wilcal

I've been tinkering with 2006 since it was first

released on Cooker as ISO's on 2005.07.23 as 2006 0.1

http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrivaLinux2006

I have a removable hard drive test system and can

A <=> B hard disks and Operating systems at will.

My real on line system was 2005 LE and that stayed

that way till I fully understood 2006.0 and the

kinks got worked out of it. I even made a couple

contributions to BugZilla.

Once it realeased as a 3-CD free Distro on 2005.11.14

I got serious and educated myself on transitioning

everything from 2005 LE -> 2006.0 and did that on

2 Jan 06.

Some general comments are that 06 seems at this point

at least as stable as 05 LE was. It boots about twice

as fast and that was one of the new features.

Traditionally Mandriva/Mandrake lags somewhat in

the revision level of the packages but none of them

are more then about 6 months old. My first system

was 8.2 running on a Compaq P-350 DeskPro I bought

for $250. Now that's running Ubuntu 5.10.

The biggest change for me was that httpd (Apache) does

not default to running with public_html as did 05 LE.

You have to install drakwizard from urpmi then set

up your FTP and Apache webserver using MCC. Once I

had done that it was off and running.

All of the features and functions I need are running

fine. As was with 9.2, 10.2 and 2005 LE you can seriously

screw it and it'll all come back. As in jerk the

power cord out of the wall and as it comes back watch it

check the file system for errors, correct them and reboot

back to proper operation.

I highly suggest installing the Webmin 1.222 that

is specific to Mandriva. That will give you a great

tool to manage it locally and/or remotely.

I've started the whole process all over again for 2007

using 2006.1.03 as a starting point but I don't expect

much until the middle of the year.

me takes a look at the piles of CDs laying around...

Have you been following the progression of Damn Small Linux?

DSL.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

that one is absolutely fascinating.

I almost consider playing around with different

Linux Distros a hobby. I'm eager for the nest

post on

http://www.distrowatch.com

so I can download this or that ISO, burn the CD

and give it a whirl. Strange hobby.

One of the principle challenges you have when you

do this is if there are still bits and bytes of

whatever used to be on the HD the new OS your

trying to load may in fact see it and do sometimes

strange things. Especially if it sees something

in the MBR (Main Boot Record). "Formating" does

not always zero (literally) all of that out.

Mandrake is no different. This is especially true

when doing "upgrades".

I use two programs to ensure myself there is nothing

left on the HD that will make the install of the

next OS skidderish.

The free to download version of:

http://www.killdisk.com/

wipes a drive completely clean to zeros from bit

one to bit last including the MBR. It takes awhile

for big drives but you can rest assured that there

is nothing left. I have never harmed a drive using

this application.

I also use the Ranish Partition Manager (RPM)

http://www.ranish.com/part/

to identify whatever FAT and OS file structure

a particular OS lays down on the HD. Using RPM

I can then prepare a HD for either a single OS

installation or up to 30 separate, discreet and

bootable partitions.

Some Linux Distros treat the HD awfully. They

insist on screwing up the MBR regardless of

what you want it to do. I those cases you always

have to wipe the HD first and the only OS you

can put on the HD is the one your playing with

at the time.

Mandriva 10.0 and newer are very moldable OS's

in that you can pre-prepare a HD with ext3 and

swap Linux partition(s) and install to that specific

partitions without effecting any other partitions

on the HD. This is an EXTREMELY valuable feature

as it gives you the opportunity to Play with

the same OS in multiple copies and set ups on

the same HD. I wish all Linux OS' were the same.

Interestingly enough WinBlows XP Pro is also

well behaved. You can install it to a NTFS

partition and it will not screw with anything else

on the HD. And even intermix it with Linux

partitions on the same drive. Also once installed

to one partition that partition can be bit copied

to another of identical size for backup or testing.

The Partition Manager in MCC is very usefull

and well behaved.

Do note that Ubuntu, even though a very nice

OS, is not so well behaved at install. It likes

to hog the entire HD and screw with the MBR regardless

of what you tell it to do.

I have identified a bit of a wrinkle in the playing

of a DVD using 2006.0, Gnome and Totem. It seems that

if the screen saver is active that while playing

a DVD the screen/user locks up at the point in time

that the screen saver would activate. If you are in

full screen view mode there is no way out other

then external control, I use webmin and from

another machine on the LAN reboot the system.

At first I thought there was something intermittant

but then I recognized that the lockup occurred right

at the time the screen saver was set to kick in.

Prior to playing a DVD, and using the Gnome configuration

tool, I set the screen saver off. But, that does not seem

to always work. So I also, using the Gnome system monitor,

kill the process called xscreensaver. Don't end it, kill it.

To reactivate the screen saver again use the Gnome

configuration tool or exit the user and reenter.

Has anyone else here experianced this?

I'm going to assume that you are using Mandriva 2006.

Go to http://rpm.pbone.net

Do an advanced search only on Mandriva 2006

Search for: webmin-1.220-9mdk.noarch.rpm

You will have to restart the system to get it

up and running.

During Mandriva installation when you are presented with

this screen:

http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slidesho...se=472&slide=12

I always select Security level low or none whatever that

is. I use the external hardware router to block ports

from the WAN. Also https://localhost:10000/ is only

for the computer that Webmin is installed on.

Something like

https://192.168.0.6:10000

will work from another computer on the LAN.

Something like https://66.234.192.56:10000

will work from the Internet if you allow that port

throught the Router. I change my Webmin port to something

odd like 12532 so from the Internet I would go to:

https://66.234.192.56:12532

As funky as it is webmin is a good tool to monitor your

Mandriva webserver. awstats has had some security problems

of late so I have stayed away from that.

If you do a normal install of Mandriva ( 2005 LE or 2006 )

the default top page of the http server page will be at:

/var/www/html/index.html

I would suggest, under root, copying this file

to index_tmp.html and creating your own if you

wish. But, do not use this directory for your

webpages. Create users and put html content in

their own public_html directories.

Note. There is a very big difference between

how http is handled between Mandriva 2005 LE

and earlier and Mandriva 2006. Due to transgressions

in the past Mandriva has made http default not

installed and running for users as against default

turned on in the past. In fact back at Mandrake 9.2

the proxy was default turned on opening that version

to zombie attacks. Believe me I know having been

through all of that.

Install 2006 in it's default modes including Apache

httpd. Set up your contrib, main and update urpmi

sources. Using MCC install drakwizard. That will

put a new tab in MCC titled Share. Using Share you

can set up your Apache httpd 2.0 and FTP servers

for users. Use the default User directory public_html.

I end up with something like this:

http://66.159.200.93/~wilcal/

or in your case:

http://redtiger.game-server.cc/~gamers/

but in a very controlled environment. The spiders,

hackers and crackers will go after 66.159.200.93.

In your case: http://redtiger.game-server.cc

So you can put into /var/www/html/index.html how

much or how little you want somebody to know about

the website(s) on your server.

Monitor very closely:

/var/log/httpd/access_log

/var/log/httpd/error_log

look at all of the hits on your server noting

especially things like Windows server attacks

and cracks. I also use webmin and on a daily basis

track all of the traffic through the sites and

the number of errors returned ( 400 errors ).

If the number of errors increase dramatically or

you cannot account for the bandwidth your httpd

server is using you have a (BIG) problem. Right now

I am measuring about .045% unaccounted for

traffic. That traffic is hack and crack attempts.

A couple years ago I was using Mandrake 9.2 with

Apache 1.3.28 which had default left an open

proxy running at install. After about 8 months

running clean my server was discovered by a

Chinese hacker who started to use it as a

way to proxy false click through traffic.

Quite an interesting scam. Anyway I, and many

other Mandrake Users, discovered the open Proxy's

and turned it all off.

IMO. Be very carefull running an Apache server

on your Mandriva server. You _WILL_ be attacked

agressively and constantly. Use a hardware firewall

router with only Port 80, and maybe 21, open to the

world. Also weekly make sure your system has all the

latest updates.

you need the win32, xine-win32, libxine and xine-plugins from plf to make it work

be sure that you are connected to the internet and have a plf-repository set up, then do

urpmi xine-win32

urpmi will fetch the needed files for you

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That worked wonderfully well. Perfect. Solved.

Thanks

Interesting that I am still struggling with this.

I have used the following RPM's:

xine-win32-1.1.1-0.1.20060plf.i586.rpm

win32-codecs-1.7-2plf.i586.rpm

xine-plugins-1.1.0-8mdk.i586.rpm

in all different installation sequences and I

still keep coming up with an error. That being

when I attempt to install xine-win32 the

error reported is

"some package requested cannot be installed

xine-win32-1.1.1-0.1.20060plf.i586.rpm (Due to

unsatisfied win32-codecs)"

If I attempt to play a WMV file I get the following

error:

"Windows Media Video 9 is not handled. Install

additional plugins"

Interestingly enough the Live-CD PCLinuxO runs'em

just fine. Over the weekend I'll take a look at

the lib file structure in that.

Thanks bunches

My question is where to put the Windows codecs so that

the default video player for Gnome (Totem) can play WMV

files. The sources as I see it are one of two:

windows-all-20050412.zip 15-Apr-2005 00:33 11.6M

windows-essential-20050412.zip 15-Apr-2005 00:33 9.4M

With the "all" file containing just more codecs. The Readme.txt

file says to put them in the:

/usr/local/lib/codecs/

or

/usr/local/lib/win32

or

/usr/lib/win32

directories none of which are there. Do they all just dump in

there ( dll + acm + ax + drv + qts + vwp + ax )? There's

like 105 of them. Can I create one of these directories and put

them in there?

Thanks

If cars were designed like Linux is designed, some people would suggest that going into the showroom and looking at a bare chassis with an engine sitting on it would be a good thing.  They say that in an ideal world you should choose the seats, dashboard, and body to be what YOU want them to be.

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Ya know when automobiles first came to market in the early 20th Century that's exactly the way they were sold. You chose a chassis with engine from one company and a "coach" from another.

I still have a mixture of XP/Win98/Linux boxes for

a variety of reasons. The Linux (Mandriva) boxs are

the every day work horses. One is a webserver and

workstation at the same time. It never gets turned

off.

A second box, the highest performance box, features

a removable SATA hard drive system. I presently own

5 removable drives that can be used in that system.

One of the drives from first sector to last contains

Windows XP SP2 with all the latest and greatest updates.

I paid for the license for this XP when I bought the

box so it's a legitimately installed and maintained

version. This drive I use to test to make sure whatever

I do on my Linux server is completely compatable with

Microsoft's most common platform(s).

Other removable SATA HD's for the second box contain

a wide variety of Linux OS's. The Ranish Partition

Manager allows me to slice an SATA HD into as many as

30 partitions/OS's.

Another old box contains Ubuntu 5.10 always a very

good fall back backup system.

And one box has another install of Windows XP SP2.

That box is dedicated to Multimedia capture and

edit an area where Linux is still far behind the

Microsoft platform on. I use Adobe Premiere Pro

for video editing and there is nothing in the

Linux world that can compare to that package.

Another is Avid which is even way over an above

Premiere Pro.

An old working Win98 box doubles as a table for

the removable HD system. This box contains one

of the ATI All-in-Wonder boards and doubles as

a TV and video capture. This box is rarely even

turned on.

FWIW: I use a D-link KVM switch to navigate around

this pile of boxes.

:D Mandriva still creates one of the, if not the best

out-of-the -box distro IMHO.

I suggest that over the next 18 -> 24 months we are

going to see some VERY dramatic events in the

desktop workstation environment. OS's like Mandriva,

Suse and Red Hat are going to position themselves

with the very best offering they can produce. Expect

to see Mandriva go though another cooker to release

about this same time next year.

All leading up to the release of "Vista". When that

thing hits the streets it better be damn good and bug

free. If it stumbles the little Lion Cubs are gonna

eat it alive.

FWIW My first Mandrake box was an 8.2 running on

a Compaq Deskpro P350, 192MB, 5GB HD. That thing

ran wonderfully. It's now loaded with Ubuntu 5.10

and it's completely revived that ole box.

All sorts of stories running around the web today

about the problems that the new releases of Suse and

Mandriva 2006 are running into. I suspect that it'll

take a week to get all the story(s) all straight.

IMO 2006 (cooker) is a fun thing to tinker with

but seeing all the bugs in there the last go

around (Ver 0.5) I'm sure there's still a lot

of clean up to do. Even on this first release.

Mandriva LE 2005 continues to be fully supported

and remains one of the most stable and reliable

platforms anywhere.

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

To replace Any Linux OS it is NEVER necessary to

uninstall to OS being replaced......

Well I am going to respectfully disagree a little

with AussieJohn on this one. Better put it should be

To replace(upgrade) Any Linux OS it should NEVER

be necessary to uninstall the OS being replaced(upgraded).

But being the animals they are OS's can be nasty things

and sometimes replacements don't behave properly.

Upgrades can be worse.

Most of us have only one PC and one OS so when going

through the exercise of replacement and/or upgrade

we kinda put everything at risk.

I have found over the years that to be absolutely

sure and avoid conflict with little left over nastys

here and there a complete wipe of the hard drive with

all zeros and an install from scratch works, at least

to get a proper install. That NEVER guarantees that

the replace/upgrade will work. It may crash miserably.

But by wiping the HD clean at least you are starting

with a clean slate.

First and foremost backup to something your critical

data. Put it somewhere where the unknown next OS

can't get to it. Give the Upgrade a shot then reload

your backed up data.

I use a bootable floppy or CD with:

http://www.killdisk.com/

on it and completely wipe the HD from beginning to end.

The HD looks just like a brand new drive and is loaded

from end to end with "0"s. Then I do a full install

letting the OS (at least the first time) do whatever

it wants to do to get going.

You would be amazed at what some of the Linux Distros

do, or don't do, or insist on doing (sometimes stupidly).

Anybody here remember the bad ole days of Windows when

you would have your Win 3.1 system running as best it

could then you would install an off the shelf commercial

program? You'd go through the load, then Windows would come

up and inform you that the program had installed properly

and is it ok to Reboot? You would answer Yes. The system

would reboot and completely crash and freeze. Everything

blown out and gone. Those were fun times.

Skype rpm versions?

Looking at the www.skype.com website

skype-1.2.0.11-1.mdk10.2.thac.i586.rpm (what I got off http://rpm.pbone.net/)

skype-1.2.0.17-mdr.i586.rpm (on www.skype.com)

I have been successful to install the Skype Mandriva

Linux RPM in LE 2005 but it's doing something strange.

skype-1.2.0.11-1.mdk10.2.thac.i586.rpm

Using the Skype window I can create a new user ID with

an associated PW and the program logs in and runs.

But, if I exit the Skype program then reopen it

if I try to reopen that same account with its

correct IP and PW the program says Login Error.

The Skype program has an option to have your IP and

a new PW sent to your e-mail address which I do and

get that new PW. But, when I use that IP and PW

combination I once again get a "login Error" message.

The only time I can get Skype to work is on the

very first time I create the account and PW. After

that no matter what I do I can't get back in.

Is this possibly something to do with the latest

Mandriva RPM? I read everywhere that Skype is

Port independent but see references to Port 80 & 443.

Port 80 is open in my LAN to the WAN but Port 443

is walled off from incoming stuff.

I gotta believe a lotta people are successfully using

Skype on Mandriva LE 2005.

Thanks

I have Mandrake 10.1 with a pentium I I think 133MH

proc with 64 MB and I think 2.5 GB Harddrive.......

 

OK From when you start your computer up and Mandrake

ask you to press "F1" or "Enter" to install with in

seconds I get a "fatal error giving hand to second stage."

When I press <ALT-F3> I get this message

 

*Total Memory: 64 Mbytes

*Warning, ramdisk is not possible due to low mem!.......

 

is my hard drive bad or something? or is there not

enough space? What a headach to learn Linux!

(or I need better parts lol)

By mistake I set up a 7.5MB (MegaByte)

partition on one of my removable hard drives a

couple days ago and attempted to install Ubuntu 5.10

to it. That thing klanged and clattered for about 30

minutes spewing error notices all over the screen but

being unaware of the microscopic space I had alloted to

it I just let it go on. When that thing booted it did

all kinda strange stuff.

Time for a new puter Dude.

> Hope I am posting this on the right place as I am

> new to this forum....

Yes, this is the right place for cooker comments

and questions.

> For the last 2 months I was using Mandriva 2005 LE

> and last week I changed to mandriva 2006 RC2. It was

> a fresh installation. But I am facing some problems here.

2006 RC2 ( as in Release Candidate 2 )

> The first one is I am unable to share any folder....

The number of bugs fixed from RC1 -> RC2 was nearly 200

and the number of changes was 3616. Since the release

of RC2 I suggest that Mandriva Development team

is doing some soul searching on their schedule.

I myself found one serious bug in RC2 and that

has been acknowledged. But all has gone silent

since I submitted my thing.

Best is to get involved and understand how to use:

http://qa.mandriva.com/

I'm still learning how to navigate around in it

but I understand enough about it to find out if

what I found others found the same.

I recommend staying on Mandriva 2005 LE. It's a

stable, reliable and robust platform. Give the

2006 thing time to work itself out before committing

your important applications to it.

2006 "cooker" is not better then 2005 LE. It's

the lets test it and find the bugs version of

the next Mandriva release. And there are bugs.

I am looking for software that will allow me to stream real time audio to the internet.

If your looking to do just Audio

http://www.live365.com/pro/index.html

has been around for quite some time. It's been awhile since I checked their pricing.

Have fun.

Yes...I want to stream 'live' content to the internet.....

So I'm on a mission (so ta speak) to get this thing up

and running....

WOW! Thank you VERY much for sharing your dream. Your

application, the streaming of live real time

Video/Audio over the Internet is real and widely held

by many. I have been dabbling in the technology for

about 5 years now and watching the progression of

the various supportive technologies.

Hopefully I won't embarrass anyone here. The Church

application is big time high on the list. The ability

of a Congregation to live cast services to a limited

audience is a huge opportunity. By "Limited" lets

put that at no more then 100 viewers at any given

time.

The second market is the Adult entertainment market

who are somewhat using small pieces of it now. The

one frame per second and terrible audio is pretty

widely spread and installed at this time. Regardless

of how you may feel about this market if you are

looking for something to test your hardware/software

on this is the (unfortunate) place to do it. As I

mentioned in my previous message I was able to

sustain a streaming video (no audio) 4 hour long

live webcast to about 400 viewers. All at the same

time.

The technology is being pushed on two fronts. They

are.

1) Video - Network Cameras, the proliferation of them

and the technology and the post 9/11 effects. Examples

of companies that offer good solutions in this market

are:

http://www.axis.com/

http://www.beausoft.com/

http://www.tomsnetworking.com/network/20020923/

Most of these solutions offer "Network TV" applications

that can support a limited audience. The really good

news on this one is virtually all of these cameras

use embedded linux. I own a:

D-Link DCS-3220G

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=351

that works wonderfully well for both Video and Audio,

can be set up in minutes and viewed by about an

Internet audience of 10. BIG caveat, you better have

a very high bandwidth upstream connection. The DCS-3220G

uses embedded Linux.

Go to www.google.com and search on: "Network Cameras"

2) Audio - without going into the whys and wherefores

upstream live audio is very hard to do and expensive.

There are many services on the Internet that offer

Internet Radio services. Pricing is based upon

viewer count, and quality, and can be crippling.

I see what

http://www.skype.com

is developing as an alternative to this technology.

Already you can set up a free teleconference of

4 people using the Skype technology. This technology

is at least 3 -> 4 years behind the video side of

things.

Soooo...if you want to set up a small audience, lets

say 50 viewers, Internet television system for your

Church Congregation then I suggest contracting with

one of your local security camera companies. I also

recommend the www.axis.com products. Outstanding.

You can see these techniques right here and now at:

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/

You must have Flash and Java properly installed in

your computer. The defalt image stream (no audio)

is CAM4. This technology is fairly easy to implement

and so long as you have the support and understanding

of your ISP fairly inexpensive to do. CAM1 is an

example of live streaming Video/Audio. Sorry it's

a ActiveX application so you will need to view it

on XP/IE with all the latest plugins. But, as an

example of what can be done to a limited audience

it's pretty good.

IMPORTANT!!!!! If you implement a sustained upstream

multimedia chain of data (audio or video) make sure

your ISP knows you are going to do it. Otherwise

they will see it as a Denial of Service attack or

that the computer in your venue (Church) has

been compromised and is being used to spew spam.

This whole technology is in its very early stages

and we'll see lots of exciting things to come out

of it in the not to distant future.

I am looking for software that will allow me to

stream real time audio to the internet......

Very important technical point, at least to me.

A "real time audio" stream to me means live Internet

Radio. You set up a studio with a microphone and server

and you stream audio to either 1, x or an unlimited

number of listeners. If you commute to work in the

morning and you turn on your car radio and listen

to a live talk show you are listening to a "real

time audio" stream. Is this what you are looking to do?

A fair quality "real time audio" stream by my

definition is more difficult to achieve then

a video stream that is just barely good enough.

I have been able to demonstrate a "real time video"

stream using a portable source computer/camera and a

remote buffer server. That buffer server has

sustained as many as 400 viewers all at the same

time viewing the same video stream. All in sync.

Live Internet TV.

Is this what you are attempting to do with audio,

which again, is more difficult to do then video?

I restarted Mandriva 2006 and then launched KDETv and scanned for US-Cable with

NTSC and it found all of my channels.

I would be very interested in the frame rates and sizes of video stream capture

your get. Examples:

640x480x30 frames raw AVI

320x240x15 frames Mpeg-1

800x600x30 frames Mpeg-2

???

Wilcal, usually when you get messages like that it means you have a bad burn.....

I agree and I have become very sensitive to that. I have narrowed down my

burning process to only use 2005 LE latest and greatest with updates using

K3b and a verify pass. So far it's been perfect. I burn a lot of OS's to

CD-R/W mostly in Live CD's. Latest have been the Ubuntu and Knoppix

stuff. All are successfull. All burns are at 4x max.

The OS's test system is as follows:

Server Truman

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Intel, P4 530J 3.0 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2, LGA 775

GigaByte GA-8I915G Pro" i915G

Marvel Yukon 88E8001 Gigabit LAN

Intel High Def Audio, Azalia (C-Media 9880)

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (on Intel 915)

Kingston 1G(512MBx2) DDR400 PC-3200

Maxtor 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA (one partition 2005 LE)

Maxtor 120GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA ( ten partitions, various OS's )

Maxtor 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA ( two partitions )

Ranish Partition Manager

KingWin HD Rack/Tray subsystem

Sony CD/DVD-RW DW-D26A

Ive got mandrake 10.1 for a few days and two HD's my second one i cant access to it can someone help me

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Early in boot get into your BIOS and make sure that the BIOS sees that second drive.