[newbie-it] unsubscrive

2000-11-19 Thread BELLAN Andrea
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Re: [newbie-it] Wine

2000-11-19 Thread marco
Bè, da quel poco, anzi pochissimo che ne so io, da quel che mi sembra di aver letto del tuo messaggio, mi sembra che forse dovresti controllare (nel caso non l'avessi già fatto) che la partizione del tuo disco, in cui sia presente il sistema operativo proprietario Windows 95/98, sia "montata" o

Re: [newbie-it] richiesta distro mandrake 7.2

2000-11-19 Thread lobaxteen
- Original Message - From: "Mauro Scacco" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 2:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] richiesta distro mandrake 7.2 At 01.57 19/11/2000 +0100, you wrote: Salve ! scrivo da Roma. Qualcuno puo' essere cosi' gentile da

[newbie-it] voglio programmare ma...

2000-11-19 Thread Asgro
Ciao a tutti qualcuno sa spiegarmi come faccio a scrivere e compilare un programma in c++?

R: [newbie-it] voglio programmare ma...

2000-11-19 Thread Simone Deponti
- Original Message - From: Asgro To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 2:51 PM Subject: [newbie-it] voglio programmare ma... Ciao a tutti qualcuno sa spiegarmi come faccio a scrivere e compilare un programma in c++? Innanzitutto

R: [newbie-it] voglio programmare ma...

2000-11-19 Thread Asgro
Fin troppo - Original Message - From: Simone Deponti To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 4:59 PM Subject: R: [newbie-it] voglio programmare ma... - Original Message - From: Asgro To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it] aggiornamenti

2000-11-19 Thread trasca
Il sab, 18 nov 2000, hai scritto: Salve, ho installato sul mio pc la distribuzione linux Mandrake 7.1,della quale sono abbastanza soddisfatto, tuttavia ho notato che quando mi collego ad internet, per aggiornare il sistema con la funzione update, il programma si collega si al server

[newbie-it] problemi col disco fisso EIDE (non riconosciuto)

2000-11-19 Thread Simone Deponti
Ciao a tutti! Sono un (abbastanza) nuovo utente linux! Il problema è che non riesco a installare nessuna nuova distribuzione perchè il disco che ho appena montato (Samsung SV0322A EIDE UltraDMA 33 da 3,2 Gb) non viene riconosciuto da linux!!! O, per meglio dire, viene sì riconosciuto, ma

[newbie-it] New entry

2000-11-19 Thread Marco Brizzi
Un saluto a tutti voi della ML. Devo premettere che son un newbie di questo SO. Ho infatti installato la settimana scorsa Mandrake 7.1 e lo trovo molto carino. Ho cominciato a leggervi da circa una settimana per vedere di trovare risposta ai miei (immagino per voi soliti) perchè. Dopodichè mi

Re: [newbie-it] Wine

2000-11-19 Thread Casa
Il dom, 19 nov 2000, hai scritto: Bè, da quel poco, anzi pochissimo che ne so io, da quel che mi sembra di aver letto del tuo messaggio, mi sembra che forse dovresti controllare (nel caso non l'avessi già fatto) che la partizione del tuo disco, in cui sia presente il sistema operativo

Re: [newbie] Printing with STAR OFFICE

2000-11-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Did you read also the text version of the Mandrakeuser.org document? The web pages are still not complete and only treat the installation/configuration of CUPS. An important point is, that you do not use the printer drivers of Star Office. Use the "Generic printer". This makes Star Office

[newbie] LINUX

2000-11-19 Thread JStalker
I just downloaded mandrake 7.2 and it says i can install it without partitioning my HD.. well ummm can i intsall outside of windows.. like how u normally install linux?? or do i have to do it in wndows

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2000-11-19 Thread Hindge
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Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network

2000-11-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Philip Trauring wrote: BTW, why isn't this the same interface as when I click to configure a printer from DrakConfig? I figured it was the same an ran it a bunch of times before I realized it was not. In DrakConf you get printerdrake, the thing which searches the network for printers is

[newbie] Ayuda

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Felipe Arevalo R
Necesito una ayuda: tengo el linux red hat 6.1, necesito configurar un tape backup hewlett packard scsi referencia dat8, para esto tengo una controladora scsi Adaptec AHA 2920, y tengo una controladora multipuerto digiboard, con que comandos instalo estos dispositivos? de donde puedo bajar

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 X problems

2000-11-19 Thread Eunice Thompson
Hello, does anyone have a clue as to could be causing this problem ? I am able to get to the other window managers from a graphical login, but I prefer to use init 3, and I still have the problem of X crahing when I hit the CTRL-ALT-F2 sequence. Thanks again Eunice Thompson wrote: Hi all.

[newbie] realplayer7 's high noise concern with device driver?

2000-11-19 Thread hlinlin
my VIA 97 or vg82cxxx_audio.o with downloaded realplayer7 basic can not make me listen sound of live audio clear , I am using mandrake 7.2 from mailing list I know some one with sound card sound blast 16 can using it with 7.2 to listen live audio of realplayer7 with additional driver i.e.

[newbie] upgrade or install kde base error, need help

2000-11-19 Thread hlinlin
when I using MandrakeUpgrade, as 7.2 choose normal upgrade, after fetch at install, on kde base 2.0 , it pop a dialog window said error some problem occur. do any one know what may cause this upgrade or install error? also I download netscape6 intall.sh run it , after that I click its icon

Re: [newbie] group psychologist

2000-11-19 Thread Grant
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist onepatrick i have elected myself as group psychologist :)

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-19 Thread root
I was looking for a solution to this earlier and came across the following : http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg30698.html http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg30762.html and http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/numlockx/ But, if you are (like me now) using

[newbie] Changing MAC address

2000-11-19 Thread Mazen
Hi all, I wonder how to change the MAC address (hardware address) of the network card. I have read something about that in the man pages of "ifconfig" command. Thanks in advance Mazen __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at

[newbie] Changing MAC address

2000-11-19 Thread Mazen
Hi all, I wonder how to change the MAC address (hardware address) of the network card. I have read something about that in the man pages of "ifconfig" command. Thanks in advance Mazen __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at

Re: [newbie] ISDN Internet connection problem

2000-11-19 Thread Paul
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Ian Aldcroft wrote: Hi Ian, You should take a look at www.wurtel.demon.nl That is the site that I run to when there is an ISDN problem in my Linux box. Good luck! Paul When installation was complete, I clicked on the internet connection icon on the desktop and got a

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-19 Thread Paul
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Charles wrote: I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd how to have NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE. Suggestions? TIA - Cmo When you are running 7.1, a program called numlock should be installed. Add a kdelnk to your autostart for that. Are you

[newbie] LS-120 problems

2000-11-19 Thread Joseph Markham
Dear Friends, LM 7.2 thinks that my LS-120 is a scsi device, which it is not since it's an IDE device. I've had a look at madrakeforum.com, and civileme mentioned the problem in LM7.1. Does anybody know how to get the damn thing working? My configuration is : P3 500 on a BX mainboard Pri

Re: [Re: [newbie] Start KDE]

2000-11-19 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Page, Jennifer" wrote: Just installed Mandrake 7.0, how do I start kde? Hi Jennifer! Just do a "startx" from a command line... --

Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option

2000-11-19 Thread skidley
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 18 November 2000 10:13 pm, pablito wrote: Interesting. "info hdparm" is a terminal command? yes. (su to root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hd*' will read the information from your harddrive's (HDD) firmware (bios). Much of this information

Re: [newbie] LS-120 problems

2000-11-19 Thread skidley
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Joseph Markham wrote: Dear Friends, LM 7.2 thinks that my LS-120 is a scsi device, which it is not since it's an IDE device. I've had a look at madrakeforum.com, and civileme mentioned the problem in LM7.1. Does anybody know how to get the damn thing working? My

Re: [newbie] Network Card Woes

2000-11-19 Thread Ed Tharp
have you tried disabling Plug and pray aware OS in BIOS? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 2:36 PM Subject: [newbie] Network Card Woes Hi list, I have been running two boxes for a while, one Mandrake and one Windows.

Re: [newbie] me mandrake 7.2

2000-11-19 Thread Neil Frame
I made the same mistake of trying to update 7.1 to 7.2. I had the same problems. I had to resort to a format and a fresh install. It is a pain to reconfigure, but I'm sure it will take a lot less time than trying to fix everything. Works nice after a fresh install. You might also want to

Re: [newbie] LS-120 problems

2000-11-19 Thread Tim Holmes
I have the LS-120 in my Mandrake 7.2 box as well and it didn't have a beef with that at all. Looking at what you have below, I see that you don't have any SCSI devices, but in the install, when it asked you if you did have any SCSI devices did you click no? I did that and it didn't try and

Re: [newbie] Network Card Woes

2000-11-19 Thread Neil Frame
Run sndconfig as root in a terminal window. I bet LM put the soundcard on the wrong IRQ. Don't even bother trying changing the settings in DRAK. Neil On Sat, 18 November 2000, "Ed Tharp" wrote: have you tried disabling Plug and pray aware OS in BIOS? - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Re: disk optimization option

2000-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 19 November 2000 06:29 am, skidley wrote: I am just wondering about the -a128 setting, mine is at 8 automatically I have a Western Digital AC313000R my MB has a maximum of udma mode 2 but my drive can support udma3(ata/66). I am thinking about setting up these options hdparm -m16

[newbie] rc.sysinit problems

2000-11-19 Thread EagleIce
Hello all Mandrake users! I am new to the Mandrake system but an experienced Linux user, I made two successful installations of Mandrake 7.2 and it worked perfectly. But now when I try to make a new installation the installation itself seems to work perfectly but on reboot everything just stops

Re: [newbie] Network Card Woes

2000-11-19 Thread billw
Thanks for the replies. I got a little extreme last night and pulled everything out of the machine except the Network and Video cards, and then re-installed LM from scratch. Still no dice! I'm starting to think it has to be a hardware issue. Do any of you have an ASUS P3BF (440BX chipset)?? I

Re: [newbie] serial port problems

2000-11-19 Thread John Rye
"Brian P. Trotter" wrote: I am full of questions tonight. I am trying to get my modem working. I connected an external 3com 56k modem to the COM1 port on the back of the PC. In Mandrake, I type the following command: setserial -g /dev/ttys* and it returns the following results:

Re: [newbie] Aurora

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Malka
Marcia You first :-) Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 7:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Aurora Alan Shoemaker wrote: [snip][snip] That's it.

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-19 Thread Charles
Tom Brinkman wrote: What version ?? If it's 7.2, a lot of people are reporting the same. The only work-around I've heard (in NG's) is to install the numlock package from 7.1 I believe cooker is workin on a fix. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Ah yes,

[newbie] Hardware help

2000-11-19 Thread poogle
I apologise for an off-topic post but I need some help please and I know that a lot of you are experts in the hardware field. A colleague asked me to look at her PC (P75, 24mb) which, when powered up appeared to give no output to the monitor, a change of monitors had made no difference. I

Re: [newbie] Aurora

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Malka
Marcia, Alan is absolutely right. With great trepidation, I changed my "vga=normal" entry to "vga=791" (for me) and ran lilo -v and when I rebooted, aurora was in effect. So go ahead. I was afraid that I might get in a situation where I would not be able to reboot into linux, but that did

[newbie] sound card

2000-11-19 Thread n a
I have just installed Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0 (not final) and I can't get any sound. My sound card is a Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio and it is recognized as such by HardDrake (The MOBO also has a soundbalster as integrated sound, but I have disabled it in the BIOS). The only thing that

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 19 November 2000 10:49 am, Charles wrote: Ah yes, Tom, I did omit that. Been seeing so much of 7.2 here I took it for granite. Thank you for asking: 7.2/ KDE 2(final). You know the package to use? I hope it's an RPM as I haven't learned where to put an un-tarred package where it

Re: [newbie] sound card

2000-11-19 Thread Neil Frame
Open a terminal window as root. Run "sndconfig" It should recognize the sound card and automatically setup your IRQs and DMAs. It will automatically run WAV and MIDI tests. I hope this helps Neil On Sun, 19 November 2000, n a wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0

[newbie] remove partitions

2000-11-19 Thread ed
Hi heres my Question how do I remove the linux partitions on my HD without having to format the whole HD. I used partition magic to make the partitions on my HD and then I used diskdrake to shrink them to have /hda5,/homehda7,swaphda6,/usrhda8 and hdawindows for a dual-bootbox.I've done this

[newbie] Making a leap

2000-11-19 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I've been using RH 6.0 for about a year a half now (had used RH 5.0 on a dual-boot box at a job I'd had when the 5.0 was released too) will be switching to LM 7.2 (the Complete's on back-order right now from CheapBytes). Though I'd found that my hardware all seems to be supported,

[newbie] Please respond! disk KERNEL Error

2000-11-19 Thread Vic
I am curious, I did a -i option and got this reading: [root@kittypuss /root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2, FwRev=A35.0700, SerialNo=882006262361 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298,

Re: [newbie] Aurora

2000-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 19 November 2000 11:14 am, Jeff Malka wrote: Marcia, Alan is absolutely right. With great trepidation, I changed my "vga=normal" entry to "vga=791" (for me) and ran lilo -v and when I rebooted, aurora was in effect. So go ahead. I was afraid that I might get in a situation where I

Re: [newbie] remove partitions

2000-11-19 Thread Roger Sherman
On 19 Nov 2000, ed wrote: Hi heres my Question how do I remove the linux partitions on my HD without having to format the whole HD. I used partition magic to make the partitions on my HD and then I used diskdrake to shrink them to have /hda5,/homehda7,swaphda6,/usrhda8 and hdawindows for

[newbie] Fetchmail

2000-11-19 Thread Roger Sherman
Can anyone tell me how to set up Fetchmail so that it runs as a daemon in the background? In fetchmailconf, for cycles to skip between polls, I put 300, as I wanted it to check every 5 minutes. But, if I type fetchmail at the command prompt, it just runs once, and details everything its doing

Re: [newbie] Please respond! disk KERNEL Error

2000-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 19 November 2000 12:18 pm, Vic wrote: I am curious, I did a -i option and got this reading: [root@kittypuss /root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: WARNING 3552187 ORPHANED SECTORS :: KERNEL REPORTING ERROR Look! tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2

Re: [newbie] remove partitions

2000-11-19 Thread EagleIce
Roger is right, you should be able to delete the ext2 partitions with Partition Magic (at least if PM can read them) and expand the Win partition afterwards (or make an extra Win partition or whatever!). If this is absolutely impossible then I would try Windows fdisk. You can fix the MBR with

[newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help

2000-11-19 Thread Albert Davis
Ok I have installed Mandrake-Linux with no problems on my system, 5 times now. I am installing the lnx4win version. In windoz I got the DHCP, Default Gateway, my IP, my subnetmast, which is 255.255.252.0, notice the 252 there?, and my DNS. I have used the ifconfig -a function and my card is

[newbie] fstab

2000-11-19 Thread skidley
Ok my fstab ended up majorly screwed somehow and i don't know why. I had to enable supermount again, but the options for the cdrom drive and burner are screwed up, i have like nosuid, noexec, noauto, etc. It worked excellent before on the standard way it was setup after install. Please help me

Re: [newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help

2000-11-19 Thread tweeter
Albert Davis wrote: Ok I have installed Mandrake-Linux with no problems on my system, 5 times now. I am installing the lnx4win version. In windoz I got the DHCP, Default Gateway, my IP, my subnetmast, which is 255.255.252.0, notice the 252 there?, and my DNS. I have used the ifconfig -a

[newbie] (...) 7.2 nightmare setup (partitions)

2000-11-19 Thread Krulo
my problem is this: after I boot with the disk7 to the 7.2 instalatio I get this really cool screen with the options F1 or Enter. After choosing "Enter" he detects the cdrom, initializes it and enters the setup process (another cool screen). he asks the language, the expert/costum thing and

Re: [newbie] remove partitions

2000-11-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
ed wrote: Hi heres my Question how do I remove the linux partitions on my HD without having to format the whole HD. I used partition magic to make the partitions on my HD and then I used diskdrake to shrink them to have /hda5,/homehda7,swaphda6,/usrhda8 and hdawindows for a

Re: [newbie] (...) 7.2 nightmare setup (partitions)

2000-11-19 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Krulo wrote: my problem is this: after I boot with the disk7 to the 7.2 instalatio I get this really cool screen with the options F1 or Enter. After choosing "Enter" he detects the cdrom, initializes it and enters the setup process (another cool screen). he asks the

RE: [newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help

2000-11-19 Thread eschbach
I need this same help too but for sdsl... somebody help it doesnt seem that it is using dhcp correctly and manual addition for the entries doesnt help but it recognizes my card and has teh driver the ethernet on my dsl modem is also on... please someone give help I had sent a message about

Re: [newbie] LS-120 drive

2000-11-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Joseph Markham wrote: I've installed LM 7.2 on my system, EVERYTHING WORKS except LS-120 identified twice, once as a Floppy (/dev/hdc) then as a scsci device ( /dev/sda). I am unable to mount it [snip] Josephas root create a new directory called /mnt/ls-120. Then still as root edit your

Re: [newbie] This bites (further cable woes)

2000-11-19 Thread abe
I've had great luck with 3com905tx and netegar fa310tx. They use 3c9X.0 and tulip.o respectively. Both worked fine with cable, uselessworst DSL and speakeasy DSL. Bob Currey wrote: By hardware adapter, he means ethernet card. Be very careful which you pick. I have many "supported" ones

Re: [newbie] Hardware help

2000-11-19 Thread Paul
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds a bit like a syncing problem between chips on the mainboard and something on the videocard. Something to do with heat, changing specs. I suspect a faulty chip on the videocard. Paul I apologise for an off-topic post but I need some help

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail

2000-11-19 Thread Daniel J. Ferris
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Roger Sherman wrote: Can anyone tell me how to set up Fetchmail so that it runs as a daemon in the background? In fetchmailconf, for cycles to skip between polls, I put 300, as I wanted it to check every 5 minutes. But, if I type fetchmail at the command prompt, it just

Re: [newbie] Web server problem

2000-11-19 Thread Leo Fox
Here is an example of what I mean, go to www.bluesnews.com/quake3 it willAUTOMATICALLY add the / to the end and not give a not found error. How do Iget this to work on my server?- Original Message -From: "Shawn Daniel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, November

Re: [newbie] Aurora OOPS

2000-11-19 Thread Jeff Malka
OOPs. I changed it in the vga=normal. It seemed to work. But I will correct that by changing it in the location you indicate. Why the difference? Alan is absolutely right. With great trepidation, I changed my "vga=normal" entry to "vga=791" (for me) and ran lilo -v and when I

Re: [newbie] Cant connect to internet Plezz help-Bo

2000-11-19 Thread Albert Davis
Jae, I have but one box, I used the winipcfg and got all my information. My DHCP and DNS are the same 24.95.227.33 and x.x.x.32 is another dns. When you say rounter I have a default gateway 65.33.112 When i installed it i chose custome and selected for every pack to be installed, as i have

[newbie] MD 7.2 Problems

2000-11-19 Thread Kenneth Brown
I am a newbie and need help. I have installed MD 7.2 powerpack deluxe on my machine, a Gateway 550LS with a pentium3 Xeon, 256 Mg memory, 34Gb disk storage in a dual boot environment. Each operating system resides on a separate disk. The dish controller is Adaptec 2940U2 with a 4.5 Gb for

Re: [newbie] Web server problem

2000-11-19 Thread billw
Leo, Not sure if you've checked this yet, but my httpd.conf has the following in it (see below): I think these are the lines which tell Apache to check for an index.html when just the bare URL is requested. Maybe your index style is not listed?? HTH Bill. --snip-- # DirectoryIndex: Name of the

[newbie] Iso files

2000-11-19 Thread Geoff Thomas
How do I use the available iso9660 files to upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2? Thanks in advance GT

Re: [newbie] Aurora

2000-11-19 Thread Barry Premeaux
I realize this may sound like a dumb question, but I've searched the man's and have watched it scroll by during boot up and I still don't know. What is Aurora and what does it do? Barry :-) Jeff Malka wrote: Marcia, Alan is absolutely right. With great trepidation, I changed my

[newbie] Changing lilo settings on boot-diskette

2000-11-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there, I boot my linux partition form a boot-diskette. How can I change the settings with which lilo boots from this diskette? If lilo would have been installed locally, I only would have to change lilo.conf and run lilo. But how do I change lilo on the boot-floppy? I have edited the

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-19 Thread David Boles
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 11:30:47 -0600, Tom Brinkman said: I can turn NumLock on/of in DrakConf Startup Services "click the little square" beside Numlock. But I DID tell L-M 7.2, during install, to turn NumLock on in the screen that was about supermount/disk optimization. On Sunday 19 November

Re: [newbie] Web server problem

2000-11-19 Thread kellyedwards
On Sunday 19 November 2000 16:34, Leo Fox wrote: Here is an example of what I mean, go to www.bluesnews.com/quake3 it will AUTOMATICALLY add the / to the end and not give a not found error. How do I get this to work on my server? To all: To remedy your problem with the trailing / on your

[newbie] How Do I get off this list

2000-11-19 Thread Yezid Acosta
Does anyone know how I could get off this list??

Re: [newbie] Aurora OOPS

2000-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 19 November 2000 03:46 pm, Jeff Malka wrote: OOPs. I changed it in the vga=normal. It seemed to work. But I will correct that by changing it in the location you indicate. Why the difference? Local or global variable. Changing it before the boot label would (should) make

Re: [newbie] Aurora OOPS

2000-11-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jeff Malka wrote: OOPs. I changed it in the vga=normal. It seemed to work. But I will correct that by changing it in the location you indicate. Why the difference? Jeffif it's there then you can have another choice of Linux boot with a different resolution or with no frame buffer

Re: [newbie] LINUX

2000-11-19 Thread Tyler Longren
Put the CD in the cdrom, reboot your machine. That should boot off the CD for you, so you can have a regular Mandrake install. Tyler On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, JStalker wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:57:18 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "JStalker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] LINUX

2000-11-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
JStalker wrote: I just downloaded mandrake 7.2 and it says i can install it without partitioning my HD.. well ummm can i intsall outside of windows.. like how u normally install linux?? or do i have to do it in wndows JStalkerno, it is better to install it outside of windows which

[newbie] blank screen

2000-11-19 Thread Jon Dowd
When I return from lunch - instead of the screesaver I selected to run under xlock, I have a blank screen. I have tried "xset -s off" from a command line and added thad command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (as suggested by a RedHat user). I am running Mandrake 7.2 and Windowmaker 0.62. If I run MS

Re: [newbie] Please respond! disk KERNEL Error

2000-11-19 Thread Vic
The only thing of relative I could find in /var/log/dmesg was VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64) Other than that nothing else in dmesg, however Ihave a cdrom on the primary slave so that might be what that is. hdparm -v said: [root@kittypuss ntr]# hdparm -v /dev/hda /dev/hda:

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail

2000-11-19 Thread SKLIM
Try this command below fetchmail -d 300 Regards, SKLIM - Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-Mandrake newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 2:38 AM Subject: [newbie] Fetchmail Can anyone tell me how to set up

Re: [newbie] blank screen

2000-11-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jon Dowd wrote: When I return from lunch - instead of the screesaver I selected to run under xlock, I have a blank screen. I have tried "xset -s off" from a command line and added thad command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (as suggested by a RedHat user). I am running Mandrake 7.2 and Windowmaker

[newbie] Finding host based on MAC address

2000-11-19 Thread Mazen
HI, I need to find hosts in my local network that uses a certain MAC address. I've heard about a program called "arpping" that can "ping" a host using the MAC address instead of IP address. Do you know where to get this program or something similar? Thanks Mazen

Re: [newbie] Finding host based on MAC address

2000-11-19 Thread -michael-
Why not go to a terminal window (assuming you are using Linux) and type arp -a? BTW if you are successful at re-addressing your NIC, let me know! -michael- On Sunday 19 November 2000 20:04, you wrote: HI, I need to find hosts in my local network that uses a certain MAC address. I've heard

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-19 Thread Barry Premeaux
John, Try a right mouse click on the title bar at the top of the frame. You will find a menu item called 'Decoration'. If you open this up, it will display a list of optional styles. I haven't changed mine as yet. If I can't retrain my mouse to go left instead of right, I'll look at the

[newbie] applications

2000-11-19 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Though perhaps a bit off subject, I'm hopeful that someone will be able to point me in the right direction. I've been playing with Linux for a while (several different builds of Mandrake and RedHat), and am pretty happy with my new Mandrake 7.2 system. What I am missing from from my Windows

Re: [newbie] fstab

2000-11-19 Thread Paul
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, skidley wrote: Ok my fstab ended up majorly screwed somehow and i don't know why. I had to enable supermount again, but the options for the cdrom drive and burner are screwed up, i have like nosuid, noexec, noauto, etc. It worked excellent before on the standard way it was

[newbie] Problems while inatalling 7.2 version.

2000-11-19 Thread Peña Arellano Fabian Erasmo
Hello everybody: I just downloaded the Linux Mandrake 7.2 image files and tried to install it. But the option I picked up seems not to work correctly and would like to know if any of you have choosen the same option as me. The installation language I choosed was

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-19 Thread Charles
Thanks to all ! I didn't have the option at install nor within DrakConf Startup Services , but I found it on disk 1 of 7.1 and that did the trick. I also found that after installing an RPM to uncheck Restore settings option for Root and User before rebooting. I had a messed up Taskbar when

Re: [newbie] Webmin

2000-11-19 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, you wrote: I'm trying to access webmin but when I try I get an error on Netscape or Konqueror: Connection to host is broken Any ideas? I presume that you use Mandrake 7.2 (you mention Konqueror). With this distribution, Webmin is configured by default for a secure

Re: [newbie] applications

2000-11-19 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
What I am missing from from my Windows box is something similar to Outlook. There are two Open Source projects which promiss to deliver a kind of "Outlook on KDE", but you'll have to wait for quite some time before both are stable enough as to be usable. The first is Magellan, which has

Re: [newbie] nfs lock delay boot time

2000-11-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 01:54, eric wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:15, eric wrote: so to connect to internet I need to manual dhcpcd -h C111-A eth0 Put this line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it will execute at boot. Dear Sridhar or any 7.2 user: I did