[newbie] MacroSlav

1999-09-12 Thread Andy Goth
He recognizes me again! Odd... ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413

Re: [newbie] B&W Netscape

1999-09-12 Thread Andy Goth
> Sure, run 32 bpp! :) The Chips & Technologies 65554 doesn't do 32bpp. Since it's a laptop display panel, I'm limited to 800x600 as well. Plus, it dithers colors when they're almost black. Thus if I have a progression from white to black it's smooth until it gets dark. Then it's a sudden dr

Re: [newbie] iso

1999-09-12 Thread Ralph | byte-runner |
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote: never mind i found it sorry!!! ;-( > Hey, > Someone wrote in yesterday about an iso image for cassini he had placed on a > ftp site does anyone know the address? I lost it. > > thanks, > Ralph -- > > ** > Where Ever You

Re: [newbie] Superdisk

1999-09-12 Thread Travis Loving
Rommel- How are you attempting to mount the Superdisk. I usually use the following command: mount -t vfat /dev/hdg /mnt Linux recognizes my Superdisk as hdg, not fd0. Hope that helps. Travis - Original Message - From: Rommel Barbosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: S

[newbie] Maximal mount count

1999-09-12 Thread Andy Goth
What does "maximal mount count" mean? When I started Linux, it reported that the maximal mount count was reach for each of my partitions and that a check was forced. I assume this means that it feels it must check each partition periodically. Am I right here, or is there something I should be a

[newbie] iso

1999-09-12 Thread Ralph | byte-runner |
Hey, Someone wrote in yesterday about an iso image for cassini he had placed on a ftp site does anyone know the address? I lost it. thanks, Ralph -- ** Where Ever Your Head Goes Your Ass Will Follow **

Re: [newbie] Memory leaks

1999-09-12 Thread The Drake's
I may be out in left field since I've just installed my first Linux this weekend. But I was told to specify to Linux during install ' mem=128m' in the "special instructions" dialog box during installation or else Lin would default to 64m normally and use only that instead of the 128 meg I have ava

Re: [[newbie] say it isnt so...]

1999-09-12 Thread The Drake's
Thanks. That seems to be the general consensus with the modem. I fill ya'll in when I get some info on the Compaq printer.

[newbie] Hopefully Last problem.

1999-09-12 Thread Caymen
I finally got Linux to load using boot magic (had to make it easy for sis to start Win98 if she needs to print some homework) Well, when I used to try to boot Linux using a floppy, I got an error like: Freeing unused Kernel memory: 48K freed Warning:Unable to open an initial console Kernel Panic

[newbie] Superdisk

1999-09-12 Thread Rommel Barbosa
Hi. I installed Linux Mandrake in my computer that has a superdisk (120MB) instead of a regular floppy disk drive. I am not able to mount the floppy. Does anybody know how can I mount the superdisk drive? Thanks, Rommel __ Get Your Pr

[newbie] Change Refresh Rate

1999-09-12 Thread Taki Shirayanagi
Hi, I would like to know how to change the refresh rate in Gnome or KDE. Thanks Taki __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

RE: [newbie] gcc doesn't understand

1999-09-12 Thread Ken Wilson
Try using g++ instead of gcc. Otherwise, you have to link the c++ libraries manually. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [newbie] Linux RPM, how to open.

1999-09-12 Thread alann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Okay, cool. Make sure that the /etc/lilo.conf line looks exactly like > > this: > > > > append="mem=64M" > > > > Also, after you check that or make the changes, run /sbin/lilo to write > > the boot block back out with the updates. Maybe that got missed aft

[newbie] Installation freeze

1999-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey everyone. I've installed Linux a number of times, but i recently got a P 60 that I want to give all to linux. I created bootdisks (hopefully I did it right), and it booted the linux kernel. While it's loading though, right before it enters the installation (its the line that says "runnin

RE: [newbie] Mount hd on boot

1999-09-12 Thread Gustavo Viola
Hi, I managed to work around the mounting/read-write/permission problem, and you may want to hear how I did. But first, thanks to John Aldrich, Fred PLE, Dan Brown and Ken Wilson, who helped me a lot, and to those who may have written back but I haven't got the message yet, since the list serv

[newbie] Video Card/Monitor Problems

1999-09-12 Thread bgf
I am installing Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on a Cyrix P166+ machine with 32mb of RAM. I have an STB Velocity 3D PCI (4mb) video card and a Princeton Ultra 17+ monitor and can not, for the life of me, get things configured so that I can run KDE. I have attempted letting the install program probe things an

[newbie] FIPS

1999-09-12 Thread Rommel Barbosa
Hi. I have windows and Linux Mandrake installed in the same HD. I want to have more room for the windows partition. Do I have to uninstall linux to resize the partitions with FIPS? Thanks, Rommel __ Get Your Private, Free Email at htt

[newbie] Apache and NameVirtualHost

1999-09-12 Thread James Stewart
I'm trying to set up apache 1.3.6 to handle name-based virtual servers. My servers are running locally for testing, I'm not trying to set up a public-access web server. My hosts file contains: "127.0.0.1 britlinks.co.uk mworks.britlinks.co.uk www.britlinks.co.uk britlinks localhost" (a bi

Re: [newbie] ntfs

1999-09-12 Thread Ralph | byte-runner |
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote: > Thats why the Write option comes with a big WARNING notice. No kidding!! ** Where Ever Your Head Goes Your Ass Will Follow **

Re: [newbie] New Problem

1999-09-12 Thread Caymen
I would assume if I couldnt figure out my (Localname.localserver) password or loging name, I couldnt continue. That is why I posed the question. I reinstalled Linux again, but removed anything that pertains to networking, internet, email, and other stuff like that. I get a new error at boot up. It

Re: [[newbie] say it isnt so...]

1999-09-12 Thread Michael Scottaline
"The Drake's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - > Attachment: > MIME Type: multipart/alternative > - I'm an newbie. With lots of help and luck I've got a new partition and Mandrake 5.3 installed

Re: [newbie] say it isn't so...

1999-09-12 Thread The Drake's
Yup. It's a Compaq. I understand they are rebadged Lexmark software driven (winprinter?) deals. Probably in the same boat as the modem. Thanks for the link. Jim.

[newbie] gcc doesn't understand

1999-09-12 Thread Ty Mixon
Since my reinstall I can't compile my simple Comp. Sci. I programs under gcc. It gives me errors saying undefined function calls to cout, cin, etc. How do I get my header libraries back? Thanks!! -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713

Re: [newbie] Memory leaks

1999-09-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, R. David Whitlock wrote: > My machine has 128 megs of ram. I and my wife are the only users. When I > start up X, on a virtual term, 'top' reports that perhaps half of that is > in use (i forget the numbers right now). > > I have no perspective on what constitutes normal m

Re: [newbie] 6.1

1999-09-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, pete moss wrote: > when will 6.1 be out of beta? When it's ready and tested enough. ;) LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] Here goes.

1999-09-12 Thread Gerry Doyon
Howdy Cayment, I am currently running Linux Mandrake on my Road Runner account with no problems. They critical points are to: A) Get DHCP working B) Get, compile and run the Linux "rrlogin" program. Here is a link for you to help with those two points. Have fun ! http://peopl

Re: [newbie] slowness in reply

1999-09-12 Thread Stuart Burbridge
on 17:45 11/09/1999 -0700, R. David Whitlock,wrote >This mailing list is REALLY slow to send out messages sent to it, there's >a huge lag between my send time and the receive time. > >Apologies to all for the duplicate answers. It makes me look like I'm not >reading the previous replies, but that

Re: [Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error]

1999-09-12 Thread Stuart Burbridge
on 17:28 11/09/1999 -0400, Michael Scottaline,wrote >Stuart Burbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >what's drive d: windows doesn't skip letters >== >I wondered that too. >= >CD-ROM?/ I'ts weird though since under Windows the drive letter for the CD-ROM is normally

RE: [newbie] Mount hd on boot

1999-09-12 Thread Ken Wilson
This hasn't been trialed but is only a reasoned solution based on my limited knowledge. You may wish to wait until you hear further from other more learned parties. Try playing with the permissions for your mount point, in particular the group. If you want write access for certain select users

Re: [newbie] Size of icons and letters

1999-09-12 Thread Steve Philp
Rommel Barbosa wrote: > > Hi there. I am new in using Linux Mandrake. > > I have a small monitor, so I would like to know if > it is possible to make the icons and fonts smaller > on Gnome and KDE. I have Mandrake 6.0 installed. You can change the font sizes via the control center in KDE (i

Re: [newbie] Linux RPM, how to open.

1999-09-12 Thread Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Okay, cool. Make sure that the /etc/lilo.conf line looks exactly like > > this: > > > > append="mem=64M" > > > > Also, after you check that or make the changes, run /sbin/lilo to write > > the boot block back out with the updates. Maybe that got missed aft

Re: [newbie] aliases for shell?

1999-09-12 Thread Steve Philp
Ken Wilson wrote: > > Items you edit in the /etc directory won't take effect until the next > time you reboot your machine. Items edited in a person's home > directory, i.e. /home/username/.bash_profile, take effect the next time > the person logs on. The stuff in the /etc directory is global a

Re: [newbie] Partition Erro

1999-09-12 Thread Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 11 Sep 99, at 14:59, Leonard W. Miller wrote: > > > Thanks foe the tip. I used Fdisk and change the cylinder size and then used > > Druid. Everything went fine. > > Sorry for the html. > > Thanks again for the help. > > > > > > Leonard W. Miller > > Microsoft Ce

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