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You'd better make that a free T-shirt, with postage extra on top of the donation. I can see you designing a cracking t-shrit, I mean look what you've done to XP

Not come across Lyx before. What is it? I know google is my friend, but I dont get google at work Rik EDIT: Cheers Zxian, I'll let you know if it ever comes to fruitation

Natan Please bear in mind that this does not install QT, so the user will need to install the latest version of QT or QTalt. Yes I am still alive, I try and spend 10 - 20 mins after doing Uni work sifting the fourms. I am working/Will be working on a switchless installer for LaTeX/MikTeX, if you'd be interested at some point. It will be some incentive to actually move from a concept to actaully trying to do it. Roll on January. Rik

Hey Natan Very nice! Would it be possible to add the file size to each description. I don't really wish to d/l a file and find it bigger than something I am already using. Also it will be a good reference for ppl who only have a little space left on there disc and need to see how big a file is. Also try here for the latest switchless iTunes. Regards Rik

Ryans pack now only contains the offically released M$ updates (the ones that appear on Windows update) and only very very few, very very much requested updates. I think you may want to have another look at the packs.

As blinkdt said, turning off the ballon tips will kill of the message and then all you have to is connect to the net and update the latest defs and your away. Thats what I do and it works fine.

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Another Security Now listener!! I've been looking foward to the episode for a while now. I'll go and poke iTunes into updating... ... and try Hamachi @Frysdisken listen to about the last 5 or so episodes of security now and you'll see why it's so important!!

Glad it all worked, I shall remember in furture if anyone asks that its ok to install over the top of an older version. Thanx for replying Rik

Hey Natan I may get a few hours 2morw am to work with the NAS and the netgear NIC computer and I'll post back my success etc... If you could also stick in the Realtek drivers for the 8139 cards, i'd be over the moon. Also as many generic drivers as u can would be good as well as this will broaden the base on which ping can be used. Once I get it all working and I have played about with it a bit and restored a few images. I'll try and provide some more detailed feed back. I did have some other questions for you but I have forgotten them since I thought of them...... Cheers Rik

I'm gonna say just install it over the top, but I'd like to stress that I am not 100% sure. I always install from a totally clean install as this installer was created to be run from a UA disc, but can happily be run as a stand alone. I have upgraded from 5.0.1 to 6.x without any probs so I can see why going from 4 to 5 will be a problem, so long as you have the version of QT that it needs to run. I hope that this helps, sort of....... Pls post back with how it goes! Cheers Rik

Hey Natan Yes me again. I have been playing somemore and hit a few snags. On the 4th Machine, the one with the Netgear NIC. I tried running PING again just now, entered all the info as I did last night and after entering the password and the possible folder for my backup, which I leave blank I get the error msg * Found SRC: [/mnt/smbfs/] !!! No Entity could be found Any ideas? I am just about to try again on the Laptop. Cheers Rik EDIT: OK got it to work, it was an isuue with the \ / <> keys that we had last night. I must rember to use / as that seems to work EDIT2: trying to run it off my NAS, seems to be able to see the share but then throws an error when it starts to save the image. I may have messed up typing stuff in and will have a go again later, but the user of the computer wants it back for the time being. But I thought that I'd update you on Progress sofar:)

Hey Natan After our talk on MSN this evening I shall do a quick summary for you, as I said I would. After trying on a Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit, and a RealTek 8139 NIC cards and discovering that these would not work with the distro provided. Having a laptop with a Intel® PRO/100 VE in it helped as this was proved to be working with the distro provided. An image was started to be copied over to the server machine, which seeemed to work, althought I was unable to stop it (Resorted to the power button) So somethings to note/change/alter/ignore as you see fit. 1) Support for non-intel cards (I know that you said the distro supported lots of cards, but we are working on a 2/3 failure rate here at least) I'll try it on a forth computer later. Then I am out of computers. Possibly a more major thing than point 2, as this is going to rule out alot of the newer mobos with Marvell Cards and alot of the old machines as well 2) The ability to only save and restore seleceted Partitions on a harddisc. 3) Me getting a cheap and nasty PS2 keyboard might help as well (cheap and nasty PS2 keyboard made no difference, the key mappings are all odd) Thats about as far as I got with testing, due to space constaints. When I figure out some more space I'll take it further. Many many thanks for the time you spent this evening, I hope that you got as much out of it as me, and did not get home too late. Regards Rik EDIT: Tried on 4th machine NIC Netgear FA310TX Fast Ethernet (NGRPCI) - It worked after a bit of prompting and checking of the syntax that you sent me. I shall try and run a test this week from the Netgear machine as this has a small disc, and see if I can't presude my NAS to act as a SMB server (DiskStation DS-101) What do you think?

Ok I had another go and still no joy. I'll give you as much info as poss. I have a router which acts as DHCP, but the computer (W2k) with the shared folder on it has a static IP of 192.168.1.2, subnet 255.255.255.0 and a gateway of 192.168.1.1. I am trying to run the ping CD from another machine, so I put the disk in and it runs up and I get the welcome window and then I get the following windows in the following order and I shall list them and my response for each of them, then you can check that I am not doing something stupid. 1)Enter your I.P. for this I entered 192.168.1.2 (although now thinking about it, should this be the IP of the machine with the PING CD in, and not the IP of the computer with the share on it) 2)Enter Netmask -->255.255.255.0 3)Enter Gateway -->192.168.1.1 4)Enter SMB Server IP -->192.168.1.2 (I guess that that would be the machine with the share on, but it run W2k and has no SMB server. I'm now feeling like a n00bie all over again) 5)Enter a vaild SMB share name --> PartImage (as that is what the shared folder on the W2K machine is shared as) 6)Enter valid username --> Pedigree/Richard (Pedigree is the name of my network, it beats MSHome, and my \ button still maps to < under the PING distro. Richard is my user name on that machine, and I am an Admin) 7Enter password ---> xxxxxxxx (where xxxxxxx is my password, hehehe) After all of this I get the message Trying to mount //192.168.1.2/PartImage BAD Server Share User or PWD TRY AGAIN and this is where I get stuck. So I must be doing something stupid somewhere. If you need anymore info pls ask Regards Rik EDIT: For window 1) tried the IP that the router give my computer when in windows which is 192.168.1.11, and after entering all the info, it had a bit of a think this time before throwing the same error. Also FYI on the computer with the share the Folder is C:\PartImage and the four sub folders are all under that, and I have shared the PartImage folder as PartImage

I got XPSP2 + RyanVM + Plus Addons + BTS + Xpize and over 250Mb of software, coming in at 599Mb. As the others said trim more using nLite. If you are only installing on the latest machines you can remove alot of the XP drivers as these will be covered by th BTS packs. If you want to support older hardware (over about three years old) you'll probably want to keep the XP drivers

Look here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...55482&hl=itunes if you've not already, this has iTunes 6 in it, and does not install QT, but you will need QTalt instead. HTH Rik

Thanx for your relpy Natan I'll give it another go when I get a chance, which may not be until after Xmas, as I have two assignment for my course due in before then which I have yet to start. I'll let you know how things go when I try though. I really really want this to work!! :-)

... but it has been dragged back from the dead!! No harm in that, means n00bies haven't got to look back sofar. Glad I'm no longer a n00bie, hehehe!

I seem to have the q/l bar for all users, but I run this tweak from cmdlines.txt, so I guess that's why all users have it.

Create colour pictures from black and white photos with recolored. Goto http://www.devlobby.com/forums/showthread.php?p=599 for further information

What about the Maxthon browser, or have I got to vote IE???

Hey More Questions (Possibly nOOb type) 1) When running the Ping CD, it asks me to enter the IP for a SMB server, after I have entered an IP, subnet and gateway, so I put in the IP address of the host. Is this ok, or should I have a SMB server running on my W2K machine? I know SMB is a server to allow linux and windows to share files. 2) When it says enter a vaild user name e.g. mydomain\johndoe. For some reason I am unable to enter the \ between the domain and the username. If I use the \ key on my keyboard I end up with < Any ideas how to get arround this? As I am stuck at this point until it can be figured out. Look forward to your replies Rik P.S. I tried lots of other keys and held down the shift key with lots of keys and still no joy

My router is an old 3com thing, its about 2 years old now, and not one of those fancy Linksys linux based things, sadly, but I can see what you are getting at. I'll tell you up front that my linux knowldge is pretty basic. I might have to go with the bootable CD option, althought I'd rather have the images sitting on a HDD somewhere. Thanx for your reply Rik

Hey Natan I've a few (possibly noobie) type questions, and I hope that you can answer them. 1) Do I need a server version of Windows 2000 or can I just use Windows 2000 Pro for my RIS Server? I'll be going down the TFTPD32 from Ph. Jumin's web site route. 2) When installing TFTPD32, have I got to set it to be the DHCP Server? My router already does the DHCP funtion on my network and I dont wish to leave a computer on all the time to do DHCP, I'd prefer the router to do it. Looks like a great little setup, I'm looking forward to trying it out. Regards Rik

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