[Glastonbury] Knoppix

[s~TV]

it does sound like a bad copy.
i can do you another copy if you like and you can pick it up from the 
school.
let me know when you are passing.
kind regards,
s~TV

Martin WHEELER wrote:

>On 4 Jul 2003, peter wrote:
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>>Well is was not a problem with the graphics card that i had. because i
>>had the same problem with my home machine it uses a Nvida tnt2 card.
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>Peter -- can you describe *exactly* what is happening when you boot from
>the Knoppix CD?
>Have you used the 'help' option on boot-up?
>(My laptop will only boot using the 'knoppix noscsi' option, because of
>the combi CDR/W + DVD drive in it.)
>What error message(s) are you getting?
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>>Again no suitable driver for X I would guess that  would be why it
>>wouldn't work on the laptop during the meeting either, may be it is a
>>problem with Knoppix ?
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>I have difficulty in finding machines on which it will _not_ boot -- so
>I find the fact that you have *three* machines it won't work on, highly
>suspicious.  There is something else at work here.
>(Bad copy?)
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>>I down loaded Mysql for Windows and SQL CC Also a package called access
>>dump( well i down loaded about 4 translators ) but this one worked it
>>picked all of the tables and created a SQL file.
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>>So i worked out how to get these in to Mysql.
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>Actually, by far the easiest way is to export all your data in
>comma- or tab-delimited format, with the field names in the first line
>of the file; then import that into MySQL.
>MySQL will then automatically create a clone of your database for you.
>You then write the appropriate web pages to input data to the database;
>likewise to extract it in whatever format(s) required by users.
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>> I tried to copy the SQL text from Access and paste in to a SQL
>>query but it did not like that !!
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>Not surprising!  (Access is only M$-specific 'sort-of' SQL.)  I doubt
>you could do this for anything other than the simplest of statements
>even with SQL-statement-compatible servers of differing origins, in
>fact.
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>> The way the Access Data base had
>>been set up was some anyone could use it using forms to add data as
>>required and macros to run quires to get a printed report so some thing
>>like this will be my aim.
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>Yes; that pretty graphical interface Access has will have to be
>re-created as web pages, I'm afraid.  All good experience in using PHP
>to interface to a MySQL database though -- both in pushing data in, and
>hauling it out again!
>[If necessary, you can control user access to the web-pages/directory
>using htaccess.]
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