Re: [expert] Slackware Vs Mandrake - Who is better?

1999-10-29 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
>From: "Palmer C Byrne, RAA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 04:37:42 -0700 > >At 08:10 PM 10/28/99 -0400, you wrote: > >What is the "single-floppy Linux Router project"? Is there an active >support group for this and do they have a URL? http://www.linuxrouter.org/ an alternate i

RE: [expert] perl modules as RPMs

1999-10-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ken Wilson wrote: > I haven't seen too many Perl RPM's specially designed for Mandrake. > What I do is get the tars from a CPAN site and compile and install them > myself. Most will let you compile for Pentium optimisation I believe. Yeah, that's what I've done for now.. st

Re: [expert] Modem problems

1999-10-29 Thread Arandir
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Arandir wrote: > I'm reposting this because I never got an answer, and it's STILL driving me > nuts: > Okay, I finally figured it out after some pondering. The serial port was configured as a module, so when the module was removed from memory it lost the settings. I recompil

RE: [expert] perl modules as RPMs

1999-10-29 Thread Ken Wilson
I haven't seen too many Perl RPM's specially designed for Mandrake. What I do is get the tars from a CPAN site and compile and install them myself. Most will let you compile for Pentium optimisation I believe. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant

[expert] Mandrake as a beowulf cluster

1999-10-29 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
I am toying with this idea, I understand that I will need to find cluster enabled apps to run on this if I want to make use of the additional machines, but - will I be able to use standard apps also. In single machine mode?Where do I look for cluster versions of software that is already out

[expert] perl modules as RPMs

1999-10-29 Thread Vincent Danen
Is there a place one can get perl modules as RPMs for Mandrake? A buddy of mine sent me some for RedHat but they're a little dated... I just successfully made a new RPM for one of the newer modules I need to install a forum thingy on my website, but I was wondering if there was a place for Mandr

[expert] Printer Woes-bug Im back!?

1999-10-29 Thread WH Bouterse
Thanks for everyones responses and patience in previous posts. I really wonder what is going on !? Some people seem to have no problems while others (like me) keep running into the wall. L-M 6.1 Helios I recently had another outburst of strangeness with lprm locking and /dev/lp0 disappearing bu

[expert] Star Office 5.1 weirdness

1999-10-29 Thread S. Newhouse
Mine works! Things to check: 1. When you installed it as root, did you use the setup /net command? 2. After it was installed, as a normal user, did you once again run setup? This puts the right stuff in the user's home directory. -sen > Hi > > I have just installed the SO 5.1

Re: [expert] Star Office 5.1 weirdness

1999-10-29 Thread Civileme
I have Mandrake 6.1 (clean install) running on several machines and it runs StarOffice5.1a (From Sun Microsystems) very well. I also have a machine "upgraded" from RH6.0 to Mandrake 6.1 where it works. My "upgrade" method was to INSTALL Mandrake 6.1 without formatting the partitions. There were r

Re: [expert] HP LaserJet 4/5/6 driver?

1999-10-29 Thread Denis Havlik
:~> Hi, :~>anyone has any experience with this? I upgraded from Mandrake 5.3 to :~>6.1, and now my LaserJet 6L (you know, the small personal HP printer) :~>uses different paper path: instead of the output bin, all the printed :~>pages come out thru the small slit at bottom (never before even k

Re: [expert] HP LaserJet 4/5/6 driver?

1999-10-29 Thread Richard Yevchak
On the 5L there is a switch on the front of the printer. Push it up and the paper goes into the bin. Push it down and the paper comes out the front. Richard Alexander Kirillov wrote: > > Hi, > anyone has any experience with this? I upgraded from Mandrake 5.3 to > 6.1, and now my Laser

[expert] Star Office 5.1 weirdness

1999-10-29 Thread Denis Havlik
Hi I have just installed the SO 5.1 on my machine (Mandrake 6.1 + updates) That is i tried it and got stuck. Below is complete report: as root i installed with a "/net" option, then tried installing as a user. However, the install-procedure freezes after pressing "OK" on the last question (no ja

[expert] Possible bug with latest lpr rpm update.

1999-10-29 Thread Adam Bodnar
Recently, I noticed that whenever I would print something and then print something after that. It would print the first job I had printed. The only way I was able to fix this was to clear the queue. I am printing to a HP LaserJet 4050TN over a network. I used printtool to set the printer up. S

Re: [expert] HP LaserJet 4/5/6 driver?

1999-10-29 Thread Dana J. Laude
Alexander Kirillov wrote: > > Hi, > anyone has any experience with this? I upgraded from Mandrake 5.3 to > 6.1, and now my LaserJet 6L (you know, the small personal HP printer) > uses different paper path: instead of the output bin, all the printed > pages come out thru the small slit at

Re: [expert] Slackware Vs Mandrake - Who is better?

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Have a look at http://www.linuxrouter.org. Jean-Michel On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Palmer C Byrne, RAA wrote: > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 04:37:42 -0700 > From: "Palmer C Byrne, RAA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Slackware Vs Mandrake

[expert] HP LaserJet 4/5/6 driver?

1999-10-29 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Hi, anyone has any experience with this? I upgraded from Mandrake 5.3 to 6.1, and now my LaserJet 6L (you know, the small personal HP printer) uses different paper path: instead of the output bin, all the printed pages come out thru the small slit at bottom (never before even knew of such

Re: [expert] ide CDRW without SCSI adapter ?

1999-10-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
LILO you need to put (I believe) append="hdx=ide-scsi" x is c if CD-RW is on second ide and master. Read latest howto off LDP web site it has full description on ATAPI-CDRW http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html Osamu Sergio Korlowsky wrote: > "S. Newhouse" wrote: > > > Anyone k

Re: [expert] SCSI Emulation for Burners

1999-10-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
LILO you need to put (I believe) append="hdx=ide-scsi" x is c if CD-RW is on second ide and master. Read latest howto off LDP web site it has full description on ATAPI-CDRW Osamu John Aldrich wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > >%_Can anyone tell me how to compile scsi support in the

Re: [expert] Slackware Vs Mandrake - Who is better?

1999-10-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > What is the "single-floppy Linux Router project"? Is there an active > support group for this and do they have a URL? > LRP is a project to allow the use of a small (386, 486) system as a router for multiple machines, often Windows-based machines. It will usu

Re: [expert] Slackware Vs Mandrake - Who is better?

1999-10-29 Thread Denis Havlik
:~>What is the "single-floppy Linux Router project"? Is there an active :~>support group for this and do they have a URL? Take a look at the long list of different linux distributions (with links to home-pages) here: http://lwn.net/1999/1028/dists.phtml I hope you will find what you need... c

Re: [expert] Slackware Vs Mandrake - Who is better?

1999-10-29 Thread Palmer C Byrne, RAA
At 08:10 PM 10/28/99 -0400, you wrote: >Hello, > >The first distribution I ever used was Slackware. It's a great >distribution, but Mandrake is better. > >I >I would never go back to Slackware again. I tested almost every >distribution, and Mandrake is the best. The only other I use is the >singl

[expert] diald intro?

1999-10-29 Thread Tom Berger
Hi! Does anyone know a good and easy introduction to diald (or - better yet - a troubleshooting guide)? The man-pages do not deal with my problem and the 'diald mini-HowTo' is pathetic. I have it running, but I'm faced with several problems. Thanks! tom -- "This program can destroy data, and i

Re: [expert] Using Mandrake as a Nameserver

1999-10-29 Thread Andrea Celli
Paul Hoy wrote: > > I've look around, but I can't find out how to use Linux as a nameserver. Any > hints wouild be appreciated. > > Paul Hoy http://mercury.chem.pitt.edu/~tiho/LinuxFocus/English/May1998/article5.html ciao, Andrea

Re: [expert] vmware alternative (off topic)

1999-10-29 Thread Tom Berger
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Tom Berger wrote: > > > > You know Classic Greek AND Latin ??? Sounds very Flemish > > > > Not quite, German ;-). I've studied Ancient Philology once. > > > > That is a dying breed ;-) > I left High School (Classic Humanities - Latin/Greek) with only