On Thu, 25 Nov 1999,Benjamin Sher wrote:
| Dear friends:
|
| First, my thanks to everyone who went out of their way to help me with
| all the little questions having to do with installing a /home partition,
| including questions about swap partitions, etc. Everything went fine as
|
Upon selecting the packages I wished to install with Mandrake 6.1
from CD, setting up the partitions and all that jazz, I get Mandrake
installing, and when it reaches glibc, it just sits there and *hangs*.
Now, this is rather frustrating, as I somewhat need this library (who
here doesn't?).
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999,ben bradley wrote:
| i believe, and this just might be me... but i don't think that you can use
winmodems with linux hence the name winmodem i think they will only run
with windows i know they won't run under dos anyone know if this is
true? || ben |
Even easier if
your 'puter is in a place where you don't have to disconnect everything to pull
it out. I run my 'puter w/o a cover and vaccum it every so often.
Kindred spirit. Can't even remember where the cover for my 'puter is
!! Unfortunately, don't do the vaccuming. I thought the
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999,Charles Raymond wrote:
| Anyone happen to know if these are available online somewhere
| for my poor self to access? :) I've been using my work's T1 after
| hours to get additional resources (ie, aside from purchasing
| Mandrake, I downloaded it), so size isn't
Try a search on Freshmeat for "guichooser". With guichooser, you begin
with startx and then you have a choice of the wm's you have installed.
"Ty C. Mixon" wrote:
Looking over this older e-mail, I see how I could manually switch my
default WM, but how can I set it so that I can start any WM
= Original Message From Chris Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Hi Steve
My name is Chris Harvey and I have just loaded Linux for the first time. The
installation went OK, I had a bit of trouble configuring my video and monitor
but that seems to be now resolved, the problem is that that is will
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, you wrote:
You could try a search for macmillan on the 'net. They may have e-books for
your parusal, not sure of it though. Jusat an idea.
They used to have a site at http://www.mcp.com but all of the ebooks have moved
to http://www.informit.com
--
Alex
Hey guys,
I have a Brother HL-720 printer and I remembered seeing on one of the
printer how to documents that it is supported under a ghostscript program or
something like that. I have no idea what is ghostscript nor do I know how to get
my printer working. Be gentle, I have no
Dear Sir,
Please remove my address from your mailing
list
Thank you..
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Does anyone know if KDE 2.0 is also a memory hog?
Matt
From: "Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] desktop vs CPU/memory?
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:13:48 -0500 (EST)
snip
I have 48MB as well, though, so I feel obligated
Chris Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Steve
My name is Chris Harvey and I have just loaded Linux for the first time. The
installation went OK, I had a bit of trouble configuring my video and
monitor
but that seems to be now resolved, the problem is that that is will not boot
from the
If you selected your printer during the Mandrake installation, then just
type the following at a command line:
#printtool
Be sure to run the included tests to see if it prints under the various
methods.
HTH,
Matt
From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
I use ksnapshot. Just save it as a "jpg" or "png" if you want true color
snapshots.
HTH,
Matt
From: Seth Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] screenshots
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 20:38:54 -0800
Could anyone tell me if there is a way to
Of course, some company had to go and break that rule... That's right,
there are now LinModems as well. Do yourself a favor and avoid them.
There are better things for a CPU to be doing than the work of a $.50
part on a modem.
I'm not so sure this a good long term strategy. I agree that using
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999,Josh McCaffrey wrote:
| On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, you wrote:
| On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, coin fingered:
| I had that and it turned out to be a win modem
| I had to take it out and look at it
| I do not know if yours is or not
|
| The Prolink has been nothing but
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote:
stable manner. But you have to admitt that they have done a great job with the
installer. Any user can install M$'s OS. Now if they'd just stop trying to
Actually I think I WON'T "admit" that. :) If you want to completely
reinstall Windows 95
Here's my little dilemma:
I want to download a file that is over 30MB; I need to be able to resume
because I have a modem connection and occasionally get dropped by my ISP.
The author of the web page has set up the files to be referred to by cgi
scripts so they can only be downloaded from his
Hi,
I running an internal mailserver and only connect to my ISP to
get my mail. My connection time to my ISP is usually quite short.
What is the best way to "push'" out my mail when online.
Running sendmail 8.9.3
--
Ronald Yeo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whenever I try to use "finger" I get an error msg:
finger: connect: no route to host
The only place with success is my ISP, eg:
finger @pacific.net.ph
All other services seem to work OK. When I try to traceroute to where
I previously cannot finger, it works OK as well. I have tried this
from
I running an internal mailserver and only connect to my ISP to
get my mail. My connection time to my ISP is usually quite short.
What is the best way to "push'" out my mail when online.
Running sendmail 8.9.3
sendmail -q
Mindaugas
You should get a US Robotics Sportster
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999,Josh McCaffrey wrote:
| On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, you wrote:
| On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, coin fingered:
| I had that and it turned out to be a win modem
| I had to take it out and look at it
|
Thank you to all who have helped me in the past days. Nice to have some
place to get the help! Anyways, had a couple of more questions hope
someone can help.
1:) My time in KDE seems to change. I log on, and set it, to the correct
time, it runs fine. Then if i boot to Winblows, and then come
Dear friends:
I just installed Mandrake 6.1 from my CD and then updated my kernel
(all 8 files, which were automatically included with "initscripts"
using MandrakeUpdate). Everything went fine. Well, as you can see
below, my new kernel is indeed 2.2.13-22mkd, and I made a bootdisk
with that
How do I use unzip to unzip a program to install?
Steve
That makes a ton of sense. Anything to help a newbie get better aquainted
with a new OS.
As a side point, you mention SuSE, and Caldera... I have L-M 6.0 installed and
I have some old distro's of those and a few other's. Now L-M supports RPM's
and other _package_ installs. Is it worth
Would it be against the GPL or something for someone to offer THESE files for
d/l...ie: a personal FTP site or something???
Jaguar
"Charles Raymond" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone happen to know if these are available online somewhere
for my poor self to access? :) I've been using my
Hi,
When I have my resolution set at a somewhat readable setting, the K desktop is
too big to fit on one screen. What can II do to change the pixel dimensions of
K? Also, there is a wide margin on the left of my monitor and almost none on
the right. How can I address this? Thanks!
Gregg
"Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote:
stable manner. But you have to admitt that they have done a great job with
the
installer. Any user can install M$'s OS. Now if they'd just stop trying
to
Gee I hate to knock you off your soap box,
http://ring.asahi-net.or.jp/archives/linux/RedHat/XBF/
it's also available on the mandrake 6.0 cd under /apps
you need to grab the xf86config.tar as well. it's available at the above
address as well.
instructions are included in the readme file.
I have so far downloaded the sources from
Hi,
The display of some web pages in Netscape in Linux is entirely different from
what is displayed under Windows. The fonts are small to the point of
unreadability. I have changed the View-- character encoding but they all sort
of suck and are very small. Do I need to configure some file to
Yes it would be against the copyright laws to copy to your personal
FTP site. Please read the license, they are copyrighted by McMillain
Digital Publishing, NOT GPL. So be sure that your lawyers are much
better than theirs!
If you had bought the Mandrake 6.5 (sic) in the retail channel in
Kentry appending an uppercase P before the first character of your
login name. For instance, if your login is firefox, then change it to
Pfirefox. That's what I have to do with my ISP.
Alan
Ken wrote:
Thank you to all who have helped me in the past days. Nice to have some
place to
Greggthis website will help a lot.
http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html
Alan
Gregg Carrier wrote:
Hi,
The display of some web pages in Netscape in Linux is entirely different from
what is displayed under Windows. The fonts are small to the point of
unreadability. I
According to KDE Interview at /.
it is still a memmory HOG abit somehwat slightly less
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of M Thompson
Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 9:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TID Re: [newbie] desktop vs
HELP!!
I am attempting to install Mandrake 6.1 from CD onto a Gateway laptop
computer
that does not have a CD drive. Is there a way that I can use my
Kingston parallel port CD-ROM? If not, what are my alternatives?
Thanks
WRY
Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you to all who have helped me in the past days. Nice to have some
place to get the help! Anyways, had a couple of more questions hope
someone can help.
1:) My time in KDE seems to change. I log on, and set it, to the correct
time, it runs fine. Then if i
On 26 Nov 99, at 12:12, R_Yeo wrote:
Recommend this site:
http://dellportables.thot.net
Hmmm got a "no DNS entry" for that URL. I did manage to get
into http://www.thot.net but didn't find any sign of anything Dell-
related. Suggestions?
Joey M. Jackson
"Look, I'm a Knight, I'm
hello,
I have two questions.
1) I am having trouble mounting the cdrom and the floppy. When i click on
the floppy icon it goes to mount then it says "wrong fs type, bad option,
bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems" i used kfloppy
to format the disk. When i click
Greggthis website will help a lot.
http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html
It sure did. Very informative. I followed the instructions regarding xfs which
seems to be the font server that came with L-M 6.1. Problem is, nothing really
looks different at all and if I ctl-alt-tab
Well, I finally got it installed
(Linux-Mandrake 6.0). I had some trouble getting the
X Server up and running, but I finally made it over
that hurdle. I'm using the KDE environment with the
Mach64 accel. server, and the first time I went in the
mouse worked fine. I had to run the xf86config
GreggI suppose it depends on which instructions you're following,
the ones from section 2.x or the ones from 4.2. If you're having a
problem you might try section 2.x. Also you might email the author,
Doug Holland outlining your problem.
Alan
Gregg Carrier wrote:
Greggthis website
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
I just installed Mandrake 6.1 from my CD and then updated my kernel
(all 8 files, which were automatically included with "initscripts"
using MandrakeUpdate). Everything went fine. Well, as you can see
below, my new kernel is
hi i just bought a hp8250i cdrw
and was wondering how to set it up in linux help would be appreciated
Janoddly enough the default screen icon for the floppy device mounts
dos formatted floppys, not ext2fs formatted ones. Below is the last
section of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file. The Depth line contains the
default color depth in bits and the Modes line contains the resolutions
available via
Jaguar wrote:
Steve
That makes a ton of sense. Anything to help a newbie get better aquainted
with a new OS.
As a side point, you mention SuSE, and Caldera... I have L-M 6.0 installed and
I have some old distro's of those and a few other's. Now L-M supports RPM's
and other _package_
Hi again all.
Okay got my KPPP to dial out nice. It connects awsome, i can manually
enter in IP numbers and it goes there. But i still cant access my DNS
server. I have even edited my /etc/resolv.conf it looks like this
search connected.bc.ca
nameserver 207.23.253.201
nameserver 207.23.253.202
William Winslow wrote:
I found that by changing a few values in my font config file made a
formidable difference. Below is my settings. The file exist at
/etc/X11/fs/config.
Note that I changed the line under catalogue to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts to '125dpi' and the line below it to
Ken wrote:
Hi again all.
Okay got my KPPP to dial out nice. It connects awsome, i can manually
enter in IP numbers and it goes there. But i still cant access my DNS
server. I have even edited my /etc/resolv.conf it looks like this
search connected.bc.ca
nameserver 207.23.253.201
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
1) Can't SAVE:
"Error while saving document Untitled 1:
Object not accessible
The object cannot be accessed
due to insufficient user rights."
2) Can't BACKUP:
"Could not create backup copy"
Check to make sure that it's trying to save it in your
Thank to all who have helped me with my DNS problems and stuff.
I finally got it fixed. Dont know how it happened, but the DNS #'s my
ISP gave me to use, were not the right ones, i got the right ones, off a
fellow on IRC and it works.
Thanx. =)
Ken
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Hi,
Can anybody send me a complete lists of current brands and models
of modems for Linux? I have tempted to go ahead and buy from a vendor but I
know the vendor will tell the wrong things about the modems that
are supported by Linux. Can anybody help me?
Subject: [newbie] Mouse problems!
Well, I finally got it installed
(Linux-Mandrake 6.0). I had some trouble getting the
X Server up and running, but I finally made it over
that hurdle. I'm using the KDE environment with the
Mach64 accel. server, and the first time I went in the
mouse
Subject: [newbie] install bug?
i am installing mandrake 6.5. all goes well until i specify monitor
resolution. at testing x configuration, i get the "do you see this
message" "yes or no" screen, but i just can't read the question. if i
enter yes anyway, when i reboot, my screens overlap,
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