Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor

2005-04-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Carroll Grigsby wrote: I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg Run drakxconf and

Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems

2005-04-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Elwyn York wrote: Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash: /

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)

2005-04-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Philippe Landau wrote: Philippe Landau wrote: if i install Mandi, what options should i choose to preserve the current grub entries ? or to copy them over to lilo (whatever mandrake 10.1 uses). last time i tried my superblock and its 7 backups were destroyed. (i have no idea what that is.) now that

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mou

Re: [newbie] Using the " rm " command

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul Kaplan wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 06:29 pm, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi ~ the following is in reference to Acrobat Reader only. I have been reading about Acrobat5 and Acrobat7 and am looking at installing the later. I understand that I need to remove all of Acrobat5 and that is OK by me. The

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 03:09 pm, JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:14 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 9, 2005 5:02 AM, Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the following error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mouse is a PS/2 mouse, but it is connected to a COM port via an adaptor. Can anyone

Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the processor in question? I have a Pentium 266 laptop with 1

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 7, 2005 11:59 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, Mikkel. Dumb question time - did the flash drive get mounted automaticly on /mnt/removable? This is what usualy happens when you plug one in. If you plug in a second one, it gets mounted o

Re: [newbie] Lilo on floppy

2005-04-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Leroy Britton wrote: I am using mandrake 10.1 and need to prepare a floppy for lilo. I found instructions and they say to use fdformat /dev/fd0H1440, however this gives me a error of No such file or directory. I have also tried fdformat /dev/fd0 and that gives me No such device or address.

Re: [newbie] Updating with RPM drake

2005-04-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Owen wrote: My installation is straight forward. Aside from updates from the mirror no other software has been installed or modified. For a few months I did not touched my Mandrake box. Now when I attempt to use RPM drake for updates I get messages with the error that the packages have bad sig

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Philippe Landau wrote: when i plug in my new Data-Tec D350U USB 2 external harddisk, i see a small electric flash which can cause my PC to shutdown instantly. i know USB is powered, carrying a small voltage, so the flash is not unexpected. also as it is used to send control signals i can understand

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered "control alt F1" and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles This is strange. I use the Ctrl-Alt-F1 to change to the command lin

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 07:04:18 -0400 Lee Wiggers wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with the logitech optical mouse in 10.1? I have used it, and am using it now on 4 boxes through a Belkin kvm switch. Mine exhibits the same behaviour. The workaround I use is that each time

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 04 April 2005 09:16 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Do you really want to start comparing who has the oldest hardware sitting around? I think there is a lady on this list that has us all beat. (Especial after I junked the model 33 teletype last year.) An ASR 33? I would

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 2, 2005 05:26, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 04:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 12:40 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: | I'm going back to my TRS80 model 4. | | Dan OMG! I had one of those. I think it cost- like - $1650, which

Re: [newbie] Display problem

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Michael Hahn wrote: I've been working on setting up a new system at work, using an older Linux box. The only trouble is the display settings for xwindows are not correct for the new monotor, and as a result, when I run startx, I get nothing but lots of moving horozontal lines. I found xorg.conf, bu

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 04 Apr 2005 05:04, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Sunday, April 3, 2005, 1:25:11 AM, Anne wrote: AW> No man page matching to iptables found. Take a look at iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net - you might find it more useful than the man pages. Other similar stuff through Google,

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 19:47, RickSisler wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, Anne, Mikkel, Does man iptables work from command-line? Hi, Rick

Re: [newbie] PATH Oops

2005-04-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: For the comfort of my eyes I wanted to read man pages in konqueror, but got the error No man page matching to iptables found. You can extend the search path by setting the environment variable MANPATH before starting KDE. I tried to set the variable - probably doing it comple

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.2 ISO

2005-04-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: I have created a lot of coasters under k3b trying to burn 10.2 I noticed that the first disk is 699.8 Mb while the capicity is 700Mb The md5sums check is it because the CD-R is too small ? No - the 700Mb is more then big enough to burn a 699.8 MB image. The 700MB (80 minute) C

Re: [newbie] Sync PocketPC with Evolution

2005-04-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I just received a Toshiba PocketPC e755 and would like to sync it with Evolution 2.0. Is there a way to do this? Where do I start? Thanks! The first step would be to install the synce package. You may also want to take a look at: http://synce.sourceforge.net/sync

Re: [newbie] SMC Barricade

2005-04-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Well, here's another weird one for the list. I recently bought a Linksys Wireless card and it's working quite well, but of course, there's one little problem. The card is unable to receive packets from the SMC router. I've tried it with and without DHCP, and with or without WEP. Th

Re: [newbie] Failed logins and access

2005-03-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Leroy Britton wrote: Yes that will log failed logon attempts, now can you tell me how to log failed access attempts? I need to log any access attempts that result in Permission Denied. Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Leroy Britton wrote: I am new to Linux. I have Mandrake 9.1 running and would like

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

2005-03-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: I added udev by urpmi sometime after my initial clean installation because I was after flexibility for my flash drives. I actually followed a Flash USB howto that appeared to work in that particular session but afterward it just got to be confused so I resolved to sort it ou

Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.

2005-03-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Having something like a newsletter would also allow people to compile their own libraries on a variety of technical topics, which can be reviewed offline at their leisure, while cutting back on some of the redundant posts to the list. Following along this line of thought, would

Re: [newbie] starting slmodem automatically as root

2005-03-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
erik wrote: I'm using the slmodem driver but the problem is that I always have to start it as root (using su from terminal) to be able to dial-up. Is there a way to start this program automatically? TIA Erik If this is a module you have to load, then putting it in /etc/modprobe.preload works wel

Re: [newbie] 10.2 on Dell d610

2005-03-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Andre LABBE wrote: Hi IT boots from the cd fine, then it tells me that there is no cd. I have tried alt1 with or without option. I went on the ftp to get extra boot floppy image (I do have an external usb floppy) same thing. Anyway to get 10.2 to find the CDrom. I have tried with 10.1 and it i

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

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

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 m

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

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 a

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] 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 ge

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 lo

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] 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

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] df table file

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: RickSisler wrote: SnapafunFrank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When within my system I issue the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 966M 714M 203M 78% / /dev/hda1 966M 14M 903M 2% /

Re: [newbie] Booting in "I" mode - attn Mikkel/Frank - originally USB card reader thread

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi Mikkel Finally remembered your email and went back and tried the above. I am in Mandrake after not starting ALSA. It also hung at "starting sendmail" so delected that too. Yes I had a problem booting a while back when following some instructions to attempt to g

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

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
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/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/modem and ran

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi Mikkel: Rosemary has sent me directly some info which I think you ought to be privy to. Her lilo.conf gives the "devfs=nomount" append only on the one she appears able to boot with. ( albeit that it stalls at ALSA later ) Her append lines also include " resume=/mnt/hda8"

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 15:51, Simon wrote: I cannot open files in order to edit them when I am in Konqueror as SU. I get an error message :KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite' I do have Kwrite installed. Any ideas please. Thanks, Simon. Yes - I've no idea why it happens, but the c

Re: [newbie] Assistance from newbies needed

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: rikona wrote: Hello newbies, I'd appreciate comments regarding the utility of the following: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/EmerGencies Is it helpful? Is it understandable? What else would be most helpful to a newcomer? [given the VERY limited space available

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay - I tried this. At the "cd" it said "home not set" so I added "/" after looking down at the vi instructions - hope that was right, now thinking it should have been "~"! Anyway - rebooted and it stalled at ALSA again. In windows explore2fs, now see only hda2,

Re: [newbie] package manager for 10.1

2005-03-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a package manager for 10.1 that allows me to look inside the rpm file to view folders and files. I liked kpackage in the older versions but I can't find it's equivalent. tia, Bill W. I use Mignight Commander (mc) for this. Mikkel -- Do not meddl

Re: [newbie] VNC Server startup script

2005-03-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 13:34, DAN WALKER wrote: My vnc server now sort of works! I set the password, edited hosts.allow and my pc side now asks me for a password and presents me with a red screen. The problem I have is that it looks as though it has nothing to do when it open

Re: [newbie] i586 v's i686

2005-03-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Pete Moscatt wrote: What's the difference between i585 and i686 which I see in some of the filename of some RPM's ? Pete Well, assuming that i585 is a typo, and shoud be i586, the it is the processor the RPM is optimised for. A i586 will run on a Pemtium (or equivelent) and newer processor, but

Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location

2005-03-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: Well I change the datadir in mysql-max and I have generated numerous versions of my.cnf directing MySQL to my desired directory each change causing MySQL refused to run. So I keep playing around with mysql-max and found that there is a second place where the config file does a test

Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: Hi All & Derek and Mikkel Thanks for the information. Derek sorry I did not mean to be insulting. I simply do not understand and am very happy for your help which I thank you very much for. I have checked I do not have a file called S90MySQL in any location. I especially checked th

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset

Re: [newbie] SCSI card install for Trust Scanner.

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Malcolm Candlish wrote: On Tuesday 22 Mar 2005 17:14, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hi, The system I use is Mandrake 10.1 86_64 . I used insmod to install module dmx3191d.ko for my scsi card which is necessary for my Trust Scanner. However I get the following return:- &#x

Re: [newbie] OT: How to mount a Windows partition ~ OOps ~ error ~ tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt2; tar xvf - )

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 06:22 pm, David Anderson wrote: I want to be able to mount hda1 and sda1 and copy files from one to the other ~ if, I get the drift . . . you have booted from CD and neither hda1 nor sda1 are mounted? ...

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Chris wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 08:19 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I got into this thread a little late, kind of behind on reading, anyway, I use the below script in 9.0, called mp32wav. #!/bin/bash # mp32wav mp3file="$*" mkdir wav for file in "$@" ; do

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Chris wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 10:13 pm, Smiley wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:00:09 -0600 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? k3b I did with gnome-toaster five years ago :) There's

Re: [newbie] Invalid signatures on upgrade files

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: is there any way to do it via urpmi? That would avoid most of the errors. If you add the --no-clean option to the command line, it will leave the RPMs in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms, and you can then use these on the other machines. You may want to add this option to /etc/urpmi/urpmi

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 no

Re: [newbie] SCSI card install for Trust Scanner.

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hi, The system I use is Mandrake 10.1 86_64 . I used insmod to install module dmx3191d.ko for my scsi card which is necessary for my Trust Scanner. However I get the following return:- '-1 Unknown symbol in module.' Should I make a kernel bug report to to Linux, or is so

Re: [newbie] Invalid signatures on upgrade files

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I was upgrading my copy of Mandrake 10.1 via a download I made of the update directory on ftp.u-strasbg.fr and I get the following error: glibc-devel-2.3.3-23.1.101mdk.I586.rpm: invalid signature (sha1 md5 )(GPG)(MISSING KEY) GPG# 22458a98 NOT OK I am getting a l

Re: [newbie] KDE3.4 cannot shutdown

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Miark wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:48:16 +0700, Fajar wrote: Thanks Paul, After I change it from mdkkdm to kdm, I can shutdown normally again. Since I switched to XFCE, I figured I didn't have anything to lose by upgrading KDE to 3.4, so I did. Well, as it turns out, I _did_ have something to

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Philippe Landau wrote: i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has some underlyin

Re: [newbie] MD 10.1 System Halt During Boot.

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Pete Moscatt wrote: I have just installed MD 10.1 using the download version ISOs that come with a magazine I purchase. The installation was without error until it come time to reboot. During the boot process I see it stopping at the point where I am assuming it’s trying to detect USB devices. Reg

Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Derek Jennings wrote: The packager who built the Mandrake package for MySQL has created the file /etc/rc5.d/S90mysql to set up the defaults for MySQL so that a my.cnf file is unnecessary. I simply read that file and told you what the defaults were set to. I also told you that by using a symlink

Re: [newbie] MySQL File Location

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:21, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 14:42, SOTL wrote: Hi All I have created a partition on one of my computer to store critical system data files called /System_Data. I am trying to configure MySQL so that it will use /System_Data as its defau

Re: [newbie] hostname change

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
riccardo wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 09:41 pm, Carlton Matthew wrote: How do I change the PC host name ? ~ by editing the file:/etc/HOSTNAME best rgds Nope. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! _

Re: [newbie] Running apps on networked machine

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Miark wrote: I ssh'ed to another box on my network and ran Firefox. But instead of it running off the remote machine, it ran from my _local_ machine. Odd! How do I prevent that? Miark Miark, How did you determin that it ran from the local machine? One thing to keep in mind about X programs is

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Duncan Anderson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: lower case names for local varables - so you don't break things if you deside to source the code from another script. Mikkel, Explain this to me, I don't quite follow your rationale here. I always use upper case for variable names so t

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Duncan Anderson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I like to make scripts a bit more "bullet proof"... I would probably change it to: for i in *.mp3 ; do name=$(basename "$i" .mp3) mpg123 -s "$name.mp3" | sox -f 44100 -w -s -c 2 - "$name.wav" done T

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Duncan Anderson wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: There are some added protections to make doing that even harder now. When you type "rm" from the command line, you are actualy running "rm -i" thanks to a handy alias. So you would be asked to confirm every deletion. When you

Re: [newbie] Useful URL for newbies

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Duncan Anderson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: The CLI is not something to be feared. cheers Duncan Is that not so ? I read somewhere about a command that could wipe out your whole s

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Duncan Anderson wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:37:18 +1100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? Check out ROXDAO. The site is offline right now, but check it out later, very nice GUI for burning audio CD's, you can se

Re: [newbie] Re: mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:15:52 +0100 Björn Lundin disseminated the following: What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? if you like the cli, make wavs with this script, You do need sox and mpg123. from there burn the wavs as usual [EMAIL PROTECTED] mp3_lisa]$ cat /home/bnl/

Re: [newbie] DNS Name Server Issues

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SOTL wrote: Hi All As some of you are aware by now I am trying to network 2 computers by use of a wireless 'my router' which is connected to a wireless bridge which gets it signal from wireless bridge [located in an office across the street] which gets it input from another router [or did before

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
James Henry Maiewski wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 3:50 pm, Tom wrote: Now, James, when you installed the system did you select "Development" ? Without those additions to your system you probly can't compile anything. Other questions: are you just doin all this as an exercise? an why do

Re: [newbie] audacity

2005-03-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: anyone know where libmp3lame.so is kept (lame is installed) audacity needs it for exporting mp3s [EMAIL PROTECTED] mikkel]$ locate libmp3lame.so /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and tast

Re: [newbie] Doomed: KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, guys.. i'm doomed. After downloading the packages all night, urpmi cannot install kdebase libkde-common because of conflicts with kde3.2. Out of frustation, i removed kde3.2. :(( And now repeating the process again of downloading the packages all night. It cleared the

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:37, Anne Wilson wrote: Does HardDrake recognise the camera? Have you tried booting with it plugged in? (Not that you'd have to do that every time, but it sometimes helps to get something recognised in the first place.) I have often found th

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: One thing this newbie read somewhere is that /dev/sda? are not formatable ?? Can someone clarify this ? Ah... here it is: A key such as KERNEL="sd?1" would match KERNEL names such as "sda1", "sdb1", "sdc1", and equally importantly, it will not match KERNEL names such as sda

Re: [newbie] bad signatures

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Carlton Matthew wrote: Why Do I get bad signatures when attempting to upgrade packages using mandrakelinux update ? shouldn't this be the safest plave to get the software from Carlton It should be. Do you get it for all packages? One thing to watch for - it will give you the bad signature error,

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 20:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I usually put a pretty printed label on them anyway, so that is less of a problem. But one day I would like to get one of the printers that will print directly on CDs/DVDs. But they require printable CD blanks anyway. (I

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: That was mostly for my own curiousity, specially since Greg an Mikkel have some misgiving about usin 'rpm --rebuild' All I can say is "Works for Me" an always has I think the point is more that rpm --rebuild is calling rpmbuild to do the work. Because if this, if you do not

Re: [newbie] Cant find the printer

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Carlton Matthew wrote: Following previous advice, I added the line lp to the file /etc/modprobe.preload lsmod now gives [EMAIL PROTECTED] carlton]# lsmod Module Size Used by md5 3584 1 ipv6 230916 10 autofs415268 0 i810_audio

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, on my 10.1 system, they are actualy in /usr/lib/rom/rpmpopt-4.2.2 and if I wanted to track it down, there is probably another file symlinked to it, that is defined in rpmrc, but I don't feel like going through all the effort. There are a l

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I thank you both for this information, but I'm not getting anything out of this package. the rpm --rebuild gives: error: kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed the same happens with rpmbuild --rebuild (both as root and otherwise). I assume th

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: John or Margaret Montgomery wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:44:07 -0600 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are made by the advertised vendor. The only way to kn

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tom wrote: hmmm... tell me more. # rpm --rebuild mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.src.rpm ... ... Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/noarch/mplayer-fonts-1.0-10mdk.noarch.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1910 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd

Re: [newbie] src.rpm headaches.

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tom wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 10:05 am, Tom wrote: James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I downloaded kdeutils-3.2.3-28.3.101mdk.src.rpm to see what I could see, but when I try to install it, it says "everything already installed." If these are supposed to go in /usr(/loc

Re: [newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Elwyn wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 15:25, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What Journalized file system to pick is not a cut and dried decision. It depends on what kinds of data you are going to put on the drive, and who you are asking the question. So you will need to provide more information before

Re: [newbie] Samba Server

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Elwyn wrote: Hiya Folks What I'd like to do is set up a shared area within our network that all our (family) music files are on, plus other bits and bobs, that will only share files for most of its hard drive. I've already got a working Samba place on this machine but I'm debating how to go abo

Re: [newbie] Adding Drives

2005-03-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Elwyn wrote: Hiya Following on from my Samba Server question... I've fitted the drive, it's declared as hdb and I'd like to set it up for just files. I've tried to chose Journalised Etc3, ReiserFS, JFS or XFS. Which do I chose?? It would be nice if I can put it all as one partition?! Er, Thanks :

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? I have an old italian cd burning software on my old NT machine that happily does this automatically, is there something similar avaialable? Thanks, Richard k3b Want

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:20, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: The tools from the drive manfacturer are their own boot disk. You usualy download a program that creates the floppy. Then boot with the floppy. Or, if you don't like having the larger collection of floppies

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