Re: [newbie] The new TWiki - update on log-in

2004-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 18:39, mike wrote: I went to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca to have a look around. Under the main menu there is a section called Mandrake Help I seem to be able to access all the catagories except System Administration it asks

Re: [newbie] Manuals?

2004-11-28 Thread eric jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Nov 2004 00:10, Scott Manning wrote: I am having more toruble than I thought with MDK10 and I was thinking that getting the box set with the manuals might be a big help. Does anyone have the box manuals? Are they very helpful or

Re: [newbie] How to switch from one linux partition to another?

2004-11-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Thanks, Duncan, thanks, Mikkel: the matter turns out to be a difficult one! Duncan wrote: All you need is to create an entry in /etc/fstab. Give it a different mount point. Copy the entry for /home and change it so that the device entry is correct and the mount point is different. Make sure

Re: [newbie] How to switch from one linux partition to another?

2004-11-28 Thread mike
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Thanks, Duncan, thanks, Mikkel: the matter turns out to be a difficult one! Duncan wrote: All you need is to create an entry in /etc/fstab. Give it a different mount point. Copy the entry for /home and change it so that the device entry is correct and the mount point

[newbie] Easy URPMI no longer takes

2004-11-28 Thread Jack
For some strange reason, I can no longer update my media with easyurpmi. It seems to take when I run the necessary commands from root, even giving me messages that contrib has been added to media, etc. But when I go to the media manager, they (plf, etc.) don't show up, and I've done a random

Re: [newbie] How to switch from one linux partition to another?

2004-11-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Thanks, Duncan, thanks, Mikkel: the matter turns out to be a difficult one! If you want to have 9.1 as a boot option, you have to fiddle a bit. If you are using lilo as your boot loader, then you need to add an entry for your 9.1 setup. Copy the 9.1 kernel into /boot and run

Re: [newbie] Easy URPMI no longer takes

2004-11-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 28 November 2004 9:38 am, Jack wrote: For some strange reason, I can no longer update my media with easyurpmi. It seems to take when I run the necessary commands from root, even giving me messages that contrib has been added to media, etc. But when I go to the media manager, they

Re: [newbie] Easy URPMI no longer takes

2004-11-28 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 04:38, Jack wrote: For some strange reason, I can no longer update my media with easyurpmi. It seems to take when I run the necessary commands from root, even giving me messages that contrib has been added to media, etc. But when I go to the media manager, they (plf,

Re: [newbie] The new TWiki - update on log-in

2004-11-28 Thread mike
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 18:39, mike wrote: I went to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca to have a look around. Under the main menu there is a section called Mandrake Help I seem to be able to access all the catagories except System Administration it asks for a user id and password.

[newbie] My woes after returning to Mandrake

2004-11-28 Thread Anders Lind
Well, an update on the problems that I had after upgrading 10.0...I did a clean install and after that all my previous problems has been resolved, well except for the fact that GnomeToaster still doesn't reckognise my burner, could that be because it is somewhat old and is not updated with the

[newbie] cdrecord (k3b) won't work

2004-11-28 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
Hi list, The first week after installing kmd 10.0 I could open and use k3b, but not burn any CD's. Now k3b won't even start. Trying to start the k3b program the program hangs when showing Scanning fo CD-devices in the bottom of the splashscreen. In hope of getting an idea what is wrong, I typed

Re: [newbie] Easy URPMI no longer takes

2004-11-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 28 November 2004 18:38, Jack wrote: For some strange reason, I can no longer update my media with easyurpmi. It seems to take when I run the necessary commands from root, even giving me messages that contrib has been added to media, etc. But when I go to the media manager, they

[newbie] How to use stow with .tar.gz

2004-11-28 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
I have installed stow to help me install packages, in this case pingpong-ABC bittorrent client. I have tried google and the man pages, but I can't find any description I understand. Here's the first lines of the man pages: NAME stow - software package installation manager SYNOPSIS

Re: [newbie] My woes after returning to Mandrake

2004-11-28 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 05:55, Anders Lind wrote: Well, an update on the problems that I had after upgrading 10.0...I did a clean install and after that all my previous problems has been resolved, well except for the fact that GnomeToaster still doesn't reckognise my burner, could that be

Re: [newbie] My woes after returning to Mandrake

2004-11-28 Thread Anders Lind
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:42:02 +1100 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed the mouse settings to 6 7 - and for my init to XFce, I run: xmodmap -e pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5 ...which makes it all work properly again... OK, shall have a look at that Why aren't you running K3b

Re: [newbie] How to use stow with .tar.gz

2004-11-28 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Monday 29 November 2004 03:01 am, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: I have installed stow to help me install packages, in this case pingpong-ABC bittorrent client. I have tried google and the man pages, but I can't find any description I understand. Here's the first lines of the man pages: NAME

Re: [newbie] How to switch from one linux partition to another?

2004-11-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
You have a working 10.1 you could just add 9.1 to your 10.1 lilo.conf Heres an aproach that has worked for me. You can boot to your 10.1 and mount the 9.1 side. [root]# mkdir /mnt/mdk9.1 [root]# mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/mdk9.1 Now cd to /mnt/mdk9.1 and take a look make sure it is the / directory

Re: [newbie] The Bat - Mozilla ?

2004-11-28 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 04:14:09PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Gentle folks, I have a dual-boot system (Mdk 9.1 and W2k - both having their own partitions). I also have a spare FAT partition for downloading etc. At the moment my email client in Mdk is Mozilla suite 1.6 and for W2k is

Re: [newbie] How to switch from one linux partition to another?

2004-11-28 Thread mike
Rodolfo Medina wrote: You have a working 10.1 you could just add 9.1 to your 10.1 lilo.conf Heres an aproach that has worked for me. You can boot to your 10.1 and mount the 9.1 side. [root]# mkdir /mnt/mdk9.1 [root]# mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/mdk9.1 Now cd to /mnt/mdk9.1 and take a look make sure

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-28 Thread Glenn
On Friday 12 November 2004 02:18 pm, Jack wrote: What questions did you ask, and where? There were a few... most recently, I filled out the FTP request form for the 10.1 official ISO's. I filled this form out *twice* as nothing happened. I then sent email to them asking what had happened

Re: [newbie] cdrecord (k3b) won't work

2004-11-28 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:46 am, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: Hi list, The first week after installing kmd 10.0 I could open and use k3b, but not burn any CD's. Now k3b won't even start. Trying to start the k3b program the program hangs when showing Scanning fo CD-devices in the bottom

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-28 Thread Glenn
On Friday 12 November 2004 02:18 pm, Jack wrote: What questions did you ask, and where? There were a few... most recently, I filled out the FTP request form for the 10.1 official ISO's. I filled this form out *twice* as nothing happened. I then sent email to them asking what had happened

Re: [newbie] Ethernet ADSL modem

2004-11-28 Thread Scott Manning
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Re: [newbie] Manuals?

2004-11-28 Thread Scott Manning
- Original Message - From: eric jackson When I first started using Mandrake I printed out Mandrake's online documentation. The only on-line documentation is basicly the install manual... not the user manual... is that all there is? Thanks Scotty

Re: [newbie] Manuals?

2004-11-28 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 14:30, Scott Manning wrote: - Original Message - From: eric jackson When I first started using Mandrake I printed out Mandrake's online documentation. The only on-line documentation is basicly the install manual... not the user manual... is that all

RE: [newbie] RE: /usr/sbin/pconf and /etc/hosts

2004-11-28 Thread care free
No problem. Glad that helps. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] RE: /usr/sbin/pconf and /etc/hosts Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:24:14 + Thanks JT, Appreciate it - I messed about trying to do that figured it out yesterday evening, and

Re: [newbie] grip not ripping in 10.1

2004-11-28 Thread RickSisler
Raffaele BELARDI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Subject line says it all... Grip did work in 10.0 (and in 9.0, 9.1 etc). Now it appears to rip the audio cd, but the wavs it produces contain only null bytes. Same result using the command-line cdparanoia. I can listen to the audio cds all right

Re: [newbie] Manuals?

2004-11-28 Thread eric jackson
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:30:37 +1000, Scott Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: eric jackson When I first started using Mandrake I printed out Mandrake's online documentation. The only on-line documentation is basicly the install manual... not the user manual... is

Re: [newbie] grip not ripping in 10.1

2004-11-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:47 pm, RickSisler wrote: Raffaele BELARDI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Subject line says it all... Grip did work in 10.0 (and in 9.0, 9.1 etc). Now it appears to rip the audio cd, but the wavs it produces contain only null bytes. Same result using the

Re: [newbie] grip not ripping in 10.1

2004-11-28 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 15:47, RickSisler wrote: Raffaele BELARDI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Subject line says it all... Grip did work in 10.0 (and in 9.0, 9.1 etc). Now it appears to rip the audio cd, but the wavs it produces contain only null bytes. Same result using the command-line

Re: [newbie] grip not ripping in 10.1

2004-11-28 Thread RickSisler
Greg Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:47 pm, RickSisler wrote: Raffaele BELARDI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Grip did work in 10.0 (and in 9.0, 9.1 etc). Now it appears to rip the audio cd, but the wavs it produces contain only null bytes. Same result using

[newbie] Getting win98 back

2004-11-28 Thread SnapafunFrank
Had a PII system at work that started to physically fry itself. Removed the hard disk and subsequently found it to be sound . In another up to date system I installed winXP and xandos ( will be changing to mandrake when I get the boss to 'support' it by actually coughing up some cash to help the

Re: [newbie] Manuals?

2004-11-28 Thread Duncan Anderson
Why has nobody mentioned man. The full manual set for the operating system can be accessed by using man. The only exceptions are KDE type programs which use the KDE help system, etc. regards Duncan Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] desktop capture like ScreenCam

2004-11-28 Thread Teddy Widhi
Hi all, Some body knows what the name of Applications like ScreenCam that run on Linux? i want make like video training but that runs on linux. Thank you. Teddy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Manuals?

2004-11-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:38:48 +0200 Duncan Anderson wrote: Why has nobody mentioned man Could it be that most man are written by programmers as an after thought and are therefore not palatable by the by many linux users much less a linux novice. Charles -- It is impossible for an