- Original Message -
> I have downloaded the mandrake8.1/i586 from the ftp server,
> it is 942MB,
> one dirctory is 823MB (\mandrake\Rpms)
>
> I need to copy the files to CDs, which should i take and how to distribute
> the files between more than one CD
>
It might be easier to download
These files are "images" of the CD's.
You cannot "copy" them to a CD.
You will need to use some image "burning" software such as Adaptec's EZ
CD creator under Windows, or if your CD WRITER is in a Linux machine you
can use one of the command line utilities.
There are instructions to do this in
I have downloaded the mandrake8.1/i586 from the ftp server,
it is 942MB,
one dirctory is 823MB (\mandrake\Rpms)
I need to copy the files to CDs, which should i take and how to distribute
the files between more than one CD
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Hi all,
Should it not be possible to do a hard disk install from an NTFS
partition? or is it possible only from a Linux native partition?
Thanks,
Seedkum
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I also use the 777. The Epson777 driver is hidden in:
/usr/share/cups/model/gimp-print/escp2-777.ppd.gz
Sevatio
>> Original Message <<
On 9/30/01, 9:37:51 PM, Mel Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding
[newbie] Resolved: Problem printing to Epson Stylus Col
On Friday 05 October 2001 10:50 pm, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just started getting into Linux and I have two
> questions:
>
> 1) How do I change the screen resolution size?
> Right now it is at 640x480 and I would like it at
> 800x600. How do I do that?
Go to the Mandrake Control Cent
Hello,
I just started getting into Linux and I have two
questions:
1) How do I change the screen resolution size?
Right now it is at 640x480 and I would like it at
800x600. How do I do that?
2) I just installed WINE and another program
(FreeAmp), but I don't see any icons for
On Friday 05 October 2001 03:15 pm, you wrote:
> Not sure if it uses ncurses, but Star Trek is really cool. And there's
> Snake (well, that's what it's called on cell phones :) ),
Thanks, nibble (the snake game) was what I needed. It dawned on me to stop
searching for "linux terminal games" an
Ok, I have a direcotry with files in it, the file names are kinda long and
don't completely show up. What file do I have to configure to lengthen what
is shown as the file name? I know you can do it with webmin, but everytime I
use webmin, apache seems to break...lol. So I would like to just ed
On Friday 05 October 2001 16:41, you wrote:
> Thanks. This looks like a great tool.
>
> I just installed it and ran it for the first time, per the documentation, I
> ran checkinstall after doing the "make install," but I come up with this
> error:
>
> "cannot open file /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i386/chec
The man is right...
As with any issue regarding linux seeing windows or windows seeing linux...
Linux is the better tool for the job, (in your case lilo)
since lilo was designed to be able to see and recognise windows partitions.
when Micro$oft makes a point of either ignoring or trying not to s
theres one more thing i just remember :
when first installing lilo - i got the messages :
Warning : BIOS drive 0x83 may be inaccessible !
what confuses me about this is : 0x83 would be secondary slave - so it
would be my LS120 floppy disk drive.
it seems to me that lilo is trying to access t
Hi all,
I am going to setup a new computer which has RAID
built-in. I read a manual and it says that if I setup
RAID level I need 2 (or 4) hard drives. My question
is: do I need 2 hard drives exactly same size (in GB?
How does RAID 1 function? Does one of them copy
exactly what ever we write/delet
try checking the logging section of webmin, I believe it covers that..
Its strange, I don't remember changing any settings, and my apache logs IP's
only,,
rgds
Frank
Network Payment Solutions.
To correct all M$ Windows problems, only one small command is necessary:
format C:
(then press y.)
>
> >
> > u sure that that will work
> >
> > if i turn off the bootable flag from my first hd (win2k running) then i
> > wouldnt be able to boot it ???
>
>The bootable flag just lets the BIOS know which hard drive to give control
>to. It does not effect a partition's ability to boot an OS.
On October 5, 2001 03:26 pm, quaylar wrote:
> At 13:51 05.10.2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >On October 5, 2001 01:26 pm, quaylar wrote:
> > > hiho ppl !
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > is someone out there having the same problem i have ?:
> > >
> > > installing mandrake 8.1 on the onboard promise ATA100 contr
Personally I love vi. I actually use ViM, but it's the same thing.
I only use 3 editors.
vim
gvim (ViM just a GUI from of it. It's kinda nice.)
nedit (Which is a lot like EditPad, for those of you who know what
EditPad is. I hope he makes a *NIX clone of EditPad one day!)
I've heard a lot of
Andrew wrote:
> Can you tell me what good editors there are besides vi, pico..blah!,
> abiword and kword??
nedit -- I've sometimes heard it described as a good editor for Windows
refugees. Has several nice features including soft wrap, syntax
highlighting, macros, delimiter matching, regular exp
At 13:51 05.10.2001 -0400, you wrote:
>On October 5, 2001 01:26 pm, quaylar wrote:
> > hiho ppl !
> >
> >
> >
> > is someone out there having the same problem i have ?:
> >
> > installing mandrake 8.1 on the onboard promise ATA100 controller of
> > motherboard ASUS A7V KT133).
> >
> > i have a 30
Hi,
Once again me!!!
Does anybody is using RTL 8139(A) PCMCIA under MD 8.1??? If you use it, just
tell me about your experiences of instalation and configuration. I have bad
memories from 8.0, so maybe somebody can help me with 8.1
I am about to install 8.1, so I just wanted to ask before I sta
On Friday 05 October 2001 12:08 pm, you wrote:
> On Thursday 04 October 2001 11:42, you wrote:
> > How do I contact Fry's?
>
> http://www.frys.com
pc2100 266mhz 512megs=$109us
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Hi,
Just wanted to ask if somebody is using VMware in Mandrake 8.1 or was using
it under 8.0?
What do yuo think about it? What are your experiences?
Thanks,
X-A-W-K
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type: mcedit /path/to/somefile
I love mcedit, and most of the time I use it regardless if I am in x or a
console,,
its about as good a simple txt editor can be in console, and pretty much as
good as most of the X editors as well.
its also smaller and faster then most of the others...
mcedit i
First of all, thanks to the people who responded to my
question about Zip Drives. I appreciate the help.
Now then: I'm planning to add a sound card as well,
since the on-board sound that came with my Asus V7
mobo doesn't work under LM7.2 -- either in native
mode or SoundBlaster emulation mode.
Hi,
There was no reply to the message. Does this mean there was no goof?
Thanx,
Seedkum
Seedkum Aladeem wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have LM 8.0 on my machine together with Bill's NT4.0. I wanted to do a
> clean install of LM 8.1 because I had problems with LM 8.0. I had no
> success. I outline the
On October 5, 2001 01:26 pm, quaylar wrote:
> hiho ppl !
>
>
>
> is someone out there having the same problem i have ?:
>
> installing mandrake 8.1 on the onboard promise ATA100 controller of
> motherboard ASUS A7V KT133).
>
> i have a 30 gig IBM hd on the primary promise controller jumpered as sl
On Friday 05 October 2001 01:28 pm, Johnson, David wrote:
> Sorry for the COMPELTE newbie-ness here, but is it safe to remove the
> tarball and subsequent directories for a piece of software once I
> install it?
>
> E.G. I just downloaded the tarball for Flex and decompressed it into
> the directo
Sorry for the COMPELTE newbie-ness here, but is it safe to remove the
tarball and subsequent directories for a piece of software once I install
it?
E.G. I just downloaded the tarball for Flex and decompressed it into the
directory structure, then went through the configure/make/install process
an
hiho ppl !
is someone out there having the same problem i have ?:
installing mandrake 8.1 on the onboard promise ATA100 controller of
motherboard ASUS A7V KT133).
i have a 30 gig IBM hd on the primary promise controller jumpered as slave
(i already tried master) and i´m getting
L 01 01 01
On Friday 05 October 2001 12:19 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> Did run into a little snag on 8.1 updating to kernel-2.4.10-2.
> When installing the kernel source got a depend eror for
> ncurses-devel. The stange thing about this is that ncurses-devel is
> not on the cds nor could I find it on any
welcome to Nimda, the cleaning agent of windows IIS servers, (also known as
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this is a feature of windows designed to facilitate the accumulation of
zombie servers for hackers the world over.
every nimda infected server spends its days broadcasting itself to the
internet at large by
What is up with this?
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"GET /scripts/..%c0%2f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 324 "-"
"-"
adsl-64-217-74-189.dsl.austtx.swbell.net - - [05/Oct/2001:11:03:37 -0500]
"GET /scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd
Hi, I am a very newbie and looking for help
I've installed Mandrake's PPC distribution on G4 dual processor, apple
studio display, ATI 128 Rage graphics. I was never able to get the
graphical installer to work (the screen simply went blue and nothing
happened). Following a text install, the sys
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:28:50 -0400
Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2001 02:23 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > nevermind, I found it on the New York site. I'll give it a try. The
> > other -1mdk kernel had some dependencies, will those break my
> > original 8.0 install
wow! easier than advertised! i never knew that, thanks
On Friday 05 October 2001 05:47, Dave Sherman spoke unto the masses thusly:
>
> Actually, Star Office can also import any fonts on a readable filesystem,
> using the spadmin program (in the same directory as the soffice binary). I
> imp
if they are not mounting, it is because super mount was causing problems.
you may want to try kwikdisk, which comes with 8.1 and places an icon on the
kde kicker which you can right click and use tto mount your drives.
On Friday 05 October 2001 07:46, Oder Santos spoke unto the masses thusly:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:24:04 -0700 (PDT)
Mark Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I plan to buy an external Zip Drive within the next
> few days, to use with several machines -- including
> my LM7.2 box.
>
> Any reason I should choose USB over parallel port, or
> vice-versa?
>
> Thanks in advance.
well, USB is heaps faster then parallel,,
If you are sure that you can get usb working, then go for it, its much much
faster then parallel...
Firewire or USB2 would be much faster again, but normal USB is alot better
for throughput then parallel.
rgds
Franki
-Original Message-
From:
I just installed Mandrake Linux 8.1. The kde startup sound does not play
upon logging into kde.
I have it checked off in the System Notification section in the Control
Center and when I click on play the sound it plays.
The weird thing is that the exiting sound plays when I logout out of kde an
I plan to buy an external Zip Drive within the next
few days, to use with several machines -- including
my LM7.2 box.
Any reason I should choose USB over parallel port, or
vice-versa?
Thanks in advance.
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Go and get a copy of Kylix Open edition (www.borland.com/kylix)
it's very good, and theres plentry of info on the web for kylix and
delphi (the windows version)
and it's free
___
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.
- Original Message -
From: "Lin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have just finished installing Mandrake 8.1. Installation went smoothly but
I still have a problem (minor?) with cdrom and floppy because they don't work
correctly. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Thanks in advance,
Oder.
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> On Friday, 5 October 2001 2:08 AM, Manuel Drake wrote:
>
> Good call, willdo soon... just lost a fan on my Slack server, so the fun
> goes on...
I don't know how many others bother, but when I get a fan that starts to get noisy or
stop I get a syringe with some light oil and poke a
Hey guys,
I am using Enlightenment under Drake 8.1 and it is SO fast..
I recommend using it since it is sooo badass!!
Andrew
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Hey Jord,
Try this script that I wrote to email the IP address to you.
Are you running postfix I hope?
Andrew
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On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 01:59:22 -0700, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't really understand why KMail is locking up everytime I write an email
> when before things were kosher. Now I have deleted the account and created a
> new one and receiving is fine but as soon as I replypow lock up c
On Friday, October 05, 2001 4:43 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan said
> That's a pity. I bet it was slashdotted.
>
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:29:48 -0500, "Michael D. Viron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > The website of course no longer exists -- it comes up as a 404 error when
> > you try to access the m
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 02:36:54 -0700, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I keep noticing that things go so smoothly in root. I log on read email. Load
> webpages. Everything as advertised so to speak.
>
> Please, I am well aware of the dangers of running under root too many times.
>
> As my simpl
Drakopt does extensive testing on your drives to find optimum settings, unless
your drive is found in its in-built database (in that case it'll already know
the best settings). Be sure to run it when no other apps are running (this
includes X), to ensure accurate readouts for the tests.
On Fri, 5
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:57:38 -0400, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In reply to Sridhar's words, written Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:55:28 +1000
>
> >I don't know how your ISP works, but with @Home-based networks each user is
> >given a unique code to insert as the host name. THe code is of the format
>
- Original Message -
From: "michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 2:40 PM
Subject: [newbie] chromium
> does anyone have any cheat codes for chromium???
I suggest that you email the author offlist or...
since it is open-source software (I
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On Friday 05 October 2001 03:47 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> While I'm here, here's a freebie :)
>
> Both StarOffice and OpenOffice ship with a limited set of true-type
> fonts, but you can get them to use your drakfont-imported fonts by
> making t
Well, I originally choose the lan and adsl conections to install. When I
chose ADSl and entered my ISP name without the www. It showed up by
default...but still no internet connection. I then turned off the ADSL
connections and viola!, my connection worked using the 10.0.0.1 IP Address
with t
On Friday 05 October 2001 10:57 am, you wrote:
> In reply to Sridhar's words, written Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:55:28 +1000
>
> I just now noticed this discussion. Interesting stuff since in a few weeks
> I will also get connected to an @Home network. Of course this gets a train
> of questions going:
>
>
Hmmm... Very strange indeed.
There's an active discussion about Mandrake 8.1 problems at
http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1257
Try posting your problem there.
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:38:04 +0800, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Sridhar
>
> Lot of thanks for your response and
While I'm here, here's a freebie :)
Both StarOffice and OpenOffice ship with a limited set of true-type fonts, but
you can get them to use your drakfont-imported fonts by making the following
change to the soffice startup script (/path/to/staroffice6/program/soffice):
Replace the line:
SAL_FONT
Thanks for the feed back. Isn't it wonderful to have
your music back.
--- Jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don,
>
> you might not remember but we worked together for
> quite a while to get my
> sound working and i had more problems than
> originally thought. (Thanks again
> for all the i
I tried creating for the third time a user. This time no crash or lock ups.
Smooth operation and quick downloads from viewing techtv as my homepage.
So I am content for now, but again I ask anyone who can or might be able to
enlighten me on this issue. Why the poor performance and instability w
Sorry, it is late and I should going to bed soon.
To clear things up:
I am running Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and I have not modified or messed with my
settings in the user which all of a sudden slows down and locks up.
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Here's what I did:
1. Rename my ~/.sversionrc to another name:
$ mv ~/.sversionrc ~/.sversionrc.bak
2. Run the SO6 install with the /net option
3. Run SO6 as user:
$ /path/to/SO6/program/soffice
4. Do a 'user' install, which installs a couple of megs to ~
5. Examine the new ~/.sversionrc
Nethack. Slash. LARN. Rogue. Moria. Basically, all of the "roguelikes" are
curses based.
(there are hundreds more - these are the fellows I play regularly).
-Original Message-
From: Matt Greer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 6:12 AM
Don't really understand why KMail is locking up everytime I write an email
when before things were kosher. Now I have deleted the account and created a
new one and receiving is fine but as soon as I replypow lock up city.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://
I must learn to proofread my emails before sending them out. I type as if
english was my second language, but with the understanding of an alien from
Mars.
Anyway, I believe I figured out how to install things that are done with
Drakconf. I installed Mozilla from the CD of my installation set.
I must learn to proofread my emails before sending them out. I type as if
english was my second language.
Anyway, I believe I figured out how to install things that are done with
Drakconf. I installed Mozilla from the CD of my installation set.
Very nice and much smoother than Netscape. Of cou
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