Re: mount problem

2005-07-28 Thread Yawar Amin
On 7/28/05, rekha vn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm getting the same error for both the commands. > fs type /dev/hda1 not supported by kernel > fs type /dev/hda5 not supported by kernel > > any problem with the kernel settings? mount -t filesystem-type something somewhere `filesystem-type' dep

Fwd: a simple way to burn DVDs

2005-07-19 Thread Yawar Amin
-- Forwarded message -- From: Yawar Amin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 20, 2005 9:07 AM Subject: Re: a simple way to burn DVDs To: Mr Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 7/20/05, Mr Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't seen ANYONE answer you. Your que

Re: How to pick a distro?

2005-04-09 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Ray, On Apr 8, 2005 12:52 AM, Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I don't know what "Debian-based" distros use, since I've not used any of > them ... I've never even heard of MEPIS ... so I can neither encourage nor > discourage their use. I just note that "Debian-based" != "Debian

Re: How to pick a distro?

2005-04-06 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi NNK, On Apr 7, 2005 4:04 AM, NNK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering what I should be looking at in the different distros > before picking one to use. > > Being a total novice, I don't have much experience on Linux, so I'm > wondering what I should be asking. > > Any advice? I can a

Re: Going to GNOME from twm

2003-01-16 Thread Yawar Amin
switchdesk very helpfully recommended I delete my ~/.Xclients file, which I did. That got me back to GNOME. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Ple

Going to GNOME from twm

2003-01-15 Thread Yawar Amin
I've somehow managed to set twm to be my window manager on my Red Hat 7.3 PC. I want to go back to GNOME and the panel. I've tried opening up Nautilus, going to "Start Here", then "Desktop" inside the "Start Here" window, then "Window Manager", and then set the window manager to Sawfish (thereby de

Re: a little help about vi or vim

2002-12-03 Thread Yawar Amin
which are well documented within the "justify.vim" file itself. Just open that file in VIM (using the ":e" command) and you'll see what I mean. Yawar - Original Message - From: "r4mz3z" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yawar Amin" <[EMAIL P

Automatic window tiling

2002-12-02 Thread Yawar Amin
Hey all: Does anyone know how to set up the desktop environment in RH 7.3 using GNOME/Nautilus such that all the open windows automatically tile themselves to cover up all the space on the desktop, so that the desktop itself is never visible? This should work in such a way that the windows thems

Re: a little help about vi or vim

2002-11-17 Thread Yawar Amin
Alternately to putting the command in your startup file, you may want to set the "textwidth" option manually for a file. Depends on how often you work with 45-column text files. If you're editing an existing file and you set that option, VIM won't automatically rearrange the characters so that ther