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It didn't by any chance complain about a missing ntkrnl.exe did it?? I've had this problem before which stemed from a bootloader. The trick was to change the win boot.ini to repoint to the correct partition.

I think either Slackware or Debian might be good in this case - haven't tried vector so I can't comment. Although not ideal in your current situation - ie getting up and running quickly, LFS also sounds ideal for this sort of task.

>Haven't tried IceWM or the others, but I know they'll freeze too If you know that then surely you know what the problem is... :lol:

lspci should tell you what the soundchip is

They're talking about features that Longhorn might have when it eventually comes out. MS say they have some kind of alpha now, but that means two years of betas - seriously, I'm thinking Longhorn is nothing but vapourware

Do you listen to much music etc. on that box? To be perfectly honest I'd be tempted to create /home of maybe 5GB and leave the rest as / If you do listen to many ogg's or MP3's then perhaps put them in a seperate partiton - maybe 10 GB. I tend to find little or no improvement in fancy partitoning schemes on a desktop box using relatively slow disks.

> Of course I would hate to see this person anally raped in prison,... or would >I ?!?!?! I know you feel strongly over being hacked (and I don't blame you), but do we need to resort to expressions like the above? I can think of a more suitable punishment involving pliers and a blowtorch...

You'll probably need to install a patched version of cdrecord / cdrtools to burn DVD's - I've got a toshiba DVD-RW drive here and it works fine. In general most modern ATAPI optical drives will work under Linux.

Hi all, I'm looking for a piece of software that would enable me to descend into archives (usually tar.gz or tr.bz2) via the command line. I guess it would need to unpack the archive into a buffer, then let me play around with the results - at least being able to view them in emacs etc - best of all it would do this transparently (so once your inside the archive it behaves like a normal shell session). I know midnight commander does something similar but I want to avoid doing it within a file manager (I don't like file managers!!) if possible. I tried googling for this but seeing as though I didn't really know how to describe it I got nowhere. Have any of you good people ever come across anything like this??

Theres many, perhaps you should just download the kernel and read the source?? :lol: More seriously try, kerneltrap and kernel newbies. The o'reilly book - understanding the linux kernel is good too.

>actually it's linux that's the mem hog, not the de's. I know, but at startup the mem footprint of Gnome toolbar is larger than that of all of blackbox!! I'd rather that mem was used for something more useful... :wink:

They're both horrible clunky memory hogs :P GNOME if any, Grant: Dons flame proof underwear

optional: Omit the image if it is not available at map creation time. This is useful to specify test kernels that are not always present. I think removing that would be a good idea

sorry for the lateness of this reply, I've since installed alsa-utils (and made sure the sound is not muted) and xmms-alsa (and told xmms to use it). Still no joy, can't get a peep out of it!! The output of lsmod is Module Size Used by Tainted: P snd-seq-midi 5056 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss 32000 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 6080 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 42544 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 43652 0 snd-mixer-oss 14200 1 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-ens1371 15752 1 snd-rawmidi 17760 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]snd-pcm 79588 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371] snd-page-alloc 9044 0 [snd-pcm] snd-timer 18436 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] gameport 3268 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-ac97-codec 45720 0 [snd-ens1371] snd 41380 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 6340 0 [snd] isofs 28148 1 (autoclean) udf 88736 0 (autoclean) ppp_deflate 4472 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp 5400 0 (autoclean) lp 8160 0 parport_pc 25544 1 parport 34472 1 [lp parport_pc] agpgart 48292 3 (autoclean) nvidia 1765440 11 (autoclean) ipt_TOS 1592 12 (autoclean) ipt_REJECT 3960 4 (autoclean) ipt_LOG 4184 7 (autoclean) ipt_state 1080 14 (autoclean) ipt_multiport 1176 0 (autoclean) ipt_conntrack 1560 32 (autoclean) iptable_filter 2316 1 (autoclean) iptable_mangle 2712 1 (autoclean) iptable_nat 20814 0 (autoclean) (unused) ip_conntrack 26468 3 (autoclean) [ipt_state ipt_conntrack iptable_nat] ip_tables 15072 11 [ipt_TOS ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ipt_state ipt_multiport ipt_conntrack iptable_filter iptable_mangle iptable_nat] ppp_async 9312 1 ppp_generic 24292 3 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc 6564 0 [ppp_generic] af_packet 14856 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 19384 2 (autoclean) floppy 55932 0 8139too 17384 1 (autoclean) mii 3864 0 (autoclean) [8139too] nls_iso8859-15 4060 2 (autoclean) nls_cp850 4284 1 (autoclean) vfat 11820 1 (autoclean) fat 38040 0 (autoclean) [vfat] supermount 84032 2 (autoclean) keybdev 2756 0 (unused) mousedev 5428 0 (unused) hid 24164 0 (unused) input 5696 0 [keybdev mousedev hid] ide-cd 33956 0 cdrom 32608 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi 11376 1 scsi_mod 106176 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi] usb-uhci 25136 0 (unused) usbcore 74988 1 [hid usb-uhci] rtc 9004 0 (autoclean) ext3 60048 3 jbd 39264 3 [ext3] Any help appreciated!!

Actually the repair option didn't really help, if you go to install you then get asked if you want a full install or a repair install - someone needs to redesign that!!

Careful if you're installing mozilla from source - it can quite easily take up a gig or two of space, and break your exisiting mozilla.

reinstall mcc from the CD-rom (might fix it). You might have to force rpm to do it as the package has the same name but is broken.

No problems bear7, Just stick with it and things will become easier.

Mandrake has trasitionally been a cutting edge distro in terms of packages (ok, in some cases bleeding edge :D ) and thats the way I like it. There are other bullet-proof distros out there, but without Mandrakes niceities.

This all depends on your copy of Win XP. If it's anything like my full copy of win 2k you just boot from the CD-rom and navigate to the rescue install option - then go have a few cups of coffee whilst it does it's thing!

Firstly don't be embarrassed, everyones been at the point where they didn't have a clue.... To install mozilla go to mcc - software manager and type mozilla. Ticck the boxes for mozilla and mozilla-mail and it'll ask you for the relevant disks. Jobs a good'un.

> Well, linux and Win98SE live happily together on 1 hd for the most part. Win2k and XP are disasters when it comes to sharing an hd with linux. > I have one machine running Win2k and Mandrake 9.2, and one machine running Win XP and Redhat 8.0 - so it can be done (it was quite easy in fact - my laptop (XP) came formatted as FAT32 with an NTFS conversion tool, thank you so so much Toshiba!!!). If you want to rescue your win partition I'd probably put in the install disk and attempt a rescue install - should preserve your data.

if you do an /sbin/ifconfig does localhost show up as one of the entries? Secondly, what are you setting it up to do, pull mail of a remote server, or read from an mbox on your machine?

Hopefully it'll be easy enough to get Mdk10.0 to boot a 2.4 kernel - I want nothing to do with 2.6 until about 2.6.7 (at least for my usual working envrionment).

Correct me if I'm wrong but if you just install the src.rpm (rpm -ivh name-of.src.rpm) shouldn't that just install the source so you change the spec sheet before doing a rpmbuild -bb /path/to/package.spec