Re: [newbie-it] ....aiuto

2000-01-07 Thread Stefano Battocletti
Il gio, 06 gen 2000, hai scritto: E' mia intenzione entrare nel mondo LINUX ma mi sono subito trovato di fronte a problemi per me insormontabili: - ho effettuato l'installazione (in un Hd di 2.4 Gb) di Mandrake 6.1 senza 'quasi' gravi problemi; ho installato il LILO, nel MBR di WIN98, che mi

Re: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi, I'm having the same problems. Yes, I can read Word documents just fine with Star Office. The problem is in downloading word documents which are attached to e-mails. When I try to double-click the attachment to download, I get an error message saying

Re: [newbie] Primary and Secondary DNS on the Same Machine?

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Is it possible to run Primary and Secondary DNS on one machine and if so, how might i do this. As it stands i have DNS running on Mandrake 6.0 as a primary server, but the some of the other networking companys that i'm working with want it to be there

[newbie] Where is C header directory?

2000-01-07 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have been trying to install VMware. I've tried both the rpm and the tar. A dead-end either way. At the end of the installation, VMware asks me for the directory for C headers. The default is /usr/src/linux/include. But they are not there. Could someone please set me straight.

[newbie] VMware -- Installation fails!

2000-01-07 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have just spent a very frustrating three hours trying to install VMware on my Linux-Mandrake 6.1. I have no idea what's going on, but I have tried just about everything a non-techie can try. I have tried to install both the rpm and the tar.gz file. Below is the final section of

[newbie]

2000-01-07 Thread Nick McCarty
I am having trouble with my modem. Its a US Robotics 3Com (full modem) 56K I am using Mandrake 6.1 helio and my error message is setting speaker sound when i try to dial up

[newbie] VMware Install fails -- kernel footnote

2000-01-07 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I checked. I do have the kernel sources installed [sher@adsl-77-233-152 sher]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-ibcs-2.2.13-22mdk kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-22mdk kernel-2.2.13-7mdk kernel-BOOT-2.2.13-7mdk kernelcfg-0.5-6mdk kernel-2.2.13-22mdk kernel-doc-2.2.13-22mdk

[newbie] Welcome to list newbie

2000-01-07 Thread newbie-request
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[newbie] Puzzled?

2000-01-07 Thread Eric Collard
Hi I am a real baby newbie just dipping my toe in the Mandrake waters and experiencing the usual newbie problems, I have installed Mandrake 6.1 from the box on a stand alone PC. I have used kpp and can connect to my ISP. Have my sound configured and my HP Laser 5L printer works soo I guess I have

Re: [newbie] From Unixware to Mandrake... Memory CorruptionProblems ?

2000-01-07 Thread Christopher Cox
Halt command during the shutdown process causes "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 872f" Disable APM and this will go away. It's a "known bug" in most of the kernels since I"ve been playing with Linux (almost exactly one year now.) Thanks John..

[newbie] Cron fails after a day or so..

2000-01-07 Thread BryanMoorehead
I have had a single cron job that monitors my ip address running for quite some time on my box with no problems. A few days ago, I added a second job to run "rdate -sp time.nist.gov" at specifc intervals. It seems that after a day or so, both jobs stop ( no email to root ), and crond returns

Re: [newbie] Voodoo 3 3000 Drivers????

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Anybody know where i can find drivers for a Voodoo3 3000 AGP for SuSE linux 6.2? Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:

[newbie] Problem in X font

2000-01-07 Thread Sudhakar Nagarajan
I recently installed Linux-mandrake in to my system. It is AMD p2 processor. The installation went fine, but at the time of X installation the confirmation window, "if you can see the window displayed all right" I can not read the words. It is like a black strip. But I can see the button and

[newbie] long delay starting smb on new install

2000-01-07 Thread Morris Walton
Hi, I'm installing 6.1. After the install, and on the initial boot up (on the new install), the start for SMB seems to take FOREVER. It eventually passes, but I was curious what might be going on. Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0 on a AMD K6-2/350 (well, a couple actually), but on one machine I tried to upgrade KDE 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. I went to KDE's web site, then to their download site and ftp'd all the files in the directory, about a dozen or so. These were in rpm

[newbie] Re: tweaking XServer

2000-01-07 Thread msaul
I have setup my system, and I have noticed when running my xserver, that I can ping myself, and as far as Static IP addresses, when I use ping, I can transmit (verified signal on cable modem) but cannot receive. When setting up , I entered the static IP address displayed from winipcfg. The other

Re: [newbie] Do NOT invest in LinuxOne IPO!

2000-01-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjaminthanks, I was unaware of this situation. Alan Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: This may be off topic. However, the author, a leading and highly respected figure in Linux, Bruce Perens, has urged his readers to warn everyone against investing in what appears to be a shady

Re: [newbie] Matrix

2000-01-07 Thread phins13
Etien VanDenBroecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not in my xscreensavers package and I don't have much in the display properties, for screen savers! only running 6.0, going out tomorrow to get the distro from somewhere, but don't know where to find it up here in canada, location is London,

[newbie] long delay starting smb on new install

2000-01-07 Thread Morris Walton
Hi, I'm installing 6.1. After the install, and on the initial boot up (on the new install), the start for SMB seems to take FOREVER. It eventually passes, but I was curious what might be going on. Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Where is Kudzu

2000-01-07 Thread David Hollyfield
What is Kudzu anyway?

Re: [newbie] Made a mistake in setup

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: Also, other more knowlegable users have helped us out by telling us these little gems when we asked "how do I do this???" Yep! That and experience. :-) John

[newbie] test

2000-01-07 Thread Morris Walton
test

[newbie] Question?

2000-01-07 Thread phins13
Is there a file in your /home/[username] directory named .xinitrc? If yes, the last line ought to specify the default window manager. Edit the file to comment out 'startkde' and insert the line exec [command-to-start-the-WM-you-want] I don't want to recommend blindly creating an .xinitrc.

Re: [newbie] Where is Kudzu

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: When i tried to install the rpm it failed. It says that it needs libnewt.so.0.50. Do you have any idea where this is located. I looked on the Mandrake CD. try www.rpmfind.net John

[newbie] mandrake update

2000-01-07 Thread sean
Hi all, Quick question about the linux-madrake update tool. I D/L'd the updates no problems and it seemed to install, in the messeges that accompany the chocies the 2.2.13 Kernel info said that it reqiures /etc/lilo.conf be updated by hand, hers my current configuration; boot=/dev/hda

Re: [newbie] How to Dial up

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: I don't why but it still does not work. I tryed that it came up with "bash: /etc/resolv.conf: Permission denied" not to sure why I am the main user. You have to be "root" to edit /etc/resolv.conf. Although why you'd want to have a blank /etc/resolv.conf

[newbie] Ip ranges

2000-01-07 Thread Michael D. Kirkpatrick
I am using squid and I have found that I am doing something wrong with assigning IP ranges. All the examples show complete class C ranges. Example: 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.0.255 would be entered as one of the following: 192.168.0.0/24 or 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 Now, I just want an IP ranges

[newbie] Testing .. Emai (Size/Plain Text)

2000-01-07 Thread Mark Fitzgerald
Hi, This look ok as far as size, wrapping and etc? At the moment .. Using Netscape Messanger. Thanks! Mark --

Re: [newbie] Testing .. Emai (Size/Plain Text)

2000-01-07 Thread rbuzbee
looks fine mark Hi, This look ok as far as size, wrapping and etc? At the moment .. Using Netscape Messanger. Thanks! Mark --

Re: [newbie] Testing .. Emai (Size/Plain Text)

2000-01-07 Thread sean
Yes it does, what are the settings? sean Mark Fitzgerald wrote: Hi, This look ok as far as size, wrapping and etc? At the moment .. Using Netscape Messanger. Thanks! Mark -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo!

Re: [newbie] Problems setting up paths

2000-01-07 Thread Matt Stegman
First, what you did does not do it- it will set the second path mentioned (after the double pipe: ||) only if "sbin" is not already in the path. To ensure this is in your path, add another line (below this first one) like so: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/netscape Second, put this line at the

[newbie] Instant Messenger

2000-01-07 Thread Eric Runnions
Does anyone know if there is an Aol Instant Messenger that works in Linux? Thanks. Eric

Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger

2000-01-07 Thread sean
Actually AOL is working on porting AIM for linux. :) I thought there was a clone but I don't have it or know how to get it either. sean Eric Runnions wrote: Does anyone know if there is an Aol Instant Messenger that works in Linux? Thanks. Eric

Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger

2000-01-07 Thread forest
There is.. go to tucows, and get it..it's under messangers. sean wrote: Actually AOL is working on porting AIM for linux. :) I thought there was a clone but I don't have it or know how to get it either. sean Eric Runnions wrote: Does anyone know if there is an Aol Instant Messenger

Re: [newbie] Where is Kudzu

2000-01-07 Thread David
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: When i tried to install the rpm it failed. It says that it needs libnewt.so.0.50. Do you have any idea where this is located. I looked on the Mandrake CD. try www.rpmfind.net John Kudzu can be found here--

Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger

2000-01-07 Thread sean
Do you have a link? I went to tucows and could not find a "messenger" list. It would be kind fun to mess with my wife. :) sean forest wrote: There is.. go to tucows, and get it..it's under messangers. sean wrote: Actually AOL is working on porting AIM for linux. :) I thought there was a

[newbie] Looking for good video card

2000-01-07 Thread Petey
I'm looking for a higher end 3D card that runs at higher resolutions out of the box with Mandrake, as well as other linux flavors. It also needs to be able to handle my higher end games on windows. Any suggestions? I know NVidia just released the X server for the GeForce 256, but I'm not sure

RE: [newbie] Ip ranges

2000-01-07 Thread Ingo Bauer
Good evening Micheal; The problem is that you are using invalid subnets ... If you want to have 2 seperate subnets you can do as follows . Your first subnet will be from 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.0.127 - with 192.168.0.1 being your first and 192.168.0.126 being you last

[newbie] Problem in X font

2000-01-07 Thread Sudhakar Nagarajan
I recently installed Linux-mandrake in to my system. It is AMD p2 processor. The installation went fine, but at the time of X installation the confirmation window, "if you can see the window displayed all right" I can not read the words. It is like a black strip. But I can see the button and

Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger

2000-01-07 Thread sean
I found the file "everybuddy-0.0.7.tar." and unzipped it but the directions have got me nowhere, can't seem to install it. The directions say to compile as follows; from the source directory issue the folling commands ./gen ./configure make make install Thats it... only problem is it doesnt

Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger

2000-01-07 Thread forest
here it is... http://users.tmok.com/~smike/ sean wrote: Do you have a link? I went to tucows and could not find a "messenger" list. It would be kind fun to mess with my wife. :) sean forest wrote: There is.. go to tucows, and get it..it's under messangers. sean wrote: Actually

Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger

2000-01-07 Thread forest
what kind of instaaall do you have? DID it install correctly, and are you running the program afterwards? sean wrote: I found the file "everybuddy-0.0.7.tar." and unzipped it but the directions have got me nowhere, can't seem to install it. The directions say to compile as follows; from the

Re: [newbie] Testing .. Emai (Size/Plain Text)

2000-01-07 Thread Mark Fitzgerald
sean wrote: Yes it does, what are the settings? sean Mark Fitzgerald wrote: Hi, This look ok as far as size, wrapping and etc? At the moment .. Using Netscape Messanger. Thanks! Mark -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to

Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger

2000-01-07 Thread sean
Install? You must mean compilerdunno. I just installed Mandrake 6.1 from caldera 2.3 yesterday and am in process of configuring this box, I am no rocket scientist, thats why I subscibed to this list :) LOL I can follow directions real well, I am just getting my Linux bearings as Win95-98

Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger

2000-01-07 Thread forest
Did you find the program your suposed to execute after you installed it. I think it installs to /usr/local/bin. If it's there try to execute that. sean wrote: Install? You must mean compilerdunno. I just installed Mandrake 6.1 from caldera 2.3 yesterday and am in process of configuring

Re: [newbie] Instant Internet start?

2000-01-07 Thread Josh McCaffrey
After you do that, create a Kppp icon on your desktop to make it *really* easy to start. Right click-New-Application-Kppp. Under the "Execute" tab, just put "kppp". -Josh Alan Shoemaker wrote: Steveassuming you are in the KDE desktop, open the application starter (the gear with the K on

Re: [newbie] Instant Messenger

2000-01-07 Thread Spiffy1two
Do a search for GAIM. It stands for GNU Instant Messenger or something like that. It was made by a third party, but i'm sure it works pretty well. It comes as an RPM and was really easy to install. Dan Rasmussen

[newbie] X Install fails

2000-01-07 Thread Patrick B. McConnell
Hello, I am trying to install to a gateway ppro 200 with a matrox millenium video card. I am using the custom installation in order to preserve my NT setup. The first time I installed X installed correctly or appeared to since I was able to run the test and see the xtest just fine. However I

Re: [newbie] Do NOT invest in LinuxOne IPO!

2000-01-07 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Alan: You are more than welcome. I hope everybody hears about it and tells their friends before someone really gets burned badly. I fear for Linux's reputation if LinuxOne does well. How in the world did they get the SEC to approve their IPO in the first place. There must be a way to stop

Re: [newbie] Do NOT invest in LinuxOne IPO!

2000-01-07 Thread nunar
This is a good thought, and thanks for the warning. The website you have listed is wrong though. LinuxOne's website is at http://www.linuxone.net I found that address at Yahoo. Quoting Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear friends: This may be off topic. However, the author, a leading and

Re: [newbie] Problem in X font

2000-01-07 Thread Warren Doney
What's your video chip? Are you sure you configured X proprerly? - Original Message - From: "Sudhakar Nagarajan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 5:21 AM Subject: [newbie] Problem in X font I recently installed Linux-mandrake in to my system. It

[newbie] message log question

2000-01-07 Thread Chip Wiegand
I found the following messages, many of them, in my /var/log/messages file - kernel: packet log: input deny eth0 proto=17 207.226.173.193:137 208.194.173.26:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=22928 F=0x T=117 There are many of these with differant numbers after the : . I recognize the second ip number, it's

Re: [newbie] Where is Kudzu et al

2000-01-07 Thread WH Bouterse
Many of Mandrakes newest are here!!! (kudzu too) ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/oxygen/Mandrake/RPMS/ Be patient and careful and things eventually seem to work :) I have been upgrading a L-M 6.1 system. William Bouterse Juneau Alaska

Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2

2000-01-07 Thread Chip Wiegand
I downloaded the files with ...1.1.2-... so I believe those should be the correct files. When I tried rpm -e kde* I got an error - error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm And when I tried rpm -uvh kde* I got the message: rpm: only one major mode may be specified I cannot run kpackage, it

[newbie] Mounting Remote File servers

2000-01-07 Thread Michael D. Kirkpatrick
On me servers, I have SAMBA running. How do you mount one of the servers hard drives on another. Example: I want to mount, using SAMBA services, the Proxy server's hard drive on the web server so I can process the proxy logs. The SAMBA is all set up where I can open the hard drives on my Win

[newbie] Install Problem

2000-01-07 Thread John Booth
I am trying to install Mandrake 6.5 on a PC with Windows Nt 4.0. Each time I run the setup.exe program to create the Linux Prep Tool to make a bootable floppy a Dr. Watson report is generated with the following. " An application error has occured. _INS0423._MP.EXE Exeption access violation

[newbie] -Tons of books : Free-

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Re: [newbie] Where is Kudzu

2000-01-07 Thread David
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: When i tried to install the rpm it failed. It says that it needs libnewt.so.0.50. Do you have any idea where this is located. I looked on the Mandrake CD. libnewt.so.0.50 is apart of the newt-0.50-12mdk package which you will also need to get

[newbie] Linux behind a w2k gateway

2000-01-07 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm trying to put my Linux network behind a w2k gateway to the internet. The w2k mahine has a hosts file in its windows folder with all of the Linux machines. I can get to the internet fine from the Linux machines via netscape going through the w2k gateway, but I can't reach any machine

[newbie] More modem problems...

2000-01-07 Thread Andy Foote
When i have linux look for the modem...it says "sorry, the modem is busy." does this mean i might have a winmodem?

[newbie] Re: [expert] splitting /home dir's

2000-01-07 Thread Denis Havlik
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: :Well folks, after all the great suggestions regarding my planned SOHO :setup administration I thought I'd ask the next question that comes to :my feeble little mind. : :Is it possible to split the /home mounts over several drives / machines :and

[newbie] splitting /home dir's

2000-01-07 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Well folks, after all the great suggestions regarding my planned SOHO setup administration I thought I'd ask the next question that comes to my feeble little mind. Is it possible to split the /home mounts over several drives / machines and still refer to them as /home. Does NIS / NFS handle

[newbie] RE: [expert] splitting /home dir's

2000-01-07 Thread Bois, Mathieu
Joseph, Yes, it is possible to split users homes on different machines. BTW, If you want reliability (in case your main server goes down for a while), you'll have a master NIS server, with secondary NIS "slaves". (the terms are not the exact ones, but I don't remember exactly. What I know is