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well, my experience with menudrake is that it COMPLETE TRASHED my kde menu and once it happened, it kept happening and i was unable to find any help with it. In a way I'm kinda glad it happened because it got me using 'Fluxbox' which I have found is so easy to use. About 4 to 6 text files in $HOME/.fluxbox/ directory (depending on what functionality you want to use). Compare that to all the ?hit you get with KDE.. <g> oh welll... just letting off a little hot air and hope someone else might take a look at fluxbox and find it as useful as I did.. mike..

Ok.. I'm using Kdar (a frontend to dar) to do my backups. It lets me 'split' the backup into cd/dvd sized slices so they can be copied to removable media. This works fine (even wonderful) with CDRW disks and even with DVDRW disks UNTIL the size of the slice exceeds 2gb. I know the file size isn't a problem for linux (dar creates 4+gb files easily) but I can't seem to overcome the issue with mkisofs, which complains IMMEDIATELY about the file size or with growisofs which happily 'appears' to put the file onto the disk but when it is done, the original 3.3GB file is a corrupted 586MB file on the DVD disk. The author of mkisofs claims there are issues with the 2.6.# linux kernel and since I'm using mdk 10.0 and a 2.6 kernel, then I'm guessing this may be the problem. He suggest that if users have problems with the software then they should go BACK to a 2.4.x kernel... something I'm NOT gona do!! Can anyone verify that (kernel 2.6 problem) for me, or maybe point me in the direction of some sort of resolution? As it stands now, I'm looking at changing my dvd script code to write 2 2GB files to the DVD with the multisession switch of growisofs. btw: i even obtained and compiled latest version of cdrtools. it didn't solve the problem. also updated dvd+rw package but still have same problem. NOTE: growisofs 'uses mkisofs' to write data to the DVD+RW media so the problem (in my mind) is totally with the cdrtools package, in particular the mkisofs application unless someone else has discovered otherwise.. TIA Mike Houston,Tx

Gesh... :woops: sometimes i wonder if i'm to stupid to run linux ... uummm.... excuse me Mike... Have you heard of Mandrake Control Center... YIKES.... that's all it took... install... search <kernel> .... select 2.6.x .... and INSTALL it.. wow... what a concept... I really HATE getting older cause some days it's like walking in my sleep from the time i get up till i go back to bed... Next day i don't have a clue what happened the day before.. Anyway... updated from my CD and all is well in 'mikie land'... Thanks all for your replies and helpfull suggestions..

I like the CD install better because I don't have broadband but your suggested code resulted in the following.. [mike@kirk mike]$ su - Password: [root@kirk root]# cd [root@kirk root]# urpmi kernel Everything already installed [root@kirk root]# Should I have had the CD 1 mounted?

Installing mdk 10.0 and it did not see my CD so had to make boot disk and the only kernel that would boot and use my CD was 2.4.x I went through the README and Install notes on the CD before installing and tried all the tips and tricks to get 2.6 kernel to install but somehow it just never materialized... Is there a way using urpmi to upgrade my kernel to the newer 2.6.x and is it going to work farily well over a dialup line and 56k modem? Also, where are the new kernel rpm's for the upgrade located? I cant seem to find any.. [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

Admitedly I know nothing about LVM except that it stands for Logical Volume Mgmt and that one of the reasons for using it is to allow for partitions to grow beyond their physical size by treating two or more disks as one unit.. (uumm.. wish i had the resources to play with that..) Anyway.. have you actually looked to see if the LVM mod has been loaded like the webmin message suggested? lsmod | grep lvm (maybe) and if not loaded, then you need to find the name of the module (/lib/modules/<kernel version number.mdk/kernel/drivers/) and use modprobe to load it. Of course, there's probably tons of crud I'm forgetting or just to ignorant about this subject .. sooo... best of luck..

A real easy way to administer background jobs is with Webmin (http://www.webmin.com/) although learning the CLI to cron is always hightly recommended. Every install of linux no matter who the vendor was, has had logrotate running by default so maybe you disabled it by accident?? Anyway... Webmin is a really useful tool for a LOT of admin tasks so you should install it for them as well as handling background jobs. cheers..

Not sure exactly but think it is somehow related to power management. I have an old gigabyte mb that no matter WHAT flavor of Linux i used on it, gave me the exact same message. BUT.. not to worry... the message always comes AFTER a clean dismount of your drives so there not flagged as dirty and don't require a chkdisk on the next boot... (at least mine never did). i just finally gave up and learned to push the off button like in the PRE ATX days.. cheers..

The dmesg file is located in /var/log/ and the dmesg command is used to display it. I prefer ( dmesg | less ) because you can scroll forward AND backwards one line or page at a time. Then just to be picky.. you can always use tail and head and their various switches but not really a practical solution unless you know for sure the text your looking for is at/near the top/bottom of the file.. good luck..

"/tmp/28134", line 4235, terminal 'emx-base': resolution of use=ansi.sys failed "/tmp/28134", line 4291, terminal 'cygwinB19': resolution of use=ansi.sys failed What I noticed first off was the reference to cygwin which is a ms window$ reference then like someone slapping me on the back of the head.. I notice this.. ANSI.SYS <-- Linux dosn't use ANSI.SYS, windows does... Soooo... while I don't have a definative answer, I would see if you can run configure with something like --disable-windows or some other switch to keep the application from trying to use the ansi.sys file... Good Luck..

Wanting to write GUI for an applications *rc file so I don't have to edit w/text editor all the time so trying to learn QT3 and wanting to use QT3 Designer. So far just expiermenting with GUI design (without coding any of the actions). I get a simple design then go to the directory with the files and use qmake to generate a Makefile then run make to compile it. Here is the resultant output from my last try.. Seems like I'm missing a package but I really have NO idea why, it just looks that way for some reason.. --- this is the directory contents after running qmake ---- drwxrwxr-x 2 mike mike 4096 Jun 21 03:22 images/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 mike mike 10928 Jun 21 03:22 mainform.ui -rw-rw-r-- 1 mike mike 9680 Jun 21 03:22 mainform.ui~ -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 4330 Jun 21 03:23 Makefile -rw-rw-r-- 1 mike mike 346 Jun 21 03:22 temp.pro ----- now the 'make' process ---------- [mike@kirk temp]$ make /usr/lib/qt3//bin/uic mainform.ui -o .ui/mainform.h /usr/lib/qt3//bin/uic mainform.ui -i mainform.h -o .ui/mainform.cpp g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=i586 -mcpu=penti o -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_SHARED -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I/usr/lib/qt3/mkspecs/defa -I. -I/usr/lib/qt3//include -I.ui/ -I. -I.moc/ -o .obj/mainform.o .ui/mainfo pp /usr/lib/qt3//bin/uic -embed temp images/filenew images/fileopen images/fil e images/print images/undo images/redo images/editcut images/editcopy images tpaste images/searchfind images/xkill.png -o .ui/qmake_image_collection.cpp g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=i586 -mcpu=penti o -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_SHARED -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I/usr/lib/qt3/mkspecs/defa -I. -I/usr/lib/qt3//include -I.ui/ -I. -I.moc/ -o .obj/qmake_image_collectio .ui/qmake_image_collection.cpp /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc .ui/mainform.h -o .moc/moc_mainform.cpp g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=i586 -mcpu=penti o -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_SHARED -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I/usr/lib/qt3/mkspecs/defa -I. -I/usr/lib/qt3//include -I.ui/ -I. -I.moc/ -o .obj/moc_mainform.o .moc/m ainform.cpp g++ -o temp .obj/mainform.o .obj/qmake_image_collection.o .obj/moc_mainform.o -L/usr/lib/qt3//lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lqt-mt -lXext -lX11 -lm >> this is where the error occurs.. Am I missing a *devel*.rpm of some kind? << /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.3.2/../../../crt1.o(.text+0x18): In function `_start': ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:98: undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [temp] Error 1 ----------------------- I'm baffled.. Any help at all?? (please!!)

Had an after thought.. (wow..) Saw some other screenshots.. why not toss one up of mine LOL...

I came here for another reason but when I saw this I just HAD to respond... IMHO Fluxbox is absolute the best WM around... My desktop shows absolutely nothing unless I decide to keep the slit open. Everything seems to reside at my fingertips right below the desktop image. You definately must explore the tabs option... I can't live without it now.... also I use a window maker application (wmdrawer) to provide ready access to my most common applications... Note however that Kwickshow from KDE will not work and I've inquired at fluxmod and the fluxbox IRC channel on freenode. Seems like everyone has the same problem... As for documentation, I find the man pages just WAY to helpful compared to so many others. I put it in my documentation menu (epiphany -n man:fluxobx) so I don't have to shell out to get to it. You could also do something like Eterm -e 'man fluxbox' but I prefer to read it in a browser. btw... I am still struggling some with FONTS in the style files but what the heck... linux wouldn't be fun if it was dummied down like the other os's.. good luck and feel free to email any questions ... I'll do what I can to make you a full time Flux user.. :D

Damn... I forgot to mention I have almost 4GB of data that I absolutely HAVE to backup... Significantly larger than a single 700MB cd that significantly complicates this approach (doesn't it?).. :unsure:

Ok... lets see if i have this right... tar the data i want to backup then mkisofs (of the tar.gz file?) then blank a CD-RW then burn the iso img of the backup to the CDRW disk REPEAT as often as necessary using the same disk till it wears out.. Right?