[newbie] SGML files

1999-06-11 Thread Bob Springett
I'm using Mandrake 5.3. According to package manager sgml-tools is installed, I assume O.K. however when I try to read a sgml file like this 'sgml2txt foo.sgml ' I get lots of error messages saying it can't find various files. Can someone tell me how to access these files, please. Regards Bob

Re: [newbie] broken (?) desktop link

1999-06-11 Thread John Knopp
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Eric P. wrote: > Well, my recommendation, then, is to change the /usr/bin/netscape to > netscape-communicator, or netscape-navigator if you just use Navigator alone. I've already tried those two as well. :( Thanks, though! John Knopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 5.3

Re: [newbie] broken (?) desktop link

1999-06-11 Thread Eric Popelka
Well, my recommendation, then, is to change the /usr/bin/netscape to netscape-communicator, or netscape-navigator if you just use Navigator alone. On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, John Knopp wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Eric P. wrote: > > What is the Netscape link set to execute? To find this, right click

[newbie] samba

1999-06-11 Thread John Brack
Anyone remember the webpage for that very help samba walkthru?

Re: [newbie] broken (?) desktop link

1999-06-11 Thread John Knopp
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Eric P. wrote: > What is the Netscape link set to execute? To find this, right click on the > link, go to Properties, then tab Execute, and look at the field under Execute. Thanks for the reply, Eric. This is a cut and paste from the execute field: /usr/bin/netscape. If I

Re: [newbie] broken (?) desktop link

1999-06-11 Thread Eric Popelka
What is the Netscape link set to execute? To find this, right click on the link, go to Properties, then tab Execute, and look at the field under Execute. On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, you wrote: > Hi all, > > The Netscape link on my KDE desktop has suddenly decided to stop working. I > have to log in a

[newbie] broken (?) desktop link

1999-06-11 Thread John Knopp
Hi all, The Netscape link on my KDE desktop has suddenly decided to stop working. I have to log in as root and poke around in /usr/bin for the Netscape executable to get it to run, but when I am not logged in as root I can't get NS to run, no way, no how. (It worked fine for a while...) I know

Re: [newbie] wine

1999-06-11 Thread Martin White
Caught me out too only the other night ! When i saw the MANDRAKE_PARTC etc, i assumed i had to set environment variables of these names pointing to where i really wanted them to be, but still no luck. Turns out substituting the text for the real paths (as root) in '/etc/wine.conf' or '~/.winerc'

[newbie] Thanks to respondents on motherboards

1999-06-11 Thread Steve Winston
Thanks to all the people who replied to my query about motherboards. i always appreciate the help I get on this list. adios, Steve Winston _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

[newbie] wine

1999-06-11 Thread John Mandeville
how do i get wine to work this is what happens. i have mandrake 6 root@localhost /root]# wine Could not stat MANDRAKE_FLOPPY, ignoring drive A: Could not stat MANDRAKE_PARTC, ignoring drive C: Could not stat MANDRAKE_CDPATH, ignoring drive D: Invalid path'MANDRAKE_WINDIR\' for windows directory

Re: [newbie] X Login On Startup

1999-06-11 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi, I think the config file is /usr/share/config/kdmrc. You might edit by hand the appropriate fields and spare yourself a full package reinstall. If you get it going, make an oddly named (so it doesn't get easily overwritten) backup copy for future cases. Don't use kdmrc.bak or kdmrc~, those

[newbie] Theme problem

1999-06-11 Thread Jose Alberto Abreu
Hello all: After installing and configuring Mandrake 5.3 more or less decently, I decided I was ready for taking it to the next step. I borrowed and installed Corel Wordperfect without any problems, then decided to download some themes and some mp3's. Went to themes.org and downloaded a couple o

Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards?

1999-06-11 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, We have two machines running Mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.2.9 with asus p2b-ds (dual PII) motherboards. The machines work great. However, there is a problem with modems on this motherboard and smp kernels. After upgrading to 2.2.x kernels, the modem, usr #5687 isa, is not accessible using any of

Re: [newbie] X Login On Startup

1999-06-11 Thread Eric Popelka
Yup, that happened to me before too. My recomendation is: delete your old kdebase (rpm -e kdebase) reinstall kdebase from the RPMs in the Mandrake distribution The only problem is that after you run KDE again, you might have to reconfigure some minor details (I had to reinstall my theme. YMMV.)

Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards?

1999-06-11 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
- Original Message - From: Pankil Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards? > Steve Winston wrote: > > > I'm a Linux Mandrake user who received a Fry's gift certificate for his > > birthday. I wan

RE: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards?

1999-06-11 Thread Birchall, Richard
Pankil Richards [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: >I'm using an ASUS P2B 440 BX and it's working very well with >Linux-Mandrake (if that's your particular concern). A BX motherboard won't work with his current Pentium cpu or future AMD cpu. Richard

RE: [newbie] Which motherboards?

1999-06-11 Thread Beacham Tim P
I use a Tyan Trinity 100 AT with a AMD K6-2 350, it has three DIMMs and a couple of SIMMs but I think you will need to use PC100 DIMMs if you are planing to use the board at 100MHz. If the Bogomips rating is an indication of speed, this board (with the 350 and 32MB RAM) rates 699. I assume

Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards?

1999-06-11 Thread hevnsnt
P2Bs are just about as good as they get. -hevnsnt On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Pankil Richards wrote: > Steve Winston wrote: > > > I'm a Linux Mandrake user who received a Fry's gift certificate for his > > birthday. I want a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend particular > > brands? I am looking fo

[newbie] ATAPI CDRs

1999-06-11 Thread Martin White
Lately there seems to have been quite a few posts about getting ATAPI CDRs working under linux.   For quite a few years now i have been wandering what i could possibly use my free homepage space for. Would anybody benefit if i were to put together a step by step guide to getting everything up

Re: [newbie] Cannot mount ATAPI CDR when using SCSI emulation - jrt

1999-06-11 Thread Martin White
You need to change your FSTAB entries to point to the new scsi emulated CD's, ie - something along the lines of: /dev/sr0/mnt/cdwriter etc. etc. /dev/sr1/mnt/cdreaderetc. etc. Also if you use graphical mounting via icons under KDE or Gnome, you will need to do the same there. A

Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards?

1999-06-11 Thread Pankil Richards
Steve Winston wrote: > I'm a Linux Mandrake user who received a Fry's gift certificate for his > birthday. I want a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend particular > brands? I am looking for an ATX, 3 DIMM slots, Slot 7, something > compatible with the Pentium 233 mmx chip I have now but that wi

RE: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards?

1999-06-11 Thread Birchall, Richard
Steve Winston [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: >I want a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend particular brands? >I am looking for an ATX, 3 DIMM slots, Slot 7, something compatible >with the Pentium 233 mmx chip I have now but that will accept a >more powerful AMD chip later when I have the $$ for a n

[newbie] Cannot mount ATAPI CDR when using SCSI emulation - jrt

1999-06-11 Thread root
My install of Mandrake 6.0 (on an AMD350, 96M RAM with 2 IDE HDs, 1 MITSUMI CR-2801TE CD-R & 1 MITSUMI FX240S CD-ROM) failed to configure the IDE CD-R correctly with SCSI emulation, but I was able to manually mount both as IDE CDs. The file: /usr/doc/xcdroast-0.96e/README.ATAPIgives directions fo

[newbie] Re: XWindows Interface Other than KDE

1999-06-11 Thread Matt Stegman
> I have the power pack edition and having used the KDE for a while I would > like to just use Xwindows instead as I would like to compare that with the > KDE. Is >it possible to disable the > kde and use just a more conventional xwindows interface? It sure is. Try running "desktopcfg" fromthe

[newbie] X Login On Startup

1999-06-11 Thread Richard M Davis
Can someone, por favor, point me at the settings files that dictate the Mandrake 6 login screen. My machine crashed while trying to start Another Level instead of KDE (I think that's what happened, I've only got patchy details from the guy that perpetrated this evil deed!) I ran fsck on my /home

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1999-06-11 Thread Anonymous
Hi I would like to ask a question about mandrake that probably sounds a little circular. I have the power pack edition and having used the KDE for a while I would like to just use Xwindows instead as I would like to compare that with the KDE. Is it possible to disable the kde and use just a m

[newbie] Wwhich motherboards?

1999-06-11 Thread Steve Winston
I'm a Linux Mandrake user who received a Fry's gift certificate for his birthday. I want a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend particular brands? I am looking for an ATX, 3 DIMM slots, Slot 7, something compatible with the Pentium 233 mmx chip I have now but that will accept a more powerful AMD

Re: [newbie] accessing vfat partition causing Mandrake 6.0 to crash.

1999-06-11 Thread Roberto Angelo
when you transfer a file ext2 <--> vfat don't do any other thing but only WAIT!! --- Joubert's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scritto: > When using Mandrake 5.2, I had no problem accessing my windows98 vfat > partition and copying files over to Linux. I was thrilled with the > improvements to Mandrake 6.0,

Re: [newbie] accessing vfat partition causing Mandrake 6.0 to crash.

1999-06-11 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Joubert's wrote: > When using Mandrake 5.2, I had no problem accessing my windows98 vfat > partition and copying files over to Linux. I was thrilled with the > improvements to Mandrake 6.0, until I tried to transfer files from > win98. Works for me... Can you try updating y

[newbie] accessing vfat partition causing Mandrake 6.0 to crash.

1999-06-11 Thread Joubert's
When using Mandrake 5.2, I had no problem accessing my windows98 vfat partition and copying files over to Linux.  I was thrilled with the improvements to Mandrake 6.0, until I tried to transfer files from win98.  I mounted the vfat directory as follows:      mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win   Wh