[newbie] 10.1 Official ISOs for x86_64

I am more than slightly confused. I want to upgrade my community 10.1 edition. I know I can urpmi it (read the twiki and found it very helpful). However, I was being lazy and started to look for ISOs to make installation/upgrade from CD instead (blessed to have highspeed bandwidth to spare). I

Re: [newbie] Dual layer DVD recommendations?

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:22:00 -0500, Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any recommendations (or horror stories) for a dual layer DVD drives? I am looking at the Sony DAU 710A ($90 - $100) and the LiteOn SOHW-1213S. ($80). Mike I am happy with my LG 4120 12x dually. Also surprisingly

Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT

I have seen similar sites before, but this is the first one that google gave me: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers click on the player name to see a list of likely to work DVD brands. There are definitely other sites out there as well. HTH. On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:30:37 +, Len

[newbie] kaffeine: All Video Drivers failed to initialize

Hi all. I have been enjoying Kaffeine for a month or so now, but I recently got the above error when starting Kaffeine now (it doesn't start at all - ie, no music files even). hint 1 - I recently installed a second DVD burner on the machine (Benq 1610). Thought that its installation was

Re: [newbie] Is this possible?

Why would anyone want to convert a DVD quality movie and downgrade it to SVCD standard? I have been buying wy too many CD-Rs and need to use them up some how? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] cd/dvd drive not recognizing another disk on insertion

Hey all. As a new convert, I'm perplexed at several things, but this thread is about I can read/write to the first disk that I put into my cd/dvd burner drive. But as soon as I take it out, and insert another disk, Konqueror tells me that there are zero files on the new (data filled) disk. Now

[newbie] Re: cd/dvd drive not recognizing another disk on insertion

Answered off list. The answer was in supermounting, via the MCC. Thanks again. On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:38:19 -0800, Bruce Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. As a new convert, I'm perplexed at several things, but this thread is about I can read/write to the first disk that I put

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

partition. There was only one thing I had to do which was defrag the drive to get the space open. Anyway I have been running about 2 months now without problems.. Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Setting Path in the environment.

to add this new directory for all users on my system...and of course for any new users I would add... Can some one tell me where in Mandrake to set default paths for all users and how to set a custom path for a specific user? Thanks in advance, Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Toshiba laptop

Today I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. Or I tried to, anyway. I simply used the standard install CD's (downloaded from the Mandrake site). They booted just fine, and the install ran without a hitch. I did get one message telling me that some of my hardware required proprietary

[newbie] More X troubles

Hello; After a completely new install of Mandrake 8.2 I'm having trouble starting X. It will start, but after a *long* time - 10, 15 minutes. It gives the error message: Local host name lookup failure. Creating new .Xauthority : /home/usr/.Xauthority Any notion of what

[newbie] Localhost lookup failure

Upon running startx after a fresh install of Mandrake 8.2, I received the error Local host name lookup failure Creating .Xauthrity: /home/usr/.Xauthority In addition to this, X takes a *really* long time to come up - like 10 or 15 minutes. Does anyone know how to fix this error? I tried

Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?

--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Zink wrote: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? What sort of machine

[newbie] Where are the old versions?

Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard.

[newbie] Clearly missing something

I recently acquired the source code for an Intel NIC card driver (from an Intel web site). The documentation tells me to use make install to compile/install the driver. Unfortunately, that command gives me the message bash: make not found or something like that. Likewise, man make

[newbie] Mandrake 8, Vibra128 sound card, midi

to play midis. Is there something else I should be doing? Should I be trying to pipe this through a sequencer (timidity??) somehow?? Has anyone got this combination of MD8, Vibra128 and midi sequencer to work? Any help gratefully received. Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues

S and make it work? Miark -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. Did you set your Linux boot partition below the 8Gb point? 73 -bruce-

[newbie] Security

an walk up and hit shutdown without logging in. Any suggestion or help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bruce ____ Bruce Douberley Computer Technical Service [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Tape Backup

and settled on the Adaptec 2940U. Any help or ideas? Thanks, Bruce Bruce Douberley, TSP [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] cut/paste under KDE

) then nothing happens. Well, in Konsole, it aborts the current line and gives you another prompt. Is there an easy to get this to work. I really rely on cut/paste *alot*. Thanks, in advance. Bruce -- Bruce W. Mohler 858-826-2675 (voice) SAIC/Secure Business Solutions 858-826-5112 (fax) Sr

[newbie] kde vs gnome vs java

, I couldn't get the default Kaffe version of java to work at all with Polarbar Mailer) Thanks, Bruce. __ Bruce LaZerte Grandview Lake in Muskoka Ontario, Canada

[newbie] kernel patches

ftp.kernel.org and tried it. Problem: the patches expect a plain vanilla kernel. They don't want to patch the existing mandrake -4mdk mod. Errors abound... So, does mandrake have special patches that can get me up to 2.2.18-mdk-pre8 ? Or what should I do? Bruce

[newbie] No go on notebook

aptop with a nice TFT screen, which of course was not in the setup. Is there a way to get "most" laptop screens supported? Any help'd be great Bruce Christopher Molnar wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Mark wrote: I have a few questions, was wondering if anyone could help? W only works as ro

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

on the remainder. Hope it helps. Bruce :-) Jim wrote: I still haven't recieved any help with this and since upgrading to 7.1 it seems worse I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light comes

Re: [newbie] changing back to kde

I have already tried running "setup", but I get a "command not found" error message when I try. Bruce Go to a terminal either in root or su and type "setup" without quotes. Then go to desktop configuration and choose the one you want - Original Mess

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA hung

"Bruce K. Patten" wrote: Mandrake 7.0 runs beautifully on my Toshiba Satellite after a fresh install, but upon rebooting later, it gets down as far as "Starting PCMCIA" and just hangs there. I used the recommended install route and there is no other OS on this machine.

Re: [newbie] Problem mounting CDRW

fusing myself. Anyway good luck. This list server is VERY helpful. Bruce :-) - Original Message - From: Lonnie Marvena To: Newbie Linux Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 7:43 PM Subject: [newbie] Problem mounting CDRW Hi Hi! I just installed Mandrake

[newbie] PCMCIA hung

Mandrake 7.0 runs beautifully on my Toshiba Satellite after a fresh install, but upon rebooting later, it gets down as far as "Starting PCMCIA" and just hangs there. I used the recommended install route and there is no other OS on this machine. WaddoIdo now?

Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

" file you'll see what your drives are being assigned at by linux. Bruce :-) Martin Foster wrote: Hi! This is the one that works: mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip Many thanks to you and everybody else for solving the problem. Your help is much appreciated. Next question(s) :-) Wh

Re: [newbie] display blinking

the directory and application in Corel Linux. I'm not sure if there the same in MD. I didn't have any (well not much) problems with my video in MD as with CL. Hope this helps Bruce :-) - Original Message - From: alex.avellaneda To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April

[newbie] RPM problems

/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm was part of the error.) I can not install new RPMs often X will shutdown the KDM window. Any ideas? -- Best Regards, Bruce

[newbie] Path updating

is the Mandrake equalivent? I have tried to update /etc/profile, and home/.bashrc but no dice -- Best Regards, Bruce

Re: [newbie] cable modem

I use Linux with a cable modem on RoadRunner, and it works great. Why don't you try this: Run LinuxConf. Go to Networking, then to basic host info. Then select the tab for your network card (eth0). Click on the optin for DHCP. Back out of LinuxConf, activating your changes. You may have to

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

ing to try recompiling a kernel to see if I can get it working. I don't really know if this will help; but check out the attached "text" file. I come from the Linux Gazette. Bruce :-) Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO Kyle Dansie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] v2.4, 10 January 1999 This Docum

Re: [newbie] DOS based directories

her directory named "Programs", it would be "cd /progra~2", etc. Windoze dos keeps the first 6 characters of the directory name and assigns the tilde "~" plus a numeric from 1 to 9. I do not know what it would do if you had more than 9 directories named "program

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM disappeared

PROTECTED] or call them at 1-877-874-6265 option 4, then option 2 Lawrence; What's your "/var/log/dmesg" say. It displays what linux thinks you have attached to your system. Bruce :-)

Re: [newbie] fixed it

ld just go to sleep. Before I found out about using "ctrl-alt-backspace", I would restart my computer because I thought at that point that I had too. But, linux does have some nice safe guards. Bruce :-) KompuKit wrote: I'm not sure you understand... I need a safe default setting..

[newbie] KDE/Gnome background image

ideas. Thanks - Bruce :-)

Re: [newbie] Real Player

that page; it will ask you which OS you want. Bruce :-)

Re: [newbie] fixed it

rd and you lose the screen - all black or the such; try using the "ctrl-alt-backspace" (without the quotes) combination - usually this will bring you back to your prior settings. Bruce :-)

Re: [newbie] ZIP Not installing...

ou what linux thinks it is. or just include it and just maybe someone can help. I have found this list very very helpful. Bruce :-)

Re: [newbie] x windows problem cp

the "ctrl-alt-backspace" with the quotes. Bruce :-)

Re: [newbie] sound

go to http://www.4front-tech.com , they all sorts of sound drivers. It cost me $30; but, it was worth getting my sound to work. Isn't linux great -- Bruce :-)

Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem

il at http://www.hotmail.com Try http://www.linmodem.org or it maybe http://www.linmodem.com it's one or the other. Hope it helps. Bruce :-)

Re: [newbie] sound help

ou'll have to have info on your card I/O, IRQ, DMA; if that doesn't work) go to http://www.4front-tech.com they have all sort of sound drivers for linux. You can download a free trial to see if it works; if it does, you'll have to pay. Hope it helps. Bruce :-)

Re: [newbie] Questions, Questions!

/is a good fall back in windoze also. I'll try it. Don't you just love linux. I can't believe how much better my system runs. Thanks again - Bruce :-) KompuKit wrote: I believe you can MANUALLY use sndconfg to setup your soundcard...if it doesn't do it auto...that is, if, it support

Re: [newbie] Unable to access cdrom or floppy

d "afloppy", then; mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/afloppy mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrw Worked like a champ. But, what a pain typing all this in each time. I will be looking into something a little easier. But, for the meantime; it'll do. I have other fish to fry. Hope this helps. Bruce :-)

[newbie] Abit wb6 Video

Does anybody know what video card to select, for the abit wb6 mb which has an intel 810e onboard video DC133 according to the abit manual. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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[newbie] Getting to the Internet

complete, which is the package I bought? Thanks Bruce __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] Samba

is the linux/windows username. You will be prompted for the password. Then try it again. Bruce Date sent: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:23:31 -0600 (CST) From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Samba

[newbie] Use of Mandrake as a server platform

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Re: [newbie] /etc/fstab

Solution was: mkswap /dev/hda3 and thenswapon /dev/hda3 (even though mkswap was set at installation, switching to 2.2.3 kernel must have altered something?) Many thanks to the Linux Community! Bruce Newland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] linux penguin

How do I get rid of the penguin after boot-up on my mandrake 5.3 box? I like the compilation info and the processor+ ram info, but the penguin is getting on my nerves. Bruce Newland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] /etc/fstab

: /dev/hda3 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested swapon: /dev/hda3: Invalid argument [root@pepper /]# I have hunted high and low for more docs on fstab, but to no avail. Any Ideas? Bruce Newland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] /etc/fstab

Ok, chmod 600 /dev/hda3 solved the warning portion of my swap prob, now what about the invalid argument? Bruce Newland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] iso CD image

it as versions go on... Thank you, Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677