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Hello Topdog, I did not try to install the VMWare Tools yet, but I did have the same problem with network connectivity. It took me a long search, because I did not look in the correct source which bears a lot of answers: the VMWare Knowledge Base. From there I got this answer that worked for me: >>>>>>>>>>> To work around this problem, become root (su -) and use a text editor to edit the following files in the guest operating system: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth[n] /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth[n] In both cases, [n] is the number of the Ethernet adapter -- for example, eth0. In each of the two files, add the following line: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes Then run the command ifup eth[n] (where [n] is the number of the Ethernet adapter) or restart the guest operating system. <<<<<<<<<<<< I hope this works for you as well. The knowledge base says that MDK 9.2 is not (yet) a supported guest. Probably this just means that VMWare Tools do not work with MDK 9.2 or even just that they did not test it yet, because I can use all features in MDK 9.2 that I like. If you have news on the VMWare Tools, please let us know. Kind Regards, Sitor

It does it again. Again that stupid invalid file list bug. So it is not the URL's after all. Two days ago I did an update. That did include an update of drakxtools. From experience with this VERY annoying bug, I knew that when this happens, rpmdrake thinks the update has been done while this is not the case. The way I was able to fix this before, was to remove the rpm again, download it from the download section and install it outside of rpmdrake. Doing this with the dakxtools one however uninstalled all rpm packages. As a result I cannot install rpms at all anymore! So I cannot even fix my system anymore. This drives me completely crazy. I don't know what to do with this. Getting desparate. HEEELP!!!! Sitor

Looks like you are right aRTee. I went to the mirrors list on the MandrakeClub site and used the mirrors given there. Now I can indeed use the Update again. Thanks a lot for the help. Sitor

What do you mean aRTee that Easy urpmi gives 9.1 links when selecting 9.2? When I do so the links I get clearly have 9.2 in their path. Would be strange that an FTP server would have 9.1 stuff in a 9.2 folder. I hope that you ARE right though, because I'm having already since two weeks problems with rpmdrake (since I redid my sources with Easy urpmi), and that might be the answer. I always get a message complaining of the Contrib list file being invalid. Same problem as the guys in these threads are having: 9.2 - medium "contrib" uses an invalid list file: and medium "contrib" uses an invalid list file I tried everything to get rid of that problem, but nothing seems to work. I can still install software by simply downloading the rpm and running from Konqueror, but it is a pain for the bug and security updates. So I hope it is indeed so that Easy Urpmi is giving us wrong links. Can you confirm? Thanks in advance, Sitor

Similar question, but slightly different: Having two machines with one in primary use and another from time to time on same network, would it be possible to use the second one to use the data from the /home from the primary for its apps. More concretely, could you run e.g. your mail client (Evolution) on the second one, while reading and writing all data on the primary /home. This in order that when you use the primary again that all your mails, etc. are present. I assume this should be easy to set-up, but as a regular home user and linux noob,... Anyone that can give me any tips on this? Thanks, Sitor

I'd just wish that they would make it more clear what the changes are from one version to another, so you know in advance whether you really will benefit from an upgrade. Anyone who knows why it will be 10 and not e.g. 9.3? Does this mean that the next version WILL have major changes? Ciao, Wim

I upgraded my 9.1 to 9.2 without a problem. Indeed some UI tweaking and KDE settings were gone, Acrobat Reader disappeared, and maybe some other things I rarely use. On the other hand, all of the packages that are part of the distro (MySQL, K3B, Evolution, etc.) that I had selected on my 9.1 have been easily upgraded, so after about two hours I was up and running with 9.2. Try that with Windows! There you can be lucky if you are able to upgrade the OS only, and you loose at least an additional day installing all apps. Ciao, Sitor

I've had the same problem for both Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1. Finally I found the solution in the VMWare knowledge base: http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/s...fcGFnZT0x&p_li= To work around this problem, become root (su -) and use a text editor to edit the following files in the guest operating system: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth[n] /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth[n] In both cases, [n] is the number of the Ethernet adapter -- for example, eth0. In each of the two files, add the following line: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes Then run the command ifup eth[n] (where [n] is the number of the Ethernet adapter) or restart the guest operating system. Good luck, Sitor

Look earlier in the threat. OpenOffice.org (OOo) gives the same RAD possibilities as M$ Access, but you have to recreate all forms, queries, etc. So if you are looking for the same stuff as Access but on Linux and in Open Source, and you are willing to work with PostGreSQL or MySQL DB's anyway, you can just use OOo. That is the way I will go. I'm not comftortable with programming enough to go ahead with Perl or PHP. Ciao, Wim

Hi, In the mean time I found that there is an effort ongoing to make M$ Access DB's accessible on Linux. It is called MDB Tools. You can find the project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools and http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/. It includes an ODBC driver for mdb DB's, so it might be that you could administer the mdb's from within OpenOffice.org with it. If not, it allows to export the data and (if the target knows that kind of functionality) queries, reports, forms to other DB's like PostGreSQL. The problem I have with it is that the it does not run on Mandrake 9.1 due to dependencies issues, at least not when you install from the rpm. I forced the rpm to be installed anyway and what I saw was great (more or less the functionality from M$ Access, just less goodlooking. However when I tried to use it, it crashed. I'm still a newbie, so I'm not going to go the recompilation route (don't even know if that would solve the dependency issues). I read in some post that in Mandrake 9.0 it did work OK, so I might try to install a Virtual Machine with it. If I can find the time,... If someone tries out, let us know your experiences. Thanks. Ciao, Sitor

Hi, I'm looking for such a solution myself. I'm converting from Windows to Mandrake at the moment, and one of the pains I have is the conversion of an M$ Access DB I use. I found out that in OOo you can create dBase format DB's. That is already something but not good enough for a non programmer like me. It is impossible to link tables in queries (apparently a restriction of the format). For you it might work, as there is a way around with some SQL statement. For the rest, OOo has all the forms and queries and stuff that M$ Access does. For integration with spreadsheets its even much better. If you're interested , you can find more info on http://dba.openoffice.org/ and more specifically on the dBase stuff on http://homepage.ntlworld.com/garryknight/l...ux/oodbase.html and (if you understand some french) on http://logiciels-libres-cndp.ac-versailles...bureautique/db/. Hope this helps. If you find anything else that does not require programming, let us know. I'm still looking for a better solution. Ciao, Sitor