Re: [expert] Shockwave Player for Linux Campaign

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 12:05, Sebastien Routier wrote: Got this from an other list: --- One of my dwindling requirements for Windows is that our family likes Shockwave games on a few sites and Crossover's plug-in costs money. (Boo!) I saw a story about this on Newsforge

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Steve Cox
On Thursday, 16 October 2003 20:35, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] A bit more information and I am no longer prepared to be T'd off when I get my CDs. I see that the bare-bones, 3CD iso download addition is what is missing the kernel source, not

[expert] Re: Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-10-17 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:46:29PM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote: T. Ribbrock wrote: I'm curious: Does an out-of-the-box MDK 9.1 (or 9.2) install fulfill those dependencies? Did for me on 9.1. Cool, thanks! Next step: Installing Firebird at home... I tried it at work under Win00 and it's the

Re: [expert] Slightly OT - Apache Mod_SSL

2003-10-17 Thread Sebastian McDonagh
Update! Problem solved, the key mismatch was because of a problem with the crt file. Got a new crt generated and it is fine. Seb On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 08:30, seb wrote: Hi everyone :) I have a MDK 8.2 box with Apache 1.3.23, it has come time to renew the ssl certificate for this machine.

[expert] test message

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
I think it went dead again. Man what a week first we lose Texstar and now the list. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread Brett W Tippet
Thanks for the reply. Yeh ... done that ... It's going into a cisco catalyst 2900XL and I've tried a few patch cables which work straight away when plugged into another PC .. the machine that isn't working is lighting up on the switch. I have 3 LAN cards with the same chipset ... all do the

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread Bill
You may also have a net mask wrong on one of the units. A little more info would be helpful. From a term screen type the command ifconfig and paste the info you get as well as thje results from the route -n command to the email. Make sure your link lights are on for both the gateway, pc, and

[expert] MDK9.1 to MDK9.2 Update Issues - Hope that this is not a Final ISO!

2003-10-17 Thread Albert Whale
I performed the update to 9.2 today while on assignment in Aruba. I noticed that my Terminals all disappeared from the KDE Environment after the update. Is this an expected Feature? Also an associate of mine indicated that when the Install CD was placed in a Windows Environment, the

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread Richard Bown
Hi the wizard does not always get it right. Check ifconfig and make sure the interface is up, you can also see what packets its received and sent. Also check your routing route -en Did you start shorewall ?(the firewall,I think 9.0 used Bastille) I'm not sure of the default MDK rules, but worth

[expert] Failure validating SSL/TLS certificate

2003-10-17 Thread Dale Huckeby
Recently changed to a new cable company, had the usual hassles with the windows-centric tech help, but was able to get my broadband connection going. However, when I try to send mail (in pine) I get the message: There was a failure validating the SSL/TLS certificate for the server

[expert] Postfix and my default domain name not resolving as fast as my virtuals

2003-10-17 Thread James
Bryan wrote: :James, you might want to give us a little more info about how you are :going to be setting things up. Good idea.. sorry, I should know better than that. Ok, here goes.. I'm running Mandrake 9.1, and I wish to use Postfix. Postfix is already installed and I can access it through

[expert] question on VPN's

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
All, Ok I'm planing the IT section for a new company. As such I've got a ground up ability to do it as right as I possibly can . the first time. Initial load will be about 20 people (Mixed windows and Linux to start adding other Unix as needed.) with a ton of data storage needed. (RD

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:49, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:24, Jack Coates wrote: you make the fatal assumption that IE supports the standard. It doesn't. Standard code works on IE if it's really really simple, but frequently breaks in ugly ways. Transparent PNGs.

Re: [expert] 9.2 and Windows Compatibility

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 09:13, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: James Sparenberg schrieb am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:36:22 -0700: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 23:35, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:31:08 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: where did you see this?

Re: [expert] mandrake 9.1 reboot problem?

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 02:54, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: That reminds me - a Thinkpad P40 will not power off either with ACPI nor with APM. It just gets stuck after Linux shuts itself down, and displays 'power off'. This is under 2.6.0test7. -turgut Turgut, This is a bug that should go

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread ef2
What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? Also, kernel2.4-marcelo could be dropped, there are also 4 kernel-doc packages, one (or even none) would be sufficient. And maybe kernel-secure, which is really for professional use ? Eric Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Mandrake Clustering

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 07:42, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: Hi All, I came across this yesterday ( http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/clustering ) but unfortunately cant find more info on it than the 1 page pdf document. How does it compare/contrast with, say OpenMosix or Beowulf, and

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 09:41, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Err, in following this thread my first thought is: isn't not supplying the kernel source technically a violation of GPL? The HAVE to supply the source and should make allowances

Re: [expert] Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-10-17 Thread AS Reginvest
Rolf Pedersen wrote: Mandrake has mozilla-firebird in contrib/ for 9.2 and I had it installed in 9.1, so it is probably also in 9.1 contrib/. Nope, can't find it. It might be in plf which seems to be broken (at least for me) right now. Will have to try Dave's suggestion. Wahur Want to buy

Re: [expert] Automount missing

2003-10-17 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Hello James; indeed it's Supermount that I meant, sorry about that. I am now using 2.6.0test7-bk8. I tried the supermount enable command but it did not seem to do anything. Thanks! -turgut On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 23:54, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Hi

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread John Wilson
On October 16, 2003 04:46 pm, Brett W Tippet wrote: Hey guys .. got a slightly weird one. I've been running Mandrake 9.0 for ages .. I've just put another pc on my network and have install 9.1 ... the install has seemed to install all the required packages and has found the correct hardware

Re: [expert] Shockwave Player for Linux Campaign

2003-10-17 Thread John Wilson
On October 16, 2003 05:29 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 03:05 pm, Sebastien Routier wrote: Got this from an other list: --- One of my dwindling requirements for Windows is that our family likes Shockwave games on a few sites and Crossover's

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-17 Thread Franki
James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:49, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:24, Jack Coates wrote: you make the fatal assumption that IE supports the standard. It doesn't. Standard code works on IE if it's really really simple, but frequently breaks in ugly ways.

[expert] Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-17 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
A general comment: Why doesn't Mandrake, when it's building a new version, does not use the default installation directories of each package? Because otherwise, when we reinstall it, we have a chance of ending up with two versions of the same files! -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu:

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill wrote: You may also have a net mask wrong on one of the units. A little more info would be helpful. From a term screen type the command ifconfig and paste the info you get as well as the results from the route -n command to the email. It

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:08, Felix Miata wrote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Felix Miata schrieb am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:17:57 -0400: Run Windows and Linux from same boot partition = Dualboot Run Windows and Linux different partitions on the same PC = Multiboot Huh? I thought the

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint freee.nominal fee however. That was my first look at Mandrake (6.0).

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:48, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint freee.nominal fee

Re: [expert] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk

2003-10-17 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:19, Thomas Backlund wrote: Hezekiah M. Carty kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Maanantai 13 Lokakuu 2003 18:22): Thanks for the tip! I'll go try this out right away...I've been having constant stability problems with Mandrake and my new asus k7n8x deluxe nforce2

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint

Re: [expert] Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
A general comment: Why doesn't Mandrake, when it's building a new version, does not use the default installation directories of each package? Because otherwise, when we reinstall it, we have a chance of ending up with two versions of the same files! -turgut I was thinking about this

Re: [expert] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk

2003-10-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, what is the tmb kernel? On Friday 17 October 2003 07:37 am, Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: [...] I completed my 9.2 iso downloads, installed, and tried out the tmb kernel, but I'm still getting the seemingly random hard lockups. I did an install

Re: [expert] Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-17 Thread Adolfo A. Bello B.
A general comment: Why doesn't Mandrake, when it's building a new version, does not use the default installation directories of each package? Because otherwise, when we reinstall it, we have a chance of ending up with two versions of the same files! -turgut I have been asking myself this

Re: [expert] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk

2003-10-17 Thread Eric Fernandez
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, what is the tmb kernel? It's a kind of cooker but for the kernel only. It receives untested patches, that are backported to the normal kernels when they have been thouroughly tested. Now there are 11 kernels, that are

Re: [expert] Is there OpenOffice 1.1 RPM for mandrake 9.0?

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 05:35 pm, many eyes noted that Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all Is there OpenOffice 1.1 RPM for mandrake 9.0 available? I prefer to upgrade using RPM. If RPM is not available, will it cause any problem if I use OO's installer? Thanks, No OpenOffice.org1.1.0 installs

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 17 Oct 2003 1:06 am, Kwan Lowe wrote: When I apply this IP using the wizard on install it all takes and seems to be there .. If I try and ping anything on the LAN I get destination unreachable, and if I ping the unit from another machine on the LAN it times out. But from the 9.1

Re: [expert] MDK9.1 to MDK9.2 Update Issues - Hope that this is not a Final ISO!

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 16 2003 09:44 pm, Albert Whale wrote: I noticed that my Terminals all disappeared from the KDE Environment after the update. Is this an expected Feature? Yes. KDE packages have been split up to make them more manageable. You just need to 'urpmi kdebase-konsole' --

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Eric Fernandez
Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? been done for years. I don't see a kernel-headers package since 9.0 (and maybe even before). Am I mistaken ? Eric Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-17 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I understand that not everything can fit on the three CDs, but for the basic 3 CD download set, the third CD isn't full, so it appears that there would have been room. It's really pretty poor that the kernel sources aren't included as many people need to compile things! I'm wondering if and

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 20.35 16/10/2003, you wrote: The reason for dropping kernel-source, was AFAIK to make room for all the kde-i18n, koffice-i18n stuff... as you know mdk supports *many* languages... i18n and similar were in other MDK distro... so they added something else, your explanation isn't an explanation.

Re: [expert] Firebird, Thunderbird

2003-10-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
AS Reginvest wrote: Rolf Pedersen wrote: Mandrake has mozilla-firebird in contrib/ for 9.2 and I had it installed in 9.1, so it is probably also in 9.1 contrib/. Nope, can't find it. It might be in plf which seems to be broken (at least for me) right now. Will have to try Dave's suggestion.

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 17 Oct 2003 1:09 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:48, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze

Re: [expert] question on VPN's

2003-10-17 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
--- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Ok I'm planing the IT section for a new company. As such I've got a ground up ability to do it as right as I possibly can . the first time. Initial load will be about 20 people (Mixed windows and Linux to start adding other

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:46, Eric Fernandez wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? been done for years. I don't see a kernel-headers package since 9.0 (and

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 11:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 17 Oct 2003 1:09 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:48, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 11:29, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:46, Eric Fernandez wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? been done for years.

Re: [expert] Help with ProFTP

2003-10-17 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
The home dir setup can be in /etc/passwd for anonymous(ftp)user Or the directive Anonymous /home/ftp Read:: http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/localsite/Userguide/linked/config_ref_Anonymous.html _Thanks Richard MOllel --- J.P. Pasnak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rodrigo said: Dear experts ...

Re: [expert] Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: A general comment: Why doesn't Mandrake, when it's building a new version, does not use the default installation directories of each package? Because otherwise, when we reinstall it, we have a chance of ending up with two versions of the same files! -turgut - Turgut

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 20.35 16/10/2003, you wrote: The reason for dropping kernel-source, was AFAIK to make room for all the kde-i18n, koffice-i18n stuff... as you know mdk supports *many* languages... i18n and similar were in other MDK distro... so they added something

Re: [expert] question on VPN's

2003-10-17 Thread Joerg Mertin
On Friday 17 October 2003 17:22, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Ok I'm planing the IT section for a new company. As such I've got a ground up ability to do it as right as I possibly can . the first time. Initial load will be

[expert] Upgrade from LAN?

2003-10-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
Now that I have 5 boxes on 9.1 and 9.2 altogether, I have a question. Can I somehow open the ISO's in a directory available to all boxes on my network and upgrade from there? Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Automount missing

2003-10-17 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: Turgut Kalfaoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello James; indeed it's Supermount that I meant, sorry about that. I am now using 2.6.0test7-bk8. I tried the supermount enable command but it did not seem to do anything. Thanks! -turgut That's no MDK kernel... so you have to patch the kernel

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 17 Oct 2003 4:30 pm, ed tharp wrote: that was win4lin , to run windows inside a linux file system (secure, and not to slow). not Lin4win, to run linux on a M$ file system (insecure,no permissions, emulated and slow,) Ah, yes. I remember reading about that. It didn't sound too

[expert] Files not Showing up with ls

2003-10-17 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
Mandy 9.0, reiserfs 3.6.3 on a Raid5 partition. First, i try to transfer files 8 files from remote host, using either sftp, scp or ftp. File listing there:: total 79984 -rw-r--r-- 1 stuart nimbus 3317856 Oct 17 07:08 s_01_6345.subrun.2d -rw-r--r-- 1 stuart nimbus37602368 Oct 17 07:08

Re: [expert] Upgrade from LAN?

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:21, Lee Wiggers wrote: Now that I have 5 boxes on 9.1 and 9.2 altogether, I have a question. Can I somehow open the ISO's in a directory available to all boxes on my network and upgrade from there? Lee mount -t iso9660 -o loop myisoimage /mnt/point -- Jack

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 08:34, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 11:29, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:46, Eric Fernandez wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver

[expert] recovery from rpm horkage

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
a few days ago I screwed up one of my boxes by giving it some rpm commands while urpmi was running (combination of virtual desktops, urpmi database locking issue, and PEBCAK). I've done rpm --rebuilddb a couple of times so it's now consistent again; unfortunately, it's consistent in the belief

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread Felix Miata
ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:08, Felix Miata wrote: Yes, dual does mean 2 - 2 exactly. But, multi means more than 1. So, the two terms can easily be confused when the actual count is two. The difference is multiboot uses some type of boot manager that is capable of switching

Re: [expert] spam assassin and mrtg

2003-10-17 Thread Joerg Mertin
I'm still triggering my frontend Interface for MRTG. Guess it'll take couple of more weeks to have it functional. It looks neat yet though :) Once it is finished - I'll get over to fine tune the MRTG Part, and maybe also take care of the Big Data-Files data gathering ... For that however logtail

Re: [expert] spam assassin and mrtg

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
dang, that's right purty. Nice work! On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:59, Joerg Mertin wrote: I'm still triggering my frontend Interface for MRTG. Guess it'll take couple of more weeks to have it functional. It looks neat yet though :) Once it is finished - I'll get over to fine tune the MRTG Part,

[expert] dualboot 9.2 + XP Pro on laptop

2003-10-17 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, a really simple question: where is there a definitive howto describing exactly how to install 9.2 on a laptop that already has XP on it, in such a way that one can boot either OS at the end of the installation? There are lots of howtos for

Re: [expert] dualboot 9.2 + XP Pro on laptop

2003-10-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, a really simple question: where is there a definitive howto describing exactly how to install 9.2 on a laptop that already has XP on it, in such a way that one can boot either OS at the end of the installation? There are

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:51, Felix Miata wrote: ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:08, Felix Miata wrote: Yes, dual does mean 2 - 2 exactly. But, multi means more than 1. So, the two terms can easily be confused when the actual count is two. The difference is multiboot uses

Re: [expert] test message

2003-10-17 Thread J.C. Woods
James Sparenberg wrote: I think it went dead again. Man what a week first we lose Texstar and now the list. Brother, you have not lost us. We are still here, and loving you as much today as we did yesterday ( which might not be saying to much). drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX Network/System

Re: [expert] question on VPN's

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 08:22, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Ok I'm planing the IT section for a new company. As such I've got a ground up ability to do it as right as I possibly can . the first time. Initial load will be

Re: [expert] Upgrade from LAN?

2003-10-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:39:26 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:21, Lee Wiggers wrote: Now that I have 5 boxes on 9.1 and 9.2 altogether, I have a question. Can I somehow open the ISO's in a directory available to all boxes on my network and upgrade

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-17 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Freitag, 17. Oktober 2003 14:38 schrieb Olaf Marzocchi: I understand that not everything can fit on the three CDs, but for the basic 3 CD download set, the third CD isn't full, so it appears that there would have been room. It's really pretty poor that the kernel sources aren't included

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-10-17 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
I finally got to really apply the stuff you guys taught me. :) That means that my hdd on my linux server/firewall is dying and randomly gives a Cannot find boot sector at boot. :( I mounted a winblows fat32 partition as smbf on my linux server in an attempt to backup my linux system there (only

Re: [expert] dualboot 9.2 + XP Pro on laptop

2003-10-17 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Oct 2003 at 11:38, Rolf Pedersen wrote: D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, a really simple question: where is there a definitive howto describing exactly how to install 9.2 on a laptop that

[expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-17 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are the club urpmi scripts supposed to work with 9.2? I keep getting errors when I execute them: retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed; no hdlist file found for medium xxx. I tried several, and all the ones I tried behaved the same way --

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
I take it you're trying to tar into a file in the smb partition? Man, I love giving this answer: then don't do that :-) cp -a /etc /mnt/winblows cp -a /var /mnt/winblows rinse and repeat until you've got all the goodies, then rebuild your other box. On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 14:05, Adrian

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
probably slammed mirrors -- try adding --wget to your command line. On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 15:48, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are the club urpmi scripts supposed to work with 9.2? I keep getting errors when I execute them: retrieve of source hdlist (or

[expert] dualboot and need to reinstall windows

2003-10-17 Thread Phil G.
I have a dualboot setup, and had to replace my video card. No problems in ML. But W2K won't recognize the new card and the video is corrupted. So I need to reinstall W2K. I think this will this screw up the bootsector so that I can't boot into Linux. And if so, how do I correct it? Phil

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-10-17 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
hehe. :) That crossed my mind too, but it keeps complaining about the rights on the files. Isn't it bad if cause of the copy the file rights are lost? Also how about the (symbolic)links? Afaik the fat32 doesn't support links the way linux has them... Best regards, Adrian - Original Message

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-17 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Oct 2003 at 15:52, Jack Coates wrote: probably slammed mirrors -- try adding --wget to your command line. Nope. No change. retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium xxx examining synthesis file

Re: [expert] dualboot and need to reinstall windows

2003-10-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Phil G. wrote: I have a dualboot setup, and had to replace my video card. No problems in ML. But W2K won't recognize the new card and the video is corrupted. So I need to reinstall W2K. I think this will this screw up the bootsector so that I can't boot into Linux. And if so, how do I

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:22, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: hehe. :) That crossed my mind too, but it keeps complaining about the rights on the files. Isn't it bad if cause of the copy the file rights are lost? yeah, smb just doesn't do permissions in The Unix Way(TM). So it's bad if you want to

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
You're using plf.zarb.org's script, right? I just tried and had trouble, so I switched to MandrakeClub's script and it worked. On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:27, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Oct 2003 at 15:52, Jack Coates wrote: probably slammed

Re: [expert] question on VPN's

2003-10-17 Thread Bill
Linksys has a very nice VPN box supporting a bunch of vpn connections at the same time. Your winblows users can use there vpn client software that comes with the OS. For Linux there are several client side apps like poptop pptp. As far as encryption winblows by default logs in using encryption

Re: [expert] dualboot and need to reinstall windows

2003-10-17 Thread Phil G.
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:12:05 -0700, Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil G. wrote: I have a dualboot setup, and had to replace my video card. No problems in ML. But W2K won't recognize the new card and the video is corrupted. So I need to reinstall W2K. I think this will this screw

[expert] network cards running at 10mb/s instead of 100 - why?

2003-10-17 Thread Damon Lynch
Hello, Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to why my network is running at 1/10 the speed it should be. The network cards on my firewall, which is running MNF, are all running at 10mb/s. At least two should be running at 100. I can see they are running slow by running this, for instance: #

Re: [expert] Upgrade from LAN?

2003-10-17 Thread Gary Hodder
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 07:27, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:39:26 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:21, Lee Wiggers wrote: Now that I have 5 boxes on 9.1 and 9.2 altogether, I have a question. Can I somehow open the ISO's in a

Re: [expert] dualboot and need to reinstall windows

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:06 am, many eyes noted that Phil G. wrote: I have a dualboot setup, and had to replace my video card. No problems in ML. But W2K won't recognize the new card and the video is corrupted. So I need to reinstall W2K. I think this will this screw up the bootsector so

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? Also, kernel2.4-marcelo could be dropped, there are also 4 kernel-doc packages, one (or even none) would be sufficient. And maybe kernel-secure, which is really for

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:46, Eric Fernandez wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? been done for years. I don't see a kernel-headers package since 9.0 (and

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 08:29, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:46, Eric Fernandez wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? been done for years.

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 08:34, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 11:29, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:46, Eric Fernandez wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver

Re: [expert] network cards running at 10mb/s instead of 100 - why?

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 17 October 2003 08:31 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: # mii-tool eth0 -F 100baseTx-FD has no effect. Any clues as to what I should do next? IIRC, most cable and dsl modems run 10Mb/s half duplex. is eth0 the public interface? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? Also, kernel2.4-marcelo could be dropped, there are also 4 kernel-doc packages, one (or even none) would be sufficient. And maybe kernel-secure, which is really for

Re: [expert] test message

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:35, J.C. Woods wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: I think it went dead again. Man what a week first we lose Texstar and now the list. Brother, you have not lost us. We are still here, and loving you as much today as we did yesterday ( which might not be saying to

Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:54, Brett W Tippet wrote: Thanks for the reply. Yeh ... done that ... It's going into a cisco catalyst 2900XL and I've tried a few patch cables which work straight away when plugged into another PC .. the machine that isn't working is lighting up on the switch.

Re: [expert] MDK9.1 to MDK9.2 Update Issues - Hope that this is not a Final ISO!

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:34, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 09:44 pm, Albert Whale wrote: I noticed that my Terminals all disappeared from the KDE Environment after the update. Is this an expected Feature? Yes. KDE packages have been split up to make them more

Re: [expert] dualboot 9.2 + XP Pro on laptop

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:45 am, many eyes noted that D. R. Evans wrote: OK; thanks. Combining the info at that URL with a Knoppix disk allowed me to build a dual-boot system. For those that care, here is what I did. (Warning: it ain't pretty, and doubtless there are better/cleverer ways, but

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 17 October 2003 10:44 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? Also, kernel2.4-marcelo could be dropped, there are also 4 kernel-doc packages, one (or even none) would

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 03:01, Franki wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:49, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:24, Jack Coates wrote: you make the fatal assumption that IE supports the standard. It doesn't. Standard code works on IE if it's

Re: [expert] Automount missing

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 03:25, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Hello James; indeed it's Supermount that I meant, sorry about that. I am now using 2.6.0test7-bk8. I tried the supermount enable command but it did not seem to do anything. Thanks! -turgut Ah, I see. Your right it won't, I don't think

Re: [expert] Why not use the default directories?

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 05:46, Kwan Lowe wrote: A general comment: Why doesn't Mandrake, when it's building a new version, does not use the default installation directories of each package? Because otherwise, when we reinstall it, we have a chance of ending up with two versions of the same

Re: [expert] Upgrade from LAN?

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:39, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:21, Lee Wiggers wrote: Now that I have 5 boxes on 9.1 and 9.2 altogether, I have a question. Can I somehow open the ISO's in a directory available to all boxes on my network and upgrade from there? Lee

Re: [expert] recovery from rpm horkage

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:44, Jack Coates wrote: a few days ago I screwed up one of my boxes by giving it some rpm commands while urpmi was running (combination of virtual desktops, urpmi database locking issue, and PEBCAK). I've done rpm --rebuilddb a couple of times so it's now consistent

[expert] VMWare and Win4Lin included in 9.2

2003-10-17 Thread Joeb
Does anyone have any info on the VMWare and Win4Lin that is included with the boxed sets of 9.2? Specifically, are they functional demos, full function apps, etc.? Also, what about the licensing? Is it just the app that is included and a $399 license still needs to be purchased (at least

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