Cannonfodder

You can also use a remote rpm source containing the CD rpm such as a ftp or http site. See here

http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php

Found it under KDE as "The Matrix". I don't see it in Gnome xscreensaver though.. Is there a way to get it to work under Gnome?

You can also add texstar to your urpmi sources. I just did the kdeartworks with

urpmi kdeartworks

Go here to get the proper setup..

http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php

Do you have a cable connection?

There is always Mac OS X if you don't mind buying it. It is actually BSD under the hood..

I think I'm going to have to stick to manual work. I do not want white borders anywhere but its too easy to have a crooked photo or what not. Thanks for the replies though...

I have a ton of pictures from my BurningMan trip that I'm scanning in. I've noticed that when I use xsane to scan a picture that is outside (e.g. desert scene, blue skies, mountains), I get streaking through the picture. I just tried it in windows with Adobe PhotoDeluxe and the picture no longer has streaking..

I would rather be using xsane/gimp to do this project, does anyone know why I'm having this problem?

I have a UMAX Astra 3400 and Mandrake 9.1 with all latest updates..

I trashed my hard drive about 4 times before I caught on LOL. Then I bought a second drive just to avoid the issue..

That's pretty much what I'm doing. Select/Copy/New/Paste. The select stage has to have some cropping in to avoid white borders from crooked photos :) Actually I'm now doing 2 at a time..

Do you share the same drive for linux/windows? Or do you have them on separate drives? If you have them on the same drive, be aware that using the disk manager to modify your NTFS partition size may screw up your entire partition table.

If your windows drive doesn't have any linux partitions or to be more accurate, linux extended partitions, then its ok to use the Disk manager.

Do a search on the board for

fstab ntfs dev

Plenty of material on it :)

Here's a FAQ I just wrote..

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=4960

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IM-06: read and write permission on Windows partition

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Accessing your NTFS Partition on your computer

Windows NTFS support is available for Mandrake users. However, due to constant undocumented changes to the NTFS file system, this support is read-only. This means that you may access your files on your NTFS partition, but may not modify files or folders.

Here is how to obain access to your NTFS partition.

1. Open a console,

2. Type su to login to root as superuser.

3. Edit the file /etc/fstab.

4. Look for the entry related to your NTFS partition. If you do not have this line, you may create one.

The entry should look like this:

/dev/hda1  /mnt/win_c ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0

If you do not know the location of your NTFS partition, you can open a second console, su to root, and type diskdrake. Look for your NTFS partition and note the device name. E.g. hda1.

5. Save the file and quit.

6. Now go to your mount point. In the entry above, it is /mnt/win_c. This is where you would access your files. If you do not have the mount point, then you will need to createit using the mkdir command.

7. When ready, type

mount -a

This command will insure that all entries in the /etc/fstab are mounted. Go to your mount point and verify that you can see your NTFS files.

If you would like to make changes to your files on a NTFS partition, you can do one of the following:

1. Convert your NTFS to FAT32.

2. Make another partition and format it as FAT32. Use this partition to transfer files. This still means you can not change your NTFS partition files.

Reference:

man mount

man fstab

I'm scanning in 4 photos at a time and was wondering if anyone knew of a script for isolating each image and opening it up in a new window.. There's a lot of photos!

Also, pay attention to the messages after typing lilo. I noticed you have a "linux SPACE mm". I didn't think you could have a space in your entry name.. Might be why it didn't work..

Also, double-check your /boot directory and make sure all your links are correct.. (before you reboot after you type lilo)

You are welcome :) We have a FAQ section under development here. If you are into writing faq's and how-tos, feel free to ask to join the FAQ Development Group.

More like "Don't invent a nuclear bomb because there is no way to prevent someone from using it"??? I think my anology is skewed though :roll:

Typically, windows software doesn't run under linux unless you use a special emulator. Even then, it can be a chore to get something going. You can check out wine (do a search in this forum or on google), codeweavers, and a few others.

You can also look for linux software to do digital imaging. There are a lot of places to look in google. Here's a few links

http://www.robfisher.net/video/ (about 6 months old)

www.freshmeat.net

www.sourceforge.net

The last 2 are HUGE general depositories of ongoing projects. Good place to do a search for digital projects.

If you can't find a good substitute or emulate it, then I would just keep your win98 around a bit longer ;)

Some software is compiled with an older version of glibc. An example is Compupic (photo manager).

This link describes how to install a glibc hack and run compupic with the hack.

Mandrake by default extends internet to all users. I've never had to enable internet for standard users. What is your security level?

How about codeweavers? How does that fit in? Just an extra for wine?

You are saving a text file with your partition data in it. So type

/home/pepsi/partdata.txt

then exit diskdrake and edit the file and copy/paste it here.

What exactly is the difference between wine and winex? I've been using wine and messed with codeweaver also.

However, it will do this for several reasons..

1. You powered down in a "nasty" way.. It wants to check everything and make sure its ok. Say YES.

2. Periodically, the OS will schedule the partition for a check (e.g. once a month). Say YES. Can't hurt.

Journaled means that changes are tracked in a journaled log. It's very quick to restore any chanages if something went wrong since it only has to process the info in the journal log vs checking the entire file system. A check however will check your entire partition and isn't a bad idea once in a blue moon.

Just to add some more "concepts" here..

Each hard drive has partitions on it. I think you already understand that. The partitions each have a file system type and a name. E.g. hda1 is /, hda2 is /usr and can be ext2, exte3, or reiserfs, or fat32 (vfat).

The digital camera is a file system too. When you hook it up, it is mounted. My guess is that the configuration tool wanted you to identify which partition is your camera and you selected the wrong one and made a change. I'm not sure if the camera is actually mounted or you make an existing partition to accept the images from the camera (QNR?)

To restore yourself, you need to examine your /etc/fstab and also examine your hard drive partitions. Do this before messing with the camera, Unconnect your camera.

Now, assuming you can boot into linux, post your /etc/fstab file in a reply here. So we can take a peek. fstab lists your partitions, but may not match the reality due to the changes you made. It must match the actual state of your partition file systems or you get error messages. E.g. hdd1 is really a ext3, but your fstab says its vfat (fat32). It will try to mount it as fat32 when its really ext3 and it craps because the ext3 driver doesn't recognize the data.

Also, we need to see your partition table setup for real! There are several ways you can show us. Open a commandline console and run diskdrake with the diskdrake command. Click on the MORE button and click SAVE PARTITION TABLE. Type in a file name and quit. Post the results here.

If you can't run diskdrake for some reason (can't boot), you can boot off of CD1, and run the fdisk program

$fdisk /dev/hda

?p <-- print command

and it will display them.

?q <-- quit

$fdisk /dev/hdb

?q

?q

so on..

It does remind me in a way of a windows registry :) I kinda jumped the gun on saying it solved my problems, maybe.. The property I was referring to allows my menu bar to popup/popdown quicker but doesn't effect the Hide buttons. I only use the hide buttons becauase my menu bar would lose its auto-hide. I am hoping that changing the popup time will fix the issue. Irrational, yes, but I've been programming for years, and I'm very irrational :)