Brett2.2
Alan
Brett Jones wrote:
When did this change? What kernel version?
Steve Philp wrote:
Brett Jones wrote:
Linux will not use a swap partition over 128. if you need more swap
space, make two swap partitions.
That hasn't been true for quite awhile now...
Ernestdosemu isn't necessary.
Alan
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999,David Loke wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I read on Linux Mandrake website that its possible to get files from my
| windoze partition from Linux . How can I do that? I am not able to see my
| windoze
Run XF86config. Lets you set the resolution with several options. For
example, selecting 543 should have it try to run at 1024 X 768 first and go
down in resolution if necessary. You can also st it so it won't make the
screen so large you have to scroll off the edges. You should know your
Hi !
I've just joined this list, and I wonder why the h?ck is there so much
debate about getting EI to run on a Linux system ?? Isn't it better to get
Mozilla in working order giving us an alternativ to propriety software ??
/Jocke!
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The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer
Hello to All!
I have ordered from CheapBytes Mandrake 6.1 (not the powerpack version)
and intend to install it on a homebuilt machine as follows:
M/B Abit BX6 Revision 2
Celeron 400 overclocked to 450mhz (FSB@75mhz) Rock Solid!
3DFX Voodoo3-2000
Soundcard Creative Vibra128
Memory 192mb PC100
You should try to edit /etc/fstab and put your windows partition. Mine is hda1 for C:,
and hda5 for the second partition, which is D: for DOS.
Here is the two lines I append to /etc/fstab :
/dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,rw,conv=auto 0 0
/dev/hda5
Ever heard of that story "The Frog and The Scorpion"? In short, M$ will not change
its ways. Letting them in this camp is like
inviting a scorpion into your sleeping bag.
In case you hadn't heard, I'll bore you.. in brief:
On day a scorpion had to cross a river. Since it couldn't swim, it
Are you also running Windows on this machine? What COM port is Windows
using for the modem? (Even if you don't run Windows, try the following four
options first)
In KPPP, setup the modem according to the following:
COM1 = /dev/ttyS0
COM2 = /dev/ttyS1
COM3 = /dev/ttyS2
COM4 = /dev/ttyS3
Hi,
Sorry if this question gets posted twice, but the mail I sent yesterday
seems to have fallen into a bit bucket...
I have Linux-Mandrake 6.1, and I want to use my parallel-port Zip
drive. The L-M hardware list says that the Zip drive is supported. My
question is, how do I access it?
I
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Also, if Web
Pages are being rendered in a tiny unreadable font, is it a problem with X,
fonts, or what? TIA...
rendered by what program? Netscape? KFM? another browser? If its Netscape, it
may be as simple as changing the character encoding -- look in your
Hi Thanks a lot. It works for me. However when I want to umount it, it
always says that the device is busy. Why is that so?
-Original Message-
From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie]
IglooFTP...
HTH
Jaguar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hay, i was wondering what a good FTP program is for linux. Preferably
graphical.
Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
IMHO
Integrated services like sound, video, etc are usually flakey/inferior
quality/or modified by the M/B manuf. Disable them in the BIOS and buy REAL
cards.
Jaguar
Miranda Heinz-AHM008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
My computer has all the peripheral incorporated in the mainboard ( I
Thought I'd drop a line and say happy BirdDay to everyone out there. Remember
to say thanks for something to someone. *wave*
--
PadLocke the Ogre
There are three types of people in this world...
those who can count, and those who can't!
David Loke wrote:
Hi Thanks a lot. It works for me. However when I want to umount it, it
always says that the device is busy. Why is that so?
Because this partition is busy, which means you are in a directory of
this partition.
Hit "cd" to get back to your home, then umount!
Joachim Holst wrote:
Hi !
I've just joined this list, and I wonder why the h?ck is there so much
debate about getting EI to run on a Linux system ?? Isn't it better to get
Mozilla in working order giving us an alternativ to propriety software ??
Yes! It's of immensely more importance to
Greetings...
Using a fresh install of "Complete Linux OS 6.5" (The Macmillan
version of Mandrake 6.1) and I can't get my modem working.
The hardware is a Dell I7K and a 3Com/Megahertz 3CCM156
PCMCIA modem. I'm not sure whether to start checking the
PCMCIA stuff, or keep fiddling with the
Davidbecause you still have at least one open file in the mounted
partition, close it/them and the device busy message will no longer
occur when you attempt to do a umount.
Alan
David Loke wrote:
Hi Thanks a lot. It works for me. However when I want to umount it, it
always says that
You're right. Igloo can't stop immediately (quite annoying). Right now I'm trying
out GFTP. But it lacks a lot of Igloo's
features. Do you know of any other graphical FTP Clients that are feature-rich?
Seve
-Original Message-
From: Ty C. Mixon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all, first off, im totally new to Linux and everything about it.
Anyways, I installed Linux Mandrake last night, all went well, but when
it boots now, and loads KDE, my mouse wont work, it just goes to the
upper right hand side corner and wont come out. I have a Genius
Netscroll (PS/2)
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, you wrote:
i hear the beast is buying up linux. remember i while ago, when aohell
supposedly merged with netscape, when aol was in with ms. this isn't
over yet. if all else fails. Follow The Money!
Um. . .buying up linux from who? since no one really owns linux that
In Console as root type mouseconfig (it may be mouse-config)
- Original Message -
From: Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 1:05 PM
Subject: [newbie] Mouse Driver screwup in KDE
Hello all, first off, im totally new to Linux and everything
hi... I'm using Linux-Mandrake 6.0 and i want to upgrade Netscape version 4.61 to
version 4.7. I went to www.rpmfind.net and downloaded the netscape-common,
communicator, and navigator rpm files that were version 4.7 mdk and installed them,
but it does not run... Can anyone help me?
Ben
LM 6.1 helios
kernel 2.2.13-7mdk
this my first time to recompile a kernel with EXTRAVERSION, but not my first
recompile. for us newbies, recompiling a kernel can be a great way to learn
linux, learn our own systems and have fun. perhaps there are some
traps I missed.
make deps ran ok, as did
Hi! Just plug in the parallel-port Zip, then put in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
modprobe parport_pc
modprobe ppa
regards,
Kenny
bluebottle wrote:
Just thinking about buying Zip drive. We can't get Linux Mag in UK. Is it
available on-line?
John the Nadger
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Hi,
When I installed Mandrake linux 6.1 I could not get it to install lilo. It
gave me an error message that said that it could not write to the mater boot
record. saying something like it was busy. I have system commander installed
and there is a linux option in the menu but it says that
Kenfrom KDE press ctl-alt f2. Sign in as root. Type mouseconfig
and reinstall your mouse. When you're done press ctl-alt f7 to return
to KDE and restart KDE by pressing ctl-alt bksp.
Alan
Ken wrote:
Hello all, first off, im totally new to Linux and everything about it.
Anyways, I
Hello fellow penguins:
I've recentely switched from redhat to mandrake and i can no longer
recieve email on my computer. When i use my isp's mail system to mail
my box, I recieve an error that says
-
This is a collection of reports about
Hi,
In console, type mouseconfig . And it will bring you the mouse configuration
program.
Rgds
-Original Message-
From: Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, November 26, 1999 5:41 AM
Subject: [newbie] Mouse Driver screwup in KDE
Hello all, first
bendownload netscape 4.7 from one of the mirror sites mirroring the
cooker section found in the developer's area of Linux-Mandrake's web
page. There are 3 seperate parts to download. They've been
specifically compiled and packaged for Mandrake.
Alan
ben bradley wrote:
hi... I'm using
Hi!
Just installed a mandrake 6 with 'everything' as the
packages to be installed. Problem is I cannot send
emails thru the linux box using a windows box with a
mail client software (eudora lite, calypso, etc.)
Did I miss something or is there additional
configuration to be done?
Thanks!
Since I am totally ignorant of everything in the Linux world, I tend
to believe what I read and what people who have experience of Linux tell
me. In one guide for Linux newbies it is recommended that an 80 MB root
partition is quite sufficient, and people have told me that Linux programs
BE SURE YOU DON'T WRITE LILO TO THE MBR (This assumes you want to keep
System Commander as your boot manager)
If you write LILO to the MBR, you will erase System Commander. You need to
write LILO to the first sector of your Linux partition.
HTH,
Matt
From: "Taki Shirayanagi" [EMAIL
On tor, 25 nov 1999, you wrote:
Joachim Holst wrote:
Hi !
I've just joined this list, and I wonder why the h?ck is there so much
debate about getting EI to run on a Linux system ?? Isn't it better to get
Mozilla in working order giving us an alternativ to propriety software ??
On tor, 25 nov 1999, you wrote:
i hear the beast is buying up linux. remember i while ago, when aohell
supposedly merged with netscape, when aol was in with ms. this isn't
over yet. if all else fails. Follow The Money!
my preferences: netscape over irritate-explorer
Greetings:
I am attempting to install Mandrake 6.1 on a Gateway laptop computer
that does not have a CDRom drive. Is there a way that I can use my
Kingston parallel port CDRom? If not, what are my alternatives?
Thanks
WRY
Yeah, it's a big problem, postfix and sendmail where both picked when you
hit everything, and they screw with eachother, the fix is to remove one.
got to [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ and look for some
messsages on how to do this, i had the problem and this fixed it :-)
- Original Message -
From:
Dear friends:
First, my thanks to everyone who went out of their way to help me with
all the little questions having to do with installing a /home partition,
including questions about swap partitions, etc. Everything went fine as
you can see below:
[sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ df
Filesystem
Thanx to everyone who replied. I got it working great now. I really love
the look of things so far. Will just have to learn a whole new system
and all that goes with it, looks sweet thou, so far. Do have a
question thou, can anyone recomend any good books, and such for helping
a person learn
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Josh McCaffrey wrote:
What's a good way to free up some sys. resources under LM 6.1 running KDE?
When I check Kmemmon w/ no other apps running I've only got like 2mb's out of
48 remaining.
I think that's normal... I could be wrong but I think it's just tossing
most of
hi there, i have the exact same problem with modem installation. I try the
kppp,
and when i query, it report that the modem is busy. I try all com ports
liao, but in
vain. I have no problem connecting my modem over the net using window 98.
Any comments? Is there anything i have to set b4, the
Looking over this older e-mail, I see how I could manually switch my
default WM, but how can I set it so that I can start any WM I want by
entering the right command.
I'm thinking of something like this -
startx for 'default' (kde in Mandrake)
AS for AfterStep
black for blackbox
etc, ad
Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanx to everyone who replied. I got it working great now. I really love
the look of things so far. Will just have to learn a whole new system
and all that goes with it, looks sweet thou, so far. Do have a
question thou, can anyone recomend any good books, and
Lets see. which one u install first ... linux or window ?
When I installed Mandrake linux 6.1 I could not get it to install lilo. It
gave me an error message that said that it could not write to the mater
boot
record. saying something like it was busy. I have system commander
installed
and
I'm not sure, but couldn't you do this with aliases from your shell profile
file?
- Original Message -
From: "Ty C. Mixon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 9:31 PM
Subject: [newbie] Using multiple WM's
Looking over this older e-mail, I see how
Dear friends:
A footnote on my request for sound configuration during install.
Just wanted to clarify that when I forgot to configure sound (sndconfig)
and turned on Real Player G2, I did not simply hear nothing. I got an
error message: "Sorry, audio device being used by another program" or
That's exactly what I'm talking about, but I haven't the first clue
how to start up an X server with a specified WM from the cmd line. If
I'm at the cmd line, I just type startx, and a light bulb just went
off . . .
I'd still like input, but I'm gonna go look at startx . . . .
Ty
Original
are you sure that you don't have a winModem?
I got that same message and had to take the modem out and look at it
and it was a winModem. I am not sure if it that is your problem or not
but you should start there and rule that out first
coin wrote:
hi there, i have the exact same problem with
Could anyone tell me if there is a way to take a screen shot of the desktop or
what software would be useful for doing such?
--
Seth Gibson
www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710
members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction)
The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating System is probably one of the
My KDE startup for a second and then goes back to the logon screen. When I logged on
to "fail-safe" and run KDE from the console,
it tells me:
KCharset: Wrong charset!
KiKbd: X11 error: BadWindow (Invalid Window Parameter)
What could have caused this? And, how can I fix this?
Seve
Hello all, first off, im totally new to Linux and everything about it.
Anyways, I installed Linux Mandrake last night, all went well, but when
it boots now, and loads KDE, my mouse wont work, it just goes to the
upper right hand side corner and wont come out. I have a Genius
Netscroll (PS/2)
Dear friends;
Another suggestion to Mandrake:
It would help immensely if users, especially paying users, had a full
and complete list of all Mandrake rpms, either on the installation CD or
the rpm contrib, in fact, there should be, I believe, a full and
up-to-date list of all rpms, programs,
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, coin fingered:
I had that and it turned out to be a win modem
I had to take it out and look at it
I do not know if yours is or not
The Prolink has been nothing but trouble since it's first iteration. I
remember one ISP practically giving it away with a paid subscribtion.
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Sevatio Octavio fingered:
How about nt? It supports interrupted d/ls etc.
Can't remember where I d/l it from, though.
HTH
You're right. Igloo can't stop immediately (quite annoying). Right
now I'm trying out GFTP. But it lacks a lot of Igloo's features. Do
you know
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, JMJ fingered:
The hardware is a Dell I7K and a 3Com/Megahertz 3CCM156
PCMCIA modem. I'm not sure whether to start checking the
PCMCIA stuff, or keep fiddling with the modem settings. So far,
I've had no luck trying various options in KPPP, which makes me
wonder if
i believe, and this just might be me... but i don't think that you can use winmodems
with linux hence the name winmodem i think they will only run with windows
i know they won't run under dos anyone know if this is true?
ben
xv ?
"Grab" or autograb
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Seth Gibson fingered:
Could anyone tell me if there is a way to take a screen shot of the desktop or
what software would be useful for doing such?
--
Ronald Yeo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joachim Holst wrote:
On tor, 25 nov 1999, you wrote:
Joachim Holst wrote:
Hi !
I've just joined this list, and I wonder why the h?ck is there so much
debate about getting EI to run on a Linux system ?? Isn't it better to get
Mozilla in working order giving us an alternativ
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends;
Another suggestion to Mandrake:
Please, don't think I'm trying to be an ass in answering this, it's not
my intention.
It would help immensely if users, especially paying users, had a full
and complete list of all Mandrake rpms, either on the
ben bradley wrote:
i believe, and this just might be me... but i don't think that you can use winmodems
with linux hence the name winmodem i think they will only run with
windows i know they won't run under dos anyone know if this is true?
Absolutely true.
Of course, some
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