Re: [expert] RealPlayer8 failes

2001-03-29 Thread Larry Marshall
Benjamin Sher wrote: Just for the record: RealPlayer 8.0-1 rpm will NOT install. No big deal. I'll keep using Real7. Benjamin, hunt down the .bin file for RP8. It works. You'll need it as more and more sites are requiring it for display. Cheers --- Larry

Re: WAIT!! STOP!! Re: [expert] DON'T USE --ignorearch!!!

2001-03-28 Thread Larry Marshall
It should be. i686 architecture began with the PPro and continued on until the P3. The K6-2 is of that generation of processors. Mandrake doesn't seem to know that :-) I have the same problem Ken has and I'm running an AMD K6-2 500. Cheers --- Larry

Re: [expert] I just don't grep this...

2001-03-25 Thread Larry Marshall
The point is unix, linux, seems to be the last refuge of the propellor head who tends to guard the domain jealously. It is a large body of work with great power which is tremendously badly explained. I mean it's all very The Linux/UNIX community has regularly suggested that Bill Gates is

Re: [expert] I just don't grep this...

2001-03-24 Thread Larry Marshall
1. Distribution bashing attitude (this is not the same as pointing out negative aspects of some distributions, but insulting people because they don't use distribution X or Y) Geez, Claudio. Are you a knuckle dragger or something? Everyone knows you should be using distribution X :-) 2.

Re: [expert] Re: [xfce-new] Setup Question

2001-03-22 Thread Larry Marshall
lazy newbie would ask such a question. I find it most ironic that the very people who created such a wonderful, intuitive user-friendly desktop as XFCE could be so hostile to the user himself. This is The downside of the Linux community is that it's full of smart, brash and ill-bred kids :-)

Re: [expert] Re: [xfce-new] Setup Question

2001-03-22 Thread Larry Marshall
I do like XFCE in spite of its shortcomings (e.g. the icons do not line up properly on the desktop -- some are too larege, others too small). Ah...you mean you can make icons on the desktop (grin)? I couldn't find anything that would allow me to do that. I guess I'm going to have to set

Re: [expert] Re: [xfce-new] Setup Question --i cons

2001-03-22 Thread Larry Marshall
A diversity of desktops/window manager, not to mention distros may be great for computer people and Linux aficionados But, I must agree, that what is great and refreshing for Linux folks may be very intimidating and confusing for Joe Average. And Linux may be missing a historic What

Re: [expert] XFCE -- How to close application?

2001-03-22 Thread Larry Marshall
How in the world do you close down an application in XFCE that is frozen? I have tried Cnt +F4. I have tried to click on the X in the From within a terminal window you could execute xkill. This should change your pointer and you can just click on the frozen app and it'll be gone. Cheers ---

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Larry Marshall
Does anyone have a suggestion for a parallel port flatbed scanner that is under $150 and will work with Linux? Jeff, it is my understanding that none of the parallel scanners work with Linux. Frankly, I can't imagine buying one these days since USB scanners are more common. Cheers ---

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Larry Marshall
Sorry to hear that. My old system does not have USB I guess I will have to continue using my ancient scanner under windows. What a shame. Can't you buy a USB card? I thought that was possible. If so, it might be a cheap way to be able to buy a Linux-compatible scanner. That's pretty

Re: [expert] Urgent -- can't log into KDE! from console

2001-03-15 Thread Larry Marshall
Be that as it may, I can't now seem to log into KDE. I have rebooted several times, as I usually do into runlevel 3, and from the console I think your problem has a simple solution. At the login prompt, look at the bottom of the dialog. It should say xfce. Note that you can select here.

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

2001-03-15 Thread Larry Marshall
You can purchase an older scsi scanner and pci scsi card and they work MUCH BETTER than the USB devices. Can you define "MUCH BETTER"? Do you mean the transfer rate is faster or that they work better with Linux for some reason? If the former, in my experience this hardly matters. A 39$

Re: [expert] CD-RW - how do I get it working?

2001-03-13 Thread Larry Marshall
Now, I see no evidence that the CD-RW drive is being seen as "scsi" so I still am unable to burn any CDs with it. Did you do: cd /dev rm cdrom2 ln -s scd0 cdrom2 You need to build that softlink for the emulation to work. Cheers --- Larry

Re: [expert] operating system switch tool?

2001-03-06 Thread Larry Marshall
Try out GAG. I use it in conjunction with LILO. I install LILO in the boot sector of the /boot partition and then install GAG in the MBR. If you cannot find GAG on the net, let me know and I will email it to you. I don't think GAG lets you run the two operating systems simultaneously. It

Re: [expert] cd-rw install help

2001-03-03 Thread Larry Marshall
Vic wrote: Why did cdrecord screw up a cd that I tried to make and xcdroast did not? You got lucky? I haven't looked closely at xcdroast but all of the GUI cdburner programs I've looked at use cdrecord to do the real work. All they do is hand cdrecord the proper commandline parameters.

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-02 Thread Larry Marshall
I completely understand what you're saying, but unless the creators of Netscape and those responsible for maintaining and changing it decide to write it to do the things being suggested in this thread it's not going Oh...you're just saying "That's the way it is, deal with it." Well, you're

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-02-28 Thread Larry Marshall
While I understand this to be a desire of many who use the browsers in this manner, I don't understand "why" this is. The browser was never designed to do such a thing. Why would one want it to? Why not just kill Mark...look at what Konquerer is doing and think about the question you just

Re: [expert] getting gimp to print under cups

2001-02-27 Thread Larry Marshall
I have Mandrake 7.1 with CUPS installed. Gimp refuses to print. What should I do to make GIMP recognize and print through cups? Under print setup (upper right hand part of dialog that comes up when you try to print something), set it for Postscript level 2 and then put xpp in the "command"

Re: [expert] kde-i18n

2001-02-20 Thread Larry Marshall
Do yourself a major favor and wait 3 or 4 days. Then they will be available for 2.1 through Mandrake Update. KDE 2.1 is in it's final stages of pre-release work. This is sure good news Chris. Thanks for this announcement. Cheers --- Larry

Re: [expert] lilo help

2001-02-13 Thread Larry Marshall
Here is my lilo.conf file too this is really bugging me as I want to try out different kernels and the such, and the floppy boot thing has to go. image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk root=/dev/hdc11 Is your root REALLY on the 11th partition of channel 2 master or should that be a 1, not

Re: [expert] Mandrake boot

2001-02-13 Thread Larry Marshall
I installed win98 and Mandrake 7 on my computer,it works fine,but when I reinstalled win98 yesterday,I can not boot into Mandrake any more, any help? have to install Mendrake once more? What you did was overwrite the master boot record when you reinstalled Windows. Boot into Mandrake using

[expert] asf video

2001-02-08 Thread Larry Marshall
Alfredo Cole wrote: There is a print-to-fax howto for efax. If you don't have, I can send it to you privately. Can anyone direct me to a Linux app that will display .asf files? I thought RealPlayer handled them but it doesn't seem to. Cheers --- Larry

Re: [expert] mandrake installation problem

2001-02-07 Thread Larry Marshall
At the first reboot during installation, the system freezes and goes into hard lockup after the initialization of ide0 and ide1. After that he is forced to do a hard-reboot to get the system going Yes, I've seen exactly this. Can't say I came up with a solution but the computer had a

Re: [expert] Article about Mandrakesoft's new direction

2001-02-05 Thread Larry Marshall
We are not ending our distro. There is just a move to put effort into these other areas. This is not a bad thing, this is a good thing. Whether good or bad, it's another indicator of the problems Linux is going to have moving onto the 'typical' desktop as long as people marketing (spending

Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function

2001-02-04 Thread Larry Marshall
I do not advise going to the new glibc, I differ in the opinion of my employers with this (ok, I am now going to get shot) I think that the developers of gcc have a reason for advising us not to use the latest Please convince your employers that you are right (grin). I like Mandrake but

Re: [expert] Print from Konqueror

2001-02-01 Thread Larry Marshall
Does anyone know how to make print work from Konqueror on MD7.2? Print I haven't been using Konquerer as my browser but I just popped it up and tried to print. I went to a site and hit the print button. Up popped the print dialog but the 'ok' button was grayed out. What I found was that

Re: [expert] New distro?

2001-02-01 Thread Larry Marshall
It was mentioned on the cooker list in response to this query "april ..may" by one of the developers. AFAICT, it'll be a 2.4.0 kernel, not 2.4.1, and most likely KDE2.1 all of which are readily available already. While true, it would sure be nice to have it all in one place

Re: [expert] RealPlay 8 rpm doesn't work in LM72

2001-01-23 Thread Larry Marshall
Well hell's bells Robert, when I saw your reply I tried it. Konq does just fine, M18 doesn't. Gives me a bunch of annoying mesg's which Can anyone tell me how to get a scroll mouse working in Konquerer? It works in every other Linux app I have, including other KDE apps, but not in

Re: [expert] 7.2 Mandrake Update problem

2001-01-23 Thread Larry Marshall
Has anyone managed to get Mandrake Update to work? Whenever I try, I get "Cannot retrieve the list of packages to update...Try with another mirror". I ftp'ed over to some of the mirrors and they're up. Just popped it up and retrieved the update list. No problems here. Doesn't help much

Re: [expert] RealPlay 8 rpm doesn't work in LM72

2001-01-22 Thread Larry Marshall
I have downloaded and installed rp8.linux20.libc6.cs1.i386.rpm. It works fine here. Larry, did you uninstall rp7 before installing it? I just discovered something. Since you guys claimed no problem I downloaded it again. Here's what happens: if "rpm -ivh rp8*.rpm" then "Burp...rp8

Re: [expert] Linux worm...?

2001-01-19 Thread Larry Marshall
Marc, what you desire and suggest corresponds exactly with the mindset of those powerful entities who want to establish ubiquitous e-commerce on *our* internet: they want to own and control the internet. They represent *big* money and influence *big* government. The collection of "evil"

Re: [expert] ADSL -- runs on Win98, NOT on Linux!

2001-01-19 Thread Larry Marshall
Would very much appreciate your help with figuring out why my new Earthlink/Covad/ADSL works in Win98 but not in Linux. It sounds like you haven't set up rp-pppoe. If you're running 7.2, just run that on the commandline and answer the questions. Cheers --- Larry

Re: [expert] ram issue(continued)

2001-01-18 Thread Larry Marshall
No I have absolutly no experience editing files. So go flame away. I am a newbie and I dont understand sue me. You started somewhere too. Kick me off the list for all I care. Excuse me for not being a genius. Whether you're a genius or not is irrelevant. Having an attitude like the one

Re: [expert] Caracters problems

2001-01-17 Thread Larry Marshall
I've installed Mdk 7.2 in french and I've problems with the accentuated caracters. The "", "", "", "", etc. aren't displayed correctly. Pierre, these display just fine on my Mdk7.2 box. Have you tried using different font sets? Some of them don't support accented characters. Here some

Re: [expert] Caracters problems

2001-01-17 Thread Larry Marshall
I've installed Mdk 7.2 in french and I've problems with the accentuated caracters. The "", "", "", "", etc. aren't displayed correctly. To illustrate you that, I typed these caracters and saved them in a file, but in windows, they are corrects. Pierre, I guess I haven't had enough coffee

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 CVS 20010115 RPM's Available

2001-01-16 Thread Larry Marshall
I just spoke with the customer service rep at New England Business Services, LLC. Chris, why are these guys (or Mandrake for that matter) so shy about charging for such a service? It's ridiculous that you are going to sell those CDs for $4.00. Is it out of the realm of the Linux movement

Re: [expert] Removing SCSI devices?

2001-01-16 Thread Larry Marshall
It's considered rude because we of the linux world often use high power mail clients. Like 'mail' or 'pine' or 'elm' : ) Those clients show the mail as straight, unrendered HTML. So when HTML-ified mail comes in, it looks tacky, Another reason is that it assumes that everyone likes YOUR

Re: [expert] bash command line editing broken for several releases

2001-01-14 Thread Larry Marshall
Have others here also had the problem where editing a long command line using bash (in vi mode) within an xterm causes Yes, I had that problem just last night. might depend on resized xterm windows that were at one time wider than 80 columns or wider than their initial size. This was the

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 2.4 updates??

2001-01-13 Thread Larry Marshall
Anyone got an educated guess when LM will be publishing a version with a 2.4 kernel?? The 7.2 Deluxe box I looked at last week said something about the 2.2.17 kernel and being able to try the 2.4 kernel. That box, by the way, made no reference to KDE 1.99 either. Been waiting to upgrade to

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 2.4 updates??

2001-01-13 Thread Larry Marshall
But wait until Monday evening.. !!! .. Major fixes/updates happening this weekend! This is exciting. Thanks for the update. As long as I'm writing here, I thought I'd mention that I've become a CUPS lover. It does take a bit of effort to get the proper stuff for your system. I

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager

2001-01-08 Thread Larry Marshall
Control center | Look'n Feel | Theme manager It's the last item under Look'n Feel on my system. I don't know how well it works, I don't use themes Tom, I'm not a theme-oriented guy so I never looked for this. But I just checked my installation (KDE2.1-0101) and it's not there. Is

Re: [expert] RealPlayer

2001-01-07 Thread Larry Marshall
Description: RealMedia File MIMEType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Suffixes: .rm Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s For what it's worth, I just checked mine and there are slight differences from this. First, there are no periods in front of the extensions. Second, it appears that at least

Re: [expert] pain in the arse?

2001-01-06 Thread Larry Marshall
What is an acceptable level? For free software? This is a question without While this has been discussed (to death??), as long as the Linux community responds to criticism by climbing behind a "hey, it's free; take what you get", there will be few advances into the Windows market share. To

[expert] rpm error msg?

2001-01-06 Thread Larry Marshall
Tonight I updated from KDE2.1-1213 to KDE2.1-0101. While I was at it I downloaded the rest of the rpms that Chris had made available. This included some CUPs stuff, qt, etc. When I did a test upgrade (and when I did the real thing) I got an error I haven't seen before. Because I was running

Re: [expert] RealPlayer

2001-01-06 Thread Larry Marshall
I've been trying to get RealPlayer to play a link when I click on it (in either Konqueror or Netscape) with absolutely zero luck. Has anyone gotten this to work? Hmmm...can't help you much here Brian except to say that this works fine with RP7.0 and Netscape4.75. I've never given it a

Re: [expert] Printing from Konqueror

2001-01-05 Thread Larry Marshall
Actually what I'm getting looks a lot like the ink tanks are running dry. But really they're not. There's plently of ink in them. In Kmail the email addresses and URL's are a pastel blue in color, these don't print at all. And Mark, does it get worse as the print job gets farther along?

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-02 Thread Larry Marshall
LM7.2. But, I think my point is still valid for a lot of people's upgrades. No doubt about it Victor, I maintain a box for playing. My comments were related to the difficulties of getting version 7+ of ANY operating system to do basic things without having to relearn the entire operating

Re: [expert] Recursive symlinks in /usr/bin?

2000-12-29 Thread Larry Marshall
Tom Eastman wrote: [tom@celleste bin]$ ls -ld /usr/bin/mh lrwxrwxrwx1 root root1 Dec 29 2000 /usr/bin/mh - ./ Why is there a symlink in /usr/bin called mh which points straight back to /usr/bin??? Is this kind of recursive symlink a bad thing? or can I just ignore

Re: [expert] CDwriter

2000-12-26 Thread Larry Marshall
Then you must add: /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi /sbin/modprobe sg # also reports on ATAPI CD-R device to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local No such stuff at the end of my rc.local but mine works. What is this doing Ron? Is this assuming the kernel doesn't have support?

Re: [expert] CDwriter

2000-12-26 Thread Larry Marshall
By the way, which device am I actually burning to? its an ATAPI drive, and since I'm not experienced with SCSI [including ATAPIs SCSI emulation], I'm not quite sure. Is it /dev/scd0? Yes, if you look at the code I provided cd /dev rm cdrom ln -s scd0 cdrom it creates a link from cdrom

Re: [expert] Moving my hard drive

2000-12-26 Thread Larry Marshall
I need to re-arrange my hard drives in my computer. Essentially my Linux hard drive hdd will become hda. How can I do this without losing my system? How many places in linux will I have to tell that the hard drive is now in a different place? Unless you need to move the actual

Re: [expert] Re: What the...?

2000-12-23 Thread Larry Marshall
How do I make new home, startup, cdrom, etc items on my desktop so that they actually work? Praedoras root in a console, type: chown -R praedor.praedor /home/praedor then type: update-menus -v Does this work for you with KDE2.1? I've just started using 2.1 and it seems to

Re: [expert] fstab entry for supermount

2000-12-23 Thread Larry Marshall
supermount but cannot recall the syntax and there is no backup fstab with the supermount entries in them. /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660 dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 So. I now have the Trash and Home directory icons working on my desktop. I need to now try AGAIN to create my

Re: [expert] mandrake 2.1 upgrade

2000-12-22 Thread Larry Marshall
What is libkscan Can't answer this one. and is it really needed? By inference I can suggest an answer to this one. If you install KDE2.1, installing thd kdeaddutils rpm with --nodeps, everything seems to work. I've been running it for a few days now and it's the first time I've felt LM7.2

Re: [expert] cups not working properly

2000-12-21 Thread Larry Marshall
It seems to be both a printer driver issue AND a printer hardware problem. I built and installed the gimp-print 4.1.0 package and changed my epson driver to that. Now I can print from konqueror and kmail but, again, the printing is partial - even though I have a new black ink cartridge

Re: [expert] Getting Mails from this list twice

2000-12-10 Thread Larry Marshall
Now, I'm reading also this ML, but am getting lots of mails twice... just want to know if this happens frequently. I tried unsubscribing and then subscribing again with the result that I either get nothing or get lots of emails twice. All the time..so much so that people have almost stopped

Re: [expert] Second stage install hangs

2000-12-06 Thread Larry Marshall
Now that's what I call dancing on the razors edge. Clearly some folks are able to do what you're doing. I've had nothing but trouble and torment when trying to run Mandrake with Celeron/Intel hardware. WD is definately Mark, if there's one thing an observer of the Linux community should

Re: [expert] StarOffice Mailing List?

2000-12-06 Thread Larry Marshall
Mike MacCana wrote: That's true [both projects contain some unique code], but StarOffice, in terms of future development, is essentially dead. So feature requests [and perhaps also bug reports] should be directed towards openoffice. Mike...is the OpenOffice group planning on separating the

Re: [expert] Grub vs lilo

2000-12-03 Thread Larry Marshall
Is it sufficient to edit /etc/lilo.conf and the changes are directly reflected in the boot menu? What about /boot/grub/menu.xxx It seems that lilo is non-functional. Why is it still installed? With grub you just edit the list. With lilo you run lilo after you make the lilo.conf changes. As

Re: [expert] Second stage install hangs

2000-12-03 Thread Larry Marshall
You know...if I didn't know better I'd say you both were trying to install Mandrake on Celeron processor machine with Western Digital hard drives. It's a hardware issue. You may want to look at the drives, or the chipsets on the mobo's themselves. Celerons and mandrake aren't known to Gee

Re: [expert] Postfix or Sendmail

2000-12-03 Thread Larry Marshall
actually Larry I'm not so sure about that. Not 100% positive that you're correct and I'm wrong about this either. But I thought about this when I first setup Sendmail and the account with dyndns.org. So, I sent myself a test message from work one day knowing full well that I wouldn't be home

Re: [expert] Postfix or Sendmail

2000-12-02 Thread Larry Marshall
No you don't need a static IP although it is preferable. I run everything dynamic at home. Only problem is that ISPs like AOL won't accept E-mail from dynamically assigned IP addresses to their relay servers due to Spam protection. BTW I prefer postfix. Nobody has mentioned that people

Re: [expert] linux equivalent of Partition Magic?

2000-12-02 Thread Larry Marshall
Jeff Malka wrote: Is there a linux equivalent to Partition Magic. I own a copy of PM and I know that PM is compatible with linux. But PM uses Linux will read a much larger hard drive than the bios can read in dos. Therefore linux can read and use partitions beyond what the bios can see

Re: [expert] Netscape error message -- Bookmarks have changed...

2000-12-02 Thread Larry Marshall
I keep getting the following Netscape error message for no reason at all: "Bookmarks have changed on disk and are being reloaded." Sounds like you've got more than one Netscape running at one time and are adding bookmarks to bookmarks.html with one and then trying to read them with the

Re: [expert] linux equivalent of Partition Magic?

2000-12-02 Thread Larry Marshall
Ranish Partition Manager. I believe that it's a dos program, but his docs seem to touch on some functionality beyond that of PM. I haven't had time to download and experiment with it yet but I plan to get a round tuit. :-) Alan, I think this is one of those situations where "better than"

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-30 Thread Larry Marshall
holds true for normal packages, but also for the kernel RPM. There isn't any mystic involved in a kernel RPM, so a rpm -qpi kernel.rpm will tell you exactly where everything is going to end. Now with tarballs I often have a hard time figuring out where everything is placed after a make

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-30 Thread Larry Marshall
rpm --root $HOME ... allows you to put it anywhere you want. If you intend to do everything as user, Thanks Alex, this is one that I missed and it sure changes my view of rpms. you probably should consider adding "--dbpath" option so that you don't mix your system rpm database. Mostly

Re: [expert] copying bootable CD

2000-11-29 Thread Larry Marshall
You should be able to do a cd to cd burn of the 7.1 disk and it will be bootable (as long as the original is bootable). That's what I would think too Scott. It's unclear what I'm doing that caused me to produce a non-bootable CD but I've done it twice and the darn things just won't boot (I

[expert] copying bootable CD

2000-11-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Can someone help me interpret the mkisofs manpage? I need to copy a LM7.1 install CD. What do I put on the mkisofs commandline to make the iso file bootable? There seem to be several options and all require that I point to a bootfile. Anyone know where that is and how I make it all happen?

Re: [expert] Setting up a remote printer - please help!

2000-11-27 Thread Larry Marshall
too much. I think they would be annoyed to have to deal with CUPS as a default. It might mean they would choose another Linux distribution. Why make CUPS the default? Why not at least give the installer the choice? If you do an expert install you are given this choice. Cheers --- Larry

Re: [expert] Use of make oldconfig while compiling a new kernel.

2000-11-24 Thread Larry Marshall
What is "mr proper"? Mark, this is a routine in the kernel Makefile that cleans up from a previous compile so you start with a fresh workspace. Cheers --- Larry Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Use of make oldconfig while compiling a new kernel.

2000-11-24 Thread Larry Marshall
John Rye wrote: Scott Walker wrote: vmlinuz = compressed with gzip bzImage = compressed with bzip2 - smallest foot print, but slower to load... So, there is an option 'somewhere' to select the gzip or bzip2 footprint? I don't think so. I sent John my opinion via email but rethought

Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?

2000-11-24 Thread Larry Marshall
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach skidley am Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:44:02PM -0400: I hate kernel rpms and think thye shouln't exist as rpm, it sucks, get the tarball and do a "real" kernel compile. Any particular reason why you don't like the enhancements and bugfixes done Alexander,

Re: [expert] win4lin w/ mdk 7.2

2000-11-24 Thread Larry Marshall
Has anyone got win4lin to work with 7.2.. I just found this today and tried it.. However, upon install, it stated I was using a non-standard kernal ( yea, 2.2.17-mdk ).. I assume you're dealing with the downloadable evaluation copy. What's happening is that the script is verifying the

Re: [expert] Desktop application icons don't work

2000-11-20 Thread Larry Marshall
1. Put the full path in the Ececute tab of the *.kdelink, or 2. Put a symbolic link in /bin that points to your program. I believe the "standard" way of doing this is to put a symbolic link in /usr/bin, not /bin. Cheers --- Larry Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe

Re: [expert] Automatic installation of MANY machines?

2000-11-17 Thread Larry Marshall
do an automatic installation, only prompting say for IP address etc? RedHat used to have something called a "kickstart" or something as I recall, with a script you could use. Does Mandrake have this? I need to install about 15 machines all identical, but with different IP addrs etc.

Re: [expert] partition wizardry

2000-11-15 Thread Larry Marshall
# chown options /var/sparespace # chgrp options /var/sparespace "chown user.group /var/sparespace" does the same thing I believe. Cheers --- Larry Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Digital cameras

2000-11-14 Thread Larry Marshall
I am planning on buying an inexpensive Digital Camera pretty soon. Can anyone recommend one that works well with Linux Mandrake? You might want to load up gPhoto and take a list of the cameras supported by it. I've found that this is not an all-inclusive list (I have an Agfa CL-50 and use

Re: [expert] cdr writing

2000-11-14 Thread Larry Marshall
I will try, just seems a bit odd that the output I posted is cdrecord's output from within one of the gui programs I tried. cdrecord is the writer app being called by all the shell programs. I believe you said you have a Sony drive. When doing multi-session writes you need to add an extra

Re: [expert] Partition-in-a-file? ReiserFS?

2000-11-14 Thread Larry Marshall
system. I thought a cool way to do this would be to set up a linux-partition-in-a-file the same way that Linux4Windows does. Uh...why? Can anyone talk me through the process? Or point me to a website/FAQ/HOWTO Maybe talk you out of it (grin)? Why don't you simply tar them and store them

Re: [expert] switch /usr partition ?

2000-11-08 Thread Larry Marshall
I always alias cp with '-p' for root because I usually want to preserve permissions when copying files. I have never had a problem with it not keeping the old permissions. Should I expect that they could be lost in some cases? When copying to /mnt/windows perhaps (grin)? Cheers --- Larry

Re: [expert] Can I use my Mandrake home for Debian?

2000-11-08 Thread Larry Marshall
:~I have about 9GB of unused space since I uninstalled Be. My home directory :~its own partition. Do you think it would hurt my Mandrake if I used is as :~my home in Debian. I have a backup of it on a seperate partition, and a :~compressed backup on a CD, but I'd like to not use those if

Re: [expert] 7.2 update issue: problem with binary names

2000-11-07 Thread Larry Marshall
I don't meet the same problem with my 7.2 upgrade. It seems rpm scripts were not properly run (/usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/emacs don't "belong" to any package, so they were set up by script). This is interesting as I've just checked both of my 7.2 installations and these files are right

Re: [expert] X install question 7.2

2000-11-07 Thread Larry Marshall
and I have a question for when it freezes during video driver recognition and xconfiguration. Anyway, how can you fix this? I tried to run xconfigurator and I couldn't find it. Is there a replacement to this in 7.2? There is a clear warning that the system might freeze so there must be

Re: [expert] KDESU

2000-11-04 Thread Larry Marshall
/usr/bin/kdesu -s /usr/bin/nmapfe If I type this in at a command prompt I get prompted for root's password, which is what I want. But when I put the same command line in the menu nmapfe runs as the user I am logged on as. This is getting annoying. Any ideas? Yep...try using -c rather

Re: [expert] KDESU

2000-11-04 Thread Larry Marshall
Errr...I made a typo in this email. The real command line I am trying to run is: /usr/bin/kdesu -c /usr/bin/nmapfe Then I don't have any ideas as this syntax works just as it should here. Cheers --- Larry Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [expert] Internationalization--Chinese with mandrake 7.2 CANanyone help?!

2000-11-03 Thread Larry Marshall
I know mandrake has advertised chinese support...and currently I was able to get it in all the titlebars of KDE applications...however... I am not able to get any big5 fonts to appear in my windows... Todd, I don't know anything about this but have you found the document in the

Re: [expert] CL Voodoo Banshee and other 7.2 bugs!

2000-11-03 Thread Larry Marshall
Now since mdk 7.2 has xfree 4.0 I have the SAME problem ( duh, guess its xfree 4.0?? :) ) Why don't you just install using 3.3? When you do an expert install you're asked which you want to use. Any clues and/or drivers are welcome! I would suggest that you reflect on your Linux history.

Re: [expert] Uptime gettting reset

2000-11-03 Thread Larry Marshall
my uptime gets reset once everyday.. Is there anyone who knows why and how can uptime get reset? I'm not sure what's going on but I'd be checking cron.daily as that's probably where the explanation lies. Cheers --- Larry Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the

Re: Howto quote (was: Re: [expert] root password)

2000-11-03 Thread Larry Marshall
Not only that, the new stuff should be at the TOP of the reply rather than the bottom. For the few that need context, it is there, And wrong again. The new stuff should be right below what you are quoting, so that the references are as clear as can be. I'm glad you've got this all

Re: [expert] 7.2 Installation???

2000-11-02 Thread Larry Marshall
The installation appeared to take over 2 1/2 hours (not even a cold installation takes that long!). Is this a matter of how the CD was Upgrades take a LOT longer than clean installs because the installer has to check/compare all packages and dependencies rather than simply installing stuff

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-11-01 Thread Larry Marshall
So sprach Larry Marshall am Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:55:50PM -0500: If you don't have the kernel source you need to download the rpm and install it. But you won't need the full kernel source. The kernel headers rpm is good enough. Interesting to know (I've never had need to compile

Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-11-01 Thread Larry Marshall
Then again, why run VMWare for Office when it runs under wine ? Larry Marshall wrote: I have had no success in trying to run office 2000 under wine, any tips that may help? I do have Visual Basic operational to about 99% under Wine release 20001002. -- Ken Thompson Electrocom

Re: [expert] 7.2 and Xfree86 3.3.x

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
Has anyone tried to get LM 7.2 working with the old X server package yet? The VMWare site is pretty adamant that they aren't ready for 4.0.1 If you do an expert installation you can choose 3.3 or 4.01. Cheers --- Larry Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL

Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
Right, and what's more important at least for me, is that you don't need to shutdown Linux... Absolutely. This is the number one reason I'm spending time with it. have multiple installations of Windows running at the same time, heck, even Windows NT + Windows 9x + BeOS + ... all at the

Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
Here's a solution: don't use VMWare at all. Great idea. Just get StarOffice and mount your Windows partition in Linux, then you never even have to bother with the Microsoft products and you don't need to move your files Another good one...if my needs were the same as yours. I'd agree

Re: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
P.S. - with complete I could find no way to not install without supermount support, and the installation guide states that it was written for power pack, so not all things are the same, boy is that an understatement. You should be able to load up fstab and get rid of the supermounting if you

Re: [expert] VMware finding Win98

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
First, Word format is flakey, and varies even from versions of Word with Uh huh...sure. the same version number. If you can get your correspondents to export documents as RTF, you may have better luck. Similarly when they re-import your files they will have better luck if you ship as RTF.

Re: [expert] Stupid Question

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
I just did a clean install of 7.2. I noticed that when I have tried to compile something (for example, the latest Wine SRPM) that it has been crashing with a file not found error. I have narrowed the problem down to the fact that /usr/src/linux is not in the path, or include path, or

Re: [expert] kde2 sound event sounds

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
Please don't confuse Mandrake with Macmillan. OTOH, all new releases have to be When it comes to distribution of Linux Mandrake they are one and the same. considered experimental. Linux as well as *the other*. Usually they'll tell you so if you ask. But Mandrake tries to get the known

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