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Formatting USB drive from command line Hi people, I hope someone can help me....!!!! I want to re-format a USB drive from the command line. When I connect it to the computer I know that I can access it on /mnt/removable But what do I need to do to format it??? Thanks for any help Steve K ... 25 Aug 2006 15:32
ssh tar and dd problem I'm trying to backup a remote system using tar over ssh to a local SDLT320 tape drive /dev/nst0. I'm trying NOT to use RMT since the remote machine is out on the public net and I don't want to punch that particular security hole into the firewall on the server that has the tape drive. Here's the command I'm tr... 14 Aug 2006 15:16
new 'puter? I had a bad electrical storm hit and fried a UPS. My main computer seems to have taken a hit and is rather flaky now, dead CD-WR, flaky hard drive, possibly other problems. I am on my backup 450 mhz Pentium II machine. I can't get the main system to reload and use KPPP for some reason. I have not paid attent... 15 Aug 2006 13:09
Anyone Know the Orgin of Mandrake? you will be surprised if you didn't. Its the first known and oldest aphrodisiac, hmmmmm! Wonder if that's what Gal Duval founder of Mandrake had in mind when he decided to call it that? Now founder of: http://www.ulteo.com/about/ Interesting website on The Mandrake root: http://www.world-sex-records.com/sex-035... 25 Jul 2006 00:10
Fuel types (was: Re: file system integrity check timeout) Aragorn wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 03:07, faeychild stood up and spoke the following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandrake...:/ Aragorn wrote: On Sunday 16 July 2006 14:09, faeychild stood up and spoke the following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandrake...:/ ... 26 Jul 2006 19:48
Mandiva 2006 Free install question Got a new laptop (Tosh. A105) that uses a Mobile Intel 945GM Express chipset driving a 1280x800 TFT screen. I'm trying to get Mandiva on it and I'm having trouble with the graphics setup. The install program has no trouble using the video and the default that it uses would be just fine IF I could figure out what... 28 Jul 2006 01:24
kde what logs can I check to find out why my kde keeps on crashing. also some of menu listings have dispeared? ... 15 Jul 2006 23:18
Free Linux to download. Hi, I'm from Singapore and am actually interested in switching over to Linux after using M$ for the past many years., and I'm not sure which to use. (Mandrake, Redhat, Sues, etc) But I'm not sure if my computer is able to install Linux. Would anyone be able to reply me the links to the ftp servers to d/l Li... 22 Jul 2006 10:54
Firefox 1.5 in Mandriva Mandriva 2005LE. Just updated to FF1.5 and trying to add some themes via mozilla.org/addons. Keeps telling me to enable software installation from Preferences. Been through every tab and can't find anything that remotely looks like "Allow websites to install software" What am I missing here please. Bee ... 22 Jun 2006 01:13
Mounting problem across network Hey all; We are using Dell Optiplex 620s in some computer labs which use the Broadcom NetExtreme 57xx onboard NICs. While booting to Mandriva 2006 I have noticed that there appears to be a timing issue on these cards for networking. The machnes will not map the NFS shares from our server during boot but wit... 14 Jun 2006 07:23 |