Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0 - Downloading everything!

2001-12-06 Thread Brad Felmey
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 18:33, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > Hello > > LM 8.0 and 8.1. Okay, I just did a stock 8.1 install on a machine here at work and with no other changes updated to Evolution 1.0 by executing the following: rpm -Uvh evolution-1.0-1mdk libdb3.3-3.3.11-5mdk libgal18-0.18.1-

[expert] Need guidance on 8.1 kernel-enterprise and DevFS kernelpanic

2001-12-06 Thread Brad Felmey
I have a server that I've loaded Mdk 8.1 onto, using LVM and XFS on two hardware RAID5 arrays. Root is mounted on a non-LVM partition (/dev/sdb1), of course. I can't get kernel-enterprise to boot successfully. I've appended devfs=nomount, devfs=mount failsafe, and devfs=mount, but none of the thr

RE: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Franki
Do you have a Via chipset mainboard? as I understand it, if you do, and its a 686 southbridge, then your problem is known. that possibility depends on the two partitions residing on different drives though.. its made worse if you have a Creative live sound card, and/or western Digital HDDs mak

Re: [expert] remote display

2001-12-06 Thread Oscar
Thank you, Charlie and Nick In your example, Charlie, I know I can do it, but this is the question: I have a program running in remote server (Server1). The program, running under X, is a server listening a port for conections, and the conections are logged in a X window. I can't log conections

Re: [expert] Draksync Problems

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 Dec 2001 4:26 am, you wrote: > I had the same problem. 8.1 running on both computers and I could not > get draksync to work ... was getting the same error as you. Don't know > what made me try it but I went to the other computer and t

RE: [expert] automating mount proces

2001-12-06 Thread Grouwels Daniel
That part I know, it is when I try to insert a cd, then remove, another cd ... I don't want to alwys type mount Umount ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of meta Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

[expert] XFree 4.xx and Trident Ciberblade

2001-12-06 Thread Andre LABBE
Hi with version 8.0 or 8.1 with XFree version 4.xx and a Trident Ciberblade video controller, I have a problem. Sometime after a while or straigthaway, I will have a mouse offset to the right around 1cm. Every thing seem to be okay, the click still work, but every thing is offset. I didn't have

Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0

2001-12-06 Thread Mitch Thompson
During my upgrade to process for Evolution 1.0, I simply kept a browser pointed at www.rpmfind.net. Every dependency failure that popped up was fixed by downloading new RPMs from rpmfind.net. It took about half a dozen files to get everything happy. On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 13:03, Jesus Arocho wro

Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0

2001-12-06 Thread Mitch Thompson
I just used www.rpmfind.net to get the Mandrake Cooker RPMS. Every time a dependency error popped up, I just dl'ed the new package to take care of the dependency. On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 12:45, Scott Thurmond wrote: > Has anyone upgraded to Evolution 1.0? I am thinking about upgrading and > wante

Re: [expert] XFree 4.xx and Trident Ciberblade

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 Dec 2001 12:14 pm, you wrote: > Hi > > with version 8.0 or 8.1 with XFree version 4.xx and a Trident Ciberblade > video controller, I have a problem. > Sometime after a while or straigthaway, I will have a mouse offset to > the right

Re: [expert] Draksync Problems [extra]

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 Dec 2001 11:07 am, you wrote: > On Thursday 06 Dec 2001 4:26 am, you wrote: > > I had the same problem. 8.1 running on both computers and I could not > > get draksync to work ... was getting the same error as you. Don't know > > what

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-12-06 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:05:54 +1100 Tarragon Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 03:20, Mark D'voo wrote: > > I understand that many people still need many of the programs of windows. > > But harddrives are big enough that there is no reason to dual boot. > > Companies should s

RE: [expert] automating mount proces

2001-12-06 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
You might try looking into autofs, if you are wanting to auto-mount your cd's and all Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: meta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 9:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] automating mount proces e

Re: [expert] automating mount proces

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 06 December 2001 06:29 am, Grouwels Daniel wrote: > That part I know, it is when I try to insert a cd, then remove, > another cd ... I don't want to alwys type mount Umount ... > I've got supermount working well on ML8.1. I did it by installing a 2.4.13 kernel, which also r

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-12-06 Thread Nick Thompson
How so? My laptop dual boots between Win98 and LM8.1. It has the same hostname in each boot and uses DHCP to get its networking details in both cases. If I hadn't told our IT department, I'm not sure they'd have even realised I'd done it. Nick. Mark Weaver wrote: >>The reason that companies

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:44 pm, Ben Pearre wrote: > > - Copying 3 650MB ISO files from linux reiserfs partition to > > FAT32 windows partition. > > I got my extended partitions trashed after copying about a gig of > smaller (1-10 meg or so) files from a reiserfs partition to another >

RE: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs

2001-12-06 Thread Matt . Carpenter
In what manner do you mean "Forced?" I am somewhat forced to use Lotus Notes, but I've found that most of what I do has a couple ways to do it and there is generally at least one way around "forced". Unfortunately sometimes that way is not necessarily pretty.

RE: [expert] automating mount proces

2001-12-06 Thread Franki
Hi Tom, Got a few questions for you if I may... Why did you have to upgrade initscripts and iptables to go with 2.4.16-1??? I have that kernel, initscripts-6.27-10.4 and iptables-1.2.4-2 Should I upgrade them?? it all seems to be fine and iptables is definately working... Secondly, with supe

[expert] Startup Issues with Daemons - 7.2

2001-12-06 Thread Albert E. Whale
Hmm, this is a strange one. I have a Backup DNS Server which had problems starting Sendmail on startup. I could only fix it by issuing the start command in the rc.local script. Now I have a similar situation with DHCPD. The Daemon refuses to read the configuration file on System startup, but a

Re: FW: [expert] Beta Tester

2001-12-06 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:21 am, you wrote: > HI Hoyt, > > In reply to your question, our products are targeted to SMBs, more on > the "M" side - it's typically the company which has enough servers to > start worrying about their management, but are not on a "mammoth" scale. > Therefore, th

Re: [expert] remote display

2001-12-06 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Thursday 06 December 2001 05:38 am, you wrote: . > I know I can see the X display using vnc, but, There are another option? Look at xmove. http://www.ensta.fr/internet/unix/misc/xmove.html Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-12-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Nick, I'm an assistant network administrator where i work. can you imagine having to support even a modest network of 40 users with 40 workstations that all dual boot from windows 9x to Linux Mandrake? given that most corporate users have only enough working knowledge of their workstations to nav

Re: [expert] Fwd: Samba & DHCP

2001-12-06 Thread David Rankin
Should be. That's what I'm doing with LM 7.2 and 4 windows clients. What you need to do is set up a caching only DNS so that your local zone files are updated each time dhcp hands out a new IP to your client PC. Jason Pearce wrote: > -- Forwarded Message -- > Subject: Samb

[expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List! I'm looking for a product (if it really exists!) to allow me to print via Ethernet using parallel printer. I mean, a kind of box with one RJ input (so I could set a IP address) and some parallel ports, where I would connect printers. So I would be able to set printers in my li

RE: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Smith, Albert C
AXIS and IBM both make these kind of Box's. Albert Smith Unix Administrator Quest Diagnostics Inc. Work: 610-454-4320 Pager: 800-946-4646 pin 1723803 Mobile: 215-498-6829 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1201 S. Collegeville Rd. Collegeville, PA 19426 -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter

RE: [expert] XFree 4.xx and Trident Ciberblade

2001-12-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Sheez I hate that brain damaged chipset! You might want to search the archives. One of the options (which I don't remember) seems to cure this... Search for things related to the mouse pointer and Xfree. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] O

Re: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Bill Beauchemin
Try looking at Linksys 2 port print server or the HP printservers. Plug them into the network do some configurations and boom ya got a printer on the network. Now go and install cups on your linux machines and configure it and for your windblows install the drivers for the printserver select yo

RE: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Sounds like you want a print server adapter. Bestbuy and probably everywhere like them have them for around $89 or so. Samba wont work for you ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 200

Re: [expert] automating mount proces

2001-12-06 Thread Sevatio
Many of us are having problems with LM8.1's Supermount. Some of the suggestions that I've seen have been to use KDF (Kdiskfree) and/or add CDRom icons to the Desktop. Although these give us the ability to access the removable media, it is still an awkward step backwards. So I'm starting th

[expert] Samba and cups

2001-12-06 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have samba setup and working with cups to share the printers.. working fine.. but I have to load the drivers manually on the winblows machines.. I know that Samba has the aility to store the drivers for each OS, so that you can just right click on the shared printer on a windows machi

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Richard Wenninger
Is it possibly Anti-Virus software in windows "repairing" your boot sector? On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:13 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > > My partition table was recently corrupted, and thanks to the help of > this list, I managed to repair the table and re-install LM8.1. > > My main concer

RE: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi, Samba is fine, but it means a computer to do the job. We want a computer free solution. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: > Sounds like you want a print server adapter. > Bestbuy and probably everywhere like them have them > for around $89 or so. Samba wont wor

[expert] LM 8.1: USB bus failing to deregister on shutdown

2001-12-06 Thread D. R. Evans
About 25% of the time when I try to boot my newly-installed LM 8.1 system, I see the following: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 1 usb.c: USB bus 1 deregistered usb.c: USB disconnect on device 1 usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2 The system then hangs and I have to power it down to get a reboot (

[expert] no gif support in kfmclient only in konqueror

2001-12-06 Thread Mark D'voo
I've been having some fun and rebuilding all of kde-2.2.2. I started of with qt-2.3.2 and I enabled gif support. I then built the rest of kde, but when I run kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing, No gif pictures are displayed. But if I run konqueror -profile webbrowsing, it displays .gifs just

Re: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Ed Tharp
On Thursday 06 December 2001 11:09, you wrote: > AXIS and IBM both make these kind of Box's. > > Albert Smith > Unix Administrator > Quest Diagnostics Inc. > Work: 610-454-4320 > Pager:800-946-4646 pin 1723803 > Mobile: 215-498-6829 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1201 S. College

RE: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
You are looking for a "print server" (aka a printer sharing device) as he noted. These are small devices about the size of a paperback, that have a parallel port and a single button on them. H.P. originated these devices AFAIK. You are effectively purchasing a very inexpensive computer (so it's

Re: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Jerry Sommerdorf
What your are looking for is an HP Jetdirect EX Plus. We use this devise at our office. It's a little box with a parallel port for a printer, and an ethernet port. I think they will only support HP printer, but I'm not sure. Jerry Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Hi, > > Samba is fin

RE: [expert] Samba and cups

2001-12-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Yes this is easy to do. There are two ways to deal with the drivers. One: Most people (and I believe it's a good idea) copy the Winblows CD installation directory to the local hard drive and install from there. This lets Winblows find the location it was originally installed from whenever a ne

Re: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Ken Hawkins
We have had great service from Extended Systems' Pocket Pro (must get pro to get IP stack). These are very small boxes that hang off the parallel port, and convert to 10bT. It includes a web server for managing the unit, and is compatible with HP's JetDirect managers. HTH Ken Jerry Sommerdorf

RE: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
No the Jetdirect will support any Parallel printer. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jerry Sommerdorf |Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 1:15 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet? | | |W

Re: [expert] LM 8.1: USB bus failing to deregister on shutdown

2001-12-06 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:01:53 -0700 "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About 25% of the time when I try to boot my newly-installed LM 8.1 > system, I see the following: > > usb.c: USB disconnect on device 1 > usb.c: USB bus 1 deregistered > usb.c: USB disconnect on device 1 > usb.c: USB d

Re: [expert] automating mount proces

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 06 December 2001 09:32 am, Franki wrote: > Hi Tom, > Got a few questions for you if I may... > Why did you have to upgrade initscripts and iptables to go with > 2.4.16-1??? I have that kernel, initscripts-6.27-10.4 and > iptables-1.2.4-2 > Should I upgrade them?? it all seems to be fi

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On my computer, simply booting into Windows caused the partition table corruption. No Anti-Virus software installed. Seriously, I think it's a bug in Win98 that occurs under certain non-MS-tested circumstances. -- Asheesh. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Wenninger wrote: > Is it possibly Anti-Vir

RE: [expert] automating mount proces

2001-12-06 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
There is a program on http://freshmeat.net called autorun. I used it on my RH 7.1 system, and it seemed fine. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expe

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Ralph Forsythe
Question: Did you use partition magic to partition the drive? Just curious, my girlfriend used PM, installed linux on a WinME-only system, and the table got corrupted pretty quickly for no apparent reason. PM is the only explanation I can come up with, since I have dual-booted Win-xxx and *nix s

[expert] Network-unreachable solved

2001-12-06 Thread William Bouterse
I am posting this as a thank you and follow-up; With the history of the original thread. After trying it all once again I ended up swapping out an old WD card from another machine and yes IT ALL started to work!!! However swapping out the old vibra 16 sound card for an old but trusty SB 32 A

RE: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Running defrag, or scandisk destroyed my linux partitions with '98. I disabled it and now just dont go to windows unless I need to scan something. Scanner progs just dont compare with color matching in linux. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Asheesh Laroia [mail

RE: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
This sounds more like Windows not correctly identifying the Drive Geometry, as it's prone to do. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Asheesh Laroia |Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:06 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [ex

[expert] tetex update RPMs GPG signatures

2001-12-06 Thread David Wollmann
I just downloaded several mdk 7.1 update RPMs from: ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/mandrake/updates/7.1 I ran `rpm --checksig ...' against the downloaded RPMs and noticed that two of them do not have valid GPG signatures: tetex-1.0.7-6.1mdk.i586.rpm: MD5 GPG NOT OK tetex-doc-1.0.7-

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 06 December 2001 03:06 pm, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On my computer, simply booting into Windows caused the partition > table corruption. No Anti-Virus software installed. > > Seriously, I think it's a bug in Win98 that occurs under certain > non-MS-tested circumstances. > > -- Asheesh.

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Win98 OEM, a legit copy from www.softman.com. Remember, Win98 is quirky; what works one day may not the following. It's possible the same code that corrupted my partition table didn't corrupt yours because it was of a different size, or in a different order; or, maybe it only kills partitions on

Re: [expert] remote display

2001-12-06 Thread Oscar
El Jue 06 Dic 2001 16:55, escribió: > On Thursday 06 December 2001 05:38 am, you wrote: > . > > > I know I can see the X display using vnc, but, There are another option? > > Look at xmove. > > http://www.ensta.fr/internet/unix/misc/xmove.html > > Hoyt ok! It seems to be what I need! Tomorrow I

[expert] Agony/Ecstacy Installing LM8.1

2001-12-06 Thread William Bouterse
Since LM 6.0 I have been an active supporter of Mandrake, as well as trying to spread the "word" to any who might listen and purchasing the boxed sets for myself and others even though I may already have had a working system of the same release. Well my Mandrake Store purchase of the download

RE: [expert] Agony/Ecstacy Installing LM8.1

2001-12-06 Thread Dennis Myhand
William: I would go with the 8.0 install. I have 8.0 installed on 166MMX with 96 megs of ram and 3.2 gig HD, ATI card with 2 megs ram. It runs great. Peace, Dennis in Victoria, TX -Original Message- 8)Over all feel is very nice but the major Hiccups which I encountered make me wonder

RE: [expert] Agony/Ecstacy Installing LM8.1

2001-12-06 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
I wonder if I can return my never-installed Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack and wait for a (hopefully more stable!) 8.2 release... --- Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs, University of Cincinna

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Felix Miata
Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Win98 OEM, a legit copy from www.softman.com. > Remember, Win98 is quirky; what works one day may not the following. It's > possible the same code that corrupted my partition table didn't corrupt > yours because it was of a different size, or in a different order; or,

[expert] LM 8.1: kernel panic

2001-12-06 Thread D. R. Evans
Not only is my kernel panicking; I am panicking as well :-( Here's what happened: I installed LM 8.1 yesterday. Today I tried to add a local printer. Just after starting the Printdrak procedure, the system became completely unresponsive, leaving me no option but to power down. When I powered

RE: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs

2001-12-06 Thread Robin
Hi Everyone, Just putting in my $0.02 here to whoever cares. With Outlook XP, the email format _can_ be changed with the choice of HTML, Plain Text or Rich Text for _both_ sending and replying mail. I don't have Outlook 2000 or 98 running here, so cannot comment on that. However, I assume that in

Re: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs

2001-12-06 Thread Randy Kramer
Robin wrote: > To Randy > > If you like to add screen shot of where to turn off HTML in Outlook XP, > let me know and I will email them to you. Robin, Sure, that would be great! You can email them to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or you can simply upload them yourself on the TWiki page: http://tw

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Ed Tharp
yep, and if you own winME and have ever installed a network assoc program (other than McAfee viru-scan) like McAfee tool box, you will be so suprised when it runs defrag and ruins all your systemDlls (well not all, just the ones needed to boot) but M$ won't be suprised. On Thursday 06 Decembe

[expert] urpmi

2001-12-06 Thread bascule
is it possible to use urpmi to install a package from a particular source -not necessarily the most up-todate, rpmdrake offers the option to deselect sources and it lists all versions of a package to choose from, but i can't see if this can be done from the command line, man urpmi doesn't list

[expert] proftpd configuration troubles

2001-12-06 Thread Theo Brinkman
I'm trying to configure proftpd to allow a user to login to the web server and update files in the web site, but no matter what I try, when I run 'service proftpd start', I get the following error message: Starting proftpd: hostname.domain.tld - Fatal: unable to determine IP address of 'host

Re: [expert] MPlayer +addenda

2001-12-06 Thread William Bouterse
On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:39:36 +0900 "Nguyen H.Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William Bouterse wrote: > > >You may wawnt to check this site out... > >On LM 8.1 they work for me ! > > > >http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ > > > Thank you, Bouterse, > > your site is full of valuable RPM

Re: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Hi List! > > I'm looking for a product (if it really exists!) to allow me to > print via Ethernet using parallel printer. I mean, a kind of box with one > RJ input (so I could set a IP address) and some parallel ports, where I > would connect printers.

Re: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?

2001-12-06 Thread Aaron Peterson
it's probably cheapest to buy another computer ($20 286 with lan card) and have the software on that 286 , pass commands to the parallel device over ethernet (I'm assuming it is some home made device rather than a printer) - Original Message - From: "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED