kilimanjaro

I have an extra 40 gig hard drive and I want to set it up as a storage drive, no operating system, and separate from my main drive. I have tried this before and had nothing but problems.

I think the current table is not very user friendly, I would deffinitely want a keyword, habitat, and township and range, the only problem is there is little standardization in the information on each specimen. The older ones just have a date and collector (1800s), some of the newer ones have location by landmark and a general description of the habitat. Newer ones have township and range. I would also like to be able to search by associate species, but a problem with access is that when you do a query with associations it gives you a separate entry for each association, so if you have one entry for a species, but it has 12 associates listed, you get 12 records for the one plant. It can be confusing. The "learn Mysql in 21 days" is only 2.7 mb I could email it to you, if you would like a copy. I have a question about transfering data from access, could I put it all into a spreadsheet and then just enter it into my database somehow?

AHHHHHHHHH! I don't understand! Too many questions...must go watch television to numb my mind. I don't really know enough to answer these questions. The current database is accessable from the web here: http://www.sci.uidaho.edu/biosci/herbarium/database.asp I'm not terribly impressed. If you enter "Baker" under collectors last name you can see how it displays the data. Gowator: I got the "Learn MySQL in 21 days" off of gnuttella, I could probably send you a copy.

I downloaded a book "Learn MySQL in 21 days" I did day 1 this morning. Sometimes I almost want to change my area of study to computers instead of ecology.

I am will ing to give it a shot. I have download mysql , but I am going camping for the weekend, so I'm not going to mess with it until Monday. There are alot of relationships set in access currently, you can search by: species name, genus, family, collector, habitat, county, and about 10 other catagories. Will numerous relationships cause problems in the future with access?

Well...it may not be a pretty solution, but iI have fixed my problem in KDE. I re-installed 10.0 and magicedev seems to be working fine, in KDE, but I still can't access my cdroms in fluxbox. Current fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I still haven't tried to burn a cd yet.

Is ther any way to save RPMS to my database when I install them? I have dial up, so I want to save the rpms on my hardrive once they are downloaded.

I found something called opengroupware0 and I assumed it was an OO database system. Name: opengroupware-database Version: 1.0-20040204.1mdk Size: 759 KB Medium: contrib Currently installed version: (none) Summary: OpenGroupware.org Database API Description: This package contains the OpenGroupware.org database API.

I'm going to set up a database on my computer and see if I can start transfering data from the work computers. Has anyone had any experience with the OpenOffice database? Thanks for all of your help!

The datbase I am working with will eventually have the information for a 175,000 + plant specimen and be accessable through the internet to anybody who wants to access it.

I have no idea what you are saying to me. I found that OO has a database function, and OO can use microsoft formats, so I wonder if if can use access? What do I need for the processor, ram, hardrive(s), network connection for the server? The workstation systems we have are 1.8 gh processor, 512 ddr, and 40 gb hardrives. Should the server be more powerful, or would this be sufficient, but with maybe a bigger harddrive?

Is there any easy way to take the data from access and transfer it to a different setup?

This data base is for the plant collection at the herbarium where I work, it is basically just text and it needs to be accessable on the web, open to the public, and from the herbarium computers, unfortunatly they are using microsoft access for the database, will a linux server beable to use the data form access? I guess what I am really asking is: will it make it easier overall to have a dedicated server? And wIll a linux server create more problems than it solves?

What kind of a system do I need for a server? The printer and scanner can stay on the current machine. What is samba? Will the microshaft systems they insist on using work with a linux server? Can the server be used as a router/firewall for the other workstations? Can I use the server as a standard computer while I am in the office instead of the microshaft systems? And the data based needs to be accessable on the web>

At work we are building a data base for all of our specimens, and we have three computers networked together. I don't know anything about servers or networks, but I was thinking that it might be easier and more efficient to get another computer to act as a sever for the database. In about a year we are going to be expanding our system, by probably 5 more computers. The computer that actually stores the info is also being used normally, and works slower becuase of it, I just added 512 more ram and it is still slower than the other two computers., but it also runs the scanner and the printer. All of these systems are microshaft, and I doubt my boss will be willing to switch, but the campus server is linux, so I thought our server could also. Any thoughts, suggestions, or ideas?

Thanks John I noticed it also and changed it the other night. I wonder if it might be better at this point to just re-install and see if that fixes my problems?

I tricked it. I left the tray open as it booted and the closed after I logged on, so it works for now, or atleast that part of it. Magigdev is kind of working, it gives me an icon, but when I try to access it I am told that the /mnt/ file doesn't exist for both drives. I can access both drives as root now also. I tried to change the permissions, but it said I didn't have the authority as root to change them.

OK I can acces my dvd drive as root, but not as a normal user. I will try the killall for my cd-rw

OK I changed my dvd to a different ide here is my current fstab /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdb /mnt/dvd auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 The problems continue. My cd-rw doesn't work when I am logged on, but it will open while I am booting up. Any ideas?

This may be a stupid quiestion, but I am going to ask it anyways. I am running my security at higher, how do I shut down my system? All I can do is log off.

for macigdev I got this: kiliman 2679 0.0 0.0 1936 636 pts0 S 18:19 0:00 grep magicdev And my current fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I have rebooted since I changed it last.

Which devices should I have on which ide channels? I only have 1 harddrive.

Does anyone else have any ideas on my problem?

Yeah, I thought it was kind of odd when I couldn't access as root. What folders should be in mnt?

no different as root