[newbie-it] Mount NFS

2002-09-26 Thread Pollo
E' possibile far eseguire il mount di un filesystem remoto dinamicamente? Mi spiego meglio: Supponiamo di avere due pc connessi in rete (PC_A e PC_B); Quando accendo PC_A all'avvio de SO cerca di montare il filesystem remoto ma essendo PC_B spento non ci riesce. Dopo una decina di minuti accendo

[newbie-it] script e crisi

2002-09-26 Thread Arwan
Premesso che non so se lo script sia corretto (ogni suggerimento e' ben accetto), vorrei sapere come farlo partire... Lo scopo e' questo: copiare una serie di file su floppy (in disco fisso sono persi in una sottocartella di una delle tante partizioni) semplicemente cliccando un'icona sul

Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)

2002-09-26 Thread Jon
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:00:54 +0200, Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It changed: MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-i18n.i586.iso558368 KB 09/23/2002 09:09:00 PM has now become: MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-i18n.i586.iso467296 KB 09/24/2002 08:06:00 AM Any info on that? TIA, At first

[newbie] Weird Occurrence With Konqueror

2002-09-26 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Y'all Just lately, well for about a week, whenever I start up Konqueror in Superuser mode, it works fine until I attempt to browse the /home partition - then no files are displayed, the border starts to flicker and I have to use Xkill to shut it down. I do not have this problem in normal

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-26 Thread et
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday September 25 2002 04:24 pm, et wrote: tell me you are not trying to use both SDram and DDR ram at the same time... please tell me that you are only using one or the other. and Ah Ed, DDR is SDram

Re: [newbie] Change browser startup page

2002-09-26 Thread _nasturtium
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:53, Noah A Hicks wrote: Hello I am trying to change the webpage that Konqueror starts up with. I would like to start the browser and go directly to www.google.com. Presently, it sends me to a Mandrake html page stored on my computer. I'm sure this is possible but I

Re: [newbie] Lilo

2002-09-26 Thread et
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote: George Baker wrote: I've got a Compaq DP 4000 P166 which creates a partition with the software to change any CMOS settings (you push F10). After installing MDK 7.0 with LILO I can't get into the Cmos settings. Is there a way of pointing LILO

[newbie] Install 9.0 from hdd?

2002-09-26 Thread Linux Maniac
Hi! I'm just dl-ing 9.0 :-) I wonder if there is some way to do this: I have a seperate unused partition. I format it to ext3 and copy the contents of the iso's on it + mount it like /mnt/install/mandrake9cd1 etc... Is there some way to create a boot floppy which then would install from

Re: [newbie] 9.0 Mirror

2002-09-26 Thread robin
Michael Notforyou wrote: EpA in #mandrake on irc.openprojects.net asked me to announce his mirror of 9.0 (final?). I have not checked bandwidth, etc, or even if this is final, so check the md5sums of the downloaded files against the official Mandrake sums. (Just 'cause the filename is rc3

[newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread G_REEPER
Hi folks, In all other ver of Mandrake I always had to edit the XF86config-4 file to get the Nvidia drivers working. The new Config file is a little different. I've had no luck using Texstar's 9.0 Nvidia drivers. I am planning to build the drivers from source next. Has anyone got

RE: [newbie] Install 9.0 from hdd?

2002-09-26 Thread Tenchi
Because I want to write the cd's later on, and because I'm afraid of slow bandwith, connection breaks etc... Thanks for the info but how exactly do you do that? BAT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Guidry Sent: Thursday,

Re: [newbie] Weird Occurrence With Konqueror

2002-09-26 Thread et
On Thursday 26 September 2002 06:41 am, you wrote: Hi Y'all Just lately, well for about a week, whenever I start up Konqueror in Superuser mode, it works fine until I attempt to browse the /home partition - then no files are displayed, the border starts to flicker and I have to use Xkill

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 06:38:40 -0500 G_REEPER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all other ver of Mandrake I always had to edit the XF86config-4 file to get the Nvidia drivers working. The new Config file is a little different. I've had no luck using Texstar's 9.0 Nvidia drivers. I am

Re: [newbie] 9.0 Mirror (d/l file size limit using MD 8.2?)

2002-09-26 Thread Steve Jeppesen
Does anybody know if there is a setting in MD 8.2 which limits file size when downloading? I have used Galeon and Gftp, and they both make it up to approx. 102,400,000 bytes then they just crash or exit. I have attempted CD1 and CD2 thru a couple of different mirrors - including this one

Re: [newbie] 9.0 Mirror (d/l file size limit using MD 8.2?)

2002-09-26 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:10:10 -0500 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know if there is a setting in MD 8.2 which limits file size when downloading? I have used Galeon and Gftp, and they both make it up to approx. 102,400,000 bytes then they just crash or exit. I have

Re: [newbie] Printing from the net

2002-09-26 Thread Robert Beach
I'd let you keep the house I would like Meta and the other characters back. - Original Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing from the net Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 5:28

Re: [newbie] Printing from the net

2002-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 25 Sep 2002 2:03 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I'm pretty sure it was the cups+Gimp-print setup that caused my problems. Is it worth changing this one to Foomatic+hpijs to see if it disappears? If it does, you could always re-think why you wanted the Gimp-print and see

Re: [newbie] Weird Occurrence With Konqueror

2002-09-26 Thread Graham Watkins
et wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2002 06:41 am, you wrote: Hi Y'all Just lately, well for about a week, whenever I start up Konqueror in Superuser mode, it works fine until I attempt to browse the /home partition - then no files are displayed, the border starts to flicker and I have to

Re: [newbie] 9.0 Mirror (d/l file size limit using MD 8.2?)

2002-09-26 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Here's another possibility: I have separate partitions for /, /boot, /usr and /home. When I chose this scheme, I thought 150Mbyte would suffice for /. Later I discovered that Mozilla uses /tmp for temporary download cache, so I cannot download more than approxinatively 100Mbyte with Mozilla

Re: [newbie] chcase

2002-09-26 Thread Jan Wilson
* John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020926 05:05]: Very Many thanks Jan, You're welcome. Hopefully others will benefit too. I have a feeling this programme is going to be very useful to me. I cannot think why it's not in the distro on the 3rd disc. Possibly. Sooner ot later I am

Re: [newbie] Weird Occurrence With Konqueror

2002-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 Sep 2002 1:43 pm, you wrote: et wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2002 06:41 am, you wrote: Hi Y'all Just lately, well for about a week, whenever I start up Konqueror in Superuser mode, it works fine until I attempt to browse the /home partition - then no files are

Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)

2002-09-26 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:20:08 +0100 Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:00:54 +0200, Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It changed: MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-i18n.i586.iso558368 KB 09/23/2002 09:09:00 PM has now become: MandrakeLinux-9.0rc3-i18n.i586.iso

Re: [newbie] Cool linux clothing?

2002-09-26 Thread gs
No-one has mentioned this yet: http://geekshirts.sourceforge.net Download and print! Geoff I would like to suggest that as you start this idea, as well as making sure you are stepping on anyones trademark or copyright, that you create a mailing list server (sympa or majordomo) and add

Re: [newbie] Up running, but still need help

2002-09-26 Thread Steven Kopischke
At 22:39 9/25/2002 -0400, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 10:15, Steven Kopischke wrote: At 14:24 9/25/2002 +0100, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:59, Steven Kopischke wrote: I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on my Compaq Presario 700 laptop Read my Website (in my signature).

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 25 2002 05:55 pm, Marcia wrote: On Wednesday 25 September 2002 07:25 pm, you wrote: AMD apprv'd for your 1600+, unfortuntely, I have no experience with these new mico-boards (an i'm not an ECS fan). The lastest bios is 1.0a

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday September 26 2002 07:02 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 06:38:40 -0500 G_REEPER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all other ver of Mandrake I always had to edit the XF86config-4 file to get the Nvidia drivers working. The new Config file is a little

Re: [newbie] Install 9.0 from hdd?

2002-09-26 Thread s
On Thursday 26 September 2002 06:44 am, Tenchi wrote: Is there some way to create a boot floppy which then would install from that partition? Thanks for the info but how exactly do you do that? one, yes, you can do that, just write the hd.img to the floppy. yep. it's in the readme.

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread s
On Thursday 26 September 2002 06:38 am, G_REEPER wrote: Hi folks, In all other ver of Mandrake I always had to edit the XF86config-4 file to get the Nvidia drivers working. The new Config file is a little different. I've had no luck using Texstar's 9.0 Nvidia drivers. I am planning

Re: [newbie] Gtk Errors

2002-09-26 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 06:10:57 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're talking about the tmp folder in / correct? It has a bunch of socket files in it. I also see a folder called mcop-chris and mcop-root. Inside of the mcop-chris is Arts_audiomanager which was installed the other

Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)

2002-09-26 Thread Damian G
Another idea, implemented. The broadband connection at home is a bit slow: it would take 18 hours to upload the three ISOs. _But_ I've put them on my company's internal network well, the good part of multi-source download is that you can get faster and faster as more people get the same

[newbie] How do I access files on FAT32?

2002-09-26 Thread Steven Kopischke
I have a FAT32 partition (\dev\hda7) that I am using for data for both Windows XP and Linux. However, I cannot seem to access the partition with any of the file management tools available through the Gnome interface. What am I doing wrong? TIA oldgnome Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] How do I access files on FAT32?

2002-09-26 Thread Niels Obst
- Original Message - From: Steven Kopischke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 5:43 PM Subject: [newbie] How do I access files on FAT32? I have a FAT32 partition (\dev\hda7) that I am using for data for both Windows XP and Linux. However, I

[newbie] Default browser for links within KMail???

2002-09-26 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
This is very strange. Up until this morning when I would click a link in KMail, Konq would open and show the page. This morning I sit down, click a link, and up pops Quanta!!! No settings were changed since last night and it was working fine when I went to bed. Can anyone tell me

RE: [newbie] Install 9.0 from hdd?

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Guidry
easiest way is to pop the cd into a...oh, never mind. well, ya gotta go dig around the ftp site and find hd.img ( I think it's in the images/ file) then simply # man dd # dd if=./hd.img of=/dev/fd0 then reboot and follow the directions. You WILL NOT be able to install on the partition

[newbie] games to linux.

2002-09-26 Thread rhp.mac
hi all, I have a basic question: when i start kde I have a strong music sound.Where can I configure it? another question is how install program to run games in linux? lot of things to learn. thanks for all. rhp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-26 Thread Marcia
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday September 25 2002 05:55 pm, Marcia wrote: On Wednesday 25 September 2002 07:25 pm, you wrote: AMD apprv'd for your 1600+, unfortuntely, I have no experience with these new mico-boards (an i'm not an ECS fan). The lastest bios is 1.0a

Re: [newbie] How do I access files on FAT32?

2002-09-26 Thread Steven Kopischke
At 10:43 9/26/2002 -0500, you wrote: I have a FAT32 partition (\dev\hda7) that I am using for data for both Windows XP and Linux. However, I cannot seem to access the partition with any of the file management tools available through the Gnome interface. What am I doing wrong? ..To answer

Re: [newbie] How do I access files on FAT32?

2002-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 Sep 2002 4:43 pm, you wrote: I have a FAT32 partition (\dev\hda7) that I am using for data for both Windows XP and Linux. However, I cannot seem to access the partition with any of the file management tools available through the Gnome interface. What am I doing wrong? TIA

[newbie] /dev/usbmouse does not exist

2002-09-26 Thread Paul
Hi everyone, After a browse through the archives, I need to resort to your knowledge. I tried getting my Logitech Trackman to work as a USB device. Mousedrake complains that /dev/usbmouse does not exist when I select the USB | Wheel option. (/dev/mouse is pointing to /dev/usbmouse then.) When

Re: [newbie] backup system

2002-09-26 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:31:24 + robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends on what your backup needs are. If they're extensive, run a search on any Linux software site for solutions; if they're simple, just write a little script to do the job using tar. The simplest would just be to tar

Re: [newbie] Weird Occurrence With Konqueror

2002-09-26 Thread bascule
hi, i seem to remember one time that flickering on konqueror was because the size and shape of the default window size was somehow just the wrong one! when i altered it the flickering stopped, i'm not saying this is your problem, i can't honestly remember if i had to use xkill in these cases

Re: [newbie] /dev/usbmouse does not exist

2002-09-26 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:03:14 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, After a browse through the archives, I need to resort to your knowledge. I tried getting my Logitech Trackman to work as a USB device. Mousedrake complains that /dev/usbmouse does not exist when I select the

[newbie] Asking for CD - What file does it want?

2002-09-26 Thread Fred Fraley
When I try setting a HP Laserjet IIp+ up through MDK Control Center it asks Please insert the medium named disc 1 Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta4 Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1) on device [/dev/hdc] . Now, that's fine, except I don't have that CD, or even the ISO, anymore. How can I

Re: [newbie] Weird Occurrence With Konqueror

2002-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
I've certainly had the shimmer effect when opening a window which contained a corrupt file. Finding the file is the problem, deleting it the cure. Of course, your problem may be different. Anne On Thursday 26 Sep 2002 6:54 pm, you wrote: hi, i seem to remember one time that flickering on

Re: [newbie] games to linux.

2002-09-26 Thread s
On Thursday 26 September 2002 09:38 am, rhp.mac wrote: hi all, I have a basic question: when i start kde I have a strong music sound.Where can I configure it? in the Control Center (or kcontrol from konsole) LooknFeel System Notifications KDE System Notifications. another question is

[newbie] monitor bliking time to time problem

2002-09-26 Thread Regis Braz
On Monday 23 September 2002 15:16, you wrote: -- De: rhp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: monitor flickering problem Fecha: lun., 23 sept 2002 15:21 hei people, my monitor blinking all time. I need to configure XWindows. I am running Mandrake, I don't

Re: [newbie] games to linux.

2002-09-26 Thread Niels Obst
- Original Message - From: rhp.mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:38 PM Subject: [newbie] games to linux. another question is how install program to run games in linux? Hello, i'm not sure what you mean, but i guess you're looking for

Re: [newbie] Default browser for links within KMail???

2002-09-26 Thread bascule
by experimenting i've found that kmail uses the browser that is at the top of the filetype setting, go to startconfigurationkdefile browsingfileassiciations and alter the order of apps under texthtml close kmail and restart - it did take a while to open mozilla though bascule On Thursday 26

[newbie] USB hard drive

2002-09-26 Thread John Bodden
I have a USB hard Drive. I can't find where the device is located so I can mount it. When I installed the system (mandrake RC3) it found a SCSI -usb device, so I assume that's what it thinks the drive is, a SCSI device. I don't have any drives under /dev/scsi and none under /dev/usb Any

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread G_REEPER
Tom you were right. For some reason I have to add Option NvAGP 0 . to the config file to keep it from locking up. But yes I was wondering about the new layout of the file. Anyone know why pine is no longer in the distro? Thanks All for the Help! Steven Live from Izzy's path!

Re: [newbie] USB hard drive

2002-09-26 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:54:35 -0400 John Bodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB hard Drive. I can't find where the device is located so I can mount it. When I installed the system (mandrake RC3) it found a SCSI -usb device, so I assume that's what it thinks the drive is, a SCSI

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:03:36 -0500 G_REEPER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why pine is no longer in the distro? U of W changed the licence under which pine can be distributed. This means that pine is no longer complies as GPL and as such is disqualified from inclusion in either Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Default browser for links within KMail???

2002-09-26 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
Which version of kde are you using? I'm using 3.0.3 and I don't see that in the menu. I have startconfigurationkde but no file browsing within that menu. -Gary On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:43 pm, bascule scribbled something about: by experimenting i've found that kmail

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday September 26 2002 03:03 pm, G_REEPER wrote: Tom you were right. For some reason I have to add Option NvAGP 0 . to the config file to keep it from locking up. No idea about that other than it smacks of a hardware or driver issue. I use the XFree driver for Linux, but I boot W98

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread s
On Thursday 26 September 2002 03:48 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday September 26 2002 03:03 pm, G_REEPER wrote: Tom you were right. For some reason I have to add Option NvAGP 0 . to the config file to keep it from locking up. No idea about that other than it smacks of a hardware or

Re: [newbie] Default browser for links within KMail???

2002-09-26 Thread bascule
i'm still on 2.2.2, you should have this option somewhere though, it's a kde wide option so it's pretty basic, it may have a slightly differnt name, try right clicking on an htm/html file in konq and choosing edit file types - assuming kde 3 has this, this is the dialogue i reach from the

[newbie] image filenames, was chcase

2002-09-26 Thread Todd Slater
I think this is for John-- jhead will take the exif date stamp and rename your images according to that. getpix uses jhead. getpix also puts each batch of photos in its own subdirectory. The default directory name uses the current date (_MM_DD), but you can override that using the -t

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 : Charles about pine

2002-09-26 Thread G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the info. I started using pico back a few years ago. Just missed it. Steven On Thursday 26 September 2002 03:17 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:03:36 -0500 G_REEPER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why pine

Re: [newbie] G-force2 400 MMX 3d in Mandrake 9

2002-09-26 Thread G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks always wonder what the other options were, if any. I just found the fix back in 7.1 never knew what the option was for. Steven Well, that NvAGP options designates whether to use system, nvidia, or the first it gets to AGPGART. I use 1

Re: [newbie] mdk9.0

2002-09-26 Thread Mark Weaver
s wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2002 09:08 pm, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi all, Just got 9.0 running after much hair tearing. d/l'd the iso's, checksum was ok on all, but install locked up on some files on cd2. Tried a number of times to no avail, finally told the installer I

Re: [newbie] Install of Mandrake Linux on an old machine

2002-09-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed on an old Compaq Deskpro 566. I have 32MB of ram. I also have two disk drives. One is a 500MB drive and the other is a 1G drive. I installed the root on the 500G drive with swap and home on the 1G drive.

Re: 9.0 on edonkey (was: Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)

2002-09-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
That's wonderful! I've posted an article about this at PCLinuxOnline.com (http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3408). Sridhar (AKA Yama) On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:47:24 +0200, Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Sorry about cross-posting, but I

[newbie] Mandrake 9 in high security mode...tearing my hair out!

2002-09-26 Thread Ralph M. Los
Hey all, I must be more of a noob than I thought. Apparently, I expected to install with high security mode, and have a semi-functioning system which I can at a later date open up as needed, right? Apparently I'm either doing something wrong, or something's not working. I've

[newbie] The new upgrading abilities of mdk9.0

2002-09-26 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I am about to try and upgrade a 9.0 Beta4 install to 9.0 final.. Thats a pretty small step up, will be interesting to see how well 9.0 handles it, according to the press release it is alot better then previous versions, so this should go flawlessly.. I'll let you know. rgds Frank

Re: [newbie] Cannot install OpenOficce1.0

2002-09-26 Thread Andrew
Oyaji, There are no stupid questions! Write back If you need more help. Andrew On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:44:03 -0500 Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I cannot install OpenOffice1.0. Could possibly teach me how to install OpenOffice on my computer step by

[newbie] Configuring e-mail Web-url location

2002-09-26 Thread Andrew
Hi All, I have found the greatest e-mail program sylpheed. It is a keeper, I've used it for a few hours and love it. One problem; When I highlight a URL, and up pops a window that asks which browser to use...I want to use Mozilla. It has 3-4 other browser choices that

[newbie] kernel fine tuning.... (=athlon)

2002-09-26 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Hi, To fine tune the kernel from i586 to athlon. is it just take the source of the currente kernel (mdk) and select athlon (menuconfig) and proceed with the regular make's ? For testing only, this is the only modification I would like for the moment! Using mdk8.1(Intel) and 8.2(athlon)!