Re: [newbie] DbaseIV database to use in Mandrake 9.1

Subject: Re: [newbie] DbaseIV database to use in Mandrake 9.1 At 12:42 PM 7/18/03, Johan Scheepers wrote: This is one comprehensive response - of course all of it way over my head - will need some close study. Sorry - would you maybe know any Howto's or sites or whatever to assist me, please

[newbie] Mandrake cooker??

Hi, How does mdk cooker work Do I need iso downloads?? Install mdk9.1 and upgrade?? I have some drive space and would like to tinker. Please some pointers. Enjoy Johan . May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] DbaseIV database to use in Mandrake 9.1

] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Johan Scheepers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] DbaseIV database to use in Mandrake 9.1 At 02:33 PM 7/16/03, rikona wrote: I have some old dbase files I may convert too. If you get this to work

[newbie] DbaseIV database to use in Mandrake 9.1

Hi I have this dbase IV database which I use in Delphi 3. Can this DBF used in mdk9.1. Maybe how? Kylix3? I would really appreciate some pointers here please. Enjoy Johan May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] superuser single command (su -c ??????????)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake-Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] superuser single command (su -c ??) On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 16:20, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, Sometimes while being a user you need to do a command that only su can do

[newbie] Making file excecutable

Hi, I have written some scripts in gedit to mount and umount my other linux flavours on my system. Do not want them in fstab OK I did chmod 755 to them and now they show up green. Can be executed with ./xx. They are in my home directory. What I would like to do is.. 1. execute them from

[newbie] Multiboot using BRUB

Hi, First THANKS to members giving me pointers and site addresses while I was learning GRUB.(Still learning) This is for members new to linux GRUB. This is a WONDERFULL bootloader - (LILO is fine.) If you start to understand its workings you can produce magic with it. Make a GRUB bootdisk - copy

[newbie] tricking linux to accept changed partition

Hi, This is for experimentation. Setup : 2 HD's - hde hdg .Mdk9.0 on second HD - hdg6 Remove drive one. Using GRUB bootdisk - booting hdg6 which is now changed to hde6. Before this (after file backup) I edited the fstab that the references to the previous partiton hdg6 now is hde6.(Wel I think

Re: [newbie] root

OK this can be done - but I think - if you knew how you would probably not do it - you can compromise your system to bad people.(Do not even think it will NOT happen to you) I now it is a hassle to to use console and you would rather use GUI. I asume that you are new to this according to your

[newbie] superuser single command (su -c ??????????)

Hi, Sometimes while being a user you need to do a command that only su can do. While stdying su it seems there is a way to do this. I have problems to make some work. su -c gedit root foo opens gedit in su mode not as foo but as untitled - you can save it as foo. su -c ./foo root This runs

Re: [newbie] recognizing Windows

May I make some suggestions Before you change anything in fstab please make backup. The dir name in /mnt is win_c in this case - you can create any dir name you like - after install I usualy create my own dirs like win-hda1 , dos-hde1 , man90-hde5, etc. Then I edit the fstab with the new names -

[newbie] Problem accessing floppy

Hi, After making a bootdisk with GRUB per instructions- (the bootdisk works fine)- I am not able to access the disk after reboot if mounted like : /mnt/floppy It seems to mount but if you say like ls then after a lot of activity you get i/o error. Eventually after a lot of grief I tried to mount

Re: [newbie] Printing man pages

10:38 am, Robin Turner wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 06:43, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, At the moment I use this command to print man pages... man lilo | col -b | lpr This is fine if it is only one or two pages. I do not seem to be able to redirect it to ordinary

Re: [newbie] Problem accessing floppy

See my posting to make your own tests JOHAN - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem accessing floppy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Installing grub on floppy

Hi, I would like to install GRUB on a floppy. The command on a multiboot howto give this-- grub-install '(fd0)' GRUB not very happy with this On the GRUB man this is the command grub --install-partition=PAR I can not find the correct sequence of the option? Somewhere the floppy should be in

[newbie] Printing man pages

Hi, At the moment I use this command to print man pages... man lilo | col -b | lpr This is fine if it is only one or two pages. I do not seem to be able to redirect it to ordinary file Why - then I may be able to use a editor and be able to print first odd -reverse -then even - this will then use

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot same OS

: Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot same OS Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi John, I installed mdk9.1 three times. Option auto / expert never came up. Insert CD1 , run to splash screen, choose F1, run to prompt, type expert, then enter, gives you expert install in graphical

Re: [newbie] Booting dos + dos + linux

Sorry I expressed myself badly. I want to boot this with lilo. Johan - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Booting dos + dos + linux Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, I am trying

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot same OS

- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot same OS Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi John, I installed mdk9.1 three times. Option auto / expert never came up. Insert CD1 , run to splash screen, choose

Re: [newbie] Multiboot on same drive

if you need more info - it is difficult to know what you need. Enjoy Johan - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Multiboot on same drive Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi to John Richard

[newbie] Multiboot on same drive

Hi to John Richard Smith , May the following be of assistance - it is part of a previous message I posted.. This is more detailed than the one posted earlier today - use them both.. snip Something else I would like to point out - I used Mandrake9.1 install partitioning to do the disk - when it

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

hi, I run XP and Mandrake 9 on same drive - LILO my bootloader. On installing Mandrake it picked up XP and configured it LILO was written to MBR. What I found was that Mandrake and LILO do a better job on discovering and config of additional OS's than Redhat. Now when I boot GUI come up - pick

Re: [newbie] re re mnt/winc

Hi, OK lets usume you use mandrake 9.1 (older versions differ in some respects) When booting it goes to the user selected on install. On KDE. Right click on mouse - select logout. On GNOME select start logout. Now it goes to where different user may logon This if you installed more than one user

[newbie] No response on questions

Hi A while back a member complained about no response to questions. I take it none had a something to say. I do understand his frustration ( being new to this)- I also had some questions - no response. Now I have pondered on this issue. Now should every one who see a question/s should reply sorry

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 bootdisk

Hi, I have a funny problem - if start up GUI - no problem-startup bootdisk it warns me that something will be removed - my cd writer. If try to acces cd-writer - complain io access problem. In console mount /mnt/cdrom no problem but try to access then problem. Eventualy I went to the control

[newbie] Mandrake or Redhat not complete boot

Hi, Here is something I also discovered by accident and I want to share. Still using Man 8.0 for a quite a while suddenly it refused to boot past confiuring TIME - it will hang there forever. This happens to all flavours I have. The install disks not affected by this.(Thank goodness) After

[newbie] Multiboot -dos -redhat -mandrake

Hi, I would like to thank Derek Jennings and FemmeFatale for the replies. I am sorry if the old hands find this a bit over kill but for beginners like me this is good. I want to add that I also needed to print and read about 70 pages from lilo htm and pdf files. Something else I would like to

Re: [newbie] Multiboot -dos -redhat -mandrake

] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Multiboot -dos -redhat -mandrake On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 4:45 pm, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, I would like to thank Derek Jennings and FemmeFatale for the replies. I am sorry if the old hands find this a bit

[newbie] Multiple boot

Hi, I have 3 OS on 1 drive /dev/hde 1 = Dos /dev/hde1 2 = Redhat 9.0/dev/hde5 3 = Mandrake 9.1/dev/hde7 swap = /dev/hde6 Why /dev/hde and not hda - I use ultra dma ide card Installed - dos -then -redhat- then -mandrake Usually Mandrake pickup

[newbie] Mandrake DOCS URPMI

Hi, While following a lead by Eric I found the following that may be of value to some: If your are a MEMBER of Mandrake club the Mandrake docs my be found here : Version 8.xx up to 9.1 : http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/mandrake_doc-en.html http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/ByName.html If NOT

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.1 user manuals are available

Thats nice You maybe have the web-address please Thanks Johan - Original Message - From: eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 8:25 AM Subject: [newbie] mandrake 9.1 user manuals are available For anyone interested in the downloadable manuals, i

[newbie] Re : urpmi mail-list

Hi, I would like to also join the urpmi mail-list Could someone kindly point me in the right direction Thanks Regards Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Re : Mandrake 9.1 sound

Hi, I have a ALS4000 sound card Mandrake did 9.0 pick up and it worked fine. Mandrake 9.1 seem to pick it but does not install?? / configure??? it. Going thruogh control center - its there - but no dice. Kindly some advice - please some details Regards Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] re : urpmi mail list

Hi, I would like to also join the urpmi mail-list Could someone kindly point me in the right direction Thanks Regards Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Test

Anybody receive this please ??? Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Re : Mandrake 9.1 -Root

Hi, Is there a reason why after logout of startup user not able to log in as root - can only login as users - I liked it in Mandrake 9.0 - nice GUI to modify whatever. - I am only user stand-alone pc Is there a way to do it like in 9.0.- or (maybe should create user with root privilages?? - is

[newbie] Re Mandrake 9.1 - root

Hi, Is there a reason why after logout of startup user not able to log in as root - can only login as users - I liked it in Mandrake 9.0 - nice GUI to modify whatever. - I am only user stand-alone pc Is there a way to do it like in 9.0.- or (maybe should create user with root privilages?? - is

[newbie] Re : Mandrake 9.1 - root

: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Johan Scheepers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re : Mandrake 9.1 -Root On Sunday 08 June 2003 10:28 am, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, Is there a reason why after logout of startup user not able to log in as root

Re: [newbie] Utility to keep internet connection busy

PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Utility to keep internet connection busy On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 14:45, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi, Is there a utillity that you can activate to keep internet connection busy while going eat/town/anywhere. South Africa

[newbie] Re : urpmi mailing list

Hi, Is there a mailing list for urpmi - for questions/answers? Thankyou Johan May this be a good day for learning Hi, Is there a mailing list for urpmi - for questions/answers? Thankyou Johan May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to