Re: How to open .azw or .prc (mobireader) files

2008-05-05 Thread der.hans
Am 05. Mai, 2008 schwätzte Josef Lowder so: My system is Mandriva 2006 so I don't think apt-get will work and I do not have Synaptic on this system. The fbreader website says that the download is for Linux desktops and it does not seem to be source code that needs to be compiled. It says to

Re: How to open .azw or .prc (mobireader) files

2008-05-05 Thread Josef Lowder
. Thank you Joseph, der Hans, and Matt. Forgive my ignorance, but I still need help. See below. -- On Mon, 5 May 2008 07:02, Matt Graham wrote After a long battle with technology, der.hans wrote: Am 05. Mai, 2008 schwatzte Josef Lowder so: My system is Mandriva 2006 so I

Re: How to open .azw or .prc (mobireader) files

2008-05-05 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Josef Lowder wrote: Package management has probably improved a lot on later Mandrake releases. I do have a more recent Mandriva release on another computer but need this on an older system that I cannot risk updating. If a distro's upgrade procedure is

Re: How to open .azw or .prc (mobireader) files

2008-05-05 Thread Josef Lowder
. On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:38, Matt Graham wrote Joe asked: Do I just move the contents of each of these three subdirs into the correspondingly named dirs in /usr/local? And do I need to rename the usr and group names from '1000' to 'root'? Do the recursive chown first, then move the files

Re: How to open .azw or .prc (mobireader) files

2008-05-05 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Josef Lowder wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:38, Matt Graham wrote mv lib/* /usr/local/lib/ mv bin/* /usr/local/bin/ ldconfig FBReader: error while loading shared libraries: libzltext.so.0.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So, I

remove linux from dual boot machine?

2008-05-05 Thread mike enriquez
I need some guidance on how to remove Mandriva Linux from my dual boot computer. The second os is Winxp and I cannot remember how to do it. I remember one time I used partion magic to clean out the linux drives but then xp would not boot. I remember I used the install cd to repair the winxp.

Re: remove linux from dual boot machine?

2008-05-05 Thread Stephen P Rufle
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tutorials-howtos-reference-material/9921-uninstalling-linux.html I think this tells you how to do it. mike enriquez wrote: I need some guidance on how to remove Mandriva Linux from my dual boot computer. The second os is Winxp and I cannot remember how

Re: How to open .azw or .prc (mobireader) files

2008-05-05 Thread Josef Lowder
. On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:58, Matt Graham wrote After a long battle with technology, Josef Lowder wrote: Hummm. What next? Check /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure that /usr/local/lib is listed in that file. That line should be standard in any ld.so.conf , but who knows what Mandrake has

Re: computer cabinet, free to a good home.

2008-05-05 Thread Alan Pratt
Nick - If it's still hanging around, I would be able to put it to use. Let me know and I can swing by some evening and pick it up. - Alan On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Nick Estes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 19 cabinet, solid sides, smoked plexiglass front. I haven't measured the

Re: How to open .azw or .prc (mobireader) files

2008-05-05 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Josef Lowder wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:58, Matt Graham wrote Check /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure that /usr/local/lib is listed in that file. That line should be standard in any ld.so.conf , but who knows what Mandrake has done? After you've added the

Re: remove linux from dual boot machine?

2008-05-05 Thread Technomage Hawke
in winxp, if you still have access to the old fdisk program, you can run fdisk /mbr and that should remove the linux bootloader. also, you can reformat the drive partition under 'start/settings/control panel/administrative tools/computer management/locat storage' also, you can start up windows in

Re: computer cabinet, free to a good home.

2008-05-05 Thread Ralph Prowell
Nick, I too am interested, but you didn't respond to my email this past weekend. Do you still have it available? Let me know. Ralph On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Alan Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick - If it's still hanging around, I would be able to put it to use. Let me know and I

Re: grub grub grub grub grub ad nauseum

2008-05-05 Thread Mike Schwartz
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:46 AM, der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 03. Mai, 2008 schwätzte Joseph Sinclair so: moin moin Joseph, Apparently repeating it's name is [...] This is what I was wanting to know. Danke. According to the Gentoo Grub Error Guide, this is possibly either a

Re: remove linux from dual boot machine?

2008-05-05 Thread James Mcphee
Yeah. fixboot in the windows recovery console. Fixboot drive: That's for the secondary bootloader. Fixmbr [device_name] is the master boot record fixer upper. -- James McPhee [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -