[expert] 7.1 network install

2000-10-16 Thread Hans Sandsdalen
Hi I have problems installing mandrake 7.1 from a nfs image. I get an error in "setup filesystems": "no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem" I am able to access the disk after booting from a DOS-diskette, or a

RE: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-16 Thread paul hammat
I use a Epox 8kta M/B it works very well. I'm running a Thnuderbird 800 on it - I'm very pleased with the performance, stability and reliability of the system. I'm running ML 7.1, windows me, BeOs Personal and they all coexist well. The AMD is fater than the Intel chips at same clock speed

Re: [expert] Well, well...building the NEW XFree86-4.0.1-26mdk.src.rpm

2000-10-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
David Mihm wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, praedor wrote: What I would REALLY like to see is someone on the list download the src.rpm and try building it themselves. Preferably someone with an athlon system, since that is my system, though that shouldn't matter. [...] I have

Re: [expert] smbmount

2000-10-16 Thread Buchan Milne
MAybe you should tell us how you were trying to do this, ie if you were doing it from the commandline, give us the arguments you used. You might also want to try a graphical tool for this. kruiser (ak a KDE Explorer ?) works mostly like Windows explorer in this regard, and LinNeighborhood is also

[expert] Zip Zoom SCSI card

2000-10-16 Thread george . jones
I have been trying to get my Zip Zoom ISA card to work under Mandrake 7.1. The 7.1 installer does not detect it at all, anyone know how to get this to work? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] server migration RH - MDK

2000-10-16 Thread Buchan Milne
Vincent Danen wrote: On Fri Oct 13, 2000 at 06:35:45PM -0400, Greg Stewart wrote: [snip] While I agree it may be unnecessary to switch distros if your previous distro does the server jobs you need done, to say that Mandrake doesn't make a fantastic server is nonsense. The other

Re: [expert] Caching nameserver setup

2000-10-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Charles Curley am Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:45:49PM -0600: Set resolve.conf up as follows: search localdomain nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver ip of ISP's name server nameserver ip of ISP's secondary name server where localdomain is your local domain. Set up host.conf:

Re: [expert] Mousedrake, rpmdrake, and draksec don't start

2000-10-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Tyler Longren am Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:07:17PM -0500: Whenever I try to run any of those apps from a terminal, they never start, and I get the following error: Can't locate Gtk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/libDrakX It looks like perl-GTK isn't installed, or it does not

Re: [expert] Difficulties with MDK [was: server migration RH - MDK]

2000-10-16 Thread Buchan Milne
Most of the services are controlled by: -drakxservices (sets what runs at boot, basically puts symlinks into the /etc/rc.d/rc.x directories from /etc/rc.d/init.d) -/etc/inetd.conf -/etc/hosts.allow -/etc/hosts.deny The last 3 are identical to the way it is on redhat (except secure by default,

Re: [expert] server migration RH - MDK

2000-10-16 Thread Christopher Kolar
At 09:58 AM 10/16/2000, Buchan Milne wrote: Vincent Danen wrote: On Fri Oct 13, 2000 at 06:35:45PM -0400, Greg Stewart wrote: [snip] While I agree it may be unnecessary to switch distros if your previous distro does the server jobs you need done, to say that Mandrake doesn't make a

Re: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1

2000-10-16 Thread Buchan Milne
Ah, but only root can mount an ISO image in KisoCD (not that this bothers me that much, but it's still irritating). Anyone know how to get around that one ? Buchan Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 01:59:55PM -0600, Clayton Nielsen wrote: Are you logging in as root, cause I

[expert] idea

2000-10-16 Thread J A Shamsi
Hi I have a windows and a linux machine. I want to import the database from windows to linux running mysql. I have an option of importing it as a text file or dbf file. any idea can I import it through mysql or do I have to mount the windows m/c to linux. or id there any possibilty through

Re: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1

2000-10-16 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 2:01 AM Subject: RE: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1 Any other possibilities? I am going to read the man and info pages on mkisofs, but I think I need to

Re: [expert] server migration RH - MDK

2000-10-16 Thread Buchan Milne
Christopher Kolar wrote: [snip] I would also like to agree with Buchan on the Apache issue. We are running some True64 boxes as web servers, and there is some degree of pain getting the sysadmins to run mySQL/php/mod_perl/Apache with IMAPpy things thrown in. I am able to do more

Re: [expert] 7.1 network install

2000-10-16 Thread Phil Edwards
fx: scratches head I had this when I installed MDK 7.02 on my laptop. I *think* I had to switch to one of the virtual consoles during the install and modprobe some sort of ide-hd driver...sorry I can't be more specific, but this was a long time ago - perhaps this posting might jog someone else's

Re: [expert] Gnu Privacy Guard 1.0.3

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Powell PhD
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:30:31PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: I'd make the RPMs available on my web site, but I don't need a bunch of armed and testosterone poisoned thugs breaking my door down in the middle of the night in case I accidentally break some export

Re: [expert] Gnu Privacy Guard 1.0.3

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Powell PhD
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:24:25AM +, Michael Powell PhD wrote: I'd make the RPMs available on my web site, but I don't need a bunch of armed and testosterone poisoned thugs breaking my door down in the middle of the night in case I accidentally break some

[expert] XFS sgi

2000-10-16 Thread Fabrice SERVANT
Hello Everybody, I was wandering if someone has ever tried the XFS file system from SGI. http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ Is it hard to install, is it reliable ? byebye fabricio _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN

Re: [expert] Caching nameserver setup

2000-10-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:46:16PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Charles Curley am Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:45:49PM -0600: Set resolve.conf up as follows: search localdomain nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver ip of ISP's name server nameserver ip of ISP's secondary name

[expert] Laptop installation - need help ASAP!

2000-10-16 Thread george . jones
Ok... here's the situation, I have an IBM Thinkpad 760XD with Windows NT4 installed. I would like to install Mandrake7.1 on it. Can I use the installer's partition utility to repartition my hard drive without wiping out my current NT data? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com:

Re: [expert] /USR Files underneath Wiped after Power Outage

2000-10-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:47:11PM -0400, Russell Elik Rademacher wrote: Now I got a problem here, and I am wondering if anyone have experienced something anything remote to this. I have built the 7.1/7.2 Beta Server and it been running for about 2 days, when we had a power outage.

[expert] Off to camp once again.

2000-10-16 Thread Eric Mings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Last week I posted a message about the various steps I had taken to get a linux box ready to send off to my ISP for colocation (camp). I am comfortable with all the administrative, backup, and security steps I outlined in that message. However, I

Re: [expert] Off to camp once again.

2000-10-16 Thread Michael
I rewrite kudzu to end after running. Since you aren't likely to put hardware into a running machine this seems a safe assumption. It may end by itself but it doesn't show anything like that so I just make sure. Unless you are using NFS/NIS get rid of portmap, ypbind, nfslock, and nfs. Unless

RE: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Woods
I use a Epox 8kta M/B it works very well. I'm running a Thnuderbird 800 on it - I'm very pleased with the performance, stability and reliability of the system. I'm running ML 7.1, windows me, BeOs Personal and they all coexist well. The AMD is fater than the Intel chips at same clock speed

Re: [expert] problem with mandrakeupdate

2000-10-16 Thread Michel Flamang
Well, now with mandrakeupdate 7.2-14 it work, but as root. When I try as simple user, when kdesu asks me the password, the file isn't even downloaded. This seems still strange to me. Any idea what that can be? big thanks Michel P.S. I found the 7.2 mandrakeupdate really great. Huge

[expert] adding a small iso to another iso

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Woods
I have two iso images: first (A) is 600MB, 2nd (B) is 20MB How can I merge them together ? Is there any way to 'easily' add (B) to (A) ? Can I loop mount (B) and then add contents to (A) directly. I''m hoping there is an easier way than unpacking them to hard drive and then creating a new iso

Re: [expert] Laptop installation - need help ASAP!

2000-10-16 Thread Mwinold
well that depends if it is in fat32 then yes you can resize it, and then install the linux partition, but if it is ntfs or hpfs then you are going to need to find a partitioning tool that can work with the nt based file systems, im not sure about nts system tools but win2000's will let me

Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
I built an athlon system with a NICE AK72 (AOpen mobo) and a 700. Running 7.1, no problems. I DID buy a nice, LARGE, dual-fan heatsink and replaced the stock version. The chip, even not overclocked, runs hotter'n hell. Hottest chip I've ever had, without overclocking, and until now, I

Re: [expert] Off to camp once again.

2000-10-16 Thread Matthew Micene
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, you wrote: [all snipped Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit] My suggestions and the reasoning behind it: Kill kudzu: you most likely won't be adding hardware. If you really want to use it, start it manually before installing hardware and kill it once you are done. There is

Re: [expert] Off to camp once again.

2000-10-16 Thread Eric Mings
Thanks much for the replies. Very informative and helpful. I guess the only decision I need to make now is whether to nuke gated or routed. Does it make a difference? Thanks again. -- Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Off to camp once again.

2000-10-16 Thread Matthew Micene
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, you wrote: Thanks much for the replies. Very informative and helpful. I guess the only decision I need to make now is whether to nuke gated or routed. Does it make a difference? Thanks again. routeD only implements the RIP protocol. gateD has support for many many

[expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-16 Thread Leopold Palomo
Dear people, I would like to install the last version of kde2 (rc2) and I hall all the time problems with the dependencies. I have installed mdk 7.1, and I would like to test the kde2, but all the time that I have tried to do it, I have had problems. Could anyone help me in that? All comments

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Leopold Palomo am Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:10:59AM +0200: Dear people, I would like to install the last version of kde2 (rc2) and I hall all the time problems with the dependencies. I have installed mdk 7.1, and I Well, you surely can install KDE2 on Mdk 7.1, but it may very well

Re: [expert] Laptop installation - need help ASAP!

2000-10-16 Thread Don
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, you wrote: Ok... here's the situation, I have an IBM Thinkpad 760XD with Windows NT4 installed. I would like to install Mandrake7.1 on it. Can I use the installer's partition utility to repartition my hard drive without wiping out my current NT data?

Re: [expert] server migration RH - MDK

2000-10-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Oct 16, 2000 at 04:58:37PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: While I agree it may be unnecessary to switch distros if your previous distro does the server jobs you need done, to say that Mandrake doesn't make a fantastic server is nonsense. The other advantage is that running the same