Re: PPP in Slackware

2003-04-04 Thread Peter
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Printing to W98 from SUSE 8.1

2003-04-04 Thread prussian7
Problem: I am unable to print to the printer shared on my windows 98 computer (panther 192.168.1.2), from my SUSE 8.1 (192.168.1.254) running SAMBA 2.2.5 When I type in: smbclinent //panther/lp -P I get: added interface ip=192.168.1.254 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Got a positive na

Re: Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Amin wrote: > > I think there's an issue here about Linux needing its boot > partition within the first 1024 cylinders of the hard disk, > or something like that. In any case, here's what I'd The 1024 cylinder limit only applies to older versions of Lilo, as I understand it. A

Re: Red Hat Version 9

2003-04-04 Thread Michael Graham
I have the new redhat, you can get it with bit torrent if you have a windows machine to use. There was an article on slashdot a couple of days ago discussing it. Yeah redhat 9 seems to be nearly the same as redhat 8, but I have had trouble with it. Redhat 9 doesn't have you add a regular user

Re: Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Amin
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:51:34AM -0800, Arthur Kng wrote: >1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and > delete all existing partitions. make a > primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the > Windows OS and which will also have the data > which i want to access

Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Arthur Kng
Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB

Re: PPP in Slackware

2003-04-04 Thread Peter
Richard if you think only Dutchmen are stubborn you are mistaken. ;-) I now reinstalled SW8.0 and as I suspected kppp connected to the different ISPs as I know it would since the time I had a SUSE 5.1 box, provided you do not run pppsetup first. To make sure now not to make this mistake again I