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    Why am I wasting my time on this..? This is NUTS!!

    Synaptic is a frontend for apt-get rpm. If there is a package you want to install, you just type it in that window there in the upper left, click search and it will find it and offer you the option of downloading and installing it. You do not yet have familiarity with Linux packages, but if you stay with it you will! Synaptic will enable you to install RPM packages without all the dependencies and errors you were complaining about before, Just for practice...go to that window and type in: galeon [enter] apt-get will then find the Galeon browser package, let you know what else has to be installed to make it work, and then give you the opportunity of installing it. Galeon is MUCH faster than Mozilla, though it is based on Mozilla. By the way, did you ever get flash working? If you got it working in Mozilla, it will also work with Galeon.. Now that you're familiar with how it works..type in: realplayer [enter]
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    Why am I wasting my time on this..? This is NUTS!!

    Quote: ..."strange thingsare going on in the world"..!??! LOL! Now I know you were successful! Did you get Synaptic up and running?
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    Installing mandrake 9.2

    Hmm, Neus! Sounds like you're coming along nicely with Linux!
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    can't copy file

    If you want to give it another shot, I can tell you how to edit your XF86Config-4..
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    problems with DivX and Nvidia

    I'm assuming you unpacked it in either Nautilus or Konqueror? You have to do the install from the command line. In your menu, you should see something like "terminals." If it gives you several choices, just pick one, it doesn't really matter which. After opening, you will see something like: [maximo@maximoscomputer maximo]$ You must now become root or "super user." You do this by typing: su [enter] Now you will see something like: [maximo@maximoscomputer maximo]# Notice the $ sign is now a # sign. This means you are now root or super user. You now have to change directory to the place where the package you are trying to install is. So you get there by going something like: cd /divx [enter] or: cd /documents/divx [enter] or wherever it is. Once inside the directory where "install.sh" is, you're ready to rock! Type: ./install.sh [enter] I don't know what will happen after that because I don't know the package, but this should at least get you started..
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    Mounting Windows Partition under linux

    Thanks for that macawgumbo. I'll bookmark it. They're now saying to use Gedit instead of Pico. I really like vi, but I'm finding myself using Gedit more and more..
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    Why am I wasting my time on this..? This is NUTS!!

    allen.panther, I'm about to show you how to make life with Linux MUCH easier since you are fortunately using RH 9! If you can get apt-get RPM installed, downloading and installing packages will be as easy (or easier) than doing the same in Windows, really! Go here and download the two binary packages. In a terminal as root, "cd" to the directory where the two apt packages were downloaded. Then type: rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm [enter] After it installs, do the other one: rpm -Uvh apt-devel-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm [enter] Installation of these two should give no problems. Now it's time to start using apt. Type: apt-get update [enter] When it finishes, do the above again. Then type: apt-get install synaptic [enter] after it finishes, type: synaptic [enter] The Synaptic gui should now come up. Look over it and when you feel ready, follow the very intuitive screen for installing packages. Unfortunately, flash player will not be one you can "apt." If you run into any trouble installing apt-get rpm at any stage, or have questions, please let me know and I will do my best to help. Good Luck!
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    can't copy file

    Quote: ...now there you're just talking about "update" i was talking about "installation".....2 very different things...i did update 3-4 times, it's easy, but try to install these drivers?!?!?!?!?! that's what made me turn back to windows only, as i was never able to install. Actually Buffy283, Installing the drivers to begin with are just as simple. You just download the driver, and from a terminal (not in X) run: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.mun [enter] Quote: ...if a virus gets in,it's because you let it in. I began surfing in 97-98, i'm using grisoft Free anti-virus since "last summer". I'm pretty sure that major company are responsible for 50% at least of all the viruses out there. Yes ultimately he did let it in, of course accidentally. I'm a complete idiot when it comes to remembering things, so I know how scary it can be not to remember something this important! Quote: It's just a matter of time....Linux will be kicked in the behind with viruses.....mark my words!!!! I believe you're right. However once a problem is recognized, the difference would be, with Linux I can shut my box down and stand a very good chance of fixing the problem with a rescue disk, (provided of course that I have a solution..) Quote: Simply not enough...few others?!?!?!? not enough. I believe all the games you mentioned will work very well under Winex, along with many others. Check it out here. Quote: I read quite a bit of your conversation with "NEUS" the one with the browser problem.... i don't want to be that guy. It took five pages of back and forth posts but in the end he was successful. But you know what? Neus learned more about Linux in those three days than I was able to figure out in a month! Installing Java and flash are really simple operations once you learn how. The next time Neus needs to install them, he'll have them both working within 10 minutes. He learned a lot, not because I tried to help him, but because he showed unusual tenacity, patience, and perseverance in making it happen! Agreed. Linux is not for everyone. Only you can decide if the trade off in time spent learning it is, in the end, worth the advantages of knowing and using it. For me, it was. If you ever wanna try RH 9 give me a hollar!
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    Mounting Windows Partition under linux

    To access fat 32 from Linux is fairly simple. Here's how. You'll notice the instructions are for 7.3 but they should work fine. If there is a dependable way to read/write ext3 from Windows, I am not aware of it. Admiral LSD would be the one who could help with the nforce 2 chipset question.
  10. Quote: Maybe Dapper Dan can shed some light on this. I'm afraid this is beyond my area of knowledge, sorry.
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    Messenger

    Quote: ...Hopefully Longhorn will kill off FAT for good.. I think Micrsoft is hoping that Longhorn/Palladium will kill of Linux as well..
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    Installing mandrake 9.2

    Everyone here is going to have a different take on the distros, and some will say their choice is the best, but it really comes down to personal preference. The hard part is, as a new person to Linux, you have to start somewhere. I use RH 9 because you can install apt-get rpm which makes downloading and installing packages very simple. That way, I can do other productive things rather than chasing down dependencies and obsure rpm packages to make things work. Look for the ISOs here. Pick a mirror closest to you. Another route you may want to consider is looking at the cd based distros, a Linux distro that runs entirely from cd. Download the iso, create the cd, set your bios to boot from cdrom and boot it. This way you can check out Linux first before actually installing it to your hard drive, and it will have no effect on your existing XP installation. My personal favorite is Morphix-Gnome 4.1, but here is a good list of others, Knoppix being the most popular..
  13. I'm not sure if I'm understanding this correctly, but the way it should be setup is: The cat 5 cable out of the dsl/cable modem should be plugged into the router "uplink", and both boxes should be plugged into "1" and "2" on the back of the router. Be sure to do this with power off the modem, the router and the boxes. Then power up modem, the router, then box one and two in that order. Linksys is a good choice!
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    Installing mandrake 9.2

    It's not to late to switch to Red Hat 9.. Seriously, if you burned the iso to disk without errors, and your bios is set to boot from cdrom, everything should work swimmingly. Did you check the downloaded iso size with md5sum to make sure it matched? When you explore the contents of the cd's are you seeing files and folders or a single iso image? If all this checks out ok, then my next guess is you somehow got a bad file from the server. Saw this happen just yesterday at LinuxQustions.org.
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    Halo (urgent!)

    Another thing: Just getting someone elses product key will not work anyway. You have to have the exact product key for the cd you have. Another key won't work. Besides, blueworm is right. The game does not now even work under Linux with Winex.. http://www.transgaming.com/gamepage.php?gameid=1003
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    can't copy file

    Quote: I think that this thread may be an infinte one but let's try it anyway. LOL! Agreed! Quote: I know my way around comps, i built my last one by myself, i learn on the 2 previous ones. To tell you the truth installing Mandrake was a walk in the park, not to mention the fact that it is almost free(15$ cdn with the magazine it came with), comparing to Windows. But the comparaisons pretty much end there. You are right in that they cannot be compared. Here again it's like comparing an airplane to a Toyota. I used Mandrake 9.0 for over a year. I cut my teeth on 8.2, (talk about difficult!). I tried Mdk 9.1 and 9.2 and decided, for me, both were a big step down from 9.0. That's why I switched to RH 9. Quote: I knew it would be a little more difficult to run Linux...but not that hard!!!!! I didn't even know if my GForce was linux compatible until i actualy saw drivers for it on NVidia web site, coz the linux compatibility chart wasn't been updated since may 1995(i exagerate a bit here but nontheless) at least the one i checked on a "OH SO GOOD Linux site", what i'm saying here is support is kinda hard to simply just find, and when you're a beginner, support is very very important. Almost any 3 years old with a bit of patience can find answers on Microsoft knowledge database. 3 really good sites for the Linux beginner are this one, LinuxQuestions.org and Justlinux.com. You can find just about every solution to problems at one of these sites. As for Gforce, I run one too and if I want to upgrade the "drivers" all I do is exit Xwindows, pull up a terminal as root and type: nvidia-installer --update [enter] Done. Now how easy is it in Windows..? Quote: I know it's my fault, but i wasn't even able to boot mandrake at the end for something i didn't even know....i was stuck with a kinda dos black screen, no gui would show up, while i was trying just to install my video card drivers. I had enough of the video installing on my hands, i just couldn't manage any error of my part, so little it may be. One of the reasons I swithced to RH, is for this very same thing you are experiencing.. Quote: You must know how it is just to write a command line to say to Linux "open that thing there", this can be a nightmare. You have to have basic knowledge of some sort...not with Windows!!!! Who said you had to know how a refrigerator works to use it???? coz let me tell you a LOT of peoples out there would have sour milk. Anything worth while is going to take time to learn. I used to hate opening a terminal, but now that I've learned how to use it, I love it! Yes Windows is easy, but I for one, Don't buy cars with the hood welded shut. You can't really repair windows if it mucks up on you, mostly you have to just do a complete reinstall and pray at least some of your files are still there, if you didn't get a chance to back them up. Quote: I got a blue screen once in a year and a half, i was trying to empty my recycle bin and windows wasn't fully started. I bought Plus! for windows because i wanted to,little game i there you can't find anywhere, i also bought the service pack 1, even if i'm on dsl it takes too much time, since i format once a year, it's a time saver. There are no perfect operating systems, but some are more perfect than others.. My brother-in-law uses XP and has since it came out. He is a very meticulous computer user and makes sure he has the latest virus definitions and such. Last weeend his system went *poof*!! His wife's brother who is a Windows/computer expert, and runs networking and servers for a major bank, said that somehow a virus "just got through!" That's not good enough for me! Linux is far more secure than Windows, and it feels great to be able to go to bed at night knowing that! Quote: I'm a gamer...when will i be able to play Max Payne 2 on linux??? Medal of Honor??? Doom3??? I'm a gamer too and happily run Team Fortress, Half-Life and all it's mods, Trespasser, Starcraft, and a few others with Winex3, and am very happy with their performance under Linux. Max Payne gets a 5 out of 5 for play from Transgaming .com!
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    Messenger

    Jabird you've come to the right place! There is a wealth of information on this site addressing both of your questions. Welcome!
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    can't copy file

    When I first started with Linux, I can't tell you how many times I gave up and came back to it. Coming from a Windows environment, Linux is, well.. a bitch to learn! There, I've said it! It's like trying to learn how to fly an airplane based on your experience behind the wheel of a Toyota! Both vehicles can take you places, but it is as impractical to take an airplane down to the corner drugstore, as it is to use a Toyota to get you overseas. I guess Xp is around $125.00 now, I don't know. But I do know that with Microsoft it never ends with the purchase of just the operating system. With Windows, you have to buy lots of software, (which comes bundled with other software you may not want or need!), and then when you got everything relatively the way you want it, you constantly have to worry about getting viruses each and every moment, and McAffee and Norton, and running defrag and disk checks and blue screens and "You've performed an illegal operation!" (Yes, I've used XP and it crashed with me on several occasions) et cetera, et cetera ad infinitum ad nauseam... I can certainly understand feeling "It just isn't worth the aggravation", because I felt it then, and occasionally do now. I'm glad I stuck it out though because I now know what Linux is capable of, and I'm liberated from Microsoft..
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    HALO Product Key

    Amen. (If you didn't buy it to begin with..)
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    WineX

    You can find out all you want to know about Winex here...
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    New to Linux AND networking...

    Allen don't ever feel intimidated about asking for help with Linux. There is no other way to find things out except to google and ask! There are many things I don't know about Linux, but this is an area I know a little about. I don't know if your machines will talk to each other in the way you are describing. I have a similar setup to what I think you are trying to do, and this is my setup. My "server" machine is a Dimension 4550, and my "client" machine is an old Pentium 3 which is about 60 feet away. I'm using a Linksys wireless "G" router. the two boxes are wired and the wireless is for my wife's laptop which runs Morphix-Gnome 4.1. How are you trying to get the two machines to "talk" to each other? ftp? telnet? ssh? My boxes communicate via ssh which I think is the all around best way to go. Whichever you choose, you must have the client and server software on both machines if you want two way communication. If ssh you need openssh server and client installed on both machines. Let's say you assign your "server" a local ip of 192.168.1.101, and the other box is 192.168.1.102. from the client, just go: ssh allen(at)192.168.1.101, (of course an @ where (at) is..) and it should establish connection. it will ask for allens' password to that machine. You enter that, and you're in. If you're interested in file transfer, and want to transfer a file from 101 to 102, once in the 101 box, cd to the directory that contains the file you want to transfer and go something like: scp fileneame allen2(at)192.168.1.102:/home/allen2/documents scp is a secure way to transfer, but I usually use [ftp]. There's a real nice ftp file transfer front end called krusader that will bring up files from one box on one side of the screen and files from the other box on the other side. Then you can drag and drop files from one box to the other. I can be more specific about any of this if you see anything I've written here that interest you..
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    Kernel Panic at start with RHL 9

    I don't know how to address either of y'alls problem directly, but maybe by asking a few questions, we might be able to come up with a good course of action. First, I'd be interested to know if you can still boot to windows, or if there is a problem there too. Also, am I understanding correctly that this happened on the very first time you tried to boot Linux, after the first time you tried a RH 9 install?
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    mandrake 9.2 woes

    This is great news! Whew! Actually, I get that same error in RH 9 on the rare occaisions I log in with KDE. I've never found a satisfactory solution for it. Since I use IceWM 99% of the time, it's not a problem. I don't know if it will present any security issues that need addressing. If you find answers about that, please let me know..
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    Halo (urgent!)

    I don't wish to sound harsh or critical, but I personally wouldn't do such a thing as I don't think it's legal. If you have lost your box and don't have access to the number, and have a legitimately purchased copy of the game, there should be a no cd crack on the Internet somewhere...
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    Configuring a Netgear WG311 WLAN on Suse 9.0

    I'm afraid I can't help you with that, sorry. Can anyone else help taeuler figure out how to build this?
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