LinuxCrusader

Quote: Strange, I have been a Windows user for the last 10 years, and haven't had these issues. Must be the user. This is what most security professionals will usually say also that it is usually a user mistake that will get your windows boxes infected by viruses, spyware, or malware. I have been a windows user for quite sometime also and never had a problem such as the ones described above but I think probably because we are most of the time very aware of the security risks involved. When I took my first hacking class back in college we experimented in trying to hack different OSs including RH as one of them, and it was always the case that the teams with windows boxes were always the ones who wouldn't take that long to break their boxes. In any case, I think that the ordinary users just love to click left and right whenever they receive anything by email or go anywhere online and if I wasn't computer-educated I probably would just do the same thing. This has just been my experience, so I agree with Dapper Dan and OldSpiceAP that it seems as though M$ have usually been reactive instead of proactive to every case, well until recently, and that's a maybe.

I guess you guys haven't ready my last reply on the other thread: http://www.linuxcompatible.org/thread30687-1.html So I can't try your suggestions anymore on this fstab issue. Thank you for the replies though.

So where do I start: 1. Knoppix wouldn't let me install any kind of package because of the same error that I previously posted before that it is trying to upgrade frozen-bubble-data. 2. I ran dpkg -s frozen-bubble. Results: It said it was ok or installed. I ran dpkg -s frozen-bubble-data. Results: that it was half installed or broken (something like that). 3. I couldn't installed synaptics or reinstall dpkg because of the same reason I already stated before. (Oh yeah, I also rebooted a couple of times) 4. I ran fsck and this is where the d-day begin. It stated that there were erros, a million of unconnected inodes point to the wrong direction and therefore they needed to be deleted and fixed. Stuff like that...go figure. Too many of them errors to read so I kept saying, "yeah...sure fix it!" When I get to the end, it saids I need to reboot my computer. I reboot and guess what. KERNEL Panic!!! I was like no problem. I have two more version of Kernels, but no luck. All of them died in d-day. So what's next? I'm moving on...I had it with knoppix. What's a good distro out there to mess with now. I have read Reformats thread on the battle of distros but I don't know what to say, except that I sympathize with him. I feel like if these are the 1980's us battling with an OS that we really like and that we know that it is going to be huge one day but which also needs to really be improved in many other ways. Hopefully soon the it'll catch up with our current time. Maybe one day when we are old we'll look back and tell ourselves..."remember those days?" But guess what? I'm broadcasting right now from a Live CD knoppix. I have Windoze on my other 80Gig HD, but it's depressing to even boo it up. I tried FC3 and it is just unstable. LM 10.0...it was rock solid in my computer, but 10.1 I'm not sure if it was the download that must have been corrupted or the the OS because just as I read in some threads I was able to install it, but on reboot there was no interface to log in just a blue background with the mandrake star...very funny. Anyways, I need a good distro.

Quote: 1. is it just frozen bubble that chokes? yest, technically it is just frozen-bubble that is choking. However, if I'm trying to install or upgrade any package, it is trying to upgrade frozen-bubble-data and of course this is where I get the error. Corruption on the HD, I hope not man but I'll try the options you've suggested and the fstab as soon as I get home from work. I was really starting to like Knoppix with the way I have it currenly customized and with the ability to easily install any package I want. I'll keep you posted. Thanks.

Thanks for trying Dapper Dan. Yeah it is very strange. It won't let me upgrade or install any package just because of this error. Thanks again, LC

For moment I thought it was working there, but I got the same error again after I ran apt-get clean. I also tried apt-get autoclean and no luck removing or installing frozen-bubble-data. I also removed manually any files or folders that pertained to frozen-bubble and tried to install it again with apt-get and same kind of error.

So does anybody know where to put the "nofstab"?

I tried removing it but I keep getting the same kind of error. Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: frozen-bubble-data The following held packages will be changed: frozen-bubble-data 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6 not upgraded. 10 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 5747kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y dpkg: error processing frozen-bubble-data (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: frozen-bubble-data E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I share the same experience with you Clutch. At my work, we also have windows 2003 server and during the first weeks when we upgraded and mess with Win2003 I had the same thought as you did that this OS seemed to be secured and windows seemed to have done their homework nicely. I was quite impressed I must say, but I also like what Dapper Dan said Quote: just because you have a map of the layout of the security of Fort Knox doesn't mean you will be able to easily breach its security . I'm a big fan of Linux just as you guys are and for some reason somehow I think that Linux has so much more potential. Time will tell I guess and I think what's stopping Linux from taking over is the defragmentation of the different distros, the concept that it is not so user friendly or Pnp as someone metioned here, and simply that it is just a different beast for the regular windows-psychologically-conditioned users. Personally I like the different flavors that Linux has to offer. Hopefully as time goes by Linux users will get more noticed and the big gaming, software, hardware, and etc. corporations will also include Linux as one of their main elements needed to develop their own products.

Quote: HolgerH Junior Member Posts: 4 Joined: 2004-12-27 Member No.: 52660 Hi egorgry, from the point on when you have "nofstab" as a boot parameter, Knoppix will not apply any automatisms on the fstab - it'll keep your fstab as it is then. Any changes from before will stay so you can leave what Knoppix added or change it as well - you're on your own now. In plain words, if you want to use any specific directory, you have to ensure it exists ... (mkdir blablabla) But this can be done whenever you want, after you booted Knoppix with "nofstab" CU Sorry to bring this thread back again, but I gave a break on messing wth this. HolderH, (or if anybody knows) I've been trying to add the "nofstab" into my bootloader but I keep getting an error that it is an unrecognized token. I'm trying to add it into Lilo. Is this right? Do I added just anywhere in Lilo.conf?

How do I make my digital camera to be automatically loaded, detected, or a program to open it up when I plug into a USB plug in my computer? I'm using Knoppix 3.7 and I remember that with Mandrake and fedora core 3 it would be automatic detected and bring a proman to donwload my pics. I'm able to see that it is detected I think if I go through "USB viewer" program, but it just tells me info. I already installed digikam, gphoto, imagemagick, and gtkam to see if this program will detect my camera, but I have had no luck. I also have an external HD that used be detected under Fedora C3 as soon as I would turn it on...How can I make USB detection automatic? btw, my digital cameria is an Olympus S400.

I'm sure other people my have already suggested this, but try a diferent wireless card then. Borrow one from a friend. Knoppix is usually pretty good about this wireless cards, so it doesn't work again...then it could be the network. What kind of network is it again? Your own wireless access point or a public one? Or you can also try in a place where you know wireless service is offer, like in a public university, and if it works it will detect it but it may not let you get on theur network since sometimes they restrict connections according to the wireless card mac address. But at least you'll know that the card is working. I'm not sure how the do it, but it should be easy to get on someone else's wireless network. Good luck...don't give up.

Quote: Posted - 2005-01-07 19:17:01 ReFoRMaT Member Posts: 58 Joined: 2004-10-17 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 44266 Try this. Download it, burn it and boot the machine with it. Boots in about 30 seconds (depending on hardware of course). No install to the harddrive. Played lots of different files for me and has a dvd player. I am using it till I settle on a distro to use fulltime and get mplayer installed. http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html Well, I tried geexbox. I tell you what...it seems to a pretty cool OS, but there was a problem when boot it up in my computer. The screen on my computer kept flickering. I could see the main menu and loaded up a dvd to see if I would get past that flickering. I could see the movie but, of course, my screen was..how do I describe it...scribbish and flickering. Any ideas what was happenning? I used GeeXboX 0.98.5 - English Version. --------------------- Pentium 4, 2.4Ghz 768 Ram Duel 80Gb HD

I guess another thing that I forgot to ask is if since there might be malware and spyware for linux, then are there any tools out there that we might need to get rid of this little cribs. Some of us might do live and sensitive transactions online that we wouldn't want little 15 year joel out there phishing and obtaining these important imformation. Linux is known for security, but there are many posts online that advocate the idea that one linux becomes on the main stream OS, which I think it already is, that there will major security holes found. But of course as well all know Linux has by far fewer bugs and more secure that M$. Here's an interesting article that I read http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,66022,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5. Egorgry mentioned to use chkrootkit as one tool to check for infected files as I just ran and results given are a list of files not infected, but what other tools are out there?

I also used to another distro..Mandrake, I really loved it, but my last download was corrupted of the last release and I didn't want to bother downloading again, so I tried Knoppix 3.7 since it is only one CD and I love it now. Forgive me for asking, but I'm not sure if somebody has already posted this since I didn't want to read through the whole thread, but knoppix comes with a GUI which will let you configure your wireless card. It is under the menu Knoppix -> Network/Internet -> Wavelan Configuration. If you don't see this menu, you can probably get it and install it through the Kpackage manager or through klix as well. One of my friends had a sony vaio laptop, 700mhz, and I installed and customized knoppix 3.7 in it and the last thing I did for him was to congure his wireless card through the Wavelan configuration GUI and pretty much went accepted the default settings and parameters and it was simple as that. Wireless card was working.

Another idea that you may want to try out to see if your Window$ partitions are still there or OK is to pop in some live CDs into your CDRom. If you are not familiar with Live CDs, they are CDs that have a Linux OS in them, thus it is like having an OS in a CD from which the computer will run off of. The good thing about these live CDs is that they do not modified any of your data on your hard drive. You could try knoppix or Morphix, which I remember Dapper Dan recommded to me when I first came into this forum. These live CDs will load up your windows partitions automatically onto the desktop and you could see if your data is still intact, and you can always of course the Linux off of these Live CDs onto your Hard drive if you wish too. Mandrake was my favorite one, but I think the last release that I downloaded was corrupted and I didn't want to download all of the three CDs again so I went with Knoppix, which I definitely like.

Quote: HolgerH Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: 2004-12-27 Member No.: 52660 Hi LinuxCrusader, put a "nofstab" as kernel option into your bootloader config and the automagically handling of fstab will go. (search the web for -> Knoppix -> cheatcodes) HolgerH Thank you HolgerH. That sounds more like it because I added the line that "egorgry" suggested but it wouldn't mount the partition where I wanted to be mounted. I could see that the line was still the in the fstab when I restarted my PC. I'll try this and look more into the knoppix cheatcodes. Thank you and I'll let you guys know the results.

Quote: I'm not completely familiar with the entire knoppix distro, but generally isn't it a live cd(aka, runs off cd, and memory, not installed). If you have installed it and you have infact DELETED the lines of what you dont' want mounted from /etc/fstab I dont' know what to tell you, except maybe there is an option to turn off auto detect in the knoppix boot up. Sorry can't be more of a help, but if it is the live cd version you are running, you cannot save changes I believe without making a floppy with the saved changes or writing it to disk(I think you can do that in knoppix, I believe I read of that somewhere). Daum I'm not running it off of the live CD. Everything is runing cool installed in my HD. Thanks anyways...I'll keep looking.

It's funny. This buzzing sound does it for only one specific movie under MPlayer. I tested out other movies and MPlayer plays perfectly fine. I guess I can live with that. The thing I don't like about is that it goes right into playing the dvd and doesn't give the screen options where you can choose features, languages, etc.

I've tried many of the combinations there in the audio and demuxers tab and I can't still get the right sound. Actually now there's not even a sound and I already defaulted to the way it was, which was making the buzzing sound. Any more ideas, please help.

I need help. I'm using Linux Mandrake 10 Official. Does anybody know how to switch your keyboard layout, or rather be able to switch from alphabet characters to Japanese characters. I want to be able to type nonalphabet characters with my keyboard on my computer. I tried doing it from configure your desktop > keyboard layout (Index tab) > Layout Tab; I enable keyboard layouts and add a layout from the available layouts, then I click on the Xkb Options tab and enable Xkb options and click apply. Then on the panel (taskbar) I switch from US to Japanese, and when I tried to type some characters, I still cannot type any Japanese characters. Please help Thank you in advance.

Has anybody being able to use KMLDonkey on Mandrake 10ce? I installed it, but I can't log in to any server, or I does anybody what servers they have out there for this? Has anybody being able to run a P2P on Linux and which one? Please help...Thanx in advance!

I'm trying to back up one my dvds with K3b 'cause it's getting all scratched up, so when I was doing it through k3b (using the copy dvds function) it shows that this dvd is 7gigs, so of course I can't put it in a 4.7gig dvd+R...but I was wondering if anyone knows how to back up or copy the exact copy into on of these blank dvds, or do people usually use two blank ones. Please someone post suggestions in how to rip dvds with K3b or other suggestions as well.

Actually, just for the record, I downloaded dvdshrink (free software) on Win$ which encodes the whole dvd and then I use K3b to put in just one dvd-r, quality is good also. I know that this is not the most effective way, but I'm sure that there's got to be a free encoder out there for Linux as well, and if anyone knows...please let us know.