RE: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush
[replies below] Richard Garand [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12190132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush "F. E. Schaper" wrote: I'll leave the Presidential debate open for others to discuss as I think that is too far off topic for this list, but I will ask you this: Do you want a President who, up until this point is most famous for approving the execution of 2 women, and for picking his nose on national television? executing 2 womenand how many men? 200? 2000? I may have to move to Canada next year. yeah
RE: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush
I don't really understand how the US elections work, but if you're talking about the president, wouldn't Nader be the best of the current candidates? Richard Garand [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12190132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush I'd rather pick a random name from the phone book rather than vote for either Bush or Gore. I'll probably end up picking a name from the EFF or something like that. It's better to choose someone I'd really want knowing my canidate has no chance of winning than to throw my vote in behind someone I wouldn't trust to run my Quake server and become just another zombie. Does anyone have any favorites for who we should vote for as the Geek platform? If you wanted to get serious you might pick something like Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond (I probably killed their names but oh well.. I misspell my own name too) but I can't imagine the two of them working together if they could avoid it. So this election day vote for the losser. :)
RE: [newbie] Another Mandrake review
The mandrake 2-CD install was 1GB for mebut then i got the iso images for the full CDs. If you download the ~700-2000 seperate packages you want, it's probably a bit smaller. Richard Garand [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12190132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 6:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Another Mandrake review CNET posted a review of Mandrake 7.1 this week - favorable but nothing substantial. It's at linux.cnet.com/linux. The high point (for me, at least) was the ad for RedHat 6.2. That's ok -- the same ad shows up on the RedHat 7.0 review. They say the RH 7.0 file is 1 gb -- I think I'll pass. -- cmg
RE: [newbie] DSL setup
Oh btw, i'm not sure i have a dynamic IP. My modem is always on, and i never have to do any connection in windows, so if the IP does change on reconnection, it would be once every 2-4 months. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glenn Johnson Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DSL setup I'm not sure I understand your question: "Where is rp-pppoe in the package list?" You need to download it from www.roaringpenguin.com. I did this with my windows box, then copied it from /mnt/dos_c/download_directory to where ever I wanted it on my Linux box. Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #175132 Usually powered by Mandrake Linux 7.1 - Original Message - From: "Richard Garand" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:47 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] DSL setup ok, adsl-start doesn't exist (at least for me)where is rp-pppoe in the package list?
RE: [newbie] configuring sound and network cards
I'll try this and the DSL guide in the LDP HOWTOs, but i've already tried the hardware and network config.can anyone tell me where all the network information i have goes? (I've set it up 10-20 times in windows, but the linux network config is..different :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 10:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] configuring sound and network cards HI Richard, For setting up your network card you would use Linuxconf to take care of that, then open up a terminal window, su as "root" and at the command prompt type sndconfig and hit ENTER. that will start the sound configuration utility and you can take care of your sound card. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Richard Garand wrote: I have a Startech NE2000 compatible ethernet card on ISA, and a Yamaha waveforce 192XG PCI sound card. How do i configure these to work in linux? For the ethernet card, i know the windows hardware settings, my IP address, my subnet mask, 2 DNS servers, the search domain or domain suffix and the default gateway address (for my internet connection)
RE: [newbie] configuring sound and network cards
soundcard not supported, "ne.c: No NE*000 device detected at 0x250". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 10:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] configuring sound and network cards HI Richard, For setting up your network card you would use Linuxconf to take care of that, then open up a terminal window, su as "root" and at the command prompt type sndconfig and hit ENTER. that will start the sound configuration utility and you can take care of your sound card. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Richard Garand wrote: I have a Startech NE2000 compatible ethernet card on ISA, and a Yamaha waveforce 192XG PCI sound card. How do i configure these to work in linux? For the ethernet card, i know the windows hardware settings, my IP address, my subnet mask, 2 DNS servers, the search domain or domain suffix and the default gateway address (for my internet connection)
[newbie] DSL setup
I finally got my network card working, but when i run licq, it tries to
contact the server, and has a DNS error ("can't resolve
icq.mirabilis.com"?). I know my IP address, my subnet mask, my primary and
secondary DNS servers, my search domain or domain suffix and my default
gateway address. Where do i put all this in the network config from the
mandrake configuration program?
RE: [newbie] Installing packages
KPackage and rpmDrake aren't in the menus, there's no configuration-Packagin, and they don't work from the console. Do i have to re-install Mandrake? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Marshall Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 8:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing packages I looked in the gnome and KDE menus and i don't see kpackage.is it an archive extraction-installation program? Is there a way to get a list of all the mandrake packages like in the install? Mandrake seems to be pushing Kpackage into the background in favor of its own rpmDrake. You should be able to find kpackage on the Kmenu though, just deeper in the tree than normal. In 7.1 it's under Configuration-Packaging-Kpackage. Of course you can just type kpackage on the commandline too. This is one example of the dynamic nature of the GUI for Linux management that causes me to use this stuff in a limited way. It'll be great once stabilized but it's a moving target right now. Cheers --- Larry
RE: [newbie] Installing packages
never mind, a reinstall fixed all i problems and i have rpmdrake and kpackage -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Marshall Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing packages Richard Garand wrote: KPackage and rpmDrake aren't in the menus, there's no configuration-Packagin, and they don't work from the console. Do i have to re-install Mandrake? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Marshall Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 8:28 AM I looked in the gnome and KDE menus and i don't see kpackage.is it an archive extraction-installation program? Is there a way to get a list of all the mandrake packages like in the install? Huh? Are you using 7.1? Did you do a normal install? Did you exclude packages during the install? As for your specific question, yes...you can use kpackage or rpmdrake to get a list of rpm packages but if you don't have those I don't know of any way to do it. Personally I'm not sold on rpm installations but maybe that's just because of my unfamiliarity with them. Cheers --- Larry
[newbie] configuring sound and network cards
I have a Startech NE2000 compatible ethernet card on ISA, and a Yamaha waveforce 192XG PCI sound card. How do i configure these to work in linux? For the ethernet card, i know the windows hardware settings, my IP address, my subnet mask, 2 DNS servers, the search domain or domain suffix and the default gateway address (for my internet connection)
RE: [newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windows registry, keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can't be configured......
This time I did a full install, with 4 linux partitions, got a bootdisk, and it works. But, when i was done the install, i deleted everything except windows from grub. What are the default choices and the commands to run them? (My partitions are windows, linux/, linux/home, linux/boot, swap, or something very close to that). I GNOME, i had drakconf last time, but this time i used a smaller install to have it go faster, so drakconf isn't there. I also wanted to add and remove some packages. Is there a package manager for mandrake, and where can i get it? btw, Thanks for all the help!
[newbie] Setting up DSL on ISA netcard
I have a DSL connection with an ISA network card (Startech NE2000 compatible i think, it didn't come with the computer and i didn't install it). I couldn't setup the network card during the install, so I canceled that part. How do i set up the network card from linux? How do i configure my connection? I have the settings for IP address, subnet mask, DNS servers, search domain and gateway address.
RE: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning
I did this with no problems. First you have to run defrag, and make sure you have enough empty space at the end of the windows partition. Then you run the mandrake installer, and when it gets to the partitioning, resize your windows partition (if there's any warnings like 234443434 210008593 then cancel it, you would lose data). Just create your linux partitions and you're ready to install. Make sure you back up your windows files before you do this, i had to reinstall windows the first time I tried to install mandrake. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 5:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning Have I missed something here? I understood that the DOS version of fdisk zeroed (what was that called?) when used to repartition a HDD, thus forcing a reinstall. I understood that the Linux fdisk only altered the partition information itself. I thought that was why all of the gyrations to resize a DOS partition to make room for Linux were necessary. Is there a simple way to resize a DOS partition without having to reinstall Windoze, for those of us still stuck having to use it? -Gary- In a message dated 9/6/2000 5:23:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have accomplished and the same task that you are conjecturing over. Adrian is correct in that you have to firt defrag your haddrive (run an error test first!). ONce you have did this, you can either use fdisk in DOS, which I have also did successfully, to repartition your windoze drive or do it all from diskdrake. I took the added precaution of writing down my harddrive "properties" (the actual size of information currently occupied on my harddrive.) so that I could give windows two GBs of harddrive space. The rest
[newbie] Setting up sound card
I have a Yamaha Waveforce WF192XG (no, i didn't choose it) PCI sound card. How do i configure it in GNOME/KDE?
[newbie] Installing packages
I used a very small install of mandrake, and now i want to add and remove packages. How do i do this? I also think drakconf is missing - how do i get it?
[newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windows registry, keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can't be configured......
Yesterday i tried to install mandrake, but with problems that got worse every time i tried to fix them, i had to repartition my disk and reinstall windows. Here's everything i remember, can anyone help me with these problems? The first time i tried to install mandrake, i chose "customized" installation. After repartitioning and selecting packages, i got some errors (before it started installing the packages). I started windows and ran the installer again, choosing "Automated". This time the only problem was that i couldn't configure my printer (an HP Deskjet 720C), but the installation worked. I restarted my computer and went in to gnome under my normal user. The first thing I did was try to change the screen resolution. I went in to the gnome control panel (i think that's what it was) and didn't find any resolution option, but i did change a few things in some other area, try all the window managers, and choose Enlightenement. I'm not sure what i did after; i think i closed the control panel, ran gnomeicu (which crashed), ran licq, and found out that i couldn't connect. My internet connection is DSL using a Startech (that's all i know about it) NE2000 compatible ISA card. I tried to run the control panel again, but when the root password dialog came up, i tried to click in the password area and type the password, but nothing happened (i think pressing enter did close it though). I tried restarting the computer, and had the same problem. I went in to root and ran drakconf, then went to the network configuration. I don't know where to enter the information, but i looked around and found a few settings i knew, but i still couldn't type anything. I opened a terminal and an editor, and the keyboard didn't work for them. I logged out then logged in to the KDE, and this time the keyboard worked. I tried to enter my network information, but licq still didn't work. I decided to go back in to windows to see if i could find some help. When i restarted the computer and grub came up, it was configured to run linux by default. I changed this (in linux) to run windows by default, and then restarted my computer. When grub camp up, it has windows selected, but after the 4 seconds were done, it would run the commands to start windows, pause for a second, and return to the grub menu. I got out the windows(98) installation diskette and started the computer in dos. I went to c:\windows and tried to run win, but i got an error about a resource missing. A few reboots later, i found that windows couldn't open the registry. I checked in c:\windows, and the registry files weren't there. I went back to the KDE (before this, in linux, i had found all my windows files in /mnt/windows/. I tried to run XMMS with my windows playlist (when i was still using gnome), but it kept going through the playlist (in about 3-4 second, i had 120-140 files) like i was holding the down key) and looked in /mnt/windows/, but it was empty. When i checked in dos, all the files were still there. I tried to find a way to get windows running, but it wouldn't work. I ran windows setup to see if i could replace the registry, but it said i had to format the hard drive. Since there was nothing I could do, i deleted all the partitions, made one partition that filled the drive, and reinstalled window. When i installed mandrake, i had one 12GB partition, but i resized it to ~9GB and added a 2.5GB partition for mandrake and a 128MB swap partition after the main partition. What cause the problems i had? How can i get a normal mandrake install without destroying windows? Can i skip installing a bootloader (keep the windows loader) and make a boot diskette that will run linux?
RE: [newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windowsregistry, keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can'tbe configured......
I deleted the partitions and reinstalled windows yesterday..i want to know why it destroyed my registry, why grub wouldn't load windows, how to install mandrake without destroying windows, how to install mandrake without installing another bootloader, how to make a boot diskette that can load mandrake (and have the the only way, so a normal boot will load windows), and if this boot diskette is possible. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adrian Smith Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windowsregistry, keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can'tbe configured.. me thinks (thinks being the key word) that if the registry is totally gone, when you boot in safe mode it will rebuild it as best it can. there are also some ways to restore a saved registry from a dos prompt i don't know them off hand as i have only read about them, never used them. this reminds me i need to update my norton rescue disk i think good luck - hope it works i'm fairly up to speed on windoze. if you still can't get anything email me at my address below i can look up the specifics in my books give you something better to try i hope. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Richard Garand" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:24:42 AM 9/7/00 This might work, but what will happen if all the registry files are gone?
RE: [newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windowsregistry, keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can'tbe configured......
(Final question, i hope)But does this work if the linux partitions are past 8GB? I have a 12GB hard drive, and with this arangement windows would take the first 9GB. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 7:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windowsregistry, keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can'tbe configured.. Richard Garand wrote: I deleted the partitions and reinstalled windows yesterday..i want to know why it destroyed my registry, why grub wouldn't load windows, how to install mandrake without destroying windows, how to install mandrake without installing another bootloader, how to make a boot diskette that can load mandrake (and have the the only way, so a normal boot will load windows), and if this boot diskette is possible. Richard, Here's what you do. Boot the Mandrake CD and start the installation. Do the expert install. Do not use "supermount". Choose all packages to install the Developer install. When it's time to make the partitions for Linux define them thusly: /boot = 15MB /home = (at least 500MB) can be more / (root) At least 2GB When it's time to install the boot loader use LILO. Don't forget to make a boot disk and install LILO on the MBR of the DOS partition. Don't worry, it won't hurt Windows at all nor your registry. At the point where it want to connect to do the Cryptography don't do it then. Cancel out of that part and move on the next thing on the list. You can take care of that part later. It takes forever to download what you need for that and usually stalls the installation. That's basically all there is to it. Once you've got Linux running you can safely configure X-windows to display the video properly. Enjoy, -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496
