Stephen F Bosch wrote:
Hallo:
Pierre Fortin wrote:
Stephen Bosch wrote:
Lyle wrote:
Ghost from Symantec and Disk Copy from Power Quest is the fastest way, I
know to restore a system.
There has GOT to be a better way to do this than to use those bloated
Stephen F Bosch wrote:
Hallo:
Pierre Fortin wrote:
Stephen Bosch wrote:
Lyle wrote:
Ghost from Symantec and Disk Copy from Power Quest is the fastest way, I
know to restore a system.
There has GOT to be a better way to do this than to use those bloated
Stephen F Bosch wrote:
Pierre Fortin wrote:
Stephen Bosch wrote:
Better yet, use ssh to make your console connections to the remote
machine. ssh will do two nice things:
1) ssh will by default set your DISPLAY variable when you connect
2) ssh does display forwarding so
your syntax looks ok.
I was using wget to mirror cooker, but found the following handicaps - I
could not specify the output directory, and wget did not delete old
packages. I've stopped using it after the initial download in favor of
mirrordir (which has its own quirks).
-Gabi
-Original
How do you repair an Invalid Partition Table? This is on a dual-boot system;
W98 LM7.1.
Brent
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Check your x86config file. You can set it there.
Hi,
When I leave a Mandrake m/c on, with the default logon screen, X blanks the
screen after a short time.. how do I disable it or increase teh blanking
timnig?
I want people around me to be aware that teh machine is running Linux ;)..
Have you tried the xset command as superuser?
xset dpms a b c
a - standby seconds
b - suspend seconds
c - shutdown seconds
xset dpms 1000 1200 1600
standby in 1000 sec.
suspend in 1200 sec
shutdown in 1600 sec
Brent
Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check your x86config file. You can set it
awesome. I'll look into it tomorrow after I sleep for a few hours. Thanks
for the info.
ABe
= Original Message From Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
hey Abe,
I just upgraded all KDE 1.94 packages from 7.2 beta 2 and sound works fine
:))).. I can now have the mixer in kpanel!
Ah thank you. That fixed everything except that users cannot play CDs. Users
can only mount the cdrom drive if it has a data cd in it. Weird huh? When a
user attempts to mount a music cd in teh drive you get an error that says
"Could not determine the file system type and none was
Abe wrote:
Ah thank you. That fixed everything except that users cannot play CDs. Users
can only mount the cdrom drive if it has a data cd in it. Weird huh? When a
user attempts to mount a music cd in teh drive you get an error that says
"Could not determine the file system type and
Hi
I am using Mandrake 7.1 and ncftp-3.0.1-2mdk.
When accessing external web sites we need to go through a firewall
requiring authentication.
I have set up the ~/.ncftp/firewall file and using ncftp works fine.
However when using ncftpget it does not seem to use this file at all and
fails with
Gabi Davar wrote:
Simple: you DON'T ever mount an audio cd. All audio programs
You can mount the Audio CD using CDFS, which can be found at
http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/ .
-Gabi
Ok, you're right. Although the main use of the CDFS (from home page)
seems to be with
Thats not the best solution. My 7.1 system came with an audio group -
just add the users to that group and they should be able to have
access. As an aside, where does kde keep its mime types - I am
experimenting with esd and find that when the daemon is running kde
sometimes locks up so I want
Out of curiosity, what country is .bw?
Ron
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I'm so looking forward to KDE2.0. Konqueror is shaping up to be like the IE of
Linux and Kmail like Outlook Express. Then there's KOffice as well, hopefully
replacing the bloated Star Office on my desktop. If Konqeror can do Java
without all the crashing Netscape does it'll be invaluable. :)
The best I could do was "install as user, run as user". So right now I've got a
250 MB office52 directory in ~/. If anyone knows how to install it into
somewhere like /usr/local/office52 as root so it can be run by everybody could
you share how you did it?
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Vic pushed some
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote:
libcrypto.so.0 is needed by kdebase-1.94-5mdk
libssl.so.0 is needed by kdebase-1.94-5mdk
There's a new search function on rpmfind.net that easily answers
questions like this.
BTW, those are both in openssl-0.9.5a
Hope this helps.
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
Out of curiosity, what country is .bw?
That's BOTSWANA (in Africa)
Please see URL:
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/africa.html
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74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
Keep in touch with
Tony McGee wrote:
The best I could do was "install as user, run as user". So right now I've got a
250 MB office52 directory in ~/. If anyone knows how to install it into
somewhere like /usr/local/office52 as root so it can be run by everybody could
you share how you did it?
On Thu, 14 Sep
.bw is Botswana. Just north South Africa. Very nice country to have a
holiday, if you like to get real close to nature and own a 4x4 vehicle.
Francs
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
Out of curiosity, what country is .bw?
Ron
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At 21:41 -0700 13/9/00, stephen boulet wrote:
Using the 7.2 beta as a base, I'm trying to get the NVidia_kernel
rpm to work for my Geforce2 card.
It builds fine, but this is the message I get when trying to install it:
[root@mozart /root]# rpm -i
Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
Out of curiosity, what country is .bw?
That's BOTSWANA (in Africa)
Please see URL:
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/africa.html
Thank you. I'd have *never* guessed that on my own...
Ron
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Francois Swanepoel wrote:
.bw is Botswana. Just north South Africa. Very nice country to have a
holiday, if you like to get real close to nature and own a 4x4 vehicle.
So I've heard. Political Geography question: What was the "white"
name of Botswana? (Like Rhodesia was the "white" name of
Botswana never had a "white" name. It was however previously called
"Bechuanaland" and was changed so the rest of the world can pronounce
it.
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
Francois Swanepoel wrote:
.bw is Botswana. Just north South Africa. Very nice country to have a
holiday, if you like
The best I could do was "install as user, run as user". So right now
I've got a
250 MB office52 directory in ~/. If anyone knows how to install it
into
somewhere like /usr/local/office52 as root so it can be run by
everybody could
you share how you did it?
Ok, try the following:
1. Login
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We recently got a new guy on board: Kadjo N'DOUA is
Welcome! Your first task is to add "webmaster" links in all the footers instead
of having it burried in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/email.php3 Be visible
and we'll help.
What kind of content should be put
Brent Hawkins wrote:
How do you repair an Invalid Partition Table? This is on a dual-boot system;
W98 LM7.1.
With _specifics_ on what was there, what happened, what it says now, etc.
I've fixed a few here. Not sure I can help in this case; but it's guaranteed I
can't with this info.
Tony Smith wrote:
I think the problem is that X windows dosn't understand that you are
changing monitors.. so you need a configuration file that has setting that
will work on both u're external monitor and the laptop monitor. If I am
correct at identifying the problem, then a simple
- Original Message -
From: "Brent Hawkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:58 AM
Subject: [expert] Invalid Partition Table - How To Fix?
How do you repair an Invalid Partition Table? This is on a dual-boot
system;W98 LM7.1.
Brent
What's
What type of install did you use for Mandrake? If you don't choose
Developer, you don't get the make utility, compiler, etc. that you need to
compile other software.
Matt
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:36
Go to linux-mandrake.com, and click on the "crypto" link on the side of the page:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fcrypto.php3
These are mirrors of the rpms. Download and install the ones you want. All the initial
install does is give you this list of apps, and you choose which ones you want.
My Zoltrix tv-max tv capturer suddenly stoped working after I updated to
mandrake 7.1. I copy all my old configuration of conf.modules but it
seems that it's not able to change the chanel. I know that it almost
works becuase after a reset from Win98 it keeps the channel, but no way
to change it.
well, my login is a member of the audio group. I can play mp3's, .wav files
and I can get sound in games now. But I cannot play cds! Xmms reads the
disk, lists the tracks and refuses to play them unless I am root.
Abe
= Original Message From Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
O yeah, your
it was 4:30 am when I wrote that email. What I meant was that audio programs
like xmms scan the disk, read its contents and then cannot actually play them
for any user except root.
I will look inot that program as I often burn cds of my music and it would be
handy to be able to mount those
the user is a mamber of the sudio group already. Any other ideas?
Abe
= Original Message From BillK [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Thats not the best solution. My 7.1 system came with an audio group -
just add the users to that group and they should be able to have
access. As an aside, where
O yeah, your right I was trying to do that, (add users to audio group)
but Kuser I don't think can do it, it did not add them
when I told it to, so would you know the good old fashioned
commandline method for doing that?
I could sure use knowing what to type in my VT
or konsole to do this.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Sarang Lakare pushed some tiny letters in this order:
You can either do whata Tony suggested, or KDE 2.0 has total network
transparancy.. so u can ftp from konqueror to any remote machine and then
just click on the icon of any file to edit!
-sarang
Since
Tony McGee wrote:
The best I could do was "install as user, run as user". So right now
I've got a
250 MB office52 directory in ~/. If anyone knows how to install it into
somewhere like /usr/local/office52 as root so it can be run by everybody
could
you share how you did it?
On Thu,
The best I could do was "install as user, run as user". So right now
I've got a
250 MB office52 directory in ~/. If anyone knows how to install it
into
somewhere like /usr/local/office52 as root so it can be run by
everybody could
you share how you did it?
Ok, try the following:
1.
At 21:41 -0700 13/9/00, stephen boulet wrote:
Using the 7.2 beta as a base, I'm trying to get the NVidia_kernel rpm to
work for my Geforce2 card.
It builds fine, but this is the message I get when trying to install it:
[root@mozart /root]# rpm -i
Brent Hawkins wrote:
How do you repair an Invalid Partition Table? This is on a dual-boot
system;
W98 LM7.1.
With _specifics_ on what was there, what happened, what it says now, etc.
I've fixed a few here. Not sure I can help in this case; but it's guaranteed I
can't with this info.
.bw is Botswana. Just north South Africa. Very nice country to have a
holiday, if you like to get real close to nature and own a 4x4 vehicle.
Francs
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
Out of curiosity, what country is .bw?
Ron
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Botswana never had a "white" name. It was however previously called
"Bechuanaland" and was changed so the rest of the world can pronounce
it.
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
Francois Swanepoel wrote:
.bw is Botswana. Just north South Africa. Very nice country to have a
holiday, if you
Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
Out of curiosity, what country is .bw?
That's BOTSWANA (in Africa)
Please see URL:
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/africa.html
Thank you. I'd have *never* guessed that on my own...
Ron
--
Francois Swanepoel wrote:
.bw is Botswana. Just north South Africa. Very nice country to have a
holiday, if you like to get real close to nature and own a 4x4 vehicle.
So I've heard. Political Geography question: What was the "white"
name of Botswana? (Like Rhodesia was the "white" name
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
Out of curiosity, what country is .bw?
That's BOTSWANA (in Africa)
Please see URL:
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/africa.html
--
Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
Keep in touch with
I'm a firm believer in designing webpages with graphics as an
auxiliary to the understanding and content of the page. I try
whenever possible to make sure that even a lynx user could
navigate the page's links and content without too much trouble.
As for the linux-mandrake website, I think it
I used adduser from menu on kde. Bit of a dud app tho and not
intuitive. use "edit group audio" and add the user there as well as
"edit user" and save, it took then!
BillK
Vic wrote:
O yeah, your right I was trying to do that, (add users to audio group)
but Kuser I don't think can do it,
Sarang Lakare wrote:
[snip]
When I leave a Mandrake m/c on, with the default logon screen, X blanks the
screen after a short time.. how do I disable it or increase teh blanking
timnig?
[snip]
Sarangthe below is a section from the /etc/X11/XF86Config
file. at the bottom there is an
1) No adds from doubleclick etc
2) Avoid the hated java applets
10)Keep it simple with few graphics (especially not animated/java ones -
they chew up all the processor power on low end machines, often killing
the session) - current site rates nearer mirablis icq than as easy to
browse
11)Make
ok well i finally got make installed it was missing, so here is a transcript
of what i tried
[root@localhost /root]# makemake: *** No targets specified and no makefile
found. Stop.
[root@localhost /root]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
[root@localhost /root]#
since this post i have had problems online, kppp stats shows a lot of
incoming bytes even though i have nothing running, just an open
connection, i can't help feeling that i've been hacked but i can't see
what has been done or where to look
bascule
bascule wrote:
i had the following mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ok well i finally got make installed it was missing, so here is a transcript
of what i tried
--CUT--SNIP-PART---
but as you can see fan is a c file wich i think needs to be compiled
and the creater said to use make
On 14 Sep 2000, Brent Hawkins wrote:
I just went and wiped out the whole drive
Ah! The Microsoft Way! TM.
-- Asheesh Laroia.
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Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.
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well its not in a package it was stored in a tar.gz file there was a makefile
and i tried to use that as well but i cant make heads or tales of the damn
thing and the man file for make was no help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ok well i finally got make installed it was missing, so here is a
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, you wrote:
ok well i finally got make installed it was missing, so here is a transcript
of what i tried
[root@localhost /root]# makemake: *** No targets specified and no makefile
found. Stop.
[root@localhost /root]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target
Ken Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
don't blame Mandrake when you don't have enuff knowledge and when u are
trying to install it alongside windoze on a small partition!
Mandrake DOES have an annoying limit during install, allowing only about
1/2 of the actual free
Craig Van Degrift wrote:
SoloCDM,
I also had what seemed to be mysterious trouble using expert mode.
One aspect was not mysterious. When it assures you that you have enough space,
it isn't counting all applications. It didn't allow me to place StarOffice in
my /usr partition and
Hope this helps:
become root
Do the following, character for character:
assume pr0g.tar.gz is the file you downloaded
cd /root
cd tmp
mkdir downloads
cd downloads
tar zxvf pr0g.tar.gz
ls
cd into the only directory present
./configure
make
make install
You're done!
Tell me what happens.
Sarang Lakare wrote:
don't blame Mandrake when you don't have enuff knowledge and when u are
trying to install it alongside windoze on a small partition!
I don't know where this became a personal crusade, but you're entitled
to your opinion, just don't push it down other people's throat.
Hello,
I was reading an article on rootprompt
(http://www.rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=903)
about security. Among other things, the author mentions:
T"he magic words are to add -nolisten tcp to the incantation that actually
starts the xserver (you can add gamma correction here too,
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 13-Sep-00 20:43:18 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
configure it manually !!
those packages are rpms
you can install them through the rpm configurator
what packages are they?
someone was
This raises a question... (and why I'm inputting at the top :)
Has anyone else clobbered their boot blocks and used one of the /boot/boot.*
files to recover it...?
The reason I ask is that while I haven't booted the MacroShaft drive, I run some
non-M$ W9x programs via wine. One day, I was
- Original Message -
From: "Brent Hawkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Re: [expert] Invalid Partition Table - How To Fix?]
Thanks for writing back. I just went and wiped out the whole drive and I'm
reinstalling W98
security warning: the md5sum for one of your suid ifles has changed,
maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a
backdoor...
checksum changed files : /usr/libexec/pt_chown
i am not happy about the above mail to root, is there an
I am using Mandrake 7.1 and ncftp-3.0.1-2mdk.
When accessing external web sites we need to go through a firewall
requiring authentication.
I have set up the ~/.ncftp/firewall file and using ncftp works fine.
However when using ncftpget it does not seem to use this file at all and
fails with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We recently got a new guy on board: Kadjo N'DOUA is
Welcome! Your first task is to add "webmaster" links in all the footers
instead
of having it burried in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/email.php3 Be
visible
and we'll help.
What kind of content should be
Redesigning the web-site
(http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2913105647)
Hi, folks
We recently got a new guy on board: Kadjo N'DOUA is
our brand-new "Web Content Specialist", and his first job will be to redesign our
web-site(s). As usually, your opinion is asked-for first:
Welcome aboard, Kadjo, i would only second what has already been suggested: keep it
simple with visible text, and minimal graphics. Your efforts will be appreciated, even
if at times it does not feel like they are
Craig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Redesigning the web-site
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