[newbie] Virus

[Emanuele La Rosa]

Does anybody know about virus for Linux.  I thoght that nobody make virus for
linux, but now I'm impressed of the fact that MCaffe make an antivirus for
Linux. I hope that now that exists a linux antivirus anybody will make virus
for it.

Re: [newbie] Getting Started: Virtual Desktop

[Paul]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, ChOPpY C. Chipper wrote:

>Hey,
>
>I have heard about a "virtual desktop", which allows you to scroll around the 
>desktop, at a larger resolution than ur monitor can handle?  How do i enable this + 
>set res?

It is default in Gnome and KDE. At the bottom in the menu bar (KDE) there
are 4 desktops already setup. You can set how you want this to behave,
moving the mouse can already get you to it.

Paul

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[newbie] A Dual CPU Computer

[Sami A. Kutbi]

I'm building a dual CPU computer is Mandrake compatible with it. please
pass any recommendations.


Thanks.

[newbie] OpenGL Error

[ChOPpY C. Chipper]

    Hey, I was 
working on getting my TNT2 / Voodoo2 To Work in LiNuX.  I got it to run 
Q3A, but whenever I try to change ANY Options, it gives me the following 
error:
 
..loading opengl32: QGL_Init: Can't load opengl32 
from /etc/ld.so.conf orcurrent dir: /usr/3demo/opengl32: cannot open shared 
object file: No such fileor directory   
I installed the TNT2 Drivers from NVIDIA, and run 
the MESA 3dfx drivers that came w/ Q3A.  I got the 3dfx drivers from 
linux.3dfx.com .
 
Any Help Would Gladly be Appreciated,
ChOPpY C. Chipper
 
 

Re: [newbie] lost+found folder

[kenny]

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From: "Hellmut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] lost+found folder


> Grmpf... 28... and you?
>
>
> > now i have ot ask how old are you hehe
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Hellmut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 9:11 AM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] lost+found folder
> >
> > > Ooops, gut you wrong. Thought you meant my "interpretation" on the
> > lost+found
> > > folder... I'm getting old! ;)
> > > And yes, it's a cool idea to add this feature!
>
> [...previous blah blah...]
>
> --
> ,
>
> (o o)
> +--oOOO--(_)---+
> |  |
> |H E L L M U T |
> |  |
> | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de |
> |  |
> +-0OOO-+
>   | _ | _ |
>| | | |
>| | | |
>ooO Ooo
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Re: [newbie] installing LM7 from HD...help please

[kenny]

Its gonna drive you crazy...thats what happened to me. do an expert install
then do the minimal between 176-300 or so
then install the rest by yourself. Its a pain but it worked. :-)

Kenny
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From: "Eric MC DECLERCK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] installing LM7 from HD...help please


> Michael Gano wrote:
> >
> > Getting:
> >"An error occurred
> >   installation of rpms failed:
> >  installing package needs 555 MB on the /mnt/ filesystem."  ???
> >
> > WHAT I'VE DONE
> > no burner, so I ftped mandrake et al from the FTP server to my personal
> > machine. Then...
> >
> >  - I rawwrote the hd.img file to a floppy and booted.
> >  - Showed the mandrake directory.
> >  - Chose customized and remaining options.
> >  - (I've got 2 HDs in the computer...the plan being to load linux onto
the
> > blank one so...) I formatted a HD, giving it everything it wanted /
mount
> > point and swap with at least 1200 MB for the / . ...but to know avail.
No
> > matter what packages I choose or how small I set the size limit, I
continue
> > to get the error above (and it's not always 555 but sometimes larger or
> > smaller.)
> >
> > ???
> > I appreciate any help in advance,
> > Thx,
> > Michael
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> A full install need about 1.3G !!
> All depends of your mount points.
> What I did:  (had the same problem)
> / (about 600-800M)
> /usr (big one  most of all, my case 3G)
> /boot (32M, enough to put more diff. kernels)
> /usr/local (about 600M, to preserve own data)
> /home (depends of the nbr of users)
> On my 2° HD reside:
> There is 1 prim. partition = /
> and 1 extended = /usr, /usr/local, /home
> On my 1° HD :
> 1 prim. for windoooz
> 1 prim. for /boot(set it always as prim.)
> 1 swap about 256M
> Eric
>
>
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Re: [newbie] Root Password

[Scotchpie]

On Thu, 04 May 2000, you wrote:
> 
> Anyone know anything about how to set super permissions to a user without giving 
>them the root password, or the authority to change the root password once they are 
>granted super user permissions.
> Thanks in advance.
> Dave
> 

Hi Dave.  
Well I'm quite new to all of this myself.  It sounds as though you
may have forgotten your root password and therefore want to give 
your user account SU privilages so as to select a new one.  If this
is so I think you may struggle.  Before any permissions can be given
you must first be in root which of course requires the password.
Maybe someone knows of a hack to get round this.
Good luck
-- 
Scotchpie
registered linux user: 175478

[newbie] StarOffice & Mandrake7

[GAPrichard]

After 6 full installs, I now know what was corrupting my X.  It was not 
desktop configuration, hdparm, video setup (as generics), or any of the other 
RPMs I loaded from Mandrake 7 Deluxe, (modem & sound not configured) --Star 
Office so corrupted X that it froze Linux during boot, while trying to switch 
over to graphical login.  I had made many changes during the install, and 
fully recreated everything (except for the one thing I was testing) when 
reloading.  During only one iteration was I able to get a (frozen) console 
screen, which showed these messages: bad length in Geometry, output file 
/var/tmp/server-0.xkm removed, couldn't load XKB keymap, Font Trans Socket 
UNIX Connect: can't connect: errno-111, failed to set default font path 
1unix/:-1, and fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'.  The 
Star Office RPM appeared to run and end normally.
Would a reinstall of X from the distribution CD have a good chance at 
giving me a working Linux and Star Office?  Am I better off to give this up 
where I am (all the rest are working fine after the last reload)?  Ideas?
Also, how does one go about repair on a corrupt file system?My first 
boot after Star Office gave messages about repairing the file structure.  I 
realized I know nothing about repair, though I've heard that it is possible.  
Thanks for your help.  -Gary-

Re: [newbie] Root Password

[Paul]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, David Smith wrote:

>Anyone know anything about how to set super permissions to a user without giving them 
>the root password, or the authority to change the root password once they are granted 
>super user permissions.
>Thanks in advance.
>Dave
>

You could add the user to the ROOT group, using userconf (as root).

Paul

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Re: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here

[Andy]

OOps forgot to ask the question but how do u scan 
e-mails with Mcafee?
THanx

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Andy 
  
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:31 
  PM
  Subject: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on 
  here
  
  Im sorry to be asking on here about a windows 
  question, but i heard people saying that they scan their e-mails and said they 
  might have gotten viruses from this newsgroup. So im using Mcafee and if there 
  are any Mcafee people out there can u please help me. I feel sorta stupid 
  :)
   
  Thanx

Re: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz...

[Paul]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Marc wrote:

>i never thought i would see the need for a linux anti virii...i know mcafee
>has one for linux also...http://www.mcafee.com

Just trying to be safe. There are hardly as many virae for Linux as there
are for Windows, but that is not the reason to become careless for me...

Paul

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RE: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here

[James McLaughlin]

I have 
not seen anything from this newsgroup.
 
Katana

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  PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Sorry 
  to be asking on here
  Im sorry to be asking on here about a windows 
  question, but i heard people saying that they scan their e-mails and said they 
  might have gotten viruses from this newsgroup. So im using Mcafee and if there 
  are any Mcafee people out there can u please help me. I feel sorta stupid 
  :)
   
  Thanx

Re: [newbie] Apache modules

[Paul]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, MC_Vai wrote:

>How can I see which modules do I have installed with Mandrake 7.0? (I
>choose developer installation but I have Apache installed anyway)
>
>Thanks for all your support guys.

Run KPACKAGE and you can see all the _installed_ stuff.
Run LSMOD as root, and you can see all the _loaded_ modules/

Paul


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Re: [newbie] Can someone answer me these questions three

[Paul]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Tim Schmidt wrote:

>
>I hope someone can help me on these Mandrake installation problems.
>
>First, I'm trying to install 7.0 on a second hard drive with windows 98 on
>the first one.  Someone told me in order for Lilo to work I have to reformat
>hda and answer yes for large disk support and no for no for using the whole
>disk.  Is this true?  I'd like to be sure before I mess with it.

This is NOT TRUE. You only need to set up Large Disk Support if you want
to use FAT32 I think.

>My second and third questions have to do with installing 7.0 on a IBM
>Thinkpad 380E.  When installing it tries to check the pcmcia cards then I get
>"An error occurred: insmod pcmcia core failed"
>How do I fix this?   Last but not least if I skip checking for pcmcia cards
>it goes a little farther before I get " No available partition" even though I
>used fdisk and format.  How can I fix this problem?

Sorry, don't know about PCcards...
Paul

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Re: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here

[Marc]

There was a new worm(love letter)that is nasty. 
Update your dat files for mcafee now. Mcafee is the only virii vender with dats 
for this new worm. It is very nasty. I am working with a big company right now 
to get the worm out of 40 computers.
 
 
 

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  From: 
  Andy 
  
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:31 
  PM
  Subject: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on 
  here
  
  Im sorry to be asking on here about a windows 
  question, but i heard people saying that they scan their e-mails and said they 
  might have gotten viruses from this newsgroup. So im using Mcafee and if there 
  are any Mcafee people out there can u please help me. I feel sorta stupid 
  :)
   
  Thanx

Re: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!

[Paul]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, root wrote:

>I have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a dual boot with Windows 98.  The only
>problem I am having is that I get sound ok for my cds but I cannot get
>any sounds for my desktop! I am using a sound card that I got with my
>Packard Bell Platinum 4400.

Did you select "Use system sounds" in the desktop config (sound section)?
That is what I had forgotten...
You also need to assign sounds, it does not do that by itself in KDE.

Paul

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[newbie] Qmial/Serialmail

[Paul]

Hi everyone,

Trying to figure out something here.
I use Qmail to send mail, but when I am not online and 'queue' mail, it
can take upto 2 days before mail is sent out, no matter how long or often
I am online.

So I tried getting Serialmail to work. Followed the things to set up the
package, but to no avail. Mail is being sent to "local" and nothing
happens. Could there be something wrong with the Qmail setup that things
are so slow?

Paul

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[newbie] CRON

[Pete Clapham]

Hi, all --

Have any of you configured a CRON table?  I would like to have our Linux Server 
perform a cleanup operation once each day, 
and CRON would seem to be the way to do this.  I have looked at the MAN tables for 
both CRON and CRONTAB, and they are 
all but undecipherable.  Can you advise me:

[1] Is CRON the right thing to use?

[2] What is the syntax for an operation call (call it CleanItUp) to be performed 
at 2:34 AM each day?

[3] What file does the above operation call go into?

Thank you very much for your help.

cheers,
pete



Pete Clapham
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio, 44115

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[newbie] C Programming

[Pete Clapham]

Hi, all --

I would like to thank those of you who answered my query about taking a log in GNU c.  
The program was, indeed, as I had 
thought, correct, but the linker does not link the math libraries unless the -lm 
switch is present.  Things now work fine.

Pete Clapham
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio, 44115

Phone: [216] 687-4820
Fax: [216] 523-7175
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Re: [newbie] Crash after hardware change

[Steve Philp]

Mr A V Moisseenkov wrote:
> 
> Dear experts,
> 
> I installed Mandrake 7.0 on a powerful computer,
> where it worked fine. Than I took the hard drive
> out and inserted it into my home computer,
> which is a Pentium 120, Cirrus Logic 5446.
> 
> Now, when Linux boots and goes through all the
> text-mode messaging fine, it fails to start up
> KDE and starts blinking in the text mode.
> 
> What's interesting about the blinking is that
> it is still possible to login, but the keyboard
> works only when the display is on (half a second).

It sounds like you told Mandrake to start in graphic mode when it
boots.  Since it was probably setup for a different graphics chipset (or
a different resolution), it just keeps trying to restart gdm.  flash,
text, flash, text sounds about right for the problem.

> I had kudzu service on and it reconfigured my
> graphics card, I believe.
> 
> I am interested in:
> 
> - Whether I can run KDE without reinstalling
> the OS

You'll need to rerun Xsetup to reconfigure the graphics modes since your
home system doesn't support the chipset or mode you originally
configured.

> - How do I stop Linux from starting KDE by
> default.

At the lilo prompt, enter:

linux 3

this will boot the machine into runlevel 3 (instead of 5) which is
straight text mode.  You'll be able to run Xsetup from here.
 
> Before installing Mandrake I tried Corel Linux. It
> managed to reconfigure itself without any work or
> even notice from my side. It also configured itself
> automatically for our university network, which
> Mandrake did not do even after I tried to manually
> alter the networking configuration. Unfortunately,
> Corel Linux crashed twice in two days...

Interesting distribution, really.  It worked well on one machine here,
but was absolutely horrible on the other.  Now it's gone from both.  It
was a freebie install anyway, it came with Corel Office 2k.

--
Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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[newbie] SIGHUP?

[Paul]

Hi all

Sometimes I feel like I know a bit about Linux, sometimes I run into
something that stumps me.

Just now, I found this in a text-file:

"give qmail-send a SIGHUP"

Can anyone tell me what a SIGHUP is, and how you give it to a running
process?

Paul

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Re: [newbie] Trying to hd install LM7.0-2 air and keep getting error

[Aaron Zuercher]

I had an error like this when I tried to boot off the CDROM and install 
Mandrake 7.  However If I make a CDROM boot disk and use that the install 
was fine.


Aaron


At 07:13 PM 5/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I have been trying to hd install drake but when it gets to stage 2 ramdisk
>::: Loading second stage ramdisk ... install exited abnormally -- recieved
>signal 9 sending termination signals... done sending kill signals... done
>unmounting filesystem  /tmp/hdimage/proc  you may safely reboot your system
>
>I dont have a cd rom it burned out and i d/c it, 2 hd main-4gig 2nd-1gig
>pentium 75
>
>somebody help me p[lease before i pull out whats left of my hair.
>
>
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>Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
>http://im.yahoo.com

[newbie] Disableing Supermount and other fstab questions

[Aaron Zuercher]

Hi,
How do I disable supermount?

Also, I would like my non-root user to be able to mount and umount my CDROM 
and ZIP drives.  What permissions do I need to give to what to do this?  As 
it stands currently I have to SU before I mount and umount.

Thanks,

Aaron

[newbie] clock skew detected !

[quaylar]

does anybody know what this means when building a new kernel (it  happens when
issuing the make command):

make : WARNING : clock skew detected, your build may be incomplete !

wth does this mean ???

--quay

Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem in X

[Anders Linden]

Den ons, 03 maj 2000 skrev du:
> Anders Linden wrote:
> > 
> > > > > Ok,
> > > > > in console (not in X) type 'X > /var/log/x.out 2>&1' w/c.
> > > > > Normally you can't see what it is doing and nothing will be happen
> > > > > (system halted)
> > > > > so press CTRL-C.
> > > > > Now start X (startx).
> > > > > Read the created file '/var/log/x.out' with your tex-editor.
> > > > > Is there a message:
> > > > > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> > > > >   >Error  Cannot open "/var/tmp/server-.xkm"
> > > > > ..
> > > > > ???
> > > > > Eric
> > > >
> > > > No, there's nothing like that in the file
> > > Sorry,
> > > there MUST be a pb with your X server.
> > > If there are no error messages in this file (occurs when X can't access
> > > /var/tmp as user)
> > > then your keyboard is not set correctly to X.
> > > It works in console, do it ?
> > > So there is no raison to not work in X.
> > > When in X as ROOT, have you the same pb ?
> > > Eric
> > 
> > Yes, the same problem. Doesn´t matter if I'm root or not.
> > /Anders
> I presume you didn't change anything about your keyboard in KDE ?
> So, look a while at DRAKconf, Control, Features;
> and look at 'keyboard map' and 'language'; is it set to what you
> selected
> at the install ?
> Eric

Yes, the language is the same. Can't figure out what's wrong. Never had this
problem when using RH6.0
/Anders

[newbie] About the ILOVE YOU virus

[James McLaughlin]

I know alot of you have not seen or heard from me in a while.  But working
in a ISP...in less than 1.5 hours alot of our customers got the ILOVEYOU
thingy.  It is nasty.  It gets in the machine, changes alot of mulitmedia
files to .txt files..and as of now..there is no "double clicking" fix.

The manual fix is below...if one of your machines gets this virus
IMMEDIATELY pull it from your network..cause it infects network drives.

How to confirm if a machine is infected with the
> ILOVEYOU/LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs virus:
>
> Do a Find for mskernel32 and win32dll. If these files are present on the
> machine then the machine has the virus.
>
>
> These are the steps to do a manual cleanup of a machine infected by the
> virus:
>
> 1. Use the Find utility and delete the following files:
>
> MSKernel32.vbs
> LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs
> LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.HTM
> Win32DLL.vbs
>
> 2. Delete the following registry keys:
> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MSKernel32
> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\Win32DLL
>
> 3. Files with the extensions .js (java script), .jse, .css, .wsh, .sct,
> and .hta will be copied and renamed with the extension .vbs. The virus may
> then (or may not) delete the original files.
> a. If the original files still exist, delete the *.vbs copies.
> b. If the original files have been deleted (and they're not available in
> the Recycle Bin), replace them with copies from another machine. NOTE: The
> only affected files we have found at this time are:
> Aform.js
> Afstrenu.js
>
> 4. Files with the extensions .jpg, .jpeg, .mp3, or .mp2 will be copied and
> renamed with extensions of .jpg.vbs, .jpeg.vbs, .mp3.vbs, and .mp2.vbs,
> respectively. Delete these files:
> *.jpg.vbs
> *.jpeg.vbs
> *.mp3.vbs
> *.mp2.vbs
>
> 5. The virus points the machine to a different home page (aka Start Page).
> Create a .reg file with the following entries and then execute it while
> the customer is logged on. This is necessary because the Start Page is
> unique to the current user and the customer won't have permission to run
> the registry editor.
>
> REGEDIT4
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
> "Start Page"="http://rfetshp"


This is no spam thingy just being nice!

If you need more info...here is some from AVP!
http://www.avp.com/may04.html

James
Katana
Foamypup

Re: [newbie] modem/internet/connection/cdrom2

[mrweb]

Hi Alan,

I sure didn't, I take it I should have though. :)
What happened was during install I assigned the incorrect com port, I
assigned com3, when
it should have been com 2. Thats what I get for talking to someone while
doing an installation, huh.

Do you think it would be easier if I started fresh but only did an
'upgrade' instead of a full installation, for me to correct my
modem/connection/printer/cdrom2 challenges?

Thanks,
b/web
Wade


At 04:05 PM 5/3/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Wadewhen you decided that your modem was on com2 and
>therefore changed the configuration to ttys1, did you disable
>the motherboard com2 in the system bios?
>
>Alan
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I am still without a connection to the internet. I am starting to wonder if
>> I perhaps should consider re-installing? Everything seems to be working
>> just beautifully. I still am lost as to what I am missing to get my modem
>> to work (no it is not a winmodem). I have a Creative labs Modem Blaster 56K
>> v.90/K56 type modem.
>> 
>> What have I done thus far;
>> 
>> I have set 'kppp'
>> configured my modem and connection using 'LinuxConf'
>> and 'NetConf'
>> I have checked my ppp0 configuration in 'ifup'
>> 
>> I have also gone root and run;
>> 
>> less /var/log/messages
>> 
>> which generated over 2000 lines of output (I haven't even been online with
>> it yet :))
>> 
>> I was unable to find anything helpful to me there.
>> 
>> Then I made the only change that resulted in any change and that was I
>> reset the com port
>> aka ttyS2 I changed to ttyS1 and I got some movment. After which when I
>> tell kppp to dial instead of the old message that said "looking for modem"
>> it now says "initializing modem" which seemed at first like an improvement
>> however I have yet to figure out what else it is requiring.
>> 
>> Also when I run /sbin/ifup ppp0 it reports "taking longer than expected to
>> complete"
>> failed to activate ppp0 with error 8 & error 9
>> 
>> Also I have changed the init string from the old ATZ to;
>> AT&FE0V1S0=0&C1&D2+MR=2;+DR=1;+ER=1;W0
>> as per recommendations from "Ask Mr. Modem".
>> 
>> Similarly when I run mount /dev/cdrom2 I get
>> 'is not a valid block device
>> return 32
>> "
>> checking permissions
>> "
>> "
>> "
>> 
>> I guess I am wondering, if I reinstall can I do a better job at configuring
>> my modem and my second cdrom etc from DrakX with a fresh install?
>> Also I think I used the supermount option, and from what I have read here
>> it may be better for me to not use that option.
>> 
>> Thanks for any and all input.
>> 
>> b/web
>> Wade
>> 
>> PS - Did I say I LOVE this OS?
>
>
>

Re: [newbie] Install problems on older machines?!?!

[Seglar Killen]

After a week and a half i have found out why my computer stalled during 
install:

i loose the IRQ to my GOLDSTAR 8X atapi cdrom. why is it lost i dont know. 
When the packages start installing my cd just dies. I can eventually get it 
to work again by manually switching the power off and back on on the cd 
only, but i loose irq again after a few seconds.

So to all of you that has mandrake installed AND has done it on a GOLDSTAR 
8X cdrom i wonder: How did you do it???

Thanx to all that tried to solve my problem :)

/Jimmi Wimmersjö

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[newbie] Printer newbie help!

[Andrew Edward McCall]

Hi,
 
I am not so much a Linux newbie, but a printer 
newbie!
 
I have a Epson Stylus Color 740 connected to my 
parallel port, and I tried setting it up on installation, and couldnt get it 
to print either of the example pages. Are there any issues I should be 
aware of with this? Any advice?
 
I also have an Epson Kyocera FS-600 with a little 
network box attached to my network. I have had it working great once under 
RedHat 5.2 a long time ago, I kept the filters and scripts and used them in 
Slackware for a while, but lost them a couple of months ago
 
Basically it works as a HP LaserJet 5P, but via an 
IP address instead of the serial port. I don't have a clue how to set this up, I 
also tried this on setup, but it kept asking for a remote print queue, and I am 
not too sure if it even has one!
 
Any help at all welcome! Once I can print OK, I can 
get rid of Windows once and for all!
 
Thanks
 
Andrew Edward McCallBe Developer ID : 
E-16721[EMAIL PROTECTED]--http://www.h2o.demon.co.uk/--Get 
BeOS R5PE today at http://free.be.com/ for 
FREE!

[newbie] Apache Web Server

[Steven Cheong]

hi there ! my name is steven. I am new in Linux. I did 
install Linux 6.1 and 6.2 smoothly (maybe is my luck). Now I am configuring 
Apache Web Server, well I have a valid IP address and a working network system. 
As i try on the 6.1 version my apache web server working find and i can browse 
my testing page, but if i try on 6.2 version same configuration I am getting 
:
 
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
 
So i wonder can anyone advice me, suggest me or help me with this incident. 
thank you

[newbie] Installing a lm7, win98, dsl, ethernetwork

[Michael Gano]

I've got an internal DSL modem in my win98 machine (won't work in the linux
box), a LM7 machine, and a hub/ethernet setup.

Can anyone give me an overview/general steps to connecting the two machines
and getting the linux box to see the Internet?

Thx,
Michael

RE: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!

[Brian Tompkins]

Go to utilizes and click on sound, check enable system sounds buttons and
then click on the desired actions and their sound effect counterparts - hit
apply and you are on your way

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of root
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 7:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!


I have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a dual boot with Windows 98.  The only
problem I am having is that I get sound ok for my cds but I cannot get
any sounds for my desktop! I am using a sound card that I got with my
Packard Bell Platinum 4400.

[newbie] Realtek driver and eth0 in general

[dickon1]

Hi guys

Sorry but i am a complete newbie both to Linux and to  this newsgroup, so 
if these questions are too stupid or if they have already been answered 
before, please bare with me and accept my apologies (but still give me a 
coherent answer, please)

My Mandrake Linux 7.0 works very satisfactory and i had no trouble 
whatsoever installing and configuring it. But although the program 
correctly identified my network card, the card does not seem to work and 
eth0 fails during the booting process. i tried to download the driver from 
the Realtek site. Got two files - realtek_cb.o  and rtl8139.c

Tried to 'insmod' the realtek_cb.o file, but got a message that this file 
was compiled for an older version of the kernel and the module would not 
install even when i tried the -f switch. Now what should i do with the 
rtl8139.c file? How can i install it as the driver?

If and when the card finally works, i have another question - The main 
computer (not the Linux one) works under Windows98 and is connected to the 
Linux computer via the Microsoft network client. i realize that i'll have 
to use SAMBA, but my question concerned a much earlier stage - In that 
Microsoft network, the main computer has the IP of 169.254.35.242 while the 
Linux computer (which also works under Windows98) is assigned the IP of 
192.168.0.210. Linux seems to regard those two IP as belonging to two 
different network systems. How can i reconcile it? (a guy from the PC Plus 
sent me a wonderful configuration which worked fine on his machine but was 
spat out by my Linux in utter disgust)

Yours, Dick

[newbie] SCSI card for CD

[mungal . dhanda]

I'm considering a SCSI CD R/W.

Any recommendations on the SCSI controller suitable for use with a CD R/W
under Linux.

Would Adaptec 2904 be OK? It is a PCI SCSI controller? 

Thanks.

M.

Re: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz...

[Vic]

I would like a copy also when you have the time.
Don't worry about speed here, T1.

On Wed, 03 May 2000, Hugh Semmler wrote:
> Paul 
> I have installed antivir from cd and it works fine.
> Could it just be the copy you have? If you think so
> I will be glad to send you a copy of mine
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > me again. Sometimes you teach, sometimes you learn.
> > 
> > For installing an antivirus package called "antivir" I need to install
> > "libz.rpm" for an installation, this has libgz.so.1 in it. Alas,
> > zlib...rpm is already installed. libz.rpm contains libz.so.1, which is
> > already installed through zlib...rpm. Is there a way to only drag
> > libgz.so.1 from the .rpm file?
> > 
> > Or, is there a better antivirus package around that I could install?
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > )0(---)0(
> > 
> > Seen it all, done it all, 
> > can't remember most of it.
> > 
> > )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0(
> > http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208
> > Registered Linux User 174403
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Re: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpackand Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???

[Denis HAVLIK]

Which prog messed-up your partition table? DrakX or PartitionMagic?


:~>The only problem I had is that it messed up my partition table, I have 4Gb
:~>Extended partition containing all my Linux partitions as /dev/hda1 -
:~>containing, /dev/hda5,6,7, and 8 for Linux, then 10Gb for Windows on
:~>/dev/hda2, then 2Gb for BeOS on /dev/hda3. For some reason if I just had
:~>/dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3 on my hard disk, with the spare space where the
:~>extended partiton would be, the installer overlapped the extended partition
:~>and my Be partition, rendering both Be and Linux unbootable. I just deleted
:~>the extended partition and it restored my Be partiton, then I created the
:~>extended partition manually with a Slack boot disk, and did a autoallocate
:~>inside that, and it all worked.
:~>
:~>Probably too much info there but, hey you asked!
:~>
:~>
:~>Thanks
:~>
:~>Andrew Edward McCall
:~>Be Developer ID : E-16721
:~>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:~>--
:~>http://www.h2o.demon.co.uk/
:~>--
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Re: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!

[Hugh Semmler]

Try running sndconfig as root, Sounds like you don't have your sound
card setup

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
> I have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a dual boot with Windows 98.  The only
> problem I am having is that I get sound ok for my cds but I cannot get
> any sounds for my desktop! I am using a sound card that I got with my
> Packard Bell Platinum 4400.

Re: [newbie] Printer fonts

[Bob]

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
> I am looking for a way  to set the fonts in the KDE mail client.  An
> "Apperance Tab" is indicated.  Haven't locaated that.  



Found GZIP even figured out how to setup Opera for Linux, a few buggs(it's only
an ALPHA) promises to be a very good browser.

>  Also looking for the location of "GZIP'. 

RE: [newbie] boot problem

[Eduardo Arauz]

-Original Message-
From:   Eduardo Arauz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:54 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject:[newbie] boot problem



I m trying to boot my linux mandrake 6.1 and it sends me an error like 
this: unable to mount root on .. or something like that and then stop the 
loading what can be the problem??? and how i can boot if i havent any 
recovery disk

Re: [newbie] CD's + burner for audio

[Rial Juan]

ok, lame as it sounds: read the CD-Burning HOWTO, it explains everything you'll
need.

Short version: cdrecord (yes, the command-line tool to which X-CDroast is just a
frontend) accepts .wav files as input for audio-CD's too. It's also covered in
the cdrecord manpage.

I haven't tried burning audio CD's with X-CDroast yet, but are you sure it
doesn't accept .wav files as input? If not, perhaps you might want to give
krabber a try, I haven't tried that one either, but I've seen it has input
filters for .wav, .mp3 etc...

So you have the choice: do it the hard way with console cdrecord, or try and
figure out how the hell krabber works (coz it's a weird app, that one)...

On May 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Paul wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2 May 2000, KompuKit wrote:
> >
> > >is thereor is there not...a application/program
> > >in mandrake...for creating/copying CD's using a
> > >CD-R   or CD-RW  ROM DRIVE?
> > >
> > >If so, what's it called...and where is it on the CD?
> >
> > On the distro there are files called CDRECORD... and MKISOFS...
> > You need to install those. After that, get a decent graphical front-end
> > like XCDRoast or Gcombust. That makes life a lot easier :)
> 
> I know the XCDRoast - but does anybody know a program that can
> convert/burn wav-files to an audio-CD. I know how to make a copy of an
> music-CD but I am trying to make CD's out of my LP-collection.
> Regards
> Mogens Jæger
> 

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Re: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz...

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Marc wrote:
> 
> i never thought i would see the need for a linux anti virii...i know mcafee
> has one for linux also...http://www.mcafee.com
> 

Could you tell the exact URL or describe how to find it on
McAfee site. It looked there last week and didn't find
anything.

Thanks,

Alex Riechert

Re: [newbie] modem/internet connection/cdrom2

[Charles A Edwards]

Wade what interface is your modem? If it is a PCI 
modem you have to set it up as ttyS3.
 Charles
 smime.p7s

[newbie] kppp

[Del Kennedy]

Hi ~ any kppp officianados out there ?

Every time I go online, I get a whole string of these, sometimes dozens:

Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device

Presumably I need to correct a config file?

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RE: [newbie] installing LM7 from HD...help please

[Michael Gano]

Thx Eric using your suggested set up it worked beautifully...amazing how
much room it needed.
Now I can run free among the wee linux dwellers,
Mike

-Original Message-
From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric MC DECLERCK
Sent:   Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [newbie] installing LM7 from  HD...help please

Michael Gano wrote:
>
> Getting:
>"An error occurred
>   installation of rpms failed:
>  installing package needs 555 MB on the /mnt/ filesystem."  ???
>
> WHAT I'VE DONE
> no burner, so I ftped mandrake et al from the FTP server to my personal
> machine. Then...
>
>  - I rawwrote the hd.img file to a floppy and booted.
>  - Showed the mandrake directory.
>  - Chose customized and remaining options.
>  - (I've got 2 HDs in the computer...the plan being to load linux onto the
> blank one so...) I formatted a HD, giving it everything it wanted / mount
> point and swap with at least 1200 MB for the / . ...but to know avail. No
> matter what packages I choose or how small I set the size limit, I
continue
> to get the error above (and it's not always 555 but sometimes larger or
> smaller.)
>
> ???
> I appreciate any help in advance,
> Thx,
> Michael
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A full install need about 1.3G !!
All depends of your mount points.
What I did:  (had the same problem)
/   (about 600-800M)
/usr(big one  most of all, my case 3G)
/boot   (32M, enough to put more diff. kernels)
/usr/local  (about 600M, to preserve own data)
/home   (depends of the nbr of users)
On my 2° HD reside:
There is 1 prim. partition = /
and 1 extended = /usr, /usr/local, /home
On my 1° HD :
1 prim. for windoooz
1 prim. for /boot   (set it always as prim.)
1 swap about 256M
Eric

Re: [newbie] Got this today.

[Jayce Steadman]

jeff wrote:
> 
> Hope you all enjoy this as much as I did.
> 
> Jeff

Funniest one I've heard is "Microsoft has performed an illegal operation
and will be shut down" :-)

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Up 20 hours - Kernel 2.2.14 - Thursday, May 04, 2000 13:40

[newbie] Two Questions

[Monty Malik]

Hi all,

Just a few questions.  But first my configuration.

I am running Mandrake 7.02 on a PII 400 with 128M Ram, using
enlightenment as a windows manager.

Now down to the questions:

Samba Problems:

I am trying to consistently connect to a directory on a win98
machine.  I can connect fine and can access the files without any
problems.  However, if I keep both computers idle for about a day, I
lose my samba connection.  For some reason I get disconected.  I can
remount the samba share, without any problems and it works fine, but
will eventually disconnect itself.  Any ideas what may be going on?

TCP/IP performance:

I have a cable connection which is attached to an OpenBSD box, which
serves the net to my other computers.  When I am downloading a large file
on my linux machine, my mouse becomes extremely jumpy and difficult to
move around.  This only occurs when downloading files larger than 5megs
at a speed greater than 65kbps.  Any one know why what causing this, and
any ideas on what I can do to prevent this from occuring.

That's about it.

Thanks is advance for the help

Monty

Re: [newbie] I have problems with netscape, when the page contain java

[WolfRyder]

Hey guys, I DIDN"T WRITE THIS! Where's the post I DID write??

What I wrote was:

've installed mandrake 7 twice trying to get LILO to work right. Right now, 
I boot from the rescue floppy because LILO, which worked the 2nd time, 
would hang up my login screen in Win98. I have multiple users on my puter 
and where the user name and password goes, the whole thing would 
justsit there!

Also, my monitor, which is a Delta DE 570, I got used and have no specs. We 
guessed on them on installation, but must have guessed wrong because my 
bootup puts me in the default screen, not KDE, even though I selected it. 
I'm figuring X didn't get configured right, but how do I do that when I 
don't know the correct settings for my monitor? I've looked on the net to 
try to track them down, but no luck. Found the webpage and all, but no specs.

suggestions? Yes, I've already thought of getting a new monitor.

WolfRyder

At 05:56 PM 5/3/00 -0500, you wrote:


>At 04:06 PM 5/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Anyone know how to resolve this, when i enter in a chat with java, this stop.
>

[newbie] printing under netscape 4.6

[Quaylar]

can anybody tell me how i can print 
under netscape 4.6 to lp0 instead of lp (by default).is there a config 
script ?

Re: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!

[Quaylar]

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: Donnerstag, 04. Mai 2000 14:05
Betreff: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!


make sure that kwmsound and kaudioserver started.unmute the pcm
channel if u are using alsa..

>I have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a dual boot with Windows 98.  The only
>problem I am having is that I get sound ok for my cds but I cannot get
>any sounds for my desktop! I am using a sound card that I got with my
>Packard Bell Platinum 4400.
>

[newbie] monitor and LILO woes

[WolfRyder]

I've installed mandrake 7 twice trying to get LILO to work right. Right 
now, I boot from the rescue floppy because LILO, which worked the 2nd time, 
would hang up my login screen in Win98. I have multiple users on my puter 
and where the user name and password goes, the whole thing would 
justsit there!

Also, my monitor, which is a Delta DE 570, I got used and have no specs. We 
guessed on them on installation, but must have guessed wrong because my 
bootup puts me in the default screen, not KDE, even though I selected it. 
I'm figuring X didn't get configured right, but how do I do that when I 
don't know the correct settings for my monitor? I've looked on the net to 
try to track them down, but no luck. Found the webpage and all, but no specs.

suggestions? Yes, I've already thought of getting a new monitor.

Carol

RE: [newbie] GCC is missing....grrrr

[David Ramsey]

I have sort of the same issue. I did access the RPM files and reinstall it. 
They put the compiler in the /usr/ area. You will see a subdir for i586, 
i486, and i386. My problem, even after installing the RPM files, I still 
get the "gcc c complier can not make executable." error message. Even after 
manually putting these directory structurs in the LD_LIBARY_PATH and PATH 
environment. At least now it is not giving me "can not locate crt1.0" 
error. Now it is erroring out on a include file, which has nothing in it. I 
am told if you do not select the "developer" option when installing Linux, 
then the system is not setup correctly to compile. That does not make much 
sence, but figure I will spend about 4 hours tonight proving that theory. 
Hope that helps some.

Dave

-Original Message-
From:   James McLaughlin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Wednesday, May 03, 2000 5:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[newbie] GCC is missingg

I am wondering why every time I attempt to compile something I continue to
get errrors about my gcc or cc is missing.  I am guessing this is my C
compilerI don't get itwhere the hell is it?  IF I do a locate I 
come
up with zilch!  Nothing is out there...help..


I am downloading gcc but I wonder if I can even install that without a
compiler. :(

Horribly frustrated tech..

[newbie] to stop the iloveyou virus spreading do this

[Oliver Stieber]

if you  are running windows nt/98/95

make 
local_machine\software\microsoft\wab read-only
using regedit32


create the following files
c:\winnt\system32\MSKernel32.vbs
c:\winnt\Win32DLL.vbs
c:\winnt\system32\LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs

and set the files to readonly, 

[newbie] Literature for C++ under Linux

[Gunther C. Hebein]

What Literature would you suggest to buy for (re)learning C++ on a 
Linuxsystem? Best would bein German language

Thanks
Gunther

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[expert] Sound Blaster Help!

[vern]

Well I finally sprang for a new audio card, a brand new 
Sound Blaster PCI 512.  This must be new one as it was
the only affordable PCI Sound Blaster card Staples had.
So I did all the research on  available drivers for Linux
and found same at ALSA so attempting my first source code
compile I got it to make the object code module and installed
it per "readme" instructions.  My CD plays music fine but I
can't get any of the system sounds to play.  I've been through
all the mixers and such in both KDE and GNOME with no success.
Any help would be most appreciated!  After working with this for
2 days I think I've tried all the combinations possible.
HELP! 
Vern
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RE: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpack and Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???

[Oliver Stieber]

ok i got a little consused between the different versions of mandrake out
there,
looking at the web site i can only find thease two differences,

gold pack (2000) has phone support, powerpack only has email support(i
think)
buying the gold pack will give you a free update to the latest version of
mandrake. powerpack will not or at least it dosn't clame to.
there are also 2 versions of mandrake that have been boxed up and
distributed by mac-millan publishing.

> -Original Message-
> From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 03 May 2000 21:30
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0
> Powerpackand Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???
> 
> 
> OliverGold Pack is a product of MandrakeSoft, not
> MacMillan.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> Oliver Stieber wrote:
> > 
> > the power pack has all 6 cd's also i think the difference 
> may be in the
> > documentation.
> > there are 2 gold packs the normal one and the not so normal 
> one, the image
> > of the box on mandrake.com looks a bit bigger with the not so normal
> > one(about a book bigger).
> > i think the gold pack is just the mac-millan distrib of the 
> power pack?
> > 
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Romanator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: 03 May 2000 12:30
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0
> > > Powerpackand Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > How is the PowerPack or Deluxe Mandrake 7.0 behaving? 
> What are your
> > > thoughts?
> > >
> > > Roman
> > >
> > > Andrew Edward McCall wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > >
> > > > > With 7.0 Deluxe you get all six CDs (Installation,
> > > Sources, RPMs, Contribs
> > > > > and 2 Application CDS) where as I believe the plain
> > > Powerpack only carries
> > > > > the Installation and Sources CD)
> > > > >
> > > > > Evan
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I got the PowerPack I think, (It has PWP in its product
> > > code somewhere IIRC)
> > > > and I got the 6 CD's, two books and a set of stickers.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Andrew Edward McCall
> > > > Be Developer ID : E-16721
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > --
> > > > http://www.h2o.demon.co.uk/
> > > > --
> [snip]
> 

[newbie] Help...Laptop XServer Problems

[Br. Karekin Madteos Yarian, BSG]

Any help???

I have recently installed Mandrake 7.0 on my HP Pavilion N3215 laptop. I
can't get X to work at a resolution higher than 640x480.

Mandrake automatically installed the XFree86_FBDev server which is more than
RedHat 6.2 did. No matter what I try...and I have follwed the advice of two
people on the Linux laptop pages (two different and unworkable solutions to
boot) and to no avail.

Here are my card and monitor specs.

Card: Trident CyberBlade 3D 17 AGP with 4096 RAM (stolen from physical RAM)

Monitor (per HP): HPA 12.1" SVGA Passive Matrix
VertRefresh: 75 Mhz
Horiz Sync: 85 Mhx 


I have tried and failed at any number of combinations with Xdrakres.

Xconfigurator has let me manually input all the above info and still can't
find a workable resolution. All I want is 800x600. In spite of the fact that
my monitor supports 1280x768 while in Windoze.

The BIOS allows me to allocate Auto, 4Mb or 8Mb to Video RAM.

Any suggestions?? I'm about desperate. I wanted to get Linux running on the
box so I could travel and learn with it.

Karekin

Re: [newbie] Can someone answer me these questions three

[Don W. Jenkins]

You don't have to touch hda with your Windows 98 on it.  You will be asked
to create Linux partitions, which you must be sure you are doing on your
second drive, hdb, or whatever it turns out to be.  Be sure that when you
do your partitioning and formatting that you are working with the space on
hdb and not hda.  The only thing that your installation procedure will do
that may involve your Windows partition is when you get to the part about
installing lilo, the boot loader.  You will get the opportunity to chose
whether to install it in the MBR on the Windows partition,  or on the first
partition (/boot) on your Linux drive.  If you don't mind having Lilo
manage booting up for both Windows and Linux, you can chose the first way.
Or if you don't mind booting from a floppy all the time, you can chose the
second way.  A third way, which I use is to have a separate boot manager,
Boot Magic in my case, that manages both systems and gives you the
opportunity to chose either at boot up.  But Lilo does this, too.  Other
than Lilo, don't do anything to your Windows disc at all.

Don J.

On Wed, 03 May 2000, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 17:29:01 -0400
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Tim Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Can someone answer me these questions three
> 
> 
> I hope someone can help me on these Mandrake installation problems.
> 
> First, I'm trying to install 7.0 on a second hard drive with windows 98
> on
> the first one.  Someone told me in order for Lilo to work I have to
> reformat
> hda and answer yes for large disk support and no for no for using the
> whole
> disk.  Is this true?  I'd like to be sure before I mess with it.
> 
> My second and third questions have to do with installing 7.0 on a IBM
> Thinkpad 380E.  When installing it tries to check the pcmcia cards then I
> get
> "An error occurred: insmod pcmcia core failed"
> How do I fix this?   Last but not least if I skip checking for pcmcia
> cards
> it goes a little farther before I get " No available partition" even
> though I
> used fdisk and format.  How can I fix this problem?
> 
> Much thanks for any help given.
> 
> Tim Schmidt
> 
> 
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[newbie] Moving files from MsW to Linx

[Rodrigo]

First of all, thanks to everybody who answered my last questiom wich
subject was "Installation Problems". I decided that buying a new
equipment would be easier than doing download on a 600mb file...
Now, I have another question:
Linux is able to read files from a FAT32 partition? If not, what can I
do to share those files between two different HDs?
[]'s again!

Rodrigo F Ribeiro
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RE: [newbie] cd player (was: modems)

[Cameron Fowles]

just a stab in the dark
do you have the audio lead from you cd to your sound card connected?


-Original Message-
From: Andrew Scotchmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2000 6:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] cd player (was: modems)


On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2000, gerald green wrote:
>
>
>the cd player on linux will not play
>
Neither does mine.  My cdrom works fine and the cd player interface appears
and
starts to play even recognises how many tracks there are and their time
lengths.   Everything is fine except no sound.   Yet I have my system sound
working perfectly

(maybe it just doesn't lle Bob Dylan)

 --  Scotchpie

[newbie] Documentation

[Michael]

I was given a cd with Mandrake 7.02 on it. No physical docs. Well, it's
working, but it was only 1 gold cd and although it seems to be a
complete install, reading thru stuff earlier i gather there are even
boxed sets with multiple cds and books? Help! I live on an island in
alaska and have no local source!
tia,
-michael-

[newbie] Lexmark 2030 printer

[Michael]

My vs of mdk-7.02 doesn't run my printer and before I get too far into
this new install, does anyone have a driver and a how to for idiots
-michael-

[newbie] CD Burners

[Michael]

I recently had a terrible thing happen under my dual boot system w/mdk
7.02 and w98:
I lost all my everything(incl 12 hrs music from napster) cuz i tried to
put in an old 2gig hd as a backup. I didn't know enough and so...

Anyway, I reinstalled and all is good xcept i want to buy a cd rw unit.
Someone said linux doesn't always like them...

Does anyone have any comments about the Panasonic CW 7585??? Will it
work?

-michael-
Sitka, Alaska

Re: [newbie] console log-in logo

[Omar Rodríguez]

sorry my mistake
=S

its not the /etc/issue file 

but 

/etc/rc.d/rc.local

and btw it the program (and the man pages for it) is called linux_logo; not
linuxlogo like i posted earlier

sorry for the trouble

At 09:08 p.m. 03/05/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Does anyone know how to remove the penguin logo and the large linux header 
>from the screen at the login prompt.?  Perhaps replacing them with just the
>info about kernal version   etc.  ( I'm assuming that the info already
given is
>part of the logo) .
>--
>Scotchpie

Re: [newbie] console log-in logo

[Omar Rodríguez]

You can either take the entire logo off or joust leave the 
info on the kernel

to do this you must edit your "/etc/issue" file

search for the part where it say linuxlogo (or is it linux_logo? cant quite
remember) and change the options

fore the options you can check the man page on linuxlogo

At 09:08 p.m. 03/05/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Does anyone know how to remove the penguin logo and the large linux header 
>from the screen at the login prompt.?  Perhaps replacing them with just the
>info about kernal version   etc.  ( I'm assuming that the info already
given is
>part of the logo) .
>--
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[newbie] Getting Started: Virtual Desktop

[ChOPpY C. Chipper]

Hey,
 
I have heard about a "virtual desktop", which 
allows you to scroll around the desktop, at a larger resolution than ur monitor 
can handle?  How do i enable this + set res?
 

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 7.0 with Packard Bell Monitor

[David G. Thiessen]

i have a Packard Bell 1020 monitor.  I used Generic
MultiSync monitor
when setting up my monitor for X.  I may have done some
tweaking, but
as I recall all the info I needed was in my booklet for the
monitor.
Write to me directly if you need further help.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Hopefully someone can help me.
> 
> I've used Linux for a while, but am new to Mandrake...I know the usual advice
> with Packard Bell monitors is to get another monitorin this situation I
> cannot.
> 
> I've only been able to get a *very* minimal installation/configuration of X
> going...can anyone point me to anymore resources...don't seem to find anything
> at all on the Mandrake site.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim.

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[newbie] test

[mike mcmanus]

test

RE: [newbie] Disk drives

[Cameron Fowles]

You can download demo's of games etc from www.freshmeat.net

Cam


-Original Message-
From: bascule [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 4 May 2000 5:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk drives


hi john,

i recognise DOS_hda1 as being the name of both the kdelnk file on your
kde desktop as a shortcut to this drive and also the name of the mount
point where this drive is mounted.

right click on the desktop icon for DOS_hda1 and choose 'properties',
you should get a box with three tabs, the first will have a white box
wiht the name of the file in, simply type in a new name, keep the
extension the same,
to change the name of the mount point, click on Draksconf on the
desktop, choose the linuxconf button, choose access filesystems, choose
local filesystems, click on the entry for /dev/hda1 and edit as
appropriate then accept your way out,

i'm afraid i don't know the answer to the second part of your question

bascule

John McCrudden wrote:
>
> Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something
easyer?
> And where can i get Linux Games like Quake on the net?
> 
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[newbie] CD Rom not accessible

[Jim Brown]

I'm having trouble accessing my CDRom for Music and data.
When I click on the CDRom Icon with a windows or linux
(mandrake install disk) cd, I can't see any data.  When I get
into the kscd program, it can't find a disk.  When I go to
lothar it finds my cd (model: CRW6206A, device:/dev/hdd
bustype: atapi/ide).  When I go back to kscd and try to set
/dev/hdd in the cdrom device it still doesn't see it.  When I go
to drakeconf and then click filesystems and local drive, I
can set the cdrom to /dev/hdd, but that doesn't help either.
I guess I'm a newbie.  Please help.


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Fw: [newbie] HD problems

[mike mcmanus]

--
> Date: (No, or invalid, date.)
> From: mmcmanus
> To: "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> Subject: [newbie] HD problems
>
> I can not install Mandrake 7.0 linux. It loaded and work perfectly but when
> other OS's
> where loaded to compare, it would not install properly. The error message I
> get is:
>
> linux mandrake release 7 (air)
> kernel 2.2.14-15mdk on an i586 /ttyl
> localhoast login:kdm:error in loading shared libraries :libkimgio.so.2:cannot


> open red
> object file: no such file or directory
>
> It repeats this message
> I have a asus sp97-v motherbord
> pentium 233 mmx cpu
> adaptec 2940uw scsi card
> 1.08 gig hard drive scsi
>  9.0g hd scsi
> 64meg ram

Re: [newbie] Problem installing Star Office and Word Perfect

[Mike Thompson]

Check the Corel Newsgroup for WP2k, looks like a lot of unhappy campers.  I tried
installing it twice and then called and asked for my money back on the WP2k deluxe
package I bought.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Try going to Corel's website and dowloading the tar package - think it's called
> guilg00.gz
> then do this :-
> mkdir $Home/tmp
> cd to the directory you downloaded it to and,
> cp guil00.gz $HOME/tmp
> gunzip guilg00.gz
> tar -xvf guilg00
> then run the installer  ./Runme and follow the prompts.
> when asked for a directory to install into I used /usr/local/corel
> select your printer.
> to launch WordPerfect (if you used the directory I did) type the following
> command
> /usr/local/corel/wpbin/xwp
>   language modules are
> available for the language you need, similar to the above, to run with language
> installed type /usr/local/corel/wpbin/xwp -lang (your language abbreviation
> eg, US, UK,) so that it appears as for example /usr/local/corel/wpbin/xwp
> -langUS
>
> On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
> > I have a problem.  I have installed the 7.0 distro on my machine, and
> > absolutely love it!  The only thing I haven't been able to do is to get
> > either Star Office or Word Perfect to install on the machine correctly.
> > Star Office did install, but even after making sure I selected the
> > English (US) version of it, when I open it it's in german.  Word Perfect
> > won't even install for me, which I already have a bad taste in my mouth
> > with them   from trying to use Corel's Linux OS.
> >
> > I'm sure I'm missing something basic, but can't figure out what it is.
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bill

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

[Wayne Petherick]

Joe,
you could always try the various TNT cards that are out there.  Most
of them will come in PCI and AGP so you should shop around.

Wayne

At 02:47 PM 5/3/00 -0400, you wrote:
>The only decent PCI video cards on the market are the 3DFX  VooDoo
cards but
>even with those I don't think you can get video out on anything but
there
>AGP cards not on their PCI cards. The Viper 550 and all the ATI cards
are
>AGP.
>Sorry
>    Charles
>- Original Message -
>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:58 AM
>Subject: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?
>
>
>>
>>
>> I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't
really need
>PC
>> TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long
time,
>now, but
>> since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some
disparaging
>comments
>> about S3 cards in general not being "Linux Friendly" -
Does anyone know if
>this
>> is true for the Viper 550? If so, what card would you recommend?
I need
>speed -
>> good gaming and 3D performance - I don't have an AGP bus, so it
would have
>to
>> come in PCI flavor - I've been hearing good things about
ATI's
>> "All-in-Wonder"... any opinions?
>>
>>
>>
> 

[newbie] Sorry to be asking on here

[Andy]

Im sorry to be asking on here about a windows 
question, but i heard people saying that they scan their e-mails and said they 
might have gotten viruses from this newsgroup. So im using Mcafee and if there 
are any Mcafee people out there can u please help me. I feel sorta stupid 
:)
 
Thanx

[newbie] Root Password

[David Smith]

Anyone know anything about how to set super 
permissions to a user without giving them the root password, or the authority to 
change the root password once they are granted super user 
permissions.
Thanks in advance.
Dave

[newbie] Unreal on Mandrake

[Marc]

I don't know if I am to late but, I told some one looking how to install
Unreal on his linux box to get a copy of the new magazine maximumlinux cause
there is a step by step article in there...Well I found a online link for
him...Go to this url it will help alot
http://www.maximumlinux.com/howtos/linux101/2000_03_01/game.html...

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[newbie] Problems during installation of Mandrake

[Luc VANCAUWENBERGHE]

Hello,

I installed linux Mandrake before on my computer, but now it is going the wrong way.
Last week I installed a new hard disk on my computer (IBM HD 13,5 GB). Because of BIOS 
problems I was forced to install EZ-bios on my computer. (My PII 266 doesn't seem to 
support these large disks).

My primary master is a WD 6.4 GB disk and is containing my windows operating system. 
The new disk of 13,5 GB is split up in two partions, one of 4GB and one of 9.5GB. I 
tryied to install Mandrake on the 4 GB parition. The installation is no problem. All 
files are copied to the disk. (I used the "customized" mode and selected 
"development").

After the complete installation the problem start. After the reboot my system is 
hanging during the boot. The lines of EZ-bios appear on the screen, but then the 
system hangs. This, I guess, gecause of the fact that LILO has corrupted the EZ-bios 
in the MBR. (I set LILO to HDA MBR).

Can you give me some hints how to install Mandrake on my computer using the EZ bios, 
because I need this to get access to the full disk capacity under windows.

I installed Mandrake before on the same computer without any problems, but then 
EZ-bios was not installed.

Thanks

Luc Van Cauwenberghe

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[newbie] Can LM7 talk to a CISCO internal DSL modem?

[Michael Gano]

I've got a CISCO 605 internal router. The literature all talks about Windows
and NT. How do those devices work? How do I get in and see if Linux can
recognize it/communicate with it's OS?

Mikey
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[newbie] Color QuickCam

[RickyT]

This has probably been asked before and answered.. but just found the 
group... I have a Color Quickcam and can't seem to get it to work..

before I got an error saying something abour the paraport being busy..

Since I have clean reinstalled 7.0 and everything else is working fine and 
now I want to get the QuickCam working.

Can anyone give me the steps to get it working

then I see there is streaming vid possible as well.. (lol if i got the cam 
working)

Can post here.. or direct email.. Thanks in advance..

Rick

Re: [newbie] What's the difference between Mandrake 7.0 Powerpackand Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe???

[Andrew Edward McCall]

Hi again,

> How is the PowerPack or Deluxe Mandrake 7.0 behaving? What are your
> thoughts?

Rock solid. This is the first time I decided to install an "easy" Linux
distro, I normally use Slackware, but I decided that I really need the RPM
support.

The only problem I had is that it messed up my partition table, I have 4Gb
Extended partition containing all my Linux partitions as /dev/hda1 -
containing, /dev/hda5,6,7, and 8 for Linux, then 10Gb for Windows on
/dev/hda2, then 2Gb for BeOS on /dev/hda3. For some reason if I just had
/dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3 on my hard disk, with the spare space where the
extended partiton would be, the installer overlapped the extended partition
and my Be partition, rendering both Be and Linux unbootable. I just deleted
the extended partition and it restored my Be partiton, then I created the
extended partition manually with a Slack boot disk, and did a autoallocate
inside that, and it all worked.

Probably too much info there but, hey you asked!


Thanks

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Re: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz...

[Marc]

i never thought i would see the need for a linux anti virii...i know mcafee
has one for linux also...http://www.mcafee.com


- Original Message -
From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 1:50 PM
Subject: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz...


> Hi everyone,
>
> me again. Sometimes you teach, sometimes you learn.
>
> For installing an antivirus package called "antivir" I need to install
> "libz.rpm" for an installation, this has libgz.so.1 in it. Alas,
> zlib...rpm is already installed. libz.rpm contains libz.so.1, which is
> already installed through zlib...rpm. Is there a way to only drag
> libgz.so.1 from the .rpm file?
>
> Or, is there a better antivirus package around that I could install?
>
> Paul
>
> )0(---)0(
>
> Seen it all, done it all,
> can't remember most of it.
>
> )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0(
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> Registered Linux User 174403
>
>

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[newbie] E-Mail and News

[y u r i]

Hello,

   what progs on Linux side are comparable to Eudora Pro,
   Pegasus, The Bat! in versatility when it comes to multiple
   account/server manangement AND are easy to use?

   Also, what news reading programs exist that could be compared
   to Macintoshy YA-NW or MT-NW ?

   TIA
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Re: [newbie] Antivir: libz... libgz...

[Hugh Semmler]

Paul 
I have installed antivir from cd and it works fine.
Could it just be the copy you have? If you think so
I will be glad to send you a copy of mine

Hugh


On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> me again. Sometimes you teach, sometimes you learn.
> 
> For installing an antivirus package called "antivir" I need to install
> "libz.rpm" for an installation, this has libgz.so.1 in it. Alas,
> zlib...rpm is already installed. libz.rpm contains libz.so.1, which is
> already installed through zlib...rpm. Is there a way to only drag
> libgz.so.1 from the .rpm file?
> 
> Or, is there a better antivirus package around that I could install?
> 
> Paul
> 
> )0(---)0(
> 
> Seen it all, done it all, 
> can't remember most of it.
> 
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[newbie] Trying to hd install LM7.0-2 air and keep getting error

[ghostwriter429]

I have been trying to hd install drake but when it gets to stage 2 ramdisk
::: Loading second stage ramdisk ... install exited abnormally -- recieved
signal 9 sending termination signals... done sending kill signals... done
unmounting filesystem  /tmp/hdimage/proc  you may safely reboot your system

I dont have a cd rom it burned out and i d/c it, 2 hd main-4gig 2nd-1gig
pentium 75

somebody help me p[lease before i pull out whats left of my hair.


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Re: [newbie] CD-player kscd versus Kfind

[Mogens Jæger]

Alan Shoemaker wrote:

> Mogensjust a guess here.  The problem you describe sounds
> like an artifact of supermount.  Try disabling it.
>
> Alan
>
> Mogens Jæger wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> > Does anyone know how to tell Kfind, to searche all
> > partitions, but not my CD-rom drive - it's pretty anoying to
> > have your musik cut-off, just because you have to find a
> > file
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Mogens Jæger

Never - supermount is one of my absolute favorite enhancements compared
to the 'old' RH 6.1
Mogens Jæger

Re: [newbie] CD's + burner for audio

[Mogens Jæger]

Paul wrote:

> On Tue, 2 May 2000, KompuKit wrote:
>
> >is thereor is there not...a application/program
> >in mandrake...for creating/copying CD's using a
> >CD-R   or CD-RW  ROM DRIVE?
> >
> >If so, what's it called...and where is it on the CD?
>
> On the distro there are files called CDRECORD... and MKISOFS...
> You need to install those. After that, get a decent graphical front-end
> like XCDRoast or Gcombust. That makes life a lot easier :)

I know the XCDRoast - but does anybody know a program that can
convert/burn wav-files to an audio-CD. I know how to make a copy of an
music-CD but I am trying to make CD's out of my LP-collection.
Regards
Mogens Jæger

[newbie] No sound for Desktop!

[root]

I have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a dual boot with Windows 98.  The only
problem I am having is that I get sound ok for my cds but I cannot get
any sounds for my desktop! I am using a sound card that I got with my
Packard Bell Platinum 4400.

Re: [newbie] cd player (was: modems)

[Andrew Scotchmer]

On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2000, gerald green wrote:
> 
> >the cd player on linux will not play
> 
Neither does mine.  The cdrom works and the cd player interface appears, even
recognising the number of tracks and their time lengths but I get no sound.
Strange as my system sound works perfectly.

(maybe it just doesn't like Bob Dylan)

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[newbie] how to put GLIB in path so it can be found ?

[duncan]

I am trying to install sane and after I have ./configure of glib1.2.6 and make
and make install I get difficulties with gtk+1.2.6 not able to find glib 1.2.6.

ie
checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.4... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error:  

How do I indicate where glib has gone or make sure that gtk can find what it
needs?

I cant find where GLIB_CONFIG environment variable is or where glib config
script is .

PLease can anyone help .

Regards 
Duncan Bayne

Re: [newbie] modem/internet/connection/cdrom2

[Alan Shoemaker]

Wadewhen you decided that your modem was on com2 and
therefore changed the configuration to ttys1, did you disable
the motherboard com2 in the system bios?

Alan


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am still without a connection to the internet. I am starting to wonder if
> I perhaps should consider re-installing? Everything seems to be working
> just beautifully. I still am lost as to what I am missing to get my modem
> to work (no it is not a winmodem). I have a Creative labs Modem Blaster 56K
> v.90/K56 type modem.
> 
> What have I done thus far;
> 
> I have set 'kppp'
> configured my modem and connection using 'LinuxConf'
> and 'NetConf'
> I have checked my ppp0 configuration in 'ifup'
> 
> I have also gone root and run;
> 
> less /var/log/messages
> 
> which generated over 2000 lines of output (I haven't even been online with
> it yet :))
> 
> I was unable to find anything helpful to me there.
> 
> Then I made the only change that resulted in any change and that was I
> reset the com port
> aka ttyS2 I changed to ttyS1 and I got some movment. After which when I
> tell kppp to dial instead of the old message that said "looking for modem"
> it now says "initializing modem" which seemed at first like an improvement
> however I have yet to figure out what else it is requiring.
> 
> Also when I run /sbin/ifup ppp0 it reports "taking longer than expected to
> complete"
> failed to activate ppp0 with error 8 & error 9
> 
> Also I have changed the init string from the old ATZ to;
> AT&FE0V1S0=0&C1&D2+MR=2;+DR=1;+ER=1;W0
> as per recommendations from "Ask Mr. Modem".
> 
> Similarly when I run mount /dev/cdrom2 I get
> 'is not a valid block device
> return 32
> "
> checking permissions
> "
> "
> "
> 
> I guess I am wondering, if I reinstall can I do a better job at configuring
> my modem and my second cdrom etc from DrakX with a fresh install?
> Also I think I used the supermount option, and from what I have read here
> it may be better for me to not use that option.
> 
> Thanks for any and all input.
> 
> b/web
> Wade
> 
> PS - Did I say I LOVE this OS?

Re: [newbie] Multiple Netscape

[Mark Potochnik]

Gustavo Halperin wrote:

>   When I open too many windows of Netscape , I mean 6,7 or more,
> Linux is dead.  Why is hapend and what I can do.
>I have  Pentium II,  233 mhz with 96 mb.
>And I use the Mandrake 7.0
>   Thanks
>

Netscape s**ks...

MarkP

Re: [newbie] Disk drives

[Mogens Jæger]

John McCrudden wrote:

> Is there any way to change the name of a DOS_hda1 drive to something easyer?
> And where can i get Linux Games like Quake on the net?
> 
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Yes. First - and most important - as root edit your /etc/fstab file, find the
'name' and write whatever you like. Next in / create a directory of the same
name. Then right click the icon on your desktop, and change to the new name. I
don't know if there should be any other places where the name must be changed,
but if .. you'l find out.
Of cource you have to remount the drive on the new adress (easyist way is to
boot)
Regards
Mogens Jæger

Re: [newbie] I have problems with netscape, when the page contain java

[WolfRyder]

At 04:06 PM 5/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Anyone know how to resolve this, when i enter in a chat with java, this stop.

Re: [newbie] User name & Password

[Mark Potochnik]

Spend $2 and get Ver 7...
20 Min or so of work and you will be happy!

MarkP

Craig R Bathurst wrote:

> I installed mandrake 6.0 and I forgot my user name & password.
> Is there a way to find the above or do I have to reinstall the OS?
>
> Craig
>
> "Those who do not learn from History,
>   are doomed to repeat it".
>
>   Author unknown

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

[Mark Potochnik]

My Matrox G400 works fine...

I suggest getting a separate TV Card if you want TV

Any suggestions for a good TV Card(cheap)??
MarkP


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I am looking for a good video card with video-out jacks (don't really need PC
> TV). I have been longing for a Diamond Viper 550 card for a long time, now, but
> since I have been toiling with Linux, I have heard some disparaging comments
> about S3 cards in general not being "Linux Friendly" - Does anyone know if this
> is true for the Viper 550? If so, what card would you recommend? I need speed -
> good gaming and 3D performance - I don't have an AGP bus, so it would have to
> come in PCI flavor - I've been hearing good things about ATI's
> "All-in-Wonder"... any opinions?

Re: [newbie] What's Mandrake 7.0 like?

[Mark Potochnik]

Betcha 7.1 comes out before W** ME  :-)
Maybe L-M Ver 8 will be out first  :-)
MarKP
>Joe Fernandez wrote:

Wow, 
thanks all for the responses..greatly appreciated. As
suggested by some of you to wait till 7.1 is out that might be a long wait.