[newbie] Access to CD-Rom?
i am trying to access my cd-roms in linux as a user and they were both locked (i don't have access). so i logged in as root and tried to use them, and again, they were both locked. how can i unlock them? TIA seth
Re: [[newbie] Access to CD-Rom?]
Jim Simpson wrote: I had the same problem when I installed Mandrake 7.0. The first time there was an error installing "fstab" so I reinstalled. Still didn't work. So I turned down the security setting to low and then had access as root but not as user. After using the CD-Rom to install the extras (Staroffice etc.) I reset the security to high. Not the best solution but it worked. Maybe some file permissions need to be changed? [EMAIL PROTECTED] i did the install with the low level of security. is there any way to get the security lower than that? all i really need is access as root, that would be ok with me. any suggestions? seth
Re: [newbie] slow Linux
Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the performance?? seth
[newbie] Clock Setting
hello all... i re installed linux due to a dumb move on my part (part of the learning process, eh?) and i accidentally set my clock to GMT, which is 5 hours behind the time here. how can i reset it to display my local time? thanks. seth
[newbie] PalmPilot?
hello all... just wondering if MDK has support for palm pilots... thanks seth -- _ (_'_ ..
[newbie] (no subject)
hello all... quick question.. i am running mandrake 7.0 with the K desktop. how can i get Kmp3 to play my MP3's instead of kmpg? thanks seth -- _ (_'_ ..
Re: [newbie] just re-install windows...over it
Sean Galland wrote: DO NOT DO THIS!! I just did that and spent 5 hours on the phone with Bynari systems trying to fix it - Original Message - From: Kit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 10:13 PM Subject: [newbie] just re-install windows...over it hey Ty is right...just re-install windows over what you have now...it should re-write... the MBR...and things will be back to normal... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 HomePage: http://kwg.virtualave.net/kwg http://kompukit.dyndns.org (personal webserver,does NOT run 24/7) it won't work anywho... i did it last summer... the MBR was messed up... the only way to get it working again is fdisk /mbr seth -- _ (_'_ ..
[newbie] KDE Themes and Colors
i have unsuccessfully attempted to change the color themes in KDE. i am running Mandrake 7.0. can anyone help? seth -- _ (_'_ ..
Re: [newbie] Mitsumi Scrolling Mouse Support?
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
HALactivate imwheel according to its directions.
Alan
HAL 9000 wrote:
Hello all.. i have installed mandrake 7.0 and i read that it supports
scorlling mice. i have a mitsumi scrolling mouse, and was just curious
as to how i would enable this option. thanks.
seth
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and how would i go about doing this?.. TIA...seth
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[newbie] Mitsumi Scrolling Mouse Support?
Hello all.. i have installed mandrake 7.0 and i read that it supports scorlling mice. i have a mitsumi scrolling mouse, and was just curious as to how i would enable this option. thanks. seth -- _ (_'_ ..
Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?
i have to agree... although i am anti-Micro$oft, i despise netscape. especially the mail client. IE is easy to use, and especially on linux, no THAT system demanding... just my thought ;o) seth On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mark Sheppard wrote: What web browser does everyone use with Linux? I hate to say it, but the main reason I keep booting back to windows every couple hours is because the NS version that comes with Mandrake just totaly blows, and If I want to view any web pages I have got to have a decent browser. are there any decent bowsers available? I did see that there is an IE port to unix available, and a possible linux port in the works. Thanks zach
[newbie] screenshots?
its prolly the most simple thing to do, and i have no idea how to do it. how do i do screenshots? thanks in advance. seth
[newbie] StarOffice
hello.. thanks for the replies about screenshots :o) another question. i just downloaded staroffice 5.1 (i love my t1 connection) and it is in *.tar format. however when i try to untar is, i get the following error (using terminal emulation): gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors what am i doing wrong? how can this be corrected? any help is appreciated. seth -- _ (_'_ ..
Re: [newbie] New install... Network problems
Rodney Fulk wrote: Hello, I have a problem that nothing I have seems to explain... I have a linux box running on an Asus P2B-S motherboard with 32 meg of memory, Celeron 300a, Diamond Stealth 2000 video card (Pci with standard S3 chipset.), 8 Gig hard drive, LinkSys 10/100 Network card and a CD rom. I have Linux Mandrake 6.1 installed on my machine and am trying to get it to work on my network. My original plans were to get this Linux box up and running as a Server for my 2 Win 98Se machines. Internet server as well. I recompiled the kernal (2.2.13) with the tulip driver included with the network card. I was able to get into the Linux Config utility from the KDE desktop. At the time It showed as one of four adaptors and said it was inactive. I told it to be active upon boot and to activate it at that time. I then later tried to get into it and it would no longer show it as one of the adaptors and only showed four adaptors. I did NOT add an IP address to the card at the time. (The other three "adaptor" slots are empty) The card is recognized when Linux first boots up and the eth0 shows up in my /Proc directory. What do I need to do to make it show up on my net work? I currently have my Win98se machines setup as peer to peer and see no reason to change that. I currently am using the Win98se internet sharing but I have to have my main win 98 machine online to use it. I would much rather get linux up and running full time and let it connect when necissary and then no longer use internet sharing with my win98Se machine. Eventually I expect to put my system on the net when I can do so cheaply. I am assuming the SAMBA utilities will get me there and I am sure its something real simple to setup. Without swimming through tons of man pages etc can someone tell me what I need to do to get it to recognize and be recognized on my network? I should also be able to use the net from my linux machine at the moment through my Win98se machine with internet sharing active shouldn't I? I may get my linux machine hooked up to my ISP tomorrow so I can try linking up that way as well. I also tried changing my HOSTNAME but I did it from within linux config and it doesnt seem to like it much. Says something about unknown name HOSTNAME = myhost.com. Just trying to change the name the machine has. Thanks for any help! I used to run Linux way back before it was a 1.0 version and it sure has come a long way. Eventually I expect to have numerous computers on my little network. (well one for every member of my family and extra hookups for those nights friends come over and wanna play games etc.) Thanks again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] this may seem like i have no clue what i am talking about, but i had a similar problem when i set up linux on my computer here at my college. i asked around and the networking guys said the couldn't "officially" give me support for Linux, just windoze and mac os. but one of the guys told me on the side that when i install it, make sure i select it to be a DHCP supporting install. maybe thats part of it.. i realy dunno tho... *shrug*.. just trying to help. seth -- _ (_'_ ..
Re: [newbie] StarOffice
"Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: what command did you use? sounds like a tar zxvf file.tar if the arcgive is not compressed you will get the error you mentioned try tar zvf file.tar is that failes re-download in binary mode *if ftp'ed) On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, HAL 9000 wrote: hello.. thanks for the replies about screenshots :o) another question. i just downloaded staroffice 5.1 (i love my t1 connection) and it is in *.tar format. however when i try to untar is, i get the following error (using terminal emulation): gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors what am i doing wrong? how can this be corrected? any help is appreciated. seth thanks a friend told me to use -xzf xvf worked great!!! thanks to all who replied seth -- _ (_'_ ..
