Re: [newbie] DynDNS Update Client - Recommendation?

2002-10-09 Thread Darwin Gottfried
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 October 2002 04:57 pm, Sevatio wrote: Can you recommend a good client for updating DynDNS with my current IP address? ** Sorry for the previous post, fingers too fast for brain ** One comes with Mandrake ez-ipupdate. - --

Re: [newbie] 9.0 - Define source for RPMDRAKE

2002-10-05 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 01:52, Markus Bela wrote: In 8.2 this was possible to define the source of the packages. I want to keep them on my hard disk, but can't find how in 9.0 BTW, if no CD in the drive, RPMDRAKE spends long minutes trying to access. Isnt it an automount side effect? Bela

Re: [newbie] How does one uninstall tarball packages?

2002-10-05 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 00:22, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Em Sex 04 Out 2002 08:34, Derek Jennings escreveu: HI! You can find at http://freshmeat.net a software called checkinstall. checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm requires: libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm

Re: [newbie] cvs gui client

2002-06-04 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 13:15, Azrael wrote: I can't seem to find a gui cvs client for mandrake that works... anyone able to point me to a working rpm for one? tkcvs works just fine. Comes in 8.1 and 8.2. -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] - inetd.conf file?

2002-05-14 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Michael Adams wrote: [...] Cant see it in software manager with 8.2 Powerpack. I get xinitrc-2.4.4-60mdk and wizard-xinit-1.0.6-1mdk. Went to http://www.rpmfind.net/ and searched on xinit, got back all xinitrc's. I may be out in left feild here but could this be the

Re: [newbie] Where has hdparm gone in 8.2?

2002-04-29 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On 30 Apr 2002 11:11:48 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 18:09, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 29 April 2002 2:58 am, Brian Parish wrote: It was there a minute ago! Right before I did that clean install of 8.2 Is there some new all singing all dancing

Re: [newbie] tar/zip then untar/unzip (in detail though )

2002-04-28 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:32:05 -0400 Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I need somebody to tell me what are the commands I need to run for the taring and zipping, and then untarring and unzipping into the new /home directory :) as root, cd / tar -cWvf home.tar home/ gzip -v home.tar

Re: [newbie] anybody already on 8.2?

2002-03-20 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 12:09 am, you wrote: u uptime of almost 24 hours. It's pretty sweet. -s 4:16pm up 1 days, 20 hours, 14 min, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.38, 0.31 And it's sweet. Not a huge difference between rc1 and release. But it's nice. Good candidate to take over

Re: [newbie] Missing Locate Command

2002-03-15 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Friday 15 March 2002 20:25, you wrote: I currently have Mandrake 8.1 installed on 1 laptop and 1 desktop. In both cases, when I type locate somefile, i get bash: locate: command not found. This happens both as user and as root. If I do which locate I get which: no locate in (numerous

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-12 Thread Darwin Gottfried
Edmonton as well Cheers dg - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all IP:... Funny Hanan ;) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. *Bleah, I want to return to

Re: Mandrake RPM-howto (was Re: [newbie] XMMS CDs_

2002-02-07 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Friday 08 February 2002 06:18, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:10:34 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: snip Unfortunately, there are no RPM's for xmms-cdread... derek hi, does anybody know where i can get a downloadable version of

Re: Mandrake RPM-howto (was Re: [newbie] XMMS CDs_

2002-02-07 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Friday 08 February 2002 06:18, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:10:34 + [...] does anybody know where i can get a downloadable version of the howto on building rpms, especially mandrake ones? there are references to the book MaximumRPM but i dont think its available

Re: [newbie] Re: Cron

2002-01-23 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 19:41, Mel Roman wrote: [... ] it, just type KCron. I believe there is [... ] Actualy, it's kcron -- no caps. The caps thing is confusing to people new to *NIX so I thought I would toss this out there to remove confusion. Cheers deg Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Extra Programs on Installation CD's

2002-01-13 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On January 13, 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: Hello, This behavior leads me to think there may be other programs on the cds that aren't mentioned anywhere. Is there a good way to browse them and any way to tell what kind of program they are and what they do without actually

Re: [newbie] download / powerpack

2002-01-05 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Saturday 05 January 2002 14:16, you wrote: Just a guess, but I would think that it does matter. When you install the download edition, it askes you during setup if you have the other -two- discs. If it were possible to use any disc 1 with any edition, then the download edition would also

Re: [newbie] Linux don´t see my NTFS partition

2002-01-04 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Thursday 03 January 2002 20:36, you wrote: On Thursday 03 January 2002 01:48, you wrote: When I was running MDK 8, Linux did see my DOS partition, but now I´ve moved to XP and from MDK 8.1 I can´t see my NTFS partition, wich is a mess!!! Where can I look to fix it up?!?!?! Any

Re: [newbie] x686 and Athlon Kernel Settings

2002-01-04 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Friday 04 January 2002 00:44, you wrote: I have an Athlon 800 and my kernel following installation is set at an x686 processor. Is there any real advantage by re-setting the kernel to the Athlon/Duron setting? Nev Frankly, very nominal at best, using Athlon arch can actualy have adverse

Re: [newbie] problem with Software Manager

2001-12-30 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sunday 30 December 2001 12:34, you wrote: snip Must just be me then, I've had no problems with SoftwareManager in 8.1 at all. Yes it refreshes the headers when I choose Reload Lists and Mandrake Update works fine as well. More than I can say about it in 8.0 where I had lots of issues.

Re: [newbie] HELP! WinXP

2001-12-30 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sunday 30 December 2001 13:18, you wrote: Ultimately, could any one help on how to create a bootdisk for ntfs ? i'm getting tired of XP anyway so if i can't fix it.. Sounds like some internal XP links are messed up somehow... You could try inserting the XP CD, and choosing boot from CD

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 18:38, you wrote: Last year, this was the place and the flames were on the expert list. This year, I would say try the expert list. I may start a list as well, but I am sure to be branded a Nazi for censoring it, and I would, too, because I believe there are

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Monday 17 December 2001 11:31, you wrote: When is this damn useless compiler going to work? I have Mdk 8.1 and the default compiler is useless, 2.96 is a piece of trash, so I took it off and put on gcc3, again TRASH, so I try to put on 2.95 and all it can give me is the same bullshit

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?

2001-12-16 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sunday 16 December 2001 11:56, you wrote: Ditto. I've had some good experiences like Steve below with Mozilla's installer. Don't forget that to install flash and java you may need some extra steps. Flash is pretty straight forward, follow the README. You will need to download and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?

2001-12-13 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 14:21, you wrote: I tried going to the same site and couldn't get in. Probably overloaded with hits from too many curious lookyloos. snip Mandrake Newbie list's version of ./'ing Cheers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Updates

2001-12-09 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sunday 09 December 2001 16:04, you wrote: If I apply every update there is to my Mandrake Linux 8.1 install, why wont it be identical to the future 8.2 release? Or, what is the difference between an updated 8.1 and 8.2 when it releases? Various differences are contained between one release

Re: [newbie] lilo

2001-12-08 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:44, you wrote: I just installed Mandrake on a Dell Pentium III machine. It runs well alongside Windows ME. Easiest way to get used to how lilo uses the entries, as root: copy to lilo.conf.old. (cp lilo.conf lilo.conf.old) Assuming your using 8.1: Open Control