Fw: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-14 Thread CJ Kelley
- Forwarded Message From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:46:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS? On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:42:12 +0530, Jayant wrote: i have tried to read-write on ntfs partition with knoppix

RE: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-14 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Bricklemyer, Ross S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:14:38 -0800 I am shortly installing Mandriva Discovery on a separate hard drive and run as a dual boot

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-14 Thread Jayant Ogale
On 2/15/07, Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Bricklemyer, Ross S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:14:38 -0800 I am shortly installing Mandriva Discovery

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-13 Thread Jayant Ogale
On 2/13/07, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cjs reply Note: linux doesnt do to well when it comes to writing to ntfs for some reason. therefore you have to download a linux program which will allow linux to write to ntfs with out currupting the files. end of reply -- These are my

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-13 Thread Miark
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:42:12 +0530, Jayant wrote: i have tried to read-write on ntfs partition with knoppix 5.1 but could not write. because though the properties shows that it is in read-write mode, the document opens only in read-only mode. if some one has really done it, please write in

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-12 Thread CJ Kelley
- Original Message From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 11:31:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS? cjs reply im not too big of a fan of mandriva 2007 neither. mandriva tends to be a system

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-12 Thread CJ Kelley
- Original Message From: Shocky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2007 11:36:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS? On Thursday 08 February 2007 00:31, Paul wrote: cjs reply im not too big of a fan of mandriva 2007

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-12 Thread Paul
cjs reply Note: linux doesnt do to well when it comes to writing to ntfs for some reason. therefore you have to download a linux program which will allow linux to write to ntfs with out currupting the files. end of reply -- These are my opinions. Get your own. I found a VMWare

RE: [newbie] mandriva 2007 acpi install- problem solved

2007-02-10 Thread Gregg Jorgenson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 February 2007 9:46 AM To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Subject: Re: [newbie] mandriva 2007 acpi install Gregg Jorgenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Hi Gregg, I have an asus p4p800 motherboard and an asus ti4800se video card. When installing mandriva

[newbie] Mandriva 2007 and helix/realplayer

2007-02-09 Thread Angus Auld
I am having trouble getting helixplayer to work. The helix readme mentions two things in the known issues section that likely indicate the source of my problem: * Alsa and esound drivers are not included in this build * The OSS device used for playback can be set using the AUDIO

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-09 Thread Shocky
On Thursday 08 February 2007 22:04, Paul wrote: Actually from everything I've read the official Knoppix position on writing to NTFS is, to paraphrase, no/yes/maybe/maybe-not/depends. I just got the March 2007 issue of Linux Format. Knoppix 5.1.1 is on the cover disc. On the pages where the

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 and helix/realplayer

2007-02-09 Thread Russ Kepler
On Friday 09 February 2007 08:32, Angus Auld wrote: I was able to get previous versions of helix to work on past Mandriva systems, why is it not playing nice now? :-( I installed Firefox 2.0 and RealPlayer on 2007 yesterday, and noticed that I didn't have sound until I manually ran the real

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Shocky
On Thursday 08 February 2007 00:31, Paul wrote: cjs reply im not too big of a fan of mandriva 2007 neither. mandriva tends to be a system resource hog in the fact that it accumulates LOTS of ram. Furthermore the installer is buggy. but it works good running it off of the live cd

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Eric Jackson
On Thursday 08 February 2007 14:36, Shocky wrote: On Thursday 08 February 2007 00:31, Paul wrote: cjs reply im not too big of a fan of mandriva 2007 neither. mandriva tends to be a system resource hog in the fact that it accumulates LOTS of ram. Furthermore the installer is buggy.

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Paul
Actually from everything I've read the official Knoppix position on writing to NTFS is, to paraphrase, no/yes/maybe/maybe-not/depends. I just got the March 2007 issue of Linux Format. Knoppix 5.1.1 is on the cover disc. On the pages where the disc is enclosed it says that this version of

Re: [newbie] mandriva 2007 acpi install

2007-02-07 Thread Jayant Ogale
On 2/4/07, H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 11:22:18 +1100 Gregg wrote: halted and then the power button has to used to shut down. I've had similar issues which in most cases was caused by a BIOS setting. Check that out first for a shutdown option. -- Good luck,

Re: [newbie] mandriva 2007 acpi install

2007-02-07 Thread RickS
Gregg Jorgenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Hi Gregg, I have an asus p4p800 motherboard and an asus ti4800se video card. When installing mandriva 2007 I have a problem that has not happened on previous mandriva installations on the same hardware (9 and 10.1). Between 2005 and 2006 on

[newbie] Mandriva 2007 live cd and NTFS?

2007-02-07 Thread Paul
cjs reply im not too big of a fan of mandriva 2007 neither. mandriva tends to be a system resource hog in the fact that it accumulates LOTS of ram. Furthermore the installer is buggy. but it works good running it off of the live cd end of reply Do you know if the Live CD can

[newbie] mandriva 2007 acpi install

2007-02-03 Thread Gregg Jorgenson
Hi I have an asus p4p800 motherboard and an asus ti4800se video card. When installing mandriva 2007 I have a problem that has not happened on previous mandriva installations on the same hardware (9 and 10.1). If a do a normal install (acpi enabled) it crashes when starting the xserver after the

Re: [newbie] mandriva 2007 acpi install

2007-02-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 11:22:18 +1100 Gregg wrote: halted and then the power button has to used to shut down. I've had similar issues which in most cases was caused by a BIOS setting. Check that out first for a shutdown option. -- Good luck, HarM.

[newbie] Mandriva 2007. Apache.

2007-01-28 Thread Paul
Pfff... I wonder what I started... Now I can't get apache to run. I had to remove a LOT of ALLOW and DENY and other stuff tags from all kinds of config files. Finally 'service httpd start' says OK but service httpd status says Apache is NOT running. And I can't find any error message in any

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007. Apache. (2)

2007-01-28 Thread Paul
but service httpd status says Apache is NOT running. [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# service httpd debug Starting httpd (debug mode and in the foreground): /etc/init.d/httpd: line 207: 22086 Segmentation fault $httpd $httpdconf $debug -c Pidfile /tmp/httpd-debug.pid -c LogLevel debug -c ErrorLog

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2007-01-27 Thread Miark
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:21:20 +0100, Paul wrote: Hi all, I have just upgraded to Mandriva 2007, the Powerpack version. It all looked good, but... (why are there always buts?) I hear no sound. On boot I see the message I've had the most success using alsaconf to detect and configure sound

[newbie] Mandriva 2007 (another one)

2007-01-27 Thread Paul
ProFTPD segfaults... How should I fix that? (I did run MandrivaUpdate to get all latest packages.) Paul -- There are two rules in business negotiations. Rule one is don't disclose everything you know. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 cd Install

2007-01-27 Thread CJ Kelley
- Original Message From: CJ Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:47:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 cd Install - Original Message From: JBryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Friday, January

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2007-01-27 Thread Paul
I've had the most success using alsaconf to detect and configure sound cards. Give that a shot. Right On! I found Alsaconf, ran it, no sound, remembered to adjust the mixer settings (duh) and things are sounding. Thanks for the tip! Paul -- There are two rules in business negotiations. Rule

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 (another one)

2007-01-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:37:33 +0100 Paul wrote: ProFTPD segfaults... How should I fix that? (I did run MandrivaUpdate to get all latest packages.) Don't know what the problem might be. You did not give enough info. If you would like to try the latest, you can get from my site:

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 cd Install

2007-01-27 Thread Trygve Seljeflot
On Saturday 27 January 2007 19:48, CJ Kelley wrote: - Original Message From: CJ Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:47:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 cd Install Hello I have a Dell Inspiron B120 laptop with msxp

[newbie] Mandriva 2007 cd Install

2007-01-26 Thread JBryant
Hello I have a Dell Inspiron B120 laptop with msxp and I am trying to install mandriva 2007. The mandriva 2007 cd doesn't boot when I restart the system. It does work ok on the gateway desktop. What needs to be changed on the laptop? Thanks in advance for help John

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 cd Install

2007-01-26 Thread JBryant
Larry Martell wrote: On 1/26/07, JBryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have a Dell Inspiron B120 laptop with msxp and I am trying to install mandriva 2007. The mandriva 2007 cd doesn't boot when I restart the system. It does work ok on the gateway desktop. What needs to be changed on the

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-25 Thread Miark
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:22:14 -0800 (PST), Nicholas wrote: I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I'm using Burn From Image from NERO to burn this image to dvd. Am I doing the correct thing? If you have a

[newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread Nicholas Iskandar
Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official website. I burn it using Nero... but it seems that the dvd is not bootable. When I open the dvd, there are only 2 folders and 2 file text : i586 and x86_64, release notes.txt. How can I install

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread ET
Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official website. I burn it using Nero... but it seems that the dvd is not bootable. When I open the dvd, there are only 2 folders and 2 file text : i586 and x86_64, release

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread Nicholas Iskandar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official website. I burn it using

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread John Bowden
thing? thanks, nicholas - Original Message From: ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread ET
? that was correct thanks, nicholas - Original Message From: ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread ET
the correct thing? thanks, nicholas - Original Message From: ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:12:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Dear All, I just finished download mandriva

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread stuart bell
On 24/01/07, ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Bowden wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 03:22 -0800, Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Thanks for the reply. I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I'm using Burn From Image from

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread Shocky
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 04:22, Nicholas Iskandar wrote: Thanks for the reply. I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image. How can I check this md5sum from windows? I'm using Burn From Image from NERO to burn this image to dvd. Am I doing the correct

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread Miark
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:51:54 -0700, Shocky wrote: Overkill for just a checksum, but coming from a Unix background, I couldn't survive day to day work on Windoze (which I'm forced to use for work), without Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/)... Ditto. I did some web stuff and technical editing

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:57:20 -0500 Miark wrote: would have died without ActiveState's Perl for Win32. Don't forget ssh . THE program I could honestly not live without. IMO the best program OSS has spawned, ever! -- Good luck, HarM. Want

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread CJ Kelley
- Original Message From: Nicholas Iskandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:48:04 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Dear All, I just finished download mandriva-free-2007-DVD.iso ( 4.5 Gb ) from mandriva official

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ?

2007-01-24 Thread CJ Kelley
- Original Message From: Nicholas Iskandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:22:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 DVD not Bootable ? Thanks for the reply. I haven't check the md5sum of the downloaded image nor the burned image

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2006-11-17 Thread Miark
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:39:55 +0200, Robin wrote: (I'm typing this on my wife's Mac). Really? I thought you were gay! Miark ;-) :-) Good to have you back! Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2006-11-17 Thread Robin Turner
On 17/11/06, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:39:55 +0200, Robin wrote: (I'm typing this on my wife's Mac). Really? I thought you were gay! What was that Grumpy Penguin said about intelligent discourse? ;-) BTW, the MacBook is a lovely piece of designer hardware, but

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2006-11-17 Thread Grumpy
On Friday 17 November 2006 14:38, Robin Turner wrote: On 17/11/06, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:39:55 +0200, Robin wrote: (I'm typing this on my wife's Mac). Really? I thought you were gay! What was that Grumpy Penguin said about intelligent discourse? ;-)

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2006-11-16 Thread Robin Turner
On 16/10/06, Grumpy_Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OT long time no see ...students driving you crazy again ? Heh, I took on an extra course these semester, but now my MEd students are off on their teaching practice, so I have a bit of a breathing space. Also been having computer woes at home

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2006-11-16 Thread Grumpy
On Thursday 16 November 2006 13:39, Robin Turner wrote: On 16/10/06, Grumpy_Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OT long time no see ...students driving you crazy again ? Heh, I took on an extra course these semester, but now my MEd students are off on their teaching practice, so I have a bit of

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 Gnome

2006-11-08 Thread Keith Powell
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 10:47 pm, Neill Jones wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Mandriva 2007 KDE is excellent, so I have been trying the Gnome desktop. In many ways I think that it is better than another very well-known Gnome specific distribution! However, I have found two problems which

[newbie] Mandriva 2007 Gnome

2006-11-07 Thread Keith Powell
Mandriva 2007 KDE is excellent, so I have been trying the Gnome desktop. In many ways I think that it is better than another very well-known Gnome specific distribution! However, I have found two problems which although they aren't vital, are annoying. The panel clock won't show the 12 hour

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007 Gnome

2006-11-07 Thread Neill Jones
Keith Powell wrote: Mandriva 2007 KDE is excellent, so I have been trying the Gnome desktop. In many ways I think that it is better than another very well-known Gnome specific distribution! However, I have found two problems which although they aren't vital, are annoying. The panel clock

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2006-10-16 Thread Robin Turner
On 12/10/06, Mike The Chief [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys: after playing around with Mandriva 2007 for a week I have went back 2006 It's definitely not ready primetime. I got tired of the looks of the desktop configurations not working! Strictly a beta version hopeful they will get the

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2006-10-16 Thread Grumpy_Penguin
On Sunday 15 October 2006 03:37 pm, Robin Turner wrote: On 12/10/06, Mike The Chief [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys: after playing around with Mandriva 2007 for a week I have went back 2006 It's definitely not ready primetime. I got tired of the looks of the desktop configurations not

Re: [newbie] Mandriva 2007

2006-10-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 October 2006 11:29, Grumpy_Penguin wrote: built in ATI radion 200 M2007 will select a different driver every time most of which are promptly out of range If in doubt use the framebuffer driver after which you at least have an X-server running. XOrg's own generic ATI