Hello!
I tried to configure the connection sharing on Mandrake 9.1. beta 2.
It keeps asking me for installation CD 1. I put the CD, click OK, the
tray closes, the CD spins, it seems to do something, but still stops
and asks for CD1. I tried CD2 just in case it was a typo, but nothing
helps!
Is
Hello (again!)
I always wanted to try out BeOS, but by the time I was ready to install
it the
company was ready to fold :( I guess I'll wait and see how the BeOS
clones like
OpenBeOS develop before trying those.
Yes, the OpenBeOS is progressing nicely. I hope it will reach the BeOS
R5
Hello,
On 2002.06.30, at 06:16, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Saturday 29 Jun 2002 9:56 pm, Barry Michels wrote:
So, are there any recommendations on size for these different
partitions?
I've got a 60gb drive that I want to dedicate to Linux. The 100GB and
120GB are going to be for
Hello!
What's the benefit to having separate /, /home, /var, etc?
You will notice the benefit to separate /home /opt and /etc directories
when
you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0.
Yes, the advantage of having /home, /opt, and /etc _DIRECTORIES_,
as you write yourself, no doubt about that. But is
Hello!
On 2002.06.25, at 22:43, robin wrote:
Franki wrote:
Don't laugh.. it might be a good thing if they bring this in..
Then you'll have Palladium users, and the rest of the world..
Sorta like the microsoft network when it first started..
they wanted their own internet, unfortunatly
Hello,
I have some trouble sharing one ADSL connection (8Mbps)
for a local area network.
I did it at home and it works well. The modem assigns an IP
with DHCP and there is basically no other configuration except
running the connection sharing setup.
Now I am trying to do the same for a school.
On 2002 April 16 Tuesday 02:39, you wrote:
'su' means _superuser_, not 'substitute user', which it does.
From man pages:
NAME
su - substitute user identity
SYNOPSIS
su [-Kflm] [login [shell arguments]]
etc...
Pascal
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Hello,
On Sunday 07 April 2002 19:51, you wrote:
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 01:12, Robin Turner wrote:
1. A fully featured office suite compatible with the dreaded MS Office.
OpenOffice is pretty much on track there.
I think this is probably true for most users who work exclusively in one
Hello!
On Monday 08 April 2002 16:11, you wrote:
Is there a way to reply-to the person this question was sent to?
In the present case, the person the question was sent to is the list,
right? By default, kmail replies to the list when pressing the reply
button.
IE, in the To: field is the
2002 4? 4 ??? 16:43??:
Ha there folks,
Well, a new machine and same result.
From your previous mails and also this one, I got the impression
that you are one of the most unlucky person from earth and
its suburbs.
Pascal
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Hello!
I have a similar problem. I use a dual pentium machine, and
I have never been able to shutdown. At the end of the shutdown
process, the terminal-like screen says power off and stays like
that forever, until I press the power button for more than 4
seconds.
I have alrready posted this
Hello,
Does anyone know how to convigure an appletalk
laserprinter (without VI'ing /etc/printcap and co). Is there
a GUI allowing to see all the appletalk printers around (i.e.
other than nbplkup in a terminal) and to set one as the
printer I want to use?
Thanks,
Pascal
Want to buy your
Hello!
I was looking for a cheap laptop to install Mandrake.
Unlike home made towers, it is quite difficult to buy
parts, so I had a look at the net in order to find computers
without windows. I found an interesting home page:
http://www.bestpricecomputers.ltd.uk/products/nowindows.htm
At the
Hello!
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 would look at
aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user
2002 2? 13 ??? 13:40??:
Id depends on what you want. For most of the people of this list
(including me), Mandraje provides everything for the daily use.
As for my frustrations:
- No consistent cut paste;
This can be frustrating if you use different toolkits. The
Hello,
Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need
to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X?
For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good
thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and
Le 02.2.6 à 13:11, Chris Ashmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) écrivit:
Here is the story / question. There is a small intercity private school
that has NO money at all. So they get these computers donated to them
P2's with some RAM and 10 Gig HDD's, monitors all that. Minus the OS.
They dont have
Le 02.2.6 à 4:07, Joan Tur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) écrivit:
Hallo!
Does any of you have opera (5, 5.05TP1 or 6TP3) running in spanish language?
Opera in Spanish is quite rare. Most of the Operas I know of are in Italian
or German.
And Opera doesn't answer...
Opera never answers. It just puts
Hello,
I am trying to contact the site http://qa.mmandrakesoft.com
for bug report issues, but I cannot find it. Does anybody
know the exact address? Apparently it is badly linked, or
the server might be down...
Thanks,
Pascal
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Hello (again)!
I have built a new machine in order to use it as a small server
(about 10 machines for the time being).
I have an ADSL modem to which plug an LAN cable conneced
to the first ethernet interface (eth0). The other interface is for
the LAN (eth1).
Using the network setup tools, I have
Hello (Last one for today)
I have installed a Linux server for about 10 clients.
There is a printer connected to it with the parallel
port (an inkjet printer).
I have installed appletalk (netatalk) which runs fine.
When I run nbplkup, 3 zones are shown. Don't ask me
why, but most of the machines
Hello!
I sent this mail yesterday but didn't get it back from the list,
so maybe it hasn't been sent properly. Sorry if you get it twice,
and sorry also for the two following messages!
I have a problem installing Mandrake on a new machine.
I bought a TNT2 board. I could use the installer so
Hello (Last one for today)
I have installed a Linux server for about 10 clients.
There is a printer connected to it with the parallel
port (an inkjet printer).
I have installed appletalk (netatalk) which runs fine.
When I run nbplkup, 3 zones are shown. Don't ask me
why, but most of the
On 2002.01.07, at 23:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This brings up a question about permissions ...
So a script (or any executable, such as a perl script written for cgi)
cannot be run by anyone other than root, if it was created by root? I
mean,
root can't give permission for a root-owned
Maido maido!
On Thursday 27 December 2001 15:01, you wrote:
Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS
that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese?
Yes, freeWnn.
In my case, it was awfully simple since I have installed
in Japanese (i.e.
On Friday 28 December 2001 04:57, you wrote:
i am working for a japanese-owned company and am the only one using
mandrake here. it is one of the reasons why i cannot make my officemates
try linux here in the office. Japanese language support is pretty much a
black art to me right now. i can
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 13:34, you wrote:
I *do* think a warning in the installer would be a good idea though!
it's *in* the *documentation* that you must *read*
Well, that can be endlessly discussed. There are
two kinds of people: those who read the docs and those who
don't.
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 19:33, you wrote:
Can anyone tell me where and how put my net numbers (ip,netmask etc) ? I'm
new to Linux so...
Congratulations! Good choice!
you could send your example(file) too.
Example file? You mean you want to do the setup without the
GUI? In this case,
On Sunday 02 December 2001 13:43, you wrote:
Hi,
You might try kwikdisk. It's in 'start',
Start? Are you sure we use the same OS? :-)
Regards,
Bill W.
Pascal
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On Sunday 02 December 2001 14:31, you wrote:
All right, right-click on any vacant area of the screen if you are using
KDE and select Create New and then CDROM Device and then look at the
Device tab and select the item that says (/mnt/cdrom) as part of its name.
Do it a second time and look
Hello!
I have noticed that my internet connection dies after
a (relatively long) timeout when I don't use it.
I have an ADSL router, and it is supposed to allow
24 h /24 connection time, so I guess the timeout
might be internal (I mean, depending on the OS).
I don't care too much for my home
Hello!
Not a big issue, but...
I run two dual processor machines and both are unable
to shutdown completely. It stops at the black screen
saying power down, but I have to press the power
switch. There was a kernel setting on BeOS to allow
complete shutdown. Is there a similar trick in
Mandrake?
Hello!
Today there were a couple of posts about how to
find files. I didn't know locate, and it is very
fase compared to find.
I have been wndering for a while: is there a kde
shortcut calling a utility that uses locate or find?
I mean, an equivalent of MacIntosh's apple-F,
or BeOS's Alt-F...
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 01:23, you wrote:
Hi gang,
Hello!
I'd like to add a high speed internet connection via a cable modem. My
local cable TV company (Adelphia) will lease me a cable modem, provide
wires, etc, and hook me up via Windows (no Linux support), etc.
I am not sure how a
On Monday 19 November 2001 11:30, you wrote:
Hi!
I like to zip all my /var/named files in one zip files.
I need the command how to tar it.
tar cvf archive.tar /var/named
Can someone email me the command ?
Best regards,
SKLIM
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go
Hello!
I have a problem on 2 machines. One at home and
one at work. I was used to burn iso files using an alias,
and it doesn not work anymore.
Here is the respons of cdrecord in a shell:
% cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 12:05, you wrote:
Yes, I have the same problem and have been working with the guys in this
group in trying to resolve it. I might go back to 7.2 since it was working
OK there. I haven't been able to get internet sharing to work on 8.1 also.
For your info,
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 15:19, you wrote:
Yep
Been there got the T shirt.
Its the new devfs system which auto populates the /dev folder.
It requires the drivers to be aware of it, and the scsi driver used by
cdrecord isn't.
All you have to do is edit /etc/lilo.conf and change the line
Hello!
Did anybody success in installing netatalk on Mandrake 8.1?
When I want to install it, the installer complains about an
incompatibility with glibc. It doesn't surprise me since there
is usually no way to get software running at once, but I
really would like to install it. Maybe it would
Hello!
Don't forget MacOS and MacOSX. The latter could qualify as a form of Unix.
I wonder why MS sees Linux as a threat and not these other Unices. I
suppose since it can run on the x86?
Because Linux is dangerous for MS, and MacOS, HP-UX, Solaris, etc are not.
The reason is simply that
Hello,
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 18:14, you wrote:
Burning from win I have a limited choice of burn-apps
Nero/Cdrwin/Winoncd. None of these seem to handle
burning the ISO's After spending lots of thime reading
Nero-howtos and burning Useless ISO cds (Just one big
useless file on the
Hello!
I am starting using kdevelop right out of the box. I didn't change
anything to its configuration. The documentation looks great, but
there are points everywhere. Ex:
QCanvasText . ( . QCanvas . * . canvas . ) .
It impedes the readability. Apparently every blank (tab or space)
is
Hello again!
Sorry, I found the solution for my 2nd question: the behavior
of the editor is configured... by option-editor. My first question
is still not solved.
I am starting using kdevelop right out of the box. I didn't change
anything to its configuration. The documentation looks great,
Hello!
Anyway, the original Celeron had the multiprocesing pins messed up. The
moire recent ones had the pins disconnected internally (more properly, never
connected at all). Intel was very cautious about letting the Celeron
compete
against its Pentium II/III/IV line and has always kept
Hello,
I am running Mandrake on a Abit motherboard (Abit BP6)
with dual celeron. It looks like the smp kernel works fine.
The celerons I use are quite old (400 MHz) and their FSB clock
rate is 66 MHz. I was thinking I would upgrade to more recent
CPUs (about 800 MHz each, 100 MHz FSB).
Hello,
16:9 And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly
wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal
homes. 16:10 "The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful
in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also
Hello!
Wanna spoil all the excitement?
We have a release schedule in mind, but it always unravels, so we just
let it be thrilling and don't make liars out of ourselves.
Having a schedule in mind is good if you are alone. As soon as you have
customers, you need to pull your schedules
From Robert Collins French/English dictionary,
raclette:
a. scraper (tool)
b. Swiss cheese dish.
Anyone sees a connection with 8.1?
Raklet has apparently as much relation with 8.1 as
Traktopel with 8.0 or Rhapsody with MacOS. I prefer
Rhapsody (as a name, I mean), and it would be great
Hello!
I noticed Mandrake had a distribution called corporate server. I am
setting up a new mail server for my small company. What should I use to
get started. A copy of Mandrake 8.0 set up as a server or the corporate
server 1.0.1? I tried out corporate server and it seemed extremly
Hello!
I tried using StarOffice 5.2, and it sounds like it is
rather buggy. At least the display is not good. The piece
of text around the cursor is partly hidden, backspace leaves
some black pixels (i.e. it does not eras prefectly) etc.
Is there a way to get it work fine?
Hello,
Does anybody know of a good text file browser? One that I can use to
quickly look through my files and read the textfiles as I browse through
them.
If it is plain text, there are many that can do the job, for instance
emacs, vi, with powerful features. And if you prefer a more
Hello,
Thanks, but I mean something more like a GUI file browser, like nautilus
or explorer (or PowerDesk for windows) that allows me to browse easily
through a large number of text files in a folder and preview (read) them
in a side window while that file is highlighted. Similar to GQview,
Hello!
Newbie again...
I have problems installing a cvs server on a Linux
Mandrake platform.
On one cvs troubleshooting page, it was said that I
should try first to telnet to myID@hostname 2401. It does
not work. Then, I simply tried to telnet to that machine,
and it does not work
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