On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| Can some please help me . l'v tried to connect to the internet with Mandrake 6.5
| everything go,s well press connect and then it happens "initializing program" (or
something like that ) and then nothing. and now l'm left with windoze
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote:
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
Use the "utilities" box on the panel, it should roll over into another
menu "more"
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To upgrade kde from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 is "kdebase-1.1.2-9mdk.i586.rpm"
sufficient, or are any other packages needed?
Thanks in advance.:)
Regards Eero
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Martin Cleaver wrote:
|
| Okay, I downloaded and installed the new kernel I suppose... but it gives me this
cryptic message about changing lilo.conf. Unfortunately it does not tell me WHAT to
change. It may sound silly, but I use Mandrake because I don't WANT to have
| Dennis,
|
| I am not trying to be smart or anything like that, but did you connect with
| pppd first? Or perhaps kppp? It has been my experience that Linux does not
| automate things like connecting to the web for you. Personally I like this
| policy. It takes a little
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Sam Roza wrote:
| Ernie,
|
| I am past this now...I know the chipset(GD5436), and the RAM is at least 2
| MB(there's a Kingston VRAM upgrade on the motherboard). I've run xf86config
| and Xconfigurator so many times I can enter all responses without looking
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Sam Roza wrote:
| How do you get NutScrape to load all images in a web page without having to
| click them, or right click and ask to have them loaded?
|
| Oh, one more thing...how do you create a new user from root?
|
| Thank a million!
|
| Sam
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote:
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
Use the "utilities" box on the panel, it should roll over into another
menu "more"
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"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote:
| Dennis,
|
| I am not trying to be smart or anything like that, but did you connect with
| pppd first? Or perhaps kppp? It has been my experience that Linux does not
| automate things like connecting to the web for you. Personally I like
The problem is that there are simply too many entries in the utilities menu to
be displayed in one column on the screen. You have to use the menu editor to
create a second menu such as utils2 or whatever you wish for a name, then move
the entries from the original menu to the new one (perhaps
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Christopher M. Kopp wrote:
|
| How do I get out of X-Windows and into bash... my display is messed up in
X-Windows because I have a different monitor where I am right now... I cannot work in
X-Windows because I am unable to see half of the screen.
|
| Please
Dunno, but I am running a losing battle trying to filter it out. Have a
good article in an issue of Network magazine on spam prevention. If I find
anything original in it I'll pass it on, if any anyone wishes.
Bill Carling
- Original Message -
From: Joseph S. Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have just purchased Linux-Mandrake and decided to install it on one of my
computers. I decided to let it have all three of the HDD's. Now that I
have installed it I want to try other things such as a duel boot, but all I
have is Linux right now. If I try to format the HDD's and install
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I have just purchased the Mandrake 6.5 with Linux Ver 2.2.13-4mdk ..
everything seems to work okay except when I try to boot with a newly
compiled kernel.
I did a configuration (make config)
then
make dep clean zlilo modules modules_install
then
Try using the DOS fdisk command. 'fdisk mbr' should get rid of Lilo on
your master boot record. After that just install Windows on the drive
you want and then re-install your Linux and run Lilo again.
-Original Message-
From: Tyler Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: December 21,
Okay...first...in order to install another OS...you must FIRST
install the other OS, THEN linux.
in order to get a new fresh re-installI believe you must first
use the command: fdisk/mbr
this will take out the LILO ...and allow you to then install
winNT...then re-install linux.
use your
First, you must be certain...your modem is NOT a winmodem...or a PCI
modemthen, make sure you have linux seeing it on the right port.
try using all the com ports under linux...ie ttyS0,ttyS1, etc.
also try /dev/modem at the top...
what modem is it?
On 21 Dec 99, at 3:11, Ernest N. Wilcox
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I have just purchased Linux-Mandrake and decided to install it on one of my
computers. I decided to let it have all three of the HDD's. Now that I
have installed it I want to try other things such as a duel boot, but all I
have is Linux right now. If I
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote:
How do I get out of X-Windows and into bash... my display is messed up in X-Windows
because I have a different monitor where I am right now... I cannot work in X-Windows
because I am unable to see half of the screen.
Please help.
-Chris
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funboy wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion, but there is a slight problem...
I am already _at_ 1024 X 780.
sigh
Even if I knew _how_ to go finer, I wouldn't do it... on a 15" monitor, it's
already small enough (strangely enough my ctrl-alt-numpad+,- thingie doesn't
change my
Great, spam sent to this list through an open relay (oem.net) listed in the
ORBS database
Handy tool: http://spamcop.net
Patrick
-Original Message-
From: Kit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 4:26 PM
To: Mandrake Linux
Subject: [newbie] WOW,imagine
My take on this whole "newbie who doesn't want to learn
Linux" is as follows:
If you don't want to learn Linux, then hire someone who
knows or will learn Linux to administer your system for
you. If you're too cheap or just can't afford (like a kid
who downloads and installs Linux) to hire
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion, but there is a slight problem...
I am already _at_ 1024 X 780.
sigh
Even if I knew _how_ to go finer, I wouldn't do it... on a 15" monitor, it's
already small enough (strangely enough my ctrl-alt-numpad+,- thingie doesn't
It appears that you allowed LILO to modify your MBR when you first installed
Linux. It also appears that the MBR is not being adjusted when you install
NT.
If you backed up your MBR before installing linux, just put the original MBR
back on the drive. If you didn't keep a copy of the
No, Kingston RAM upgrades are not the issue. Kingston is the leading
producer of OEM RAM in the world. That was not the problem, whatever the
problem was, I corrected it with I think the "noaccel" option and a hard
re-start.
At 04:50 AM 12/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Sam Roza
If you happen to have a Western digital disk, then I found that if you use
their disk instalation utilities it will wipe the disk completely clean,
quick format it and basicly make it ready for Dos/Win use.
You can download this utility from their site for free.
At 06:49 21/12/99 -0800, you
Yeah, then you can UNINSTALL stuff as you decide you don't need it and need to free
up some HD space.
MickeyMutant wrote:
I have noticed that many things work Much better if you do a
Custom install and put in EVERYTHING! i know this takes up a lot of hd space but
you will run into
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I have just purchased the Mandrake 6.5 with Linux Ver 2.2.13-4mdk ..
everything seems to work okay except when I try to boot with a newly
compiled kernel.
I did a configuration (make config)
then
make dep clean zlilo modules modules_install
then
Actually, I think the command is 'fdisk /mbr' It should be really easy to
fix... Dos boot disk, fdisk /mbr, format c: /s will transfer the DOS files
back to the HD. Hope this helps!
J.R.
- Original Message -
From: michael perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday,
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Thanks. I used deinstall, deleted all directories and reinstalled.
Same settings as Windows but icons still are greyed out, I get lots of
error beeps and the final unrecoverable error message occurs without any
sign of a connection being established. I
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:16:04 -0500, you wrote:
Original message from: John Aldrich
My take on this whole "newbie who doesn't want to learn
Linux" is as follows:
If you don't want to learn Linux, then hire someone who
knows or will learn Linux to administer your system for
you. If you're too
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I have just purchased Linux-Mandrake and decided to install it on one of my
computers. I decided to let it have all three of the HDD's. Now that I
have installed it I want to try other things such as a duel boot, but all I
have is Linux right now. If I
I recently removed my older version of samba and installed 2.0.6
I then set up the smb.conf and ran testparm -s smb.conf | head - 10.
I got an error message -
error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3: undefined
symbol:
BC
I had the same problem. The solution:
1. Get and
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Hello.
My system recently was powered off while running X. (Uh oh)
After reboot and (auto)running fsck I seem to be missing some of the kde files (system
complains about kdmrc during boot up). I believe I can recover from that by reloading
the rpm for KDE (Please correct me if I'm wrong). I
Ok Dennis, you're starting to sound like the stereotypical UNIX geeQue(your
little exclusive club is becoming more mainstream). Get over it, consumers
are flocking to this OS and finding out that it has not the flexibility,
nor the learning curve of Win95(from the console). Linux/unix MUST
Monitor "vivitron"
Hidong, I noticed that you have a vivitron monitor. Is it a vivitron 15 by
any chance, and if so, where did you get the specs for it? Thanks!
Title: RE: [newbie] Startup issues.
Hey I am a new Linux user (Linux mandrake 6.0 or 6.5 I forget) and I am trying to configure my modem but I keep getting an error message that states can not open modem. The users guide states that I have to setup permissions for a user to be able to use the
Every time I go to a website that requires a password after I enter the
username and password and hit enter it closes Netscape.
Has anyone had this problem?
Paul Apostolos
Manager of Internet Development
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://nrca.net
I'm using a Compaq Prolinea 166 w/ 2 GB HD. I would like to do a re-install (same
version) of mandrake linux on top of the existing install. I do not want to
reformat/repartition the HD because I have separate partitions for /home /local and I
don't want to lose the stuff in there. I just
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I managed to screwup my .rc file. How do I boot back in to correct it? Even
booting off my floppy gets hungup when the system
reads the rc file.
Does the machine dual-boot or do you have access to another
machine? If so, take your CDROM, look in the /images
A friend has a number, quite a large number, of files which he wishes
to put on the net. He looks to convert them into .pdf format, or some
other format more widely readable than the Quark Xpress format.
Is there something which will convert them? If the program includes a
spell-checker,
For some reason I continue to miss the obvious.
On a machine with two smallish HD's;
/dev/hda; The 1-gig has M$/Linux-Mandrake 6.1 with
System Commander as boot manager.
/dev/hdc The second 400mg HD, I made a ext2 mounted as
/usr/local.
/dev/hda3 / this one of course has a usr/local too
1) I'm a COMPLETE newbie to Linux, what books do you recommend that I should
read? I already ordered Running Linux by O'Reilly but it hadn't arrived yet
but some of the recommendations on Amazon said it wasn't really aimed at
newbies.
2) Linux says it cannot open my modem - so does that
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I have just purchased Linux-Mandrake and decided to install it on one of my
computers. I decided to let it have all three of the HDD's. Now that I
have installed it I want to try other things such as a duel boot, but all I
have is Linux right now. If I
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:53:28 -0600, you wrote:
Ok Dennis, you're starting to sound like the stereotypical UNIX geeQue(your
Geethank you!
little exclusive club is becoming more mainstream). Get over it, consumers
And you best get over expecting an OS that just a couple of years ago
a
May I make a suggestion? Please set your line-length to
something "reasonable." Your text goes WAY past the sides
of my poor, html-impaired, text-only email client.
Next, I didn't say you had to become a "Linux guru." I
meant that you need to become familiar enough with Linux to
know how
At 03:39 PM 21.12.99 -0700, you wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I have just purchased Linux-Mandrake and decided to install it on one
of my
computers. I decided to let it have all three of the HDD's. Now that I
have installed it I want to try other things such as a duel boot, but
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:17:07 -0500, you wrote:
1) I'm a COMPLETE newbie to Linux, what books do you recommend that I should
read? I already ordered Running Linux by O'Reilly but it hadn't arrived yet
but some of the recommendations on Amazon said it wasn't really aimed at
newbies.
Well...not
Actually, if you want to boot NT, I don't think you can boot with a DOS disk
and do fdisk /mbr. It'll write the DOS boot record. NT over writes the DOS
boot record on install... If you have NT, boot with your system startup
disks, then use the rescue disk that you made...
J.R.
- Original
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I am running both Windows 98 and Linux-Mandrake 6.5 on my machine, but
Windows is on one hard disk with these specs: Partition -1 Statis- A
Type-PRI DOS Volume Label- My Computer Mbytes-8025 System-Fat 32
Usage-100%. I have loaded Mandrake-Linux 6.5 on a
Hi
2) Linux says it cannot open my modem - so does that automatically mean that
is a winmodem (it's an OEM modem w/ my Compaq Presario 4550)? And if it is,
Chances are that it probably is a WinModem your system is 12 to 18 months old.
It could be. However, on the offchance that it could be
I haven't recieved any help with my problem (I have a Toshiba Satellite T1910/CS and I want to make it a
Linux system, butI don't know whichLinux distribution is right
nordo I know exactly how to get it installed once I know which
one(seeing as how I only havea 3 1/2" floppy drive for data
I am using an ATI Xpert128 and downloaded the rpm from
suse and followed their instruction to get it working.
They only left out one step I have found needed to be
done to get it installed and that was to delete
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA before running xf86config. It
appears, from one of the posts
some weeks ago someone asked about how he can choose a wm to work with his X
session :
Try one of these : kdm , xdm , desktopcfg
May this help this person or other one !
Younes zouhair
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:15:29 -0500, you wrote:
May I make a suggestion? Please set your line-length to
something "reasonable." Your text goes WAY past the sides
of my poor, html-impaired, text-only email client.
Next, I didn't say you had to become a "Linux guru." I
meant that you need to
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:24:56 -0600, you wrote:
At 05:03 PM 12/21/99 -0600, you wrote:
Hminteresting My neighbor..who is hardly a computer geek,
and not much more experienced with computers than the average user,
installed Mandrake with not a problem. Of course he did several
things
Beauty, now we're getting spammed in Spanish.
-Original Message-
From: Moises Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: December 21, 1999 7:13 AM
To: Moises Lopez
Subject: [newbie] EL MEJOR DVD Y AL MEJOR PRECIO !!!
Buenas tardes, os informo que tenemos en Stock DVD'S de Panasonic a
How about running through what you did to make Windows work on your Linux system.
Let us say that you just downloaded something into your Windows System. How do
you get your Mandrake Linux system to use this download in its own system? Linux
is mainly DOS commands. You say your Windows 98 is
Try this link for what looks like a lot of information:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
Trey Keenon wrote:
I haven't recieved any help with my problem (I have a Toshiba
Satellite T1910/CS and I want to make it a Linux system, but I don't
know which Linux distribution
I have 3 operating os's on my 2 hard drives. I have Dos 6 with Windoze 3.1
on a hidden primary, Windoze 98 on a 5 gig (fat32) hidden primary, and
Linux-Mandrake on another. I also have a 1.5
gig logical partion that all the os's can see (fat16). I can just download
or move files to the fat 16
Hey group,
Linux Mandrake 6.5 (that's what it says on the box) runs well
on my machine, but one problem I'm having is that when I connect to the
BERO-FTPD server from a client on another machine (WinNT) and the welcome
message comes up, and then I get no response from the client program
Merry X-Windowsmas Linux newbies!
ewww, that's geeky. Apologies in advance.
GJB
All Compaq Presarios come with winmodems, but you can verify this by
going to http://forum.Compaq.com, or by inspection. It will be a very
small board with a single Rockwell processor and a 16 MHz xtal.
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Gustaf Barkstrom wrote:
Merry X-Windowsmas Linux newbies!
Actually it would be just as proper to say Merry X-Mas. Alot of linux purists
dont like the referral "X Windows". From what i understand, that's part of the
reason its called X. you could also say Merry X11-mas
Boy, all this dispute over ease of use, support, configuration problems,
drivers, market-shares, blah blah blah. Just wanted to add that my
install went fairly painlessly, got my modem to work w/ a little
trouble, been figuring out how things work "under the hood", got my
printer to print,
Kit,
Tried to go to your link just now and it didn't work. Don't know why,
but you might want to check it.
B. B.
Kit wrote:
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I'm trying to add a few more IP addresses to my eth0 on linux-mandrake. I read that
rc.local should contain the startup statements
for the IPs but it is stored some where else. Would you happen to know where Mandrake
keeps the startup statements for IP Aliasing
when done through Linuxconf?
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
call me crazy, I LIKE learning how things work. And if I know how
something works, I have to mess w/ it (sometimes screwing it up;-) to
make it work better (or differently). I've only had a computer for a
little over 3yrs now (I'm 22), and half
Yes you can read files from different OS's partitions in a single system and
I think there's a HOWTO or Mini HOWTO on it. I'm not at my machine with the
information handy, but you simply direct LINUX to the location on the drive
and grab the file. You can use Microsoft to get the data and then
My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is
compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet
through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload
software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word
'transfer' may be wrong,
Yeah, just checked myself...it was working fine last night...
give me about 15 minutes...I'll startup my server...I have a copy of
it...go here: http://kompukit.myip.org
when there, click Kit's home page
On 21 Dec 99, at 23:40, Toyswins wrote:
Kit,
Tried to go to your link just now and it
Sevatiothe below mini-distro will allow you to boot with a floppy
and open your filesystem on your hard drive and access the file you need
to fix/replace.
http://www.toms.net/rb/
Alan
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
I managed to screwup my .rc file. How do I boot back in to correct it? Even
Bigger question, what makes a cable modem activated via
LINUXdifferent than through Windows that the cable company can't
accommodateyou? I don't have one and so ask out of ignorance.
I answer out of ignorance... I think they aren't sure, and Linux to
many people is this esoteric,
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