fuzzylizard

Haven't a clue, but it is an easy thing to add if you have problems. So, leave it out for now and see what happens.

As long as your computer can boot from a CD it will boot directly into the installation. Computers always try to boot off the CD, or floppy, before they try to boot off the hard drive.

Yea, reformat (wipe) all the other partitions except for your home partition.

At the end of the install, it will ask to install LILO, in my experience, go for it. I have never had a problem with installing another version of LILO over an old one.

Insert the disk, and mount it (graphically of course) to make the icon apear, and unmount it (still graphically) to automatically eject it.

Exactly how do you do this?

Definitely do a fresh install -- wipe everything but your home partition. This will allow you to keep your bookmarks and whatever else you have in there. It will also make sure that there are no conflicts between old and new packages.

If everything else is disposable except for the bookmarks, those should be small enough to go on a floppy.

Two things I can suggest that should work: (1) install the entire Ximian desktop package. This will restore evolution and allow you to reinstall Opera or (2) install Mandrake 9.0 onto your system.

Either one should reverse the damage done.

The only other thing that I can suggest is to try and uninstall both Opera and Evolution and to start over. Try installing evolution from either source or rpm, and not through red carpet and then install opera.

There is also a game called Vega Strike that is based on the windows game Elite. I haven't tried it, just saw it in the Nov. issue of Linux Format.

Here is the link

http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/main.html

And here are some screenshots (takes forever for the page to render though)

http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/pics.html

It looks interesting, some of the graphics look a little rough though.

I definitely second anon. Do a clean install of everything but your home directory. This is probably the safest route to take.

Wipe all partitions except for home and do a clean install. This will ensure that there are no strange dependency issues that need to be dealt with. When you upgrade a single package you never know what it may break. I just recently upgraded glibc to 2.3 and I can't run OpenOffice.org anymore.

If you friend simply wants a working computer that they are not going to play with, then definitely install instead of upgrade.

If you are new to the worl dof Linux, then stick with Mandrake. Slackware is a harder distro to both install and maintain.

However, if you are looking to really learn Linux, then Slackware may be what you are looking for. It is not the hardest distro out there, but it is not as easy as Mandrake or Red Hat.

BTW, the current version for slackware is 8.1.

I plan on installing it myself in the next few weeks, I will let you know what I think. Or, just keep watching my website. I will be posting all the details there.

A quick question: can any of these program output to a format that can be imported by an accountant for income tax purposes?

No problem. Remember, whenever you are trying to install software outside of your home directory, you always need to be root to do it.

What do you intend on using the mail server for and exactly what are you looking for?

Are you only looking to use it for a single user sending email from your personal computer or are you setting up an office server and looking for enterprise level email support?

Are you looking solely for SMTP support or do you need POP and IMAP support as well?

Check this one out. Linux Format recently did a head-to-head of a series of smtp mail programs and this was the winner.

Exim Internet Mailer - http://www.exim.org/

I am going to try and go back to the original glibc files that were installed on the system and see if that helps.

Interesting, I have used several different clients that all support ICQ and have never had my contacts just appear a la MSN.

Can EveryBuddy download contacts from the ICQ server?

In order to do that kind of install you be root. To do this, type in su. It will then ask for you password, and bingo you are root. Then type in:

./install --perfix=/opt

and everything should work.

I did not compile the program if that is what you mean. I downloaded the OOo_1.0.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz file and installed the program via their instructions.

The program was installed into /opt as root and then installed into my workspace. I did it this way so that any user on the computer could use the program.

Do you think compiling from source may fix the problem?

When I try to run OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 I get the splashscreen and then I get this little error box that says:

An unrecoverable error has occured.

All modified files have been saved and can

probably be recovered at program start.

The only problem is that I can't find out what is causing the error. If I try to start OOo from a shell, it doesn't report any errors.

The only thing that I can think of is that I upgraded glibc recently to version 2.3.1-6 and somehow that may be screwing things up. However, I just did a new install of v1.0.1 and it didn't complained about the version of glibc installed.

So, I'm stumped. Anyone got any ideas as to what to do next?

Gaim is great, but I wish it would import my "buddy" list from the icq servers, like it does for MSN connections... I love chatting to people on 3 different systems at once though.

For ICQ, your contacts are stored in a file on your computer and not with a central server. Therefore, there is no way of importing contacts.

One thing I don't like about ICQ.

Thanks, that looks perfect.

Hey,

I was hoping someone here could tell me how you go about creating rpms from source? I have always wondered how this was done.

If I download the source -- the tar.gz file -- for a program, say the NVidia drivers, how would I go about creating a rpm from that? I know how to do this if I download a srpm but not the actuall tar.gz source.

Thanks in advance.

I would have to agree with cannonfodder. If the Mandrake installation is fairly recent, wipe it and start over. And start by deleting all the linux partitions. This allows you to use diskdrake to create the correct size partitions to take advantage of the extra space on your drive.

One other thing to keep in mind if you are going to wipe your Mandrake install and your XP partition is NTFS, this provides an excellent time to create a FAT32 partition for sharing data between the two OSs. Wipe all the linux partitions, create a small FAT32 partition and then install Mandrake into the remaining free space.

In short, I don't think you can.

When you install mozilla 1.2, it will install to a different location then the 1.1. This means that you will have two version of mozilla on your computer. Both should work side by side though.

If you wait a few days, I am sure that either Mandrake, or Texstar, will release Mandrake specific rmps.

Fuzzy makes sense to me. Linux can read from NTFS but writing to any NTFS partitions is risky biz so we don't want setup to attempt this.

 

I would leave w2k as it is on your master drive and install linux on your slave. You will be able to select which OS starts by default after its all set up -or- you could select the other during startup. Later on you can move things around with Partition Magic if you so choose.

 

If you try Partition Magic ---My choice would be to keep the NTFS on first/primary partition with rest as FAT32 in extended partition of master. The slave can be all for Linux. This way the FAT32 partition could be used for storing and sharing files with either OS.

I definitely second this advice. The last thing you want to do is to try and write to an NTFS drive.

Although win2k does not need to occupy the first partition on the master drive, it is just easier to leave it where it is and work around it.

Strong Suggestion: backup any important info on your win2k drive in case you toast everything.

First, I am going to assume that both drives are completely formatted NTFS.

The best thing that you can do is to buy/find/get a copy of Partition Magic 7/8, I am not sure what they are at now. This will allow you to repartition your hard drives non-destructively. If you let Mandrake do this, you may/will loose data.

Partition Magic is fairly easy to use with a very intuitive interface and plenty of wizards.

Once you have a free/empty partition on your hard drive you can install Mandrake into that partition.

In terms of the other drive, it really doesn't matter if the first one boots first. The Master Boot Record decides which drive boots.

The best option is to install Mandrake onto the second drive. When you do this, Mandrake will install either LILO or Grub onto the Master Boot Record and that will determine which OS, or drive, gets booted.

Hopefully somewhere in this rambling there is an answer to your question. If not, just shout and I, or someone else, will clarify.

Didn't we just have this discussion. Anyway, I use either emacs or vim for my programming. However, I am starting to use another program called jEdit. Although it is written in Java, it understands C,C++ and allows for multiple panes and a console pane.