Re: [expert] misuse of rpm -q ??

2001-07-18 Thread J.P.Pasnak
On July 19, 2001 02:28 am, Abraham Mandac wrote: > I just recently built libIDL from source (libIDL > is one of the libraries required to be able to > build mozilla). > $ rpm -q libIDL > invokes this message: > package libIDL is not installed No 'rpm -i', no entry in the RPM database, equal

[expert] NTFS -- Thanks, everyone!

2001-07-18 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: My thanks to everyone who wrote in concerning the question of NTFS vs. VFAT in Win2000 for my dual-boot LM 8.0/Windows2000 system. Since I do little sharing of files between Linux and Windows, I selected NTFS as my file system for Win2000. Everyone seems to admit that it is supe

[expert] misuse of rpm -q ??

2001-07-18 Thread Abraham Mandac
I just recently built libIDL from source (libIDL is one of the libraries required to be able to build mozilla). Apparently, all went well; 'make install' placed the library files exactly where the documentation said it would put them. We all use 'rpm -q' to check the version of installed packages

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] free news group servers

2001-07-18 Thread Bob Y
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:52:20 +0300 (EET DST) Turgut Kalfaoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You can find lists of open news servers at http://www.newzbot.com > > huh? I wasnt aware that someone was giving NNTP feed for free on the > net. Is anyone aware of anywhere giving a full feed for fre

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] free news group servers

2001-07-18 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
> You can find lists of open news servers at http://www.newzbot.com huh? I wasnt aware that someone was giving NNTP feed for free on the net. Is anyone aware of anywhere giving a full feed for free? -turgut

[expert] please help with compile fault on rpm source

2001-07-18 Thread Expert
rpm rpmfind-1.6-1.src.rpm --rebuild Installing rpmfind-1.6-1.src.rpm Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.51093+ Makefile:110: .depends: No such file or directory gcc -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=i586 -ffast-math -Wall -I. -I/usr/include/rpm -c deps.c

Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-18 Thread Expert
One must remember, age is irrelevant, one's own skill level and handicap (if applicable) is what is to be considered. On Wednesday 18 July 2001 11:11 pm, so spoke Brandon Caudle: > Come on, I'm a 15 year old kid here who just installed 2.2.1 from the gz > file, your on the expert list why need r

Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-18 Thread Brandon Caudle
Come on, I'm a 15 year old kid here who just installed 2.2.1 from the gz file, your on the expert list why need rpm? you can customize the package. ~Brandon - Original Message - From: "David Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:5

[expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-18 Thread David Rankin
Who's Building the Samba 2.2.1a RPM for Mandrake? Samba.org and rpmfind.net still have 2.2.0. And depressingly enough, the 2.2.0 rpm is built for i686. I'm not adverse to building my own from the SRPM, but if someone is going to the trouble to build the rpm, please do so with for both i586 and i68

Re: [expert] linux distribution

2001-07-18 Thread Brandon Caudle
Yeah I would agree on the server install Debian if your brave like me FreeBSD ;>) ~Brandon - Original Message - From: "Angus Beath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'angela'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 7:23 PM Subject: RE: [expert]

Re: [expert] linux distribution

2001-07-18 Thread David Oberbeck
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 17:38, Bill Beauchemin wrote: Greetings, The previous respondents and Mr. Beauchemin brings up some good points... however, at the risk of starting a (pointless) flame war, the reality is that most people do not want to spend a great deal of time reading HOWTOs and ban

Re: [expert] linux distribution

2001-07-18 Thread Bill Beauchemin
Angus and Robert are right on the money. Run Mandrake as your first linux experiance and youll never go back to winblows. I started on RH years ago and stoped because of how hard it was to instal things. I finally tried again with Mandrake 6.1 and it was great. Load and go preety much. I also f

Re: [expert] mdk 8.0 on a laptop

2001-07-18 Thread Mark Strovink
I have it running on a Dell Inspiron 4K with CDRW and Psion modem PC Card. Only sizeable problem: 3 months and waiting to get the network part working. Dell sold me the Xircom 10/100 CBE2 PC Card, which has driver problems in Linux. I returned it and ordered the ActionTec (P/N 64SCJ) mini-PCI c

[expert] mdk 8.0 on a laptop

2001-07-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I am looking at a gettting Dell Inspiration 4000 or 8000 laptop (which ...). Only extras are 256M memory and cdrw. Has anyone installed mdk 8.0 on a similar beast, and how successful. It will have to live with win2000, at least for awhile, are there any gotchas (such as can mdk resize ntfs

Re: [expert] On-board sound card problem

2001-07-18 Thread Adrian
Thank you Bob, I've downloaded sndconfig rpm package from Mandrake ftp server, installed it and now it's working (I don't know why that package wasn't installed during system setup...) Adrian

[expert] Sony CRX0811 CD-Writer in Linux ?

2001-07-18 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
My CD-writer recently broke. I looking for a new one that will work in Linux. Is there anyone with a Sony CRX0811 CD-Writer on this list ? Does it work in Mandrake ? -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts & RPM Software Packag

Re: [expert] kmail - 2problems

2001-07-18 Thread Vincent A. Primavera
Hello, Mine say 23:59:59... Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera On Wednesday 18 July 2001 17:54, brian wrote: > Anyone else have problems with kmail being pretty bad at threading > messages? Some things get put under other messages for no aparent reason. > Others that should

[expert] kmail - 2problems

2001-07-18 Thread brian
Anyone else have problems with kmail being pretty bad at threading messages? Some things get put under other messages for no aparent reason. Others that should be part of a thread 8 messages deep show up at the top of my inbox on their own. I also get a lot of email from people showing the da

[expert] who would like to explain?

2001-07-18 Thread jarmo
Hi all Tried some time with official LM-8.0 got it somehow running,tnx Civileme,but that was all,tried to compile kernel,means took off things what not needed...Bang,lost ppp...OK,Changed to LMFreq and got it working an once...no more hd problems...ATA-100...BUT again what ewer I try recompile

Re: [expert] Help -- the superblock could not be read ...

2001-07-18 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 14:16, Randy Kramer wrote: > civileme, > > Wonderful -- thank you! It appears I am back in business with no > problems. > > I plan to archive your instructions on my wiki (initially my private > wiki, and later on my public wiki, WikiLearn, when it is up and > running).

[expert] new log error

2001-07-18 Thread Scott Taylor
Suddenly I started to get this message with my morning logs, anyone know what it is all about? (it's from an internal machine) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron run-parts /etc/cron.daily X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: Sta

Re: [expert] URGENT! Win2000/Linux -- NTFS or VFAT?]

2001-07-18 Thread brian
I would definitely say NTFS - otherwise you lose any kind of file level security when working in windows. It also stores data more efficiently, and on larger partitions. If you have the space, create an additional partition that is vfat if you want to exchange data between the two partitions.

[expert] Sorry for the double posts.

2001-07-18 Thread Randy Kramer
Attn: civileme Sorry! My last two posts to the list may have been sent twice (because my Internet connection died and I stopped them and then sent them when the connection was restored). The second one to civileme corrects one "typo" and is more correct -- I make it clear that I will put the

Re: [expert] Help -- the superblock could not be read ...

2001-07-18 Thread Randy Kramer
civileme, Wonderful -- thank you! It appears I am back in business with no problems. I plan to archive your instructions on my wiki (initially my private wiki, and later on my public wiki, WikiLearn, when it is up and running). A few notes / questions: (The notes are mostly for my records.)

Re: [expert] Help -- the superblock could not be read ...

2001-07-18 Thread Randy Kramer
jose, Thanks for your response! I gave this a halfhearted try, and it did not appear to work. It may have been because I wasn't absolutely sure which was my / partition, so I was doing a trial and error booting from the floppy -- I realized I wasn't getting anywhere, and went to bed. (Each tri

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Disk activity

2001-07-18 Thread D. R. Evans
Thanks for ytour suggestions. Civileme suggested that I should upgrade the BIOS, so I'm in the process of figuring out how to do that properly. It looks like, even though it's a brand new machine, a new BIOS version has come out. I have set up a much simplified version of logging as well, to g

[expert] Synaptics TouchPad - How to configure????

2001-07-18 Thread Tomek Nowinski
Hi everybody, Well, maybe it's a stupid question of the day, but... I just wanted to ask if somebody knows how to configure Synaptics TouchPad (I mean the 3 botton - document navigation). I use 2 OS on my laptop. When I have installed Win2000 I had the same problem (very sensible touchpad and

Re: [expert] Working with src rpms

2001-07-18 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 07:23, Craig Woods wrote: > Greetings > > When you do a "rpm --rebuild" on a xx.src.rpm, do you get a finished rpm > package in one of the folders named for your architecture, i.e. > "/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/"? After I ran the "rpm --rebuild" on a src rpm, > all of the fil

Re: [expert] Help -- the superblock could not be read ...

2001-07-18 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 01:26, Randy Kramer wrote: > I was going to ask about doing this first, but I decided to try it, and > looks like I got in trouble. > > What I tried to do: > > I had a FAT32 partition that I wanted to convert to ext2fs. Started > HardDrake, found the partition, switched

Re: [expert] URGENT! Win2000/Linux -- NTFS or VFAT?]

2001-07-18 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 23:48, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > I am installing Win2000 as part of my dual-boot with LM 8.0. I use the > Reiser FS exclusively in LM 8.0 (except, of course, for the swap file). > > Win2000 asks whether I want the NTFS file system or VFAT? I am just a > newbi

RE: [expert] Routing Firewalls With Mandrake

2001-07-18 Thread Gregor Maier
The new program to do firewalling, masquerade, portforwarding etc is iptables (kernel 2.4). ipchains was used in kernel 2.2. I don't use any frontend to do my firewall settings I use the iptables command in a shell script. There are good howtos (netfilter-howto, nat-howto) on how to set up a pa

RE: [expert] output from rpm --rebuilddb

2001-07-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Looks like your system is missing the PATCH program. Did you do a full "development" install on it originally? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Woods Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ex

Re: [expert] URGENT! Win2000/Linux -- NTFS or VFAT?]

2001-07-18 Thread Mark Belanger
Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > I am installing Win2000 as part of my dual-boot with LM 8.0. I use the > Reiser FS exclusively in LM 8.0 (except, of course, for the swap file). > Win2000 asks whether I want the NTFS file system or VFAT? I am just a > newbie. Which one, please?

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Re: [expert] output from rpm --rebuilddb

2001-07-18 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 04:35, Craig Woods wrote: > Jose, > > Again thanks for your help. This is the output from my "rpm --rebuild > bind-9.1.1-1mdk.src.rpm" command. It looks to go well until the end > (isn't that the way it always goes?) > > any thoughts? > Craig Woods > > Installing bind-9.1

[expert] kernel config problem

2001-07-18 Thread s
Hi all, I was trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.6-4mdk for some particular hardware support. I ran make oldconfig cause, well, there is so much in there now - I figured it was safer for now. But when I get to the make bzImage part, I get this error: -DUTS_MACHINE='"i386"' -c -o init/version.o

[expert] output from rpm --rebuilddb

2001-07-18 Thread Craig Woods
Jose, Again thanks for your help. This is the output from my "rpm --rebuild bind-9.1.1-1mdk.src.rpm" command. It looks to go well until the end (isn't that the way it always goes?) any thoughts? Craig Woods Installing bind-9.1.1-1mdk.src.rpm Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.13044

RE: [expert] Working with src rpms

2001-07-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Woods Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Working with src rpms Greetings When you do a "rpm --rebuild" on a xx.src.rpm, do you get a finished rpm packa

[expert] Working with src rpms

2001-07-18 Thread Craig Woods
Greetings When you do a "rpm --rebuild" on a xx.src.rpm, do you get a finished rpm package in one of the folders named for your architecture, i.e. "/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/"? After I ran the "rpm --rebuild" on a src rpm, all of the files contained within the the src package went into the "/usr