ChrisM

Have you considered damn small linux apparently it goes on as little as 16mb.

Hello once again AussieJohn :D Not for one moment would I think that your postings would misinform, even unintentionally. This is my view: People come to boards such as MUB and often seek help or advise or to develop their own knowledge base. Many are able to offer back their developed knowledge and expertise. For this, we must be grateful. As a community board, I want to help people like myself who have essentially started Linux from scratch - whatever the reason might be. who knows, in a couple or so years, I may have even developed a knowledge base myself in which some users might think - 'that guys kinda knows what he's talking about here, I'll consider what he has to say' :lol: I hope that in some small way, I've already started on that path - in no way can I proffer authoritative/expert knowledge, but I have been able to share some of my experiences thus far. Bottom line is many of us are grateful that we are able to seek help, advise or clarification in this way. However, no matter what, we are all individually responsible for what we do to our own boxes, and we must accept that basic level of responsobility, even if something goes wrong/not to plan - rather than finger point to somebody who may have acted in good old honest faith and try to help another user out of a pickle. I've read your posts and my impression is you're always happy to help someone out. So, as to your advise, I've read it, and it makes sense - and when I've a spare hour this weekend (ha ha - I wish) I'll give it a go, unless beforehand someone can point me to a superquick fix instead :D So to you AussieJohn and to all, this is my opportunity so far to say a big and

I posted this yesterday, but asked the mod to remove it soon after as I thought the problem 'resolved itself' - but hey, guess what, it was foolin around with me Sorry mr moderator, but here's the post again. Problem: If I write a message in KMail it also copies it as I go, as a dead.letter to my /home directory. Now after couple of reboots yesterday, I thought this had resolved itself - but it hasn't, so it also appears that this is maybe unusual in that it is a rather hit and miss affair, but I can't be 100% sure - certainly it doesn't look as if it happens to every email, but perhaps every other one or so. And it only happens in Kmail - not in Thunderbird. I reconfigured Kmail and it still occurs I wasn't on my 'puta yesterday for long, and was trying to copy some images from DVD (nothing to do with email) so I don't at all understand why this is happening. Any suggestions on why and how I can correct it (other than not using Kmail). Cheers.

Exit out of your terminal should be all you need to do.

Well its not even been 6 months since I completely ditched winblows, but now that I have, I see absolutely no reason why I should ever go back. If anything, there is more reason to stay with Linux. My first venture in Linuxland was with Mandrake 9.2 and I've since briefly tasted mdk 10 and now I'm at 10.1 Using Mandrake at first was difficult, but only because of hardware issues - the first box wouldn't install at all until it had a bios flash upgrade. Then I had ever continuing issues with my speedtouch330 usb modem. I now use ethernet. Mandrake has in a way forced me to think about my 'puta in a zillion ways that M$ didn't. I can leave my box as it is now and not worry - it will do the essentials - and it does it better and more efficiently than M$ did. Or, I can now take the time and effort and get to know how it all works - which is my favoured option. I'll stick with Mandrake for at least the forseeable future, and get to know more about the powers of linux, but at the moment see no reason to leave it. I like Mandrake Linux and it has everything I need and more too. I've a nice little collection of distros from computer ags which haven't even had the boxes opened - learning 1 flavour at the moment is enough work, though I occasionaly look at a live distro if its come with a computa mag (slax, damn small linux, knoppix - which i like - and will look at suse9.2 which I just got today) but this is really just for fun. Did I say fun, I mean interest. I'm looking at getting a nice new box maybe sometime next year. Might use my old stuff to look at other linux distros then. Whatever, the biggest thing for me right now is that I've made the switch to Linux.

Cheers Chris. I did think it odd that my BIOS made no mention of the DVD and only referred to it as as CD. I looked at Samsung's web site a couple weeks back and didn't really pick anything out. I'll certainly get back to it though for another in depth look. I've done a flash upgrade once before on another box - it initially refused to boot mdk at all - now its the best performer outta the home network. So I can run with this option too. Thanks again.

I have a Samsung cdrw/dvd combo . It reads and writes most CDs. Boots up too. Using K3B I can also see the file structure of data DVDs such as those provided by Linux Format magazine, containing linux software. I can't however, load and view a music video - I understand that I probably need to install some additional software. I'm happy to look at this in the near future. However, I'm unable to boot from a bootable DVD. I've looked at the BIOS and first boot is an ATAPI CDROm drive - makes no mention of it being a combo. Any pointers as to what/where I need to look in order to boot from DVDs. From what I recall, fstab does not mention the dvd - i'm not at my PC right now. When I look in MCC it says it mounts: /mnt/cdrom

Hi Captain Ron OK to summarise this thread in order to upgrade 10.1CE. Big thanks to durvish for this, he's the dood Your current sources will most likely be from your CDs - check out MCC>Software Management>RPM Media Manger this will list your sources for installing/removing software. When you update, your sources list will appear here. To upgrade you will need to update your sources through urpmi. Go to the Easy urpmi site here (when writing this, it seems the site is down, check later, maybe in a day or 2). To understand a little more about urpmi (and it will make your life with Mandrake so much easier) check out this urpmi FAQ from this BB. Also, see this. To update/upgrade: Go to easy urpmi, select 10.1 Official for your sources. Open a terminal as [su] and copy the text given at easy urpmi into the command line and hit your Enter key. Your sources will now be set up. When this has finished, type (still as [su]) 'urpmi urpmi' without apostrophes, to update urpmi. Hit enter. The next step is to type 'init 3' again without apostrophes. Then as root [su] type, without apostrophes 'urpmi --auto-select' which will update your CE to the latest updates/upgrades. This will download tons of updates and software. Be aware, you may get a warning that some packages contain bad signatures, it will ask if you want to continue downloading. As this is from a trusted source, you can say yes. Once this has completed, you're done :D .

Thanks arctic I found the folder of icons - somehow I had managed to separate the themes from the icons I joined them back together again and ubermon now has icons and txt. However, the same cannot be said to be true for Manyak - only some of the icons appear on some of the themes - that is really borked, sadly, he'll have to go. Thanks again, I'll need to watch out next time, not really sure how I managed to screw it up in the first place. But there you go, if anyone's gonna break anything, it's always me But I think i agree with you now, looks better without those big icons taking up all the space :lol:

just installed superkaramba from urpmi (3.4 I believe). Installed a couple of themes ---but I can only get txt and no bling. Screenie shows 2 themes: ubermon and manyak (left and right accordingley). A friend installed 10.1 last night and his superkaramba has big bling. why not mine? Or do I need to install anything else. I've looked at configure desktop, and tried altering a few settings, but nothing seems to work.

our posts must have been crossing during my edit. Cheers Chris.

Hey thanks chris, but... As you can see from screenie, I edited fstab, and still I am unable to save a document direct to a floppy. I can move/copy documents to the floppy, but am unable to 'save as' Trying to save it straight to a floppy still brings me this error warning: Error saving the document <name.swx>: /dev/floppy/<name.swx> does not exist EDIT: Instead of using the pathway: save as> 'up one level' function to /dev/floppy and create a file name/type and 'save' I went another pathway, using the 'up one level' function, I went /mnt/floppy and then did a 'save as' which worked. What a carry on, what a polava just to save a doccy to disk. Cheers.

Errrr, mines a bit more than that :unsure: here we go... /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=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 So, I need to alter this line in its entirety : none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 (this is the full line in fsab as can be seen in screenie) It seems I've not got a good fstab here? Just a week or so ago, I was also having problems with mounting particular CDs. I backed up fstab and altered the line (the CD line), but changed it back to its original settings (above) when it was mucking up other Cds. Cheers.

Thanks for this chris - will check it out when I gert home tonight.

not sure best place to post this post This has been a frustration for some time now. But how the are you supposed to save a document to a floppy drive e.g.in Open/Star Office? I can save the document/s in a directory, I can then go the desktop, double click the floppy icon>open up a directory and move or copy documents onto the floppy. However, if while I'm working on a document, I decide to save straight to floppy, i can't This is what i've been doing: save as>use the 'up one level' to /dev/floppy create a file name/type and press 'save' I then get the following error: Error saving the document <doument name.swx>: dev/floppy/<document name.swx> does not exist Well of course it doesn't, but I'm trying to create it so that it does exist. Here's the readout from cat /proc/mounts $ cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,tray_lock=onwrite,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 Why the word 'none' so much - am I using supermount here or not? I'm using Mandrake 10.1-but I don't think I've ever been able to do this using 9.2/10

Thanks for tyme - I'll pass this on.

I'm sure I've read somewhere on this BB but can't find anything through a search. A colleague is going to try Mandrake 10.1CE his home system uses a speedtouch330 - I've pointed him in the right direction in this BB for installing. However, he uses AOl - now I've read somewhere that he'll face problems. Is it just to access the AOL site he'll have problems with? Surely he should still be able to get a connection and surf - after all, it's the modem collecting the signal and sending it to his box. Can anyone shed any light on this - don't need stacks of detail.

The MCC is a graphical front end for urpmi. Urpmi will load up all the mirrors - all the mirrors will have access to the latest and greatest updates. this is easy urpmi You got 10.1CE - to get your updates select 10.1 official. Do a little prep before hand if you haven't used urpmi b4. There's an FAQ in this BB. Read thru this link carefully and You'll get there. Anything you don't understand - just post your questions.

Just remember to read thru the first thread, and then thru to the second link, it'll make more sense, with a little more detail. Good luck.

Hi SpikeyKlitske I've had the same issues with FF - not being able to fully set it up as default browser, and not being able to open up links in emails etc - also same with Thunderbird - can't set it to open as default if I click on an email link in a web page. I've got FF, but tend to now use konqueror - but this has problems not being able to always navigate a web site, usually in these instances, FF helps me out. If anyone knows how FF/Thunderbird can become proper defaults ... >>>please let us know how :D

Hi there onegear I had exactly the same problems a couple weeks back - just could not update. Check out my earlier thread here which will also link you into another thread where my issue was resolved :D It won't take long, and is actually quite straightforward - I can say that now :P Be warned, you're 10.1CE will become Official

...and your 'mandrake online' is a service you can buy into from mandrake if wanted see here But you don't have to if you dont want it. Just update as and when. And just right click on the icon and tell it not to install auto' on boot up.

You'll find that your iso's will take up almost 700MB - individually - so you'll not be able to burn them all onto 1 CD. Just burn em 1 at a time. BUT you'll need to burn the iso as an iso image - and not a file. The option will be there in your software somewhere. A few weeks back I'd not done this - I bought my first set of CDs from mandrake. Couple weeks ago I downloaded and burned MDK 10. It's pretty straightforward as long as you remember to burn as iso's you'll be fine. Here an FAQ about iso's Search this board, i'm sure there will be more stuff too. Good luck. Nearly there now (576 + views and 48 replies, the world is holding its breath now - no going back :P ) Oh, BTW - burn your images on the slowest speed option available, to help reduce any errors.

I faced same kinda problem here - but as aRTee says, CUPS allows a complete cancellation of queued print jobs. I have probs tho printing pdf's. Edit: doh! just seen the date for the bulk of thread!

Not sure how a 'windows' MD5 sum generator exactly works, but, esentially, the site where you downloaed your iso's should also have an MD5 checksum. You'll check against this to make sure you have a good download. On the web site there will be a file and each iso will have an associated string of numbers. When you have completed your download/s run your MD5 sum generator to ensure the string of numbers match. Some folk will say you'll only need to check the first 4 or 5 and the last 4 or 5 in each string. If your MD5s are Ok - burn em n install em :lol: