[expert] Linux Mandrake 8.0

2001-02-28 Thread Aravind Sadagopan
Sorry if I am repeating this question..I have not been following the list for quite sometime.. Can somebody tell me date for release of Mandrake 8.0? Will it have KDE 2.1, kernel 2.4.2?? Can't wait to get my hands on the official release :)..I am sure it will be another quality product from

Re: [expert]

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Why in the world would anyone want to get rid of such an adorable creature? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Craig Sprout wrote: Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:10:50 -0700

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
All in good time. what's the rush? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Ron Stodden wrote: Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:33:42 +1100 From: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
good one Bill. I bet you're systems administrator, aren't you? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Bill Barnes wrote: Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:33:08 -0800 (PST) From: Bill

RE: [expert]

2001-02-28 Thread BAUDRILLARD GILLES
Where can I find a penguin icon to put on the Windows Desktop of my laptop ? I have PhatLinux installed (a LM based distro which installs in DOS filesystem) and I would prefer to click on a penguin rather than launch a .bat. Gilles -Message d'origine- De: Mark Weaver [SMTP:[EMAIL

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-02-28 Thread Bill Barnes
Well, part of the rush is for what is hoped to be an acceptable browser. Opera, Netscape6, Netscape 4.76 inevitably crash about the time you get a decent mix of websites up. I expect the browser to be up 24/7. Maybe Konqueror Final can do this. -Bill --- Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [expert] Changing HD

2001-02-28 Thread Gabriel Sandor
Hello C, Tuesday, February 27, 2001, 11:08:55 PM, you wrote: CN Hello from the frozen north; CN I'm planing to upgrade my harddisl from an 8gig to a 20 gig and was wondering how to move over CN to the new drive with little or no pain. CN I'm running Mandrake 7.2. CN thanx Well, if

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.0

2001-02-28 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
** Reply to message from Aravind Sadagopan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:49:36 +0800 Will it have KDE 2.1, kernel 2.4.2?? I'm just guessing based on previous experiences with 'Drake, but since the product is already in Beta, I doubt you will see Linux 2.4.2 or KDE 2.1. John LeMay

[expert] zope refuses to startup

2001-02-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I have decided to have a play with zope but have run into difficulties. Some time ago I stopped zope as a service using linuxconf as I was not using it. I have just downloaded the latest "hotfix" using MandrakeUpdate which has installed ok. However if I issue a "service zope start" or use

Re: [expert] Continuous Message Logging

2001-02-28 Thread Ing.Israel Garcia Alvarez
Hi: I am compiling a kernel 2.4.0 in a Mandrake 7.2 and I got this error: ## r128_cce.c:1021: warning: unused variable `buffer' r128_cce.c:1019: warning: unused variable `dev_priv' {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:8: Warning: Ignoring changed section

[expert] mapping ports to processes

2001-02-28 Thread Guy McArthur
A mandrake 7.2 machine I maintain has the following open ports, how do I determine what is using them? The IANA port entries either don't exist for these, or don't correspond to anything I'm familiar with. 813/tcpopenunknown 1025/tcp openlisten 1444/tcp open

Reloading browsers [Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final]

2001-02-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Mark, [At the risk of starting a thread that won't die...] With all due respect, your comments really puzzle me... especially in a Linux forum... Extending your argument, why was it ever necessary to make Linux so reliable? Users could just "dump and restart" it too... Just as I hate

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1

2001-02-28 Thread John Wolford
Yes, rpmfind.net and google i use constantly. Well, i don't always use rpmfind so much but i know about it. I like tuxfinder.com because it finds .gz and so many other extensions. thanks again :-) j --- Pedro Del Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue Feb 27 2001 13:01, You wrote: OH MY GOD.

[expert] RealPlayer in Opera 506b and plugins -- How?

2001-02-28 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: How do you configure RealPlayer for Opera for Linux 5beta6, please? I went into Preferences, Applications, File associations and also the next section called Plugins. I selected a realplayer mime type, highlighted it and pressed enter. I could then see the file extentions covered

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.2

2001-02-28 Thread Woody Green
Neal Lippman wrote: I am wondering if anyone can provide help on installing XFree 4.0.2. I have d/l'd the cooker rpms: I have what I believe to be a complete set of the 13 rpms, minus the glide rpm which I understand does not work well with my nVidia GeForce II MX card. After d/l'ing

Re: [expert] urpmi, apt-get

2001-02-28 Thread John Wolford
Hi Marc, In my experience, there are just some things you have to update manually. Like MandrakeUpdate! I had problems with that too, until i updated it manually. Also, in case you're not using it totally properly, go into the preferences menu (a sub-menu of one of the main drop-downs) and

Re: [expert] Two problems with ssh.

2001-02-28 Thread Woody Green
Pea Arellano Fabian Erasmo wrote: Hi, I am having a couple of problems with ssh 1. When I try to open some graphical programs from the ssh server on the client, I get the following message: channel 0: istate 4 != open channel 0: ostate 64 != open

[expert] KDE 2.1 final and rpm-4.0

2001-02-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am in the final portion of rebuilding kde-2.1-1mdk src rpms for my Mandrake 7.2 (ish) system. I am doing this after upgrading to glibc-2.2. All is going well, so far as compiling and installing goes (we'll see after trying to restart the whole shebang afterward). I also downloaded, built,

[expert] solved my StarOffice 5.2 problem

2001-02-28 Thread Stig-Ørjan Smelror
I had a small problem earlier with StarOffice 5.2. I've now solved the problem and the solution is as follows: If you get "Failed to load necessary components" then it is my guess that you've touched your ~/office52/ directory. What happens then is that the symlinks in this directory is

Re: [expert] Two problems with ssh.

2001-02-28 Thread Woody Green
Woody Green wrote: Pea Arellano Fabian Erasmo wrote: Hi, I am having a couple of problems with ssh 1. When I try to open some graphical programs from the ssh server on the client, I get the following message: channel 0: istate 4 != open

Re: [expert] boot floppy building

2001-02-28 Thread John Wolford
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html Hopefully you have installed the howto's with your linux. Mine are in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/ But i've downloaded updates from linuxdoc.org. Cheers, j --- "tony K." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can some kind soul explain the process of

Re: [expert] Continuous Message Logging

2001-02-28 Thread John Wolford
From wherever you unpacked the kernel tarball, read .../linux/Documentation/Changes and make sure that you have all of the required updates. j --- "Ing.Israel Garcia Alvarez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am compiling a kernel 2.4.0 in a Mandrake 7.2 and I got this error:

[expert] PostScript fonts

2001-02-28 Thread Bruce Endries
Hello; Does anyone know how I can add Postscript fonts to Linux Mandrake 7.2? I have several fonts that I use with Windows (under Adobe Type Manager) and need them to be used in Mandrake, in GV. Thanks, Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] install onto 3ware raid controller?

2001-02-28 Thread asn
Hi, Hi, I have a system (on order) with a 3ware IDE raid controller which is supported by the 3w-.o driver. The vendor installed Redhat 6.2 with no problems, but Mandrake 7.2 does not include 3w-.o in the installer's list of "scsi" drivers. As an experiment, we manually loaded the

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.0

2001-02-28 Thread Daniel Woods
Will it have KDE 2.1, kernel 2.4.2?? I'm just guessing based on previous experiences with 'Drake, but since the product is already in Beta, I doubt you will see Linux 2.4.2 or KDE 2.1. Yes, it does. Read here... http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/80beta.php3 Thanks... Dan.

Re: [expert] urpmi, apt-get

2001-02-28 Thread Marc Siegel
Thanks for the response, In my experience, there are just some things you have to update manually. Like MandrakeUpdate! I had problems with that too, until i updated it How did you update it manually, and to what version? I was asking the question because i want to figure out how to get urpmi

RE: [expert] dumb question about the HOSTNAME

2001-02-28 Thread Franki
Hi Andrew and all, I got the answer, I changed the server name, to something resolvable and it all works now. now I just have to add the new subdomain to my dns, and all will be set. Frank Hauptle / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ Gshop

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
While I understand this to be a desire of many who use the browsers in this manner, I don't understand "why" this is. The browser was never designed to do such a thing. Why would one want it to? Why not just kill the browser now and then, dump the cache and restart the browser. Since linux memory

RE: [expert] Changing HD

2001-02-28 Thread Daryl Johnson
There is actually a Howto on this which gives step by step instructions including 3 (I think)ways of getting around the difficult bit. The basis is that you run both diska at once using a specified mountpoint for the new disk. Transfer all your files to the new disk and then er...

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.0

2001-02-28 Thread Dan Riley
"John J. LeMay Jr." wrote: ** Reply to message from Aravind Sadagopan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:49:36 +0800 Will it have KDE 2.1, kernel 2.4.2?? I'm just guessing based on previous experiences with 'Drake, but since the product is already in Beta, I doubt you will see

Re: [expert] Continuous Message Logging

2001-02-28 Thread Matthew Micene
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 06:58 am, you wrote: The system continuously saves messages in several files in /var/log, filling up the partition and degrading performance until I delete the offending files. Check the Mandrake Update sites for an updated syslog package. That sounds like the

Re: [expert] Changing HD

2001-02-28 Thread John Wolford
1. Throw in your second hard drive 2. Format it and mount it - you can use diskdrake for this. 3. Copy over your entire drive to it. Be sure to use the -a switch # cp -a / /mnt/newdrive assuming you mounted it at /mnt/newdrive 4. Pull your drives out and swap them over. 5. Make sure your new

Re: [expert] KDE / X display

2001-02-28 Thread Woody Green
"Yacketta,Ronald J" wrote: Hello all!! Could someone point me in the right direction to export my KDE display to another server (similar to XDMCP?) I work from home often and would liek to beable to do somethign to a telnet my box at work (through firewall yada yada) set my display

Re: [expert] RealPlayer in Opera 506b and plugins -- How?

2001-02-28 Thread Tobias Marx
Benjamin Sher schrieb: Dear friends: How do you configure RealPlayer for Opera for Linux 5beta6, please? I'm sorry, but the Opera beta doesn't support plugins and Java yet! I hope Opera Soft will include these features soon, after this Opera will be by far the best (and fastest) browser on

Re: [expert] Isntall Mdk 7.2 on Vmware V-machine

2001-02-28 Thread =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
Hi, Try the newsgroups at news://news.vmware.com/ Fabian. On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Eric wrote: Well, I got it to install OK, got everything up but THE NETWORK It recognizes the virtual card as an AMD PC-NET ... card, but during the install, and at

Re: Reloading browsers [Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final]

2001-02-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Pierre Fortin wrote: Mark, [At the risk of starting a thread that won't die...] With all due respect, your comments really puzzle me... especially in a Linux forum... Extending your argument, why was it ever necessary to make Linux so reliable? Users could just "dump and restart" it

RE: [expert] stopping the cups printer

2001-02-28 Thread Aaron deRozario
Is the problem from a print job that has gone bad? On my Epson 660, for some reason, some print jobs go haywire and the printer prints pages of rubbish. I'm not sure of the cause as there does not appear to be a pattern - though it occurs more often from KDE 2 apps with the hardwired lpd print

Re: [expert] urpmi, apt-get

2001-02-28 Thread John Wolford
I upgraded it manually by downloading it from an update mirror (there are many listed off the Mandrake website) and typing at the command prompt something like # rpm -Uv MandrakeUpdate-whateverversion.i586.rpm Actually, i think that was for the version that came with 7.1. It was broken in that

[expert] how to install a web-based package (leafwa)

2001-02-28 Thread David E. Fox
I just ran across (on comp.os.linux.announce) an allegedly neat web-based configuration tool for leafnode, called leafwa. It is a collection of web pages and shell scripts. Installing this should be fairly straightforward, but I can't get my browser to see the pages. The directions seem

[expert] MandrakeUpdate tips

2001-02-28 Thread Simon Cousins
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:10:00 -0800 (PST) John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Simon, I'd be interested in some of those "tips and tricks" that you mentioned. I can get done what i need to, but sometimes it seems to require much manual fiddling. Hi John, Here's my list so far: 1.

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.0

2001-02-28 Thread Aries
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 08:23, you wrote: KDE 2.1 is to be in 8.0 , as far as 8.0 beaing beta it just went beta today, (the previous ISO's available were not beta) of course following the anouncement of KDE 2.1, as far as Kernel 2.4.2 I don't know for sure I know they are working on

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-02-28 Thread Larry Marshall
While I understand this to be a desire of many who use the browsers in this manner, I don't understand "why" this is. The browser was never designed to do such a thing. Why would one want it to? Why not just kill Mark...look at what Konquerer is doing and think about the question you just

Re: [expert] Changing HD

2001-02-28 Thread Boddhisatva Troutwaxer
Tom Strickland wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:51:11AM -0300, Gabriel Sandor wrote: Hello C, Tuesday, February 27, 2001, 11:08:55 PM, you wrote: CN Hello from the frozen north; CN I'm planing to upgrade my harddisl from an 8gig to a 20 gig and was wondering how to move over

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.0

2001-02-28 Thread Roger Sherman
I just checked the page that describes the beta at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/80beta.php3 and the beta is coming with 2.4.2 as the default. peace, Rog Registered Linux user #19071 On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: ** Reply to message from Aravind Sadagopan [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Changing HD

2001-02-28 Thread Tom Strickland
I have tried the tar method: # cd /var # tar -cf - . ; (cd /var-new; tar xpf -) ... and got a load of warning messages to the effect of 'socket not copied' for some files belonging to amavis and postfix. Looking /usr/share/doc/tar-1.13.17/NEWS, I find that tar no longer archives sockets. I have

Re: [expert] Changing HD

2001-02-28 Thread Ron Stodden
Gabriel Sandor wrote: The process of moving Linux from one partition or hd to another is fairly simple: Put your new hd as slave and make all the partitions and format them. Just copy all the tree but /proc and /mnt. Create the directories under /mnt. Then you should edit your /etc/fstab

Re: [expert] Changing HD

2001-02-28 Thread C Nielsen
Thanx for all the tips and wish me luck. If things go well I'll be back soon. On Wednesday 28 February 2001 09:09:06:am, Daryl Johnson wrote: There is actually a Howto on this which gives step by step instructions including 3 (I think)ways of getting around the difficult bit. The

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.0

2001-02-28 Thread John
"John J. LeMay Jr." wrote: ** Reply to message from Aravind Sadagopan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:49:36 +0800 Will it have KDE 2.1, kernel 2.4.2?? I'm just guessing based on previous experiences with 'Drake, but since the product is already in Beta, I doubt you

[expert] g++, g77 ..nothing works..

2001-02-28 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
Hello, I downloaded iso's mandrake 7.2 and burned CDs and installed successfully, I installed... 3Gig ( everything on the 2 CDs )... Why these are not found : compilers : g++, f77, fort77 or g77, include files: MesaGL includes (glut.h etc..) Motif (lesstif) is