Re: [Re: [newbie] KDE]

1999-08-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Neil P." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok maybe I have things messed up here I want to get from the Command prompt part of linux to that GUI. I get stuck at the command prompt and want to use the GUI that comes with linux mandrake. After I log in as root what commands do I type?

[newbie] HP-8100 CDR-RW

1999-08-25 Thread Ed Santiago
I have Mandrake-Linux 6.0 installed and have downloaded all the updates and have been able to format a floppy give it a file system transfer some files between Windows and Linux. I reconfigured my kernel to the AMD K6 processor. I have played around with the thing but I can't seem to mount my

Re: [newbie] Good AGP card

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Aaron deRozario wrote: How many of G400 Max features are supported by the Xfree86 drivers? I know they have been talking about multi-headed support for dual monitors/cards for their next release, but do the current drivers support dual monitors? Does anyone know if either the current or

Re: [newbie] strange messages

1999-08-25 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Manny Styles wrote: I'm not sure if this is just me, but as of today, I have been getting messages returned to me that appear to be going to the mailing list. I resent my messages just in case (so if you have seen my messages twice, forgive me). The subject line is "Messgae not

Re: [newbie] ppa

1999-08-25 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Steve Philp wrote: Manny Styles wrote: I have an Iomega Zip 100 parallel port zip drive connected to my system. When I used Mandrake 5.3, it was detected during installation, and was ready to be mounted when I first started the system. with 6.0, it was not detected, and would not

Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!

1999-08-25 Thread Jeanette Russo
How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette - Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working! A,

Re: [newbie] What OS do I select for RealPlayer at www.real.com?

1999-08-25 Thread Jeanette Russo
Well of course I know how to do it but you just yelled at me last time I tried to help you. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Postman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 12:18 AM Subject: [newbie] What OS do I select for RealPlayer at www.real.com?

Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III

1999-08-25 Thread Rick Murphy
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Postman wrote: I am still looking for a copy of RealAudio G2. What specific version and what specific web site??? Is it in RPM format? The only version I saw close to it on www.real.com was one for Redhat 5.2. I downloaded and installed it and it wouldn't even start up.

Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!

1999-08-25 Thread Rick Murphy
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette Jeanette, Perhaps I misspoke. What is the difference between a plugin and helper? What I meant was that now when I'm browsing with netscape and

Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!

1999-08-25 Thread John Connell
Jeanette Russo wrote: How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette - Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Sweet sound of

Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III

1999-08-25 Thread John Connell
Rick Murphy wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Postman wrote: > I am still looking for a copy of RealAudio G2. What specific version and what > specific web site??? Is it in RPM format? The only version I saw close to it > on www.real.com was one for Redhat 5.2. I downloaded and installed it and it >

Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!

1999-08-25 Thread John Connell
Rick Murphy wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette Jeanette, Perhaps I misspoke. What is the difference between a plugin and helper? What I meant was that now when I'm

Re: [newbie] strange messages

1999-08-25 Thread tom950
Same here. Havent noticed and Returned msgs but getting many repeat msgs. At 07:13 AM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: Manny Styles wrote: I'm not sure if this is just me, but as of today, I have been getting messages returned to me that appear to be going to the mailing list. I resent my messages

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP3 problems ... now sound in general

1999-08-25 Thread Ripcrd6
-Original Message- From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manny, I have a card just like yours (Aztech Snd Galaxy 16). I could never get it to play nice with Linux so I removed it and put it in another PC. Mine had a

No Subject

1999-08-25 Thread Kyle \Orange\ Spahn
I found out the hard way that my network card is not supported with Linux Mandrake. I have a D-Link DE-220 PCT, has anyone seen support for this? I'm unable to download Mandrake because I have a cable modem and it relies on the network card. Help would be appreciated! Thanks! -Kyle "Orange"

Re: [newbie] Re:Netscape Files

1999-08-25 Thread Malmac
Did anyone got SB Live to work under Mandrake kernel ? Thanks.

[newbie] Printer Help!!!

1999-08-25 Thread Sean Armstrong
I am still trying to find out how to get the printer icon on my KDE desktop to work. I know you have to drag/ drop the text icon onto the printer icon. My problem is that i can't get the lpr command which is linked to the printer icon to work on my computer. I can print by opening the klpq

Re: [newbie] NMB

1999-08-25 Thread Sean Armstrong
I configured the samba.conf files. The problem seems to lie with the fact that NMB fails at boot. This is an integral part of samba so that I can see my computer through "Network Neighborhood", or at least I'm told. I don't know why NMB fails at boot. I installed the SAMBA package when I

[newbie] strange messages (and question)

1999-08-25 Thread Radek Dobias
I got a returned message on my post... By the way, I'm just wondering. What's exactly the difference between KDE (or GNOME) and X-Windows. Or is KDE just a GUI for X-Windows? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] strange messages

[newbie] ESS1370 install problems

1999-08-25 Thread Paul Cooper
I have successfully installed Mandrake Linux 6.0 with no problems, however I can not get sound to work at all. Trying to install the ESS1370 (for my SB PCI 128) module with "insmod es1370" gives me a "device busy" error stating that irq 10 is in use - or something similar! However my sound card

Re: [newbie] Network Card Support

1999-08-25 Thread Randolph Way
Hi Kyle! Download Mandrake? I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but that card definetley is supported as an NE 2000 compatible in Mandrake 6.0. During setup for a LAN, it should be auto-detected as such. Just choose the dynamic host protocol and you're all set. You'll need to configure the

[newbie] How to install drivers for network card

1999-08-25 Thread Ikbal, Javed
I have an Intel Etherexpress pro 10 card on my system. Mandrake installed properly, but failed to recognize the card (it is supported and worked under Redhat 4.3). How do I tell Mandrake what type of card I have? netcfg does not provide a way to define card type.. I am lost. Please help.

[newbie] Memory not found

1999-08-25 Thread Gregory S. Hackman
Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram. When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have something like 64 Mb. The appropriate KDE utility tells me the same thing. Is there some bug in the 2.2whatever kernel that it can't use the

[newbie] WindowMaker freezes in certain situations (fwd)

1999-08-25 Thread Alan Schussman
I sent this yesterday morning, but never saw it come through the list. I apologize if anyone receives this twice. Since I sent the first message, my inital problem is back: WindowMaker is again trying to load multiple panels and loads mulitple gmc windows at startup, even after I close those

Re: [newbie] Re:Netscape Files

1999-08-25 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Malmac wrote: Did anyone got SB Live to work under Mandrake kernel ? Thanks. YES Just last night thanks to Martin White. An excellent source is http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.htm The file referred to isemu10k1-0.3b.tar.gz located at

Re: [newbie] strange messages

1999-08-25 Thread tom950
Oops. Spoke too soon. Just got that ICS7 msg when i replied to your msg. At 06:32 AM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: Same here. Havent noticed and Returned msgs but getting many repeat msgs. At 07:13 AM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: Manny Styles wrote: I'm not sure if this is just me, but as of today,

Re: [newbie] Re:Netscape Files

1999-08-25 Thread TJ McConnell
Yeah.. both on 2.2.9-19mdk and 2.2.11. What are you trying? Are you getting any error messages? -tj On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: Did anyone got SB Live to work under Mandrake kernel ? Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail using the correct quotes

1999-08-25 Thread Beo d'Wulfie
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Like Steve said, it's rejecting the messages from the imap server, check on that end. or maybe just changeing to pop might work *nods* So there is another piece of software I need? My provider is POP3. I, unfortuantely, havn't a clue what my

Re: [newbie] Netscape won't browse

1999-08-25 Thread pete moss
as a past employee of flashnet, i did notice one problem here. it is not flashnet.com, it is flash.net. the dns numbers are correct. i dont know if that will help you, but it might. :P Chad Young wrote: I can connect to my ISP but netscape won't browse. I have done the following -

[newbie] Re:

1999-08-25 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Kyle "Orange" Spahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 10:06 AM I found out the hard way that my network card is not supported with Linux Mandrake. I have a D-Link DE-220 PCT, has anyone seen support for this? I'm

Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98

1999-08-25 Thread Tom Brett
Many replies to this. Thanks. Will Partition Magic 3.0 work with on an 11 Gb win98 partition? It's the version I have easiest access to. -Tom Garrett Williams wrote: Partition Magic will make short work of that process... Tom Brett wrote: Hello: I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13

Re: [newbie] Memory not found

1999-08-25 Thread John Connell
"Gregory S. Hackman" wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram. When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have something like 64 Mb. The appropriate KDE utility tells me the same thing. Is there some bug in the

[newbie] 3Com 3c905 (Vortex) problem

1999-08-25 Thread Robert Fox
I have a Mandrake 6.0 install on a system with a 3com 3c905b (Vortex) card. It seems to boot up fine, but I can't ping to it from outside (crossover cable from a Win98 box). When I check the IFCONFIG, it states: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:B3:79:4D inet addr:169.254.55.105

Re: [newbie] KDE

1999-08-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, you wrote: ok maybe I have things messed up here I want to get from the Command prompt part of linux to that GUI. I get stuck at the command prompt and want to use the GUI that comes with linux mandrake. After I log in as root what commands do I type? Ahh...type "startx

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems

1999-08-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: There's some bad logic in the code that desides which drives to enable DMA cdroms are less tolerant than hardrives when you try and activate it and they do not support it. I am confused by this statement. I think I understand the kernel does not

Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III

1999-08-25 Thread John Connell
I have the G2 file I could email if you like. John - Original Message - From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III - Original Message - From: John

RE: [newbie] Partitions in Linux

1999-08-25 Thread Aaron W.
On a PC with and Intel/Intel clone chip you can have 4 real partitions. With that said, you are not limited to 4 partitions. You can also have 3 partitions and one extended partition. The extended partition is used to set up logical partitions(or logical drives if you are coming from the

[newbie] Caldera

1999-08-25 Thread InafewmiN
Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? jerrud

Re: [newbie] kxicq

1999-08-25 Thread James Schofield
I have seen that there is two ICQ clients out for Linux. One is Kicq for KDE and another is for GNOME. I like to use KDE as my Desktop.. but I notice that the KICQ project is still Alpha and is not getting a lot of support. The one for GNOME is STABLE and looks to be the better of the two

Re: [newbie] Wiping Out NT Partitions

1999-08-25 Thread Jo
Don't you just remove those NTFS partitions in FDISK and create new ext2fs partitions? Jo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wiping out NT Server 4.0 and installing Linux in its place. My question is Will Mandrake overwrite both the FAT root and the NTFS extended partition? I have

Re: [newbie] KDE

1999-08-25 Thread John Connell
I keep reading--"never surf the web for security reasons." Just exactly what type of security risks are we talking about here? Maybe a dumb question but a legitimate one. Please help me with my ignorance! John - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] kxicq

1999-08-25 Thread Tim Kubista
just use Licq which is stable and good, and will run fine on either GNOME or KDE - Original Message - From: James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] kxicq I have seen that there is two ICQ clients out for

Re: [newbie] What OS do I select for RealPlayer at www.real.com?

1999-08-25 Thread Justin Fisher
You have the correct version i believe. I am using RealPlayer5.0 for Linux from www.real.com. It needs to find a few libraries in order to run.. these libs are included in the distribution of the player.. so one only needs to set up a simple script that should be run in place of the rvplayer

Re: [newbie] kxicq

1999-08-25 Thread Guillermo Belli
I use kxicq and it works pretty well. I've also tried kicq and klicq, and they also get the job done. I installed gnomeicu and didn't like it, and every time I openened it, a gnome taskbar apears over my KDE taskbar. You can find some information here: http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq/ El mié,

[newbie] TRY THIS AGAIN - 3Com 3c905 (Vortex) problem

1999-08-25 Thread Robert Fox
I have a Mandrake 6.0 install on a system with a 3com 3c905b (Vortex) card. It seems to boot up fine, but I can't ping to it from outside (crossover cable from a Win98 box). When I check the IFCONFIG, it states: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:B3:79:4D inet

Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!

1999-08-25 Thread Jeanette Russo
Rick Murphy wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette Jeanette, Perhaps I misspoke. What is the difference between a plugin and helper? What I meant was that now when I'm

Re: [newbie] Linux and windows98

1999-08-25 Thread Jeanette Russo
Tom Brett wrote: Many replies to this. Thanks. Will Partition Magic 3.0 work with on an 11 Gb win98 partition? It's the version I have easiest access to. -Tom Garrett Williams wrote: Partition Magic will make short work of that process... Tom Brett wrote: Hello: I just

Re: [newbie] Caldera

1999-08-25 Thread Jeanette Russo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? jerrud No Caldera is not based on Red Hat the way Mandrake is. Some Red Hat programs might run on Caldera but some don't. Jeanette

Re: [newbie] What OS do I select for RealPlayer at www.real.com?

1999-08-25 Thread alann
Postman wrote: When I go to www.real .com I try to download the real player. It asks which OS I am using. I do not see Mandrake there. I see RedHat 5.2. That's not supposed to be compatible with Mandrake 6. I thought RedHat 6.0 was the only compatible platform to Mandrake 6.0. I installed

Re: [newbie] kxicq

1999-08-25 Thread alann
James Schofield wrote: I have seen that there is two ICQ clients out for Linux. One is Kicq for KDE and another is for GNOME. I like to use KDE as my Desktop.. but I notice that the KICQ project is still Alpha and is not getting a lot of support. The one for GNOME is STABLE and

[newbie] GUI problem

1999-08-25 Thread Neil P.
I cannot get into the GUI that comes with Linux Mandrake 6.0 Everytime I do, it says fatal server error, NO SCreens Found. I think the video card drivers are not set correct. I have a 32 meg AGP RAGE Fury ATI with TV Out. Does anybody know the ATI drivers I should have picked during the install?

[newbie] Problems installing kicq

1999-08-25 Thread Sean King
hello I am having problems installing kicq. When I try to run the kicq rpm it stops and tells me that I need libkdecore.so.1, libkdeui.so.1, and libkfm.so.1. I am have problems trying to find these. If you could please write me back with a little help. Thanks

[newbie] Problem with shutdown

1999-08-25 Thread Mark Lyon
I have had a problem with shutting down. I have installed Mandrake 6.0 and then updated the initscripts as recommended. This helped with the unmount problems. However when I do a shutdown -h the last thing that happens is a full screen of scrolling [CF??] . I am stuck with this. It doesn't

Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown

1999-08-25 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: Mark Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Newbie Help Linux-Mandrake' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Problem with shutdown I have had a problem with shutting down. I have installed Mandrake 6.0 and then updated the

Re: [newbie] Problems installing kicq

1999-08-25 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: Sean King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Problems installing kicq hello I am having problems installing kicq. When I try to run the kicq rpm it stops and tells me that I need

Re: [newbie] kxicq

1999-08-25 Thread James Schofield
Try KLICQ. It's the one that I use. Lyndon Lininger Sr. ok.. where do I get it from?? James

[newbie] Question RE: Netscape and ALT-O

1999-08-25 Thread John Aldrich
I remember reading the answer to this I've got Mandrake 6.0 and Netscape 4.6 (came pre-installed.) I am so used to using ALT+O to open a new site in Netscape, and it doesn't work... what is the procedure to fix that??? Thanks (FWIW, I DID do a quick search of the archive... G)

Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown

1999-08-25 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: Mark Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:40 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem with shutdown No I haven't. I read somewhere that it wasn't necessary. Should I do this? -Original Message- From: Manny Styles

Re: [newbie] Caldera

1999-08-25 Thread Tom Bishop
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? jerrud Yes and no. It looks very much like Mandrake what with its KDE desktop, but it is not tied so closely with the RPM package management (dept.

Re: [newbie] KDE

1999-08-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I keep reading--"never surf the web for security reasons." Just exactly what type of security risks are we talking about here? Maybe a dumb question but a legitimate one. Please help me with my ignorance! John Definitely a good question. The main reason is

RE: [newbie] Problem with shutdown

1999-08-25 Thread Mark Lyon
Thanks heaps, I'll try it out tonight. -Original Message- From: Manny Styles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with shutdown - Original Message - From: Mark Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] HP-8100 CDR-RW

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Ed Santiago wrote: I have Mandrake-Linux 6.0 installed and have downloaded all the updates and have been able to format a floppy give it a file system transfer some files between Windows and Linux. I reconfigured my kernel to the AMD K6 processor. I have played around with the thing but I

Re: [newbie] ppa

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Manny Styles wrote: I have an Iomega Zip 100 parallel port zip drive connected to my system. When I used Mandrake 5.3, it was detected during installation, and was ready to be mounted when I first started the system. with 6.0, it

Re: [newbie] ppa

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Manny Styles wrote: - Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] ppa Steve Philp wrote: snip Sure, create a file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules that contains: #!

Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
John Connell wrote: Rick Murphy wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Postman wrote: I am still looking for a copy of RealAudio G2. What specific version and what specific web site??? Is it in RPM format? The only version I saw close to it on www.real.com was one for Redhat 5.2. I

Re[2]: [newbie] strange messages

1999-08-25 Thread Sebastian L C Goh
I've got the same message but my mail got thru. __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: [newbie] strange messages Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET-GATEWAY Date:8/25/99 7:13 AM Manny Styles wrote: I'm not

Re: [newbie] NMB

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Sean Armstrong wrote: I configured the samba.conf files. The problem seems to lie with the fact that NMB fails at boot. This is an integral part of samba so that I can see my computer through "Network Neighborhood", or at least I'm told. I don't know why NMB fails at boot. I installed

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail using the correct quotes

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: try just a plain old, mailto -s "Mail test" beo@localhost ~. Well that worked. I mailed a email and it showed up. So... it's working for internal(?) mail

Re: [newbie] memory not all used

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
"Gregory S. Hackman" wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 and it only uses 64 Mb of the 256 Mb installed. The PC is a PIII (Gateway) with two 2940 SCSI cards. I'm using whatever kernel comes with Mandrake 6.0, I don't know how to figure out which one that is. Is there an

Re: [newbie] Sweet sound of success G2 is working!

1999-08-25 Thread Rick Murphy
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: Rick Murphy wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper application? Jeanette Jeanette, Perhaps I misspoke. What is the difference between a plugin and

Re: [newbie] 3Com 3c905 (Vortex) problem

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Robert Fox wrote: I have a Mandrake 6.0 install on a system with a 3com 3c905b (Vortex) card. It seems to boot up fine, but I can't ping to it from outside (crossover cable from a Win98 box). When I check the IFCONFIG, it states: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr

Re: [newbie] Kiosk email client question

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Petey wrote: Does anyone know of a good kiosk POP3 based email system for the KDE environment. I'm looking at putting some Linux boxes into the labs I work in. Thanks. One of your best bet for something like this might be to use IMP and KFM. IMP is a web-based email system utilizing PHP

Re: [newbie] Wiping Out NT Partitions

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wiping out NT Server 4.0 and installing Linux in its place. My question is Will Mandrake overwrite both the FAT root and the NTFS extended partition? I have installed over win95 many times with no problem. Installing over NT is new to me, and I was

Re: [newbie] security

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Manny Styles wrote: - Original Message - From: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE I keep reading--"never surf the web for security reasons." Just exactly what type of security risks are we

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, you wrote: I'm not sure if it will help with the boot problem, but I know from learning the hard way that older bios (ie. back when the pentium pro was popular) can't recognize disks larger than G. Before that I think there was another size

Re: [newbie] Caldera

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? No. The similarity between Red Hat and Caldera ends at the .rpm packaging. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Caldera

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Tom Bishop wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: Last night i bought the boxed version of Caldera. Is it like Mandrake when it comes to Red Hat copatability ? jerrud Yes and no. It looks very much like Mandrake what with its KDE desktop, but it is not tied so closely with the RPM

Re: [newbie] HP1600C printer

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
"Gregory S. Hackman" wrote: Wow, I was really impressed by how quick I got an answer back on the memory problem! Thanks John Connell. In the mean time I have another newbie-question. I have an HP1600C. That's not one of the printers that you can choose from when you're setting up your

Re: [newbie] GUI problem

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
"Neil P." wrote: I cannot get into the GUI that comes with Linux Mandrake 6.0 Everytime I do, it says fatal server error, NO SCreens Found. I think the video card drivers are not set correct. I have a 32 meg AGP RAGE Fury ATI with TV Out. Does anybody know the ATI drivers I should have

Re: [newbie] Question RE: Netscape and ALT-O

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: I remember reading the answer to this I've got Mandrake 6.0 and Netscape 4.6 (came pre-installed.) I am so used to using ALT+O to open a new site in Netscape, and it doesn't work... what is the procedure to fix that??? Thanks (FWIW, I DID do a quick search of

Re: [newbie] kxicq

1999-08-25 Thread John Connell
Lyndon Lininger Sr wrote: James Schofield wrote: I have seen that there is two ICQ clients out for Linux. One is Kicq for KDE and another is for GNOME. I like to use KDE as my Desktop.. but I notice that the KICQ project is still Alpha and is not getting a lot of support.

Re: [newbie] strange messages (and question)

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Radek Dobias wrote: I got a returned message on my post... By the way, I'm just wondering. What's exactly the difference between KDE (or GNOME) and X-Windows. Or is KDE just a GUI for X-Windows? You've got it, KDE is a GUI for the X Window System. X provides a method for putting

RE: [newbie] An error occured in file system check

1999-08-25 Thread Aaron deRozario
I have had this occur. What I did was this - 1) run fsck - this program checks the filesystem. Run without any paramenters it checks the filesystem and reports to you when it has found a problem. It also suggests how this problem can be fixed, giving you a yes/no question (yes - fix, no -

Re: [newbie] WindowMaker freezes in certain situations (fwd)

1999-08-25 Thread Alan Schussman
Thanks for the suggestions, Matt. I've removed all the files I think were pertinent to both gnome and windowmaker, and it appears that things are again functioning normally. Here's one more general question for folks: Before I did the above, I tried a trick I found in the gnome documentation

Re: [newbie] mouse probs

1999-08-25 Thread FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN
I had an intellipoint, and I never was able to get it to work as such. I'd also recommend going with the generic type. ** Josh Fornwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAGER: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** On Wed, 25 Aug 1999,

Re: [newbie] An error occured in file system check

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Jeanette Russo wrote: I was using dosemu and had a crash. When I rebooted I got this message, An error occured in file system check dropping you to shell. The system will now reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maint. Then I give the root password and I try to start

Re: [newbie] HP-8100 CDR-RW

1999-08-25 Thread Steve Philp
Ed Santiago wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Ed Santiago wrote: I have Mandrake-Linux 6.0 installed and have downloaded all the updates and have been able to format a floppy give it a file system transfer some files between Windows and Linux. I reconfigured my kernel to the AMD K6

Re: [newbie] ppa

1999-08-25 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Dear Steve: You are right about # being the beginning of a comment. However, the combination #! indicates that an executable will follow setting up a new shell to work with. For instance, if you run the script from CSH or TCSH all the command have to be CSH based. If you add the

[newbie] Modem Lock

1999-08-25 Thread scheck
I can dial my ISP as root using DIP. When I try to dial as a user I get the following error: PORT: terminal Port set to "/dev/ttyS1". DIP: tty: lock:(/var/lock/LCK..ttyS1). Permission Denied DIP: can't open - problem with locking ttyS1 I think error is with file permissions of some type. Any

Re: [newbie] Re:Netscape Files

1999-08-25 Thread scheck
Yeah, I got it working. It only fully works under 2.2.9-19mdk. If I try to use it under 2.2.9-27mdk wave files just give static. You need to use the 2.2.5 version of emu10k1. Hopefully someone can post the URL that gives decent directions. Richard Malmac wrote: Did anyone got SB Live to

Re: [newbie] HP-8100 CDR-RW

1999-08-25 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Ed Santiago wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Ed Santiago wrote: I have Mandrake-Linux 6.0 installed and have downloaded all the updates and have been able to format a floppy give it a file system transfer some files between Windows and Linux. I reconfigured my

Re: [newbie] Memory not found

1999-08-25 Thread scheck
I believe you need to give your kernel the boot option: 'mem=256M' Richard "Gregory S. Hackman" wrote: Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram. When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have something like 64 Mb. The

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems

1999-08-25 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Dear John: What he's saying is CD drives are more particular about the system trying to access them using DMA/UDMA (another way to access an "IDE" device) than hard drives when they don't support that method of accessing the drive. Thanks for the feeaback. Does this mean that the HP CD-R/RW

RE: [newbie] SMP kernel problems on PPro

1999-08-25 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I've got dual PII's and have booted successfully with 2.2.9-19mdksmp, 2.2.9-27mdksmp, and 2.2.11 The system is: Micronics Helios board(440BX) + AHA2940UW. scott Yeah...I figured it was probably fine for P

[newbie] Ultra DMA/66

1999-08-25 Thread Sean King
I was wondering if anbody knows if the new linux kernel supports Ultra DMA/66. I am using the Abit BE6 motherboard that has a built-in Ultra DMA/66 pci card. I am having problems getting it to work under linux. Thanks

Re: [newbie] WindowMaker freezes in certain situations (fwd)

1999-08-25 Thread mas9483
On 25 Aug, Alan Schussman wrote: Here's one more general question for folks: Before I did the above, I tried a trick I found in the gnome documentation (surprise!) that describes completely resetting a user session, right back to new defaults. The docs say to hold down CTRL-SHIFT as you log

Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-25 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote: I've certainly never heard of SCSI being affected by the IDE BIOS limitations... Right...I confirmed it with my tech this afternoon. :-) His feeling is that the limitation on drive size in SCSI is the Operating

[newbie] how about my bjc-5000? was:Re: Can Cheapo Lexmark Printer Work with LINUX?

1999-08-25 Thread pete moss
my relatively new canon bjc-5000 is also listed as a paperweight. do you know if i might be able to use other drivers with it to make it work, or am i SOL? also, i checked the bimbo page, but it got a 404. :P Civileme wrote: The Lexmark 2050 is classified as a "Paperweight" at Grant

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems

1999-08-25 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Gabriel Fernández wrote: Dear John: What he's saying is CD drives are more particular about the system trying to access them using DMA/UDMA (another way to access an "IDE" device) than hard drives when they don't support that method of accessing the drive.

Re: [newbie] how about my bjc-5000?

1999-08-25 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 12:41 AM Subject: [newbie] how about my bjc-5000? was:Re: Can Cheapo Lexmark Printer Work with LINUX? my relatively new canon bjc-5000 is also listed as a paperweight. do you

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