Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Graham Watkins
JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont

Re: [newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140

2004-08-31 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:21:11PM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 3:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! One

Re: [newbie] mouse kboard dont work

2004-08-31 Thread ostap110
- Original message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:19:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] mouse kboard dont work On Saturday 28 August 2004 03:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i have an old keyboard gateway2000 (the one that has 12

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Asa Rossoff
Vincent Voois wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the

[newbie] Microsoft security chief admits to using the Firefox browser.

2004-08-31 Thread frankieh
http://htmlfixit.com/index.php?p=139 This is something funny I came across while doing my daily news search for anything web tech related. I'll bet his bosses are not happy about this little fupar.. regardless for his reasons for using it. I hope my site stays up, I posted the same story in

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread András Keszei
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:14, Asa Rossoff wrote: JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root,

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread SnapafunFrank
Asa Rossoff wrote: Vincent Voois wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-31 Thread et
On Friday 27 August 2004 07:42, Stephen Kühn wrote: Microsoft is their own worst enemy. Linus Torvalds said the best thing he has goiing for him is that he is not Bill Gates... -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] http://localhost:631/admin

2004-08-31 Thread SnapafunFrank
Err.. I don't recall having ever been here before so was somewhat confused when ask for a user name and password for Cups. Anyone know where I ought to be looking for this albeit as su? -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] http://localhost:631/admin

2004-08-31 Thread Thereidos
W licie z wto, 31-08-2004, godz. 11:52, SnapafunFrank pisze: Err.. I don't recall having ever been here before so was somewhat confused when ask for a user name and password for Cups. Anyone know where I ought to be looking for this albeit as su? It's your root login and password. --

Re: [newbie] http://localhost:631/admin

2004-08-31 Thread SnapafunFrank
Thereidos wrote: W licie z wto, 31-08-2004, godz. 11:52, SnapafunFrank pisze: Err.. I don't recall having ever been here before so was somewhat confused when ask for a user name and password for Cups. Anyone know where I ought to be looking for this albeit as su? It's your root login

Re: [newbie] KDE - KPPP

2004-08-31 Thread SnapafunFrank
David wrote: I've just recently upgraded to MDK 10 Official and have upgraded all my kde files. Since installing 'kdenetwork-kppp-3.2-17.1.100mdk.i586.rpm' I've experience problems with the dialler. After installing the /etc/ppp/options were changed, (cann't remember exactly how it went in the 3rd

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 14:26, JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 30 August 2004 11:14 pm, Asa Rossoff wrote: Windows expects to boot from the first drive in the system (which it will always call C:). I believe there are ways to trick it into booting from other drives. I haven't tried it. Smart Boot Manager can do this by (I think) having the

[newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation

2004-08-31 Thread Kassem Nasser
Hi guys I installed Man10 but I was faced with a lot of packages installing errors during installation like 'error in installing packege appache2', but I continued installing it. when everything is finished and I rebooted the system ,when it arrived to the user menu there was about ten users that

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 00:04, Vincent Voois wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: any different. This is also true of UNIX and other OS's such as IBM can you imagine IBM loseing business to linux. IBM always had a good arrogant head up, this is why they had to fire over 40.000 people back 1 and a

[newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again

2004-08-31 Thread M.Schild
My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop asked a professional to save what she could. I did slip the professional my Mandrake CDs so she could try to install 10. She had problems with the modem ( we knew about that, easily solved), the sound and , much more annoying, the touch screen (

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Vincent Voois
SnapafunFrank wrote: Unless you have actually tried for yourself, please layoff saying things as if they were fact. As to windows, WinMe ain't so bad once you bash For the fact that i couldn't run half the shit in WinME due to whatever MS invention was in there makes ME a pretty invaluable

Re: [newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation

2004-08-31 Thread Thereidos
W licie z wto, 31-08-2004, godz. 13:36, Kassem Nasser pisze: Hi guys I installed Man10 but I was faced with a lot of packages installing errors during installation like 'error in installing packege appache2', but I continued installing it. when everything is finished and I rebooted the

Re: [newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation

2004-08-31 Thread Kassem Nasser
Thank you Thereidos but what did you meant about the enviroment, and what about the 'users menu' problem where I have users like apache,xfs,and others that I did not create them. Best regards, Quoting Thereidos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: W li¶cie z wto, 31-08-2004, godz. 13:36, Kassem Nasser pisze:

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again

2004-08-31 Thread charlie
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:32 pm, M.Schild wrote: My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop asked a professional to save what she could. I did slip the professional my Mandrake CDs so she could try to install 10. She had problems with the modem ( we knew about that, easily solved), the sound

[newbie] OT? win2k clients are printing via Samba/CUPS-Printer but ...

2004-08-31 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
... if the printers are just highlighted in the win2k printer-window, there's a message similar like 'Access denied, No connection to Printer' But printing _is_ possible ;-) (Printers are defined via samba as guest OK...) It's not very important but I would like to know why win2k is

Re: [newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation

2004-08-31 Thread Thereidos
W licie z wto, 31-08-2004, godz. 14:38, Kassem Nasser pisze: Thank you Thereidos but what did you meant about the enviroment, and what about the 'users menu' problem where I have users like apache,xfs,and others that I did not create them. Saying enviroment I mean desktop enviroment (KDE,

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:29, Asa Rossoff wrote: Vincent Voois wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: snip Second, Windows boots from the first boot-device, but it can be configured to have it's OS on another drive by altering the MSDOS.INI and in case of WinNT 4.x, 5.x you can alter

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again

2004-08-31 Thread M.Schild
charlie wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:32 pm, M.Schild wrote: My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop asked a professional to save what she could. I did slip the professional my Mandrake CDs so she could try to install 10. She had problems with the modem ( we knew about that, easily

Re: [newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation

2004-08-31 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:36, Kassem Nasser wrote: Hi guys I installed Man10 but I was faced with a lot of packages installing errors during installation like 'error in installing packege appache2', but I continued installing it. when everything is finished and I rebooted the system ,when it arrived

[newbie] File System Problem

2004-08-31 Thread David Johnson
Hi all, We had a power failure the other day and now my ML10.0 system barfs out messages every so often to the main screen (presumably when it does an FS check) that look like the following: INFO : [2004-08-31T06:33:15-0700] msg=,Check failed., path=/etc/ioctl.save I presume that this

Re: [newbie] File System Problem

2004-08-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 11:01, David Johnson wrote: Hi all, We had a power failure the other day and now my ML10.0 system barfs out messages every so often to the main screen (presumably when it does an FS check) that look like the following: INFO : [2004-08-31T06:33:15-0700]

Re: [newbie] xsessionerrors file growing

2004-08-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 30 August 2004 06:03 pm, warren wrote: hi all, while trying to work out why i couldn´t burn dvds i happened to check the .xsessionerrors file which wouldn´t open. Eventually i opened it with tail -f and it spewed forth: ASSERT: i = nodes in /usr/lib/qt3/include/qvaluelist.h (372)

[newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to control that, but I have found nothing. I am using KDE 3.2 and Mandrake

[newbie] FTP Download issues...

2004-08-31 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I experience some strange behavior when I try to download files, etc. from an ftp site. For example, when I click the following (to download UltraEdit) it times out. http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Downloadsd_op=getitlid=1 When I click the same link on a Windows box on

Re: [newbie] FTP Download issues...

2004-08-31 Thread PM
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 22:10, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I experience some strange behavior when I try to download files, etc. from an ftp site. For example, when I click the following (to download UltraEdit) it times out.

[newbie] Firewire external enclosure with HD : message log at boot

2004-08-31 Thread centaure domain
Hi, i've got a Mandrake 9.2 on a Shuttle X with 2 firewire port 1394 I've visited the linux1394 website read the FAQ. Nothing happened with modprob -r sbp2 and the rescan scsi bus script. But when i see on the boot message log, here is what i can read : Aug 28 20:24:26 localhost kernel:

[newbie] Upgrading

2004-08-31 Thread Wally Brown
Does anyone know how I can upgrade my site to version 4.5.1 from 4.5 without having to redo all my pages? image001.jpg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-08-31 Thread et
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 17:02, Wally Brown wrote: version 4.5.1 from 4.5 of what program? please don't send html-mail to this list (you wannna see what it looks like???) -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] [help]Mandrake 10 installation

2004-08-31 Thread et
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 10:15, Avi Schwartz wrote: On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:36, Kassem Nasser wrote: Hi guys I installed Man10 but I was faced with a lot of packages installing errors during installation like 'error in installing packege appache2', but I continued installing it. when

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-08-31 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:02:02 -0600 Wally Brown disseminated the following: Does anyone know how I can upgrade my site to version 4.5.1 from 4.5 without having to redo all my pages? Ok, you gotta be kiddin' me. Not only *HTML* but a *cutesy coloured background*??!! What's next, freakin'

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2004-08-31 Thread Steve
Thank you, It is now working. Steve - Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS On Monday 30 August 2004 4:15 pm, Steve wrote: After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-31 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:32:26 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: No not specifically, if you don't have any money to spend on software, you use free software. In a way smarter:it's smarter than downloading illegal versions of Microsoft ware. But Asians and Africans still have

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again

2004-08-31 Thread charlie
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:30 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: I couldn't get the win modem to work because 9.2 didn't supply a kernel source and I am in very slow dial up. That is the problem with that lappy, no serial port. But someone posted

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-08-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:13:54 -0400 JoeHill wrote: Thank you, come again! They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? Charles -- The second best policy is dishonesty. - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8.1-4mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again

2004-08-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 04:37 pm, charlie wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:30 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: I couldn't get the win modem to work because 9.2 didn't supply a kernel source and I am in very slow dial up. That is the problem with

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-31 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:24:34PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:32:26 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: No not specifically, if you don't have any money to spend on software, you use free software. In a way smarter:it's smarter than downloading illegal

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-08-31 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:50:14 -0400 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? You betcha, massive doses of Thorazine. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:05:06 up 27 days, 19:49, 6 users, load average: 1.50, 1.52, 1.19

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-31 Thread et
On Friday 27 August 2004 13:52, Stephen Kühn wrote: Kmail unstable? Outlook and Outlook Express are unstable; Kmail is just, er, quirky. that would be... 'random enhancements' -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] dvdshrink and wine

2004-08-31 Thread evolt
Vincent Voois wrote: What kind of troubles do you have with DVDShrink? I usually use DVDDecrypter if DVDShrink does not succeed, when i got the decrypted vob files on HD i then use DVDshrink to reauthor or compress elements of the DVD. This is a good test to see if it operates properly at all.

[newbie] System locks up every 10days

2004-08-31 Thread Chris
This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it locked up while one of the X-Screensavers was running. I noted which one was on the screen at the time and

Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days

2004-08-31 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 08:25 pm, Chris wrote: This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it locked up while one of the X-Screensavers was running. I

Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days

2004-08-31 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 09:30 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 08:25 pm, Chris wrote: This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it

Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days

2004-08-31 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 09:54 pm, Chris wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 09:30 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 08:25 pm, Chris wrote: This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated

Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days

2004-08-31 Thread jon fuller
I can't even seem to load the program from the disks I bought is there any driver issues with my hardware? It haults and asks me to reboot when I'm loading the packages. Specifically when it gets to Fonts. mandrake 10 64 version athlon 64 3000 asus K8V 2 raptors 70 gigs apiece 9600XT sony

RE: [newbie] FTP Download issues...

2004-08-31 Thread Bill Shirley
Got a firewall on this box? What does 'iptables -L -n -v' say? Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Travis Crook Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:08 PM To: Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP Download issues... On Tue,

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again

2004-08-31 Thread Erylon Hines
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50 pm, M.Schild wrote: | charlie wrote: | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:32 pm, M.Schild wrote: | My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop as | I cannot recall for certain, but 9.2 worked everything rather well too. |

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver again

2004-08-31 Thread M.Schild
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 07:02 am, Erylon Hines wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 03:01 pm, charlie wrote: | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50 pm, M.Schild wrote: | charlie wrote: | On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:32 pm, M.Schild wrote: | My friend with the Win XP problem on her laptop as | | I

Re: [newbie] Postcard

2004-08-31 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 2:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best wishes, your friend. Ok, so, fess up, who clicked the .pif? Time for the truth to be told, and time to run Mdk full time, the easy way is to login in a root. go to your windows partition and fire off, rm -Rf *. That is a

Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days

2004-08-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 21:25, Chris wrote: This an odd question and there may not be a valid answer, but here goes. About every 10days the system locks up for seemingly unrelated reasons. For instance, last time it happened it locked up while one of the X-Screensavers was running. I noted