Re: [newbie] Please Help !

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
Throsten, I too had the same problem. I am a newbie so forgive the lack of exact wording. you need to edit your "lilo.conf" file in /etc/lilo.conf look for a line that starts with: append="" where stands for something i can't remember, in any event inside the quotes type a space

[newbie] Wow...

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Greer
Geez, I leave for the weekend, and I get 200 messages :) If any questions were directed towards me, I don't have time to read every one back in the list, so I don't know what was answered and what wasn't if you are still having a problem and you think I can help, just let me know.

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2000-05-15 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
The location of netscape 6 is /opt/netscape. So, click on the desktop-icon 'autostart' and select 'new', 'application', give it a name ex. 'netscape6.kdelnk', etc fill-in what's needed. Eric Paul wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2000, Eunice Thompson wrote: S, Anthony is there a way to

Re: [newbie] lost X! help

2000-05-15 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
You mean /tmp ?? There is no so much space to win when deleting this one. Try: mkdir /tmp mkdir /tmp/.X11-unix mkdir /tmp/.font-unix and reboot with runlevel 3, startx. If you mean /my account/tmp, There is no any file X need. Eric bascule wrote: well just when i thought i was doing ok, i

RE: [newbie] Fire Wall

2000-05-15 Thread Y u r i
this gentile person thinks it's going to be impossible, especially if a perpetrator is inside your circle on a Mac :-) there is always a chance of unthinkable... (when my cable installer came in, all he saw was some silly W98 box, I borrowed from a friend. what was there later is another

[newbie] Please Help !

2000-05-15 Thread Thorsten Brenner
Hi, i know, this Question was asked many times before. But don´t needing the answer i deleted them. Now i bought a new Computer (Athlon 700MHz) with 128MB of RAM. On installation, Mandrake recognizes only 64 of 128MB. Please, can anybody help me find a solution !!! Thanks in advance

Re: [newbie] 3dfx

2000-05-15 Thread Jaybone
I use a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI board flawlessly. I am sure the Voodoo 4 board will work the same. Jay GO FLYERS!! www.mrsnooky.com - Web Weasel - Original Message - From: Michael Holt To: newbie Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 2:05 AM Subject: [newbie] 3dfx Hello all, What's the newest Voodoo

[newbie] Fire Wall

2000-05-15 Thread Mike Perry
Hello gentleperson's! We will be connecting our community (a Kibbutz in Israel) to Cable Internet in the very near future and I would like to get a few tips from anyone who can perhaps help. All the cables, hardware etc are owned by us up to the cable TV fibre optic feed and as such we have a

Re: [newbie] 3dfx

2000-05-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
Mike I do not have a Voodoo but I do know that the Voodoo 4, 5, and I think a 6 will be based on a different chipset than the Voodoo 3 with increased ram and clock speed so I would not count on it working in Linux just like a 3 until www.linux.3dfx.com develope and post drivers for it.

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

2000-05-15 Thread Joe Perry
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 about Win98SE, hard drives and 3rd party utilities. It stated that I should not used

[newbie] Button 2: Netscape

2000-05-15 Thread Martin Solms
Hi What is Button 2 in Netscape and how would you use it?

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Joe Perry
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.

Re: [newbie] Replies

2000-05-15 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~ A question from me. :~ Why is it at that when I reply to some new postings Outlook wants to :~send it direct rather than to newbie and to other new postings it does not? :~Is this a problem only with Outlook or is it something related to the list? Sympa adds "Reply-to:" only for

Re: [newbie] Reformatted my entire drive

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Charles, The 6 CD pack did not come with a floppy, so I made my own. Also, the numbers I used for the partition were taken from an example in "The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook". However, I had not set it up as Partition Magic was giving me all sorts of cross link errors. By the end of the

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
If you haven't already done so, edit your /etc/lilo.conf to mount your root partition as read-only (If I remember correctly there's an option for this at installation time), then run lilo to write the stuff to the MBR. For help on this, you can type 'man lilo.conf' at the console. If you can't

Re: [newbie] This is a directory not a File

2000-05-15 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
Bob: The reason you get this message is that when asked to specifiy your signature file you clicked on a directory and the program is simply informing you it can not attach a directory as your signature. Probbly the only way to correct this is to either use options to specifiy any other file or

SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-[newbie]Making a backup copy of Linux-Mandrake boot disk for version 6.5

2000-05-15 Thread marco . mastrocinque
Hi All, Have installed a linux-mandrake version 6.5 on my system. I use a boot disk to install the system. Not sure how to make a backcopy? May seem very obvious but not sure as I'm very new to linux. Thanks Marco.

Re: Fw: [newbie]I need Modem Help Still

2000-05-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
Vicky Since it is working inWin you should not need to change the com or IRQ for Linux just make sure in your BIOS that PnP OS is set to no. The directions I sent were copied from the Actiontec web site. It is were I got the direction for installing my PCI modem. It works, so their

Re: [newbie] shutdown

2000-05-15 Thread Joe Perry
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 self-checks. I obviously didn't

RE: [newbie] needed programs

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Greer
A really new nifty one is at www.everybuddy.com -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Michael Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 12:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] needed programs J D wrote: i want an mp3 player, a good one, and an aol

[newbie] Modem locks

2000-05-15 Thread John Rye
Hi folks - I had a power outage a short time ago and assume it's the reason for my problem. If I attempt to dial out kppp returns a message that the modem is locked I need to release that lock but have been unable to find any info locally.. Help!! Cheers John

[newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic

2000-05-15 Thread Nickolay Belostotsky
Hello! My current configuration is, a 9Gb hard drive divided into two 4.5Gb partitions - C: and D:. I have Linux installed via Lnx4Win. Now I want to install Linux onto its own partition. Will Partition Magic be able to decrease the size of D: to 2 Gb, and with the remaining 2.5Gb make a Linux

Re: [newbie] hello mothers

2000-05-15 Thread Hellmut
No to forget all the motherboards out there! Happy Mother's Day for all motherboards!!! ;) Happy Mother's Day...to all you mothersout there. -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ#

Re: [[newbie] Trouble installing Mandrake 7]

2000-05-15 Thread Jaguar
There is a known install bug in Mandrake 7.0, all you should have to do it grab the updated floppy install image from Mandrake's site's, and use your 7.0 CD and the image from Mandrake. HTH Jaguar "Subroza" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my first time to install Linux and I'm having a terrible

[newbie] Mandrake and disk space

2000-05-15 Thread Jason Lindsay
Hopefully I'll get some good insights on this. Windows appears to have taken a massive poop on me over the weekend, and since I really haven't booted into it for quite some time now, I think I'm going to redo my system linux-only. Here's the question: I have a total of 10.1G HDD space, on 2

Re: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-[newbie]Making a backup copy of Linux-Mandrake boot disk for version 6.5

2000-05-15 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Hi All, :~ Have installed a linux-mandrake version 6.5 on my system. I use a :~boot disk to install the system. Not sure how to make a backcopy? May seem very :~obvious but not sure as I'm very new to linux. as root do: 1) put a boot floppy in drive 2) type: dd if=/dev/fd0

Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)

2000-05-15 Thread freeman
Sorry trying to understand the HOWTO and it's not straight forward. Which modules are suppose to be modprobed. It lists several but all I want to do is share a internet connection(for now:). If you just want to share your connection, you just have to go through some easy steps : First

[newbie] Shockwave for Linux

2000-05-15 Thread Vic
I have tryed (f*ck the spelling i'm not in the mood to deal with this piece of crap keyboard) I tryed to get shockwave for Linux and I can't find it, I can't even e mail shockwave to tell them this. Maybe I should reverse-compile thier windows shockwave so I will be able to use it, I already

RE: [newbie] Modem locks

2000-05-15 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
check under /var/lock maybe kpp has a .lock file out there somewhere??? -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem locks Hi folks - I had a power outage a short time ago and assume

RE: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Eduardo Arauz
i haved the same problem a month ago.. try first to run : fsck/dev/hda5.. once you ve got into root.. and see if that solve the problem... i am about to quit mandrake too but because other problems finally i reinstalled all ... and upgraded my PC but it still doesnt work 100% i cant mount

Re: [newbie] Modem locks

2000-05-15 Thread quaylar
Am Mon, 15 Mai 2000 schrieben Sie: hmm...i remember there was something mentioned about a lock option in the kppp help file..u should have a look at that...i think theres a faq which contains especially your question... --quay Hi folks - I had a power outage a short time ago and

[newbie] Newbie wierd question about telnet

2000-05-15 Thread freeman
I can telnet to my box and login on my local net but I can't login remotely. I know my ip and I am on Adsl at all times any ideas Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
control + alt + backspace has always worked for me and I haven't lost a thing

Re: [newbie] Modem locks

2000-05-15 Thread J D
go to setup in kppp. click on the device tab. there will be a box that says "Use lock file". uncheck it. that's usually the problem when my modem is locked. later. jd From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem locks Date:

Re: [newbie] needed programs

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
Ron, XMMS kicks a**. If you will try, you will see it is the same as winamp. -michael-

Re: [newbie] Replies

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
A question back (from several of us I'm sure...) Why would you use outlook suppress to maintain your presence on your list, daddy-o, when there is Netscape (and several mail utilities) included in Mandrake? Have you joined the Dark Side??? ;-) -michael-

Re: [newbie] Reformatted my entire drive

2000-05-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
Roman When you go into your BIOS you should see a listing for PCI/Plug and Play Setup( the wording and such may be different depending upon who supplied your BIOS). When you enter PCI Setup the first listing will read something like Plug and Play Aware OS and it can be set to either yes or

[newbie] File Size Limitation

2000-05-15 Thread anils
Hello, What is the file size limitation with LINUX ? I am transferring a 4 GB file (.dmp) from SOLARIS 2.6 into Mandrake-Linux 7.0 using FTP. Getting a "550 Broken Pipe" error after transferring 2 GB of file. I zipped the file and successfully able to ftp. But while unzipping on the LINUX box,

[newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Mauricio Tavares
My laptop is a lowly P75 without CDROM drive. Well, I do have one, but it it is external through a SCSI PCMCIA card according to the manufacturer is not supported by linux (fujitsu chipset). I would like to initially install Linux in a 800MB HD I have here doing nothing (I would swap it

[newbie] Funny thing

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
Hi all, On my other machine I have something funny going on. Nothing that I can't live with, just something remarkable. It used to boot into the WinNT bootmanager, defaulting to Linux (LILO). Now it boots into LILO. When I type "dos" it kicks into the WinNT boot manager, from where I can go back

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: 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 Thank you! Paul

Re: [newbie] Button 2: Netscape

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Martin Solms wrote: Hi What is Button 2 in Netscape and how would you use it? Button2 is either the middle button on a 3 button mouse, or a double click of one of the two other buttons (don't recall which one). You can use that to open a link in a new browser window. More

Re: [newbie] Modem locks

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Tue, 16 May 2000, John Rye wrote: Hi folks - I had a power outage a short time ago and assume it's the reason for my problem. If I attempt to dial out kppp returns a message that the modem is locked I need to release that lock but have been unable to find any info locally.. Hi John, I am

Re: [newbie] Trouble installing Mandrake 7

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Subroza wrote: I guess this is the Xserver having trouble with my display and I've tried two different graphics cards a Trident and ATI All in Wonder Pro but both of them give me this error. Here are the specs to the system I'm trying to install on: Cyrix 150 Hot - 541

Re: [newbie] Reformatted my entire drive

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Roman wrote: I think, I have to use Partition Magic to create separate partition for the following: C:WIN98Fat16 * Extended /boot LinuxExt2 /root LinuxExt2 /sLinuxSwap /home LinuxExt2 /usrLinuxExt2 /var

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 / IM

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 May 2000, bluebottle wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: This NS 6 you talk about, is that the preview that is available on the Netscape site? Hi Paul That's the one - I've used it since it was released and it's not bad. I run it from a command prompt but there may be a better

Re: [newbie] Charles/DSL?

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: Paul DSL( Digital Subscriber Line) is the big brother of ISDN. It requires a special modem and phone line hook-up and is provided most often by the local phone companies. With DSL I can achive upload speeds of 256k and download speeds of up to

[newbie] PCMCIA / IBM Ethernet Credit Card support

2000-05-15 Thread El Nada
Hello, After compleating my install of LinuxMandrake 7.0 (w/o PCMCIA support or selecting a network adapter) I am trying to get an IBM Ethernet Credit Card Adapter II (I/O Range 1000-101f, IRQ 10, Memory Range 0200800-02008FFF, Memory Range 0200400-02007FFF). I have PCMCIA=yes in

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 May 2000, X Drake wrote: Yeah Windows seemed to boot and run as usual, but I'll run Scandisk. One thing I just thought of - I just installed an anti-virus program in Windows earlier in the day. I didn't think it could have any affect on the Linux partition because Windows ignores

RE: [newbie] Replies

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Greer
I use outlook :) I'm forced to at work. There is no exchange server mail client for linux. No, I'm not admin on the exchange server, so I can't add pop support or anything else. -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000

Re: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-[newbie]Making a backup copy of Linux-Mandrake boot disk for version 6.5

2000-05-15 Thread John Arkoulis
What do you want to back up??/ What do you mean with backcopy?? On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: Hi All, Have installed a linux-mandrake version 6.5 on my system. I use a boot disk to install the system. Not sure how to make a backcopy? May seem very obvious but not sure as I'm

Re: [newbie] needed programs

2000-05-15 Thread Michael A. Kellogg
On Mon, 15 May 2000, you wrote: Ron, XMMS kicks a**. If you will try, you will see it is the same as winamp. -michael- Hi folks! I also like XMMS but can't seem to get it to automatically boot up when I try to listen to a radio station in www.shoutcast.com If I download the file (*.pl) and

Re: [newbie] (VIRUS WARNING) from Great Books

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
What's up with this message? I hope there's nothing to it- I am in the habit of just deleting or next-ing to the next message without going back to the list(NS4.70)-especially when there's 250+ msgs like this am. Anyway, heeding the warning I went to the list and highlighted the message from

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Hi folks, My install keeps booting to text install and then does not recognize my partition table. Sample message: hdb: drive not ready for command hdb: status error: status = 0x00 {} unable to read partition table hdd:hdd: lost interrupt hdd: lost interrupt The line: 'hdd: lost interrupt'

RE: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Greer
Network install? -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Mauricio Tavares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop My laptop is a lowly P75 without CDROM drive. Well, I

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

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
I thought it would be a good safe practice to try out my installation on my slightly older Dell Computer XPS M200s. If I partition my drive in 2 Gig. sections, should it not work? In addition, do you know why my install always goes into text mode rather graphical. This is totally bizarre. I will

[newbie] running prgrams as user

2000-05-15 Thread quaylar
hello all ! i have the problem that i want to use a program that obviously only works as root user, as a non-root user.im speaking of kvoice, the fax sender..i configured it as root and im able to send and receive faxes as root..but when starting it as another user i always get

[newbie] [expert] OT - Wine StarCraft

2000-05-15 Thread GAGLIANO, ANGELO
Title: [expert] OT - Wine StarCraft I am not sure if this is a Wine issue or a MDK 7 and Wine issue but here: I used to run StarCraft with Wine (I forgot the version) in MDK 6. I installed MDK 7 a few months earlier this year and have not been able to get StarCraft to start anymore with

[newbie] attn Michael

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Michael wrote: Michael, The original post of "GREAT BOOKS" (lost the real e-mail address) had a virus attached to it. I think it was the KAK worm virus. Go see the www.symantec.com site, or www.mcafee.com to find it and remove it if needed. Good luck Paul What's up with

Re: [newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic

2000-05-15 Thread Cyber Eagle
Nickolay Belostotsky£¬ÄúºÃ£¡, do it, u can get it! ÔÚ 00-5-15 10:40:00 ÄúдµÀ£º Hello! My current configuration is, a 9Gb hard drive divided into two 4.5Gb partitions - C: and D:. I have Linux installed via Lnx4Win. Now I want to install Linux onto its own partition. Will Partition Magic be

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanas I believe I said before, run partinfo.exe. I believe you have errors in your partition table that can be identified by partinfo.exe and fixed with ptedit.exe (both are part of PM). Concerning the lost interrupt errors, they are usually associated with hard drives and cdroms.

[newbie] once again: ISDN setup

2000-05-15 Thread Christian Mathes
Hi folks, First I would like to thank all who tried to help me with my ISDN configuration. I think the easiest to understand solution is offered in the online manual at www.mandrakeuser.org According to this manualI have to edit these files: '/etc/isdn/profile/link/myisp', your dial-up

RE: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Greer
Why can't he burn one? It should be legal. -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop Mauricio Part of this is

RE: [newbie] needed programs

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Greer
Yep, sure did. It changed over like a year and a half ago :) Where've you been? -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] needed programs hey didnt xmms use to be

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA / IBM Ethernet Credit Card support

2000-05-15 Thread Brian Tompkins
Senor, I feel your pain. I got around this issue by doing the following ( no scripting needed ). I openned DrakConf and clicked on the startup icon (traffic light). Check pcmcia, dhcpd, postfix, cron - if they are not already checked - if dhcp is not available you can mount your cd and find

Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)

2000-05-15 Thread flupke
Here is the list : ip_masq_vdolive ip_masq_user ip_masq_raudio ip_masq_quake ip_masq_portfw ip_masq_mfw ip_masq_irc ip_masq_ftp ip_masq_cuseeme ip_masq_autofw HTH Flupke On Mon, 15 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry trying to understand the HOWTO and it's not straight forward. Which

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and disk space

2000-05-15 Thread vern
Small, maybe unrelated insight, I'd really give some thought to not as "root" most of the time. I'm another newbie giving thought to going Linux only. My new video card has pushed me over the edge, works beautifully in Linux and garbage in Windows. I'd like to see someone port one of the

[newbie] setting RAM

2000-05-15 Thread Martin Marier
Hello list, I'm having problems letting Linux know that I have 96 MB of RAM (it only sees 64 MB). I tried edit lilo.conf file adding a parameter in the append line : append="hdb=ide_scsi,mem=96M" But it doesn't work. The memory is still at 64MB and /dev/hdb remains an IDE

Re: [newbie] needed programs

2000-05-15 Thread Anthony Huereca
hey didnt xmms use to be 'x11amp'? Yep. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

[newbie] KFM not starting.

2000-05-15 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi all, Here's something weird, or at least to me, and it has only just begun. I have kppp in autostart so every time I begin an X session I just have to click connect and forget about it. All was well except that from a few days back whenever I have started my connection kfm does not start.

Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Marc
My Mandrake7 cd was burned. Well by maximumlinux but, it was still burned free of charge. All I did was buy the magazine. - Original Message - From: "Ron Greer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 4:40 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Canon Printer Probs

2000-05-15 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Canon Printer Probs Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:04:37 -0800 From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew- acquired not aquired sorry but i'm a spelling freaque -michael- ---

Re: [newbie] X-Chat No Ident response

2000-05-15 Thread Rial Juan
Quick guess: uncomment the line: auth stream tcpnowait nobody/usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -l -e in /etc/inetd.conf On May 13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] changing back to kde

2000-05-15 Thread Rial Juan
make a file called .xinitrc in your homedir, containing the single line: kde On May 13 Bruce Endries wrote: I re-installed Mandrake 7.0-2 today, and found that somehow I had configured X to start up with gnome. I want the kde desktop. Is there an easy way to change it to kde?

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Alan, I tried to purchase the CD but there was some sort of billing address discrepency. If I download the ISO file to one of my partitions, that is the one that I want to have Linux Mandrake installed to, do I still have to run rawwrite.exe again. I checked the FAQ section and there appears

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 / IM

2000-05-15 Thread Rial Juan
As a matter of fact, there is a better way... Since people keep asking this on the list, I saved this old mail of me in a file, and here's the contents of that file: ### BEGIN ### Ok, Quite a few people here asked how to run this new netscape, and the answers generally were: "cd into the

RE: [newbie] Encarta

2000-05-15 Thread Y u r i
www.britannica.com may be a good replacement? unless you need multimedia stuff, it's far superior IMHO -Original Message- Small, maybe unrelated insight, I'd really give some thought to not as "root" most of the time. I'm another newbie giving thought to going Linux only. My new

Re: [newbie] Burn ISO download with CDRWIN

2000-05-15 Thread Rial Juan
This is what I do in linux: go to the console, log in as root, and type: cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -v image.iso Works nice too, saves me a reboot. If you want to burn bin/cue combos, you can either use cdrdao (or so I heard) or convert them to a .iso with bchunk (but always mount the result

RE: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Bill . Gardner
However if you buy the $29 distro you get documentation, tech support, staroffice, bootmagic, partitionmagic, e-books on linux... not to mention source code. thanks, bg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 5:13 PM To:

Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
Paul Since all he said he had was an old SCSI CDROM I did not believe that he would have a CD-RW and therfore he would have no way to burn a CD. I was giving suggestions for the hardware he said he had . Charles - Original Message - From: "Ron Greer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [[newbie] PCMCIA / IBM Ethernet Credit Card support]

2000-05-15 Thread Jaguar
If your ehterrnet card is PCMCIA, you will have to load your PC CARD drivers before the NIC, otherwise you will be forever getting the NIC to work...I am not sure how to re-arrange the install list but I am sure someone here can enlighten you... HTH Jaguar El Nada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [newbie] attn Michael

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
Uh oh! How do i do that? I thought linux was virus free- now you're telling me I've got worms? Does it affect Linux or only the other os? please tell me soon as I need to know! -michael-

Re: [newbie] Shockwave for Linux

2000-05-15 Thread Fran Parker
If you are trying to use Shockwave in Netscape..might want to try going to the help section on the left top and choose About Plugins. Bambi Vic wrote: I have tryed (f*ck the spelling i'm not in the mood to deal with this piece of crap keyboard) I tryed to get shockwave for Linux and I

Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
However if you buy the $29 distro you get documentation, tech support, staroffice, bootmagic, partitionmagic, e-books on linux... not to ment... Where does someone on an island in alaska get one?? Amazon.com doesn't have it! -michael-

Re: [newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Hi Nickolay, I found out what the reason was for my non-graphical install problems. The computer that I was practicing on was PII 200 MHz and the drives were from around 1996-7. I had the install for i586s. As Allen mentioned, for older machines use the i486 install CD. I inserted the install

Re: [newbie] Replies

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
Charles- Apologies! I thought I was responding to a post by Denis (although reviewing I see where it could cross apply;) ) -michael-

Re: [newbie] Kvirc frozen up...

2000-05-15 Thread Fran Parker
What version of KVirc are you running...I have the new one from the KVirc site and it works great...as long as you don't choose the miscellaneous button (closes program)not done yet. :) Very nice revision. Bambi vern wrote: I have had similar results with Netscape and XCDroast they'll

Re: [newbie] Charles/DSL?

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
When i went to the phoneco in sitka and asked about a DSL they said,"Huh?" We'll have cablemodems by 2004. Til then it's 28.8. -michael- Paul wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: Paul DSL( Digital Subscriber Line) is the big brother of ISDN. It requires a special modem

Re: [newbie] 3dfx (Vern)

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Holt
I'm sorry to hear about your winwoes; I'm not sure, but I would think if you've made sure to disable the onboard card (through a jumper or a switch) the only thing that would be left would be the bios settings. I have another however; I don't know if you're a gamer, but I just bought a copy of

[newbie] HP Deskjet 842C

2000-05-15 Thread Steve Edmunds
Hi, Has anyone managed to get one of these working under 2.2.x? I run Mandrake 7.0 and none of the available filters there will work Thanks for any advice Steve -- Steve Edmunds Work:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] DrakeX Graphical Installer Works

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I took a chance, and cleared my D drive on my new computer. After I popped the installation CD in the tray, DrakeX Graphical Installer started working. Hooray! Hooray! After Allen mentioned that I the hard drive and ZIP drives could be old and that I would need the i486

Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
Amazon does have it. Linux-Mandrake Complete 7.0..$25.99 That is where I got mine, but I had a Gift Certificate otherwise I would have bought it local for $29. Charles - Original Message - From: "Michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 7:53

Re: [newbie] setting RAM

2000-05-15 Thread bill
Martin Marier wrote: Hello list, I'm having problems letting Linux know that I have 96 MB of RAM (it only sees 64 MB). I tried edit lilo.conf file adding a parameter in the append line : append="hdb=ide_scsi,mem=96M" append="hdb=ide-scsi mem=96M" ^^

[newbie] OT /3dfx ( Quake)

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Holt
Hello again! This is an extra installment to my previous question about 3dfx. I just bought a copy of Quake 2 for Linux and had some disapointment. I'm using an AMD k6-3 450 w/192 MB RAM and an ATI Rage Fury 32MB Vid card; I'm only able to use a max window size of 640x480 before the

Re: [newbie] Kvirc frozen up...

2000-05-15 Thread Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter
Thanks, Fran: I have the newest one as well, and I'm VERY aware :-) of the miscellaneous button little drawback... Perhaps I've finally found what's wrong, but I think I'll verify tomorrow... };- Sometimes, I need some sllep, too... ^__^ Aniway, does anybody know if I can set the channel I'm

[newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu

2000-05-15 Thread Michael A. Kellogg
Hi Folks! Well, I don't quite know how I did it, but when I reboot the computer, I'm only given a command prompt (login name, password) rather than the nice graphic screen I was accustom. It's not a big deal, I type startx and get things going but I would like to reset my initial boot in to a

[newbie] Audioconferencing

2000-05-15 Thread Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter
Now, before I fall asleep :-) , a BIG help about another topic is needed: I'll be very grateful if someone could give me a full introdutcion to audioconferencing, I need to be told all from scratch, in fact... Quiet silly, if you think my first computer was a Commodore VIC 20, but that's the

[newbie] Unsubscription feature doesn't work?

2000-05-15 Thread kiriakos
Hi all, I was wondering if there's a problem with the mail server? I have made an unsubscription request 2 days ago, through the web page, and I'm still getting all the email. Does it take so long for the server to process the request maybe? GG

Re: [newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Holt
"Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: Hi Folks! Well, I don't quite know how I did it, but when I reboot the computer, I'm only given a command prompt (login name, password) rather than the nice graphic screen I was accustom. It's not a big deal, I type startx and get things going but I would

Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)

2000-05-15 Thread freeman
I read the HOWTO some more and with your help modprobed the nessesary modules and this is what happens afterwards. echo /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission Denied echo whoami echo root any ideas Mike Here is the list : ip_masq_vdolive

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