Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 CAN'T CREATE BOOT DISK

2003-11-03 Thread antonovich
Now I have tried a little harder! [EMAIL PROTECTED] antonovich]$ superformat /dev/fd0 sect=21 cyl=83 Measuring drive 0's raw capacity In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future, add the following line to /etc/driveprm: drive0: deviation=-1600 CAUTION: The line is drive

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 CAN'T CREATE BOOT DISK

2003-11-02 Thread antonovich
) - it doesn't! Which leads me to the problem... [EMAIL PROTECTED] floppy]$ superformat /dev/fd0 hd Measuring drive 0's raw capacity format: Input/output error can't even format it to 1.44! Any suggestions? cheers antonovich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 CAN'T CREATE BOOT DISK

2003-11-02 Thread antonovich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] floppy]$ superformat /dev/fd0 hd Measuring drive 0's raw capacity format: Input/output error can't even format it to 1.44! Any suggestions? cheers antonovich Please excuse my stupidity... I took the disk out to reboot and ... that's pretty embarassing... I shall endeavour

[expert] vmware host-only networking and smb.conf

2003-10-30 Thread antonovich
Hi, I think my problems with getting my home network set up under 9.1 look like they are related to setting up samba after enabling host-only networking with vmware. This time with 9.2 I set up the networking and it was working great (well almost) until I started fudging round with it trying

Re: [expert] Not all Mandrake 9.2 mirrors are the same

2003-10-27 Thread antonovich
Mate, If you haven't yet then go to the plf.zarb.org site and follow the instructions for setting up urpmi. There are various different kinds of repository (or whatever its called). Some have what is on the disk, some updates, some illegal stuff (like stuff to allow watching dvds, which is

Re: [expert] Oggs to mp3

2003-10-19 Thread antonovich
Rob Blomquist wrote: Out front, let me say that I love Ogg-Vorbis, but my car audio player and home DVD player prefer mp3s, so I am looking at converting my 10GBs of oggs into mp3s. My question is how to best do it, without ripping the CDs a second time. With the help of a Higher Power. If