Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread revolt
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:30:47 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:45 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: urpmi partimage. It's on contrib Lee No, it's a different program. What I mean is

[newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-22 Thread revolt
I want to backup my boss's fresh install of XP to a gzip (on a mandrake partition) on his dell, then be able to ghost his XP back onto the fat32 partition. I have been experimenting in preparation for this and have gotten some errors that I believe may be related to fat32 not having any

Re: [newbie] Running program through SSH

2003-09-08 Thread revolt
HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:45:52 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I type this to run setiathome: ./setiathome I think you want to do ./setiathome Shouldn't kill the app when you close the term. If not, try , that oughta do it. I think also nohup

[newbie] anyone here had success using ltsp with mdk9.1?

2003-09-06 Thread revolt
I am trying to set up a diskless workstation using ltsp. Last time I tried to install ltsp (and set up dhcp for it), something happened that really messed up my favorite OS. Had to reinstall due to the many things that went wrong after running the installation script. Now I am a little afraid

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-20 Thread revolt
[snip] Revolt: Somewhere on the Store site there is a way of tracking orders -- I'd try that first. It's possible that DHL lost his DVDs. However, if the order hasn't been shipped, a firm, but polite, e-mail to M. Demoulin might work. Eight weeks is way too long -- hell, 9.1 was released

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-19 Thread revolt
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 03:43 pm, owenb wrote: Nearly all responses to my suggestion that the Action Editor of Smart Computing could induce Mandrake to explain why customers were being ignored were, don't do it.So minding the sentiments of others I have another

[newbie] internet problem

2003-07-07 Thread revolt
This box (running mdk 9.1) gets IP from other (mdk 8.2) box, this always worked well until I decided to try using this box as a ppp host (tried to configure it from mandrake control center, which installed bind and some other things I think) Now every time I reboot this box I have to go into

[newbie] ppp hosting

2003-07-04 Thread revolt
I want to be able to have a friend dial-up my box and share my connection. I have no idea where to start, except I am now working on getting my (win)modem working. During startup it wasn't noticed during hardware detection (I will root around in the bios to see if I can fix anything in there)

Re: [newbie] Mplayer

2003-06-24 Thread revolt
C. Tresenriter wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:15:08 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark wrote: Drew, 1) Configure a Texstar source for urpmi: urpmi.addmedia texstar http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/ with

[newbie] quickrip and pyqt

2003-06-19 Thread revolt
I am trying to rip a dvd, used urpmi to install quickrip, without errors. Went to run it and got this: Couldn't load PyQT module! Check it's installed properly. If you think it is, but you still get this message, please see the frequent problems page online at: http://quickrip.sf.net/fp.shtml

Re: [newbie] quickrip and pyqt

2003-06-19 Thread revolt
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:05:02 -0600 revolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't load PyQT module! Check it's installed properly. Do you have PyQt installed? Charles Ok i searched around a bit and it looks like there is an incompatibility between pyqt 3.5

Re: [newbie] quickrip and pyqt

2003-06-19 Thread revolt
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:05:02 -0600 revolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't load PyQT module! Check it's installed properly. Do you have PyQt installed? Charles urpmi installed PyQt-3.5-1.mdk for me. I have been looking for a newer version without any

Re: [newbie] Driver for Canon i320 printer for linux mandrake 9.1

2003-06-15 Thread revolt
Jure Repinc wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: For Canon printers you will get the best results with Turbo Print http://www.turboprint.de/english.html It is not 'free software' ,but is no charge for personal use. I'm using this driver for my i320 and it works. But it always prints it's logo in the

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-15 Thread revolt
Ralph Bagwell wrote: Hi Joe, I have gaim up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger programs. Glad to hear it. Hope it works well for you, it has for me on the few occassions i wanted to use it. I was never able to follow your instructions using urpmi - I tried : urpmi.addmedia

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread revolt
Ralph Bagwell wrote: Thanks a lot Joe BUT: I have the program running but can only get AOL to work. I have only two options AOL/ICQ and TOC (whatever that is) as proocols available,. I was unable to follow your instructions on setting up the urpmi deal. But I now know how to make the amsn

Re: [newbie] help! MLDONKEY makes my system crash!

2003-06-13 Thread revolt
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:13:26 +0800 Xuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to find something to replace the win32 eMule. At first I tried lmule, which is so vulnerable and unstable that it crashed and made core dump files so often. Then I found mldonkey , I downloaded the

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-13 Thread revolt
Ralph Bagwell wrote: I am still embarrassed to post because you newbies seem light years ahead of me - oh well. I downloaded and installed with zero problems amsn a messenger program very like Windows Messenger. I actually swapped a few lines with a friend. I closed Konqueror and promptly my

[newbie] former microsoft addict migrating to mandrake: needs to be able toread outlook archives

2003-06-06 Thread revolt
My friend finally decided to rid his computer of microsoft, but has years of emails in outlook archives that he can't live without. What should I recomend? Evolution? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] former microsoft addict migrating to mandrake: needs tobe able to read outlook archives

2003-06-05 Thread revolt
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:20, revolt wrote: My friend finally decided to rid his computer of microsoft, but has years of emails in outlook archives that he can't live without. What should I recomend? Evolution? It's too bad he ditched it already

Re: [newbie] IsTwo monitors possible?

2003-05-30 Thread revolt
Gareth Qually wrote: cool thanks, i will check it out. Will some research myself as well. Ciao Gareth Qually I got Xinerama to work (sort of) using two videocards, but found it to very unstable at the time (a while ago now, perhaps it has evolved since then, and it could have been due to