[newbie-it] Va bene questo lilo.conf ?

2001-05-21 Thread pacmo
Per installare lilo con la seguente configurazione su Portatile : /dev/hda6linux swap /dev/hda7/ /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d linux.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 other=/dev/hda1 label=windows

[newbie-it] Lilo al posto di Grub

2001-05-21 Thread pacmo
Per eliminare grub ed evitare casini le alternative sono le seguenti : installare lilo e questo automaticamente elimina grub ? Da prompt di dos : Fdisk/MBR ? Notare bene che ho winme e quindi non posso fare il boot da dos, ma solo da disco di ripristino funziona ugualmente anche su ME ? Grazie

[newbie-it] Disinstallazione

2001-05-21 Thread Luca Tabor
Ciao a tutti, ho installato un programma .tgz, ho compilato il tutto e l'ho configurato. Ora vorrei disinstallarlo. Come faccio? devo cancellare tutti i file di collegamento che si è creato (i vari S80.* K30.*, ecc) oppure c'e un modo più semplice? Grazie anticipatamente, Lux

Re: [newbie-it] Disinstallazione

2001-05-21 Thread Germano
Il 16:59, lunedì 21 Maggio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, ho installato un programma .tgz, ho compilato il tutto e l'ho configurato. Ora vorrei disinstallarlo. Come faccio? devo cancellare tutti i file di collegamento che si è creato (i vari S80.* K30.*, ecc) oppure c'e un modo più

[newbie-it] isdn e 7.2

2001-05-21 Thread Marco
chiedo scusa per la mia condizione di "lamer" avanzata :) premetto che ho appena iniziato con linux ...e sto cercando di configurare la mia isdn asuscom Pci... se possibile desidererei un chiarimento: ho configurato il modem, e tutti i dati relativi a provider, user, pass etc etc... ho

[newbie] USB modem

2001-05-21 Thread Botta-Ex, Bjorn
Hello, I want to install an USB modem but can't figure out how to do it. I'm new with Mandrake. Can somebody help me? Thanks

RE: [newbie] Looking for a Notebook to run dual boot LM 8.0 and Windows

2001-05-21 Thread Clarkson, Nick
Yep, I've never really touched Linux beofre, but after reading the review on Littlewhitedog.com I thought I'd give it a go. How easy was it ? I couldn't believe it. Now all I have to do is work out what to do with it ;) Everything seemed to install OK, I even got it browsing the web through our

[newbie] Problems to install usb device

2001-05-21 Thread Botta-Ex, Bjorn
Can someone tell me how to install a usb modem? I just can't do it. Thanks

[newbie] Home networking

2001-05-21 Thread Jamie Kerwick
I have just got my home network working fine in windows (98se to 98se to win2000) now i want to get my linux partition networking with one of the 98se machines. However, being fairly new to both linux and networks to be honest i don't really know where to start. My network is a very small one,

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-21 Thread Civileme
On Sunday 20 May 2001 15:06, Marcia Waller wrote: On Friday 18 May 2001 20:12, s wrote: Well, Marcia, I think we ought to quit wasting ink. Seems our Epson printers are also broken in 8.0. Mandrakesoft is being a little too quiet about these problems people are having. Anyway, our

Re: Fwd: [newbie]LimeWire

2001-05-21 Thread John Farrell
On Mon, 21 May 2001 03:00, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, Thank you for all of your instructions for Limewire. Obviously I have to get the Java installed first. Where do I get this? How can I check to see if I already have it? Also, could someone give me and example of what a class path is?

Re: [newbie] I say! Where's ncurses-devel?! (WAS Re: Do kernel sources come with LM8.0?)

2001-05-21 Thread John Farrell
On Mon, 21 May 2001 03:28, David McClamrock wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 00:38, John Farrell wrote: I can't find the kernel sources package. Experienced Linux users will laugh in my face if I don't have kernel sources. I have disks 1 and 2 of the installation, are they on another disk?

[newbie] Virus infection

2001-05-21 Thread Jamie Kerwick
Sorry for the mass email, i received an email today with the file NNKGBENN.EXE attached. This contains the virus W32/Hybris.gen@MM however. I am unable to tell who propagated the virus as there is no sender information for the email. because of this i am sending this email out to anyone i

[newbie] local email server

2001-05-21 Thread kaab kaoutar
Hi! I used to work with NT server, and i'be alreacy set an internal email using exchage server! i have a local netwirk who'se server is NT and the other pcs are NT workstaions and linux stations! is there a way with wich i can createan account(using exchange server) for the linux station or

Re: [newbie] [expert] any bug in RPMDRAKE...

2001-05-21 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
hello Hoyem, I tried what ever info you provided.but still I am unable to use..it... I think its not as straight forward as you have given. what could be your next pointer... I would be glad...to hear..and work on your suggestions... awaiting.. prasad. On Mon, 21 May

[newbie] Kmail or what?

2001-05-21 Thread Delagarza, Gilbert
Is there an email client out there in the Linux world that can connect to an Exchange server ?

Re: [newbie] Funky fonts on most web pages with mdk 8.0

2001-05-21 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
I mostly use Konqueror now, but this is what I would try with Netscape: Menu bar - Edit - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts There change your Fixed font with and variable font width. Write down what you have now and start experimenting until you are happy with what you see. BTW, did you

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-21 Thread Civileme
On Monday 21 May 2001 03:07, Pelle Poluha wrote: Hello! I'm working as a developer and needs a stable environment to develop and test deployments in. So I want to switch from Windows. I need stability but at the same time I want speed and a practical UI (read GUI). I need a smooth file

Re: [newbie] accessing other drives

2001-05-21 Thread Paul
It was Sun, 20 May 2001 23:23:34 -0400 when walt wrote: I just installed Linux-mandrake 8.0 on my second hard drive. I am running windows2000 on the first and it is formatted NTFS. Will I be able to read this drive in mandrake and if so, where will I find it? Hi walt, the drive is readable, no

Re: [newbie] Problems to install usb device

2001-05-21 Thread Lee
Or try linux-usb.org :) Lee At 06:40 PM 5/21/01 +0200, you wrote: It was Mon, 21 May 2001 09:27:22 +0200 when Botta-Ex, Bjorn wrote: Can someone tell me how to install a usb modem? I just can't do it. Are you sure the modem is supported? At www.linuxusb.org you can probably find out if it

Re: [newbie] Problems to install usb device

2001-05-21 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 21 May 2001 09:27:22 +0200 when Botta-Ex, Bjorn wrote: Can someone tell me how to install a usb modem? I just can't do it. Are you sure the modem is supported? At www.linuxusb.org you can probably find out if it is. If it is detected, you should be able to see it in Harddrake. Paul

[newbie] Re: Fonts and Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanator wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ed Kasky wrote: I searched for that for at least an hour and couldn't find it. I never would have thought to look there ;-) Is Lucinda Console lucidx mono? Ed Edno, the font I use is called Lucinda Console. I've noticed that

[newbie] Problems with RPM

2001-05-21 Thread Terry S.
I want to install some programs on my computer, but when I try to use Mandrake's Software Manager, it keeps telling me that the packages I'm trying to install are already installed. I can verify that none of the packages are installed by using: rpm -q --all and even install them using the

[newbie] AMD Duron 850 Vs AMD T-Bird 850

2001-05-21 Thread Tim Holmes
What's the difference between the DURON and the T-BIRD. Both are 850 MHz, both are of course AMD. I went to buy a AMD T-BIRD 850, but ended up getting a AMD DURON 850. I called back to the place asking if I could actually swap the two CPUs and get the one I wanted and thought I was getting. I

[newbie] idsn problems

2001-05-21 Thread Holly K. Hill
I've installed Mandrake 8 with KDE and everything seems to be fine, except for problems with my ISDN modem. I specified in setup that it is on Com 1. When I try to dial up, all I get is 'initializing' then it goes to speaker setup, back to initializing, speaker setup, and so on. It's on

Re: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Irv wrote: From: Pelle Poluha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8 Hello! I'm working as a developer and needs a stable environment to develop and test deployments in. So I want to switch from Windows. I need stability but at the same time I

[newbie] kmail

2001-05-21 Thread Matthew Pirritano
Kmail is listing my emails alphabetically. How do i get it to list them by date? Matt

[newbie] Tape Backup drive?

2001-05-21 Thread Mick
Friends, Romans, Newbies, Lend me your ears... I had an old Conner backup drive (Backs up onto 120mb QIC tapes) that I have installed into my machine running LM 7.2 and Win98. I ran Hardrake and it didn't find it, I tried installing Arkeia backup software but that won't let me log into it?

Re: [newbie] kmail

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Sherman
Matthew, Click the Date column header/button, and watch the little triangle appear on that button. You can sort by send date ascending/descending, or by receive date ascending/descending. Dave On Monday 21 May 2001 13:16, thus spake Matthew Pirritano: Kmail is listing my emails

[newbie] Test

2001-05-21 Thread Mick

[newbie] parsehdlist

2001-05-21 Thread hellmut
Hi! I just checked my running processes and stumbled over two very busy processes: parsehdlist. What are they doing? I'm running the download version of mdk 8.0 on an AMD K6-2, 450 mhz and they nearly eat 50% of my cpu power!!! Bye, -- , (o o)

Re: [newbie] Archiver

2001-05-21 Thread Todd Flinders
gunzip filename.zip -or- gzip -d filename.zip --- Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcia, do you mean using Archiver with .ZIP files in LM8? You'll first have to install the zip package using Mandrake Software Manager - it isn't installed by default. On Monday 21 May 2001 06:14,

[newbie] Real Player Installation Problem?

2001-05-21 Thread TezcatlipocA
Hellow :) I have a new problem. Typical of a newbie. Well here it is: I installed Real Player 8 on Linux-Mandrake 7.2 as it said on the demo pages. I downloaded the rp8_linux20_libc6i386_cs1.bin not the rpm I made the file executable and installation went well. However I can not get Real

[newbie] What is kapm-idle?

2001-05-21 Thread hellmut
Hi! I just found out about the next resource hungry process: kapm-idle! This little evil thing always gets PID 3 and can not be killed. And I haven't found any daemon which starts it, so can anyone please tell me what the heck it does? And much more important: How the hell do I switch it off

Re: [newbie] Problems to install usb device

2001-05-21 Thread TezcatlipocA
On Monday 21 May 2001 00:27, you wrote: Can someone tell me how to install a usb modem? I just can't do it. Thanks There are very few devices that work with USB ports. In fact I just know about Zip drive, I think some scanners and that's all I know. -- TezcatlipocA

RE: [newbie] Looking for a Notebook to run dual boot LM 8.0 and W indows

2001-05-21 Thread Todd Flinders
You could also buy a notebook with Linux already loaded. Therefore, you could expect everything to work without hassles. One such place to purchase Linux notebooks is the following: http://www.qlitech.net/products/laptops/index.html I believe that Dell now also offers notebooks with Linux

[newbie] Multiple Processors

2001-05-21 Thread Michael Graveen
Hello, I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 but it only found 1 processor. I am running dual 700MHz P3 processors on a Tyan Tiger 133 motherboard. How can I get Mandrake to recognize both processors? Thanks in advance, Mike

[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 and Mandrake 8.0 - major problems!

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel Meier
Hi there, a few weeks back I installed Mandrake 8.0 (fresh, clean install). Some days later I installed StarOffice 5.2 (from sun.com) and found it to be unusable. Here are the symptoms: Any text I enter or any text in opened documents doesn't display correctly. The letters themselves are

[newbie] Could not load XKB Keymap Font Fixed

2001-05-21 Thread Derek
I was in Gnome, and I went to logout, and as it was shutting down, it froze up on me, so I waited a while, and a little while longer, and nothing. Tried Ctrl+Alt+Del and that did nothing. So, as a last resort, I hit "reset" on my computer. It loaded back up, into the console and when I type

[newbie] Re: [WLUG] AMD Duron 850 Vs AMD T-Bird 850

2001-05-21 Thread Brian Stretch
The Duron has 64K of L2 cache instead of 256K. Same 128K L1 cache. All Durons are made at the aluminum-interconnect Austin fab, whereas most (but not all) Athlons are made at the copper-interconnect Dresden, Germany fab. The new Morgan-core Durons will be made in Dresden too. Anyhow, sub-GHz

[newbie] Playing .avi's

2001-05-21 Thread Glen Scheel
Hello All, I'm trying to get a player going for Divx avi's. I tried to get avi-xmms going but when I try to run ./configure I get the following error. *** The xmms-config script installed by XMMS cannot be found. *** If XMMS was installed in PREFIX, make sure that PREFIX/bin is in *** your

Re: [newbie] What is kapm-idle?

2001-05-21 Thread Irv
On Monday 21 May 2001 17:28, you wrote: Hi! I just found out about the next resource hungry process: kapm-idle! This little evil thing always gets PID 3 and can not be killed. And I haven't found any daemon which starts it, so can anyone please tell me what the heck it does? And much more

[newbie] New Kernel

2001-05-21 Thread Derek Rayne
Hi there, I was wondering, since I bought the 7.2 Desktop Edition and if I decided to do an upgrade of my Kernel by downloading a new version, will it screw up my other files and configurations with my sound, KDE Desktop, and other stuff? Also, I was thinking of getting 8.0 from the website

[newbie] boot loader problem

2001-05-21 Thread Terry C
I have just installed LM 8.0. The biggest problem I have with it is that I have to boot from a floppy. After the install I rebooted and ended up with a kernel panic. After a little research I found out that I had to enter linux ide=reverse when I boot lilo from a floppy. OK, easy to fix, just

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-21 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Lanman and All, Thank you for the ftp site and suggestions. I did get the new cups. How would I check to see which version of cups is running now? Run the updates first, and delete your Epson printer, then do a fresh config for the printer. Assuming that Mars and Venus (?) are in proper

[newbie] invulnerable processes

2001-05-21 Thread bascule
i have just had to reboot to kill two processes that i otherwise couldn't kill; cdda2wav and cdrecord, both were left running after xcdroast crashed, and although i issued the command 'kill (pid here)' they were still running, repeating the command did not give the 'no such pid' error and

Re: RE: [newbie] Looking for a Notebook to run dual boot LM 8.0 and W indows

2001-05-21 Thread Michael Scottaline
Todd Flinders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could also buy a notebook with Linux already loaded.  Therefore, you could expect everything to work without hassles.  One such place to purchase Linux notebooks is the following: http://www.qlitech.net/products/laptops/index.html

Re: [newbie] Boxed Set

2001-05-21 Thread Todd Flinders
Yeah, complete is simply a workstation install. It does have some stuff that the download version doesn't have. The download version is ONLY GPL software. The Complete boxed set will have non-GPL software (like Star Office and Real Player). However, the linux itself is a bit slim because it

RE: [newbie] Performance issues with Mandrake 8

2001-05-21 Thread Franki
I have three machines, running 7.2 and kde 2 One is a P2450 with 128mb ram, and it flies with kde2 the other, is a P200mmx with 64 mb of ram,,, this one is a gateway system but I put kde2 on it anyway, and I'd have to say that one isn't even that much slower then the PII450 The third is

Re: [newbie] Boxed Set

2001-05-21 Thread Todd Flinders
Do they offer the PowerPack at Walmart? --- Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Quincy, IL in the Midwest of the US. It was there as of Saturday and was sold out today. They had five copies on the shelf when I purchased my copy. Riker On Sunday 20 May 2001 12:25 pm, you

Re: [newbie] rebuilding redhat src package for a mdk system. (netcfg)

2001-05-21 Thread Todd Flinders
Yes, I successfully installed netcfg several months ago on 7.2. It should work. In fact, every Red Hat RPM that I've tried has worked with my Mandrake so far. If you have the choice, get the mdk rpm. However, Red Hat rpms do tend to work. Afterall, mandrake does claim to be red hat

Re: [newbie] Bind-RPM-ICS

2001-05-21 Thread Todd Flinders
The bind package you installed was the source code. You need to compile it. To compile it, go to the directory where you download it to and type the following (as root): rpm --rebuild bind*src.rpm That should compile the source code and if all goes well it will create a binary file of bind

[newbie] Pls help me!PPP deamon

2001-05-21 Thread AOL Systems
Why is it a when im connecting to my dial-up connection on my ISP after it was initializing I always have errors PPP deamon died unexpectively im using Linux Mandrake.Pls help me thanks anyone pls! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com

[newbie] Another sound problem

2001-05-21 Thread Therese E Duffy
Hi List, Okay, I have been watching the list for sound related questions and after trying some of the answers I am still nowhere near making my sound work. Here are the specifics: Sound card= Creative Labs AWE64 16-bit Audio Kernal Module= sb Bus Type= ISA I am using LM 7.2, and Harddrake finds

[newbie] what is RTC?..VMWare 2.0.4 in LM8

2001-05-21 Thread Sam
I've just installed VMWare 2.0.4 RC2 on LM8, with Windows98SE as the guest OS. While Windows seems to work OK, I get the following dialog box every time I start vmware: The high resolution timer is not currently available (/dev/rtc: No such device). It is possible that another virtual

[newbie] Sound and Network card setup problems

2001-05-21 Thread milt
Installed Mandrake Linux 7.2 the other night. It went fine. EXCEPT I can't get any sound and can't find where to get it to even find the sound card. Its a Sound Blaster Pro, ISA slot, oldie but it works. Also,the networking card is a Linksys LNE100TX and the floppy that came with it says it has

Re: [newbie] [expert] any bug in RPMDRAKE...

2001-05-21 Thread D. Hoyem
Well to check out what I told you to do, I followed the same instruction that I gave you and did a Security update. This is what I did, Connected to the internet, brought up Sofware manager selected Define Source, when the next GUI came up I selected New, Another GUI came up I selected Security

Re: [newbie] [expert] any bug in RPMDRAKE...

2001-05-21 Thread D. Hoyem
Launch the Software Manager, click on Define Sources and New. For type of source, select http and click the update list of mirrors and wait while the list is being added to the list of sources, takes awhile. Once it is updated, under the Installable tab toggle the All to Updates Only. Click the

[newbie] Sound Problem with real player

2001-05-21 Thread Rajat Goon
Hi, In my m/c I have VIA -PCI Sound card. I've Mandrake 8.0 and it picked up fine, all the system sounds are coming fine. I downloaded realplayer 8.0 basic (I installed from the .bin file). When I am running from root. It gives me the message output audio device is busy, some other