Re: [newbie] screwed (but workable) partitions

John Richard Smith wrote: \ I hope you don't mind me not being able to answer your question, but I'm curious what is going on here. Question: Where did you read this table, in linux fdisk ? , Dos fdisk ? Partition Magic ? Used cfdisk. But Linux fdisk shows the same I note according to

[newbie] screwed (but workable) partitions

Hi, I have Mandrake 8.2 installed in dual boot with WIN ME, and everything works fine. When I tried to install RedHat, I got a message saying the partition table was unreadable, that I had to reinitialize, with a subsequent loss of all data. It turns out that my partition table looks like this:

[newbie] supermount problem?

Hi Although my data CDs are mounted automatically, some directories cannot be stat'ed. I had to mount manually the CD-ROM (which turned out to have two /mnt/cdrom entries in mtab) for it to work. I guess I will have to remove the supermount entry in /etc/fstab. Does anyone know about this?

[newbie] 102.4 Mb limit with ftp?

Hi When connecting on the LAN of my working institute, I can transfer files with ftp (much faster than sftp) up to 102.4 Mb, then connection is closed. This is apparently true for sftp as well. I remember that there was a limit in old kernels, but since I use Mandrake 8.2 with kernel 2.4.18-6,

[newbie] apm with LM 8.2

Hi, Unfortunately my upgrade from LM 8.0 to 8.2 did not manage to keep the apm work. With the new version on my Dell Inspiron laptop, apm -s and apm -S freezes the computer after reopening the lid. I tried with disabling the apm in the BIOS with no effect. Marc Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Taskbar plots too slow

Hi, I found out that I could reduce the time in the KDE control center. It now works OK. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] webcams with Linux

Hi, I plan to use a webcam (e.g., Logitech Webcam) on my laptop. I would like to know if such devices work with Linux. What are the tools to use? Has anybody some experience? Thanks, Marc PS: reply to my address too, since I am not registered to the mailing list. Want to buy your

[newbie] Taskbar plots too slow

Hi, I successefully upgraded from LM8.0 to LM 8.2 by making a clean install (without the /home partition being reformatted). I noticed one problem that I would like to share: when launching an X application, e.g. gnome shell, the Ktaskbar correctly plots this application, but also plots another

[newbie] cdrecord on LM 8.0

Hi, I can't record a CD-R on my laptop. Any idea before I go to Windows to record the CD? I tried with several speeds. Thanks, Marc PS: please reply to my address too, since I am not registered to the mailing list. # cdrecord -v -dummy speed=4 dev=0,0 Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso

Re: [newbie] cdrecord on LM 8.0

Raffaele, This should be no problem, since I intentionally used the dummy flag to check whether cdrecord could go through. If it worked out, I would have removed the --dummy flag. But do you mean that by removing this flag cdrecord will not fail? I do not want to loose a CD. Marc Want to

[newbie] Update from 8.0 directly to 8.2

Hi, I would like to make sure that it is OK to update LM 8.0 (including the updates for this release) to the latest LM 8.2 without having to upgrade to 8.1 first. Thanks, Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] cardmanager doesn't find PCMCIA

Hi, After putting more memory on my laptop (512 MB), the card manager doesn't want to to load my PCMCIA card anymore. Apparently, it complains that there is no pcmcia entry in the /proc/devices file (which is true indeed). I think that it is due to the upgrade, but I wouldn't put my hand into

[newbie] multiple network environment

Hi, I would like to have a ``receipt'' on the best way to define a network environment. I work at 2 different institutes, with each different domain names and different way of setting the IP address. The first uses a fix IP address and hostname, while the second uses a fix hostname, but a

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

Hi, Thanks. Is it also possible to enable antialiasing in Gnome Control Center? Marc

[newbie] source file in .tcshrc for root from Gnome

Hi, I use Gnome 1.4 and define a panel icon to launch a root KDE terminal. I have installed some software (that need sourcing a file) and have put a source file command in my .tcshrc file. Logging from the shell (su - ) is OK, while I noticed that when clicking on the panel icon, after being

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake

-Original Message- Perhaps you can correct things by rebuilding the RPM database: rpm --rebuilddb I have had these strange things happen too, and this seems to help. Unfortunately, this did not help much. Marc -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by

[newbie] rpmdrake

Hi, LM8.0 has merged the MandrakeUpdate option in RPMDrake; I have a small question regarding the way it works: my understanding is that I selects the updated package in the Installable lists, click such that they are installed, and everything should be OK. If this is correct, OK but there is

[newbie] removable floppy makes df -k hang

Hi, I installed LM8.0 on my laptop that has hot swapable CD-RW/FDD. To allow LM detect all, I used the FDD on the parallel port. After installation, after shutdown, I removed the FDD. At boot, no problem. However df -k (or Mandrake Control Center, or everything that access indirectly the FDD)