Forum: Miscellaneous

It only worked when i started Counter-Strike in WINE, but for some reason wine for mandrake is a piece of ****? so i used winex CVS and i can go...

hi, I have redhat9/winxp installed on my machine. I wanna try Mandrake9.2. I have around 12 GB data to back up. So i created a new ext2 partition...

At some time some error occured while booting, and now my FAT32 drive with all my important stuff on it has been turned into a second swap drive!!!...

the K package manager seems to crash on me everytime i try to install a new package.... anyone know what this could be....... i cant figure it out:(

I am looking at the Mandrake ISO's and they 714MB and 711MB for the second two discs....how are you supposed to get those to fit onto a CDROM or are...

Here's the setup. The main computer has Gentoo, and kernel 2.4.22-openmosix. I have a windows box that I only use for games and a couple other...

Hello all im having big problems with my disks i keep getting a bad superblock when trying to boot, I have tried e2fsck but it keeps saying about the...

I've installed the mingw on my windows machine and I've install the SDL libararies. When I try to compile my project I get this error. What does...

I'm setting up a small Linux-based server for hosting websites I create for my customers. I, by no means intend to be an ISP, but I expect I'll end...

How do i find the keycode for a spacific keyboard key & or the whole KB. i ask because i need to give life to the R 'ctrl' and 'alt' on a dvorak KB...

Today I upgraded Mozilla 1.4 to 1.6 by using apt. After Downloading and installing the new version I installed the shockwave pluggin for mozilla....

Just wondering how many ppl are using apt / Synaptic to maintain their Linux. For the ppl who don't know apt. It's a RPM manager from Debian and...

Hi, i am trying to find a linux translator program (to translate from one lenguage to enother). If someone know where can i get it, plz note. ...

I currently have RH9 installed on my computer and have tried to install libdvdcss and when i did the following error came up: warning:...

As you can probably surmise from my forum name, I have been involuntarily thrust into the role of sysadmin for my company, at least temporarily. I...

hello, i'm in serious doubts which distro i should use this time.. First off it should be able to work with rpm (yeah i'm lazy :p) i searched...

by adding normal user to root, wheel group will make it like root, doing every thing he wants, I want to make two accounts on my box having the same...

Thought I'd recommend a book about Linux which I've just bought. It's very good: 'Beginning Linux Programming' by Neil Matthew and Richard Stones....

I'm forwarding syslog using the syslog.conf file from the Linux machine to a Windows PC, now when the events get to the windows PC the date and time...

If you haven't used Mandrake before they have it set up in a Windows XP like fashion where you click on Icons to login you don't type in a username. ...