iccaros

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  1. I understand the frustration of OS you do not understand. but the new knoppix is really just point and click. I know of no reason to go the the command line unless you are tring to set up servers.. like ssh and ftp. try the new knoppix (2.8 I belive) also what does this mean.. "when i bought mandrake 9.1 the problem was the same xp wouldnt wouldnt allow the boot loader . and mandrake dissapeared off my compt ." Window swas spacifficly made to not dual boot with other operating systems.. its why IBM suied MS over OS/2 so problems dual booting Winders and any other OS is %100 microsoft. Lilo
  2. any one know of a cheep ftp hosting site.. I would host it my self by last time I got hacked (my fault left Frontpage crap on ... ) they left Sick porn on the the server.. (not good porn I woudl like but child and other crap.) I had to get my Secuerity Clearance Re-done and it risked my job as I had to prove I did not do it my self.. so I'm a little afrade to do it.. but I may have to.. thanks for all the help
  3. PS. your problem sounds like a power managment problem with the old knoppix disk.. if you hit f1 at the boot: propt you should see options for turning it off.
  4. if you are trying to not get help.. well keep it up.. I asked that you post the error if you want help.. I have seen no error posted.. untill then non of us can help.. think of it this way.. Help my windows box will not boot.. it gives post error.. ?? and I hate windows it so hard to use...... with all the spyware and spam adn viruses.. see how little you can do with a psot like that .. We are willing to help just post the error...what did it say....
  5. " hi team ihave this knoppix disk which ive had for 1-2 years when i first got it i was able to get in and access it .but now i get an error message in the console screen .and i cant seem to access it." What error? and a 1 to 2 year old cdr may be bad.. plus a lot of changes to hardware have happened.. the knoppix you have may not reconize any of your new hardware,, "bloody linux it is a snobs sys.and ordinary users have to be a technician to get in there" not a good way to get help.. But I would rather have a set of users with a clue than a buch of untrainded point-n-click think they know a
  6. " Does anyone know how to change a regular URL into the words "click Here" when sending a site by email. I don't mean for the message Boards but a regular email using Outlook Express Thanks Bryan " it may be for not, nay good email program will not render html and will just give the code, (Outlook is not a good email program, just ask the Department of home Land secuerity and the CIA). My point, you can spend the time to make a nice email with html but It may never be seen, (as a matter of fact My spam assasian rule set deleates html email as most of it is spam) just a though
  7. simple.. mozilla the open source project spun off of Netscape. like netscape Mozilla has a built in Address book and Email program. because of this its really big and takes a little longer than IE to start. Firefox. The web browser part of mozilla... with a little diffrent looks. they striped out the email program and the address book and made it as small as they can. (4megs for winders) Both are great , if you use some other mail program there is no need for mozilla, use firefox, if you do mail, IM and stuff Mozilla will do it all. The key point for Winders users is you will seperate yo
  8. I using the current one you made.. People seam to like it.. I'll send you a cd i fyou send me a pm.. with your address. I don't have a download site yet.
  9. jcl is right.. it sounds like you don't have the development packages installed. if you plan on compiling software (a lot of googd open source only comes in source code) then you need kernel source (some call it kernel development) Gnome Development Kde Development X11 development Pm me and I'll send you my binarys.. but they may not work.. or I can send you a beta cd that has gifff2lss and png2lss working on it.
  10. "..(fragmentation isn't as big of a problem in linux as with windows, right?" no most linux filesystems like ext3, reiserfs, xfs, and jfs all auto defrage them selves.. you get a max of about 3%.. but even that is normally fixed teh next mounting..
  11. thats cool.. good starting point (100% better than mine) ya png2lss is a pain gif2lss is easy http://freshmeat.net/projects/gif2lss/ command is gif2lss filename.gif > filename.lss you just untar it and do a make then cp the gif2lss file to your /usr/bin and then a chmod 777 /usr/bin/gif2lss now ready to use
  12. Ok I did some research..... and I can not repeate your problem as I understand.. So I would try this.. make a folder under your home folder and mount the NTFS drive under your home folder and see what that gets you.. please cut-n-paste any errors you find..
  13. http://handsonhowto.com/smb101.html this site may also help incase its your smb.conf file.. I think I'm confused on how you whared these..
  14. i think the nls=iso8859-1 may confuse winders.. but I could be wrong agian.. iocharset=name is what I thought it should be.. but if that does not wirk .. try mounting it in two places... mount it under your home folder and moutn it under mount.. (or make the softlink to the mnt folder) its a try.. I need to research as I hav enever used nls=iso8859-1 and its kind of messed my thinking up.. I set up a share tomarrow and test it..
  15. first JCL.. thanks for th escript but I have to agree. I was talking to a buddy of mine when SUDO hit me.. (we were talking about C code) I use it in my startgui script to allow the user to log in at init 3 and then run X while searching dev for the Video card. So I should of known... but I also Like your other way for systems with no SUDO installed. tictoc5150-- DOMINATRUX!!!!!! that cool make tha tthe "HACKER version with a buch of sysadmin tools.. I don't knwo ifI could look at TUX the same after I see Him/Her in bondage though..... but if you can play with the Two names I'm looking at
  16. "That'll be your legacy once your distribution takes off and challenges the other distros." Now thats funny..... I just want it to work ... But I like your thinking........WORLD DOMINATION...in a little box..
  17. ok here I am going to try the Open Source method to get a fix to some problems I have.. I have 3 and need help. number #1 -- I am creating my own linux CD based off slackware.. I need a name for the distrobution.. Right Now its Steve Linux after me but who really cares about me (except my kids) enough to say I run Steve Linux.. (and since its based on slackware.. is its really mine I think not.. ) so I need a name.. a good one... #2 -- I need art, While I have played Guitar for 24 years and at one time had a record deal (but as 99.9% of record deals end after the first relase I was broker f
  18. if this is a windows share or should I say windows drive its how your are mounting it in your fstab.. put a umask =0 or the mount command for example mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/winders -o rw,umask=0 a fstab woudl look like this /dev/hdf2 /vmware ntfs user,noatime,rw,umask=0 0 1 I Think this is the part you are missing.. but I could be wrong.. been before.. being a ntfs or fat32 folder the unix permission do not matter, as in ownership as when you put the active blocks on hte ntfs or fat file structure they mean something totally diffrent than they do to a un
  19. what is giving this error? if its linux make a link to the folder and make that origianl folders permisions readable by your user.. example.. I have my home folder with SAMBA share to my windows box (running in vmware .. but still a network connection) I have onoly my homw folder shared.. but I wanted windows ot have access to my usb flash drive. so I made a folder for my flash drive called /mnt/flash (inventive is it not ) then I did a chown username /mnt/flash/ I then did a ln -s /mnt/flash/ ~ (note ~ tells the shell to put it in your home folder don't replace ~ with your home folder teh
  20. also SuSE announced today a major problem with 2.6 kernel.. it could allow an attacker to shutdown a Linux system running kernel 2.6 and IPTAbles with logging.. this sounds really bad.. untill your read the new 2.6.8.1 (a old kernel as they are at 2.6.9) has the fix already.. Windows never performs on that scale .. or that fast.
  21. "......., while a few respected knowledgable opinions around the message boards indicate that a default install of pretty much any distro would be less secure than windows." First this statment is incorrect.. When you install windows your first user is an administrator. (this is not including the administrator it creates for safe mode). What does this mean.. well a basic linux install in more secure than most windows installs in couperations because the split in task between users and administrators. when you log in to windows as that user (it even logs you in by default with no password) you
  22. http://wwws.sun.com/sunray/sunray1/
  23. it depends on what I am doing.. mame box is running no gui every thing is SDL mythtv is running evilWM program creation box is running fluxbox work space laptop kde 3.3.3 SunRays are running Gnome (limitation of sunray server 3.0 beta) X thinclients running Blackbox..
  24. changed to case statments now works..
  25. ok I'm writing this install script .. you can see I have functions that do somethings (most are not done).. what I am having a problem with is the last 8 lines.. the if statments for the menu.. I have tried if and elif but it only takes options 1 the rest it ignores.. I have no clue why.. I now made mutiple if statments.. but still same thing.. also tried (as you can see) to change numbers for letter.. no work. the partition (option 1) is the only one working. thanks for any help #!/bin/bash #this is the start to a installation program for my linux distro #Author: William Huskey <whu