Do I understand you to mean that you want the dialup link to be up all
the time without needing to initiate dialling? If so, you could make a
ifup ppp0 command run during startup. This would also redial the link
if the connection went down.
I think there is also an option to start the link at
Oliver,
Probably the best source of info for this is RPMDrake (that's Software
Manager under System in Control Center). You can look in here at
packages grouped by type. If you click on one, you'll get a description
of what it is. There are two lists, one for packages you have installed
and
You can do this with DrakConf - look under Hardware.
Brian
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 18:45, Gary Bond wrote:
That's so right. I did choose international. Thanks
I'll look into changing it. It can be changed can't
it?
--- John Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 13 February 2002
NO ! You don't need any commercial software.
First of all, make space with the 'defragmenter' of windoooz
if the hd is fully added to windz.
To do so :
1.unhide your hidden and system files with 'attrib -H -S' and to see
them 'dir /a:s /s'
2. have no other prog running as necessary when
Really??? AFAIK fips only handles FAT type partitions, not NTFS. Just
checked the fips homepage and can't find any mention of NTFS there. I
don't have an NTFS partition to try it on (and I'm REAL sorry about that
;-)
Brian
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 20:07, mess-mate wrote:
NO ! You don't need any
Yesterday... gikoreno ran for the door shrieking:
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone has managed to install Win4Lin AND VMware on the same
Kernel (the updated Mandrake 8.1 kernel), success or not, what things break,
things that I need to be carefull about, and any info that I could get
Thanks for all the comments about my problem. But now I am wondering,
could or not fips manage NTFS partition?, I thought that it couldn't, as
Brian Parish said, but the comments of mess-mate say the opposite.
Otherwise Partition Star is a cheaper commercial product than Magic
Partition, but are
Hi listers,
I am thinking of buying on of these lappys from a friend.
has anyone got any experience's with mandrake on this machine
or similar ,it's a pII 300 192mg/ram dvd ,usb .
the Compaq web site had a pdf about the 7400 but the link seems to
be dead .
I will probably use mdk8.0 as i have it
I'm no filesystem guru, but I strongly suspect that the following is
true:
1. fips won't do it
2. Partition Star probably will if it says it will
I believe that Partition Star is available in trial mode and if I
remember correctly from a previous post, you could use its full
capabilities for 30
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:25, dfox wrote:
My /var/log folder is getting fairly big (10 MB) and its growing quickly
(this computer has only 660MB for Linux :( ).
How fast is it filling up? How much is it going to be tomorrow, or
next week?
Not very fast: I'd estimate about 100K a day.
/var
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 00:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Nguyen Hung.Takeshi wrote:
pesarif wrote:
Hello,
My /var/log folder is getting fairly big (10 MB) and its growing
quickly (this computer has only 660MB for Linux :( ).
My question is: is it safe to
Do a first look with 'fdisk' to see what filesystem you have.
On Sunday 17 February 2002 10:47, you wrote:
| Really??? AFAIK fips only handles FAT type partitions, not NTFS.
| Just checked the fips homepage and can't find any mention of NTFS
| there. I don't have an NTFS partition to try it on
While it doesn't yet have the ability to shrink NTFS, it will run
without Linux or Windoze and bail you out of many types of disasters:
http://www.fsys.demon.nl http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfsee-support/.
Not freeware, but low cost, valuable, and under constant development.
Shrink NTFS will
can someone tell me if it is possible to configure konqueror to display the
following url properly:
http://www.perfdynamics.com/Papers/viewmath.html
t.i.a.
bascule
--
'I'll see you all tomorrow. If there is one.'
(Men at Arms)
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pesarif wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:25, dfox wrote:
My /var/log folder is getting fairly big (10 MB) and its growing quickly
(this computer has only 660MB for Linux :( ).
How fast is it filling up? How much is it going to be tomorrow, or
next week?
Not very fast: I'd estimate about 100K
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, pesarif wrote:
My /var/log folder is getting fairly big (10 MB) and its growing
quickly (this computer has only 660MB for Linux :( ).
[snip]
That said, logrotate is the best way to do this, since it archives a
copy of your logs if needed. Which logs are you
On 16 Feb 2002 22:04:20 -0600
Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to
ponder:
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 17:44, Dave Sherman wrote:
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Hello everyone,
I am temporarily forced to use Kmail while I try to fix Evolution.
On Saturday 16 February 2002 08:14 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:13:39 -0500, Tom Brinkman
Nothin scientific, I used the clock on the microwave
(computer's in the kitchen) to test mozilla, and kernel compiles
... ie, ± a minute ;~ i686, or athlon, proved
Sorry all, this may be offtopic ...
RPM in redhat 7.1 seems different from mandkrake.
In redhat only root can build rpm in /usr/src/redhat .
How can I build rpm as a non-root user?
TIA
Nguyen Hung Vu
--
Takeshi's small space http://donganh16.tk/
Join KDE-i18n-Vi? http://vi.i18n.kde.org
Hello
Many thanks.
Method 1
startx gnome won't call gnome but a different windows manager.
Method 2
There is no such xtart on my 8.1 Is it part of X?
Ed
On Saturday 16 February 2002 07:54 pm, you wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:49:12 -0600, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
for a short time I had on my computer both win4lin and vmware (I've used
the updated kernel from win4lin), and I didn't find any limitations.
(well, except for too much resources eating :)).
Bye
--
Haim
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:46:11PM -0500, gikoreno wrote:
Want to buy your Pack or
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:38:35 -0500
Nguyen Hung.Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these
words to ponder:
Sorry all, this may be offtopic ...
RPM in redhat 7.1 seems different from mandkrake.
In redhat only root can build rpm in /usr/src/redhat .
How can I build rpm as a non-root
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 07:20, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
Dave,
Why not just use the Mozilla tarball as opposed to the RPM install? it's a
simple untar and copy of files to install without having to worry about
breaking things like Evolution. To my knowledge the only thing that might
not work would
Any thoughts on how they compare?
What is the Mandrake equivalent of the SuSE Online Update?
Thanks.
geno
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daRcmaTTeR wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:38:35 -0500
Nguyen Hung.Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these
words to ponder:
spake or spkeak ? :)
you can't. that is a root user function. to attempt to change this would
break things and also alert all the tree gnomes that
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 07:45:30 -0600, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Many thanks.
Method 1
startx gnome won't call gnome but a different windows manager.
Try startx Gnome (with a capital 'G').
Method 2
There is no such xtart on my 8.1 Is it part of X?
xtart
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:38:35 -0500, Nguyen Hung.Takeshi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry all, this may be offtopic ...
RPM in redhat 7.1 seems different from mandkrake.
In redhat only root can build rpm in /usr/src/redhat .
Mandrake builds RPMs in /usr/src/RPM.
How can I build rpm as a
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 07:33:00 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Saturday 16 February 2002 08:14 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:13:39 -0500, Tom Brinkman
Nothin scientific, I used the clock on the microwave
(computer's in the kitchen) to test
At the risk of bringing up a tired topic...
Why do fonts behave so strangely in Mandrake 8.1, such as in KDE apps?
Simply put, the font pull-down menu is full of typefaces, but I
highlight some text and select something new, nothing happens to the
text. Except once in a while; a few fonts will
Has anyone else seen this problem n MDK 8.1?
su'd as root, occasionally RPM will start locking up, I think reading
its database. So, if I do rpm -qa for example, I'll get half the list
and it stops. It's hung until I break it. As soon as it happens once, it
keeps happening on subsequent tries.
On Saturday 16 February 2002 08:46 pm, you wrote:
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone has managed to install Win4Lin AND VMware on the
same Kernel (the updated Mandrake 8.1 kernel), success or not, what things
break, things that I need to be carefull about, and any info that I could
On Sunday 17 February 2002 03:16 am, you wrote:
Do I understand you to mean that you want the dialup link to be up all
the time without needing to initiate dialling? If so, you could make a
ifup ppp0 command run during startup. This would also redial the link
if the connection went down.
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 05:01, Michael Holt wrote:
Yesterday... gikoreno ran for the door shrieking:
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone has managed to install Win4Lin AND VMware on the same
Kernel (the updated Mandrake 8.1 kernel), success or not, what things break,
things that I
8:15am... Dave Sherman ran for the door shrieking:
Date: 17 Feb 2002 08:15:36 -0600
From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake-expert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SOLVED! (Was Re: [expert] Evolution error!)
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 07:20, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 05:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
somebody said that the NTFS system in XP is not exactly the same that
Microsoft used in NT and 2000 and that just Partiton Magic could work
with it.
It is not the same. And PM v7 supposedly can handle it.
About Acronis I will have a
The window resizing problem is mostly not there, so it
seems. Huh? I mean that SOME windows have done this
to me, particularly if I start a configuration utility
outside of the kcontrol. If I configure the same
things from within kcontrol, it fits properly within
the window and screen and
11:13am... Michael Leone ran for the door shrieking:
Win4Lin needs to patch the kernel; you don't have to use a Mandrake
specific kernel if you don't want to. Just patch a generic kernel;
that's what I did.
vmWare requires no kernel patches(or didn't use it, anyway), so you
should be able to
Hello
I just wonder whether how I could mount a windows 2000 located at my lab pc
on my home pc running linux.
Many thanks
Ed
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 11:31, Michael Holt wrote:
11:13am... Michael Leone ran for the door shrieking:
Win4Lin needs to patch the kernel; you don't have to use a Mandrake
specific kernel if you don't want to. Just patch a generic kernel;
that's what I did.
vmWare requires no kernel
On Sunday 17 February 2002 05:41 am, you wrote:
can someone tell me if it is possible to configure konqueror to display the
following url properly:
http://www.perfdynamics.com/Papers/viewmath.html
t.i.a.
bascule
Mine displays it OK, set up default for USA.
--
Ken Thompson, North
On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:16 am, you wrote:
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 05:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
somebody said that the NTFS system in XP is not exactly the same that
Microsoft used in NT and 2000 and that just Partiton Magic could work
with it.
It is not the same. And PM v7
On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:53 am, you wrote:
If I wanted/need Win2K, or another version of Linux/BSD, to run in a
window, then the full vmWare is the only way to go. Quite noticeable
performance hit, even with a PIII-550, 256M RAM.
Hardware does make a difference. I can run Win4Lin and
Wouldn't that just be a function of the fonts your are currently using?
Perhaps you need to find the fonts that it needs. ?
On Sunday 17 February 2002 06:41 am, you wrote:
can someone tell me if it is possible to configure konqueror to display the
following url properly:
OK, I now have KDM properly starting up and properly
starting KDE now (hurrah!).
I have stopped the damned kde wizard from starting
every login (editing the startkde script appears to
have worked) as well.
If only I could get KOffice to work/build I'd be
golden. I certainly have no more sound
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Method: the last + 1 = Xtart (Capital 'X') on console, then type the
number set for gnome!
HTH
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 07:45:30 -0600, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Many thanks.
Method 1
startx gnome won't call gnome
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Is there a way for Eudora Pro (version 4.1 - for Windows) to open
messages from Evolution (Linux) mailers instead of displaying them as
an attachment?
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I noticed that when I set up the TV card that Mandrake was apparently
detecting the address incorrectly. I was getting an error message of overlay
mode is not working because BTTV initialized with the wrong base address.
To load BTTV use the following command: insmod bttv vidmem=0xf80
I use a Miro PCTV, i don't know if this can helps you, here is my
module.conf part for this card :
alias char-major-81 bttv
pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner;
options bttv card=39
options tuner debug=0 type=3
notice that when i install this vid card, the bios complains about the
irq, because
Hi I try to install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm, but i get the
follow error;
error: failed dependencies:
libXm.so.2 is needed by kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk
The question is when i can find that lib ?.
If you can help me, i really apreciate.
Thanks Folks
Want to buy your
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 22:26:32 -0300
Eduardo P.Román O. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi I try to install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm, but i get the
follow error;
error: failed dependencies:
libXm.so.2 is needed by kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk
The question is when i can find
On 17 Feb 2002 08:15:36 -0600
Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to
ponder:
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 07:20, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
Dave,
Why not just use the Mozilla tarball as opposed to the RPM install? it's
a simple untar and copy of files to install without
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:40:27 -0500
Nguyen Hung.Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these
words to ponder:
daRcmaTTeR wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:38:35 -0500
Nguyen Hung.Takeshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake
these words to ponder:
spake or spkeak ? :)
spake...
El dom, 17-02-2002 a las 02:26, Eduardo
P.=?iso-8859-15?q?Rom=E1n=20O=2E?= escribió:
Hi I try to install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm, but i get the
follow error;
error: failed dependencies:
libXm.so.2 is needed by kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk
The question is when i can
On Sunday 17 February 2002 01:32 pm, you wrote:
I use a Miro PCTV, i don't know if this can helps you, here is my
module.conf part for this card :
alias char-major-81 bttv
pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner;
options bttv card=39
options tuner debug=0 type=3
notice that when i install
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote:
Hello
Many thanks.
Method 1
startx gnome won't call gnome but a different windows manager.
Method 2
There is no such xtart on my 8.1 Is it part of X?
Ed
I have an exellent script made by a friend of mine which uses ncurses
hmm, although this is no redhat mailing-list (we are talking
***mandrake*** here - imagine!!), rpm is a common tool available in
mandrake, too, and so I'll try an answer:
you can for sure build rpms as a normal user as long as
- you have sufficient write-permissions where you want to build
(and
One of the reasons I don't like KDE much is it seems hard to do things that
should be easy. For example, I added the KDE ticker applet, and now I can't
figure out how to remove it. I should be able to right click on it and remove
it. I also added the character picker and I can't remove it
On Sunday 17 February 2002 00:09, Brian Parish wrote:
That's true - DiskDrake cannot shrink a NTFS partition. Someone on this
list or maybe the newbie list mentioned Partition Star as a free
alternative to partition magic. It may be worth searching for this on
Google - might do the job.
On Sunday 17 February 2002 02:03 pm, you wrote:
One of the reasons I don't like KDE much is it seems hard to do things that
should be easy. For example, I added the KDE ticker applet, and now I can't
figure out how to remove it. I should be able to right click on it and
remove it. I also
Hello
I found an answer ot make question:
mount -t smbfs.
Thanks
Ed
On Sunday 17 February 2002 10:37 am, you wrote:
Hello
I just wonder whether how I could mount a windows 2000 located at my lab pc
on my home pc running linux.
Many thanks
Ed
Want to buy your Pack or Services
Hello
I installed Xtart and now I can choose the windows manager. Howver I don't
know how to start different X sessions ( I am not sure whether I can have Kde
on -- :0.0 and Gnome on --: 1.0).
Many thanks
Ed
On Sunday 17 February 2002 12:50 pm, you wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Sridhar
On Sunday 17 February 2002 03:46 pm, you wrote:
On Sunday 17 February 2002 02:27 pm, you wrote:
I had not heard of Partition Star before you mentioned it, so I went
and had a look at it (http://www.partitionstar.com). From what I saw, it
seems to be an OS independent replacement for
Hi Jason,
As promised, here is my smb.conf file.
I cannot remember exactly what we have covered so
I will just note a few points.
From the windows PC you net to login when windows
starts up and asks for a username and password.
To make it easy for yourself it is best to do the
following as
Yes, it seems that if I decide to buy a commercial package Acronis is
the best one due to the manage of ReiserFS and ext3 partitions.
And cost less than 50 US$.
Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)
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Ed, that won't work unless you have direct access to the other PC
through either a local network (LAN) or a virtual private network (VPN).
In your case, if your lab is not in your home, you will need a VPN set
up so that your home PC thinks it is on the same network as your lab PC.
Dave
On Sun,
Hi
That is funny. I am creating iso image of my files in the lab right now.
The only think I did was mount -t smbfs /mnt/share. It worked! It is
not a local LAN. As for the VPN I have no idea.
Many thanks
Ed
On Sunday 17 February 2002 03:02 pm, you wrote:
Ed, that won't work
YOu have to right click on the two little vertical bars next to the applet in order to
get the context menu that enables you to remove the applet.
H
One of the reasons I don't like KDE much is it seems hard to do things that
should be easy. For example, I added the KDE ticker applet, and
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 10:19, Michael Holt wrote:
8:15am... Dave Sherman ran for the door shrieking:
Generally speaking, I prefer the dependency checking and version control
of RPMs. But since I will probably never really uninstall Mozilla, this
might work. Have you ever tried to install the
Hi again.
My problem is that I can't boot linux after installing lm8.0.
I get L0 instead of graphical lilo. W2k rules the MBR .
I am going to read the url http://www.johnlenin1.com/dual_boot.html
and try.
Another thing, how can I make a boot disk from Lm 8.0 installation ?
Thanks,
Excellent.
Thanks again!
--- On Sun 02/17, Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:53 am, you wrote:
>
> >
> > If I wanted/need Win2K, or another version of Linux/BSD, to run in a
> > window, then the full vmWare is the only way to go. Quite noticeable
> >
Here it is, very simple, the README says it all.
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Chad Young
Registered Linux User #195191
@ http://counter.li.org
---
Linux localhost
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, skidley wrote:
Here it is, very simple, the README says it all.
Also forgot to add this to the README, put MyMyX.hlp in /usr/local/bin
as well
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On Sunday 17 February 2002 02:24 pm, you wrote:
On Sunday 17 February 2002 02:03 pm, you wrote:
One of the reasons I don't like KDE much is it seems hard to do things
that should be easy. For example, I added the KDE ticker applet, and now
I can't figure out how to remove it. I should be
On Sunday 17 February 2002 02:50 pm, you wrote:
YOu have to right click on the two little vertical bars next to the applet
in order to get the context menu that enables you to remove the applet.
H
One of the reasons I don't like KDE much is it seems hard to do things
that should be easy.
I'm REALLY confused about this because I have never had the problem,
despite having done numerous installs of LM from 7.1 to 8.1 on systems
which already had W2K, NT4 whatever. At the moment I'm running a XP /
LM8.1 machine. AFAIK XP uses the same bootloader setup as NT and 2K
(it's all just
Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote:
Hi
That is funny. I am creating iso image of my files in the lab right now.
The only think I did was mount -t smbfs /mnt/share. It worked! It is
not a local LAN. As for the VPN I have no idea.
Many thanks
Of course this will work (not sure what
I'm not sure if it would be helpful to mention this here as well, but I
believe I've found a bug in the standard PS/2 wheel mouse driver.
I have done this on numerous hardware platforms and it does the same on all.
The only common thread here I believe is I'm using Microsoft wheel mouse.
I know its probably bad form to reply to your own posts, but just a
thought - could this be because when W2K was present I always had it
installed in conjunction with another windoze flavor? It may never have
been installed on the first partition. Is W2K special in exhibiting
the problem? i.e.
On Sunday 17 February 2002 04:20 pm, you wrote:
On Sunday 17 February 2002 02:24 pm, you wrote:
On Sunday 17 February 2002 02:03 pm, you wrote:
One of the reasons I don't like KDE much is it seems hard to do things
that should be easy. For example, I added the KDE ticker applet, and
Hello to you!
IIRC, the area is like a pixel wide; they should fix that.
I agree! One more step to the desktop. :)
Now if we could just get wine working better and easier I think we could do
some serious moving into the MS world!!
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go
Hello
Thanks a lot. I wouldn't dare to say that this is all that I need.
As for the security, how can I mount the share files using some kind of
encryption? I am afraid that the network admin left the share open to the
world.
I have tried to use sharity but ti didn't work.
Many thanks
If you are doing this across the Internet, then I would be seriously
concerned about security if I were you. By accessing your network share
on the public Internet, you passed your username and password in plain
text for anyone with a sniffer to see and abuse.
On the other hand, if you have a
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 17:21, J. Craig Woods wrote:
Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote:
Hi
That is funny. I am creating iso image of my files in the lab right now.
The only think I did was mount -t smbfs /mnt/share. It worked! It is
not a local LAN. As for the VPN I have no idea.
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:54:33 -0500
Bill Witherspoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 22:26:32 -0300
Eduardo P.Román O. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi I try to install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm, but i get the
follow error;
error: failed dependencies:
All,
The following rules to allow comps inside my firewall to see a samba server on the
firewall exist.
##- Allows Windows machines on the inside network to access a Samba Server
##- running on the firewall.
/sbin/ipchains -A input -i eth1 -s 192.168.187.0/255.255.255.0 137 -d
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