Maillion

I am using Debian (installed through Knoppix), and I tried to burn an ISO using k3b. It said that it could not locate the cdrecord and cdrdao executables. When I used apt-get to install these (cdrtools and cdrdao) it said that they were already installed with the top version. When I looked for them with the superuser file manager, it showed that there was one file called cdrdao that was over 500 K, but it was inacessible, and had no exec icon. There was another called cdrecord that was 133 bytes, but not an executable, either. What should I do? There are no other cd softwares that I am familiar with, like cdroast.) 8)

Originally posted by Philipp: Quote: Originally posted by maillion: Quote: I still cannot edit my own posts. Fixed. Trial Ahhh! That's better! 8)

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Originally posted by axp: Quote: Okay, thanks for your input. I think that I will stay with Mandrake for the moment. At the moment, i can not really do much in shell. I can basically only list files and search for files. One thing though, in Mandrake 9.1, how do you make it so that my ethernat card has a static IP address? Because currently, it dynamically assigns itself one, but it takes a VERY long time!! How do i assign a static IP? Sorry, but your isp assigns your ip address, unless you have your own domain and server...

I still cannot edit my own posts. This is the error I get: "Error: Can't open template forum_error_notallowed" Please help. :x

Originally posted by axp: Quote: Hi, Ive currently got Mandrake installed on my computer, but I also have a copy of Fedora. The reason I didnt install Fedora is because the installation process failed when it tries to start X windows(why does this happen?). So i would have had to install it in text mode. And as I am a newbie to Linux, i was not very confident about doing so. So I installed Mandrake 9.1 instead. I was just wondering, because Fedora is newer than Mandrake 9.1, should i spend the time to install Fedora where currently Mandrake is? Actually, I'm quite happy with Mandrake as it is, i probably wont install Fedora...But whats the difference between them anyway? Thanks The failure is usually because X has no idea of what video system you have, or it thinks you video system is something it is not. There may be other problems, but that is what I see most often as the cause. Both Mandrake and Fedora are based upon Red Hat, Mandrake has diverged from its ancestor a bit more than Fedora. Fedora hasn't existed quite as long as Mandrake has, I'd guess, because Fedora is what Red Hat has helped set up in the Oen Source arena as its own replacement when it decided to go fully commecial, into the 'enterprise' arena. I consider Mandrake to be more user friendly, and I have had little luck with either Red Hat or Fedora, perhaps because of my hardware, also. My Fedora installs also failed, but at different points, except for the first. If I were you, and Mandrake 9.1 were running, I'd stick with it for a while, at least until you find out something better. I started with Mandrake myself, when my first attempts at Debian died on me. (I didn't know anythingabout Linux at the time, except how to get a command line directory listing). I've since learned that it is easy to try out a distro. Do you want to try out Debian? then get Knoppix, Morpheus, or Gnoppix. Each of these is a 'LiveCD', which is designed to run entirely from a CD (with the help of a RAMdisk). They are all based upon Debian, and neither of the two I've tried have diverged a lot from their ancestor. There are several others out there, based on other known distros. Mandrake has one, as well as SUSE and Slackware. There may be some I have forgotten, and there may be new ones since the last time I looked. These will allow you to try out other distros without messing around with your present operating system(s). If you haven't already, try text-only mode, and try out the command line. You can do it in a terminal window, but it feels different if you have no GUI to click on at the border of the window. Mandrake, using either KDE or Gnome will give you all the graphic interface options you can ever use. Have fun! 8) 8)

Originally posted by Philipp: Quote: Originally posted by maillion: Quote: It won't allow me to edit my post! "Not allowed" error! This is bad! really bad! (In addition, the "Include my profile signature" is not fixed, it needs to be turned on for each post... Is this an older post? There is an edit limit of 2 hours. Originally posted by maillion: Quote: In addition, the "Include my profile signature" is not fixed, it needs to be turned on for each post... Added to my do list. Should be done in the next 2 days Originally posted by maillion: Quote: Will the "Quick Code" icon allow us to add the name of the poster who is quoted? :x No, you need to click on the quote with reply icon () to do this. No, as usual, the moment I could see my message, I saw a typo, and tried to fix it - it told me I was not allowed. Thanks for the explanation and examples of the edit buttons. there are are some that look cool! 8)

Did you notice that in one of my posts above that the icons I was speaking of were not there, just the text explanations? I wanted to quote text from several other posts, so I copied and pasted, using the "Quote" icon in the "Quick Code" icon bar to differentiate them. The icons, though highlighted, did not get pasted in! (Will the "Quick Code" icon allow us to add the name of the poster who is quoted? :x

It won't allow me to edit my post! "Not allowed" error! This is bad! really bad! (In addition, the "Include my profile signature" is not fixed, it needs to be turned on for each post...

Quote: This is way different in the new forums. There is now a "current topics" option which will display the last 10 topics of each single forum. The folder for each topic is marked in 4 different colors, depend on the age of each post: Posts of the last 6 hours Posts of the last 7-12 hours Posts of the last 12-24 hours 24 hours+ This was necessary because the new forum is using a caching system like the rest of the website. There needs to be something at the bottom or top of the forum index window to explain these. Quote: Very nice, thank you! I agree with jimf43, the edit..icons need an identifier to clue newer users as to what they are. I had to look at the bottom of my browser screen to id them. Most suers will not get this. That is true! The status line works, sort of, but not all of the new stuff can be understood from there. What is "sub text"? What is "tt text"? What is "s text"? I know what a "marquee" is in some programs, but what is it here? And so forth. I, and probably many others do not use all these functions often, but some of them are used occasionally. Without something to identify them on the edit page, the occasional ones will be forgotten, especially since the status line info is unclear on a lot of them... Quote: View the profile Mark this topic as solution (topic starter only) Reply with quote to this post Edit this post Delete this post (admin only) These icons 'bleed' into the background, making some of them difficult to differentiate from one another, leaving only the left-to-right position to identify them, and their meaning is unknown, unless you jump to the post I coppied the above from, or the faq to be produced. (It would be nice if the delete function was available to the post's 'owner' as well as 'admin'. 8)

Quote: how can i change red hat linux icons and mouse cursors??? Look here: http://kde-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=new&page=0 They have all kinds of stuff for changing the KDE look and feel, including icons. The site gives instructions on how to use everything I've tried so far. I haven't checked on icons, just themes and logos so far. If you want to change a desktop icon, you can right click on the icon, choose "properties" and click on the icon displayed in the dialog that appears. The next dialog will give you the chance to 'Browse' or choose from the "system' icons. I don't think there is a way to change all of them at once, except for the KDE specific icons. 8)

Quote: If you can do the Debian install, and get it up and running the first time through I will kneel before you and worship you as a Guru. Hey, Dapper! My first effort to install via the net install worked perfectly, but my probs with XP screwed it up, so I did it again, and it didn't work the next time, or the third try, so I went back to a Knoppix install, but I did get one, and only one that was up and running from a 'standard' install... 8)

Quote: I need to install a Debian sid (unstable) at my home PC where i only have ISDN internet connection. So I'm thinking about downloading it to DVD at work where i have a faster internet connection. I don't want CD .isos as i really hate playing DJ with data-cds As I already have an older sid snapshot on cd i'd like to use jigdo to create the DVD image (so i can re-use the packages which didn't change). But i don't get a complete image...i tried it several times with different .jigdo/.template files but there are always 50-100 packages 'missing' - in fact there are already newer versions of these packages available on the servers, but the old ones are gone so i can't complete my download... If anyone has a solution except downloading the full .iso images please let me know. If I were you, I'd download the single net install iso, and use it to install the remainder from the net. 8)

I'd more likely be more like a tyoe 10, but I'm really happy that one person put me in company with Danleff and Dapper! (Thanks for the ego boost!) 8)

Quote: Hi guys I currently have a PC running Windows XP Home. I have the hard drive split into 2 (120GB - 80GB C drive and 40GB D). I have windows installed on C and documents (mp3s and uni work) on D. I want to move the documents onto C, and then install Mandrake 10 onto D. How easy is this? I don't want to do any damage to the Windows installation, and when finished I want to be able to easily boot either installation. Thanks Jon Is any part of the Windows stuff on D: ? Are there any programs installed on D: ? If there is nothing there but data that you created, then you should have no problem. Be sure to backup as much as you can before starting. 8)

Quote: I'm fairly certain there is. Hold on and I'll do a quick Google... http://linux.oldcrank.com/tips/mp3ogg/ There are many more out there, but this looks to be the easiest way... I checked it out. It looks good, and it's a script, (easier to modify, if needed) it won't do me much good - I have 0 (zero) mp3's, but maybe it will help others like thefrog... 8)

Quote: Are you using Xmms? The default player for RH 9 is actually Xmms, but there are others. When I used RH 9, I got the same error. All I did was download and install the Xmms-mp3 plugin and everything worked normally. The reason the Linux distros are backing off of mp3 support on their players has to do with, (as always) patents and copyrights. You may want to consider using .ogg in the future which is the open source equivalent of mp3. To my very trained ears, ogg sounds a little better than mp3 when sampled at similar rates. Dapper, I don't use mp3's, but I've read questions similar to this several times now. Is there any program that can convert mp3 format to ogg? If so, that might solve some problems... ;(

I was considering going up to kernel 2.6, so that was the main reason I was thinking of Mandrake 10. I am still considering the effort of trying to upgrade from whatever kernel I have to 2.6, but I'm kind of wondering how. I think the one I've got now is 2.2, because on my last Knoppix install, all I did was a dist-upgrade, and I think that just puts in all the woody packages. (If I'm wrong, let me know!) I really don't care what distro I have these days. I'm doing well with Debian and apt (haven't reinstalled Synaptic yet), so I'm also kind of waiting for that free CD for Knoppix version 3.4... 8)

To Danleff and Dapper Dan, as well as anyone else who has installed Mandrake 10. When I first decided to start in with Linux, I spent a couple of weeks trolling these Linux related boards. Not having installed Linux, and having very little experience at all, I had few questions, I was looking for problems that others had. I eventually decided on Debian, because it was the one that I found had the fewest problems mentioned. I downloaded it three times before giving up because I couldn't install it, most likely because I had no idea about md5. I started going through distros, Red Hat 9.0, then Mandrake 9.0. Mandrake installed perfectly, so I just stopped at that point. When I heard of Morphix and Knoppix, I decided to check them out. When I discovered that they were based on Debian, I was excited! I installed Morphix to my hard drive, used it for a while, then tried the same with Knoppix. I liked the results with Knoppix better than with Morphix, so that is where I am now. What I would like to know, is, once you have checked out Mandrake 10, how do you think it stacks up against Debian? How is the installation program? Is it as good as or better than the one for 9.0? (I fear it a little, because of the negative experiences I had with both 9.1 and 9.2.) How well does the upgrade progs work? are they as good as apt-get? Is there any diference, good or bad, with RPM? In short would it make my system as good as, or better than Debian. (I am not a distro fanatic, just a Linux one.) Thanks! 8)

Quote: thanks Maillion i forgot to mention this it detects ip during boot up like there is this long long network module that spews out subnet gateway ip everything port address but when i enter the command to look through it again its gone so i think it knows my network card is there but im doing something wrong Well, I wish I could help, but in network stuff, I'm lost... 8)

Quote: I don't know. Cygwin is too confusing for me.. I can't find it on the site, but I thought maybe that would work... 8)

Quote: I may be wrong, but I can't see how it would be possible. When you boot your computer, it will be controlled by either one OS or the other. I don't believe it is possible to run both operating systems on the same machine simultaneously. In my view running a Suse server on a different box and having it act as a firewall would be a more practical solution. If I'm completely wrong about this, I would love to hear anyone explain how it could be done the way you are asking though.. Dapper, is there a firewall available for Cygwin? ;(

Quote: Cool. I'd love to have a sticker to attach to my laptop! Also a good looking version of Knoppix to have instead of my AT&T cd-r. http://www.loadux.com/freeservers.html There you go! I'm doing it 'cause I can get the next version w/o downloading, verifying then burning. Not hard, just a bit time consuming. I hope the sticker is just a Linux one. I'd like to have it on my box, if possible in the little square box where the manufacturer's logo would be. (Maybe I can design one with my name on it?) 8)

Quote: under xp it automaticlly detects under linux nothing i have comcast cable and im unfamiliar with dhcp and no knoppix based distros will work on this system just evil e and redhat i cant grab the right ip for linux itll work under xp but not redhat OK, I use comcast as well. I'm afraid I'm not sure how to get dhcp to start under Red Hat. It started during my Debian install. Anyone else out there who can tell him how to start it, or manually set up his ip and other 'net stuff? 8)

Quote: dont you have to be online for that and i tried that from windows and cant figure out how to get it to work and redhat said i needed to be connected and i dont have dialup Have you tried dhcp? Knoppix used that to set up my cable modem. I don't know how to initiate it after installing Linux. Do you have a cable modem? Or dsl? If cable modem do you have a static ip address? 8)