the installed packages using Software Manager and the extraneous packages did not show up. It looks like the problem is solved. No compilation was necessary. Thanx to everyone. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Software Manager crashing.
On Friday 26 April 2002 01:00 pm, civileme wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the older version but the KDE Software Manager crashes when trying to do that.. I have, for example, the e2fsprogs-1.27-1.1mdk.i586.rpm and the e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm on my system by the Software Manager. When I select the 1.26 version in Software Manager and click uninstall, the Software Manager program just disappears from the screen and I do not have any error messages from it. When I use the Package Manager to do the uinstall instead, it does not crash but it gives me the following message : [root@grumpy seedkum]# rpm -e e2fsprogs;echo RESULT=$? error: e2fsprogs specifies multiple packages RESULT=1 When I give the rpm command from the command line I get the following [root@grumpy seedkum]# rpm -e e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm error: package e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed How do I go about cleaning the mess I have? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com rpm --rebuilddb abd if that doesn't work urpmi rpm and install every package that comes up then it will work Civileme I tried the first suggestion above and it came to an end without printing any messages, but it failed to remove the unwanted packages. I tried the second suggestion. It gave me the error message below. The file tout was not created. The unwanted packages remain in the system. Any more suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Seedkum [root@grumpy seedkum]# urpmi rpm tee tout unable to take medium disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1)] exists unable to take medium disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (disk1) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 1 Download Edition Installation CD (x86) (disk1)] exists unable to take medium disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (cdrom2)] exists unable to take medium disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (disk2) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 2 Download Edition Second Installation CD (x86) (disk2)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom3) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom3)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom4) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom4)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk3) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk3)] exists unable to take medium disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk4) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.disc 3 Download Edition Contributions CD (x86) (disk4)] exists unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 8.2 (ftp1u)] exists curl: (7) Couldn't connect to host installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/kdetoys-2.2.2-8mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed, some files are missing. You may want to update your urpmi database [root@grumpy seedkum]# Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Software Manager crashing.
Hi, I have multiple version of some packages installed. I want to uninstall the older version but the KDE Software Manager crashes when trying to do that.. I have, for example, the e2fsprogs-1.27-1.1mdk.i586.rpm and the e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm on my system by the Software Manager. When I select the 1.26 version in Software Manager and click uninstall, the Software Manager program just disappears from the screen and I do not have any error messages from it. When I use the Package Manager to do the uinstall instead, it does not crash but it gives me the following message : [root@grumpy seedkum]# rpm -e e2fsprogs;echo RESULT=$? error: e2fsprogs specifies multiple packages RESULT=1 When I give the rpm command from the command line I get the following [root@grumpy seedkum]# rpm -e e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm error: package e2fsprogs-1.26-1.1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed How do I go about cleaning the mess I have? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Moving the home directory.
Hi, For some reason (most likely my self), the home directory ended up in a partition where I do not want it to be. Can I move the home directory to the partition where I want it to be? Can I log in as root and move the home directory? the home directory for the root user is on the partition called / and I would not be moving it in this operation. Currently I have: /home in the /dev/hde2 partition and I want it to go on /dev/hde3 partition instead. The /dev/hde3 partition is currently mounted on a directory /mnt/hd. Also /mnt/hd holds some files that I want to continue to use. I want /hde3 mounted on /home.. ok I think I got it. This is what I will do once I recieve some blessings from this list: I move the directories currently under /home to /mnt/hd, then I change one line in /etc/fstab to make /dev/hde3 mount on /home instead of /mnt/hd. I think this will preserve the contents of the user home directories and also those files that are now in the /mnt/hd directory. Any feedback will be appreciated. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] way to pin windows to dekstop in gnome?
Right clik on the top window frame (bar) and select always on top. On Thursday 11 April 2002 02:59 pm, you wrote: Is there a way, or a window manger/window manager theme that would let me pin a window to the dekstop (i.e. keep it always on top) in a convenient way? - Paul Rodriguez _ 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
[newbie] Redundant files. (long listing).
Hi, To overcome LM 8.2 install problems I faced, I have had to perform a series of installs, upgrade installs and package upgrades. I ended up with some directories that had superfluous entries. I have listed out the contents of lilo.conf and the contents of some directories. There is obvious redundant files but some are not so obvious to me. Can someone glance over them quickly and help me identify what files to delete please? The file called kcore in the /proc listed below looks to me suspicous. Also some of the files in the /lib directory look redundant. Some of these files are not used by the lilo.conf file, also listed below. I have also listed out the /etc directory contents. I think there may be at least one redundant file there. Can someone help me identify the redundant files? You can reply directly to my email address and not the list. The contens of the lilo.conf file is ar follows: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=150 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81 other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=quiet devfs=mount vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hde2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hde2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe devfs=nomount read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda ls -l /proc dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1006/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1033/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1105/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 12/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1334/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1421/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1451/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1732/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1733/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1734/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1735/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1740/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1741/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1742/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1764/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1804/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 1928/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2027/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2030/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2033/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2036/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2045/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2063/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2082/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2107/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2109/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2121/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2123/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2124/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2126/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2139/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2143/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2174/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2186/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2198/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2213/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 222/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2227/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2229/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2311/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 232/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2365/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2366/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2369/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2440/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2461/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2464/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2503/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2515/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2516/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2589/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2592/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 2847/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 3/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 4/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 5/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 6/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 66/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 7/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 745/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 747/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 8/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 818/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 841/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 850/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 884/ dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 980/ -r--r--r-- 0 Apr 9 22:17 apm dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 bus/ -r--r--r-- 0 Apr 9 22:17 cmdline -r--r--r-- 0 Apr 9 22:17 cpuinfo -r--r--r-- 0 Apr 9 22:17 devices -r--r--r-- 0 Apr 9 22:17 dma dr-xr-xr-x 0 Apr 9 22:17 driver/ -r--r--r-- 0 Apr 9 22:17 e820info -r--r--r-- 0 Apr 9 22:17 execdomains -r--r--r-- 0 Apr 9 22:17 fb -r--r--r-- 0 Apr 9 22:17 filesystems dr-xr-xr-x
[newbie] Software upgrade.
Hi, I am trying to use the KDE software upgrade utility. I have the three CDs iso files in the /home directory and I am having a problem telling the software upgrade utility to use them as sources. Can someone please give me a hint? I have selected to use a local source in the popup New Source dialog box. What should I put in the other fields? It comes up with /export in the path field. What is that fore? I have no /export directory. Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Partial ISO file.
Hi, I have this: [root@grumpy urpmi]# du -h /var/cache/urpmi/ 1.0K/var/cache/urpmi/headers 264M/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso.cz 264M/var/cache/urpmi/partial 1.0K/var/cache/urpmi/rpms 264M/var/cache/urpmi [root@grumpy urpmi]# What on earth is this partial ISO (second file thing)? Why is it there? The size of it is eating my root partition space. Look: [root@grumpy urpmi]# df /var/cache/urpmi/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hde2 354818354818 0 100% / [root@grumpy urpmi]# Can I just delete that second file? Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MS Windows system files in ext3 partition.
Hi, I have a MS pagefile.sys in my ext3 partition. I did not put it there and I do not know how it got there. The LM 8.2 install program was probably caching iso files and the MS windows pagefile.sys also got cached but it did not get deleted in the end. Is it ok to delete these files? [root@grumpy seedkum]# ls -l /var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso.cz/ total 269576 -rwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       0 Apr  9 16:36 liprefs.js* -rwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       0 Apr  9 16:36 Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso* -rwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       0 Apr  9 16:36 Mandrake82-cd2-ext.i586.iso* -rwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       0 Apr  9 16:36 Mandrake82-cd3-supp.i586.iso* -rwxrwxrwx   1 root   root   274960384 Apr  9 16:36 pagefile.sys* [root@grumpy seedkum]# Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SWAP not mounted.
Hi, I cannot tell why the swap partition is not mounted. I list the fstab and the mtab files below. I have not touched these files since I installed LM 8.2 recently. Cant somebody tell me why the swap is not mounted? By the way, When I down installed LM 8.2, other partitions got formatted to ext3 but the install program did not appear to care about formatting the swap partition. so I did not tell it to format it. Any way, the fstab file was created automatically. So the installer knew the swap had to be mounted. Thanks, Seedkum, [seedkum@grumpy seedkum]$ [seedkum@grumpy seedkum]$ cat /etc/fstab /dev/hde2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hde3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos_16 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hde6 /mnt/fat_32 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win2000 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde1 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hde5 swap swap defaults 0 0 [seedkum@grumpy seedkum]$ [seedkum@grumpy seedkum]$ [seedkum@grumpy seedkum]$ [seedkum@grumpy seedkum]$ cat /etc/mtab /dev/hde2 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hde3 /home ext3 rw 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdb,fs=iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos_16 vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hde6 /mnt/fat_32 vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win2000 vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hde1 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 [seedkum@grumpy seedkum]$ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Memory test.
Hi, How do you run the memory test that comes with the CDs? Could not install more than a minimal LM 8.2. No qui. Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 01:02 am, you wrote: Damian wrote: El sáb, 06-04-2002 a las 03:46, Seedkum Aladeem escribió: Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. It might be a good idea to have a bug fix release before the boxed version comes out. If only to blunt possible smear campains that may come from Redmond. And besides, many complain that Linux requires users to be more computer savvy than for the Redmond OS. Making possible converts go through rpm updates may not help dispel the perception that Linux is for geeks. Many may return to Redmond never come back again. Just read the Rigby FUD. Personally, I would not mind a delay in the release of the boxed version if need be. i agree that 8.2 seems to be a little more problematic, ( judging only by amount of posts. personally i had about 0 problems ) but, including a post from civileme stating that an installation using only Download disc 1 leaves you with a broken KDE... however i assume that the greater amount of glitches is due to the introduction of new features. it's only natural. next release will probably be less innovative but will work better... anyway i guess Mandrake is better off ( and probably already ) working on 9.0 ( or will they release 8.3? ) in any case, i wouln't make a new release of the distro just to avoid FUD.. if the guys at MDK feel they need to fix stuff, they will. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Sorry, the broken KDE and GNOME from a single disk install will stand. Itis not an error. You really need at least two CDs and preferably three to make this work with such things as openoffice and java and KDE3. RH has a beta out with three CDs and it will NOT stop install with only one or two. In fact, CD3 contains the kernel, so installing it with less than 3 is impossible. WinXP installs from one CD, but you will have notepad and solitaire for apps. With a linux distro, you get quite a few apps. Peanut linux is still one CD, bt it has exactly two WMs and lacks many applications. Most of what I have seen in the way of difficulties fall into three categories: 1. Incomplete installs, often from the fact that getting a CD or DVD drive to read what a CDRW hath written is problematic, and may have VERY HIGH failure rates, especially for older drives reading 700Mb CDs and for ultra-fast drives which should never have been manufactured (They aren't ultra-fast, just ultra-high spin and do a lot of retries). 2. Lack of knowledge about msec and what it does and why. This is particularly acute right now because we scrubbed some useless firewall configurations to revamp the tools so they teach better and offer more options to people in an understandable way and people are turning to msec which is essentially a static security setup, not as well documented as most experts would prefer, and a mix of bash and Python scripts. Anyway, some things work fine at msec level 2 but not at all on msec level 4, and cannot be made to work at msec level 5 which is for the people who want to run something like BIND safely. 3. Genuine bugs--there are always a few. Three seem to be frequently reported, and a fourth is under crashtester investigation. 4. Supercessions and regressions--Something working in 8.1 isn't in 8.2 because the new kernel was improved for faster virtual memory and not all the drivers have been looked at. This means that folks with SiS630 chipsets cannot easily get sound, and it means that there are NVidia cards that are ahead of even our bleeding-edge curve that folks can buy which simply aren't well supported yet, and it means that folks who can't get SB Audigy cards to run well under Windows are complaining here because they don't run well under linux either. And it means that the drivers Promise sent out for their ATA/133 cards which don't work are to be replaced by Promise's updated drivers in the first kernel update. But we aren't talking about a sufficient number of genuine bugs to warrant a bugfix release. Civileme The answer to item (1) above is probably the following: A- Make the install utility do the md5sum tests automatically before the install is done. B- Make the installer utility do the memory test (and any other inportant test that may be neseccary) before the install is done. Heck do them also after the install is complete too. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 04:17 am, you wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 12:46 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. Very true, but keep in mind most problems are user, then hardware. 'Least ways I've found that the interface between the keyboard, mouse and chair accounts for ~85% of my difficulties, 'bout 10% hardware. When I keep this in mind, problems seem easier to resolve. Approaching from the opposite direction and assuming the OS or software involved is the culprit, makes problems damn near, if not impossible to fix. It gets old. When 7.2 was released, many were sayin 7.0 was fine, installed great, but 7.2 won't, I'm waitin for 7.+ Update a year or so and replace 7 with 8 in the above. Next year use 9. SOS-DD Mandrake's got it goin on in that they are free. Proof's in the puddin, new releases are made available (along with source), before the boxed sets even get to the stores. I'd feel guilty as heck if it weren't for the Mandrake Club. If you wanna run the best posible Linux currently available, you might wanna update your chair or hardware. Micro$oft has a better idea in this respect. They make their OS and software so that it's even worse than the K/M/C interface and/or sloppy hardware. Works OK for ~90% desktop users and Dell, who have low expectations to begin with. I've yet to find but a few situations that weren't solved by upgrading the chair or changin frequencies (yep, your computer is just a different kind'a radio set). With Linux you can change channels at will. YMMV This only confirms that most of the users are fools like me, and that Linux needs to be fool proof. There is nothing wrong with Linux. The fools are the problem. Rigby FUD says Linux is the problem. Fools will fall in love with Linux if it becomes fool proof. Linux could do with an injection of hormones. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
On Saturday 06 April 2002 09:00 am, you wrote: Seedkum Aladeem wrote: A- Make the install utility do the md5sum tests automatically before the install is done. B- Make the installer utility do the memory test (and any other inportant test that may be neseccary) before the install is done. Heck do them also after the install is complete too. I like the idea of including these on the install, but making them optional. Point A raises a point -- AFAICT, the md5sum on a burned CDROM is different than the md5sum of the downloaded ISO (I've pretty well convinced myself of this). Even worse, the md5sum *may* differ depending on which software you use to burn it, and which options you choose. I have a page on WikiLearn dedicated to learning more about these points: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Md5sumsAfterBurning Look it over, and if you can contribute any data points or understanding, please feel free to do it yourself as it is a wiki, or write to the list or me and I will edit the page. Randy Kramer I am not familiar with the ISO format, but if the ordering of the information inside the ISO is not standardized, then even without any padding bytes mentioned in the WEB page you refer to, the check sum would not be reproducible. As I said, I am not familiar with the ISO format but I am making this inference using my early background in encryption, data compression and error correction. The md5sum would be much more useful if the information ordering inside the ISO is standardized (e.g. alphabetical ordering of files and directories etc.). By the way, I am not familiar with the md5sum either. I never looked inside it I just used it. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bug fix release.
Somehow, it looks like that there may have been more issues than there was with LM 8.0 or 8.1. It might be a good idea to have a bug fix release before the boxed version comes out. If only to blunt possible smear campains that may come from Redmond. And besides, many complain that Linux requires users to be more computer savvy than for the Redmond OS. Making possible converts go through rpm updates may not help dispel the perception that Linux is for geeks. Many may return to Redmond never come back again. Just read the Rigby FUD. Personally, I would not mind a delay in the release of the boxed version if need be. Seedkum On Friday 05 April 2002 09:53 pm, Damian wrote: El sáb, 06-04-2002 a las 01:59, Seedkum Aladeem escribió: Hi, Is there a chance that there may be an LM 8.2.x bug fix version.released? Seedkum ... you think we may need one? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thread delete in Kmail.
Thanks Carroll, I wish you did not have to use both the mouse and the keyboard. I like commands to be either mouse only or keyboard only. I do not see why it has to be a hybrid command. I am grateful to the KDE group anyway. Seedkum On Friday 29 March 2002 05:04 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 29 March 2002 06:56 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: How do you delete a whole message thread in Kmail? Seedkum Seedkum: Assuming that your messages are sorted by subject, click on the first message in the thread. Then move down to the last message, hold the shift key, and click again. (All of the messages should then be highlighted.) Hit delete, and they're gone. Or choose any other option -- such as move to a folder. Well, most of them are. I'm running KMail 1.3.1 under KDE 2.2.1. The sort by subject has a problem with prefixes such as FWD:, second RE:'s, etc., so you may find some of the posts at the bottom of the list. Minor annoyance. If you don't have your messages sorted by subject, click on the Subject bar. You'll cycle through four options: By subject and status, ascending or descending. When you're done, restore your original setting by clicking on the appropriate header. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Thread delete in Kmail.
How do you delete a whole message thread in Kmail? Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java path for Konqueror.
I have LM8.1 running and the rpm came from the 8.1 CDs! Do you want me to do more trouble shooting before I delete that file? There always was a plugins tab because I installed Mozilla (and Netscape) with the 8.1 install; but not Netscape Pligins or any of those other buttons/checkboxes you mentioned. Seedkum On Wednesday 27 March 2002 03:07 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Doh... I've just realised that twice today I have given you bad information. Deleting kdeglobals fixes the problem when your fonts go all weird in KDE, not the konqueror thing. My apologies... To fix the konqueror not starting up issue you have to delete /home/youruser/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc Deleting this file will lose all your konqueror preferences fonts etc. It will not delete your bookmarks, or affect your mails, but if you are nervous just rename the file. You could then change it back again later if you wished. Strange that you do not see the 'Netscape Plugins' page under KDEControlCenterWebBrowsing It ought to appear as soon as you install the RPM. Which version of kdebase-nsplugins did you install? Does the version number match your installed version of KDE? It was made for Mandrake wasn't it? Sorry for giving you bad info,, but at least now you know what to do if KDE suddenly starts to not find some fonts ;-) derek On Wednesday 27 March 2002 22:03, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Will I lose my bookmarks and my kmail addresses and old emails? That is all what I am worried about. BTW, I do not see any new entry called 'Netscape Plugins' or a button called 'Scan for new plugins' or a 'scan for new plugins at startup' box. I am able to get to the Konqueror browser settings through the KDE configuration menus. I do not need to have Konqueror running to do that. Seedkum On Wednesday 27 March 2002 01:26 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Thats the problem I mentioned when you have the 'Scan for plugins at startup' checkbox set. You do not have to uninstall. To fix the problem just delete the hidden file /home/youruser/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals On the next login KDE will recreate it again and konq should then load up. Warning- You will lose your desktop wallpaper/themes etc when you delete that file, so you will have to set up your desktop again. derek On Wednesday 27 March 2002 20:55, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi Derek, I installed the rpm and rebooted. Now Konqueror does not come up any more. Whenever I clik an a Konqueror icon I can see it on the task bar trying to come up but then it fails to come up. If I try to start konqueror from the command line in a terminal window, nothing happens. No error message gets listd and I can see a konqueror process listed when I do a ps. Consequently, my system now qualifies as broken. Should I uninstall konqueror using the software manager and then install it again? will this work? Seedkum On Wednesday 27 March 2002 04:30 am, Derek Jennings wrote: I have both Netscape and Mozilla installed. I searched for the kdelinbs-nsplugins rpm mentioned below on both rpmfind and tuxfinder but it could not be found. Is there a typo error in the rpm name? Thanks, Seedkum Doh.. Sorry My mistake .Problem between keyboard and brain.. The RPM is kdebase-nsplugins and it is on your Mandrake distribution CD, For some reason in 8.1 it is not installed by default, although in 8.2 it is. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Java path for Konqueror.
Hi all, I tried the suggestion: /usr/java/j2re1.4.0/bin/java that came earlier. It made an improvement and I was able to view a web page that I couldn't view previously, but konqueror was very painfully slow. Everytime I went back to the same webpage Java went through a slow initialization phase. I have both Netscape and Mozilla installed. I searched for the kdelinbs-nsplugins rpm mentioned below on both rpmfind and tuxfinder but it could not be found. Is there a typo error in the rpm name? Thanks, Seedkum On Tuesday 26 March 2002 03:47 am, Derek Jennings wrote: To use Java in Konqueror you need to. 1/ Configure either Netscape or Mozilla to use Java To do this locate the java directory which is probably /usr/java/j2re1.4.0 or something similar. The Netscape4 plugin is called javaplugin140.so (or similar) and is in the directory /usr/java/j2re1.4.0/plugin/i386/ns4 Now copy that file to /usr/lib/netscape/plugins Java should now work in Netscape. For Mozilla copy /usr/java/j2re1.4.0/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji140.so (or similar) to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (If you know how to make symbolic links you can do that instead of copying the files.) 2/ Now for Konqueror Install the rpm kdelinbs-nsplugins You will then have a new entry in your konqueror settings called 'Netscape Plugins' Press the button 'Scan for new plugins' and java will be detected from Netscape/Mozilla Do NOT select the 'scan for new plugins at startup' box. It causes problems loading konqueror. 3/ Finally if you want to use Java applications such as MoneyDance or Lime Wire you need to create a path to Java. ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.0/bin/java /usr/bin/java (or similar) HTH derek On Tuesday 26 March 2002 06:29, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: I have java runtime environment j2rel.4.0 installed (still on LM8.1) and Konqueror needs to know the path to the executable and the required arguments. Can someone please tell me which file the path is for so that I figure out the rquired path and what the arguments should be? Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Ok Shane. How did the upgrade go and how did you go about doing it? I may follow your foot steps; so try not to make me fall in hole. I have downloaded the three 8.2 iso files. How can I mount them on my directory tree? I looked up the man page for mount and I am not any wiser. I would need to go into the images if I were to do a fresh install wouldn't I? I would at least need to put hd.img on a floppy wouldn't I? Thanks, Seedkum On Tuesday 19 March 2002 07:43 am, shane wrote: On Tuesday 19 March 2002 00:35, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: *smiles giggles* He said snap upgrade in the same sentence! :) I don't believe that till I see it with my own eyes. i have to admit, that is my only problem with mandrake, though it effects all distros i have tried. a fresh install _always_ works better than upgrading i am considering upgrading with 8.2 (both the test machine with 8.2 rc1 on it as well as the 8.1 machine) just to see how much damage i can do. ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Reading ISO files.
Hi, I down loaded the LM 8.2 CD ISO files and I am about to do an upgrade from hard disk. I need to read the hd.img file from the first CD ISO and write it onto a floppy disk but I could not find out how. It was not obvious to me how to mount the ISO files; the mount man pages were no help. I read the messages on this list related to installing and upgrading and also the documents on the Mandrake web site and the linuxdoc web site and there was no explanation as to how to mount the ISO files. I used to mount ISO files on other OSs but not Linux. Can somebody please give me a hint? Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.
Ralph, I am having a problem with the dictionary. The spell checker flags all words in the document as wrong, which suggests that it does not have a valid dictionary. I checked the Tools-options-OpenOffice.org-Paths and the entry for Dictionary has the path /usr/share/OpenOffice.org641/share/wordbook/english. That directory has the following listing: ls -la /usr/share/OpenOffice.org641/share/wordbook/english/ total 3740 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Mar 9 18:34 . drwxrwxr-x3 root root 4096 Mar 9 18:32 .. -rw-r--r--1 root root 786 Dec 20 06:00 soffice.dic -rw-r--r--1 root root 666 Dec 20 06:00 sun.dic -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 3284160 Dec 20 06:00 th_en_US.dat -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 517205 Dec 20 06:00 th_en_US.idx Those are not much of a dictionary, no wonder it flags all words. Can I use the ispell dictionary? I have the following: ls -l /usr/lib/ispell/ total 4068 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 17 Oct 8 04:07 american.hash - americanmed+.hash -rw-r--r--1 root root 985536 Jun 28 2001 americanmed+.hash lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Oct 8 04:07 british.hash - britishmed+.hash -rw-r--r--1 root root 998400 Jun 28 2001 britishmed+.hash -rw-r--r--1 root root 2156688 Jun 28 2001 britishxlg.hash -rw-r--r--1 root root 5733 Jun 28 2001 english.aff lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 17 Oct 8 04:07 english.hash - americanmed+.hash The format is not the same as those that came with Open Office. Ispell is binary. Are you using a dictionary? Thanks, Seedkum On Saturday 09 March 2002 05:45 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: OK, You downloaded and unpacked the tar.gz file... there should be several files in the unzipped folder, or not? Well, there is a setup file... sorry, not install... my appologies. Try a ./setup /net and the rest should be pretty straight forward. I canot remember if the /net funtion is well documented, but it exists from StarOffice, and it still used in the OopenOffice.org. You will have to install this as root. One thing I must add... I had a big problem in the beginning where I could not read the install screen. I found out that this had to do with Abiword (some arial font that was contained in it), and uninstalling it first fixed everything :-) Ok, once installed, let's say in /usr/share/openoffice.org641 (I have no idea what 4.1 version you are referring to?), as a normal user type /usr/share/openoffice.org641/setup and it should install several files into your home directory. There are needed for your personal settings. In the folder created there are shortcuts to openoffice and so on. I think the rest is pretty straight forward. The version I use is : http://sf1.mirror.openoffice.org/641c/install641C_linux_intel.tar.gz but others should work too. Greetings Ralph Seedkum Aladeem wrote: | Ralph, | | You mentioned: | | Do an ./install /net if you want to use it for several users and don't | want to install a separate version in each users $HONE. | | I looked at the install man pages and there was no mention of the /net | switch. The man page said it was a file copy utility, all be it a more | sophisticated one. The one I have is version 4.1. What is this install | program you have in mind? | | I did the down load, the unzip, the untar and I am ready for the next step. | Thanx, | | Seedkum | | On Saturday 09 March 2002 03:51 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: |Well, no, but you can always just delete the folder where it is |installed :-) In my case /usr/share/openoffice ... the shortcuts where |it is installed will be added to your local install directory (for each |user about 3 MB's in their $HOME somewhere...). There are no other |shortcuts or files installed anywhere else. | |Hope this helps, | |Ralph | |Seedkum Aladeem wrote: || Does it also come with an uninstall utility? || || Thanks, || || Seedkum | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
FREE AT LAST Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.
The 4.1 is the version of the install utility that was already in my machine. I have installed openoffice the way you coached me. Openoffice seems intuitive. I had no problems with the fonts during the install. However, the spell checker is acting funny. It stops at every word irrespective if it is wrong or not! It appears that I am on my way to being FREE from Bill Gates AT LAST. FREE AT LAST FREE AT LAST FREE AT LAST FREE AT LAST Seedkum On Saturday 09 March 2002 05:45 PM, Ralph Slooten wrote: OK, You downloaded and unpacked the tar.gz file... there should be several files in the unzipped folder, or not? Well, there is a setup file... sorry, not install... my appologies. Try a ./setup /net and the rest should be pretty straight forward. I canot remember if the /net funtion is well documented, but it exists from StarOffice, and it still used in the OopenOffice.org. You will have to install this as root. One thing I must add... I had a big problem in the beginning where I could not read the install screen. I found out that this had to do with Abiword (some arial font that was contained in it), and uninstalling it first fixed everything :-) Ok, once installed, let's say in /usr/share/openoffice.org641 (I have no idea what 4.1 version you are referring to?), as a normal user type /usr/share/openoffice.org641/setup and it should install several files into your home directory. There are needed for your personal settings. In the folder created there are shortcuts to openoffice and so on. I think the rest is pretty straight forward. The version I use is : http://sf1.mirror.openoffice.org/641c/install641C_linux_intel.tar.gz but others should work too. Greetings Ralph Seedkum Aladeem wrote: | Ralph, | | You mentioned: | | Do an ./install /net if you want to use it for several users and don't | want to install a separate version in each users $HONE. | | I looked at the install man pages and there was no mention of the /net | switch. The man page said it was a file copy utility, all be it a more | sophisticated one. The one I have is version 4.1. What is this install | program you have in mind? | | I did the down load, the unzip, the untar and I am ready for the next step. | Thanx, | | Seedkum | | On Saturday 09 March 2002 03:51 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: |Well, no, but you can always just delete the folder where it is |installed :-) In my case /usr/share/openoffice ... the shortcuts where |it is installed will be added to your local install directory (for each |user about 3 MB's in their $HOME somewhere...). There are no other |shortcuts or files installed anywhere else. | |Hope this helps, | |Ralph | |Seedkum Aladeem wrote: || Does it also come with an uninstall utility? || || Thanks, || || Seedkum | | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
It will not work the way you have it. You need an absolute path like my example, not a relative path. Also, my example was for .cshrc. I am not sure about the .bashrc equivalent. You could also append the absolute path to your PATH environment variable instead of using an alias. On Saturday 09 March 2002 02:03 am, Charles Muller wrote: On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 16:20, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Or you can define an alias in your shell rc file. This way you can start openoffice from the command line. For csh the line would go in the .cshrc file in your home directory and it will be: alias soffice /OpenOffice.org641/soffice This way whever you type soffice in a terminal window, Open Office gets started. I tried this, using the .bashrc file in my home directory as follows: # User specific aliases and functions alias soffice ./OpenOffice.org641/soffice But when I try it, I get an error message: bash: soffice: command not found I must be missing something. Regards, Chuck Seedkum On Friday 08 March 2002 09:56 pm, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On 9 Mar 2002, Charles Muller wrote: Using KDE I just made a 'icon' to it. Right click I select something like make new application link and fill in the blanks! Sorry, I don't have the 'correct' steps 'cause I'm not using mdk8.1 in English! Ricardo Castanho I installed OpenOffice 6.41 using the tarball, and it works fine. However, it is slightly inconvenient to use, since each time I have to open the console, change directories to /OpenOffice.org641 and then type ./soffice. Is there a way of simplifying this process? Regards, Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.
Ralph, You mentioned: Do an ./install /net if you want to use it for several users and don't want to install a separate version in each users $HONE. I looked at the install man pages and there was no mention of the /net switch. The man page said it was a file copy utility, all be it a more sophisticated one. The one I have is version 4.1. What is this install program you have in mind? I did the down load, the unzip, the untar and I am ready for the next step. Thanx, Seedkum On Saturday 09 March 2002 03:51 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Well, no, but you can always just delete the folder where it is installed :-) In my case /usr/share/openoffice ... the shortcuts where it is installed will be added to your local install directory (for each user about 3 MB's in their $HOME somewhere...). There are no other shortcuts or files installed anywhere else. Hope this helps, Ralph Seedkum Aladeem wrote: | Does it also come with an uninstall utility? | | Thanks, | | Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.
I down-loaded the openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk rpm and got the following messages when I tried to install it on Mandrake 8.1 using the Package Manager in KDE: rpm -U --replacepkgs /home/rpmdir/openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk.i586.rpm;echo RESULT=$? error: failed dependencies: lpddaemon is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk libstdc++3.0 = 3.0.4-1mdk is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk libgcc_s.so.1 is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk libstdc++.so.3 is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk RESULT=1 I do not have a clue as to where to get these rpm packages. I tried www.rpmfind.net and a few of the ftp sites shown on the Mandrake web site without success. Can somebody please give me a hint? By the way, because OpenOffice uses Java 2 run time environment, I uninstalled kaffe and installed the j2re from the SUN web site. I hope this is not a dumb move. Does OpenOffice support unicode and right to left languages. I hope it does. Any help would be much appreciated. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.
Ralph, I used the www.rpmfind.net site to search for openoffice. The site kept timing out today. I do not have the URL unfortunately. There was only one site with the i586 rpm out of a total of 4 sites. I do not know what kind of directroy the rpm came from (contrib or not). I just clicked on the file name not knowing where it resided. I followed your advice today and told the KDE Software Manager to search the LM 8.1 CD ISO files too. I got the following error messages this time: rpm -U --replacepkgs /home/rpmdir/openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk.i586.rpm;echo RESULT=$? error: failed dependencies: lpddaemon is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk libstdc++3.0 = 3.0.4-1mdk is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk libstdc++.so.3 is needed by openoffice-6.0.41-5mdk RESULT=1 Will the rpm package manager be able to keep track of Open Office the way it is able to keep track of rpm packages if I use this tarball thing you have used? I think Open Office needs Java for the help menus. Do you have help menus? Thanks, Seedkum On Friday 08 March 2002 01:01 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Umm, where did you download the rpm's from? I have looked before, but didn't have much luck... What I did was just to download and install the tarball (binary file) from openoffice.org... works fine here, although I think it's built for an i386 and I run an i686 .. so I guess an i586 build probablty would speed up things. What version of Mandrake are you running? If 8.1, gcc3 and others are on the install cd's. ~ What I think you did was to download a file from a contrib ftp directory or not? Well, please give me the URL you used, and I will try it here... and let you know About the j2re and kafee... well, I can't help... I don't like java, and it does not like me. Never got it working here with openoffice.org either :-) Does not matter, it works without. Neither do I know the answer to the unicode Q... sorry about that :-) For what it's worth.. I hope this helps Greetings Ralph [deleted] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly
Or you can define an alias in your shell rc file. This way you can start openoffice from the command line. For csh the line would go in the .cshrc file in your home directory and it will be: alias soffice /OpenOffice.org641/soffice This way whever you type soffice in a terminal window, Open Office gets started. Seedkum On Friday 08 March 2002 09:56 pm, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On 9 Mar 2002, Charles Muller wrote: Using KDE I just made a 'icon' to it. Right click I select something like make new application link and fill in the blanks! Sorry, I don't have the 'correct' steps 'cause I'm not using mdk8.1 in English! Ricardo Castanho I installed OpenOffice 6.41 using the tarball, and it works fine. However, it is slightly inconvenient to use, since each time I have to open the console, change directories to /OpenOffice.org641 and then type ./soffice. Is there a way of simplifying this process? Regards, Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem.
Hi, I checked it right now with the win2k Disk Management tool and it says FAT32. I know that Harddrake also says FAT32. Thanks, Seedkum Jeroen v.d. Westelaken wrote: Hi, 1,9 Gb is the legendary maximum amount of an older FAT type partion. Are you sure you used the right format? Greetings, Jeroen v.d. Westelaken EXEcute-IT Internet: http://www.execute-it.nl -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Seedkum Aladeem Verzonden: dinsdag 12 februari 2002 8:08 Aan: Newbie at MDK Onderwerp: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem. Hi, Harddrake says that a drive is taking the full space of a partition but the visible size is about half the size of the partition. The other half is not visible and I cannot reach it. The following is a description of what I did and what I observed. Hopefully someone can tell me what is going on and how to fix it. I had an NT4 NTFS partition (~1.9 Gig) and a FAT32 partition (~1.9 Gig). I used Harddrake to delete both of them and create a single FAT32 partition out of them (~3.8 Gig). When I looked at the properties of the directory mount point using Konqueror (with the new partition mounted) I saw a size of only ~1.9 Gig! Rebooting did not remove the discrepancy between Harddrake and Konqueror. Harddrake showed no empty (unused) partition. I went and installed win2k on this new FAT32 partition. Win2k did the same thing. Explorer said the drive was ~1.9 Gig but the Disk Management tool said it was ~3.8 Gig. The disk management tool showed no empty (unused) partition, like Harddrake. I hope somebody can make sense out of this. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Disk partitioning problem.
Hi, Harddrake says that a drive is taking the full space of a partition but the visible size is about half the size of the partition. The other half is not visible and I cannot reach it. The following is a description of what I did and what I observed. Hopefully someone can tell me what is going on and how to fix it. I had an NT4 NTFS partition (~1.9 Gig) and a FAT32 partition (~1.9 Gig). I used Harddrake to delete both of them and create a single FAT32 partition out of them (~3.8 Gig). When I looked at the properties of the directory mount point using Konqueror (with the new partition mounted) I saw a size of only ~1.9 Gig! Rebooting did not remove the discrepancy between Harddrake and Konqueror. Harddrake showed no empty (unused) partition. I went and installed win2k on this new FAT32 partition. Win2k did the same thing. Explorer said the drive was ~1.9 Gig but the Disk Management tool said it was ~3.8 Gig. The disk management tool showed no empty (unused) partition, like Harddrake. I hope somebody can make sense out of this. Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Where did my partition go?
Hi, I had an NT4 NTFS partition (~1.9 Gig) and a FAT32 partition (~1.9 Gig). I used Harddrake to delete both of them and create a single FAT32 partition out of them (~3.8 Gig). When I looked at the properties of the directory mount point using Konqueror I got a size of ~1.9 Gig! Rebooting did not remove the discrepancy between Harddrake and Konqueror. Harddrake showed no empty (unused) partition either. I went and installed win2k on this new FAT32 partition (because B?ll G?te? has a strangle hold on me, and not because I like any of those !nice OSs). Win2k did the same thing. Explorer tells me the drive was ~1.9 Gig but the Disk Management tool says it is ~3.8 Gig. The disk management tool showed no empty (unused) partition, like Harddrake. Can someone please tell me what is going on here and how to fix it please? Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] etc/resolv.conf is overwritten during start
Hi, You are probably using DHCP and your router is probably configured as the DHCP server. If that is the case then your router will cause the update of the resolv.conf file every tim you boot. make sure that the router is configured correctly. When you do that, the router will update the resolv.conf file with the correct information every time you reboot and you will not have to play with the resolv.conf file any mmore. Evert van den Bos wrote: Hello people. I have a little problem with my network configuration file. I have access to the Internet trough a router. In order to configure this, I need to alter the resolv.conf file in the etc folder. I don't have trouble with the configuration it self. Any time the file is edited I get my network and Internet connection up and running. But, when I (re) start or reboot my system, the resolv.conf file is overwritten meaning that I have to alter it again. I suspect that somewhere in the dungeons of Mandrake a script, launched during the Linux start sequence, is responsible for this. I have tried to find it but without result. Do any of you have an idea which process/script can be responsible for this? Many thanks. Evertb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Another Wine Question
Why do you want to use the windows quicken when there is the compatible native GPL Linux application. I forgot what the application is called but it exists. Maybe someone else can tell us what it is called. Rich wrote: I have Wine (CodeWeaver's) set up and it runs most of my Windows apps OK, the one problem is Quicken 99. The application opens OK and I can open any of my Quicken files, however, if I select anything from the account list the program crashes with an error message from Dr. Watson: Fatal error. Could not attach to the application. WinNT error code = 5. Also, WinNT 4.0 does not appear in the Wine configuration list; is there a reason for this? I'm running Mandrake 8.1. Any help in solving this problem would be appreciated. Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Pentium IV
Hi, No doubt. Usually if you have no bottleneck limitations, when you up the MGHz with the same architecture you get better speed of program execution. AMD apparently has better architecture and they are planning to introduce products working at higher speed. They were planning to move to copper technology, intel has already done that but I have not heard that AMD has done so yet. I expect that when AMD uses copper technology, like intel, the advantage of their superior architecture will become obvious again. AMD will clobber intel (if AMD survives till then). Hans N. wrote: I don't think Intel botched the P4 design necessarily. They're aiming for two things on a business perspective, not a technical one. Clock Speed and Multimedia Capabilities. True, AMD has been designing faster chips with lower clock speeds, but Intel intends to woo customers with fancy numbers. I hear AMD will soon follow suit in regards to upping clock speeds, but at the same time attempting to break new ground in some of the limitations in doing so with their current roadmap. In other words, trying to woo customers with fancy numbers that DO mean something. :^) Just a rumor so far though. Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David E. Fox Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Pentium IV I'm thinking (actually I've already ordered) a new motherboard and an intel pentium IV chip. Personally speaking you're way better off with an Athlon system. Intel brought out the IV far too quickly IMHO and from reading others' comments, they really botched the design. Athlons of a lower clock frequency can easily outperform higher-clocked IVs, and the Athlon is a far cheaper solution. The downside - you have to get a different mb for the Athlon, but that's probably true of the IV as well. Durons are cheaper still, but the lack of the extra cache that the Athlon provides can stall things. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Installing LM 8.1 from HD.
Hi, I have LM 8.0 on my machine together with Bill's NT4.0. I wanted to do a clean install of LM 8.1 because I had problems with LM 8.0. I had no success. I outline the steps of the attempted hard disk install below. Can someone please tell me where I goofed? 1) I used NT4.0 to download the following three files onto an ntfs partition: Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso Mandrake81-cd2-ext.i586.iso Mandrake81-cd3-supp.i586.iso 2) I mounted those files as virtual CDs on NT4.0 and copied their contents out onto regular ntfs directories on an ntfs partition. The directory names were the same as the file names in (1). 3) I used the rawwritewin.exe in the resulting directory tree named Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso to create a boot floppy disk. I gave rawwritewin.exe the hd.img as a parameter. The boot floppy got created without error messages. 4) Then I tried to reboot from the floppy. I got the message the the boot has failed and to remove the floppy. What could be wrong? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing LM 8.1 from HD.
Hi, There was no reply to the message. Does this mean there was no goof? Thanx, Seedkum Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I have LM 8.0 on my machine together with Bill's NT4.0. I wanted to do a clean install of LM 8.1 because I had problems with LM 8.0. I had no success. I outline the steps of the attempted hard disk install below. [Deleted] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install from NTFS partition.
Hi all, Should it not be possible to do a hard disk install from an NTFS partition? or is it possible only from a Linux native partition? Thanks, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Win X Client
Try this http://tnt.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/ It is not free. Seedkum Olly Marshall wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a free X client so that I can connect to my Mandrake box from my windows machine ? Olly Marshall Absolute Internet www.absoluteinternet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically updating Mandrake 8.0?
Hi Andrew, I tried to do as you say but it did not work for me. I think the Mandrake web site says you need a username and a password to update from any of the ftp sites. Don't you have to have a username and password for the ftp site you choose to update from? I gave anonymous as username and I gave my email address as my password but without success. Regards, Seedkum Andrew wrote: hi Eduardo, From the menu, try Configuration-Packaging-MandrakeUpdate. The program asks for root password then you could download the security updates and cooker. Before you download, make sure you click define source and click on new. Choose where you want to download the files from. regards, Andrew On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:29, you wrote: Hello I wonder whether Mandrake 8.0 has a simple gui-program to check for new packages and do the upgrade (plus dependencies) automatically? Many thanks Eduardo NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinumrefcd=PT97 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- The power of Knowledge-open source community. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Automatically updating Mandrake 8.0?
Hi, The Mandrake web site also mentions a Security Key. What do you do with that? Thanx, Ayoub Andrew wrote: hi Eduardo, From the menu, try Configuration-Packaging-MandrakeUpdate. The program asks for root password then you could download the security updates and cooker. Before you download, make sure you click define source and click on new. Choose where you want to download the files from. regards, Andrew On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:29, you wrote: Hello I wonder whether Mandrake 8.0 has a simple gui-program to check for new packages and do the upgrade (plus dependencies) automatically? Many thanks Eduardo NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinumrefcd=PT97 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- The power of Knowledge-open source community. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.
Hi, Through my efforts to find a way around the problem, I tried to re-install mdk 8.0 several times. The last time I re-installed mdk linux 8.0 I used w*ndo*s NT, that happened to be on another hard disk on the same machine, to delete all the linux partitions and not just the / partition and the /usr partition. At that stage the hard disk dedicated to Linux was empty and had no partitions. I did nothing to the first disk because I was assuming that all of linux was on the second disk dedicated to it. All of the linux that was on the first disk was the LILO, or so I thought. I have had to re-install several times and I always told install to use the second hard disk for linux. I always used expert to define and select partitions on the second hard disk. When I was installing mdk 8.0 the last time, all the install went smoothly except the following: 1) MKD install asked me to select from the D*S partition or the NT partition to format. I was surprised about that because those were already formatted with FAT16 and NTFS. I never had this selection in my countless previous re-installs. 2) I was not asked to give the IP of the DNS! I was waiting for this pop up menu because the DNS was what I had problems with to begin with. 3) I found that mdk used the same DNS IP I mistakenly gave it the first time I installed it! But, where did it come from? I had all the previous Linux partitions deleted and new ones created. The mdk must be reading this incorrect DNS IP from the NT or D*S partitions all the time! I never told it to install anything in those! Can someone please tell me what is going on? Where is the resolver file? I would like to edit it once and for all. I always had the file /etc/resolv.conf and it was always on the Linux hard drive. This file always had the same DNS IP address no matter what I did in all of the re-installs. I have had to edit it every time after re-installed or re-booted. Thanx, Seedkum
Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.
Hi, Because of the resolver problem and other problems, I have decided to try version 7.2 instead of 8.0. I have D*S and W*ndo*s NT4.0 installed on the machine. I need to keep those UNFORTUNATELY :( I am going to take the following two steps to uninstall mdk 8.0 and install mdk 7.2 instead: 1) Use NT to delete all the linux partitions. 2) Use mdk 7.2 install to create the required linux partitions and install mdk 7.2 There is an issue with LILO, however. Currently, with 8.0 installed, LILO lets me boot DOS instead of linux and from there I get B*ll Gates boot menu from which I chose NT or DOS boot. Now when I take step (1) above and without doing fdisk /mbr LILO stays there and it still works for booting the D*S and W*ndo*s. I am hesitant to try fdisk /mbr because doing that will allow me to boot D*S and I am not sure I will get the b*ll Gates menu selection that allows me to boot NT instead of D*S. DO I have to do fdisk /mbr before installing 7.2? What would be the repercussions if I did not? If I do have to do fdisk /mbr, how will I be able to boot D*S or NT without LILO? Thanx, Seedkum
[newbie] Resolver problem.
Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.0 using incorrect DNS server dot quad IP addresses. I used the Linuxconf KDE gui to reconfigure it. It worked fine until I rebooted the system. On rebooting, the DNS setting reverted back to the old incorrect setting I gave on initial install. How do I make the system do permanent changes to DNS configuration? Thanx, Seedkum
Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.
Hi, I tried editing the file /etc/resolv.conf manually but the result was exactly the same as when Linuxconf did it. What could be the problem? Michael D. Viron wrote: Try editing /etc/resolv.conf directly. Michael At 08:16 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.0 using incorrect DNS server dot quad IP addresses. I used the Linuxconf KDE gui to reconfigure it. It worked fine until I rebooted the system. On rebooting, the DNS setting reverted back to the old incorrect setting I gave on initial install. How do I make the system do permanent changes to DNS configuration? Thanx, Seedkum
Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.
I did find / -name resolv.conf -print and only /etc/resolv.conf got printed out! I have an internet connection through a Linksys switch/router and a cable modem. During install, Linux detected eth0 automatically and I selected LAN connection. Later on in the install I gave it incorect DNS IP. Regards, Ayoub Franki wrote: look in resolve.conf that is in /etc/ppp that one is what ppp will insert when you start it,, so go with that... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Seedkum Aladeem Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 3:56 AM To: Michael D. Viron Cc: Newbie at MDK Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolver problem. Hi, I tried editing the file /etc/resolv.conf manually but the result was exactly the same as when Linuxconf did it. What could be the problem? Michael D. Viron wrote: Try editing /etc/resolv.conf directly. Michael At 08:16 AM 07/31/2001 -0700, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.0 using incorrect DNS server dot quad IP addresses. I used the Linuxconf KDE gui to reconfigure it. It worked fine until I rebooted the system. On rebooting, the DNS setting reverted back to the old incorrect setting I gave on initial install. How do I make the system do permanent changes to DNS configuration? Thanx, Seedkum
[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 updating Encryption Key.
Hi, I am trying to update my installation and I do not know what to do with the encryption key on the mandrake down load pages. Can someone enlighten me please? The down load instructions say I have to have a password to use any of the ftp sites. I tried to use anonymous for use name and then I gave my email address for the password. That did not work. What should I do? Thanx, Seedkum
