Dapper Dan

We all know what a "shell" is, it's the free part we don't understand...

Are you wanting to mount a reader/writer stick, an external hard drive or a partition on your internal hard drive that's already formatted fat32?

Here's a good place to check on compatability with Mandrake. Good Luck! http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3

Click on the red hat, go to "System Tools", then "More System Tools", then click on KDiskFree...

The only games I really play with Cedega are Half-Life, it's mods and Team Fortress which work just as well under Linux as in Windows. There is no difference as far as I can tell. In fact, I get far better pings playing Team Fortress under Linux than ever got with Windows on the same box! I also play Trespasser which works well in software mode, and Starcraft, which runs pretty well, although slightly laggy. If you play Windows games in Linux, you must accept right off that some games will work almost perfectly, and some will not work at all, and there is everything in between. I've seen posters over at Transgaming actually get angry because there favorite game will not work perfectly under Linux! This of course is an unreasonable expectation. There are enough games that work almost perfectly under Linux using Cedega, that any reasonable gamer should be satisfied with. For a complete list of what works and what doesn't, go to Trangaming's web site and check out this list...

Originally posted by egorgry: Quote: as root chmod -R 777 / just kidding DON'T DO THAT!! as usual Dapper Dans advice is dead on. Thanks egorgry, you are very kind. Quote: Just one thing i'd like to add, if you are using Nautilus as root from your user enviornment type nautilus --nodesktop to avoid loading roots desktop enviornment on top of your users desktop Good advice too egorgry, which I forgot to mention. Only make sure to put a "dash" between "no" and "desktop", as in: nautilus --no-desktop or else it will still go to nautilus desktop. Question: Can you still have Nautilus without Gnome? I really don't know... On a sort of kind of related note, I just upgrade three boxes at my radio station with Fedora Core 1 and Core 2, and am using Krusader as an FTP file transfer front end for all three. If you haven't tried it, Krusader is one of the little know gems in Linux, and it installs on most distros without complaint. Krusader can also be used as a dual pane file browser/manager! Try it out! I think you'll like it!

The very reason why Linux can be such a pain in the ass, as far as permissions go is the very reason it is so very secure. It is not a good idea to give youself (user) permissions to the root directory because every time you give users more permissions to anything outside of your /home directory, you also make it easier for a would be hacker to gain control of your computer. All you need to go anywhere in Linux is root's password. To gain access to your root directory, open a terminal and "become root" by typing: su [enter] It will then ask for root's password. Type it in and press enter. You will notice the $ sign is now a # sign. This means you are now "root" and can destroy the solar system. Now you can enter your /root directory by either the command line or by a file browser. From the command line go: cd /root [enter] and you're there! To see what's in there type: ls [enter] Or with a file browser, either Nautilus or konqueror, just type either nautilus [enter] or: konqueror [enter] and you'll be in the file browser as root. Then make your way to /root. Mandrake has a utility in the Mandrake Control Center which will allow you to re-configure Lilo. Find it, and tell it to boot to Windows before Linux.

When I was dual booting Mandrake 9 with XP, I regularly accessed the Windows files from XP, (NTFS) without problems. Don't try writing to NTFS from Linux though as that's still a buggy undertaking. Do you know how to access your NTFS partition from Linux? I presume XP is on hda1? If I'm remembering correctly, (it's been a while since I've done this...) First, you need to create a directory in which to mount your XP partition to, so first make that directory. The usual is to put it in /mnt. As root go: mkdir /mnt/XP [enter] You can name it anything you want. name it /mnt/windows if you prefer... Then, still as root go: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/XP -t ntfs -r [enter] Then you have to mount the XP directory. Go: mount /mnt/XP [enter] Then: cd /mnt/XP [enter] then: ls [enter] You should now see your Windows files in hda1. After doing the above steps you can also access them through Nautilus file browser. Here's a good page to look at about it in case I've missed something...

Found this.

Figured it would be by now. You'll have to go with the CVS version if you want free. I use Cedega and subscribe to transgaming. The cost is minimal and saves me time.

How about posting your findings back here to share with the rest of us. I'd like to know how to stream audio with Linux too!

Internet broadcasting is something I know nothing about. Sorry. Good luck though...

Droop, I'm coming up empty when I google "Actiontec" with "UD800TP" and "Linux." This, modem is the closest thing I could find to what you have that is actually listed as working. So you already have this modem and it isn't working? Or are you thinking about buying one. Tell us where you are with this.

Actiontec is real good about linux support, but USB is often uncertain with Linux. Danleff is right. The easiest way is to go from an ADSL modem into a router like Linksys or D-link, then to most any NIC card in your computer and it should work without problems.

If you have apt-get RPM installed from FreshRPMS, all you have to do is download the xmms-mp3 plugin. If you don't have apt-get RPM installed, download it here, and install it. After it is installed, do as root: apt-get update [enter] Do the above a second time. Then go: apt-get install synaptic [enter] After it installs, just type: synaptic as root and hit enter, and the synaptic front end to apt-get RPM will come up. Then search for xmms-mp3, and install it, it's pretty intuitive. Then go into XMMS options and disable the placeholder mp3 thingy, and enable mp3 plugin and you should be in business. Any questions, let me know..

Hi. I don't see any reason you can't post it here.

Rather than just letting Mandrake partition for you, you have much more control if you partition your HD manually. Mandrake has the best partitioning utility of any distro I've used, and it's very intuitive. Just create a /, a swap and a /home partition. I always make / and /home around the same size, and the swap partition about 3 to 4 times what my ram is unless it's on a box with 512 ram. Then I don't use a swap at all as it really isn't needed, and will actually slow you down over forcing everything through 512 ram. Also, RieserFS is the way to go as far as file systems are concerned. Don't use EXT2 unless you want to wait forever for it to check your drive after cold shutdowns.

Hi egorgry, I think the reason many folks stay away from Debian proper is for the same reasons I do. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I've cut a lot of birthday cakes in my time, and installing Debian is one cake I couldn't cut after about 4 or 5 tries. The install in archaic and very confusing, especially for new users. It leaves me with the feeling up trying to travel from Dallas to Los Angeles with no road signs! I may give the Debian install another try some time in the future, but I'm afraid my experiences with it left me frustrated and confused, and as Linux users, we get enough of both as it is! One thing is not in question, and that is Debian is an excellent distro. Right now I just don't see the need to subject myself to its install when Mepis is so easy to install and configure, and you then have all the access to the Debian repositories as if you ran Debian proper. It is impressive to me that you installed it, obviously without the problems I encountered. I just wish I was sharp enough to figure out how to do a Debian install right.

I run 512 RAM and don't even use a swap. I think my machine is noticably faster since I eliminated my swap partition. If you are afraid to try not having one, why not create it, then you can disable it after you get up and running to see. If it doesn't work out, then enable the swap space.

I doubt the findings in that story were reached in an unbiased way. Besides, it doesn't matter if XP has ten "holes" and Linux has a thousand, it's still our operating system of CHOICE. That's what's important.

It's gonna get worse. Microsoft will do EVERYTHING they deem necessary to destroy any and all competition.

I think it would work better with Fedora Core 2 which I don't have installed. I might still try it though, thanks..

I'll have a look at it! Thanks maveric007!

When you try to edit grub.conf, did you become root first? Become root: su [enter] password [enter] Then: gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf [enter] which will open grub.conf in Gedit as root. Then you should be able to edit the file. On the ifconfig/ipconfig thing, taeuler is correct in that you must provide the entire path in Red Hat/Fedora. As root go: /sbin/ifconfig [enter] And that will bring it up. If you don't have gedit installed, just do the same command as above, only type kedit instead of gedit. then /boot/grub/grub.conf

Hey Mel! Welcome back! It's good to see you again! It's been so long since I've seen you, I've forgotten which distro you're running!