Re: [newbie] MD10 can't see stuff....

2004-04-08 Thread Erylon Hines
On Thursday 08 April 2004 01:17 pm, Olwë Melwasúl wrote: > I would be very angly if my expensive USRob modem was not Linux > compatible. I looked in the Mandrake Control Center/Hardware and it sees > "US Rob/3Com PCI 56k faxmodem Model 5610". I tried to run scanModem, but > it errored-out "/dev/mod

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:16, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:23:35 +1000 > Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > > > Gotta get the girliefriend's box up to speed first - so I can use her box as > > storage. > > Um, could you use a different word when referring to your girlfriends com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:14, JoeHill wrote: > Whatever happened to that Mandrake-based pr0n distro we were going to put out, > you know, the one that comes on like 4 DVD's (hmmm, poor choice of words there). > > I always thought that was a great idea, all you need is the kernel, XFree, video > an

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread John Wilson
On April 8, 2004 05:17 pm, Owain Sutton wrote: > Extreme newbie here.. > > I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which > has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - > but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with a > flas

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:23:35 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > Gotta get the girliefriend's box up to speed first - so I can use her box as > storage. Um, could you use a different word when referring to your girlfriends computer? I can't stop giggling at that sentence... -- Joe

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:25:14 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > And pr0n. Well, that goes without saying doesn't it? 'Sides, Linux, and Mandrake in particular, are highly optimized for pr0n, esp with the low latency kernel :-D Whatever happened to that Mandrake-based pr0n distro we

Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 01:21:29 -0400 RickS disseminated the following: > Hey guys, > I'm a newbie scriptor also, > but shouldnt the first line be: > > #!/bin/bash > > with the path and the ! exclamation point so bash knows that its a > script ? D'oh! Yup, I think you got that right, otherwise it

Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:27:55 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > Change the part where it says 'New Zealand' to 'Australia' and it should > work. ROFLMAO! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "The US is our trading part

Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 14:20, David wrote: > #bin bash > echo "David Taylor" > echo "Taranaki, New Zealand" > echo "on a 100% Linux, Mandrake OS, computer" > echo "this mails gem:" > echo "`/usr/games/fortune`" > > I've saved this in home/david/bin. > I've directed my client to signature on comman

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread Troy T. Hall
They way I did it was to install XP fully, then reboot to the Mandrake 10 CD. Then install using a small /boot partition in front of the windoze partition and then the rest of mandrake after windows. Worked perfectly Troy T. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "JoeHill" <[

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 12:30, JoeHill wrote: > > EZiest way - DELETE XP. > > Can't argue with that. > > However, if you really must keep XP around, do the install by booting from the > Mandrake CD *after* you have XP installed (leave some unpartitioned space, at > least 5 or 6 GB). Sounds from wh

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 11:41, et wrote: > well you should really only need disk 1 to get a good working install, and > disk 5 is the powerpack extras... most folks won't get but the first 3 disks, > and then add contrib as a urpmi source to load whatever else they want Only disk 1? Mate, I'm the

Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-08 Thread RickS
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 16:20:29 +1200 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guys, Gals > > Now that the problem of accessing secure pages is sorted out I've > loaded forture to my machine and wrote the following script: (a > first for me, and based on what I saw in a simular titled thread > from las

Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 16:20:29 +1200 David disseminated the following: > #bin bash > echo "David Taylor" > echo "Taranaki, New Zealand" > echo "on a 100% Linux, Mandrake OS, computer" > echo "this mails gem:" > echo "`/usr/games/fortune`" > > I've saved this in home/david/bin. > > I've directed my

Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 09 April 2004 12:20 am, David wrote: > Guys, Gals > > Now that the problem of accessing secure pages is sorted out I've loaded > forture to my machine and wrote the following script: (a first for me, and > based on what I saw in a simular titled thread from last month) > > #bin bash > ech

Re: [newbie] How to upgrade a soft?

2004-04-08 Thread Frank
Try # urpmi k3b0.11.5-0 If that dosen,t work then do: #urpmi.update [or at least visit www.urpmi.org and learn this] Enjoy Frank On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 02:36, rhein wrote: Hello, Stupid question but if I want to upgrade for example K3b 0.9.10 (who came with the mdk 9.2 cds) to the last ver

Re: [newbie] Writing on a FAT32 MS Windows partition

2004-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
I thank everybody who answered my questions! It makes sense to me that the access with write privileges to MS Windows partition must be restricted. Thanks again for your advice! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-08 Thread David
Guys, Gals Now that the problem of accessing secure pages is sorted out I've loaded forture to my machine and wrote the following script: (a first for me, and based on what I saw in a simular titled thread from last month) #bin bash echo "David Taylor" echo "Taranaki, New Zealand" echo "on a 100

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:03:32 +1200 anton disseminated the following: So, like, we gotta wait til 2008 before this disappears from the top of the mailing list? -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "I did not have sexual relations wi

Re: [newbie] Installing from a RW

2004-04-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 06:31 am, Paul Smith wrote: > > Nothing worked with the mdk10 isos, but when i tried burning my old mdk > > 9.2 iso onto one of the same discs i used for mdk 10, it booted from it.. > > Perhaps my iso is bad? I dled it from ftp, they cant all be bad..? > The first disk of

Re: [newbie] Installing from a RW

2004-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
Nothing worked with the mdk10 isos, but when i tried burning my old mdk 9.2 iso onto one of the same discs i used for mdk 10, it booted from it.. Perhaps my iso is bad? I dled it from ftp, they cant all be bad..? And is it possible to find cdrws large enough to accommodate mdk10 isos? Paul __

Re: [newbie] Can not ssh to Mandrake 10 as non-root

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 20:57:57 -0400 yankl disseminated the following: > > I am unable to ssh to a Mandrake 10 pc with my non-root accounts. They > > are nis accounts. I can login locally with the nis accounts. Any > > Ideas. > > > > Jason Valli > > I am assuming that you check hosts and have ssh

Re: [newbie] First time I had to go back to XP

2004-04-08 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 03:07 am, many eyes viewed rhein's words:- > Hello, > It is the first time in more then one month that I had to use XP > again... :-( > I tried to burn files to a cd-rom that I burned with K3b last week. when > I started the project I set it for multisessions... Today I wanted to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:56:30 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > > I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which > > has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - > > but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 08 April 2004 09:41 pm, et wrote: > and then add contrib as a urpmi source to load whatever else they want Yeah that would work great if there were any mirrors that actually had the distro on them. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or S

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-08 Thread et
On Thursday 08 April 2004 09:15 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 10:26, et wrote: > > but that would be updateing to 10.1 cooker,,, not 10.0 final,,, cooker > > reopened adn you might be looking at the cooker sources for that large of > > a download, at this time... > > Ed, after the

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 10:26, et wrote: > but that would be updateing to 10.1 cooker,,, not 10.0 final,,, cooker > reopened adn you might be looking at the cooker sources for that large of a > download, at this time... Ed, after the shitz with the damn kernel sources for 9.2, I'm debating upgra

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-08 Thread et
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 03:18 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 23:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Monday 05 April 2004 12:25 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: > > > I installed 10 yesterday and did 975MB of updates just after i > > > installed. Its working beutifully. > > > > > > Regards, > > >

Re: [newbie] Can not ssh to Mandrake 10 as non-root

2004-04-08 Thread yankl
On Thursday 08 April 2004 09:11, Jason Valli wrote: > I am unable to ssh to a Mandrake 10 pc with my non-root accounts. They > are nis accounts. I can login locally with the nis accounts. Any > Ideas. > > Jason Valli I am assuming that you check hosts and have sshd all entry. -- Yankl Tiny I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 10:17, Owain Sutton wrote: > Extreme newbie here.. > > I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which > has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - > but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with a

Re: [newbie] Interesting opportunity at Google [OT]

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 10:29, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Thursday 08 April 2004 03:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 01:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > I've heard of off-shoring, but this is a bit over the top: > > > http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html > > > > > > Please n

Re: [newbie] Interesting opportunity at Google [OT]

2004-04-08 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 08 April 2004 03:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 01:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > I've heard of off-shoring, but this is a bit over the top: > > http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html > > > > Please note: This went up on the Google site on April 1. > > -- cmg > >

[newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread Owain Sutton
Extreme newbie here.. I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with a flashing cursor on black screen. The XP recovery console c

[newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.

2004-04-08 Thread martin brandt
After installing a windows boot, i then wanted to reinstall my linux bootloader, which i have had to do quite often with the regular reinstallations needed by windows ;) I loaded from my mdk 9.2 disc and executed the rescue command. This time however i got an error. I got: Added linux * Added

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 08:37, John Richard Smith wrote: > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > >On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 07:42, Tom wrote: > > > >>It shouild be on cd 3 in the rpms folder. Or you could pull new ones > >>from www.kernel.org. > >> > > > >Ok - dig - the KERNELS are there, but I want the kernel sour

Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.

2004-04-08 Thread Frank
Another way is to elect "Expert" when instalation reaches "Summary" and simply edit out that particular entry and worry about it later because you seem to have enough other options toproceed for now. Enjoy Frank On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 00:24, John Richard Smith wrote: martin brandt wrote: >Af

Re: [newbie] Logcheck questions

2004-04-08 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 07:05 pm, bascule wrote: > On Wednesday 07 Apr 2004 11:29 pm, Chris wrote: > > Could someone assist me with answers to my questions below: > > > > I'm running 'logcheck' and there are several things showing up that I, > > as a 'newbie' don't quite understand and thought s

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 07:42, Tom wrote: It shouild be on cd 3 in the rpms folder. Or you could pull new ones from www.kernel.org. Ok - dig - the KERNELS are there, but I want the kernel sources. There was an email about this about a week or so ago. Having a kernel is one th

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 08:15, JoeHill wrote: > That was one of the 'issues' with 9.2, that the kernel sources were not included > on the CD's. You gotta get them from a urpmi source ('main', IIRC). Should be a > bit of a download for yer 56K :-\ Yeah, well, guess I'm shit-outta-luck this weekend.

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 08:09, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:59:14 +1000 > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > I can't compile device drivers without having the kernel headers and > > sources - no video driver, no modem driver, etc etc etc. > > The kernel src.rpm Was not included in the 3

Re: [newbie] Easy urpmi

2004-04-08 Thread Frank
A slight ammendment to my reply, sorry, just caught the snafu I had missed the word "contrib" within the addmedia call. Try this instead: ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/synthesis.hdlist2.cz Suggest your issue as su: #urpmi.removemedia contib Then: urpmi.addmedia

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Andrew Archibald wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 13:38, John Richard Smith wrote: How may one change file attributes ? 'chmod' for file access access permissions ('man chmod' for details), for other (more obscure, less advisable to play with) attributes, try 'man chattr'. and how do you unhide hid

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:59:14 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > > It shouild be on cd 3 in the rpms folder. Or you could pull new ones > > from www.kernel.org. > > Ok - dig - the KERNELS are there, but I want the kernel sources. There > was an email about this about a week or so a

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 07:59:14 +1000 Stephen Kuhn wrote: > I can't compile device drivers without having the kernel headers and > sources - no video driver, no modem driver, etc etc etc. The kernel src.rpm Was not included in the 3 set 9.2 isos. The updated src.rpm as well as an updated 9.2 kernel

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-08 Thread Tom
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 07:42, Tom wrote: It shouild be on cd 3 in the rpms folder. Or you could pull new ones from www.kernel.org. Ok - dig - the KERNELS are there, but I want the kernel sources. There was an email about this about a week or so ago. Having a kernel is

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 07:42, Tom wrote: > It shouild be on cd 3 in the rpms folder. Or you could pull new ones > from www.kernel.org. Ok - dig - the KERNELS are there, but I want the kernel sources. There was an email about this about a week or so ago. Having a kernel is one thing, having the s

Re: [newbie] MD10 can't see stuff....

2004-04-08 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 08 April 2004 15:17, Olwë Melwasúl wrote: > I would be very angly if my expensive USRob modem was not Linux > compatible. I looked in the Mandrake Control Center/Hardware and it > sees "US Rob/3Com PCI 56k faxmodem Model 5610". I tried to run > scanModem, but it errored-out "/dev/modem

Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users

2004-04-08 Thread et
On Thursday 08 April 2004 03:02 am, John Wilson wrote: > On April 7, 2004 05:05 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > > Guys, > > What do you think of this: > > "Because you run Mandrake, you didn't invest the 20-30 minutes that most > > Shorewall users do in learning about Shorewall during the installation

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-08 Thread Tom
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Ok - I tried searching through the damn list and can't get it. Where in the hell is the damn kernel source for 9.2? It's not apparently on the CD's...and I can't live without my kernel source. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuh

Re: [newbie] MP3 players

2004-04-08 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 08 April 2004 02:08 pm, Rory wrote: > Which MP3 player? I have extensive experience with a number of Rio MP3 > players. The Rio Karma has a dock with an ethernet cable to hook up to your > network to operate under Linux with issue. They're also becoming MSC > devices. > > It sounds li

[newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
Ok - I tried searching through the damn list and can't get it. Where in the hell is the damn kernel source for 9.2? It's not apparently on the CD's...and I can't live without my kernel source. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia co

Re: [newbie] MP3 players

2004-04-08 Thread Rory
Which MP3 player? I have extensive experience with a number of Rio MP3 players. The Rio Karma has a dock with an ethernet cable to hook up to your network to operate under Linux with issue. They're also becoming MSC devices. It sounds like it's a Mass Storage Device, so maybe an iRiver or iP

Re: [newbie] Trouble with Update_source

2004-04-08 Thread Dan Gordon
On April 8, 2004 02:04 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: > Good Afternoon! > > Just installed MDK 10-Community. Running on the 2.4 kernel. > > Every time I try to add "update source" with the MCC gui, I get the > following error message, regardless which site I choose: > > ===

[newbie] MP3 players

2004-04-08 Thread Aron Smith
I just bought an mp3 player GTX 2GB Mdk can see the hard drive but I cannot write to it it uses a vfat format any one else have _Any_ experience with mp3 players under Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://

[newbie] USB

2004-04-08 Thread David Williams
My USB ports used to work and then stopped. I get an error message on boot with something like INIT USB cont (usb.ohci) /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernal/drivers/usb/usb-ochi.0.gz incorrect mod param or invalid IO or IRQ Init_module: no such device dmesg log has this in it. usb.c: registered ne

Re: [newbie] Writing on a FAT32 MS Windows partition

2004-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 19:40, Jose Cintron wrote: > users will work just fine. user will allow any user to mount but > only the one that mounted it can unmount. if you use users any user > will be able to mount and unmount. > Something new every d

Re: [newbie] First time I had to go back to XP

2004-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 19:56, rhein wrote: > > Before I modify the file you have to know that I have a DVD/CD-W > combo driver. > Shall I still modify the line? > Well I have to write to the disk before burning with a combo > driver... :-( Thank you

Re: [newbie] MD10 can't see stuff....

2004-04-08 Thread Olwë Melwasúl
I would be very angly if my expensive USRob modem was not Linux compatible. I looked in the Mandrake Control Center/Hardware and it sees "US Rob/3Com PCI 56k faxmodem Model 5610". I tried to run scanModem, but it errored-out "/dev/modem symbolic link not set; lspci not found please install pciu

Re: [newbie] Python Dependency Hell

2004-04-08 Thread J.I. Evers
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Todd Slater wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:15:17AM +, Job Evers wrote: > > I tried to build a package from source (since I could not find an rpms for > > pypanel) and it said I needed python-Xlib. Mandrake doesn't have a python-Xlib > > package but I found one onlin

Re: [newbie] How to create UTF-8 encoded text files?

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 20:34, Andrew Archibald wrote: > although "UTF-8 support is now a pretty standard feature for most > well-maintained packages" so I'd try your favourite editor! Normally it is a setting in the menus. For instance, in KWrite: View-> Set Encoding-> Unicode (utf8) As ever, the

[newbie] Trouble with Update_source

2004-04-08 Thread Harv Nelson
Good Afternoon! Just installed MDK 10-Community. Running on the 2.4 kernel. Every time I try to add "update source" with the MCC gui, I get the following error message, regardless which site I choose: === Unable to add medium, errors reported: ...retriev

Re: [newbie] How to create UTF-8 encoded text files?

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 20:23, Arys P. Deloso wrote: > Can anyone point me to the right direction in creating/editing a text > file with UTF-8 encoding? Any of the applications listed at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#apps although "UTF-8 support is now a pretty standard feature for

Re: [newbie] Interesting opportunity at Google [OT]

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 01:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > I've heard of off-shoring, but this is a bit over the top: > http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html > > Please note: This went up on the Google site on April 1. > -- cmg They told me that since I smoke, I can't submit my resume. stephen ku

Re: [newbie] How to create UTF-8 encoded text files?

2004-04-08 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 08 Apr 2004 8:23 pm, Arys P. Deloso wrote: > Can anyone point me to the right direction in creating/editing a text > file with UTF-8 encoding? www.jedit.org Damn fine editor, and it does UTF8, 16 and a lot more. You'll need the Sun or IBM Java runtime though. -- Richard Urwin _

Re: [newbie] install windows without disturbing linux

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 21:30, Klemens Arro wrote: > Hi, > > how can I install windows without disturbing my mdk 10 linux. > I am sharing my computer with my brother and he wants windows :'( > > I have a partition for it, but I am afraid that, when I install it, it will > delete my lilo? > > than

[newbie] How to create UTF-8 encoded text files?

2004-04-08 Thread Arys P. Deloso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone point me to the right direction in creating/editing a text file with UTF-8 encoding? TIA - -- Arys P. Deloso Home Page: http://arys.deloso.net/ Registered Linux User #345763 (counter.li.org) PGP Key ID: B57512

Re: [newbie] Decent Audio Track Ripper?

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 03:21, rhein wrote: > Can you use grip under KDE without having gnome installed? > Bye > Christophe If you're using rpmdrake to install it, it will install whatever is necessary (GTK+gnomelibs) to run it. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra compute

Re: [newbie] Writing on a FAT32 MS Windows partition

2004-04-08 Thread Arys P. Deloso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Noong Friday 09 April 2004 02:09, isinulat ni Anne Wilson: > Putting the line into fstab makes it automatic. However, in the line > above, I think 'users' should be 'user'. Here is my line (this in I got confused at first regarding "users" and "us

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 19:03, Andrew Archibald wrote: > The period that proceeds the filename is to indicate that it is to be > hidden during normal browsing- for settings etc. This hiding isn't due It is perhaps worth noting that the period is in fact *part of* the filename. My wording was a littl

Re: [newbie] Writing on a FAT32 MS Windows partition

2004-04-08 Thread Jose Cintron
users will work just fine. user will allow any user to mount but only the one that mounted it can unmount. if you use users any user will be able to mount and unmount. Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 19:46, Paul Smith wrote: Assuming

Re: [newbie] Writing on a FAT32 MS Windows partition

2004-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 19:46, Paul Smith wrote: > > Assuming it is a fat32 all you have to do is add a line like the > > following (usually it will be added for you by the OS if you > > install Windows first and then Linux) to you /etc/fstab file >

Re: [newbie] smb.conf for a NT domain controller..

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 18:31, frankieh wrote: > Hi guys, > > Does anyone have a samba conf file to setup samba as an NT domain setup?? > > I've not used it for that in the past, but think its time I started > playing... > I've been asked to setup another small linux server in a business and > I'm

Re: [newbie] First time I had to go back to XP

2004-04-08 Thread rhein
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 18:52, rhein wrote: Here you go! By the way what do you use to burn cds? /dev/hda6 / ext2 noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/de

Re: [newbie] Writing on a FAT32 MS Windows partition

2004-04-08 Thread Arys P. Deloso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Noong Friday 09 April 2004 02:46, isinulat ni Paul Smith: > > Assuming it is a fat32 all you have to do is add a line like the > > following (usually it will be added for you by the OS if you > > install Windows first and then Linux) to you /etc/fstab

Re: [newbie] First time I had to go back to XP

2004-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 18:52, rhein wrote: > Here you go! > By the way what do you use to burn cds? > > /dev/hda6 / ext2 noatime 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > /dev/hda8 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0

[newbie] Mandrake 10 64-bit Beta 1 SATA questions

2004-04-08 Thread Cotton
I have an AMD64 box with a MSI *K8T Neo-FIS2R* * that has 2 SATA / SATA RAID controllers, the VIA on the 8237 southbridge, as well as the Promise 20378. I have 2 80GB SATA drives that I want striped for per

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 13:38, John Richard Smith wrote: > How may one change file attributes ? 'chmod' for file access access permissions ('man chmod' for details), for other (more obscure, less advisable to play with) attributes, try 'man chattr'. > and how do you unhide hidden files ( the .fil

Re: [newbie] First time I had to go back to XP

2004-04-08 Thread rhein
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 18:07, rhein wrote: What I still don't get is when I have a date cd in my driver and I click on the cd-rom icon on my KDE desktop, I can see no files at all (I tried to view the hiden files also). Ch

Re: [newbie] First time I had to go back to XP

2004-04-08 Thread rhein
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 18:07, rhein wrote: What I still don't get is when I have a date cd in my driver and I click on the cd-rom icon on my KDE desktop, I can see no files at all (I tried to view the hiden files also). Ch

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.6 for mandrake?

2004-04-08 Thread Cotton
Forgive my newbieness to the list... what's the "cooker maillist"? And the servers you're talking about - I'm assuming the Mandrake mirrors? Thanks, Cotton Jonas Claesson wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 22:21, Edgars Smits wrote: Any idea when there will be a release of Gnome 2.6 ready for M

Re: [newbie] Writing on a FAT32 MS Windows partition

2004-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
Assuming it is a fat32 all you have to do is add a line like the following (usually it will be added for you by the OS if you install Windows first and then Linux) to you /etc/fstab file /dev/hda2/mnt/windowsauto noauto,users,exec 0 0 create the /mnt/windows directory and then mount i

Re: [newbie] First time I had to go back to XP

2004-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 18:07, rhein wrote: > What I still don't get is when I have a date cd in my driver and I > click on the cd-rom icon on my KDE desktop, I can see no files at all > (I tried to view the hiden files also). Christope, I don't use

Re: [newbie] Interesting opportunity at Google [OT]

2004-04-08 Thread Arys P. Deloso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Noong Thursday 08 April 2004 23:59, isinulat ni Anne Wilson: > On Thursday 08 April 2004 16:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > I've heard of off-shoring, but this is a bit over the top: > > http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html > > > > Please note: Thi

Re: [newbie] Decent Audio Track Ripper?

2004-04-08 Thread rhein
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:45 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 06 April 2004 05:46 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Does anyone know of a decent track ripper/encoder for ripping tracks off CDs? I've used Kaudiocreator, but I was listening today, and I just happened to notice

Re: [newbie] Interesting opportunity at Google [OT]

2004-04-08 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 12:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > I've heard of off-shoring, but this is a bit over the top: > http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html > > Please note: This went up on the Google site on April 1. > -- cmg > > I have to confess...I had applied for that job :-) > > _

Re: [newbie] Writing on a FAT32 MS Windows partition

2004-04-08 Thread Jose Cintron
Assuming it is a fat32 all you have to do is add a line like the following (usually it will be added for you by the OS if you install Windows first and then Linux) to you /etc/fstab file /dev/hda2/mnt/windowsauto noauto,users,exec 0 0 create the /mnt/windows directory and then mount i

[newbie] First time I had to go back to XP

2004-04-08 Thread rhein
Hello, It is the first time in more then one month that I had to use XP again... :-( I tried to burn files to a cd-rom that I burned with K3b last week. when I started the project I set it for multisessions... Today I wanted to add new directories to the same cd... I tried different thinks durin

[newbie] Writing on a FAT32 MS Windows partition

2004-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have got a dual machine (Windows2000 and Mandrake 9.2) and I would like to share MS Windows disk partition with Linux, with write privileges from Linux. Before installing Windows2000, I formated the respective partition with FAT32 format. What should I do to achieve my goal? Thank y

Re: [newbie] smb.conf for a NT domain controller..

2004-04-08 Thread frankieh
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 03:31 pm, frankieh wrote: Hi guys, Does anyone have a samba conf file to setup samba as an NT domain setup?? I've not used it for that in the past, but think its time I started playing... I've been ask

Re: [newbie] Interesting opportunity at Google [OT]

2004-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 16:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > I've heard of off-shoring, but this is a bit over the top: > http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html > > Please note: This went up on the Google site on April 1. > -- cmg :-) Anne - -- Regi

[newbie] Can not ssh to Mandrake 10 as non-root

2004-04-08 Thread Jason Valli
I am unable to ssh to a Mandrake 10 pc with my non-root accounts. They are nis accounts. I can login locally with the nis accounts. Any Ideas. Jason Valli Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakesto

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-08 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:38 pm, many eyes viewed John Richard Smith's words:- > How may one change file attributes ? > > and how do you unhide hidden files ( the .file type) in a consul ? > > John man chattr -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 + The mass of men lead lives of quiet d

Re: [newbie] install windows without disturbing linux

2004-04-08 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:43 pm, many eyes viewed Anne Wilson's words:- > Assuming, then, that you have W2K or XP, simply install windows, which > it will do into the partition you have saved for it, but yes it will > overwrite your lilo. I have installed XP, quite a while ago, but it didn't overwrite

Re: [newbie] Connected info disappears from taskbar.

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:55:37 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > > so should a (little more elegant) as 'ifdown ppp'. > > I like killing things. KILL KILL KILL. See, that's why Windows is sooo boring. 'End Task'?! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinc

[newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-08 Thread John Richard Smith
How may one change file attributes ? and how do you unhide hidden files ( the .file type) in a consul ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.

2004-04-08 Thread John Richard Smith
martin brandt wrote: After installing a windows boot, i then wanted to reinstall my linux bootloader, which i have had to do quite often with the regular reinstallations needed by windows ;) I loaded from my mdk 9.2 disc and executed the rescue command. This time however i got an error. I got:

Re: [newbie] install windows without disturbing linux

2004-04-08 Thread Klemens Arro
On Thursday 08 April 2004 14:43, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 08 April 2004 12:30, Klemens Arro wrote: > > Hi, > > > > how can I install windows without disturbing my mdk 10 linux. > > I am sharing my computer with my brother and he wants windows :'( > > > > I have a partition for it, but I am

Re: [newbie] install windows without disturbing linux

2004-04-08 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 12:30, Klemens Arro wrote: > Hi, > > how can I install windows without disturbing my mdk 10 linux. > I am sharing my computer with my brother and he wants windows :'( > > I have a partition for it, but I am afraid that, when I

Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users

2004-04-08 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:40:56 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Too bad you got it too Marv. > Well, I'm firing up two IBM xseries servers with Mdk and nothing's > gonna stop them. One to be placed in public, and the other in LAN. >

Re: [newbie] samba problem

2004-04-08 Thread Klemens Arro
Thanks everybody, I got it working :P -- Klemens Arro My software never has bugs; it just develops random features. Using: Mandrake Linux 10 Registered Linux User#: 346118 ICQ#: 179198850 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

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