Re: [newbie] Integritycheck of the disks

2004-12-07 Thread Poogle
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 06:59, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: Sometimes the power goes,and my PC is brutaly shut down. When rebooting I press [esc] to get informative mode when strarting the system. Then I can press [Y] to confirm the system shall start an intergritycheck of my hda* partitions.

Re: [newbie] Re: auto update on 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread John Bowden
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 02:35, Anthony Brooks wrote: Wojciech Podgórni wrote: Wojciech Podgórni PS. Please post below my reply. Top posting is rather unwelcome on this mailing list. Could of snipped some of the original messages before complaining about top posting. Ok will post at

[newbie] cdredord trouble

2004-12-07 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
neither k3b or x-cd-roast will start. They halt while showing the text Scaning for CD Devices. k3b gives this errormessage: [EMAIL PROTECTED] vegard]$ k3b QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a

[newbie] Increasing disk quotas

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to increase the disk quota of a specific user (under /home). Could someone here please give some guidance to achieve that goal? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list.

[newbie] Desktop Icon

2004-12-07 Thread Mike Begin
Newbie question: How do I create an icon (shortcut) on the desktop in KDE? All I want to do is create an icon for RDESKTOP. TIA! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Desktop Icon

2004-12-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 14:06, Mike Begin wrote: Newbie question: How do I create an icon (shortcut) on the desktop in KDE? All I want to do is create an icon for RDESKTOP. TIA! Mike Right click on Desktop CreateNewFileLink to application Fill in the details in the pop up box, and

Re: [newbie] cdredord trouble

2004-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 04:50 am, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: Also, typing cdrecord -scanbus gives this result Try 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American

Re: [newbie] Re: auto update on 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik John Bowden napisa: On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 02:35, Anthony Brooks wrote: Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Wojciech Podgrni PS. Please post below my reply. Top posting is rather unwelcome on this mailing list. Could of snipped some of the original messages before complaining about

RE: [newbie] optimal cpu temp for mobile P4

2004-12-07 Thread Chris Lindsay
I get average 30 - 35 degree on my dell inspiron p4 3.06Ghz. I was getting 50 until clean off all the dust from the cooling block Hope this helps Chris From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] optimal cpu temp for mobile P4 Date: Mon,

RE: [newbie] optimal cpu temp for mobile P4

2004-12-07 Thread Chris Lindsay
From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] optimal cpu temp for mobile P4 Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:11:26 -0300 I wonder if anyone could give me an idea as to what would be an optimal cpu temp for the P4 2.8GHz mobile processor in my

[newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Danesh Daroui
Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Thanks, Danesh Daroui

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread J
Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Thanks, Danesh Daroui Hi Danesh. I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Danesh Daroui
J wrote: Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 09:09 am, Danesh Daroui wrote: J wrote: Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread J
Danesh Daroui wrote: I see... :-) Well, I hope so, because Mandrake Linux is at least more userfriendly with nice user interface. But you know, the problem is that I can not update it at all. It always says that there is problem with contacting mirror sites and last time it says that update

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 11:09 am, Danesh Daroui wrote: I see... :-) Well, I hope so, because Mandrake Linux is at least more userfriendly with nice user interface. But you know, the problem is that I can not update it at all. It always says that there is problem with contacting mirror

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Smith
I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Does it happen with Mandrake 10.1 Official? Or with

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Danesh Daroui
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Danesh Daroui
Paul Smith wrote: I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Does it happen

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Smith
No its Mandrake 10.1 Community, Is Mandrake 10.1 Official more stable ? Then, you should not be so assertive regarding the stability of Mandrake 10.1. Since Mandrake Official is more recent and official than Mandrake Community, I would expect more stability with Mandrake Official. However, I am

[newbie] Partitioning Question

2004-12-07 Thread John Bowden
Ihave got a machine with 2 hds a 80 gb and an 160gb. The 80 gb dsk has a 20 gb ntfs partition for that other o/s! What I would like to do is set up linux (MDK 10.1)on the rest of the 80gb dsk for the user of that pc and have the 160gb dsk can be used by all the other machines on the network

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Ian
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 18:05, Danesh Daroui wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Marek Pawinski
Danesh Daroui wrote: Paul Smith wrote: I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Does it happen with

Re: [newbie] Partitioning Question

2004-12-07 Thread mikkel
I have got a machine with 2 hds a 80 gb and an 160gb. The 80 gb dsk has a 20 gb ntfs partition for that other o/s! What I would like to do is set up linux (MDK 10.1) on the rest of the 80gb dsk for the user of that pc and have the 160gb dsk can be used by all the other machines on the network

Re: [newbie] cdredord trouble

2004-12-07 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 04:50 am, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: Also, typing cdrecord -scanbus gives this result Try 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Heres the result of cdrecord dev=ATA

Re: [newbie] Partitioning Question

2004-12-07 Thread John Bowden
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning Question I have got a machine with 2 hds a 80 gb and an 160gb. The 80 gb dsk has a 20 gb ntfs partition for that other o/s! What I would

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:05:08PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 03:44, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Thanks,

[newbie] Another VMWare-question

2004-12-07 Thread Anders Lind
Hello friends, is there anyone that knows where (If it is at all possible to access) in the Mandrake filesystem one can find files that is the virtual machines files ie c:\ in W2000 Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question

2004-12-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 03:55 pm, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, is there anyone that knows where (If it is at all possible to access) in the Mandrake filesystem one can find files that is the virtual machines files ie c:\ in W2000 You cannot access from linux filesystem, that is one

Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question

2004-12-07 Thread Anders Lind
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:58:19 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot access from linux filesystem, that is one disadvantage of vmware. Windows filesystem is stored in one or two big files in your home directory. OK; that is a shame...anyway, the next question then will be, how

Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Kaplan
Do it from LM using k3b. I've not had any problems with the k3b versions available under LM10.0 or 10.1. Both were simpler and more flexible any of several tools I had under W2K on the same machine. Paul On Tuesday 07 December 2004 05:22 pm, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:58:19

Re: [newbie] Fonts

2004-12-07 Thread Trevor
Amy, Okay, so there's this one font I absolutely loved to death when I was still using windows. Is there any way to make it work with Mandrake? I've still got the file for it from windows, so if there's a way to convert it to work, I'd be very happy to do what's needed for that. In Konqueror

RE: [newbie] optimal cpu temp for mobile P4

2004-12-07 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Chris Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] optimal cpu temp for mobile P4 Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 15:26:34 + I get average 30 - 35 degree on my dell inspiron p4 3.06Ghz. I was getting 50 until clean off all the dust from

[newbie] command line tool for updates

2004-12-07 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi All, After receiving a notice of patches from mondrakeonline, is there a commandline tool to remotely get and install these patches? Thank for your time, Phil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] command line tool for updates

2004-12-07 Thread Marek Pawinski
Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, After receiving a notice of patches from mondrakeonline, is there a commandline tool to remotely get and install these patches? Thank for your time, Phil

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread et
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 12:23 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes

Re: [newbie] command line tool for updates

2004-12-07 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:52:46 +0200 Marek Pawinski disseminated the following: As root in a konsole run this: urpmi.update -a urpmi --noclean --wget --auto-select You must have updates as a source installed from easyurpmi.zarb.org as well as others. Keeping in mind that will install

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:07:01 -0500 Todd Slater disseminated the following: What a nice tip ;-) Thanks it helped so much... Oh, you wanted a *tip*. Sorry, my bad. Here ya go: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html And one more, no charge:

Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question

2004-12-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 05:55 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Do it from LM using k3b.  I've not had any problems with the k3b versions available under LM10.0 or 10.1.  Both were simpler and more flexible any of several tools I had under W2K on the same machine. I think he has to get the files he

Re: [newbie] Another VMWare-question

2004-12-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 08:49 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Is the host really able to mount (running) VMw disks? I've only ever gotten the Windows guest to r/w to host directories, and even then the directories appear as network shares under the windows guest. Then, in the win guest, you just

Re: [newbie] Sound problem

2004-12-07 Thread care free
What brand of soundcard do you have?What version of MDK do you have on your box? I have so much sound problem and CD-ROM drive lockups with no CD in them for no reasons with 10.0. I've switched to 10.1 Community recently and it solves those problems. I'm going to upgrade my box to 10.1

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:13 am, Danesh Daroui wrote: No its Mandrake 10.1 Community, Is Mandrake 10.1 Official more stable ? Personally, I stopped running the community versions. I only upgrade to the Official ones. They seem to be more stable and functional. To me anyway. Ya'll can

Re: [newbie] Fonts

2004-12-07 Thread care free
I just copy all windows fonts onto a usb drive and use mcc to import all the files with extensions ttf. That's it. J.T. From: SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Fonts Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 22:37:48 +1300 Amy wrote: I'M A GMAIL

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-12-07 Thread newbie
This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. = In This Message = 1. General Mailing list info 2. List Archives 3. Leaving the list 4. List news 5. List Etiquette 6. Twiki

Re: [newbie] Groups

2004-12-07 Thread Duncan Anderson
Keith Powell wrote: A very basic question, please. How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and add myself to another group. You can look at /etc/group to see which groups you belong to. Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC-System-Users and groups

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Dennis Myers
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:13 am, Danesh Daroui wrote: No its Mandrake 10.1 Community, Is Mandrake 10.1 Official more stable ? Personally, I stopped running the community versions. I only upgrade to the Official ones. They seem to be more stable and functional.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 11:38 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Just to let you know, the Community releases are not totally stable. They put them out to allow a much broader spectrum of hardware to test on. Then the comments a bugs found are included in Official release. Official had one big update

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Erylon Hines
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 08:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: | On Tuesday 07 December 2004 11:38 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: | Just to let you know, the Community releases are not totally stable. | They put them out to allow a much broader spectrum of hardware to test | on. Then the comments a bugs

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Duncan Anderson
Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? I have had no problems with Mandrake