Re: [newbie] Disk Full notification?

Hey Barry, When copying files from one drive to another at the console, I don't get a disk full notification. When the drive fills up, it keeps trying to copy until it reaches the end, then it returns to the prompt. No note saying anything went wrong. Then I have no idea which file it

Re: [newbie] windows or start key in 9.0

Hey, Ever since installing 9.0, the windows or start key doesn't open up the menu. Anyway to get it back to full functionality? And when in using command line the Win key doesn't switch between consoles anymore. :-( That was so cool. (When in Ctrl-Alt-F4 the left Win key took you to

Re[4]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

Hey, Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question: I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing around, just looking and looking all over in the menus, I ran across the Login Manager. Its kinda

Re[2]: [newbie] Security alert

Hi, if you still think that Black Ice Defender is a good firewall have a look at this website http://www.grc.com and see what results it had when tested. having BID installed on your windowz machine can be even worse that having no firewall at all (i.e. false sense of security). when you need a

Re: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

Hi all, I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the options to logout, halt, and reboot don't show up when I logout of KDE in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I previously had RedHat Linux 7.3 installed, and the options were there. What am I missing? Is there a security level that

Re[2]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

Hey Derek, I have a very similar question - in 9.0 I can't run shutdown as a regular user anymore - says command not found. So I guessed it's in /sbin which isn't in a regular user's path so I typed /sbin/shutdown -r now but bash said only root can do that. Shutdown has r-x permission for

Re: [newbie] System mode autologin

Hi, I've just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 and I am quite impressed. I just have one problem, when I try to configure autologin in Mandrake control center to start up IceWM instead of the KDE that I initially picked the changes do not stick. When I reboot the machine it continues to load

Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0

Hi, Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm trying to research which is best, but only finding older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default

Re[2]: [newbie] CD burning software

Hi, Dose any one have any suggestions on CD duplication software? I copy a lot of cd's. I have tried X-CD-Roost but it only can read and copy from the CD Write drive. If you want to write on the fly you will need to add scsi emulation for your cdrom drive and then set it as your read

Re[2]: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

Hi, Is LBA turned on? How do you turn LBA on? I have lba32 (without the quotes) in lilo.conf if thats what you mean. Sridhar meant the setting in the BIOS. Try changing it from AUTO to LBA. In addition, the IBM Feature Tool can turn off Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) on the

Re[2]: [newbie] GCombust permissions problem

Hi, Was the CD-ROM burnt using Rock Ridge extensions enabled? If so, then file permissions were recorded to the disc. This means that the files on the disc behave as if they're on your hard drive, in that you need the correct user permissions to access them. Thank you for your thoughts and

Re[2]: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

Hi, Sharrea wrote: I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for hda so I can't install without wiping the drive clean. Any help would be much appreciated. I can't recite the details, but a

Re: [newbie] I want a slover cdrom...

Hi, I have an 52x LG cdrom and a 16x12x40 Philips CD-writer. They are both very loud when playing movies or copying. I decided that I do not need speeds like this. I want to make at least my cdrom like only 10x speed. It would be more quiet this way. In windows there are programs for this,

Re[2]: [newbie] Fifth Open Source office suite

Hi, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this, but Gobe Productive is going Open Source 'within the next 90-120 days' (the gap presumably being to get the source code cleaned up :) http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1520 http://www.gobe.com/ I've used it before on Windows, and it's _very_ nice

Re: [newbie] CD Burning issues

Hi Isaac, I tried to use ERoaster and X-CD-Roast (just because they were the first two in the K Menu) but neither of them ever opened. The little disks spun in the taskbar for a few seconds, then just disappeared uneventfully. I checked my process manager and they weren't running in the

Re[2]: [newbie] CD RW

Hi Carlos, I am not obtaining, the CD I was formatted in windows, I only obtain to read the file of the UDF Reader. You need to mount it with UDF as filesystem. If you don't know what I am talking about then please look up your /etc/fstab file and post it here. I will then try and give you

[newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

Hi guys, Just read this week's MDK newsletter and found this: -- MandrakeClub RPM-voting system: Test the applications! Deno writes: The moment we started the 'RPM-voting' system, I was afraid that we may run out of volunteers or get buried

Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

Hi Derek, Just read this week's MDK newsletter and found this: -- MandrakeClub The most popular RPM requests (and their status) as of 29 July 2002: KDE 3.0.2 done Wine testing Mozilla 1.0 done Xine + dvdnav done GNOME 2.0 in

Re[4]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

Hi, Could you please point me to an URL? Can't seem to find anything for mplayer. I checked ftp.cesnet.cz, fr2.rpmfind.net, ftp.ciril.fr, spirit.profinet.sk and hq.alert.sk. MPlayer is on PLF http://plf.zarb.org/ OK, thank you Derek, Anuerin and Bill. Didn't check PLF. And things like

Re[4]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

Hi Sridhar, Mandrake Unsupported (made by volunteers) and Contribs (made by Mandrake employees but unsupported) packages can be found at any Mandrake FTP mirror. A list of such mirrors can be found at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 Hooray, thanks, must have missed a dir

Re[4]: [newbie] normalize

Hi, So, to rephrase it, what does normalize do *without* any switches? dunno, when I realized the -mix mode is what I needed, that's all I've ever used OK, thank you anyways. Does anyone else know, please? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] normalize

Hi, Just learnt how to use normalize, but am still confused about the normal and -mix mode. Let's say I have three files with the RMS volume of 3, 5 and 7 (1 being quietest, 10 being loudest). As far as I understand, normalize without switches raises the RMS volume of all the files to 10.

Re[2]: [newbie] normalize

Hey Tom, Just learnt how to use normalize, but am still confused about the normal and -mix mode. Let's say I have three files with the RMS volume of 3, 5 and 7 (1 being quietest, 10 being loudest). As far as I understand, normalize without switches raises the RMS volume of all the files to

Re[2]: [newbie] MD compatible monitors

I'm looking at a Samsung 96 BDF 19 screen Res 1600x 1200 refresh 65Hz dp .20mm for $190 Anyone know anything about it? Also, its not listed on the Samsung USA site or the rest of the site even under obsolete models! Sorry, actually its a Samitron, which is a division of samsung I

Re[2]: [newbie] chmod and chown on vfat

Hey, When copying to vfat partitions the filemanagers often try to copy the attributes, too. I solved this problem by appending quiet as an option in the relevant fstab entries. I wonder, is there a better way? uhmm.. can i see that line in your fstab?? ;o) for a long time i thought this

Re: [newbie] Cd-rw Problem

Hey, I can't seem to get mt CD-RW to work. I've tried Gnome Toaster, X-CDRoast and GCombust. Nothing seems to work. The drive works fine under Windows 2000 and I can record without problem. When I try it using cdrecord from the command line I get the following: snip Starting to write

[newbie] On the fly Audio CD copy

Hi everyone, Is it possible to copy Audio CDs on the fly, without the intermediate wavs on disk? I know it would be dangerous because of possible problems while reading the Audio tracks, but anyways, could it be done? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] ISOs (loop) in fstab possible?

Hi list, Is it possible to add ISOs as loop devices to fstab for easy mounting? Something like /dev/hda1/iso/mdk82/Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso /mnt/image1 iso9660 loop,users Didn't work for me, said the ISO is no directory. -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re[2]: [newbie] Command line burning

Hey, cdrecord: fifo had 11671 puts and 11608 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11400 times full, min fill was 85%. Well, as long as the FIFO doesn't go empty I don't think you need to worry about anything. The CD-RW has a buffer of its own, so I assume if FIFO runs out of data there

Re[2]: [newbie] Command line burning

Hey, I have some ISO files (a downloaded Linux distribution), so I don't need to use mkisofs. However, during burning, I get a coaster, then the following disc is ok. The next one is a coaster, then ok. I ended up with 7 good discs and 4 coasters. There were no changes made to the

Re[2]: [newbie] Command line burning

Hi, cdrecord: fifo had 11671 puts and 11608 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11400 times full, min fill was 85%. I've stayed out of this 'cause I don't have any 800mb media, never tried/seen any. On another count, I prefer to use mkisofs to make the img, then write to cdr, so I've

Re: [newbie] Command line burning

Hi, I use 800mb blank discs. I get mencoder to create 780mb film.avi files which I write to disc. b) mkisofs / cdrecord using a pipe === mkisofs -r -J -v film.avi | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data -pad -eject -ignsize This does the mkisofs to cdrecord on

Re[2]: [newbie] Command line burning

Hi, mkisofs -r -J -v film.avi | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data -pad -eject -ignsize Could it be that cdrecord is just missing the final - on the command line telling it to use stdin? so how would this be done then ? IIRC: mkisofs -r -J -v film.avi | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data

Re[2]: [newbie] What have I done?

Hey Anne, 4/ Did you try a different KDE account or Gnome? I only loaded KDE. What do you mean by 'a different KDE account'? A different user account. Log out of KDE and select a different user and login as he/she. You could also try logging in as root if there is no other user you can log

Re[2]: [newbie] How to append files to a CD-R?

Hey, How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have already recorded or burned just a few files? Can't help here. IMO, cd-rewriteables's (cd-rw's) are not so good an idea. They cost too much, and are unreliable (ie, harder to read than cd-r's by most all

Re: [newbie] md5sum

Hi, Would someone tell how they are useing md5sum.Thee last iso I missed a file that cost me a headache.Thank,s Joe IIRC you place the ISOs and the file containing the MD5 sums of the ISOs in one dir and run md5sum -c file_with_sums . HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] virus filtering?

Hi, what software would you recommend for scanning for (microsoft) viruses on a linux mail server? I'd recommend NOD from Eset, http://www.nod32.com/products/unix.htm , you can check how it performed against other AV products at the Virus Bulletin page -

Re: [newbie] failed on bootup lm 8.2

Hey Rick, I get a few error on boot up. Here they are. turning on procerss accournting [failed] starting processing acounting[failed] snip Do I need process acounting? Maybe I should just turn it off. I had a problem with that in 8.1 IIRC, I remember reading on

Re[2]: [newbie] failed on bootup lm 8.2

Hi, I get a few error on boot up. Here they are. turning on procerss accournting [failed] starting processing acounting[failed] snip Do I need process acounting? Maybe I should just turn it off. I had a problem with that in 8.1 IIRC, I remember reading on

Re[2]: [newbie] Gnome 2.0

Hi Sridhar, Now, the question would be, what do I need to download in order to upgrade Gnome to v2.0? Gnome.org points to Cooker which contains many gnome-* files, however, which ones are 2.0 ones? Some of them are new, some are from March. Which ones do I need? With KDE3 one knew he had to

Re: [newbie] USB 250 Zip Drive and Linux?

Hey, I've read somewhere that USB 250MB Zip drives do not work with Linux. Is this true? If not, what do I need to do to get it working? It isn't true. I have one myself and it works well. You only need to mount it as /dev/sda4 , you can also create an icon in KDE (or Gnome), you have to

[newbie] OT leaving for a while

Hi Femme and guys, Since the exam time is starting and won't finish at least until June 14th I am temporarily unsu... oops, I almost used the U-word. So I wanted to say thank you too all the ones I didn't thank and to all the ones I did, too. Even though I think HTML is a poor document format,

Re: [newbie] IRQ

Hi Robin, I suspect the freeze problem I mentioned earlier is to do with IRQ conflicts, but how do I change IRQs? I've looked up every configuration tool I can find (Control Centre, linuxconf, webmin) and couldn't find anything that allows me to assign IRQs, or indeed do much at all to

Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting

Hey, You know what I do whenever I get a new Mandrake distro? (well there are a lot of things BUT) I open the software (RPM) manager, go to flat list, and under the not installed part, I take the time to scroll down thru the list and see just what was -not- installed. Its pretty

Re[2]: [newbie] OT guns

Hi, Simple fact: Guns kill ppl. Access to them does same. End of story here in Canada. Rediculous. Criminals kill people, Accidents can kill them, too. And easy access to guns makes it easy to get guns for crimes. I think I agree with Femme. and if you take away their guns, they will

Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting

Hey, Hmm, I always went through the whole list before (during) installation... i dont think you could view all available rpm packages during installation as many are intentionally hidden by the distro packagers to prevent overwhelming the new users who are trying mandrake for the first

Re[2]: [newbie] OT over reacting

Hey, Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of packages during installation, can't you? *grin* to tell you the truth i dont know if i can switch to flat view during installation. is there such an option during the graphical installation? IIRC there is something like

[newbie] OT test, please ignore

#include subject.h Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] To list admin (Denis Havlik?)

Hi, I lost my old email address an thus can't unsub. (because it needs a confirmation which I can't confirm since the request is sent to my old address). The old address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Could you please unsub. me? Or if I am asking at the wrong place, could someone point me please in the

[newbie] What would be the standard document format?

Hi guys, I see everyone recommend not to save/share documents as .DOC since it's a closed format. So my question is, what format should I use? Requirements: 1. Must be able to at least contain tables and pictures (preferably embedded) apart from the usual formating. 2. All the major apps

Re[2]: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources

Hey John, Say, where does the newly created rpm file end up, after checkinstall. To be honest, I don't know. I haven't yet tried it, just read the docs after recommendation by others. But I bet it's configurable. ;-) Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] enterprise kernel sources

Hi, So you have to install the kernel-source RPM for your kernel from your CD's. I am using the enterprise kernel. Is there a difference between the actual sources? TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources

Hi, I need to learn how to create rpm files from tar files. I feel that it falls into two parts, preperation and action. That would probably be best done with checkinstall http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ which is a tool that you run instead of make install. Of course, you must

Re: [newbie] Can't post to newbie

Hi, I need some help because I can't reply messages to the list. I only can send mails, but not reply. This are the symptons: final-recipient-field: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] action-field: failed status-field: 5.0.0 remote-mta-field: ESMTP diagnostic_code_field: smtp; 450 Client host

Re: [newbie] New silly Question. ;) Recommend good file manager?

Hi, I need a semi-decent one. KDE uses Konqueror, and I tried GWC?... for enlightenment. I hated GWC *or whatever its called*. Any ideas? :) I also can't find any good file manager. Waiting for Windows Commander to be ported to Linux, but in the meanswhile I settled with Emelfm. You can

Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...

Hi Sridhar, I loaded gdict (I would assume that this would work with kdict as well), which is set to use the server dict.org on port 2628. I then entered the word defenestration (without the quotes). Here's what I got: defenestration n. mythically from a traditional Czech

Re[2]: [newbie] Icon Question

Hi, One way to do it is to right-click on the icon and then click on properties. A dialog box will open with the icon on it, so click on the icon now and another box will open. There you will see a lot of other icons or you can choose a .png or .xpm file. Pick up a new icon and it's

Re[2]: [newbie] Lilo Problem

Hey, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( Rich, two suggestions : If you run KDE or GNOME, open Control Center, type in your root-password, and select Boot. Then, select Boot Config. Now, in the upper right corner, click Configure. This opens a

Re[2]: [newbie] par for linux?

Hey, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( RAR format is an archiving format that is very popular in europe japan. mostly popular with Warez ppl too b/c its algorithms compress better than .zip Please just don't make it sound like an evil warez dood

Re: [newbie] OT: no windows

Hey, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( 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

Re: [newbie] SbLive

Hey, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( How do you switch the analog output on the soundblaster live to digital? In windows there was creative software to do it. I am running digital speakers as it is and now have no sound. Thanks. You should be able to

Re[2]: [newbie] Icon Question

Hi, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( One way to do it is to right-click on the icon and then click on properties. A dialog box will open with the icon on it, so click on the icon now and another box will open. There you will see a lot of other

Re[2]: [newbie] uninstall .tar.gz

Hey everyone, (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( RK Is it possible to somehow uninstall something I compiled and installed RK from a tarball? Go to the source directory of that app and do make uninstall. Onur Kucuk This depends on the make script.

Re[2]: [newbie] par for linux?

Hey, What else do I want to know? Everything ;) Seriously, though, I've seen mention of rar a few times on this list and it started to bug me that I didn't know what it was. I've never needed it, but a google search for 'rar linux' turns up some hits, including one for a

Re: [newbie] change ownership group

Hey, I just upgrade my linux to Mandrake 8.1 from 8.0, but now I can't change the ownership or group in windows partition (/mnt/win_c and /mnt/win_d) the system said that action not permitted (not enough permission, when I try to change in properties) even I login as root. I try by using

[newbie] uninstall .tar.gz

Hi, Is it possible to somehow uninstall something I compiled and installed from a tarball? TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re(8): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

Hey, Do you know how GSM mobile phones became an international standard? The Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland) agreed on a common standard for mobile phone communications. The Nordic countries don't have the largest populations of any countries in the world, nor

Re[2]: [newbie] kernel sources

Hi, I found Kernel-source on the 8.1 CD that I had downloaded. It's on CD#2..I believe it's called kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk.i586.rpm Terry the package for kernel sources is kernel-source it should be on the second installation CD. Alaa Thank you very much. BTW: How come the package is

[newbie] kernel sources

Hi everyone, I am trying to install the alsa-driver, but I don't have the kernel sources. Can someone please tell me where to get them from? My kernel version is 2.4.8-26mdk. Mark recommended ftp.kernel.org but I think it'd be better to get the sources for *exactly* the kernel I have. I'd

Re[4]: [newbie] emu-tools

Hey, --- Your kernel must be compiled with loadable modules and soundcard support and without any integrated emu10K1 soundcard drivers. How do I check, please? Look for CONFIG_MODULES = y for the loadable modules support CONFIG_SOUND = y/m for soundcard support and CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1

Re[2]: [newbie] Frontpage?

Hey, See how many errors are found on the w3c validator on a page created with Frontpage. Frontpage makes sure it works on IE but they don't really care how it looks on any other browser Frontpage is basically for IMHO people who don't know how to code by hand. Everybody has to

[newbie] emu-tools

Hey, I installed emu-tools 0.9.4 but whenever I am trying to run emu-config it gives me: SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Invalid argument I checked the tools' docs for such a thing but it is not mentioned there. Can anyone please tell me what it means and how to fix it? Well I know zilch about

Re: [newbie] how to change property: default user login without password

Hey, My linux installation logs in with a specific user without prompting for a password. How do I change this so that it will ask for a username password? Go into the Mandrake Control Center (run mcc or click onto the desktop icon) and under boot options find the autologin option and

Re[2]: [newbie] KDE and Gnome

Hi everyone, And thanks for all the responses I got to this thread. A.G.Diaz, i use xfce but since the original poster prohibited the expression of reasons for preferring other desktop/window Managers i just watch this thread from the sidelines. *grin* Thank you for adhering to my question

Re[4]: [newbie] [OT] NOT acronyms (was Wanting to replace / or run these windows apps.)

Hey, WINE means Wine Is Not an Emulator. ;-) BTW: How about LINUX = Linux Is Not UniX? What do you think everyone? GNU/LINUX = Gnu's Not Unix, and Linux Is Not Unix, eXactly, either. I actually only wanted to ask what everybody thinks about my invention LINUX = Linux Is Not UniX but as I

Re[2]: [OT] SASA ( was Re: [newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?)

Hey, Oops. The dangers of plain text humour. There is no metric setting for TCP/IP packet sizes. I was kidding. Back in the day SmartAss SysAdmins used to blame slow performance on fat electrons which tend to get stuck in the curves and bends of printed circuit boards. Sunspots

[newbie] KDE and Gnome

Hey all, I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does it make the right one for you. And please let's not talk about other WMs, I would only

Re[2]: [newbie] [OT] NOT acronyms (was Wanting to replace / or run these windows apps.)

Hey, snip As far as Windows emulators go, there are several options. 1. You can try Wine (WINdows Emulator), /snip WINE means Wine Is Not an Emulator. ;-) BTW: How about LINUX = Linux Is Not UniX? What do you think everyone? Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Having trouble accessing USB Zip drive

Hey, Can someone please let me know how I access USB Zip drives using linux I had a hard time trying to make it run until I tried the most basic thing. 1. Create a dir called zip (or anything you like) in /mnt 2. As root type mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip 3. Modify /etc/fstab and add an entry for

[newbie] emu-tools

Hi, I installed emu-tools 0.9.4 but whenever I am trying to run emu-config it gives me: SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Invalid argument I checked the tools' docs for such a thing but it is not mentioned there. Can anyone please tell me what it means and how to fix it? TIA Roman Want to buy your

[newbie] monitor power management

Hi, I am using XScreenSaver and the only saver selected is Phosphor. Now, I tried to set power management options in both XScreenSaver and KDE control center (hope I got the name right) to different values but neither seems to get noticed by the system. It always freezes phosphor's output after a

Re[4]: [newbie] Automatic Windows Mount

Hi, My windows driveis automatically mounted when I go into Linux. How do I turn this off? comment the entries in your /etc/fstab by placing # marks before each line. I wonder, what should I do so that the drives don't get mounted but I can mount them with a simple mount /mnt/win_c without

Re[2]: [newbie] HP Printers

Hi, Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about drivers and support?  I'm looking to buy one this weekend and would like to have a bit I am not a fan of HP for Linux printing...They are not really into supporting the drivers nor do they want to get 'into' the game. A

Re[2]: [newbie] cd-rw

Hi, I am having trouble reading a cd-rw cd. This is a brand new installation of 8.1. I am trying to look at a cd that was created in windows. My Sony crx0811 seems to see cd-r but not cd-rw. It mounts but shows only two files: autorun.inf and udfrinst.exe. With which program did you use to

Re[2]: [newbie] Automatic Windows Mount

Hi, My windows driveis automatically mounted when I go into Linux. How do I turn this off? comment the entries in your /etc/fstab by placing # marks before each line. mine would look like this: #/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat ro,uid=501,gid=506,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 #/dev/hda5

Re: [newbie] HP Printers

Hey, Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about drivers and support?  I'm looking to buy one this weekend and would like to have a bit of information before I outlay the cash. I have a DeskJet 930C and it printed the test page during MDK install pretty fine (but *so*

[newbie] GRUB install

Hi guys, When responding to this mail please email me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I am not subscribed to the list. Thanx. To the problem - I am using MDK7.1 and LILO doesn't want to install properly cos of the cyl 1024 problem so I wanted to install GRUB, but how ? I am not any clever

[newbie] HP DeskJet 930

Hey all, When responding to this topic, please email me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I am not subscribed to the list. TIA. For the question - I am planning on buying a HP DeskJet 930 but I checked the hardware list on Mandrake and its support is listed as partial (second out of four

[newbie] HP DeskJet 930

Hi guys, When responding to this topic, please email me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I am not subscribed to the list. TIA. For the question - I am planning on buying a HP DeskJet 930 but I checked the hardware list on Mandrake and its support is listed as partial (second out of four

Re[5]: [newbie] How to delete an ext2 partition under DOS

Hey Robin, I'ld use fdisk from the dos utility. From the DOs utility ? You mean like the original normal DOs version of fdisk or some fdisk under Linux ? That'll take care of the whole disk or partial if you want to get rid of the ext2 partition. DOS fdisk doesn't wanna see the Ext 2

Re[2]: [newbie] How to delete an ext2 partition under DOS

Hey Joan, Now my question is - how can I delete that /dev/hda6 partition? I need it for windows at the moment and DOS fdisk doesn't see it. Not even as NON-DOS partition, which would give me an option to delete it. What can I do apart from Partition Magic which I don't have the money for?

Re[2]: [newbie] How to delete an ext2 partition under DOS

Hey Aaron, There is a nice little freeware utility called DelPart. It can be found online, I don't have an exact URL, you'll have to search for it. Very handy to have around. Can delete any partition. Thx, will try, L.H.Loo sent me some URLs to look at, so I will. Thanx again. If you

Re[2]: [newbie] How to delete an ext2 partition under DOS

Hey, FYI, Try one of these two websites : http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/delpart.htm or http://www2.netquest.com/tech/MyPC/utilitie.htm Thank you, will check it. If you reply to this mail, please also send me a copy to my private email address [EMAIL PROTECTED], since I am

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Hey Larry, Sorry this reply has taken so long. I was away in Frisco for the past five days No problem, hope you enjoyed the trip. Nope. I don't use windows enough anymore to bother., but I don't think the average user would know how to either or probably have a recent backup.

Re[2]: [newbie] How to delete an ext2 partition under DOS

Hey Eunice, put the installation disk in and do an expert install, when you get to the disk partitioning, just delete the linux partition, click done then exit the install Thanks for the advice. I hear you have a PlexWriter 8/4/32? So do I... (LOL, lame, I know... ;-) If you reply to this

Re[3]: [newbie] How to delete an ext2 partition under DOS

Hey, Further to my earlier posting - I have just used fdisk (msdos version) under pure dos - "delete non-dos partition'" - to delete the 3 partitions SuSeLinux created on a 400MB harddisk and formatted it under Win95 with no problem. May be you can do that also. But be very careful

[newbie] How to delete an ext2 partition under DOS

Hi guys, I'd need some help. I have a 20GB disk, c: (/dev/hda1) is windows, 2GB, FAT32; d: (/dev/hda5) is windows stuff, 16GB, FAT32; /dev/hda6 is Linux /, 1.72GB, Ext2, /dev/hda7 is Linux swap, 128MB (the rest). Now my question is - how can I delete that /dev/hda6 partition? I need it for

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