Re: [expert-it] come lanciare applic. MS-DOS/windows

2001-07-09 Thread Giacomo P.
Il 06:29, lunedì 09 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Vorrei sapere quali metodi sono dipsonibili per attivare delle applicazioni MS-DOS/Windows direttamtente in Linux C'è altra via oltre una macchina virtuale? (as esempio usando vmWare) Grazie

[expert] Install LM8.0 with XFS

2001-07-09 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, XFS is quite fast and stable. But I am struggling to find ways to install it with LM8.0 install program. At the moment I have to install it onto ext2 partition and then cp -a all files into the XFS partition. The question is how to make the installation program in Lm8.0 understand XFS. I try

[expert] recompiled kernel

2001-07-09 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, I am running default kernel 2.4.5-9.mdk, as confirmed by 'uname -sr' and the KDE control centre, but the linux splash screens on startup and shutdown still show the old 2.4.3-20.mdk kernel which I recompiled back in April. Why is this? How do I update these splash screens? TIA.

RE: [expert] Show status of adsl connect

2001-07-09 Thread Gregor Maier
Got adsl yesterday and managed the setup. though not using draknet. I tried draknet first but it did not work. Then I ran adsl-setup and added a defaultroute in adsl-start. Now it works like a charm. Problem is, 11 (my provider) cuts the link after 15 minutes of inactivity and after 14

[expert] Dell PowerAPP 120 Mandrake 8

2001-07-09 Thread Jeroen Geusebroek
Hi Guys, I have a problem installing Mandrake 8 on a DELL PowerAPP 120. The problem is that when Mandrake is detecting the Harddisks, it keeps trying and trying but does not find anything. The server has a raidadaptor (Megaraid) and Mandrake detects it. (At least that's what it says). Does

Re: [expert] Intel 82810e...

2001-07-09 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Vincent A. Primavera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is anyone out there using an Intel 82810e video I dont know, from harddrake I got Vendor: Intel Corporation Model: 810 (generic)82810 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] Bus Type: PCI but it is not e :-) but it is the same

Re: [expert] Show status of adsl connect

2001-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 13:12 +0200, Gregor Maier wrote: 1. I put up a cronjob which sends 1 ping tom my own domain every 14 minutes. in addition to this job you could also run this script as cronjob which will check if the connection (ppp0 interface) is still up. if not it will

Re: [expert] Internal time

2001-07-09 Thread Albert E. Whale
Have you ever configured NTP? Bruce E.Harris wrote: I am running MDK 8.0 and every since this upgrade my computer will not keep time. It loses about 3 hrs per day. Not sure if the CMOS battery is running down or what. How can I get my system to automatically keep time with a clock standard

Re: [expert] Any mutt users?

2001-07-09 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-09 12:40 * Incoming subspace signal from Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:42 +0200, Laurent CREPET wrote: I use fetchmail to retrieve my e-mails from multiple account, and it works well. Tell me if I'm wrong (since I don't use mutt

Re: [expert] Sound troubles

2001-07-09 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-08 20:35 * Incoming subspace signal from claude [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hello, The other day I accidently bumped the switch on my surge protector. After reboot I had no sound. Actually I have no permission to the sound card as a normal user (even tough I belong to the

Re: [expert] Internal time

2001-07-09 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-08 17:10 * Incoming subspace signal from x [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Install the ntp package, edit your config file to point it towards the closest NTP server to your location, use the 'date' command to set the system clock to a roughly accurate time (because it'll complain and

Re: [expert] recompiled kernel

2001-07-09 Thread Rusty Carruth
Dennis Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I am running default kernel 2.4.5-9.mdk, as confirmed by 'uname -sr' and the KDE control centre, but the linux splash screens on startup and shutdown still show the old 2.4.3-20.mdk kernel which I recompiled back in April. Why is

Re: [expert] Internal time

2001-07-09 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-08 16:14 * Incoming subspace signal from Bruce E.Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I am running MDK 8.0 and every since this upgrade my computer will not keep time. It loses about 3 hrs per day. Not sure if the CMOS battery is running down or what. How can I get my system to

Re[2]: [expert] making shell script excutable.........

2001-07-09 Thread Rusty Carruth
DStevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 July 2001 00:45, faisal gillani wrote: well i finally wrote my first shell script ... now i want to make it excutable ... i dont want to run it as ./filename i tried to make it excutable with the following command chmod a+x

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread M. Osten
Until these inconsistencies are resolved, Linux will remain for hackers who have the time and knowledge to fix things so that they will run, and the common user will never get to reap the benefits os this otherwise wonderful operating system. Two cases in point: More fuel for the fire

Re: [expert] recompiled kernel

2001-07-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 09 July 2001 09:29 am, Rusty Carruth wrote: vi Makefile; make oldconfig make menuconfig make clean make dep \ make install make modules make modules-install During the vi of Makefile, I change the extraversion to something amusing (and different ;-) so that I get a new kernel

[expert] SBLive! (lots of them)

2001-07-09 Thread Nathan Callahan
I seem to have some weird stuff going on with the sound on my machine at the moment. I have 1 Soundblaster Live! installed in my machine. In an effort to get midi going, I have tried running alsaconf from the command line as suggested earlier on this list, I have also tried reconfiguring the

[Fwd: Re: [expert] Lack of standards]

2001-07-09 Thread Alfredo J. Cole
Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] Lack of standards Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 09:39:12 -0600 From: Alfredo J. Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ACyC To: M. Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M. Osten wrote: More fuel for the fire I guess... Do

[expert] LM 8.0 Extension disk

2001-07-09 Thread Alfredo J. Cole
Hi: I have downloaded the iso image for LM 8.0 (Install and Extension disks). The installation goes well with the first disk, but it fails when the second disk is about to finish. The message is Can not find hdlists and goes back to the partition dialog. I have tried downloading the second

FW: [expert] Mandrake Freq: Aurora Prevents Boot

2001-07-09 Thread jlemay
Unfortunately Aurora fails to time out on these hangs and instead leaves the console in an apparently stuck state. While Aurora does a nice job of making startup pretty, it seems rather lacking in function and recovery. One issue that concerned me was that while Aurora indicated that it was

Re: [expert] Any mutt users?

2001-07-09 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Dude, got the same setup. Actually, I solved that using fetchmail and writing my mail into the local inbox (/var/spool/mail/user). Was easyer - so I don't have to keep mutt up and running. Here my Fetchmailrc file: poll smtp.externalmailserver.ch protocol pop3 user blabou, with

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach civileme am Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:33:09PM +: distro because we haven't thoroughly tested it yet. It is in cooker if anyone wants to download it and use it, so the complaint about packages that Actually, no, it's not in Cooker. gcc 3.0 is in contribs for the reason you

[expert] RPM System about to be thrown thru window

2001-07-09 Thread DStevenson
I am having a nightmare with the RPM system. For example...trying to install the RPM for Wine. I have downloaded the latest version from web. I click on the RPM and rpminst tells me that the packages are already installed. Emhh. I did not install them, so the Mandrake install must have. I

RE: [expert] LM 8.0 Extension disk

2001-07-09 Thread grassi, adriano
I got the same thing in one machine I was installing which was a AMD 700, I made a boot disk for network installation and everything worked. I hope this helps. Adriano Grassi -Original Message- From: Alfredo J. Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 11:59 AM To:

Re: [expert] RPM System about to be thrown thru window

2001-07-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach DStevenson am Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:47:53PM -0400: but this tells me I need to run a command to upgrade my database to db3, whatever that may be. man rpm: REBUILD DATABASE OPTIONS The general form of an rpm rebuild database command is rpm {--initdb|--rebuilddb}

Re: FW: [expert] Mandrake Freq: Aurora Prevents Boot

2001-07-09 Thread Jim Dewar
X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit i don't know what the solution is to what you were experiencing, but i was having the same problem. my solution was to simply turn the fool thing off. now everything boots fine

[expert] installing lm_sensors

2001-07-09 Thread Jim Dewar
X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hi all, no one on the newbie list was able to answer this for me and someone suggested to ask here i have an abit bp6 motherboard running LM8 (2.4.3-20smp) with the smp

[expert] Urgent! Cannot reinstall LM 8.0

2001-07-09 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Due to human error on my part (a nice way to say that I goofed big time), I will apparently have to reinstall LM 8.0. I set my Bios to CDrom, inserted CD1 and started my reinstallation. I am an old hand at this, so I should be able to do this blind-folded. HOWEVER, suddenly, at

Re: [expert] RPM System about to be thrown thru window

2001-07-09 Thread DStevenson
On Monday 09 July 2001 14:00, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach DStevenson am Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:47:53PM -0400: but this tells me I need to run a command to upgrade my database to db3, whatever that may be. man rpm: REBUILD DATABASE OPTIONS The general form of an rpm

RE: [expert] Urgent! Cannot reinstall LM 8.0

2001-07-09 Thread grassi, adriano
Hello, 2 things to do or try; 1. If you don't need the serial ports disable them in the bios, that may get you thru with the install. 2. About uninstalling Linux, if you don't need the files just repartition or reformat your hard drive. I hope any of this helps. Best Regards, Adriano Grassi

[expert] DvD and DivX players recomended in LM8?

2001-07-09 Thread Pere Castañer
Hi all I have a LM8 Freq (26June) in my laptop and I want to install something that reproduces DVD and DivX. I tried xine and XMPS but the first I have a problems with imlib and the second with gcc (version 3.0 required) and the question is: There is an player for reproduces DIvX and DVD that

Re: [expert] DvD and DivX players recomended in LM8?

2001-07-09 Thread M. Osten
Hi all I have a LM8 Freq (26June) in my laptop and I want to install something that reproduces DVD and DivX. I tried xine and XMPS but the first I have a problems with imlib and the second with gcc (version 3.0 required) and the question is: There is an player for reproduces DIvX and

[expert] DNS2GO (Anyone?)

2001-07-09 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello guys.. Is anyone using dns2go on mandrake-8.0 (succesfully?) I have tried almost everything and all I get is a segfault (core dumped) First I tried from the RPM file, nothing then I try installing from tar... same thing! sk -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] Any mutt users?

2001-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 00:27 +0200, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: * Stardate: 2001-07-09 21:11 * Incoming subspace signal from Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 16:16 +0200, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: What mutt version do you have ? It gives an error with my version

Re: [expert] RPM System about to be thrown thru window

2001-07-09 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-09 17:47 * Incoming subspace signal from DStevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I am having a nightmare with the RPM system. For example...trying to install the RPM for Wine. I have downloaded the latest version from web. I click on the RPM and rpminst tells me that the

Re: [expert] Intel 82810e...

2001-07-09 Thread Steve Kieu
I know i810 is very lame chipset but if you got it so make it works is not hard. XFree 4.0.3 support this out of the box with 3 d acceleration (butno AA font). XFree 4.1.0 is completed this part. For me things are smooth with the LM 8.0 installation (yes the ugly low resolution in install program

Re: [expert] Intel 82810e...

2001-07-09 Thread Steve Kieu
Just a note if you have not bought it yet, dont buy it. (if you need play fancy games or use graphic intensively, otherwise it will be fine --- Vincent A. Primavera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I haven't attempted to install it yet because when the install starts the graphics are a

Re: [expert] open source documentation

2001-07-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 09 July 2001 05:13 pm, Robert wrote: What do you think of this With the mass of how -tos on the net, I think it would be helpful to have then printed, bound and offered for sale, for the cost of the publishing , kinkos style publishing that is. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Re: [expert] open source documentation

2001-07-09 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jul 09, 2001 at 06:13:43PM -0400, Robert wrote: What do you think of this With the mass of how -tos on the net, I think it would be helpful to have then printed, bound and offered for sale, for the cost of the publishing , kinkos style publishing that is. Does anyone have

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread mike
On Monday 09 July 2001 11:02, M. Osten wrote: Until these inconsistencies are resolved, Linux will remain for hackers who have the time and knowledge to fix things so that they will run, and the common user will never get to reap the benefits os this otherwise wonderful operating

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread David Rankin
Tom Brinkman wrote: Until these inconsistencies are resolved, Linux will remain for hackers who time and knowledge to fix things so that they will run, and the common user will never get to reap the benefits os this otherwise wonderful operating system. On Monday 09 July 2001

Re: [expert] open source documentation

2001-07-09 Thread George Abdo
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:09, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 09 July 2001 05:13 pm, Robert wrote: What do you think of this With the mass of how -tos on the net, I think it would be helpful to have then printed, bound and offered for sale, for the cost of the publishing , kinkos style

Re: [expert] Cannot do ftpd, webmin, linuxconf-web

2001-07-09 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
About webmin, have you tried http://localhost:1 ??? you can only use https if you have the ssh modules... orlando Praedor Tempus wrote: I don't get it. I have wu-ftpd installed (2.6.1), I have the latest webmin and linux-conf and all installed. I can start webmin but every time I

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread M. Osten
I want everybody running Linux, because it is better. I don't. I like the fact that it takes skills to run a successful linux box. I like the fact that I can talk to other linux users and not get blank drooling faces. I guess this is exactly what I want to avoid, Linux becoming an

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread mike
On Monday 09 July 2001 20:51, David Rankin wrote: The cup is half-full side to the Lack of Standards argument is the Rapid Progress being made and Healthy Competition Coupled with Enginuity within Linux development community. To call this a Lack of Standards is at best a misunderstanding of

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread mike
On Monday 09 July 2001 12:03, Tom Brinkman wrote: Until these inconsistencies are resolved, Linux will remain for hackers who time and knowledge to fix things so that they will run, and the common user will never get to reap the benefits os this otherwise wonderful operating

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread mike
On Monday 09 July 2001 13:07, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach civileme am Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:33:09PM +: distro because we haven't thoroughly tested it yet. It is in cooker if anyone wants to download it and use it, so the complaint about packages that Actually, no, it's not in

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Lack of standards]

2001-07-09 Thread mike
On Monday 09 July 2001 11:40, Alfredo J. Cole wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] Lack of standards Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 09:39:12 -0600 From: Alfredo J. Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ACyC To: M. Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M.

[expert] How to install EVERYTHING on LM 8.0?

2001-07-09 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: This may seem like a trivial question, but it's been driving me crazy. I have to reinstall LM 8.0, and, for the life of me, I can't find any option to INSTALL EVERYTHING. One click of the mouse and you just install everything on LM 8.0 (at least the 2 CD version, which totals

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread David Rankin
mike wrote: On Monday 09 July 2001 20:51, David Rankin wrote: The cup is half-full side to the Lack of Standards argument is the Rapid Progress being made and Healthy Competition Coupled with Enginuity within Linux development community. To call this a Lack of Standards is at best a

[expert] Multiple network cards in a Mandrake firewall/switch combination

2001-07-09 Thread Darcy Brodie
Hello I hope that this can be done. I currently have a LM7.2 box as a firewall for our internet access. Cable modem from ISP is going to eth0. eth1 (100baseT) is going to the internal network. What I need to do, is add a 3rd network card to allow me to also have a 10baseT network within

Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?

2001-07-09 Thread ninjaz
My vendor of choice is ucdweb- http://www.ucdweb.com/ They've been a very reliable vendor for me - first experience was February 1998, buying drives for a database server's RAID. 4 IBM 4GB SCSI disks - all of which are alive and kicking over 3 years later. :) By comparison, the majority of

Re: [expert] How to install EVERYTHING on LM 8.0?

2001-07-09 Thread mike
On Monday 09 July 2001 23:03, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: This may seem like a trivial question, but it's been driving me crazy. I have to reinstall LM 8.0, and, for the life of me, I can't find any option to INSTALL EVERYTHING. One click of the mouse and you just install everything

Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?

2001-07-09 Thread ninjaz
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That works fine under Linux Mandrake, as well, but her K6-2's motherboard (Asus A7V) did not recognize the full size of the drive out of the box. Correction - the motherboard is P5A, not A7V. You'd just break pins trying to use a K6-2 in an

Re: [expert] How to install EVERYTHING on LM 8.0?

2001-07-09 Thread ninjaz
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: This may seem like a trivial question, but it's been driving me crazy. I have to reinstall LM 8.0, and, for the life of me, I can't find any option to INSTALL EVERYTHING. One click of the mouse and you just install everything on

Re: [expert] RPM System about to be thrown thru window

2001-07-09 Thread DStevenson
On Monday 09 July 2001 18:27, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: * Stardate: 2001-07-09 17:47 * Incoming subspace signal from DStevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I am having a nightmare with the RPM system. For example...trying to install the RPM for Wine. I have downloaded the latest version from web. I

Re: [expert] Multiple network cards in a Mandrake firewall/switch combination

2001-07-09 Thread Darcy Brodie
civileme wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2001 04:47, Darcy Brodie wrote: Hello I hope that this can be done. I currently have a LM7.2 box as a firewall for our internet access. Cable modem from ISP is going to eth0. eth1 (100baseT) is going to the internal network. What I need to

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-09 Thread Nicky Peeters
On 2001.07.09 17:02 M. Osten wrote: The whole Linux replacing Windows on the desktop is stupid...who cares. I use Linux because it works, I like using it. The whole point of making Linux work on the desktop is enabling *any* user to do the daily tasks with more ease and fewer

[expert] Cannot do ftpd, webmin, linuxconf-web

2001-07-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
I don't get it. I have wu-ftpd installed (2.6.1), I have the latest webmin and linux-conf and all installed. I can start webmin but every time I try to connect to https://localhost:1 I instantly get a message that I cannot connect to localhost. I checked my hosts.deny and my local

Re: [expert] Any mutt users?

2001-07-09 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-07-09 21:11 * Incoming subspace signal from Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 16:16 +0200, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: What mutt version do you have ? It gives an error with my version (1.2.5-i). User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i (Version included in

Re: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?

2001-07-09 Thread Larry Sword
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I am about to buy a 20.4 gig hardrive for my AMD K6-2 400 Mhz and LM 8.0. I would appreciate your professional advise. I am considering buying it from TigerDirect. The Seagate 20.4 HD has a Seek time of 8.9, a transfer rate of 100MB/s an rpm of 5400, a

Re: [expert] Show status of adsl connect

2001-07-09 Thread Darcy Brodie
Gregor Maier wrote: Got adsl yesterday and managed the setup. though not using draknet. I tried draknet first but it did not work. Then I ran adsl-setup and added a defaultroute in adsl-start. Now it works like a charm. Problem is, 11 (my provider) cuts the link after 15 minutes of