Re: [newbie] A question to the talented

2004-10-07 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 07 Oct 2004 5:40 am, Alan wrote: Thanks. What ris does is allow you to boot from a network card and install windows 2000 and windows XP. The nice things is it an unattended installation and it installs quicker than from a cd. Two ways: Use the network boot floppy, which is on the

Re: [newbie] How to Capture Text Mode Output?

2004-10-07 Thread SnapafunFrank
RickS wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 00:11:13 -0400 RickS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:01:10 -0400 (EDT) David B. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip David, you could try: script

RE: [newbie] Problem with detectingmodem, Scanmodem

2004-10-07 Thread Peter Watson
Mandrake 9.1 cannot detect my modem intel(r) 536EP V.92 I downloaded ScanModem, to detect what modem I have. After unpacking and addint +x permition when run from console ./ScanModem there is a massage: WARNING: lscpi not found - exiting Please install the package: pciutils How to install

[newbie] Monitoring Programs

2004-10-07 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi All, Would like to know if there are monitoring programs that monitor the following: server processes, memory, bandwidth, routers, servers, hosts. What do you use for this? Thank you , Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] re: Allowing SSHD to accept outside connections

2004-10-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 07 October 2004 03:35, IT Guy wrote: I just installed Mandrake 10 and I would like to allow SSHD to accept outside connections how do i go about doing this? I cant seem to find a documentation on it a push in the right direction would be of great appreciation. Thank you! If sshd

Re: [newbie] A question to the talented

2004-10-07 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 07 October 2004 00:40, Alan wrote: The reason I want to do this is that I sell a lot of pc's where clients want WINXP installed and it is quicker for me to install this way around, as you can do 5 pc's at a time (IF needed) So, you want to use Linux to automate the process of

Re: [newbie] Monitoring Programs

2004-10-07 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 07 October 2004 05:23, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, Would like to know if there are monitoring programs that monitor the following: server processes, memory, bandwidth, routers, servers, hosts. Just for the record, you might want to explain in a bit more detail what you mean by

[newbie] Mandrake on portable hd

2004-10-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I'm new for linux. I would like to know if is it possible to install linux on a hd portable usb 2. Without lilo. My notebook have the boot from usb. I want to know how it is possible. Now I have two partition FAT32 on the hd portable. Thanks Nico

Re: [newbie] A question to the talented

2004-10-07 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 07 October 2004 00:40, Alan wrote: What ris does is allow you to boot from a network card and install windows 2000 and windows XP. The nice things is it an unattended installation and it installs quicker than from a cd. The reason I want to do this is that I sell a lot of pc's

Re: [newbie] Mandrake on portable hd

2004-10-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 07 October 2004 12:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new for linux. I would like to know if is it possible to install linux on a hd portable usb 2. Without lilo. My notebook have the boot from usb. I want to know how it is possible. Now I have two partition FAT32 on the hd

Re: [newbie] Mandrake on portable hd

2004-10-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think is very expensive! I spent 100 euros for an hd of 120MB! Da: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:36:49 +0100 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie] Mandrake on portable hd On Thursday 07 October 2004 12:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new for

Re: [newbie] Help with Python Problem (MDK 10.0)

2004-10-07 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 21:12:42 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: segmentation fault Yep, me too. I'm still running 1.3 (which has a few very minor bugs), because 2.0 requires Imlib2 v1.1.1, and it looks like MDK 10.0 is still on 1.0.6-4.1. I'm gonna try and track down the source for

[newbie] urpmi problem

2004-10-07 Thread JoeHill
I wanted to install an updated version of Imlib2 (see 'Python help' thread). At first, I built it, made a checkinstall RPM, did an rpm -Uvh new Imlib2, and it installed okay. Then I realized I had built it without using --prefix=/usr (bangs head against table, table breaks). So, I uninstalled

[newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem

2004-10-07 Thread Brandon Rife
Hi, Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE integration but I am unable to send email. The error is: Authentication failed. Most likely the password is wrong. The server responded: Authentication

RE: [newbie] Permissions in a network

2004-10-07 Thread Bill Shirley
Yes, you can do this. Make a unix group for these users. As root: groupadd staff Now add users to this group. There may be a GUI way to do this but I would just edit /etc/group and add the users' name to the staff group. Now make the directory: mkdir -m 2770 /home/staff

RE: [newbie] How to Capture Text Mode Output?

2004-10-07 Thread Bill Shirley
I think you will find these messages in ~/.xsession-errors HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David B. Carter Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to Capture Text Mode

[newbie] NEC USB 2.0 PCI controller

2004-10-07 Thread Miark
Howdy all--been a while. I bought a NEC 5-port USB 2.0 PCI controller so I can use my external drives. (Well, I could use them before, but at USB 1 speeds, why would you want to?) MDK 10.0 can see it and apparently is running the correct drivers for it: $ lspci 00:0f.0 USB Controller: NEC

Re: [newbie] Permissions in a network

2004-10-07 Thread Miark
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:57:38 -0400, Bill wrote: Yes, you can do this. Make a unix group for these users. As root: groupadd staff Now add users to this group. There may be a GUI way to do this... userdrake is your friend. Miark Want

Re: [newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem - SOLVED

2004-10-07 Thread Brandon Rife
On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:53 am, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE integration but I am unable to send email. The error is: Authentication failed. Most likely

RE: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-10-07 Thread Dan Gordon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JoeHill Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:24 AM To: Mandrake Newbs Subject: [newbie] urpmi problem So far nothing is *broken*, ie. I can install the newest imlib2 with just 'make install' and

Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1

2004-10-07 Thread GV
bumping my own thread and hopping that someone could shed some light on this? Thanks On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 18:02 +0300, GV wrote: I do run it from cmd with the -v flag and it stops at: debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent I can ping the server and it can find the server but that's all is

[newbie] Dual booting with XP

2004-10-07 Thread Keith Powell
I am trying to wean a friend off Windows and on to Mandrake, so I have sent him a set of Mandrake CDs to install. He was supposed to install it on its own hard drive, but has changed his mind and wants it on the same drive as WindowsXP. I have received an e-mail from him saying that when he

Re: [newbie] Dual booting with XP

2004-10-07 Thread Marc
On Thursday 07 October 2004 01:33 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I am trying to wean a friend off Windows and on to Mandrake, so I have sent him a set of Mandrake CDs to install. He was supposed to install it on its own hard drive, but has changed his mind and wants it on the same drive as WindowsXP.

[newbie] apic noapic...

2004-10-07 Thread Bac
Ciao ragazzi, un consiglio per favore. Succede che quando mi allontano dalla mia box per qualche tempo, diciamo un oretta e mezzo per esempio, al ritorno trovo tutto congelato... non risponde più nulla e son costretto a resettare. Voi che dite, è un problema nella gestione del risparmio

Re: [newbie] Dual booting with XP

2004-10-07 Thread Miark
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:33:28 +0100, Keith wrote: I have received an e-mail from him saying that when he tries to install Mandrake, he gets a message saying to do a reboot and Mandrake will be loaded. This he does and then XP is started. He can get no further. When during the Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Dual booting with XP

2004-10-07 Thread Thereidos
W licie z czw, 07-10-2004, godz. 20:33, Keith Powell pisze: I have received an e-mail from him saying that when he tries to install Mandrake, he gets a message saying to do a reboot and Mandrake will be loaded. This he does and then XP is started. He can get no further. For me it looks like

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-07 Thread Thereidos
W licie z czw, 07-10-2004, godz. 00:09, Stew Benedict pisze: Duplicate your current lilo stanza you use to boot, and add 5 in the append= line, giving it a new label (don't forget to rerun lilo after editing) So it would look like this: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-10-07 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:59:22 -0400 Dan Gordon disseminated the following: install' and everything appears to work OK, however I would like to have it installed as an RPM so that MDK doesn't think it's missing at some point in the future. Joe have you tried urpmi.update -a to see if

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-07 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Thereidos wrote: W li6cie z czw, 07-10-2004, godz. 00:09, Stew Benedict pisze: Duplicate your current lilo stanza you use to boot, and add 5 in the append= line, giving it a new label (don't forget to rerun lilo after editing) So it would look like this:

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-07 Thread Thereidos
W licie z czw, 07-10-2004, godz. 22:25, Stew Benedict pisze: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Thereidos wrote: W li6cie z czw, 07-10-2004, godz. 00:09, Stew Benedict pisze: Duplicate your current lilo stanza you use to boot, and add 5 in the append= line, giving it a new label (don't forget to

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-10-07 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 07 October 2004 09:23 am, JoeHill wrote: I wanted to install an updated version of Imlib2 (see 'Python help' thread). At first, I built it, made a checkinstall RPM, did an rpm -Uvh new Imlib2, and it installed okay. Then I realized I had built it without using --prefix=/usr

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-10-07 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:59:22 -0400 Dan Gordon disseminated the following: So far nothing is *broken*, ie. I can install the newest imlib2 with just 'make install' and everything appears to work OK, however I would like to have it installed as an RPM so that MDK doesn't think it's missing

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-10-07 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:58:44 -0500 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: So far nothing is *broken*, ie. I can install the newest imlib2 with just 'make install' and everything appears to work OK, however I would like to have it installed as an RPM so that MDK doesn't think it's missing

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-10-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:23:41 -0400 JoeHill wrote: So far nothing is *broken*, ie. I can install the newest imlib2 with just 'make install' and everything appears to work OK, however I would like to have it installed as an RPM so that MDK doesn't think it's missing at some point in the future.

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-10-07 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:51:18 -0400 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: So far nothing is *broken*, ie. I can install the newest imlib2 with just 'make install' and everything appears to work OK, however I would like to have it installed as an RPM so that MDK doesn't think it's

Re: [newbie] KMail smtp authentication problem

2004-10-07 Thread Chris
On Thursday 07 October 2004 09:53 am, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE integration but I am unable to send email. The error is: Authentication failed. Most likely

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem [solved]

2004-10-07 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:58:44 -0500 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: So far nothing is *broken*, ie. I can install the newest imlib2 with just 'make install' and everything appears to work OK, however I would like to have it installed as an RPM so that MDK doesn't think it's missing

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-10-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:40:25 -0400 JoeHill wrote: Your reply is very much appreciated, considering your last...er...comments :-) That was to the expert list and does not apply to newbie. If you still want the rpms for imlib2-1.1.2 I have attached a spec file which will allow you to build the

[newbie] Re: Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-10-07 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2004-09-01, SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, when I tried to go the update route with Mandrake10, lilo showed me boot options for partitions that had no OS on them, ie the FAT partitions. Yet when I did a clean install I didn't strike this problem? I also had a similar

[newbie] Re: Maelstrom and other games cause freezes after 9.2 - 10.0 upgrade

2004-10-07 Thread Mark Stosberg
et wrote: On Sunday 03 October 2004 22:20, Mark Stosberg wrote: Hello, I'm helping my friend Kurt Ritchie who recently switched to Linux. ( His Linux switch story is here: http://mark.stosberg.com/Tech/linux_switch/ritchie.html ). I recently gave him my 10.0 CD set as I anticipate the new

Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1

2004-10-07 Thread cervixcouch
Its a shot in the dark, but besides ensuring that ssh connections are allowed at the firewall, have you tried going into the hidden directory .ssh in your home directory and deleting or emptying the file known_hosts? bumping my own thread and hopping that someone could shed some light on this?

[newbie] [URGENT]OpenGl

2004-10-07 Thread Kassem Nasser
Hi all , I am using currently Mandrake10.0 and I was trying to run an OpenGL program when I got the following error: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0 And by the way anybody knows any mailinglist specific for OpenGL. Can any body help me out Best Regards, -- --Kassem Nasser--