R: [newbie-it] distributori

1999-08-02 Thread Andreas Scuderi
Dove trovare Mandrake 6.0 in italia? Chi e' il distributore? Il sito non segnala correttamente... forse www.thule.it ha anche mandrake AS

[newbie-it] connettersi senza kppp

1999-08-02 Thread Rocco Tano
Vorrei potermi connettere anche senza dover avviare X e quindi senza kppp Ho Mandrake 5.3 che uso con Windowmaker...KDE รจ un po pesantino Ho inserito in /etc/ppp/options /dev/cua3 115200 modem crtscts defaultroute connect /etc/ppp/chat-script poi in etc/ppp/chat-script #!/bin/sh chat -v -t60

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs

1999-08-02 Thread James J. Capone
Check out LinuxMall they should sell the GPL versions of the Older Linux OS's.. James J. Capone Webmaster http://linuxuser.8m.com Webmaster http://teammajestic.8m.com Asst. Webmaster http://www.ptm.com Co Author Linux For Newbies "Even Common People Can Attain

Re: [newbie] Ethernet card help!!!

1999-08-02 Thread Steve Philp
Joe Brault wrote: I am trying to get my Linux box ready for my trip to college this fall, and have a question. I have a SohoBasic Plug and Play Ethernet ISA Adapter in my box at this time... Will this card work with Linux as is? Do I need to get other drivers?? Is it a lost cause???

[newbie] boot hang up

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Wheeler
I have installed linux mandrake 6.0 on my PC with a 1Gig hard disk. Everytime I try to boot for the first time after installation it hangs at the following stage: creating /mnt/disk[OK] after this nothing happens can you help?

Re: [newbie] How to use terminal

1999-08-02 Thread Patrick Putteman
If I'm not mistaking, the prompt is the shell Xwindows is the GUI server and on top of that you run a Window Manager in wich you can open a terminal window Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net 7 www.net7.be - Original Message - From: Tom Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs

1999-08-02 Thread Bill Moshier
Colin - You'll probably get quite a few replies, but in any case, the Mandrake 6.0 linux is one of those that is compiled to run on a Pentium chip. You won't get it working correctly on a 486. The earlier Mandrake 5.3 however, should work correctly. I've loaded it on a 486dx2/66, and had it up

[newbie] Printer Problems

1999-08-02 Thread Wilhelm Bertalan
Hallo, Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.2.34 and everything seemed to work ok. However, I did not test printing and when I started it today, it does not work. After investigating a bit further (with printtool) I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not detected") but

Re: [newbie] Usr Sportster voice 33.6

1999-08-02 Thread Bert Bullough
its pretty easy. all you need to do is know what com port it is on. run " modemtool " from a command line and it is pretty much self-explainatory. I have the same modem and i set it to /dev/cua3 and it works great RB wrote: Hello, I have a usr sportster voice modem and I don't know how to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs

1999-08-02 Thread Bert Bullough
try ftp.linux-madrake.com Andy Goth wrote: Actually I've tried both the Mandrake and RedHat 6.0 installs and they do the exact same thing and hang in the same place. Plus I wouldn't think that pentium optimizations would cause a hang on the install before anything really happens.

[newbie] Large HD install

1999-08-02 Thread Pr. Robert Wurst
I'm trying to install LM 6.0 for the first time. I used fips to decrease my windows 98 partition on a 13 GB HD. When I try and run Disk Druid, it comes up with an error "Boot partition too large." I know that I've read something about this, but can't remember where. Can anyone give me a hand with

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

1999-08-02 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote: I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still existing, the entry looks like: crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 lp0 crw-rw 1 root daemon

Re: [newbie] Ethernet card help!!!

1999-08-02 Thread Steve Philp
Suryo Mataram wrote: Maybe you should install it first. You may be able to configure it manually (IRQ address and other stuff). Suryo. From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to get my Linux box ready for my trip to college this fall, and have a question. I have a SohoBasic

RE: [newbie] Large HD install

1999-08-02 Thread James J. O'Keefe, Jr.
Doesn't this problem have to do with the size of the first partition exceeding 1023 cylinders and dos is not able to see the second partition? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pr. Robert Wurst Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 16:54 To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Large HD install

1999-08-02 Thread Bill Moshier
Right. If you have a small /boot partition (~25 MByte partition) in the first 8Gig area of your disk, you will be able to boot OK. The rest of the linux can go anywhere. Bill -Original Message- From: James J. O'Keefe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 4:14

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs

1999-08-02 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On 02-Aug-99 Colin Eddy wrote: I am using a 486DX2/66 for this. I have read all the Mandrake and RedHat documentation/hardware compatibility lists and they both say that anything Intel above a i386 are fully supported. Although on another list, Mandrake says all Intel and compatibles,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install continually hangs

1999-08-02 Thread Andy Goth
try ftp.linux-mandrake.com Uh... sorry. This computer (which I do not have constant access to) has a slow modem, and my PC doesn't have a modem at all. Downloading the whole thing is out of the question. Compiling the whole thing should take way too long as well. It takes DJGPP at least a

RE: [newbie] Large HD install

1999-08-02 Thread James J. O'Keefe, Jr.
Doesn't this problem have to do with the size of the first partition exceeding 1023 cylinders and dos is not able to see the second partition? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pr. Robert Wurst Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 16:54 To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Slow bandwith Fixes

1999-08-02 Thread Ty Mixon
Sounds great, but I need more instructions. My rc.local file doesn't have any reference to these. I did get the 'novj' option set, and that has helped, but I'm still lost on the rest. Thanks! -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 connection you might want to try the

[newbie] Installing Version 5.3 on laptop

1999-08-02 Thread bgf
Specifically, I'm thinking of installing Linux-Mandrake 5.3 on a Toshiba 2540CDS with 96 of RAM. I'm curious if anyone has tried this and ifthere is anything special that I need to know about this. Thanks. -- bgf [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Installing Version 5.3 on laptop

1999-08-02 Thread Brett Jones
I'm running 6.0 on a Toshiba 2515. Installed great and everything works (sound, pcmcia modem and ethernet card, etc). Pick up a 6.0 version it includes some kde utils for apm (dockable battery monitor, suspend util) plus the cool theme manager. Running the MacOS theme on the laptop looks good.

[newbie] file utilities slowdown with many files ..

1999-08-02 Thread Niels Larsen
If I put 30-40,000 files in one directory (to avoid the overhead of putting and getting from some container) and do 'ls', or 'ls -1', then my new Mandrake 6.0 machine (with plenty of memory and disk) gets busy 98% busy for 10-15 minutes and then returns the expected output. Same with other

Re: [newbie] Slow bandwith Fixes

1999-08-02 Thread Ty Mixon
Original Message On 8/2/99, 6:34:57 PM, "Robert Gilley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Slow bandwith Fixes: [snip] 3 - Set the MRU and MTU to low values. Both MRU and MTU can be set to 296 or 576. How do I do that part too. I was a Winder's Wizerd, but I'm a Linux

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

1999-08-02 Thread alann
Wilhelm Bertalan wrote: Hallo, Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.2.34 and everything seemed to work ok. However, I did not test printing and when I started it today, it does not work. After investigating a bit further (with printtool) I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not

Re: [newbie] Installing Version 5.3 on laptop

1999-08-02 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Brett Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Version 5.3 on laptop I'm running 6.0 on a Toshiba 2515. Installed great and everything works (sound, pcmcia modem and ethernet

Re: [newbie] file utilities slowdown with many files ..

1999-08-02 Thread Niels Larsen
Chmouel, it's normal if your ls is a ls --color, ls do before a file on each files to see the filetype and colorise it. your perl script do only a opendir/readdir, it's only two call to system. Thats it, thanks .. I did 'unalias ls' and time dropped from 10-15 mins to 2 seconds. Then I did