Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
- Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Miark wrote: Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark Skeet shooting, anyone? My friend uses them as coasters, for hot mugs of tea and so on, when he has guests round. But seriously... check your Yellow Pages (or equivalent) for Recycling Organisations (or equivalent), give them a call and see what they say about it. They may let you mail them in to them for recycling. Cheers. -PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] programs running on wine
Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes,... You guys r funny! lol I'd love to go bar-hopping beer! with this crowd sometime! ;-) You mentioned *The Word*(tm.com)... I like that! Shame we all live in Different Countries and all. PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... Name: Hanan Country: Fairfax, VA United States IP: .. nah ;-) Greenock, Scotland here. PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all
shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... Walnut Creek (bay area) California here and bar hoping would _not_ be a good idea. can see a bunch of rowdy linux geeks in one bar? ;-) LoL... ever hear of Pigdog? Being a Sanfranciscan and all. PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RPMdrake Problem...
Hi... I'm having problems with RPMdrake. I need it so that I can install X-windows, but when I try to run it I get... "Gtk-Warning **: cannot open display" ... Does anyone know what might be wrong? (I think the Graphics card - ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder - is supported... it showed up in the install process "system" list) What can I do? I have no GUI, and I'm only now learning the CLI commands... any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks... PV.
Re: [newbie] RPMdrake Problem...
Charles and Dave, Thankyou both very much for these suggestions. I'm going to see if the quick one will work first, then if it doesn't work, I'll try Daves. Dave, I never recieved your reply message at this end. but I got to read it through Charles'... Thankyou very much indeed! :o) I will look up all of the things you wrote about as I feel they are going to help me a great deal. I appreciate your help! And of course Charles, Thankyou very much too! I will attempt an Expert/Update of my Linux setup. :o) PV. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RPMdrake Problem... On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:43:48 -0500 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul_Vortex wrote: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... Simple, GTK needs X window to run. Run the utility from with in X window. I you don't have X window installed, you'll have to use another utility. Um, thanks for that... there is an adage for moments like this Dave... I won't bother to recite it. I won't follow that up as you will only get hurt. :) To anyone else... So. What are they, and how do I use them? :o) rpm is one tool. KDE and GNOME also have their own GUI versions. Doing a search on google.com will probably turn up lots of them. I need to install X-Windows. but have *no clue* how, as I don't know Linux protocols yet. I know X-Windows is on my CD's but I don't know how to install it from there. It's easy. 1) mount the mandrake cd. 2) find the .rpm files. They will probably start with the characters 'XFree86' The rpms might not be on the first CD so be prepared to search. 3) use rpm (or whatever tool use choose) to install them. XFree86.org has documentation on how to install the X window system from RPMs and what video driver to use for what videocard. The simplest and easiest way is to rerun the Mandrake installation as an Expert/Upgrade. You need not select any pkgs, and unless they need to be redone you can skip the network and printer configuration. You will need to do the bootloader but then you again be be allowed to install and configure X. The whole process will take all of about 10min. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] programs running on wine
Thankyou Femme! PV. - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] programs running on wine Browse in a Filemanager to /root, then I believe /mnt, then the windows drive letter *mine are kind of mixed up*. Do same thing from a command line. There have been tons of threads on this lately, just look at the archives for this list. Femme Paul_Vortex wrote: Rick [Kitty5] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... you could run max in vmware, but seriously, who would want to - dual boot and replace your windows shell with max :) Um You can boot directly into a program like Max??? Can you do it with Lightwave7? Wow! Could you set up a multiple boot system with Lightwave7, Painter7 and Linux? That would be tres cool! Actually... a question How does an individual get access to their other HD partitions (ie Windows and previously saved files ... I have MP3's I want to access in another partition on my drive) from the Command Line? Cheers, PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] programs running on wine
FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... NP. Now help me fix my own probs! :) Femme HA!... If they *aren't* Linux related, then there might be a hope in hell I could help you out! :o) -PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] programs running on wine
Rick [Kitty5] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... you could run max in vmware, but seriously, who would want to - dual boot and replace your windows shell with max :) Um You can boot directly into a program like Max??? Can you do it with Lightwave7? Wow! Could you set up a multiple boot system with Lightwave7, Painter7 and Linux? That would be tres cool! Actually... a question How does an individual get access to their other HD partitions (ie Windows and previously saved files ... I have MP3's I want to access in another partition on my drive) from the Command Line? Cheers, PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] X Windows problem!
How do I install XWindows (Gnome) without having to go through the whole installation process again!? PV.
[newbie] Installation Problem (Xfree86) and Greeetings!
Hi there... I've been watching this list for a few days now and all I can say is... if you folks are newbies then I don't know *what* the hell *I* should be called! ;o) Anyway... on to my problem... I've just tried a lnx4win install of Mandrake 8.1, but whilst it all went fairly easily, there was a problem with its installation of Xfree86. It didn't install correctly, and as a result I have no graphics interface. I only have a very cursory idea about Linux command lines so please be gentle! ;o) How do I get XFree86 to install now, via CLI? Is it possible? PV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
