On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 11:30 AM, Mike Settle wrote:
> I thought this was supposed to be a Mandrake forum - For the last three
> days, all I've seen is Mac OS related !!! Why don't you guys find a
> chatroom, or something.
Have you actually been reading the emails? This entire
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 03:16 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not
> quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase
> it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which
>
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:56 -0500, NDPTAL85 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Meanwhile ArsDigita has closed up shop
>
> http://www.arsdigita.com/
>
> All the links seem to work. Maybe you meant ADUniversity? The ACS is
> still
> open source and still availa
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with th
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with t
For some reason whenever I add a source to my urpmi database it becomes
corrupted in a way that won't let me update it. For example no matter
which Cooker source I add, whenever I use "urpmi.update" to update it I
get this back:
[root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi.update
the ent
On Monday, December 24, 2001, at 08:30 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> Not really. But then again Mac OS 9 does the same thing. You can click
> on
> any partition on the Desktop and then choose "Initialize" from the
> Special Menu and without a single word or warning the partition is
> initialized!
>
On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 06:27 PM, Bob B. Bomar wrote:
I have been using FreeBSD for about a year now, and I love it. I wanted to see what the major diffrences between BSD and Linux for my self. I am impressed by the graphic install, though, I am used to the text install of FreeBSD, Op
On Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 09:49 AM, Adrian Lynch wrote:
> I'm having trouble subscribing to this list using Freeserve. I have all
> the
> posts coming to my work account but people are complaining that 20,000
> emails on the server is too much :O)
>
> Hass anyone else had problem with
For future reference, urpmi is a safe way to update your kernel. su to
root and enter "urpmi kernel". Its the CLI end to the Software Manager
so if you want newer kernels put the cooker ftp's in your sources.
-
Fate protects fo
On Tuesday, December 11, 2001, at 09:56 AM, Tom Brinkman wrote:
>
> http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147
>
>
> "BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker
> operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos
> Torovoltos, b
On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 02:01 PM, Larry Sword wrote:
> NDPTAL85 wrote:
>>
>> Here is the results of route -n
>>
>> [root@Dreadnaught root]# route -n
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 07:15 PM, Dave Sherman wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 18:09, NDPTAL85 wrote:
>> After about a week of taking my Mandrake 8.1 box off of DHCP and giving
>> it its own permanent IP it can no longer resolve domain names when
>> using
>>
After about a week of taking my Mandrake 8.1 box off of DHCP and giving
it its own permanent IP it can no longer resolve domain names when using
that IP. When I switch it back to DHCP it starts working fine again. I
am using kernel 2.4.13-12mdk. Has anyone else come across this problem?
On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 06:49 PM, Ed Tharp wrote:
> not only true..but legal and any more than three are "ill-legal"
>
> On Friday 07 December 2001 17:40, you wrote:
>> I have 4 boxes on my home network. A WinXP box, a Mac OS X box,
>> Mandrake
>> Linux workstation and a FreeBSD workstat
I have 4 boxes on my home network. A WinXP box, a Mac OS X box, Mandrake
Linux workstation and a FreeBSD workstation. Earthlink is my ISP and
they have 3 DNS servers. I want to set my Linux and FreeBSD boxes up as
local DNS servers so I figured I would just add their IPs to the list of
nameser
How do I manually set or change my IP thru the terminal? Does it have
something to do with ifconfig? Thanks.
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I'm running KDE.
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Ok got it working. Someone gave me a tip. You also have to have the
latest e2fsprogs installed so I just ran "urpmi e2fsprogs" to install it
and ext3 worked! Thanks again.
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In top what is kapm-idled and why is it taking up all of my CPU time? Is
it just marking how much idle CPU time there is?
I'm using Mandrake 8.1 with 2.4.13-12mdk
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wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 04:39, NDPTAL85 wrote:
>> I have a standard install of Mandrake 8.1 and I have upgraded the
>> kernel
>> to the latest Cooker kernel 2.4.13-12mdk. I was wondering how can I
>> upgrade my filesystem to ext3 from ext2? Anyone have some sites
up2date is a Red Hat utility. The article may have been specific to RH
Linux. As far as I know generic kernels work fine on Athlons.
On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 11:40 AM, Mr.E. wrote:
> I have an AMD Athlon Thunderbird processor.
>
> Do I need to install an Athlon kernel, or just leave ev
I have a standard install of Mandrake 8.1 and I have upgraded the kernel
to the latest Cooker kernel 2.4.13-12mdk. I was wondering how can I
upgrade my filesystem to ext3 from ext2? Anyone have some sites that
show you how to do this? Anything Mandrake specific perhaps? Thanks.
Want to buy
Alright! urpmi was able to update my kernel after I updated the sources
list.
[ndptal85@Dreadnaught ndptal85]$ uname -a
Linux Dreadnaught 2.4.13-12mdk #1 Fri Nov 23 18:44:14 CET 2001 i686
unknown
Urpmi is useful when it works but its still very rough and unpolished.
For instance why do we
dated with
the same tools that everything else is updated with.
On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 05:36 PM, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Thursday 29 November 2001 05:36 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote:
>> I heard the ability to upgrade the kernel had been temporarily
>> removed from the GUI
:
> On Thursday 29 November 2001 03:26 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote:
>> I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest cooker version. I have
>> added cooker to my sources but I keep getting this error:
>>
>> [root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi kernel
>
>I really don&#x
yourself.
On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 04:16 PM, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Thursday 29 November 2001 03:26 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote:
>> I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest cooker version. I have
>> added cooker to my sources but I keep getting this error:
>>
>
I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest cooker version. I have
added cooker to my sources but I keep getting this error:
[root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi kernel
--15:15:35-- ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-
devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-2.4.13-11mdk.i58
SRPMS are Source RPM's. RPM's are Red Hat package Manager installs.
Mandrake, is an RPM based distro so you can use RPM's to install things
instead of compiling from source as you have been. Enter "man rpm" into
your terminal to learn more. Once you have gotten the basic commands
down check ou
"Better" is a subjective term. Not all would agree. Copying MS isn't the
goal. Coming to a parity with the Windows UI (Or Mac OS) in terms of
ease of use is. That is the difference.
On Sunday, November 25, 2001, at 07:48 PM, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2001 01:19, you wrote: >
Just because something is different doesn't mean it should automatically
be harder. As easy as RPM's are to use they still aren't as good as
installing something on Windows or the Mac OS. You shouldn't need to
hunt for an extra "anything" not even if its as close as your own CD. It
wouldn't be
hange it using linuxconf. are you
> trying
> to change your hostname through a script/application?
>
> ciao!
>
> NDPTAL85 wrote:
>
>> Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake
>> 8.1?
>>
>
There's nothing in hosts that says anything about a hostname. This is
the only thing in my hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 02:48 PM, Mark D'voo wrote:
> /etc/hosts (must be root)
>
> On Tuesday 20 November 2001 07:44 am,
Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake
8.1?
Thanks.
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Ok I entered this in my console to add a source to urpmi and it failed,
can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
[root@dhcppc3 ndptal85]# urpmi.addmedia ftp
ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirror
s/mandrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ with
ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/ma
ndrake/8.1/i586
I trust the files on the CD's I would just like to be able to install
software from the net since its more convienent then walking over to the
machine and inserting the proper CD. Ok I have some sources I want to
add but I don't understand the hdlist part. I can't find the hdlist on
any of the
Alright I know how to add media to it but how do I tell it where to get
the stuff from? It always goes for the CD and never the net. Do I have
to remove the CD sources for it to go to the net?
On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 06:52 PM, bascule wrote:
> you need to add a source to the list
Can anyone point me to a site showing me how to fully use urpmi? If not
can anyone tell me how to get it to download stuff from the web instead
of from the CD's? Also does anyone know of any http sites I can enter as
sources? Thanks.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go
Linux runs fine on the Dell 4000 Notebook that I have. I bought it to
run WinXP but it shipped with WinME on it and I couldn't stand that so I
installed Mandrake and RH on there in the meantime just to see if they
would work. This was Mandrake 8.1 and RH 7.2. Everything ran fine.
Also check Sl
Well, you go to a "store" and buy it. Then when you install it, the 30
day countdown begins. If you don't activate it within that time frame it
stops working.
On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 12:20 AM, Newbie wrote:
> So how do you get ahold of the software
> in the first place if it only las
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