Re: [newbie] mounting disk shares of another linux box

2000-03-28 Thread Audrey Beck
Chadley Wilson wrote: hi all i wonder who knows i have spent the past few days trying to figure 'mount' 'unmount' out without luck I have read the man pages but and now am confused. Is the file system on another mdk7 box through the eth0 a nfs share here are the commands I treid and

Re: [[newbie] Questions]

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Diego González" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i have 2 questions: 1.- on the network configuration, what does the dns numbers refer to? are they the dns numbers of my isp? = dns stands for domain nameserver. Yes they refer to your isp's dns#'s. You'll

Re: [newbie] Internet Sharing

2000-03-28 Thread flupke
Michael Celic wrote : Hello again, i have a cable modem, and two network cards working fine, is was wondering what i have to do to enable to share the internet to other computers in the house with a hub. Is there some software i need to download, or do i just need to type something in the

[newbie] Version 6.5 Graphic Card

2000-03-28 Thread Hans Fischer
Hi! Linux Mandrake was installed succesfully, but the X-mode doesn't work. - My machine (Pentium III etc.) uses an ATI Rage 128 EXPERT 128 - Card, and I can't find it in the installation list. The handbook told me to look for new cards software at www.linux-mandrake.com/indexde.html, but I

[newbie] Copy Files

2000-03-28 Thread Eunice Thompson
I saved a /var/log/*file on a floppy. In order for me to view it in Linux, I have to type 'pico filename' , and I can view the file as it's written. When I look at the same file in Windows it looks like one big paragraph, instead of the 200 + lines of entries of the original file. Is there a

[newbie] Kernal compile

2000-03-28 Thread K.H.Hughes
How do you re-compile the kernel in Mandrake 7.0. With my previous RedHat 6.0 I would go into /usr/src/linux and type: make xconfig or make menuconfig and then carry on from there. When I do this with Mandrake 7.0 I get the following: make: ***No rule to make target 'menuconfig'. stop

AW: [newbie] Copy Files

2000-03-28 Thread Drazenko Djuricic
This has historical reasons: UNIX like operating systems only use a "New Line" Byte at the end of each written line, while DOS based operating systems such as Windows use two bytes: a "New Line" plus "Carriage Return". So if you read a text file that was saved on a UNIX like operating system

[newbie] Re: kernel compile

2000-03-28 Thread K.H.Hughes
I installed the kernel-source from the install CD and can now compile the kernel. Why don't Mandrake install the kernel source automatically at install time like RH does?

[newbie]

2000-03-28 Thread Faizel Boorany
The contents of xterm are not legible. All that shows is the cursor highlight as I type. However, if I drag another window over the console window, it refreshes and the contents (sometimes) become visible. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] application/ms-tnef

[newbie] window refresh rate or device setting incorrect

2000-03-28 Thread Faizel Boorany
The contents of xterm are not legible. All that shows is the cursor highlight as I type. However, if I drag another window over the console window, it refreshes and the contents (sometimes) become visible. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] application/ms-tnef

Re: [newbie] Copy Files

2000-03-28 Thread BryanMoorehead
I believe this happens because *nix uses only a carriage-return as its end-of-record marker, whereas winders is expecting a carriage-return/line-feed combination. Many winders editors such as UltraEdit (look it up on the 'Net), either recognizes this automatically and compensates, or allows

Re: [newbie] IDE Zip Drive 100MB

2000-03-28 Thread Lane Lester
Thorsten Brenner said: I have a SCSI-System runnig. (hard-disks and cd are working super) On my first IDE I have a100MB Zip Drive. Here's my fstab entry that works with my IDE Zip at hdd: /dev/hdd /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County,

[newbie] Copy Files

2000-03-28 Thread Eunice Thompson
Thanks for the info

Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-03-28 Thread John Couturier
Try this. Go to ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/ once there go to the contrib directory and download the XFree86-4.0 RPMS. You will also need to install Xaw3d-devel and the xinitrc rpm from that directory. Don't worry about the Xconfigurator it won't work. You have to use xf86setup.

[newbie] everthing's dead. - please help

2000-03-28 Thread Mike Fieschko
"Kirk" == Kirk McElhearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Kirk computer won't boot off the install CD any more (I checked Kirk the BIOS, it's ok). Then, it won't boot at all, because I Kirk get the following message: Kirk hdc: lost interrupt Kirk over and over. (hdc is

[newbie] installation from hard disk

2000-03-28 Thread Yantai Arts Crafts
Hello,everybody, I'm planning to install Mandrake 7.0 in my mini laptop,which doesn't have a CDRom, so I want to install from hard disk. I copied all the files to hard disk,made a bootable installation diskette using hd.img, and began the installation. But after I chose the

[newbie] Good reading material

2000-03-28 Thread Skaist, Dov
Hi there, Can anyone recommend a good book for a Microsoft oriented techician who is trying to learn the concepts and how-to's of Linux (not something too technical but rather a book in easy terminology) Thanks, Dov

RE: [newbie] Good reading material

2000-03-28 Thread Mike Perry
Ho Dov! Probably one of the easiest thing that you can do is to download the Linux-Mandrake User Guide and Reference Manual. This can be found a www.linux-mandrake.com , surprisingly enough :-) Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 KDE Slow on Cyrix MII-300

2000-03-28 Thread Richard Smart (Real Time Technology Group) 0171 542 5212 2 Fl / Maple House
Mandrake 7.0 KDE runs slow on the following PC config: Processor: Cyrix MII - 300 - 128Mb Video: SIS 5597/5598 (Uses 4Mb of main memory) using SVGA server Swap file: 250Mb Have run many (text/GUI) installs, each of which produced same performance problem after starting KDE.

Re: [newbie] Kernal compile

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Holt
"K.H.Hughes" wrote: How do you re-compile the kernel in Mandrake 7.0. With my previous RedHat 6.0 I would go into /usr/src/linux and type: make xconfig or make menuconfig and then carry on from there. When I do this with Mandrake 7.0 I get the following: make: ***No rule to make target

Re: [[newbie] Good reading material]

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Skaist, Dov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Can anyone recommend a good book for a Microsoft oriented techician who is trying to learn the concepts and how-to's of Linux (not something too technical but rather a book in easy terminology) Thanks, Dov

[newbie] HP deskjet 710c

2000-03-28 Thread Sven Vermeulen
hello, I'm trying to get my HP deskjet 710c running under linux mandrake 7.0 with aspfilter but whitout succes. Is there anyone who has his 710c running or can anybody tell mewith which HP printerthe 710c is compatible? bye, Sven.

[newbie] problem with my ISP

2000-03-28 Thread Sven Vermeulen
hello, When I'm trying to connect my ISP with kppp, kppp establishes a connect and logs onto the netwerk, but then I get the message from kppp: "can't determine IP address". Although, I have filled in the DNS-servers of my ISP. Whatis going wrong here? bye, Sven.

[newbie] new to list

2000-03-28 Thread Paul Lein
Hi' It's great to be on this list! I have waited for an automatic newbie-list FAQ to come for a day but that doesn't seem to be a feature of this list. So here is a simple question: how do I set subscription to digest form? I looked through Mandrakes pages and didn't see a FAQ. I already got one

Re: [newbie] everthing's dead. - please help

2000-03-28 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 28/03/00 14:57, Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: This indicates (to me) a hardware problem with your Zip drive (or the Zip disk in the drive?). Could you disconnect the drive or keep the drive empty on boot up? I don't think the problem is with the drive. IT works

[newbie] NT client with Linux

2000-03-28 Thread George Jones
I'm trying to access an NT server using Linux. I would like to know how to setup an NT client using mandrake7. I would also need to be able to see all of the shared drives on our network (that I have access to anyways) and be able to add more at will. In addition to this, I need to be able to

Re[2]: [newbie] Returned Mail?

2000-03-28 Thread tymanthius
that does explain some stuff. But I just got 'bounce' notice for message that made it to the list. More list gremlins. :( I think we all have gotten this mail over the past few days. SPAM I guess Sharon Pfeiffer wrote: Me too! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

[newbie] Adaptec 1505

2000-03-28 Thread hugh
How can I get Mandrake to run an Adaptec 1505 SCSI card? There arent any drivers for this card and I hoped to use it with my scanner TIA

[newbie] Newbie support - the sequel.....

2000-03-28 Thread Skaist, Dov
Does anyone know of Hebrew fonts (I see there is an option for a Hebrew keyboard, but when I type it comes out "gibberish") - is this a known issue or is it simply I don't have the proper fonts (as happens in Windows). Thanks, Dov

RE: [newbie] installation from hard disk

2000-03-28 Thread Greg Martz
I just did this, so let me tell you how I set up my HD. Here are the steps: 1. Create a directory off the root of your installation HD called mandrake 2. Create the following directories under mandrake (base, instimage, mdkinst, rpms) 3. Head to mandrake's FTP site, or your favorite

[newbie] TCI FreeWWWeb 4 Linux

2000-03-28 Thread Eunice Thompson
check out the service for free internet http://www.teledyn.com/products/FreeWWW/#features TCI FreeWWWeb 4 Linux.url

[newbie] modems and soud cards

2000-03-28 Thread Andrew Doe (Web master)
how do you set up internal modems and soundcards in ,linux-mandrake-7.0 regards andrew doe (happy linux user)

RE: [newbie] modems and soud cards

2000-03-28 Thread Greg Martz
To setup a simple sound card, you open a terminal session in Mandrake (as root), and type "sndconfig" without the quotes. Then follow the simple prompts. Since I don't have a modem at work I can't help with that. Although the installation manual available on mandrakes wonderful web site

Re: [newbie] HP deskjet 710c

2000-03-28 Thread steve harris
Sven, it will work but you have some work to do. I have a 712HP, it is a "ppa" printer. I call it a "winprinter", kinda like a "winmodem". This site will take you thru the steps to make it work. http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ They also have a mailing list too. steve Original Message

Re: [newbie] Version 6.5 Graphic Card

2000-03-28 Thread franz
hans fischer wrote: Linux Mandrake was installed succesfully, but the X-mode doesn't work. - My machine (Pentium III etc.) uses an ATI Rage 128 EXPERT 128 - Card, and I can't find it in the installation list. The handbook told me to look for new cards software at

[newbie] Supported Ethernet?

2000-03-28 Thread Ty Morton
I have a SBC (Single Board computer) that has a embedded 10/100 Intel 21143 Ethernet Controller does the 2.2.12 kernel support this card I can not find a supported hardware page, If it is supported which module does it use ? Thanks In Advance Ty Morton

[newbie] Network Neighborhood equivalent

2000-03-28 Thread Steven Mileham
I've been using Samba at Univercity to let be share my drives with other people and to mount their shares, but is there I way I can get a "network neighborhood" style listing, preferable one that is just a text type thing that comes with samba rather than another X program, but I'll take

[newbie] (no subject)

2000-03-28 Thread root
Hi, Has anybody used Linksys cards for cable modem and/or network(home use). While I am writing, is there cd burning and DVD support for Linux. I am using Mandrake 7 and am new. The only thing I can get to work is the modem, external,I had to buy it. This system rips! I am anxious

[newbie] parport.o did not compile

2000-03-28 Thread Stephen Bosch
Hello: I am/was running Mandrake 6.1 on 2.2.13-7mdk. In order to add sound support for my Diamond Monster MX300, I had to compile a kernel. I used the kernel sources for 2.2.14 to do this. It compiled just fine. The binary works, and I got my sound running. Things were great until I discovered

[newbie] Samba setup - some issues.

2000-03-28 Thread mendes
Hello I have samba running for some time without much trouble. Unfortunately I am not that happy with it as I have to add and remove smbusers just to use the printer on the linux box. Can I set the printer as security=share so that anyone on the windows box can use irt? How does it work? Do

Re: AW: [newbie] Copy Files

2000-03-28 Thread Anthony Huereca
So could that be why when I copy and paste things, it looks screwed up? Sometimes I want to copy something off a website, and when I paste it into a form and/or IRC it looks really messed up. For instance, This: a "New Line" plus "Carriage Return". So if you read a text file that was saved

Re: [newbie] Unable to access cdrom or floppy

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
Bruce Hilliker wrote: Jon; Hate to tell ya, but that doesn't work. Once I've followed you instructions and click on my newly made cd icon; I get the following message: KFM error - could not mount mount: can't find /dev/sr0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab There's something wrong with

Re: [newbie] VNC

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
Bob barker wrote: Can i run VNC on kde and how do i if i can? am using mandrake 7.0 and if i don't got it where can i download it? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com I have the 7.0-2

Re: [newbie]

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
S'all right, needed a laugh... Vern wrote: I apologize to you and the others Jon my send button has a "hair trigger" and it got away from me! Vern - Original Message - From: Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 3:33 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] Backups

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
Dan, if you have been happy with tar then use the -M switch (MultiDisk) option. When it runs out of space it will ask for new disk. Dan Ferris wrote: I would like to be able to backup my home directory to a couple zip disks. I have used tar in the past to do this, only problem is that, tar

Re: [newbie] Real Player

2000-03-28 Thread Anthony Huereca
Heh, I know what you mean. I was so incredibly happy the day I got Real Player to work (turned out the one I downloaded off of Real's site didnt' play nice with Mandrake, and to download a different one), or the day I finally got a new kernel to configure and compile. That's what i like about

Re: [newbie] (no subject)

2000-03-28 Thread Anthony Huereca
I use a Linksys card, not sure what kind though, but it is Linksys. There is CD burning support, but I haven't tried any out yet, as my CD-RW has something screwy with it (hardware problem, not software). There is technically DVD support, but it's not really that refined, and apparently hard to

Re: [newbie] ZIP Not installing...

2000-03-28 Thread Lance Borden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, now for my NEWBY question, I did the 'insmod parport' and 'insmod ppa' then 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/ZIP'. The message comes back as "mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?)" Where would I find

[newbie] Access to CD-Rom?

2000-03-28 Thread HAL 9000
i am trying to access my cd-roms in linux as a user and they were both locked (i don't have access). so i logged in as root and tried to use them, and again, they were both locked. how can i unlock them? TIA seth

RE: [newbie] parport.o did not compile

2000-03-28 Thread Stephen Bosch
It seems silly that a basic component like parallel port support should be part of the kernel source, but I can't get the bloody thing to compile. That should read "shouldn't" =) No ideas yet? *sigh*

Re: [newbie] (no subject)

2000-03-28 Thread root
Thanks!! I use a Linksys card, not sure what kind though, but it is Linksys. There is CD burning support, but I haven't tried any out yet, as my CD-RW has something screwy with it (hardware problem, not software). There is technically DVD support, but it's not really that

Re: [newbie] Re: kernel compile

2000-03-28 Thread Rial Juan
Actually, both RedHat and Mandrake have an option for installing the kernel source. Probably you deselected it during mandrake install, or chose to go with one of the "quick n' dirty" installs instead of custom installation. On Mar 28 K.H.Hughes wrote: I installed the kernel-source from the

RE: [newbie] parport.o did not compile

2000-03-28 Thread Stephen Bosch
I'm probably not gonna be a lot of help since I haven't done the new kernel thing for a long time. However, as I recall, when you type 'make config' it gives you three choices for every option. y,n, or m. If you type 'n' then it doesn't make anything. You have to type in 'm' to specify

Re: [newbie] HP deskjet 710c

2000-03-28 Thread Rial Juan
I gave up on the 710c after 20 minutes because it was too much trouble and I still had a spare Epson Stylus Color 600 which didn't give me all the headaches the HP 710 does. However, if you really want to get the 710c working, I suggest you check out this site:

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-28 Thread Ivan Stout
Yeah, Netscape is currently a bit shaky with Linux (at least as far as I know). Here is a site that just might help you out though: http://members.ping.at/theofilu/netscape.html --- "Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK guys (and gals), I did a fresh install of 7.0-2 using the

[newbie] how do you make a boot disk for linux manually with kde, gnome or aNY OTHRER window manager?

2000-03-28 Thread _-+Richard Kim=-_
how do you make a boot disk for linux manually with kde, gnome or aNY OTHRER window manager

Re: [newbie] sendmail

2000-03-28 Thread Daryl Fisk
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote: how do you start the sendmail program? The sendmail program is usually a daemon that is already running! If you read the book on the CD-ROM called "Linux Unleashed," it will explain it very nicely. Incidently, "Linux Unleashed" is usually a $50.00 book which

Re: [newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-28 Thread Dan
Are you sure the system is locked up? Try going into Task Manager and killing ld-linux.so.2. This seems to work for me. Netscape sometimes just locks up but the system still works. (I have so far been unable to lock the system under any situation.) It seems to happen on pages with Java but

Re: [newbie] parport.o did not compile

2000-03-28 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
If I'm missing something specific in xconfig, I hope someone can point it out -- but I've been through it with a fine-toothed comb, I can't find anything that says "parallel port support" directly. Quoting myself... *sigh* Would the fact that I have configured parallel drive (e.g., Zip)

[newbie] DMA support for IDE drives

2000-03-28 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Hello: I was having problems with crashes during install of Mandrake 6.1, so I decided to temporarily disable DMA support in the BIOS. After that I was able to install normally -- however, now, when I re-enable DMA support in the BIOS, the kernel still reports "DMA disabled (BIOS)". What could

Re: [newbie] BOGO Mips

2000-03-28 Thread Jeanette Russo
it is slow for a 233 but now sure how much bogomips means. Jeanette - Original Message - From: "Jaguar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 4:02 PM Subject: [newbie] BOGO Mips I have a Cyrix MediaGX P233 kit board w/64 RAM, vid (not

Re: [newbie] XFree86 version 4 and the SIS 6326 chip

2000-03-28 Thread Jim Del Cañamo
I am workin whith a SiS 6326 Speed Star A50 Video card I must to give some options in /etc/X11/XF86svga in device section for mouse no_blt (or something so) If you want I can send to you muy file but send your request to this mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] bye Lic Gabriel Spahn

Re: [newbie] cmi8330 onboard sound card and mdk7.02

2000-03-28 Thread Sharon Pfeiffer
You could try going to www.opensound.com and download the appropriate driver for your sound card. I have a cmi8330 SB compatible and had similar problems. Downloaded the driver from opensound and it works fine now. - Original Message - From: Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] ZIP Not installing...

2000-03-28 Thread Bruce Hilliker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lance, I have tried both 'insmod' and 'modprobe' for 'ppa' and 'parport'. No luck either way, even have done the 'lsmod' to check for the listing, NOTHING. After having some probs with one way of installing should I do the 'modprobe -r' to remove any installs

Re: [[newbie] HP deskjet 710c]

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Sven Vermeulen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I'm trying to get my HP deskjet 710c running under linux mandrake 7.0 with aspfilter but whitout succes. Is there anyone who has his 710c running or can anybody tell me with which HP printer the 710c is compatible? bye, Sven.

Re: [[newbie] problem with my ISP]

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Sven Vermeulen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, When I'm trying to connect my ISP with kppp, kppp establishes a connect and logs onto the netwerk, but then I get the message from kppp: "can't determine IP address". Although, I have filled in the DNS-servers of my ISP. What is going wrong

Re: [newbie] browser

2000-03-28 Thread KompuKit
which file(s) do I download for the 4.72 update... will it work on Mandrake...seeing as most drake files... are of the i586.rpm format... steve harris wrote: Someone asked earlier about browsers. Not really anything other than Netscape. Mozilla is getting better though, M14 is the latest

Re: [newbie] parport.o did not compile

2000-03-28 Thread Dan Ferris
Stephen Bosch wrote: I'm probably not gonna be a lot of help since I haven't done the new kernel thing for a long time. However, as I recall, when you type 'make config' it gives you three choices for every option. y,n, or m. If you type 'n' then it doesn't make anything. You have

Re: [newbie] how do you make a boot disk for linux manually with kde, gnome or aNY OTHRER window manager?

2000-03-28 Thread Anthony Huereca
Well, it's not really done by a GUI, but it is manually. Anywho, as root type this, "mkbootdisk --device /dev/floppy_device the_linux_version" To find out what linux version, go to /lib/modules/, and see what directory is there. Should be something like "2.2.13-7mdk" although yours might be

Re: [newbie] browser

2000-03-28 Thread Anthony Huereca
You must download this file: ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/netscape-common-4.72-6.i386.rpm and then you can choose either communictor (the full thing, browser+email+newsreader): ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/netscape-communicator-4.72-6.i386.rpm or

Re: AW: [newbie] Copy Files

2000-03-28 Thread John N
I find that, in Windows, WordPad reads them just fine ... Anthony Huereca wrote: So could that be why when I copy and paste things, it looks screwed up? Sometimes I want to copy something off a website, and when I paste it into a form and/or IRC it looks really messed up. For instance,

[newbie] ip masquerading

2000-03-28 Thread Tom H
Someone asked about IP masquerading. It was a great question so could you please send me the info also? Tom HTriumph 59564 Corvair65 Corvair

Re: [newbie] ZIP Not installing...

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
Lance Borden wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, now for my NEWBY question, I did the 'insmod parport' and 'insmod ppa' then 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/ZIP'. The message comes back as "mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod

Re: [newbie] lost interrupt - can't boot

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
Kirk McElhearn wrote: Every time I try to boot with Mandrake 7, the init hangs when trying to get the partition table of my zip drive at hdc. It keeps displaying: hdc: lost interrupt What does this mean, and how can I remedy it? Kirk vice versa

Re: [newbie] browser

2000-03-28 Thread steve harris
The i386 files run fine on a kernel that is i586, it is backwards compatible usually. Get the common and communicator two files if you want email and newsgroups. Get the common and navigator two files if you want a browser only. Get the 4.72 files, not 4.7 Install the common first, which will

[newbie] simple network

2000-03-28 Thread Dan
I am attempting just to set up a simple 2 computer home network using Mandrake 7.0 and Linksys "network in a box" It works under Win98. Anyone know of any "simple" network documentation for this? All I've read so far seems a tad out of my league...for now. Thank you in advance,

[newbie] Linux ISPs

2000-03-28 Thread CMi1255179
Found this eariler today... A HREF="http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/"Welcome to fuckMicrosoft.com/A...if I ever get my modum to work, I want to try so these other browsers...I'm workin' on it enjoy 'A Slave To The Drive To Obsession- A Spirit With A Vision, Is A Dream With A

Re: [newbie] simple network

2000-03-28 Thread steve harris
Dan, I run the Linksys home kit, $59? at Best Buy. Get this book, contains everything to run a gateway with ipchains, smb, link NT and 98 machines to linux, etc. A good book. I transfer files between the windows and linux machines. The book has an excellent troubleshooting section if what it

[newbie] un subsribe newbie

2000-03-28 Thread Second
un subsribe newbie

[newbie] Modem

2000-03-28 Thread PC Hoon
I was told that my Aztech USB external modem is a winmodem which is not supported by Linux. I have the intention to purchase the Creative Modem Blaster Flash 56II External just for the Linux. Please advise if this modem work fine under Linux before I go out and get one. Thanks in advance.

Re: [newbie] Network Neighborhood equivalent

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
Steven Mileham wrote: I've been using Samba at Univercity to let be share my drives with other people and to mount their shares, but is there I way I can get a "network neighborhood" style listing, preferable one that is just a text type thing that comes with samba rather than another X

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux(soundBlaster pci128)]

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
_-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: Subject: Mandrake Linux(soundBlaster pci128) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:24:47 -0500 From: _-+Richard Kim=-_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: creative.linux hi ive got a soundblaster pci128 and

Re: [newbie] Copy Files

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe this happens because *nix uses only a carriage-return as its end-of-record marker, whereas winders is expecting a carriage-return/line-feed combination. Many winders editors such as UltraEdit (look it up on the 'Net), either recognizes this automatically

Re: [newbie] (no subject)

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
root wrote: Hi, Has anybody used Linksys cards for cable modem and/or network(home use). While I am writing, is there cd burning and DVD support for Linux. I am using Mandrake 7 and am new. The only thing I can get to work is the modem, external,I had to buy it. This system

Re: [[newbie] problem with my ISP]

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
Michael Scottaline wrote: "Sven Vermeulen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, When I'm trying to connect my ISP with kppp, kppp establishes a connect and logs onto the netwerk, but then I get the message from kppp: "can't determine IP address". Although, I have filled in the DNS-servers

Re: [newbie] Enable PCMCIA NIC Card

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
Michael Bui wrote: Hi Newbie: Here is the attachment file you requested: -Original Message- From: Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 08:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Enable PCMCIA NIC Card Michael Bui wrote: Does anyone know how

Re: [[newbie] Access to CD-Rom?]

2000-03-28 Thread HAL 9000
Jim Simpson wrote: I had the same problem when I installed Mandrake 7.0. The first time there was an error installing "fstab" so I reinstalled. Still didn't work. So I turned down the security setting to low and then had access as root but not as user. After using the CD-Rom to install the

Re: [newbie] browser

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Holt
Murray Strome wrote: OK I give up! I went to the Mandrake Cooker site and could not fine the 4.72 rpms -- can you please give us a more specific location? Thanks. Murray Strome Michael Holt wrote: Just go to the Mandrake Cooker site and download the 4.72 rpms (common, communicator

Re: [newbie] ZIP Not installing...

2000-03-28 Thread nodyak0
Jon, I guess this is what you are looking for so here goes: (by the way, I created this using "vim" in "Icewm" and now reading it from windows using my "EditPad" and it is exactly the format that was used by Linux.) Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024

[newbie] Browser

2000-03-28 Thread Eunice Thompson
Thanks for posting the easy update for Netscape. I downloaded the packages from the Mandrake cooker site, used kpackage and tada! Netscape 4.72 is now installed. Thanks again

[newbie] help,can't access

2000-03-28 Thread Kit
I just changed to a Hitachi 17" monitor... from a HP ergo ultra 15" and now I can't access my linuxbox...to use lothar to re-configure the new monitorcause upon reboot... it's fuzzy...and I can't see the login screen clearly...enough to do things... it's also...doing crazy things...it's

RE: [newbie] help,can't access

2000-03-28 Thread Robert Revet
at booting type linux 2 and reconfigure with Xconfigurator of xf86config

[newbie] kicq

2000-03-28 Thread Allen
hello all, i'm trying to install kicq on mandrake 7.02. i downloaded the icqlib and kicq. i installed the icqlib and when i go to install kicq it says there are three dependencies missing: libkdecore.so.1 libkdeui.so.1 libkfm.so.1 how am i able to find these files? or do i have to find a

Re: [newbie] browser

2000-03-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
MurrayI don't know about cooker, but I downloaded them from a crypto mirror site. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fcrypto.php3 Alan Murray Strome wrote: OK I give up! I went to the Mandrake Cooker site and could not fine the 4.72 rpms -- can you please give us a more specific

Re: [newbie] lost interrupt - can't boot

2000-03-28 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 29/03/00 1:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: How did you install your ZIP drive as "hdc"? When I did attempt to install mine as "hdc" the response was "mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) The

Re: [newbie] lost interrupt - can't boot

2000-03-28 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 29/03/00 4:17, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: Your disk setup is hdaDos partition IDE 1 master hdbnothing hdcZip IDE 2 master hddCD-Rom IDE 2 slave Fill in the blanks... type, model, jumpered to be master or slave Please I cannot

[newbie] lost interrupt - can't boot

2000-03-28 Thread Kirk McElhearn
Every time I try to boot with Mandrake 7, the init hangs when trying to get the partition table of my zip drive at hdc. It keeps displaying: hdc: lost interrupt What does this mean, and how can I remedy it? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to

[newbie] Netscape hangs linux

2000-03-28 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
OK guys (and gals), I did a fresh install of 7.0-2 using the recommended settings. Hardware is as follows: AMD K6-2 350 64M RAM 10G 30G Maxtor HD's Motorola BitsurferPro ISDN modem Diamond Stealth III (s540) video card no-name 19" monitor Logitech rollerball type

RE: [newbie] Newbie support - the sequel.....

2000-03-28 Thread Mike Perry
Hi Dov! About Hebrew Fonts, Personaly I hope there aren't, but unfortunately my Son would not agree, so if you find any then please let me know. Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Skaist, Dov