The saga continues. I have been reading my copy of the 9.1 Mandrake The
Definitive Manual or in my case the confusion manual. To review I
installed 9.2 on my second HD and got it bootable. Now I am trying to back
up certain files from my /home directory using drakbackup. The default
directory for
I have installed 9.2 on my second HD. Using fstab I was able to open my
9.1 home directory in 9.2. My 9.1 desktop with icons appeared in 9.2. As I
use 9.2,
add programs and data, will this affect my use of the home directory when
I go back to 9.1? Is there a way to access files in one program
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
You can always use your /home with several different installations. In
fact it's a Good Thing(TM) to save ressources. There are noissues about
that as far as data file are concerned.
There are issues aboout the various subdirs which are created by the
apps you use. As long
Installed 9.2 rc2 today. Everything went fine. It even found my unused
second HD and installed the program there. Then a problem occurred. It
seems I changed lilo in the MBR so now only 9.2 would boot up. Got back to
9.1 by using the rescue disk on CD1. An article I read about dual boot of
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
Gary Montalbine [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Fri, 12 Sep 2003
16:33:59 -0400:
Installed 9.2 rc2 today. Everything went fine. It even found my unused
second HD and installed the program there. Then a problem occurred. It
seems I changed lilo in the MBR so now only 9.2 would
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
Have you installe 9.2 LILO in the BR of the root partition of 9.2?
I so, do this:
In 9.1 edit your /etc/lilo.conf (as root, of course) and add:
other=/dev/hda5
label=man92
Assuming your root partition of 9.2 is on hda5.
Then do a nice '/sbin/lilo' with your 9.1 and you
I downloaded 9.2rc2 ISO's into a directory. Downloaded the file
9.2rc2.md5sums.asc
into the same directory. Tried to do a md5sum --status. Didn't work. Tried
md5sum --check. Didn't work. md5sum with each rc2 CD gives me a
letter/number combination. However I have nothing to check it against. I
Try this Gary;
Open a terminal, navigate to the directory where the ISOs and .asc file
are. At the command prompt type this:
md5sum -c 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc enter
You won't see much until it's done a disk but the processor will
grunt. A LOT. g
HTH
Charlie
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It worked. Except two out of
Charlie M. wrote
I posted a link (yesterday? the day before? last week? too often? ;-)
to Greg Meyer's page that will teach you how, plus I and others have
posted examples recently.
It ain't a hard thing to do Gary. :-) Here's another example, just fill
in the blanks, be sure you have write
I am trying to get a program working that wants to access my Soundblaster Live
card through /dev/sound. Specifically the audio file in that directory.
However all the
files in dev/sound are empty.
Soundblaster and audio programs work. Is there some other way to access the
sound card? I am using
ed tharp wrote:
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:46, Gary Montalbine wrote:
I am trying to get a program working that wants to access my
Soundblaster Live card through /dev/sound. Specifically the audio
file in that directory. However all the files in dev/sound are empty.
Soundblaster and audio
ed tharp wrote:
well they are virtual files they should be empty
and I bet you do have devfs running as long as you are running a pretty
recent version of MDK.
I have spent the about the last three hours searching Google trying to
learn about devfs. I am pretty certain that it is running
Thanks for everyones help. Devfsd works and I also have some reading
references to increase my knowledge.
Gary
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KevinO wrote:
Here are the 'ps' and 'grep' commands being used to show that devfsd is
currently running:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:58pm-kevin ps auxw | grep devfs
root64 0.0 0.1 1756 888 ?SAug16 0:00 devfsd /dev
kevin12769 0.0 0.1 1800 620 pts/1S14:58 0:00 grep
Well spoken Kevin. I agree. I asked for URPMI information after the 9.0
book was released. I don't see much difference in the two books except for
the pages not falling out.
Gary
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David Guntner wrote:
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:26, Avi Schwartz wrote:
Mandrake should change their kernel installation instructions in the
latest Security Advisory since they say there:
To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. If you want to
James Sparenberg wrote:
Cheaters way to configure it. If you have the wizards installed. (urpmi
wizards will get it.) It will give you a new icon on the left called
Server Configuration. Chose Time Wizard from the list (it's at the
bottom scroll down.) and it will give you a list of working
I am using the commercial 3 CD set of LM 8.2. I have tried to do a rpm
--rebuild of rpmfind and a rpm --rebuild of db3...src.rpm. I keep
getting errors in the g++, gcc and cpp0 links. Apparently there are two
versions installed and they are intermixed. I doubt that I am the only
one having
etc/alternatives was were I changed the symlinks. That seemed to correct
the symlink problem. Everything went fine until I got to the g++ -c
error near the end of the build.
I can not find a libgcc3.2. I have libgcc3.0.4 installed which matches
the g++, gcc and cpp files.
HoytDuff wrote:
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