Re: [newbie] Installing Bochs under Mandrake PPC 9.1

2004-04-15 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 see

Re: [newbie] URPMI mirrors broken?

2004-04-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 April 2004 05:17, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:08:00 -0400 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever sources I use, I get a curl error message. I live in hope ... Are you using the structures for instance on

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

2004-04-15 Thread Rick Kunath
Thanks for the tips on the kernel install. I have installed them many times. What was curious about the behavior of Mandrake Update in this case is that unlike the behavior in the past, the kernel source was never shown in the update list. In the past, whenever a new bugfix kernel was

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

2004-04-15 Thread Rory
On Thursday 15 April 2004 7:29 am, Rick Kunath wrote: Thanks for the tips on the kernel install. I have installed them many times. What was curious about the behavior of Mandrake Update in this case is that unlike the behavior in the past, the kernel source was never shown in the update

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

2004-04-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 15 April 2004 14:21, Rory wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 7:29 am, Rick Kunath wrote: Thanks for the tips on the kernel install. I have installed them many times. What was curious about the behavior of Mandrake Update in this case is that unlike the behavior in the past,

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

2004-04-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 April 2004 13:21, Rory wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 7:29 am, Rick Kunath wrote: Thanks for the tips on the kernel install. I have installed them many times. What was curious about the behavior of Mandrake Update in this

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

2004-04-15 Thread Rory
Here's the output. No luck. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# uname -a Linux 192.168.0.3 2.6.3-4mdk #1 Tue Mar 2 07:26:13 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# ls boot.0200 initrd-2.6.3-4mdk.img message-text boot.0301 initrd-2.6.img@

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

2004-04-15 Thread Rick Kunath
I don't know where it installed to and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. Did you inspect your /etc/lilo.conf file to see if a stanza was added for the new kernel? Did you do a lilo -v (you don't need the -v option, but I like to see what's going on as the config is

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

2004-04-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 15 April 2004 14:43, Rory wrote: Here's the output. No luck. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# uname -a Linux 192.168.0.3 2.6.3-4mdk #1 Tue Mar 2 07:26:13 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# ls boot.0200 initrd-2.6.3-4mdk.img message-text

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

2004-04-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 11:42 pm, David E. Fox wrote: 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

[newbie] Icon for connecting to server

2004-04-15 Thread Owen Berio
I just reinstalled version 9,2 in order to correct one problem. The original problem was corrected but in the process another was created. In my previous installation I had a icon for connecting to the internet. It dialed my provider and connected using my name' and password. Now I no longer

[newbie] Duplicating Directory Structure

2004-04-15 Thread Job Evers
I have the following: ./x/foo/bar/a/files ./y/foo/bar/b/files I want to combine the directories so that I can have this instead ./z/foo/bar/a/files ./z/foo/bar/b/files Any idea how I would do this? -- Job Evers Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Duplicating Directory Structure

2004-04-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 15 April 2004 18:20, Job Evers wrote: I have the following: ./x/foo/bar/a/files ./y/foo/bar/b/files I want to combine the directories so that I can have this instead ./z/foo/bar/a/files ./z/foo/bar/b/files Any idea how I would do this? Howe about the mv (move) cp (copy) and

Re: [newbie] Icon for connecting to server

2004-04-15 Thread Marc
On Thursday 15 April 2004 10:55 am, Owen Berio wrote: I just reinstalled version 9,2 in order to correct one problem. The original problem was corrected but in the process another was created. In my previous installation I had a icon for connecting to the internet. It dialed my provider and

Re: [newbie] Duplicating Directory Structure

2004-04-15 Thread Job Evers
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:58:10 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 18:20, Job Evers wrote: I have the following: ./x/foo/bar/a/files ./y/foo/bar/b/files I want to combine the directories so that I can have this instead ./z/foo/bar/a/files ./z/foo/bar/b/files

Re: [newbie] Icon for connecting to server

2004-04-15 Thread Owen Berio
Thanks Job, That was what I was looking for. Somehow it didn't get installed on my reinstall. Owen * On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:01 pm, Marc wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 10:55 am, Owen Berio wrote: I

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-15 Thread Philip Cronje
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:23:27 -0400, Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to grok this stuff some day, I promise. ;) A good place for info would be to go onto the Mandrake site. Somewhere around the Cooker pages (I think?) there should be a link to the Mandrake RPM HOWTO. Really nice

[newbie] Where are the exotic terminals and consoles - Eye candy?

2004-04-15 Thread Tango Echo
Does anyone know of any linux terminals/consoles that do a little bit more than just display the characters you type? insert no joke here plz Some that would provide animations and eye candy perhaps? For example, when you typed to the terminal the most recent character would very start bright

Re: [newbie] Icon for connecting to server

2004-04-15 Thread Job Evers
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:34:17 -0400 Owen Berio wrote: Thanks Job, That was what I was looking for. Somehow it didn't get installed on my reinstall. Owen Gotta make sure credit goes where credit is due: I believe that it was Marc who gave you the advice, not myself. I

Re: [newbie] Where are the exotic terminals and consoles - Eye candy?

2004-04-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 05:20, Tango Echo wrote: Does anyone know of any linux terminals/consoles that do a little bit more than just display the characters you type? insert no joke here plz Some that would provide animations and eye candy perhaps? For example, when you typed to the terminal

Re: [newbie] Where are the exotic terminals and consoles - Eye candy?

2004-04-15 Thread cdrack
Have you a why..?? --- Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any linux terminals/consoles that do a little bit more than just display the characters you type? insert no joke here plz Some that would provide animations and eye candy perhaps? For example, when you

RE: [newbie] Where are the exotic terminals and consoles - Eye ca ndy?

2004-04-15 Thread Dodd GS07 David J
Title: RE: [newbie] Where are the exotic terminals and consoles - Eye candy? Try SuperKaramba. Marcel Gagne wrote an article on it in this months issue of www.linuxjournal.com. -Original Message- From: cdrack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:43 PM To:

Re: [newbie] Where are the exotic terminals and consoles - Eye candy?

2004-04-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:20 pm, Tango Echo wrote: -I tried breifly looking on freshmeat, but perhaps I -didn't look hard enough. Or perhaps there isn't such -a terminal out there =O -Advice? Tips? Help? - -Thanks in advance, - -Tango Eterm rocks, IMHO...love being able to use random

Re: [newbie] Where are the exotic terminals and consoles - Eye candy?

2004-04-15 Thread Job Evers
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:12:19 -0400 Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 03:20 pm, Tango Echo wrote: -I tried breifly looking on freshmeat, but perhaps I -didn't look hard enough. Or perhaps there isn't such -a terminal out there =O -Advice? Tips? Help? - -Thanks in advance,

Re: [newbie] Where are the exotic terminals and consoles - Eye candy?

2004-04-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 07:18, Job Evers wrote: Is Eterm better then aterm? (wow, what original names!) Eterm opens up a can of whoop-ass on aterm; Wterm is a fast second on that. Having the ability to customise a terminal is VERY important and is almost a lost art. Customising the prompt is

[newbie] Win4lin kernel

2004-04-15 Thread Marc
It seems that in order to run win4lin I will have to install a win4lin enabled kernel. I found kernel-win4lin-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.7mdk-3-8mdk RPM for i586 at mandrake cooker. If I run this rpm what will happen? Will my existing kernel be replaced or will the new kernel be added. Will I be

Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox

2004-04-15 Thread Marv Boyes
Hoyt Bailey wrote: 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 compiled gaim

Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox

2004-04-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 10:44, Marv Boyes wrote: Do you mean menudrake? And if so, wouldn't that screw up my menu configuration under KDE? [BTW, if you're suggesting menudrake as a means of getting command names to configure my xfce launchers, that's exactly what I'm doing. ;) ] Marv

Re: [newbie] Win4lin kernel

2004-04-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 10:49, Marc wrote: It seems that in order to run win4lin I will have to install a win4lin enabled kernel. I found kernel-win4lin-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.7mdk-3-8mdk RPM for i586 at mandrake cooker. If I run this rpm what will happen? Will my existing kernel be replaced

Re: [newbie] Win4lin kernel

2004-04-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 15 April 2004 08:49 pm, Marc wrote: It seems that in order to run win4lin I will have to install a win4lin enabled kernel. I found kernel-win4lin-i686-up-4GB-2.6.3.7mdk-3-8mdk RPM for i586 at mandrake cooker. If I run this rpm what will happen? Will my existing kernel be

Re: [newbie] Where are the exotic terminals and consoles - Eye candy?

2004-04-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 15 April 2004 05:18 pm, Job Evers wrote: -Is Eterm better then aterm? (wow, what original names!) Never used aterm myself, but others seem to think Eterm is much better. -- /\

Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox

2004-04-15 Thread Marv Boyes
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 10:44, Marv Boyes wrote: Do you mean menudrake? And if so, wouldn't that screw up my menu configuration under KDE? [BTW, if you're suggesting menudrake as a means of getting command names to configure my xfce launchers, that's exactly what I'm doing.

[newbie] 105

2004-04-15 Thread Anguo
105 http://counter.li.org/reports/arearank.php 340gnu/linux ! http://counter.li.org/reports/arearank.php?area=TW http://counter.li.org/reports/place.php?place=TW ! http://counter.li.org/enter-person.php linux. -- www.masquilier.org Condorcet, Approval alternative voting. In order to

[newbie] soundcard woes

2004-04-15 Thread Rory
Hi folks, No luck on other venues I've tried, so I'll give newbie@ a shot. I'd love if someone could give me some clues on this one. I've posted more info than less, in hopes that something will trigger a solution for someone more familiar with MDK than me. I can't get sound activated since

Re: [newbie] soundcard woes

2004-04-15 Thread Roland Hughes
This maybe a dumb question but have you checked the mixer and sound levels it is set to? Roly On Thursday 15 April 2004 09:46 pm, Rory wrote: Hi folks, No luck on other venues I've tried, so I'll give newbie@ a shot. I'd love if someone could give me some clues on this one. I've posted