Re: [expert] Mandy 9.0 Boot problems

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
If I saw those sort of messages, I would be shopping for another drive. Just my $0.02 worth. On Thursday 20 February 2003 04:29 pm, Tru64 User wrote: A mandrake 9.0 running kernel 2.4-19 decided to simply, HANG on boot!! Using a boot disk, comes up fine. Then I run lilo -q, and it responds

Re: [expert] Slipstreaming 9.0 Updates

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
On Thursday 20 February 2003 12:41 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Does anybody know how I would create a slipstreamed set of installation disks for 9.0 that included all the security updates. Is it as easy as copying the new packages to the cd images and removing the older version? or is there some

Re: [expert] what could be wrong? PHP viewing

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
ok, I'll byte; Where is dog to be found? On Monday 24 February 2003 01:38 pm, tarvid wrote: Check your mime types on the server too. The server renders the php not the client (konq). gives you an excuse to try dog to see what you actually received Jim Tarvid On Monday 24 February 2003

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
), does show measurable preformance increases in the range of 5 to 10%. Y'allsMMV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
chipsets to run on. If ya just gotta squeeze out a little more zip ... overclock ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Serious problem with files system/hardware use in 9.0

2003-02-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
on a 9.0 system. (kernel-2.4.21.0.pre4.8mdk-1-1mdk). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
'. I choose 'none' for firewall during adsl-setup, then installed and setup guarddog. There's more info than anybody'd want in the 'DSL-howto', but it's fairly easy reading, and has a trouble shooting section. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your

Re: [expert] ML9.0: patch VIA to enable UDMA100 not installed but yet reporting UDMA100, Cycle time 120 ns???

2003-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
tranfers, or comparing with other users and their systems. Hdparm -Tt measures meaningless burst rates. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] lock screen

2003-02-09 Thread Tom
I upgraded my ML8 system to ML9.0. I attempted to use te lock screen function, and it has ceased to function correctly. It was working under ML8.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lock screen

2003-02-09 Thread Tom
07:08 am, Tom wrote: I upgraded my ML8 system to ML9.0. I attempted to use te lock screen function, and it has ceased to function correctly. It was working under ML8.0 We need more info to help. What Desktop environment are you using and have you made any updates to the system

Re: [expert] ICH4 on MDK9 resource collision

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
additional patches for that chipset. Latest is kernel-source-2.4.21-0.pre4.2mdk, or you could get the precompiled binary version from any cooker mirror. Install with rpm -ivh and your current default kernel will be preserved, and the new one only there as a boot option. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] ICH4 on MDK9 resource collision

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday February 5 2003 10:44 am, Birkoff wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 16:02, et wrote: in bios, turn plug and play aware OS to off I don't have this option. I am now trying to install the newest kernel from the cooker as Tom Brinkman advised Well, if the latest kernel

Re: Fwd: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-02 Thread Tom
Ron is correct about the KDE failure. However, the updates may or may not be relevent. I had the very same thing happen. Only I was editting the menus via menudrake and did something with showing only KDE items. I ended up reloading 9.0 and have been very careful with the menus since then. On

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
, no md5sum file. I got these. I'd appreciate if somebody would confirm them as what they got. tom$ md5sum MandrakeLinux-9.1beta3-CD[123]* 120610ea02bb6a3ad0f0de594723b4a2 MandrakeLinux-9.1beta3-CD1.i586.iso 8114ad9397a08fa7d4aea94e34f183f0 MandrakeLinux-9.1beta3-CD2.i586.iso

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday February 1 2003 02:49 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi Tom, My results are identical to yours. 120610ea02bb6a3ad0f0de594723b4a2 MandrakeLinux-9.1beta3-CD1.i586.iso 8114ad9397a08fa7d4aea94e34f183f0 MandrakeLinux-9.1beta3-CD2.i586.iso 42e97b16574350ad8c15a109657b34fa MandrakeLinux

Re: [expert] MandrakeSoft back to daily business

2003-01-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
-1mdk. Heck, Laurent usually gets 'em up to patch level -50 somethin before he's happy with 'em ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Memory problem? Memtest86 question

2003-01-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
) and software for the root of your problem. But, you should see if you can run mprime's torture test for an hour or two first. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Using Mkisofs

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
of CDr's I've made this way contain only the files that were in directory, no record of the files?. I have no idea what globing is. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
a Soyo, disabling it wasn't needed. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
option to assign a different irq to your AGP card. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Houston Stands up to M$

2003-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
confirmed M$ users. Too bad they didn't go for OOo. OTOH, there's the best lusers group I know of, http://www.hal-pc.org/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1b2 observation/opinioin

2003-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
did). Expect beta3 to account for this. Isn't that what beta's are for ?? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ML9.0:are services fam, portmap and xinetd necessary on a stand-alone desktop computer

2003-01-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
, common, or essential. Many of the listed services have links to more documentation for that service. IOW's, much more info than you get from MCC. So you'll need to check and see, then decide if you can do without various services depending on your system and how you use it. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] O Yyyyyyyyyyummy!!

2003-01-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
notice it's two 650mb iso's? I suspect 9.1 will stay on 650's from now on. I also suspect we'll still have the same percentage of people sayin the iso's won't boot, or won't install (ie, the no-700mb iso's crowd) ;- -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Removable Media icon

2003-01-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
existed and it took some hacking to get rid of icons ... useless as they are. Who wants a bunch of redundant icons (everything's already on the menus) cluttering up an otherwise perfectly good desktop ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] 9.1 Beta 1, second install

2003-01-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
lot'sa 9.1beta1 posts similar to yours on the cooker ML and nobody's complaining. http://leon.brooks.fdns.net/Mandrake/bugFAQ.html http://bugzilla.gnome.org/query.cgi -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Also to keep your system in sync with cooker upgrades. There's already been some (eg, XFree) since the beta iso was released. So when b2 is posted, you'll already have or be past it ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
be ok keeping my home? Anything else I should nuke? You can probly keep a 9.0 /home without problems. I dunno, I always start with a fresh /home as I explained previously. Fresh installs being a good time to clean house and avoid stale old cruft anyway ;) -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday January 12 2003 10:15 am, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:55 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: I've been using 9.1 since cooker unfroze shortly after 9.0's release. It's been solid all along ... on ReiserFS. From what I understand 9.1b1 (due to the 2.4.21

Re: [expert] eUSB SmartMedia / CompactFlash Adapter

2003-01-12 Thread Tom
Try this: Plug in the eUSB SmartMedia / CompactFlash Adapter and leave it plugged in. Change the following files: /etc/modules Addmicrotek to the end of the list /etc/modules.conf Alter the following line: probeall usb-interface usb-uhci To read: probeall

Re: [expert] Athlon XP motherboard advice

2003-01-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
that works well with Mandrake 9.0 Any recommendations? Yep, straight from AMD themselves, Motherboards and PSUs http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_869_4348,00.html Then check for Linux compatability. I like Soyo's -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] Gnome Toaster question

2003-01-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
this doesn't take any longer than setting up to do it with any GUI, and it will produce much better results, and no coasters ;) MOF, using cdparanoia to rip store bought CD's to wav's, then normalizing 'em, will produce better CD's than the store sold ya ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [expert] cdrom fstab entry

2003-01-01 Thread Tom
My Final Solution for everyone's edification: /etc/modules.conf added 3 lines at the beginning of the file: alias scd0 sr_mod pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi /etc/modules added 2 lines to the end: sr_mod sg

Re: [expert] Read only after install.

2003-01-01 Thread Tom
Is the partition being mounted as read-only? On Wednesday 01 January 2003 12:45 am, Ken Thompson wrote: I booted into rescue mode and every file I looked at was either read or read execute, none have write.. WTF?? Installed twice thinking I'd borked it the first time.. Ken Thompson. Want

Re: [expert] Undeletable file found in mailbox file need help.

2003-01-01 Thread Tom
There are non-printed characters in the file name. The only way to clear up something like this is with: rm -ir cur (as root) and answer each file with yes. On Wednesday 01 January 2003 10:23 am, Salane wrote: ok yes cur/ is a dir rf should work and I was root. but it seems that rm -rfd

Re: [expert] cdrom fstab entry

2002-12-31 Thread Tom
On Monday 30 December 2002 03:35 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: [snip] Do you have harddrake starting at boot (chkconfig --list)? I am thinking that devfs is something that changed since 8.1. It might work to have harddrake start at boot, if you don't already. Maybe boot with the drive

[expert] cdrom fstab entry

2002-12-30 Thread Tom
I upgraded my machine from ML8.1 to ML9.0. Overall, the upgrade went smoothly, however, the CDROM dropped out an I have been unsuccessful in getting it to register. Harddrake sees the drive, a HP IDE CDROM burner, and lists it in the cdrom lists. ide-scsi kernel module is loaded at boot up.

Re: [expert] two sound cards

2002-12-28 Thread Tom
. On Friday 27 December 2002 09:21 am, Tom wrote: Since you asked 8-), 1) Both sound cards must be a different chip set. For my setup, I am using the built in MB sound - : VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] and a SB compatable - : CT5880 2) Each sound card need a different IRQ and control

Re: [expert] two sound cards

2002-12-27 Thread Tom
. Fortunately for me, the SSTV program allows one to set the sound card, so I have it mapped to sound card 1. 5) Lastly, ARTS is turned off and I renice the more important program. On Thursday 26 December 2002 11:14 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 20:05, Tom wrote: I had to do

[expert] two sound cards

2002-12-26 Thread Tom
I had to do much research on the matter. But, Now I play music in one sound card while doing SSTV in the second sound card simultaneously. SSTV, or Slow Scan TV, is an Amateur Radio thing which requires a decent sound card. How about that for a cool hack on Mandrake 9.0? Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday December 17 2002 01:04 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Brinkman wrote on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:29:15PM + : Bottom line is hardware is a moving target, always has been. Unfortunately, specially with other than with M$, it's

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
sort'a kind'a getin down to 'put up or hush up' in the kernel and libs. 'Course I imagine they'll be work-arounds, then y'all can call your installs, lin-doze ... with about the same amount of security and ability to open support. howdy Charles, -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
is pan ; Yeah, I'm just a sponge ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!!

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
corruption. Yes, I have tested this, extensively. As always Y'allsMMV, jus take the blinders off ; Once you install nVidia's kernel and GLX taints, you no longer own your system. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
reports, said it was due to CRC short cuts. To save a few $$'s, WD transfered this from firmware to software. He also reported that WD's response to him was that their drives were not supported under Linux, only Winsux and Solaris by NDA and licensing agreements. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
prosecutions in Europe on 'open networks' user sharing ? IIRC, several Kazza users were the first targets. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday December 17 2002 01:36 am, Lorne wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 10:47 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Civileme, as I relate to his past reports, said it was due to CRC short cuts. To save a few $$'s, WD transfered this from firmware to software. He also reported that WD's response

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday December 17 2002 03:01 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 12:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Civileme reported that WD's no longer supported CRC checking other that in Windoze. I believe he pronounced them as Win-harddrives. As an old timey overclocker, we

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos!

2002-12-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
. Either try the older 2960 nvidia src.rpms, or if limited 3d/accel is all you need, avoid the nvidia binary crap altogether. Tom, does this mean that sometime (with ongoing development?) in the future we might actually see the fully open sourced drivers being comparable to performance

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos!

2002-12-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
nvidia src.rpms, or if limited 3d/accel is all you need, avoid the nvidia binary crap altogether. tom$ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info

[expert] nfs question

2002-12-10 Thread Tom
I have an NFS server which my workstation mounts a directory from. During boot up of the workstation (server stays up), I get the following messages during mounting of NFS: portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out (3x) lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 After a long time, then the

Re: [expert] FW: professional server setup...

2002-12-06 Thread Tom
Dual processor is the way to go on any machine where reliability is tantamount! As was pointed out in Brent's message, any run-away process will not take down the server if it is dual processor. For web server /mail server, you may want to think about clustering several machines. Also, if

Re: [expert] Journaled FS Freezes System

2002-12-02 Thread Tom
On Monday 02 December 2002 11:55 am, you wrote: I have received Kernel Panics and Mangled Filesystems from using the ext3 filesystem on Adaptec 2940 Controllers. Physically check the SCSI system out. You may have termination problems. Do you have a log of the panic messages? I would like

Re: [expert] Journaled FS Freezes System

2002-12-02 Thread Tom
. Maybe the controller has met it's match. Tom wrote: On Monday 02 December 2002 11:55 am, you wrote: I have received Kernel Panics and Mangled Filesystems from using the ext3 filesystem on Adaptec 2940 Controllers. Physically check the SCSI system out. You may have termination problems

Re: [expert] lisa

2002-12-01 Thread Tom
You are right about the glitch in the docs. Anyhow, if you plan to run SAMBA on that ML 9.0 machine, you will need to disable lisa. The lisa package interferes with SAMBA's operation. On Saturday 30 November 2002 10:07 am, you wrote: According to kpackage, lisa is installed and is a kind of

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread Tom
On Monday 02 December 2002 12:03 am, you wrote: Bingo! Now all I have to do is figure out if the via82cxxx animal is the onboard sound or the front USB port which I am not quite sure if I wired It is the MB built-in sound card! Turn it off in the BIOS, looks like it may be defective.

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Tom
On Thursday 28 November 2002 02:34 pm, you wrote: Is there any way to copy 8Gig of files to a nt machine, keeping all ownership/permissions/groups. I've tried taring but it stops at 2G. many thanks Mr Smiley I am sure that you have your reasons for coping to an NT machine. Not being an

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Tom
Would FTP be an option? And once the files are copied over on the NT machine, you could zip it into a smaller file, maybe? What do you think? On Friday 29 November 2002 12:35 pm, you wrote: Yep tried that, it doesn't give you the option to change the file name and assumes its going onto a

Re: [expert] Id3ed error

2002-11-28 Thread Tom
On Thursday 28 November 2002 08:58 am, you wrote: * Stardate: 2002-11-28 08:55 * Incoming subspace signal from Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:56:50 +0100 Maxim Heijndijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I fix this ? [root@warpcore RPMS]# id3ed

Re: [expert] remote Cups printing via network

2002-11-26 Thread Tom
to Higher. I would hate to see what sort of things break if one went to Paranoid security. On Tuesday 26 November 2002 12:49 am, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 20:05, Tom wrote: snip According to the Mandrake Center, a security level of Higher is best for servers. I found that a very high

Re: [expert] ext3 format problem

2002-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
. While I'm runnin 9.1 now, the system was 9.0 when I installed the 80gig. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ext3 format problem

2002-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday November 25 2002 09:04 am, Mark Weaver wrote: that I divided into multiple partitions. While I'm runnin 9.1 now, the system was 9.0 when I installed the 80gig. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Tom, While I think I know the obvious answer

[expert] remote Cups printing via network

2002-11-25 Thread Tom
Here is another FYI: I set up CUPS service on a server running LM 9.0. The security level was Standard. The CUPS admin on the client-side workstation saw the remote printer. All was ok. I could print from my workstation (LM 8.1) to the server-side remote printer via CUPS my network. So, I

[expert] wierd FS situation

2002-11-24 Thread Tom
This message is just information only. I was re-doing the VFAT32 hard drives for a server. I did the usual mke2fs -j device (ext3) and the formatting went fine. I was able to store files and read them just fine. Due to an act of stupidity (it was early o'clock), I was forced to reload LM.

Re: [expert] linux_logo on thinkpad

2002-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
the 92mhz you're seein appears to be the FSB for a p2-366, ie, 92 x 4 =~366mhz. I suspect this results in an underclocked PCI bus also, ie, 92/3 = 31mhz I believe this is this case for most all mobile proccessors. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

[expert] Mail client question

2002-11-22 Thread Tom
I am attempting to migrate the wife from Windows to Mandrake Linux. She has a mail client called News Rover which allows her to bulk save Email attachments. She is subscribed to several Email lists and with this program, she is able to mark a block of Email and have it automatically save the

Re: [expert] Unexpectedly Dies - LM 9.0 - SCSI Problems?

2002-11-22 Thread Tom
Sort of looks like a hardware problem. I have run SCSI for several years and the last time I saw that sort of message, one of the hard drives had messed up. Your message implies several hard drives on the controller. I would first try going to one HD programmed as device 0 (zero) and double

Re: [expert] Xine

2002-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
;) Both have their pros and cons. I tend to like Gmplayer better... when it's not broken as it is right now. Xine tends to be more dependable, IME. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] No Floppy?

2002-11-21 Thread Tom
is still there but no longer works in it's place we have mknod that requires more work to configure...*sigh* James On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 19:05, Tom wrote: What have I overlooked? As root, I tried: cd /dev; /sbin/MAKEDEV fd and it comes up with a don't have permission error

[expert] No Floppy?

2002-11-20 Thread Tom
What have I overlooked? As root, I tried: cd /dev; /sbin/MAKEDEV fd and it comes up with a don't have permission error Then I tried: modprobe floppy and still no floppy devices. I am using the 7 CD box set of Mandrake 9.0 I am trying to configure the Internet services before connecting the

Re: [expert] Mailboxes size on Postfix

2002-11-18 Thread Tom
Jorge, Find the main.cf file and add the following line to it: message_size_limit = size of mailbox in bytes and save it out. Then reload postfix to enable the new limit. example: message_size_limit = 1000 for a 10 Meg limit Adios! On Monday 18 November 2002 04:23 am, you

Re: [expert] Mailboxes size on Postfix

2002-11-18 Thread Tom
Hello Jorge, I found additional info from the Postfix folks: message_size_limit = bytes (i.e. message_size_limit = 1000 for 10 Meg) is for message size limits. mailbox_size_limit = bytes (i.e. mailbox_size_limit = 10 for 1Gig) is for mailbox size limits. I do know if

Re: [expert] groups

2002-11-17 Thread Tom
On Sunday 17 November 2002 06:42 pm, you wrote: Hey guys, My install of 9.0 was running fine and then all of a sudden whenever I connect it tells me it can't find the name of the group I'm in. i.e. id: cannot find name for group ID 100 This is making me crazy - any help at all will be

Re: [expert] groups

2002-11-17 Thread Tom
On Sunday 17 November 2002 07:47 pm, you wrote: Tom, that was it. I'm an idiot - it's true :) Not really, you knew enough to get to the heart of the problem. It was a case of can't see the forest 'cause the trees are in the way. Good Luck! AngusDo On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 11:43, Tom wrote

[expert] very large hard drives (137GB)

2002-11-17 Thread Tom
Quick question: Does Mandrake 9.0 properly support the newer LBA48 type IDE hard drives? Ones which are larger than 137GigaByte capacity? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mozilla quickstart in Mandrake ???

2002-11-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
are and maybe where from. Preferably on one line. Specially now that small screen hand held wireless devices are popular, and more'n more people are connected worldwide, but pay for d/l size and/or connect time. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] motherboard recommendations?

2002-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
/0,,30_182_869_4348^4351,00.html I'd say to only use a board AMD has recommended -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] IDE - SCSI

2002-10-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
it /dev/scd0 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
were requested not to in the 'welcome message' when you joined the list. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] IDE - SCSI

2002-10-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday October 19 2002 04:00 pm, Richard Laframboise wrote: Thanks Tom for the info but how can I configure my ide cd to be known as a scsi device They have to be, otherwise they wouldn't work at all, even under windoze ;) There is no such thing as an 'Integrated Drive Electronics

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
sent me 9.0 CD's. 90cd1.iso checked, cd2 and 3 didn't, but they installed just fine. IOW, I think it's a crap shoot ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
* 728334336 Sep 29 03:24 Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso * 73358 Sep 29 17:00 Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso 478511104 Sep 30 01:51 Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.is 73358 bytes == 699.6 MB and easily fits on a 700MB CD -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday October 16 2002 11:57 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:01:09 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 73358 bytes == 699.6 MB and easily fits on a 700MB CD Apparently not with _xcdroast_... it just burned a blank disk... I just burned 8.2 successfully

Re: [expert] LM9.0: Removable Media icon in KDE

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
existed. I like it. Makes it a little more like my fave, IceWM. Blue skies... Todd Same here Todd. Yes! Thanks James. When did that option appear? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
any more people havin problems burnin Mandrake iso's now than in the past, just a new scapegoat to blame. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] libgcc_s_so.1 ?

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
provided by libgcc1-3.2-1mdkso look for a similar 8.2 rpm -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives in Linux

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
result should be more like 36 to 40+ MB/sec. So I dunno, other than as others have mentioned in this thread, WD drives reportedly do not comform to current standards -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives in Linux

2002-10-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
then sym link it to the runlevels when i get time, but rc.local is fine for the moment. Take a look in /etc/sysconf/harddisksYou can specify hdparm options there instead of rc*. Doesn't work for CD drives tho, only HDD's. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [expert] Removable media icon; how to delete

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
session for future logons ... checked. On subsequent log-out's, leave this unchecked. Should get rid of that icon. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] I don't get it. You want bug reports or not!?!?!?!

2002-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
in cooker since RC1. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrakelinux 9.0 RC1 and P4B533 MB

2002-09-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 4 2002 12:08 pm, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: Hi Tom, I found the following answer from Alan Cox to a question on the kernel mailing list. It looks as if he has a patch for the standard 2.4.19 kernel. What I would like to know is, if Mandrake soft is planning to make

Re: [expert] beta testing messages

2002-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
with the Mandrake newsgroup first ; I believe your request is kind'a tardy, as in about 9 days, discussion about 8.x or earlier will be obsolete by your rule ;p just my 2 pesos -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] beta testing messages

2002-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 3 2002 05:23 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 15:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: Can all of the messages regarding 9.0, cooker, the release candidate, or any of the betas please be posted to the cooker mailing list? No, wouldn't be a good idea anyhow

Re: [expert]

2002-08-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
on the mirrors, it was already several days old, and missing (IMO) some important fixes/improvements since. So that leaves me wonderin what the point is in releasing stale beta's ?? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert]

2002-08-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
back in the default install, ?? ?? (it's never been missing), slocate-2.6-5mdk -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r SOLVED

2002-08-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
up, probly won't be very good at reading cdr's. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] URPMI Database

2002-08-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
... Todd While were on the subject I've got 9.0 beta2, and an upgrade from beta1 failed (I knew it would ;) so I had to do a fresh install and lost my urpmi ftp sources (that were added with the old rpmdrake). I finally got this to work and add ftp.sunet tom# urpmi.addmedia cook

Re: [expert] URPMI Database

2002-08-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 9 2002 08:59 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 08:48:06 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tom# urpmi.addmedia cook-sunet ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i5 86/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz (all one

Re: [expert] supermount problem?

2002-07-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
a known problem. It's still the behavior in current cooker and 9.0 beta. If you search the cooker ML archive, I believe some hacks to fix it were disscussed. OTOH, 'ls /mnt/cdrom' should work. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Kernel Compiling Fun.

2002-07-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
bzImage make modules make modules_install make install -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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