Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

I'm sorry. I am was thinking of Windows. You are right. TheN6/Mozilla is definitely more stable. Roman Anthony Huereca wrote: So are you talking about the Windows or Linux versions? And why did you have to reboot? I personally think N6/Mozilla is A LOT more stablier than N4.7x is, but I

Re: [newbie] formatting a hard drive

Mike Unless you are using a program such as DriveImage or Ghost or want to make a back-up copy of your HD to some other medium you cannot formatt your HD without reinstalling. Any time you formatt you are, in simplistic terms, erasing your HD. Charles - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] shutdown

On Sat, 13 May 2000, Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: /sbin/poweroff Isn't just halt easier? Or am I missing something? Thanks, -- Koly Hi Koly, Halt is indeed even easier, but the newer computers have an ATX powersupply/mainboard, that allow you to switch off the power through a software

[newbie] Documentation on kernel??

Has anyone at Mandrake ever documented the difference between the "secure" kernel, and the "regular" kernels?? Is it only used in the highest levels of security? Thanks! vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

I am waiting for System Commander 2000 to arrive. I have also started up my other computer with Win98SE. I have a 10 Gig. Fujitsu hard drive that was formatted using DiskGo. I tried using fdisk but it only acknowledged that I had 8 Gig. After reading a ton of material on hard drives, I came

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 with Lnx4Win

check Netscape "options"- "mail" - "identity" - "send signatures file" uncheck box - Original Message - From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 7:39 PM Subject: [newbie] Installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 with Lnx4Win I have just opened the Power

Re: [newbie] Version number on new compile

If you compiled a new kernel, then you created a 'bzImage' or 'zImage'. So, do: (xxx is what you want) cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.xx cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.xxx rm /boot/System.map ln -s /boot/System.map-2.2.x

Re: [newbie] USB zip drive

Mike Check the /usr/doc/ directory you should be able to find some info in it. Charles - Original Message - From: "Michael Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "cooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "expert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 3:17 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] formatting a hard drive

Charles A Edwards wrote: Sorry Mike, I missunderstood your question. Charles No, my fault, should've been more clear. Anyway, found the answer - it was 'diskdrake'. I was thinking that there should've been some easy front end tool that would handle the task (rather than having to know

[newbie] Install: can't get past SCSI yes/no dialog

... maybe because I have a Promise Ultra66 ?? I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.0 on a Gateway system under Win98. Things go swimmingly until just before I get to choose the partitions. The installer seems to have gone past the SCSI driver phase (and keyboard choice), but then it asks me whether

[newbie] X-Chat No Ident response

As I am checking things out I fired up X-Chat and told it to connect to EFNet right off the user menu on the tool bar and I get; irc.efnet.net.. irc.efnet.net (199.3.235.130 port 6667 Now logging in Looking up your hostname Found your hostname, cached Checking Ident No Ident response Closting

Re: [newbie] LILO again!

vern wrote: I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I know it messes up the MBR on the disk and I need to use fdisk to do something and how do I reinstate LILO back on the MBR? thanks vern -- Vernon Stilwell

[newbie] Slow Modem/Downloading Speed

Well i got my modem up which took a little while. I connect at 31200 and 28800. But i download at 400-800 bytes/sec. So it only takes over an hour to download a megabyte. (sarcasm). I am using freewwweb. But i also tried it on my win machine to make sure it wasnt the ISP and i got a pretty good

Re: [newbie] slow login in X

On Sat, 13 May 2000, bascule wrote: the voodoo banshee is i believe a 2d/3d card based on the voodoo2 chipset so it's one or two generations old, i hate to ask this question because i think it's one of those linux questions that brings out religion in some people but; what would be a good amount

Re: [newbie] shutdown

In /sbin there even is a simpler solution: /sbin/poweroff Isn't just halt easier? Or am I missing something? Thanks, -- Koly

[newbie] user window-sig

Hi, is there a way to see what user is actually running-on ? I mean on the workstation; on the panel or with a little widget/image. Eric

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 with Lnx4Win

I had originally attached a vcard and then unchecked this. However, the characters still appeared. If you are still seeing this at the very bottom of the entire thread, it is from the original installation. Roman Ed Tharp wrote: check Netscape "options"- "mail" - "identity" - "send signatures

Re: [newbie] What's wrong with TAR???

Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Hi all! After I've installed X 4, when I tar -xvf something, I get this error on every file, but the files *do* unpack: $ tar -xvf kde-qt-support-1.90.tar tar: couldn't set uid 1002 gid 1002 using chown: Operation not permitted The error message is not

Re: [newbie] Charset - Thanks, Paul!

On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Piero wrote: I felt also reassured, since I had the same problem... But can anybody tell what's a Charset? On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: Paul, thanks for the respons.I'm reassured. Eric Hi Piero, A charset is a Character

Re: [newbie] 3Dfx

Hi I just purchased a Voodoo3 3000 and the drivers at the 3Dfx site are there but the one I started to download was 30+ meg. in length not something you want to try on a 24K modem hookup! :-( I have to wait till someone comes out with them on CD! vern Evan Holt wrote: Hi there, Sorry

[newbie] Where's the experts??

What has happened to the experts mailing list? No mail for almost 3 days! vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker, root is for

RE: [newbie] my winmodem/wish it was a linmodem

Thanks for all of the help with this question. I did just as everyone suggested and created the symbolic link to the com port and it worked great. I also had to reset which device to be used in kppp. Thanks, b/web Wade At 12:39 PM 5/12/00 -0500, you wrote: Easiest way is to delete

Re: [newbie] 3Dfx

Evan You did look at the wrong driver. go to www.linux.3dfx.com There you will find all the VooDoo drivers and complete instructions for downloading and installing them. Charles . - Original Message - From: "Marc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 13,

Re: [newbie] 3Dfx

Evan I did not mean you. The statement was supposed to be in response to the 20MB driver question. Charles - Original Message - From: "Evan Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 9:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 3Dfx You did look at

Re: [newbie] Wrong Charset ...What's a Charset?

On Sat, 13 May 2000, Piero wrote: I felt also reassured, since I had the same problem... But can anybody tell what's a Charset? On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: Paul, thanks for the respons.I'm reassured. Eric Hi Piero, A charset is a Character Set. In most european countries, there are

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: How can I put an icon on the desktop to start Netscape 6 I'm not sure. Should I uninstall Netscape 4.72? This I know. No, you don't have to uninstall it. You can run N6 and N4.7 at the same time with no problems. I've been running the two together for

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Anthony Huereca wrote: How can I put an icon on the desktop to start Netscape 6 I'm not sure. Right click in the desktop, and in the "NEW" part of the menu select "application". Then a new window pops up where you can fill in the details. Important thing to know is where

Re: [newbie] S3 Trio 3D X server

I hadn't read that the problems with this card had been fixed, when I upgraded my machine I bought this card believing it to be supported, could not get it to work so I bought a cheap card - some unheard of brand - but with a supported chipset, just to get my machine up and running until the S3

Re: [newbie] Question about sound cards . . .

Peter Run # cat /proc/pci. this will give a listing of all the PCI cards Linux found in your system. There should be a listing for your sound card and it will give you your IRQ, DMA, and I/O range. Or. If you are also running Windows go into System, Device Mgr., Sound and video controllers.

Re: [newbie] IDontLoveYou (fwd)

In a message dated 5/12/00 2:57:42 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is this email about? unix version of ILoveYou??? - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | This is the Unix version of "I Love You". It works on the honor system. |

[newbie] Canon Printer Probs

Hi, Does anyone know if there are drivers available for a Canon BJC 2100 printer. Got the wrong printer today. I thought the printer configuration in Drakconfig said 2100 but it really said 100/200 PPs! -- Andrew Blackburn England -- In the pursuit of learning, Everyday

Re: [newbie] Wrong Charset in KDE

Paul, thanks for the respons.I'm reassured. Eric Paul wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Hi all, why get I always the message 'KCharset: Wrong charset !'. What did I wrong ? Thanks Eric I don't think you do something wrong. I assume that the packages that were

Re: [newbie] slow login in X

the voodoo banshee is i believe a 2d/3d card based on the voodoo2 chipset so it's one or two generations old, i hate to ask this question because i think it's one of those linux questions that brings out religion in some people but; what would be a good amount of swap space? i've read a few

[newbie] What's wrong with TAR???

Hi all! After I've installed X 4, when I tar -xvf something, I get this error on every file, but the files *do* unpack: $ tar -xvf kde-qt-support-1.90.tar tar: couldn't set uid 1002 gid 1002 using chown: Operation not permitted The error message is not exactly as it is, this is my translation

Re: [newbie] shutdown

Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Umm... Must be a bug in my Mandrake... Because halt *does* power down my conputer... Hm... *grin* I doubt it is a bug. I have always used poweroff on my ATX machine and halt on the AT machine. Never tried it the other way

[newbie] lock file

After booting up today I found myself unable to establish a connection once again, so I did a little snooping in my netconf again and turned off the 'activate interface at boot time' selection in PPP/SLIP/PLIP and made certain to have turned off the 'use lock file' under PPP dialout. I get the

Re: [newbie] LILO again!

On Sat, 13 May 2000, vern wrote: I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I know it messes up the MBR on the disk and I need to use fdisk to do something and how do I reinstate LILO back on the MBR? thanks vern Make sure you have your Linux

Re: [newbie] shutdown

On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: No bugs here! I use shutdown -h now on my atx board, works fine. If you want a short cut, edit your /etc/inittab file at the point that defines what ctrl-alt-delete does - change the -r to -h. After you reboot once, your ctrl-alt-delete keys will turn

Re: [newbie] formatting a hard drive

Fips? I thought that was for destructive formatting. Also, does it understand reiserfs? I've found that diskdrake does the trick rather nicely (finally tripped over the right howto), but it would be nice to know the behind the scenes method also. Mike Kenny wrote: doesnt fibs format and

Re: [newbie] shutdown

Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: No bugs here! I use shutdown -h now on my atx board, works fine. If you want a short cut, edit your /etc/inittab file at the point that defines what ctrl-alt-delete does - change the -r to -h. After you reboot once, your

RE: [newbie] ppp0 woe-s

:) OK I did rgrep -r ppp0 * and I got nothing back from it. At 12:57 PM 5/12/00 -0500, you wrote: Hmmm... that's a toughie... basically you messed something up :) J/k. Okay, things I'd look for: 1. Go to /etc/rc.d 2. rgrep -r ppp0 * 3. If something shows up, reply back with what it said

[newbie] needed programs

i want an mp3 player, a good one, and an aol instant messanger clone, so i can contact people using IM. does anyone know of any really good ones? jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

Uninstall Netscape 6, reboot your OS and install Netscape 4.72 Roman Eunice Thompson wrote: How can I put an icon on the desktop to start Netscape 6; Should I uninstall Netscape 4.72? Thanks Eunice Thompson

Re: [newbie] shutdown

At 12-05-2000 10:16 PM, you wrote: I thought I read here that to manually shutdown you entered "shutdown now" at the command line. Doing this, my system then shut down to single user mode. Next logon my system complained that it had not been shut down properly and did a bunch of

[newbie] Bambi/sometimes back to Windoze

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Fran Parker wrote: Cute one Paul! Guess some people really miss that stuff that happens in Windows and not in Linux :) I haven't been back in Windows since the I Love You Bug hit. Now, there's a deterrent to Windows that really works. Bummer is I do need to get back in

Re: [newbie] LILO again!

Good answer Michael, I'm keeping these answers so I can find them next time. I've heard the answers before but they just don't stick in my feable mind! vern Michael Holt wrote: vern wrote: I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I

Re: [newbie] LILO again!

Thanks Paul, I suppose I still need Brother Bill's handy work on the front of my HD for some reason. vern Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, vern wrote: I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I know it messes up the MBR on the disk

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my desktop in Mandrake 7.1?? Eunice Anthony Huereca wrote: So are you talking about the Windows or Linux versions? And why did you have to reboot? I personally think N6/Mozilla is A LOT more stablier than N4.7x is, but I guess

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

Hi Charles, So far so good. I have resized the partition to about 2 Gig. Next, I rebooted the computer. The install appeared to proceed okay, then... I think I missed a step. The penguin icon appeared at the top left corner of the screen. It was followed by a number of lines reading my drive

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

Roman PM should be on disk 3. It may be that it is listed as PQPM (PowerQuest PartitionMagic) rather than as PM or PartitionMagic. Charles - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] 3Dfx

the drivers i downloaded were around 1.50MB so i think you have the wrong drivers - Original Message - From: "Evan Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 3Dfx | Hi there, | | | Hi I just purchased a Voodoo3 3000 and the

Re: [newbie] Where's the experts??

On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: What has happened to the experts mailing list? No mail for almost 3 days! vern Nothing in the archives since Thursday morning either. The list must have died. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [newbie] Wrong Charset in KDE

I searched "wrong charset" on google and it came up with a bunch of pages indicating this is a boo-boo in certain flavors of linux and not to loose any sleep over it. At 07:52 AM 5/12/00, you wrote: Hi all, why get I always the message 'KCharset: Wrong charset !'. What did I wrong ? Thanks Eric

[newbie] Error message-Missing Component?

After I reconfigured my settings in linuxconf to get kppp to dial out, I get this error message; Linuxconf can't locate the command /usr/sbin/diald on your system. The command is either missing (not installed) or installed with a

Re: [newbie] Browser of Choice

You're out of luck then. You can't change the option of what browser opens when you click a link in KMail. You're just going to have to copy the link and paste into a Netscape window. Thanks for the reply. I am using KMail. Will have to look into the other mailer you mentioned. Will do as

Re: [newbie] Where's the experts??

vern wrote: What has happened to the experts mailing list? No mail for almost 3 days! vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardinsburg, Kentucky[EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was created in a Micro$haft free environment! Silly hacker,

Re: [newbie] user window-sig

Hi Paul, I know..., also when open an xterm of course we can see the user with the prompt. for this an action must be done. What I mean is: for example a display in the panel displaying the currently user of the workstation same as the time display in the right corner of the panel. Eric Paul

[newbie] SENDMAIL WARNING

When I run kmail I am able to pull mail down from my ISP's server, but when I try to mail the list from kmail I get this; SENDMAIL WARNING SENDMAIL: is set-uid root, or run from set-uid root process SENDMAIL: fatal: No maildrop directory maildrop No such file or directory. Any help with this

Re: [newbie] 3Dfx

Hi there, Hi I just purchased a Voodoo3 3000 and the drivers at the 3Dfx site are there but the one I started to download was 30+ meg. in length not something you want to try on a 24K modem hookup! :-( I have to wait till someone comes out with them on CD! vern I'm not sure you have the right

Re: [newbie] formatting a hard drive

I understand that, I'm asking about how to change filesystems from ext2 to reiserfs - I realize that will erase the drive. I need to know if there is an option, at this time, to create the reiser filesystem during formatting of a hard drive. Since it will be the slave drive, I will not be

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

Hi Charles, I couldn't find PM in the PowerPack I checked all 6 CDs. But, I did find a Partition Magic Special Edition with The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook. However, I am getting batch errors about lost clusters. I will have to run a complete scandisk overnight to correct this. This is one

[newbie] Telnet/SSH

Hi List, I turned on Telnet and told it to connect to one of my remote domains, and no probs what so ever. The remote servers I use have SSH available and I would like to make use of it and was wondering if I can use kTelnet to make an SSH connection? Thanks, b/web Wade

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

Here goes nothing. I will let you know of the results. Roman Charles A Edwards wrote: have a 10 Gig. Fujitsu hard drive that was formatted using DiskGo. I tried using fdisk but it only acknowledged that I had 8 Gig. After reading a ton of material on hard drives, I came across an article

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

Call me stupid but I have checked all 6 CDs, and I cannot find Partition Magic. I purchased Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack. Roman. Charles A Edwards wrote: have a 10 Gig. Fujitsu hard drive that was formatted using DiskGo. I tried using fdisk but it only acknowledged that I had 8 Gig.

Re: [newbie] my winmodem/wish it was a linmodem

Yay, I am writing the list from Netscape Mail within Linux Mandrake. The modem worked the very first time I told it to dial, but I did have to reconf kppp as my settings were still for ttyS3. After I connected to my ISP, I was unable to get any mail or browse Wade Sorry I failed to remind

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: How can I put an icon on the desktop to start Netscape 6; Read Kde help.

Re: [newbie] shutdown

On Fri, 12 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I read here that to manually shutdown you entered "shutdown now" at the command line. Doing this, my system then shut down to single user mode. Next logon my system complained that it had not been shut down properly and did a bunch

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

Sure is. I think it is a little too early for Netscape 6. Just a week or too ago it was labeled Beta. I tried Netscape 6 and didn't like it. The program is unstable, and needs to be tweaked. I was getting many Netscape.exe crashes. I downloaded Netscape 4.73. Then, I used the following steps to

Re: [newbie] Browser of Choice

Thanks for the reply. I am using KMail. Will have to look into the other mailer you mentioned. Will do as you suggested with chmod, but your reply begs the question. What do I know about chmod, so it is off to man, chmod land. See you on the other side. :) On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote:

[newbie] LILO again!

I know this was covered somewhere sometime, but I going to have to reinstall Windoze on my HD I know it messes up the MBR on the disk and I need to use fdisk to do something and how do I reinstate LILO back on the MBR? thanks vern -- Vernon Stilwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] formatting a hard drive

Hello again! I'm currently using hydrogen 7.1b and I've found that reiserfs is SO awesome, I'd like to use it on my second hard drive. Can anyone tell me how to format using reiserfs without reinstalling my system? Thanks again, Mike -- == Michael Holt

[newbie] Wrong Charset ...What's a Charset?

I felt also reassured, since I had the same problem... But can anybody tell what's a Charset? On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: Paul, thanks for the respons.I'm reassured. Eric Paul wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Hi all, why get I always the message