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Funny you mention the autocomplete, I tried initially to install the card services by typing "dpkg -i pcmcia-cs" yet when I eventually "dpkg -i pcmcia-cs<TAB>" the file I really needed to reference (complete with versioning numbers) popped straight up. What was I thinking! I do use apt-get, but I didn't get very far with that as I had no network connection. Does Apt work the same way as dpkg does if the package is in the directory you working from? I'm Linux only. My desktop uses Fedora Core 3 and the Debian installation was the simplest thing for me to get working with a floppy and pcmcia setup on my brother's old Laptop. However My wife wants our son to uses Dorling Kindersley CD's and I'm feeling the pressure to go out and buy a copy of what I've avoided for so long:-(. Harsh really, Maisy loved scanning her photos with XP and she's never been as happy with the Gimp. I'm open to alternatives for the Dorling Kindersly "we need your computer to have a perfectly set up quicktime and directX setup before we'll teach your children the important stuff about life." poser. Thanks for your help guys. (oh and that's not a new thread, it's just a by the way - I'll do a search for threads that answer it before I shell out for a move away from my bash:-o)

Thanks Danleff, Spot on, I didn't realise that dpkg was able to do such things but I was hoping that such a tool was available. The dependacies were not an issue because I had removed something that deselected pcmcia-cs as a dependancy. I've been using dselect mostly - to pick and choose packages and then it's very easy to remove any unwanted packages and update existing ones. I tend to use apt-get to install single packages because Dselect has got a little confusing since I requested a system-wide update and now tries to install more packages than there are room for. Untill I get that sorted out, I'll just continue using it to remove packages that take up space - more carefully in future. It was great to copy the file across (on a floppy,) type the command you described and straight-away afterwards do a sucessfull ping out. Thanks again. Jon

Hi there, can anyone clear a problem I have. I'm using Debian to power an old Dell XPi pentium and it's be quite reasonable until today when I carelessly removed the pcmcia-cs package and am now without a network. Is there a way of puttin the files on a floppy and installing them in a similar way to that of the "rpm -i [package]" concept? I don't really want to make install as it would probably get real messy (based entirely on personal experience.) and I feel sure that simply downloading a package that already works would be the best course of action. Sorry to ask a dumb Q. I shouldn't be at jobs like this so late at night, (If I can learn that lesson before my grave, I'll be doing well.)

Yes that is a good article, and a healthy reminder. I remember a parallel that existed in web design. One would suggest that another really ought to persuade his company to splash out for Dreamweaver, only to elicit the rejoinder "Why, I'm happy with vi."

Code: LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2none /proc proc defaults 0 0none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0none /var/lib/jack/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0 Hi Fezblog, Did this just now, I made sure that my windows partition was /dev/hda1, checked to make sure that /mnt/windows existed (forgot the first time I rebooted) :x and jsut to be on the safe side I did the editing in Vi, but I guess gedit should do the trick. The code is cut and pasted exactly as it appears - I can't remember if the spacing is significant, I'm not sure that it is. Unfortunately for you, I can't see any difference here between the lines that Outstream posted and mine, I assume you made the changes to /etc/fstab as root. hope you find the cause, coz it's worth it, fedora is pretty reasonable really for your everyday work and more if you are up to fiddling about.

Hi there, I looked at this last week, and I like the concept, It costs upto $/€ 69... in which case I think it comes with a USB key as well. If it does, this represents great value for money, not only are you rewarding the developers for their work, but you'd get what is probably the best 'live' distro so far. The basic principle here is that you can pop the Move CD into the drive of any machine that will boot from CD and connect your USB key and the result will be the same desktop that you had the last time you used it, with your files, email settings, passwords all held on the USB key. There may be some here who will say, "I've done that already", but Mandrake are providing a tool for the non-techie, Linux power in your pocket so to speak. I always carry a copy of Knoppix or Morphix even (especially) when troubleshootin' Win Machines... ...I've just read your post again (to check I'm answering the right question!) and it sounds as if you've bought Mandrake recently, Did you get a USB key with your package - It sounds as though the Move CD was included. Read the Move Data Sheet here - pdf Knoppix can also be configured to work in a similar way, a rough version is to cram it all onto a usb key check out this howto Has anyone seen any other links to make a Move-like CD? i.e. a Live Distro whith some mechanism for retaining your settings and data in a better arrangement than storing them to floppy?

Quote: Just in case, be sure to check the md5 checksums against the ISOs you have downloaded, and be sure that you burn them as images... 8) Worthy point, check out this discussion if you're not sure about about md5 checksums. (There are probably other similar threads you could search for)

Hi Blender Guy, Welcome to the fold. The Athalon processor in it's most basic sense is a replacement for or alternative to the Intel range of processors. So a i386 distro will work for your Machine. That may be the answer you need, however in the current climate of optimisation, you don't have to be tied by backward compatibility. In theory the basic elements of an i386 distro will run on a well specced Intel 386. If you really wanted to. When it comes to installing your chosen distro, there may be an option to choose from a variety of kernels optimised for your processor, if you are in luck. It's often possible that there is already be a kernel optimised for your processor which could offer some speed benefits, better utilisation of the CPU instruction set and even enhanced use of functions that exist on more modern motherboards. With Red-Hat/Fedora RPM's, you would look out for the 'athalon' designator in the kernel name. Bear in mind however that cutting edge kernels may be fast, but equally may have problems with stability and be totally unsuitable for production machines.

I lost something like this a long time ago, but it's so useful to have - thanks. Jon

Hi Danleff, Yes you're right, it does exist, either I typed the wrong things or used an older Knoppix Disk, but I found an OpenMosix disk that used version 3.3 of Knoppix and that had QTparted right there. However, I wasn't able to do much with it that I couldn't do with partition magic and I felt it didn't represent the functionality of parted very well, but that could be me. With parted I managed to find all the partitions in the extended part of the disk apart from the 20Gb FAT32 one. You would think I'd be able to work out where it would be bbased on te space that remains after the other partitions (on the 60Gb drive) are taken into account, but although I cna calculate whereabouts it must be, parted just doesn't seem to be able to find it and as mentioned above I've tried a couple of other packages that purport to do the same thing automaticaly, but they only look at primary partitions, I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet on this one! I feel a bit like Dapper Dan must be feeling at the mo. in this post it seems that aswell as the vital suggestions given at the end one would do well to wait for the clarity that comes from a good night's sleep before embarking upon major data relocation (both low level and directory level.) it happens.

OK so I got the files I needed to scan the partitions, gpart (guess the partitions) and MBRWORK.exe to try the same from a Windows perspective. Both seemed to do their job really well, but I don't seem to be accessing data relating to logical partitions in the extended partition. This may be a limitation with both gpart and MBRWORK, but I was able to find two of my lost logical partitions using parted and guesswork (I haven't run qtparted because I am running a live CD version of knoppix - and cannot add anything into the read-only package tree.) I'm going to keep going, cos I've just got to find the last (biggest,) partition and will try to remember in future to keep my transfer* drive on a primary partition. * for transfers between Dos and Linux obviously.

I'm looking at something similar businesswise. I loved the ease of setting up LTSP, and I have a couple of clients who I have to persuade tommorow to get upgrades of windows, I would much rather offer them Linux. If I were to set them up with LTSP, they could even use an older machine as well, giving them 3 for the price of none. The sticking point of course is Support, I mustn't leave clients dependent on me. I've thought about VNC'ing or X'ing into their boxes for updates, but that's a little risky. I don't think they are particularly willing to learn a new system, although one of them is quite new to computing, their past exposure has been Windows at the office and they've made up their mind that they would like to be able to continue that learning at home - understandable, I wouldn't want to confuse their return to work period with an intro to OpenOffice.org! So in small numbers, the answer seems to be no, but if we can persuade larger companies to upgrade to a LTSP type setup with Crossover office co-installed with OpenOffice.org, the support would be [*] worth the time spent, because others will be able to re-enforce lessons learned, thus making it cheaper to provide. and [*] better accepted due to an overall change of culture within the organisation.[/list:u] I've been playing with the redhat/fedora branch K12LTSP and wonder if it's time for a business branch in the same vein within the same 'fraternity'. Jon P.S. Like your site

I don't know about your software, but can you connect with a 'static' Linux setup? www.Morphix.org has scripts and (pdf link) installation howtos where you can make your own live CD with all the software you need to run. if your modem has linux drivers/software, Morphix should do the trick. Does PPPoA not work for your modem, that should be on every modern live CD?

I had reasonable success with a cheap USB modem (SmartLink SmartUSB56) from ebuyer. In the UK it cost me £15 and had Linux drivers available on the manufacturers web site - took a little time to set up (had to configure, make, make install.) But it worked well, the only reason I don't use it now is the twinkling ADSL modem tucked away under the desk.

Quote: help.. basically all i know how to do is install the programs i dont' knwo how to run them!! Which programs are you referring to? Are you having trouble running wine itself try wine notepad.exe or, no offence is the problem with running Linux programs in general? On another note, don't forget that although Crossover Office is not free, they do offer a trial download unlike WineX which may give you a better feel for Wine itself.