Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 21 October 2004 08:01 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:37, Warly wrote: The 10.1 community tree will be updated soon. That means that you should

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 23 October 2004 01:33 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: My dumb question for the week, or day, maybe hour, anyway, how do you update from the tree?  Pick a mirror that has the 10.1 community on it or go to cooker and use one of those mirrors as the source?  This is not computing in

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 03:33, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 08:01 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:37, Warly wrote: The 10.1 community tree

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 23 October 2004 03:01 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 03:33, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 08:01 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu,

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:21, Dennis Myers wrote: it would run. I tried that myself, and could not get the list to load, it would time out after about 5 minutes Chances are that the hdlist itself is being updated/renewed when that happensnot all mirrors are equally fast, give some

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread John Wilson
On October 23, 2004 01:27 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:21, Dennis Myers wrote: it would run. I tried that myself, and could not get the list to load, it would time out after about 5 minutes Chances are that the hdlist itself is being updated/renewed when that

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Jack
On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 15:05 -0700, John Wilson wrote: On October 23, 2004 01:27 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:21, Dennis Myers wrote: it would run. I tried that myself, and could not get the list to load, it would time out after about 5 minutes Chances

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 23 October 2004 06:05 pm, John Wilson wrote: On October 23, 2004 01:27 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:21, Dennis Myers wrote: it would run. I tried that myself, and could not get the list to load, it would time out after about 5 minutes

[newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-21 Thread Warly
The 10.1 community tree will be updated soon. That means that you should use it to update your 10.1 community version. -- Warly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:37, Warly wrote: The 10.1 community tree will be updated soon. That means that you should use it to update your 10.1 community version. You're the greatest! -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-21 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:37, Warly wrote: The 10.1 community tree will be updated soon. That means that you should use it to update your 10.1 community version. You're the greatest! -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:45, Dennis Myers wrote: My dumb question for the week, or day, maybe hour, anyway, how do you update from the tree? Pick a mirror that has the 10.1 community on it or go to cooker and use one of those mirrors as the source? This is not computing in my onboard

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:37, Warly wrote: The 10.1 community tree will be updated soon. That means that you should use it to update your 10.1 community version. You're the

Re: [newbie] update installation

2004-09-05 Thread Martin Foster
Saturday 04 Sep 2004 21:53, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 12:25, john wrote: Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting a conflict message for the cups printer file and the printer utilites file. When trying to install together or indivually,

[newbie] update installation

2004-09-04 Thread john
Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting a conflict message for the cups printer file and the printer utilites file. When trying to install together or indivually, the message says that installation failed due to one conflicting with the other. Since neither has installed, I don't see how

Re: [newbie] Update site for Mandrake 10 official

2004-09-04 Thread Al James
snip Many thanks, have gone with the download all optionI love this broadband stuff..Wish it was available in New Zealand :(:(:(:( Regards Al I'm wondering how mant CD's were required? -- Regards: Hoyt Not including Mandrake itself. 12 cds for Main,PLF,Contrib and Updates. after

RE: [newbie] update installation

2004-09-04 Thread Bill Shirley
urpmi cups-drivers printer-utils HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of john Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 7:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] update installation Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting

Re: [newbie] Update site for Mandrake 10 official

2004-09-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 04 September 2004 08:21 am, Al James wrote: snip Many thanks, have gone with the download all optionI love this broadband stuff..Wish it was available in New Zealand :(:(:(:( Regards Al I'm wondering how mant CD's were required? Not including Mandrake itself.

Re: [newbie] update installation

2004-09-04 Thread Martin Foster
On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 12:25, john wrote: Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting a conflict message for the cups printer file and the printer utilites file. When trying to install together or indivually, the message says that installation failed due to one conflicting with the other.

Re: [newbie] update installation

2004-09-04 Thread Margot
Martin Foster wrote: On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 12:25, john wrote: Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting a conflict message for the cups printer file and the printer utilites file. When trying to install together or indivually, the message says that installation failed due to one conflicting with

[newbie] Update site for Mandrake 10 official

2004-08-28 Thread Unknown
Hi all, I'm visiting relatives in Hong Kong and have access to 10Mbps internet for a week or so. I've just downloaded Mandrake 10 official. Can anyone suggest where to get all the updates so I can burn them to cd before going back home to my 56k dialup? Also, have to get with MSWindows

Re: [newbie] Update site for Mandrake 10 official

2004-08-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 28 August 2004 17:33, Unknown wrote: Hi all, I'm visiting relatives in Hong Kong and have access to 10Mbps internet for a week or so. I've just downloaded Mandrake 10 official. Can anyone suggest where to get all the updates so I can burn them to cd before going back home to

Re: [newbie] Update site for Mandrake 10 official

2004-08-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:33, Unknown wrote: Hi all, I'm visiting relatives in Hong Kong and have access to 10Mbps internet for a week or so. I've just downloaded Mandrake 10 official. Can anyone suggest where to get all the updates so I can burn them to cd before going back home to

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 from 9.1-done it

2004-07-31 Thread M.Schild
so far so good. I find I still have a black border around my screen. I have tried different resolutions but it is still there. I find everything is very small too. Where have my Cd and DVD icons gone on my KDE desktop??? how do I find them? thank you Maryse

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-31 Thread Lanman
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 09:01, Lanman wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: It better well bloody be a concern of YOURS, Mr. List Nazi - else I'll walk my butt across the Southern Pacific, the the coast of Mejico, across that bland barren mid-west US, cross that border, and slap you with a

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 from 9.1-done it

2004-07-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 10:35, M.Schild wrote: so far so good. I find I still have a black border around my screen. I have tried different resolutions but it is still there. I find everything is very small too. Where have my Cd and DVD icons gone on my KDE desktop??? how do I find them?

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 from 9.1-done it

2004-07-31 Thread M.Schild
so far so good. I find I still have a black border around my screen. I have tried different resolutions but it is still there. I find everything is very small too. Where have my Cd and DVD icons gone on my KDE desktop??? how do I find them? thank you Maryse

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 from 9.1-done it

2004-07-31 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 22:27, M.Schild wrote: so far so good. I find I still have a black border around my screen. I have tried different resolutions but it is still there. I find everything is very small too. Where have my Cd and DVD icons gone on my KDE desktop??? how do I find them?

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 from 9.1-done it

2004-07-31 Thread M.Schild
This will allow you to stretch the screen; BUT, mind you, you MUST make sure that you've chosen the right monitor in MCC = Hardware = Monitor prior to playing with it - along with making sure you've chosen the correct video card (and, of course the proper resolution). Thanks, I´ll play with

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 from 9.1-done it

2004-07-31 Thread M.Schild
This will allow you to stretch the screen; BUT, mind you, you MUST make sure that you've chosen the right monitor in MCC = Hardware = Monitor prior to playing with it - along with making sure you've chosen the correct video card (and, of course the proper resolution). Thanks, I´ll play with

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 from 9.1-done it

2004-07-31 Thread M.Schild
Thanks, I´ll play with that later. But where are my disks ( DVD and CD-RW?) icons? (KDE) maryse Maryse; have a look at KDE Control CenterLookNFeelBehaviorDevice Icons. Select the icons for the drives you have and apply. Found it, clicked the right things, then¨ apply¨...and still no

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Frank
The clean install without formating the /home partition will leave your past work retrievable, I had no problems doing this. [ This assumes you have a separate /home partition. - Great having it for things like this.] As to 'QingHua' comment about it being better than 9.1 - Not here it ain't.

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Q.H. Wang
As for me, so far so good with 10.0. Now that is too much like windows. It's more like Windows than 9.1 but not too much from my point of view. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 30 July 2004 04:07, Frank wrote: The clean install without formating the /home partition will leave your past work retrievable, I had no problems doing this. [ This assumes you have a separate /home partition. - Great having it for things like this.] As to 'QingHua' comment about

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Q.H.Wang
My plan was to firstly update, and see what would happen. So far it sounds good. If there are any problems I have to have clean installation. Thanks anyway. QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:15, Hoyt Bailey wrote: A lot of the problems are probably coming from not doing a clean install. Backup /home to a cd and format /home and everything else for a clean install. I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Q.H.Wang
I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to make extra work for myself and see all the nasties... I don't like your tone

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 22:51, Q.H.Wang wrote: I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to make extra work for myself and

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 30 July 2004 08:51 am, Q.H.Wang wrote: I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will test it the next time as well - but still - it's only because I like to make extra work for myself

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Q.H.Wang
Sorry for my words, man. I confess I somehow misunderstood it. I had a clean install on another PC but this time I got no luck. During the course I was not able to confgiure the graphic card correctly (in MDK 9.1 I remember it's Radeon 9000, but I could not find it in MDK 10.0) thus could not

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Erylon Hines
|On Friday 30 July 2004 05:23 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: | On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:15, Hoyt Bailey wrote: | A lot of the problems are probably coming from not doing a clean | install. Backup /home to a cd and format /home and everything else for | a clean install. | | I just don't know how many

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:51:30 +0100 Q.H.Wang disseminated the following: I don't like your tone and attitude very much! And this is a concern of ours because... -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:43:31 up 16 days, 6:58, 4 users, load average: 0.24, 0.26, 0.20

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 23:15, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 30 July 2004 08:51 am, Q.H.Wang wrote: I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and will test it the next time as well - but still - it's

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 04:44, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:51:30 +0100 Q.H.Wang disseminated the following: I don't like your tone and attitude very much! And this is a concern of ours because... It better well bloody be a concern of YOURS, Mr. List Nazi - else I'll walk my butt

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Lanman
Stephen Kühn wrote: It better well bloody be a concern of YOURS, Mr. List Nazi - else I'll walk my butt across the Southern Pacific, the the coast of Mejico, across that bland barren mid-west US, cross that border, and slap you with a trout! I hate it when that happens! Still, it would be nice to

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 30 July 2004 06:24 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 23:15, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 30 July 2004 08:51 am, Q.H.Wang wrote: I just don't know how many more times I've got to see it - and those that have upgaded before, even...tested it time and time again, and

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 09:01, Lanman wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: It better well bloody be a concern of YOURS, Mr. List Nazi - else I'll walk my butt across the Southern Pacific, the the coast of Mejico, across that bland barren mid-west US, cross that border, and slap you with a trout!

Re: [newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-30 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 08:37:07 +1000 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: I don't like your tone and attitude very much! And this is a concern of ours because... It better well bloody be a concern of YOURS, Mr. List Nazi - else I'll walk my butt across the Southern Pacific, the the

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-29 Thread rosie
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:31, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 23:31, rosie wrote: I tried renaming the .mozilla directory and still Mozilla will not load, I have installed Firefox and that will not load either! Try running either from a terminal - so that way you can see what

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-29 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 18:55, rosie wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:31, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 23:31, rosie wrote: I tried renaming the .mozilla directory and still Mozilla will not load, I have installed Firefox and that will not load either! Try running either

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-29 Thread rosie
On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:03, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 18:55, rosie wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:31, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 23:31, rosie wrote: I tried renaming the .mozilla directory and still Mozilla will not load, I have installed

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-29 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 19:14, rosie wrote: On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:03, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 18:55, rosie wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:31, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 23:31, rosie wrote: I tried renaming the .mozilla directory and still

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-29 Thread rosie
On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:41, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 19:14, rosie wrote: Ok - howzabout this: urpme mozilla (and all that that implies) - do the same with firefox, reboot, reinstall both, see what it goes like, eh? stephen kuhn - proprietor I've unistalled, rebooted

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-29 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 20:55, rosie wrote: On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:41, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 19:14, rosie wrote: Ok - howzabout this: urpme mozilla (and all that that implies) - do the same with firefox, reboot, reinstall both, see what it goes like, eh?

[newbie] Update from 9.1 to 10.0 done!

2004-07-29 Thread Q.H.Wang
Hi people, I have done an update from 9.1 to 10.0. Basically it's sucessful. Almost all the applications I installed with 9.1 are untouched in this update, though some of them need to start from scratch (run as the first time). There is an exception. Matlab can not start Java Virtual Machine,

[newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-28 Thread rosie
I have just updated 9.1 to 10 and all went well except I cannot run Mozilla 1.6. I have re-installed it via MCC but still no luck, is there a problem with this version ? Any suggestions or am I going to have to do a complete install? -- Rosie Linux forever

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-28 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 21:38, rosie wrote: I have just updated 9.1 to 10 and all went well except I cannot run Mozilla 1.6. I have re-installed it via MCC but still no luck, is there a problem with this version ? Any suggestions or am I going to have to do a complete install? Rename your

RE: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-28 Thread Tony S. Sykes
What errors are you getting. Start it from the command line and post the errors. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of rosie Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-28 Thread rosie
I tried renaming the .mozilla directory and still Mozilla will not load, I have installed Firefox and that will not load either! On Wednesday 28 July 2004 13:04, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 21:38, rosie wrote: I have just updated 9.1 to 10 and all went well except I cannot run

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-28 Thread Margot
rosie wrote: I tried renaming the .mozilla directory and still Mozilla will not load, I have installed Firefox and that will not load either! Some new versions of Mozilla and Firefox need to be run as root first before they will run as user. Try calling them from a root terminal, then close,

Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6

2004-07-28 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 23:31, rosie wrote: I tried renaming the .mozilla directory and still Mozilla will not load, I have installed Firefox and that will not load either! Try running either from a terminal - so that way you can see what errors are being generated; methinks it's going to be a

Re: [newbie] update-menus -v never finishes

2004-06-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 26 June 2004 04:30 pm, Matt Warden wrote: Does anyone know why this is happening? It is always reproduceable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mwarden]# update-menus -v update-menus[11101]: Checking if urpmi is running (and waiting for it to finish if needed) update-menus[11101]: urpmi is not

Re: [newbie] update-menus -v never finishes

2004-06-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 26 June 2004 23:57, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2004 04:30 pm, Matt Warden wrote: Does anyone know why this is happening? It is always reproduceable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mwarden]# update-menus -v update-menus[11101]: Checking if urpmi is running (and waiting for

[newbie] Update Mirrors......

2004-04-20 Thread JRH
I have finally managed to get it sorted!! My PC must have been having a Microsoft Day yesterday, whereby it just wouldn't play ball whatever I tried. It does that now and again. I came home from work, booted up, and tried again. Success!!! I now have over 300MB's worth of updates coming

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-20 Thread John Wilson
On April 20, 2004 07:32 am, Edgars Smits wrote: OK, this is getting very frustrating. I've added strasburg via easy urpmi, unchecked the original sources (I installed from the 10C DVD), ran update as advised, then when I do a software update it always dumps me into a screen where I have to

Re: [newbie] Update sites.....

2004-04-19 Thread James Hill
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 19:29, Lee Wiggers wrote: http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php Proxad was slow this morning. I switched to strasbg and flew. Lee Can confirm, Strasbourg is doing the business for me.. 60+K/s, so mustnt grumble! JRH

[newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread JRH
so what is actually wrong with the update mirrors then? I managed to pull some stuff down from the czech site yesterday, but at very slow speed. Now, not one of them will work. Whats up? maintenance? or just sheer overload of people trying to improve 10 community? (I have just reinstalled,

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 19 April 2004 03:06 pm, JRH wrote: so what is actually wrong with the update mirrors then? I managed to pull some stuff down from the czech site yesterday, but at very slow speed. Now, not one of them will work. Whats up? maintenance? or just sheer overload of people trying to

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread James Hill
On Monday 19 Apr 2004 20:12, Greg Meyer wrote: It's a new directory structure.  Have you changed your urpmi sources to accomodate the new structure? Err. nope! what do I have to modify? and how? Any ideas appreciated! JRH Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread James Hill
On Monday 19 Apr 2004 20:33, Kaj Haulrich wrote: 3. As a last resort, if you can't get into it, return to this list, and I'll send you the needed commands. Cant get into anything at all. be it urpmi.org or PLF or any of the mandrake update mirors. Everyone must have the same idea as

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 19 April 2004 21:38, James Hill wrote: On Monday 19 Apr 2004 20:33, Kaj Haulrich wrote: 3. As a last resort, if you can't get into it, return to this list, and I'll send you the needed commands. Cant get into anything at all. be it urpmi.org or PLF or any of the mandrake

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread James Hill
On Monday 19 Apr 2004 21:21, Kaj Haulrich wrote: But proxad is in France, so if you wait a few hours most europeans have gone to bed, which supposedly opens a window for you. I've managed to get into Strasbourg, at around about 60k/s, so reasonable by my standards! I've done the

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 19 April 2004 22:25, James Hill wrote: On Monday 19 Apr 2004 21:21, Kaj Haulrich wrote: But proxad is in France, so if you wait a few hours most europeans have gone to bed, which supposedly opens a window for you. I've managed to get into Strasbourg, at around about 60k/s, so

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread JRH
On Monday 19 Apr 2004 21:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Congatulations ! - Now, the easy way to update is to go to system -- Configuration--Packaging--Mandrake Update. Nope.. It's still brining up the list of non operative mirrors from the mandrakesoft website. Let it do what it's gotta do, and

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 19 April 2004 22:38, JRH wrote: On Monday 19 Apr 2004 21:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Congatulations ! - Now, the easy way to update is to go to system -- Configuration--Packaging--Mandrake Update. Nope.. It's still brining up the list of non operative mirrors from the

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread JRH
On Monday 19 Apr 2004 21:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hmm... Maybe you already are uptodate ? I shouldnt be, as I have only just re-installed after Windows quite successfully demolished my Linux install (dont ask!). Whatever, it's gotten me beat well and truly. It's been a long day, I'm tired, and

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 19 April 2004 22:55, JRH wrote: On Monday 19 Apr 2004 21:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hmm... Maybe you already are uptodate ? I shouldnt be, as I have only just re-installed after Windows quite successfully demolished my Linux install (dont ask!). Whatever, it's gotten me beat well

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread Margot
JRH wrote: On Monday 19 Apr 2004 21:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Congatulations ! - Now, the easy way to update is to go to system -- Configuration--Packaging--Mandrake Update. Nope.. It's still brining up the list of non operative mirrors from the mandrakesoft website. Let it do what it's

Re: [newbie] Update Mirrors

2004-04-19 Thread frankieh
JRH wrote: On Monday 19 Apr 2004 21:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hmm... Maybe you already are uptodate ? I shouldnt be, as I have only just re-installed after Windows quite successfully demolished my Linux install (dont ask!). Whatever, it's gotten me beat well and truly. It's been a long day,

[newbie] Update sites.....

2004-04-18 Thread James Hill
I know the update mirrors are shot to bits for some reason.. Somebody earlier posted an alternative URL, and mentioned something about using proxad. Trouble is, I have since deleted the email, and want to try the address... can anyone help with the URL? Many thanks, JRH

[newbie] Update sites.....

2004-04-18 Thread JRH
I know the update mirrors are shot to bits for some reason.. Somebody earlier posted an alternative URL, and mentioned something about using proxad. Trouble is, I have since deleted the email, and want to try the address... can anyone help with the URL? Many thanks, JRH

Re: [newbie] Update sites.....

2004-04-18 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:58:32 +0100 James Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the update mirrors are shot to bits for some reason.. Somebody earlier posted an alternative URL, and mentioned something about using proxad. Trouble is, I have since deleted the email, and want to try

[newbie] Update KDE using CD

2004-03-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I get this CD from a Linux magazine consisting KDE3.2. Can I update my KDE3.1 using it? How? TIA. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 19:10:58 up 49 min, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586

Re: [newbie] Update Vs Install

2004-03-14 Thread Philip Cronje
On Saturday, 13 March 2004 23:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen comments here that it's better to do a new install of MDK 10 then an update. I just did an update on my Sony Viao laptop and it went well except for the sound, but that's always been a problem. Before I install 10 on my

Re: [newbie] Update Vs Install

2004-03-14 Thread rluchor
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 03:53, Philip Cronje wrote: Anyway, that was the general gist of it. I usually do a clean install, because by the time I'm reinstalling I'm so fed up with how cluttered my system is that I just smash the thing into oblivion (hooray for /home partitions!) I guess it's

[newbie] Update Vs Install

2004-03-13 Thread rluchor
I've seen comments here that it's better to do a new install of MDK 10 then an update. I just did an update on my Sony Viao laptop and it went well except for the sound, but that's always been a problem. Before I install 10 on my main machine I'd like to hear the pros cons of Update vs New

Re: [newbie] Update Vs Install

2004-03-13 Thread Floyd Hagen
I originally updated by downloading the RC1 isos, mounting them, then pointing urpmi to them. I had to force some kde (my wife needs KDE) stuff, but other than that it went off without a hitch running urpmi in a a terminal, while I was doing some other stuff in fluxbox. Watching urpmi do it's

Re: [newbie] Update Vs Install

2004-03-13 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:35 pm, many eyes viewed [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s words:- I've seen comments here that it's better to do a new install of MDK 10 then an update. I just did an update on my Sony Viao laptop and it went well except for the sound, but that's always been a problem. Before I

[newbie] update a file

2004-03-12 Thread David Sexton
maybe some can tell me this is a simple question I am making some alias's and wish to test them with out having to keep loging in and out. I use to know a command that would force linux to read a file over agin. So you can avoid loging in and out dues any one know that command? Thanks Want

Re: [newbie] update rc1

2004-02-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 27 February 2004 09:55 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: How does one go about updating rc1? I am a standard-club member. I am really not trying to be rude, but this has been discussed at least 3 - 4 times a week on both expert and newbie in the past two weeks. Simply browsing the

[newbie] update rc1

2004-02-27 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
How does one go about updating rc1? I am a standard-club member. Troy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: kwintv was Re: [newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b

2004-02-06 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] williamblake]# qtvision -r /dev/video0 qtvision: Unknown option '-r'. qtvision: Use --help to get a list of available command line options. If I run just qtvision it works but I get the age old problem that it does not allow me to select my tuner type

Re: kwintv was Re: [newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b

2004-02-06 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:22:20 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am disappointed, really. I was looking forward to using a TV app with a nice GUI. I guess I have to wait... Well I tried. Not having the necessary hw to test it with it would be pointless for me to try patch it.

Re: kwintv was Re: [newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b

2004-02-06 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Charles A Edwards wrote: Have you tried any of the other tv rpms xawtv or mythtv and I think xine can even be used for such? Charles Well, I use the following TV apps: tvtime Zapping (unfortunately automatic scanning doesn't work here for me there were some serious problems with

Re: kwintv was Re: [newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b

2004-02-06 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Have you tried any of the other tv rpms xawtv or mythtv and I think xine can even be used for such? I get no further with any of them. Personally I think its a more fundamental problem with the way the kernel uses/recognises TV tuners especially those that are built into graphics cards. But I

Re: kwintv was Re: [newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b

2004-02-06 Thread Littlefish Operator
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:22:20 +0100, Wojciech Podgórni wrote I am disappointed, really. I was looking forward to using a TV app with a nice GUI. I guess I have to wait... Wojciech Podgorni I never did get kwintv to work, but I didn't try very hard either because along the way I found tvtimes.

[newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b

2004-02-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
Now available for 9.2 Updated: gaim-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-encrypt-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-festival-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-perl-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-spam-blocker-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b

2004-02-05 Thread bascule
i've tried your latest gaim charles and i'm afraid that yahoo still doesn't work for me, after googling and chatting with a friend the other day it appears that the problem maybe my isps transparent http proxy, he has the same isp as me, uses the same programs and same servers but his is a

RE: [newbie] Update Files

2004-01-23 Thread Smith, Robert A
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Budhi Astiyadi Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Update Files I use Mandraka 9.2 Download Edition. Can anybody tell me where are the Update Files that I download

Re: [newbie] Update Files

2004-01-22 Thread James Henry Maiewski
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 07:37 am, Budhi Astiyadi wrote: I use Mandraka 9.2 Download Edition. Can anybody tell me where are the Update Files that I download from live update? I want to burn it and install them in other machine that has no internet connection. Thanks before. Hello,

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