Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm). This makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let

Re: [expert] Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Found this interesting bit of trivia in the glibc library source: i686 more Implies # Due to the reordering and the oher nifty extensions in the i686 it is # not really good to use heavily i586 optimized code on a i686. It's

[expert] Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

Found this interesting bit of trivia in the glibc library source: i686 more Implies # Due to the reordering and the oher nifty extensions in the i686 it is # not really good to use heavily i586 optimized code on a i686. It's # better to use i486/i386 code. Under i786 I found the comment

[Cooker] Re: [expert] Problems compiling 2.3.99-pre2

I don't know what I am doing differently, but I had no problem. I seem to have the same gcc rev's as you, tried pre2 with the 2-4.diffs applied (pre4?). Ran fine for over 2 days, PII-400x2 256Mb until the power blinked in my house. The laptop didn't notice, the old 2x190 IRIX machine came

[expert] Odd booting problem w/mdk-secure and SGI1400

great luck in regenerating the mdk secure kernel. Any ideas? -linda -- Linda Walsh @ SGI| Core Linux - Trust Technology 1200 Crittenden Lane MS:30-3-802 | Voice: (650) 933-5338 Mountain View, CA 94043 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Why a mail list, and not a news group?

Andrew Roberts wrote: Hi Is there any possibility of converting/mirroring this list on a news-group. The news-group could be local to Mandrakes news server, but it would save cluttering my mail box with 100+ mails a day (Would only take 10 min's to configure). Regards, Andrew Roberts

Re: [expert] troff / .mm - something modern

Rene Scott wrote: Hi, try with mm2html/troff2html from the ast-open packege from ATT, http://www.research.att.com/sw/download (source binary). Rene --- Tres cool!! It looks like the ticket! Thanks! -linda -- Linda A Walsh| Trust Technology, Core

[expert] troff / .mm - something modern

I have some old unix docs that were written for troff -mm. What I'd like to do is convert them to HTML or .doc(WORD) or .wpr (WordPerfect). so I can edit them in modern context. I can convert them to .ps, or .pdf, but those don't help to go to an editable context. Anyone know of any utils? I

Re: [expert] troff / .mm - something modern

John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote: I have some old unix docs that were written for troff -mm. What I'd like to do is convert them to HTML or .doc(WORD) or .wpr (WordPerfect). so I can edit them in modern context. I can convert them to .ps, or .pdf, but those don't

[expert] 7.0 PowerPack iso downloads?

Is there any place to download the 7.0 powerpack apps and/or isos? I haven't found them on any of the download servers... thanks, -linda -- Linda A Walsh| Trust Technology, Core Linux, SGI [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (650) 933-5338

Re: [expert] Auto Log On ... is it possible?

So in answer to the original question, would something like a "[exec?] /bin/su - username -c startx" do what they want? Just put that in "rc.local"? It would sorta mean S99local wouldn't exit on startup, but is that a problem? They could add a "" to background

Re: [expert] setiathome

So where does one find the 'xseti' binary? I downloaded the setiathome binary and have it running with the -graphics flag, but I need the companion program... thanks, -linda Ralph | byte-runner | wrote: Hello Group, Was wondering if anyone out there is running setiathome on thier Mandrake

Re: [expert] compile for i686 -- slowdowns?

Jean-Michel Dault wrote: Here are the flags to optimize for i686: optflags: i686 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentiumpro -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2

[expert] set -o vi

I like to use the vi set of editing commands in my shell. I would put the 'set -o vi' in my .profile. Ok fine. In the days of RH5.x this worked. Then RH 6.0 and Mandrake 6.1 came out and it broke. It's still broken in RH 6.1 and MDK 7.0 but it isn't broken in SuSE 6.3. Have done identical

Re: [expert] Real Audio.

John Aldrich wrote: There *IS* a G2 player. It works just fine for me except since I'm behind a firewall, I can't use it. The instructions are in the tarball on how to use it as a plug-in with Netscape. It mostly works. John === I have G2 player working behind a firewall

Re: [expert] Kernel flags

So I'm rebuilding the kernel and I notice their is both a -m486 and a -mpentium. Would one override the other or how do they interact with each other? Thanks, -linda

Re: [expert] set -o vi

Never saw this come through so reposting it... I wrote: I like to use the vi set of editing commands in my shell. I would put the 'set -o vi' in my .profile. Ok fine. In the days of RH5.x this worked. Then RH 6.0 and Mandrake 6.1 came out and it broke. It's still broken in RH 6.1

Re: [expert] Problems with 2.2.14-1mdklinus Kernel

Sevatio Octavio wrote: Now LILO is telling me that I'm exceeding the 1024 cylinder limit. Is there an easy way out of this? This Mdk7.0-2 is turning out to be a pain in the beeehind! === One of your partitions (usually "/boot") needs to be in the first 1024 cylinders of your disk.

Re: [expert] New question...

SuSE talks about a CD-only filesystem with /var and /tmp on a ramdisk. Shouldn't need any diskspace for that. I'm sure one could be concocted with Mandrake if someone wanted to put effort into it. -linda

[expert] Upgrading from other distro's

I early on tried to upgrade a RH6.1 system with Mandrake 70 but got alot of errors and such when trying to come back up after the install. I had the convenience of just being able to scrap my system partition and reformat the system partition do it as a new install. However -- I

[expert] Re: security/proxy config

Ok, so make it more like a 10-15 minute timeout. I did figure out how to go back to a previous step, but I couldn't find any combination to make the proxy work -- I looked at the access log of the proxy server and it doesn't record any attempted accesses or errors from the host -- It seems 'ftp

[expert] security/proxy config

This may be an inexpert question, but I'm having problems configuring the proxies to work in downloading the security stuff. I have a proxy server (astarte:8080) -- and indeed, using netscape on another machine, through the proxy, I can see the first site via ftp://. So I'm unclear as to what

Re: [expert] compile for i686

William Ahern wrote: how do i compile mysql w/ i686 optimizations? for that matter, how can i best optimize it? ./configure ? --- Setting the target for i686 will produce binaries in the 686 directory, but gcc doesn't seem to know anything about x86 higher than -m486. I don't