RE: [newbie-it] Mouse rotellina

2000-06-22 Thread Rossi, Fabio (MED)
Ciao, prova a settare come tipo di mouse intellimouse della microsoft. Con questa configurazione a me la rotellina funziona con MDK 7.0 A presto Fabio -Original Message- From: Francesco Aldrovandi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: mercoledì 21 giugno 2000 9.01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] group setting of named.

2000-06-22 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
Hi guys, named failed. Say group is not set ! What group is needed by named ? Thanks in advance. Eric

Re: [newbie] Shockwave - What's Up With It?

2000-06-22 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Sevatio Octavio wrote: Have any of you know if there's a Linux Shockwave or a GPL equivalent? Seve Do you want shockwave or flashplayer? If you're talking about Macromedia's 'Backstage', I don't think they have anything available at this time. If you're interested, goto this page:

Re:SOLVED! [[newbie] ETHERNET CARD PROBLEM]

2000-06-22 Thread Joe Cool
Mr Thalliox aka Linux Neophite, Thanks and thanks a lot!!! Your solution works!!! Thanks for your help and other people too who gave me some advice on the problem. Other Linuxers, I feel that this solution should be noted down fro future reference. I know I have. Thanks again. Best Regards

[newbie] Help me please

2000-06-22 Thread Mario Molina
I have a question: please a need know if is posible make aliases with users of another server ie: i have a user:user1 in my server myserver.com and user1 have a email account in latinmail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] y want make an aliases user1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] i edit

[newbie] samba question

2000-06-22 Thread J D
okay, i got samba all set up and running. i can see my linux box from windows. when i try to connect to it, it prompts for a password. however, i have not set a password for it. i've tried every password for my system, and even tried nothing. but it always tells me that it's an invalid

[newbie] make initrd

2000-06-22 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Hello, I was just wondering if somebody out there could refresh my memory on the usage of make initrd? I did it for my last kernel rpm upgrade, but that's been awhile and I've forgotten the procedure. Just for info, I believe it was around kernel 2.2.15-something. Thanks, Mike --

Re: [newbie] I just get a Big White Box :-(

2000-06-22 Thread Chris Hall
Tim Dentremont wrote: I'm running a pentium II 450 with 128 mb of ram...a Diamond Speedstart A55 (S3 Trio3D/2X)..a Sceptre dragon eye monitor. all well flawlessly well though the install of mandrake 7.1. An d I'm extremely happy with what I see!..the only problem that I have is that

Re: [newbie] Problem on Mandrake 6.5

2000-06-22 Thread Frank
Cris, I am using mandrake 7 and use this card and have no problems with it - Original Message - From: "Anthony Huereca" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem on Mandrake 6.5 I don't see it on Mandrakes website

[newbie] LILO Boot Magic install ?

2000-06-22 Thread aifusionextreme
Hi I jave succesfully installed mandrake 7.0 before but on smaller dirves. When trying to install it on a 14 GB with only 1 partition, everything appears fine, but once we reboot, instead of lilo I get a screen full of '01010101010101 ..' for ever or until reboot. So I thought I

[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?

2000-06-22 Thread aifusionextreme
I have just caught up with the latest emails, seems a lot of poeple are experiencing the same thing. A lot of the suggestions have been that the mbr is messed up. This is not the case! I have fdisk it hundreds of time since getting this error and each time lilo installs the same happens.

[newbie] Help with 6.0 (retail) install...

2000-06-22 Thread Dwayne
Well after having fits trying to figure out fdisk, (which I did), I went ahead and installed the rest of the system only to find that the install program failed to write the boot sector, or to the MBR, in other words, no LILO. Then it also decieded that it could not write the boot floppy.

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Blues

2000-06-22 Thread Jeff Lee
That would be in DrakConf (or LinuxConf). At 03:37 PM 6/21/2000 -0400, you wrote: Hello Collective, I survived my first disk partitioning and the instilation of a non-windows os but am left with a cable modem that now serves as a paper weight. I have no clue where to get info on how to

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Blues

2000-06-22 Thread Anthony Huereca
Ask them if you have a static IP or get your IP through DCHP. Hello Collective, I survived my first disk partitioning and the instilation of a non-windows os but am left with a cable modem that now serves as a paper weight. I have no clue where to get info on how to establish a

Re: [newbie] samba question

2000-06-22 Thread Jeff Lee
I think your Windows network username (and password) has to be the same as a user name in Linux. At 01:17 AM 6/22/2000 +, you wrote: okay, i got samba all set up and running. i can see my linux box from windows. when i try to connect to it, it prompts for a password. however, i have

Re: [newbie] $6.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version)

2000-06-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mogens'Green River'. Alan Mogens Jæger wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: MogensI just ordered a product from CheapBytes on Sunday evening. Got a confirmation email from them before 9:00 am on Monday, and a shipping confirmation just after 4:00 pm also on Monday. For what it's

RE: [newbie] samba question

2000-06-22 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Well you are almost there. Your Samba box is up and running but your Windows machines cannot log in. The password prompt is correct... you are not logging in! What happens is that normally windows passes to Samba the same username/password pairs you used when you first logged into Windows.

Re: [newbie] ManDrake 7.1 a nightmare!

2000-06-22 Thread Jim P.
I have set up and ran ver 7.0 with no problems7.1 has one error after another...hope what they intend to sell is better than what they have available for download If it's the same...I intend to skip purchasing 7.1 it's just plain a mess that takes hundreds of hours to try to straighten

Re: [newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?

2000-06-22 Thread Jeff Lee
I'm not very straight on the cylinder limitations...do you have more than one hard drive? but here's my setup, and hopefully, it might help you some: hda1(40G):Win2k hdc1(8.4G total): linux swap hdc2: linux I've had LILO installed on hdc2, but have since moved it to hdc1. For my boot manger,

[newbie] I want to program in C++, what's better?

2000-06-22 Thread iagoba
Hi to all, I'm starting in Linux now, and because I'm developer, I want to develop in Linux too, I work with C++ Builder, (in W98 of course), and I want know if Linux got C++ language Visual engines, what C++ Compilers I can use? witch one could be the better to start? and what other

RE: [newbie] ManDrake 7.1 a nightmare!

2000-06-22 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I've install 7.1 on twelve different machines, ranging from SMP clones to single processor stock systems. All went without a hitch. It sounds like you have run into something way out of the ordinary... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Jim P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday,

[newbie] re: removal of my address in ur email list.

2000-06-22 Thread leo
pse let me know how i can be deleted from ur mailing list. thanx.

Re: [newbie] What happened to Menu Editor for Panel in MDK7.1

2000-06-22 Thread Romanator
Alan...Whew!! I thought it didn't get installed. The error message indicates that it isn't installed. Is that a bug? Thanks for the info. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: Roman.no, it's there and typing kmenuedit in a console (or in the command window [alt-f2]) or

RE: [newbie] samba question

2000-06-22 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh, no... that is not the problem... read my post to him... -- Snip --- Well you are almost there. Your Samba box is up and running but your Windows machines cannot log in. The password prompt is correct... you are not logging in! What happens is that normally windows passes to Samba the

Re: [[newbie] LILO Boot Magic install ?]

2000-06-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
"aifusionextreme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - Hi I jave succesfully installed mandrake 7.0 before but on smaller dirves. When trying to

Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?]

2000-06-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
"aifusionextreme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big snip The only Clue is the size: Boot magic actually gives an error message which says that the primary partition must be in the first 1023 cylnders. Why is cares about the rest of the HD and not just the mbr I cant farthom. But there you have

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Blues

2000-06-22 Thread Eunice Thompson
if you still have Windows installed , make sure the modem is connected and then boot into Windows. ( I'm assuming that the modem has already been installed and configured for use) if you're using Win98 then go to StartRun, type in winipcfg and select OK (in WinNT do the same except the command

Re: [newbie] I just get a Big White Box :-(

2000-06-22 Thread Eunice Thompson
You can check out your XF86config file under the section of pointers. there is a line here that tells you to uncomment it if your cursor appears as a white box (to uncomment you have to delete the '#' and then save the resulting file) You can do this in X as root using Kedit or from a command

Re: [newbie] $6.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version)

2000-06-22 Thread Mark Weaver
I think the offer is awsome, and so is he for making the offer! -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Michael R. Batchelor wrote: Hey! Let's get real here. He's a guy offering to do a few friends a

Re: [newbie] printer problem

2000-06-22 Thread Mark Weaver
try "lpd" -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Pierre Rivier wrote: Netscape expects a command to be able to print ... What can I fill ? lp doesn't work ... thanks Pierre Paul wrote: On Sun, 11

[newbie] DPT installation problem

2000-06-22 Thread Leoon Cheong
Hi, I was trying to install Mandrake v7.1 but the boot disk I created using cdrom.img failed to detect the DPT RAID card, when I select the EATA DMA driver. I have also tried all the other drives and it still won't get detected. I have tried to use the expert mode and detect EATA DMA driver

RE: [newbie] printer problem

2000-06-22 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh, lpd is the daemon... I believe you mean lpr... But since output must be redirected... maybe it should be lpr - -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 7:18 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] printer

Re: [newbie] X-Window display settings.SOLVED (Almost)

2000-06-22 Thread Steve Weltman
This works! I played with the xconf utility (text-based one) and it makes the user go thru the process of choosing mice, keyboards, monitors (or defining one) video cards (or again defining one, and software probing), and finally display parameters... Oh, this is not the same machine as my

Re: [newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?

2000-06-22 Thread aifusionextreme
Yes, I ahve 2, a 14GB and a 40GB. I use teh 14GB as my primary and win98se machine and linux is installed onto the 40GB, but the boot manager will ggo onto the 14GB which only has a primary partition. This means (i think ) that it somehow gets more than 1023 cyclinders, which boot magic doesnt

Re: [newbie] Which is the ideal directory for RealPlayer7 in MDK7.1?

2000-06-22 Thread David Talbot
That's something both Microsoft and RealNetworks have been doing that has really been irking me... on their public site where Joe Consumer clicks in (windowsupdate for microsoft) they are offering Beta software for download without any method of bug reporting. So Joe Consumer gets product,

Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation

2000-06-22 Thread Charles A Edwards
The most likely causes of this error actually has nothing to do with the MBR, where it is at, or the size of any partitions. If your hd was ever formatted using a manufacturer floppy ( with IBM it is EZDrive, Maxtor is MaxBlast and I am sure others also have their own). The program not only

Re: [newbie] Huge Terminal Size

2000-06-22 Thread David Talbot
Preferences--Fonts Select a font you want your terminal to be in. Select a weight (bold regular italic ect). Select a font size, probably 12-14pt. Click on Apply. -David Talbot At 08:26 PM 6/21/00 -0400, you wrote: I'm having the wierdest problem. I was running Linux today like I normally do,

Re: [newbie] No mail today

2000-06-22 Thread Fran Parker
Same here...messages all day. Bambi Everett wrote: Sorry it's got to you I've been massages all day from the list. Good luck - Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/ - Original Message - From: Gary [EMAIL

[newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-22 Thread David Talbot
I'm working on getting a webserver set up and need to modify the path and some other enviroment variables. I set the path and insure it is exported, but when I type echo $PATH it contains nothing I added. I did notice a few curious comments in the /etc/profile such as "Handled by Mandrake

Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-22 Thread Paul
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: I'm working on getting a webserver set up and need to modify the path and some other enviroment variables. I set the path and insure it is exported, but when I type echo $PATH it contains nothing I added. I did notice a few curious comments in the

Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-22 Thread David Talbot
Checked it, I declare my PATH and CLASSPATH next to each other and export them in the same statement. It takes my classpath, but fails to take my PATH. I get /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: no matter what I set my path to in /etc/profile still. Any other ideas? -David Talbot At

Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation

2000-06-22 Thread Kay Crowley
Thanks for the explanation. I bumped into the same problem a few days ago when installing Linux for the first time. I gave up solving the problem and have been booting from a floppy, trusting that eventually I'd run across a solution (as I became more familiar with Linux). My Mandrake 7.1

Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation

2000-06-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: Thanks for the explanation. I bumped into the same problem a few days ago when installing Linux for the first time. I gave up solving the problem and have been booting from a floppy, trusting that eventually I'd run across a solution (as I became more

[newbie] KDE2

2000-06-22 Thread Christian Punchin
Title: KDE2 One simple, but important question... How do I install Kleopatra (KDE2 B2)??? The install readme is kinda outdated since not all rpm's from RH 6.2 are mentiones there, and the QT add on is not included... Does ne1 know how to install it without affectinf KDE1?? Thanks in

RE: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation

2000-06-22 Thread Bill . Gardner
Or just go back into windows and turn bootmagic back on. that did the trick for me. thanks, bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install

[newbie] re: telnet failed

2000-06-22 Thread School Club
sp [EMAIL PROTECTED] rv3dhc Re: Re: [newbie] telnet failed Hello All. Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to NEWBIE Linux E-mail List with Subject - Re: [newbie] telnet failed :- -Linux Neophiteis the telent-server rpm installed on your -system? I sounds as if it is not.

Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-22 Thread Paul
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: Checked it, I declare my PATH and CLASSPATH next to each other and export them in the same statement. It takes my classpath, but fails to take my PATH. I get /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: no matter what I set my path to in /etc/profile still.

Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-22 Thread David Talbot
Verified :'s. I think I may have set the security level to High on this machine (usually I use medium and handle security details like open ports and daemons myself... Maybe when you tell the installer to use High security, meebe methinks it could take management of certain tasks outside of even

Re: [newbie] What happened to Menu Editor for Panel in MDK7.1

2000-06-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanwell, that menu item seems to have a broken/incorrect link. I suppose it's a bug but I can't get anyone of any import with MandrakeSoft to even respond to my messages about it (cooker, expert). Kmenuedit isn't much use unless run as root anyway, so what I do is open the command window

Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation

2000-06-22 Thread Charles A Edwards
There is no unistall available for that type of program. It is possible to remove it by restoring your original BIOS and reformatting your hd in DOS but you then take the chance that your hd will not be supported by your mobo making it unusable. My reccomendation would be to run fdisk/MBR

[newbie] RealPlayer 7 si up and running

2000-06-22 Thread Roman Bysh
Hi, I appears that MDK7.1 does add the icons for RealPlayer as 7.0 did. And, the Panel to be very lean. Does any one know how to add RealPlayer7 under Multimedia? Not only that but you have to type in and call up the kmenuedit. Whenever you try to configure, an error message appears indicating

[newbie] Danger in accessing Win partition?

2000-06-22 Thread Thomas 2
Is it safe to access my Windows partition with LM? I remember last year someone said something about it corrupting MS? Thanks. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] error with install of tar.gz files

2000-06-22 Thread KompuKit
thanks so much...you were right...I was missing these packages !!! I installed them...and then tried again...to install "screem" and got the attached error...what's wrong NOW? it went fine until I got this error...I then installed both ... pixbuf 0.7.0 and its devel package...and still I got

RE: [newbie] Danger in accessing Win partition?

2000-06-22 Thread Mark Weaver
It's perfectly safe. Access to your hearts content. Mark If Alf were a Network Admin would he still eat Cats? -Original Message- From: Thomas 2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 8:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Danger in accessing Win partition?

Re: [newbie] Danger in accessing Win partition?

2000-06-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Thomas.huh? I must've missed that?! I read and write to and from both my DR-DOS (fat16) and my Win98 (fat32) partitions all the time with my Linux Mandrake system. No problems here. Alan Thomas 2 wrote: Is it safe to access my Windows partition with LM? I remember last year someone

[newbie] Esound server error.

2000-06-22 Thread Joe Lore
Hi, Thanks to all the help I have successfully installed Mandrake 7.1. I am having one small issue though. I have a Sound Blaster Live and the driver loads ok, I am able to play CD's and I get the test sound when I go to the configurator. I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I

Re: [newbie] Which is the ideal directory for RealPlayer7 in MDK7.1?

2000-06-22 Thread Charles A Edwards
If Joe Consumer bothers to view the Readme file at Microsoft before he downloads and installs the beta software the file will tell him where to submit bug reports and also newsgroup listings where he can seek support. Charles :-) - Original Message - From: "David Talbot" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Danger in accessing Win partition?

2000-06-22 Thread Jeff Lee
If you do read/write, just be careful about the Windows system directory-you might want to set permissions on them, since there's nothing to stop you, or another user with rw permissions to delete/overwrite any system-critical files. At 05:35 PM 6/22/2000 -0700, you wrote: Is it safe to

[newbie] simple question

2000-06-22 Thread Gary Morgan
ok, I'm new to Linux, the only knowledge I have is from the books I have read. But all of them have seem to skip over, what seems to me as, simple questions. 1. I notice when I do an "# ls" I get a directory listing but some objects (files, directorys etc.) are listed in different color text,

Re: [newbie] Danger in accessing Win partition?

2000-06-22 Thread Edison Gica
True...also when you transfer files from windows to LM you have to check the properties of the file and change it accordingly. For e.g I have a data set with .xyz extension and LM read it as an executable file so I checked off the exec in the file properties and the icon changed to a paper

Re: [newbie] Danger in accessing Win partition?

2000-06-22 Thread Sevatio Octavio
No problems here. Just add "umask=0" to your vfat line in fstab so that you can write to vfat partitions as non-root user. Seve -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 22, 2000 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]

[newbie] mouse problem

2000-06-22 Thread Walter Hanagriff
i read that mandrake can use almost any mouse, but i have a microsoft intellimouse,can linux also use that mouse? i dont know if they could make it only used on windows, since they also have the winmodem, which unfortunately i also have, and i hear cant be used on anything but windows.

[newbie] how do i get this list as batch file?

2000-06-22 Thread Walter Hanagriff
as the subject says, how do i get a digest of this mailing list? __ Get your free web-based email at http://www.xoom.com Birthday? Anniversary? Send FREE animated greeting cards for any occasion at http://greetings.xoom.com

Re: [newbie] ManDrake 7.1 a nightmare!

2000-06-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: I have set up and ran ver 7.0 with no problems7.1 has one error after another...hope what they intend to sell is better than what they have available for download If it's the same...I intend to skip purchasing 7.1 it's just plain a mess that takes