On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, AS T wrote:
> Any idea?
drop win98 to trash and install LM :)
--
Inprise/Borland CEO Dale Fuller was even more generous:
"Microsoft will continue to be a player in this environment
in this world," Fuller said, "*for a few more years.*"
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Phil Edwards wrote:
> Not sure if this comes under the "Stupid Questions" heading or not, but is
> there any reason why the .iso images on the various ftp mirrors can't be
> compressed to make for a (slightly) quicker download?
no way, or it isn't that good. think: mo
hi! I'm brand new in this list, I want to say hello, I want to
warn all you taht I'll bother you as much it's possible to me :) and
that's it.
no, I better do a question, so here it is: I'm trying to tweak a
little the Mandrake distro just to have a couple of things in, like
HOWT
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Matt Fuerst wrote:
> namely MI/X) but I cannot figure how to run KDE itself. Any luck? I am
> looking for what options to set in X-Win32 and what to type in Linux.
maybe calling the "startkde" script...
--
Inprise/Borland CEO Dale Fuller was even more generous:
"Mi
hi again. thanks to who answered me before. that helped a little,
but wasn't enougth. So, does anybody really knows WTF mean the numbers in
compssList and what for is compssUsers? I've been poking aroud mdk site
and didn't find anything.
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Inprise/Borland CEO Dale Fuller was even more
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> > same results. I need the USB for a USB KVM switch - any ideas on a
> > workaround? Thanks for any advice!
> >
> Wait for better USB support?
> John
... or take the risk and switch to kernel 2.3.x. It has some usb
support.
--
Inprise/B
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Tom Berkley wrote:
> There are two files in the /boot directory that I don't understand:
>
> System.map
this one shows some info about what symbols are declared within
the kernel and where to find them... think they are used somewhere or it's
just a hacker helper to
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > Are KDE programs compatible with IceWM or WindowMaker? I'm not all that
> > impressed with KDE or GNOME, and thought I'd give one of the smaller and
> > tighter GUI environments a try, but if apps won't run under them
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Bill Beauchemin wrote:
> I can ssh into my box but when I try to ssh out I get
>
> Disconnected; protocol version not supported (Illegal protocol version.).
>
> Any answers as to why?
I'm guessing... don't know why, but there exists two mayor
versions of ssh, and
this file appears in .netscape user dirs. does anybody knows it's
use? and why the F**K it grows til it fills the user's quota (here 20Mb)
or the home partition?
--
Inprise/Borland CEO Dale Fuller was even more generous:
"Microsoft will continue to be a player in this environment
in thi
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Wayne wrote:
> [root@F11-pc-3B022-1 DOS_hdd1]# chown -v wapether Wayne/
> failed to change owner of Wayne to wapether
> chown: Wayne: Operation not permitted
> [root@F11-pc-3B022-1 DOS_hdd1]#
^---this is the problem... are you sure
this is
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Andrew Vick wrote:
> drive in the same position: I have tried using Linuxconf to let users write to
> it, but it keeps coming up as read-only for non-root users. I have been
> su'ing to root to store stuff there. Does anyone know how to change this?
add a "user"
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Alex V Flinsch wrote:
> > and that it overwrites any "issue" file existing in /etc. I have no
> > background in C and I think the linux-logo file is binary. I wish to do one
no, no bynary, just ansi esc codes to put color in life...
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Dev Null wrote:
> I can't remember the name of one of them, I think it was the "Complete" edition.
> It showed on the back 3 or 4 different books (Linux how-to) and labeled them as
> "Linux Library".
f**kers, may be that's why they didn't included the HOW-TO's as an
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Jim wrote:
> Have'nt tried a printer or scanner but I'm using a USB keyboard and mouse with
> no problems
w/ kernel 2.3.x or plain 2.2.15-whatever?
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, dan kuykendall wrote:
> When I installed Mandrake 7.0, the GUI installation wored perfectly. But
> now I cannot get X to work with my video card. Is there a way to use the
> same exact settings that the GUI setup uses?
I don't remember if it lets you, but at install
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Omar Kilani wrote:
> I have tried the PCMCIA install (after fixing up the pcmcia.img to load
> 8390.o properly) - this seems to work, it downloads the second stage
> install package, and then the install just dies, and the PC is reset after
> 'sending KILL, sending TERM'
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> When the installer got to the Java step, it found the JDK 1.2.2 which I
> installed earlier today.
>
> The problem might have been that JDK 1.2.2 wasn't on my system when I
> installed before (though it was there when I tried to run). Or that I
> typ
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Tim Wojtaszek wrote:
> Let me know if KDE works, after installing XF86 4, kde dies out with an
> Xalloc error: Tail Corrupt
yes, it's a known gub. may be they (I mean, the kde coders) will
try to port it to xf4, but thet're working in porting kde2 now. the
problems a
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Harald Wolf wrote:
> if i activate the PCMCIA service on installation i get a general
> protection
> fault on startup.
no mean to make a flamewar here, but, does GPF's exist under
linux? I know what they mean under WIN$$, but, here?
--
"No tiren sus colillas en el
On 20 Mar 2000, Pixel wrote:
> Here is what you can now find in pkgs.pm:
>
> #- lower bound on the left ( aka 90 means [90-100[ )
> %compssListDesc = (
> 100 => __("mandatory"), #- do not use it, it's for base packages
100 or 0? I'm looking at the orig compssList and, e.g., basesystem
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Sean Armstrong wrote:
I know you'd been telling mdk guys which cd-readers you're talking
about... can you share that info with me (us?). I'm 15 days from deadline
to an Installfest, and I want to get as much info as I can to know what
kind of problems I can face in it
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> Your system is trying to auto-power down. You need to tell
> it not to attempt to power down. Sorry, I forgot what you
> need to edit or what changes need to be made, but basically
> it's the APM trying to shut down your machine. It's just
> better to ma
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Peter H. Hackett wrote:
> If the NIC isn't detected upon boot, is there a way to 'force' it? My 3c900
> combo gets detected no probs under RH, or Slack, but not Mandrake. Any and
> all help (and maybe an explaination as to why this is) would be appreciated.
try an '
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Mage Grimau wrote:
> Actually, a 7M partition works great for /boot.
> I can't get fdisk to make a smaller one or I'd try it,
> since /boot only seems to be using about 2M.
that's because fdisk creates parts bounded to cyls. a lone cyl has
about 7Mb in the last ide h
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Civileme wrote:
> Suppiluliuma wrote:
my dear suppiluliuma: have you tried cups? it has printing
accounting per se. hope it helps.
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, David G. Thiessen wrote:
> to do something similar in Mandrake. Any suggestions?
er... hope this works. In /etc/conf.modiles are the configuration
for the automatically loaded modules. just comment the ones related to
your old sc. if there there is no info about you
I don't understand: has this "unusable" cd-rom
have a separate module for it? if so, it's possible that this module
couldn't get into the install floppy. if not, either then mdk guys had
touched that part of kernel (I know they touched in other places, thats
why exists a kener-linus pkg),
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> This could mean simply that you have one instance of RealPlayer or
> another audio application open and are not aware of it. So, when trying
> to launch Realplayer or another application, you get a lock file.
yes, this could happen if esd is i
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Michael Barker wrote:
> I have install Mandrake 7 on a Dell laptop. It installed okay, however it
> seems to have problems when the floppy drive is not attached. It seems to
> think that the device is there when it boots. This causes problems with
> some applications (eg.
some time ago there was a post (I think from Pixel) which said
where to get the fixes to the instalation disks (several patch.pl files
and a new pcmcia.img). does anybody remenber where was that? (I mean, the
url)
zanx
--
"No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y
l
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>If I install the kde2 and qt2 rpm's on the contrib disk will it blow
> my existing kde installation away or will they coexist? It'd be nice if
> it
> added it to the chooser for kdm and let me switch back and forth. Does
> it do this?
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Scott Sprunger wrote:
> debug: Unable to open /home/ssprun1/.ssh2/identification
> root@p6333's password:
> debug: Ssh2/ssh2.c:304/client_authenticated: client_authenticated
> debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
> Mar 23 23:05:48 p6333 sshd2[1213]:
hi! just yesterday I got fb working on my machine. but there's a
curious thing: the booting logo seems like a strainer: a lot of pixels are
hust black, and if you recognize what's showing... well, I could give you
a prize!
so, any hint?
PD: I got a patch that allows you to use t
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, lorne schachter wrote:
> I've installed 7.0 on a reformatted partition and when I try to compile
> some programs, I'm missing curses.h and term.h. Should I have selected
> development on the initial menu?
yes, or... install manualy the needed pkgs. here, seems to be
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Wayne Stout wrote:
> Greetings, everyone.
>
> I was going through my system the other day trying to free up some disk
> space, and I noticed that I have both gcc and ecgs installed. My
> question is, do I need both of them? If not, which one is the best one
> to keep?
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, WH Bouterse wrote:
> My version of PM 5.0 has the 'convert NTFS to vfat'
> and 'resize' greyed out, and I was wondering if diskdrake
> can do the job.
uh_ a demo version_ anyway, no, diskdrake cannot (yet) resize NTFS
partitions... advise: do a backup and repart wit
hi, I'm curious about two things:
a) when you install from cd and you reach the "network connection"
stepp, and you choose "modem" or the like... where the things are written?
and b) have anybody succesfully setup a common kppp configuration
beetwen users? I mean, all th
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Antoniou, Stylianos wrote:
> First question: What is that @/usr/bin/gawk file?
either or its a way of saying "can't find /usr/bin/gawk" or is a
type in the makefile... IIRC, I had the same problem, and fixing the
makefile make it work...
> Now, I restart ypbind ( I
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, vern wrote:
> mdk kernel (2.2.14 series). I'm returning my Mdk 7.0 and
> applying the $50+ toward a real video card! Who knows
> next year I may add audio to my machine.
yes, I think that's the best way... here we have a
90-compaq-with-this-chipset lab and we're st
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am currently using Debian/GNU-Linux and may switch to
> Mandrake. Mandrake seems to be easy to update, but what
> about upgrades from 7.0 to its successor. Debian provides
> a very elegant way to do this. Is upgrading Mandrake a
> easy job or compli
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
> Is there a Mandrake 6.1 for 486? Or can I use the version I have? I
> thought 6.1 was 586 & up, but I see, RTFMing, that the box says 486 & up.
yes, there is one. search in www.linux-mandrake.com. I've
downloaded it already, but I have not test
On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Hmm a virus-like Linux distro. Nope. Don't think it's likely to happen. Not
> an auto-install version, but perhaps a version where you CAN install from a
> central server, but that's already possible. :-)
yes
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> I guess you are referring to the new mdk7 for 486 (needed
> because v.7.0x is for 586 or up). Charles was asking about v.6.1
> working on a 486.
> Yes, Charles, I installed a 6.1 on a 486/40MHz w/ 64M of ram. It
> works nice although I don't use X on
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, John N wrote:
> Your point is taken. However, since I work primarily in Linux, and since I trust and
> respect the opinions of THIS group rather than any Microsoft mailing list, therefore
>I
> posted to this list. No offence was intended.
>
> I also regard the gurus on this
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote:
> I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would
> like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux
> distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can
> I , say, have five 4 gig part
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Vic wrote:
> I like to custom build my own systems when
> it comes to non-mac or non-mainframe systems,
> ie, any intel or amd based home/office systems.
>
> That way of course as was mentioned I can
> select the best variety of supported and/or
> preferred hardware brands, a
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when
>I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze,
> the keyboard stop responding, and the harddrive become very active. It would
>continue that way for over an hour at
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Monte Milanuk wrote:
> No, this printer isn't _that_ old. I think it was
> purchased about a year and a half ago. It is an inkjet
> printer, but it does seem like the wheels or rolls or
> whatever feeds the paper thru aren't quite running the same
> speed. But again, how wo
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Mustafa BASER wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to this list.
>
> I searched mandrake site but couldn't find any information about making
> comps, compss, compssList, compssUsers files.
>
> I modified hdlist and deplists to remove some packages from the original
> mdk 7.0 distri
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Christopher Cox wrote:
> Since Plug&Pray allows for multiple PCI VGA boards
> Is there a way to start multiple X servers against multiple PCI VGA boards?
er... nop and yes... er.. only with xfree4 and having TOO much
luck! see www.xfree.org for more info. No, I ha
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Deim_Ágoston?= wrote:
> HI !
>
> I have a little LAN at home where my Linux is the "mail-server". Or
> it should be. What should I do that the sendmail send all of the
> qued mails when I'm connected to the inet via PPP ? Is the
> "sendmail -q" line sufficie
yes... you can buy the oss drivers (just $20; www.opensound.com)
and it will go smooth!
--
"No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y
las hace dificil de encender"
"Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes
them difficult to light."
--To
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Bois, Mathieu wrote:
> When I try to install Mandrake 7.0R2 or RedHat 6.2, it says it needs a
> floppy disk with PCMCIA drivers...
er... have you tried the pcmcia.img boot floppy? the cd boots the
cdrom.img boot floppy, which has no (or too poor) pcmcia support...
--
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
> You shouldn't have to do anything. If sendmail is running as a daemon, it
> will try from time to time and eventually suceed. You will have messages
> from sendmail complaining that it could not deliver message X for the last
> four hours. Other than th
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote:
> Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified
le what? uh... are... do you... mmm... answering more than 5000
problems presented in this list a year?
ok, stop the joke... thas something like that exis
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> Yes, I have seen this before. Every now and then the logging in
> /var/log/messages stops completely after the daily cron at 04:02
> in the morning. This happens in irregular intervals and I
> observed this with MDK 5.3, 6.1 and 7.0
uh... log
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Vic wrote:
> Hi got a off the wall question here, I am wondering
> if when formatting a ext2 zip disk, if it is ok to
> reserve only 1% of it for the "superuser"
> instead of the default 5%?
I would do 0%... cause you always get out of space in something
smaller than
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Hoyt wrote:
> Tomsrtbt would be a good bootable image to use for a rescue disk - you could fill
>the CD with teh specific utilities you would need if tomsrtbt did not have them.
er... IIRC, floppy images to make a boot cd should be 1440 or
2880, and tom's root/boot
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Fabio wrote:
> Is this possible to do it without reinstalling Linux
> I mean keeping all the things running and at the end the space
> available for Linux will be 6 Gbyte.
> I know that winNT (via disk administrator) can do it, what's about Linux
> ??
> How can I add t
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Tom's works just fine. It's similar to M$ factory floppies.
> John
not at al... tom's, as I said, is 1700k size. And I read somewhere
that the boof images should be either 1440k either 2880k... Am I right?
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Ross Xu wrote:
> Dear there,
>
> I have a problem about configuring FTP server (wu-ftp) on linux Mandrake 7.
> I can connect to the ftp server on clinet side using ftp command.
> But when I type ls, I alway get an error:
> ftp> ls
> 500 Illegal PORT Command.
> 425 Can't buil
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Hoyt wrote:
> Assuming it is not, there's nothing to stop you from creating a 2.88MB floppy image
>and copying tomsrtbt to it.
>
> Hoyt
you're right! what an idiot thinking about it! thanks!
--
"No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y
las hace dific
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Mike Corbeil wrote:
> Lastly, this is truly a newbie question and should be asked in the newbie
> mailing list.
don't mean to start a flamewar here... but don't try to
discriminate... I mean, I don't think he's a newbie if he's trying to boot
another kernel. I think
uh... another question? is it true that a cd-booting bios should
present a menu if there are several boot images? or a special bios doing
so? or a program?
--
"No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y
las hace dificil de encender"
"Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen a
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Gateways do, which I love, but I know that at least HP's don't.
bios? version? thanks.
--
"No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y
las hace dificil de encender"
"Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes
them d
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Alen Salamun wrote:
> Hoyt wrote:
> >
> > I heard that 7.0 has some USB support. True?
> >
> > Anyone using a USB ethernet card? Which one?
> Hi!
>
> Yes USB patches are applied to the kernel, but I haven't tried it out
> yet :)
ur... IFAIK, it's only keyboard and
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, vern wrote:
> Check it outfire up an IRC client and head to irc.debian.org
> channel #debian. Then you can do an "apt: ipmasq" to have the channel
> bot give you info on what ipmasq is and where to find docs. That's really
> cool! It works for most packages.
ok,
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, james.fogg wrote:
> Your card is NE-2000 compatible and possibly Plug and Prey (the newer DE-220
> is P&P). You might try a boot to see if your bios picks up the presence of
> the card as a P&P device.
but, if it's a pci card, you should use ne2kpci module intead of
hi! this may seem some OT (no flames, please), but I need info
about distributed filesystems. I need to set up a 64Gb ftp server using 16
4Gb disks included in respectives machiines... does anyone have any hint
for me? No, putting al disks in one machine is not an option, and yes, I
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