Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:30:47 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:45 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: urpmi partimage. It's on contrib Lee No, it's a different program. What I mean is this: http://www.partimage.org and http://www.sysresccd.org It's a great backup/cloning tool. I am flabbergasted. (Always wanted to say that) What a tool! Thank you Wonder if it'll work across a network? Don't tell me. I'm going to RTFM before I ask. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32
I want to backup my boss's fresh install of XP to a gzip (on a mandrake partition) on his dell, then be able to ghost his XP back onto the fat32 partition. I have been experimenting in preparation for this and have gotten some errors that I believe may be related to fat32 not having any permissions system (Cannot utime: Operation not permitted), yet the files are all extracted (apparently) correctly. I know people on the list have suggested using this method before. Could someone provide more explicit instructions for me? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Running program through SSH
HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:45:52 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I type this to run setiathome: ./setiathome I think you want to do ./setiathome Shouldn't kill the app when you close the term. If not, try , that oughta do it. I think also nohup ./setiathome will do it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] anyone here had success using ltsp with mdk9.1?
I am trying to set up a diskless workstation using ltsp. Last time I tried to install ltsp (and set up dhcp for it), something happened that really messed up my favorite OS. Had to reinstall due to the many things that went wrong after running the installation script. Now I am a little afraid of it. Can anyone give me some pointers? TIA Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!
[snip] Revolt: Somewhere on the Store site there is a way of tracking orders -- I'd try that first. It's possible that DHL lost his DVDs. However, if the order hasn't been shipped, a firm, but polite, e-mail to M. Demoulin might work. Eight weeks is way too long -- hell, 9.1 was released in April. How long does it take to burn the disks? Key point: Is your friend still recommending to his other friends that they buy Mandrake from the store? -- cmg Thanks for the suggestions Carroll. He used his tracking number and it had shipped, but it's progress toward canada seems to have stopped at heathrow shortly after it began it's journey (weeks ago). I guess I should tell him to talk to the shipping company (DHL i presume) ? As for recommending it to friends, I am guessing that he hasn't exactly been praising the virtues of the store lately. (Though I know he introduced his grandfather to the download edition recently, and the old-timer is showing some interest). Revolt, a.ka. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 03:43 pm, owenb wrote: Nearly all responses to my suggestion that the Action Editor of Smart Computing could induce Mandrake to explain why customers were being ignored were, don't do it.So minding the sentiments of others I have another suggestion. Write to Jean Brice Demoulin, Marketing Manager for MandrakeSoft at the Paris office. A resonable explaination that customer goodwill and loyalty is being declining by Mandrake's lack of response. Most customers would be patient and understanding once they understood the nature of the problem. Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] or MandrakeSoft / Jean-Brice Demoulin 43, rue d'Aboukir 75002 Paris France Owen: Excellent suggestion. I might even suggest that he should monitor both the mail lists and the Club Forums. -- cmg A friend of mine (who is also a huge fan of mandrake, and introduced me to it) ordered the dvd version from mandrake over 8 weeks ago. He is considering cancelling his order now. Is this long a wait very unusual? What advice should I give him about how to proceed, assuming he is still willing to wait longer and junp through some hoops? Should I forward the address mentioned here to him or is there somewhere else he should be enquiring about his shipment? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] internet problem
This box (running mdk 9.1) gets IP from other (mdk 8.2) box, this always worked well until I decided to try using this box as a ppp host (tried to configure it from mandrake control center, which installed bind and some other things I think) Now every time I reboot this box I have to go into mandrake control center, start up the internet connection sharing utility, and disable connection sharing. It shuts down servers (which ones I dont' know, but I already removed bind) for me and everything works again. How can I permanently disable these servers? TIA for advice. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ppp hosting
I want to be able to have a friend dial-up my box and share my connection. I have no idea where to start, except I am now working on getting my (win)modem working. During startup it wasn't noticed during hardware detection (I will root around in the bios to see if I can fix anything in there) Assuming I am able to get a modem working, what would be the next step? TIA for suggestions. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer
C. Tresenriter wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:15:08 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark wrote: Drew, 1) Configure a Texstar source for urpmi: urpmi.addmedia texstar http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/ with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz all one line ? Yup! 2) Use urpmi to install mplayer: urpmi mplayer Will this list packages to be replaced and those replaced with before actual install ? It did for me, though I wasn't installing mplayer To make this process just slightly easier for the newb, I would say: set up urpmi as suggested, then type: urpmi mplayer-gui Now you have a gui to use with mplayer and (hopefully) mplayer too! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] quickrip and pyqt
I am trying to rip a dvd, used urpmi to install quickrip, without errors. Went to run it and got this: Couldn't load PyQT module! Check it's installed properly. If you think it is, but you still get this message, please see the frequent problems page online at: http://quickrip.sf.net/fp.shtml Press Enter for the full Qt error message Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/quickrip, line 64, in ? main(sys.argv[1:]) File /usr/bin/quickrip, line 55, in main import gui File /usr/bin/../../usr/share/quickrip/gui.py, line 26, in ? from guimain import MainWindow File /usr/bin/../../usr/share/quickrip/guimain.py, line 1392, in ? class MainWindow(QDialog): NameError: name 'QDialog' is not defined Anyone had experience with this? Suggestion (please)? Suggestions for other (relatively user friendly ie. GUI) software to use? TIA Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] quickrip and pyqt
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:05:02 -0600 revolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't load PyQT module! Check it's installed properly. Do you have PyQt installed? Charles Ok i searched around a bit and it looks like there is an incompatibility between pyqt 3.5 and kde 3.3.1 which *I think* is what shipped with mdk 9.1. Correct me if I am wrong. Looks like I will have to try compiling PyQt from source. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] quickrip and pyqt
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:05:02 -0600 revolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't load PyQT module! Check it's installed properly. Do you have PyQt installed? Charles urpmi installed PyQt-3.5-1.mdk for me. I have been looking for a newer version without any luck so far. I checked the frequent problems page which wasn't much help (I do not want to compile it from source if possible, since I have rarely had much luck compiling stuff in the past.) Have you had any luck with this software under mdk 9.1? Has anyone else who might be reading this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Driver for Canon i320 printer for linux mandrake 9.1
Jure Repinc wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: For Canon printers you will get the best results with Turbo Print http://www.turboprint.de/english.html It is not 'free software' ,but is no charge for personal use. I'm using this driver for my i320 and it works. But it always prints it's logo in the center of the page and makes the printout useless. Am I doing anything wrong? How do you turn this logo of? If i remember correctly you need to choose a lower resolution to get rid of the logo (or pay the 25$) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid
Ralph Bagwell wrote: Hi Joe, I have gaim up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger programs. Glad to hear it. Hope it works well for you, it has for me on the few occassions i wanted to use it. I was never able to follow your instructions using urpmi - I tried : urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms with hdlist.cz many times and never got it to work. I then tried another suggestion by someone else and the file was available and was downloading for a couple of hours until I gave up - it never finished. That is odd, perhaps my (or your) email program messed up the syntax of that line (extra space in there maybe?) because it worked for me, just seconds before I emailed you. Then I went to the texstar ftp site , downloaded the file in a couple of minutes and clicked on the file and it installed in another couple of minutes - all by itself - Question is why is this not the preferred method of installing new software - ? Am I missing something ? Ralph URPMI is usually preferred because it will find dependencies for you, a process that can be extremely tedious for programs that have many dependencies, unlike this one. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid
Ralph Bagwell wrote: Thanks a lot Joe BUT: I have the program running but can only get AOL to work. I have only two options AOL/ICQ and TOC (whatever that is) as proocols available,. I was unable to follow your instructions on setting up the urpmi deal. But I now know how to make the amsn program run - which gives me MSN use - although I have been unable to execute the program like I think you are supposed to - nor can I put an icon on the desktop for it - I do have an icon for gaim. ralph O.K. sorry if I am telling you stuff you know already but... To become the root user open a terminal/console window and type: su when prompted give your password for the root user/super user (su) then copy and paste this line into your command line: urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms with hdlist.cz hit enter... wait till texstar is setup as a source for urpmi then type: urpmi gaim After downloading, you will be told that: the following packages have bad signatures: ...gaim-0.64-1tex.i586.rpm You DO want to continue installation, type y and enter, the signature is only bad because you don't have urpmi set up with the proper gpg signatures for this source. Now assuming that works you should have the updated version of gaim ready to use, including the MSN protocol. HTH, joe I use a program called gaim to chat with people on MSN, it comes with MDK9.1 but i found it easier to install a newer version that had the msn plug-in installed (rather than mess around with the version that comes with mandrake 9.1). make sure you have urpmi set up properly with texstar as a source, this page can help with that: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php then (as root) type into a console: urpmi gaim then (using the updated version of gaim you will find under networking/instant messaging in the kde menu) it is pretty fool proof to set up an account and chat with people on MSN (click on accounts, select add, choose msn as protocol, put in a user name and password, and viola!) To get the icon on the desktop in KDE click 'n drag gaim from instant messaginge menu to the desktop. When given the option choose link here. From one newb to another, hope this helps. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] help! MLDONKEY makes my system crash!
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:13:26 +0800 Xuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to find something to replace the win32 eMule. At first I tried lmule, which is so vulnerable and unstable that it crashed and made core dump files so often. Then I found mldonkey , I downloaded the source code and compiled it as what its homepage told me to do. After 'make install', I run it by using 'mldonkey', it looks fine and the mldonkey-gui works fine too. But sometime later( sometime means 1 hour, or 5 minutes ), the system crashed. Even keyboard and mouse made no response, and the CapsLock and ScrollLock blinked. no need to compile just go here: http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/mldonkey/release-2.5-3/official/ get the static binary for your architecture, static binaries work on most all systems and usually the stable releases are quite stable (run for weeks on my old p100 without problems) You might also find it usefull to replace the servers.ini with this one: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/mldonkey/pango/goodies/servers.ini.gz because I found that the one that came with it had too many (poor) servers in it which made it hard to connect to good ones. If you were compiling mldonkey from CVS chances are it wasn't a very stable release. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid
Ralph Bagwell wrote: I am still embarrassed to post because you newbies seem light years ahead of me - oh well. I downloaded and installed with zero problems amsn a messenger program very like Windows Messenger. I actually swapped a few lines with a friend. I closed Konqueror and promptly my chat window went away. Now I don't know how to start messenger program again. A new msn subdirectory is now present but I can't find an exe file anywhere to start the messenger program . Please tell me how to run the program and put an icon on the desktop - thanks - from a real newbie. I use a program called gaim to chat with people on MSN, it comes with MDK9.1 but i found it easier to install a newer version that had the msn plug-in installed (rather than mess around with the version that comes with mandrake 9.1). make sure you have urpmi set up properly with texstar as a source, this page can help with that: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php then (as root) type into a console: urpmi gaim then (using the updated version of gaim you will find under networking/instant messaging in the kde menu) it is pretty fool proof to set up an account and chat with people on MSN (click on accounts, select add, choose msn as protocol, put in a user name and password, and viola!) To get the icon on the desktop in KDE click 'n drag gaim from instant messaginge menu to the desktop. When given the option choose link here. From one newb to another, hope this helps. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] former microsoft addict migrating to mandrake: needs to be able toread outlook archives
My friend finally decided to rid his computer of microsoft, but has years of emails in outlook archives that he can't live without. What should I recomend? Evolution? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] former microsoft addict migrating to mandrake: needs tobe able to read outlook archives
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:20, revolt wrote: My friend finally decided to rid his computer of microsoft, but has years of emails in outlook archives that he can't live without. What should I recomend? Evolution? It's too bad he ditched it already because there is a way to maintain all your old Outlook emails - but it requires installing Netscape or Mozilla on the Windows machine, importing all the email into Netscape or Mozilla, then locating the folder with the imported email, copying that folder to the linux side of life, then using Evo to import from that folder - saves all the emails, attachments - all of it...then you can wipe out Outlook/Windows... Thanks Stephen, this is just the info i was looking for. I think he hasn't wiped the HD yet.
Re: [newbie] IsTwo monitors possible?
Gareth Qually wrote: cool thanks, i will check it out. Will some research myself as well. Ciao Gareth Qually I got Xinerama to work (sort of) using two videocards, but found it to very unstable at the time (a while ago now, perhaps it has evolved since then, and it could have been due to my hardware) I used the info from the link that was already provided. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
