Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread AOLShopGAM
I run both an IDE CD and a IDE CD-RW on 2 different systems without a problem. Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working > together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to > remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't

Re: [expert] Security levels? - aside: quote trouble

2000-10-06 Thread Gavin Clark
A ha, that's a character I've never used! Now when I find a use for ^ I'll be using the whole keyboard. ;^) well there you go! The UNIX equivilant of benching your own weight. (I should get a t-shirt) Gavin on 10/5/00 5:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wrong quotes - use single backquotes

[expert] Kickstart and partitioning

2000-10-06 Thread Claude LeFrancois (LMC)
  Hello, I'm setting up a kickstart installation with Mandrake 7.0 and I have the following questions concerning the partitioning system. If I set "clearall" to 1, does it mean all the partitions will be cleared ? if yes, is there a way to delete only the Linux partitions at install time ? I'm mo

[expert] Kickstart and X setup

2000-10-06 Thread Claude LeFrancois (LMC)
Hello, I'm in the process to setup a Mandrake 7.0 kickstart installation. It crashes in the X configuration item (the last one...). In the debug window, I have a message concerning the file Xconfigurator.pm at line 824. The message tells me the invalid rule "&main::" as been caugth and is propaga

[expert] using a parportide device to install

2000-10-06 Thread Marc Britten
I'm attempting to install mandrake on a old 486 laptop for a friend of mine. The problem is that it doesn't have a cdrom of its own, so I'm trying to use a parallel port CDRom(backpack). Any ideas where i can get a special bootdisk? or what i need to do to make on? I've personally used linux

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread root
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > > Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working > together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to > remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. > > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 > > Thanks, > -- > Joseph S Ga

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread Ken Thompson
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working > together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to > remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. > > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 > > Thanks, > -- > Joseph

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread root
rich Malloy wrote: > > I've had both working under red hat 6.2, just switch to Mandrake and > there not working. But I believe it can be done. :-> > What I was thinking of looking at was kernel parameters for the scsi over ide > stuff that cdrecord and other software wants. > > Rich. > > "Josep

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread root
root wrote: > > "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > > > > Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working > > together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to > > remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. > > > > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 > >

RE: [expert] How do I get system to beep?

2000-10-06 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
I use a simple python script. See under for the source. Even works under Windows :-) #!/usr/bin/python import sys, time def usage(): print 'Usage: beep number_of_times_to_beep' sys.exit(1) if len(sys.argv) != 2: usage() try: for i in range(int(sys.argv[1])):

[expert] kdebase 1.99 still no good ?

2000-10-06 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I saw that there was a new kdebase 1.99 on cooker. I have the same problem with this one as I have since installing 1.94. It unpacks most of the way, and crashes on unpacking /users/pics/ something This is the same place as 1.94 crashed. I understand that kde2 is still in beta however if it is s

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
root wrote: > > > > "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > > > > > Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working > > > together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to > > > remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. > > > > > > I'm running Man

Re: [expert] using a parportide device to install

2000-10-06 Thread Charles Curley
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RE: [expert] Mdk 7.1 Can't read windows partitions

2000-10-06 Thread Todd Marshall
I had this problem when I did a right click format from windows (right click on hard drive and format) when I formatted from the windows installer or from the command prompt in dos then it worked fin but I couldn't get the GUI formatted drive for windows to werk in linux luckily I just to

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
> Will prodemod ide-scsi (or is that modprobe?) just effect the > second ( CD-RW ) or will it try to control the original as well? > If it will control the original then should I remove a driver and > if so which one? > Joseph S Gardner Yes, it's 'modprobe' http://www.linux-mandr

[expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] System Resources Needed For X, KDE, SO

2000-10-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Anyone in for more tips? > Sure... what video card is in this thing? If it's an old 2-4 meg video card, it's not going to have NEARLY the performance that a nice 16 or 32 meg card does... and more RAM on the video card leaves more RAM up for gra

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 bus errors up the yingyang

2000-10-06 Thread Stephen Bosch
Matthew Persico wrote: > > Charles Curley wrote: > > > Seriously, I don't know why anyone other than a recent Windows refugee > > uses Netscape's email client. It's buggy and very limited compared to what > > the combination of, say, mutt, fetchmail, procmail and sendmail can do. > > Well, th

[expert] Matrox G400 32 meg Vid Card

2000-10-06 Thread Bill Beauchemin
Anyone have any sugestions as to where to look for info on how to get this card to use all its bells and whistles in Linux? Bill Beauchemin Sunnyvale MDC Control Center GlobalCenter (a Global Crossing company) 888-541-9888 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Compile of Gimp

2000-10-06 Thread Marcus
latest rpm I found was gimp 1.1.26 on rpmfind.net Marcus - Original Message - From: "Mogens Jæger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 11:08 PM Subject: [expert] Compile of Gimp > Hey list > I have been trying to compile Gimp to support my dual-

[expert] Samba, autofs and fstab

2000-10-06 Thread Izak Fourie
Hi, I am trying to configure smb filesystems for mounting with samba. I was just wondering if anyone can tell me what exactly the format for SMB filesystems is in /etc/fstab? Also, I read about autofs is the Samba doc's, but they are not clear at all and my man pages don't seem to have anyth

Re: [expert] kdebase 1.99 still no good ?

2000-10-06 Thread Warren Doney
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: > > I saw that there was a new kdebase 1.99 on cooker. I > have the same problem with this one as I have since > installing 1.94. It unpacks most of the way, and crashes > on unpacking /users/pics/ something > This is the same place as 1.94 crashed. I understand

RE: [expert] Samba, autofs and fstab

2000-10-06 Thread Keller, Tim
If you look at the "smbmount" command they give a good explanation. Tim. -Original Message- From: Izak Fourie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Samba, autofs and fstab Hi, I am trying to configure smb filesyst

Re: [expert] Samba, autofs and fstab

2000-10-06 Thread Alfredo Carlos López
Hi I'm not an expert in samba. but this line in /etc/fstab allow me to mount a win share under mandrake 7.1 //eva/e$ /home/W2K smbfs rw,username=whatever,uid=99,gid=100,passwd=yourpass,fmask=664 0 0 eva is the win machine with a share e$ . uid=99, gid=100 and fmask=664 is this

Re: [expert] kdebase 1.99 still no good ?

2000-10-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
Warren Doney wrote: > > Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: > > > > I saw that there was a new kdebase 1.99 on cooker. I > > have the same problem with this one as I have since > > installing 1.94. It unpacks most of the way, and crashes > > on unpacking /users/pics/ something [...] > It is being u

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 bus errors up the yingyang

2000-10-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:13:38AM -0600, Stephen Bosch wrote: > If you are having bus errors, try the following - Already upgraded to 4.75-8mdk (the newest)? It's supposed to fix that bug. See the changelog for details and bugzilla Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalproject

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 bus errors up the yingyang

2000-10-06 Thread Vic
Where can I download this? On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Already upgraded to 4.75-8mdk (the newest)? It's supposed to fix that bug. > See the changelog for details and bugzilla Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert]

2000-10-06 Thread stevey81
Starting Webmin execvp: No such file or directory does anyone know what file or directory it's looking for, or why it fails to start. i'm running mandrake 7.2 beta, i've had the same problem on two different boxes. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 bus errors up the yingyang

2000-10-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:31:56PM -0500, Vic wrote: > Where can I download this? >From a Cooker mirror, like ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/comp/Linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ Get netscape-common and netscape-communicator if you use the mail client, else netscape-naviga

[expert] webmin on mandrake 7.2 beta

2000-10-06 Thread Steve Young
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of stevey81 Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 6:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Starting Webmin execvp: No such file or directory does anyone know what file or directory it's looking for, or why it

RE: [expert] Samba, autofs and fstab

2000-10-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Try the following: ///smbfsoptions Example: //thecore/appz /appz smbfs uid=502,fmask=700,guest Best of luck. PS: Anyone know what those zeros and ones are at the end of the Mandrake-supplied lines are? -- Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread Richard R. Malloy
Thanks for the pointer. The problem was the cdrom* links to hd* not to scd*. The only thing else was that the perms on the scd* needed to allow world read so anybody could play cds. I didn't see that on the web site, though I didn't look to closely. Rich. Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Will prodemo

Re: [expert] webmin on mandrake 7.2 beta

2000-10-06 Thread Cecil Watson
I got the same thing...so I removed teh RPM and downloaded and installed the tarball. You can find instructions here:http://plainmail.com/linux/secure.html Steve Young wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of stevey81 > Sent: Friday,

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 bus errors up the yingyang

2000-10-06 Thread Mark Weaver
you're sitting on it! -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496 * Pine 4.21 * On

Re: [expert] webmin on mandrake 7.2 beta

2000-10-06 Thread Bill Piety
Steve Young wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of stevey81 > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 6:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] > > Starting Webmin execvp: No such file or directory > > does anyone know what file or dir

Re: [expert] Samba, autofs and fstab

2000-10-06 Thread BillK
look at "man fstab" - they are to with fsck order and dump BillK Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > Try the following: > > ///smbfsoptions > > Example: > > //thecore/appz /appz smbfs uid=502,fmask=700,guest > > Best of luck. > > PS: Anyone know what those zeros and ones are at the end of the >

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-06 Thread C Nielsen
> "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: > > > > Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working > > together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to > > remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. > > > > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 > [snip] > > Jose

[expert] GLX / quake 3

2000-10-06 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Hello all, Could anyone give this one a shot? I'm trying to run quake 3 arena on mdk 7.2 beta 3 with a Matrox video card and 3D acceleration with XFree3.3.6. Quake starts up ok and I can select options, watch the demo movies, etc. but when I start playing the game, it crashes the game a

[expert] Printing Problems

2000-10-06 Thread GrAnT GaLbRaiTh
I'm wondering if anyone else has had a printing problem similar to this one. I'm using the first Ulysses beta release that had 1.93 on it. Over this I've installed the 1.99 rpm's. Using PrintDrake I can configure my machine for my HP LaserJet. Then using printtool for a test page I get a messa

Re: [expert] GLX / quake 3

2000-10-06 Thread Bill Piety
Mike & Tracy Holt wrote: > Hello all, > Could anyone give this one a shot? I'm trying to run quake 3 arena on > mdk 7.2 beta 3 with a Matrox video card and 3D acceleration with > XFree3.3.6. Quake starts up ok and I can select options, watch the demo > movies, etc. but when I start pla