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first you must install bind (that's the nameserver-daemon) on the computer that will act as nameserver later (you could put the nameserver on the computer that already has the dhcp-server running) you can install it with urpmi bind-9.3.1 (the version actually in mandriva 2006) in Mandriva Control Center/System/Services check if the service named is set to start at bootup the following setup is assuming your network has 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 as IP-range, your nameserver is called BigBoss with 192.168.1.10 as IP-Adress, your client-computer is called Client with 192.168.1.20 as IP-Adress and your domain will be called mydomain.home you will have to edit the file /etc/named.conf first, there you must define your zones: controls { inet 127.0.0.1 port 953 }; options { directory "/var/named"; pid-file "/var/named/named.pid"; allow-query { any; }; allow-transfer { any; }; }; zone "localhost" { type master; file "zone/db.localhost"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "zone/db.127.0.0.1"; }; zone "." { type hint; file "zone/root.hints"; }; zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "zone/db.1.168.192.hosts"; forwarders { }; }; zone "mydomain.home" { type master; file "zone/db.mydomain.home.hosts"; forwarders { }; }; then you need 4 zone files, they must be in /var/named/zone (there should be already a file with the name root.hints in there): they are for the forward and reverse lookups these should be the following four files: db.1.168.192.hosts $TTL 3D @ IN SOA BigBoss.mydomain.home. BigBoss.mydomain.home. ( 20051123; Serial 10800 ; Refresh 3600 ; Retry 604800; Expire 86400); Minimum TTL NS BigBoss.mydomain.home. 10 IN PTR BigBoss.mydomain.home. 20 IN PTR Client.mydomain.home. db.127.0.0.1 $TTL 3D @ IN SOA mydomain.home. root.mydomain.home. ( 20051120; Serial 28800 ; Refresh 7200 ; Retry 604800; Expire 86400); Minimum TTL NS BigBoss.mydomain.home. localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 db.localhost $TTL 3D @ IN SOA BigBoss.mydomain.home. root.BigBoss.mydomain.home. ( 20051120; Serial 8H; Refresh 2H; Retry 4W; Expire 1D); Minimum TTL NS BigBoss.mydomain.home. 1 IN PTR localhost. db.mydomain.home.hosts $TTL 3D @ IN SOA BigBoss.mydomain.home. root.BigBoss.mydomain.home. ( 20051123; Serial 8H ; Refresh 2H ; Retry 4W; Expire 1D); Minimum TTL IN NS BigBoss.mydomain.home. localhost A 127.0.0.1 dnsmaster IN CNAME BigBoss.mydomain.home. BigBoss.mydomain.home. IN A 192.168.1.10 Client.mydomain.home. IN A 192.168.1.20 this is basically a static setup, if you want a more dynamic you could use dynamic dns-updates, but that means that you have to reconfigure your dhcp-server too I hope there are no typos or omissions, since I took the parts from my somewhat more complex setup

exactly, since it seems they didn't even consider the kernel-vulnerabilities lately and what, if a distribution doesn't ship a package ?, will it be counted then ? (no package means no updates)

all the sounds are in /usr/share/sounds, you could just exchange the files there with your own, other way would be to open KDE Control Center (type kcontrol in a console) and go to sounds and change them and you are right kde-apps use kde-sounds even if they are used within gnome (I personally just like the crashing glass sound though; while I dont like crashing applications :P )

if you want to unpack it directly from the disk, you have to change to the directory where you want it to be unpacked and from there type the commands in your case it should be: cd /etc/eciadsl (to change to the directory where you want the archive to be unpacked) tar -xf /mnt/floppy/archive_name (for actually unpacking the archive) assuming your floppy is mounted on /mnt/floppy I omitted the v option since it always gave me an error-message when I tried unpacking an archive this way your soundcard seems to use an ensoniq-chip so you could try either snd-ens1370 or snd-ens1371 (sadly mandriva has no option to test your soundcard inside the configuration dialog after you selected the driver, so it's a bit hit-and-miss)

is the sound card isa or pci ? if it is isa chances are it won't get recognized automatically, but there is a tool for that (sorry don't know the name yet) uups usb-modems are still a bit painfull to use on linux for your tar problem: better copy the file into your home directory and then untar it, the command should be tar -xvf (the -j option is for creating tar.bz2 archives, it is not needed to unpack them) and you have to use the full path to your file

if you just want to rename the partition names you can use the label command e. g. fedora uses disklabels instead of the device names for its partitions don't know the exact syntax yet, sorry if you want to rename the devices themselves in /dev I don't know if this is possible, the numbers are not just for fun, but to distinguish the type of partition, on an ide-drive hd(x)1 to hd(x)4 are primary partitions and hd(x)5 to hd(x)n are logical partitions, e. g. /dev/hda1 is the first (primary) partition on your first ide drive, therefore I'm not sure if it is wise to mess with those device names

mouse: is it really a serial mouse ? I found a Logitech Mouse-Driver for serial mice listed in the driver-selection list (mysteriously it is located under PS/2) :huh: did your mouse work during installation ? maybe just try the generic mouse driver in the list I have several logitech mice, but all were detected automatically and work (all are usb-mice though) fhis is my logitech mx610 as it is configured in /etc/X11/x.org.conf by mandriva 2006 on my notebook: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection but it is a wireless mouse connected through USB maybe the following works (assuming it is the only mouse on your system and it has a mousewheel): Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection you have to restart your X-Server (Graphical environment) after editing the x.org.conf file (can be done by ctrl-alt-backspace) modem: what type of modem is it, internal or external ? since most internal modems and the modems on laptops are softmodems (driver-controlled, no own modem-controller) you might have problems if it is one of those internal ones sound: what type is your sound-card ? btw some information about the hardware of your system could help further

some things got better with hot-swapping: after I installed the package udev-tools I get at least a half-working hot-swap; when I pull out the media-bay the system freezes, but when I put it back in the system responds again, before it would just freeze and could only be reawakened by a reset one thing still remains mysterious: after that gnome thinks I have a cd-burner but the dvd-drive still works ok this lasts until I either run harddrake or reboot

beware that a messed up system is a good excuse to sit hours in front of your comp, playing around with different configurations instead of doing serious work :D

if you don't use a modem dialup-connection you might never need it I have a ltmodem in my notebook, but since I'm on dsl I never use it, so I don't bother about configuring it I once had it working (there were rpms for it for elder mandrake-versions) and it did not pose any problems, it just worked basically these win-modems are dumb, they have no own modem-controller but need the cpu (and a driver) for processing, so in the end they put some load on your cpu, but not that much that you really need to worry about, and if the driver is written without too many faults there is no problem for the system, but if you don't use it, there's no real need to get it working

yes, even 2 should suffice, just make sure that mandi (the firewall) is active when you connect to the internet and you'll be fine, testing on www.pcflank.com showed all my ports as stealthed, so nothing to worry if you are running server-programs from time-to-time you should consider using different network profiles (e. g. an internet profile and a server profile)

paranoid is a bit high if you're not using your system as a server (higher and paranoid are indeed intended for use on servers), it is better to use a lower basic security setting and set those things that you need up to a higher level, basically high is enough for a normal workstation, from there you can set some additional permissions with drakperm, so you can tailor the system much more to your needs (it is easier to add some bricks to a wall than to tear holes in it)

you might get this to work by using the xinerama-extention (didn't mandriva ask you if you want to do this when you initially configured your graphic system ?) maybe you might need to reconfigure your graphics-setup via MCC with both Monitors attached if it asks if you want to use xinerama say yes (beware that you might have no Hardware-3D-Acceleration with xinerama enabled) sorry, but I don't know the exact entries needed for the x.org.conf at the moment

was just wondering, since rage 6 was the initial name for the radeon-chips if the rage driver works, everything should be ok, so no need to change anything btw: if you want to know if direct rendering (aka hardware-3d-acceleration) is working then type in a console as root: glxinfo | grep renderer if the output is something like: OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Rage128 Pro AGP 2x x86 Hardware-3D-Acceleration is working otherwise you get something like: OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX indirect

since it is a notebook, it is surely a win-modem, which might give you some troubles, since there may be no drivers for them if it is a ltmodem (lucent/agere), there are drivers for them somewhere on the net, but you might have to install them by hand, if you're using a boxed-edition of mandriva, there should be some win-modem-drivers included, but I don't know for which models at the moment

seems to be a notebook ? are you sure that it is a rage and not a radeon ? if it is a rage just use the rage driver if it is a radeon use either the radeon or radeon (fglrx) from the list you can try the drivers if you are not sure, since mandi lets you test them during installation, if you get the test-image (the colourfull one) everything's ok, maybe you might have no hardware-3D, but that's mostly only of concern if you want to play games or absolutely need a 3D-Screensaver

there is deborphan too, which searches your system for unneeded libraries and stuff and removes them if you wish (afaik it is available for most deb-based systems) so no need for pacman :D for Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu: basically they are all Ubuntu, they just use different desktop environments (where is e(nlightenment17)buntu ? , would like it !) you can install all these DEs on one system, so you can have ubuntu with KDE, Gnome and XFCE at the same time (enlightenment is there too) I've been running (K)ubuntu 6.06 on my Notebook and I like it very much, I wasn't impressed that much with 5.10 but 6.06 is definitely very nice If you want to use Kubuntu do yourself a favour: don't use adept but install synaptic, which is much better some things that I don't like so much with ubuntu: there is no obvious way if you have a firewall on your system or not, iptables is onboard, yes and it works, but at first there is not even a minimal config-tool, second there is no gui-tool for managing pppoe/internet-connections, these are not big issues for an experienced user, but a novice is left guessing

at least there is a --last option with the rpm command which shows the latest installed packages

maybe the noapic or nolapic options help too (can be found in system-startup, too), this was the only chance to get an omnibook 6100 to shutdown properly for some time with late 2.4-kernels

Yes this is indeed more a general problem, not only specific to mandriva, I always do a clean base-installation with only the absolutely needed packages included and run "rpm -qa > rpmlist.txt" after, so I have at least a list of all the packages of my base-system and whenever I install something new I can compare the packagelist and know which new packages are on my system to be honest, so far mandriva gave me a far better experience at installing a clean base-system without unneeded clutter than Suse or fedora, but maybe I just know the packages better here

for a beginner I believe it is easier to take the task-oriented route, even I don't always know all the package-names, and I think I'm fairly experienced with linux one thing that mandriva misses is a way to check if there are packages that are not needed (e. g. libraries without any dependencies, and if there is a way, as always they don't tell you :D )

yes mcc is doubling other tools, but someone not familiar with linux surely will apreciate the fact that there is a central configuration system and while mcc is far from perfect it does its job at the moment, has anybody of you really used it lately ? e. g. the drakwizards work just very good at the moment , I never had an easier DNS-Server-setup than on mandriva 2006 (ok it was just the basic setup, to get ddns-updates work I had to hack the config-files, but I'm still impressed) one big problem with mandriva is indeed, they don't advertise their strong points like urpmi, msec etc. and their partition manager is indeed fine, you can even put up a software-raid and lvm at installation-time (shame is, you just have to find it yourself, they don't tell you)

I use gksu to open nautilus from my administrator-users desktop, it's no big deal, install gksu (it's in the contribs-section afaik) and put a desktop or menu-entry somewhere with [gksu nautilus], you can even start konqueror filemanager from there with [gksu "konqueror -profile filemanagement"], there is an app called gksuexec which is part of the gksu-package, it will open a dialog, that asks you what program you want to be started and under which user it should run

I'm using it too, because some addons I use only work on 1.5-generation firefoxes, and the installation is really easy, just unpack it somewhere

the problem with the powernow-deamon is, that it is somewhat ill-named, it is working on all cpus with frequency-scaling capability, so the name is somewhat misleading, btw ubuntu and mandriva 2007 use powernowd now by default for frequency-scaling and yes the problem seems to be kernel-related, it's just the question if it's a mandrake-specific kernel-patch or just the newer generation of the ubuntu-kernel