Re: [newbie] Installing Bochs under Mandrake PPC 9.1

2004-04-14 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:56:10 -0700 John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not installed Mandrake yet but wanted the answer to this > question first. I have some software that I need to run in Windows and > will have to install Bochs to take care of this need. I basically > wanted to

[newbie] test 2

2004-04-14 Thread newbie
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Re: [newbie] Today's cooker updates and KDE 3.2.1 (bye bye)

2004-04-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:48:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then progress down thru the directories, EG, (for cooker) > ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base That's basically what I did yesterday, after figuring that something must be wrong

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Thread John Wilson
On April 14, 2004 10:23 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Amen. I would just like to add it is especially difficult on us > newbies, I havent been able to trust the mirrors for weeks and that has > nothing to do with 10. Actually, the mirrors for CE worked very well right up till this happened. Now, I'm

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
Here's a tip: Don't recompile your kernel unless you know what you're doing. Oh well, a complete re-install only takes an hour :) Live and learn... I guess. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 7:12 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:46, Ian MacGregor wrote: > > > > > > Supermount is O

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:46, Ian MacGregor wrote: > > > Supermount is OK now. But if you want to be in control, having > > the conn, decide for yourself and feel good, disable i > > > I did disable it, and my system would not boot at all. > I had to boot from a LiveCD and delete fstab and mt

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 17:23, Marv Boyes wrote: > Philip Cronje wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:17:24 -0400, Marv Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Okay, next question: how do I uninstall software that I've compiled > >> from source? ;) > > > > erk... seems you misunderstood me. when you

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
Thank you, this is most helpful :) On Wednesday 14 April 2004 6:59 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:42, Ian MacGregor wrote: > > > > > Yes, but the floppy formatter doesn't work while the floppy drive > > is mounted. How do I format floppies? Besides booting with a > > LiveC

Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox

2004-04-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 18:19, Marv Boyes wrote: > John Drouhard wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:47:12 -0400 > > > > Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>4. I can't get gaim to show up in my menus, even with the menu > >> editor. > > > > XFCE4 uses the Mandrake menu so unless you compil

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:42, Ian MacGregor wrote: > Yes, but the floppy formatter doesn't work while the floppy drive > is mounted. How do I format floppies? Besides booting with a > LiveCD (Knoppix) and using their format floppy tool. You cannot format anything mounted. Mounted means that

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment Menus

2004-04-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 11:41, Marc Resnick wrote: > I'm gonna keep trying windowmanagers till I find one that suits my > eyes/needs. Someone suggested Pekwm and OpenBox before...any other > suggestions anyone? XFCE4.0.4 stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer serv

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment Menus

2004-04-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:10:42 +1000 Stephen Kuhn wrote: > They don't exist? They're part of the normal Enlightenment package - > have you check in the /usr/bin directory? They are in /usr/X11R6/share/enlightenment/scripts It is also avaiable from the middle click menu Maintenance/Regenerate menu

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
> Supermount is OK now. But if you want to be in control, having the > conn, decide for yourself and feel good, disable i I did disable it, and my system would not boot at all. I had to boot from a LiveCD and delete fstab and mtab and replace them with the old copies I made before I made any cha

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
Yes, but the floppy formatter doesn't work while the floppy drive is mounted. How do I format floppies? Besides booting with a LiveCD (Knoppix) and using their format floppy tool. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 6:26 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:28, Ian MacGregor wrote: > >

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment Menus

2004-04-14 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:57, Marc Resnick wrote: Err...none of those exist. I found that the menu I want shows up when I give it a ctrl+click. Is there any way to make it so this shows on a normal click? They don't exist? They're part of the normal Enlightenment pack

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:28, Ian MacGregor wrote: > 2. Is there any way to disable "supermount"? If so, how and > where? You can do it by editing (as root) /etc/fstab. But why ? Until a few months ago supermount was a pain in the ass and we all had to disable it, meaning we had to mount e

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment Menus

2004-04-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:57, Marc Resnick wrote: > Err...none of those exist. I found that the menu I want shows up when I > give it a ctrl+click. Is there any way to make it so this shows on a > normal click? They don't exist? They're part of the normal Enlightenment package - have you check i

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment Menus

2004-04-14 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 07:47, Marc Resnick wrote: I'm now trying enlightenment, and I really like it. The one thing I don't like is the menus. They're not changing in accordance to menudrake. Is there some special enlightenment menu program? /usr/bin/X11/e_gen_menu /us

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as "not available" in mirror?

2004-04-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:06, Rick Kunath wrote: > Why are the 2.6.3-8 kernel series present in the Proxad 10 > official update directory, but are marked as "not available" in > the comments section of Mandrake Update, though they are listed > when doing a MCC update search? > > The kernel sourc

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
1. My Mandrake 10.0 Community installed without one single problem and it correctly recognised all my hardware - guess I was one of the lucky ones. 2. Is there any way to disable "supermount"? If so, how and where? Thank you, y'all are great! Maybe I need to join a LUG or something. On Wednesda

Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox

2004-04-14 Thread Marv Boyes
John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:47:12 -0400 Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 4. I can't get gaim to show up in my menus, even with the menu editor. XFCE4 uses the Mandrake menu so unless you compiled gaim from source, that shouldn't be a problem. Does it? Pray, tell-- how? ;)

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-14 Thread Marv Boyes
Philip Cronje wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:17:24 -0400, Marv Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, next question: how do I uninstall software that I've compiled from source? ;) erk... seems you misunderstood me. when you run rpm --rebuild, it should automagically do the "configure-make-makeinst

Re: [newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 15 April 2004 00:45, Ian MacGregor wrote: > These mailing lists are great...everyone is so helpful. Best > mailing list I've ever seen. Maybe y'all can help me too. Maybe...at least we'll try... > I have a 3.5 floppy icon on the desktop which has a tiny green > arrow at the bottom rig

[newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as "not available" in mirror?

2004-04-14 Thread Rick Kunath
Why are the 2.6.3-8 kernel series present in the Proxad 10 official update directory, but are marked as "not available" in the comments section of Mandrake Update, though they are listed when doing a MCC update search? The kernel source does not appear as either a bug update or a regular update

Re: [newbie] Shorewall & VMware

2004-04-14 Thread mandrakeClub
I see my Debian box with samba, from a win98 PC. How can I see it from my Mandrake boz? Carlos Contreras Club Cientifico de Penalolen Chile On Wednesday 14 April 2004 02:26 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 17:23, Graham Watkins wrote: > >>Anyone know how

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment Menus

2004-04-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 07:47, Marc Resnick wrote: > I'm now trying enlightenment, and I really like it. The one thing I > don't like is the menus. They're not changing in accordance to > menudrake. Is there some special enlightenment menu program? /usr/bin/X11/e_gen_menu /usr/bin/X11/e_gen_gnome_

[newbie] Re: Floppy problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
These mailing lists are great...everyone is so helpful. Best mailing list I've ever seen. Maybe y'all can help me too. I have a 3.5 floppy icon on the desktop which has a tiny green arrow at the bottom right corner... this means that the floppy is mounted. But this shows up as soon as I boot th

[newbie] Enlightenment Menus

2004-04-14 Thread Marc Resnick
I'm now trying enlightenment, and I really like it. The one thing I don't like is the menus. They're not changing in accordance to menudrake. Is there some special enlightenment menu program? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 20:46, RichardA wrote: > Mandrake is a great distro -- which is why we're all here -- but > the company... Well friends, I just noticed that at least one mirror (proxad) now is updated to 10.0 and running at full speed. I'll take the liberty to attach my urpmi scrip

Re: [newbie] Shorewall & VMware

2004-04-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 04:20, Graham Watkins wrote: > Thanks Anne - I'm trying to set it up using webmin. I'm not sure I got > it right because I still can't connect to the host. It's sometimes the > case (at least on my system) that the Windows guest takes a while to > respond to changes in t

Re: [newbie] Shorewall & VMware

2004-04-14 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 17:23, Graham Watkins wrote: Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the Linux host by the W98 guest? As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut Shorewall down. You should be able to "share" the internet

Re: [newbie] Shorewall & VMware

2004-04-14 Thread Graham Watkins
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:23, Graham Watkins wrote: Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the Linux host by the W98 guest? As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut Shorewall down

Re: [newbie] Digest version and another question

2004-04-14 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 April 2004 19:51, John Dennis wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to get a digest version once a day > rather then getting separate emails through out the day. I sent an > email to this list about Bochs and got an email back to

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Thread RichardA
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:12:15 +0100, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:21, RichardA wrote: > > > > There are some very angry people on the forums, and I don't blame > > them. > > > Frustrated, definitely. Angr

[newbie] Digest version and another question

2004-04-14 Thread John Dennis
I was wondering if there was a way to get a digest version once a day rather then getting separate emails through out the day. I sent an email to this list about Bochs and got an email back to myself with my question but it was never answered. I have gone to the below site but I can not find a wa

Re: [newbie] USB pen

2004-04-14 Thread Marco Terzuoli
Alle 20:10, mercoledì 14 aprile 2004, Ronald J. Hall ha scritto: > On Wednesday 14 April 2004 09:33 am, Miark wrote: > -> I > ->haven't figured out all the "rules" to making it work. > -> > ->That said, if you plug in your USB drive and then reboot, can you > ->then use it? > -> > ->Miark > > I've

Re: [newbie] USB pen

2004-04-14 Thread Marco Terzuoli
Alle 20:10, mercoledì 14 aprile 2004, Ronald J. Hall ha scritto: > On Wednesday 14 April 2004 09:33 am, Miark wrote: > -> I > ->haven't figured out all the "rules" to making it work. > -> > ->That said, if you plug in your USB drive and then reboot, can you > ->then use it? > -> > ->Miark > > I've

Re: [newbie] USB pen

2004-04-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 09:33 am, Miark wrote: -> I ->haven't figured out all the "rules" to making it work. -> ->That said, if you plug in your USB drive and then reboot, can you ->then use it? -> ->Miark I've got the Kangaroo USB drive here under 9.2 and I found it to be a bit problematic wi

Re: [newbie] USB pen

2004-04-14 Thread Marco Terzuoli
Alle 15:33, mercoledì 14 aprile 2004, Miark ha scritto: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:25:44 +0200, Marco wrote: > > I have a USB pen drive and would like to use it under Mandrake > > 9.2 with kernel 2.4.22-4mdk (the standard Mandrake 9.2 > > kernel)still I cannot use my pen when I plug it in. > > I

Re: [newbie] USB pen

2004-04-14 Thread Miark
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:25:44 +0200, Marco wrote: > I have a USB pen drive and would like to use it under Mandrake > 9.2 with kernel 2.4.22-4mdk (the standard Mandrake 9.2 > kernel)still I cannot use my pen when I plug it in. I use usbview to see what's registering or not. Simpler. Anyway, I h

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 09:31, John Wilson wrote: > On April 14, 2004 03:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:21, RichardA wrote: > > > > > > No one expects Mandrake to actually communicate to their > > > customers, even before a major restructure of the mirrors, but it >

[newbie] USB pen

2004-04-14 Thread Marco Terzuoli
Hi, I have a USB pen drive and would like to use it under Mandrake 9.2 with kernel 2.4.22-4mdk (the standard Mandrake 9.2 kernel). I could make it work perfectly under Mandrare 10.0 CE just using the option noacpi as a boot parameter, but if I try it under 9.2 I get an error (the system cannot load

Re: [newbie] cd burner problem

2004-04-14 Thread Pete Doak
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:39, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 00:35, Pete Doak wrote: > > Hi: > > > > My CD Burner seems to have a problem burning CD's under linux. It's a > > 24x10x40x CD Burner, but under linux it only burns at 1x speed. The spec > > on the cd burner says > > > > Ven

Re: [newbie] Windows Remoting X'ing

2004-04-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 01:36, jeb wrote: > Ok, then..How do I do it linux to linux? > If you're using Mandrake: Just "ssh", Mdk has X forwarding enabled by default. Otherwise you need the X flag, thus: "ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]" You cannot get the whole interface to run remotely (VNC does that wel

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update problem

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Hrbac
Ian MacGregor napsal(a): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am new to this mail list, so, it is possible that I am asking about something that has been asked already. If so, please forgive the duplication. I am using - or, trying to use - MandrakeUpdate. When I run it, I keep getting

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 April 2004 15:31, John Wilson wrote: > > > What could have happened was that Mandrake (generic :-) ) could have > done some testing of fixes over the weekend, announced that, and then > they'd be in a position to have the fixes up and r

Re: [newbie] To distribute a bulletin

2004-04-14 Thread robin
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 10:16, mandrake wrote: In Windows I used Opt-In Emailer for sending my club bulletin and infromation or works to my students by e-mail. What program can I use in Mandrake 9.1 for sending e-mails to a list? I use the low-tech approach: set up an account

[newbie] Mandrake Update problem

2004-04-14 Thread Ian MacGregor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am new to this mail list, so, it is possible that I am asking about something that has been asked already. If so, please forgive the duplication. I am using - or, trying to use - MandrakeUpdate. When I run it, I keep getting this error: Unable

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Thread John Wilson
On April 14, 2004 03:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:21, RichardA wrote: > > > No one expects Mandrake to actually communicate to their customers, > > even before a major restructure of the mirrors, but it seems they all > > went home for Easter withour fixing it. So much

Re: [newbie] Weekly 'MS is evil' post

2004-04-14 Thread Todd Slater
Check out Mary Jo Foley's Microsoft Watch blog. It has RSS, too. http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Todd On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:08:55AM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > Okay, per'aps twice-weekly ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Today's cooker updates and KDE 3.2.1 (bye bye)

2004-04-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 12:40 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 01:02:02 -0500 > > Chuck Mattsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, somehow in the massive updates of today after cooker > > mirrors came alive again, I've lost KDE ... not critical, as > > I've access to everything, but

Re: [newbie] MK 10 and Windows dual boot solved + partition?

2004-04-14 Thread Owain Sutton
I followed the partitioning offered by Suse, except for making the swap partition larger (I'm planning on getting more memory soon). The only other partition it created was ext3 as /. Mandrake installed fine onto this. As for size - it depends what you're planning on doing. XP Home with Off

Re: [newbie] MK 10 and Windows dual boot solved + partition?

2004-04-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 22:15, Ian MacGregor wrote: > I have a 9 GB hard drive and installed almost everything in Mandrake > 10.0 and am still only using half of my partition. That should give > you an idea of how much HD space to dedicate to a Linux partition. It > will really depend on how much

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Thread Alan Dunford
On Wednesday 14 Apr 2004 04:28, Aron Smith wrote: > On Tuesday 13 April 2004 08:31 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:08:00 -0400 > > > > robin disseminated the following: > > > > Are the main sources Distribution, Updates and Contrib? If so, where > > > > in the new structure are they?

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Thread PM
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:12, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:21, RichardA wrote: > > > > There are some very angry people on the forums, and I don't blame > > them. > > > Frustrated, definitely. > > > No one expects Mandrake t

Re: [newbie] How to configure eth1 for wireless connection?

2004-04-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 14 Apr 2004 00:58, Wei Wang wrote: > I have Mandrake 9.0, kernel 2.4.19, Linksys WPC11 ver3.1 and orinoco 0.13e. > Now the card is already recognized:(/var/log/messages > Apr 13 23:47:02 china cardmgr[2893]: socket 1: Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b > WLAN Card > Apr 13 23:47:02 china car

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:21, RichardA wrote: > > There are some very angry people on the forums, and I don't blame > them. > Frustrated, definitely. > No one expects Mandrake to actually communicate to their customers, > even before a major restr

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] What Does "The Document Contains No Data" Mean?

2004-04-14 Thread RichardA
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:12:11 +0100, David Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Robin, > > This still occurs in Firefox 8 - looks like there is a problem that > cannot be fixed by the developers - uness they don't care about the > "User Interface" > I don't think it's the fault of the brow

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-14 Thread RichardA
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:08:00 -0400, robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RichardA wrote: > > Different update sites seem to have different structures. Also, the > > Mandrake Club mirrors page doesn't seem to work. > > > > What's going on? Which sites are up to date? Wasn't this meant to be > > fixed