LinuxCrusader

Alright, I found the solution to this in one of the mepis forums and I like to post it here in case someone else is looking for the samething. I found like three ways to do it, but the easiest one would be to open up control center->Desktop->behavior->device icon tab, and uncheck the 'show devices for mounted' and unmouted as preferred. This will remove all devices from desktop, then you can move on into adding the spefic devices/partitions that you would want always load on your dektop or an a spefic new folder in your desktop where you can have them all grouped in there. You can add the spefic devices by right clicking on the desktop (or inside the new folder) and select 'create new->device->and select hard disk, cdrom, floppy etc., then in the gui that comes up, click of the 'device' tab and then select from the list the specific partition that that would want to associate the new device with. Once you do this, you can rename it and change its mount and unmount icon as well. Mepis fstab is dynamic, but there's also an area above the dynamic line in the fstab where you can set this lines to be static and change their attributes and mount points as well Another easy way would be to remove all your icons first from your desktop as stated above and then open your file manager and go into the devices folder, then simply drag onto your desktop the device folder that contains all the devices and link it there. This link folder will contain all your device icons, but the thing is that you can't rename them there...at least I didn't find that. Alright..one task down, many more to go.

Thank you Dan and danleff. I have sent jimf43 a PM. Hopefully he'll get to see it.

The way I got it to work under wine is to just download it straight from the website and open it with wine, then wine will take care of the rest. In the past I have tried running windows programs from the windows mounts, but a lot of them I couldn't get to run from there. However, I was able to run some of these programs by just installing them with wine.

btw, DU Meter works under wine. I just tried it and it works.

Does anybody know which application I could use to make an image of my current linux installation so I burn it into a dvd or cdrom. I like to make an image of my current linux just how you can do it with Norton ghost in windows because I'm planning on experimenting with SimplyMepis.

I was just experimenting with ghost 4 linux, but I don't see an option where I could ghost my distro to a specific folder in one of my partions. Is there a way to do this or is it going to ghost an image and overwrite over the HD partion that I select? Also, ghost 4 linux is not bootable while I'm running linux?

Thanks for the info Danleff. I will try one of these.

Does anybody get the following error when trying to do an apt-get upgrade in Knoppix 3.7 or any debian distro? I'm trying to install some apps and it won't let install any because I keep getting this same error when it tries to upgrade Fozen Bubble. Any idea how to fix this? :x Preparing to replace frozen-bubble-data 1.0.0-4 (using .../frozen-bubble-data_1.0.0-6_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement frozen-bubble-data ... mv: cannot stat `/usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav': No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/frozen-bubble-data_1.0.0-6_all.deb (--unpack): there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up preinst called with unknown argument `abort-upgrade' dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/frozen-bubble-data_1.0.0-6_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Quote: blank Posted - 2005-01-28 09:51:27 Hello LinuxCrusader, hello group, I had the same problem trying to save some filespace when remastering Knoppix 3.7. As you stated, after apt tumbled over the broken(?) frozen-bubble package, it was stuck. The solution (for me) was to create a missing file - reinstall - (re)remove. Settled! touch /usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav apt-get install frozen-bubble-data frozen-bubble apt-get remove frozen-bubble-data frozen-bubble The original source of this information can be found here (German language, though). Maybe someone will benefit from this clue. (-: Thank you for the feedback Blank. By any chance, have you been able to modified your mounted partitions where the can get loaded into. What I'm trying to say is that Knoppix loads your partitions onto the desktop, but if you change its icons and their locations, then later after rebooting these partions are back to default settings again onto the desktop.

Bad news or people don't care? http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5550205-2.html?tag=st.next Thank god for linux.

The battle continues where many people argue that Linux is just as vulnerable as windows. Some argue that open source software is more vulnerable to attacks than proprietary software and some argue just the opposite. Suppose linux was to be the main stream OS, would we be having the same kinds of issues that the Windows has? Here is a recent article that discusses the top ten vulnerabilties for both Windows and Linux: http://www.sans.org/top20/ Please post your opinions.

The only thing that I can think of that seems a little similar are themes from superkaramba suchs the Fantastik , or TheBridge, but I don't think they are sophisticated as Du Meter. I'm sure there has to be something somewher on Linux similar to it though. Maybe someone will post it.

Quote: q clutch Moderator Posts: 3816 Joined: 2000-03-28 Member No.: 2798 Much like these? http://www.egocrew.de/download-category-4.html http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/UNIX/penetration/rootkits/ Now, just think what would happen (or did it?) if one of these was uploaded to a "legitimate" site and thousands of downloads occured before it was caught. Look scary...I wasn't aware of this.

You know, now that you guys mentioned. It has happened to me where I'll just open firefox and just type up a letter and it'll completely dissappear out of my sight. I open it up, go into hotmail, and type the letter E on my keyboard and I would just disappear. I thought that maybe M$ had implemented something into their website so firefox would crash. Funny thing is that I can't replicated today but I did many times yesterday. I'm using knoppix 3.7.

Quote: there is a player with my distro but believe me is completely different from winamp.it s called music player XMMS is just as same as winamp. If you are talking aout its skins, which you could easily download and put them into xmms skins folder to make it look exactly the same as winamp, then you can also do that. You can use just about 95% of winamps skins for xmms, but I guess you are just experimenting with wine.

With regards to this security issues and which is more secure than what. Could it be true that if someone somewhere in China incorporated a few lines of code into the so-well known open source code software (*nix) and submitted this "new security solution" to the main headquarters for distribution and regular daily updates, but then and somehow it turns out that these new lines code spies into everyone's computers and at the same time it would know where you'd go in the internet and every key stroke that you type. Could this scenario be true for *nix? Could this happen one day in the future? What prevents this happenning? Or am I just bluffing and recounting M$ experience with this?

Hi Justbill, I also would like to give you a little bit of encouragement and tell you to keep at your quest for learning this new OS (FC3). Linux was also an alien OS to me when I first installed it into one of my old boxes. I remember I started with Red Had 7.X (a predecessor of Fedora) and installed it onto a pentium 166 with a 2Gig HD. However, I didn't have enough ram memory back then for me to be able to run it in Graphical mode so I had to go into command mode which I didn't know what to do at all. Nevertheless, I googled my way in fiding out the commands I could experiment with. Then I moved on into RH 8.0, FC1, FC2, FC3, Mandrake and about a year ago I found this forum in which Dapper Dan suggested live CDs (OSs that you can run from the cdrom and you don't have to install it onto your hard drive). Many of friends would tell me that I was wasting my time or just crazy, but now that they have seen what I've done with Linux or the things that you can do with it, now most of them are now integrating into it. The live CDs that I messed with were knoppix and Morphix. Everyone is right that after some time you start to get the hang of it and you will see that Linux can be a very powerful-all-around OS. Hang in there. The linux community is big and we are all here to help you. Regards, LC

It depends and corrent if I'm wrong Danleff or DD, but from my experience whenever I'm looking for a specific package or program, most of the times there will be options to download for specific distros such as for debians distros, rpms for red hat or mandrake, and so on. However, if it is a program for universal linux zipped or tarred then it is probably for all Linux distros. For example, I remember going to the Xine website to try to install Xine and I would download it, compile it, and install it under the different distros that I would experiment with and Xine would always install under the distros that I experiment with. So I would say that most of the time if a program is tared or zipped, then you can probably install it on any linux distro...judging from my experience, but remember that you have to keep in mind that some programs might be for a expecific kernels or desktop managers with the right depencies also.

I using Knoppix 3.7 and I have trying to get rid of some NTFS mounts that knoppix automatically mounts. I have tried to delete the line that mounts the specific partition in the fstab, but when I restart my computer the partition comes back again, or mounted. How do I get rid of this. - I also changed the icons for these hard disks partions that are mounted and shown on my desktop, but then again when I retart my computer the icons are back to default. - I also would like for these devices to be mounted on a specific folder that I created on my desktop, so they are not all over my desktop. I move them there and again when I restart my computer these partitions are mounted again onto my desktop and are also, of course, in the folder that I created and wanted them to be. Any help will be appreciated. This how my fstab looks like: --------------------------------------------------------------- # /etc/fstab: filesystem table. # # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass /dev/hdb6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 /dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdb5 none swap defaults 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdb7 /mnt/hdb7 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0

I added the line: append ="nofstab" to lilo.conf and at the same time I commented out the follwing line as shown below on the fstab: #/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0 But it didn't work. Instead when I rebooted it was taking a little longer to bring up the login interface and as soon as I logged in it took into the icewm desktop and I got some error. However, I rebooted again and logged in into my kde session and the fstab still put the hda1 partition into my desktop. I checked the fastab and it took the comment out (#) of the line that I edited. Funny huh...

One more question though? So is it a bad idea to boot up knoppix with the different kernels?

Quote: baeyogin Posted - 2005-01-19 02:09:33 Follow these step-by-step and you should be okay: apt-get --reinstall install cat /dev/null >/usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav apt-get --purge remove frozen-bubble frozen-bubble-data apt-get -f install apt-get install frozen-bubble I have beautifully reinstall Knoppix again into my system. I had this same problem after I had done some updates and upgrades, but I follow these steps that Baeyogin posted and it re-installed frozen-bubble with no problems at all. Now I'm going to mess with the Fstab issue and see it works as well. Thanks Danlef, Dapper Dan and everyone else!

Quote: danleff Posted - 2005-01-19 05:19:18 Did you really try three kernels with knoppix? Or were you referring to three different distros? Lilo had the options of booting up my knoppix with kernels 2.4.27, 2.4.4?, and 2.6.9 (Something like that). However, thinking that the latest would be faster or more secure, I would often boot it up using the latest one. Quote: What about Mandrake 10? What was problematic with that, if it ran "rock solid" on your system? There was nothing wrong with LM 10.0 at all. The only two things I didn't really like were the rpms, which wouldn't install sometimes because of dependencies, and the GUI to update, which I never succeeded at getting LM ever to be update maybe because I was less knowledgeable and I'm not even so sure if I could do it now. I wanted to try something new I guess. But thank you though Danleff for the motivation. I was sort of thinking the samething that I should just install it again into the partion that got messed up but it is just going to be more time to install the apps that I already had such as MPlayer where you have to download, unzip, and compile a bunch of files just to get it to run. I'm debating if I should go back to Mandrake 10.0 of reinstall it again. If there was an easy way to install and update packages in Mandrake, such as apt-get I propbably go back to it. Maybe there is and I'm just not aware of it. The good thing about debian distros(kde based) is that if you can't find a package, you can use KLIK to install your packages such as for knoppix, simply Mepis, etc.

Here's something that I found online. I'm not so sure if it'll be helpful for you since I just kind of glanced through it (or maybe you might have already tried): Quote: Most recent WinModem fixes are in: > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/FAQ.html > > > > Giacomo Comes wrote: > >> This is a help for people who has the Broadcom V.92 PCI Internal >> Modem BCM4212. >> It is found probably only in DELL computers. >> The driver can be downloaded from the DELL website, but without >> modification it works only for some old version of RedHat. >> Here are the instructions to use it with recent and different >> distributions >> (SuSE 8.2 is mine). >> >> Download the driver: >> http://support.ap.dell.com/ap/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R47114 >> >> >> the file is BCOM_WAN_V20_SOURCE_A.tar.gz Read more

Quote: baeyogin Posted - 2005-01-19 02:09:33 Follow these step-by-step and you should be okay: apt-get --reinstall install cat /dev/null >/usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav apt-get --purge remove frozen-bubble frozen-bubble-data apt-get -f install apt-get install frozen-bubble Well, I think it is too late. Don't you think? Running fsck messed up by box so I can't even access my linux box anymore with any of the three different versions kernel that I have. Last night I used the Knoppix live CD to recover my data and that's because I had formatted my HD into three partitions and the one specifically for data storage is ok, but trying to access the root partition where knoppix is installed just gives me an error. I wish you would've posted this earlier and I think would've been ok. Thanks.