[newbie] I'm confused about java

2005-03-28 Thread Aidan Holmes
Hi list, I tried to view a website today that needs java to display properly. I used the 'install software' part of mcc and searched for java - the (monsterous) list has left me very confused. Can anyone tell me what package I need to install to view a website with java - I'm using firefox if t

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 07:36, Jason Oakley wrote: This all makes it look like the system is totally ready for the mouse: > Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev > Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Macally > Peripherals  Evoluent Optical U

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 00:58, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Hello > Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new > thread. It all depends on what you are doing. For me: / gets 6 Gb 35% free /home gets 13 Gb 94% free /swap gets 500 Mb and it never fills up. I use a

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Duncan Anderson
SOTL wrote: There were 3 failures each slightly different all occurred while I was using MC under very heavy load. HD Failure # 3 At the time of the last failure I had decided to use MC to transfer files as previous transfer had been by root so root permission was required to move directory st

Re: [newbie] Ping ogo user

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
et wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 12:51 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee let us know how it goes... Lee; I went a few rounds with OpenGroupware and couldn't get it to work. I switched over to Egroupware

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 13:33, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 11:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > >>Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > >>>On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ell

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 11:14, Mr. Geek wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >> On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>> Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Easy fix. As root, run

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 11:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >>>On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Easy fix. As root, run "mkdir /mnt/cdrom". All wi

Re: [newbie] Wlan pcmcia cards, cardbus cards

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Dennis Myers wrote: Oh what the heck, here is the URL that I used to get my wireless card. I am not affiliated nor otherwise connected with this company or persons. Hope this helps someone. http://stores.ebay.com/DataAlliance_W0QQssPageNameZl2QQtZkm Thanks Dennis. I'll have a look. -- Mr. G

Re: [newbie] Failed logins and access

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Leroy Britton wrote: I am new to Linux. I have Mandrake 9.1 running and would like to know how I can log failed logins and failed file access attempts. Failed logins will show up in /var/log/auth.log, along with other security information. If you run, as root, "touch /var/log/btmp", then you c

[newbie] Wlan pcmcia cards, cardbus cards

2005-03-28 Thread Dennis Myers
Oh what the heck, here is the URL that I used to get my wireless card. I am not affiliated nor otherwise connected with this company or persons. Hope this helps someone. http://stores.ebay.com/DataAlliance_W0QQssPageNameZl2QQtZkm -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 ___

[newbie] Failed logins and access

2005-03-28 Thread Leroy Britton
I am new to Linux. I have Mandrake 9.1 running and would like to know how I can log failed logins and failed file access attempts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http:/

Re: [newbie] Ping ogo user

2005-03-28 Thread et
On Monday 28 March 2005 12:51 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an > OpenGroupware server running successfully. > > Lee let us know how it goes... -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website="http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org"; _

Re: [newbie] Um, Cardbus Wireless recommendations

2005-03-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:10 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: > Can someone suggest a good Cardbus wireless card for me? I'm hoping to > get a Wireless "G" card for my HP laptop, especially now that I found > the cardbus slot! > > As I understand it, wireless G will allow me to connect to 802.11 'B' & > 'G' en

Re: [newbie] associations lost in KDE: incomprehensible!

2005-03-28 Thread Andras Keszei
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 05:20, Ivo Perich wrote: > I can't save the file associations in KDE. when i associate a type of file to > a executable, it works fine until i reboot. After that the association the > file is opened with the default program. I thought that may be some kind of > problem rela

Re: [newbie] Um, Cardbus Wireless recommendations

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Can someone suggest a good Cardbus wireless card for me? I'm hoping to get a Wireless "G" card for my HP laptop, especially now that I found the cardbus slot! As I understand it, wireless G will allow me to connect to 802.11 'B' & 'G' enabled networks with speeds up to 54Mbps, s

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 12:30, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What file system were you using? How is the power source the systems are connected to? The laptop is battery powered but was plugged into the wall. The MSI box is not currently connected to a UPS. I have one location that I h

Re: [newbie] USB Wireless - Solved!

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Miark wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide.

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run "mkdir /mnt/cdrom". All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how

[newbie] Um, Cardbus Wireless recommendations

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Can someone suggest a good Cardbus wireless card for me? I'm hoping to get a Wireless "G" card for my HP laptop, especially now that I found the cardbus slot! As I understand it, wireless G will allow me to connect to 802.11 'B' & 'G' enabled networks with speeds up to 54Mbps, so this is prefer

Re: [newbie] USB Wireless - Solved!

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Miark wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. I have a Syntax USB-400 t

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run "mkdir /mnt/cdrom". All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It m

Re: [newbie] USB Wireless - Solved!

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Miark wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. I have a Syntax USB-400 that I bough new

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Easy fix. As root, run "mkdir /mnt/cdrom". All will be good. > >> > >>I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It may > >>hav

Re: [newbie] USB Wireless

2005-03-28 Thread Miark
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:16:23 -0500, Mr. wrote: > Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to > work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the > reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP > can provide. I have a Syntax USB-400 that I bough new for l

[newbie] USB Wireless

2005-03-28 Thread Mr. Geek
Has anyone had any success getting a USB Wireless adapter to work? I'm considering buying one for my HP laptop because the reception would stink if I bought the Mini-PCI card that HP can provide. HP built a Mini-PCI adapter slot into my laptop (accessible from the underside of the laptop), but

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread SOTL
On Monday 28 March 2005 14:12, Duncan Anderson wrote: > SOTL wrote: > >You missed the point. > > > >I was doing NOTHING with the root file system. > > > >I was simply coping data files [5 gb worth] from one directory to another. > > OK. I misunderstood. Were the two directories on the same hard dis

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Rafał Kamraj
Just terrible. But i really don't believe that using any program(not only mc) could do such harm to hardware. I suppouse that problem is rather technical not software by nature. Are you using UPS? Bad electricity often causes strange hardware failures. Check your power, maybe it falls below or go

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Easy fix. As root, run "mkdir /mnt/cdrom". All will be good. I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It may have broke a couple of other things. The reasion is that the mount points for other

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole > > doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the > > whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole > > doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the > > whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 17:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The reason has to do with X server security. Normally, only the user that "owns" the current X secession can have programs "connect" to it. Starting an X based program requires that it connect to an X server. Now, the user

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get any message I think. In Konqueror - attempted to mount a CD to

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Miark
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:16:00 -0500, Lee wrote: > Thanks all. Trick was rename .sylpheed to .sylpheed-gtk2. Right--when you said "1.9.6" I was thinking you were using Claws, not Claws2. That "1.9" naming convention still throws me for a loop! Miark _

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 07:43 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > This may relate to the other problems I am having. ~ maybe, if the 'learning curve' seems a bit steep . . . you might consider running a system entirely off CD . . . someone recently had good experience with 'Feather Linux' best

Re: [newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Ian
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 20:43, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole > doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, > but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get any message I > think. > > In K

[newbie] CDROM no longer working

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Yesterday I noticed I could not access packages on CD1 while in konsole doing urpmi. This is a new problem. I put the CD in, heard the whirring, but as soon as I pressed 'enter' it stopped. Didn't get any message I think. In Konqueror - attempted to mount a CD to look at photos (which I've be

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-28 Thread eric jackson
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:43:36 -0800, John Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On March 26, 2005 09:42 am, eric jackson wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, that's all it says. Any one know if it's possible to uninstall and re-install Konsole? Eric J

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:48, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Rosmary, > >> If you are going to wait, but you don't realy feel like messing around > >>with a lot of stuff in the mean time, we can get you a s

[newbie] associations lost in KDE: incomprehensible!

2005-03-28 Thread Ivo Perich
I can't save the file associations in KDE. when i associate a type of file to a executable, it works fine until i reboot. After that the association the file is opened with the default program. I thought that may be some kind of problem related with chmod or chown, i did a "chmod -R 755 ." in my

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Duncan Anderson
SOTL wrote: You missed the point. I was doing NOTHING with the root file system. I was simply coping data files [5 gb worth] from one directory to another. OK. I misunderstood. Were the two directories on the same hard disk or what? cheers Duncan

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread SOTL
On Monday 28 March 2005 12:30, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > SOTL wrote: > > Hi All > > > > Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 > > different computers. > > > > In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had > > over 100 data files with over 2 G

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosmary, If you are going to wait, but you don't realy feel like messing around with a lot of stuff in the mean time, we can get you a system that will boot, and that you can work with, withoug getting everything

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread SOTL
On Monday 28 March 2005 11:15, Duncan Anderson wrote: > SOTL wrote: > >Hi All > > > >Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 > > different computers. > > > >In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had over > > 100 data files with over 2 GB of da

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:01:35 +0200, Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here > > > > ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ > > Yes, but installing with urpmi gives an error, something with curl > being in the way. Instead, use this : > > #

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >>>Hello > >>> > >>>I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I > >>>don't seem to find my

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: > > > I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want > > to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. > > You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. >

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 23:33, riccardo wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2005 08:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > My main question is:  will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows > > access. > > ___ > > my LILO.CONF [ /etc/lilo.conf ] is like this :- > ___ > > # M

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) m

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:54:06 + Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 > Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: > > > > > I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want > > > to move the folder t

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:49, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > SnapafunFrank wrote: > > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >> Warnings well heeded. I am almost too scared to do anything in > >> Mandrake now - no just kidding. > >> > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda > >> > >> The number

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: > > > I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want > > to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. > > You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. >

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I > > don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. > > > > My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) main

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 23:50, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 > > Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. > > someday, you will look at "reinstalling" a thing of the past! I know,

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:04:36 -0500 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: > > > I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want > > to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. > > You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. >

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 different computers. In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had over 100 data files with over 2 GB of data. In the last instance Saturday morning I was transferring a directory with

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay - first up: during the install, I selected the partitions that Mandrake preselected - which is what I was advised to do, probably at linuxquestions or another forum, or possibly on the installation process itself. These were: hda5 (5.8Gb, /, ext) hda6 (368Mb, /m

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Warnings well heeded. I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - no just kidding. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger

Re: [newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Duncan Anderson
SOTL wrote: Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 different computers. In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had over 100 data files with over 2 GB of data. In the last instance Saturday morning I was transferring a directory with

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose i

Re: [newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Teilhard Knight wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form "snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz" in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Did you create that "Linux Stuff" directory in Konqueror ? If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't like spaces in file names. You could try to rename that directory to i.e. "Linux_Stuff" or some

Re: [newbie] can't find /udev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: My /dev/hdc is a symlink to /udev/hdc and /udev lists /hdc so that is loaded. Yet when I go : # mount /dev/hdc or # mount /udev/hdc I get the above message My fstab entry for this is: none /mnt/dvd-rw supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,exec,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,s

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 > > Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. > > someday, you will look at "reinstalling" a thing of the past! I

Re: [newbie] MC erases all data during copy (HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread Philippe Landau
hello Frank really bad bug there ... great you have backups. do i understand you right that there is no harddisk failure involved but you loose all content while using Midnight Commander (MC) ? kind regards philippe -- SOTL wrote: Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake

[newbie] HD Failure

2005-03-28 Thread SOTL
Hi All Over the weekend I lost my 3rd HD using MC under Mandrake 10.1 in 2 different computers. In each case MC was being used to search or move a directory that had over 100 data files with over 2 GB of data. In the last instance Saturday morning I was transferring a directory with over 5 GB

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-28 Thread Ivo Perich
El Lunes, 28 de Marzo de 2005 11:37, Jason Oakley escribió: > Ivo Perich wrote: > >What happened in the Mandrake installation? Did the mouse work? > >If so, I had exactly the same problem with a ps/2 mouse. In the > > instalation, it worked fine. After the reboot, it didn't. I used the > > cursor k

Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta

2005-03-28 Thread Smiley
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:26:52 + Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boot from CD1 and select 'Upgrade' > It will not touch the contents of your /home > > But be aware this is a **beta** there **will** be things wrong with it. > > Some things that currently work fine may stop working.

Re: [newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?

2005-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form "snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz" in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put it in /lib/modules/2.6.

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Miark
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: > I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want > to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. Miark Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. I thought that the last time I did this I copied the /home/lee/Mail directory to the new box and I was done. So I renamed the existing directory xMail and copied the old Mail directory to the ne

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 11:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > someone else could give a go here - I use just the basics. Âjust > /, /home and one for swap (3 total) ___ ~ maybe, it handy, to have complete Reserve system on another Partition . . . kept up-to-date by a cron job to run rsyn

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at "reinstalling" a thing of the past! I know, I was once there. >I don't seem to find my way around there pa

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 08:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > My main question is: Âwill the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows > access. ___ my LILO.CONF [ /etc/lilo.conf ] is like this :- ___ # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Sep 28 02:21:33 2002

[newbie] Ping ogo user

2005-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
I would sure like to talk or chat with someone who has an OpenGroupware server running successfully. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 28 Mar 2005 17:09, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Warnings well heeded. I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - no just kidding. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is se

[newbie] can't find /udev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

2005-03-28 Thread SnapafunFrank
My /dev/hdc is a symlink to /udev/hdc and /udev lists /hdc so that is loaded. Yet when I go : # mount /dev/hdc or # mount /udev/hdc I get the above message My fstab entry for this is: none /mnt/dvd-rw supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,exec,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,noatime,codepage=

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-03-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 28 March 2005 10:32, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: > Hello, > > Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here > > ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ Yes, but installing with urpmi gives an error, something with curl being in the way. Instead, use this : # rpm -i --nodeps AdobeReader

[newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread. Tha

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 17:09, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >Warnings well heeded. I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake > > now - no just kidding. > > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda > > > >The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.

[newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-03-28 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
Hello, Adobe Reader 7 rpms can be found here ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrake

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file or directory. Thought I would rename it, but s