Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.
Will Lowe wrote: > > yes i have only windows 98 installed on my computer. I was wondering if > > there was any way that i could convert FAT 32 back into FAT16 without > > reinstalling windows. > > I don't think so. Why would you want to? > Will > NT dos not see FAT32 for one. But unfortunatly you can't convert from FAT32 to FAT16. Shanta
Colour Map Problem
Hi After much fooling around I have Communicator running but The problem now is the Colour map. Netscape requires true colour I can only seem to get 4 bit susdo colour. How can I get 8 bit or higher colour. In this mode Netscape goes black and White not to useful. Real hard on the eyes too as it sift in and out of colour as you move focus to other xwindows or off netscape. I would also like to use my windows 95 user directory for netscape can I point netscape there? This would keep my mail in order insted of leaving mail on the server then downloading again in windows. Shanta
Re: downloading
Bob Nielsen wrote: > bind is not required. /etc/resolv.conf should contain the ip addresses of This may be true but there is no instructions for the newbie to do that. I had to get bind working before my system would log onto my provider. The bind setup takes care of it for you. > > nameservers you will access. wvdial is not required either, but probably > simplifies the setup of ppp. Be prepared for many hours of downloading! > Yes and YESS If you don't have a cd you are stuck with this scenario.
Re: downloading
John > > Dont give up its worth the effort. > Definitely worth the effort. If you don't have a CD this is the root that I hacked out to get a reasonable smooth install. Download the floppy disk install. Download wvdial. The dialer to make getting on line easy. Download Bind. The local DNS server. Make the install set as per instructions. Copy wvdial & bind to a disk. I think they will fit. I left mine on the hard drive. Install from the floppy set. dselect will run automatically. set the download install to FTP. You will not be able to install yet as. will not have PPP and Bind setup yet. I have both the stock stable and slink added to my list. You can edit this list manually later or add the dist/slink/main etc. now. If you do it now you will have to reenter all the links as it completely rewrites the field. Alt f2 to another shell. find the bind*.deb on the floppy or hard drive If it is on the hard drive. You will have to mount the drive it is on. dpkg -i bind* and answer the prompts. dpkg will ask you if you what to start bind say yes you need this running to be able to access the net. Then find the wvdial*.deb dpkg-i wvdial*.deb give it your provider phone # etc. run the dialer alt F1 back to dselect and check your connection. It will log into ftp.debian.org and verify it can find the available files list when done you are dropped by default to update file list in the main menu. do so and replace list of files. Select your files. This method take a lot of time but you are on the leading edge of file concurrentsy. I update my files once a week. This took many failed and partial installs. but I learned setup in dos and you can't give up. Debian Linux is by far worth the effort. Shanta > > Anyway consider it an Initiation test > > Check out the following "http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/"; > > "slink" being the most recently released "stable" version > > Its a big download i think ive got about 1.2GB worth sitting on a spare disk > It may be easier to buy a CD copy > > Cheers > > kitc wrote: > > >I tried for over two hours to figure out how to download a copy of > > your program off the mirrir sights. why can't you just have a file that > > you can download easily and not have to try and play hunt and pick to > > get a program. I would really like to try linux but can find no place to > > download it that doesn't run you all over. > > > > Thank > > You > > Kit L > > Cunningham > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Funny netscape problem (How to debug and solve)
Daniel Mashao wrote: > I have a funny nestcape problem on my home machine. i installed netscape > as root and have two accounts (one me and the other my wife's). As me > (daniel) I can run netscape without problem, but I cannot run netscape as > root nor can my wife run it as all. The Netscape program has an configuration file that has root access by default to No you can reverse this but as Andrei said in his reply this is a breach of security. Why netscape has a problem and the rest of the options don't I don't know. Just what the problem is would also be of interest > > I have tried to remove all reference of netscape from my wife's account > but it still does not work. Same for root. One may have to set a switch in the Netscape config file to allow all users to have rights to the program. Shanta
Re: Netscape problems
"Jens I found the Netscape the version needed did yet another reinstall and now I do have a Netscape static that works, Communicator is Still out to lunch. but we are progressing. Thanks for the time and info. Shanta
Re: Sound Card problems
"Craig T. Hancock" wrote: > Use OSS to detect your sound caerd it is much eaiser Got things working with this method. Product was easy to install even with out the .deb that I found in Dselect later. BUT I am now into a scenario of a time limet on the software. I guess I can get the info about the card and try the kernel approach suggested in another message. Or spring for the cash and buy the program. Thanks for the advice and the learning experience. It just gets better. Shanta
Re: what's the best html wordprocessor?
Paul > I don't intend to debate the pros and cons of editors v/ wysiwyg. > There are pros and con's here wysiyg get one into more trouble than it can be worth. > processor (i.e., wp8) but save in as clean an html format as possible. > I personal don't like WP HTML it put hard spaces into your document so if a browser is in a different resolution your page will not get rendered properly. WP8 has been ported to Linux and is available from Corel. I have yet to get it going though so I still use my Win version. For you needs though it seems that WP8 port or a until that puts in the codes you need. Shanta
Re: what's the best html wordprocessor?
Steve Lamb wrote: > > Then you've been using the wrong tools. Macromedia's Dreamweaver (yeah, > I know, Windows, but hear me out) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor that doesn't You are right Dreamweaver, Coldfusion (the one I use for HTML and Perl) are great products. I play with the page in Dreamwerver and Coldfusion till it looks good then move it into Perl. Rumor from the makers that they are porting Coldfusion to Linux, with luck one more of the reasons for using windows will disappear. Shanta
PCI Modems and Trident cards
Hi I have a PCI modem which I cant seem to get Linux to see. There also dose not seem to be a Trident 975 driver for X windows. Do I have to run the PCI module, which I installed with dselect of the Debian website? Will this program detect the modem? Shanta
Netscape problems
Hi I used dselect to install all the communicator programs and it will not load. I had this problem with the dynamic version in an old installation but the static version seemed to work . In the latest builds there dose not seem to be these two versions. How can I get this product on line? Shanta
Sound Card problems
Hi I am trying to setup my sound card. What is the kernel setup here? I download the latest Debian updates with Dselect on a weekly basis so I have the current release. Shanta McBain
OpenLinux lite and Debian?
hi I just got a book "The Complete Reference Linux second edition" and it contains a cd. OpenLinux Lite is this disk compatible with the debian core that I have installed? Do I have to install the OpenLinux to take advantage of the programs on the CD? Thanks Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux install problem
After trying everything that fdisk had to offer I used cfdisk and it did what it was supped to do. Where fdisk fell sort of the mark cfdisk didn't. I am up and running again. Installing with out a cd is a major headache. I have to down load with the windows machine, transfer the file to a disk then into the linux machine. Cant even ftp from the windows machine as the ftp dos not appear to be in the base setup from floppies. Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux install problem
Hi I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical partitions exist. likely the linux primary and swap. It will not delete them as delete partitions dose not see the partitions. Is there a linux tool that will fix the problem? Thanks Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install problem
Hi all Here is the problem I have been trying to install Debian from a set of floppies. Things go well until disk 5 is done and it try's to decompress the final file for install. It gives and error that it cant install the file and goes to the next step. I then reboot the system. It will go through a hole series of incremental segmentation faults to 33 ending with /etc/fstab: no such file or dir. fsck failed Please repair manually Control-d will exit this shell and continue system start up give root password for maintenance (or type control-d for normal startup): Control-d takes one back to the same point. Password rm: /root.bush_profile: Read-only file system mv: replace '/root/.bush_profile' , overriding mode 0755? y takes one asks to change password cannot lock the password file; try again later passwrd[47]: can't lock password file. locked into change password What now? I have tried fdisking the disk but it will not remove the partions. to start again. drive has dos and extended dos (Linux). What is worng here? Thanks for your time Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
deselect not finding vmlinuz.old
hi Deselect will exit on error that it cannot find the file vmlinuz.old in the base dir. The file shows on a ls. you can mv to a new name. and back but you cant cp it or open it with ae. This effectively stops me from installing most of the packages. what is wrong here and how can I correct it? Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you connect one computer to another
> Sorry, but what is a "tcp/ip drive"? Maybe you could explain what you want > to do. If you want to access your linuxbox via the network neighborhood, > you can use samba for this. This will also allow access the other way > round. Sorry for not knowing the terms of reference for Linux I came from the dos word and we map drive to letters. Yes I do what to access my file directories from each file system.How to I access the simba system I have it installed on my linux box? Thanks Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do you connect one computer to another
Hi I have a linux running on a 386 connected to a Win95 system via ether net ne2000. If I attempt a dns search from linux will launch the proxy dialer on the Win95 system. How to I get access to the Win95 tcp/ip drives from the linux box and vise versa? Thanks Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Networking with Novell and Win95
Hi I am in the process of setting up a Dabian Linux system. The root that I use to update the Dabian files is, download on Win95 to Novell server, boot Linux machine to Novell client move files to dos partition. reboot to Linux and use dselect. I have the Novell 2000 card activated now I would like to get the windows system to see the Linux system and the Linux system to see the Novell and Win95 system. I am getting closer from the docs but I find it confusing to say the least. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Libc6 is also a problem I can't seem to find it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
