[newbie] Duel graphics cards

2000-04-30 Thread Steven Mileham
On my windows PC I can have two graphics cards which will let me have twice the desktop space, one is an S3 2mb card and the other is a ATI Mach64 1mb card. Any suggestions how I can do this with Linux? Cheers Steven Mileham

Re: [newbie] Many questions (with apologies).

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, RDM wrote: Ok, here goes, gang . . . I'm a 42 y/o (male) RN on my 5th or 6th computer, now. (So much for knowing computer programming, etc.) I have done Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, and some version of Mac once, on one "Macintosh" I had (at home), and Windows NT at

[newbie] Running Linux from a Jaz drive

2000-04-30 Thread Steven Mileham
Any idea how I can run a Linux setup from my Jaz drive, so I can just turn it on, put in the Jaz disk and boot Linux. It's a Scsi disk and I can install and put Lilo in the first Linux Partition but when it boots it starts but then stops, this is all it displays; LI And thats it, so it's

Re: [newbie] monitor brightnes

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Omar Rodríguez wrote: does any one know of a program to set the monitor brightnes higher my problem is a simple one i have a voodoo 3 3000 on my pc and got it to work, the thing is that when i run games (unreal tournament) the picture looks way too dark, ive seen

Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem in X

2000-04-30 Thread Anders Linden
Ok, I have a problem with X-Windows How can I write the $, ] and } in X? When I try I only get a 4, a 9 and a 0. I'm writing this in the console, and as you can see it works fine there. I just can't get it to work in X (Using KDE). I've already tries to change the usual rows in

Re: [newbie] A funny thing I noticed

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
Actually, this is working with all GTK-based applications. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Hi all, Perhaps most of you already know this, but it is new for me. I just noticed something funny with the mouse and scrolling in large windows. Netscape can sometimes show very long pages.

[newbie] linux versus windows

2000-04-30 Thread Chadley Wilson
I'm not trying to be unreasonable but I have worked on linux for well over a year and Id like to say that linux is greater than windows stability etc. But I've have enough of the critism that is passed around by the linux community, whats the matter with you people Bill Gates made a system that

[newbie] Quanta HTML editor

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
Hi all, I have gotten and installed Quanta. It works really good!! At this point I am using it to make a webpage about my uses of Linux (Mandrake of course!), and it behaves pretty good. It did keel over and disappeared at one point, not sure what happened there, but I ran it again and so far no

[newbie] Can you upgrade to different distributions?

2000-04-30 Thread Mad Marty
Hi there, Sorry if this is a dumb question but hey... Since I can't get Mandrake 7 installed (read my other post about how it crashes when it gets to installing shadows utils'), could I install say Red Hat and 'upgrade'? How about if I stick with the same distribution, and upgrade RedHat 6.1

Re: [newbie] Can you upgrade to different distributions?

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Mad Marty wrote: Sorry if this is a dumb question but hey... Not asking is dumb. Since I can't get Mandrake 7 installed (read my other post about how it crashes when it gets to installing shadows utils'), could I install say Red Hat and 'upgrade'? How about if I stick

Re: [newbie] Upgrading packages

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, flupke wrote: It's complaining about broken dependencies during the desinstallation of the old package. To resolve this problem, just add the "--nodeps" option to your rpm command line : rpm -Uvh --nodeps gnole-libs-...mdk.rpm Ah, Great!! Didn't know that!! Thanks! :) Paul

Re: [newbie] WinAmp for Linux??

2000-04-30 Thread Carl Kehley
"Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: Hi Folks! I've been enjoying several radio stations using the ShoutCast technology (www.shoutcast.com) over my WinAmp. I assume that "Win"Amb is just for Windoze .. . .I was wondering if anyone knew of a WinAmp like download that could play ShoutCast radio

Re: Re: [newbie] Can you upgrade to different distributions?

2000-04-30 Thread Mad Marty
I have found out that upgrading Redhat to newer Redhat is no problem. Also upgrading Redhat to newer Mandrake is no problem. I would not advise on upgrading Mandrake to newer Redhat, Mandrake has more options than Redhat afaik. By upgrading, do you mean getting another cd and running the

Re: [newbie] Quanta HTML editor

2000-04-30 Thread Hellmut
Hi! I have to agree Paul, I'm using Quanta+ too since it was on the CD of the german mag "PC Intern" 5/2000, it's very self explaining. It's made for people who know HTML and who don't need the unnecnessary code StarOffice for example produces. Hellmut Hi all, I have gotten and installed

Re: [newbie] linux versus windows

2000-04-30 Thread nodyak0
Hey, NO Flames on this one please, it is a desperate cry for HELP. I for one am having some difficulty in getting some thingys to work in Linux MDK as well and have so much to learn with reading all of this mail not much time each day to do some work on this system. I am NOT complaining most of

Re: [newbie] WinAmp for Linux??

2000-04-30 Thread Michael A. Kellogg
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: "Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: Hi Folks! I've been enjoying several radio stations using the ShoutCast technology (www.shoutcast.com) over my WinAmp. I assume that "Win"Amb is just for Windoze .. . .I was wondering if anyone knew of a WinAmp like

Re: [newbie] linux versus windows

2000-04-30 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Fully understandable. Despite some of these frustrations, we are still drawn to linux because it represents the right thing to do. This way the next generation won't live under Microsoft protocols anymore than we have to. Seve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] linux versus windows

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, NO Flames on this one please, it is a desperate cry for HELP. I for one am having some difficulty in getting some thingys to work in Linux MDK as well and have so much to learn with reading all of this mail not much time each day to do some work

[newbie] Word processors

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
Hi all, Some people here have brought up Star Office. I have that on PC2 (I am using PC1 now, in my little network). I have to agree that S.O. is bringing things to their knees. My P-II 350 acts rather sluggish loading it, and running it. If you look for a good wordprocessor, I use AbiWord.

[newbie] C programming problem

2000-04-30 Thread Scotchpie
Can anyone help? I have decided to learn C and have followed the examples in the books C in 24 hours by Tony Zhang and Running Linux by Welsh and co. The problem is, after following the text for the first program very carefully (I used vi ) I compiled the program with gcc -o hello hello.c

Re: [newbie] linux versus windows

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
Well, guyz, you seem to have a lot of problems with your linux boxes (espacially Chadley), but I can tell you that they ARE solvable. You CAN setup the servers you want with linux. I think that if you don't want to spend time configuring your system and understanding how it works, you'd better

[newbie] Enlightenment update

2000-04-30 Thread Nickolay Belostotsky
Hello! When I try to upgrande E from 0.16.3 to .4: rpm -Uvh name it says: broken dependencies: fnlib = 0.5 needed ... (a translation from Russian, not sure) What's wrong?

[newbie] Lost

2000-04-30 Thread Robert Trettel
Hi, all Have a question and many answers. When installing I setup for the use of my whole hard drive 4.3gig for Mandrake to use . When I checked using df -k it said only 33% used. The reason for my using all the drive is for furture expansion. Why didn't it do what I told it to do also , how

Re: [newbie] WinAmp for Linux??

2000-04-30 Thread Necrotica
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Thanks very much for the information . . . I tried XMMS and it played the file just fine. I tried to set up Netscape to automatically bring up XMMS with this type of file but had no luck. Could you please give me the settings under Mimetype and extension so

Re: [newbie] linux versus windows

2000-04-30 Thread Hopper
Snippets: No matter what I try to add i always need something else. I have 3 pcs on a network and flavours of linux on they are all unstable worse than windows ever was. And yet is is advertised that you could run linux on a 486 with 16mb ram , I think somebody should pull that statement

Re: [newbie] C programming problem

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
It will work if you run ./hello on the command line. The ./ directory (which means 'the directory where I am') is usually not included in the path where the shell looks for executable files. HTH Flupke On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Scotchpie wrote: Can anyone help? I have decided to learn C and have

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment update

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
It means you're missing some of the features included in the newer version of fnlib. Download and install the latest imlib version from http://ww.enlightenment.org and it will work. HTH Flupke On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Hello! When I try to upgrande E from 0.16.3 to .4:

[newbie] Bookmarks have changed on disk...

2000-04-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I guess I am getting sick (and tired) or maybe just dizzy seeing this message appear in Netscape 4.7 every five or ten mintues for no reason at all. Any idea how to correct this annoying message! Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's

Re: FWD: FW: [newbie] difficulty getting 2nd cd working

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Todd Wells wrote: Okay, now how can I make it so that I just have to type "mount /mnt/cdrom2" rather than "mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0/mnt/cdrom2"? Hi Todd, Easiest thing to do is write a scriptfile, e.g. mtcd2, and put that in /usr/bin, or in another directory in your path:

Re: [newbie] kuduz on boot

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Shamuu wrote: during bootup linux mandrake 7.0 (air) ...Checking for new hardware /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/so5kudzu 145 segmentation fault line 46 /usr/sbin/kudzu -t 30 the above error message appears during boot would like to resolve this issue. Looks like the kudzu executable has

Re: [newbie] LILO: The 1024-cylinder limit has been removed by a patch

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, SM FOO wrote: Greetings! Can anyone advise, now with this patch, how to install a fresh version of Linux on a computer beyond the 1024th cylinder? How do we go about this? Many thanks SM Foo Create a new small (about 25 megs) partition on your disk, anywhere, and make

[newbie] Hyperterminal

2000-04-30 Thread Eunice Thompson
Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch Eunice

Re: [newbie] A funny thing I noticed

2000-04-30 Thread Steve Philp
flupke wrote: Actually, this is working with all GTK-based applications. Wanna try again? Netscape is not a GTK-based application. It's Motif. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Paul wrote: Perhaps most of you already know this, but it is new for me. I just noticed something funny with the

Re: [newbie] Lost

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Robert Trettel wrote: Hi, all Have a question and many answers. When installing I setup for the use of my whole hard drive 4.3gig for Mandrake to use . When I checked using df -k it said only 33% used. The reason for my using all the drive is for furture

Re: [newbie] Word processors

2000-04-30 Thread Mark Potochnik
I still go for Word Perfect Office 2000 It does the easy stuff and it does the hard stuff.,... Installs easy, and I use all the modules (STD edition) AND it pays back Corel for all the hard work that Corel is doing for Linux After messing with SANE... The "easy" scanner program for

Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal

2000-04-30 Thread kenny
minicom - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 11:36 AM Subject: [newbie] Hyperterminal Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch Eunice

Re: [newbie] LILO: The 1024-cylinder limit has been removed by apatch

2000-04-30 Thread Mark Potochnik
Paul wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, SM FOO wrote: Greetings! Can anyone advise, now with this patch, how to install a fresh version of Linux on a computer beyond the 1024th cylinder? How do we go about this? Many thanks SM Foo Create a new small (about 25 megs) partition on your

Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch 'hyperterminal' is a telnet application under windows, am I right? What are the features present in 'hyperterminal' that you can't have in a normal

Re: [newbie] A funny thing I noticed

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Steve Philp wrote: flupke wrote: Actually, this is working with all GTK-based applications. Wanna try again? Netscape is not a GTK-based application. It's Motif. ouch! Didn't know that. (but note that I wrote 'all GTK-based...' , not 'all other GTK-based...' I

Re: [newbie] Lost

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Robert Trettel wrote: Have a question and many answers. When installing I setup for the use of my whole hard drive 4.3gig for Mandrake to use . When I checked using df -k it said only 33% used. The reason for my using all the drive is for furture expansion. Why didn't it do

Re: [newbie] linux versus windows

2000-04-30 Thread bluebottle
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Snippets: Bit onesided like Linux Lewis fight :-) -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net

[newbie] kppp

2000-04-30 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Hello all, I've just installed Mandrake 7.1beta (hydrogen) on two computers and it looks great! One problem is that, as root, I can connect to the internet with kppp just fine; as user, I get the error message 'Sorry, can't create modem lock file'. Any guesses? I would imagine that it has

[newbie] Timidity problem?

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
Hi all, I have another one for you. Question I mean. When I netscape to a page that has 'built-in autoplaying' Midi, tons of windows keep popping up with the message "timidity.cfg no such file or directory'. I can run timidity (gives out a message), so it is installed, but how do I set up a cfg

Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal

2000-04-30 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
From the command line, type 'minicom' (without the quotes) as root. If you need anymore help, write back. Mike Can anyone tell me the comparable application in Mandrake for 'Hyperterminal'? Thanks a bunch Eunice

Re: [newbie] Quanta HTML editor

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Hellmut wrote: I have to agree Paul, I'm using Quanta+ too since it was on the CD of the german mag "PC Intern" 5/2000, it's very self explaining. It's made for people who know HTML and who don't need the unnecnessary code StarOffice for example produces. Hi Hellmut, did

Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 712C

2000-04-30 Thread poogle
Try setting it up as a different type of HP printer, say an HP660C for example. MY HP DJ610C is quite happy with Linux believing it is a 660c On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote: During setup, I could not get my printer to respond. It is a HP Deskjet 712C. Any suggestions? --- lee If you

[newbie] ISP

2000-04-30 Thread The Buckster
Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE

Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?

2000-04-30 Thread Michael Holt
Benjamin, That's my son's name! Anyway, I remember getting this message a long time ago and I don't really remember how it went away. However, I'm using the 128bit version of Netscape now (I need it for some sites I visit) and I don't remember having that problem for quite some time.

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-04-30 Thread doom
yes there is.i have not tryed it though yet.cause its beta heh.it is called freenet.check it out. http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ if you try it tell me what you think. === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock

Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode

2000-04-30 Thread bascule
hi alan, files as below Alan Shoemaker wrote: basculeok, now please see if all of the needed boot files are actually there in the boot directory and if they're actual files. /boot/map yes /boot/boot.b yes /boot/uk.klt yes /boot/message yes /boot/vmlinuz yes points to

[newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Bob
I still haven't Lilo configured to identfy my windows(on a seperate Hard Drive). More questions come up, than are satisfied, but I learn as I go. I just ran /sbin/lilo and received the following: seperation (core dump). No idea what that means. Would like to copy and

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-04-30 Thread Andy
Also another i saw with no ads but havent used http://www.isps-free.com/ - Original Message - From: doom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP yes there is.i have not tryed it though yet.cause its beta heh.it is called

[newbie] mounting drives

2000-04-30 Thread mat rooney
I've just upgraded to the latest version from RH 6.0 I'm having trouble getting the floppy drive and the cdrom mounted Both of these worked perfectly under Red Hat When the supermount option is used there is nothing in the directory and when I try to mount by editing the fstab file I get the

Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?

2000-04-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Michael: Thanks so much for trying to help. I am using the Mandrake versions of Netscape 4.7 with Fortify SSL to provide 128-bit encryption. See http://www.fortify.net ( Readme file) for the reason. I just started getting this annoying Netscape message today ("Bookmarks have changed on

Re: [newbie] Don: About moving /usr and /home (fwd)

2000-04-30 Thread Don W. Jenkins
Thanks! I'll be giving it a try and let you know how it flies. There may be an added complication/ step as the empty partition is mounted at /home at the moment, but I'll sort that out before I start. Don J. At 08:26 AM 4/30/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi Don, This is one of the mails I got to

Re: [newbie] monitor brightnes

2000-04-30 Thread Steve Philp
Omar Rodríguez wrote: Yes, i alredy maxed it out on the game setup and also manually on my monitor but its still way too dark on windows the drivers came with a tweaking tool for gamma correction it does look a little better but not quite the way its supused to The X Windows System also

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Bob wrote: I still haven't Lilo configured to identfy my windows(on a seperate Hard Drive). More questions come up, than are satisfied, but I learn as I go. I just ran /sbin/lilo and received the following: seperation (core dump). No idea what that

Re: [newbie] virtual store set-up

2000-04-30 Thread Steve Philp
MC_Vai wrote: I hope anybody can help me with this trivial issue: How a WWW server running Apache can make sure a client connection?, Let me explain this straight, this is a project where a www server running mdk-7.0 acts like a virtual store it has to validate the client credit card

Re: [newbie] linux versus windows

2000-04-30 Thread RRPotratz
I realize you're venting but let's go over some of these: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm not trying to be unreasonable but I have worked on linux for well over a year and Id like to say that linux is greater than windows stability etc. But I've have enough of the critism that is passed

Re: [newbie] mounting drives

2000-04-30 Thread flupke
On Mon, 1 May 2000, mat rooney wrote: I've just upgraded to the latest version from RH 6.0 I'm having trouble getting the floppy drive and the cdrom mounted Both of these worked perfectly under Red Hat When the supermount option is used there is nothing in the directory and when I try to

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-04-30 Thread Don W. Jenkins
One I have used and it works pretty well is freewwweb.com. I'm not sure of the url for the sign-up page, but I'll post it when I find it. This one is good, because you don't need any software. You sign up and get a pop3 account and a phone number to configure your dialer or scripts with.

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bobyou say that windows is on a seperate drive, yet your /etc/lilo.conf file indicates (is that really /etc/lilo.conf, or is it a hand typed copy with typos and omissions in it?) it's on the same drive (both on hda, where,from your description, I'd think that there'd be a hdb involved) as

[newbie] pilot hotsync with korganizer problem

2000-04-30 Thread bascule
hi all, i have successfully setup kpilot and also installed korganizer, i did a backup of everything on my pilot which went fine, i opened organizer and saved the empty *.vcs file as the name of the user on my pilot (to be on the safe side) i set up the todo and vcalendar condiuts in kpilot to

[newbie] RPM of QT 2.1

2000-04-30 Thread Hopper
Does anyone know of an RPM for QT 2.1? I tried installing Licq, but the RPM said 2.1 was needed. I can only find the RPM for 2.02. I've checked the Red Hat site, trolltech (the makers of QT), and rpmfind.net. Regards, Nathan

Re: [newbie] pilot hotsync with korganizer problem

2000-04-30 Thread bascule
i just downloaded ver 3.02 of kpilot and decided to try my first compiling operation (compiling-is that the word?) it didn't go well, here is what happened: [root@localhost kpilot-3.0.2]# ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Bob
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Bobyou say that windows is on a seperate drive, yet your /etc/lilo.conf file indicates (is that really /etc/lilo.conf, or is it a hand typed copy with typos and omissions in it?) it's on the same drive (both on hda, where,from your description, I'd think

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
BobI believe that the below /etc/lilo.conf is correct for your machine, but you should check that each file specified in it is actually where it is said to be and named correctly in the /etc/lilo.conf file. Is there a file /boot/map? Is there a file /boot/boot.b? Is there a file

Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]

2000-04-30 Thread Jaguar
Hyperterm is not a Telnet exactly...it is a small dialer to dial into say a BBS, or other small dial-up service. And yes I think Minicom is the answer Jaguar flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Can anyone tell me the comparable application in

Re: [newbie] linux versus windows

2000-04-30 Thread Vic
Just my 2 cents, I think everyone should have the choice to run what os most suitably fits them, so that they can use their computers in the most efficient way. Whether someone runs windows, macOS, Linux, OS2, Unix SVR4, minix or whatever, I noticed that the 3 most popular platforms have been

Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjamin MikeI'm currently using the 4.72 (128 bit) version from a Mandrake crypto mirror site. The few times I've had problems, I've renamed the ~/.netscape directory and then launched netscape and let it recreate that directory and all the files in it. I still had the files in the

[newbie] HELP!!!

2000-04-30 Thread The Buckster
I know that you all don't have the rest of your lives to help with this, but if anyone can help, I surely need it! I took a UNIX class about 4 years ago some of it has stuck in my brain, but not enough to get me by! Ok, two problems right now. Most important: I just installed Mandrake 7 a

Re: [newbie] linux versus windows

2000-04-30 Thread Fran Parker
You make good sense Vic. A little tolerance goes a long way :) Diversity is the spice of life. We are not all alike, thank goodness. Bambi Vic wrote: Just my 2 cents, I think everyone should have the choice to run what os most suitably fits them, so that they can use their computers in

Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]

2000-04-30 Thread Eunice Thompson
Thanks Jag, you are correct. A number of us were using HyperTerminal in our Networking Lab to configure the Cisco routers, I wanted to do it from my Linux box, unfortunately either I didn't have minicom installed or I just was unable to locate it. I am able to telnet into the router from Linux ,

Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?

2000-04-30 Thread Michael Holt
Hey, good thought. I'll keep that in mind. Mike Alan Shoemaker wrote: Benjamin MikeI'm currently using the 4.72 (128 bit) version from a Mandrake crypto mirror site. The few times I've had problems, I've renamed the ~/.netscape directory and then launched netscape and let it

Re: [newbie] FTP

2000-04-30 Thread City of Warren-IS Department
yes i can log on anonymous! Paul wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, City of Warren-IS Department wrote: I am trying to use win98 ftp. I also tried the Tun FTP that we use with our HP9000 UNIX server. Same result. Perhaps a dumb question, but are you sure there is an FTP server running on

Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]

2000-04-30 Thread kenny
just type minicom at the prompt while root...if it starts you have it...if not you have to install it - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal] Thanks Jag, you are

[newbie] lilo

2000-04-30 Thread doom
is there any thing special i have to do to get lilo installed and installed properly? === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!"

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Bob
Alan, Entered, checked for errors, and rebooted system, no change in results Is my BIOS causing problems??

[newbie] Netscape

2000-04-30 Thread Mike Thompson
Have spent most of the weekend playing with my new Linux. Downloaded the new 128-bit netscape. Think I got it to install but have not figured out how to point the icon on my kde to the right spot. When I click on Netscape I seem to get ver 4.7 56 bit. How do I fix this. Thanks for any help

[newbie] No subject was specified.

2000-04-30 Thread Motoko Kusanagi
I have a bit of a problem with ppp. Using Lnx4Win, the version the doesn't require a partition, I can dial my isp, but it never connects and always gives me a message the operation is taking more then 15 seconds. I used netconfig to set up the connection. I triple checked the obvious things

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-04-30 Thread Michael Holt
Mike Thompson wrote: Have spent most of the weekend playing with my new Linux. Downloaded the new 128-bit netscape. Think I got it to install but have not figured out how to point the icon on my kde to the right spot. When I click on Netscape I seem to get ver 4.7 56 bit. How do I fix

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-04-30 Thread kenny
If you are talking about netscape 6 its all binary... you have to right click on netscape icon, properties, then put in the directory where netscape 6 is hope this helps. I'm just as new as you but after some playing around I found this worked :-) Kenny - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] No subject was specified.

2000-04-30 Thread kenny
kppp is in the knetwork...you need to install it. Ok download WVDIAL it'll sovle your problem I had problems such as yours until i got wvdial. Its great :-) I'm going ot attach it here if its allowed. Hopefually those who want it can use it. - Original Message - From: "Motoko Kusanagi"

Re: [newbie] LILO: The 1024-cylinder limit has been removed by a patch

2000-04-30 Thread Anthony Huereca
First install Linux wherever you want. Don't worry about it being past the 1024 cylinder. BUt just make sure that during installation you make a boot disk. Then, after you finish installing, reboot and use that boot disk to get to Linux. Then once in Linux, install the new LILO. Can anyone

Re: [newbie] Modem Insatallation - Help -

2000-04-30 Thread Cameron Fowles
G'day miguel 1) Only a small % of internal modems are winmodems 2) Rockwell chipset works fine with Linux 3) Comm 3 is exquivelent to ttys2 (check modem settings in kppp) 4) Try 115200 for port speed (yes port speed NOT modem speed) 5) Modem may be unavailable as user (try chmod a + wr

[newbie] Any Windows Media Player for Linux?

2000-04-30 Thread Michael A. Kellogg
Hi Foiks! Just surfing around the Net and was trying to listen to a local radio station but it only has Windows Media Player format. Does anyone know what program (if any) might be out there that could work with Mandrake 7.0? Thanks! Mike

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks have changed on disk...

2000-04-30 Thread Anthony Huereca
I tend to get those after Netscape crashes. Did Netscape crash on you? If so, then to fix it just log out and then log back in. I guess I am getting sick (and tired) or maybe just dizzy seeing this message appear in Netscape 4.7 every five or ten mintues for no reason at all. Any idea

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bobthen that's been the real problem all along. Is there any file resembling /boot/us.klt? You might find a usuable one on your boot floppy and copy it to the /boot/ dirctory. Change the entry in /etc/lilo.conf to match a different name or if you can'find it at all then remove the line

[newbie] Install problems with cdrom

2000-04-30 Thread Jimmi
Hi. I Having problems installing Mandrake from my cdrom. The installation runs fine until i get to library gclib (GNU clib) then my cdrom shutsdown(!) and the installation freezes. I have a goldstar 8X cdrom on a amd k6-2 200 mhz system. I hace tried the different install methods described on

Re: [newbie] Lilo and getting closer, BUT

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bobnope, /etc/lilo.conf is telling lilo that certain files are in a certain place and if they are not there then a successful bootup will not occur. See my last message for some solutions. Alan Bob wrote: Alan, Entered, checked for errors, and rebooted system, no change in

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-04-30 Thread Michael Holt
Is there a 128bit version of Netscape 6? I believe there is still only the beta of the regular version. Mike kenny wrote: If you are talking about netscape 6 its all binary... you have to right click on netscape icon, properties, then put in the directory where netscape 6 is hope

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-04-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mikego to this page of Mandrake's web site: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fcrypto.php3 and download the following three files from any of the crypto mirror sites listed: netscape-128-common-4.72-2mdk.i586.rpm netscape-128-communicator-4.72-2mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]]

2000-04-30 Thread Jaguar
If it's installed...it should be in the K menu of INTERNET, or the GNOME menu also in INTERNET. HTH Jaguar "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jag, you are correct. A number of us were using HyperTerminal in our Networking Lab to configure the Cisco routers, I wanted to do it

Re: [Re: [newbie] Hyperterminal]

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: Thanks Jag, you are correct. A number of us were using HyperTerminal in our Networking Lab to configure the Cisco routers, I wanted to do it from my Linux box, unfortunately either I didn't have minicom installed or I just was unable to locate it. I am

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-04-30 Thread Paul
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, The Buckster wrote: Is there any free ISP's that I can use with Mandrake? I know that there's quite a few for Windows enviroment, including FreeISP.com that will be a DSL connection... Appreciate the help! An ISP is not depending on a certain OS. (If the ISP was, they

[newbie] Bookmarks have changed on disk... -- Solution?

2000-04-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Anthony and friends: You may be right. Just came home, turned on Linux and Netscape and the messages seem to be gone. If they don't come back within the hour, then you will have been proven right. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web

Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?

2000-04-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Michael: Thanks so much again. I think you guessed right. After turning on Linux this evening and launching Netscape, things seem to be back to normal. So, it might well be the rebooting that did it. My thanks to all of you for your help. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Getting rid of Netscape bookmark message?

2000-04-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Alan: Thanks so much for the advice about renaming ~/.netscape and recreating the ~/.netscape directory and then copying files back into the new directory. That's excellent advice. Will keep that in mind for any future eventuality. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]