Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..

2000-07-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paul/Johnno, it's in Macmillan's Complete not Macmillan's Deluxe. The publisher is PowerQuest. http://www.powerquest.com/ Alan Paul wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Partition Magic has a Linux version?? Partition Magic is what I like best. I am not sure if

Re: [newbie] CD RW compatibility

2000-07-13 Thread Alan Shoemaker
was curious to some opinions. Ben On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 "Eric MC.D" wrote: benjamin michael mcclelland wrote: not sure if first message went through... anyone know of any CD RW drive that are for sure

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Harryit sounds as if your D partition is set as hidden, if so use PM to unhide it. Alan Harry Flaxman wrote: When I installed Linux, I created two partitions, one a 256mb partition for swap, and a second large partition for Windows D: The Linux partition is ahead of the Windows

Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Driver

2000-07-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Harryhave you read the files in this directory? /usr/doc/imwheel-0.9.8/ Alan Harry Flaxman wrote: Thanks for the info Paul. I have imwheel installed. It starts, but still I get no wheel support in KDE. Is the package supposed to be started before KDE comes up? I haven't tried

Re: [newbie] Lost Update Icon

2000-07-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Damthe desktop icon is an applications kdelnk to the program /usr/X11R6/bin/MandrakeUpdate. Alan "Gentile, Sam" wrote: For some reason, the "Update" icon is gone from my KDE desktop. I can't seem to find the program either. How do I do this? Sam Gentile Principal Software Engineer

Re: [newbie] Make Rescue/Bootdisk?

2000-07-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronasuming that you let it install the default grub bootloader the below is cut and pasted from the command: info grub and was found in the FAQ's section. Alan How to create a GRUB boot floppy with the menu interface? The easiest way is: 1. Create filesystem in your floppy

Re: [newbie] Supermount Woes

2000-07-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Larrydon't forget the fact that the dos filesystem doesn't maintain the Linux permissions of the files stored on it. You'll have to re-set the permissions after retrieving the file from the dos formatted floppy. Alan Larry Marshall wrote: Yeah, I was implying that. I was also

Re: [newbie] Supermount Woes

2000-07-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Phildon't change the fstab entry. Supermount only works for dos formatted floppies. Mount ext2 floppies the old fashioned way and don't forget to umount them before removal. Alan Phil Burton wrote: I cannot mount floppies using supermount. My /etc/fstab reads: /dev/hda1

Re: [newbie] Supermount Woes

2000-07-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
). Would you please explain why you say we should mount/umount the "old way"? I'm using ext2 files. thanks Bill On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Phildon't change the fstab entry. Supermount only works for dos formatted floppies. Mount ext2 floppies the old fas

Re: [newbie] Zip and supermount

2000-07-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ericit doesn't sound like you've read the supermount man page, perhaps you ought to. Alan Eric wrote: Just to clear the confusion... when I comment out the supermount drives (floppy,cdrom, and cdrom2) in fstab and reboot... I can then mount the zip 100 drive in Konsole as root. The

Re: [newbie] X and 7.1

2000-07-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Victor/etc/X11 Alan Victor Richardson wrote: While trying to configure X with xf86config, I ended up with XF86Config in both /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and wondered which directory is the right one? I noticed somewhere on XFree86's website that while XFC86Config used to be in

Re: [newbie] Windows Manager

2000-07-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Johnyes. However 'nuts' is not the word I would have chosen to describe my state of mind. But I won't use anything else but KDE. Alan "John T. Seebold" wrote: What's the choice of Window's Manager?? Does anyone shine above the rest??? IMHO I would have to say IceWM and Gnome.

Re: [newbie] Windows Manager

2000-07-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
? Just to gather some points on the highpoints of each window manager. Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 2:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows Manager Johnyes. However 'nuts

Re: [newbie] Lilio.conf using append=Failsafe and append

2000-07-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Roman.correct syntax would be: append="Failsafe mem=128M" Alan Romanator wrote: Thanks Ed, I'll try the following: append="Failsafe;mem=128M" append="Failsafe" "mem=128M" Roman Ed Tharp wrote: I believe the correct way would be: append="Failsafe" "mem=128M"

Re: [newbie] SCSI Zip dirve

2000-06-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
HughI've been using a scsi zip drive since Mandrake 5.2. There's nothing to set up in recent versions, it's recognized during the install and set up automatically as a supermount device. Alan Hugh wrote: Hey I was just wondering has anyone ever set up a SCSI Zip dirve? I was wondering

Re: [newbie] Trying to install Linux-Mandrake 7.0

2000-06-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marciaboot your computer with the floppy that you created created during the Linux installation. Login as root. In a console type: /sbin/lilo The next time you boot the computer you should be able to choose Linux from BootMagic successfully. Alan Marcia Waller wrote: Hello all. I

Re: [newbie] Trying to install Linux-Mandrake 7.0

2000-06-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marciasure, during the Linux install you were asked to supply a password for the root account, so when the system asks for a login name type root and when it asks for a password type the root password you supplied during the install. Alan Marcia Waller wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote

Re: [newbie] Upgrade/Install Options -- DANGER AHEAD!!

2000-06-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjaminhfirst off what's this doing in newbie? Second, are you assuming that an upgrade is going to partition/format the drive(s) or is there evidence that this happens? After all an upgrade skips the partitioning step. You can't, after all, upgrade a clean set of partitions

Re: [newbie] Pronto Mail

2000-06-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alanyes, it is easy, just download the installer (49k) and execute it. Alan Alan Carpenter wrote: Has any tried to install Pronto yet? I haven't but want. I wasn't sure how hard it is to install it. Let me know if it works well for you. Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Pronto Mail

2000-06-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alandon't download the tarball, download the installer script. Then run it and everything is taken care of. Maybe you need to re-read the info on the web page? Alan Alan Carpenter wrote: I have recently installed 7.1, so I should be ok there =). I was wondering what directory should

Re: [newbie] file copying

2000-06-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dennisthe simpleist way for a 'windows mentality guy' is to put a dos formatted floppy in your drive, click on the desktop floppy icon to open a kfm window to the floppy. Click on the (either desktop or panel) home icon to open another kfm window and navigate to your downloaded file's

Re: [newbie] Wine VmWare

2000-06-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Aljust my personal opinion, but I think that the program available at the below URL is a better alternative than messing around with trying to get M$Money functional on a Linux machine. http://moneydance.net/ Alan Al wrote: Greetings! I am having extreme difficulty in making Wine

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

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

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

2000-06-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
that it isn't installed. Is that a bug? Thanks for the info. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: Roman.no, it's there and typing kmenuedit in a console (or in the command window [alt-f2]) or K(menu)-Configuration-Other-Menu Editor will launch it. Alan Roman Bysh wrote: Hi

Re: [newbie] Danger in accessing Win partition?

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

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

2000-06-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
MogensI just ordered a product from CheapBytes on Sunday evening. Got a confirmation email from them before 9:00 am on Monday, and a shipping confirmation just after 4:00 pm also on Monday. For what it's worth, I'm in California as are they. As to their stability, I've no idea. I will let

Re: [newbie] kdesu

2000-06-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
called (unless called with a full path like /usr/share/apps/kdesu). Alan Alan Shoemaker wrote: DarrylI guess that wasn't the rpm from your installation CD then? Alan Darryl Gibson wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Darrylit should be in /usr/bin in fact when you use

Re: [newbie] Problem on Mandrake 6.5

2000-06-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Cristhis is not technical support, this is a mailing list provided for users by MandrakeSoft. We who help here are simply users of the Mandrake distro. 6.5 is not a release number, but instead a ficticious number put on the box (packaged by Macmillan) containing the 6.1 release of Mandrake.

Re: [newbie] kdesu

2000-06-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Gibson wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Darrylif there is no /usr/bin/kdesu file on your computer then you need to install the kdesu rpm file from your master CD. Hi Alan, Ok, I did that, and still I can't ls -al, or locate kdesu. I did find a /usr/bin/kcmkdesu file, which I

Re: [newbie] kdesu

2000-06-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
DarrylI guess that wasn't the rpm from your installation CD then? Alan Darryl Gibson wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Darrylit should be in /usr/bin in fact when you use kpackage to install the kdesu rpm file you can look under the files tab where there's a list of all

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

2000-06-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Another submenu will show a selection of downloads. Choose the one that refers to Linux. Oh by the way, the Adobe on disk 5 is only a plugin for your browser. Roman Eunice Thompson wrote: Roman Bysh wrote: Hi Alan, Thank for pointing this out. Roman Alan

Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation

2000-06-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
much about it. Again, I'm sorry. Flupke On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: flupkebecause your opinion/solution and mine differ is no reason to be rude towards me when you expound upon your own remedy. Yelling that my suggestion to help this person was 'BAD' was simply not called

Re: [newbie] I can't believe it

2000-06-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
KompuKitI don't believe that an uppercase 'N' could possibly be your problem. Capitalization is irrelevant when it comes to email addresses. This message is addressed in all lowercase. Alan KompuKit wrote: I've had a terrible time...trying to post to this list... and all the

Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mark/Jimthat's not true, a CD-RW can function as a music CD (if it's properly hooked up to the sound card's input connector), and it can also read data CD's made commercially or made on other CD-R's and CD-RW's. There have been specific incompatibilities concerning certain media's

[newbie] Re: [expert] Backing everything up

2000-06-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
PieroI use the kde application template and put it in the Autostart directory. By the way, I launch with imwheel -k which kills any already running imwheel processes. The is not needed with imwheel. Alan Piero wrote: I have istalled imwheel under Mk 7.0 and it works fine. Would

Re: [newbie] boot magic/LILO

2000-06-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
KompuKitedit the first line of your /etc/lilo.conf file to point at the partition you want lilo installed on and then run /sbin/lilo. Alan KompuKit wrote: Just installed Partition Magic 5.0...along with boot magic I had my LILO on the MBR of the master disk,partitioned into two

Re: [newbie] Installing linux-ar-405.tar.gz

2000-06-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
flupke wrote: You uncompress the archive : Romanif that's the adobe acrobat reader, why don't you install the one on disc 5 of your powerpack, it's in an rpm and is easy as pie to install? Alan Romanator wrote: Hi, I may have asked this before but I cannot for the life of me

Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux (Solved)

2000-06-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
to cure. Not the right way to do it but definately a way ;-) Dacia --- Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daciaonce you're booted with the rescue system and mounted your / directory you need to use the chroot (something like 'chroot /mnt/myroot' where /mnt/myroot

Re: [newbie] Extra Cds for 7.1

2000-06-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Eunicethey'll be part of the power pack :-) Alan Eunice Thompson wrote: Does anyone have any idea what and/or where the CD's labeled 3 and 4 are. During the installation of 7.1 they are listed, and also using Kpackage or RPMdrake to add additional packages they ask for one or the

Re: [newbie] Mouse Not Detected

2000-06-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Leobardoassuming you are logged in as a user, open Konsole, type su -, type the root password, type mouseconfig. The rest is self-prompting. Alan "Leobardo López" wrote: I Need Help. Mandrake is Not Detecting My Mouse, What Can I Do to Configure It By Myself. Thanx.

Re: [newbie] Applications Disc 2

2000-06-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Victorthere's a place earlier in the installatin where you were supposed to tell the installation just which CD's you have and don't have. Nobody has applications CD's 1 or 2 yet because thay are part of the boxed set and the boxed sets are not available yet. Alan Victor Richardson wrote:

Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation

2000-06-13 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Carlduring the x-setup section of installation, pretty much the very last thing you do before re-boot. Alan Carl Kehley wrote: Alan, Thanks for the reply. I did not even get an option on the XF86 version. Where was it listed, under chosing individual packages? Carl Alan

Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation

2000-06-13 Thread Alan Shoemaker
, then you just handle the faulty package. And you don't have to reinstall the whole thing from scratch. Could it be a problem with X, the security level, the internet connection, or anything, you can repair it. Sorry, but I had to say it. Flupke On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote

Re: [newbie] What happerned to setup

2000-06-13 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jaguarsetup has been replaced with a more advanced version of itself (it now runs in a gui mode as well as in the console mode) called drakxconf. If you start drakxconf from the desktop in a console window or from alt-f2 it'll run in gui mode in it's own window, but if you start it from a

Re: [newbie] Problems with Mandrake 7.1 installation

2000-06-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Carlthat sounds like what I experienced when I first installed 7.1 and chose version 4 of XF86. I reinstalled 7.1 and picked version 3.6 of XF86 and those symptoms no longer occured. Alan Carl Kehley wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.1 yesterday, development install from install and

Re: [newbie] Worthless email list

2000-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Richardlose the attitude. There are a lot of reasons why you gleaned no help for your problem. First off maybe nobody who read it had anything constructive to say. This list is made up of basically two groups. Folks who need help and folks volunteering their free time to try and help

Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?

2000-06-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjaminthere's a dialog that occurs during the install that asks you to deselect any of the three CD's listed that you don't have available. It appears that you need to deselect all three. If this dialog does not occur than I'd say you have probably found a bonified installation bug. Alan

Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux

2000-06-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Daciaonce you're booted with the rescue system and mounted your / directory you need to use the chroot (something like 'chroot /mnt/myroot' where /mnt/myroot is the temporary mountpoint for your / directory) command to change the current system to using your root directory as / (wherever

Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0

2000-06-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
do it! I have a subscription so I will be waiting to see Mandrake7.1 - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0 | Marcthere

Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0

2000-06-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 2:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0 | Marcyou're welcome. Wow, that'll be the 3rd Linux | Mandrake distro (6.0 7.0 so far) that Maximum

Re: [newbie] Talking about firewalls.

2000-06-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paulsorry, I don't know, as I've never used ICQ. But I can tell you that it works fine with both AIM (or gAIM) and MSN Messenger. Alan Paul wrote: On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Paulhere's one that'll work on everything. I use it on my masquerading/gateway machine

Re: [newbie] CD Writer: Which one?

2000-06-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paul.before you make a final decision visit this web site: http://www.smartandfriendly.com/ I bought a former 'special of the month', the cdr-4012 and it works just fine, both in win98 with the supplied software and in Linux Mandrake 7.0 using the x-cd-roast software (works in KDE) that

Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0

2000-06-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcthere's no need to uninstall. When you're reinstalling, the installation will re-format your partitions. There will be nothing left of the original install unless you request not to format one or more of your partitions. Alan Marc wrote: I want to uninstall Mandrake7.0 since I now

Re: [newbie] Adaptec AIC-7896 SCSI problems

2000-06-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
JesperI've had good use out of a Supermicro P6SBS MB that uses the 440BX chipset and the Adaptec AIC-7895 Dual Channel SCSI controller. It utilizes no onboard graphics controller (which I purposely avoid). Supermicro has a dual processor version of this MB, the P6DBS. If you find you need

Re: [newbie] gcc weirdness

2000-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
ColinI don't use Kmail, so I don't know if it has a setting you can use to fix the problem, but the mail client I use (Netscape Messenger) has a feature that I set to 'wrap incoming messages to window width.' What the person sending that type of message (one with no width formatting

Re: [newbie] Partition Magic

2000-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanusually the give away deals like this are simply marketing ploys to give you a taste of the possibilities of the software in question by giving you a copy of an older or partially crippled version. Then after getting a taste of it's capabilities you'll want to buy or upgrade to the

Re: [newbie] Connected or not Connected?

2000-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jeffreyin the kppp setup in the account setup section on the ip tab there is a checkbox labeled 'Auto-configure hostname from this IP'. Make sure that this box is unchecked. Alan Jeffrey Morse wrote: Hello, all! maybe someone out there can help me with my problem, I recently installed

Re: [newbie] Keyboard applet under Helix-GNOME 1.2

2000-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
DarrylI know nothing about Gnome, but in KDE there is a setting called 'International Keyboard'. If you have a little aqua square with En in it on the far right edge of the panel (just left of the clock) then right click on it. Then choose setup and add English Dvorak. After adding this

Re: [newbie] Shutting down X

2000-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jimif you booted into the console and then started the desktop gui with a startx command then all you need to do is logout of the gui. In KDE there is an X button just above a padlock button on the panel at the bottom of your screen. Click on this X button and follow the dialog boxes. If

Re: [newbie] Is my mail reaching you? (fwd)

2000-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Denistry this: Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan Denis HAVLIK wrote: Hi, folks. Does anyone know Wade? He has the strangest e-mail adress I ever saw, I wonder how has he managed to reach me - pine refuses to reply to an adress which has two "@" signs, and I am quite sure my procmail

Re: [newbie] Extending D Partition and allowing more space for Linux

2000-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanmy winNT 4.0 partition is fat16, just about anything can read it. Alan Romanator wrote: I know. This is very tricky. I think, I should order PowerQuest's Partitioning Tool. Apparently, the Windows version can resize and move NTFS. I found the freebie DOS version for FAT very

Re: [newbie] high security server and ftp and telnet

2000-06-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
VicI'd suggest a new hobby. :-) Alan Vic wrote: Well what if someone is so p*ssed off that they are smashing things because they don't know what to do I have done a re-install and I am not ashamed to admit it, I was smashing things and punching holes in my walls here because I was

Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-06-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Garythis newbie list and its partner, the expert list, have a much broader knowledge base, especially for solving Linux Mandrake specific problems, than any paid email or phone support system could possibly have. I'm sure that you'll be able to solve your problem using one or both of these

Re: [newbie] Changing partition type

2000-06-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
WayneI just installed Corel 1.0 yesterday on a similar system as you describe. I got my copy as a freebie when I bought some books from Linux Mall. Watch out, I installed with expert, assuming I'd get the most control possible. But it never made a boot floppy, nor did it give me any

Re: [newbie] sound problem

2000-06-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Garya quick reaction to your description makes me say that you may have another device trying to share the interrupt that your sound card is using and the sound card test routines don't like it. I suggest you address a fellow in the expert list who goes by the name of 'civileme', he's pretty

Re: [newbie] Imation Super Disk Drive - Parallel Port

2000-06-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Johnit takes no extra drivers, I use the ide/atapi version, so am not familiar with the setup of the parallel version. It has been discussed here many times so if nobody offers help right now the answer can most likely be found in the archives of this list and/or the expert list. Also maybe

Re: [newbie] Insstalling Adobe Acrobat Reader

2000-06-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanroot, always root! Alan Roman Bysh wrote: I just downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader. Should I install it while I'm logged in as 'root' or 'user? Or, does it really matter... Roman

Re: [newbie] I can't install x-windows

2000-06-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paultry typing startx at the prompt after you're logged in. If that is unsuccessful then you need to run the program Xconfigurator as the root user. When you're done with that, go back to being a regular user and try startx again. Alan Paul John Kiener wrote: dear anyone, hi, i

Re: [newbie] Command execution

2000-06-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Barrywhen you type a command at the prompt a search is made using your 'path'. If the program is not found in the 'path' you get the command not found error. The current directory is not scanned unless it is actually in your 'path', so if it is not you need to tell 'bash' that the program

Re: [newbie] quick kernel question

2000-06-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Billlook in the /boot directory. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Quick question: I need to know exactly what kernel is in LM 6.0 and 6.1. Thanks, BG

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-06-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Denisagreed. Alan Denis HAVLIK wrote: On 31 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :~ :~It will still be confusing to many folks if, like they did :~ :~with 6.1, MacMillan decides to market 7.1 as 7.5!! Their :~ :~excuse was that more people will purchase an upgrade sequenced :~ :~by

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-06-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Why was I snide? Because that marketing tactic was insulting and suggested to me that someone at MacMillan didn't think that their customers were very bright. I was sincerely hoping that MacMillan wouldn't be using it again. I guess you're not and I'm glad of that. Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-06-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Denisnot allowing them to fiddle around with release numbers would be a good thing, I hope you're correct. Alan Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~It will still be confusing to many folks if, like they did :~with 6.1, MacMillan decides to market 7.1 as 7.5!! Their :~excuse was that more people

Re: [newbie] Resizing Panels

2000-06-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
EdisonI believe you meant to address Andrew, not me. Anyway, KDE has one thing called a Panel and it's not what you are calling a panel (window or applet is a better choice in that instance I believe). Anyway the Panel is the big bar that sits at the bottom of the screen (by default) and

Re: [newbie] Setting lilo to dual boot 98 from seperate drive???

2000-06-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting lilo to dual boot 98 from seperate drive??? Aaronthe way my system works is: 1. I use BootMagic as a muli-os boot manager on a scsi s

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-06-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
to confusion. This is hardly worthy of the content and tone of your response. AlanShoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wrong. Macmillan is doing the next release as a 7.1. Not sure where you heard we were doing 7.5. Totally inaccurate. Thanks for all the support! Bill Gardner

Re: [newbie] Help!!

2000-05-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Edisonno, the command is 'fdisk /mbr' not 'format /mbr'. And you need the program 'fdisk.exe' on the bootable dos floppy. Alan Edison Gica wrote: Hi M.: Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have a windows boot disk and can boot from my floppy drive. So i just give the command format

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
AnthonyI'll bet you weren't really a total newbie 5 months ago. I was using the term newbie to refer to folks who have only used a Windows machine or a Mac previously. :-) Alan Anthony Huereca wrote: P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of Linux instead of buying

Re: [newbie] upgrading questions

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michaelthe only differences between the 7.0 and 7.0-2 iso images (the GPL CD or 'disc one' in a boxed set) is in the installation routines, that means the programs whose only job is to actually run the installation process. The end product of that installation, that means the software that

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paul wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2000, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hey all. Got a question. Why, when I log on/into KDE as user 'glenn' as opposed to 'root'. do the changes to the desktop not work? Example, I tried to change the colors using KDE Control Center, Desktop, Colors, and they did not

Re: [newbie] Order 7.1 in Germany

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
ThorstenTry this web address: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/europe.php3 Alan Thorsten Brenner wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me where to Buy or to pre-order the Linux Mandrake PowerPack 7.1 in germany? Thanks Thorsten

Re: [newbie] ATTN: ALAN S.

2000-05-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Denissure it means something! It means that as soon as the iso is available then you're on a list of customers with a vendor that will get a copy out to you asap. That means something to me! It will still be confusing to many folks if, like they did with 6.1, MacMillan decides to market

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
it to owner/group as root/root and check the click boxes to allow groups and/or others to write, execute, etc.? Just a thought. Bambi Alan Shoemaker wrote: Glennthe owner.group for your /home/glenn/.kderc file are probably set to root.root and need to be changed

Re: [newbie] kppp wierdness]

2000-05-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
AndrewI believe that I've heard of this happening when someone's chosen one of the higher security levels. The system senses a new user when the phone connection is made (the ip address of ppp0 changes to whatever the isp assigned) and therefore does not allow any of the normally accessable

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
they are still working on it. I could not find the webmaster's address. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: Roman.unless something has changed since its original release, it is a Win9x application. Alan Romanator wrote: Sorry. I think I should rephrase my question. Iomegaware software

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oliverthanks, it's quite unusual to be exposed to such such creative wordsmithmanship (was that a real word?) in this venue. :-) Alan "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote: [snip] ...everything seems to be double coded 8-). unfamiliar terminology linked with unfamiliar code in a montage without

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oliveropen Konsole, navigate to /usr/bin and begin launching. Some will be gui based, others will be console based and some won't appear to do anything. Enjoy. Alan "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote: what is in it? Sat, 27 May 2000 10:07:33 How did all of you solve this problem

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oliverone more thing. Navigate to /usr/doc and start reading. Alan "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote: what is in it? Sat, 27 May 2000 10:07:33 How did all of you solve this problem when you were a newbie? I have hundreds of unknown to me programs on this Mandrake...I discover what

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paulwith or without docs you can pre-order 7.1 at: http://www.LLand.com/products/ Alan Paul wrote: On Fri, 26 May 2000, Michael wrote: HOW CAN I BUY 7.1 WITH DOCS OR WITHOUT? -michael- BY WAITING UNTIL IT COMES OUT. Sorry for shouting back. Paul

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanmy 100mb scsi zip drive installs w/o anything special as well. Alan Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Romanator wrote: Has any one tried the Linux drivers for Iomega ZIP drives? Roman What driver ? I have an Iomega zip 100MB. ATAPI. No driver needed, I've set it up without pbs.

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Roman.unless something has changed since its original release, it is a Win9x application. Alan Romanator wrote: Sorry. I think I should rephrase my question. Iomegaware software allows you to pick and choose what you want to and when to back up your files. How can you control the

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Glennthe owner.group for your /home/glenn/.kderc file are probably set to root.root and need to be changed to glenn.glenn. This was a bug in the 7.0 iso that got fixed in the 7.0-2 iso. It only happens to user accounts created during the install. Alan Glenn Johnson wrote: Hey all. Got

Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Libaries

2000-05-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dacia and AzureRosethat's 1100 meg of compressed data which translates to between 2.0 and 2.5 gig when installed. Alan Dacia and AzureRose wrote: how much disc space do they need? Are we talking 10s or megs or 100s of megs? Sounds like 7.1 is around 1100 megs for a full install

Re: [newbie] corrupted fstab

2000-05-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jimon your installation CD there is a file in the images directory called rescue.img and another file called README. Follow the directions in the rescue section of the README file. Then use the set of 2 floppies you just made to boot your system at which point you should be able to repair

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
to ask me for clarification on any statement I ever make and to post your own, but I will not accept you presuming to tell me what I believe. Charles - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Charles A Edwards

Re: [newbie] Konsole Syntax Error

2000-05-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanno, not really. It should be: chown -R roman.roman /home/roman Alan Romanator wrote: Thanks Paul, command line at 'root' should be: chown -R roman login.roman login /home/roman Thanks, Roman Romanator wrote: Hi, I am still having problems with enabling the

Re: [newbie] Konsole Syntax Error

2000-05-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanno, not really. It should be: chown -R roman.roman /home/roman Alan Romanator wrote: Thanks Paul, command line at 'root' should be: chown -R roman login.roman login /home/roman Thanks, Roman Romanator wrote: Hi, I am still having problems with enabling the

Re: [newbie] mandrake is a terd

2000-05-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
re running it at work and home. Now everyone at work is asking why I am reformatting my hard drive and running something else. sorry for the attitude. I will be more patient next time. thanks for your help. Roger Alan Shoemaker wrote: RogerI really have a problem understanding you

Re: [newbie] LILO

2000-05-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcyou don't want to get rid of lilo, just remove it from your mbr. However this will occur automatically when you install and activate BootMagic so you don't need to worry about it, though it can be done with the dos utility fdisk (fdisk /mbr from a dos prompt). You do need to install

Re: [newbie] Printer access

2000-05-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
DanielMandrake uses an /etc/hosts.lpd file, maybe it didn't get created during installation, if not it needs to contain by default '+enter' (where enter is a press of the enter or return key). Alan Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, The problem is that Mandrake is not allowing access to the

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