Re: [newbie] One more zip drive question

- Original Message - From: Steve Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] One more zip drive question Have you tried looking at all the boot-up messages to see how Linux sees your zip drive? Also, is your kernel

Re: [newbie] Hello?

- Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 1:49 AM Subject: [newbie] Hello? Hello ? is anyone even hearing this?? I have posted about 5 msgs on this mailing list requesting hard ware installation help.. I

Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems

where from? "Alan N." wrote: 2. Sound: Run sndconfig at the prompt. Select your sound card. If that doesn't work, try some of the other choices. I have an ALS and got the Soundblaster to work for it. I ran sndcnfig and when it does the sample test I get this error message:

[newbie] deleting /mbr

Someone posted the other day how to delete LILO from the master boot record of the C drive. Could you repost? I'm trying to delete Linux from my Primary slave drive but whenever I do LILO (which is on the mbr of the primary master dive) only partially boots and I can't get to Winblows. I need to

Re: [newbie] deleting /mbr

Toby Sheets wrote: Someone posted the other day how to delete LILO from the master boot record of the C drive. Could you repost? I'm trying to delete Linux from my Primary slave drive but whenever I do LILO (which is on the mbr of the primary master dive) only partially boots and I can't

[newbie] how do i

Hello all, I am running NT 4.o and Mandrake on the same box. Can someone plz tell me how I can be able to read my nt partition as well as write to it. I've tried linconfig but can't seem to figure it out? thanks, Ralph

Re: [newbie] Printing from Netscape

I renamed my printer to epson440, and now I have to use the command "lpr -P epson440" in any program to get the printer to work. It works for me in Netscape anyway. John Connell wrote: I have tried "lpr"--didn't work! Thanks anyway. John - Original Message - From: Hidong

Re: [newbie] how do i

I am running NT 4.o and Mandrake on the same box. Can someone plz tell me how I can be able to read my nt partition as well as write to it. I've tried linconfig but can't seem to figure it out? Rebuild your kernel to include support for the file system. From what I saw the last time I did

Re: [newbie] how do i

On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, byte-runer | Ralph | wrote: Hello all, I am running NT 4.o and Mandrake on the same box. Can someone plz tell me how I can be able to read my nt partition as well as write to it. I've tried linconfig NTFS write support is VERY experimental in the current kernel,

[newbie] Argh, shameful dumb question!!

God, I am ashamed to ask such a dumb question. How do you open a file ending in .tgz? Thanks for any and all help, steve w _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

[newbie] network configuration

When I installed mandrake on my laptop with an AMB8002 PCMCIA ethernet card, I couldn't find the stuff about what kind of card I had, so I figured I could do that step later. Now is later, and I can't find the program that does what the install program would have done if I'd known what to tell

Re: [newbie] Adding more RAM

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Jason Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have always heard the swap partition should be twice the size of the RAM, so here's my question. I'm going to add 64 MB to a system with a 128 MB swap and the initial 64 MB. Do I have to resize my swap, and if so what can I use

Re: [newbie] deleting /mbr

Use a windows/dos boot disk to start the system, and issue the command fdisk /mbr that will get rid of lilo for you. Ben - Original Message - From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 6:02 AM Subject: [newbie] deleting /mbr Someone

Re: [newbie] Argh, shameful dumb question!!

Steve Winston wrote: God, I am ashamed to ask such a dumb question. How do you open a file ending in .tgz? Thanks for any and all help, tar zxvf file.tgz -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] USB

The only reason I ask is because when I recompiled my kernel I saw a section for USB called "USB - Not for the faint of heart". I compiled it in as modules, and when I loaded the module it seemed to recognize my USB controller, but I didn't know exactly how to use it. BTW, this was on

Re: [newbie] Hello?

Hello, having the same problem. Have posted several messages but they never show up. have I been banished from the list?? Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Schofield wrote: Hello ? is anyone even hearing this?? I have posted about 5 msgs on this mailing list requesting hard ware installation

Re: [newbie] network configuration

For network configuration I think the program is linuxconf, under /bin/linuxconf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I installed mandrake on my laptop with an AMB8002 PCMCIA ethernet card, I couldn't find the stuff about what kind of card I had, so I figured I could do that step later. Now is

Re: [newbie] Hello?

James, I've installed Mandrake, RH, SuSE, and Caldera on a Compaq Armada 7400 docked or undocked without any problem. Compaq uses cable select on all their drives so you don't have to worry about master/slave jumpers. Does your laptop use cable select or jumpers. Are the two drives hda and hdb

Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems

open a terminal. change to su ( root ). sndconfig at the prompt. Gl.. Make sure you upgrade sox. BTW, you epsiode sounds very like my own. If you run Gnome, don't use gmix ( the audio mixer ). It kills things. Alan - Original Message - From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[newbie] RE:

I've used the same card recently. 3dfx has a link on their site under drivers to the site http://glide.xxedgexx.com which has the RPM's you will need to download. I downloaded the following: Glide_V3-2.60-6.i386.rpm Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm This is optional but recommended

[newbie] Modem

I now can get a modem, but I want to be absolutely sure that it works with Linux as well as with Windows. The Linux disributions I will be using it with are Mandrake 6 and Red Hat 5. I will also use it with Windows 95 and maybe DOS. It must be an external modem (how else would I share it

[newbie] two problems

i just got mandrake v 6.0 installed yesterday. i have been setting it up for quite a while now. i have two problems that havent been able to fix. first the (hopefully) easy one: i am running kde and the mouse resets to slow speed whenever i come back into it. i set the speed in the control

Re: [[newbie] Modem]

Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now can get a modem, but I want to be absolutely sure that it works with Linux as well as with Windows. The Linux disributions I will be using it with are Mandrake 6 and Red Hat 5. I will also use it with Windows 95 and maybe DOS. It must be an external

RE: [newbie] WindowMaker

Glad to hear it worked for you. * Original message from: scott worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks John. I've got 0.60 compiled and it appears to be working. I use appear because I added some of the pentium optimizations to the Makefiles. I used the same

Re: [newbie] two problems

On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am getting no sound out of my sound card. i have a AWE64 gold soundblaster. i have the isapnp.conf set correctly with the card on irq 9. all the modules on boot up load properly with no errors. i did a dmesg to see what might be

Re: [newbie] 56k modem is slow

Richard, Maybe it's your isp? If you have windows still or any other os, see if the connection is as bad in it too. --- Richard Winters wrote: I am using Linux Mandrake vs 6...I connect to Earthlink using kppp with my v.90 psion dacom pcmcia modem. It states that I am

[newbie] Kernel 2.2.5 w/ Sound Blaster Live problem..

I recently compiled Kernel 2.2.5 so I could use my Sound Blaster Live, but when I run the bin to install the drivers, it gives me the error "kernel msut be compiled with SMP." Anyone know what this is? And is there a newer than 2.2.5 kernel that supports the Sound Blaster Live? Thanks.

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Hi, Today I installed Linux Mandrake 6.0. After the installation I logged in but the resolution was set as 300x200. Running "setup" or "xf86config" to change the res to 800x600 doesnt work, it just goes back to 300x200. Pressing ctrl, alt +/- has no effect either. Any suggestions? Best

[newbie] Re:

You need to find the driver for you video card. You first need to find out what the chipset is on the card, then search around the web for it. Metacrawler works good for this. You might want to do a search for the lhd or LINUX HARDWARE DATABASE. Then follow the instructions on how to install

Re: [newbie] Argh, shameful dumb question!!

David, Thanks for the explanation. I discovered Midnight Commander but thought that I had actually opened and expanded the tar file by clicking on it. Those questions are not dumb to a new newbie. Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Steve, Not a dumb

Re: [newbie] two problems (now just one)

Richard Lamont wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am getting no sound out of my sound card. i have a AWE64 gold soundblaster. i have the isapnp.conf set correctly with the card on irq 9. all the modules on boot up load properly with no errors. i did a

Re: [newbie] Modem

diamondmm.com I believe they have supraexpress external modems for around 45-50 dollars.I use the interanal version and after flashing to v90, have been very pleased. You may want to check, for around 80 you may be able to get an internal isa and a pcmcia modem, though I'm not sure if they have

Re: [[newbie] Modem]

One thing I'd add -- find out which type of modem your ISP has (X2/V.90 or K56Flex/V.90) and go with that technology. It'll be less headaches in the long run. John - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14,

Re: [newbie] How to use Gnome w/Mandrake 6.0?

Related to this thread: When I reinstalled Mandrake 6.0 some time ago, I mistakenly didn't install Ghome. I have since reinstalled it, but it doesn't show up in the graphical K login. How do I re-place it as an option on that screen? Thanks- -Alan On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, John May wrote: You can

Re: [newbie] deleting /mbr

I was having that problem with LILO. It displays the LI then freezes right? well what I did is went into the etc directory and found this .0300 file and used the dd command with some arguments to replace the mbr with the old version. I found the command in some faq on the CD. The question is how

RE: [newbie] Modem

On 14-Aug-99 Andy Goth wrote: I now can get a modem, but I want to be absolutely sure that it works with Linux as well as with Windows. The Linux disributions I will be using it with are Mandrake 6 and Red Hat 5. I will also use it with Windows 95 and maybe DOS. It must be an external

Re: [newbie] two problems (now just one)

pete moss wrote: Richard Lamont wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am getting no sound out of my sound card. i have a AWE64 gold soundblaster. i have the isapnp.conf set correctly with the card on irq 9. all the modules on boot up load properly

[newbie] some questions regarding booting and win partitions

all I wanted to do was access my windows partition from linux and I've created tons of errors. I was reading up on it and someone it said that there is no support for FAT32 in linux, only FAT. this was ok, I'd just set up a 2gig FAT partition to be an intermediate partition, right? I created the

[newbie] Re:

Paul, Bring up a terminal and type in "setup" and you can make your adjustments from one of the choices on the list. John - Original Message - From: Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 7:43 PM Hi, Today I installed Linux Mandrake 6.0.

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.2.5 w/ Sound Blaster Live problem..

I thought it was that too, so I compiled it again with that, and it still gave the error... Stephan Rex wrote: Hi brett, I am only a newbie but from what I have read SMP is for multiple processor support. I can't see how this should affect your sound card Stephan - Original Message

Re: [newbie] deleting /mbr

from a dos boot disk, run "fdisk /mbr" (minus quotes) to remove LILO from the DOS disk. Unless you made a boot floppy, this will basically cause you to lose your Linux install. However, if you're going to reinstall ANYWAY, this shouldn't matter... John PS...you can always use a "rescue

[newbie] Sox upgrade

Where do I do this. I poked around the Mandrake site but didn't see anything. "Alan N." wrote: open a terminal. change to su ( root ). sndconfig at the prompt. Gl.. Make sure you upgrade sox. BTW, you epsiode sounds very like my own. If you run Gnome, don't use gmix ( the audio

[newbie] Aztech Sound card and X11 Amp question

Hi I can play wav and midi files through my Aztech Waverider Sound card configured as a Soundblaster 16 sound card but get terrible distortion trying to play MP3 files through my X11 AMP MP3 player. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix? I cannot get the sound card to work under the

RE: [newbie] bash scripts

Store the process id of the ghostview. You can send signal to the process for termination using kill. But this kills the process abruptly and many of cleanup operation by the process would not be done. I believe you can send a termination signal rather than a kill signal. I don't know what

Re: [newbie] some questions regarding booting and win partitions

Will, 1) To get into gnome, on the menu, system utilities desktop switching tools 2) To access your windows drive.. mkdir /mnt/hdax mount -t msdos /dev/hdax /mnt/hdax then just cd to /mnt/hdax replacing x with your drive number. Will wrote: all I wanted to do was access my

[newbie] How do you UNINSTALL stuff???

I have seen (fist over hand) a ton of FAQs on how to install various program by compiling or through RPMs. So is there a way to uninstall? Is there a FAQ for it out there. And I am not JUST talking about RPM stuff either. I have installed many things with source code. I have NEVER seen anyone

[newbie] Installation problems - cd-rom unable to be found

I've just purchases the The Complete Linux Operating System 6.0 software package and I am having trouble with installation. I thought maybe someone could help me out. I am having trouble in the installation process after choosing aninstallation from Local cd-rom and Other CDROM. After this

[newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???

I see that Netscape supports Linux. Does Internet Explorer support Linux too? If so, where is the SPECIFIC web page that i go to download it? Please don't say www.microsoft.com/download. Please be more specific than that. Postman

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???

This is the latest.. only question.. will it work with mandrake?!? http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp - Original Message - From: The Postman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 9:23 PM Subject: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there

[newbie] Console text not displaying properly

Title: Console text not displaying properly I have just installed Mandrake 6.0 on an Intel machine with a Number Nine Imagine 128 (Series 2) graphics card and an Apple 17 multisync monitor (Sony CPD-1730). The X Server install did not complete because I could not find a match for the

[newbie] Video Problem in Window X

I installed linux yesterday and I went to run Window X by typing in shell startx. Everything but the icons in it are black and the screen size is larger than my monitor, and I can't read the text because it is all black. I used X-configurator a few times to change some things but it is still

Re: [newbie] How do you UNINSTALL stuff???

I have been wondering the same thing myself...is there a simple way to uninstall a program? - Original Message - From: The Postman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 10:48 PM Subject: [newbie] How do you UNINSTALL stuff??? I have seen (fist over

Re: [newbie] RE:

Ok i mounted my win98 drive to get the filesa all went well till i got to the src file.. it said something about the files enclosed need to start with / So i figured you said it was not mandatory i tried the next file.. the setup file... it said it is dependant upon svga16 so now i am hunting for

Re: [newbie] WindowMaker

Glad to hear it worked for you. I kinda missed out ton this thread, but I think it was about troubles installing WindowMaker. I installed it from my Cheap*Bytes Mandrake 6.0 CD, and it worked perfectly right away. It's beautiful. Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth ICQ:

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RE: [newbie] How do you UNINSTALL stuff???

For rpm's it's easy, but for source code that's a pretty good question that I'm surprised doesn't get asked more often (and it's probably a big reason why rpm's are popular). Anyway for an rpm you uninstall by typing 'rpm -e packagename'. Note that the package name is not necessarily the entire

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???

Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing??? I will let the "newbie" list know in the next few days. I will download it very soon. Maybe tonight. Thanks for the link. No thank God.

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???

- Original Message - From: Fred Macinster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing??? Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing??? I