[expert] Problem with 9.1 -> 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-05 Thread George Czerw
I did an upgrade (used mdk club bittorrent DL of the 3-disk powerpack CDs), and everything appeared to work properly until the point where lilo gets configured. At that point lilo had a problem. So I did a reboot (since I couldn't get out of the install) using rescue. I was completely suprised whe

[expert] Avery business cards

2003-06-08 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Jonathan Dlouhy on Sat, 07 Jun 2003 12:34:10 -0700 Jonathan, Both OpenOffice and StarOffice have templates for preparing and printing those business cards. George > Is there a program or a way to use a word processor to print business cards > using Avery cards? There

[expert] Suddenly Can't boot into Mandrake 8.2

2002-09-02 Thread George Czerw
I'm suddenly getting the following error messages (which prevent a good boot into 8.2) and have no idea what to to do solve the problem: Loading default keymap: /etc/rc.sysinit : /dev/tty0: No such file or directory Activating swap partitions: SWAPON: Cannot STAT /dev/sdd3: No such file or

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 and Wordperfect 8

2002-04-28 Thread George Czerw
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:46:47 -0700, Dennis Myhand wrote: > Does anyone know where I can download WP8 for Linux? Dennis, Go to the link shown below: ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/wp8/download.htm George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] LM 8.2 & KDE3 konqueror load puzzle

2002-04-20 Thread George Czerw
See the remarks generated after an attempt to load konqueror (shown below). Anybody have an idea what these mean? George [george@CC185270-B george]$ /opt/kde3/bin/konqueror -profile superuser Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". QO

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 & Jpilot - Problem

2002-04-04 Thread George Czerw
On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 23:09:10 -0800, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: >>George Czerw wrote: >>I upgraded from 8.2 Cooker to 8.2 final. Jpilot was working properly >>before the upgrade. >> >>Now, when attempting to run it a

[expert] Mandrake 8.2 & Jpilot - Problem

2002-04-03 Thread George Czerw
I upgraded from 8.2 Cooker to 8.2 final. Jpilot was working properly before the upgrade. Now, when attempting to run it as a user, Jpilot ends with "segmentation fault", and displays no other error. However when run as root, Jpilot loads properly. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks! George Wa

Re: [expert] 8.2 & Supermount - Problem SOLVED

2002-03-31 Thread George Czerw
I don't know what happed. But after several reboots, I decided to delete all desktop icons for removable devices and then recreate them as user. Now each one of them works as it should! Go figure Thanks everyone for your help. George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSof

Re: [expert] 8.2 & Supermount - Problem

2002-03-31 Thread George Czerw
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 08:03:06 -0800, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: >hi george > > if you want to use supermount, you might as well use >supermount to modify the /etc/fstab for you. > ># supermount -i enable > >the above command would help you correct the entries >on /etc/fstab.

Re: [expert] 8.2 & Supermount - Problem

2002-03-31 Thread George Czerw
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:03:57 -0800, J. Craig Woods wrote: > George, your fstab lines for mounting cdrom, cdrom2 (and floppy, > although you say it is working) look suspicious. They are in fact > telling the os to mount "none", and this seems to be the error msg you > are getting too (smart er

[expert] 8.2 & Supermount - Problem

2002-03-30 Thread George Czerw
I did an upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 to a Cooker 8.2 and recently to the final 8.2. While the supermount is working with the floppy drive, as a user I get the following error when I try to read either of my CD-R or CD-RW drives: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: according to mt

Re: [expert] WordPerfect 8 Install on MDK 8.1

2001-12-10 Thread George Czerw
I'd suggest that you do a search on RPMfind and get the following 2 Mandrake RPMs: libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk.i586.rpm Good luck! George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re: [newbie] WordPerfect Install in LM8

2001-06-30 Thread George Czerw
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:51:46 -0700 , Marcia Walker wrote: Marcia, The libc5-1.0-2.i386 src.rpm will have to be compiled first, before you can install it. Instead, I'd suggest that you get the following 2 Mandrake RPMs from any Mandrake Cooker site: libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm ld.so-1.9.11-4m

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 & Adobe Acrobat Reader

2001-05-24 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Andrew Lister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 22 May 2001 14:28:58 +1000 (EST) Andrew, I get the following (notice the difference in the libc.so.6): ldd -v /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/nppdf.so libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40021000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /li

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 & Adobe Acrobat Reader

2001-05-21 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Andrew Lister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 21 May 2001 09:59:24 +1000 (EST) Andrew, I tried your file with the same result (segfault). I also re-downloaded and re-installed Acrobat with the same result. In desperation, I found an RPM distribution on RPMfind and installe

[expert] Mandrake 8 & Adobe Acrobat Reader

2001-05-20 Thread George Czerw
Has anyone gotten the acrobat plugin (nppdf.so) to work with the Netscape 4.77 that is packaged with LM 8.0? I get a "...could not load the plug-in "nppdf.so"...error message. The acrobat reader itself will launch & run fine as a "helper application". George

Re: [expert] Word Perfect 8 Installation--SOLVED!

2001-05-16 Thread George Czerw
2001 21:17:29 -0400 > George Czerw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone successfully installed Corel Word Perfect 8 for linux > > under L-M 8.0? > > If so would you please explain how you did it? > > You need libc5 for that. > That's an rpm that&#

[expert] Word Perfect 8 Installation

2001-05-15 Thread George Czerw
Has anyone successfully installed Corel Word Perfect 8 for linux under L-M 8.0? If so would you please explain how you did it? Thanks George

[expert] MandrakeForum Kaput?

2001-03-30 Thread George Czerw
Anyone have any information on the problem with the MandrakeForum web site? Haven't been able to access it since this past Monday. George

[expert] KDE 2.1 Final : Still 2 apps that won't run from desktop applink

2001-03-08 Thread George Czerw
Beginning with KDE 2.1 Beta 2, I have 2 applications that will NOT launch from any KDE applink or menu entry that I create, and I can't figure out why they won't launch, because if I enter the identical command line from inside a (bash) terminal window WILL launch either application. I had hoped

[expert] L-M KDE2.1 Final - Install Dependency Problem

2001-03-04 Thread George Czerw
In attempting to install what I presume are the L-M KDE2.1 final RPMs (dated 3/2/01), which are posted in any mirror's: "/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde-2.1/" directory. I'm noticing that I'm getting 2 dependency errors: libkdefakes.so.0 is needed by quanta, kdead

[expert] TCP/IP "stalling" in LM 7.2 -- HELP!!!

2000-12-20 Thread George Czerw
I just did a fresh Mandrake 7.2 install, which went rather smoothly (I thought), until I rebooted, logged in, and tried to do anything on the net. I have a cable hookup with static IP addressing. NIC is a CompaQ, Netelligent PCI 10/100 using the tlan driver. I am noticing that it takes almo

Re: [expert]

2000-06-20 Thread George Czerw
350870381** Reply to message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:25:02 -0700 Matt, I'm using 7.0-2 and have been successfully using Jpilot and Kpilot with my Palm V. Of the two, I personally prefer Jpilot. Never tried Gpilot. Goto: http://jpilot.linuxave.net/

Re: [expert] hello?

2000-06-15 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:38:09 -0600 (MDT) VINCE!!! LOOK at the REPLY-TO and X-LOOP headers on your original message (below): Something is definitely screwed up. When I unconsciously replied to your message by clicking on reply, I got

Re: [expert] Palm pilot

2000-05-26 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Wayne Petherick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 26 May 2000 21:09:40 +1000 (EST) Wayne, you can e-mail me directly & I'll try to help (but for the fact that I just realized I left the Palm at the office). I've got my Palm V running with both kpilot and jpilot. I like jpilot

Re: [expert] OT: Linux Newbie

2000-05-18 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Pj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 18 May 2000 17:27:02 -0500 PJ, Well stated! Bravo and thank-you. George

Re: [expert] add 2nd HDD and Colorado 350?

2000-04-29 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from "David G. Thiessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:23:21 -0400 > i picked up a Colorado 350 and a Western Digital 540MB HDD. > > i would like to add these to my box, but, I can find no info > for how to hook up the Colorado Drive. If you have a "Multi-flopp

Re: [expert] libreadline.so.4.1 - Where is it?

2000-04-26 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from George Czerw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:36:56 -0400 The expenditure of some additional time along with some more, self-inflicted education finds the following in cooker, dated 4/20: readline-4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm readline-devel-4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm Bea

Re: [expert] libreadline.so.4.1 - Where is it?

2000-04-26 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Andrew George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:59:09 +1000 > Actually I ran into the same problem > after finding a newer copy of J-pilot as a tarball on the j-pilot wesite, I > installed that. > I never got around to finding out where libreadline.so.4.1 hides

[expert] libreadline.so.4.1 - Where is it?

2000-04-25 Thread George Czerw
Hi, I'm interested in installing j-pilot and the companion pilot-link in order to sync my PalmV with my PC running Linux-Mandrake 7.0-2. However, when looking at the Cooker RPMs, I find the following unsatisfied dependencies: libreadline.so.4.1 L-M 7.0-2 has libreadline.so.4.0 installed. Anyo

Re: [expert] PNG Netscape problem solved (for me anyway)

2000-04-15 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Gary Bunker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:19:37 -0500 (CDT) > I went into Netscape's preferences, and erased the PNG MIME types > completely. After I restarted Netscape, the PNGs that gave me fits > before work. > > It's all a miracle, and it makes no sens

Re: [expert] PNG Plugin for Netscape - In Search Of

2000-04-15 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:20:32 -0600 > Odd. I checked; 4.61 does not use a plugin to display pngs. Oddly enough, > my mime type is set to "unknown: prompt user". Perhaps there is a bug in > 4.6.1 that displays pngs in spite of the mime typ

Re: [expert] PNG Plugin for Netscape - In Search Of

2000-04-15 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from "Fabrice SERVANT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:34:33 PDT > am wandering if you use Plugger3.2 as a general plugin. > If you do so, I think it is buggy. > Answer me so we can contact the Plugger man. > bye bye > > fabricio Fabricio, I have plugger 3.2 ins

Re: [expert] PNG Plugin for Netscape - In Search Of

2000-04-15 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:24:14 -0600 > -> I would like to be able to view .png images on netscape. Would any of you know >where I can get the plug-in? > > You don't need a plugin, at least for Netscape v 4.61+. Check out > http://burna

Re: [expert] Any linux user on PPPoE

2000-04-07 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Orlando Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:44:55 -0400 For PPPoE information, you can check out information at the following site: http://www.suse.de/~bk/PPPoE-project.html There are apparently several PPPoE clients available... George

Re: [expert] fonts

2000-04-03 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Pat Mc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 03 Apr 2000 21:05:46 -0400 > I know this subject has been covered, but I can't find the the old > email. > > Running Mandrake 6.1 and looking for a way to improve the poor Netscape > fonts. If someone could point me to the solution I

Re: [expert] time/date

2000-04-03 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Lane Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03 Apr 2000 17:49:40 EDT Lester, since you're in the states, goto: http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/nts.htm And pick one from the NIST "server address" list! They all work George > Civileme said: > > "rdate -s (you

Re: [expert] Mail programs

2000-04-01 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Wayne Petherick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 1 Apr 2000 16:05:19 +1000 Wayne, One of the best mailers out there, is the pure-java Polarbar Mailer, which is an ongoing, follow-up developmental project to improve the java Postroad Mailer, which was originally designed and d

Re: [expert] Read-Write Access to OS/2 HPFS Partitions

2000-03-31 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:42:46 -0500 >Are you specifying all the mount options? Does it specify ro in the >fstab entry, perhaps? -- Brian, thanks for the reply. No, the fstab entries

[expert] Read-Write Access to OS/2 HPFS Partitions

2000-03-30 Thread George Czerw
Its been my understanding that the Red Hat 2.2.x kernel inherently supports reading from and writing to OS/2 HPFS partitions. Can anyone confirm or deny that Mandrake implemented this "feature"? I'm using the LM 7.0-2 version (kernel 2.2.14-15mdk), and have no trouble mounting and reading from