Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-10-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Larry Marshall am Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:36:17PM -0500: that if you do use the emulation you only need enough disk space to hold the apps you're going to run under Windows and a minimal Windows Right, and what's more important at least for me, is that you don't need to shutdown

Fwd: Re: [expert] utility soundcard modem

2000-10-31 Thread Ted Wager
From: Ted Wager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, you wrote: Dear sir , My name hendri and I am student of sepuluh november institut of technology. I am interested in aplication of soundcard as radio modem base on linux My computer using linux mandrake 7.1 kernel 2.2.15mdk

Re: [expert] 7.2 and Xfree86 3.3.x

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
Has anyone tried to get LM 7.2 working with the old X server package yet? The VMWare site is pretty adamant that they aren't ready for 4.0.1 If you do an expert installation you can choose 3.3 or 4.01. Cheers --- Larry Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL

Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
Right, and what's more important at least for me, is that you don't need to shutdown Linux... Absolutely. This is the number one reason I'm spending time with it. have multiple installations of Windows running at the same time, heck, even Windows NT + Windows 9x + BeOS + ... all at the

Re: [expert] Telnet privilages

2000-10-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:26:40AM -0800, faisal wrote: Hello how can we grant root to login from remote location using telnet without using su command ? I recommend against doing so for security reasons. Telnet sends passwords and all other data in the clear, which means that if you do this

Re: [expert] root password

2000-10-31 Thread Buchan Milne
You don't actually need this in linux. Next time you are booting, try "linux single" instead of "linux" if you are using LILO (it's a bitmore complicated than that in Grub). YOu will see you get booted into a root shell without being asked for a password. It is a security risk if anyone is

[expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I have recently purchased 7.2 complete. The installation went alright, there are a lot of things do be desired in my opinion though. However, I can not get kde2 sound events to work on this machine. I ran harddrake, and heard all the sounds. My card is a SB AWE64 value, however mandrake wants

Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-10-31 Thread Buchan Milne
Ken Thompson wrote: On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, you wrote: VMware is virtual machine. It is not same your real computer. You must Uh huhI'm with you so far. configure this virtual machine how you want and install on it Win98 or any other OS. You can start two or more VM with

RE: [expert] Postfix and getting rid of the machine name

2000-10-31 Thread Phil Connor
I can't get rid of the machine name when trying to send E-mail to my accounts. I uncommented the myorigin = $mydomain line in main.cf and reloaded postfix, but no such luck. Try this and see if it helps... in your main.cf add this to the bottom of the file masquerade_domains =

Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-10-31 Thread Stephen Bosch
Larry Marshall wrote: Yep...I don't think conventional machinery need apply. I haven't tweeked VMware yet but with only 64megs assigned to it on a 500mhz machine, it's pretty clunky in terms of performance. Still might do what I need to run a word processor though :-) Just talking out

[expert] Fwd: Anyone out there had problems with Icecast?

2000-10-31 Thread Ken Tarwood
Anyone out there use Icecast? I'm having trouble getting the default decoder (shout) working correctly. Here is the scenario. After running the server I go to another computer on my network (academic T1), I attempt to connect to the stream, it buffers and all, and then it plays fine but corrupts

Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
Here's a solution: don't use VMWare at all. Great idea. Just get StarOffice and mount your Windows partition in Linux, then you never even have to bother with the Microsoft products and you don't need to move your files Another good one...if my needs were the same as yours. I'd agree

Re: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
P.S. - with complete I could find no way to not install without supermount support, and the installation guide states that it was written for power pack, so not all things are the same, boy is that an understatement. You should be able to load up fstab and get rid of the supermounting if you

Re: [expert] root password

2000-10-31 Thread rharvey
Thanks - Original Message - From: "Buchan Milne" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [expert] root password You don't actually need this in linux. Next time you are booting, try "linux single" instead of "linux" if you are

[expert] wrong uptime in LM 7.2

2000-10-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
Hi guys, I am getting wrong uptime.. the uptime is less than a day although my machine is up and running for 3 days now (since I installed LM 7.2).. I couldn't find anything in the log files.. Here are some things from my /var/log/messages file : this keeps repeating! Oct 29 21:02:41 vx15

[expert] Web Mail aplication

2000-10-31 Thread José Antonio Jiménez Berni
I'd like to know if there are some web aplication for users to send mail by web. The idea is that users only sends mail because it's in a public place and there is no login nor password. Any idea? -- La frase célebre para hoy es Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe

RE: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
Most definitely not recent, or final. Hell they are using kde2rc2 (which is some of my problem). I bought it last Saturday at Walmart. I have never purchased a Mandrake, this was a first, and maybe a last. I have never heard of anyone releasing to the public (for sale) beta version without

Re: [expert] root password

2000-10-31 Thread Ronnie Whipp
Buchan Milne wrote: You don't actually need this in linux. Next time you are booting, try "linux single" instead of "linux" if you are using LILO (it's a bitmore complicated than that in Grub). It's easy with Grub as well: when the install screen asks for you to edit the selection click

[expert] mandrake v. corporate for school with SPARC

2000-10-31 Thread Christopher Kolar
Hello everyone. I am maintaining several Linux servers (both Mandrake 7.x and RH) for 5 years and feel comfortable calling myself a qualified amateur system administrator. I have recently gotten a line on some decommissioned SPARCs that may be donated to local schools. I would like to set

Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-10-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:37:04AM -0500, Larry Marshall wrote: Here's a solution: don't use VMWare at all. Great idea. Just get StarOffice and mount your Windows partition in Linux, then you never even have to bother with the Microsoft products and you don't need to move your

Re: [expert] Web Mail aplication

2000-10-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
tons of them.. search on sourceforge.net and freshmeant.org and then find RPMs in mandrake -sarang On Tuesday 31 October 2000 14:23, you wrote: I'd like to know if there are some web aplication for users to send mail by web. The idea is that users only sends mail because it's in a public

Re: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Cecil Watson
I have never heard of anyone releasing to the public (for sale) beta version without stating it was such. M$ Windows 3.X, 9X NT... ;-) Sorry could resist. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Charles Hixson
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: Most definitely not recent, or final. Hell they are using kde2rc2 (which is some of my problem). I bought it last Saturday at Walmart. I have never purchased a Mandrake, this was a first, and maybe a last. I have never heard of anyone releasing to the public

RE: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
True, but in the M$ world, anything goes to final! :) -Original Message- From: Cecil Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds I have never heard of anyone releasing to the public (for

Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
First, Word format is flakey, and varies even from versions of Word with Uh huh...sure. the same version number. If you can get your correspondents to export documents as RTF, you may have better luck. Similarly when they re-import your files they will have better luck if you ship as RTF.

[expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Chris Spencer
Argh. I feel dumb. I just did a clean install of 7.2. I noticed that when I have tried to compile something (for example, the latest Wine SRPM) that it has been crashing with a file not found error. I have narrowed the problem down to the fact that /usr/src/linux is not in the path, or include

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
I just did a clean install of 7.2. I noticed that when I have tried to compile something (for example, the latest Wine SRPM) that it has been crashing with a file not found error. I have narrowed the problem down to the fact that /usr/src/linux is not in the path, or include path, or

Re: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
Please don't confuse Mandrake with Macmillan. OTOH, all new releases have to be When it comes to distribution of Linux Mandrake they are one and the same. considered experimental. Linux as well as *the other*. Usually they'll tell you so if you ask. But Mandrake tries to get the known

[expert] Problems configuring Ensoniq Soundscape card under 7.1

2000-10-31 Thread Peter Newall
Having problems configuring the above on an old Pentium machine. Following advice posted elsewhere on the web, have tried compiling the sound and Soundscape drivers as modules but get unresolved symbol errors when I try to insmod. Have also compiled the driver into the kernel have even

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Chris Spencer
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 15:55, you wrote: Do you have the kernel source code in a directory with a name similar to /usr/src/linux-2.2.xx or do you have the source for the kernel stored elsewhere? You need that directory tree (and its files) somewhere. Then you need to make a link from

[expert] Tape backup and Library systems

2000-10-31 Thread Wayne Stout
Greetings, all. I have a couple of questions about backups. My company is looking into setting up a linux file server / backup server to replace the current NT based backup server and NFS based file server. Here are my questions. First, we're looking at using Arkeia as the software. Anyone

Re: [expert] Postfix and getting rid of the machine name

2000-10-31 Thread Andy Judge
Didn't work so I chopped the machine name off the domain name. Now it works, but there must be another way, maybe with aliasesDB? Andy - Original Message - From: "Phil Connor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 8:37 AM Subject: RE: [expert] Postfix

[expert] apache question regarding virtual host

2000-10-31 Thread Andy Judge
is it possible to setup a virtual host on Apache with a dynamic DNS? The NameVirtualHost requires an IP address, but is there another way to get the IP from the correct internet address? Andy Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Re: [Announce] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 is now available for download

2000-10-31 Thread Ian McLeod
How about a special price / deal for existing Mandrake customers? This would encourage company loyalty and certainly bring sunshine to my day. I am very please with Mandrake - but don't wish to spend $60 - $100 Australian each time a new edition comes out and I do not have broadband internet.

Re: [expert] Helix Gnome doesn't work in 7.2

2000-10-31 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 31-Oct-00 by Tyler Longren: Hi list, I just installed Mandrake 7.2. First, I upgraded a 7.1 box, then Helix GNOME no longer worked (there was no GNOME session option in GDM). I figured I'd completely re-install Mandrake 7.2, a fresh install. I did that, and again, downloaded

Re: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
what about 2000? We have a 2000 machine here which reboots after you close a certain application! isn't that rediculos.. and ya, it indeed is with service pack 1! -sarang On Tuesday 31 October 2000 15:48, you wrote: True, but in the M$ world, anything goes to final! :) -Original

Re: [expert] Tape backup and Library systems

2000-10-31 Thread Cokey de Percin
Wayne Stout wrote: Greetings, all. I have a couple of questions about backups. My company is looking into setting up a linux file server / backup server to replace the current NT based backup server and NFS based file server. Here are my questions. First, we're looking at using Arkeia

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Ronnie Whipp
Chris Spencer wrote: Argh. I feel dumb. I just did a clean install of 7.2. I noticed that when I have tried to compile something (for example, the latest Wine SRPM) that it has been crashing with a file not found error. I have narrowed the problem down to the fact that /usr/src/linux is

RE: [expert] Postfix and getting rid of the machine name

2000-10-31 Thread Phil Connor
Did you restart postfix after the change?? Phil Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #189889 Didn't work so I chopped the machine name off the domain name. Now it works, but there must be another way, maybe with aliasesDB? Andy Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com:

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Michael Barnhill
Why do you need /usr/src/linux in the $PATH? Chances are the files that are missing are in some devel package. Do a web search for the missing file and see what package it looks like it is in. You can always check rpmfind.net for the most up to date package and build that *.src.rpm or install

[expert] Keyboard layout

2000-10-31 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
Have had some problems the last month with my keyboard layout, experienced the same in both mdk 7.2beta3 and mdk 7.2final. My right alt (altgr) reacts the same way as the left alt, no matter what I do... This is my keyboard section in XF86Config: Section "InputDevice" Identifier

[expert] [Expert] Internationalization--Chinese with mandrake 7.2

2000-10-31 Thread Todd Marshall
I've spent the last 24 hours (nonstop) playing with mandrake 7.2--specifically attempting to get chinese to work... Mandrake has been advertising their internationalization support for some time, and since chinese is critical to my productivity, I was excited to be able to work with it... The

[expert] verifying burned cd's

2000-10-31 Thread Kelley Terry
How I checkthe files that I burned on a cd against the iso image to verify correctness?? It seems that I am having problems burning cd's and I want to do it right before I install 7.2. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Backspace in Konsole

2000-10-31 Thread Travis Salisbury
I am having a strange problem with Konsole. Backspace works fine when I am in a local shell, but as soon as I ssh to my webservers with Terminal(Konsole), it stops working on my OpenBSD box and it deletes characters to the right on my FreeBSD box. Where do I begin to look? I am using a hybrid

RE: [expert] Web Mail aplication

2000-10-31 Thread xylonite
try courier. it's kewl. built in everything uucp,esmtp,pop3,webmail blah.. blah.. http://www.courier-mta.org -fay Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Cecil Watson
At the console (as root) type sndconfig. This should set it up for midi also. I had a AWE64 which got setup okay, but something was wrong with the card. I'm now using a Aureal A3 based sound card which also works fine. Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: I have recently purchased 7.2

Re: [expert] verifying burned cd's

2000-10-31 Thread guran remberg
Kelley Terry wrote: How I checkthe files that I burned on a cd against the iso image to verify correctness?? It seems that I am having problems burning cd's and I want to do it right before I install 7.2. Keep in

Re: [expert] verifying burned cd's

2000-10-31 Thread Cecil Watson
You can veirfy the ISO itself before burning by md5sum MandrakeX.iso Give it a couple miutes... For the inst ISO it should be:ffcd786f04c76d193379eed4670ecfde For the ext ISO it should be:e258584f8ebcf1d5d16ad63a51eb9321 Kelley Terry wrote: How I checkthe files that I burned on a cd against

[expert] TNT2 Ultra Vid problems

2000-10-31 Thread Eric Peters
ok I tried to do a clean install last night on an AMD 1GHz with 256Megs w/ a TNT2 ultra. Install went with out problems till the dreaded Xconfig. It did detect my vid card but none of the settings during the test worked. So I continued on and finished the install. I then used Xconfigurator and

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Chris Spencer
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 19:57, you wrote: Why do you need /usr/src/linux in the $PATH? Chances are the files that are missing are in some devel package. Do a web search for the missing file and see what package it looks like it is in. You can always check rpmfind.net for the most up

[expert] Looking for a good mirror in Australia

2000-10-31 Thread Andrew George
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of an Australian Mirror of the Mandrake contrib directory? AArnet (which is where I usually go) seems to have dropped it somehow (At least I can't find it anymore) Any ideas would be appreciated Andrew Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe

[expert] compiler for linux mandrake 7.2

2000-10-31 Thread Aravind Sadagopan
What is the default compiler installed for Linux mandrake 7.2 ..Is it gcc or egcs and which version of gcc is installed (hopefully not 2.96 as in Redhat 7.0) Cheers Aravind S -- Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip round the sun Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
go into the makefile and add /usr/src/linux.. maybe its looking at /src/linux or something.. remember that the directory structure has changed a bit with 7.2.. now its FSH complient. -sarang On Tuesday 31 October 2000 17:22, you wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2000 15:55, you wrote: Do you

Re: [expert] Re: [Announce] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 is now available fordownload

2000-10-31 Thread Michael Proto
One option: http://www.lsl.com Mandrake Install and Extra CD combo $3.78 USD. M. Ian McLeod wrote: How about a special price / deal for existing Mandrake customers? This would encourage company loyalty and certainly bring sunshine to my day. I am very please with Mandrake - but

[expert] Helix Gnome doesn't work in 7.2

2000-10-31 Thread Tyler Longren
Hi list, I just installed Mandrake 7.2. First, I upgraded a 7.1 box, then Helix GNOME no longer worked (there was no GNOME session option in GDM). I figured I'd completely re-install Mandrake 7.2, a fresh install. I did that, and again, downloaded Helix GNOME, once Helix was installed, I used

Re: [expert] root password

2000-10-31 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
Well I will answer that one. You have two choices : Boot into single user mode. Or download Tom's RTBt disk. At 10:54 AM 10/30/2000 -0700, you wrote: Greg Stewart wrote: Since I'm used to using linuxconf, that's how I'll explain it... In User Account|Normal|User Accounts add or select