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are we supposed to....guess what they are?

if so, i'm thinking one of them is GTA3 (released Oct. 2001), possibly. has cars, but isn't about racing...and there's a german version of the site, so maybe it's made by a european company? heck if i know.

ok, ran into another problem w/the bash scripts i'm working on.

i need to be able to tell if the "primary" partitions on a linux system are ext2

as for what is meant by primary, i'm not sure, i have to sort that out...but...i need to be able to tell what specific partitions are.

i've already written a script that makes sure that the /home and /usr directories are on different partitions, using the following if statement:

if [ `cat /etc/fstab | egrep -c "/home"`  -gt 0 -a `cat /etc/fstab | egrep -c "/usr" -gt 0 ]

does that make sense? and is there an extra type of bracket or something i can use to encase the two expressions on each side of the -a, safely? mostly for readability sake.

thanks for any help guys :) i really appreciate it.

and i dont want autologin as i am constantly in and out of user and superuser accounts meddling with things lol

an easier way to go about this is whenever you want to go into superuser/root just open up a console, su to root, and run any programs you need from the command line. from what i understand this is the safer way to go about doing it. alteast, it's what i do :). plus then i don't have to go jumping around from one account to the other-tho i still don't use auto-login, just doesn't feel safe to me.

yeah...any ghosting program will automatically want to make it the size it was before. i didn't know that you had ghosted it at 80gigs (didn't read write or something) and would have mentioned the option to resize-tho i wouldn't have remembered where that option was :) haven't used norton ghost in a long time.

so if i want to play it, ill need to buy the loki port? after already buying the windows version?

yes, but if you had wanted the linux version, you should have considered that before buying the windows version. sorry.

thats bollocks no wonder linux is taking quite some time to come over, its based upn freedom and sharing but something which is a mjaor part of personal computing (gaming) is damped down buy MONEY, the thing which linux geniusly costs nothing of!

woa there buddy. there ARE free games for linux (check out DOlson's page for a list-don't have the address oneme). unfortunately when games made for windows are ported to linux, the companies which made these games aren't going to sit back and say oh go ahead and give it to them for free. sorry, doesn't work that way. money is spent to make these games, and that money needs to be reimbursed to make more games. facts of life and all that...

it's not up to the porters. well, not completely. i'm sure loki made a bit of money, but apparently not enough, because-get this-they went bankrupt and shut down. it's linux gamers like you who refuse to pay for a product that caused them to go under.

linux is _not_ free (you could argue that the kernel is free, but anything beyond that...). linux _does_ cost money-just some of use choose not to support those who spend the money to bring us the product (and some of us can't due to financial issues). it is given to us for free, out of principle, but it is not fair for us to just take take take and not give back to these awesome companies which do so much to support us.

so sit there and whine all you want...but in this world money is a necessity, and if the companies we want to stick around aren't getting the green, they will go under. facts of life and all that...

In both cases you'll get the name of the mandrake release, which is pretty useless. What is important is what paul said ('/proc/version' or 'uname') because there you'll get the kernel version, the compiler used... which is what really matters.

i'm actually going to be looking for what distribution of Linux it is, Red Hat, Mandrake, etc. and what version of that distro it is. this is all tied into bash scripts that are going to be used for checking for programs w/security holes. but, i got all the info i need at this point, so thanks!

  The best idea at this stage is to reinstall Linux.

it was my understanding that is problem was in windows, not in linux. unless he starts over from scratch, re-installing linux won't solve the windows issue...atleast, not from my experience.

mostly i was suggesting redoing the windows partition, as that's where the only problem is...and i figured if he can image, the stuff i suggested shouldn't be hard.

maybe i was wrong? i dunno...

uname -a

last time i tried uname -a it didn't give the distribution name...maybe i'm not looking at it right...i'll try the cat /proc/version tho, thanks!

what's the best way to determine the distribution of a linux system?

i'm posting the question in this forum because i need to be able to do it in a bash script.

while i'm at it, what's the easiest way to determine a version of a specific service? I.E. statd, mountd, and the like. (or any program for that matter)

assume that RPMs may or may not be the process by which the programs where installed.

thanks for any help :)

i don't think alpha centauri is one of the ones that you can just download an installer for and use the windows version. i believe this was ported by loki, and you'd have to hunt down a copy of the linux version..

www.tuxgames.com is a good place to look.

i'm not really sure on the best way to go fixing it, but if you still have that image sitting around....

first off, fdisk and scandisk are crappy windows tools. they won't help you much, as any filesystem other than fat or ntfs makes them loopy and unreliable. pick up a copy of partition magic, if you have the extra cash...not sure what other utils similar to PM are out there, tho. it will come in handy later most likely...always has for me.

1) reformat that 10gig windows partition, from within linux.

2) make a linux bootdisk. this step is important! w/o that boot disk you'll have to go back through the install process w/linux.

3) use that image of yours to reinstall Windows on the now newly formatted and only 10 gig partition.

4) after windows is installed and running, use that bootdisk to get back into linux (windows will most likely overwrite the boot sector-although i haven't had much experience with putting images onto dual-boots in this manner) and set LILO or GRUB back up for the dual boot process.

the problem is that windows didn't recognize the resize that linux did. it doesn't like other O/S's screwing with it's setup...those bastards. usually the best course of action is to only allow windows to have as much drive space as you'll want it to be taking up at the end in the very beginning. I.E.: you should have just given it 10 gigs from the get-go, you wouldn't be here if you had :)

but alas, mistakes are made, yet they are fixable :) hope this helps! good luck :)

i think i have wing commander 2 somewhere...hiding...or is that the prophecy one? i don't remember...have to look around.

strategies frustrate me, also. RPGs really depend on the game-but anything dealing w/space has always struck my interest (Earth & Beyond is a great game for me, combines space flight and RPG style play. tho i miss the dogfight type of combat of freespace.)

Majesty? that rings a bell but I don't quite remember it...

i'm going to check out DOlson's linux games page sometime in the near future-a lot of those games look interesting.

BTW: My main concern with games these days is the playability. Everyone yanks on about the graphics, the sound, bullshit. What ever happened to good old playability? I spent more time playing games like tetris on the Gameboy and Super Mario Brothers on my NES and even Pacman and Monty on my computer then I have spent with any other game (including Quake 3). Why? Because, while they do not have the graphics, sound, blah blah blah... they were fun! Game developers need to get back to basics.

 

And so I don't care what resolutions a computer can handle, how good UT2003 looks on the new Radeon and all that crap. Those things do not matter to me. The Playstation still kicks the crap out of most Computer games due to one little factor - playability. Try Crash Bandicoot (any of them) and see what I mean.

i agree that games need a certain level of playability. i dunno if you read my posts, but i was simply comparing the ability of the two types of systems (console and PC)-why one works all the time and the other has issues-not considering the games.

true-quake gets boring, i never was much for FPS games, they get too repetitive. I love RPGs and space flight combat games with good story lines to go with them. Freespace and Freespace 2 ruled. I still play them, even though the graphics are pretty dated by now, they are what i consider to be the best space flight combat games i've ever played. for some reason i didn't like the star wars series of games...dunno why, just not my thing. now i'm into Earth and Beyond which is only on Windows-I wish someone would release a good space related MMORPG for Linux (i've seen a few that are out there-they aren't very extensive-if anyone knows of a good one let me know).

anyways...i agree...heated discussion or not, we all want the same thing. more games for linux. let's direct our energies towards that goal instead of fighting amongst ourselves :-)

if it doesn't exists, just create it !

Create $/.xinitrc

and write this line :  exec fluxbox

 

Now the default desktop is averriding by this one.

that'll work if you're starting from the console. if you're logging in from a graphical interface, kdm or gdm, it takes a slight bit more work...although i don't remember how to do it, hehehe

the noarch ones are just not architecture specific, i.e. i386/486/586/686-most likely you will still need them.

How do you enable/disable the onboard sound? Through the bios?

yes-should be an option in the bios for that.

edit: if not, pull out your mobo manual and look for a jumper that does it for you. it's either an on-board jumper or in the bios...but most likely it's in the bios.

I never said you're not worthy.

 

I think I'll shut up since everyone seems to think I'm trying to be all high and mighty here, and trying to own the forums. Well, I'm not. I'll shut up.

 

Blah.

that's not what i meant....i was just being sarcastic, about myself, not about you...i never thought you were trying to be all high and mighty-you know more than i do, that's all. was just admitting to that fact :)

thanks! i'll check them out. and depending on the prices, i _may_ be able to fork over some money

I haven't got around to recompiling Freespace yet, but I will soon, and I'll make a MDK9 RPM.

when you do, let me know. i need to work on getting freespace 2 working..along w/some other games i hear work.

just beat me over the head and call me retarded...i tend to go off on things before i know as much as i should know-what can i say? i'm hot-headed....

I still think WineX is useful, to an extent. I never said I agree w/transgamings ethics or way of handling things. nor do i think any company should ever use WneX as an excuse to not port their game to linux-it is sad that they do.

nonetheless......i'll shut up now since i'm not worthy...

did you have the printer plugged in and turned on during the install? just curious-mandrake _should_ have detected it, i believe...

although guessing what model it is from the way it looks is always a bit risky :) anywho...good luck and if you get any further and find a resolution post it here for others who might be having the same trouble :)

ok, aside from The GIMP, what other good graphics programs are there for Linux?

specifically 3D rendering-type progs (like Bryce for windows). and just about anything else that does a crap load of image rendering schtuff...

even better if they are also free :-D

Compaq printers _are_ lexmark printers in disguise. those sneaky bastards.......

as for your problem, make sure the file ends in .gz-if not, you need to use a different unzip utility :) if it does, try downloading it again...you may have gotten a bad one.

What could cause ssh to simply time out?  I am sure that my own firewall is not causing an issue.  I have recently tried to ssh to my project on source forge.net and I get the same problem.

it's timing out because it's not getting a reply from the server.

did you try to connect to sourceforge again later? that maybe another red herring.

as for your personal system, i would make sure that firestarter has the IP of the computer you are connecting from as "trusted"...and I think you can say what port it's trusted to connect to...not sure.

also, check in MCC (mandrake control center) and make sure that the firewall mandrake has by default isn't blocking the ssh port. also try doing just a local ssh (ssh localhost) from the machine running the server, make sure it's being started (erm...this should have been the first step, but i didn't think of it till now).

usually a ctrl+alt+backspace (i think that's the command) will restart the X-server, you'll have to login again, but atleast you won't have to reboot.

the other option is to do ctrl+alt+F1 to go to a virtual terminal (is that what it's called?), login as root, do a

ps -fu root

and look for the X process, then kill it

kill [process ID (PID) here]

i think there's a better way than ps -fu root, but i don't remember it...