Re: [newbie] application/octet-stream

2004-12-25 Thread Kenneth
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 24 Dec 2004 23:31, Kenneth wrote: snip Are you familiar with the TWiki? Experiences like this are worth noting there to help others. Yes, I think I followed a link, perhaps from one of your posts off this list in regard urpmi to Twiki. I think it is a fantastic

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 07:03, John Zoetebier wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Maybe this is relevant too. Mandrake 10.0 did not recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor. Mandrake 10.1 did recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor and put it on eth0 I got eth0

Re: [newbie] Changing desktop

2004-12-25 Thread JR
Typing 'kde' or 'kdm' should work. As far as I remember. You probably didnt click the box to have the graphical server start at boot when you installed. HTH On Friday 24 December 2004 09:19 pm, George N. Conover wrote: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I can't get KDE to come up. How do I

[newbie] Quickbooks on wine

2004-12-25 Thread JR
Has anyone tried Quickbooks on wine or crossover? It's the only thing stopping my mates buisness from switching. Theres noting on the web about it. I know it would probably install fine, but I really want to know if it will 'work'. I dont know enough about the package to test it myself

Re: [newbie] unable to add installation cd's as sources

2004-12-25 Thread et
On Friday 24 December 2004 10:04 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I wonder if anyone can help me? I notice that cd's 3 4 are not available as software sources for urpmi. I have tried in vain to add them, at the cl and with Software Manager gui. I am using Mandrake 10.1. I get the following

[newbie] Internet connection issue.

2004-12-25 Thread Collin White
I have recently done an install of Discovery 10.1, and had accessed the Internet for the install with no problems. After realizing that I was missing a few things from my install, I ran through the install tab on the control center and installed the bits I had been missing. However, now my

[newbie] How to uninstall packages?

2004-12-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi, and happy holidays to all the listers. 1) Suppose I copied the file 'mypackage.tar.gz' into the ~/tmp directory and within that directory I did: $ tar xzvf mypackage.tar.gz $ cd mypackage' $

Re: [newbie] Internet connection issue.

2004-12-25 Thread mikkel
I have recently done an install of Discovery 10.1, and had accessed the Internet for the install with no problems. After realizing that I was missing a few things from my install, I ran through the install tab on the control center and installed the bits I had been missing. However, now my

Re: [newbie] How to uninstall packages?

2004-12-25 Thread JR
On Saturday 25 December 2004 01:22 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi, and happy holidays to all the listers. 1) Suppose I copied the file 'mypackage.tar.gz' into the ~/tmp directory and within that directory I did: $ tar xzvf mypackage.tar.gz $ cd

Re: [newbie] How to uninstall packages?

2004-12-25 Thread mikkel
Hi, and happy holidays to all the listers. 1) Suppose I copied the file 'mypackage.tar.gz' into the ~/tmp directory and within that directory I did: $ tar xzvf mypackage.tar.gz $ cd mypackage' $

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread deedee E
A couple of things I forgot, but feel I should mention. Although one installs Wine as root and does some minimal global configuration, each user must do their own configuration. Windows software needs to be installed as user, not as root. If there is more than one user on the system, the

Re: [newbie] How to uninstall packages?

2004-12-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Thanks JR, thanks Mikkel: one more question: will 'rpm -e' work also if I installed the package with urpmi? Cheers, Rodolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] How to uninstall packages?

2004-12-25 Thread JR
On Saturday 25 December 2004 02:10 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Thanks JR, thanks Mikkel: one more question: will 'rpm -e' work also if I installed the package with urpmi? Cheers, Rodolfo Good question. urpmi ultimately installs the rpms on your system using rpm itslef. So it should. JR

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Thanks to all who replied: Noel, SnapafunFrank, Mike, Deedee. The matter looks not to be a simple one, so I'll have to do further trials with Wine installation. But, Deedee, after I read you say: I've had excellent results working with MSWord documents on Linux systems with OpenOffice.org Writer

Re: [newbie] How to uninstall packages?

2004-12-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Thanks JR, thanks Mikkel: one more question: will 'rpm -e' work also if I installed the package with urpmi? Cheers, Rodolfo Yes, it will work, as long as no other packages depend on the package you are uninstalling. urpmi and rpm use the same database for installed

Re: [newbie] unable to add installation cd's as sources

2004-12-25 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] unable to add installation cd's as sources Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 07:09:56 -0500 On Friday 24 December 2004 10:04 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I wonder if anyone can help me? I

Re: [newbie] Just built a Mandrake 10.1 system for the 1st time. I am getting the error kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:407!

2004-12-25 Thread et
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 04:00 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: Randy Paries wrote: 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp Thanks For what it's worth, the bug error was generated by a failure of the page_remove_rmap function call. This function attempts to remove a page of memory's pte mapping. What caused it is

[newbie] Re: Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-25 Thread John Zoetebier
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 07:03, John Zoetebier wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Maybe this is relevant too. Mandrake 10.0 did not recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor. Mandrake 10.1 did recognize the NVIDIA ethernet adaptor and

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 22:17, John Zoetebier wrote: It was not disabled, but it is disabled now. Good - so now you only have one ethernet port. This is result from cat /proc/interrupts : = [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]# cat /proc/interrupts

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be able to

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 + Anne Wilson disseminated the following: Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be able to really mess up

[newbie] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: USB mouse not working after install Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-25 Thread John Zoetebier
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 22:17, John Zoetebier wrote: It was not disabled, but it is disabled now. Good - so now you only have one ethernet port. This is result from cat /proc/interrupts : = [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnz]#

[newbie] 10.1 Official New Install

2004-12-25 Thread Chris
Just finished a complete install of 10.1 official, my backup of /etc for some reason was corrupted, anyway, I had hard copies of most config files except for hosts.conf.  What is supposed to be in that file?  Also, I've got webmin up and running which I  usually use to install perl modules.  

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2004-12-25 Thread Noel McG.
- Original Message - From: Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there? However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible, i.e. if OO Writer can really