fuzzylizard

I am on mandrake 9.2 and everything seems to be working fine...

Cool, Glad you got everything installed. Welcome to Mandrake Linux.

Yeah, you can make your desktop computer into a 'server'.

Someone please inform me as to what the difference between a 'desktop computer' and a 'server' is!!!

Anyway, any computer is a server if it is serving something. Therefore, install a web server onto your computer and bingo presto it is a server. Remove the server thingies from a 'server' and it becomes a desktop computer. They are all just oversized calculators.

Okay, rant aside. The biggest thing that you need to look at is the service agreement from you ISP. Most home ISP companies do not allow the use of servers being setup on their connections. Therefore, if you do set something up, know that you will probably be in violation of your service agreement.

Do you have a static IP or a dynamic IP? This will also be something that you will need to consider.

You posted once on this forum about this and someone answered your question, Don't post twice about the same question.

In addition, next time do a little searching. The question is fine, but this board has answered the 'how do you do a md5 checksum' about 100 times.

This is the reason that I suggested you delete the partition you want to install Linux onto and leave it as empty unused space.

When you start the install, you will be able to select where you want to install Mandrake. The idea of drive letters does not exist in Linux, so you are going to need to be able to recognize where on the drive the partition (or empty space) exists that you want to install Mandrake into. Then, just select that partition (or lack thereof) and install.

Generally, if you have three existing partitions on your computer and you want to install into the third one, then it will be labeled hdc during the install.

Don't worry about extended or primary partitions. When you install Mandrake, all you need to do is to pick the correct spot on the drive to install to and let Mandrake do all the work.

Check the install manual to see exactly what I am talking about here.

You have looked through the install manual, right?!?!

Welcome to the board.

First, if you do a search, you will find about 500 other posts that address this very issue. However, you're new here so I will answer some of the questions.

To install Mandrake, the best thing to do is to delete the second FAT partition. This will create some blank space on the drive. Mandrake will recognize this and during the install, you can elect to use 'free space'. This will install Mandrake onto the empty (non-existent) partition.

The install for Mandrake is actually easier then for XP. However, if you search the Mandrake website, you will find an installation manual in pdf format. I strongly suggest that you take a few minutes to view this just so that you know what is coming. There are lot of screenshots to show you what to expect.

When you install Mandrake it will install LILO for you and setup all the dual boot stuff properly. This will allow you to boot into either XP or Mandrake.

As for reinstalling either, it is true that when you reinstall XP it will over-write the boot record and make it so that you can not boot to Linux. The best way to deal with this is to create a boot floppy. This will allow you to insert the floppy, boot into Mandrake and reinstall LILO. Allowing you once again to dual boot. The way that you reinstall LILO is to simply login as root and at a command line type ' 'lilo' (without the single quotes)

If you need to reinstall Mandrake for some reason, it will once again setup the dual boot for you.

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This version is different though from the other one posted. Easier to go farther.

Best thing to do is to go to www.sourceforge.net and type GIS into the search field. You will get a whole lot of hits for registry and registration, but you will also get some geographical software hits as well.

I am assuming that GIS stands for Geographical Information System, if not. please fill us in on exactly what kind of software you are looking for. Could also be graphical identification system, who knows...

Here are my picks

Java - Netbeans

C/C++ - Anjuta*

Anything else - Emacs or jEdit

I have had some stability problems with Anjuta running on KDE on Mandrake.

As for installing it, select some sources and simply type in urpmi anjuta. In addition, I believe there is a copy of it on the 9.2 CDs.

What a completely stupid waste of time.

Highest score was 323.4

A lot of times, the size of the ISO does not accurately reflect the size of the resulting disk. There is not a one-to-one relationship between the size of the ISO and the size of the CD.

Obviously, if you download a 900meg ISO it is not going to fit onto a 700meg CD. However, if the ISO is a little over the 700 mark, it should burn without any problems onto a CD-R.

Which ISO's in particular did you download?

And let's not forget DVD-RAM either. Don't want it feeling left out of this little discussion. :P

In order to give you any kind of answer, the following information is needed: Motherboard, cpu, hard drive, video card, basically list all the hardware in your computer.

In addition, where did you get the CD's from -- did you burn them from ISO's that you downloaded or are they of the bought variety? If the CD's were burned from ISO's, did you do a md5 checksum of the ISO's before you burned them to CD?

When you did the install, what did the configuration screen at the end of the install say? Was all of your hardware detected and configured properly? Or were they things that were missing?

Also, when you reboot your computer, before it gets to the point of checking for new hardware, can you do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to another screen to see any error messages? (Not sure if this is possible, but worth a try)

Anyway, provide more detail and you will most likely get a better response.

Airsnort? i think that does what is wanted

I checked it out and AirSnort slowly breaks the WEP encryption used wireless connections. It does not monitor wireless connections, just cracks them. Nice looking software, the only problem is that it needs 5 - 10 million packets before it will work.

As for whether or not the linux computer can handle the internet sharing, it can. I was using a pentium 100 (or something) with 16 megs of ram as a firewall/router and never noticed a slow down. The internet connection was shared between up to 3 computers at the same time.

My suggestion is to buy a linksys router/firewall box from your local Best Buy and use that to share the internet. It makes everyone's life a lot easier.

Not sure if this will help, but if you did everything in the tutorial, did you reboot your machine? If not, then the java directory will not be in your path. You need to get linux to reread your .profile/.bashrc (whichever file you used to add java to your PATH variable) file. Rebooting is usually the easiest way of doing this.

Did you get this solved? If not...

Yeah, use the 'Record CD from CD image' option. Instead of copying the ISO to CD, it will burn the files inside the ISO to the CD.

This should give you a bootable CD that you can use.

One question though: when you downloaded the CD, did you do a md5 check on it to ensure that it was not corrupted? The absolute worse thing you can do is to go through all of this only to find out the ISO was damaged during download. (If you do a search, there should be several posts about performing an md5 checksum on windows.)

Not totaly sure what mean here, but I am going to assume that you mean in the same way as in win98/2000/XP?

I don't really know of any technology built into Linux that really allows for this. Usually, what you need to do is to create either samba shares and use samba or create NFS shares (the latter being native to linux).

As for a program or command that will allow you to browse a linux network, I don't know.

I realize that is probably not much help.

I think that's Warley!

Ignorant question, but who is Warley?

Cool, it worked. Now using kernel 2.6.0-1.

Hmm... So far the only difference that I see is the stupid picture at the top of the boot screen. (Who is the guy inside of the heart?)

Thanks for the instructions.

Thanks, but I actually got rid of the smoothwall firewall and went with an all-in-one linksys firewall/router combo. The linksys solution uses a lot less electricity then the smoothwall computer does, that was the reason behind the change.

The really nice thing about the linksys solution is that at any time I can go in and view the dhcp table for the router. This allows me to see exactly who is connected to my system. So far, no problems.

I have also set the access point to filter by MAC addresses, and the only mac address that it allows to connect is the one attached to my notebook.

So far, this has worked great. And is hopefully saving me some money every month as well.

There are several steps that you need to go through in order to accomplish this:

• [1] do a google search on samba and read some of the results. There are a lot of really good samba tutorials on the web that answer this exact question.
  [2] Install SWAT on your computer, this will give you a graphical front end which you can use to manage samba
  [3] Make sure that you have the same user accounts setup on both your windows machine and on your linux machine
  [4] using SWAT, define the following
  • set encrypted passwords to ON
    
  • define the shares you want accessible from windows
    
  • manually enter the user details of each user who needs access to the shares. (Yes, this needs to be done twice -- once as linux users and second as samba users)
    

[5] Restart samba

[6] try to login from a windows machine

If you have any problems, just shout.

The little monitor belongs to my play computer and yeah, when I took the photo I was running the suse live eval cd on it. Just finished downloading all 5 cd's and am planning on installing it on my notebook.

My main linux box runs Mandrake 9.2 though.

You want messy, take a look at this pic

I installed Mandrake 9.2 when they first came out and php was definitely there. The ISO's have changed since then, but I can not image that they have removed php.

What are you looking for? I believe that that actual package name is mod_php and not simply php. Plus, if you click on any of the php extra packages in the the installer, urpmi will show all the dependencies and somewhere within there the base php package will be listed.

Like I said though, I believe the actual package that you need is called mod_php.

You should post this over at http://www.linux-laptop.net for other people to see. If you do, think about adding a few more details and maybe a link to the i855 patch.