Re: Burning CD's with Knoppix

2003-03-23 Thread Leon Goldstein
Net Llama! wrote: On 03/23/03 17:10, Leon Goldstein wrote: > (To recapitulate the problem: I'm trying to see if I can use Knoppix to > rescue files from a crapped out Win 98 install by burning them to a CD) wouldn't it be alot easier just to scp the files to another box?  knoppix can certainly

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
No complaint this time . Collins Richey wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 17:34:21 -0500 > "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Collins, you posts are not wrapping - they appear as one long line. >> Other;s show up okay and it shows up good when I replay to you. >> > > Oh, sweet myster

Re: mysql

2003-03-23 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:34:29 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must be over-looking some basic step in setting up (or attempting to) > mysql. > This is on a Slackware-8.1 box.I have done the "mysql_install_db; > mysqladmin -u -p password 'new-pasword' I then use "safe_mysqld > &" t

Alternate backup strategies

2003-03-23 Thread Collins Richey
Does anyone have experience with using an external drive (USB or firewire, perhaps) for backup and releveant howto, preferences, etc.? These beasties are fairly cheap, but do they work well with linux? Oops, part II: How about DVD-R{etc.}? I intended to send this out here, but it went to Gentoo

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 17:40:01 -0500 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An unnamed Administration source, Collins Richey, wrote: > % On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:57:33 -0500 > % Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > % BTW, the network configuration stuff is where I always fall over >

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 17:34:21 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins, you posts are not wrapping - they appear as one long line. > Other;s show up okay and it shows up good when I replay to you. > Oh, sweet mysteries of life. Somehow "wrap before send" got unchecked. Sh

Re: Burning CD's with Knoppix

2003-03-23 Thread Joel Hammer
Does it matter if win98 occupies the hard drive? Knoppix writes well to vfat drives. Joel > Joel: thanks. The problem I anticipate is creating a directory for > mkisofs to store the image file. > The computer in question only has one HD, and AFAIK has only Win 98 > occupying all available driv

Re: Burning CD's with Knoppix

2003-03-23 Thread Net Llama!
On 03/23/03 17:10, Leon Goldstein wrote: (To recapitulate the problem: I'm trying to see if I can use Knoppix to rescue files from a crapped out Win 98 install by burning them to a CD) wouldn't it be alot easier just to scp the files to another box? knoppix can certainly do that. -- ~

Re: Burning CD's with Knoppix

2003-03-23 Thread Leon Goldstein
Joel Hammer wrote: Does knoppix have cdrecord  and mkisofs on it? If so, I can tell you how I do it. Basically, like this: cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0:     0,0,0 0) 'SONY    ' 'CD-RW 

Re: Burning CD's with Knoppix

2003-03-23 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 13:31:25 -0500 "Leon A. Goldstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone provide me a how-to for burning a CD with Knoppix? > A friend just had his Windows 98 roll over. If I can't resurrect it > with a dose of Norton, > I want at least to rescue his files. > cdrecord

Re: Burning CD's with Knoppix

2003-03-23 Thread Joel Hammer
Maybe you should post this question under a different thread name. But, just guessing: Do you have valid media? Is the drive unmounted? Joel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,0,0 -data /home/ahr1/burn > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling

mysql

2003-03-23 Thread Ted Ozolins
I must be over-looking some basic step in setting up (or attempting to) mysql. This is on a Slackware-8.1 box.I have done the "mysql_install_db; mysqladmin -u -p password 'new-pasword' I then use "safe_mysqld &" to start mysqld .. then when I try to create or do anything I keep getting mysqld En

Re: Burning CD's with Knoppix

2003-03-23 Thread Allan Rabenau
Attempting to do as you describe below, results in as shown: Joel Hammer wrote: Does knoppix have cdrecord and mkisofs on it? If so, I can tell you how I do it. Basically, like this: cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 's

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, dep, wrote: % begin Collins Richey's quote: % % | Yeah, I know I could RTFM, but I usually can't figure out which FM. % % i've been after babelfish to add "man page" as a language, but they % say it can't be done, in that *no one* has deciphered man page. ther

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, Collins Richey, wrote: % On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:57:33 -0500 % Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] % BTW, the network configuration stuff is where I always fall over % the cliff with Slack (or debian for that matter). Hows about a % brief howto that exp

Re: linux like Alpha4 relational database?

2003-03-23 Thread Jerry McBride
Thanks, for everyones help, tips and urls... But you won't believe this... We're going with Alpha 5 and win98se... Hmmm... The win version of Alpha won't run on wine... shame too. -- ** Registered

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Collins, you posts are not wrapping - they appear as one long line. Other;s show up okay and it shows up good when I replay to you. Collins Richey wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:16:08 -0500 > "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Then you have to fight the idiotic mess called in

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:16:08 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then you have to fight the idiotic mess called info! I skip the ones with > "we don't believe in man anymore so go read the info doc" . > > > Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > > > > I really love the onses from gnu

Re: Gnome Pooched after glib / gtk upgrade....

2003-03-23 Thread James McDonald
Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:57:15PM +1100, James McDonald wrote: Folks, I just compiled and installed the following libs and there dependencies on rh8.0 gtk+-2.2.1 glib-2.2.1 I needed them to compile dia 0.91 (great drawing program that now has cisco shapes woo hoo) I u

Re: Gnome Pooched after glib / gtk upgrade....

2003-03-23 Thread James McDonald
Net Llama! wrote: On 03/23/03 04:57, James McDonald wrote: Folks, I just compiled and installed the following libs and there dependencies on rh8.0 gtk+-2.2.1 glib-2.2.1 I needed them to compile dia 0.91 (great drawing program that now has cisco shapes woo hoo) I used ./configure --prefix=/us

Re: Gnome Pooched after glib / gtk upgrade....

2003-03-23 Thread Net Llama!
On 03/23/03 04:57, James McDonald wrote: Folks, I just compiled and installed the following libs and there dependencies on rh8.0 gtk+-2.2.1 glib-2.2.1 I needed them to compile dia 0.91 (great drawing program that now has cisco shapes woo hoo) I used ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Then you have to fight the idiotic mess called info! I skip the ones with "we don't believe in man anymore so go read the info doc" . Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > I really love the onses from gnu info-centric apps that say, effectively, > don't look here, look at info. At least they point you

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 11:11:56 -0700 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:33:35 -0500 > dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > begin Collins Richey's quote: > > > > | Yeah, I know I could RTFM, but I usually can't figure out which FM. > > > > i've been after babelfis

Re: Burning CD's with Knoppix

2003-03-23 Thread Joel Hammer
Does knoppix have cdrecord and mkisofs on it? If so, I can tell you how I do it. Basically, like this: cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'SONY' 'CD-RW CRX215E1 ' 'SYS2' Rem

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread dep
begin Collins Richey's quote: | Point well taken, but I believe that others may agree that (1) | finding the appropriate FM (man page) is not always straight | forward and (2) the occasional man page is about as decipherable as | sanskrit. i know -- that was my point. i was criticizing man page

Burning CD's with Knoppix

2003-03-23 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Could someone provide me a how-to for burning a CD with Knoppix? A friend just had his Windows 98 roll over.  If I can't resurrect it with a dose of Norton, I want at least to rescue his files. TIA. --  Leon A. Goldstein Powered by Libranet 1.9.1 Debian Linux System 5151   __

Re: Gnome Pooched after glib / gtk upgrade....

2003-03-23 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:57:15PM +1100, James McDonald wrote: >Folks, > >I just compiled and installed the following libs and there dependencies >on rh8.0 > >gtk+-2.2.1 >glib-2.2.1 > >I needed them to compile dia 0.91 (great drawing program that now has >cisco shapes woo hoo) > >I used ./config

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 11:11:56 -0700 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:33:35 -0500 > dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > begin Collins Richey's quote: > > > > | Yeah, I know I could RTFM, but I usually can't figure out which FM. > > > > i've been after babelfis

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:33:35 -0500 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin Collins Richey's quote: > > | Yeah, I know I could RTFM, but I usually can't figure out which FM. > > i've been after babelfish to add "man page" as a language, but they > say it can't be done, in that *no one* has deci

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread dep
begin Collins Richey's quote: | Yeah, I know I could RTFM, but I usually can't figure out which FM. i've been after babelfish to add "man page" as a language, but they say it can't be done, in that *no one* has deciphered man page. there is hope that a rock will be found containing sanskrit,

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:57:33 -0500 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An unnamed Administration source, Ken Moffat, wrote: > % Kurt Wall wrote: > % > % >Mighty quiet here. Everyone must be busy installing Slackware 9.0. ;-) > % > > % >K > % > > % > > % I'm busy playing with Libranet 2.8 beta

Re: Fw: Re: Network Address/Netmask Notation

2003-03-23 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:13:38 -0800 "Vern W Heesch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ugg, forget that. It was too early to think. What I gave was for > x.x.x.x/16 Yep. And I was just about to answer that. For those of you who have been around networking for less than about 10 years, we didn't always

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, Ben Duncan, wrote: % Naw ... been nice weather so I am back on a project. % I am converting a 1990 Dodge Spirit THROTTLE Body (94 HP) to to Turbo % II setup % to push out 250HP, but it is a complete ground up rebuild - engine, % transmission, suspension, % wiring

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Ben Duncan
Naw ... been nice weather so I am back on a project. I am converting a 1990 Dodge Spirit THROTTLE Body (94 HP) to to Turbo II setup to push out 250HP, but it is a complete ground up rebuild - engine, transmission, suspension, wiring harness. prolly get a cute lill' penguin painted on the back of

Re: Network Address/Netmask Notation

2003-03-23 Thread Vern W Heesch
You are correct that the first 2 octets are for network number, which leaves the last 2 octets for hosts. So the range of useable host addresses are 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.255.254 with a netmask of 255.255.0.0 On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:54:54 -0500 "Kurt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, list,

Fw: Re: Network Address/Netmask Notation

2003-03-23 Thread Vern W Heesch
Ugg, forget that. It was too early to think. What I gave was for x.x.x.x/16 Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 08:09:23 -0800 From: Vern W Heesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Network Address/Netmask Notation You are correct that the first 2 octets are for

Re: Network Address/Netmask Notation

2003-03-23 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:54:54 -0500 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, list, > > I've never been terribly clear on this, so I'll ask here. Given > a network address of, say, 192.168.0.0 and a netmask of /8, thus > 192.168.0.0/8, this means that 8 bits of the network address will > be used

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:54:57 -0500 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mighty quiet here. Everyone must be busy installing Slackware 9.0. ;-) No, actually, d/l the latest Knoppix. > > K > -- > Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today. Good safety tip, here. I'll keep that in mind. ;-) Ci

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:54:57 -0500 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mighty quiet here. Everyone must be busy installing Slackware 9.0. ;-) > Yup... slackware spelled G E N T O O... Excellent. I should have done this years ago... -- ***

Re: Network Address/Netmask Notation

2003-03-23 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:54:54 -0500 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, list, > > I've never been terribly clear on this, so I'll ask here. Given > a network address of, say, 192.168.0.0 and a netmask of /8, thus > 192.168.0.0/8, this means that 8 bits of the network address will > be used

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, Ken Moffat, wrote: % Kurt Wall wrote: % % >Mighty quiet here. Everyone must be busy installing Slackware 9.0. ;-) % > % >K % > % > % I'm busy playing with Libranet 2.8 beta 2. nice. (if you like debian % with a great installer and lots of up to date packages.) %

Network Address/Netmask Notation

2003-03-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Hi, list, I've never been terribly clear on this, so I'll ask here. Given a network address of, say, 192.168.0.0 and a netmask of /8, thus 192.168.0.0/8, this means that 8 bits of the network address will be used for the host address, which means that any address in the range 192.168.0.1 - 192.168

Re: Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Ken Moffat
Kurt Wall wrote: Mighty quiet here. Everyone must be busy installing Slackware 9.0. ;-) K I'm busy playing with Libranet 2.8 beta 2. nice. (if you like debian with a great installer and lots of up to date packages.) How's the install on Slack9? __

Mighty Quiet Here

2003-03-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Mighty quiet here. Everyone must be busy installing Slackware 9.0. ;-) K -- Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

2003-03-23 Thread Ken Moffat
Matthew Carpenter wrote: Sorry for the late reply. Yes. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:52:36 -0800 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So you'd recommend this $200 box for linux home use? Still running smooth? You are happy with it's speed? ___ Linux-use

Re: Submissions and absence

2003-03-23 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Thanks for the good wishes, guys ! I'll see you all in June ! Regards, pascal chong ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Sorry for the late reply. Yes. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:52:36 -0800 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Carpenter wrote: > > The coolest is that this hardware is great stuff. It's inexpensive and it > > runs well. I've been very impressed with SuSE 8.1 on this machine... > > except f

Re: VCR tape to DVD

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Sorry for the confusion. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:39:52 -0800 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, that's a bit different than saying that there are various standards > for DVDs. this is dvd recording standards. > > On 03/13/03 14:52, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > > DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, D

Re: kdm?

2003-03-23 Thread David A. Bandel
On 22 Mar 2003 23:34:41 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which config file determines whether kdm, gdm or xdm is used? For some > reason I've drawn a blank. Been at this installing and updating way > too long today Every distro is different here. In Debian and its offshoots: /etc/

Re: Video capture

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Yes. :) I have had problems with 8.1 and my digital camera, which I solved by d'ling gphoto from the Caldera SOSS site ( ftp://ftp2.caldera.com/pub/soss/RPMS/gphoto* ) I have also been doing the Digital Video capture stuff. See my other post. On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:09:20 +0100 Roger Oberholtze

Re: Video capture

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I just picked up the ATI Video Wonder VE vard (which I thought was the WinTV card... READ THE BOX BEFORE PURCHASE :) I think it also has a conexant chipset, but SuSE81 autodetected it just fine. I have REALLY been impressed with SuSE81's device management (except for the stupid "one pointer" app

Gnome Pooched after glib / gtk upgrade....

2003-03-23 Thread James McDonald
Folks, I just compiled and installed the following libs and there dependencies on rh8.0 gtk+-2.2.1 glib-2.2.1 I needed them to compile dia 0.91 (great drawing program that now has cisco shapes woo hoo) I used ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc for all libs. Now I get as a standard mu