[newbie] Someone wanted a web editor?

1999-07-01 Thread Kuraiken
Freshmeat is worth visiting once a day...like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. :-) Ariel Rios - July 01st 1999, 01:12 EST Galway is a GTK Web editor that supports HTML, JavaScript, VRML 97 and Script-Fu specifications. It is programmed with the guile-gtk

Re: [newbie] Update RPMs

1999-07-01 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote: I've a quick question about the update RPMs: what is kernel-BOOT? It's for internal use. It's used to build the installation bootdisks. LLaP bero

[newbie] Does Mandrake fdisk destroys info?

1999-07-01 Thread Lorenzo Jimenez
Hi again, First, thanks to Jonathan Swift. I continue with install but before installing Mandrake there a partition tarjet for the system. Does the partition programs destroy data? TIA Lorenzo Jimenez ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

[newbie] Time to watch movies a.k.a RealPlayer

1999-07-01 Thread Arron
Has anyone figured out hoe to /installrun Realplayer or higher on the new linux-Mandrake 6.0? I can download it but it doesn't seem to run after I use RPM. Also, how do we put icons in the start-up menu.. I know that sounds like a WIN95/98 question, but hey!... check the title of the

[newbie] ignore test

1999-07-01 Thread Ripcrd6
test, I have been having trouble sending msgs.

Re: [newbie] VNC

1999-07-01 Thread Ripcrd6
James, a distro called muLinux has been using this for a couple of months with great success. See http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux/ Brian "My God, it's full of penguins!" -Original Message- From: James J. Capone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check this link out folks. It is a very good program. If

[newbie] kfm's ftp disabled in MDK6?

1999-07-01 Thread Kuraiken
Hello folks, I've just moved to Venus. Everything looks fine. Everything works. Or so it seemed. I think there's something wrong with kfm's ftp function. It seems broken. I can download from ftp sites ok. But I cannot upload. (yes, I have upload rights to the destination) This used to be my

[newbie] The Case of the Persistent Icons

1999-07-01 Thread Stephen Carville
I have Mandrake 6.0 and am experience two puzzling behaviors First: I removed most of the icons from my desktop on my account and created some of my own. The problem is that every time I log in, all of the deleted icons are back! When I delete the unwanted icons I can check the Desktop

[newbie] Boot problems

1999-07-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Himy system consists of two scsi drives. sda is dedicated to Windows98 and has a single fat32 partition (sda1). sdb is dedicated to Mandrake Linux 6.0 and has 3 partitions (sdb1 is /boot, sdb5 is swap and sdb6 is /). Boot Magic is installed on the windows partition and boots

[newbie] NFS the only problem

1999-07-01 Thread Martin Cleaver
I tried to upgrade Mandrake 5.3 to 6, but that was not a success... Several .conf files got zapped and I had to reconstruct my old setup again and didn't manage to get printing to work. So it was time to try again. I thought it might be worth trying RedHat 6 because KDE was now included... but

[newbie] 3Dfx and Banshee

1999-07-01 Thread sascha mangs
Hi, I am a beginner with Linux and just bought it off the shelf because I don't support big and expensive software companies like ...you know who I am talking about. I have one big problem..I have a Quantum3D Raven Banshee and everything works fine (got drivers installed and everything) but I

Re: [newbie] Boot problems

1999-07-01 Thread Axalon
Check "man initrd" for more information then just about anyone could ask for. Basicly your booting from scsi, notice the initrd= on the floppy is missing from the harddisc. i suspect if you look in /boot/ you'll find a initrd-2.2.9-19mdk, add initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdk if so. My guess is

Re: [newbie] Boot problems

1999-07-01 Thread Wilhelm Bertalan
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Himy system consists of two scsi drives. sda is dedicated to Windows98 and has a single fat32 partition (sda1). sdb is dedicated to Mandrake Linux 6.0 and has 3 partitions (sdb1 is /boot, sdb5 is swap and sdb6 is /). Boot Magic is installed on the windows

Re(2): Re(3): [newbie]

1999-07-01 Thread James Caldwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can put the fortune command in your .bash_profile file (if u r using bash...i think it is .profile if u r using csh...anything else is beyond me)... I am very new, could you please help me by telling me how i may access that file? --- James Caldwell

Re: [newbie] Boot problems

1999-07-01 Thread Axalon
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Himy system consists of two scsi drives. sda is dedicated to Windows98 and has a single fat32 partition (sda1). sdb is dedicated to Mandrake Linux 6.0 and has 3 partitions (sdb1 is /boot, sdb5 is swap and sdb6

Re: [newbie] aterms..

1999-07-01 Thread Flight16
I've been wondering this too. Please tell us the secret, somebody. hevnsnt wrote: Ok this might be a dumb question, but how do I make my terms transparent like you see in all of the screen shots? -Bill

Re(2): [newbie] kppp problems still

1999-07-01 Thread James Caldwell
Well , I have a modem on Com 4 I tried repeatedly to setup kppp but when I query the modem it says modem busy!!!??? Could someone please help me with this problem since I am very horrible at computers. thanks

Re: [newbie] Boot problems

1999-07-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Willythanks for the suggestion, but lilo is not in the MBR of sdb, it's in the sdb1 partition of sdb, so it's gotta' say sdb1 there. I'm pretty sure on this, but I've still not got it to boot yet )-: Alan - Original Message - From: Wilhelm Bertalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] kfm's ftp disabled in MDK6?

1999-07-01 Thread Irv Mullins
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, you wrote: Hello folks, I've just moved to Venus. Everything looks fine. Everything works. Or so it seemed. I think there's something wrong with kfm's ftp function. It seems broken. I can download from ftp sites ok. But I cannot upload. (yes, I have upload rights to

Re: [newbie] kfm's ftp disabled in MDK6?

1999-07-01 Thread Irv Mullins
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, you wrote: Hello folks, I've just moved to Venus. Everything looks fine. Everything works. Or so it seemed. I think there's something wrong with kfm's ftp function. It seems broken. I can download from ftp sites ok. But I cannot upload. (yes, I have upload rights to

[newbie] See through terms...

1999-07-01 Thread Chris Moyer
To answer all of you who have been asking about the transperent terms, it is most likely(and is in my case) a program called ETerm... goto the e.themes.org download section to find it. I'm using it with GNOME and it works great... Gnome Terminal has an opti for transparency, but it seems to be

Re: [newbie] aterms..

1999-07-01 Thread kelvin
On 1 Jul, Flight16 wrote: I've been wondering this too. Please tell us the secret, somebody. hevnsnt wrote: Ok this might be a dumb question, but how do I make my terms transparent like you see in all of the screen shots? -Bill i cannot remember how aterms do transparency but i

[newbie] See through terms...

1999-07-01 Thread Chris Moyer
To answer all of you who have been asking about the transperent terms, it is most likely(and is in my case) a program called ETerm... goto the e.themes.org download section to find it. I'm using it with GNOME and it works great... Gnome Terminal has an opti for transparency, but it seems to

Re: [newbie] aterms..

1999-07-01 Thread Axalon
Depends on the terminal program, with gnome-terminal right click goto preferences image and select transparent. konsole gets into editing some confs so i'll skip it (look in /usr/share/apps/konsole/). rxvt uses a "-pixmap filename" approach. you'll have to check manpages and -help/--help 's to

Re: [newbie] Boot problems

1999-07-01 Thread Axalon
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalonthanks. The problem is I did exactly what you said to do (both add the line [initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdk] in lilo.conf and create an initrd-2.2.9-19mdk in the /boot directory) and Linux still failed to boot and hung with the same

Re: [newbie] HTML editor

1999-07-01 Thread Jeanette Russo
Thanks thats what I am looking for, Jeanette - Original Message - From: Haakon Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 9:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HTML editor At 07:00 01.07.99 -0500, you wrote: is there a program like Homesite? If you're

Re: [newbie] anymore updates?

1999-07-01 Thread J Mann
I finally got my Linux to use kernel 2.2.5mdk! Oh what a night!! Anyway, I followed the directions on linux-mandrake. Everything went perfect. My questions are: (1) The logo screen (with the penguin logo) isn't in color anymore, plus its not in the right resolution. (2) What other programs do I

[newbie] inetd. problem

1999-07-01 Thread Chris Moyer
When I am connected to the net, this error shows up continuosly in my /var/log/messages: inetd[###]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory What is going on? That file doesn't exist... I checked. Should it exist or is there a problem with a script. This is a clean Madrake

Re: [newbie] movie editor

1999-07-01 Thread darkknight
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, you wrote: hello everybody Does anybody know if there is an avi, mov file editor running under linux? I have not found anything yet :-( thanks in advance maurizio __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

[newbie] starting xwin

1999-07-01 Thread hevnsnt
Ok guys/gals, I have another question.. I would like to set up an alias to start xwindows in 16bit but I want it to go to the windowmanager choice screen.. I know how to setup an alias, know how to start x in 16bit, but I have no Idea on how to start it to go to that window choice screen without