Paul Cox wrote:
On Wednesday, Oct 17, 2001, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
Is there any place/ftp server where I can still download older versions of
Mandrake (6.0 and later). If somebody know of such a place, please let me
know. Much appreciated.
I found 7.2 on ftp.proxad.net... they have 8.0
Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
Hello Ken,
If you look at my web site at www.distrowatch.com, then you will know what I
need. Basically, I am trying to maintain a record of present and past
releases of various Linux distributions. It started as a small site, but
expanded quite a bit (after lots of
I didn't have a username/passwd in the fields, but I have noticed the 6
files on the server. I was on Mandrake 8.0 fwiw, so I just downloaded and
burned the ISO's to 8.1 and installed it. Much better... :)
On another topic, why aren't things like 'nslookup' installed
automatically? What
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
I do have Mandrake from 5.1 to the latest... Fester, Leelo, Venus etc
etc..
If you're in the USA I can send it to you...
you need a package called bind-utils.
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:03:40 -0600
Ralph Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't have a username/passwd in the fields, but I have noticed the 6
files on the server. I was on Mandrake 8.0 fwiw, so I just downloaded and
burned the ISO's to 8.1 and
nslookup has been deprecated (sounds painfull!) - use the host and
dig commands instead.
BillK
On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 16:46, H McM wrote:
you need a package called bind-utils.
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:03:40 -0600
Ralph Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't have a username/passwd
I'm running 8.1 on a Promise ATA100 and it is fine, as was 8.0
I don't remember exactly, but I think I had problems with 7.2. Promise,
however, will supply a patch: I have it on my driver CD but I guess it is
also available for download on their web site.
David
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:27:35
I've seen this as well, but it's not a Samba problem (it occurs with
NFS) and it's not a Linux problem either! TCP internet traffic doesn't
seem to stream data fast enough to be problematic.
Normally I get this when the connection to the server transverses a
100baseT to 10BaseT link and there
Greeting, everyone.
I've got a problem that I'm hoping someone here can help me with. I've
tried asking this on another list, but have yet to see anything. I need to
get a linux machine set up to answer incoming calls from a Palm-based
handheld unit, start pppd, and run an ftp session to
Wierd problem I'm having just recently. After my box has been up for a
couple of days the period char won't appear when I type it in a
terminal. Using rxvt but the same happens in xterm or aterm. Restarting
Xserver fixes the problem, but of course I'd prefer not to have to do
that. Any
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On Thursday 18 October 2001 08:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined on the
topic: [expert] Censorware for Linux
Hello all,
I look after some Linux boxes. I would like to restrict the users'
access to unsavoury websites; does anyone know if there is any
I can't figure out how to get my tv tuner working. I have a STB pci
tv/radio tuner with the bttv 878 chipset. This card was detected fine
when mandrake was installed. (I have MDK 8.1) The first sign that
something was amiss was when gnometv started and I got the error message
thus:
Overlay
I have Mandrakes back to 5.3 (for a 486 system I had sitting around). I
can make .iso's and upload them somewhere (cable connection, uncapped
hehe).
Paul Cox wrote:
On Wednesday, Oct 17, 2001, Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
Is there any place/ftp server where I can still download older versions
I give up. What's the point of having a list of rpm's with each
distro's version without actually providing access to that package? Is
it just a reference site? And if so, you might want to provide links to
sites still providing images of the distro you're listing.
Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
I
I have lots of bandwidth but no blank CDRs at the moment. Can some one
give me the lowdown on installing from the network? Most likely it
will be NFS but I'm not sure.
Thanks
Michael
--
unemployed
Open Source Web Developer
Unix/Linux Web Server Administrator
/unemployed
Want to buy your
I give up. What's the point of having a list of rpm's with each
distro's version without actually providing access to that package? Is
it just a reference site?
Correct.
And if so, you might want to provide links to
sites still providing images of the distro you're listing.
Believe me,
Le Jeudi 18 Octobre 2001 02:27, vous avez écrit :
On Monday 15 October 2001 13:15, you wrote:
What are you trying to run Java for? Are you just typing java at the
command prompt or are you trying to execute an application?
Kaffe is a *very* poor JVM IMNSHO as it doesn't support, well,
I have lots of bandwidth but no blank CDRs at the moment. Can some one
give me the lowdown on installing from the network? Most likely it
will be NFS but I'm not sure.
Download the floppy image with network support and boot from it. Then point
the Mandrake source to and FTP mirror.
Le Jeudi 18 Octobre 2001 07:04, vous avez écrit :
Hi everybody,
After mounting my FAT32 partitions, all the files are marked executable.
How can I mount them so that normal (non-directory) files are
non-executable?
In addition, I only want root to have write permission. All other users
Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
Did you download the md5sum file from ftp.rpmfind.net or
still using the same old file.
I ask you this because I downloaded from rpmfind as soon as it was
available, and had no problems burning and installing from those iso files.
It's all from rpmfind.net -
Hi People,
We use MDK and RedHat here. If I ssh to a RedHat machine I can
export xterm for example, but if I ssh to a MDK machine I got this error:
channel 0: istate 4 != open
channel 0: ostate 64 != open
X connection to my.MDk.linuxbox:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).
After updating to Mandrake 8.1 and NVidia-1.0-1541, I'm having trouble
running accelerated 3D as a regular user. The error is:
$ bounce
Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions are
too resticitive. Please see the TROUBLESHOOTING section of
Norman wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to format CDRW's under Linux in a
similar way to what you can do under Windose ?
yes.
eroaster has got an option for this and other guis, too. if it is not
installed do urpmi eroaster.
you can do this from a console, too. the option for cdrecord is
Hi,
After a fresh install of 8.1, I'm having trouble playing audio cds. I
checked /dev and found that /dev/cdrom was pointing to a non-existent
device. To wit:
[root@thunderchicken dev]# ls -l cdrom
lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 16 Oct 18 15:08 cdrom -
./cdroms/cdrom0
This is a
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:34:22 -0200 (BRST)
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi People,
We use MDK and RedHat here. If I ssh to a RedHat machine I can
export xterm for example, but if I ssh to a MDK machine I got this
error:
channel 0: istate 4 != open
channel 0:
Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
Are you running Anti-Virus software?
If so turn it off, and download the images again.
DO NOT trust yours unless the MD5 sums match.
-JMS
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What you need to do is comment out these lines in /etc/devfsd.conf file for
cdrom. Once done, use kill -1 devfsd pid , then remove the cdrom link and
you should be able to create the new link.
#LOOKUP^cdrom$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink cdroms/cdrom0 $devpath
#REGISTER
I'm experiencing a strange bug which I wonder if anyone else
on the experts list has seen or can verify and report on:
To tickle the bug:
cp /usr/share/dict/words (or any other large text file) to /tmp
The file should contain a large number of lines, say, greater than 5.
Now edit
I too asked about this a while ago. I double checked the configuration on
both machines, and ssh_conf DOES show X forwarding, but I get the same error
message.
I can manually export the display, but that only functions for one session,
then I get the error messages again, and I can't even
Hi,
I know, it is not a MandrakeLinux question, but if somebody knows the answer,
can please answer to me? Thanks.
The question:
I have a AL440LX motherboard. The bios supports up to PII 333. Now I have a
PII 233. If I put a PII 350 processor in the motherboard, is dangerous? will
it work (at
Title: RE: [expert] Not mandrake question, but...
PII 350's need a 100MHz FSB and is multiplier locked. If it weren't multiplier locked, you could underclock it to 333/66.
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From: Oscar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 5:08 PM
To: [EMAIL
On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 20:18, emammendes wrote:
Hello
If you mean using udf under linux, that is a good question. There is
package by a guy from SUSE that do cdrw using udf (same as window). I think
that the package is called packetcd or something like that. Long time ago
one of mandrake
Hit the key twice and it will appear! Also other puctuation may happen
similarly. Fix is to select your language and keyboard within KDE. In
my case I use UK English and US int kb (am in Oz) and mdk 7.2 and 8.0
required this. Not up to that stage with my new 8.1 system so dont know
if its
OK, I have been wondering about this for a while and finally seek an answer.
My laptop, as is proper, gets moved around a lot and connects to various
networks. I have left the hostname on it as localhost.localdomain because
this, so far, is the only name that hasn't caused problems of some
Why give it a domain name at all? Unless you have a FQDN and IP assigned
to that PC, it's probably not gonna like the domain ending. But, some
hostname like 'mylaptop' will work just fine, I do it on mine. The other
thing you can do is go into linuxconf and uncheck the box that says
There is a problem with this, not all DNS/DHCP installations work alike.
Some give your machine a name when it requests an IP address from it's
pool. IPS's love to do this to your computer, thereby forcing a hostname
that their servers recognise.
Others request a hostname, and based upon the
On windoze laptops there are a number od network profile programs that
setup (some automatically I believe) the network configs when plugged
into a network. Surely something similar exists for Linux. Theres also
the possibility of scripting the process, i.e., once the machine has
logged in to
Michael Osten wrote:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:34:22 -0200 (BRST)
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi People,
We use MDK and RedHat here. If I ssh to a RedHat machine I can
export xterm for example, but if I ssh to a MDK machine I got this
error:
channel 0:
Are you running Anti-Virus software?
If so turn it off, and download the images again.
DO NOT trust yours unless the MD5 sums match.
-JMS
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|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike Rambo
|Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:53 PM
|To:
SSH should set up the X forwarding for you without you having to do
anything. Assuming there is X on that Mandrake box, go into your local
and remote ssh configuration files and enable X forwarding. That should
do it for you.
David
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From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
Are you running Anti-Virus software?
None in use - or even on the system for that matter.
If so turn it off, and download the images again.
I downloaded cd1 with no problem from mandrake.redbox.cz using gftp -
md5's are ok. I've now downloaded cd2 either 5 or 6
I can't seem to log into root anymore... if I do a 'su' in the console, it
gives me a File Limit Exceeded. If I try logging out and logging in as
root, it doesn't let me. I can log in as a regular user fine, but anything
that requires me to run as root is a no go.
I turned on file limits
Oh.. and I can't remove or copy over or edit the /etc/security/limits.conf
file due to it being 644'd.
On Thursday 18 October 2001 18:14, you wrote:
I can't seem to log into root anymore... if I do a 'su' in the console, it
gives me a File Limit Exceeded. If I try logging out and logging in
10/18/2001 3:48:32 PM, Leif Madsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh.. and I can't remove or copy over or edit the /etc/security/limits.conf
file due to it being 644'd.
Try a virtual terminal- Ctrl-Alt-F#, and then Alt-F7 when you're done to get
back into X.
///
Want to buy your
you have to update your sources first, and even this doesn't always work
correctly. A freature needs to be added where it looks for the file name,
and if it finds a different version (hopefully newer) it will download that
one instead. Any chance someone could add that?
mark
On Wednesday
I am not able to launch Konqueror and get this message:
KLauncher could not be reached via DCOP
So, what's broken? How do I fix it?
Hoyt
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
William Kenworthy wrote:
On windoze laptops there are a number od network profile programs that
setup (some automatically I believe) the network configs when plugged
into a network. Surely something similar exists for Linux. Theres also
the possibility of scripting the process, i.e., once
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:34:00AM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
Hit the key twice and it will appear! Also other puctuation may happen
similarly. Fix is to select your language and keyboard within KDE. In
my case I use UK English and US int kb (am in Oz) and mdk 7.2 and 8.0
required this.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
I modified the /etc/security/console.perms file like so:
console 0660 dri0660 root.games
xconsole 0660 /dev/console 0660 root.wheel
xconsole 0660 dri0660 root.games
Notice the entry for dri under console without the x. Before I
Ok, i finally figured out this has nothing to do with opengl or sdl. After
the X server crashes once, then my virtual console is messed up until i
reboot. why?
mark
On Tuesday 16 October 2001 02:04 pm, you wrote:
I have a geforce 3 with nvidia's drivers. I have the latest version of X
you have to update your sources first, and even this doesn't always work
correctly. A freature needs to be added where it looks for the file name,
apt (from debian) and apt-get is supposed to be the Right Way to do these
sorts of upgrades. Personally I have little experience with these
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On Friday 19 October 2001 00:22, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic:
[expert] Hostname question
Can someone please explain to me how to give my system a name that will
stick and not cause problems for the various networks I might connect
to?
I
I'm not sure this is connected but what security level did you choose when you
installed mandrake 8.1?
I never really searched how it works but mandrake have some scripts that when you
login to your computer on X as a regular user, it changes the owner of some devices to
your user. so if I
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Hello, whenever I mount my cdrom, (which looks like this:
[neat]% ls -al /dev/cdrom
lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Oct 15 22:48 /dev/cdrom -
cdroms/cdrom0
)
I just:
[root.deception]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount:
Thanks! Works great now.
-- Stephen
On Thursday 18 October 2001 02:45 pm, you wrote:
Stephen Boulet wrote:
No /dev/hdc:
# ls -l /dev/hdc*
ls: /dev/hdc*: No such file or directory
It is described as /dev/scd0 in my fstab, though. Maybe I can use the
hdparm command for scd0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Could you please tell me where you saw this?
Thanks,
David Charles
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
While checking some files, I noticed this 'New iso available from the
mirror I always use. What is the deal with this version now? .
Is
Anybody would be so kind to help me solving this problem...?
I am developing a database application with Kylix and MySQL... I am using
these objects : SQLDataSet and SQLConnect... I have completed the
parameters but each time I wanted to connect, I found this error message
Unable to load
Hi,
Could you please tell me where you saw this?
Thanks,
David Charles
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
While checking some files, I noticed this 'New iso available from the
mirror I always use. What is the deal with this version now? .
Is just the new Server-only version
While checking some files, I noticed this 'New iso available from the
mirror I always use. What is the deal with this version now? .
Is just the new Server-only version of Mandrake, soft of a replacemnt
for Corporate Server? If so... that's Great News!
Sergio Korlowsky
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