RE: [newbie] NOT NICE OF ALL OF U!!!
This is first I've seen from you.. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Markus KlockerSent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 6:25 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] NOT NICE OF ALL OF U!!! Nobody answerd a mail from me! Thats sad!
[newbie] Now that you've upgraded.....
Anybody have any of the printed Mandrake User Guides or Reference Manuals they want to sell? I'm looking for versions 7.2, 8.1, and 8.2 - In English or Spanish. Thanx, Mike S. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Default Colors
I just installed MD8.2 on one of the machines here - How do I change the default color scheme (currently very-dark-blue on not-quite-so-dark-blue) *BEFORE* going into KDE and/or Gnome? Thanx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE is hosed !!!
Wow - Shades of Microsoft !!! I installed (using SoftwareManager) on this Win98/ML8.1 dual boot system (P233MMX IDE 10G 2G), and somehow it really messed up KDE. Now, no matter what I do - Ksplash, Konqueror, Konsole, Krusader, whatever - I get this error box telling me that it returned error 11 (SIGSEGV) which is usually caused by a bug in the program. I click on OK - But, the ap doesn't load and I can't do anything - I can't even get to a shell !!! I've been getting around it by using gNome and Nautilus, etc., etc., and I don't seem to have any problems with it. I've uninstalled, and re-installed all the KDE stuff - But, nothing seems to change. Since all this started, my screen (S3 Trio video, Dell 1025DTM monitor) seems to 'flash' ever so often - But, that might be just a coincidence. I can unload and then reload ML (good excuse to go to 8.2, I guess), but I'd really like to know what has happened and how to fix it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Helpful Hints
This is an awesome link for help when installing a new distro! http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/linux.setup.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Laptop question
I had that same problem - What I finally had to do was get rid of the separate ...\CD1, ...\CD2, ...\CD3 directories. I made one ?:\MNDRK81 directory and copied all three CDs into that one. Made a boot floppy with the HD img, and installed from there -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Femme Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Laptop question On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:58, bascule wrote: before i forget, didn't there use to be a 'dosstart' boot method or somesuch where one could start the install from a dos prompt? perhaps if the laptop can be in dos with the cd drive recognised you could try this, i think there was/is a directory on cd1 with .bat file to launch under dos, I hope so b/c this would likely work for it. anyway, once you have a partition with the iso or cd contents on you will need to know how to describe it to the install i.e. /dev/hda1 etc. you say you have tried this before and it didn't work, did you do anything different to what i have described? bascule The way I tried this in the past was on a huge FAT32 partition I have on my secondary drive. I put all the files into one central directory called Mandrake, then under that: CD1, CD2, CD3. When I went to install I pointed the .img file to my partitions beforehand, and as I installed yes it asked for the files where they were. Yet, no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to accept the directories I'd created for it. I don't know what I did wrong...? Tia Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Posting Help
Whatever it was, you must've fixed it.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Stuettgen Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 10:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Posting Help I am posting this from my office e-mail system to see if anyone can help me. I am in need of any suggestions to fix my posting problem. I subscribed to the mandrake lists in early May and all was well. In the middle of May my ISP brought their systems in house rather than being outsourced like they had been. Since the switch I have been unable to post to any of the Mandrake lists. I am subscribed to several other mailing lists and can post to them without any problem. The only lists that I am having a problem with are the Mandrake lists. My ISP is at a loss and I am getting very frustrated. Below is copy of the mime information from my most recent attempt to post. = Delivery failed 20 attempts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message follows. Received: from cfslaptop [65.124.84.8] by entouch.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.07) id A3E2D2070090; Sat, 06 Jul 2002 13:07:46 -0400 Subject: Checking to see if can post From: Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 06 Jul 2002 12:10:32 -0500 Message-Id: 1025975432.2518.4.camel@cfslaptop Mime-Version: 1.0 Checking to see if I can post... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Removing mandrake 8.2 ...
I recently had to do this myself in order to cleanly reinstall Linux. After several frustrating attempts to use DOS's FDISD, I went to www.fdisk.com to download their freebie version which works with MD as well as MS. M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Removing mandrake 8.2 ... You can't use fdisk to get rid of Linux partitions, though. That will have to be with one of the commercial utilities if you want to do it from Windows. I think, though, that I got rid of a linux partition in the past by using a linux boot disk and using the linux fdisk utility to do it. using the install from the cd could do this as well. Sometimes you can get rid of ext2 partitions with either the dos fdisk or w2k, but it's not easy and depends upon whether you had a single /root partition,or multiple linux partitions, and whether you have any other partitions of the fat32/nt type after those linux partitons. I don't recommend it unless you know what you are doing. Basically , these partiton utilities do not asign drive letters to linux partitions and therefore although they are there and the utilities knows they are there, they do not allow you to delete then straight. You have to remove all those partitions that come after the linux partition, then and only then, windblows partitons tools will recover the lost space, you then remake the whole of the remaining drive as one partition assign it a drive letter and format it, you can then remove it all and remake to your final desired configuration. I've done this many times before I bought PM. I do not recommend you do it. You want Partition Magic. It's the best , and can do this without destroying data on other partitons . If you don't have PM, your are really left with the partition tools on your mandrake install disc.You will have to run CD1 again, trundle through the unwanted preliminaries until you get to the partition tools , it can delete anything, I think you can remake the partitions if you still want them and format in vfat(fats32) ,is that true, I'm not sure, possibly not, I have never done that, so probably not.Perhaps someone could comment. Anyway once the ext2 partitions are gone, and if you were not able to format in vfat , you can use the windblows utilities to format them and assign new drive letters. If you are able to format in mandrake windows will detect the new vfat partitions on bootup and assign drive letters automatically. John John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MS Outlook
Dennis, If you just want to change the Outlook format on an individual basis, before you send, click Format/Plain Text - To change your default format, in the Outlook screen click on Tools/Options/Mail Format. You'll see a drop down arrow for HTML, Plain Text, et al. Mike S. vvwvv (©¿©) ~ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:28 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:10 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:24 PM To: Newbie Mandrake Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade on another installation (8.1 to 8.2) Now SO 6.0 seemed to be running okay, but when I try to save a file I get this notice: StarOffice 6.0 Error saving the document Untitled1: Wrong parameters The operation was started under an invalid parameter. Also, trying to run setup. it starts to load, and the icon hourglass runs, and then it also disappears. An help will be greatly appreciated. Bob Bob, if you know where the main files are for star office, and I suspect they are in /usr/local, go there and check permissions on the /usr/local/soffice file (or whatever it is called). If you don't know, do a slocate, or locate or whereis or[oops didn't finish) to find the file and check the permissions. The above seems to have gone out as HTML, can someone confirm. I am having a devil of a time figuring out how to get outlook to stop sending in HTML. Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
