Re: [newbie-it] scanner

2000-08-05 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:48:22AM +0200, meucci marconi wrote: salve vorrei sapere come far riconoscere lo scanner non avendo un adattatore scsi,il sistema è il 7.1 e l'emulatore riconosce il materizzatore.grazie Dovresti dare molti più particolari, quando chiedi aiuto. Ad esempio marca e

R: [newbie-it] Problema con scheda di rete

2000-08-05 Thread Paolo Ricci
Title: Problema con scheda di rete Ho avuto lo stesso problema e da vero sistemista UNIX l'ho risolto reinstallando mandrake con la scheda già montata. Durante l'installazione infatti le schede di rete vengono (almeno perquella che ho installato io) riconosciute e il kernel viene ricompilato

[newbie] Refresh rates / Screen quiver

2000-08-05 Thread Ian McLeod
I have heard through the grape vine that the refresh rates can sometimes be off by 1Hz or so. Try your refresh rates and make sure they are set correctly. You may have to go into the X config file, I am not sure how to change it. I am trying to work this out myself. And I thought monitors

[newbie] access II

2000-08-05 Thread Russell Leu
I've got apache set up - no problem - I can check out my simplistic web page anywhere. I want to setup FTP though - the package is is installed. (wu-ftpd?) but how do I start the ftp server? and the telnet server? how do I start them? Russ - Original Message - From: "rharvey" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Cannot download with Netscape?

2000-08-05 Thread patrick darcy
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Jeffyou should be holding down the shift key as you click on a downloadable file link. Alan Jeff Malka wrote: I know this is a dumb question, but using Netscape under Mandrake 7.1, I cannot seem to download. When I click on a downloadable file link I get

Re: [newbie] kwvdial ??????

2000-08-05 Thread patrick darcy
Mike Koceja wrote: hello all. i am running Mandrake 7.1 and I have had a lot of problems getting kppp to work. So I ditched it and decided to use kwvdial. I downloaded the rpm installed it and everything seemed to be working nicely. It dials logsin and claims to have connected. The only

[newbie] Moving Users

2000-08-05 Thread Joseph Lee Pereira
I have Mandrake 7.1 and I would like to move all the users from another box (Caldera) to Mandrake. I have moved /home, /var/spool/mail, /etc/passwd. I still can't see the users via, DrakConf - System Configuration - User Accounts - User Accounts Please help!!

Re: [newbie] MDK7.1 Developer installation disabled my sound but workstation works okay

2000-08-05 Thread Amien Salie
Peace I haven't done that myself. If you really want to find out what the problem could be, why not do a normal install and then install each devel package one by one, until one of them takes out your sound again ie using a process of elimination. Another approach.because sound was

[newbie] Lost CD-ROM Drive in Mdk 7.1

2000-08-05 Thread Bob Howard
List Members, I installed Mdk 7.1 to its own hard drive just fine, but the second CD-ROM cable was accidently disconnected before the install. There are two ATAPI CD drives... an R/W and a plain R/O both on the second ide controller It sees my 'master' CD-RW just fine and has an icon on the K

Re: [newbie] kwvdial ??????

2000-08-05 Thread =*=
I am not sure what you mean here. Do your modem lights indicate that you are connected? And the problem is that Netscape "cannot find" anything? In this case it means you might need to check your file /etc/resolv.conf to see if the DNS nameservers are listed. I mean those xxx.xxx.xxx.x type

RE: [newbie] (Gabor) AMD 500 CPUs???

2000-08-05 Thread Bill Wright
unsubscribe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Scotchmer Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 3:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] (Gabor) AMD 500 CPUs??? On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, you wrote: Could you please send me some

[newbie] Moving Users

2000-08-05 Thread Joseph Lee Pereira
I want to move all the users from one box (Caldera) to another box running Mandrake 7.1. I have moved /etc/passwd, /home, /var/spool/mail; but I still can't administer the users via DrakConf - System Configuration - User Accounts - User Accounts Thank You, Joseph

[newbie] Using NDK7.1 and BootMagic

2000-08-05 Thread Romanator
I just installed BootMagic. I would like to add MDK7.1 to the list of other OSs. The main OS is WinNT4. It would be nice to add Linux MDK7.1. Has any one succeeded? If you have, please let me know. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: [newbie] SB Live drivers and MDK7.1 support

2000-08-05 Thread RJS II
Romanator wrote: Kim White wrote: Hi all Where can I get Creative Live Value Drivers for Mandrake 7.1, or is there a trick to get it working.? Regards Kim Registered Linux User #: 183701 Kim, This may be a little off topic. I have Creative Live Value Drivers installed on

[newbie] Networking with Mandrake 7.0

2000-08-05 Thread Phiber
I just installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on a windows system using linux 4 windows. For some reason I can't get online? I am connected with road runner cable services. Can anyone help me please?

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-05 Thread Rick Welty
Just my $0.02 The guy from PARC who invented Ethernet and later took it with him when he left? Name was Bob Metcalfe, founder of 3Com.

[newbie] ASUS K7V and Sound

2000-08-05 Thread Brad Smith
I am trying to get sound in Mandrake 7.1 working with an ASUS K7V motherboard which has the onboard AC'97 audio chip. I get these messages in the system log: syslog:Aug 1 21:06:58 bc166136 insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/via82cxxx.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed syslog:Aug 1 21:06:58

[newbie] smbprint functional?

2000-08-05 Thread Daryl Biberdorf
After several attempts, I've not been able to get Linux printing to a Windows NT-attached printer to work. Running linuxconf (or DrakConf) to set up an SMB printer simply doesn't work. An examination of the smbprint code reveals that errors get sent to /dev/null (now isn't *that* special?).

Re: [Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...]

2000-08-05 Thread Jaguar
I think the whole idea behind Napster was a "try before you buy" concept. If you like songs from a CD...you should support the artist and buy the CD. Jaguar. Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those songs? and what about the

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Jon Doe
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those songs? and what about the people who hold the copyrights to those songs. don't they deserve to have their material protected from being stolen? that IS in effect what napster does. TAKE those

Re: [newbie] Pine Config

2000-08-05 Thread =*=
I use Pine myself, and as far as I know you cannot use it to retreive POP type mail. But working in tandem with fetchmail and sendmail it works very well. Pine's very nature is that it was designed for people who read mail off a local server spool, not remotely. AFAIK this is true even of the

[newbie] Novell servers

2000-08-05 Thread Paul
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: :( *mark pouts jealously* My boss has allowed me to install Mandrake on my workstation, but I can't figure out how to get it to see the servers, and I haven't worked out how to log onto the Network with it yet. We're running Novell servers. Any ideas? Are

Re: [newbie] KWINTV

2000-08-05 Thread Paul
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Michael Doyle wrote: G'day, I get the following when running wintv, what is it telling me, and what do I need to do to fix? kwintv: Symbol `__vt_3ios' has different size in shared object, consider re-link ing kwintv: Symbol `__vt_7istream.3ios' has different size in

Re: [newbie] kwvdial ??????

2000-08-05 Thread Robert Wertzler
Mike Koceja wrote: hello all. i am running Mandrake 7.1 and I have had a lot of problems getting kppp to work. So I ditched it and decided to use kwvdial. I downloaded the rpm installed it and everything seemed to be working nicely. It dials logsin and claims to have connected. The only

[newbie] newie : scsi setup

2000-08-05 Thread The Chief
- Original Message - From: "The Chief" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:21 AM Subject: newie : scsi setup Iam a New User to linux I am presenty using mandrake 7.0 on my AMD K6/2 500MMX machine 128 Megs ram!, I cannot

[newbie] Fw: newie : scsi setup

2000-08-05 Thread The Chief
- Original Message - From: "The Chief" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:21 AM Subject: newie : scsi setup Iam a New User to linux I am presenty using mandrake 7.0 on my AMD K6/2 500MMX machine 128 Megs ram!, I cannot

[newbie] Helix Gnome

2000-08-05 Thread Jim Dwyer
Is anyone using Helix Gnome? If so i got a few questions: 1. Which environment (KDE, Gnome, ...) should i be using when i install it? 2. Will it mess up my current gnome configuration? 3. Do you like Helix Gnome? 4. Do you recommend it? I can't decide whether or not to install it. Hmmm

Re: [newbie] SB Live drivers

2000-08-05 Thread Dennis
CL Live + non cuppermine CPU = Luck CL Live + cuppermine CPU = No Luck This is what I have figured out so far. I have both, and all possible swapping plus install/reinstall/update done, the result is still the same. Any help please? Dennis.sg - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Nickolas Koehne wrote: No, they shall not be turned off at midnight. There's been a reprieve! -Darkeyes I heard! I went straight over, signed up and downloaded some tunes! Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Mark Weaver wrote: yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those songs? and what about the people who hold the copyrights to those songs. don't they deserve to have their material protected from being stolen? that IS in effect what napster does. TAKE those songs and

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Mike Tracy Holt wrote: That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight... another victory for those poor people who have to spend their mornings deciding which Porche to drive to work today =( Well, their execution smile got a stay, it

Re: [newbie] Numlock - on full time

2000-08-05 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you who are fed up with having to turn numlock on when you need to use it and would rather have it full time, go to http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/numlockx/ it took just a short download (about 39k) to get a tar.gz file with an easy to follow

Re: [newbie] Fortify

2000-08-05 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Hugh wrote: I have been trying to install Fortify1.4.6 to netscape But nothing I type for location works. Has anyone gotten this to work with 7.1? Thanks Just install the latest netscape rpms from cooker and it will have 128bit encryption (netscape isn't releasing 56bit? anymore)

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Steve Weltman
I'm sorry that I have to reply to a thread about copyrights in a Linux newbie mail list, but... I think that the songs are available freely to you already on another medium. It's called the radio. If you turn your dial to the correct station, you can hear most of what is available for download

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online...Chinese on Mandrake

2000-08-05 Thread Steve Weltman
Hi Brian. I am sorry to tell you that I am functionally illiterate in Chinese, so I only have the US English version installed. Only mentioned China because I am working here! Have a great day!! Steve Weltman - Original Message - From: "Brian King" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Numlock - on full time

2000-08-05 Thread Quaylar
hmmm..or u put /usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock in your autostart folder... (i think it was this path and file name, correct me if i am wrong) the rpm package comes with the initial install of your mandrake distro. --dave At 19:27 30.07.00, you wrote: For those of you who are fed up

[newbie] WinModem

2000-08-05 Thread smmonla
Hi all, I have installed mandrake 7.1 on my laptop (Compaq Armada 7400). It has an internal modem 56K V.90, but I can not configure it. Could anyone help. Thanks in advance for your help. Saadi. N.B The following text is a description of the modem. Internal Modem Support Linux has support for

Re: [newbie] Email

2000-08-05 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
Please turn HTML off for posting, it will make you easier to read. On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: !doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en" html Mark Weaver escribioacute;: blockquote TYPE=CITEKmail and Netscape Messenger work real well for this. p-- brMark pnbsp; **

Re: [newbie] Galeon web browser

2000-08-05 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: Ian McLeod wrote: Has anyone successfully installed the Galeon web browser? How did they do it? What did they install? What is it like? Mike. Have you also installed the Mozilla browser as it needs this to run Andrew

Re: [newbie] Pine Config

2000-08-05 Thread Mark Weaver
I wasn't aware that there was a way to make that happen without using either of those two other program. To the best of my knowledge there isn't any other way to do it. If there is I would be interested to know. -- Mark **

Re: [[newbie] Star Office Install]

2000-08-05 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Tim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just spent FOREVER downloading Star Office 5.2 from the Sun site ("only" 100 MB ... dunno why it took all day. My ISP will blame net-congestion, Sun would blame my ISP ... in any case the file's here). Ummm... It's a file ending in .bin I can

[newbie] KDE

2000-08-05 Thread Steve Janssen
I installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a limited space machine (only 54% of the utilities installed). After the install I do get an x-windows environment with xterm. However I am trying to firgure out how to run KDE. Did it not get installed because of limited space or is there some command to

[newbie] Moving Users

2000-08-05 Thread Joseph Lee Pereira
I want to move all the users from one box (Caldera) to another box running Mandrake 7.1. I have moved /etc/passwd, /home, /var/spool/mail; but I still can't administer the users via DrakConf - System Configuration - User Accounts - User Accounts Thank You, Joseph

Re: [newbie] Asus AGP V6600 Geforce and Mandrake

2000-08-05 Thread RJS II
I run Mandrake 7.1 and I use an Asus V6800 DDR. Had to run the X config many times as it wanted to call the card a V3800. However, it does take it as an NVidia DDR with some prodding :-) Still haven't run any 3-D games (ala Quake) so I can't comment on that performance but the renderer and 2-D

[newbie] How to start dosemu?

2000-08-05 Thread Jeff Malka
Running Mandrake 7.1 When I type dosemu or dosemu -C (as a book suggested) in a KDE console, I get "command not found". How does one start dosemu? -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854

[newbie] ATI XPert98 AGP w/ 8MB

2000-08-05 Thread John
Has anyone had success configuring X (3.3.6) for an ATI XPert98 AGP card in Mandrake 7.1 I get the same error as Kim: "Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database Trident TGUI9660 (generic) (line 2513) Press enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort" I've tried manually inputting the

Re: [newbie] Star Office Install

2000-08-05 Thread tlp
I have just installet on as well. I just clicked the .bin file in filemanager in KDE. Best Thomas "Tim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 31-07-2000 05:42:04 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Thomas Laurids Pedersen/Dan Net) Subject: [newbie] Star Office

Re: [[newbie] Star Office Install]

2000-08-05 Thread Amien Salie
This is from SUN: http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/5.2/download.html It will be necessary for a chmod command to be executed to set read, write, and execute permission. For example: % chmod 777 *.bin Once you have set the permissions, you can run the setup, and StarOffice 5.2 will do

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Vic
I thought that all those bands were so rich that they could afford a small loss like that. If I were a new aspiring artist I would spread my music like that, then when it got into the hands of a recording company, I would have posted contact info in the id3 tag data so they could get ahold of

Re: [newbie] Cannot download with Netscape?

2000-08-05 Thread RJS II
Hi, Right click on the file name and "Save As". HTH, Rob Saul Patti Wavinak wrote: Hi Jeff -- I hold down the shift key when you click on the downloadable file and that should do the trick. At least it works for me. :-) Patti Registered Linux User 184611 Original Message On

RE: [newbie] Just Testing - Is the email down?

2000-08-05 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I didn't get anything for two days. -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 7:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Just Testing - Is the email down? I had been getting mail when others were not and now I'm not getting

[newbie] Location of Netscape Messenger?

2000-08-05 Thread RJS II
Hi, Anyone know where I can find the executable for Netscape Messenger? Thanks, Rob Saul

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe

2000-08-05 Thread Albeiro Acosta J.
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Re: [newbie] Want PPP Dial-up in console, w/ PINE

2000-08-05 Thread =*=
Use wvdial. Works easily on a command line. Use fetchmail. Both programs can be run automatically as in the .bash_profile (for fetchmail) and /etc/rc.d/rc.local (wvdial). Set the "inbox path" in Pine setup to /var/spool/mail/yourname and you are in business.

RE: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Hugo GONZALEZ
The very same thing happens to me. I don't find any registration in napster site and gnapster keeps asking me for name and password. Hugo Mike Tracy Holt wrote: That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight... another victory for those poor people who have to spend their

RE: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Hugo GONZALEZ
I've tried that, but no matter what strange name I come up to, gnapster *always* tells me that name already exists. Hugo -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Gnapster

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Adrian Smith
a true point, but what about those same people who charge $25 for a CD, which cost less than a cassette tape to make. while i am all about music, supporting music, copyrights (i'm a writer photographer) **warning** shameless self promotion alert: http://ontheflyphotography.1stcyberhost.com

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[newbie] Modem Problem with 7.1

2000-08-05 Thread Paul Sherr
After a couple of tries, I've installed 7.1. My system is a K6-2 450 with 192 megs of memory, 8 gigs of disk space allocated to Linux, and an Actiontec 56K, call waiting, internal PCI modem. The modem works fine, in fact extremely well under Win 98. However I can't get the system to

[newbie] New System Software Problems

2000-08-05 Thread Paul Sherr
I've installed 7.1 on my system, K6-2 450, 192 megs of memory, 8 gig partition on my D: drive with windows 98. I had some problems with partitioning (don't ever allocate 102% of a drive), but several things are wrong. During the install, I got messages that two packages failed to install:

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

2000-08-05 Thread Vic
Are you sure that was shockwave and not 'flash'? On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: On 21 Jun, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread Pete Clapham
Marcia -- I have a zip drive that works just fine. It's a SCSI rather than an IDE, but I don't think that should matter much. A suggestion would be to put a disk in the drive, and then boot up your machine. Watch the information on the screen to see if the disk comes up (it should be

Re: [newbie] Ip_chains, where?

2000-08-05 Thread Sam Hunter
install the slocate rpm create the locate database locate -u find ipchains locate ipchains - Original Message - From: "Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Linux Newbie List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:17 AM Subject: [newbie] Ip_chains, where? Hi. I'm

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread Vic
Are you able to mount the zip drive via the commandline? In an X terminal type mount /mnt/zip if that does not work, try mount /dev/hdxx /mnt/zip where 'xx' means the number and letter designation of the ide interface that the zip is connected to. On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, you wrote: Dear Anyone,

Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days

2000-08-05 Thread Marcia Waller
Yes, I have noticed the dry-spells. I think the problem has gone beyond this group. My other email was not getting through either. I called Cox Internet tech service and they were blaming ATT for a routing problem. Marcia - Original Message - From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Anyone, I would like to get my zip drive to work now. I installed snip Hi Marcia. Did you creat a mount point in /mnt? It should be /mnt/zip Here is the line from /etc/fstab file for my internal zip drive: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zipvfatuser,noauto 0

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread Fred Schroeder
Post a copy of your /etc/fstab file. also, do you have a directory on your system such as, /mnt/zip or /mnt/zipdrive or something along that line? Fred - Original Message - From: Marcia Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:26 PM Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Robert McNealy
Hmmm..the owners (bands in this case)usually see little if none of the record sales revenue. Most musicians ONLY make money from the touring and merchandise sales. Anyways, they should sue the bootleggers, i.e., the people who download the music. Napster is not selling any of the

Re: [newbie] Linux Digital Cameras

2000-08-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: My Kodak DC280 worked through the serial connection; haven't tried the usb since I recompiled my kernel. gphoto is still a little buggy and it has only limited support - you get much more use out of the Windows

[newbie] Adding SCSI retroactively

2000-08-05 Thread Clif Caldwell
Well my mom bought on of those do-it-all scanner/printer/fax machine deals. This is a very good thing because she gave me her old scanner. (UMax Asta which has SANE drivers-YEA!!) The problem is that it uses an old SCSI card and I did not install SCSI support when I installed Man 7.1. How do I

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: Mike Tracy Holt wrote: That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight... another victory for those poor people who have to spend their mornings deciding which Porche to drive to work today =( Well, their execution smile got a stay, it

Re: [newbie] M$ Free

2000-08-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
At 07:47 PM 07/29/2000 -0500, you wrote: Today I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (Maximum Linux Disk) on a 3+ gig partition that used to hold a useless Win98 installation. /snip/ . One thing that blows me away is how clean and sharp the display *looks*. The only glitch I have noticed is

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, you wrote: Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I was unable to register using Gnapster,so I downloaded and installed Knapster from Freshmeat,was able to register,and it seems more stable.After registering I was able to use Gnapster but it has crashed several times.

Re: [newbie] Galeon web browser

2000-08-05 Thread Anthony
libgtkembedmoz.so should be in your mozilla directory. Check and see if it's in there. And you did the export part right? I've followed the instructions, and i get, after execution, the following error message: /usr/bin/galeon-bin: error in loading shared libraries:nbsp; libgtkembedmoz.so

Re: [newbie] looking for good apps

2000-08-05 Thread Anthony
2. An image file viewer like ACDSee, that has: a) a browser where I can preview the images b) a fullscreen imageviewer which can shrink to fullscreen and zoom to fullscreen (if image is larger/smaller) c) and is FAST. I found Kuickshow quite suiting my needs unless I tried to zoom

Re: [newbie] Missing Interfaces(NIC's)

2000-08-05 Thread Scott M Decker
Marcia, I'm having the same problem. Try http://linuxheadquarters.com/howto/networking/networkconfig.shtml http://www.oclug.org/ethernet.html good luck. Thanks, Scott M Decker POBox 74141 Davis, Ca. 95617 http://216.102.107.40/scott/ Original message from: "Marcia Waller" I am a newbie and I

[newbie] Resize partition

2000-08-05 Thread Dariusz S Stochmal
Is there a way to resize partition under Mandrake Linux 7.2, on the fly ? Regards, Dariusz S Stochmal E-mail 1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail 2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.stochmal.com/

Re: [newbie] Star Office Install

2000-08-05 Thread Anthony
Read the Star Office installation guide. http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/5.2/docs/ENGLISHSETUP.PDF Anyway, the short answer is chmod the file so that it's executable (chmod u+x staroffice.bin) and then type "./staroffice.bin -net" Make sure you do the network installation if you want to be

Re: [newbie] Mount permissions

2000-08-05 Thread kdm
I too have a problem like this, I can only mount my zip drive as root. I have changed every permission I can think of, with no luck 8( I posted the original question about mount permissions, I can access my LS120 as user to mount ext2 floppies but if I try as user to mount as vfat or msdos I

[newbie] supermount question

2000-08-05 Thread Charles Lu
Does anyone know if Supermount in addition to automatically mount disks, also automatically unmount disks? If so, do you still need to use the umount command to eject your disks? Charles __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo!

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread kdm
You need to add this line in /ect/fstab:(as root) /dev/hdx /mnt/zip ext2 user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto,sync 0 0 replacing /dev/hdx with whatever your zip drive is, if you have one hd, it should be /dev/hdb, the zip drive is in many respects a (small) hd. You will then need to create

Re: [newbie] looking for good apps

2000-08-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hello world! I have been with Windows for a long time and now I decided to try out Linux. Major install problems are fixed and now I am looking for good apps. Would anyone be so kind and try to help me please ? I would need: 1. A file manager of the type

Re: [newbie] Where is the serial number for Boot Magic installation?

2000-08-05 Thread John Rye
Romanator wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Boot Magic but the installation is prompting me for a serial number. Look on the sticker. It came on a CD with: "The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook" I would like to check out this boot loader for my Linux MDK7.1 and WinNT4. Where can I

Re: [newbie] PGP

2000-08-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 02:06:42PM +0200, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey Jim, Where do i get PGP from and how do i set it up? I am not sure about GPG (the PGP project for Linux I think), but you can try to start with www.pgpi.org . Nope, GPG is not a PGP project for Linux. GPG stands for GNU

Re: [newbie] PGP

2000-08-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 01:48:45PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: why? What are the benifits over regular PGP? It's free and a lot smaller than PGP and there's still a lot of development going on for GnuPG, where as PGP 2.x is not develloped anymore. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage:

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Anybody else on this list old enough to remember when the "suits" didn't run things, and games/software were ported to every single platform, just because they could/it was neat? Circa '80's with names like Tandy, Atari, Amiga, etc, etc,... ;-) Oh yes - those were the days! nostalgia

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-05 Thread Robert McNealy
Nobody "froces" anyone to sell their company. That is a business decision, most often for the best of the business-owner. Microsoft has the clout to "buy" its expertise. None of these exchanges can happened with consent. Many of would not be in the IT, MIS, PC industires if it weren't FOR

Re: [newbie] Where is the serial number for Boot Magic installation?

2000-08-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Romanator wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Boot Magic but the installation is prompting me for a serial number. Look on the sticker. It came on a CD with: "The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook" I would like to check out this boot loader for my Linux MDK7.1 and WinNT4. Where can I

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2000-08-05 Thread Chrysovalandes Sophocleous
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Re: [newbie] Dual fs's on a Zip drive?

2000-08-05 Thread Paul
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Is it possible to mount a Zip drive with 2 filesystems? In other words, both ext2 and vfat? I have mine setup where you (as root) can right-click on the Zip icon and pick either fs type. However, my user account can not do this, because you must be su

[newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop (fwd)

2000-08-05 Thread Paul
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Re: [newbie] Fw: ippp0

2000-08-05 Thread Paul
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Ezequiel Santamaria wrote: The seems to be a problem with Mandrake 7.1 or I did something wrong seems like when I boot or when I reboot... in both process there´s a problem with the ippp0 device... it fails to shutdown the device... and obviously it fails t load

Re: [newbie] Ip_chains, where?

2000-08-05 Thread Paul
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hi. I'm attempting to setup PMfirewall. The first thing that goes wrong is it asks where ip_chains is. Its supposed to be in /sbin, but its not. I did check /proc, and ip_fwchains is there... so, any ideas? Thanks! It should be ipchains, not

Re: [newbie] slow video playback

2000-08-05 Thread Paul
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Roman Korcek wrote: Hi all, I tried video (avi) playback under MDK7.0 and it was so slow. I clicked on the avi, aKtion! showed up and started playing, but SO SLOWLY... I was ashamed in front of my friends who I was showing how great the Penguin is... cos in Winslows it was

Re: [newbie] Star Office Install

2000-08-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Tim wrote: Hi all, Just spent FOREVER downloading Star Office 5.2 from the Sun site ("only" 100 MB ... dunno why it took all day. My ISP will blame net-congestion, Sun would blame my ISP ... in any case the file's here). Me too - I'm on a 56k modem ;-( It's a file ending in .bin I can

Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days

2000-08-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
You and me both. I've just received a copy of a post I made five days ago (Sunday)! Regards, Ozz. Mark Weaver wrote: I don't know but I wish I did. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Paul Marriott wrote: Looks like it's a general problem.

Re: [newbie] Anything like Quicken?

2000-08-05 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I sent about 3 emails to the group yesterday and there must be a problem since I have received nothing from this group including the emails I sent since . I hope it is resolved soon. My question : Is there something like "Quicken "already

[newbie] [Fwd: No messages for 2 days]

2000-08-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Re-sent due to bounce(!) You and me both. I've just received a copy of a post I made five days ago (Sunday)! Regards, Ozz. Mark Weaver wrote: I don't know but I wish I did. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Paul Marriott wrote:

[Fwd: [newbie] Star Office Install]

2000-08-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Re-sent due to bounce (!) Tim wrote: Hi all, Just spent FOREVER downloading Star Office 5.2 from the Sun site ("only" 100 MB ... dunno why it took all day. My ISP will blame net-congestion, Sun would blame my ISP ... in any case the file's here). Me too - I'm on a 56k modem ;-(

Re: [newbie] Ip_chains, where?

2000-08-05 Thread Eric MC.D
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Hi. I'm attempting to setup PMfirewall. The first thing that goes wrong is it asks where ip_chains is. Its supposed to be in /sbin, but its not. I did check /proc, and ip_fwchains is there... so, any ideas? Thanks! --

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