Ripcrd6 wrote:
You might want to check out the APC site at, www.apc.com as they recently
released a program for auto shutdown and I think it might even be free in
both senses of the term. Not sure it would matter what UPS you are using.
I think its called Power Chute or something. Also
I have installed Redhat 6, but recently discovered the Mandrake
distribution. I noticed that Mandrake distributed rpms are compiled for a
586 processor rather than a 386. Is it possible to upgrade an installed RH
*.i386.rpm with the equivalent Mandrake *.i586.rpm file? Can this be done
through
Since my last post I have narrowed the focus of the problem to a couple of
issues. When I leave the resolve portion of the netconf blank and the
resolv.conf file has the word search in the first line, NMB boots [OK]. Yet,
I am unable to connect to the internet. If I add the DNS domain and
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
You know, you're right. I read that post (after it got to the list of
course) and said to myself "THAT'S going to generate more crap than
John's post!!"
I apologize for the tone, but not the idea. It's a soapbox issue of
mine.
It is, however, sadly
My example was in a case where you make /boot, / (root), /swap, plus
whatever else like /usr, /home etc. I thought it was a direct answer, I
guess that I left out some parts. How many people actually keep 30
kernels anyway. I had heard 3-5.
Brian
-Original Message-
From: Richard
"Chris" == Chris D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i am new and planning an install of mandrake on my toshiba
laptop, and i was wondering if there is anything to watch out
for.
What model?
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
is a Linux on laptops page.
Just easy
-Original Message-
From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ripcrd6 wrote:
You might want to check out the APC site at, www.apc.com as they
recently
released a program for auto shutdown and I think it might even be free
in
both senses of the term. Not sure it would matter what
Title: MandrakeUpdate not working
My ISP uses a proxy-caching server that I must use... (port 80 blocked) so MandrakeUpdate doesn't see the update site... what do I do ? I do I configure MandrakeUpdate? do I have to wait till 6.1 ?
Patrick Desnoyers
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi,
I've configured KMail to check two of my e-mail accounts. It seems to be doing
this every minute by default. Is there some way of changing that to whatever
time I want it to?
I read the manual but could find no referance to this question, a
question
Sounds like you may have to go select packages on your own to download and
install.
Brian
-Original Message-
From: Patrick Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 10:11 AM
Subject: [newbie]
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
%_
Are you saying that there is a seperate kernel for each partition?
No not at all, i compile every new kernel and test it, and just keep
them for comparision.
What about swap space? Do I really need it? I thought I read somewhere that it
should be 2.5
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
i'm currently running:
mandrake 6.0
diamond viper v770d with 32mb
dell trinitron 19" monitor
svga xserver
Hmm...Ok. AFAICT this should work just fine. The Viper v770
is based on the Riva TNT chipset, and IIRC, that's
supported by the SVGA server.
Dan Brown wrote:
Again, it's not "/sbin/lilo", it's "/mnt/sbin/lilo". Your /sbin
directory contains only what's on the rescue disk, which (as you know)
doesn't include lilo. /mnt/sbin is the /sbin directory on your normal
system, and that's where you'd need to run lilo from. You don't
I have looked at Kmail briefly as I do not yet use Linux all the time. (I
will have to slowly break my wife in on it.) My impression was that it
looked and acted a lot like Outlook Express which I use all the time. I
think I even saw what you are talking about. In Outlook the feature is
The DNS is a local machine on my network that acts NAT.
My resolv.conf:
search
nameserver 192.168.10.200
My hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhostlocalhost.localdomain
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Adams
Sent: Wednesday, September
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Ripcrd6 wrote:
Sounds like you may have to go select packages on your own to download and
install.
Brian
-Original Message-
From: Patrick Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, September 08, 1999
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi all,
#1
I was wanting to upgrade Netscape but they have 2 versions at
Download.com (glibc2 libc5). Which one should I use? or should I get
it from someplace else?
IIRC, glibc2 is the one you want. However, I downloaded the
RPM version from RedHat (for
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Tymanthius Rune Speak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This reply is to John - go get educated man! That is just about the
mostbrpompous post I've read!! People with opinions like that are the
reason otherbrcountries can't stand Average Joe America!brbrDo you think
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
%_
Are you saying that there is a seperate kernel for each partition?
What about swap space? Do I really need it? I thought I read somewhere that it
should be 2.5 times the amount of ram.
It depends somewhat on the amount of ram that you have. If
you
toshiba tecra 740 cdt
--- Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Chris" == Chris D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i am new and planning an install of mandrake
on my toshiba
laptop, and i was wondering if there is
anything to watch out
for.
What model?
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Dan Brown wrote:
Again, it's not "/sbin/lilo", it's "/mnt/sbin/lilo". Your /sbin
directory contains only what's on the rescue disk, which (as you know)
doesn't include lilo. /mnt/sbin is the /sbin directory on your normal
system, and that's where you'd
I use Kmail as my mail client also... and I too could not set that option..
SO now, I use kbiff... it is a really slick adapation of biff.
It allows you to set a time for interval mail checking... and is
pre-setup so that clicking it runs, 'kmail --check' which opens kmail and
donwloads any
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have looked at Kmail briefly as I do not yet use Linux all the time. (I
will have to slowly break my wife in on it.) My impression was that it
looked and acted a lot like Outlook Express which I use all the time. I
think I even saw what you are talking
HELP!
I've just installed Mandrake 6.0. Everything
went fine until I reached the portion where I start configuring the monitor.
I've used all combinations (horizontal / vertical refresh rates) but to no
avail. Since I was so eager to start right away, I skipped the monitor
installation
Has anyone had any luck setting up an HP 890C? Haven't gotten to it yet
but it's next on the list to rid myself of Uncle Bills death grip.
TIA
Joe
Here's another thing to try. Once you've booted from your rescue disk,
mount your root partition under /mnt. Put a blank, formatted floppy in
your floppy drive. Then do
dd if=/mnt/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
Then reboot from that floppy. If it gives you a lilo
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Chris D wrote:
i am new and planning an install of mandrake on my
toshiba laptop, and i was wondering if there is
anything to watch out for.
Yes, wait for 6.1 which improves PCMCIA support and adds IrDA support.
LLaP
bero
You'll need to point lilo to the right config file: try
bash# /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
This tells lilo to use the config file /mnt/etc/lilo.conf.
You may also want to symbolically link /mnt/boot as /boot, because your
old config file points to /boot for all it's info. If you
#1 lesson when taking your computer cover off and back on: Make sure all
cable connections are secure.
I tried pinging the computer and got no response so I check the network
cable, and lo and behold: It was in all the way.
kevin
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you saying that there is a seperate kernel for each partition?
No.
What about swap space? Do I really need it?
Unless you've got a real lot of RAM, you should set it up.
I thought I read somewhere that it should be 2.5 times the amount of
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have looked at Kmail briefly as I do not yet use Linux all the time. (I
will have to slowly break my wife in on it.) My impression was that it
looked and acted a lot like Outlook Express which I use all the time. I
think I even saw what you are talking
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
Has anyone had any luck setting up an HP 890C?
Sure - it works with the HP DeskJet 550C driver.
LLaP
bero
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Has anyone had any luck setting up an HP 890C? Haven't gotten to it yet
but it's next on the list to rid myself of Uncle Bills death grip.
The following URL should be able to answer that:
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
In another reply you daid after i had placed the second disk i could
mount a directory, now i have mentioned i have no experiance with
mandrake.
Let me give you an example of what happens with slackare,
Any boot disk image can be used, ithere are quite a few
Anyone know where KSHISEN stores it's score files? I'd like
to be able to get my accomplishments saved, but it refuses
to save my new scores, since I switched to a smaller
puzzle, with higher difficulty. :-(
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I use Kmail as my mail client also... and I too could not set that option..
SO now, I use kbiff... it is a really slick adapation of biff.
It allows you to set a time for interval mail checking... and is
pre-setup so that clicking it runs, 'kmail --check'
Why advertise windoze software on a linux mailing list?
From: Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting KMail to check automatically
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:32:08 +0100
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have looked at
Sean Armstrong wrote:
Why advertise windoze software on a linux mailing list?
snip
__
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Uhh, common point of reference.
Why use a Micro$ e-mail account?
Joe
I finally found a solution which turns out to be close in spirit to Matt's.
("mount root=/dev/hdax" did not work for me but maybe I did something wrong.)
In what follows, "hdb1" stands for the root filesystem partition, "hda" for
the mbr partition (with windows on it). Adjust your situation
Richard Adams wrote:
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I use Kmail as my mail client also... and I too could not set that option..
SO now, I use kbiff... it is a really slick adapation of biff.
It allows you to set a time for interval mail checking... and is
pre-setup so that clicking
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Why advertise windoze software on a linux mailing list?
Because the author of the article I replied to, said Express was used most of
the time, IMO if you have to use Windows, you should use software that is better
than what is given.
--
Best Regards,
Paul
Where can i get more detailed info on the /etc/conf.modules file?
How can I tell what modules are supported by my kernel?
Where is ther info regarding adding modules to my kernel?
questions... questions...
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
Sean Armstrong wrote:
Why advertise windoze software on a linux mailing list?
snip
__
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Uhh, common point of reference.
Why use a
I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 this weekend. Taking the manual's word at face value,
I did not change the package list. Installing packages after the OS came up is easy,
except for one application I cannot seem to find. cc. It is nowhere on the system,
and I cannot find any reference to cc
"Joseph S. Gardner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sean Armstrong wrote:brbr Why advertise windoze software on a linux
mailing list?br snipbr
__br Get Your Private,
Free Email at http://www.hotmail.combrbrUhh, common point of
reference.brWhy use a
Simon Norris wrote:
Damn, and I thought I'd escaped the world of Service Packs!!!
At least this is a bug-free feature! And doesn't seem to depend upon
loading 12 other patches in a certain order, while hopping on one foot.
Forgive me, I'm Y2K boy at work and I'm a little peeved about the
test
Dan Brown wrote:
From: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"bash# /mnt/sbin/lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf" did not work. In fact, some
commands
like "cat" worked while others like "more", "sulogin", "startx" and "vi"
did not
("Command not found"), although I could find these executables
Andy Goth wrote:
So log out of your user and log in as root. You'll only ever have to do
it once.
THAT part is taken care of, but I'm still wondering about the
unable-to-connect-to-server errors. Is it not possible to have
multiple users running programs on the same X server?
Of
Hi John,
- Original Message -
#1
I was wanting to upgrade Netscape but they have 2 versions at
Download.com (glibc2 libc5). Which one should I use? or should I
get
it from someplace else?
IIRC, glibc2 is the one you want. However, I downloaded the
RPM version from RedHat (for my
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, G_REEPER wrote:
test
Nope didn't work ;)
--
MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon
should i use the beta? will upgradeing be that
difficult?
--- Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Chris D wrote:
i am new and planning an install of mandrake on my
toshiba laptop, and i was wondering if there is
anything to watch out for.
Yes, wait for
I'm still struggling along with my Canon BJC-2000. After first believing
it simply must be a winprinter, I planned to sell it to a friend.
Researching what new printer to get, I checked the database at
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi and saw that the
BJC-2000 is listed as
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, G_REEPER wrote:
test
Nope didn't work ;)
--
MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon
oh well guess i will have to keep trying! :-)
I recently installed Star Office but couldn't get it to work for me
unless I was in root. So I decided to deinstall it and reinstall it in
the /usr directory instead of the root directory. After deinstallation,
kde locked up so I did a ctrl-alt-backspace and went into the login
screen. When I
I've listened to Jeanette's accounts of success and failure for some time, and
I just wanted to put my 2 cents in:
I nabbed my copy of Venus at Sam's Club, of all places, for $25. I installed,
crashed, installed, crashed, oh, about 20 times, usually my fault, because I
like to muck around
I need some SERIOUS help...
Very Brief History: I had a (mostly self-built) dual-boot linux/win98
system running for about 2 days, and then it started rebooting at will. I
had the MB/CPU/RAM/CPU/Power replaced and now I'm staring all over again.
..but nothing works. I think its a hardware
Hi, I am going to try this again. I feel certain that SOMEONE must know
how to configure a 3-button mouse so that the middle button will
actually work.
I have a Matsonic ADO 101 CE serial mouse connected to COM 1. During
installation, I set it up as a Generic 3-button mouse. I later tried
Are you CERTAIN that below the box with the command lpr, you don't at
least get to select between grey-scale and color? For the quality, for
my HP Deskjet 670c (using the Deskjet 550, 560C,6xxC, etc. ), I selected
the color quality within printtool when I set it up. You can edit it
later.
The one last thing I could recommend is heading to the Ghostscript site
and reading up on some of the configuration parameters that are
available for use with the printer driver that you're using. It's
certainly not the greatest suggestion, since it'll mean digging into
ghostscript files
Does anyone has any idea how to mount a NT file system onto Linux ??
The below line in fstab file gives an error message - wrong fs type.
/dev/sda2 /NT NTFSdefaults0 0
Are you CERTAIN that below the box with the command lpr, you don't at
least get to select between grey-scale and color? For the quality, for
my HP Deskjet 670c (using the Deskjet 550, 560C,6xxC, etc. ), I selected
the color quality within printtool when I set it up.
You mean the bpp?
You
I would like to automatically open MS Office documents with Star Office
and WordPerfect documents with WP. In Preferences/Applications, I can
select and edit the relevant section. If I put in the pointer to the
Application, it opens OK, but the file is not opened. I think I need
something else
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