Re: OT: Zen Garden of CSS

2005-05-30 Thread Rob Wood
Christopher Sawtell wrote: No, "Sticks and stones break your bones, but words will never hurt you" It's oil that fuels wars. I look forward to the day when it is exhausted. -- C. S. That could be sooner than many people think. Can a PC run on solar panels? Woodsey

Re: Laptop Recommendations

2005-05-15 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, I could suggest what to avoid. I bought a new Fujitsu Siemens which has pathetic online support, a virtually worthless worldwide guarantee, very poor and limited bios setup facility and no updates in the 12 months since I bought it, so I shall be avoiding this make in future. It wor

Re: Totally OT now: Was: software and IP law in NZ

2005-04-20 Thread Rob Wood
If I was younger I would be heading off the Europe. There is still a remote chance that sanity might break lose there. Don't forget about all the EU insanity. It really is a nightmare of rules and regs. Most of them drive on the wrong side of the road for a start (: So? It only takes a moment

Re: query about cfdisk

2005-04-19 Thread Rob Wood
Christopher Sawtell wrote: In that case install the spare disk and copy the contents of the partitions to it as .tar or .cpio files. Re-size the partitions as required using one of the *fdisk utilities. Recreate the filesystems and restore the contents. Yes that sounds a sensible plan If the data

Re: query about cfdisk

2005-04-19 Thread Rob Wood
Thanks for all the replies on this. Christopher Sawtell wrote: All the *fdisk family of programs _only_ change the entry in the partition table, and don't even attempt to preserve the data. So the answer is NO!!! You do not mention the kind of filesystem in the partition. There are some partition

query about cfdisk

2005-04-19 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, Can cfdisk be used to re-size partitions containing data? I know Partition Magic can do it but I find that PM always fails eventually, starting with odd quirks happening at some stage, leading to more serious problems further down the line. If cfdisk can do it, how reliable do you th

Re: fontsize and printing from konqueror

2005-04-17 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Not as embarrassing as under windows where you need a few thousand dollar to buy a tool that prints your documents as pdf Ghostscript for windows is a free download. So is acroread. There is another free download here which enables you to convert your documents i

Re: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, The only recommendation I can make is give Telecom a miss. As a matter of interest, what model ADSL router was it? Woodsey John Carter wrote: My DSE ADSL modem / router/hub has died. I need to change my ISP service plan anyway, now would be a Good Time for an Alternate Magical Techno

Re: Debian Downloads ... Newbie type question

2005-04-05 Thread Rob Wood
Hi Shane, I'm a newbie myself and all I can offer is what I did. I couldn't find binary iso s myself (but that doesn't automatically mean they don't exist) Assuming a broadband connection: I went to debian.org and download the floppy installer images on a spare PC, about 3 from memory. The targe

Re: News:Hitachi eyeing 1TB desktop drives with new technology]

2005-04-05 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, I just hope that reliability will increase to match capacity. If a drive goes on the blink or fails, imagine trying to retrieve a TB or so of data from it. It's bad enough with a few GB. Pity they can't find some way of reducing reliance on mechanical cogs, cranks and wheels so to spe

Re: Baycorpadvantage imposes MS Explorer hegemony

2005-04-03 Thread Rob Wood
Yes I get a similar thing with my UK bank on my SuSE box + Firefox: "you are using an unsupported browser, click here to upgrade to Internet Explorer". I find it (firefox) works perfectly, however konqueror failed. Woodsey I have just signed up to the credit reference company Baycorpadvatage. In w

Re: Quick question that's bugging me

2005-04-03 Thread Rob Wood
Why didn't I think of that? Thanks everyone Timothy Pick wrote: you can use 'pwd' to find the current working directory. But as brad said you are in roots home. "The home of the root user" != "the root directory".

Quick question that's bugging me

2005-04-03 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, When I log in as root say on my debian box (text only)I have a prompt: mkIIdebian:~# 1. If I do 'ls' from here I get a file list: dead.letter install-report.template and dbootstrap.settings 2. If I go to the root directory 'cd /' and do 'ls' I get the following plus others bin dev hom

Re: Fax over IP was fax over broadband

2005-03-30 Thread Rob Wood
Nick Rout wrote: > You guys should read this page: http://www.savetz.com/fax/ That looks useful as I only need a receive facility, (which appears to be free) to get some communication from my mate in the UK who only has to look at a computer and it freezes up, but he can send a fax. Strange how

Re: Fax over broadband

2005-03-30 Thread Rob Wood
Robert Well that is very interesting and maybe it won't be too long before a similar thing arrives here. My high school German of (40ish years) is a little rusty but I might get away with it in the meantime, now let me see: "Ich bin Englander aber Ich wohne hier auf New Zealand. Zwei bieren bitt

Re: SuSE rescue

2005-03-25 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, Thanks to all the people who helped on this and my SuSE is now back up and running. Whilst the following worked Ok, I did not understand 100% what was happening, especially the "proc" part. "Then mount proc and chroot into that file system: # mount -t proc none /mnt/suse/proc # chro

Re: SuSE rescue

2005-03-24 Thread Rob Wood
The Linux fdisk partition listing is as folows: Device Start/End/BlocksId System /dev/hda1 7 NTFS /dev/hda2 f W95 Ext'd LBA /dev/hda3 83 L

Re: SuSE rescue

2005-03-24 Thread Rob Wood
The words "oh dear" or something similar spring to mind. According to a DOS boot floppy, C: now contains the contents of the FAT32WinLin partition and doesn't list the NTFS XPBoot partition at all. I'll dig out a Partition Magic floppy and see what that comes up with Woodsey Steve Holdoway wrote:

Re: SuSE rescue

2005-03-24 Thread Rob Wood
It looks like I got the partition designation wrong. The SuSE partition is no longer on hda5 as before because I got a directory listing of my FAT32 Win/Lin partition. I think once I figure out what hda number it has shifted to I'll be OK. Woodsey. Volker Kuhlmann wrote: /bin/bash. I suspect th

Re: SuSE rescue

2005-03-24 Thread Rob Wood
Thanks Nick, Chris and Volker, I've tried this several times using the SusE, BG rescue, sbminst disks and can get as far as: "chroot /mnt/suse /bin/bash" or "chroot /mnt /bin/bash --login" as suggested by Volker but the message is always the same: "chroot: cannot run command '/bin/bash' no such fil

SuSE rescue

2005-03-24 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, Happy Easter to everyone. Can anyone help me with this? I have a laptop which was running dual boot WindowsXP and Ubuntu. Having plenty of drive space, I loaded SuSE 9.2 on a spare section of free space and triple booted for a while to see if I preferred SuSE to Ubuntu. Eventually I deci

Re: X server on SuSE9.2 (success)

2005-03-02 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, The original problem was as follows: I have also installed a copy on my 2nd machine as only a base install+X+network tools, no KDE or Gnome. When I do startx I get the message: "There is no link /var/X11R6/bin/X to the correct X server binary. Please configure the correct X server

Re: X server on SuSE9.2 (success)

2005-03-01 Thread Rob Wood
Yes, sorry David that was meant for the list. Whilst I'm back on this topic, now sax2 is on the PC there doesn't seem to be any way of solving the original problem with it. Yast on the installer was the key. Woodsey On Monday 28 February 2005 20:39, David Kirk wrote: > I assume

Re: How do I allow remote connections to X under SuSe 9.2?

2005-02-27 Thread Rob Wood
Hi, I think you go to /etc/X11/xdm and edit it to make sure the line that reads: #* #any host can get a log in window and make sure the * is uncommented. then in the same directory open xdm-config in an editor Find where it says: !Security: do not listen for XDMCP or chooser requests !Comment o

Re: X server on SuSE9.2

2005-02-27 Thread Rob Wood
SaX, Sax, sax SaX2, Sax2, sax2 etc, etc. "command not found" Nick. Nothing in yast for configuring X either, which is of course the very basic version. Woodsey On Monday 28 February 2005 00:53, Nick Rout wrote: > read our lips, use sax[2] > >

Re: X server on SuSE9.2

2005-02-27 Thread Rob Wood
symbol be the reason for the failure to load a module? or maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. Woodsey On Sunday 27 February 2005 21:41, Rob Wood wrote: > When I do startx I get the message: > > "There is no link /var/X11R6/bin/X to the correct X server binary. Please > c

Re: X server on SuSE9.2

2005-02-27 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, I recently installed SuSe 9.2 which I think is the best Linux distro I've tried so far. I have also installed a copy on my 2nd machine as only a base install+X+network tools, no KDE or Gnome. When I do startx I get the message: "There is no link /var/X11R6/bin/X to the correct X ser

Re: Ubuntu crashing

2005-02-24 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, This certainly sounds like hardware instability but difficult to ascertain. I would investigate: CPU running temperature RAM integrity Motherboard setup parameters (not overclocked I hope) Ensure PSU voltages are within tolerance Best of luck, Woodsey On Wednesday 23 February 2005 09

Re: Smart boot disk was Toms RTBT Disk

2005-02-18 Thread rob
respectively. I have now found a Knoppix boot floppy image, that did not come with the .iso, but wouldn't a generic cd boot floppy be so much more useful? Cheers - Woodsey On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 23:57 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:16, rob wrote: > > I am s

Re: Smart boot disk was Toms RTBT Disk

2005-02-18 Thread rob
Steve, Chris, Nick Guys, those last few postings on PATH etc., were excellent reading for me and cleared up a lot of queries and mis-conceptions. I am still labouring to get this CD to boot with the smart boot manager. I have entered the Base I/O ports and rescanned as required but it just doesn

Re: Toms RTBT Disk

2005-02-17 Thread rob
Thanks Chris, That worked. So what exactly does the ./ do? Woodsey On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 13:59 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:33, rob wrote: > > I'm just getting: > > sbminst command not found > > sbminst-static command not found > cd

Re: Toms RTBT Disk

2005-02-17 Thread rob
I'm just getting: sbminst command not found sbminst-static command not found I think I have downloaded binary files that have to be compiled but the only other alternative was a DOS executable, which I'm trying to avoid. I will try and compile them. Woodsey On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 12:59 +1300, Ni

Re: Toms RTBT Disk

2005-02-17 Thread rob
and boot the CD, > simply, 10 minutes max. > > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:54:49 +1300 > rob wrote: > > > Hi Nick, > > The distro I'm trying is a Knoppix version called Damn Small Linux and > > the description is given at the URL below. I should correct mys

Re: Toms RTBT Disk

2005-02-17 Thread rob
Hi Nick, The distro I'm trying is a Knoppix version called Damn Small Linux and the description is given at the URL below. I should correct myself here and mention that it says copy the .iso contents over not the boot files. Woodsey http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/install_from_floppy.html > copy th

Re: Toms RTBT Disk

2005-02-17 Thread rob
d just copy the boot files to the hard drive as suggested on the Knoppix 'how to' section of their site. Woodsey On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 10:17 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > Rob, there are archives, see the clug wiki for how to access them: > > http://

Toms RTBT Disk

2005-02-17 Thread rob
Greetings, Chris, yesterday you posted 2 e-mails on the above topic. I meant to save them to my saved items folder as they contained some useful information but somehow managed to delete them. :-( If you haven't already disposed of them, could you re-send them to me off list? Thanks in advance W

Re: Toms RTBT disk

2005-02-16 Thread rob
Wesley, No I couldn't get type less to work either. I don't know about the vertical character in your syntax, I've never understood that. Woodsey On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 13:49 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: > syntax: > type | more /* DOSish, I know, but it works */ > > more > > more < /* redir

Re: Toms RTBT disk

2005-02-16 Thread rob
Thanks Nick, I managed to get the CD ROM to mount using /dev/hdc and got a directory listing of the CD. I will try the programme that you suggested and see what happens. Woodsey On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:48 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > I am not sure if you are able to mount a cdrom from toms, that

RE: FW: UBS Broadband connection delays

2005-02-16 Thread rob
Robert, I have an ISA modem, unknown speed and untested, Lucent chip. If you want to try it you are more than welcome to it if you don't get any better offers. Post your address and I'll mail it to you. Cheers - Woodsey On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:12 +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > Does a

Toms RTBT disk

2005-02-16 Thread rob
Greetings, Some time ago, someone on the list recommended Toms RTBT disk for gaining CD ROM access via a floppy boot for installing Linux on a machine that won't boot from CD ROM. I have been trying to use this disk but have come up against a few problems: /mnt/cdrom gave the message: "cdrom not

Re: Konquerer

2005-02-16 Thread rob
Hi Dave, You wouldn't be using a laptop by any chance with a touchpad? I have a similar phenomenon and I found that it is to do with my hands brushing on the touchpad as I type, making it do similar things. Woodsey On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 21:23 +1300, dave wrote: > Why is it that for no reason te

Re: decent Linux training

2005-02-14 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, Well everyone will be greatly relieved to learn that my extended visa has been granted and that you will have my company for at least another 6 months. In an effort to fill in some of my time usefully, I contacted Unitec here in Auckland to try and find a Linux course to do. Guess wh

Re: Apache 2 (old thread)

2005-02-09 Thread rob
> try quoting - eg > > mv "Fred Bloggs.htm" fredbloggs.html Couldn't get that to work ""Fred Bloggs.htm" no such file or directory" > mv Fred\ Bloggs.htm fredbloggs.html > > the backslash character \ tells the shell that the next character is taken > literally, not as the command line delimite

Re: [OT] Re: Two systems

2005-02-08 Thread rob
Would that be a Red Hat? Woodsey > > > Nick. I stole the hat from Nick. (Sorry)

Re: Apache 2 (old thread)

2005-02-08 Thread rob
Greetings Sorry to have been so quiet recently, I know my off topic ramblings will have been missed. :-) Just to finalise on an old thread here, I had so much hassle trying to configure my server with Win2K + Apache 2, I decided to go for the debian testing release, text only, plus Apache 2, follo

Re: Linux security - newbie

2005-02-07 Thread rob
I can only answer this from personal experience and not from any technical expertise. I have run my lappie with Ubuntu for about 3 months now with no virus protection on it. I asked the same question on this list a few weeks ago, had some re-assuring replies and decided to run with it and try and s

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-02-02 Thread rob
I used to deal in hardware and systems in the UK and I had a hell of a job to sell anything without Windows and Word on it. On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 15:59 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > One ChCh retailer bundles the win32 version of the gimp on their machines. But that sort of thing could work well

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-02-02 Thread rob
Microsoft run massive TV ad campaigns in the UK usually around Christmas time when people buy expensive presents etc. I suspect in the States and other places too. > Speaking of IE the Mozilla-Foundation does shovel some money in > newspaper ads. Ok, that's not much but there are slso all the

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-02-02 Thread rob
Greetings, Someone said that using IE is normal because it is there, on the PC when you plug it in. The average user doesn't really know what it is and what alternatives there are. He just wants to get online to see the football results or whatever. It is the more accomplished user, maybe someone

Re: Totally OT was Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-01-31 Thread rob
Speaking as a Brit driving 38 years Insurance is compulsory over there and I think the insurance premiums are based on statistics. Therefore a 17 yr old with a Porsche plus performance modifications and a 2 drink driving convictions would find her premium increase by several hundred percent. In a

Re: Writing to FAT partition

2005-01-28 Thread rob
Hi Slosh, That's the one that did it. Cheers - Woodsey > > > > have you tried umask=000? > > --Slosh >

Re: Apache 2

2005-01-27 Thread rob
Trevor, Thanks for the re-worked httpd file. I've really stuffed this Apache setup. It won't even start the service now, not even with the default httpd.conf loaded. It started when I moved the old httpd then deleted it. Apache couldn't find it and got into all sorts confusion. Rather than mess w

Re: Writing to FAT partition

2005-01-27 Thread rob
Hi Thanks Steve, Chris,David, Dave and Nick Steve, this probably has been covered before but possibly before my time. Good explanation though. Well the problem has been solved and I can now read and write to the FAT partition with both OS. Last question: Would fat refer to fat16 and vfat to fat

Re: Writing to FAT partition

2005-01-27 Thread rob
Thanks David, Volker, Dave What is a *ix filesystem? No its not a USB device, it's a FAT partition on the machine's hard drive that needs rw access on Ubuntu and XP, hence FAT system. I'm just getting read access all the time. Dave suggested a line in /etc/fstab: /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 auto,u

Re: Writing to FAT partition

2005-01-27 Thread rob
Hi, Thanks for that Rick, I have attached it as a text file. > Can you: > $cat /etc/fstab > for us please? > > We need to know the (read-write) mounting of the FAT partition (I assume). > > >Cheers - Woodsey # < dump> proc/proc proc

Writing to FAT partition

2005-01-26 Thread rob
Greetings, I am using a lappie + Ubuntu, dual booting with XP. I have made a FAT partition to contain data that will need to be read and written on both OS. I think I have changed the ownership of the FAT directory to root OK but when I tried to make it writable from Ubuntu but it won't have it. I

Extract utility

2005-01-25 Thread rob
Hi I tried to run Xinstall.sh on 486+Tiny after successfully doing chown and chmod on the file, got the permissions sorted out then ran it. It immediately asked for extract utility to be placed in the folder where Xinstall.sh is situated. I am surprised at this as I have been un-tarring and un-gunz

Re: Ubuntu file permissions

2005-01-24 Thread Rob Wood
Ross, Yes that looks very useful too. If necessary I will try that. Thanks Woodsey - Original Message - From: "Ross Hamblin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:18 AM Subject: RE: Ubuntu file permissions Hi Rob, You can use tar to get around t

Re: Ubuntu file permissions

2005-01-24 Thread Rob Wood
about the script running wild. I will try the chown and chmod route. Woodsey - Original Message - From: "Nick Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:09 AM Subject: Re: Ubuntu file permissions On Tue, January 25, 2005 10:44 am, rob said: Hi

Re: Ubuntu file permissions

2005-01-24 Thread rob
Hi Thanks for that Nick. The output is: -r-xr-xr-x1 rob rob 44000 2005-01-10 14:59 /home/rob/Xinstall.sh Is it advisable to re-format a set of floppies using ext2 or something? and then change the format type in /etc/fstab Woodsey On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 10:25 +1300, Nick Rout

Ubuntu file permissions

2005-01-24 Thread rob
Greetings, How do I change file permissions in Ubuntu? I have a script program which, when I try to run it, I get the message "permission denied". I tried to change the permissions via opening the folder containing the file, selecting the icon for the script, going to file/permissions then trying t

Re: Looking for an ISP recommendation

2005-01-23 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, Did anyone in Christchurch get any downtime on xtra Jetstream last weekend. Here in Auckland it was off for a large part of Saturday morning. I got a voice on the helpline to confirm the system was down but no advice was offered or estimated downtime, certainly no apology, just a load

Re: SuSE 9.2 Disks

2005-01-23 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, David, thanks for that; it will be useful on the day. Is the last line of your message the entry to be added to /etc/exports? Woodsey. - Original Message - From: "David Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:01 PM Subject: Re: SuSE

Re: SuSE 9.2 disks

2005-01-22 Thread Rob Wood
Robert, That clarifies the situation for me. I am trying to digest all this information as I am not very confident with Linux yet but realise that it is the way to go. I am just trying to get my head round the ssh protocol at the moment, then I should be ready to go ahead with this. I appear to hav

Re: SuSE 9.2 disks

2005-01-22 Thread Rob Wood
Thanks Robert, That clarifies the situation for me. I am trying to digest all this information as I am not very confident with Linux yet but realise that it is the way to go. I am just trying to get my head round the ssh protocol at the moment, then I should be ready to go ahead with this. I ap

Re: SuSE 9.2 disks

2005-01-21 Thread Rob Wood
Thanks for that Steve, I will get a spare PC running early next week for a practice shot before trashing the existing server. When you say get sshd up and running, I believe that this is an encryption program to be setup on the client machine before doing the Net install is that correct? I will

SuSE 9.2 disks

2005-01-20 Thread Rob Wood
Hi, I downloaded the SuSE mini installation iso as recommended. I will probably then go for the DVD version. Is this DVD the personal or the advanced version? (Not that I think I need the advanced, - just curious).   If I understand it correctly, I can use this to boot sufficient OS on a LAN

Apache 2

2005-01-20 Thread rob
Hi, I have re-edited the httpd.conf file as per suggestions and placed content in the document root directories. When I try to start Apache a message flashes by really quickly, referring to an error, then Apache hangs on start up. Is there any way to get at the contents of this message to find the

Re: Apache 2

2005-01-20 Thread rob
Yes, of course it would have been sensible to mention that! (Win2K). A Linux server is on my New Year resolution list! Woodsey On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 09:16 +1300, Dale Anderson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 23:27 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > > > > > > > Oy! Woodsey! No! Wot's this F: st

Re: Apache 2

2005-01-20 Thread rob
Thanks Steve, Dale and Trevor, Putting all this together, the Vhost containers are starting to look a little fuller than those given in the Apache examples in the documentation. I thought they looked a little sparse for what they have to do. Steve, The domains A, B and C were just examples for c

Re: correction SuSE 9.2 Disks

2005-01-20 Thread Rob Wood
Hi, (For information only) I have an IDE drive enclosure running on USB 2. It is very reliable, not bad for speed and they are supposed to be bootable. My lappie will not boot from it but it will boot from a USB flash drive, which seems strange. I guess it might if there were no OS on the lappie h

Apache 2

2005-01-20 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, I have been having major problems with Apache, running a main server and two virtual hosts.   I have been through the Apache documentation with a fine tooth comb and as far as I can see my cofiguration should work. It works OK when accessing the main server from outside, but when I

Re: OT a good laugh at MS

2005-01-19 Thread Rob Wood
Nice one Nick, I think I'll download it myself! I always wondered how to remove IE. Woodsey - Original Message - From: "Nick Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG" Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 9:30 AM Subject: OT a good laugh at MS http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/microsoft_antispyw

Re: SuSE 9.2 Disks

2005-01-18 Thread Rob Wood
Rik, Thanks for the message. Some contacts here in Auckland would be valuable as regards the local LUG. (I couldn't find much up to date stuff on the web). Also of particular use to me would be details of a second hand store something like Computer Broker in Christchurch plus any other reccomendati

SuSE 9.2 disks

2005-01-18 Thread rob
Wow what an amazing response! I will need a bit of time to absorb all this information, and I'm currently battling with immigration to avoid being flung out of the country in the very near future just to confuse things. I have always wanted to try out SuSE as I like German technology. Those guys w

Re: SuSE 9.2 Disks

2005-01-18 Thread Rob Wood
Thanks Volker and Philip for offerering to help. Before I make a decision on this, can I ask a newbie question? I have only 1 system with a DVD, is it possible for me to access this system over my LAN from a machine with no OS on it to do a network install of some type? Cheers - Woodsey -- No

SuSE 9.2 Disks

2005-01-18 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, Is anyone prepared to supply me with SuSE 9.2 disks (CDs)? I am in Auckland and would gladly send replacement blanks and refund postal expenses etc.   I'm really miffed at not being there for the drink and talk night, sounds like a goody. I don't suppose it is being video streamed

Re: Ubuntu queries

2005-01-13 Thread rob
Thanks to David, Nick and Chris, I have meticulously followed the steps in the unofficial Ubuntu FAQ and the man pages to get access to NTFS and FAT partition on my drive. I can view a directory and file listing of my NTFS partition from the prompt but cannot get the partition to display in Comput

Ubuntu queries

2005-01-13 Thread rob
Thanks to David and Nick, I did mkdir /media/windows for both the NTFS and FAT32 partitions and made appropriate adjustments to /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab After a reboot, I have 2 partitions windows and windows2 on the desktop they both list the directories and files on the FAT32 partition. The ou

Ubuntu queries

2005-01-13 Thread rob
83 Linux /dev/hda5 16432 17388 481918+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 17388 37804102896017 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda7 37805 38708 455584+ 82 Linux swap [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/rob # It is the hda5 one that I need full access to. I will tr

Re: Ubuntu queries

2005-01-10 Thread Rob Wood
Thanks David and Chris, My paranoia is well founded but I'll take your words for it and run without virus protection. I saw an article in one of the PC magazines where they ran a batch of different Windows machines (6 I think) on the Internet without protection. From memory, longest lasting was

Ubuntu queries

2005-01-10 Thread rob
Greetings, Well here we are in Auckland after a long rainy, windy journey. It's nowhere near as nice as Christchurch. I have Ubuntu on my laptop and use it everyday on the Internet. I have no virus protection loaded yet and I am surprised to have gotten away with it for so long. A word of mouth r

1st Jan 2005

2004-12-31 Thread Rob Wood
Just to say Happy New Year to everyone.   Anyone made any resolutions? One of mine is to get a Linux server up and running and ditch W2K.   Cheers - Woodsey No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/2004

Re: Xstuff - nearly there

2004-12-30 Thread Rob Wood
Thanks to Chris, Nick, Matthew, Steve, David and Glyn, OK a bit more progress. Further adjusting xf86config has got background, cursor and bash$ prompt up the whole time. The SecurityProfile is still being ignored and I still can't find the X log. I'm reasonably sure now that it does not exist on t

Re: Xstuff - nearly there

2004-12-29 Thread rob
Thanks to Chris, Ross, Steve and Nick. I still haven't managed to locate an X log after several attempts. After running xf86config again and adjusting the horizontal and vertical frequencies, if I move the mouse about whilst doing startx, the background and cursor will stay on screen. There is a

Re: Xstuff - nearly there

2004-12-29 Thread Rob Wood
Hi Chris, Well good and bad news. With the downloaded SecurityPolicy file in place startx starts up and the background stays on screen for about 2 seconds now (100% improvement). There is no error message at the end of the run regarding the SecurityPolicy file so the file is clearly being found OK

Re: Xstuff - nearly there

2004-12-28 Thread rob
Hi Nick, Yes I understand your thinking but there are good reasons behind all this. Whilst it's true that I don't have lots of cash around at present I did have a 486, a bit of spare time and a desire to get to grips with Linux. The distro was carefully selected as one which would run on the hardwa

Re: Xstuff - nearly there

2004-12-28 Thread Rob Wood
Ah! there we are: XF86_VGA16 and the ( symbolic ) link called X, which points to it are both supposed to be in the directory /usr/X11R6/bin which in turn is supposed to be in the PATH. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell Yes that was the problem, brilliant! Startx now seems to start. I feel that

Major blunder (Xstuff)

2004-12-28 Thread Rob Wood
Thanks to Steve, Chris and David,   The PATH=$PATH command worked OK. Enabled me to re-edit the /etc/profile file, then after a reboot all was OK. One extra set of  " in the string caused the problem. It's a problem when you have fingers like a bunch of bananas :-)   As far as I can see,

Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-28 Thread Rob Wood
- Original Message - From: "Judy & Lindsay Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:32 PM Subject: Re: Judy & Lindsay questions Most practical - whos got a spare $799 (Harvey Normans - kidding)!! Hi Both, Have a look in the Computer Broker 6 Washington way. My

Major blunder (X stuff)

2004-12-27 Thread Rob Wood
Hi I have been labouring long and hard to get X system working on my practice box (486+Tiny).   I made a lot of progress and got all the *.tar.gz files decompressed and extracted into their appropriate directories.  I followed readme.tinyX to the letter and did locate to ensure that all req

Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Rob Wood
Hi Both, Can I strongly reccomend a spare PC to practice Linux on so you don't mess up your working system. I have done this several times and have learned this lesson the hard way. This way you can still use e-mail and web on the working system to get things sorted out.   A spare PC is the w

Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Rob Wood
Hi Both, I am a newbie myself struggling with various problems so I probably can't help much but I will try. Mandrake in my experience is reasonable to set up with a modem as long as you have an external serial or USB modem and not internal PCI or ISA type (these things depend on Windows), a

Xstuff and other things

2004-12-26 Thread Rob Wood
Chris, I am causing some confusion here. I have Ubuntu on my laptop, which although I have some problems with it, just installed like a dream, less problems than with XP, but Ubuntu doesn't like the laptop hardware. It fails to boot often with Fatal Error messages.   The machine on which I'm

Xstuff-progress and other things

2004-12-26 Thread Rob Wood
Chris, I tried X -configure and x -configure but these would not run. Got the message "command not found" I get the feeling that some of these executables are not working for some reason. I can see the files startx* and xf86config* but they won't do anything.  The mass of stuff in the xf86c

Xstuff- progress

2004-12-25 Thread Rob Wood
MERRY CHRISTMAS.   Thanks to Chris, Glyn and David for recent help. Some success at last. I have now got the elusive XTinybin.tar file gunzip'd tar'd and the extracted files are now visible in what I assume is the correct place: /etc/X11/X11R6/bin/   All files are executables except for one n

Yet more X stuff again

2004-12-22 Thread Rob Wood
Hi Thanks to Glyn, Chris and David for previous help.   I seem to have made some progress with XTinybin.tar. I re-downloaded the file and found it was XTinybin.tar.gz (It got labelled as XTinytar.tar at 1st attempt) so I gzip'd it and then tar'd it as it says in the manual but couldn't

X stuff again

2004-12-13 Thread Rob Wood
Hi Woodsey here. Thanks to Chris and Steve for the recent help.   Could anyone throw some light on the following   I am fairly convinced that my Xtinybin.tar is well mangled as Winzip won't look at it either so I had a look through all the directories on my linux box (Tiny Linux on 486) and

Can someone explain please

2004-12-13 Thread Rob Wood
Hi CLUG, It's woodsey here. I never dreamed that my off the cuff comment would start such a debate. Yes it was just a joke "what shall I do with it? - polite answers only please" audience collapses in paroxysms of mirth!   Anyway at the risk of being "flamed" or branded an idiot or mayb

Newbie questions

2004-12-10 Thread Rob Wood
Hello CLUG, Rob Wood (Woodsey) here. I attended the meeting on 04December (introduced myself as marine engineer), it was great to meet everyone for the first time. I was amazed how helpful and welcoming everyone was, thanks for that. Sorry I had to leave early, but found both presentations

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