Re: [expert] urpmi: Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u)
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 22:39, Rob Blomquist wrote: I keep getting this error from urpmi. What can I do to fix it up, short of deleting it without a care? unable to take medium Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u) into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u)] exists sounds like a file got deleted (by accident) or never got created right. I do a urpmi.removemedia Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.2 (ftp1u) The quotes are because of the spaces in the name. Once removed I'd then re-add this media. With the number of updates for 9.2 this is a critical need. *grin* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I'm planning to try RAID-1 or RAID-5. Does anyone have any experience on this? Can you pls tell me about it or give me an url? Thanks guys. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 15:31:15 up 7:55, 10 users, load average: 0.24, 0.08, 0.02 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oh56Mai9kCFqACoRArJNAJ9G6NXcHbs2zsxbIo0GlRpqcpfkTACfczTs xK1joe9vsut720SolWOZ6V4= =bDbl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Multimedia Resources
Am Freitag, 31. Oktober 2003 07:48 schrieb Rob Blomquist: What's available for Linux Multimedia resources? By that I mean email lists, books, and websites. My interests are in mostly audio right now, but I am trying to get my sweetie to get me a digital movie camera for Christmas, so that might change. For Audio you might be interested in Austin's Audio Workstation HowTo. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8018846552.html http://groundstate.ca/mdkaw/index.html And Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/ I would love to understand the details of the differences between oggs and mp3, I would love to find out about noise filtering and ID3v1 vs ID3v2, and converting between them. How about other tools than Audacity and Gramofile? Here I can't help that much beside the above links. Or maybe this tells me to just stay here, and ask away. What belongs to digital video processing: http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ Further MainActor5 seems to be shipped with Mandrake PowerPack (according to my rpmdrake), i guess its a trial version or a beta. Cinerella may be of interest for you too as well as mplayer/mencoder, transcode, avidemux etc pp. I have a digital camcorder here as well as a firewire card, but haven't tried them a long time. However, i have a digital tv card and a lot recordings of it, so i play a lot with video tools. Since some days i have too a dvd-burner and want to play with dvdauthor (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/) Till then http://polidori.chapelperilous.net/roadmap.mhtml might be interesting for you too. Beside that it isn't your focus it might contain interesting information as well: http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/en/single/index.html and a not really linux specific site, but with a lot of knowledge http://www.doom9.org/ . Hope this helps you in one way or another Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all (especially Haywire), If you followed the above topic and care to know the outcome: I`m happy to be back hacking in Mandrake 9.1 and finishing my BitTorrent download of 9.2 :- How? I created an incident in www.mandrakeexpert.com, as I still had some credit there. The advice was to remove XFree86-75dpi-fonts and reinstall it, but not with a simple urpmi package.rpm, but with urpmi XFree86 XFree*.rpm on the packages that were security updates of ~12 September last. Then I found an error message that I had to run mkfontdir on one of the fonts folders and I got back into X and my favourtite IceWM. Ciao, =Dick Gevers= . Mandrake visibility? See headers... ---. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/okPiwC/zk+cxEdMRAmISAJ9rjSduBzjGFs6ctUYsGNSjn43d+ACfeS6X CAKvZ+xspIVjKqC1QSyl01A= =0nMy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
On Friday 31 October 2003 03:33 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear all, I'm planning to try RAID-1 or RAID-5. Does anyone have any experience on this? Can you pls tell me about it or give me an url? Thanks guys. I use RAID 1 here on a small samba server. Very easy to set up and get going. There are a couple of really good HOWTO's on this topic over at tldp.org -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fetchmail problem
On Thursday 30 October 2003 08:49 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Thanks. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it any better than running it as a cron job. My desire is that no matter how many users are using, only ONE fetchmail process is needed. Instead of all users running their own fetchmail, have the system run ONE and have this one process check for ~/.fetchmailrc files in all user directories and go from there. As a new user creates a .fetchmailrc, the fetchmail daemon would simply find it and use it on the next fetch. Fetchmail can be run as a user and will pull from the ~/.fetchmailrc file of the user it is run as. So, you can have user controlled processes of fetchmail. You can not have user controlled daemon processes of fetchmail because this would violate security features to not allow users to have root access. From your answer I assume that fetchmail is not capable of this. To my thinking, this is a flaw in design. Instead of designing a system that requires each and every user run independent instances of fetchmail, it is self evident that a single process handling the mail for any and all users is more logical and clean in design. Well, not giving users root access to a daemon may seem like a design flaw to you, but it certainly doesn't to me. And I also agree that a single process handling mail for all users is more logical which is why fetchmail is designed to do exactly that. It does not, however, include giving control of that process to the user themselves, since that would provide a hook for a user to potentially gain higher than their user level of access. Centralized processing should always be controlled by a central administrator with access handed out only as needed and as limited as it can be. Fetchmail can't do this? Is there a fetchmail-alike that can? I do not know of any. You may want to inquire on the Fetchmail mailing-list, they would be experts and might have some suggestions. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] missing kde features
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 2:19 am, Kwan Lowe wrote: Here's a couple KDE features I miss. a) Konqueror starting up with the sidebar by default (in file manager mode). This should work: a) In file manager mode, configure your konqueror session as you want it. Then do a Save View Profile from the Settings menu. Under 9.1 you don't seem to be able to do that for the SU mode - I want the side-bar, but can't set it. Is it still a problem under 9.2? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] vmware host-only networking and smb.conf
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 01:02, antonovich wrote: Hi, I think my problems with getting my home network set up under 9.1 look like they are related to setting up samba after enabling host-only networking with vmware. This time with 9.2 I set up the networking and it was working great (well almost) until I started fudging round with it trying to get vmware host-only networking going. Has anyone got this working? The idea is to get samba access to my home network and also have host-only networking going with my windoze guest in vmware. They say this is possible but one needs to go into smb.conf and play around. I went in and tried a few things but my conf file was considerably different to their example one and I don't really know what is absolutely necessary and what is not. If anyone has got this working, or has an alternate solution could they post their smb.conf file, or instructions to do otherwise? Cheers in advance and treats for you on this most Irish of holidays Anton What are you trying to accomplish? If your mdk box that hosts VmW/Win is communicating with your LAN then the Win guest will be able to as well using bridged networking in VmW. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?
Hi. Thank you Robert for your answer. I need to apply a patch to the kernel. I don't want to use my own configuration. Instead, I want to use the mandrake kernel configuraion (as it is shipped in the CDs), apply the patch, and compile it. Of course, I want to use this configuration with the mandrake kernel it self, and not with other kernel sources. I did as I said, compiled and installed the kernel, but got some problems with scsi drivers (totally not related to the patch, with is about mppe). So, I thought the problem was the patch I applied. But then, and tried to compile it without a single modification from my part, and the compilation failed. So, I was not sure if the .config file the kernel-source rpm includes is the oficial configuration mandrake uses, or just something else. Thank you! - Oscar Retana. p.s.: By the way, in trying to do this with kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk flacycads wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 12:30 am, Oscar Retana wrote: Hi everybody! I'm new to _this_ distribution of Linux. I would like to know where can I get the .config files used to compile the precompiled kernels Mandrake includes. I got one kernel-source-verion.rpm, and tried to compile it, but I got some problems. I don't know if this kernel was actually configurated like the compiled kernels Mandrake includes, or it was just something else. Thanks, - Oscar Retana. Oscar, If you have a standard MDK install with sources, the kernel .config file is found in /usr/src/linux-. MDK kernels are heavily patched. You can't just take that file, and apply it to other kernels. You would have to decipher the source directory, and find all the patches Mandrake includes in the kernels they issue. But you don't have to do that- you can compile other kernels from source as user in a home directory with Mandrake, using your own config file, and your own patches, if desired. Mandrake includes all the patches in it's source when it releases a new kernel, so it's not really practical to try and copy that. You would have to find all the patch If you wish to experiment with other kernels, just do it in completely separate directories in a created /home/user/kernels/, from raw non-rpm source, where it never interacts with the stock Mandrake installed kernel, and system. That way, you never have to worry about not being able to boot if you mess up. I'm not really clear on what you are asking. Please tell us what your objective is, and people will certainly offer many helpful options, and clarify the process. Robert Crawford Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:50:15 -0800 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: punished by being force to spend a year doing George to English translations of his speeches. I'd choose death... ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:13:40 + Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How? I created an incident in www.mandrakeexpert.com, as I still had some credit there. The advice was to remove XFree86-75dpi-fonts and reinstall it, but not with a simple urpmi package.rpm, but with urpmi XFree86 XFree*.rpm on the packages that were security updates of ~12 September last. Then I found an error message that I had to run mkfontdir on one of the fonts folders and I got back into X and my favourtite IceWM. Wt! I'm saving this one, I learned more than you did prolly, LOL! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ One learns to itch where one can scratch. -- Ernest Bramah Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fetchmail problem
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 08:15, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2003 08:49 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Thanks. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it any better than running it as a cron job. My desire is that no matter how many users are using, only ONE fetchmail process is needed. Instead of all users running their own fetchmail, have the system run ONE and have this one process check for ~/.fetchmailrc files in all user directories and go from there. As a new user creates a .fetchmailrc, the fetchmail daemon would simply find it and use it on the next fetch. Fetchmail can be run as a user and will pull from the ~/.fetchmailrc file of the user it is run as. So, you can have user controlled processes of fetchmail. You can not have user controlled daemon processes of fetchmail because this would violate security features to not allow users to have root access. From your answer I assume that fetchmail is not capable of this. To my thinking, this is a flaw in design. Instead of designing a system that requires each and every user run independent instances of fetchmail, it is self evident that a single process handling the mail for any and all users is more logical and clean in design. Well, not giving users root access to a daemon may seem like a design flaw to you, but it certainly doesn't to me. And I also agree that a single process handling mail for all users is more logical which is why fetchmail is designed to do exactly that. It does not, however, include giving control of that process to the user themselves, since that would provide a hook for a user to potentially gain higher than their user level of access. Centralized processing should always be controlled by a central administrator with access handed out only as needed and as limited as it can be. Fetchmail can't do this? Is there a fetchmail-alike that can? I do not know of any. You may want to inquire on the Fetchmail mailing-list, they would be experts and might have some suggestions. Here I see two different philosophies: .- The one used by fetchmail, in which you can either start it as a daemon and have a centralized administration, usually on /etc/fetchmailrc, or start it as a cron job leaving to each user the task of maintaining his/her own ~/.fetchmailrc. .- The other one, used by procmail, which is almost like fetchmail's, but you may also include the ~/.procmailrc recipes with a line in /etc/procmailrc: INCLUDERC=/home/$USER/.procmailrc There is a trade off: if you choose centralized administration you lower the risk of breaking something but increase the the administrative burden on root and vice versa. I think that procmail philosophy give the administrator more choices, something that most linux users love. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Multimedia Resources
Can you hear the difference between a CD and a high-quality MP3? If not, stop here, do not pass go, and do not collect $200 :-) Just buy a couple of portable MP3 players (el cheapo flash-based that you don't care about and a nice hard-drive jukebox), buy a slimp3, use easytag to clean up all your tags and make sure your music collection is all well-ripped, then sell off the whole pile of CD's and CD players to someone who likes dead technology. If you can hear the difference, skip ogg entirely and rip the music using FLAC, then transcode to ogg or mp3 or whatever as the mood strikes you. On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 22:48, Rob Blomquist wrote: What's available for Linux Multimedia resources? By that I mean email lists, books, and websites. My interests are in mostly audio right now, but I am trying to get my sweetie to get me a digital movie camera for Christmas, so that might change. I would love to understand the details of the differences between oggs and mp3, I would love to find out about noise filtering and ID3v1 vs ID3v2, and converting between them. How about other tools than Audacity and Gramofile? Or maybe this tells me to just stay here, and ask away. Rob -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?
From: Oscar Retana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. Thank you Robert for your answer. I need to apply a patch to the kernel. I don't want to use my own configuration. Instead, I want to use the mandrake kernel configuraion (as it is shipped in the CDs), apply the patch, and compile it. Of course, I want to use this configuration with the mandrake kernel it self, and not with other kernel sources. I did as I said, compiled and installed the kernel, but got some problems with scsi drivers (totally not related to the patch, with is about mppe). So, I thought the problem was the patch I applied. But then, and tried to compile it without a single modification from my part, and the compilation failed. So, I was not sure if the .config file the kernel-source rpm includes is the oficial configuration mandrake uses, or just something else. Thank you! - Oscar Retana. p.s.: By the way, in trying to do this with kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk if you have installed the mdk kernel-source, the configs for all mdk kernels is at /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/ where defconfig is for up kernel, defconfig-smp is for the smp kernel and so on... of course you shouldn't build the kernels as root, so I suggest you make a local copy in your home directory for example: 1. copy the contents of /usr/src/linux/ to /home/oscar/kernel/ 2. cd to /home/oscar/kernel/ 3. do a 'make mrproper' 4. apply your patches 5. copy the config you need: cp arch/i386/defconfig .config 6. do a 'make oldconfig dep clean bzImage modules' 7. su to root 8. do a 'make modules_install install' this will build and install a kernel named 2.4.22-21mdkcustom btw, the patch you need, is it something anyone else would benefit from? If so, would you mind sending me the patch (or a link to it) and I'll add it to my kernel-tmb in contribs... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?
On Friday 31 October 2003 08:25 am, Oscar Retana wrote: Hi. Thank you Robert for your answer. I need to apply a patch to the kernel. I don't want to use my own configuration. Instead, I want to use the mandrake kernel configuraion (as it is shipped in the CDs), apply the patch, and compile it. rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm cd /usr/src/linux ..edit Makefile and change the EXTRAVERSION to you liking, further down in this file uncomment #export INSTALL_PATH=/boot cp .config conf-save make mrproper (this step is _mandatory_) cp conf-save .config At this point you can apply your patch, and then go on compiling the new kernel. A last step of make install will install the kernel in /boot and make the needed links, and add the kernel to lilo for you if you uncommented #export INSTALL_PATH=/boot So, I was not sure if the .config file the kernel-source rpm includes is the oficial configuration mandrake uses Yes it is. If you've already installed Mandrake's precompiled version of the kernel, then /boot/config-2.4.22-21mdk can also be used, ie, cp /boot/config-2.4.22-21mdk /usr/src/linux/.config -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?
Thomas Backlund wrote: if you have installed the mdk kernel-source, the configs for all mdk kernels is at /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/ Perfect! Thanks. FYI, the patch I want to apply is for adding the MPPE/MPPC kernel module. This is needed if you want to set up a VPN, using Poptop, and you want to use Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) and Compression (MPPC): http://www.polbox.com/h/hs001/ -- well, as far as I know! I haven't yet set up my VPN ;-) - Oscar Retana. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:52:21 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm cd /usr/src/linux ..edit Makefile and change the EXTRAVERSION to you liking, further down in this file uncomment #export INSTALL_PATH=/boot cp .config conf-save make mrproper (this step is _mandatory_) cp conf-save .config At this point you can apply your patch, and then go on compiling the new kernel. A last step of make install will install the kernel in /boot and make the needed links, and add the kernel to lilo for you if you uncommented #export INSTALL_PATH=/boot So, I was not sure if the .config file the kernel-source rpm includes is the oficial configuration mandrake uses Yes it is. If you've already installed Mandrake's precompiled version of the kernel, then /boot/config-2.4.22-21mdk can also be used, ie, cp /boot/config-2.4.22-21mdk /usr/src/linux/.config Do you have to have a /boot partition to compile and use an alternate kernel? I've read that installing a pre-compiled kernel, say, the multimedia kernel, will automatically add a LILO entry so that you can choose which kernel to boot into. What about manually compiled kernels? Logic would dictate I would need to add an entry to LILO myself, but would that work? and, where would I install a manually-compiled kernel to? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ At the end of your life there'll be a good rest, and no further activities are scheduled. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Route statements
Where can I add route statements so when the computer reboots they get loaded back in. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Route statements
You can add them to your rc.local file. -Corey On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Lawson, Jim wrote: Where can I add route statements so when the computer reboots they get loaded back in. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Route statements
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 12:25, Lawson, Jim wrote: Where can I add route statements so when the computer reboots they get loaded back in. I've put route statements in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but if you have netconfig right it shouldn't be necessary James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Route statements
I have done it manually via term route add -net 172.30.25.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 172.30.19.1 -Original Message- From: Cy Kurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Route statements On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 12:25, Lawson, Jim wrote: Where can I add route statements so when the computer reboots they get loaded back in. I've put route statements in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but if you have netconfig right it shouldn't be necessary James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.0 -- 9.2
Not exactly slick but I got it up and running at least. I haven't played with it extensively yet, but here's one observation and one questions: Observation: I use IceWM, but gdm dumped me into gnome-failsafe (with no menus, yawn yawn) and I had to cold boot to get out of it since I'm not too familiar with gnome shortcuts. Question/issue: When I forced gdm to drop me into icewm, my .login and .cshrc files were completely ignored. Why? Thanks Reuben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:30:13 -0500, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes: Wt! I'm saving this one, I learned more than you did prolly, LOL! Doutbtful. I didn`t even know where to start. At least you pointed me in the right direction. It took me 2 1/2 days, but I did get closer all the time. The most important lesson I learned was to ignore any advice ever to change font names with caps in them to small letter names. Ciao, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/osOtwC/zk+cxEdMRAlapAKDQjJR79QapkOrQElgEW5oqH0grVACferc9 ofIdUkQDzxp+jyI6zqIgh8I= =jtLm -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] fonts problems
Hi all, I have Mdk 9.2. And I have several questions about the way TTF and 75/100dpi fonts are working. +++ Problem #1. I'm trying to use non-Xft mozilla.org builds of Mozilla and Firebird, but when HTML requires to underline the font, it is not underlined. This happens on all HTML pages. Even simple HTML code like this: div style=text-decoration: underlinethis is a text/div won't work - the text is not underlined. This happens only with TTF fonts. Anyone knows a workaround with this? The thing is I want to use non-Xft builds just because I don't like the way fonts are antialiased - they are too blurred and very hard to read. No, I don't have any vision disabilities. :-P But my eyes get tired very soon - I'm a web developer and I have Mozilla running 24/7 :-) +++ Problem #2. Non-Xft applications treat 100dpi/75dpi fonts differently from Xft apps. For example, with using a misc fixed font of size 10, Xft app would show it this way and non-Xft the other way. Size 11 of this font looks the same. Maybe there's a way to tweak fonts.conf? +++ Problem #3. When using a 100/75dpi font like helvetica, if a cyrillic character appears in text, that character is drawn with some TTF font, while latin characters remain drwan with helvetica. ??? Thanks for any help. Artemio. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML 9.2 + Audigy2 + 5.1 + xine
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:43:26 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Golumbovici) wrote: My main problem now is that though my card is recognised and the audigy module is loaded, it works only halfway right. That means that stereo sounds work ok (like xmms and such). On the other hand I tried to play a DVD with Xine and almost went nuts. Since the DVD is 5.1 and my recognized soundcard is 5.1 compatible, I expected surround sound on my 5.1 system. What brand/model speakers are you using. If your speakers include a decoder then you will need need to disable the decoder on the snd card or you will only get sound from the front speakers. Charles -- Fortune's real live weird band names #148: Cortizone 5 - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-21.tmb.2mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [expert] Route statements
Can I add this to static-routes or should this be some where else. These a vlans on our network.. -Original Message- From: Lawson, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] Route statements I have done it manually via term route add -net 172.30.25.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 172.30.19.1 -Original Message- From: Cy Kurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Route statements On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 12:25, Lawson, Jim wrote: Where can I add route statements so when the computer reboots they get loaded back in. I've put route statements in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but if you have netconfig right it shouldn't be necessary James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PGP signed messages and a plugin?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When people sign their emails with their PGP key (unknown to me) their message in kmail is prefaced with the following: Message was signed with unknown key. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified. Use the 'Settings-Configure KMail-Security' dialog to specify the plug-in or ask your system administrator to do that for you. My question, what is this plugin being referred to? An OpenPGP plugin for kmail? I know one way I could eliminate such messages would be to search out the public key of the people signing their messages and keep it in my keyring, but I kinda hope that there IS a plugin that might do this for me (?). praedor - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/otONaKr9sJYeTxgRAl83AJ9K2TsLTYb/ZEuSTQw1NJDOFxOhTQCgh8gs 0NaCoBRarW2owgb3ansn0PA= =p0AD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WebMin login
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:45:01 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: Firebird is 0.7. I do have a ton of extensions loaded, but could not fine the one to stop www. and .com being added. I found that the backslash after the localhost ip solved it, i.e. https://127.0.0.1:1/ Here are the ones i modified: browser.fixup.alternate.enabled false keyword.enabled false Thanks Eric, Those were the ones to do for me as well. I have never had any programming, but I am a damn good trouble shooter. I just need to learn enough of the language to know what it is saying. ;-) Tim -- _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] PGP signed messages and a plugin?
Praedor Atrebates wrote: When people sign their emails with their PGP key (unknown to me) their message in kmail is prefaced with the following: Message was signed with unknown key. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified. Use the 'Settings-Configure KMail-Security' dialog to specify the plug-in or ask your system administrator to do that for you. My question, what is this plugin being referred to? An OpenPGP plugin for kmail? I know one way I could eliminate such messages would be to search out the public key of the people signing their messages and keep it in my keyring, but I kinda hope that there IS a plugin that might do this for me (?). There is one called Ägypten (which I found at http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html), but I could not get it to compile and work under Mdk 9.2. I switched to Thunderbird with Enigmail and it seems to work great. -- ...Rob -- Microsoft - We put the backwards into backwards compatibility. = Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada http://www.axis-dev.ca/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World = Registered Linux User #260513 GNU/Linux i686 2.4.22-10mdk-725ca Mandrake Linux 9.2 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 4 1500+ 14:35:01 up 8:23, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.11, 1.23 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] PGP signed messages and a plugin?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I should specify that I have gnupg installed and that is what I use on my system, and through kmail. I have gnupg selected in kmails security settings and have it autosign my own emails. So, what is this plugin that isn't specified? On Friday 31 October 2003 04:26 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: When people sign their emails with their PGP key (unknown to me) their message in kmail is prefaced with the following: Message was signed with unknown key. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified. Use the 'Settings-Configure KMail-Security' dialog to specify the plug-in or ask your system administrator to do that for you. - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ota8aKr9sJYeTxgRAjWxAKCxyyL7+pPjrqaNCAQjUYXVrGSgNQCgquUA hM+7ruGuGbZUfTgtvR9c9m4= =zHvp -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PGP signed messages and a plugin?
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:40:12 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I should specify that I have gnupg installed and that is what I use on my system, and through kmail. I have gnupg selected in kmails security settings and have it autosign my own emails. So, what is this plugin that isn't specified? On Friday 31 October 2003 04:26 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: When people sign their emails with their PGP key (unknown to me) their message in kmail is prefaced with the following: Message was signed with unknown key. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified. Use the 'Settings-Configure KMail-Security' dialog to specify the plug-in or ask your system administrator to do that for you. You can go to the kmail page, get the instructions to download and compile it all, or you can download cryptplug with urpmi. Or you can use GnuPG integrate the way you have it. You will still get that message from KMail! It will not really change anything. The message is kind of cryptic (sic) since it basically states that you are looking at a signed message, HOWEVER you have no credentials to know if the key is valid, if that person is who they say they are, or an imposter using a stolen key. You can download the users public key, and then the message will change to say that it is a valid key, but the trust will not be determined unless you exchange signed keys with that (or all) users. Understanding cryptography, how it works, what it does, and what you have to do to secure it and interpret it is a long steep learning process. The GnuPG website is a good place to start http://www.gnupg.org/ For the most part, use it for secure communications with those people that you need it. In this mailing list, you don't really need to worry about it. Tim -- I often read this forum on my PDA, please use plain text! _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] PGP signed messages and a plugin?
Praedor Atrebates wrote: I should specify that I have gnupg installed and that is what I use on my system, and through kmail. I have gnupg selected in kmails security settings and have it autosign my own emails. So, what is this plugin that isn't specified? When reading the e-mail, Kmail needs a plug-in to verify the signature, I found the gpg/pgp support mechanism kind of kludgey in kmail. Evolution attachs GPG signature via a MIME type, but it can't handle in line signatures (BEGIN/END blocks). Enigmail enhancement for Thunderbird handles both in line and MIME type signatures, very nice. -- ...Rob -- Gravity... not just a good idea, its the law! = Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada http://www.axis-dev.ca/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World = Registered Linux User #260513 GNU/Linux i686 2.4.22-10mdk-725ca Mandrake Linux 9.2 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 4 1500+ 15:35:01 up 9:23, 1 user, load average: 1.37, 1.40, 1.29 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] ML 9.2 + Audigy2 + 5.1 + xine
I don't think they have a decoder. It is a Logitech 5.1 Speakersystem. Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [expert] ML 9.2 + Audigy2 + 5.1 + xine Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] depmod -a takes ages
Hi all, I'm just after installing MDK 9.1 on my Libretto 110CT laptop (went mostly smoothly - chalk one up for Mandrake) and noticed a little problem: Upon boot, the Finding module dependencies step takes ages (i.e. about 1.5min(!)). Same goes for running depmod -a manually from the prompt. Now, I know the Libby is no speed demon with its PI/233MMX, but it should be faster than this. In fact, under the previously installed RHL 7.3, that part *was* faster. I can not find any error messages in either dmesg or /var/log/messages, so at the moment, I have no idea why this is happening - any suggestions welcome! Cheerio, Thomas -- - Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:52:29 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 03:33 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear all, I'm planning to try RAID-1 or RAID-5. Does anyone have any experience on this? Can you pls tell me about it or give me an url? Thanks guys. I use RAID 1 here on a small samba server. Very easy to set up and get going. There are a couple of really good HOWTO's on this topic over at tldp.org-- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx RAID 5 is the best, no arguement. It requires three disks though. It allows for one disk to be removed on failure, a new disk to be installed, and the data to be rebuilt from the other two disks. Excellent for mission critical stuff. The data effectively gets written 1.5 times across the three disks. No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge, but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better anyway:) -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
On Friday 31 October 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge, but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better anyway:) No hardware RAID with IDE type devices. SCSI is very well supported because it does not rely upon device drivers. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 07:21 am, Michael Adams wrote: No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge, but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better anyway:) Hi Michael, Can you show me how to do that? Thanks - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 07:43:47 up 23 min, 10 users, load average: 0.48, 0.85, 0.83 Quote of the day: Microsoft's website has moved: http://www.microsoft.eu.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/owINMai9kCFqACoRAn10AKDjxOVIREyFE39xQhDTwghQRh680ACgsdTq ChwCfSV+tUbnJEfk5I7HNr4= =+eVY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 16:21, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge, but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better anyway:) No hardware RAID with IDE type devices. SCSI is very well supported because it does not rely upon device drivers. Ironic, RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and was originally an IDE concept. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] depmod -a takes ages
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 15:32, T. Ribbrock wrote: Hi all, I'm just after installing MDK 9.1 on my Libretto 110CT laptop (went mostly smoothly - chalk one up for Mandrake) and noticed a little problem: Upon boot, the Finding module dependencies step takes ages (i.e. about 1.5min(!)). Same goes for running depmod -a manually from the prompt. Now, I know the Libby is no speed demon with its PI/233MMX, but it should be faster than this. In fact, under the previously installed RHL 7.3, that part *was* faster. I can not find any error messages in either dmesg or /var/log/messages, so at the moment, I have no idea why this is happening - any suggestions welcome! Cheerio, Thomas Thomas as to why it takes to long now. There has been a lot of new hardware added since the 7.3 days and MDK has compiled every single one of those modules in. You can do one of two things. go into sysinit and comment out where it does depmod. (this can be dangerous if hardware changes and you don't do depmod -a on your own first.) Second option which has worked on my laptop is to edit /etc/rc.sysinit and do this. find the section that looks like this. if [ -L /lib/modules/default ]; then INITLOG_ARGS= action Finding module dependencies: depmod -A default else INITLOG_ARGS= action Finding module dependencies: depmod -A fi and make it look like this if [ -L /lib/modules/default ]; then # INITLOG_ARGS= action Finding module dependencies: depmod -A default KRN=`uname -r`;if (( `find /lib/modules/$KRN/ -cnewer \ /lib/modules/$KRN/modules.dep | wc -l` != 0 )); then depmod -A default; fi else # INITLOG_ARGS= action Finding module dependencies: depmod -A KRN=`uname -r`;if (( `find /lib/modules/$KRN/ -cnewer \ /lib/modules/$KRN/modules.dep | wc -l` != 0 )); then depmod -A; fi fi (Note: I commented out the old lines ... just in case.) What this does is look at depmod's output file and if it's current skip doing depmod -a for that boot. I got this off of a forum in the club and would like to give credit to the author but danged if I can find it again. End result is ... this has worked well for me so far. With a desktop where you change HW a lot maybe not such a good idea but on something like a laptop, where hardware never changes.. why not? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
On Friday 31 October 2003 07:44 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 07:21 am, Michael Adams wrote: No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge, but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better anyway:) Hi Michael, Can you show me how to do that? Thanks Yes post it here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
On Friday 31 October 2003 10:42 pm, Salane KIng wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 07:44 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 07:21 am, Michael Adams wrote: No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge, but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better anyway:) Hi Michael, Can you show me how to do that? Thanks Yes post it here. Never mind here is a good HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] 9.2: KDE Kicker Clock problem Sounds like you may be missing one or more of these. locales-en-2.3.1.4-6mdk locales-2.3.1.4-6mdk I have the locales rpms installed but I have a different problem, and it still isn't working quite right in 9.2. For whatever reason, the system eventually changes to a strange time zone - sometimes it is as much as 7 hours off pst. When I start kde the clock is fine, but eventually (sometimes in a few hours) will change the time all by itself. And does anyone else notice a screen blanking for a few seconds when the user tries to have the kicker clock settings changed? It's happening here, and it's a little bit disconcerting. The screen does reappear in a few seconds, but I don't see any reason for a blanking. James -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Interesting wireless driver tool
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:36 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: This may allow the Intel Centrino wireless garbage to work. It is garbage because Intel SAID they would support linux but they backtracked and have not released any linux drivers. For their failure to follow through I have boycotted using their systems (CPU, etc) in favor of AMD. This isn't enough to get me to change my mind, though for others who have centrino systems but have to live with the fact that they are all but useless under linux, this may be a way to make use of your investment. I have done the same, but in the laptop world, there is not as much choice. I just ordered an IBM T41 but replaced the Intel WiFi card with a Cisco Aironet which is supported in 9.2. As I shopped around, it looked like the only real choice in an AMD laptop was HP. As I am not entirely happy with their **on the fence** support of SCO, I had a hard time buying an HP machine. That, on top of the fact that Intel got it right with the Pentium M, and that IBM had a wireless alternative and they actually had documents on their own website about installing Linux on the thing made my choice pretty clear. The keyboard light sealed the deal. Dell doesn't have a wireless option that has linux support, not to mention they don't support AMD and give lip service to Linux. I understand that they get massive discounts from Intel and Microsoft for maintaining their exclusivity, but that doesn't mean I have to buy it just because it is cheaper. Also, Dell just looks cheaper, but when you really price it out with all the options, a comparable D600 to the T41 was the same price. I wish I had waited another month before buying my Dell 5150 This is what I'd be getting instead: http://qditech.com.au/AMD_K8.htm Athlon64 3200+ Radeon M10 9600 7200rpm Hitach 2.5 drive. Now that is a system rgds Franki Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 19:18, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 16:21, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge, but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better anyway:) No hardware RAID with IDE type devices. SCSI is very well supported because it does not rely upon device drivers. Ironic, RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and was originally an IDE concept. Yeah, I always wondered about the Inexpensive part when it's typically used with $1000 SCSI drives :-) Makes more sense if it was intended for IDE at first. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Got hands on RAID-1 or RAID-5?
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:52:52 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yeah, I always wondered about the Inexpensive part when it's typically used with $1000 SCSI drives :-) Makes more sense if it was intended for IDE at first. Originally (as per the Berkeley geekz), RAID stood for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. However, it's now more commonly defined as Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Prolly because SCSI is used more often, and they ain't inexpensive ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ You can't take it with you -- especially when crossing a state line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 03:02 am, many eyes noted that HaywireMac wrote: Yes it is. If you've already installed Mandrake's precompiled version of the kernel, then /boot/config-2.4.22-21mdk can also be used, ie, cp /boot/config-2.4.22-21mdk /usr/src/linux/.config Do you have to have a /boot partition to compile and use an alternate kernel? I've read that installing a pre-compiled kernel, say, the multimedia kernel, will automatically add a LILO entry so that you can choose which kernel to boot into. What about manually compiled kernels? Logic would dictate I would need to add an entry to LILO myself, but would that work? and, where would I install a manually-compiled kernel to? I usually compile any new kernels in the /home/charlie directory where I can access and boot from them even after a newer version install, as I don't ever upgrade. In this way the Mandrake kernel that comes with the new version install is in the system and by manually adding the new kernel to /etc/lilo.conf and recently, trying to see if grub is really as good as I have heard, in /boot/grub/grub.conf, can also use to custom kernels which are located in /home/charlie/kernels. In fact I have never compiled a custom kernel in /usr/src Not a good idea to use /usr/src anyway, especially according to Linus Thorvald's, so I take his advice. Charlie. -- A steady wind scours the autumn moon From a stagnant pool, From the crystal spring every place pure now Just as it is. Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind? - Miao Yin (376-380) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
