Pupeno wrote:
> How can I go backwards, from Xfree 4 to xfree 3 ?
> is there any tool that do this like in SuSE, or should I do
> it by hand ? In case of that, how do I know what packages
> do I need to remove and which one to install ?
Xconfigurator --expert
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merical value I supply, touch returns
> 'invalid date format'. man touch gives no examples. What's
> the secret?
> --
> Felix Miata
Felixtry this for 12:00 on 26 March 1999:
touch -t 9903261200 filename
Here's the format:
[[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss]
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David Boles wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: Alan Shoemaker
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:58:42 -0700
> Subject : Re: [expert] Aurora Vs LiLo
>
> > David Boles wrote:
> > > I really don't want to hurt anyones feelings, b
oot, startup. I have tried everything that I can think
> of to try.
>
> Thanks in advance.
Davidthere's a desktop icon labeled Mandrake Control
Center. Click it and choose Boot and then Boot Config.
There's a check box to uncheck to turn off Aurora and a
button provided (upper right corner) for configuring lilo.
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Ron Stodden wrote:
> I wonder what country nu is? Anybody know?
NU Niue
http://www.crayne.com/country.html
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he window as
it dies and these might help to determine why it's not
running for your user.
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Laurent Duperval wrote:
> On 1 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > Laurent Duperval wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot.
> >> I don't want that.
> >
> > Laurentclick on the desktop icon labl
led 'Mandrake Control
Center. Expand the 'Hardware' tree and choose 'Display'.
Click on the 'Expert Mode' button and from there you'll be
able to change your Xserver version.
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and the sub-window will close. Finally click
on the main window's "OK" button and you're done. The next
time you power up or re-boot you should boot in text mode.
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he CD, and I
> went into /var to look for any logs, but /var had almost
> nothing.
>
> I reformatted again, and this time unchecked the "boot into
> graphical mode". I did this, but still got it hanging.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
Kevintry a seperate ext2 /boot partition.
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make a boot floppy to boot with. Use -BADZ2 if
you're installing an ext2 filesystem or -BADZ5 if you're
installing a reiserfs filesystem.
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ly,
> Eric
Ericthe most painless method is to do an upgrade install
of MandrakeFreq. The iso is available on the mirrors or you
can by the CD (real cheap) from either:
http://www.cheapbytes.com/
or
http://www.lsl.com/
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is one)
>
> Anyway, to try and set it through linuxconf I did a
> [ctrl]+[alt]+[backspace] to get to runlevel 3.
Davidinstead, do a ctl-alt f2 to get to a console login.
login there and do your chores. Type exit when you're done
(logs you out and takes you back to the console log
-1. If that doesn't work or you can't
find the setting you can delete the ~/.kde (that's the
/home//.kde) directory and KDE will build all
new settings files upon restart, but of course you'll lose
all KDE customizations you've done since your install.
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"SIV-ill-ME"
> > which I know is wrong. And the only Turkish girl I knew
> > just flew to Turkey for a 6 month assignment. :-(
> >
> > Matt
>
> jzhiv ih Leh' mee, but most of my coworkers pronounce it
> siveelehm.
>
> Civileme
> Yes, tis my nickname as well
Oh for crying out loud!!! Make a civileme.wav file. Then
attach it to a message and send it to the list. :-)
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#x27;start' and
then press the TAB key the resulting display would be similar
to the one below. In that list of possible commands
beginning with 'start' there is one I believe might
successfully launch KDE. :-)
[alan@obi-wan alan]$ start
startgnomestartinnfeed startsawfish startx
starticewmstartkde startwindowmaker
startxfce
[alan@obi-wan alan]$ start
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n which
will copy and install any (or all of them at once) of the
fonts located on the windows partition to your Linux Mandrake
system.
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gt; since with no problems. Kmail has no fixed width fonts
> available (but Knode and other KDE apps do [?]), but I've
> seen others report the same for KDE2.1 with other distros.
> Konqueror is much improved, as are many various kde2
> features.
TomI'm using lucindatypriter with Kmail 1.2. The only
difference I can see offhand between our installations is my
lack of the qt2-static-libraries.
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David Baudens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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one
of the locations from which it can be downloaded:
ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-iso/i486/mandrake70-2.i486.iso
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de/Autostart directory.
2. right click in the window and choose 'Create new'
3. choose 'Link to application'
4. choose the execute tab and type into the 'Command: text
box
kppp -c
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4. It worked before
the upgrade. Is there something I am missing??? Please help =). Would a
conflict when installing the headers have anything to do with it??? Thanks
so much
____
Alan Carpenter
PC Specialist
Department of Computer Services
Virginia W
ried signing up from the web page (see
below)?
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3
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his, what must be
> done instead? (note I do not have an install CD, this was a
> from-the-net install.
>
>
> -Dave Dennis
> -Seattle WA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Davecheck out 'man mkinitrd'.
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i586.rpm
in the sympa rpm (needs to be installed).
The command you're asking about is:
SET listname DIGEST (in your case listname=expert)
It needs to be sent to:
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Kim TK wrote:
>
> Nothing important was left on that SCSI drive. It
> had a FAT32 partition and a EXT2 partition with an older
> version of Mdk was installed. So for the current
> Mdk7.2 system, nothing that required for boot up is
> residing on that drive... thanx
>
> >From: "D. Stark - eSN"
ation: DCOP communication error!
> ...
Joanas root:
update-menus -v
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are created, even when by me the user,
> are owned by root.
>
> How do I make new home, startup, cdrom, etc items on my
> desktop so that they actually work?
Praedoras root in a console, type:
chown -R praedor.praedor /home/praedor
then type:
update-menus -v
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rom mozilla, nothing
> > happens at all. I can't see any messages in
> > /var/log/messages about it...or anywhere else for that
> > matter.
> >
> > What is needed to run webmin?
> > --
> > Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain
> > ---
> > praedor
Rogclose, but no cigar!! It's https not shttp, as in:
https://localhost:1/
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even an e-amil
> reply...frankly, this seems to be worth less than the cost
> of shipping.
jdhow can I help you?
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pendencies.
>
> Mike
Mikethat's odd, the ones I downloaded from nebsllc.com
were all designated as 2.0.1-0.1mdk
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e
could be something not-so-good about one or more components
other than the cpu? :-)
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to address the part of the hd beyond bios under
> dos.
Ranish Partition Manager. I believe that it's a dos
program, but his docs seem to touch on some functionality
beyond that of PM. I haven't had time to download and
experiment with it yet but I plan to get a round tuit. :-)
htt
ctl-alt-(to any other f#) and from there alt-f8 or
ctl-alt-f8 will get you to the xsession in f8.
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Try this....in a console su to root and type:
update-menus -v
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Ronald L. Chichester wrote:
> Does anyone have a link or know where I could get some
> documentation on how to get an Iomega Zip 100 (parallel
> port version) working under Mandrake 7.2?
>
> Thanks in advance
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov2.html
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Keep in
attempt for a change. A SB128 is just an Ensoniq1371 or
> 1373, mine has a 1373 but the driver is the same, es1371.
> So it is just well supported as the AudioPCI...
JAjust so you know, my Creative SB PCI128 uses an
Ensoniq1370 chip which takes a different driver (es1370.o).
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that flaky
scroll wheel behavior on my system.
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!## NETSCAPE
Netscape*drawingArea.translations: #replace\
: ArmLink() \n\
: ArmLink() \n\
~Shift: ActivateLink() \n\
~Shift: ActivateLink(new-window) \
SIR admin wrote:
> > yum. thanks much alan. you've saved my network massive
> bandwidth.
>
> matthew
[snip]
matthewno problem.
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Matthewthe GPL version is available at Cheapbytes:
http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070010576?pIX5Q6BK;;74
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l you a percentage of the
installation that you have selected that will actually be
installed (this percentage is governed by the amount of space
you have on your drive for the install). If it doesn't say
100% then some packages will be skipped. Perhaps this is
what you've experienced.
up and login.
>
> Is the autostart folder non functional in kde 2 ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Registered Linux user 183185
Jeffno, just the old one on your desktop is no longer
functional as such. There's a new one that works located
rename your ~/.kderc file and log out and then back
into KDE and it should generate a new one and clear things up.
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nk I will try to go back to a known good ( Matrox ) tomorrow..
Windows, I don't worry about, everything works ( ha! ), but I run BeOS also
( which I like and Matrox G400's and such are supported )..
Any clues and/or drivers are welcome!
Thanks!
Alan
Keep in touch with http://m
om LinuxLand as a pre-order
when 7.1 was released. The library is on the Installation CD
and the development package is on the Extension CD.
/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/libstdc++-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm
/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2/libstdc++-devel-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm
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[snip]
JosephI run a scsi cd and a scsi cdr together, don't see
why it wouldn't work w/2 IDE devices just as well.
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script?
>
> thanks
> sarang
>
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Sarangyou can play pretty much any sound file (.wav, .au,
ect...) with the command 'play ..
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ing down my system, booting up with tomsrtbt, making
the changes and then restarting my system. The self contained
floppy based rescue system, tomsrtbt, can be obtained at:
http://www.toms.net/rb/
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command that your menu entry executes from:
>
> DiskDrake
>
> to:
>
> su -c "DiskDrake"
[snip]
Phil/Jeffbetter to make that:
kdesu -c "DiskDrake"
because when executed from an icon the console command 'su'
has no place to prompt the user for the r
I made a submission to mirror.ac.uk a few days ago for them to mirror
mandrake-devel.
I haven't heard anything yet. If you are in the UK, maybe a few extra
requests might show them that it would be a popular choice
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [MandrakeForum] We need more Mirrors!
umentation for Sane and haven't been able to find anything for that
> either, so I'm kind-a stuck here. Can someone here point me in the right
> direction?
[snip]
Markif it isn't scsi it probably isn't supported, parallel
never got much support and usb hasn't gotten muc
odems don't work on linux at the moment (not without
> fiddling, and then only some), but will they work under kernel 2.4?
>
> thanks,
>
> tom
[snip]
tomtell him to buy an external serial modem (not usb).
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can
execute startx as the new user.
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Benjaminyes, do it exactly as you stated. Rebooting is
unnecessary.
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ere is an option called "power_saver".
Disable it wuth a '#' like this:
# Option "power_saver"
Alan
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic VGA"
Chipset "generic"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identif
e case on my setup. I must have my KDE
> configured wrong somewhere. Trying to learn.
[snip]
Jeffeither what you've been reading is incorrect or you've
misunderstood it.
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I have an internal PNP modem, and it works fine - once I'd figured out how
to change the default IRQ for ttyS02 from 3 or 4 (ie, the same as ttyS0) to
a usable value. I've never understood why the default IRQs for serial ports
3 and 4 are as they are, set to the same IRQ as ports 1 and 2.
>Fr
ssage).
For some reason, when copy/pasting from the To:, From:, Reply
To:, etc. fields in netscape messenger's messages the paste
function adds extra linefeeds and spaces to the text you are
pasting. That's as close to a reason as I can get. :-)
Alan
l GRUB. Before you can do this you will need to edit
the text file /boot/grub/install.sh and add this new first
line to it:
#!/bin/sh
Then change permissions to allow user execute and then you
will be able to run it as root.
Alan
Cecil Watson wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm shopping for a good color printer. Anyone got any recommendations?
> Models to avoid (cough winprinters)? You'd think with the booming
> popularity of Linux, companies like HP and IBM ( who just happen to be
> promoting Linux) would start to market
error.
>
> anyone have any pointers to get this to work?
>
> thanks Byron
Byronassuming your login name is byron, try
/home/byron/.netscape
Alan
Anton Graham wrote:
>
> Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Alan N:
> > Upon install ( in proper order ) I get upon installing kde-base I
> > believe, the rpm requires kde-qt addon.
> > But this is SUPPOSED to be supplied by kde-support ( which rpm uvh'ed OK
> > )..
>
ith one of my
> 7.0 CDs but the other
> was OK. Has anyone else seen this problem?
>From what I have learned at installfests from my local linux guru's, a
sig 11 just about ALWAYS means a hardware problem of some type.
Alan
oblem.
Upon install ( in proper order ) I get upon installing kde-base I
believe, the rpm requires kde-qt addon.
But this is SUPPOSED to be supplied by kde-support ( which rpm uvh'ed OK
)..
I get stuck here and cannot find this file..
Anyone help?
Alan
hat you said makes sense. What do
> you supposed is causing Netscape to behave this way when performing
> this?
[snip]
MarkI haven't got a clue. But the fact is, I've not had
any of those problems since I quit using copy/paste when
making or editing my message filters. Hope you have the same
results.
Alan
Anyone know where to get some?
I tried installing RH 7.1 beta which HAD KDE 2 on it.. I got it to boot
once ( and KDE 2 looked nice ) then no more..
I know I can get these from kde, but are there any mdk flavored KDE
rpm's?
Alan
Don wrote:
>
> Not able to post to the Expert list anymore
> --
> 73 de KK6WJ
Doni believe you are able to post to the Expert list.
Alan
ter (either into a new one or editing an old
one). So, I quit cutting (copying) and pasting when creating
and maintaining filters and the problem stopped. Hope this
helps.
Alan
ssuming your cdr is scd0
Alan
orked.. Just like it should,
without having to run printtool, sndconfig,
insmod ide-scsi.o, get the point?
Nice work.
Alan
"Julia A . Case" wrote:
>
> Quoting Alan Shoemaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Juliatry in Konsole as root 'drakxconf' for a menu of
> > setup tools.
> >
> > Alan
>
> I tried that and got this output.
>
> Can't load '
ur cows to be judged. ]
>
Juliatry in Konsole as root 'drakxconf' for a menu of
setup tools.
Alan
Terry Tremaine wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I'm having a problem with xcdroast. When I first launch it I receive a
> message that I do not have scsi support available and recommends insmod
> sg. However, when I lsmod I see that sg is running as a kernel module.
> However, it does say "(unused)".
> When
Craig Woods wrote:
>
> Sorry, charlie, no LMDK 7.2. Try versions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Craig Woods
>
OK, guess I was delusional.. :)
I know 7.1 was out, but I swore I read a blurb about 7.2.. Maybe not..
A 3 week old baby will sorta make you loose your mind.
A while back someone posted a site for MDK 7.2..
Anyone know?
I really whacked my system last night, not sure how, but I need to
reinstall and wanted to give MDK a try again..
Please lemme know~!
Alan
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Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> "Alan N." wrote:
> >
> > "Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" wrote:
> > >
> > > Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It's a KDE program and I can't stand KDE. Should this me
KDE that you don't like? I'm kinda torn
> between KDE and Gnome at the moment - both have features that I like...
>
> Regards,
> Ozz.
I was too until I dloaded helix-gnome.. Helixcode really *FIXED* gnome
into usable and stable..
www.helixcode.com
Alan
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and it did NOT install..
Try to put a disk in the drive before you power up, then try the
install!
Hope this could be your answer..
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ical choice menu in the console. But if
you use it in a Konsole (or any xterm) window then it'll open
a small choice menu on your desktop.
Alan
ruth about the product.
So, don't get snippy with me when you are clearly in the
wrong. That is a fact. You should broaden your ability to
"tell it like you believe it is" without being so damn
confrontational (READ THAT AS RUDE).
No regards at all,
Alan Shoemaker
Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Ronagain, not really so. The same shell script and .img
> > files (the .img files contain Partition Magic 5.0 instead of
> > 4.0 of course) are on the 5.0 Partition Magic CD as were on
> > the 4.0 Partition
Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > Sevationot really so. The procedures that install
> > Partition Magic on two floppies from a running Linux system
> > install a bootable dos environment on the first floppy of the
> > two floppy set.
Sevationot really so. The procedures that install
Partition Magic on two floppies from a running Linux system
install a bootable dos environment on the first floppy of the
two floppy set. The dos used is not Microsoft MS-DOS but
instead is a version of Corel's DR DOS.
Alan
Se
.
MandrakeSoft lists the vendors who carry some or all of their
products on this page:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fsinglecd.php3
You want a vendor who is listed as carrying the 'GPL Edition'
of the release you want.
Alan
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>
> Hello list,
>
> I'm running LM 7.1 as a server (samba).
> Everey hour I get the following massage as root from root (cron daemon):
>
> can't open "var/run/news/shlock" permission denied
>
What are the permissions on this file?
ls -l /var/run/news/shlock
?
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(couldn't find it in the digests ...).
There _have_ been a few posts about problems with 7.1 installs. I had a
couple myself, which I thought were pretty serious:
I installed over several partitions, including hda6, h
Mandrake release 7.1 (helium)
Kernal 2.2.15-4mdk on an i686 / tty3
Alan
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> What does CTL+ALT+F3 do?
>
> --
> Mark
>
> ** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
>
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Vic wrote:
>
> > I never had too much trouble
eird problem
> with putting fstab back with the enable command.
[snip]
Garythanks, that's good to know.
Alan
Jerry/Gary'supermount disable' is a command that will
change your fstab entries to normal ones and 'supermount
enable' will change them back to supermount entries. Check
'man supermount' for this info (reinventing the wheel is
usually harder than reading doc
Sarang Lakare wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I installed LM7.1 on a laptop and it was ran fine for a day.. when i was
> shutting down today, it gave KERNEL PANIC on supermount.. and then did fsck
> on the next boot (the laptop has a DVD player and had a data CD inside when
> this happened).. this is th
ux guru's helped me with that.
With RH 6.2, I've NEVER had to do xhost +localhost..
I asked in the past and never got an answer..
WHAT it THIS, and WHY is this? I would *really* like to know..
Alan
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Alan
Jeff Malka wrote:
>
> I came in the middle.
> Is Mandrake 7.1 a pre-release version?
>
> Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Registered Linux user 183185
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Pj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
t-click the desktop and choose new and get folder plus 6
other file types just like in previous releases. I'd get on
cooker and yell for some of the developers to help if it were
me.
Alan
PjWhy do you think that Linux Mandrake 7.1 is a
pre-release version? Linux Mandrake 7.1 was released back on
June 6th.
Alan
Pj wrote:
>
> Why do you think software is tested before it is released for sale?
>
> Don't complain if you don't know the difference be
Markit won't have any effect at all on them.
Alan
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> What about the Downloadable versions? How will this all effect them?
>
> --
> Mark
>
> I love my Linux Box...
> REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
> Regist
Andrewbut the point is, as of version 7.1 there will no
longer be an English language vboxed set packaged by
MandrakeSoft. The two Macmillan packages (Complete and
Deluxe) will be the only available English Language boxed
sets.
Alan
Andrew George wrote:
>
> I live in Australia,
http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Ummm...Dennis, am I missing something here? I've looked a couple of times
> and just can't seem to find "any" Mandrake "discussion
> forum" anywhere! What gives?
>
> --
> Mark
>
> I love my Linux Box...
> REASON # 2 ...X-windows is
ight* have been a mdk problem as well as a RH
problem..
It's still a RH problem.
75dpi fonts were left out of a file.
( I cannot find my sheet at the moment, sorry ).
But either goto www.linux-mandrake.com or redhat.com and search the mail
list archives.
You will find the solution there..
Alan
bobby dowling wrote:
>
> Where are they at?
>
>
www.themes.org will get you there..
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Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
>
> "Alan N." wrote:
> > However, I do have question for anyone here..
> >
> > I know that the CD rom is hdc..
>
> Do you mean the CD burner ? (for CD rom reading you don't
> need SCSI emulation at all).
>
> > Do
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