Re: [newbie] Two drives

1999-01-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: yes, it can be done and I am sure is done regurarly through out the llinux community. first you should setup the drive so linux can use it fdisk /devhdb (this should be your secodn drive) then make a new partition and make it a linux native. then you can make a

Re: [newbie] ram not seen

1999-01-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: check your bios settings OR try at the lilo: prompt when your booting type mem=256 if that works then you can add it to the append line of your lilo.conf can anyone help? I have installed mandrake 6.1 on an athlon system and it all went well except i have 256

Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem

1999-01-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Gregg Carrier wrote: Hi all, Got the kppp diialer configured and managed to find my modem on the equivalent of COM4. The test seemed to go OK, so I clicked dial and everything hung. I had to shutdown the XServer (at least that's what I knew how to do) There was no response to anything in

Re: [newbie] wine

1999-01-02 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta I would use vmware IF it was free and under gnu.. Sean Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/03/99 04:45:06 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] wine [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?

1999-01-02 Thread Simon Norris
Linux version already arrived in the UK PC Plus, it's the one with the milk bottles on the front (those who can see it will know what I mean!!). It is an old version though. - Original Message - From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04,

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-01-02 Thread Tuan Nguyen
Thank you very much for all your help too, Pable. That "noaccel" did the trick. The screen looks find now. Now all I need to find the resolution that right for me. How may I set the XF86Config so that everytime I boot Linux I don't have to toggle around to find the resolution I want. Also, I

[newbie] hardware accel in 6.1 riva tnt

1999-01-02 Thread Brandon Somogie
How do i do it?? __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

[newbie] kppp / pppd

1999-01-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Greetings, I finally got ye old 6.1 up and running on Mr. Internet - thank goodness I never throw away old e-mail. Anyway, I have a couple questions. 1. Is there a way to set up my kppp (or other dialer) as root and automagically have these same settings available to my other users (now that I

[newbie] Port forwarding setup

1999-01-02 Thread Morrell, Mike
Hi All, Ok, I've got masquerading working and can browse the web. I want to be able to access a ftp server on my private network from the internet. I believe it will require some sort of port forwarding to make it work. I gather that IPMASQADM is the recommended way to do this. Where do I get

Re: [newbie] wine

1999-01-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system? I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple applications that are winblows. is it possible? could it be?? Actually, I figure this is just what

[newbie] Keep modem connection alive

1999-01-02 Thread Morrell, Mike
How do I keep my modem connection to my ISP alive when the computer is idle?

[newbie] Configuring X using Elsa Gloria-L Video Card

1999-01-02 Thread Nicholas Bennington
Hello, I'm having a difficult time configuring X on Mandrake 6.0 Here's the lowdown: PII 300Mhz/128MB NEC Multiscan 3V Monitor Elsa Gloria-L 16MB Video Card (Glint 500TX Chipset from 3DLabs) For some reason, I get a fatal server error of "No GLINT/PERMEDIA based card

Re: [newbie] kppp / pppd

1999-01-02 Thread M Thompson
You should be able to setup kppp as a regular user. I don't need administrator priveleges to use kppp. I might not be understanding your question quite right. Matt 1. Is there a way to set up my kppp (or other dialer) as root and automagically have these same settings available to my

Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem

1999-01-02 Thread Gregg Carrier
HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem OK, thanks. Just so I don't get stuck with a crap modem again. What's a good type/protocol of modem that both Windoze and Linux can use/install easily. Thanks! Gregg -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co.,

Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?

1999-01-02 Thread M Thompson
If you find the solution, please do me a huge favor and start a new thread with a subject such as "KDE numlock solution found!" That way I won't accidentally miss it. Thanks a million, Matt From: Jesse Royall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] ram not seen

1999-01-02 Thread M Thompson
I had the same problem. In my BIOS there was a setting that had something to do with "reserving memory for legacy ISA cards." I simply disabled it and let Linux have that memory. When you boot into Linux, you should now have all 256MB available. Keep us posted, Matt From: Paul [EMAIL

[newbie] remove

1999-01-02 Thread ag
remove

Re: [newbie] hardware accel in 6.1 riva tnt

1999-01-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Brandon Somogie wrote: How do i do it?? __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com Well ... Sorry, just had to reply. 8-)

Re: [Re: [newbie] EZ-drive]

1999-01-02 Thread Jaguar
Ontrack DiskManager is ditributed by Ontrack and comes in different flavors..IE: Fujitsu, Quantum, etc... DiskManager has a host of functions/utilities...but should be used ONLY by someone who _KNOWS_ what it does...in the past ie: early 'puter years, I have killed a drive or two...:( It is

Re: [newbie] Keep modem connection alive

1999-01-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
"Morrell, Mike" wrote: How do I keep my modem connection to my ISP alive when the computer is idle? Most ISP's put a limit as to how long your connection can remain live without any activity. They monitor your connection and when they get real busy and use all their incoming lines up they

Re: [newbie] Keep modem connection alive

1999-01-02 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Have your email client check mail every minute. Seve -Original Message- From: Morrell, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie Mail list (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:41 AM Subject: [newbie] Keep modem connection alive How do I keep my modem

Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem

1999-01-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Gregg Carrier wrote: HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem OK, thanks. Just so I don't get stuck with a crap modem again. What's a good type/protocol of modem that both Windoze and Linux can use/install easily. Thanks! Gregg -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer /

Re: [newbie] kppp / pppd

1999-01-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
M Thompson wrote: You should be able to setup kppp as a regular user. I don't need administrator priveleges to use kppp. I might not be understanding your question quite right. Matt 1. Is there a way to set up my kppp (or other dialer) as root and automagically have these same

Re: [newbie] wine

1999-01-02 Thread yacketta
From: Ronald A. Yacketta so I would have to have the app instaleld that I want to run? that would mean I would have to have winblows ina seconddrive with the app installed? I tried to install a few very simple win 3.11 apps last night and failed as well as a few win98 apps Tom Brinkman

[newbie] Sound, Installing software, CD-ROM, USB

1999-01-02 Thread Tuan Nguyen
Hello, Thank you for all the helps I got on the weird KDE screen with Trident 3DImage 975. I got my screen up and it looks pretty cool. Now I have a few more problems. Can anyone point me to the right direction to get help on these issues? Do we have a common site that have links to solve

Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem

1999-01-02 Thread Singer XJ Wang
ANy External Modem(tm) On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Gregg Carrier wrote: HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem OK, thanks. Just so I don't get stuck with a crap modem again. What's a good type/protocol of modem that both Windoze and Linux can use/install easily. Thanks! Gregg

Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem

1999-01-02 Thread Sysadmin
Don't forget DSP thats a winmodem too On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Gregg Carrier wrote: Hi all, Got the kppp diialer configured and managed to find my modem on the equivalent of COM4. The test seemed to go OK, so I clicked dial and everything hung. I had to shutdown the XServer

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-01-02 Thread Pablo Monti
The problems with the resolution were addresed at: http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html It's very clear and with many examples. Anyway, I will post my XF86Config later. Sorry, I forget it today ( Gregg Carrier too ). I suppose that you refers to "boot in graphic mode" when

Re: [newbie] SiS 6326 AGP

1999-01-02 Thread Ronald W Johnston
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: John. I have a SiS chip and when I upgraded to 3.3.5 from XFree86 that solved my problems. Good to know... I'll try to remember that in the future. :-) John I have one of these video cards and upgraded to 3.3.5 from

Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image

1999-01-02 Thread Jesse Royall
Patrick... my solution: quit using Imation CDs I had the same problem... also, when I burned the ISO (after 11 disks the 12th one worked) it wasn't bootable like they said. What I do when I burn a CD and you probably do also, I use cachman which is a program for controlling your cache and it

No Subject

1999-01-02 Thread Alex Bailey
remove

[newbie] SB Live

1999-01-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
OK so I found the creative site with the open source drivers and downloaded and unzipped them. I must have taken my stupid pills today because I cannot seem to follow their instructions especially the part regarding copying the emu10k1.o driver to a particular directory. Am I blind or is there

RE: [newbie] Can't find SCSI controller

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hm I got my install going when I turned of the bios on the 1542 . Hmm...yeah. I seem to recall reading that might help in some instances. Generally speaking, you don't need the SCSI BIOS as it's mainly there for things like low-level formatting and

Re: [newbie] Two drives

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have two physical drives on my computer. One, hda, is for the Linux op system, the other I would like to reserve for Linux programs. Question: Is it possible to install Linux programs on a different physical drive? Has anybody done this? Would like to

Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, Might be a basic question, but I ran into this problem and can't find the sollution: Back when Mandrake 5.2 and 6 ISO's appeared on the FTP mirrors, I could just grab it and use EASY-CD Creator PRO 3.5 to burn them and end up with a bootable CD.

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've been following this thread to see if it would solve my problems as well. I have an IBM 10.1 Gb HDD, and in order to see anything above 8.4Gb, I had to download and install this pgm called Ontrack Manager. Am I right in presuming that Ontrack does the

Re: [newbie] ram not seen

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: can anyone help? I have installed mandrake 6.1 on an athlon system and it all went well except i have 256 megs of ram but linux seems to recognize only 16 megs of it. A couple things occur to me right off the bat: do you have set on in your BIOS "memory hole

Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, Got the kppp diialer configured and managed to find my modem on the equivalent of COM4. The test seemed to go OK, so I clicked dial and everything hung. I had to shutdown the XServer (at least that's what I knew how to do) There was no response to

Re: [newbie] zip files?

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Is there a utility that handles files created by WinZip or Pkunzip? gzip doesnt seem to want to. . . Yesjust use "unzip" :-) gzip is a totally different program. There's

Re: [newbie] root problem

1999-01-02 Thread Jesse Royall
Reinstall! On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:57:53 +0100 "Carsten M. Larsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I don't know if anyone got this message last night...I had some mailproblemsso here we go again :o) I think I made a rookie mistakeI think I accidently removed the root!! I was messin'

Re: [newbie] NumLock Key - On As Default - How?

1999-01-02 Thread Jesse Royall
I don't know how soon I will get to it.. since I have a habit of destroying my linux files when I edit them. but I will do some checking into it when I do run linux. It has to be something like the terminal thing fora fix..just finding a place to add it though.. On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:19:03 GMT

Re: [newbie] kernel boot problem

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hey, I tried to upgrade my kernel (using rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm instead of kernel -i kernel*.rpm). Then I forgot to run lilo before rebooting, and now linux can't boot. I have no other boot media besides the Linux Mandrake CD (which does not have a rescue

Re: [newbie] SB Live

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: OK so I found the creative site with the open source drivers and downloaded and unzipped them. I must have taken my stupid pills today because I cannot seem to follow their instructions especially the part regarding copying the emu10k1.o driver to a particular

Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image

1999-01-02 Thread Patrick Putteman
A PIII450 with 392Mb ram and an cd writer on a scsi controller shouldn't have these kind of problems. Mine doesn't and is happily burning every other CD I can find without missing one. It's just the mandrake ISO that doesn't work. I've tried ISO's from different download sites and all with the

[newbie] Off Topic - cute geek joke

1999-01-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
A boy was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess". He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay

Re: [newbie] wine

1999-01-02 Thread Sean Armstrong
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta Hello all!! is it possible to run wine on a winblows less system? I use linux and only linux, but recently I have a need to run a couple applications that are

Re: [newbie] wine

1999-01-02 Thread Sean Armstrong
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ronald A. Yacketta I would use vmware IF it was free and under gnu.. Good luck getting wine to run the software you want. I had trobles with it and gave up after awhile. Vmware has a 30 day trial version that is free. I'm sure there is some way around

Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?

1999-01-02 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Jeanette Russo wrote: I have seen the Package in the store. Not sure what it includes. You might still be able to find it. I think that Sun has already made a lot of improvements to Star Office in version 5.1a. Now you don't have to go through the

[newbie] printing from ImageMagick

1999-01-02 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm having problems printing from ImageMagick. I choose Print from the File menu. I specify "lpr" as the print command. Then I get this status window saying "Saving image...", and it just hangs there with the file not being printed. "lpr" is the normal print command on my system. How do

[newbie] installing Linux

1999-01-02 Thread Andre Colin Cox
I have a 6.4GB hard drive and I am running win98 on the primary drive. I would like to run linux Mandrake on the extended partition which contains 3.2GB of memory. How do I begin the installation? Would someone help me. Andre Cox "The Seventh Sense."

: Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?

1999-01-02 Thread bluebottle
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Star Office is on the CD of PC PLUS magazine this month. The December issue is to include the Linux version on CD ROM. Jeanette Bought it last week and installed with no problems - it's listed as version 5.1a. Takes up 155meg of disk space. Well worth

Re: [newbie] Burning CD from ISO image

1999-01-02 Thread Bill Munden
I just wanted to say that I didn't have any problems burning a bootable cd from the Mandrake 6.1 iso. I have Easy CD Creator 4.0 and it worked just fine. - Original Message - From: Patrick Putteman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 1:12 PM

re: [newbie]

1999-01-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On 4 Nov 1999, Jaguar wrote: Does anyone know if/when Linux will have an equivalent to Direct X (latest version), for cool games like Nascar3 or whatever??? Jaguar Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account

Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?

1999-01-02 Thread bluebottle
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Star Office is on the CD of PC PLUS magazine this month. The December issue is to include the Linux version on CD ROM. Jeanette Bought it last week and installed with no problems - it's listed as version 5.1a. Takes up 155meg of disk space. Well worth £4.99.

Re: [newbie] kppp / pppd

1999-01-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Greetings, I finally got ye old 6.1 up and running on Mr. Internet - thank goodness I never throw away old e-mail. Anyway, I have a couple questions. 1. Is there a way to set up my kppp (or other dialer) as root and automagically have these

RE: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?

1999-01-02 Thread Aaron deRozario
I think they send PC PLUS out to Australia, so that is good news. GO THE WALLABIES Aaron -Original Message- From: Jeanette Russo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 8:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95

Re: [[newbie] Keep modem connection alive]

1999-01-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Morrell, Mike" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I keep my modem connection to my ISP alive when the computer is idle? == Keep KBiff running, set to check for POP3 mail every 120 seconds. That should keep the connection alive indefinitely. I do it all the time. Mike

Re: [Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem]

1999-01-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Gregg Carrier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HSP modem = WIN Modem = don't work with linux modem OK, thanks. Just so I don't get stuck with a crap modem again. What's a good type/protocol of modem that both Windoze and Linux can use/install easily. Thanks! Gregg

Re: [newbie] enlightenment

1999-01-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jesse Royall wrote: tate.. I am not 100% sure.. but desktopcfg that works for me at the command line. and then I just select the Desktop I want to use...took me a few reinstalls to do figure that one out! Jess On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 16:43:57 -0700 "Tate A. Yancey"

[newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)

1999-01-02 Thread Jeanette Russo
windows keyboard.jpg

re: [newbie]

1999-01-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if/when Linux will have an equivalent to Direct X (latest version), for cool games like Nascar3 or whatever??? Jaguar Earnhardt fan? I am, for a long time. Far as games like that, don't hold your breath. I don't see Linux becoming a

Re: [newbie] kernel boot problem

1999-01-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
NOW you know why they say to upgrade your kernel with rpm -ivh instead of -uvh. :-) John Now ya tell me ;- I guess i was lucky, dodged a bullet. When I saw that 'update' wanted to change out kernel 2.2.9-19, for 2.2.9-27 to fix the 'file system busy' problem when shutting down, I

[newbie] segmentation fault (root problem part II)

1999-01-02 Thread Carsten M. Larsen
Hi, Now I cured the root problem (thanx to Steve Philp) I can now log in as root or su to root.. but the problems just keep comin' :o( When I try to run linuxconf (or userconf for that matter) from /bin on the server via telnet I get the message "segmentation fault" . Hmmm. If I log

re: [newbie]

1999-01-02 Thread Sysadmin
I wish. If I were better at programming I would write you one and several other people and then after debugging then shoot it all over ftp land to share with all. On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if/when Linux will have an equivalent to Direct X (latest version), for cool

Re: [newbie] ram not seen

1999-01-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: can anyone help? I have installed mandrake 6.1 on an athlon system and it all went well except i have 256 megs of ram but linux seems to recognize only 16 megs of it. A couple things occur to me right off the bat: do

Re: [newbie] SB Live

1999-01-02 Thread Sysadmin
Does the midi in SBLive work also? On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have SBlive workink thanks to this 2 helps: --- To load the driver, type: modprobe soundcore insmod -f emu10k1 You will get a warning about the module being compiled for a 2.2.10 kernel, and

[newbie] sound and wine

1999-01-02 Thread Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia
I am a newbie to linux and i have two problems. For those of you who remember me, i finally got the lilo problem fixed, but when you solve one problem two more come up. 1) My sound card does not work under linux. i typed /usr/sbin/sndconfig and it probed for my sound card. It found "SB Live!"

[newbie] installing Linux in extended partition

1999-01-02 Thread Andre C Cox
My hard drive is 6.4GB, where the primary partition has win98 running. I would like to install linux Mandrake in the extended partition. The size of this is 3.2GB. How do I go about this. As detail as possible. Thanks for any help or suggestions: Andre Cox

Re: [newbie] enlightenment

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: desktopcfg doesn't yet have an option for Enlightened-KDE, as i haven't gotten to it yet. Well, gee, Axalonwhat's keeping you??? ;-) (Tongue FIRMLY planted in cheek! G) John

Re: [newbie] installing Linux

1999-01-02 Thread Ing. Carlos Mayorga V.
3.2GB of memory WOW!!! maybe you mean 3.2MB od space on hd Well here is the help: Go to the BIOS of your computer and make the first bootable device your CDROM whe you reboot your computer put the mandrake CD in the CDROM drive and it must be enough to begin the intalaltion process. Andre

Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: %_ Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="windows keyboard.jpg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: ROFLMAO :-) This is GOOD!!! :-) John

Re: [newbie] kernel boot problem

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: NOW you know why they say to upgrade your kernel with rpm -ivh instead of -uvh. :-) John Now ya tell me ;- I guess i was lucky, dodged a bullet. When I saw that 'update' wanted to change out kernel 2.2.9-19, for 2.2.9-27 to fix the 'file system

Re: [newbie] ram not seen

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999, you wrote: I believe it's a Athlon/'not quite ready for prime time' motherboard issue. I have no first hand experience with it, but I've seen a lot of this type complaint about Athlon mobo's on several hardware NG's. Sort'a funny that the Cu-mine/8xx chipset mobo's

RE: [newbie]

1999-01-02 Thread Aaron deRozario
I think I remember Loki talking about developing a gaming API. I'm not sure if it is open source though. Aaron -Original Message- From: Sysadmin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: [newbie] I wish. If I

Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem

1999-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Don't forget DSP thats a winmodem too Or that HORRID IBM excuse for a combo modem/soundcard on their earlier laptops. :-) That was SO proprietary that each version of the laptop had their own drivers/setup util, which wouldn't work with ANY other version of that

Re: [newbie] installing Linux in extended partition

1999-01-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Andre C Cox wrote: My hard drive is 6.4GB, where the primary partition has win98 running. I would like to install linux Mandrake in the extended partition. The size of this is 3.2GB. How do I go about this. As detail as possible. Thanks for any help or suggestions:

RE: [newbie]

1999-01-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Aaron deRozario wrote: I think I remember Loki talking about developing a gaming API. I'm not sure if it is open source though. Aaron loki has several projects, http://www.lokigames.com/development/ -Original Message- From: Sysadmin [SMTP:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Remove

1999-01-02 Thread Vernon Hunt
Remove

Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)

1999-01-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jeanetterotflmao!!! Alan Jeanette Russo wrote: Name: windows keyboard.jpg windows keyboard.jpgType: JPEG Image (image/jpeg) Encoding: base64

Re: [newbie] enlightenment

1999-01-02 Thread Seth Gibson
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: This was discused last week with very good instructions (step by step), have a look in the archives. here are two files you need to check out, startkde and Xclients. The basic intsructions are change the exec referencre to kwm in startkde to enlightenment,

[newbie] SB Live

1999-01-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Well, I'm stumped. d/l the tarball and here is what the readme says and a list of the files the tarball created. (my appologies that I've had to attach it as a attachment - I couldn't get the cut and paste to work but that's another thread) I tried the command "make emu10k1" but that

RE: [newbie] wine

1999-01-02 Thread Aaron deRozario
No you don't need Windows to use wine now. I think when wine was first emerging you needed a copy of Win3.1 on your system. That was before they even started working on 32-bit API's. I remember reading this in one of those free computer papers they have in Toronto, when I lived in Canada last

Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)

1999-01-02 Thread Dreja Julag
The jpg did not come through here. Do you think anyone wouldcare to send it throuh again? Thanks On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: %_ Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="windows keyboard.jpg"

Re: [newbie] Keep modem connection alive

1999-01-02 Thread pete moss
"Morrell, Mike" wrote: How do I keep my modem connection to my ISP alive when the computer is idle? i set up my crontab to run pppd every ten minutes. if it already connected, then no change. if not connected, then it dials in. :P

Re: [newbie] ram not seen

1999-01-02 Thread Sysadmin
Dude! What driver do you use to make the udma66 work? This is cool On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: I appended the ram amount in lilo.conf to reflect 256megs and it boots normal now. Incidentely Mandrake sees the Athlon processor and all the hardware including udma 66 hardrive. This thing is

Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)

1999-01-02 Thread jeff
Oh man was that FUNNYY... I really needed a good laugh. I will printing that and hang it in my office

Re: [newbie] hanging trying to dial modem

1999-01-02 Thread Warren Doney
I hear they are making USB modems these days. Haven't seen one IRL, but saw one advertised in a magazine. AFAIK these will not work with Linux, as it does not support USB yet (stable kernals anyway). Be sure you get a SERIAL external modem. -Warren - Original Message - From: Sysadmin

[newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure.

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Abney
I've just set up a Helios box at work in an attempt to prove that Linux is a usable alternative for our development. (Not to mention to run an internal development mailing list -- there will likely be more on that later.) Anyway, During setup, it never asked me for a host name. (It did detect my

[newbie] Linux support for AMD K7

1999-01-02 Thread rich
Does anyone know if the AMD processor, K7, is supported by any distro of Linux? Richard

Re: [newbie] enlightenment

1999-01-02 Thread Tate A. Yancey
Thanks all. Let me also say I really appreciate the help. I've tried irc and all I get is read the manual. At 06:06 PM 11/04/1999 -0700, you wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jesse Royall wrote: This was discused last week with very good instructions (step by step), have a look in the archives.

Re: [newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure.

1999-01-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike Abney wrote: I've just set up a Helios box at work in an attempt to prove that Linux is a usable alternative for our development. (Not to mention to run an internal development mailing list -- there will likely be more on that later.) Anyway, During setup, it never

[newbie] enlightenment

1999-01-02 Thread Lawrence Greer
Does anyone know how to upgrade enlightenment. If not a good faq wouldn't hurt. Thanks Lawrence G.

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-01-02 Thread Matt Stegman
On 4 Nov, John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've been following this thread to see if it would solve my problems as well. I have an IBM 10.1 Gb HDD, and in order to see anything above 8.4Gb, I had to download and install this pgm called Ontrack Manager. Am I right in

Re: [newbie] Linux support for AMD K7

1999-01-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, rich wrote: Does anyone know if the AMD processor, K7, is supported by any distro of Linux? Richard Yes... -- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 19:40:01 PST From: Paul Dewey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ram not seen I

Re: [newbie] enlightenment

1999-01-02 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Lawrence Greer wrote: Does anyone know how to upgrade enlightenment. If not a good faq wouldn't hurt. Thanks Lawrence G. rpm -ihv \ ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/RPMS/rpmfind-1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm rpmfind enlightenment I'm sure it's documented on the

Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)

1999-01-02 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Many thanks for the laughs... Jeeez, I'm still laughing each time I look at the picture! Unfortunately half the time, the 3finger salute doesn't even help. With Windows I always rely on my precious Reset button. Hey, make sure the 'expert' list gets a copy of this! Seve

Re: [newbie] enlightenment

1999-01-02 Thread Matt Stegman
On 5 Nov, Lawrence Greer wrote: Does anyone know how to upgrade enlightenment. If not a good faq wouldn't hurt. Sure... download the RPMS from cooker. From here, ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS makes a great mirror. You'll need enlightenment, esound, imlib, fnlib,

Re: [newbie] ram not seen

1999-01-02 Thread Paul Dewey
no particular driver so maybe its running in ata33 mode? I dont knowbut it is a special ata66 cable that comes with the motherboard and it is running fast. Paul From: Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ram not seen Date: Thu,

Re: [newbie] Linux support for AMD K7

1999-01-02 Thread Paul Dewey
I have mandrake 6.1 installed on 2 Athlon based systems using Asus K7M mainboards. Its recognized and runs extrememly fast. I tried a load of Caldera 2.3 and no go. Regards, Paul From: rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux support for

Solved : RE: [newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure.

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Abney
Title: Solved : RE: [newbie] Get_Hostbyname failure. Thanks, that did the trick. Just putting this entry in for the archives. ;-) ~Mike -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 12:17 AM To: 'Mandrake Newbie'

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