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Disabling supermount isn't dangerous at all man .. lol Supermount mounts the cdroms/floppys for you when you pop them in. It looks like cool like that but this is a Mandrake's feature and it is rather buggy. Lots of people having problems seeing files on their cdrom of floppy due to that. Make a search about that .. you'll see. Once supermount is disabled, you have to mount and umount the cdroms and floppys by yourself though. No big deal if you use KDE, there is a removable media icon on the desktop. So clic and right clic the device you want to mount/umount and select what you want to do (mount, umount or eject). Il you use another desktop (icewm, blackbox, gnome ..) then you can always create an icon on the desktop (right clic, select new ...) or do it in a console. To mount your cdrom: mount /mnt/cdrom To umount your cdrom before to eject it: umount /mnt/cdrom To eject your cdrom eject /mnt/cdrom Note that you can't eject a device while it is mounted. MOttS

rpmbuild --rebuild --target=athlon package.src.rpm 'man rpmbuild' for more details Hope this help MOttS

Oh man .. I have terrible news for you. IT WILL NOT WORK 'till you get rid of the warning (cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page) I think cdrecord can't handle both your cdrecord and normal cdrom in the same time. You get the exact same error that I got about 6-7 months ago. I was using a Liteon 24x at that time. Since then, I changed that device for a dvd reader and that solved the problem. Take a look at this and read everything carefully.. that may help you: http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...warning&start=0 Now, you could try to disable supermount and REBOOT to see what is going to happen. If it still doesn't work then take a look at that --> http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=927 If it still doesn't work then we'll check the simlinks in /dev. So try everything and if it doesn't work post here your fstab, your lilo.conf and post where is pointing /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 (ls -l /dev/scd*). Post also where is pointing /dev/cdrom, /dev/hdabcd .. .. everything that you think is relevant.. lol For /dev/scd* and others, you should POST something like that for us to cheak.. : We are getting close ... MOttS

-To remove a user using a console: userdel -r username [root@localhost gd]# userdel -r test -To add a user using a console (2 steps) Step 1 -> Add a user : adduser username Step 2 -> Give a password to the user : passwd username [root@localhost gd]# adduser test [root@localhost gd]# passwd test Changing password for user test. New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. Hope this help MOttS

You have to choose the EXPERT install. Instead of automatically partition you drive, you'll be asked to do it. It's really simple. You'll have a GUI showing you your drive with all the partitions on it. Just clic on them and clic 'delete'. Once the drive is blank then clic 'automatic partitionning' or create parition yourself. You need AT LEAST to create a / and a SWAP partition. It is recommanded to have a swap partition that is 2 times your amount of RAM. If you want to see the GUI before to reinstall then in a console type 'diskdrake'. You'll see the exact same GUI when you'll reinstall.... It seems scary like that but it's easy ... just choose EXPERT mode. MOttS

How are you going to mount the cd if you don't link /mnt/cdrom to /dev/scdx in fstab ? Yes it is going to do cd to cd but you'll not be able to mount anything from that drive.. MOttS

The best way to access them is by command lines. I hate GUIs for Samba share. They all sucks. Your smb.conf doesn't need to be configured the right way to access other shares. Here is a step by step procedure: 1) check for the netbios name of the other computer (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx = IP of other computer) nmblookup -A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx You should get something like that: As you can see, the workGROUP of the other computer is BUREAU and his name his MDK9. If you don't get that then your other computer is MISCONFIGURED. Go on a Windows forum for that because I don't use windows anymore. 2) Now let's check what MDK9 (the other computer) is sharing. This is done this way. smbclient -L MDK9 -I xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx the -I is a CAPITAL i !!! Here is my output. Here, the share of the other computer are under SHARENAME. So my other computer share the disk GD. Forget about the IPC$ and ADMIN$ stuff... 3) Now get connected to the other computer. This is done this way: smbclient //MDK9/gd/ -I xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Here is my output. Enter a password if you configured the other computer to ask one. YOU ARE IN !!! Type 'dir' or 'ls' to have a list of the files. Type '?' to know the commands you can use. If you want to go in a directory called "I love my computer" then type cd "I love my computer" -------------------------------------------------------- Now, for your smb.conf. I've quickly checked that. I noticed that you have some host allowed = blablalba. As a first check, you shouldn't restrain access to your computer. I suggest you rerun the SAMBA wizard in the MCC to reconfigure your smb.conf. Do it EXACTLY as stated in the other forum. This way you'll be able to access you $HOME from any other computer. Once you'll be able to access your $HOME then add some stuff to smb.conf like hostallowed=blablabla etc... Here is the link in case: http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...7177&highlight= Hope this help MOttS

I Agree !!! To do CD-to-CD you have to emulate both your cdrom and writer. MOttS

ok ONCE AGAIN: I'm assuming your other cdrom is at hdd (slave of second ide) here .. I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS SO CHANGE THAT ACCORDINGLY ! Now, run lilo with the following command: lilo -v You have SUPERMOUNT enabled in your fstab !!! As I told you, I have no idea how to do that with supermount but here is a TRY. Now, REBOOT and type AS ROOT: cdrecord --scanbus If you don't see you two cdrom then it didn't work. Type AS ROOT supermount -i disable and use the following FSTAB: REBOOT again and type AS ROOT: cdrecord --scanbus If you don't see your two cdrom, two things: 1) DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING ! 2) COME BACK HERE and say EXACTLY what you have done so far. I cross my finger for you .. :lol: MOttS

Basically you have to edit files. I assume you use LILO here. I have no idea if you use Grub. You should backup files before to modify them .. we never know. 1) Edit lilo.conf and you'll see the following line somewhere append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" Add the device you want to emulate as scsi. If your normal cdrom is the slave of the second ide then it's hdd. Here is mine. append="quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" 2) Run lilo lilo -v 3) Edit fstab and modify the line of your normal cdrom. Here is mine. I don't use supermount because it sucks so I don't know if you are. Also, if your burner use /dev/scd0 then your new scsi emulated device will be /dev/scd1 or viceversa. /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,unhide,codepage=850,noauto,ro,umask=0,exec 0 0 REBOOT (very important because you pass the ide-scsi command to the kernel) and type 'cdrecord --scanbus' again. If it doesn't work come back here... we'll have to check some stuff links in /dev. MOttS

THANKS !!!!!!!!!!! I had figured out the BeginMIMEType = 1 thing but didn't know about the = 2. It's nice !!! I like it. Thanks for telling us and sharing your mimetype.ini file. Thanks to crash too !! MOttS

All the devices must be emulated as scsi devices to be used by cdrecord (k3b uses cdrecord ... like all other ****in cdrecording GUI). Search around for scsi emulation.. specially on the old board. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...ght=hdc+idescsi You have to see both you cdrom and burner when typing cdrecord --scanbus as root. What do you see ? like that: [root@localhost gd]# cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) 'LG ' 'DVD-ROM DRD8160B' '1.01' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 32X10 ' 'T.JA' Removable CD-ROM 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * MOttS

I'm tired of KDE so I started to use IceWM couple days ago and I was looking for a light file manager. So I downloaded and installed Endeavour 2.1.20 (they have a MDK RPM on their website) and IT ROCKS !!! It load in half a second and we can do everything with that !! Just one problem here though. I can't figure how to set the mime types. I clic View->Mime-types and a windows appears. Now if I clic file/regular and enter stuff in the empty boxes, the 'OK' button neven get green .. so I have no choise to press the 'Cancel' button. How did you set that ? Could you post your mimetypes.ini here so that we import it ? .. would be simple since we both use mandrake and use pretty much the same apps. That would be C()()L and easier... Thx MOttS

Oh .. ok I see. Well, you have to do all what I explained above in a console. There is a well explained HOWTO here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/bs....html#Unpacking If you have questions while compiling your program then come back here. The best way to learn is by tryal and error... MOttS

Here is a little HowTo for you to understand URPM: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/brpm3.html Basically URPM let you install, remove, upgrade softwares with their dependencies from RPM sources (cds, ftp sites, http sites, local directory, etc...) MOttS

I don't have any wireless stuff but everything seems really well explained on your link. I can help you .. where is the problem? What do you don't understand in the procedure? Why did you link to the binaries instead of the GPL driver ? Finally, the link you gave doesn't work because you included the 'BUT' into it. It should be http://mckinney.co.nz/wireless/binary.html MOttS

You have to choose LILO WITH GRAPHICAL MENU. You can probably set that at the install time but I don't remember (I last installed Mandrake September 27th .. lol). But once the computer is up and running you can easily change that by openning the Mandrake Control Center (MCC), clic BOOT and then BOOT CONFIG. Then you'll have to clic the CONFIGURE button and choose LILO WITH GRAPHICAL MENU from the drop down menu. Then clic ok and blablablabla. This should gives you some text with a graphical contour when you boot. Yes this is possible. There is a post here talking about that --> http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...&highlight=lilo This was like that in Mandrake 8.1. The package doing that was called Aurora. I'm sure you can install that in Mandrake 9 but never try.. I'm happy with the boot process and I don't boot too often anyway. Make a search for AURORA.. this is what you are looking for. Hope this help MOttS

That should help a bit. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...1617&highlight= MOttS

You can find a Mandrake rpm here: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...ndrake/9.0/rpms The best way to install Flash along with its required dependencies is to add that source to urpmi. This is done by issuing the following command as root (the code is all on the same line !!!!). urpmi.addmedia TextarRPMS ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms with hdlist.cz Then install Flash by typing (as root again) urpmi mozilla-flash Of course you need mozilla here ;-). If you use Konqueror then I have no idea unless you install Mozilla, install flash with the above command and then clic Kmenu->KdeControlCenter->WebBrowing->NetscapePlugins and then clic 'scan for new plugin'. Hope this help MOttS

I did a bit of research and the only thing we can do is to remove these entries from the log files (the attack itself is harmless on linux host anyway). That can be done easily without much effort. Only have to add a couple of line in the config files here and there. Here are 3 usufull links related to that: http://www.brettglass.com/apacheabuse/index.html http://www.der-keiler.de/Mailing-Lists/sec...02-01/0123.html http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum23/1375.htm Those are 3 different solutions. I'll try them all and tell you which works better. :wink: MOttS

It's probably new yes. I have Netscape 7 and it acts same way either. :( MOttS

Textar made the rpms Here they are: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...ndrake/9.0/test or http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...drake/9.0/test/ MottS

Of course ! xkill && kicker MOttS

The default mandrake kernel is not configured to run on a multi-processor system so forget about using the 3 Mandrake cds. You have 2 choises: 1)Download the SMP cds. 2)Install with one processor, compile the kernel with the SMP option, install your second processor and boot the newly compiled kernel. You have the proof that the problem is the kernel because you can use the SMP redhat kernel. Have you tried to rebuild and install the nvidia driver on your redhat installation ? MOttS

rename a file: mv filename newfilename remove a file: rm filename Little tutorial: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/new/services/lin...nux_basics.php3 LOTS more tutorial here: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8...le+Search&meta= Hope this help MOttS