On Sat, 13 May 2000, Fran Parker wrote:
Hi Bambi (and others),
Yes, it will be good when people think that Linux is a viable option to
Windoze. Some do now, but not enough. Some programs aren't even done
for the Mac yet. (I wonder if that should tell us anything :)
HAhahahahaha!!! That is so
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Wade wrote:
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.
Sorry, can't help you. I gave up on Sendmail.
I use Qmail. much easier.
Paul
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On Sun, 14 May 2000, Romanator wrote:
I'm sorry. I am was thinking of Windows. You are right. TheN6/Mozilla is definitely
more stable.
Roman
Hmm. This sounds good. I will check it out then. Even though NS 4.72 is
pretty stable here really. It has only killed itself about 5 times since I
went
Ok, lets go step by step to what happened and what you should have done, and
what you need to do. Most of it isnt' really Mandrakes fault really.
I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
well just when i thought i was doing ok, i went and deleted the contents
of /tmp on account i had run out of disk space and i thought /tmp's
contents were well, just that, temporary.
obviously not so since now, i cannot boot into X, i can get into
runlevel3, since my friend has my cd i thought
i just wrote an e-mail to drake x about this problem. it happened to me
agin tonight. in my case (and i don't know if it's the same as yours), it
was the fstab file. get into the shell and emacs the fstab file. see what
it says. i have a hunch that that is your problem.
jd
From: X
:~i would like to know wether theres a possibility to allow only users of a
:~specific group to mount filesystems, up to now ive set the "user" flag in
:~fstab, but that would allow any user to mount this filesystem, and i only want
:~to allow this one group.how can i change this ?
:~thx in
Boboops! I forgot about choosing your icon using the icon
picture button while you're in the Execute tab page, sorry!
Alan
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Bobinstead of dragging the netscape shell script icon onto
the desktop and choosing link do this:
1) right-click the desktop.
2)
Bobinstead of dragging the netscape shell script icon onto
the desktop and choosing link do this:
1) right-click the desktop.
2) choose New
3) choose Application
4) name it what you want , but leave the kdelnk part after the
dot alone.
5) choose the Execute tab
6) put /usr/bin/netscape in
Ok, I know I did something (sumpthing stupid) but I don't know what. I
had Star Office installed and working fine, then while the program was
up, I clicked on the wrong something or other in the program and it
simply disappeared off of the desktop! Now, I go to the K-menu to start
the
Doesn't work.
Charles A Edwards wrote:
Mike
Login as root. Open DrakeConfig and choose Priner Config. Follow through
the setup questions untill you get to select printer and there choose HP
DeskJet 500C, print a test page and you are done.
Charles
- Original Message -
Sorry to get off the subject but your e-mail comes in with the a ! next to
it whats that mean and hwo do you do it? Sorry about off the topic just
curious. :)
- Original Message -
From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie]
Thank you all so much I appreciate your patience. I am going to attempt
what Drake X wrote even though its beyond my knowledge at this time :) I
have a isa modem jaton modulator 56k pnp. When i try to run minicom it
says configuration file not found , using defaults. Kppp says
initializing modem
I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So
This never posted to my inbox so I am resending it. Forgive me if it dups.
in yours.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still
Vicky
The
Thanks for the inspiration Andrew! I can certainly use it right now!
At 10:04 PM 05/14/2000 +0100, you wrote:
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 15:25:30 GMT
From: "J D" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But now here I am back in
Hi there. New to the list ( say welcome !!!)
I am a newbie in Linux and a slow learner ( not much time to spend in front of
the computer)
After the intro!! here is the question.
I downloaded and installed?? Knapster. I downloaded the RPM version and I
used RPM Drake to install it. According
Paul/Euniceyou really don't want to go to the binary for
this link. The launching of netscape is done by a shell
script and that is what you should be linking the desktop icon
to. It's located at:
/usr/bin/netscape
Alan
Paul wrote:
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote:
MandrakeSoft should include a little video for installations. I have 6
CDs that cannot be accessed.
The Install Guide is way too sparse, and appears to be written almost as
an afterthought.
I understand that there are many volunteers involved, and I appreciated
every one's help immensly.
I have
It's my first time to install Linux and I'm having a terrible time with it.
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 with a boot disk I made with rawwrite with
the cdrom image (since I can't boot from CD on this old system). My install
always ends with this:
in second stage of install
:~HAHA im gettin a kick outta this one. Dennis you have the rights so
:~people shouldn't complain. It is your list :)
Wrong
It is YOUR list (I mean, all of you), and you have full right to
complain. And i feel kind of sory for offending people by my letter - it
was intended to be funny, not to
hey man, what's up. guess what? it happened to me again tonight!!! but i
figured out what was wrong, at least with my system. it's the fstab file.
for some reason, when i try to get my zip drive to work, it overwrites
everything in the fstab file, and leaves only the lines for the zip
Hi,
I am still working on my installation of Linux Mandrake 7.0. I installed
Partition Magic Special Edition(DOS).
Next, I resized my partition from 10 Gig to 2 Gig. This left a little
less than 8 Gig. of free space.
Partition Magic shows the following:
Volume Type
If I were better at programming I would like to
see what happens if I were to reverse compile
the windows drivers and then re-compile them
for linux, or if I would have to change any
of the lines of code, since it runs for the
same hardware it should not be to rottenly
difficult unless there is
can anyone recommend a pcmcia modem? Preferably 56k I've got a Versa
M75 that I'm going to put Mandrake 7.0 on, and would like to be able to
roam around with it. TIA.
Hey Vicky! It sounds like you might be following the same path I did! I got
a similar
error message on startup. I just went back and found the rest of the posts
from that thread and pasted them in below. It looks like I may end up
having to do all this again myself because I'm probably going
Lexmarks are Winmodems. There are no drivers for Linux.
Friend of mine had the same problem and no solution found.
And ( you guessed it) Lexmark does not support Linux.
maybe a different HP will do the trick
On Sun, 14 May 2000,
you wrote: Doesn't work.
Charles A Edwards wrote:
Mike
Hey there.
I know that I have asked this before, but I have not become any wiser on
the subject. I am planning an upgrade of my machine, so I am trying to
find out, if I can have any advantage of a dual processor system.
I have read the FAQ's on the Gimp homepage, but I can't find any thing
about
X Drake wrote:
I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it
I sent my last message on accident here is the info
AMD K6 II 400MHz
VIA Apollo Chipset Motherboard w/ 512K Cache
64 MB PC-100 SDRAM
AGP Trident 3D with 4MB
17"CyberVision Monitor C70 .27dpi 1280x1024 Res.
If any one can help please do. if not i will not be in pain lol this is for
a friend ha. my
DenisI'm located in Southern California and have noticed a
problem with the expert list again. Here are the totals of
messages arriving at my location, listed by the day, for this
week:
Monday56
Tuesday 24
Wednesday 26
Thursday 21
Friday 1
Saturday 4
Sunday 0 (so far, 7
I know, don't everybody attack at once! I was reading someones post a
couple of days ago and I'm not sure if it was sarcasm, but I would like
to know if anyone has really tried running Internet Explorer on wine
under Linux and if it works.
Thanks, Mike
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Michael
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote:
S, Anthony is there a way to install an icon for Netscape6 to my
desktop in Mandrake 7.1??
Eunice
Never a simpler thing... Open KDE explorer or a KFM client, locate the
Netscape binary that runs netscape, drag it to the desktop. Select 'link'
when
Hi Michael.
Delete /home/your-user/.netscape/cookies
Take care!
Hello all,
Can someone tell me how to clear cookies from netscape?
Mike
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On Fri, 12 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote:
:~Denis Are you the daddy? -)
Sure I am - look here:
http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik/Album/20FirstDays/index.shtml
A bit dated, but he is still among us..
:~ I have an MS intellimouse ,ps/2.
:~I would like to have imwheel start
Paul,
Found out and dragged the black screen on to my USER disktop, created a
link, but am unable to change the icon to Netscape. Now I have two screens one
for xrpm and one for the big "N"? Oh, in my /root :) I have the link on
the desktop, and the icon is the Netscape wheel.
I did read about shutdown. This is all so new that I missed something,
and I suspected it at the time. Thanks to all who helped. -Gary-
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote:
I wonder if it is possible to teach ctrl-alt-insert to reboot
then... *grin*
Hmmm... sounds good, what's the job of ctrl-alt-insert now? Sounds like
it should be self explanitory, but I've never used that binding. It
would be nice to have the reboot
On Sun, 14 May 2000, bluebottle wrote:
I've been using IM, with Netscape 6, to connect with a friend on AOL. Ran
under linux with no problems.
This NS 6 you talk about, is that the preview that is available on the
Netscape site?
Paul
)0(---)0(
Silence. Do you
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Wade wrote:
I will make it my first package to go and download and install,
althought I am not quite sure where to begin, or if I should be root
when downloading or installing packages?
Yes, you need to be root / su in order to install programs and packages.
Paul
Hey,
I'm building RPMs from tar.gzip'ed files that contain valid
spec files. I'm using the command "rpm -ta file.tar.gz" The
last output from this command is "+exit 0" which I believe means
that the execution was successful. However..the problem is I
don't know where the newly built rpm is.
Romanyou're not stupid, so I won't call you that. :-) The
problem is that the MandrakeSoft Powerpack (and MacMillan's
7.0 Deluxe) does not include PQ Partition Magic. MacMillan's
7.0 Complete is the package that includes it.
Alan
Romanator wrote:
Call me stupid but I have checked all
Hello all,
Can someone tell me how to clear cookies from netscape?
Mike
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The Penguins are coming!!!
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Hi Alan,
The published packages with MacMillian and MandrakeSoft are a little confusing. After
reading the Linux-Mandrake web site, I thought it would be best to purchase an
official copy. However, I did purchase a book from Que called: "The Multi-Boot
Configuration Handbook" by Roderick W.
Hi J D,
I have found that xmms is a great mp3 clone of winamp and that
gaim is a great AIM clone. I think I got both of them from the
Mandrake CD, am certain I got the gaim from CD, can't remember
for sure about the xmms.
Bambi
J D wrote:
i want an mp3 player, a good one, and an aol
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Paul wrote:
On Sun, 14 May 2000, X Drake wrote:
I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
i'm sorry you have to go. i had a similar problem, but my harddrive
wouldn't remount in read/write mode. so i basically had a harddirive that i
could only read off of. the only answer i could get where things like edit
the fstab file, etc. but i couldn't cause it was a read only hd.
Thanks JD. I haven't quite decided what to do yet. I feel kind of like a
guy who's house just got wiped out by a tornado, and still picking through
the debris trying to figure out what the hell happened. What you said about
not being able to mount in read/write mode reminds me of something I
OK!
I downloaded a new theme from kde.themes ('daPhoton') installed it and now
the mouse wheel works fine without any intervention.
I would ask why but since it's working now I won't ;that is until I get
tired of that theme.
Thanks DAD -:)
Eunice Thompson
- Original Message -
From:
... well, that's the problem!
Since yesterday, all ok: today, every time I've tried to use Kvirc, all
seemed to be right, till the tips box appear, giving no sign of life...
then the hd start running, and did'nt stop at all (Wait half an
hour...);
reinstallation did nothing, the only difference
I've registered my copy of Word Perfect, and with my video properly
configured again tried to install Star Office when Word Perfect was already
in place, and it still corrupts Xwindows to the extent that I have to reload
Linux to fix it. Summarizing many installs of Linux and WP/SO: 1)
I attempted drake x's directions :) when i restarted linux it says:
fatal error parsing config file ,I dont want to physically change my
modem since its working fine in windows so at least I have internet
access. It is set at com3 irq 5 I/O 03E8-03EF. will try again
thx Vicky
Mike
Login as root. Open DrakeConfig and choose Priner Config. Follow through
the setup questions untill you get to select printer and there choose HP
DeskJet 500C, print a test page and you are done.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Michael A. Kellogg" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote:
I know, don't everybody attack at once! I was reading someones post a
couple of days ago and I'm not sure if it was sarcasm, but I would like
to know if anyone has really tried running Internet Explorer on wine
under Linux and if it works.
I highly
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote:
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?
desktop. For mp3 files, there are several to choose from; xmms and kmp3
are two that again are already
Paul wrote:
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote:
I know, don't everybody attack at once! I was reading someones post a
couple of days ago and I'm not sure if it was sarcasm, but I would like
to know if anyone has really tried running Internet Explorer on wine
under Linux and if it
On Sun, 14 May 2000, X Drake wrote:
I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
browser went blank - nothing but a white
I had it working under WINE a couple of WINE versions ago. Ran pretty good,
except the rendering was slow and it didn't support java (since java is a VxD
in Windows). You need to use -winver win95 -dll commctrl,comctl32 as WINE
parameters to get it work properly.
Since moving to WINE 04302000 IE
BobI don't understand, how can you have changed the
ownership of a file on bob's desktop that never got copied to
bob's Desktop? What does "No Joy/???" mean?
If you do an 'su -' you should end up in /root. If you are in
root and there is an icon made the way I instructed on root's
Desktop
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Kenny wrote:
doesnt fibs format and partiton a drive with destroying data??
Nope. It is the freeware equivalent to Partition Magic. Use at own
risk. It is included on the distro CD, with decent manual...
Paul
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Silence. Do you
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Bob wrote:
Paul,
Found out and dragged the black screen on to my USER disktop, created a
link, but am unable to change the icon to Netscape. Now I have two screens one
for xrpm and one for the big "N"? Oh, in my /root :) I have the link on
the desktop, and
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Great Books wrote:
Hello, Great Books
This garble was at the end of your message (and you already were
subscribed). I think it is a good moment for you to see if you have the
KAK virus on your computer.
Paul
subscribe
Charles,
Well, I have been able to resize to about 2 Gig. I placed the installation disk
1 and ran the default. However, I think I forgot to add and FAT.
The messages kept mentioning that there was no formatted table
Roman
Charles A Edwards wrote:
I couldn't find PM in the PowerPack I
Happy Mother's Day...to all you mothersout there.
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i have not been into linux long not even close to long. i have never heard
of a hd going bad after a year. unless you got sold a faulty hd.
- Original Message -
From: "Drake X" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] No more
:~I also wrote to several of the manufacturers responsible for 'my winmodem'
:~and many other models of winmodems too. I have received a couple of replies
:~Subject: Re: Installing Linux w/PCI DI5630
Gee, from specifications listed here:
http://www.modemblaster.com/product/di5630.html
I would
Roman
It will not hurt anything so go back in to PM click on the free space,
from tools select create, and change the whole partition to Fat; then try
installing Mandrake.
Are you using DrakX to install?
It is what I used and it went right throuh on my system.But if you are
not I don't
Roman
The partition table you outlined looks like what I had to use when, in the
past, I tried RH 5.2 . I never could get into using it and ended up
removing it.
When I decided to try Mandrake I was going to do it by downloading the ISO
file and then burning it to CD. I was doing something
Garywhat does "reload Linux" mean exactly? Install of
what, gave an '"install failed" at about 80% complete'? Also,
why is it so important to have Wordperfect in addition to Star
Office (or visa versa)?
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've registered my copy of Word Perfect, and
Drake X wrote:
Well, I went back and played with it some more, and confirmed that the
Linux filesystem is indeed, read only now.
Since nobody has mentioned it this is how Mandrake starts, it first mounts
the file system as read only. I wish I could help you with fsck but I
just stumbled
Paul
I agree with you. Because of DSL I still use Outlook Express for e-mail
and when I attempted to read the Great Books message I got a security
warning for unsafe java script.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL
I have already tried running "setup", but I get a "command not
found" error message when I try.
Bruce
Go to a terminal either in root or su and type "setup" without quotes. Then
go to desktop configuration and choose the one you want
- Original Message -
From: Bruce Endries
Hi Flupke,
Thanks, I opened kpackage and searched for kssh but could not locate the
package, I thought I had installed ssh using DrakX. :)
I will make it my first package to go and download and install,
althought I am not quite sure where to begin, or if I should be root
when downloading or
DO NOT OPEN THE ORIGEONAL OF THIS MESSAGE IT WAS
INFECTED WITH WScript.KakWorm
Just a friendly warning.
- Original Message -
From:
Great
Books
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 5:44 AM
Subject: [newbie]
This file was infected with a virus. The file
I've been using IM, with Netscape 6, to connect with a friend on AOL. Ran
under linux with no problems.
John the Nadger
www.mklinux.co.uk
www.nadger.uklinux.net
actually, I recently saw at cnet that AOL now has an im for Linux
www.download.com and check out the Linux section.
-
It is priority of the mail. There is Low,Medium High. Self explainatory.
In M$ Outlook in a new mail on the options above the To: etc. set the
priority as High to get the !
- Original Message -
From: "Andy" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 9:22 PM
BobI've heard of that happening before, though I don't
know why, but there is a workaround.
Let's say that the new icon on root's Desktop is named
Program.kdelnk and that you're logged in as bob and are in the
KDE gui. Open Konsole (on the Panel) and su - (don't forget
the 'space dash'
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
use SUDO. And use it sparsly, too .-)
:~Anyone know anything about how to set super permissions to a user without giving
them the root password, or the authority to change the root password once they are
granted super user permissions.
:~Thanks in
Hi Paul (and others as well :)
I have used WordPerfect since the old DOS days and it does things
no other wordprocessor does and since I am used to it and like all the
bells and whistles, it is like an old friend in Linux to me :) And it was
free for non-commercial use. Very nice graphical
when it gets to the login prompt the screen just goes black. there is still
power to it it just goes blank.
- Original Message -
From: "vern" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor shut off
| Shut off as to power (AC out
Mike
John is correct and I was wrong. The Z11 is a Winprinter. You can use the
HP 500 as an emulator to print with the Z11 in DOS but the Z11 can not be
made to and will not work in Mandrake.
Charles
- Original Message -
From: "John Arkoulis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
actually, I recently saw at cnet that AOL now has an im for Linux
www.download.com and check out the Linux section.
- Original Message -
From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] needed programs
J D wrote:
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Bob wrote:
When I open "New Messaage" icon, while using Kmail. I get the "This is
a directory not a File". This is very nice to know, but at the same time not
very useful. Is there some purpose in this message?
You told Kmail that you always want a signature file
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote:
Paul
I agree with you. Because of DSL I still use Outlook Express for e-mail
and when I attempted to read the Great Books message I got a security
warning for unsafe java script.
Charles
Hey Charles,
What is "DSL"? I never heard of that over
I don't think so, but I once saw a kssh package. You have to have ssh
installed first. I think that's what you need.
HTH
Flupke
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Wade wrote:
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
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