Well u can start multiple X sessions ... (be careful abt your resources though
like ram etc)...
ALT-F1 then startx -- :1
then CTRL-ALT-F2 and startx -- :2
then you have one X on CTRL-ALT-F7 and another on CTRL-ALT-F8!
the one and two after the colon is the display number (i think) so it can be
Hi Simon
I find that everyone I speak to understands "lienux". Lets be British old
chap!!!
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From: Roger Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] The unspoken question
Oh, goodie. A question I
Good question.
Every so often I feel the desire to play Doom, which was released as part of
a RH5.0 cd I got with a book (nice easy way to blow off stress at the end of
a hard day). It won't run in 16-bit colour, only 8-bit. I run in 16 bit
colour.
Don't know the answer though
Does anyone know if any Australian mags have included StarOffice on a cover
CD?
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From: Simon Norris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 2 September 1999 15:18
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office
As a small tip seeing as you're
Again thanks for the info.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office
StarOffice is a product of a company originating in Germany called Star
Division. If I am not wrong StarOffice
(BTW, thanks for all the answers regarding pronunciation, I think I'll call
it 'Fish')
I am trying to install V6.0 of Mandrake Linux, and have hit a problem. I go
through the install, and it works fine, I can select all the packages, etc.
I wait half an hour for it to install, and get to the
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Red Hat GPL No Longer Available
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:21:27 -0400
From: "Robb Sands" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP!!
I just got off the phone with Amazon.com and Red Hat.com Legal departments
and guess what the hot-breaking-heart-breaking news
As a small tip seeing as you're also from this
small island in the middle of nowhere (!), take a look at the back issues of
either PC Pro, PC Direct, or Computer Shopper. One had Staroffice actually on
the coverdisc about four months ago, you should still be able to get a back
issue. Five
Many thanks for info Simon. I'll have a search.
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From:
Simon Norris
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:17
AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office
As a small tip seeing as you're also from this
small island in the
StarOffice is a product of a company originating in Germany called Star
Division. If I am not wrong StarOffice 5.1 comes with the Linux Mandrake 6
PowerPack. You can download StarOffice from their website to try but it is a
pretty hefty dwnload at 60-70 MB. The download edition is free for
I'm feeling real generous right now. I'm in the process of moving house, and
have the required back issue CD in a box right next to my PC. If you want
it, mail me off the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and we'll sort it out.
Basically all i'll want is an sae or something and it's yours !!
Martin.
PS:
Is this for real !!??
We on this mailing list DO call it something else 'Mandrake Linux' - end of
problem (or am i overlooking something?)
Martin.
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Have noticed this on the web and it claims to run under Linux. Can't get CD in
England at
pete moss wrote:
anyone using seti@home? i have the unix version running as a cron job.
what does the -nice option refer to. the default is 1, but it
recommends setting it to 19 if run by cron. what is the difference?
i have sent this same quesion to seti at home, but i dont think they
Anyone had any success with any 16 or 32 meg video card with Linux? I got an
I/O Magic Magic Video 3D-EP for my birthday, but have been unable to get it to
work. I see many cards available during xf86config, but most of the video cards
listed are either 4 or 8 meg. I would like to go with
Hello,
I'm very newbie in Linux, I've installed Mandrake 6.0
on my computer(2 days ago), and it's start to work well
this morning :). this evening, when I work in Kmail,
suddenly the electrical power(I don't know how to say this
in english) is dead. Then I start to turn on my computer
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, Rick Murphy wrote:
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Sheesh this is almost getting TOO easy. ;-) I still
think it'd be better to have 'em learn how to do it from
command-line. :-)
John
I think that
The way I see it is Mandrake will be unable to say that it uses the Red Hat
distribution, so the prestige of being based on Red Hat will be lost, even
though it's still called Linux-Mandrake. It won't necessarily affect us, it
will affect prospective Mandrake buyers when the name Red Hat is
If I am not mistaken, the GPL requires distributors to make their SOFTWARE
available free of charge, not their NAME. NAME is what gives value to a
software product. It just looks like you as a reseller are going to have to
quit riding on their coattails and earn a little respect for your own
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, you wrote:
(Russ)
I am not the only one in the house that will be using this computer so
I was striving to make it as easy as possible for them. Besides the
fact that I was unaware that LILO did this. Oh well.
I cannot get Linux to even detect and install the appropriate driver during
installation, therefore I cannot setup the ethernet card nor a LAN.
kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerry Doyon
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 5:13 PM
Every time i switch to ctrl alt f1 f2 or some other virtual console, then try to
switch back to my xwindows, my machine freezes. Keyboard locks up, and monitor
goes blank. I have left it a few times, just sitting there for 5 or 10 minutes
thinking maybe it was slow in responding... but nothing,
I suggest we start a trade! I want it next! =)
.bill
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Martin White wrote:
I'm feeling real generous right now. I'm in the process of moving house, and
have the required back issue CD in a box right next to my PC. If you want
it, mail me off the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What if you say, Linux-Mandrake based on "Dark Magenta Hat" linux or
something..
.bill
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ken Archer wrote:
If I am not mistaken, the GPL requires distributors to make their SOFTWARE
available free of charge, not their NAME. NAME is what gives value to a
software product.
I think Applixware is free for personal use. You have to pay the license
fee if you use it for your business. You should be able to download it
from their site, http://www.applix.com/applixware/ . Its a demo version
you can download, I just checked it. Might be worth trying though. The
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
big snip, snip
As far as hard edges, I mean that your mouse pointer
doesn't go past the edge of the screen, and onto another
virtual desktop the way it will in XVWM and GNOME by
default. In KDE, the mouse pointer stops at the
As for the I/O Magic video card, any idea what chipset it uses?
It uses the PERMEDIA 2 chipset. I tried a couple of pre-defined cards with
PERMEDIA 2, but was unsure which accellerated x server to run. Even tried to
manually configure the card. Regardless, after typing startx, KDE would
Hi I'm planning to install Mandrake 6.0 and I wander if there is any
printable documentation
on step by step installation and HOWTO's.
Thanks,
Julian
It all makes sense now. Red Hat made a nice and good Linux. That made
computer companies and programers trying to make their things work along
with Red Hat...How many times have we seen things like "Linux is not Red
Hat" on the net? Then they decided to start having stocks... More
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Might be able to get it to work by using a different
X-server, or using the Frame Buffer device instead, from
what one of the guys at Mandrakesoft says... :-)
Don't recall seeing anything about Frame Buffer Device. What is it?
IIRC, the Frame Buffer is a
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi I'm planning to install Mandrake 6.0 and I wander if there is any
printable documentation
on step by step installation and HOWTO's.
Have you ever installed Linux before, esp. RedHat? If so,
it's pretty much the same as RedHat's install procedure...
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From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Doc
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi I'm planning to install Mandrake 6.0 and I wander if there is any
printable documentation
on
No, I've installed COL1.3 .
I have RedHat 6.0 and Mandrake 6.0 on disks.
I've decided to go for Mandrake because I like how it sounds - hehehe - and
also I've heard that it is very close to Red Hat.
Julian
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From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday,
Is anyone else starting to get threaded messages out of order? I am
now seeing replies before I see the original message. This have never
happened to me with this list before, but it has started within the
last two days.
Manny Styles
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I checked at www.iomagic.com and the 3d/ep does use a Permedia 2 chip
set. I had a Diamond Fire Pro 1000 in my last PC that also used a
Permedia 2. SuSE and Elisa developed the XFree86 driver for that chip
set. You might need to get the RPM off of
Title: RE: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available
Mandrake is French, and the French do not care about silly little American rules! OK! Mandrake will do as they please... ;=)
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From: JK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 02,
When you're at the DiskDruid you will need to change the partion types
from dos to ext2 filesystem (for your Linux partitions). You can do
this within DiskDruid. You may want to change partitions sizes and
number at that time. As a minimum you will need about a 64 to 128 Mb
swap partition and
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
No, I've installed COL1.3 .
I have RedHat 6.0 and Mandrake 6.0 on disks.
I've decided to go for Mandrake because I like how it sounds - hehehe - and
also I've heard that it is very close to Red Hat.
Ok...well, it's pretty much "stick the CD in the drive and
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hello all,
My "filesystems" cannot be found by the Macmillan Linux-Mandrake 6.0
installation, right after choosing either "Disk druid" or "Fdisk". I don't
choose the SCSI option since my hard drive is an EIDE Western Digital
UDMA/66 (9.1GB, 7200rpm). I have
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Is anyone else starting to get threaded messages out of order? I am
now seeing replies before I see the original message. This have never
happened to me with this list before, but it has started within the
last two days.
a fewmostly because my machine
Been investigating the problem I posted yesterday a bit more, and have a
slightly better way of expressing it now ;)
What I want to do is like issuing:
grep -r MarketingWorks\/Collard Associates /home/httpd/marketingworks.co.uk
but instead of listing the results I want to replace it with
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Is anyone else starting to get threaded messages out of order? I am
now seeing replies before I see the original message. This have never
happened to me with this list before, but it has started within the
last two days.
Manny Styles
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From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] threads
this sort of thing happens all the time. its due to internet delays
and
server delays. also, if you have your mail sorted by date
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On 9/2/99, 7:39:40 AM, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
regarding Re: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available:
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
The way I see it is Mandrake will be unable to say that it uses the
Red Hat
distribution, so the
Actually, I don't even reach Disk druid or Fdisk - I get the "no filesystems
found" error message right after selecting either Disk druid or Fdisk,
without even reaching them (i.e. right after selecting the option...) I do a
full install, custom.
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From: Ken Wilson
In part the idea to protect your trade mark it's very valid. I mean, let's be
serious, how much it costing RH low end cd distributions ?. If you would invest
so much on something, would you like to see your product selling from other
company's for a fraction of your price ? Of course not. But,
"Manny" == Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is anyone else starting to get threaded messages out of order?
I am now seeing replies before I see the original message. This
have never happened to me with this list before, but it has
started within the last two days.
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I do have them sorted by date and time, and always have. This problem
did not start until yesterday though.
Then consider yourself lucky. :-)
John
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Original Message
On 9/2/99, 7:39:40 AM, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
regarding Re: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available:
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
The way I see it is Mandrake will be unable to say that it uses
From: Ronald A. Yacketta
Hello all.
I was wondering, is their a way to run the linux_log upon netlogins (I dont
want to linux_log /etc/issue.net)
I would like to run the actual program so that a current uptime and load
avg is displayed.
Thanxs!
Bummer. Try typing linux 1 at the "lilo" prompt and boot to
single-user mode, then run e2fsck on your system and see if
that helps. Often when the power goes out unexpectedly the
file system will become corrupted and you need to fix it.
This is roughly the equivalent of MS-DOS "SCANDISK"
Yes it runs under Linux. I use StarOffice personal edition, I downloaded it
from www.stardivision.com. I really like it, and had no problems during
installation.
El mié, 01 sep 1999, escribiste:
%_Have noticed this on the web and it claims to run under Linux. Can't get CD in
England at
Thanks for the link Gavin. This clears up the waters that were quickly
becoming very, very muddy around here.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Look in the "docs" directory on the CD. As for installation, look for
files called README or README.html or README.txt. Also, if you see HTML
files, look for index.html as it will usually have useful information too.
-Matt Stegman
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Americanbrrules! OK!
You're using a rather large disk, like I am, and the installation
documentation refers to the need to have the starting starting cylinder of
the root partition under a certain number (I think it was either 1024 or
2048, but it's in the documentation). This could be your problem, given the
size
No John, a friend of mine who has @home downloaded both 6.0 and
burned 2 disks for me.I'll have to go and make sure my BIOS supports
booting from CD-ROM. Otherwise, I need to make boot floppy.
That's why I need to know a place I can print out the installation step-
by-step.
Thanks,
Julian
Gerry Doyon wrote:
Howdy all. Anyone know how to STOP Linux from booting straight in to
KDE's graphical login ? I'm at home, not work, so I can't check Lilo,
which I presume is where it starts ? Maybe the rc.local ?
Edit /etc/inittab and change the line that reads:
If your system does not support booting off a CD-ROM, you can easily make
a boot disk that will do the exact same thing. To make your boot disk,
boot your computer and insert your Mandrake CD-ROM. Insert a blank floppy
into the floppy drive and type "X:\dosutils\rawrite" (without the quotes
and
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
OK, i've entering the single-user mode, then typing e2fsck.
The option is confusing me, i don't know what to type in
the option. I never have it on scandisk or NDD.
Ok...assuming (have to make SOME assumptions here, since you haven't
given a whole lot of
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
No John, a friend of mine who has @home downloaded both 6.0 and
burned 2 disks for me.I'll have to go and make sure my BIOS supports
booting from CD-ROM. Otherwise, I need to make boot floppy.
That's why I need to know a place I can print out the installation
Hi all-
There's been lots of discussion here about kernel upgrades, and it seems
to be a pretty daunting task to me, as a relatively new linux user but a
pretty confident and competent computer user in general.
My case is that I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and would like to upgrade the
kernel to get
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote:
Ok well I guess its just not working then I am just getting an error message
when I try to run the update utility.
Jeanette
Well we just can't have that can we! Could you tell me what the error
message was? If it wasn't very descriptive theres oher
Thanks - John and Bill - I'll give it a try this long weekend.
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From: hevnsnt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 3:57 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Doc
If your system does not support booting off a CD-ROM, you
Yes there is a linux version of StarOffice. Like most software it has its
supporters and detractors. I use it (in both windows and linux) and it works
great for me. I handles M$ Office files quite well. It is very large
(detractors
i install both winnt4 and mandrake 6.0 on my
computer.
i want to use nt'boot loader to boot
mandrake.
how to do that? now i use a floppy disk to boot
mandrake.
i have tried to do so as how-tos , unfortunately
it does not work.
thanks in advance.
Ok...assuming (have to make SOME assumptions here, since you haven't
given a whole lot of detail) that your Linux is on /dev/hda1 you'd
type "e2fsck /dev/hda1"
If your install is on a different drive/partition, you'd use the
appropriate partition/drive ID. i.e. if it's on your second IDE
Alex Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
brYes there is I
am using StarOffice in both Windows and Linux also, As for thebr"bloatware",
it actually takes up less space than a full install of MSbrOffice. The main
difference is that all components
I'm running a Matrox G400 on an updated XF 3.3.4. It's fabulous! The card is
not listed, but is supported.
Hamish
On Thu, 02 Sep
1999, you wrote: Anyone had any success with any 16 or 32 meg video card with
Linux? I got an I/O Magic Magic Video 3D-EP for my birthday, but have been
unable to
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on a
computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to
select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over?
Aaron
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From: hevnsnt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on
a
computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to
select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over?
It's very unlikely, but why would
Thanks!
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From: alann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 2 September 1999 22:39
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Doc
Aaron deRozario wrote:
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0
on a
computer
Thankyou very much John.
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From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 3 September 1999 10:24
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Doc
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install
--Well, I did it. I reinstalled Netcape (Navigator only) and the common files
from the CD-Rom. It went in as a shell script (!?!) but yet it works OK. I used
Drag and drop to move the shell script icon to the desktop, and when I click on
it, Navigator pops right up. I then tried several times to
NO tried it and it went to the end and coudn't find the keranl
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From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:07 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Doc
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake
Russ,
The only way to change partition size and add or delete partitions
without
losing data is with Partition Magic or Partition It. The standard dos
fdisk
will destroy the data for sure. I would not live in this current world
without Partition Magic from PowerQuest. (and I don't work for
"Richards, Donald D." wrote:
You're using a rather large disk, like I am, and the installation
documentation refers to the need to have the starting starting cylinder of
the root partition under a certain number (I think it was either 1024 or
2048, but it's in the documentation). This
Somehos (I haven't a clue maybe some of you brainy types can tell me) I've got
both the gnome and the kde tool bars appearing on the bottom and as far as I
can tell gnome and Kde both appear to be working. KDE applications are still
on my screen but I can call up gnome applications at will.
I have to agree. Well said.
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From: 01001110 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:22 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available
It all makes sense now. Red Hat made a nice and good Linux.
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Alan Schussman wrote:
My case is that I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and would like to upgrade the
kernel to get rid of some of those mount/unmount errors that have been
described here already. Is the best upgrade for me the one at cooker
(kernel-2.2.11-2mdk.src.rpm), as
Hi all,
I have a problem configuring the sound card on my system. System is a PIII
450 on an Intel SR440BX Motherboard (integrated video and sound card).
Sndconfig detects the card as a Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371 (ES1371).
A dialog appears stating that a sound sample will be played. No
Here's what I know (I haven't tested this, but I think it will work okay):
1: Boot into Linux.
2: Edit /etc/lilo.conf such that the line "boot=" is set to
"boot=/dev/hda1" (change hda1 to your linux partition).
3: Run /sbin/lilo.
4: Run the command
dd
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi all,
I have a problem configuring the sound card on my system. System is a PIII
450 on an Intel SR440BX Motherboard (integrated video and sound card).
Sndconfig detects the card as a Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371 (ES1371).
A dialog appears stating
I have had similar problems with my Acer FX-3D (AD1816) sound card. The
only thing that seems to work is a driver from Open Sound Systems
(http://www.opensound.com/lynxos.html) -- I can at least get my KDE CD
Player working with that, but have not yet gotten either UMP or
RealPlayer to work.
Hello all,
My "filesystems" cannot be found by the Macmillan Linux-Mandrake 6.0
installation, right after choosing either "Disk druid" or "Fdisk". I don't
choose the SCSI option since my hard drive is an EIDE Western Digital
UDMA/66 (9.1GB, 7200rpm). I have Windows 98 working well on my primary
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Marco Miller (LMC) wrote:
Hello all,
My "filesystems" cannot be found by the Macmillan Linux-Mandrake 6.0
installation, right after choosing either "Disk druid" or "Fdisk". I don't
choose the SCSI option since my hard drive is an EIDE Western Digital
UDMA/66 (9.1GB,
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