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Just a small thing I would like to correct. "Linux does not like spaces in folder names" is not true, although many scripts are badly written and cannot handle imbedded spaces in file or directory (folder) names. If you want imbedded spaces in a name, just surround it in quotes (either ' or " will do). In fact on Unix/Linux the only character not allowed in a file name is a /. MS Windows has a whole bunch of characters it does not allow. Having said all that, if you do use weird characters in names you have to expect the odd (bad) script to fall over. Clive -----Original Message----- From: Julian Hall [mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:22 AM To: Grant Sewell Cc: DCLUG Subject: [LUG] Re: LUG Stuff... Hi Grant, I suspected my CD 1 was scratched so borrowed a mate's copy today. Making the ISO fails on this one as well with an I/O error. Installing normally fails also, and this is where I become suspicious. cp: `Games/UT2003/Aliens.ukx.uz2': specified destination directory does not exist Try `cp --help' for more information. failed to uncompress file. ./setup.sh: line 214: 3681 Aborted "$setup" "$@" ./setup.sh: line 214: 4375 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$setup" "$@" The setup program seems to have failed on x86/glibc-2.1 Fatal error, no tech support email configured in this setup The program returned an error code (1) This is the *exact same file* that my CD 1 bombs out on. I cannot believe both CDs have exactly the same file corrupt on them. I've just found out to my annoyance that Linux does not like spaces in folder names (??). I was originally trying to install into a folder called "Linux Games" and it bombed. I changed the folder name when I noticed "Games\...." in the error message to just "Linux" annd now it seems to be doing OK. I'll let you know how the disk swapping goes. Kind regards, Julian On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 19:54, Grant Sewell wrote:
Hi Julian. Sorry I'm not doing this through the LUG - I'm having problems with the
email address with which I am LUG-subscribed. But, never the less:
If you select "expert" during a Mandrake install, you (certainly used to)
get the option of selecting your mouse type. To get the expert mode, you need to press F1 immediately after the CD boots (ie, when it still says about pressing F1 for more options) and then type "expert" (without the quotes) and press enter. Despite how it sounds, the Expert mode is actually very similar to the normal mode. You also get to fine-tune your partitioning if you wish.
There are basically 3 options for your mouse type under X:
PS/2
IMPS/2
ExplorerPS/2
Before you go re-installing anything, try all three options. As for the
"/dev/mouse" thing, that is usually just a "symlink" to your actual mouse device, which as you know, should be /dev/psaux.
Your router: You say that it is a USB Print Server, but how does it
connect to *your computer*. If it connects with a standard RJ45, ie a network cable, then you should be able to configure it under Linux quite nicely as it will almost certainly be configurable through a web-interface, unless it uses some half-cocked Windows only software that communicates with the router directly through a specific port address. This, however, I doubt very much as it'd add significantly to the cost of development.
It is entirely possible that you'll need to connect the the router on a
specific port. Which, I have no idea. If I were you, I'd get some software like "nmapfe" (a GUI frontend to NMAP) to scan the IP address of the router and see which ports remain open on the inside (ie connected to your machine).
Pinnacle - I've no idea. Unreal Tournament: You can use "dd if=/dev/XXX of=filename.iso", where XXX is the cdrom
device (check your fstab to find out which device it is), to create an ISO image of the disc. If the installation programme only reads from the mountpoint, and not directly from the disc, (which is likely) then you can therefore cheat. Make ISO images of all the discs you need. Mount the first with (as root) *mount FILENAME.ISO -o loop /MOUNTPOINT*. When it asks for the next disc, do not umount the current image, just mount the next one *over the top*. When all the installation is done, you should umount all of them with *umount -d /MOUNTPOINT* (you will need to do this several times).
Hope this helps. Good luck. Grant.
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