Re: [newbie] Network interfaces not set at boot time

1999-12-31 Thread Toyswins
I'm no expert, but are you starting the system at the proper run level? My text says run level 2 gives multiuser w/o NFS and SMB services. Level 3 is full multiuser with all networking services turned on. Given that, check the basics, is the card seated properly, is the cable connected and

Re: [newbie] Corel Linux

1999-12-31 Thread bluebottle
Thought I'd give it a try - CD on front of PC Plus here in the UK. It's now been removed and my beta copy (Cassini) of Mandrake 6.1 re-installed. It may have been me but I couldn't get kppp to connect properly (worked perfectly first time when I re-installed Mandrake). The only thing I liked was

Re: [newbie] boot disk image prob.

1999-12-31 Thread chris wakefield
Happy New Year Greetings Axalon: Just sent this to a member of my local linux users group. Been working many hours trying to do this! Hi alan: Thanks for your private reply. I tried what you suggested and RedHat still loads Gnome (which is beginning to grow on me). This is the sequence that I

[newbie] New Millenium

1999-12-31 Thread Warren Doney
00.32 01/01/00 NZDT Happy new Millenium all... -- Full plate packing steel! - Minsk

Re: Re: [newbie] OpenGL and Xfree86

1999-12-31 Thread MichaelMeding
Hi, there is no such beast as a tnt driver for Ogl for Xi software. Greetings Michael -- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net

Re: [newbie] link light

1999-12-31 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Seung-woo Nam wrote: The tulip driver included in Mandrake doesn't seem to work very well with any ethernet cards. I myself had the same problem with tulip driver. However, after I compiled and installed tulip driver came on the driver diskette for my

Re: [newbie] link light

1999-12-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: The tulip driver included in Mandrake doesn't seem to work very well with any ethernet cards. I myself had the same problem with tulip driver. However, after I compiled and installed tulip driver came on the driver diskette for my ethernet card, it started

Re: [newbie] Modem Problems

1999-12-31 Thread M Thompson
Follow John's suggestions first. After figuring which COM port you are using, setup KPPP according to the following: /dev/ttyS0 = COM1 /dev/ttyS1 = COM2 /dev/ttyS2 = COM3 /dev/ttyS3 = COM4 HTH, Matt From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: Re: [newbie] OpenGL and Xfree86

1999-12-31 Thread Seth Gibson
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there is no such beast as a tnt driver for Ogl for Xi software. true but in having it at least youd get the free update when it is supported. .. .

Re: [newbie] Floppy Tape Drive Device Name

1999-12-31 Thread M Thompson
I suggest taking a look at the ftape How-to. The URL is: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html HTH, Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Floppy Tape Drive

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1999-12-31 Thread neilrathbone
UNSUBSCRIBE Please!! How can this be so hard?

Re: [newbie] Floppy Tape Drive Device Name

1999-12-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hi again!, I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying desperately to configure for Linux. I have found much info on ftape, and even an old program that I used to use for backing up SCO (Microlite Backup Edge) that has been ported to

Re: [newbie] Modem Problems

1999-12-31 Thread David Trimmer
Yeah, try a steamroller then buy a U.S. Robotics. You won't be sorry. - Original Message - From: Jennifer Ricki Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 11:32 PM Subject: [newbie] Modem Problems I just purchased an Actiontec modem that says it is

[newbie] graphics card shopping....

1999-12-31 Thread Josh McCaffrey
I'm shopping around for a good card to run under L-M 6.1. Is it a bad idea for me to just look at what chipset the card uses and amount of ram? I'm looking at NVidia Riva TNT cards w/ 8-16mb's. Could I expect any of these various cards to be supported even if the drivers are only for Windoze?

Re: [[newbie] New For 2000]

1999-12-31 Thread Jaguar
Hmmm I wonder if some disgruntled pinhead newbie user that was mad at the list, subscribed this list to some of these SPAMMERS sites Just a thought??? Jaguar "Owen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Start your own 1-900 business or Adult Web Site Business! People are making $$$ week, after week

Re: [newbie] Corel Linux

1999-12-31 Thread Toyswins
Have you tried to log into the Windows side as user "root" with the same password you used in LINUX? If you are logged in as root on the LINUX box and also log into the Windows as root, (that's the default), it should show a good two way connection. Also, I gather you're in the same workgroup

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe

1999-12-31 Thread G_REEPER
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Re: [newbie] New Millenium

1999-12-31 Thread Lyndon Lininger Sr
Warren Doney wrote: 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT Happy new Millenium all... -- Full plate packing steel! - Minsk The new millenium isn't for another year.

Re: [newbie] boot disk image prob.

1999-12-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: I am running Mandrake RH 6.1 and am unable to get a rescue disk working. Documentation says the image is on the CD - but it isn't. Anyone have any ideas? mkbootdisk creates a bootable floppy but no valid rescue. The "rescue" disk that ships with Mandrake is

Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....

1999-12-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hmmm, any supported cards that acceleration *is* supported, or is it something I shouldn't really worry about? I'm just looking for a good PCI card in the $50-150 US range. I think one card I was looking at (STB Velocity 4400) supported Direct 3D and

Re: [newbie] boot disk image prob.

1999-12-31 Thread Audrey Beck
Sam Silverman wrote: I am running Mandrake RH 6.1 and am unable to get a rescue disk working. Documentation says the image is on the CD - but it isn't. Anyone have any ideas? mkbootdisk creates a bootable floppy but no valid rescue. Regards, Sam Silverman ftp://ftp.cdrom.com

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe RE: RE:XJ Wang

1999-12-31 Thread Bill
Very nice, XJ. Very nice. BillC - Original Message - From: Singer XJ Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 3:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] unsubscribe Because you are a DUMB retard who subscriibed and does not know how to UNSCRIBE. go to

Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....

1999-12-31 Thread Sam
The only accelrated drivers available right now are in a commercial package for $80. Here are some options in the price range you're looking for (don't by an STB product that isn't a Voodoo board. They were bought by 3Dfx and are no longer providing driver updates for any of their older boards.

[newbie] Y2K tip for dual boot machines

1999-12-31 Thread Sam
This is a tip from ZDnet if you have a dual boot machine. If you shut your computer down before midnight, boot it into Linux first. if a hardware problem crops up, you can reset the hardware values to the correct settings and then boot into Windows. They didn't go into details, but they said

[newbie] I thought this list was for serious (and freindly discussion of LINUX??!!

1999-12-31 Thread Elton Woo
I thought that I would get help on this list, and I was not disappointed in this respect, since I also found some old friends from the TeamOS2 Help List here. However, there are now spam postings and public flames, which add to an already busy list. I have decided to leave this

RE: [newbie] New Millenium

1999-12-31 Thread Jeffrey A. Crum
Yeah, I love these people. -Original Message- From: Lyndon Lininger Sr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium Warren Doney wrote: 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT Happy new Millenium all...

[newbie] how to unsubscribe...

1999-12-31 Thread Elton Woo
Just a final message to the list: When I subscribe to this list, I received a confirmation, with instructions, which I saved. Perhaps this might be of help to others wishing to leave for whatever their reasons: /BEGIN QUOTE: You just have been subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [newbie] New For 2000

1999-12-31 Thread Elton Woo
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:47:58 -0700, Sam wrote: Any hackers/crackers on this list that know how to reverse spam this guy? Reverse spamming will not cure the problem, only aggravate it. I respectfully suggest subscribing to www.abuse.net, to learn how to *efficiently* handle spammers.

Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....

1999-12-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Josh McCaffrey wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: I'm shopping around for a good card to run under L-M 6.1. Is it a bad idea for me to just look at what chipset the card uses and amount of ram? I'm looking at NVidia Riva TNT cards w/

Re: [newbie] OpenGL and Xfree86

1999-12-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Cyril wrote: 2- I would like to test the TNT with an OpenGL program. So how can I install OpenGL ? Is it part of Xfree86 Actualy the best way is to test the 7.0beta while you can still say "hey somethings not right here". After

Re: [newbie] boot disk image prob.

1999-12-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, chris wakefield wrote: Happy New Year Greetings Axalon: Just sent this to a member of my local linux users group. Been working many hours trying to do this! Hi alan: Thanks for your private reply. I tried what you suggested and RedHat still loads Gnome (which is

RE: [newbie] New Millenium

1999-12-31 Thread Ralph | byte-runner |
PLZ GET OFF OF IT DON'T BE SO TECH-YYY :-) BYTE -Original Message- From: Warren Doney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium - Original Message - From: "Lyndon Lininger Sr" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe

1999-12-31 Thread Des Wass
This is purely just a passing thoughtbut maybe list listserver could do with a tag line pointing people to the website to unsibscribe or explaining how to unsubscribe. While some complain it too hard to unsubscribe and that they don't have time, I find it frustrating to be deleting mail from

Re: [newbie] New Millenium

1999-12-31 Thread Lyndon Lininger Sr.
Check it out the millenium isn't until january 1, 2001. - Original Message - From: "Warren Doney" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium - Original Message - From: "Lyndon Lininger Sr" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] New Millenium

1999-12-31 Thread Des Wass
And Happy New year to your all! On 01/01/00, Warren Doney said: 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT Happy new Millenium all... -- Full plate packing steel! - Minsk Go for the eyes Boo !!! -- | http://www.prowebservers.com Desmond Wass| Web Hosting Systems {Mobile Stolen} |

[newbie] Changing machines causes problems -- can't log on.

1999-12-31 Thread Pete Clapham
Hi, all -- I have loaded Linux-Mandrake onto a new server and have an odd problem. I configured it on a Pentium-II with a Millenium-II AGP video card while our old server was operating on the old operating system. When everything worked more-or-less correctly, I moved the hard drive to the

RE: [newbie] unsubscribe

1999-12-31 Thread Ken Wilson
These people are probably not as 'switched' on as you state. They bought into Linux chique and now find themselves in over their heads. -Original Message- From: Des Wass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 31, 1999 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] unsubscribe

Re: [newbie] Changing machines causes problems -- can't log on.

1999-12-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Pete Clapham wrote: Hi, all -- I have loaded Linux-Mandrake onto a new server and have an odd problem. I configured it on a Pentium-II with a Millenium-II AGP video card while our old server was operating on the old operating system. When everything worked

RE: [newbie] New Millenium

1999-12-31 Thread heretic
Actually millenium has already started. According to the Gospels Jesus was born during the reign of King Herod, well .. Herod died 4C. In that case millenium, and accounting to the fact zero concept was not known in Europe when they started Christian Calendar, began 3 years ago. Also birth of

Re: [newbie] Changing machines causes problems -- can't log on.

1999-12-31 Thread Des Wass
Does your machin boot straight into X? Are you having these problems when you fire up X or anywhere - even command-line.? On 31/12/99, Pete Clapham said: Hi, all -- I have loaded Linux-Mandrake onto a new server and have an odd problem. I configured it on a Pentium-II with a Millenium-II

[newbie] BBSes and Linux

1999-12-31 Thread Spiffy1two
I am looking for some software and some good information about setting up a Bulletin Board System under Linux. I'm using Mandrake, version 6 or somethin like that.. :) I had a fairly nice system running under DOS, but the crowds died down eventually, and now it's down. If anybody could give

Re: [newbie] Changing machines causes problems -- can't log on.

1999-12-31 Thread Pete Clapham
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 07:42:53 +1100, Des Wass wrote: Does your machin boot straight into X? YES IT DOES. FOR MOST PURPOSES, THIS SEEMED LIKE THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAY TO GO Are you having these problems when you fire up X or anywhere - even command-line.? DON'T KNOW. BECAUSE IT BOOTS

Re: [newbie] New Millenium

1999-12-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: What I want to know is how you were sober enough to send email at 32 minutes past midnight in 2000. You're a traitor to the cause:-) It's 21.00 Greenwich Mean Time on 31/12/99 so I'm off to celebrate. Happy 2000 to all - I'll even include BG altough he

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe

1999-12-31 Thread Jamey
I personaly bought linux- mandrake 6.5 about 2 weeks ago, and now I have a pretty good idea what im doing. Sure i had to have some help and i greatly appreciate those of you who helped me and didnt state rude remarks about how stupid or retarded i was for trying a new OS, And i was over my head

[newbie] MP3 software for Linux

1999-12-31 Thread Spiffy1two
Hello, its me again! I need an MP3 player for Linux, be it XWindows or shell. X11Amp plays an mp3 for about 4 seconds, and then they're slow and jerky. Possibly there is a way to make the buffer really super huge, but I haven't found one. In Windows, I was able to play MP3s by using a

Re: [newbie] Changing machines causes problems -- can't log on.

1999-12-31 Thread Des Wass
On 31/12/99, Pete Clapham said: On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 07:42:53 +1100, Des Wass wrote: Does your machin boot straight into X? YES IT DOES. FOR MOST PURPOSES, THIS SEEMED LIKE THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAY TO GO OK. Here's two options: 1) If you can login, open a console/terminal window and

Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux

1999-12-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, its me again! I need an MP3 player for Linux, be it XWindows or shell. X11Amp plays an mp3 for about 4 seconds, and then they're slow and jerky. Possibly there is a way to make the buffer really super huge, but I haven't found one.

Re: [newbie] Windows to Linux networking

1999-12-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gettin all my questions out of the way :) I have two PCs which are networked together. One runs Windows 98, the other has both WIndows 95 and Linux. It's working fairly well at the moment, but I would like to be able to transfer files back

Re: [newbie] MP3 software for Linux

1999-12-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hello, its me again! I need an MP3 player for Linux, be it XWindows or shell. X11Amp plays an mp3 for about 4 seconds, and then they're slow and jerky. Possibly there is a way to make the buffer really super huge, but I haven't found one. In Windows, I

Re: [newbie] Changing machines causes problems -- can't log on.

1999-12-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: 2) The other option is to type linux single at your lilo prompt when you reboot. this will throw you into a shell as root. you can then type init 3 and reboot - then run Xconfigurator or whatever. 3) Type linux 3 at the LILO prompt. This will be a

Re: [Re: [newbie] New Millenium]

1999-12-31 Thread Michael Scottaline
bluebottle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want to know is how you were sober enough to send email at 32 minutes past midnight in 2000. You're a traitor to the cause:-) = Why would sending email be a problem? I do it all the time. It's only 5:13 PM

Re: [newbie] New Millenium

1999-12-31 Thread Warren Doney
- Original Message - From: "Des Wass" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium And Happy New year to your all! On 01/01/00, Warren Doney said: 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT Happy new Millenium all... --

[newbie] can't print with samba

1999-12-31 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm having problems printing over the network with samba. We have three Mandrake 6.1 machines all running 2.2.13-7mdk. I installed samba 2.0.5 on the machine weaver which has a local IP address 192.168.1.11. There's an Epson Stylus Color 800 attached to weaver. The other two Linux

Re: [newbie] Made a mistake in setup

1999-12-31 Thread Hidong Kim
Dennis Angell wrote: When i installed Linux Mandrake i selected the wrong Video card and montior.. What can i do to be able to change these settings again ?? Dennis Angell Hi, Dennis, From the console, do 'xf86config'. This will guide you through the X configuration. The important

Re: [newbie] can't print with samba

1999-12-31 Thread Des Wass
On 31/12/99, Hidong Kim said: Hi, I'm having problems printing over the network with samba. .Hell-of-a-lot-ofwonderfully-fantastic-helpful-information snipped... [printers] comment = Printers path = /var/spool/lpd/lp browseable = yes printable = yes public

Re: [newbie] can't print with samba

1999-12-31 Thread Des Wass
OK. you seem to have a LOT of stuff in your smb.conf file for a small network. somewhere on your system (heopfully) you still have the smb.con example that was installed With samba. Try using that to get your printers going 'cause that is very generic. If you can, replicate those settings in

Re: [newbie] can't print with samba

1999-12-31 Thread Hidong Kim
Thanks, Des! I went back to the original smb.conf that was created at installation, and edited it for our system. I can now print to the Linux Epson from the Windows machines. One minor bummer using this modified original smb.conf is that the Linux shares I created with 2770 permission aren't

Re: [newbie] can't print with samba

1999-12-31 Thread Des Wass
On 31/12/99, Hidong Kim said: Thanks, Des! I went back to the original smb.conf that was created at installation, and edited it for our system. I can now print to the Linux Epson from the Windows machines. One minor bummer using this modified original smb.conf is that the Linux shares I

Re: [newbie] BBSes and Linux

1999-12-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Danpoint your browser here. I ran PCBoard for years, carried RIME and some other smaller nets. Good luck. http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/bbs/!INDEX.html Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for some software and some good information about setting up a Bulletin Board

Re: [Re: [newbie] when booting in to linux]

1999-12-31 Thread hugahog
You can type 'dmesg filename to save it to a file then print later. Or you can look in /var/log/message There will be a few of these files covering your last few day of booting and shutting down. Larry -Original Message- From: Ed Santiago [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] when booting in to linux]]

1999-12-31 Thread Ed Santiago
Oh Yeah, now thats what I like. Thanks to all for the lesson. I tried all the suggestions so far and they all work great and are much more efficent that the klipper way that I figured out. Thanks again!! Ed "hugahog" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can type 'dmesg filename to save it to a file

Re: [newbie] Made a mistake in setup

1999-12-31 Thread alann
Dennis Angell wrote: When i installed Linux Mandrake i selected the wrong Video card and montior.. What can i do to be able to change these settings again ?? Dennis Angell I'm assuming that your machine is coming up in runlevel 5 graphical mode and you cannot see it due to your wrong

Re: [newbie] unsubscribe

1999-12-31 Thread ron peake
Hello Jamey In my opinion you are absolutely correct. I hope that you find a more mature list. Regards, Ron On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: I personaly bought linux- mandrake 6.5 about 2 weeks ago, and now I have a pretty good idea what im doing. Sure i had to have some help and i greatly

Re: [newbie] Root Password Problem

1999-12-31 Thread Toyswins
Well, best I could do being so tired and frustrated and all. I can do better sometimes. Happy New Year 2000! B. B. John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, you wrote: Pine or Oak log? Thanks for the response. I'm still working other issues and seem to have lucked out fixing this

[newbie] Floppy Tape Drive Device Name

1999-12-31 Thread BryanMoorehead
Hi again!, I have a Colorado T1000 floppy tape drive that I have been trying desperately to configure for Linux. I have found much info on ftape, and even an old program that I used to use for backing up SCO (Microlite Backup Edge) that has been ported to Linux. I cannot, however, get over