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2002-05-11 Thread James
All, Just found this at http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=1332&PHPSESSID=df764edd16c338af9b6960937c4bd1a7 It starts KDE in under 2 seconds on my box (1gig celeron) it has both fast starts for kde and kde3 ... basically it changes the init order so that it can start and you ca

Re: [expert] OT: HD upgrade

2002-05-11 Thread John Haywood
On Sunday 12 May 2002 01:58, you wrote: > On Saturday 11 May 2002 08:54 am, David wrote: > > I have bought a new harddrive and would like to _move_ my current > > Mandrake installation over to the new drive without having to re-install. > > Is this possible? How would I go about doing so? My gu

FIXED! [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread David
Much thanks to nDiScReEt, Bascule, Steve Browne, Brian Parish, Larry Sword, and Pross(who got in at the last moment). We got it fixed. The problem was that I followed the howto at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html to upgrade my HD. Following directions, I used

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread pross
i used to have a 'disapearing CDROM' problem with redhat...i'd boot up and sometimes i couldnt mount the cdrom.i finally discovered that if i did a 'modprobe cdrom' at boot it'd come back... maybe the same problemmaybe On Sunday 12 May 2002 2:18 am, you wrote: > On Saturday 11

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread nDiScReEt
On Saturday 11 May 2002 06:08 pm, you wrote: > have you tried mounting by hand to see if you can, what does work? > comment out or delete the line in fstab that you have there for the time > being, make sure /mnt/cdrom exists and check its permissions, even root > can't read or write a file it doe

Re: [expert] Paranoid install unable to ping.

2002-05-11 Thread tbeason
/usr/share/doc/msec-0.19/security.txt and man mseclib Len Pikulski [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Thanks much!!! > As you probably know it worked great. > > Have you seen any docs on the different levels of "security" during > the latest Mandrake 8.2 install?? > > It would be nice to know the o

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread bascule
have you tried mounting by hand to see if you can, what does work? comment out or delete the line in fstab that you have there for the time being, make sure /mnt/cdrom exists and check its permissions, even root can't read or write a file it doesn't have permissions for if they are not set - th

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread Steve Browne
On Sun, 12 May 2002 06:42:23 -0400, you wrote: > > >nDiScReEt said onto me: >-- > > |> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,--,user 0 0 > | > |If this is a cd-rw, you have to point it to /dev/scd0 not /dev/hdd. >

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread David
nDiScReEt said onto me: -- |> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,--,user 0 0 | |If this is a cd-rw, you have to point it to /dev/scd0 not /dev/hdd. | I also tried it as /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount

[expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread David
Last night I upgraded my HD. After doing so, everything worked fine except the fact that I can no longer access my CD-RW drive. My fstab is below. I have tried all combinations of options that I could think of, nothing has worked so far. The error I get is: You do not have enough permissio

Re: [expert] Compiling the Mandrake kernel

2002-05-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 11 May 2002 12:49 pm, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > I am really only interested in using -march=pentium4 > and/or -msse2 for heavy floating point calculations, > but that is another matter. Actually, it doesn't surprise me that editing for P4, still produces an i686 kernel. I believe

Re: [expert] Compiling the Mandrake kernel

2002-05-11 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Hi Tom, As a matter of fact the -march=i686 option is given to gcc even when CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y. I traced that to /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Makefile. Either -march=pentium4 is not yet considered safe, or it has been forgotten. I edited that Makefile. The Makefile editing should really not be consi

[expert] Paranoid Security level question

2002-05-11 Thread Jay
I have two question about paranoid (and higher) security levels. First what do I modify to allow login by root, I cuurently log in as a normal user and then su into root, and secondly, I cannot ssh into my server when in these two security levels, is this normal or is something screwed up on my se

Re: [expert] OT: HD upgrade

2002-05-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Saturday 11 May 2002 08:54 am, David wrote: > I have bought a new harddrive and would like to _move_ my current Mandrake > installation over to the new drive without having to re-install. Is this > possible? How would I go about doing so? My guess is that it is _not_ > possible to do so whil

Re: [expert] Making load file for repeated 8.1 CD installs ?

2002-05-11 Thread gianpaolo racca
On Saturday 11 May 2002 02:09, db wrote: > I am going to reinstall again and was wondering if anyone knows how I can > create this ability for either of these distributions so that if I need to > format and reinstall again, it won't be so time consuming? http://members.shaw.ca/mandrake/ probably

Re: [expert] Compiling the Mandrake kernel

2002-05-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 11 May 2002 04:55 am, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > Thank you Tom, > > That was the kind of answer that I hoped for. > I just took a quick look at the README file, > and cut out all the many words. I then made > a file from where I copied the lines by using > my mouse. I did not dare to incl

Re: [expert] Compiling the Mandrake kernel

2002-05-11 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Thank you Tom, That was the kind of answer that I hoped for. I just took a quick look at the README file, and cut out all the many words. I then made a file from where I copied the lines by using my mouse. I did not dare to include the "make install". Yes, you are right. The number of lines can b

Re: [expert] Apache "SERVER_NAME" quick Q

2002-05-11 Thread Bo O. Erichsen
It depends on the order you have in the nsswitch.conf file. i have in a default mdk setup: hosts: files nisplus nis dns This means that gethostname will check your hostsfiles first.. Then it'll check nis services and lastly it'll check via bind in the order you have listed your dns-hosts

Re: [expert] Any problems with NEC LCD 1550V monitor?

2002-05-11 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 10 May 2002 11:46 am, Phil wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about to replace my CRT monitor with an LCD monitor mainly > because of RF interference to my radio equipment. > > The monitor that I'm considering is an NEC LCD 1550V Multisync. > Online re