Re: [newbie] No hdlists found during installation

2004-12-30 Thread eric jackson
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:04:22 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 10:38 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just tried to do a clean install of 10.1 official. The installation gets as far as the partioning section with no problem. However no matter if I choose Use

[newbie] urpmi problem

2004-12-30 Thread eric jackson
Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was updated in the process. Since that time I have been unable to get urpmi --auto-select -auto to work. Yesterday after I entered that command the computer never gave me the

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-12-30 Thread JR
I'm no guru, but did you try urpmi.update -a first? I had to do this just yesterday to get a package. Jarlath On Thursday 30 December 2004 08:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was

Re: [newbie] loading mini-cds from digital camera

2004-12-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]# fdisk /dev/cdrom You will not be able to write the partition table. Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512) Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory

[newbie] K3b

2004-12-30 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
Hello, Perhaps this might help someone: I run Mandrake 10.1. Since I couldn't burn CDs with K3b, I removed K3b, cdrecord and mkisofs, did a urpmi update and then installed the latest version (k3b-0.11.17-0.1010. 1). I can now burn my CDs as usual. -- Pablo Ortúzar

Re: [newbie] K3b

2004-12-30 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Friday 31 December 2004 01:58 am, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: Hello, Perhaps this might help someone: I run Mandrake 10.1. Since I couldn't burn CDs with K3b, I removed K3b, cdrecord and mkisofs, did a urpmi update and then installed the latest version (k3b-0.11.17-0.1010. 1). I can now burn my

[newbie] 1)booting failsafe kernel? 2)Openmotif for 10.1 ppc?

2004-12-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've installed 10.1 ppc on a Mac G3 pismo. Everything kinda works but I've two questions. I'm having to boot the failsafe kernel. How can I have the failsafe load automatically so I can stop typing '2681-122' each time? Is there an openMotif mdk.ppc.rpm and where can I download it? The

[newbie] One click instead of two

2004-12-30 Thread Chris
I know this is probably a no-brainer answer, but I can't find it. Where do I change the number of clicks on a desktop icon from 2 to 1 to activate the program? -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 14:31:07 up 1 day, 21:50, 1 user, load average: 0.87, 0.55, 0.41

Re: [newbie] One click instead of two

2004-12-30 Thread Ian
On Thursday 30 Dec 2004 20:33, Chris wrote: I know this is probably a no-brainer answer, but I can't find it. Where do I change the number of clicks on a desktop icon from 2 to 1 to activate the program? Using KDE.. configure your desktop/peripherals/mouse:-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] One click instead of two

2004-12-30 Thread Chris
On Thursday 30 December 2004 03:20 pm, Ian wrote: On Thursday 30 Dec 2004 20:33, Chris wrote: I know this is probably a no-brainer answer, but I can't find it. Where do I change the number of clicks on a desktop icon from 2 to 1 to activate the program? Using KDE.. configure your

Re: [newbie] loading mini-cds from digital camera

2004-12-30 Thread SnapafunFrank
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]# fdisk /dev/cdrom You will not be able to write the partition table. Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512) Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel.

Re: [newbie] loading mini-cds from digital camera

2004-12-30 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 Dec 2004 22:00, SnapafunFrank wrote: Have you tried kino yet? I have a camera ( cheapy pocket type ) that I use as a webcam, it has inbuild memory chip so I have no chance of simply reading it's storage component. I'm not sure what

Re: [newbie] loading mini-cds from digital camera

2004-12-30 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:27 pm, SnapafunFrank wrote: Nope. Cheats way of finding what I'm asking is to do: # ls /dev Then insert your camera and do it again. A device name will be printed the second time / missing the first time. That is the name you use to displace

Re: [newbie] 1)booting failsafe kernel? 2)Openmotif for 10.1 ppc?

2004-12-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 30 December 2004 20:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed 10.1 ppc on a Mac G3 pismo. Everything kinda works but I've two questions. I'm having to boot the failsafe kernel. How can I have the failsafe load automatically so I can stop typing '2681-122' each time? Is there an

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-12-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 30 December 2004 07:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was updated in the process. Since that time I have been unable to get urpmi --auto-select -auto to work. Yesterday

[newbie] webdav

2004-12-30 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I have been asked by my family to set up a website. The domain is all set and a webdav account has been set up for me to upload files. This is new to me. I have gone into MCC and there is a webdav entry under the mount points tab. It says that davfs must be installed but when I click o.k.

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-12-30 Thread SnapafunFrank
Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 30 December 2004 07:59 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just installed 10.1 Official. When I finished I set up some sites to use with urpmi and I did an update. Urpmi was updated in the process. Since that time I have been unable to get urpmi --auto-select -auto to

Re: [newbie] open GL development - QT

2004-12-30 Thread John Layt
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:45, Hugh Dixon wrote: Hi, I'm a windows developer wanting to investigate OpenGL programing under linux. I am using Mandrake 10.1, but have been having trouble with graphics cards. I currently have a system running, and have looked through the KDeveloper tutorials. I

RE: [newbie] open GL development - QT

2004-12-30 Thread Hugh Dixon
Thanks for the post. It will take me a bit of time to sort this out, but it definitely points me in a new direction - I've been going in circles :( My interest -currently- is to explore NURBS, so suspect the base qtwidget will be more than adequate. Having windows, but little Linux, experience,

Re: [newbie] urpmi problem

2004-12-30 Thread mike
SnapafunFrank wrote: And while we are on urpmi problems can someone tell me why I cannot wholly add another media to my list. I did: # urpmi.addmedia myrpms file://home/frank/MYRPMS and : # urpmi.addmedia -f myrpms file://home/frank/MYRPMS I get some entries in the /var/lib/urpmi

Re: [newbie] firewall

2004-12-30 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Thursday 30 December 2004 02:31 pm, neo wrote: could someone tell me a good firewall for mandrake 10.1 thank you I've been using Firehol (http://firehol.sourceforge.net/) successfully for about a year now (on half a dozen Linux machines - some being servers, some being just desktop units,

[newbie] message composing in Kmail

2004-12-30 Thread Chris
Again, this may be a no-brainer answer for someone, but I'll have to ask anyway. In 9.0 (can't remember the Kmail version) whenever I sent mail to addresses such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The next time I was ready to forward some juicy phishing msgs to them