[newbie] INETD

1999-12-25 Thread Mikler
Hello newbie, Well I guess I'm a newbie in net stuff in linux well - I am interested in rising speed of response of my INETD services such as FTP LOGIN POP3 and so on. They r some kind of hanging up on 30-40 secs after connection. I got P 166 MMX 16 RAM - that is not real fast but

Re: [newbie] INETD

1999-12-25 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Mikler wrote: Hello newbie, Well I guess I'm a newbie in net stuff in linux well - I am interested in rising speed of response of my INETD services such as FTP LOGIN POP3 and so on. They r some kind of hanging up on 30-40 secs after connection. I got P

Re: [newbie] Installation on HP Pavilion computer

1999-12-25 Thread Scott Steinman
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: You should test the new 7.0 beta, we've added patches for the i810, and the geforce -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon Thanks. I'll try it, just as soon as I can download all of it. I've gotten

Re: [newbie] LS120 Drives

1999-12-25 Thread bluebottle
Thanks, John - it now shows up in disc management. John the Nadger On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, bluebottle wrote: Just had a quick trip thro' the archives as I thought this had been covered. Must have missed it. Can someone advise as to installing. Treat

Re: [[newbie] Modem]

1999-12-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
Ganesh Subramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed linux 6.5 on my pc which contains windows 98. linux does not recognize my modem. My modem is conexant soft k56 PCI Modem. ( I am able to use it from windows 98) Any set up needs required to acheive this. Any pointers would be

MDK 7.0 ISO (was Re: [newbie] Installation on HP Pavilion computer)

1999-12-25 Thread M Thompson
Scott, What is the URL for the Mandrake 7.0 ISO? I found directories, but no ISO image. Thanks, Matt From: Scott Steinman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation on HP Pavilion computer Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 04:01:37 -0600

Re: [newbie] Installation on HP Pavilion computer

1999-12-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Scott Steinman wrote: Has anybody gotten Linux-Mandrake installed on a HP Pavilion computer? I can't get X to display a screen larger than 680 x 480. The Pavilion has an Intel 810 chipset graphics driver which is capable of higher resolution, but it is not on the list of

Re: [newbie] LS120 Drives

1999-12-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, bluebottle wrote: Thanks, John - it now shows up in disc management. Ahh...good. :-) I don't use one so I was going strictly on what I could remember from previous discussions. :-) If you need more help, I'm sure there are quite a few discussions in the archives. :-)

Re: [newbie] Star Office mailing list

1999-12-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Alejandro Arredondo wrote: John A., Could you send me again the mail list of Star Office, please? I can not find it. Maybe I deleted it. Thank You, Alejandro Arredondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Should put you on the list...if not, it should at least give you the

[newbie] Scanner

1999-12-25 Thread Alejandro Arredondo
Hello Everybody, I have an HP ScanJet 3200C. How can I make it work with Linux? Alejandro Arredondo

Re[2]: [newbie] INETD

1999-12-25 Thread Mikler
Hello Axalon, Saturday, December 25, 1999, 10:42:16 AM, you wrote: AB On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Mikler wrote: Hello newbie, Well I guess I'm a newbie in net stuff in linux well - I am interested in rising speed of response of my INETD services such as FTP LOGIN POP3 and so on. They r

Re: [[newbie] Printers]

1999-12-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
Michelle Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a new printer for Christmas. Are there any printers that have been known to cause problems or just not work with Linux? I received a Canon Bubble Jet 1000. Thanks. Michelle === Not sure

[newbie] Root Password Problem

1999-12-25 Thread Toyswins
I just started my "experimental" Linux box and discovered that it doesn't like my password. I can go in as my alternate user, and after successfully logging in, type in "su" then the root password and it works just fine. I then changed the root password via passwd logged out and tried again.

[newbie] Suggestions

1999-12-25 Thread Ernesto
Merry christmas to everybody. I would like some suggestions. I have a 13.6gb drive. I am using around 6gb. in 3 win partitions. The rest of the space I would like to use for linux. So I tried to use all of the 7 gigs in the root - "/", but disk druid would not let me, the max I think was 1860MB.

Re: [newbie] Suggestions

1999-12-25 Thread M Thompson
You have encountered the 1024th cylinder boundry. LILO and the initial Linux boot files must reside below the 1024th cylinder (first 7.88GB of the hard disk). The /boot directory contains these files. You should create a small Linux partition (20Mb is plenty) and mount it as /boot. Create

[newbie] Installation without cdrom player

1999-12-25 Thread Mark Baars
Hello, First of all a merry cristmas to all of you! I have an older pc without a cd rom player and want to install Linux Mandrake on it. From the manual I understood that I have to make a bootable floppy from the image file pcmia.img but that won't start up. Can anybody tell me how to do

Re: [newbie] Printers

1999-12-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Michelle Schneider wrote: I just got a new printer for Christmas. Are there any printers that have been known to cause problems or just not work with Linux? I received a Canon Bubble Jet 1000. BJC1000 is listed as "mostly" working with Linux by the "Linux Printing

Re: [newbie] Scanner

1999-12-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Alejandro Arredondo wrote: Hello Everybody, I have an HP ScanJet 3200C. How can I make it work with Linux? Paralell or SCSI? If the former, forget it. If the latter, it very well may work. There is almost NO support for Paralell printers under Linux. John

Re: [newbie] Root Password Problem

1999-12-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Toyswins wrote: I just started my "experimental" Linux box and discovered that it doesn't like my password. I can go in as my alternate user, and after successfully logging in, type in "su" then the root password and it works just fine. I then changed the root password

Re: MDK 7.0 ISO (was Re: [newbie] Installation on HP Pavilion computer)

1999-12-25 Thread Scott Steinman
M Thompson wrote: Scott, What is the URL for the Mandrake 7.0 ISO? I found directories, but no ISO image. Thanks, Matt The ISO image is the file "oxygen-2.iso" at: ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/ISO/Mandrakebeta/ -Scott

[newbie] NFS Setup

1999-12-25 Thread Jim Ockers
Anyone have some step by step instructions in how to setup NFS? I have succesfully setup PLIP and I can even FTP via PLIP, however whenever I try to setup an NFS mount, I get an error: mount: RPC: program not registered. Thanks, -Jim

Re: [newbie] Installation without cdrom player

1999-12-25 Thread Toyswins
A few questions: 1. How old is older? Depending on the hardware, it might be easier to use an older version such as the 5 vice 6 series of Red Hat. Also, you need to check how much drive space is needed and if it's available. Best bet is to check out the HOWTO series and the text files with

Re: [newbie] Scanner

1999-12-25 Thread Toyswins
Printers or scanners? Scanners I hope you meant. B. B. John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Alejandro Arredondo wrote: Hello Everybody, I have an HP ScanJet 3200C. How can I make it work with Linux? Paralell or SCSI? If the former, forget it. If the latter, it very well may

Re: [newbie] Root Password Problem

1999-12-25 Thread Toyswins
I did that, and am aware of the difference in capital vice lower case. First thing I thought of, and it worked initially. I figure it's something I did and don't have a clue now what it could have been. The -19 makes sense so I'll go with that. Expert that you are...heh heh. Merry Christmas

[newbie] hi

1999-12-25 Thread Jackie Johnson
-hi every one just wanted to wish you all a happy hoildays - I'm going to live forever, or die trying! -- Spider Robinson

[newbie]

1999-12-25 Thread Theo Brito Ribeiro
Dear Mandrake crew, I've recently downloaded Linux-Mandrake, but I can't configure my video card... It's a Diamond Monster Fusion and I'd like to know if there is any other video card that my Monster Fusion is compatible with, and if that card is compatible with linux!!! I really want to get

[newbie] Questions re: man pages, Netscape

1999-12-25 Thread Joe Marcom
Merry Christmas, all: I THINK I got Wine installed from the RPM CD, but don't know how to access it, so I tried to print "man wine" by using lpr. Got the reply "unable to access man. Unable to access wine." So, what is the correct syntax to print a man page (lpr filename is obviously wrong)?

[newbie] probs w/ installation

1999-12-25 Thread Ernesto Bartels (Yahoo profile)
after mandrake 6.1 installation I have found some annoying probs. firstly, linux only boots up from the disk (rescue disk?) because I put the option "boot from primary partition" or something like that when installing, since my HD is 13.6gb, and yes my /boot partition was on the 6gb and under

Re: [newbie] Scanner

1999-12-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Toyswins wrote: Printers or scanners? Scanners I hope you meant. DOH! Yep. You're right. :-) I mis-typed. :-) John

Re: [newbie] Root Password Problem

1999-12-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Toyswins wrote: I did that, and am aware of the difference in capital vice lower case. First thing I thought of, and it worked initially. I figure it's something I did and don't have a clue now what it could have been. The -19 makes sense so I'll go with that. Expert

[newbie] RE: Source Code

1999-12-25 Thread Jennifer Ricki Wise
I tried to take a look at the source code for Mandrake using the source code cd. I was unsuccessful, I tried to open it in Borland C++ but could not find any files that would display anything. Could someone please tell me how I can see the source code and which language it is written in. Thanks

Re: [newbie] Modem

1999-12-25 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Ganesh Subramanian wrote: | I installed linux 6.5 on my pc which contains | windows 98. | | linux does not recognize my modem. | My modem is conexant soft k56 PCI Modem. | ( I am able to use it from windows 98) | | Any set up needs required to

RE: [newbie] RE: Source Code

1999-12-25 Thread Ken Wilson
I am going to hazard a couple of guesses here. One is it is more than likely written in C. The second is that the files you want to view follow the standard Unix convention for text files and have only a single linefeed/carriage return (can never remember exactly which one it is, might even be

Re: [newbie] NIC Problems

1999-12-25 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Wass wrote: | Hello Fellow Mandrake Fans, | | I'm running into a problem trying to set up my linux-based | proxy. Basically, my NIC cannot see the cable modem, or vice versa. | Read on for more details. | | I've got a cable-modem, which I've

Re: [newbie] NIC Problems

1999-12-25 Thread Glenn White
You are correct in assuming that your cable modem is 10BASET. I only wish I could get mine working on my machine. Good luck! - Original Message - From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 26, 1999 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] NIC

Re: [newbie] Scanner

1999-12-25 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: | On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Alejandro Arredondo wrote: | Hello Everybody, | | I have an HP ScanJet 3200C. How can I make it work with Linux? | | Paralell or SCSI? If the former, forget it. If the latter, it very | well may work.