Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 14:08, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:37, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 05:11, eric jackson wrote: I just wanted to alert people to Tux Magazine. I stumbled on a link to it somewhere. www.tuxmagazine.com. It is a free linux magazine distributed in PDF format aimed at new users. There is a lot of coverage of software, again aimed at the newbie. They are also looking for people to submit articles. The first issue is on the website now. Eric Jackson Thanks for that link. Looks just what I need to learn by doing projects. Rosemary One of the greatest means by which to learn is to attack your own linux box. Do things with it. Turn it into a mail server. Turn it into a webserver. A database server. Learn how to create backup scripts. Learn how to play with crontab entries and do things on schedule. Create simple scripts to do simple things. It's all good. Play with different window managers and desktops. Play with themes. Learn about burning different types of CD's. Ripping different kinds of CD's. Using different media players - the list goes on. It's a great learning experience and never be afraid to experiment. To begin with I need to have some minor successes - even if they be by point and click'. I want to use my system in ways that are appripriate to me - which are basic home user ways. Yes - I want to understand and be able to execute things in the CLI. However it is going to take time for me to learn that. Sorry if I am such a dumb kiwi who is only happy when has sheep backed against the fence. Being a townie I have no idea what you refer to! cheers Rosemary -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* TURN UP ONLY ONCE. (Feet of Clay) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3 from be it the MCC or by hand. I can't even re-partition it with FAT32 ? So here it goes : will this FAT32 file system become fragmented over time like any other Windows file system ? If yes, how to defrag it ? Or, will I have to move the FS to another drive back-and-forth in order to defrag ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. I deleted the wrong message, so this is not a direct reply to this message, but to one later in the thread... :-( When you were trying to work with the drive, what device were you giving fdisk? If you unmount the FAT partition first, you should be able to use something like fdisk /dev/sda to get at the partition table. If you can, then it is simple to change the drive to another file system. If you are happy with it being one large partition, then change the type (t) to 83 (ext2/3) and save (w) the updated partition table. Then run mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 to create an ext3 file system. If you have any data on the drive you want to keep, BACK IT UP before starting this. Please keep in mind that the drive may not be /dev/sda and the partition may not be /dev/sda1 - it depends on your system, and how the drive was partitioned. Mikkel Just a newbie thought : Can you do as root : # cat /etc/fstab | grep sd And post it back here. Be sure the device is plugged in first. TIA -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 14:08, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:37, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 05:11, eric jackson wrote: I just wanted to alert people to Tux Magazine. I stumbled on a link to it somewhere. www.tuxmagazine.com. It is a free linux magazine distributed in PDF format aimed at new users. There is a lot of coverage of software, again aimed at the newbie. They are also looking for people to submit articles. The first issue is on the website now. Eric Jackson Thanks for that link. Looks just what I need to learn by doing projects. Rosemary One of the greatest means by which to learn is to attack your own linux box. Do things with it. Turn it into a mail server. Turn it into a webserver. A database server. Learn how to create backup scripts. Learn how to play with crontab entries and do things on schedule. Create simple scripts to do simple things. It's all good. Play with different window managers and desktops. Play with themes. Learn about burning different types of CD's. Ripping different kinds of CD's. Using different media players - the list goes on. It's a great learning experience and never be afraid to experiment. To begin with I need to have some minor successes - even if they be by point and click'. I want to use my system in ways that are appripriate to me - which are basic home user ways. Yes - I want to understand and be able to execute things in the CLI. However it is going to take time for me to learn that. Sorry if I am such a dumb kiwi who is only happy when has sheep backed against the fence. Being a townie I have no idea what you refer to! cheers Rosemary -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* TURN UP ONLY ONCE. (Feet of Clay) At least we can control sheep, ever seen those aussies control their roo's never laughed so hard, so at least they are great entertainers, but what's with feeding babies to crocs on TV yet ? -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners
Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
On Friday 18 March 2005 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3 from be it the MCC or by hand. I can't even re-partition it with FAT32 ? So here it goes : will this FAT32 file system become fragmented over time like any other Windows file system ? If yes, how to defrag it ? Or, will I have to move the FS to another drive back-and-forth in order to defrag ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. I deleted the wrong message, so this is not a direct reply to this message, but to one later in the thread... :-( When you were trying to work with the drive, what device were you giving fdisk? If you unmount the FAT partition first, you should be able to use something like fdisk /dev/sda to get at the partition table. If you can, then it is simple to change the drive to another file system. If you are happy with it being one large partition, then change the type (t) to 83 (ext2/3) and save (w) the updated partition table. Then run mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 to create an ext3 file system. If you have any data on the drive you want to keep, BACK IT UP before starting this. Please keep in mind that the drive may not be /dev/sda and the partition may not be /dev/sda1 - it depends on your system, and how the drive was partitioned. Mikkel Just a newbie thought : Can you do as root : # cat /etc/fstab | grep sd And post it back here. Be sure the device is plugged in first. TIA Even easier: cat /dev/sd on the CML and hit TAB...that way you'll see what's there. When inserting/plugging the device the specific /dev/sd* file gets made and also gets removed when unplugging. Repeat after me: TAB is my best on the command line..!;) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners
There are various list - google your hardware + Linux, also there are very helpful list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. I've been looking all around about Canon scanners, and it isn't good jsut now. Canon won't release their code (from lists), and no supporting drivers'. We need for Canaon to release code or someone to develope somehting I guess .. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Since urpmi has a feature to keep updated packages in a cache directory for later, does RPMDrake adopt this feature as well? Thank you. === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail! __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] camera
Hmmm I'm wondering if it's fair to ask this question, or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 according to http://www.johnwyles.com/archives/2004/07/16/sony_dscw1_in_linux.php this camera works. I have looked at the suggestions by others, but really too new to understand what to do. Any help really appreciated. If anyone can direct me I'd be grateful. I have begun reading the various references - just makes me overwhelmed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
On Friday 18 March 2005 09:36, Robert T. Yu wrote:
Since urpmi has a feature to keep updated packages in
a cache directory for later, does RPMDrake adopt this
feature as well?
Thank you.
Yes
Put the text
no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never remember)
on a line between the first set of {}in the file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
That makes the default behaviour for both urpmi and rpmdrake to save packages
in the cache.
derek
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Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners
On Friday 18 March 2005 09:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. If you open MandrakeControlCentreHardwareScanners and select 'Add a Scanner Manually' you will see a list of supported scanners. Yours is not in the list :-( Then go to http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON and you see it is not listed there either, so it looks like you are out of luck. As for the printers MandrakeControlCentreHardwarePrinters select 'Add' uncheck the 'printer auto detect' box and pick an interface. You will then see a list of supported printers If your printer is not listed try a driver for a similar model. Also check out www.linuxprinting.org derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3 from be it the MCC or by hand. I can't even re-partition it with FAT32 ? So here it goes : will this FAT32 file system become fragmented over time like any other Windows file system ? If yes, how to defrag it ? Or, will I have to move the FS to another drive back-and-forth in order to defrag ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. I deleted the wrong message, so this is not a direct reply to this message, but to one later in the thread... :-( When you were trying to work with the drive, what device were you giving fdisk? If you unmount the FAT partition first, you should be able to use something like fdisk /dev/sda to get at the partition table. If you can, then it is simple to change the drive to another file system. If you are happy with it being one large partition, then change the type (t) to 83 (ext2/3) and save (w) the updated partition table. Then run mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 to create an ext3 file system. If you have any data on the drive you want to keep, BACK IT UP before starting this. Please keep in mind that the drive may not be /dev/sda and the partition may not be /dev/sda1 - it depends on your system, and how the drive was partitioned. Mikkel Just a newbie thought : Can you do as root : # cat /etc/fstab | grep sd And post it back here. Be sure the device is plugged in first. TIA Even easier: cat /dev/sd on the CML and hit TAB...that way you'll see what's there. When inserting/plugging the device the specific /dev/sd* file gets made and also gets removed when unplugging. Repeat after me: TAB is my best on the command line..!;) ONLY I SPECIFICALLY WANTED TO VIEW THE FSTAB ENTRY TO CHECK ITS OPTIONS! -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Yes
Put the text
no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never
remember)
on a line between the first set of {}in the file
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
You mean typing (--noclean) like so?
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Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Another question: when I su as root, does root priveleges apply only within the terminal or the operating system as a whole? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail! __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Robert T. Yu wrote: Another question: when I su as root, does root priveleges apply only within the terminal or the operating system as a whole? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail! __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Assuming you su'ed as root within a terminal then it's only within that terminal unless you run things from that command line. eg: # kwrite would open kwrite with root privileges allowing you to edit files only available to root. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Thank you for the answer and I hope I am not overstaying my welcome. If I were to do something like configuring Samba shares, do I have to login or SU as root? I figure that because I need to alter the smb.conf file. === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail! __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:35, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. I've been looking all around about Canon scanners, and it isn't good jsut now. Canon won't release their code (from lists), and no supporting drivers'. We need for Canaon to release code or someone to develope somehting I guess .. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Hardware-HOWTO.html says the Canon BJC 4200 'works perfectly', as does the HP 1100 photosmart. Check the SANE pages for Canon scanners' back ends. Or, go into MCC and 'hardware' on your computer, select 'scanner' 'add scanner manually', and see if the model is listed there as supported or unsupported, then just cancel when you've the information. You can do something similar for printers (uncheck the 'auto-detect' box) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
On Friday 18 March 2005 10:52, Robert T. Yu wrote:
Yes
Put the text
no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never
remember)
on a line between the first set of {}in the file
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
You mean typing (--noclean) like so?
No
I mean what I said. Edit the file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
and insert the text 'no-clean' between the braces.
Enter #urpmi.cfg in the URL line of konqueror to learn about the urpmi.cfg
file.
derek
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Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
On Friday 18 March 2005 11:26, Robert T. Yu wrote: Thank you for the answer and I hope I am not overstaying my welcome. If I were to do something like configuring Samba shares, do I have to login or SU as root? I figure that because I need to alter the smb.conf file. Once you have su'd to root enter konqueror to get a root copy of konqueror. You can edit smb.conf from there. Alternatively, if you use KDE hit Alt+F2 and in the box enter kdesu konqueror Alternatively if you have a 'contrib' urpmi source defined install the package ksambaplugin and then your KDE Control Centre will have a nice GUI from which you can enter admin mode and configure samba. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail! __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Program to combine words
Dear All I am looking for a program to do the following: extract all the combinations of two words from a given set of many words. Is there such a software? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? TIA -- Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
On Friday 18 March 2005 11:53, Robert T. Yu wrote: Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? No Logging in as root is never necessary. Mandrake goes out of its way to make logging in as root as difficult and unpleasant as possible to try to discourage you. Anything you need to do as root you can do with kdesu or su in a terminal as I described. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds will work fine. No-name ones work, sort of, in that you will get a percentage of coasters, so they're not economical, but do-able if you can't get anything else. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpqgp2tQKLmP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Program to combine words
Is this link providing what you wanna, man? http://www.searchengineforums.com/apps/webmaster.forums/action::thread/thread::1090443783/forum::googleadwords/ bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] How big is a block ?
Is a Linux block 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes. If i give a user 130,000 blocks of quota space, windows reports it as 126 Meg So if i want a user to have 130Mb do i set 133120 blocks or 13 blocks ? Or is windows wrong again. Many thanks Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Printer : HP 3550 Problem
Helloz I guess cups is working fine: http://www.geocities.com/robertoramsis/CUPS_jobs.jpg all jobs are completed but the printer never pulls a paper. whenever i try to restart a job it gives me http://www.geocities.com/robertoramsis/Restart.jpg By the way when i make lsusb this is what i get : Bus 004 Device 001: ID : Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:7304 Hewlett-Packard Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Thanks soo much Byes --- SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roberto Ramsis wrote: *Hello everyone* I have MDK 10.0,it autodetected my usb printer HP deskjet 3550 so fine ,but whenever i print: the printer never responds ,when i check the cups log it says these jobs have been completed though the printer never even tried to pull the paper.I checked the port it works fine and cups is running too. Another thing i'm getting is some sort of a warning msg on boot ,cant read all of it but i GUESS it says Warning : CUPS may not work properly.Couldnt mount loopback device to routing table!? Thanks so much Bye Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=31637/*http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ Just to start things off ~ within a new browser window type localhost:631 ( without the quotes ) and have a play in there. You usually sign in as root and you need the admin password to be able to configure things properly. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.11 upgrade.
On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:59 pm, Tom wrote: OTOH, you didn't say if you need a SMP (more than one processor), a Hi-Mem (1 gig of ram or more), or any other special requirements. snip Tom, Thanks a lot. I have a fairly standard laptop setup, so I think the standard kernel you linked will be fine. Holler back if you want to compile, it's really fairly simple. If it goes belly up, I will take you up on your offer! Thanks again, Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 00:06, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:35, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. I've been looking all around about Canon scanners, and it isn't good jsut now. Canon won't release their code (from lists), and no supporting drivers'. We need for Canaon to release code or someone to develope somehting I guess .. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Hardw are-HOWTO.html says the Canon BJC 4200 'works perfectly', as does the HP 1100 photosmart. Check the SANE pages for Canon scanners' back ends. Or, go into MCC and 'hardware' on your computer, select 'scanner' 'add scanner manually', and see if the model is listed there as supported or unsupported, then just cancel when you've the information. You can do something similar for printers (uncheck the 'auto-detect' box) But presumably for supported scanners only? By SANE etc. Not getting hopeful Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? Strange, Verbatim works well for me and are considered best choice in a recent Computer Build test; so it's possible your burner had its own problem with Verbatim; what's brand and model are you using? -- Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 02:41, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 00:06, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:35, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. I've been looking all around about Canon scanners, and it isn't good jsut now. Canon won't release their code (from lists), and no supporting drivers'. We need for Canaon to release code or someone to develope somehting I guess .. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Har dw are-HOWTO.html says the Canon BJC 4200 'works perfectly', as does the HP 1100 photosmart. Check the SANE pages for Canon scanners' back ends. Or, go into MCC and 'hardware' on your computer, select 'scanner' 'add scanner manually', and see if the model is listed there as supported or unsupported, then just cancel when you've the information. You can do something similar for printers (uncheck the 'auto-detect' box) But presumably for supported scanners only? By SANE etc. Not getting hopeful Rosemary Should add - not getting hopeful after heaps of reading at various sites - Canon scanners seem to be the pIts with linux! Or, more accurately , Canon, disinterested? Have emailed them ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? TIA -- Charles Now that sounds rather strange in my ears, as I have not heard before of a brand that won't work with software or do they work in other software on the same machine? What I do now that though is that hardware and discs can be a pain together /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol
hello Rosemary I'm wondering if it's fair to ask this question, perfectly fitting question :-) or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify your task by just connecting a (Memory Stick) card reader to your computer. your camera support USB 1 and the much faster USB 2. according to http://www.johnwyles.com/archives/2004/07/16/sony_dscw1_in_linux.php this camera works. these are instructions how to work with it using gtkam. are libgphoto2, gPhoto2, and gtkam already installed in your system ? I have looked at the suggestions by others, but really too new to understand what to do. Any help really appreciated. If anyone can direct me I'd be grateful. I have begun reading the various references - just makes me overwhelmed sure, let's go step by step. kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:04, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 14:08, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:37, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 05:11, eric jackson wrote: I just wanted to alert people to Tux Magazine. I stumbled on a link to it somewhere. www.tuxmagazine.com. It is a free linux magazine distributed in PDF format aimed at new users. There is a lot of coverage of software, again aimed at the newbie. They are also looking for people to submit articles. The first issue is on the website now. Eric Jackson Thanks for that link. Looks just what I need to learn by doing projects. Rosemary One of the greatest means by which to learn is to attack your own linux box. Do things with it. Turn it into a mail server. Turn it into a webserver. A database server. Learn how to create backup scripts. Learn how to play with crontab entries and do things on schedule. Create simple scripts to do simple things. It's all good. Play with different window managers and desktops. Play with themes. Learn about burning different types of CD's. Ripping different kinds of CD's. Using different media players - the list goes on. It's a great learning experience and never be afraid to experiment. To begin with I need to have some minor successes - even if they be by point and click'. I want to use my system in ways that are appripriate to me - which are basic home user ways. Yes - I want to understand and be able to execute things in the CLI. However it is going to take time for me to learn that. Sorry if I am such a dumb kiwi who is only happy when has sheep backed against the fence. Being a townie I have no idea what you refer to! cheers Rosemary -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* TURN UP ONLY ONCE. (Feet of Clay) At least we can control sheep, ever seen those aussies control their roo's never laughed so hard, so at least they are great entertainers, but what's with feeding babies to crocs on TV yet ? Can only assume he is a distant cousin to Michael Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 11:53, Robert T. Yu wrote: Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? No Logging in as root is never necessary. Mandrake goes out of its way to make logging in as root as difficult and unpleasant as possible to try to discourage you. Anything you need to do as root you can do with kdesu or su in a terminal as I described. derek Also, for most configuration tasks, if you are not going to edit the config file directly, but use one of the configuratin tools from the GUI menu, you will be asked for the root password so the tool can edit the config ile for you. There are also tools like SWAT and webmin that can help you config things from a web browser. You can set them up so that a specific user can configure things, instead of geing root. The program takes care of needing to be root, instead of you logging in as root. Now, as far as programming goes, most of that can be done as a normal user. In fact, it is a good idea to build programs as a user. It is only when you need to install them into the normal system file structure that you need to be root. For example, I always build RPMs as a normal user. I think su to root to install them. If I am building a program for use only by my user, I will install in in ~/bin instead. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 03:00, Philippe Landau wrote: hello Rosemary I'm wondering if it's fair to ask this question, perfectly fitting question :-) or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify your task by just connecting a (Memory Stick) card reader to your computer. your camera support USB 1 and the much faster USB 2. according to http://www.johnwyles.com/archives/2004/07/16/sony_dscw1_in_linux.php this camera works. these are instructions how to work with it using gtkam. are libgphoto2, gPhoto2, and gtkam already installed in your system ? I have looked at the suggestions by others, but really too new to understand what to do. Any help really appreciated. If anyone can direct me I'd be grateful. I have begun reading the various references - just makes me overwhelmed sure, let's go step by step. kind regards philippe Just took a look at your link which I hadn't seen before - thanks. Brief look, as need to go to bed ... Tried digikakam first because was default programme (using KDE). Then did as John Wyles suggested but camera not initalised. Noticed that for some USB ports (? correct name) time to indicate lack of initilisation varied. Not sure f this is important or not. But port at back of computer took longer for message that camera not initialised. While it did it's thing I began to get excited it was going to detect the camera! Thought I could print my output from 'lsmod' but couldn't do the copy and paste for some reason. cheers Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 03:00, Philippe Landau wrote: hello Rosemary I'm wondering if it's fair to ask this question, perfectly fitting question :-) or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify your task by just connecting a (Memory Stick) card reader to your computer. your camera support USB 1 and the much faster USB 2. according to http://www.johnwyles.com/archives/2004/07/16/sony_dscw1_in_linux.php this camera works. these are instructions how to work with it using gtkam. are libgphoto2, gPhoto2, and gtkam already installed in your system ? I have looked at the suggestions by others, but really too new to understand what to do. Any help really appreciated. If anyone can direct me I'd be grateful. I have begun reading the various references - just makes me overwhelmed sure, let's go step by step. kind regards philippe I have installed libphoto2, gphoto2 and gtkam, as per johnwyles. I've looked at the various suggestions on his website, but being a newb, and the various suggestions being diff distribs, feeeling - as I said - ovewrwhelmed. Scanner and camera only things needed in windows. Scannner not really an issue, as rarely used, but camera used often. Would be good to get it going. Well - truth is, used to do things in Publisher, which haven't learnt yet - but guess that will come Same with photo apps ... and making cards etc cheers Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.11 upgrade.
After installing the mandrake package for kernel 2.6.11, the only problem seems to be the network. I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unholy]# service network start Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth1: driverloader device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. [FAILED] driverloader is a service that loads the drivers for my pcmcia network card. I installed it when I was using the old kernel so maybe the new kernel needs to be made aware of it's presence. But I dont know how to do that. Thanks for listening, Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 13:56, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Should add - not getting hopeful after heaps of reading at various sites - Canon scanners seem to be the pIts with linux! Or, more accurately , Canon, disinterested? Have emailed them ... Good luck to you - let us know if you get anything back. I've been trying for 3 years to get my Canon FS2710 film scanner working. I once saw that someone had managed it, but doing what he recommended just crashed my computer. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgp0sos0JDV4X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I'm afraid I haven't had any DVD blanks that didn't work. I presume that's down to the drive and not the software. The drive I use is the 16 speed NEC with dual layer burning as well. I can't vouch for the dual layer part, but I notice that K3B normally shows as dual layer capacity until I actually put the blank into the drive. I've used pretty much whatever is cheapest at the stockist I use and have had no problems (coasters). I could say that most drives appreciate Ritek dye disks, though. The Liteon I had before the Nec definitely preferred ritek dye disks, but again, although burning slower generally on other dyes, didn't produce coasters. Maybe I've just been lucky :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 14:13, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I have installed libphoto2, gphoto2 and gtkam, as per johnwyles. I've looked at the various suggestions on his website, but being a newb, and the various suggestions being diff distribs, feeeling - as I said - ovewrwhelmed. Scanner and camera only things needed in windows. Scannner not really an issue, as rarely used, but camera used often. Would be good to get it going. Well - truth is, used to do things in Publisher, which haven't learnt yet - but guess that will come Same with photo apps ... and making cards etc Rosemary, I haven't been paying attention, as I've been busy with other problems, so sorry if I ask things that you've already told us. When you switch on your camera, do you put it in playback mode? Does following the johnwyles instructions for setting up the camera give you the display as he describes it? I would think that getting the camera setup sorted first would be the problem. Once that's done you can go ahead trying to add the camera to gtkam or digikam. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpNUq4Wf9wkQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake
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On Friday 18 March 2005 10:52, Robert T. Yu wrote:
Yes
Put the text
no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never
remember)
on a line between the first set of {}in the file
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
You mean typing (--noclean) like so?
No
I mean what I said. Edit the file
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
and insert the text 'no-clean' between the braces.
Enter #urpmi.cfg in the URL line of konqueror to
learn about the urpmi.cfg
file.
derek
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Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 15:26, Ian wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I'm afraid I haven't had any DVD blanks that didn't work. I presume that's down to the drive and not the software. The drive I use is the 16 speed NEC with dual layer burning as well. I can't vouch for the dual layer part, but I notice that K3B normally shows as dual layer capacity until I actually put the blank into the drive. I've used pretty much whatever is cheapest at the stockist I use and have had no problems (coasters). I could say that most drives appreciate Ritek dye disks, though. The Liteon I had before the Nec definitely preferred ritek dye disks, but again, although burning slower generally on other dyes, didn't produce coasters. Maybe I've just been lucky :-) Also, burning at less than maximum speed for your drive is always a good idea. As a rule of thumb, burn at 1/2 its stated speed. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpLZUnp7CCZ5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:26:24 + Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drive I use is the 16 speed NEC with dual layer burning as well. I can't vouch for the dual layer part, but I notice that K3B normally shows as dual layer capacity until I actually put the blank into the drive. NEC are very good at their work and as far as I know, they do not definetly have any problem with Verbatim dvd; which NEC model do you own, more specific? And have you tried with others burning program, like X-CDRoast? -- Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] another urpmi query
On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:11 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Yokay, thanks, I will remove rpm --rebuilddb command from my list and jsut do [rpm --updatedb update-menus -v ldconfig], right? You should not need to do any of those. (I am not sure where rpm --updatedb came from...) The update-menus is normally run by any package that adds/removes menu entries, so you should not need to run it yourself. The same for ldconfig when adding/removing libraries. I guess it doesn't hurt to run them, but it isn't really necessary ether. Now, running updatedb can be helpful if you use slocate. If not, then you can let the weekly cron job take care of it. thanks :) -- Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 15:37, Smiley wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:26:24 + Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drive I use is the 16 speed NEC with dual layer burning as well. I can't vouch for the dual layer part, but I notice that K3B normally shows as dual layer capacity until I actually put the blank into the drive. NEC are very good at their work and as far as I know, they do not definetly have any problem with Verbatim dvd; which NEC model do you own, more specific? And have you tried with others burning program, like X-CDRoast? ND-3500AG Yes, but K3B floats my boat. I've found K3b to do anything I've asked of it..except for the Clone part of the copy menu. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine
On Friday 18 March 2005 06:02 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yes - I want to understand and be able to execute things in the CLI. However it is going to take time for me to learn that. Sorry if I am such a dumb kiwi who is only happy when has sheep backed against the fence. Being a townie I have no idea what you refer to! Q. Where do Ozzies go on vacation? A. The sheep are for Ozzie tourists Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify your task by just connecting a (Memory Stick) card reader to your computer. your camera support USB 1 and the much faster USB 2. according to http://www.johnwyles.com/archives/2004/07/16/sony_dscw1_in_linux.php this camera works. these are instructions how to work with it using gtkam. are libgphoto2, gPhoto2, and gtkam already installed in your system ? I have looked at the suggestions by others, but really too new to understand what to do. Any help really appreciated. If anyone can direct me I'd be grateful. I have begun reading the various references - just makes me overwhelmed sure, let's go step by step. I have installed libphoto2, gphoto2 and gtkam, as per johnwyles. I've looked at the various suggestions on his website, but being a newb, and the various suggestions being diff distribs, feeeling - as I said - ovewrwhelmed. it might be a problem with mandrake, are you using 10.1 ? sometimes a reboot might help. please reply after each paragraph if possible. Scanner and camera only things needed in windows. Scannner not really an issue, as rarely used, but camera used often. Would be good to get it going. yes, is using a card reader as described above an option for you ? Well - truth is, used to do things in Publisher, which haven't learnt yet - but guess that will come Same with photo apps ... and making cards etc this would be interesting in a new thread. Just took a look at your link which I hadn't seen before - thanks. Brief look, as need to go to bed ... sleep well then :-) Tried digikakam first because was default programme (using KDE). Then did as John Wyles suggested but camera not initalised. it looks like there can be many problems connecting a digital camera to mandrake. http://www.desktoplinux.com/cgi-bin/board/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPostBoard=distributionsPost=350 Noticed that for some USB ports (? correct name) sure :-) time to indicate lack of initilisation varied. Not sure f this is important or not. But port at back of computer took longer for message that camera not initialised. While it did it's thing I began to get excited it was going to detect the camera! Thought I could print my output from 'lsmod' but couldn't do the copy and paste for some reason. kind regards philippe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 March 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? TIA -- Charles DVD burners can be picky with the brands they will work with e.g. the Optorite in my PC will not work with Datawrite branded DVDs but my Lite-on DVD recorder attached to the T.V is quite happy with them, conversely Phillips branded ones work in the PC but not DVD Recorder. A lot of DVD writer manufacturers list compatable media on their websites, if yours does it's worth checking before buying. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.11 upgrade.
JR wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:59 pm, Tom wrote: OTOH, you didn't say if you need a SMP (more than one processor), a Hi-Mem (1 gig of ram or more), or any other special requirements. snip Tom, Thanks a lot. I have a fairly standard laptop setup, so I think the standard kernel you linked will be fine. Well, I had thought I implied that your chances of success with a 2.6.11 kernel on older Mandrake versions were questionable. That it would be better to wait a bit an install 10.2 if you need a 2.6.11 kernel. OTOH, if you install the kernel with -ivh, it will go in along side your current kernel, which you then can always fall back to if the new kernel fails. Laptop, adds in another question mark. Many reports on cooker that 2.6.11 fails on some laptops. Mostly an i686/i586 issue. The only work around right now AFAIK is to try the i586 specific kernel. (I've never had a laptop) ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/devel/cooker/i586/media/main/kernel-i586-up-1GB-2.6.11.2mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm In explanation; while Mandrake is still primarily an i586 architecture distro, many things like glibc and the 'normal' kernel are compiled for 1686 to take advantage of that optimization and 686 specific cpu flags. Many laptop, C(yrix)-3 processors, and some others are not true i686 systems. C-3's aren't even true i586. The 10.2 installer has been modified to blacklist these systems an install the i586 kernel. 'Course if you install a 10.2 kernel on an older Mdk version, this protection is not afforded. Type 'arch' in a console and press Enter, it'll probly return 'i686'. That only means that the cpu/cache reports itself as 686 architecture the system might not really be i686. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds will work fine. No-name ones work, sort of, in that you will get a percentage of coasters, so they're not economical, but do-able if you can't get anything else. Anne Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are made by the advertised vendor. The only way to know for sure who actually makes the disk is to do; # cdrecord dev=ATA:1,1,0 -atip ^ (my device numbers, Mdk 10.2) Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling big snip ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359848 (79:59/73) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation .. The vendors name is DuraBrand on that disc. CMC are a so so manufacturer, but work fine in my Plextor an these have a reasonably durable coating on them. IIRC, my last spindle of Verbatim's was also actually manufactured by CMC, but with a little better coating. I switched from Memorex when they switched from usin discs manufactured by ProDisc (good media), to a no name, non-orange forum manufacturer in India (very poor media). I've had hundred disc spindles, sold under well known brand names, where the actual manufacturer switched as many as 3 times within the 100 discs! Bottom line, there's less than a dozen media manufacturers on the planet there's hundreds of 'brand' names. -atip is the only way to know what you've got, and that is often subject to change, even when purchased in bulk. More often than not, the 'big brand names' and the generic 'no-names' are made by the same manufacturer. The higher priced discs usually have a better, more durable coating on them tho. That's important if you want to keep the data on them for some time. More likely Charles problems stem from the GUI and or backend the program is usin, how well it's been adapted to DVD burning, poor choice of options for the backend, or the quality of his burner and it's laser. Specially if like media it's rebadged. I'd put the media last, unless it's some junk like that unknown, non orange Indian manufacturers' discs I got stuck with. Fortunately only about the last 20 on the 100 spindle. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 17:44, Tom wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds will work fine. No-name ones work, sort of, in that you will get a percentage of coasters, so they're not economical, but do-able if you can't get anything else. Anne Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are made by the advertised vendor. The only way to know for sure who actually makes the disk is to do; All of that is true, but the fact remains that big name manufacturers can't afford to get themselves linked to bad suppliers - they depend upon keeping their good name. That's not to say that there are no cheap disks that are good - but you can't test them until you have bought them, so the risk is entirely yours. Yes, you can lower the risks by burning carefully - I've had very few coasters, but 2 out of 25 in one pack - one burned on computer and the other on stand-alone dvd-recorder - is too high a proportion for me. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpSclhaHVdih.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 17:44, Tom wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds will work fine. No-name ones work, sort of, in that you will get a percentage of coasters, so they're not economical, but do-able if you can't get anything else. Anne Nope! 'Big name', or well know brand names mean very little, more often, absolutely nothin! Practically no brand name media are made by the advertised vendor. The only way to know for sure who actually makes the disk is to do; All of that is true, but the fact remains that big name manufacturers can't afford to get themselves linked to bad suppliers - they depend upon keeping their good name. Wrong again Anne. But that's just the facts, my opinion and experience that I posted. You are welcome to add yours to your community twiki. Jeez I never thought I'd be encouragin you to spread marginal to false opinion on your twiki, but go ahead. It's full of it anyhow. Memorex is a well known 'big name' brand that depends on the public's perception of their 'quality'. Fact is they make none of their discs, and as I stated, the 'brand' Verbatim, that Charles was tryin, well they don't make theirs either. MOF all 'big name' brands buy from various quality often unknown disc manufacturers. Decent to sometimes very poor. The media quality is probly the last of Charles problems. More likely the backend, specially if it's cdrecord needs to be updated to the latest (cdrecord-2.01.01-0.a01.4mdk). Warly has been continually workin with Jörg Schilling to add DVD support for cdrecord. A work in progress. Or equally possible he's dependin on a GUI to make (often poor to just plain wrong) backend option choices for him. Another is burnin on-the-fly, rather than makin a proper image on the HDD, and then burnin from that. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.1 Official ISOs for x86_64
I am more than slightly confused. I want to upgrade my community 10.1 edition. I know I can urpmi it (read the twiki and found it very helpful). However, I was being lazy and started to look for ISOs to make installation/upgrade from CD instead (blessed to have highspeed bandwidth to spare). I can't find them. No mention on the mandrake site, none squirreled away on the ftp sites I visited, just a bit torrent that will take 3+ days to finish. And now they are releasing some 10.2 RCs. So what part of the puzzle am I missing to get ISOs of the x86_64 10.1? PS Gmail user. Reply to list please. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
Success at last :-)) Many thanks to all for the helpful replies. I have a DVD reader - make just says Atapi. I have a Pioneer 109 DVD burner. I had been trying to put the source disk in the Atapi and the blank disk in the Pioneer burner (of course), which seemed a good idea at the time :-) Your responses made me persevere - so I looked into K3b setup. Made a new Temp file and made sure that K3b was pointing that way. This time I put the source disk in the Pioneer burner, when that was read into my new Temp file, I inserted the blank disk and lo and behold K3b started to write !! What's more went on to complete a successful burn of about 4.4Gig at 4.1X. So it was a case of faulty operator method. I tried to use the reader at the same time as the burner because K3b had previously copied a CD in that way. I still can't work out why I was getting various error messages indicating failure under my previous efforts. __ Many thanks from Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Well you could try a new (kde)install after removing everything that's associated...but that'll be a fine mess, prolly. It's already a mess and it's worth a try, I think. My second choice is to upgrade my whole mandrake distribution from 10.0 to 10.2 beta 3. No prob...too bad this is happening...and prolly quite maddening too, for you. This upgrade stuff is what tore me away from kde to xfce, almost like windows isn't it?:( Yeah, among other things as well :-( Michel -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.1 Official ISOs for x86_64
I downloaded 10.0 from a link provided at mandrakelinux.com... Fernando Gómez. == Registered Linux User 381647. Usuario Registrado de Linux 381647 http://counter.li.org - Original Message - From: Bruce Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 11:28 AM Subject: [newbie] 10.1 Official ISOs for x86_64 I am more than slightly confused. I want to upgrade my community 10.1 edition. I know I can urpmi it (read the twiki and found it very helpful). However, I was being lazy and started to look for ISOs to make installation/upgrade from CD instead (blessed to have highspeed bandwidth to spare). I can't find them. No mention on the mandrake site, none squirreled away on the ftp sites I visited, just a bit torrent that will take 3+ days to finish. And now they are releasing some 10.2 RCs. So what part of the puzzle am I missing to get ISOs of the x86_64 10.1? PS Gmail user. Reply to list please. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:44:45 -0600,Tom wrote: The media quality is probly the last of Charles problems. More likely the backend, specially if it's cdrecord needs to be updated to the latest (cdrecord-2.01.01-0.a01.4mdk). Warly has been continually workin with Jörg Schilling to add DVD support for cdrecord. A work in progress. Or equally possible he's dependin on a GUI to make (often poor to just plain wrong) backend option choices for him. Another is burnin on-the-fly, rather than makin a proper image on the HDD, and then burnin from that. I seem to think that your last sentence has hit the nail Tom, particularly in view of my post reporting success. -- Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install HP iPaq
Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I have an HP iPAQ 2200 which when I connect to Linux is detected in Control Panel/Hardware/Other devices. However I do not know which software prog to use. Any suggestions as to how to get this up and working please. Thanks. This started me playing with http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce to talk to my Itronix T5200, and it works well, except for the Midnight Commander virtual filesystem. I had to do some tweeks to get that to work. I don't know if this is because of the version of WindowsCE on the device, because the Itronix is a HPC instead of a Pocket PC, or if the MC package just didn't get upgraded with the rest of the packages. (It is older then the rest.) In any case, I can access the file system over the serial link. Next step is to make the network link work instead of the PPP over serial link. It works for accessing the network and Internet from the HPC, but I would like to get sync working that way as well. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared
On Friday 18 March 2005 20:42, Michel Leunen wrote: It's already a mess and it's worth a try, I think. My second choice is to upgrade my whole mandrake distribution from 10.0 to 10.2 beta 3. Don't simply upgrade from 10.0 to 10.2...that'll be an even finer mess. Better to do a fresh install. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
snipped it all since I only want to add my $.02USD.. one way to learn available commands at the text console is to use tab. (as someone pointed out, tab can be a good friend. just type a letter hit tab, and see all the commands that start with that letter (it is case sensitive and root gets more choices) -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
et wrote: snipped it all since I only want to add my $.02USD.. one way to learn available commands at the text console is to use tab. (as someone pointed out, tab can be a good friend. just type a letter hit tab, and see all the commands that start with that letter (it is case sensitive and root gets more choices) Try hitting tab-tab (tab twice) and see what you get. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] USB Printer : HP 3550 Problem
Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 14:32, Roberto Ramsis ha scritto: Helloz I guess cups is working fine: http://www.geocities.com/robertoramsis/CUPS_jobs.jpg all jobs are completed but the printer never pulls a paper. whenever i try to restart a job it gives me http://www.geocities.com/robertoramsis/Restart.jpg By the way when i make lsusb this is what i get : Bus 004 Device 001: ID : Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:7304 Hewlett-Packard Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Hp Linux support site : http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/productssupported.php tell that HP Deskjet 3550 USB printer has full support with the new HPLIP driver , so go to the install page http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php and follow the instructions. Other resources : http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/faqs.php http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=53438max_rows=60style=threaded http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=426789max_rows=60style=threaded http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=53439max_rows=60style=threaded http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=16846 Cooker packages http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3limit=1srodzaj=4dl=75search=hplip*586dist[]=34 http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1694403/com/hplip-0.8.8-4mdk.i586.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1694404/com/hplip-hpijs-0.8.8-4mdk.i586.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1694405/com/hplip-hpijs-ppds-0.8.8-4mdk.i586.rpm.html http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1694406/com/hplip-model-data-0.8.8-4mdk.i586.rpm.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE 3.4
Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Friday 18 March 2005 04:36 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: et wrote: snipped it all since I only want to add my $.02USD.. one way to learn available commands at the text console is to use tab. (as someone pointed out, tab can be a good friend. just type a letter hit tab, and see all the commands that start with that letter (it is case sensitive and root gets more choices) Try hitting tab-tab (tab twice) and see what you get. Hmm. I get (immediately) with the first tab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ Display all 2504 possibilities? (y or n) 2nd tab only gets a beep from my system speaker. I tried the tab-tab very fast, very slow and in between. Was something truly exciting supposed to happen and I missed it? :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Trouble with Nvu 0.90
This isn't strictly a Mandrake issue; and I apologize beforehand if this has been recently addressed-- I've only just rejoined the list. Hopefully, there's someone here who's familiar with Nvu (http://nvu.com). I'm having a heck of a time with any version of Nvu since 0.70 on Mdk 9.2. I've been all over their website, and it appears as though any Linux-specific installation tips have disappaered. When I try running either of the scripts 'nvu' or 'nvu-bin', I get nothing-- no program, no output to the terminal. When I skip straight to 'run-mozilla.sh', I get the following: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The thing is, libmozjs.so is sitting right there in the distribution directory. I thought I'd be clever and take a look at the run-mozilla.sh script fpr myself, and it makes no reference whatsoever to libmozjs.so (though I'm not so naive as to believe that this means anything). Basically, I'm stumped. Can anyone offer any guidance? Thanks very much in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the mandrake-experts http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertm=00737215901w=2 http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2005-03/msg00840.php Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 18:44, Tom wrote: Wrong again Anne. But that's just the facts, my opinion and experience that I posted. You are welcome to add yours to your community twiki. Jeez I never thought I'd be encouragin you to spread marginal to false opinion on your twiki, but go ahead. It's full of it anyhow. Whatever you say, Tom. I suppose the drive manufacturers put out lists of 'supported disks' for the fun of it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpQVmDd5lMxG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 19:39, Charles Rodgers wrote: Success at last :-)) Many thanks to all for the helpful replies. I have a DVD reader - make just says Atapi. I have a Pioneer 109 DVD burner. I had been trying to put the source disk in the Atapi and the blank disk in the Pioneer burner (of course), which seemed a good idea at the time :-) Your responses made me persevere - so I looked into K3b setup. Made a new Temp file and made sure that K3b was pointing that way. This time I put the source disk in the Pioneer burner, when that was read into my new Temp file, I inserted the blank disk and lo and behold K3b started to write !! What's more went on to complete a successful burn of about 4.4Gig at 4.1X. Sounds as though you never did the configuration. You can list the available drives and say which one is to be the reader. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpMRRQQ5bQzL.pgp Description: PGP signature
professional attitude (Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 18:44, Tom wrote: Wrong again Anne. But that's just the facts, my opinion and experience that I posted. You are welcome to add yours to your community twiki. Jeez I never thought I'd be encouragin you to spread marginal to false opinion on your twiki, but go ahead. It's full of it anyhow. Whatever you say, Tom. I suppose the drive manufacturers put out lists of 'supported disks' for the fun of it. wow, never saw that one escalate. i admire your kindness and reassuring self-confidence, Anne. kind regards philippe -- corpus christi means body of christ, right ? quite macabre for a city name ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:20:14 +, Anne wrote: Sounds as though you never did the configuration. You can list the available drives and say which one is to be the reader. K3b had already decided that before I got there :-) It's more clever than I am ! I suspect the secret was ensuring that a proper image was made on the HDD. Thanks for your interest Anne - as a real newbie I shall have some more questions coming up :-) -- Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
Charles Rodgers wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:44:45 -0600,Tom wrote: The media quality is probly the last of Charles problems. More likely the backend, specially if it's cdrecord needs to be updated to the latest (cdrecord-2.01.01-0.a01.4mdk). Warly has been continually workin with Jörg Schilling to add DVD support for cdrecord. A work in progress. Or equally possible he's dependin on a GUI to make (often poor to just plain wrong) backend option choices for him. Another is burnin on-the-fly, rather than makin a proper image on the HDD, and then burnin from that. I seem to think that your last sentence has hit the nail Tom, particularly in view of my post reporting success. -- Charles Masha danki! Bon bon! Now to carry the idea a little further... The only disdain I have for GUI's is that they separate the user from what's really goin on. CD-DVD burnin is more of an an art than a science. Better to learn how to do CLI burnin, than think that GUI's always default to the best, even decent choices. There's plenty on online sources, startin with the CD/DVD Writing How-To. Give it a read, also check out the man pages for the cd/dvd record backends. If nothin else, you'll be a better GUI user. (tho I still favor the CL) CD burnin is very mature, DVD burnin, as I said is still a 'work in progress', expect failures an try to follow Warly's latest efforts. Stow away blind faith in GUI's Getting back to -atip. CDr or DVDr quality, while not the whole ball of wax, it is still a factor to be considered. Pioneer (yours) is currently a good hardware vendor, as is Yamaha, Toshiba, an Plextor, never re-badges, an should work with even junk poor quality media, whoever actually manufactured it, despite the 'brand name' allegiance. I believe you can visually observe the quality an durability of the 'coating' on the media. This is the side (the 'label' side) where the recording is actually done. Not the side people are always fussin about keepin clean an un-scratched. Altho that's important too. As you can see, there's a lot of factors, an I believe I've already listed most of'em. An as you've found out, on-the-fly recordin a little ahead of creatin the image, is best avoided. Actually _never_, even with a high horse power system with gobs of ram. FWIW, I just got back from Wal*Mart. Half mile on my electric scooter (disabled, MS, my only close enough to be accessible store). The only damn 100-spindles they had on the shelf were frickin Memorex. The same 'brand' that stuck me with about 20 poor quality CDr's on a previous 100-spindle. The non-orange, Indian, coaster prone junk they stuck me with before. I took a chance an went ahead an bought 'em ($22.67). Mainly out of need, I've got'a sh!+load of movies backed up to burn to Cd's. Back at the house, I -atip'd the top one, about 30 down into the spindle, an then another 30 down. All Ritek sold under the Memorex name. ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -12508 (97:15/17) ATIP start of lead out: 359845 (79:59/70) Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 22 Manufacturer: Ritek Co. IME, Ritek, CMC magnetics, are decent. Taiyo Yuden and ProDisc are the better 'Generic' never heard of manufacturers, regardless of the brand name banner they're sold under are best avoided. An to stress, if it's important storage, consider the visual durability of the coated (label) side. I've bought 100-spindles for $8. They were a Staples generic, but were really made by CMC Magnetics. Worked fine, but the coating was _very_ fragile. Only good for temporary storage an light handlin. Now you can stop reading here 'cause I'm fixin to go off on a tangent. BUT one I believe is of importance to newbies. Linux, unlike Win$ux is 'a work in progress'. M$ releases in long periods, 92, 95, 98, 2000, 2003 an so on. Linux is continually changin. Every day. Particularly the 'heart' of Linux, the kernel. In order to avoid even a taint of M$ type vulnerability, Linus, and the OSDL have made burnin as user verboten in 2.6.x kernels. Many distros have employed hacks to make user space burnin still possible. Mandrake along with the other majors, have dropped this pretense with their latest 2.6.10 an 2.6.11 While user burnin is still possible, serious risk of buffer underruns are a real hazzard. I suspect GUI's will probly mask this risk. EG, (this from a very recent -dummy test with current cooker, 10.2, 2.6.11 compiled for K7, preempt) excerpts cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. .. Average write speed 22.7x. Min drive buffer
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the mandrake-experts http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertm=00737215901w=2 http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2005-03/msg00840.php Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can add Thacs to your urpmi resources as well. Another good place for non-mandrake club members is the dutch users group MCNL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DNS Name Server Issues
Hi All As some of you are aware by now I am trying to network 2 computers by use of a wireless 'my router' which is connected to a wireless bridge which gets it signal from wireless bridge [located in an office across the street] which gets it input from another router [or did before system modification which I was not party to]. The first computer is a MSI motherboard box called Reality_Check running Mandrake 10.1. The second computer is an IBM Thinkpad running Mandrake 10.1. Anyway after reading the above you began to get one of the issues - Total confusion so in that regard I shut down the wireless portions of my wireless router. I have set 'my router' for fixed LAN addressing with Big_Nate as 192.168.1.4 using DNS host Name 192.168.1.1 which Big_Nate after booting [it is a laptop] uses the preceding host name and DNS address. On the other hand I have set 'my router' with Reality_Check as 192.168.1.2. I have tried to set Reality_Check to use 'my router' at 192.168.1.1 but it keeps resetting the First DNS to be 127.0.0.1 and the Second DNS server to be 64.89.100.2 and keep using a DNS address of 192.168.1.251. I have deleted and made new connection in Reality_Check by Make New Connection Automatic - DNS Host Name = Reality_Check -Host Name = Reality_Check -. Zeroconf Host Name = Reality Check Should DNS Host Name should be Reality_Check but be name of computer or of 'my router'? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Synchronizing PalmOS devices with Linux
Thought this might interest some people: Quote: Smart handheld devices or personal digital assistants (PDA) extend our access to the information on our desktops, from addresses to telephone numbers. Unfortunately, when it comes to vendor support for synchronizing this information with a *nix operating system, the options are limited. In this article, we'll review the various GPL-based suites available for synchronizing PalmOS-based devices with Linux. http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/10/174221 -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 17:41:32 up 25 days, 19:46, 7 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 +++ Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:20:14 +, Anne wrote: Sounds as though you never did the configuration. You can list the available drives and say which one is to be the reader. K3b had already decided that before I got there :-) It's more clever than I am ! I suspect the secret was ensuring that a proper image was made on the HDD. You can still change it - Settings k3b setup. Of course you may be happy with it using one drive for both, but if you want the convenience of being able to use one as reader and the other as writer, that's where to set it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgppslGRgcavU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:37, Tom wrote: The only damn 100-spindles they had on the shelf were frickin Memorex. The same 'brand' that stuck me with about 20 poor quality CDr's on a previous 100-spindle. How odd! I've never had a failure from Memorex. Could it be your burning technique? ;-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels pgpPRj97zDTLc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
Leaf wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the mandrake-experts http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertm=00737215901w=2 http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2005-03/msg00840.php Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can add Thacs to your urpmi resources as well. Yeah, and KDE 3.4 not only looks good but runs great on my laptop. One suggestion folks. Make sure you have a different desktop system installed (ICE, BlackBox, etc.) and log into that desktop before updating KDE. In other words, either boot into runlevel 3 or a different Desktop Environment before installing KDE 3.4, since it will replace your existing KDE in the process. If you remain in KDE whilst updating it, you're asking for trouble. -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Mandrake-Linux 10.2Beta3, 2.6.10-3M-M Kernel, and KDE 3.4. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then drop us like a hot tater. Oh okay :) ...sex educattion and drivers' education on the same day? Punchline? I'm betting it's the same reason as in Northern Ontario... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:13:58 up 25 days, 20:18, 7 users, load average: 1.13, 1.19, 0.79 +++ Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Hunter S. Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to combine words
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:14:56 +, Q.H. Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this link providing what you wanna, man? http://www.searchengineforums.com/apps/webmaster.forums/action::thread/thread::1090443783/forum::googleadwords/ Thanks, Wang. That is what I was looking for. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:55:49 -0500, Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leaf wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the mandrake-experts http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertm=00737215901w=2 http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2005-03/msg00840.php Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can add Thacs to your urpmi resources as well. Yeah, and KDE 3.4 not only looks good but runs great on my laptop. One suggestion folks. Make sure you have a different desktop system installed (ICE, BlackBox, etc.) and log into that desktop before updating KDE. In other words, either boot into runlevel 3 or a different Desktop Environment before installing KDE 3.4, since it will replace your existing KDE in the process. If you remain in KDE whilst updating it, you're asking for trouble. And which packages should one start installing? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:15, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then drop us like a hot tater. Oh okay :) ...sex educattion and drivers' education on the same day? Punchline? I'm betting it's the same reason as in Northern Ontario... If you didn't get the punchline, Joe, I reckon it's time you, er, nevermind. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- When in doubt, do it. It's much easier to apologize than to get permission. -- Grace Murray Hopper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
Il sab, 2005-03-19 alle 00:18, Paul Smith ha scritto: Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can add Thacs to your urpmi resources as well. Yeah, and KDE 3.4 not only looks good but runs great on my laptop. One suggestion folks. Make sure you have a different desktop system installed (ICE, BlackBox, etc.) and log into that desktop before updating KDE. In other words, either boot into runlevel 3 or a different Desktop Environment before installing KDE 3.4, since it will replace your existing KDE in the process. If you remain in KDE whilst updating it, you're asking for trouble. And which packages should one start installing? Paul you could start from the kdelibs* and libkde* packagees : urpmi kdelibs-common-3.4 urpmi libkdebase4-3.4 and so on urpmi kdebase-3.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 18:44, Tom wrote: Wrong again Anne. But that's just the facts, my opinion and experience that I posted. You are welcome to add yours to your community twiki. Jeez I never thought I'd be encouragin you to spread marginal to false opinion on your twiki, but go ahead. It's full of it anyhow. Whatever you say, Tom. I suppose the drive manufacturers put out lists of 'supported disks' for the fun of it. Anne Put it in your twiki -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Friday 18 March 2005 06:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then drop us like a hot tater. Oh okay :) ...sex educattion and drivers' education on the same day? Punchline? I'm betting it's the same reason as in Northern Ontario... Oh, I forgot all about this. Uh, okay, punchline: both classes need the mule -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:49, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 06:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then drop us like a hot tater. Oh okay :) ...sex educattion and drivers' education on the same day? Punchline? I'm betting it's the same reason as in Northern Ontario... Oh, I forgot all about this. Uh, okay, punchline: both classes need the mule Julie, we're dealing with JoeHill here. THAT in itself would require that you explain the joke - from top to bottom - with foot notes, 8x10 full colour glossy photos with notes scribbled on the back of each explaining what each 8x10 full colour glossy photo was... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- We the Users, in order to form a more perfect system, establish priorities, ensure connective tranquility, provide for common repairs, promote preventive maintenance, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our processes, do ordain and establish this Software of The Unixed States of America. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
On Thursday 17 March 2005 17:26, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3 from be it the MCC or by hand. I can't even re-partition it with FAT32 ? So here it goes : will this FAT32 file system become fragmented over time like any other Windows file system ? If yes, how to defrag it ? Or, will I have to move the FS to another drive back-and-forth in order to defrag ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. I deleted the wrong message, so this is not a direct reply to this message, but to one later in the thread... :-( When you were trying to work with the drive, what device were you giving fdisk? If you unmount the FAT partition first, you should be able to use something like fdisk /dev/sda to get at the partition table. If you can, then it is simple to change the drive to another file system. If you are happy with it being one large partition, then change the type (t) to 83 (ext2/3) and save (w) the updated partition table. Then run mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 to create an ext3 file system. If you have any data on the drive you want to keep, BACK IT UP before starting this. Please keep in mind that the drive may not be /dev/sda and the partition may not be /dev/sda1 - it depends on your system, and how the drive was partitioned. Mikkel Well, fdisk could see the /dev/sda1 but report this : -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaj]# fdisk /dev/sda1 The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19928. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) So, as I understand it, there's no idea in having a 160 GB disk when only a 5% of it is usable... Kaj Haulrich. -- *Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free workstation* *Running Linux Mandrake 10.1* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
On Friday 18 March 2005 10:31, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3 from be it the MCC or by hand. I can't even re-partition it with FAT32 ? So here it goes : will this FAT32 file system become fragmented over time like any other Windows file system ? If yes, how to defrag it ? Or, will I have to move the FS to another drive back-and-forth in order to defrag ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. I deleted the wrong message, so this is not a direct reply to this message, but to one later in the thread... :-( When you were trying to work with the drive, what device were you giving fdisk? If you unmount the FAT partition first, you should be able to use something like fdisk /dev/sda to get at the partition table. If you can, then it is simple to change the drive to another file system. If you are happy with it being one large partition, then change the type (t) to 83 (ext2/3) and save (w) the updated partition table. Then run mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 to create an ext3 file system. If you have any data on the drive you want to keep, BACK IT UP before starting this. Please keep in mind that the drive may not be /dev/sda and the partition may not be /dev/sda1 - it depends on your system, and how the drive was partitioned. Mikkel Just a newbie thought : Can you do as root : # cat /etc/fstab | grep sd And post it back here. Be sure the device is plugged in first. TIA Even easier: cat /dev/sd on the CML and hit TAB...that way you'll see what's there. When inserting/plugging the device the specific /dev/sd* file gets made and also gets removed when unplugging. Repeat after me: TAB is my best on the command line..!;) OK Harm, the device is there as /dev/sda1. But it is untouchable by any attempt to create a real file system. It works with FAT32 and that is that Kaj Haulrich. -- *Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free workstation* *Running Linux Mandrake 10.1* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
On Thursday 17 March 2005 15:03, Andras Keszei wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 20:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3 from be it the MCC or by hand. I can't even re-partition it with FAT32 ? So here it goes : will this FAT32 file system become fragmented over time like any other Windows file system ? If yes, how to defrag it ? Or, will I have to move the FS to another drive back-and-forth in order to defrag ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, The following may be interesting to you: I had a USB thumb drive preformatted with FAT32 that was doing weird things under linux. When I deleted files off it, no free space was reclaimed. After filling the disk and erasing it, it still had no space available. So I tried a format under diskdrake: it said unsupported filesystem or something. It had the filesystem as grey, but somehow it was recognised as vfat. I had to delete the filesystem, remove the mountpoint, create a new FAT32 system in the empty space (I still need to be compatible), format it again, and the thing now works like a charm. All in all, I think not all is FAT32 that appears to be so, try giving diskdrake another go. At the same time I had a browse on defrag apps for linux, and the bottom line seemed to be that linux needs defrag as much as it needs antivirus software. Hope this wasn't all useless cheers Andras Exactly my experience, Andras. Only I can't format the damned thing. However, tomorrow I'll follow your advice and let diskdrake have another go at it : I've just backed up the whole caboodle, so nothing to loose, I suppose. -- *Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free workstation* *Running Linux Mandrake 10.1* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Updates
Updated and new rpms for Mdk 10.1 bogofilter-0.94.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libexo-0.3_0-0.3.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libexo-0.3_0-devel-0.3.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-clamav-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-devel-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-dillo_viewer-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-image_viewer-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-pgpmime-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-spamassassin-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-trayicon-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm terminal-0.2.4-0.pre1.1mdk.i586.rpm xfce-4.2.1-0.1010.2mdk.i586.rpm xfce-panel-4.2.1.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm xfce-panel-devel-4.2.1.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm xfmedia-0.7.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm xfmedia-devel-0.7.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm Charles -- Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. -- Lily Tomlin -- Mandrake Linux 10.1 on BigBoy #184142 Registered Linux user #182463 *http://www.eslrahc.com* 2.6.8.1-12mdkenterprise -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
On Friday 18 March 2005 11:39, SnapafunFrank wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3 from be it the MCC or by hand. I can't even re-partition it with FAT32 ? So here it goes : will this FAT32 file system become fragmented over time like any other Windows file system ? If yes, how to defrag it ? Or, will I have to move the FS to another drive back-and-forth in order to defrag ? TIA Kaj Haulrich. I deleted the wrong message, so this is not a direct reply to this message, but to one later in the thread... :-( When you were trying to work with the drive, what device were you giving fdisk? If you unmount the FAT partition first, you should be able to use something like fdisk /dev/sda to get at the partition table. If you can, then it is simple to change the drive to another file system. If you are happy with it being one large partition, then change the type (t) to 83 (ext2/3) and save (w) the updated partition table. Then run mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 to create an ext3 file system. If you have any data on the drive you want to keep, BACK IT UP before starting this. Please keep in mind that the drive may not be /dev/sda and the partition may not be /dev/sda1 - it depends on your system, and how the drive was partitioned. Mikkel Just a newbie thought : Can you do as root : # cat /etc/fstab | grep sd And post it back here. Be sure the device is plugged in first. TIA Even easier: cat /dev/sd on the CML and hit TAB...that way you'll see what's there. When inserting/plugging the device the specific /dev/sd* file gets made and also gets removed when unplugging. Repeat after me: TAB is my best on the command line..!;) ONLY I SPECIFICALLY WANTED TO VIEW THE FSTAB ENTRY TO CHECK ITS OPTIONS! Here it is (on one line) : /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec,users 0 0 Of course I know about the umask=0022 being stupid, but hitherto I haven't found a way to let it stay =0. Each time my daughter uses the drive, I have to unmount it, edit fstab to umask=0 and remount. Then she can use it. Been nagging me for months with the other removables like camera, mp3 players and memory sticks. - And : whacking supermount doesn't change a thing. If I ever find the daemon that changes my fstab against my will, I'll fetch my 9 mm Neuhausen... Kaj Haulrich. -- *Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free workstation* *Running Linux Mandrake 10.1* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:00, Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated and new rpms for Mdk 10.1 Charles Dang...nothing ever for 10.0 again, eh Charles? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 --- All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. -- Fran Lebowitz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
On Thursday 17 March 2005 17:16, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Kaj; I think Anne has the right idea. I have several clients using external USB drives instead of other types of backup drives/media. Many of them came partitioned and pre-formatted as FAT32, but Diskdrake made fast work of it. One thing you should consider though, is that it helps sometimes to delete the mount-point folder right after you unmount the drive and before you attempt to delete the FAT32 partition. Your problem may have something to do with that. If not, then this will make sure that drive access and permissions are updated at the least. If necessary, go to the harddrive manufacturer's website and download their diagnostics tools. Some like Maxtor have a bootable ISO image you can download and use to reformat the drive back to factory standards. Others have the same type of tools which can be run from a bootable floppy diskette. Worst-case, you can remove the hard drive from it's USB case and temporarily connect it as a slave drive on your Linux box. Once Diskdrake sees the drive you can proceed normally and delete and create new partitions and re-format the drive the way you prefer. Your problem might also be that the circuitry in the USB box itself may have either a hardware or software 'Lock' system. Check your owners manual for the USB box to see if it does. Once more possibility is that the controller chip in the USB case does not support Linux, but I find that highly unlikely. IN all cases, you'll have to unmount the drive from diskdrake to begin the process, so keep that in mind. One problem you run into with the tools from the drive manfacturer is that most of them do not enable USB support, so they will not even see the drive. This will hopefully change as externel USB and Firewire drives become more popular, but for now, you just about have to create a special boot disk if you want to work on something other then a IDE of SCSI drive. (OpenDOS has some nice boot disks...) Mikkel Thanks Mikkel, but you see I just don't have a Windows boot disk. Neither have my daughter, who has a WinXP box. I tried to figure out a way to let her Windows (DOS) format the external harddisk, but gave it up, 'cause there is no point in it : I still can't get a decent file system on it, no matter what. Maybe NTFS is usable but then I can't write to it from my Linux box, the whole idea being to use it as a transport medium and backup between the two boxes. Well, I can still use my camera for transport Kaj haulrich. -- *Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free workstation* *Running Linux Mandrake 10.1* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:37, Tom wrote: The only damn 100-spindles they had on the shelf were frickin Memorex. The same 'brand' that stuck me with about 20 poor quality CDr's on a previous 100-spindle. How odd! I've never had a failure from Memorex. Could it be your burning technique? ;-) Anne alias mkcdimg='mkisofs -r -o cd_image' (mkisofs-2.01.01-0.a01.3mdk) Simply to make a proper image on the HDD, 'mkcdimg name of file or directory' alias bdcd='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=24 dev=ATA:1,1,0 -data' (cdrecord-2.01.01-0.a01.4mdk, media an burner are both 48x) IOW's for the gui impaired, simply: 'mkcdimg whatever' followed by 'bdcd cd_image' (with latest 2.6.x kernels this should be done as root) Quick, simple, accurate an I know what's goin on Maybe Memorex is sellin you different manufacturer's media than they do to me. MOF I'm positive about it. Since like all other name brands they only pass on 3rd party manufacturers media, whatever they can procure the cheapest. An that varies with every spindle you might buy, even within the spindle. Or is the use of '-atip' beyond the scope of your twiki ? cdrecord dev=ATA:?,?,? -atip (with a blank in the burner) ?'s determined from cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus (don't use dev=ATAPI) Most all the above varies from past 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, even 10.x versions, due to Mandrake an kernel, cdrecord and cdrdao, mkisofs an other improvements an changes. Often not kept up with many, specially those injecting their mistaken impressions into the 'Community twiki'. The _real_ twiki is here http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/wiki -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
On Friday 18 March 2005 05:37 pm, Leaf wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the mandrake-experts http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertm=00737215901w=2 http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2005-03/msg00840.php Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can add Thacs to your urpmi resources as well. Another good place for non-mandrake club members is the dutch users group MCNL. Says on Thacs page, Thac's RPMs for Mandrake Updated 2004-11-11 -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial
On Friday 18 March 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:49, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 06:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then drop us like a hot tater. Oh okay :) ...sex educattion and drivers' education on the same day? Punchline? I'm betting it's the same reason as in Northern Ontario... Oh, I forgot all about this. Uh, okay, punchline: both classes need the mule Julie, we're dealing with JoeHill here. THAT in itself would require that you explain the joke - from top to bottom - with foot notes, 8x10 full colour glossy photos with notes scribbled on the back of each explaining what each 8x10 full colour glossy photo was... Just saw that movie last week. Gobbless Netflix :) I bet we watched fifteen movies last month. Alice's Restaurant was cute, but it's not one that aged well. :( -- Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 17:16, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Kaj; I think Anne has the right idea. I have several clients using external USB drives instead of other types of backup drives/media. Many of them came partitioned and pre-formatted as FAT32, but Diskdrake made fast work of it. One thing you should consider though, is that it helps sometimes to delete the mount-point folder right after you unmount the drive and before you attempt to delete the FAT32 partition. Your problem may have something to do with that. If not, then this will make sure that drive access and permissions are updated at the least. If necessary, go to the harddrive manufacturer's website and download their diagnostics tools. Some like Maxtor have a bootable ISO image you can download and use to reformat the drive back to factory standards. Others have the same type of tools which can be run from a bootable floppy diskette. Worst-case, you can remove the hard drive from it's USB case and temporarily connect it as a slave drive on your Linux box. Once Diskdrake sees the drive you can proceed normally and delete and create new partitions and re-format the drive the way you prefer. Your problem might also be that the circuitry in the USB box itself may have either a hardware or software 'Lock' system. Check your owners manual for the USB box to see if it does. Once more possibility is that the controller chip in the USB case does not support Linux, but I find that highly unlikely. IN all cases, you'll have to unmount the drive from diskdrake to begin the process, so keep that in mind. One problem you run into with the tools from the drive manfacturer is that most of them do not enable USB support, so they will not even see the drive. This will hopefully change as externel USB and Firewire drives become more popular, but for now, you just about have to create a special boot disk if you want to work on something other then a IDE of SCSI drive. (OpenDOS has some nice boot disks...) Mikkel Thanks Mikkel, but you see I just don't have a Windows boot disk. Neither have my daughter, who has a WinXP box. I tried to figure out a way to let her Windows (DOS) format the external harddisk, but gave it up, 'cause there is no point in it : I still can't get a decent file system on it, no matter what. Maybe NTFS is usable but then I can't write to it from my Linux box, the whole idea being to use it as a transport medium and backup between the two boxes. Well, I can still use my camera for transport Kaj haulrich. The tools from the drive manfacturer are their own boot disk. You usualy download a program that creates the floppy. Then boot with the floppy. Or, if you don't like having the larger collection of floppies, you download the Ultimate Boot CD from http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ and boot with that when you need the tools. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FAT question
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well, fdisk could see the /dev/sda1 but report this : -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaj]# fdisk /dev/sda1 The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19928. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) So, as I understand it, there's no idea in having a 160 GB disk when only a 5% of it is usable... Kaj Haulrich. -- *Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free workstation* *Running Linux Mandrake 10.1* No, that is not how it works. If you were using DOS, and possibly Windows 95, you would have problems. But you would have problems accessing the USB drive in the first place, so we will not worry about that. Linux does not have problems with a drive with more then 1024 cylinders. So you can use fdisk to change the partition type to 83, and then run mke2fs to put the new file system on the drive. As I said when I outlined how to do this, you will lose any information that is already one the drive, so make sure you have it backed up. If you want to make sure you can restore the partition table, for what ever reasion, you could run dd if=/dev/sda of=USB_mbr count=1 to save the current MBR and partition table. The problem that fdisk is talking about had to do with older BIOS that could not access more then 1024 cylinders. The way we used to get around that was to have a /boot partition that was below that limit to hold the kernel, and inital RAM disk. That way, lilo could load the kernel using the BIOS, and then the kernel could access the entire drive. When you were dual booting, you also put Windows at the front of the drive. /boot Windows / Swap /home Or something like that. Windows and /boot were below the 1024 limit. We didn't worry about where the rest of the Linux install was. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4
On Friday 18 March 2005 18:09, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 05:37 pm, Leaf wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the mandrake-experts http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertm=00737215901w=2 http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2005-03/msg00840.php Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can add Thacs to your urpmi resources as well. Another good place for non-mandrake club members is the dutch users group MCNL. Says on Thacs page, Thac's RPMs for Mandrake Updated 2004-11-11 Did you scroll down the page to the subdirectories? KDE 3.4 has it's own subdirectory, try there? :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Updates
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:02:20 +1100 Stephen Kühn wrote: Dang...nothing ever for 10.0 again, eh Charles? Well the hd on my 10.1 system died and with the release of 10.2 coming soon I did not see the point of reinstalling 10.0 as the system will be changed to 10.1 when 10.2 is released. As well I really do not have the time to do updates for 3 Mdk releases. You just need to take a big drought of mash, bite the bullet and upgrade that box of yours (-: Charles -- The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. -W.C. Fields -- Mandrake Linux 10.1 on BigBoy #184142 Registered Linux user #182463 *http://www.eslrahc.com* 2.6.8.1-12mdkenterprise -- pgp649gaJV77E.pgp Description: PGP signature
