Re: [newbie-it] conferma messaggi?

2000-06-16 Thread Andrea Celli
freefred wrote: scusate qualcuno sa perche' mi arrivano messaggi come questi quando scrivo in lista? [...] In order to broadcast the following message into list newbie-it, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] : confirm 5bc52d1e75b25442808e267206fb395f Vado a spanne. Quando ti iscrivi

[newbie-it] Xfree86 4

2000-06-16 Thread Simone Ravarotto
Ciao a tutti Vorrei installare Xfree86 4 - ho seguito la procedura scaricando le librerie adatte dopo aver fatto un sh + check sullo script di installazione, ma lo script non vede i file di configurazione che ho posizionato nella cartella di installazione temporanea anche se ci sono. Qualcuno

Re: [newbie-it] Xfree86 4

2000-06-16 Thread gabriele s
ma lo script non vede i file di configurazione che ho posizionato nella cartella di installazione temporanea anche se ci sono. anche a me è successa la stessa cosa, il problema che ho riscontrato è il seguente: lo script di installazione vuole i file con la X maiuscola, mentre i filez

Re: [newbie-it] Cercando gli rpm

2000-06-16 Thread Josef Kafka
E in aggiunta, si puo cercare anche su http://www.rpmfind.net From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Cercando gli rpm Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:12:08 +0200 Per cercare file di qualsiasi tipo il posto migliore e`

Re: [newbie] Freewwweb Error

2000-06-16 Thread Charles Comer
In TCP properties, click on the DNS tab and name your domain smartworld.net. The DNS entries you have are correctseems like that should work even with the wrong domain name, though. Check to see if you are exporting your default route in KPPP. Read the PPP how to also...it's a bit long but

Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux (Solved)

2000-06-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Daciavery creative :-) Alan Dacia and AzureRose wrote: I tried this and couldn't get it to work. I couldn't even get into my linux partition because my boot disk wouldn't work and the new one I made didn't work either. What I ended up doing was booting from the installation CD and

[newbie] Fwd: Postmaster notify: Cannot send message within 5 days HUH?

2000-06-16 Thread michael
What is this? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Postmaster notify: Cannot send message within 5 days Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:37:33 -0800 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --

Re: [newbie] MPEG Player and Action failure

2000-06-16 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Michael, sorry so slow to answer... I don't remember which one I chose. Advice: You can smooth-out the video by lowering audio quality and changing to mono. Seve -Original Message- From: michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, June 04, 2000

Re: [newbie] Denis et al: Q about procmail

2000-06-16 Thread Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~Does Procmail only work with Fetchmail and the likes, or does it also :~operate on mail that is in the maildir already? It can do both. Take a look at "Dry run testing" section here: http://www.procmail.org/jari/pm-tips-body.html#dry_run_testing

Re: [Re: [newbie] More on my SCSI hd problems]

2000-06-16 Thread Paul
On 11 Jun 2000, Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: I did a text install, and it simply bombed shortly after trying to detect the hd's. I jumped thru the consoles, and found that it's having scsi parity err's. What I don't understand is why. Tried prior to that successful install w/ the scsi hd

Re: [newbie] Mouse Not Detected

2000-06-16 Thread Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Leobardo Lpez wrote: I Need Help. Mandrake is Not Detecting My Mouse, What Can I Do to Configure It By Myself. Do you have a serial mouse? A bus mouse? A PS/2 mouse? From Microsoft? Logitech? Paul -- Yesterday is Past; Tomorrow is the Future; Today is a Gift...That is

Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

2000-06-16 Thread Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Colin L. Whipple wrote: Trying to "make" kvirc 2.0, after installing and making QT 2.1.1, I get the following at the end of the make: from libkvispeak.cpp:34: trees.h:33: strstream.h: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [libkvispeak.lo] Error 1 make[4]:

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?

2000-06-16 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Anyone know how to setup the Reiser Filesystem in 7.1? The LM website says :~to use Diskdrake, but how do I start it? And do you recommed it? someone :~said it's not stable enough yet. Yet I would think it would be safer than :~Ext2 which is more susceptable to FS corruption. Thanks. 19!

Re: [newbie] Automatic Email?

2000-06-16 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~ Fetchmail with diald would work. I think there is another kind of :~demand dialing too. Either that or a cron job to dial, run fetchmail, run sendmail-q and close the connection. cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlik

Re: [newbie] NT and Linux

2000-06-16 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~How can I have Linux and NT 4.0 Server on the same machine and have Linux :~show up on the NT start menu instead of using the Linux boot manager? Can :~it be done? I am getting ready to do a clean install of both operating :~systems. Yes. Install NT, then install linux (do not let is

Re: [newbie] NT and Linux

2000-06-16 Thread flupke
The technic consist of installing lilo on your linux partition (not the MBR)and make an image of your lilo boot sector. So , if your linux (and your lilo) is on /dev/hda2, type : dd if=/dev/hda2 of=~/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 Then copy the image (~/bootsect.lnx) to your NT partition, and, in

Re: [newbie] Swap partition

2000-06-16 Thread flupke
I think that the easiest thing to do would be to add a 250 MB partition, so that you won't have to resize anything. Use fdisk, cfdisk, or any other disk partitionner, and create a 250 MB swap parttion (let's say you do it in /dev/hdb2). Then, initialize the swap partition : mkswap /dev/hdb2

[newbie] Monitor's

2000-06-16 Thread Robert F. Trettel
Hi, All Just got a new monitor and find its not listed anywhere in the selection area in the install. I think its to new to show up. Its a ViewSonic A70, the manual says it is pre-adjusted to VESA 1024x768@75Hz. What would be a good guess as to a proper and safe monitor?? Thanks for any ideas

Re: [newbie] partition magic

2000-06-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
Kit Have you tried running defrag from DOS if not try it and see what happens. Upgrading from Win98 to Win98SE was the biggest pain in the ass that I have ever been through. I kept getting Fatal Ex. errors system errors and a host of problems. To get it to work properly I ended up

Re: [newbie] upgrading

2000-06-16 Thread Andrea Celli
KompuKit wrote: Hey, if you have version 7.0 (first version) and you want to upgrade to version 7.02 what would be the best way...and not lose anything... download drakxtoolsrpm from a mirror containing Mandrake-7.0.2 and upgrade the old package using # rpm -Uh drakxtools.new...rpm

Re: [newbie] Monitor's

2000-06-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
Robert Your monitor manual should give you a listing for sreen sizes and res. Try out a couple to see which you like the best. I, myself, use 1024x768@100. That setting gives me plenty of sreen area without everything being to small and there is no flicker what so ever. Charles -

Re: [newbie] Which installation option to use if you delete Version 7.0

2000-06-16 Thread Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote: Roman, If you are going to do a clean install, just throw away the entire partition, format it, lose all your settings and files, and start over. If you want to upgrade, resize the disk as it is. (If your system is stable now, that would be my preferred

Re: [newbie] How do I pull e mail off my server via pop?

2000-06-16 Thread Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Vic wrote: I am trying to pull the e mail off of my server with a pop client but it don't work. When I try to do it with Netscape it says something like it did nto work or some unhelpful idiotmessage, when I used imaginemail's pop e mail puller it said that the server was

Re: [newbie] DSL

2000-06-16 Thread Mark Wolf
You will love DSL. It is easy to set up if you are only setting up one box connected to the internet. If you linux box will have two NIC cards then it gets a little bit more complicated. Not much but a little. Have fun Mark

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-16 Thread ~-=Mark=-~
Actually it's a new install. I originally wanted to get 7.1, but I mistakenly ordered 7.0. No big deal I've downloaded the ISO for 7.1 at work and I only have to burn the CD's yet. However, I'm finding 7.0 isn't as well behaved as I was led to believe. I absolutely LOVE the look, feel, bells and

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
Lance I see the [newbie] server is delaying again this message posted to me before your [newbie] post did. When you went to the recorery console and executed your commands a disclaimer message appeared which I will paraphrase "I do not know where your Win2000 partition is either. If you

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)

2000-06-16 Thread Mike Perry
Hope this helps if you have the Winblows2k installation disk. When you boot the installation media, you can press R to use the Emergency Repair process. You will then press M for a Manual Repair or F for a Fast Repair. During a Manual Repair, you can select/deselect the following: [X] Inspect

[newbie] automount

2000-06-16 Thread prv
Hi, can anybody explain me how to install and configure automount ? thanks. Pierre

Re: [newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System Commander

2000-06-16 Thread Wendell Gragg
Charles, Thanks for the reply! I guess I just don't understand System Commander. I used to use Boot Magic and someone told me this was better. I also had used an older version of Linux that was on this drive when I installed SC and it did not pick it up, which confused me. Anyway, I will

Re: [newbie] sendmail

2000-06-16 Thread Luc Marts
Hi how do i check if this "procmail" is installed? and if it is not installed where can i get it? thanks ver much Luc --- Everett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Luc I just went through hell the last few weeks with my pop3 server. I started out useing mandrake 6.1 and my popmail software

Re: [newbie] partition magic

2000-06-16 Thread GAPrichard
I know I'm late in responding, but. here's how to fix your Windows partition so that you do not have to low level your hard drive. As a computer technician, if you brought your computer to me I would probably wipe reload your windows partition, which would save your Linux

Re: [newbie] (Denis!!) this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
What's the deal here? I sent this response on Monday and it's just now posting!!!??? Charles - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr,

Re: [newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System Commander

2000-06-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
Wendell You do not need to uninstall Sys. Com. just reinstall it on top of itself. This will allow it to pick up all active boot sectors including Mandrake Charles . - Original Message - From: "Wendell Gragg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:11

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Hall
Edison Gica wrote: Hi: i'm trying to install my 100MB Zip drive (external connected to printer port). i tried following the manual but when I click on the icon on the desktop an error message comes up 'invalid block device'. is there a kernel that i have to install first from the LM 7

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive

2000-06-16 Thread Chris Hall
Not a kernel. No. Just modules you probably have to load - Original Message - From: Chris Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ZIP drive Edison Gica wrote: Hi: i'm trying to install my 100MB Zip drive (external

Re: [newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System Commander

2000-06-16 Thread Michael H. Collins
All those M$ bases Boot managers suck. Stick with fips and lilo and you will not be having problems now or in the future. And two different ones on the same machine spell disaster. Wendell Gragg wrote: Charles, Thanks for the reply! I guess I just don't understand System Commander. I

Re: [newbie] What's the ld-linux.so.2?

2000-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi there, Some time when I closed the Netscape browser 4.7, I found there was a process: ld-linux.so.2 (or some other name like that, I don't remember clearly), I can not kill it by using the kill pid, but itconsumed a lot of machine resources like the CPU

Re: [newbie] What's the ld-linux.so.2?

2000-06-16 Thread yue . m . ma
Thanks! I'll try that when I get home. Is that a Netscape bug or Linux bug? "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/16/2000 10:44:11 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] What's the ld-linux.so.2?

2000-06-16 Thread yue . m . ma
Hi there, Some time when I closed the Netscape browser 4.7, I found there was a process: ld-linux.so.2 (or some other name like that, I don't remember clearly), I can not kill it by using the kill pid, but itconsumed a lot of machine resources like the CPU time, memor.. it was on top of the

Re: [newbie] What's the ld-linux.so.2?

2000-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, you wrote: Thanks! I'll try that when I get home. Is that a Netscape bug or Linux bug? Well, IMNSHO ;) most problems best approached in this order 1-user, 2-software, 3-hardware, and 4-OS (even including Winblows :) NutScrape is _definitely_ a 2 all by itself

Re: [newbie] sendmail

2000-06-16 Thread Glyn Millington
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:19:09AM -0700, thus spake Luc Marts: Hi how do i check if this "procmail" is installed? and if it is not installed where can i get it? thanks ver much Luc --- Everett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rpm -qa | less should list EVERYTHINg you have installed in rpm

[newbie] more samba

2000-06-16 Thread Oliver Stieber
ok I've now managed to get samba up and running fine, and have a fully talking office lun(linux underground network) with one little exception. dozy 2000, it refuses to connect to my Linux box, and smbclient shows no shares. the samba site says that 2.0.7 fixes a lot of 2000 interferences so I

Re: [newbie] automount

2000-06-16 Thread Anthony Huereca
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/admin/amount2.html can anybody explain me how to install and configure automount ? -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

Re: [newbie] Trouble booting 7.0 from 2nd drive with System Commander

2000-06-16 Thread Wendell Gragg
Ok, I reinstalled SC2000 and it did pick up the Linux drive and gave me an option to boot; however, when I choose it, I receive an error message saying that there is something wrong with the boot sector. It says that the boot sector does not have the usual signature. If I tell it to go ahead

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-16 Thread Mogens Jæger
I installed MD 7.1, I have a creative cdrw 4224 and I can play music on it just fine under linux, however when I go to access it for files, the light comes on and after a few minutes I get an error message that the contents of the directory /mnt/cdrom can not be displayednow the

Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE 100tx problems w/ mdk7

2000-06-16 Thread David Talbot
I speak from absolute experience here. I too picked up that card (Ohhh a $10 NIC), and there are currently no drivers for linux. Sorry. The NE2000's work great though... -David Talbot At 09:47 PM 6/10/00 -0400, you wrote: I tried setting up a Linksys LNE100TX NIC on my HP / MDK7 / Win98

Re: [newbie] networking question

2000-06-16 Thread flupke
Hi Bascule. On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, bascule wrote: i am having trouble setting up two machines to talk to each other, i'll put all the questions in this one post since they are all related, 1) do i need to 'fake' a domain for both machines to belong to or is it enough to give each machine a

Re: [newbie] Remote printer. Sorta solved

2000-06-16 Thread Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Paulyou're probably missing your /etc/hosts.lpd file. If that's the case, make one by using a text editor as root and include in it a '+' followed by a 'press of the enter key'. Well, I don't understand toodle nor squat of it, but today printing

[newbie] X help

2000-06-16 Thread Anthony Huereca
Can someone who is running X4.0 please tell me what /etc/X11/X is symlinked to? Just type "ll /etc/X11/X". -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 Install problem: Can't find package xfree- rpm

2000-06-16 Thread Poul Varming
I am unable to complete the Linux Mandrake 7.1 installation. When I reach the X Configuration I am prompted that the RPM package "xfree- " can't be found. I have tried both Automated and Customized installation with the same result. Installing all the XFree packages did not help.

Re: [newbie] No window manager in X...

2000-06-16 Thread flupke
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Sam Dunham wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.0 (severl times) and everything seems to work NO NEED to reinstall when you have a problem. Nearly never! great, except that I don't get a Window Manager when X starts. My Graphical login comes up on a plain Jane X screen, I log

Re: [newbie] networking question

2000-06-16 Thread Paul
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, bascule wrote: As far as I can help you: 1) do i need to 'fake' a domain for both machines to belong to or is it enough to give each machine a name? A name for each machine is enough. 2)is the ip address of each nic the same as each machine or is that different? (i ask

[newbie] How to delete link files?

2000-06-16 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: This has been driving me crazy. If you create a link (symbolic or hard), e.g. # ln foo 1 foo2 How do you UNdo it? I've look in my Using Linux book and other books. No answer. Thanks so very much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web

Re: [newbie] How to delete link files?

2000-06-16 Thread Anthony Huereca
Just remove the symbolic link. "rm the_symbolic_or_hard_link". Dear friends: This has been driving me crazy. If you create a link (symbolic or hard), e.g. # ln foo 1 foo2 How do you UNdo it? I've look in my Using Linux book and other books. No answer. Thanks so very much.

[newbie] Mouse systems serial mouse problem

2000-06-16 Thread Peter Cummins
Hi all, I have a problem. I have a "Mouse Systems" serial optical mouse that I currently use with RedHat 6.1. On the RedHat system it works fine, but when I try to install Mandrake 7.1 on the same computer, without changing anything, it won't work. Using the keyboard I can select that I have a

[newbie] Memory test, Any software?

2000-06-16 Thread Hugh
I installed some memory into my computer a week agao About ever three times I boot up I get a memory fails warning when it checks my memory. Is there any software for linux to allow me to test these chips myself? Hugh

Re: [newbie] Extra Cds for 7.1

2000-06-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Eunicethey'll be part of the power pack :-) Alan Eunice Thompson wrote: Does anyone have any idea what and/or where the CD's labeled 3 and 4 are. During the installation of 7.1 they are listed, and also using Kpackage or RPMdrake to add additional packages they ask for one or the

[newbie] POP3 server problems under 7.0

2000-06-16 Thread Everett
HelloA few months ago I installed mandrake 6.1 and I've been playing aroundwith it.I installed a pop3 server software called qpopper and it worked great.Well I just installed mandrake 7.0 a compleate install overwrighting6.1.Then I reinstalled qpopper but now it want work.qpopper seems to

[newbie] boot partition?

2000-06-16 Thread dale kosan
Hello,am installing Linux Mandrake 7.1.I have two drives,one is Windows 98,second is for Linux.Where do I want to put the Lilo? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] boot partition?

2000-06-16 Thread Anthony Huereca
Put it on the first harddrive (/dev/hda) in the Master Boot Record Hello,am installing Linux Mandrake 7.1.I have two drives,one is Windows 98,second is for Linux.Where do I want to put the Lilo? Get Your Private, Free

Re: [newbie] boot partition?

2000-06-16 Thread KompuKit
it depends...do you expect to install Partition Magic...? dale kosan wrote: Hello,am installing Linux Mandrake 7.1.I have two drives,one is Windows 98,second is for Linux.Where do I want to put the Lilo? Get Your

[newbie] boot magic/LILO

2000-06-16 Thread KompuKit
Just installed Partition Magic 5.0...along with boot magic I had my LILO on the MBR of the master disk,partitioned into two parts...with linux being the second part. need to know...HOW to now...configure LILO to install instead... to the linux partso I can use boot magic...instead.

Re: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0

2000-06-16 Thread Michael H. Collins
What happens when you do a "rcpcmcia start" as root with the cards in. "Myers, Dennis R NWO" wrote: You can get some pretty detailed information on a generic device if it has an FCC code on it. This indicates that it was certified for use in the USA and by going to:

Fwd: NDN: Re(3): [newbie] Need desparate help with linux elf error in Netscape

2000-06-16 Thread Vic
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: NDN: Re(3): [newbie] Need desparate help with linux elf error in Netscape Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 06:59:49 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mailer-Daemon) Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: newbiemandrake (The name was not found at

Re: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0

2000-06-16 Thread Michael H. Collins
What happens when you do a "rcpcmcia start" as root with the cards in. "Myers, Dennis R NWO" wrote: You can get some pretty detailed information on a generic device if it has an FCC code on it. This indicates that it was certified for use in the USA and by going to:

Re: [newbie] Worthless email list

2000-06-16 Thread Mark Potochnik
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Personally, I don't have any insight as to what your installation problem might be caused by. Maybe he would be happy if you gave him a wrong answer... :-) MarkP

[newbie] ANNOUNCE: Monday @ http://linuxpole.com

2000-06-16 Thread Denis HAVLIK
Monday topics at http://linuxpole.com - - Blind Mandrake-Linux? (Bambi): what do we need to make sight-impaired people feel at home? - Simple server (Laurent Saint-Michel): would you buy a package which does only a few server tasks - but does them really

[newbie] junk

2000-06-16 Thread J D
okay, mandrake puts a lot of stuff on your computer when you install it. how do i find out what it has installed, and then how do i get rid of it if i don't want it? thanks jd Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN

Re: [newbie] Partition Magic 4.01 will not run on Windows NT

2000-06-16 Thread excalibur
Hi Roman, I cannot speak for Partition Magic 4, but I have successfully used PM 5 on a test machine with hard drive 1 as fat16, an NTFS partition, and a Win98 fat32 partition. The Linux (Mandrake 7.1) is on hard drive 2, and I can manipulate my NT partition with no problem. ;-) [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Partition Magic 4.01 will not run on Windows NT

2000-06-16 Thread Michael Lueck
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:26:33 -0400, Roman Bysh wrote: In order for PM to run on Windows NT4, you must purchase Version 5 Full Version for about $55. Or run the code from a DOS disk / partition. There is a DOSOS2 or OS2DOS dir on the CD, build the disks and away you go. I suggest applying the

Re: [newbie] How do I pull e mail off my server via pop?

2000-06-16 Thread Vic
Sory about the mess, please cancel my request I got the cucipop pop server installed, it works, and now I can go on holiday. On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, flupke wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Vic wrote: I am trying to pull the e mail off of my server with a pop client but it don't work. When

Re: [newbie] Extra Cds for 7.1

2000-06-16 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Does anyone have any idea what and/or where the CD's labeled 3 and 4 are. During the installation of 7.1 they are listed, and also using Kpackage or RPMdrake to add additional packages they ask for one or the other CD. I noticed that also. My guess is that

Re: [newbie] How do I pull e mail off my server via pop?

2000-06-16 Thread Anthony Huereca
I'm not sure what your problem is, but I can assure you that you do not need to install any kind of pop-server software. I use kmail just fine for my email needs. I am trying to pull the e mail off of my server with a pop client but it don't work. When I try to do it with Netscape it says

Re: [newbie] About to give up.

2000-06-16 Thread ~-=Mark=-~
Here's something wild. Last night after getting the first reply to this list about how to get fetchmail to run in the background and get the mail at a set interval someone had said something about needing a script to start it every time I bootes the machine. Well, last night I started fetchmail

Re: [newbie] Extra Cds for 7.1

2000-06-16 Thread Anthony Huereca
I think those are the extra CD's you get when you buy the "full" version at retail. Does anyone have any idea what and/or where the CD's labeled 3 and 4 are. During the installation of 7.1 they are listed, and also using Kpackage or RPMdrake to add additional packages they ask for one or

Re: [newbie] boot partition?

2000-06-16 Thread Mark Weaver
dale kosan wrote: Hello,am installing Linux Mandrake 7.1.I have two drives,one is Windows 98,second is for Linux.Where do I want to put the Lilo? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

[newbie] (no subject)

2000-06-16 Thread Dennis Myers
Something is not working correctly. I am trying this again after receiving a missent message. I am try to set up Samba. Using Sams teach yourself Linux-Mandrake in 24 Hours is useless. "Running Linux" is ok if you understand the C language or are comfortable in a text mode. I am a visual

RE: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...

2000-06-16 Thread michael
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Lobby http://www.eazel.com/ Most of these guys are Ex-Apple hotshots... -JMS I sent an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; what if we all did? - You cannot view Quicktime movies in Linux because Apple hasn't made a player for Linux yet. So the only way you

[newbie] printer

2000-06-16 Thread KompuKit
have a HP deskjet 600 it prints in black and white only,under linux why won't it print in color...? -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] isapnp config error

2000-06-16 Thread GAPrichard
Sorry for the late reply--if this has been addressed I'll get to it. I had very nearly the same error. I haven't had time to delve further. I hope somebody gives what the (corrected) line should look like. I know the interrupt to use when I have the line otherwise correct. -Gary-

[newbie] downloads

2000-06-16 Thread KompuKit
need a good download manager for linux...that will auto-resume broken downloads... where is one...I tried freshmeat...and tucows linux -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL

[newbie] E-mail Clients

2000-06-16 Thread Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter
Hello, everybody! I'm currently using the Netscape e-mail client along with Kmail; I'm looking for a client which features message filters and search and multiple pop accounts, better if designed for Gnome; there's a lot of programs, what would you suggest me? Thank you! Corrado

Re: [newbie] downloads

2000-06-16 Thread Anthony Huereca
http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ is very good. need a good download manager for linux...that will auto-resume broken downloads... where is one...I tried freshmeat...and tucows linux -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

[newbie] why is this?

2000-06-16 Thread Fred Banana
I often have noticed that I get a continuesly higher download speed in linux than in windows. the speed in windows averages about 3.4 kbits/seconds and that seems as fast as we get. in linux I get an average of 5.5 kbits/seconds with spikes around 12 or 15 kbits/second. The same dialup isp and

[newbie] SMC1211TX and Linux

2000-06-16 Thread exquisite1
Hello, I have a SMC 1211TX network card. Does anyone have a program that will Allow me to change the mode from 100 full to 10half. I cannot get the the card to see the network, also it seems that lothar says the card is installed, but when booting the eth0 says failed to initialize. I can

[newbie] running Sawmill (Sawfish)

2000-06-16 Thread Jaguar
I installed Sawmill off of the Maximum Linux June/july 2000 CD, and can't figure out where to setup Sawmill to run. Has anyone done this, if so...could you please explain to me what file to edit, with what commands... installed on MDK 7.02 TIA Jaguar The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by

[newbie] Installation problems on ThinkPad 760EL

2000-06-16 Thread R. D. McCallion
Hi, I'm having problems installing Linux-Mandrake 7.0 on my IBM ThinkPad 760EL. The BIOS does not support booting from the CDROM and since it is not possible to have the CDROM and floppy drive installed simultaneously, I can not perform the standard floppy boot CD install. I have attempted

[newbie] rc.firewall

2000-06-16 Thread Victor Richardson
I'm setting up a home cable-modem home behind a Mandrake 7.1 box, I've checked out the MASQ and Firewall HOWTO's and understand them. Actually, I used them with 6.0. Although, a few things have changed since then. I also searched the archives and there was only one posting that didn't answer this

RE: [newbie] networking question

2000-06-16 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-Original Message- From: bascule [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 8:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] networking question i am having trouble setting up two machines to talk to each other, i'll put all the questions in this one post since they are all

RE: Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation

2000-06-16 Thread nonic 10
your mum is a bitch and a how?/ Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:25:50 +0200 (CEST) From: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I also installed XFree4.0 while I

RE: Re: [newbie] Doom question...seconded

2000-06-16 Thread nonic 10
your mum is a bitch and is a fuckin wanker go such motherfucker!!! From: michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Doom question...seconded Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:58:32 -0800 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi Trevor and all, I

Re: [newbie] Add Upgrade Icon to Virtual Desktop

2000-06-16 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Oh know. What I was recommending was an auto upgrade feature for Linux :~Mandrake. I know it's a tall order but it's worth looking into for :~future releases. In fact, I don't think that any one has this feature. :~Or, at least, I haven't seen it , yet. Are you listening Mandrakesoft? More

Re: [newbie] How to please your IT department: (fwd)

2000-06-16 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Ah, did you get this, or did you find the site of the Bastard Operator :~from Hell? *grin* No, I got it in e-mail. BO is really a good reading, though ;- I do not remember where the original site is, but this is OK too: http://members.iinet.net.au/~bofh/index.html cu Denis --

[newbie] Mouse systems serial mouse problem

2000-06-16 Thread Peter Cummins
I recently asked about a Mouse Systems serial mouse with problems. At a guess no-one here knows how to fix this one, so does anyone know where else I can look? I have a "Mouse Systems" serial optical mouse that I currently use with RedHat 6.1. On the RedHat system it works fine, but when I

Re: [newbie] networking question

2000-06-16 Thread Ot Ratsaphong
Hi bascule, If you have a look at the following URL, you will find all you need to get you going. I followed the instructions to get my 486 configured as a router and firewall for my small home network. http://members.home.net/ipmasq/ipmasq-HOWTO-1.82.html I have a question for you: I have a

[newbie] lost root desktop + menus

2000-06-16 Thread Oliver Stieber
i just upgraded to 7.1 everything went fine with two exceptions. for some reason downloading of the security tools failed part way through, and I was left with 64M of ram even though I told the installer I had 256M. anyhow, I was just sorting out the network, installing the downloading+security

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[newbie] Mdk-7.1 and NT-boot.ini

2000-06-16 Thread Andrea Celli
I'va a strange problem with Mandrake-7.1. In my box i've installed several Linux distributions and win-NT. I use Nt-loader (in a dos partition) to choose operative System at boot time. Now, i've installed Mandrake-7.1 in a free partition,to test it before upgrade 7.0. I choose to install lilo