The Microsoft Internet Explorer for Unix seems to be only for two non Linux
systems, according to the MS download pages.
Has anyone tried to use this program with Linux?
Art
No thank God.
Yes thank god...http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp
The IE 5 on this pages does not work with Linux. Its for HP Sun versions.
I am sure it will not be long before they release something.
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, RReed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the latest.. only question.. will it work with mandrake?!?
http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp
No. Explorer is only available for the Solaris and HP-UX versions
of Unix, and even then only on the Sun/HP hardware platforms.
I've been all over Microsoft's site. I don't see anyplace there is one. I
have, however, heard rumors of such a beast. Should you get a better answer
to your message, I'd sure like to know too. Thanks.
Original Message Follows
I see that Netscape supports Linux. Does Internet Explorer
Why does 'everyone' want to use a M$ browser on Linux? What's wrong with
Netscape? You should realize that when M$ will release their browser for
Linux, they won't do so for free or free in any other sense.
Jo
Art Rowe wrote:
The Microsoft Internet Explorer for Unix seems to be only for two
It's me again. This should answer your question:
Micrsoft doesn't support Internet Explorer for Linux
James Ryan
Thursday Mar 18, 1999
Occupation: PROGRAMMER
Location: TORONTO
No emotion for me. Fact is Micrsoft doesn't support Internet Explorer for
Linux. Hence Netscape is my best choice.
well I got those 2 emails telling me how to get into my windows drive
but both of your approaches didn't work. I reinstalled linux somewhat
successfully (for the 3rd time!) but get a few warnings about the wrong
kernel ver in system.map and an error with mounting somewhere when
booting. I don't
Why? What's the point? How 'bout Windows for linux, gimme a break! g
JC
- Original Message -
From: Richard Lamont [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???
On Sun, 15 Aug
Having just installed Mandrake 6.0 (including KDE) on my system I found
that I had a lot of trouble with font sizes.
Everything seemed to be geared towards an assumed display resolution of
around 75dpi. This seems pretty old-fashioned, given that most monitors and
video cards can support better
I read in one of these lists that you can (if you keep the source) do a
"make uninstall" and it should uninstall just fine... haven't tried it
myself, though...
John
- Original Message -
From: The Postman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Hello,When trying to setup my sound card
and trying to connect to the internetusing kppp I get a pppd server closed
unexpectedly error becausepppd isn't compiled in to the kernel. sndconfig
says my kernel is notcompiled tosupport sound. . I installed Mandrake 6
as an image file.
Hi-
Here's one that's not really a problem, but it's an annoying "feature" of
Netscape 4.6 on Mandrake 6.0. When I have multiple navigator windows open,
the behavior of the "close" icon in the upper right of the window is
unpredictable: Sometimes it closes only the particular navigator window,
- Original Message -
From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [[newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???]
The Postman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see that Netscape supports Linux. Does
- Original Message -
From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux and the modem
PLEASE people .. I assume a Motorola VOICESURFER is not a win modem,
because it is ISA and I can use it in DOS.
Alan Schussman wrote:
Hi-
Here's one that's not really a problem, but it's an annoying "feature" of
Netscape 4.6 on Mandrake 6.0. When I have multiple navigator windows open,
the behavior of the "close" icon in the upper right of the window is
unpredictable: Sometimes it closes only the
I grabbed the updated lilo rpm to fix the VGA preset problem but now I
seemed to have killed lilo altogether. It tells me every one of my kernels
is too big. They all worked fine before the update. anyone have this
problem?
When i was in x i opened the rpm program and there is a uninstall from there
also.
How stable and correctly it cleans remaining file i have no idea
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 7:56 AM
Subject: Re:
If it makes ya feel any better, Cooker (Mandrake's next version in development)
seems to default to 100dpi.
-Tom
On 15-Aug-99 Richard Lamont wrote:
Having just installed Mandrake 6.0 (including KDE) on my system I found
that I had a lot of trouble with font sizes.
Everything seemed to be
Yes, that's a common problem in the Netscape 4.6 in Mandrake. Replace your
netscape packages with either the packages from the updates directory on the
FTP mirrors (you shouldn't have any trouble finding the list of FTP mirrors
from Mandrake's homepage at http://www.linux-mandrake.com), or (my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy all,
I was just trying to download the latest Mandrake (6.0) from one of
the FTP mirrors (500+ Meggers, but I figure I might as well put my new
DSL to work). Everything's great, except my FTP programs seem to be
choking on some directories. There are a
"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote:
Yes, that's a common problem in the Netscape 4.6 in Mandrake. Replace your
netscape packages with either the packages from the updates directory on the
FTP mirrors (you shouldn't have any trouble finding the list of FTP mirrors
from Mandrake's homepage at
The Microsoft Internet Explorer for Unix seems to be only for two non
Linux
systems, according to the MS download pages.
Has anyone tried to use this program with Linux?
Art
I must admidt I do use the MS IEAK CD to sit my coffee cup on. I
have to be carefull because when its gets hot,
David,
You need to recompile your kernel with sound and pppd supported, go into
/usr/src/linux-2.2.9, or whatever dir your kernel is in . Type make
xconfig, to use the Xwindows config for it, or make config for the
normal one. Go through the whole thing and be sure to select what you
need and ppp
I doubt it. I have seen them too and they look an awful lot like the Lexmark
POS that I have. I could be wrong though, so dont take my word as gospel on
that.
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Linux Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
After installing Mandrake the screen res was set at 300x200.
I've been told that I should wipe my hard disk reinstall windows, and
then install Linux.
But after deleting the Linux partitions on my disk and installing MS
DOS, my system stalls when
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I grabbed the updated lilo rpm to fix the VGA preset problem but now I
seemed to have killed lilo altogether. It tells me every one of my kernels
is too big. They all worked fine before the update. anyone have this
problem?
=
Did you rerun
Cool feature!
I must admidt I do use the MS IEAK CD to sit my coffee cup on. I
have to be carefull because when its gets hot, then tries to reboot
and I have seen my cup go 10 feet in the air.
ok, one last side-question:
of the FAT16 and FAT32 file systems, which is superior in file
read/write/transfer speed and efficiency? I purposely created another 2
gig FAT16 partition (faster than a 13 gig FAT32 partition) to hold all
the stuff I want to host with linux. I'm under the
Okay, here is my suggestion:
1. Boot up from a WIN95 startup disk. Format your Windows drive(I'm
assuming it is the first one)
2. After formatting, run dos fdisk and delete the current dos partitions.
3. Reboot your machine with a Linux boot disk and run Linux fdisk.
4. Setup your
On 15 Aug, Will wrote:
well I got those 2 emails telling me how to get into my windows drive
but both of your approaches didn't work. I reinstalled linux somewhat
successfully (for the 3rd time!) but get a few warnings about the wrong
kernel ver in system.map and an error with mounting
However, I continue to be unable to launch 'startx". I consistently
get an error:
I128: ibm526 Ramdac not found
I have run though xf86config with many different combinations. I was
able to get confirmed numbers on the vert/horz scan... on my monitor
so feel pretty good about that. Do
If you boot to DOS, by means of a disk, or the DOS modus of Windows, you
can give the following command:
fdisk /mbr
This will overwrite the master boot record with the 'normal' code. Now
LILO has placed some code there. Next time you can choose to have LILO
installed in the boot record of the
Ok, can someone explain to me how I can tell if a modem is NOT a
Winmodem??
I may be interested in getting one. I have the Diamond SupraExpress
336i PnP Faxmodem I use for Windows.
Thanks,
Brandon
Well I can't get the voodoo3 goods to install it keeps saying it can't find
vga16.
So I guess I will just use startx -- -bpp 32 to start x in 32 bit.. i edited
the config to use only 800x600 and nothing lower.
A question I have is can i setup a symbolic link to run startx -- -bpp 32
from a name
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you're going to d/l it, why not just install it as you download?
I'd love to, except I don't know how! Well that, and I intend to install it
on machines other than the machine I downloaded it with. Right now I just
have the one machine, but soon I'll jave one
I have copied a couple of hundred fonts to the truetype font directory in
Mandrake 6. However, the x font server doesn't automatically update the font
list, thus I can't use my new fonts. I was just wondering what command it is
you use to update the font lists.
Thanks in advance for your help,
RReed wrote:
Well I can't get the voodoo3 goods to install it keeps saying it can't find
vga16.
So I guess I will just use startx -- -bpp 32 to start x in 32 bit.. i edited
the config to use only 800x600 and nothing lower.
A question I have is can i setup a symbolic link to run startx --
Yes. Thats when I get the messages about the kernels being too big
At 02:48 PM 8/15/99 EDT, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I grabbed the updated lilo rpm to fix the VGA preset problem but now I
seemed to have killed lilo altogether. It tells me every one of my kernels
is too big. They all
I just wanted to let everyone know that I still cannot print with
Netscape--or anything else for that matter. I was able to print a test page
with print tool before, but not any longer. Queque says lp0 is printing,
Netscape says lp0 no such device and when shutting down lpd fails to shut
down all
Funny, I use my IE5 CD for a coaster also. But everytime I do I cannot
remember where I left my coffee!
Johng
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Browser For Linux?
Cool feature!
I must
WOW!!! thanks for this info. i had never thought about it before.
everything looks so much better. i recommend everyone try this!
:P
Richard Lamont wrote:
Having just installed Mandrake 6.0 (including KDE) on my system I found
that I had a lot of trouble with font sizes.
Everything
It sounds like you are trying to install the XFree86_3Dfx-XFree86Setup rpm. It
requires the VGA16 X server to run. You can install the
XFree86-VGA16-3.3.3.1-58mdk.rpm from the install CD.
scottw
On 15-Aug-99 RReed wrote:
Well I can't get the voodoo3 goods to install it keeps saying it can't
I had this problem a while back, RH 5.2 or something.
I have a Canon 4200.
Here's what fixed mine.
In KDE ( I'm assuming your running this) open a terminal and
login as su ( root ).
Run printtool
Configure.
Close.
Reboot.
Your symptoms are exactly like mine were, and running printtool under a
I wonder if anyone can help me get my sound FX-3D sound card to work under LINUX
-- or alternatively, suggest a low cost card which will work well in both LINUX
and Windows and be simple to configure in both systems.
I have an Acer FX-3D sound card. If I type sndconfig as root the probe does
My US Robotics 33.6 modem dials my ISP, they "talk", the Kppp reads
connected, but nothing works.
I've installed Venus 6.0 as the only os on a stand alone pentium, trying
both the Linuxconfig and the Kppp to connect. I'm hoping someone will
recognize this as a problem they've previously solved.
Have you run "fdisk /mbr" from a DOS boot floppy? If not, you still have
LILO on your Windows partition.
John
- Original Message -
From: Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 10:21 AM
Hi,
After installing Mandrake the screen res
My US Robotics 33.6 modem dials my ISP, they "talk", the Kppp reads
connected, but nothing works.
I have Caldera 2.2 installed. I see the same problem. Kppp acts a bit nuts.
I think its a combo of several things. About three tries and I get
connected.
At 33.6 it should be no problem.
Sounds more like you slid a little too far down the menu and accidently
hit the 'Exit' choice instead. That would cause what you describe.
Can't say I've ever had 'Close' close all the windows.
One might think, but nope, that's not what I'm doing -- it's actually the
close -button- out on
Harry Ellis wrote:
My US Robotics 33.6 modem dials my ISP, they "talk", the Kppp reads
connected, but nothing works.
Same thing here.. Call your ISP and ask them if VanJacobsen ( VJ )
compression is enabled
on your account.. If its not, tell them to turn it on.
This is SOMETHING with RH
On 15-Aug-99 Harry Ellis wrote:
My US Robotics 33.6 modem dials my ISP, they "talk", the Kppp reads
connected, but nothing works.
I've installed Venus 6.0 as the only os on a stand alone pentium, trying
both the Linuxconfig and the Kppp to connect. I'm hoping someone will
recognize this as
Another "fun" thing with Netscape for Linux (4.5x version) is that when I'm
trying to edit HTML using the built-in HTML editor, sometimes saving changes
(so that in case Netscape crashes I won't lose what I've been working on)
will cause Netscape to shut down!
What I've been forced to do is edit
Harry Ellis wrote:
My US Robotics 33.6 modem dials my ISP, they "talk", the Kppp reads
connected, but nothing works.
I've installed Venus 6.0 as the only os on a stand alone pentium, trying
both the Linuxconfig and the Kppp to connect. I'm hoping someone will
recognize this as a problem
when i run x windows in 24 bit color mode, i get horizontal lines of
noise on the screen whenever i move a window or something on the
screen. i have a diamond stealth 3d 4000 card with a s3 virge gx2
chipset. i am running the svga xserver. my card works fine at that
depth, looks good in x
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
opera software www.opersoftware.com is almost done with its port. If you're
unhappy with netscape, you may want to follow it's development. ( I should
clarify and say this is the port of the opera web browser, not msie )
Ben
I found the reason for not being able to mount FAT drives, and that is because
I was apparently using an older version of the kernel. I found loadlin.exe,
which I was going to use to boot regularly, in the Lnx4win directory with
vmlinuz (the kernel) and initsomething.gz. well that vmlinuz in
Hey all.
Maybe this is an expert@ question, but here goes.
We're setting up a distance education centre at my church and while the
maintenance crew is working on the classroom, from time to time we find
that the power to the server room gets cut off.
Upon rebooting, the file system almost
Has anyone used the Sony "Superstation" 10 GB backup system with Linux? It's
a paralell port item, so I suppose you'd have to set it up much the same way
one sets up a paralell port ZIP drive, but since it's a tape backup, would
you mount it differently? Does anyone know if there's a SCSI version
I've noticed a good price on a Compaq inkjet printer, but I can't find
Compaq in the Printer Compatibility List. Anyone know if Compaq brand inkjet
printers work under Linux?
On 16 Aug, pete moss wrote:
when i run x windows in 24 bit color mode, i get horizontal lines of
noise on the screen whenever i move a window or something on the
screen. i have a diamond stealth 3d 4000 card with a s3 virge gx2
chipset. i am running the svga xserver. my card works fine at
Somebody was saying to me that he believed Linux was a good corporate tool
but not a good op system for home use because of it's steep learning curve.
What do the list subscribers here think? Think Linux-Mandrake isn't ready
for Prime Time yet?
I wonder. Are there any home users on this list?
I would like to connect my Linux server thru an existing proxy Server
on my intranet.
BUT I can not even ping the location.
I have been having problems finding instructions for setting up Linux as
a server. Most instructors are for a client and dial-up access.
Please point me in the right
From: Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wonder. Are there any home users on this list?
I'm a home user. I'm also a tech support rep for a major ISP.
There's no way I'd recommend Linux to the majority of the people with
whom I deal daily. For the most part, it's not a matter of
I am also a home user, although I am having a few problems, especially
with my sound card (Acer FX-3D -- AD1816 which is supposed to be supported,
but can't get it to work) and my mouse (don't think my Matsonic 3 button
mouse on COM 1, configured as Generic 3 button mouse with 3 button
i am a music composition and electronic music grad student. i got into
linux because of the stereotypical MS windows hatred. i think it is
great, but i wouldnt recommend it to the average joe. i worked for
flashnet tech support for a while, and i definately wouldnt recommend it
to most of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16 Aug, pete moss wrote:
when i run x windows in 24 bit color mode, i get horizontal lines of
noise on the screen whenever i move a window or something on the
screen. i have a diamond stealth 3d 4000 card with a s3 virge gx2
chipset. i am running the svga
I am a home user and I find Mandrake perfect. I don't think the learning
curve is any steeper than for any other OS. The problem most people find
when trying Linux is that it doesn't do things the Windows way. This
doesn't necessarily make Linux harder to use it is just different to use and
it
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