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]> I use several Linux distros, but are currently mostly using Mandrake ]> 9.0. It comes with a DVD/Video-player
Hi There, I have installed on a brand new machine, Madrake 91. I have now to install Window.. Impossible to installe Windows anymore !!!!:-( I have used Fdisk /mbr -> seems to be OK... When I disp
...recently went on holiday. ........Yes thanks, I had a lovely time. When I got back I turned on my machine ( Mandrake 8.1 IBM 300GL 450MHz 160ish Mb 20G). Obviously I did something to it before I left,...
guys before i play with linux for the fist time , (red hat 9 , suse 8.2 and mandrake 9.1) i want to try out knoppix to get a fell of linux i have a knoppix 3.1 which i got a while ago from those n
Hi, I'm currently experiencing problems during shutdown of my Mandrake 9.1 based system (it also previously happened under 9.0). I believe it is possibly a hardware setup problem with the hard drive
I went to Mandrake 8.2 because my wheel mouse wouldn't work, no matter what I tried. I just loaded up Red Hat 7.3, and worked the mojo in XF85Config, and my wheel mouse activated just fine. I'm a
...talls, it's still a two-day-long battle to get a new Debian system running. It's sad when compared to RH, Mandrake, Suse, or Turbo-Linux, which are all up and running in an hour or so with a minimal...
...round the time of starting 'PCI hotplugging' or firewire driver (can't be sure which). This has failed with Mandrake 9.1, Redhat 9.0, Gentoo 1.4rc4. Also fails when I try to run a recent Knoppix CDROM...
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-06-21-015-26-NW-MD-PB 'This new contract enables MandrakeSoft to provide Linux software and related services to an increasing number of government age
I mentioned the Wal-Mart/Mandrake connection to a couple of cow-orkers last week. These fellows work in high tech, but their families are high-country farm-community people. Strictly flannel-shirt and
I guess Walmart got RedHat shook up over this whole desktop issue and the fact that Lindows and Mandrake are the only two to be offered. Redhat has decided to enter the desktop frey for real this ti
What is 'DrakX' and why does it want to know if I want to do a default or expert installation? (Yes, I know, DrakX is the installer... but why is it called DrakX on the screen? Call it 'The installe
HOORAY For Linux. As early as next week, Walmart.com will begin selling Microtel PCs loaded with the Mandrake Linux distribution. Keep your eye on Walmart.com for new Microtel systems bearing the Ma
I have recently upgraded my version of mandrake from 8.1 to 9.1 and am now having a few problems. Under 8.1 the XWindows inerface worked fine (1024x768 with 256 colours). However under 9.1 I cannot
Hi Everyone, I am planning to install either SuSE 8.0 or Mandrake 8.2 on a new computer that has no other OS on it. The problem is that the computer uses a GeForce4 video card. SuSE and Mandrake sup
Hi, I have been playing with Linux (Mandrake) for a week weeks now but I'm a bit stumped about something. At work I'd like to dual boot linux with my current win98 setup, that's the easy bit.... W
Hello, System is Mandrake-9.1 with locally compiled Pine-4.55. Pine does not show URL links correctly, just shows the url highlighted in different color (clicking on highlighted text does not invo
...you refuse to respond to them... 1. Could you post a partial dmesg or procinfo from your Linux install of Mandrake that you say you still have on your system. 2. Please tell us what program and or...
... dream word processor is one that works on both Solaris (2.5 ideally, but 2.8 is OK) and Linux (I'm running Mandrake 9.0). This WYSIWYG processor would have features for math formulae, inserting image...
...but I haven't found a satisfying explanation elsewhere, so I'll try here :-). After having been pampered by mandrake for years, now that I'm using a real distro :-) I find that some of the things I us...
...iate if someone has a mirror to download the last GPL Portsentry version (Hostentry?). Has someone tested Mandrake 8.1 RPMs on Mandrake 9.1 ? Are they supposed to work ? Thanks in advance for any ...
Strange things have started happening with my Linux system. I am running Mandrake 9.0 and Windows 98 on a dual-boot system with dial-up connection only to the Internet. I seem to be getting strange
I am setting up Linux Mandrake on my laptop. I am currently having problems setting up my Modem. I am using KPPP to set it up. I currently have these settings... Modem Device: /dev/ttyS0 Flow Contro
...g. This way he can do additional required maintenance on the drive or replace the tapes. How can I get my Mandrake 8 (or 9) box to deposit tape write error messages into /var/log/syslog, or another ...
Hello! System: Mandrake 9.0 When I run the following bash script from the command line, it works
.... I now have three major distros running on three different machines: Red Hat 7.2 on my business laptop Mandrake 8.2 on my primary home system SuSE 8.0 on my secondary home system Other than a b...
Hello, I would like to install Mandrake 8.2 with a dual-boot on a PC that has (or will have) Windows XP installed. Can DrakX be used to repartition an 80 GB hard drive on a Windows XP system? (Assum
[snip] Newbie my ass. You've been crashing Linux for damn near as long as RedHat's been shipping it.
I want to use Screem as installed in Mandrake 9. The manual is there, but still in SGML. How do I convert it to HTML?
... now. IIRC I started with the 0.9? kernel. I started with slackware, then moved to debian, then Redhat, now Mandrake. The last version I am using is Mandrake 8.1. I occasionally update my kernel but b...
[re: Mandrake 8.2, KDE 2.2, P2-450 Gateway, 2-HD/dual boot with W98] Below are entries from my LILO config file. On the LILO choice I see Linux- nonfb and failsafe. What ARE these choices? I've not
Well, this *can* be an issue with Mandrake's Harddrake, which hasn't yet reached the 1.0 release, and it is because your ViewSonic monitor is probably treated as a generic, I think. But you didn't q
...ate right here and now! Would MS remain a monopoly should it GPL all of Windows? Why not? RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, Caldera, Yellow Dog are all GPL'd linux distributions anybody can download off the...
What Pan version? I'm on 0.9.7 now, and it's getting more stable. It still has it's days though. And secondly, if you want to keep body text off-line, check the cache settings in Edit->Preferences. II
I have Mandrake 8.2, KDE 2.2, and I know it has something called 'supermount' that works with the two CD ROMS I have installed. I also have something called 'hotplug' (but don't know if it's working.)
I have just experienced this (KDE) too. I think it may be a broken library in my case though, cos I tried to upgrade pan to 0.9.7. Since then there has been *much* more disk churning etc. Warning -

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