Re: [[newbie] remove me from this socialization]

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
"WILLIAM DOUGLAS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote please remove my name and e-mail address from your list immediately. i have more impotant thing to do, than reading other peoples e-mails all day. == We can't remove you. No one on this list can remove you but you!!

Re: [RE: [[newbie] modem and sound card problems]]

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Troy Weir" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The actual card is the SB AudioPCI 64D. The only sound I have tried is when I did do sndconfig and it tried to test the sound and then I tried some of the system sounds. = Did the card pass the sound test? I guess not :o( You

[newbie] Mank7

2000-02-02 Thread Hill, Andrew
I have successfully installed linux-mandrake 7, however, even though I can mount hda1 and hda5 and am able to browse the files, i am unable to peruse the directories using staroffice 5.1a.

Re: [newbie] A question about tar

2000-02-02 Thread flupke
of course, there is! If you want to create an archive (named /archive.tar) that contains your /home directory without including /home/foo, you type : cd /home tar cf /archiv.tar . --exclude foo Michelle Schneider wrote : Is there a way to get tar to skip a whole directory? I can't get it to

Re: [[newbie] remove me from this socialization]

2000-02-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Go to the Linux Mandrake web page (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/) and follow the links in the left frame to the mailing list page. Here there will be an option to unsubscribe. Michael Scottaline wrote: "WILLIAM DOUGLAS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote please remove my name and e-mail address

[newbie] Mank7

2000-02-02 Thread Hill, Andrew
Sorry, that should have ended, does anyone know why?

[newbie] Problems with kernel mounting

2000-02-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
After a clean install of Mandrake 7.0, I restarted my computer (after properly shutting down). Everything seemed fine. I could boot into both Linux into Windows 98 using BootMagic (part of PartitionMagic). However, the next morning the kernel would not fully load. The following is a copy of the

Re: [[newbie] HP Deskjet 722C]

2000-02-02 Thread David Tabachnikov
Actually it will print only in BW for now, but will work soon in color... go to www.freshmeat.net and search there. The problem is that DeskJet 700+, and some others use their own propeierty protocol (This sux) and not the usual protocol like DeskJet 69x etc... Michael Scottaline wrote:

Re: [newbie] Linux World

2000-02-02 Thread David Tabachnikov
Alex V Flinsch wrote: Anyone out there going to Linux World tomorrow? -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) I wish I could, but I'm not going to fly half of Earth just to be there... if only it was somewhere near here... Comdex is in Israel as well as LasVegas now,

Re: [newbie] Linux World

2000-02-02 Thread David Tabachnikov
Hehe, I guess he means the show... I think it is www.linuxworld.org But like what your saying.. Guillermo Belli wrote: Currently, I'm trying to survive with Linux in a Windows World.. maybe in the future we'll all be in a Linux World, I hope so El mar, 01 feb 2000, escribiste:

Re: [newbie] HERE IS A UTILITY THAT WILL HELP US ALL!

2000-02-02 Thread David Tabachnikov
Dan Ferris wrote: Oh, by the way Turn off the request return receipt. Since you obviously download the list, you will know that your message was received. Seems kind of redundant to me, but then again what do I know? :-) Dan How could I tunr it on in Netscape 4.7?

Re: [newbie] modem and sound card problems

2000-02-02 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Troy Weir wrote: My problem is two-fold. First, I installed MD 6.1 and every time time configure my modem, it tells me it's busy. I tried other ports and even under /dev/modem and I get either busy or That it can't recognize it. I have a Rockwell HCF 56K voice/data/fax modem. Please

Re: [newbie] A question about tar

2000-02-02 Thread Michelle Schneider
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, flupke wrote: of course, there is! If you want to create an archive (named /archive.tar) that contains your /home directory without including /home/foo, you type : cd /home tar cf /archiv.tar . --exclude foo Michelle Schneider wrote : Is there a way to get tar to

Re: [newbie] OT Starting LUG for mandrake

2000-02-02 Thread Josh McCaffrey
hugh wrote: I was thinking that maybe if enough people lived close enough to each other we could start ( Linux users groups ) It might be worth while and even fun. Any thoughts -- QOTD: I'm not a nerd -- I'm "socially challenged". I'm thinking that for this list, if a handful

Re: [newbie] Tape drive won't work

2000-02-02 Thread rfrankli
Do you know how to set up a SCSI Exabyte tape drive? Michelle Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/01/2000 07:00:29 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Robert W Franklin/WLGORE) Subject: Re: [newbie] Tape drive won't work On Tue, 01 Feb 2000,

[newbie] USB Mouse Trouble...

2000-02-02 Thread Tony Blackmon
I had a USB mouse working (that was autodetected during the installation) which has suddenly stopped working. If I run GPM to accept input from a ps2 mouse it sees the mouse, just goes nuts when I move it. 'mouseconfig' sees a USB mouse... What happened is something that I am not quite sure

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Mailling-list in German

2000-02-02 Thread Schaller Christoph
hey, i do like this one very much! but a german version wouldn' t be too bad - du to the increase of mandrakeinstallations. most of the german guys even don't knwo mandrake. greetings :-) - Original Message - From: Gael Duval [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] DHCP...

2000-02-02 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Dave wrote: Thanks=) things to check: ifconfig (do you see an eth0?) it gives me: loLink encap:Local Loopback inetaddr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 questions

2000-02-02 Thread ottffss
I downloaded the Mandrake 7.0 iso and installed it on several machines. For the most part it works great, but I've found a few small problems on all three of the machines I've installed on: 1) when I run [msh@localhost msh]$ /usr/bin/E-ScreenSave.epplet I get a desktop icon with several

[newbie] What does [PTBL] mean??

2000-02-02 Thread Nussbaum, George
I configured my ultra 66 card and it assigns my 27 GB HD the value of hde. When it starts to assign partitions it gives me: hde: [PTBL] then numbers here (looks like sectors/cylinders/heads) this is a FAT32 partition wth windows that I want to mount to read my data...any ideas?

[newbie] eth0 problem

2000-02-02 Thread Nussbaum, George
Hi, I'm using a 3c509b card with my mediaone cable modem. I disabled the PnP and STILL can't see the network. I'm running DHCP and don't know what's wrong. IRQ 10 doesn't work so I set the card to IRQ 3 and still nothing. Any ideas? Also can anyone recommend a good FTP server app?

[newbie] isofs read problem

2000-02-02 Thread David van Balen
I'm getting a message every now and then that says "isofs_read_super:bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32" and I'm not sure what it means, let alone what bread has to do with reading from my cdrom drive. There's usually not a cd in the drive at the times when I notice the message (in

[newbie] Mandrake 7 tcsh and dir colour

2000-02-02 Thread Elvis Chen
hi everyone, How does one enable ls to display file names in colour depending on the file extension? It used to be working under Mandrake 6.1, but once I installed Mandrake 7, it stops working. The shell I'm using is tcsh. HOWEVER, if I use bash, the ls-listing are displayed in colour.

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2000-02-02 Thread Eric
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Re: [newbie] eth0 problem

2000-02-02 Thread Eric
I had the same problem. I had to disable the plug and play and then I had to re-enable it. One I did that, it still wouldn't see the network. So I set it up static and each time I boot into linux I have to become SU and type at the prompt "ifup eth0" This worked for me. Good Luck. -

[newbie] libsnmp.o

2000-02-02 Thread Dan Ferris
I am trying to install ethereal 0.8.3. It needs libsnmp.o, does anyone know where to get the sources for this library??? Dan

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 tcsh and dir colour

2000-02-02 Thread Stelios Koutrakis
The command is "ls --color=auto". I personally use the bash shell so I put a line in my .bashrc like this: alias ls 'ls --color=auto' I think that something similar maybe done with the tcsh shell. Also if you want to change the default colours you may change the settings at the

[newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE

2000-02-02 Thread Miller, Joe (PHX)
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Re: [newbie] What does [PTBL] mean??

2000-02-02 Thread M Thompson
You have defenitely jumped onto the learning curve by conquering the ultra 66 card. CONGRATULATIONS! I think [PTBL] equals "Partition Table." To mount your Windows partition: 1) Type "fdisk -l" from a console to list the partitons 2) From the above command, identify the partition you want to

[newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread Britt Selvitelle
Another question. I am currently in a computer science class that uses g++ to compile programs. Now I want to compile some of these programs localy on my computer so I don't have to remotely log into their linux box to do my work. I tried a test program that looked like this

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 tcsh and dir colour

2000-02-02 Thread flupke
To display colors un filenames, to have to type ls --color=auto. To have it enabled just when typing ls, you have to add the line : alias ls="ls --color=auto" in your $HOME/.tcshrc or in any script executed when tcsh starts. Elvis Chen wrote : hi everyone, How does one enable ls to

[newbie] OTAnyone tried KisoCD? (better than X-CD-Roast?)

2000-02-02 Thread M Thompson
Hi All, Has anyone tried KisoCD? Description:"KisoCD is a CD-burning-frontend to cdrecord and mkisofs. Using it, creating CDs which are more than a copy of your harddisk becomes fun. You get a complete preview of your CD, do the work using drag'n'drop; it nearly behaves like a filemanager.

Re: [RE: [[newbie] modem and sound card problems]]

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Mar 2036, you wrote: "Troy Weir" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The actual card is the SB AudioPCI 64D. The only sound I have tried is when I did do sndconfig and it tried to test the sound and then I tried some of the system sounds. = Did the card

[newbie] S3 Trio3D

2000-02-02 Thread Christopher Navarro
Hellow I´m trying to configure X with frame buffer for my Trio3D card in my IBM 300PL with Mandrake 7 (Air). I´ve installed the fb ready kernel and it works great at 1024x768x16, but when I "startx" it fails to start. I already went through the config. XFree86Config reads:

Re: [newbie] What does [PTBL] mean??

2000-02-02 Thread flupke
You should ce able to mount it with the folowing : mkdir /mnt/windrv mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/windrv Nussbaum, George wrote : I configured my ultra 66 card and it assigns my 27 GB HD the value of hde. When it starts to assign partitions it gives me: hde: [PTBL] then numbers here (looks like

[newbie] Mandrake7: security level 3 and ftp/telnet deamon

2000-02-02 Thread Elvis Chen
greetings, upon reading the on-line documentation, I have realized that most of my previous problems were cause by the highest-security level that I set during setup. So I reset the security level back to 3, and most of the stuffs are working on. The only remaining problem is that I don't

Re: [newbie] HERE IS A UTILITY THAT WILL HELP US ALL!

2000-02-02 Thread Lance Borden
David Tabachnikov wrote: Dan Ferris wrote: Oh, by the way Turn off the request return receipt. Since you obviously download the list, you will know that your message was received. Seems kind of redundant to me, but then again what do I know? :-) Dan How could I tunr it on

Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread Stelios Koutrakis
Try installing libstdc++-devel-2.x.xmdk.i586.rpm |---| Stylianos Koutrakis Department of Geophysics School of Geology Aristotelio

[newbie] smbmount

2000-02-02 Thread victord
I want to mount a network share on an NT server so I can backup the share on the dat drive on the linux server. so far I can mount the share with samba no problem. My question is how can i map this share to a linux mount point (/mnt/winshare)

[newbie]smbmount question

2000-02-02 Thread victord
I want to mount a network share on an NT server so I can backup the share on the dat drive on the linux server. so far I can mount the share with samba no problem. My question is how can i map this share to a linux mount point (/mnt/winshare)

RE: [newbie] Mandrake7: security level 3 and ftp/telnet deamon

2000-02-02 Thread Scott Petersen
Make sure that you have the proper packages installed. The entries in inetd.conf will be there regardless of whether the telnet server or ftp server are installed. Try running rpm -qa |grep telnet If you don't get a line something like the following then you don't have the telnet server

Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread kraemer
Hi ! and when I do g++ test.cc -o test I get this error test.cc:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory What file libraries/rpms am I missing? Obviously, the compiler can't find the iostream.h header file. Thanks in advance. [Big Smile] I am just at this moment on the same problem

Re: [newbie] OT Starting LUG for mandrake

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: Well, we've already got on in the Chattanooga, TN area... two in fact www.calug.org and www.chugalug.org. The second is sort of an excuse for a bunch of geeks to get together to drink beer, though... ;-) John And I'll bet you never miss a

Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 722C

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: I am having trouble setting up my Hewlett Packard DeskJet 722C printer on Mandrake 7.0. I go into DrakConf, Printer Configuration, Local, and then it sees it on lp0, but from there I do not know what to do. I have tried all of the different deskjet printers

[newbie] unsubscribe

2000-02-02 Thread patrick smyth
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Re: [newbie] memory

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: I know now that using the mem=128M line in lilo.conf fixes the memory problem in mandrake 7.0 on my abit motherboard(s). BUT - does anyone know WHY this is happening with 7.0 and never happened to me in multiple installs of 6.1? It didn't happen to YOU in

Re: [newbie] smbmount

2000-02-02 Thread BryanMoorehead
Try mount -t smbfs -o username=insert username,password=insert password //nt_pc_name/nt_volume /mnt/winshare Worked for me in 7.0 BRyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/02/2000 01:48:04 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied

Re: [newbie] OT Starting LUG for mandrake

2000-02-02 Thread shuxclams
Thank you. Sean John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: How about in Los Angeles? Where can I find info on "LUG's" in my area? TIA http://www.linux.org/users/groups/usa/index.html This is a state-by-state listing -- click on your state and narrow the search even further.

Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread Britt Selvitelle
I got mine working. On my mandrake 7.0 cd under /Mandrake/RPMS/ the file libstdc++-devel-2.95.2-3mdk.i586.rpm did the trick for me. bsbs On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hi ! and when I do g++ test.cc -o test I get this error test.cc:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory What

Re: [newbie] MDK 7.0-Do you like it?

2000-02-02 Thread Richard Yevchak
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: How did you fix the supermount problem? About supermount as a new feature, if you know how to recompile your kernel, go to freshmeat.net, and search for supermount, there is a patch for supermount... It seems that during the install of LM 7.0 or the the first

RE: [newbie] modem and sound card problems

2000-02-02 Thread Abhimanyyu Raj-Singh
I am running mandrake 6.1 My graphics card is ATI All-In-Wonder Rage 128 how do i configure it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] modem and

[newbie] How do you make an ISDN connection (Fritx AVM PCI - aka BT Speedway PCI)

2000-02-02 Thread David Santon
How do you make an ISDN connection to the net with mandrake 7? TIA DS (Nottm UK) - http://www.santon.clara.co.uk/ -

Re: [newbie] Modem

2000-02-02 Thread shuxclams
They sound like winmodems, did you check to see if they are compatible with linux first? Sean tkirk wrote: I have installed a USR 56K ISA and a CB 56k PCI modem. In both attempts the Mandrake OS did not find them or set them up. Who can help!

[newbie] Email programs?

2000-02-02 Thread Britt Selvitelle
Just out of curiousity, what email programs are you all using? Which do you think are the best and have the most features? I am currently using kmail, the kde mail client, but it seems to lack some of the features I'd like to see in an email client.

[newbie] POSTFIX

2000-02-02 Thread shuxclams
Anyone have this running on their box? Do I need it? It's a mail program that is working in the background, I keep getting sent security messages from my log program about it. just wondering. Sean __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with

[newbie] smbumount problems

2000-02-02 Thread flupke
Hi! I have a problem since I installed the Mandrake 7.0 : I can mount my samba shares without problems. I can smbumount also. But a problem happens when I halt (or reboot) my machine : it can't umount these shares. When it reaches the point of umounting the file systems, if I still have samba

Re: [newbie] OT Starting LUG for mandrake

2000-02-02 Thread James Mellema
Josh McCaffrey wrote: hugh wrote: I was thinking that maybe if enough people lived close enough to each other we could start ( Linux users groups ) It might be worth while and even fun. Any thoughts -- QOTD: I'm not a nerd -- I'm "socially challenged". I'm thinking

RE: [newbie] DHCP...

2000-02-02 Thread Dave
insmod 3c509 gives me ./3c509.o: init_module: Device or resource busy ...sorry to have so little to go on, but I have no way of figuring out what to do next. (on a side note, is there a taskmanager or ctrl+alt+del equivalent in linux? I know that there is ps, but anything else (especially if it

Re: [newbie] help! kde is confusing!!

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: i cant figure out how to make the "desktop" the same size as the monitor display! its much larger and i need it to fit!! also, i cant figure out how to start gnome, and none of the help files are avasilable. Christopher L Delpmobile e mail: [EMAIL

[newbie] (no subject)

2000-02-02 Thread Shogomas
hi my name is dan i was just wondering how you get into that setup thing in dos where you can change your display settings

[newbie] modem worked then didn,t

2000-02-02 Thread Dave Gunter
I have a Supraexpress SPi V90 modem . I am running Kppp I set the modem at ttys02 then I ran the Query and it worked fine. I left it at that for the did not log or close kppp tried it again and get the message Modem not responding. The Modem works fine through Winlinux which is how I am sending

RE: [newbie] Mandrake7: security level 3 and ftp/telnet deamon

2000-02-02 Thread Scott Petersen
Hmm, that makes it a little more open as to what the problem might be. If it were my box I would try the following (based on the assumption that you are connected to the net with an ethernet interface): 1) see if I can ping my box locally to see if my interfaces are configured ping 127.0.0.1

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2000-02-02 Thread Ron Bailey
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 tcsh and dir colour

2000-02-02 Thread David Tabachnikov
You can use MDK6.1 and just use the kernel .rpm from 7, or simply take the kernel from www.kernel.org, go to freshmeat.net, and apply the supermount patch, and any other patches you need from MDK7's kernel... Elvis Chen wrote: hi everyone, How does one enable ls to display file names in

Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread Anthony Huereca
Try installing libstdc++-devel-2.x.xmdk.i586.rpm I installed libstdc++-devel-2.95.2-3mdk just now, but it still can't find the iostream.h file. It gives me the " test.c:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory" error still. I also couldn't find it in /usr/include, so is there something I'm

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 tcsh and dir colour

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: hi everyone, How does one enable ls to display file names in colour depending on the file extension? alias ls='ls --color' from a command prompt, or add it to your ~/.bashrc John

Re: [newbie] eth0 problem

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: I had the same problem. I had to disable the plug and play and then I had to re-enable it. One I did that, it still wouldn't see the network. So I set it up static and each time I boot into linux I have to become SU and type at the prompt "ifup eth0" This

Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: Another question. I am currently in a computer science class that uses g++ to compile programs. Now I want to compile some of these programs localy on my computer so I don't have to remotely log into their linux box to do my work. I tried a test program

Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hi ! and when I do g++ test.cc -o test I get this error test.cc:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory What file libraries/rpms am I missing? Obviously, the compiler can't find the iostream.h header file. Thanks in advance. [Big Smile] I

Re: [newbie] modem and sound card problems]

2000-02-02 Thread Andy Foote
it says mine is busy too and im sure i compatable modem, i don't need to be asked about it = I'm pretty sure the HCF indicates this is a software, or winmodem. I suggest getting an external. =

Re: [newbie] Mank7

2000-02-02 Thread Audrey Beck
"Hill, Andrew" wrote: I have successfully installed linux-mandrake 7, however, even though I can mount hda1 and hda5 and am able to browse the files, i am unable to peruse the directories using staroffice 5.1a. Are these your DOS/Win partitions? If so, there is a problem with the mount

Re: [newbie] Tape drive won't work

2000-02-02 Thread Audrey Beck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know how to set up a SCSI Exabyte tape drive? If your scsi card is recognised, then watch when the system boots. It should show what linux thinks is connected to the controller. It's probably /dev/st0 if it's the first tape drive. At the command prompt

Re: [newbie] Email programs?

2000-02-02 Thread Anthony Huereca
I use Kmail too, and I'm quite happy with it. It serves my needs just fine. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit Just out of curiousity, what email programs are you all using? Which do you think are the best and have the most features?

Re: [newbie] Email programs?

2000-02-02 Thread Dave Gunter
Britt Selvitelle wrote: Just out of curiousity, what email programs are you all using? Which do you think are the best and have the most features? I am currently using kmail, the kde mail client, but it seems to lack some of the features I'd like to see in an email client. I am using

Re: [newbie] Email programs?

2000-02-02 Thread Randall Randall
Britt Selvitelle wrote: Just out of curiousity, what email programs are you all using? Which do you think are the best and have the most features? I am currently using kmail, the kde mail client, but it seems to lack some of the features I'd like to see in an email client. I've used

[newbie] text install?

2000-02-02 Thread Randall Randall
How do I get the installation program to use only text? I have a monochrome monitor and no mouse on the machine I'm trying to set up... -- Wolfkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Crypto key: www.freedomspace.net/~wolfkin/crypto.text On a visible but distant shore, a new image of man; The shape of his own

[newbie] Problem

2000-02-02 Thread Maria Viskovska
Hi I used for connection on internet Kppp ,but Kppp not work good!! I open Kppp and click on connect and LINUX show me window with sory,modem is busy but my modem is not BUSY :-))) I have conf. modem on /dev/ttyS2 { com 3 in Win98} what is bad I used minicom but minicom show me

Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread Kevin Gathers
Where did you find that? I need it myself. - Original Message - From: Anthony Huereca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler Try installing libstdc++-devel-2.x.xmdk.i586.rpm I installed

[newbie] Lilo 1024 Cyl 64RAM limit

2000-02-02 Thread Alek
Hello, I have the linux partition starting about 1404 cyl on a 13GB HDD. I tried to make lilo put the boot on every partition on my disk (some of them under 1024 cyl of course) but I still get the message Warning, 14041024 blah blah. So the problem is that he cannot address my linux partition? I

[newbie] What's the deal with Mandrake's kernel

2000-02-02 Thread bob jones
I am currently using Slack 7.0 and am considering using lilo to get the latest version of Mandrake, granted that it is built with the pgcc compiler. I went to the homepage, and found that Mandrake was using the latest stable version of pgcc, but they never say how it is used. Is the kernel

Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread Randall Randall
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hi ! and when I do g++ test.cc -o test I get this error test.cc:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory What file libraries/rpms am I missing? Obviously, the compiler can't find the iostream.h header file. Thanks in

[newbie] Email programs?

2000-02-02 Thread Mike Fieschko
"Britt" == Britt Selvitelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Britt Just out of curiousity, what email programs are you all Britt using? Which do you think are the best and have the most X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid

Re: [[newbie] Email programs?]

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
Britt Selvitelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiousity, what email programs are you all using? Which do you think are the best and have the most features? I am currently using kmail, the kde mail client, but it seems to lack some of the features I'd like to see in an email client.

Re: [Re: [newbie] Email programs?]

2000-02-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
Randall Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used kmail, spruce, mutt, tkrat, balsa, Arrow, Mahogany, and many others. They almost all lack encryption, and the one that has good support for that is TEXT (mutt). :( So I keep coming back to netscape, since the ONLY feature it seems to lack

Re: [newbie] file permissions and pppd

2000-02-02 Thread Ribbo
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Bobby Welch wrote: issue the command ./usr/sbin/pppd i get the following error: ./pppd: must be root to run ./pppd, since it is not setuid-root. Now, i have tried giving the user permission to execute the pppd command using chmod 555 .. but I can still not execute the

Re: [newbie] text install?

2000-02-02 Thread Randall Randall
Randall Randall wrote: How do I get the installation program to use only text? I have a monochrome monitor and no mouse on the machine I'm trying to set up... Okay, got this working. There's a totally different image for text installs. Mandrake's webpage claims that the normal image

[newbie] I can't find the in.telnetd

2000-02-02 Thread Jason Miu
Dear all, I cannot telnet to my Mandrake 6.1 machine. After read the notes and search, I found there is a line in my inetd.conf: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd but, in my /usr/sbin/ , I can't find the file "in.telnetd" (but in.ftpd is there). I think this is my

Re: [newbie] Modem

2000-02-02 Thread Mark Potochnik
I believe I saw somewhere that the automatic stuff doen't work with ISA stuff... That'swhy I switched my good ISA sound card for a PCI sound card... Is there a way to manually set up the ISA modem??? MarkP -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] kernel re-build

2000-02-02 Thread Vic H
What is the proceedure to do a kernel re-build? I can't get menuconfig or xconfig to work -- Linux Cat

Re: [[newbie] Email programs?]

2000-02-02 Thread Britt Selvitelle
I'm running 1.0.28. There are several functions I find missing. Some of these might just be because I am not using it correctly though. I have a hard time sorting my mails by date. They appear in the wrong order at times. I also have to re-enter my passwords for each of my email accounts

[newbie] Printer still not working

2000-02-02 Thread David Chanderpaul
I have an HP 1000-Cxi printer and it is not working under Linux. When I install Linux or use "printtool" it detects a printer port. I don't understand why it will not print. Nothing shows up in the printer queue either. Is there no one out there with this printer or a similar printer who has

[newbie] Help Downloading

2000-02-02 Thread Christopher Sinclair
Hi, I started to download the file mandrake70.iso from ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/iso/mandrake70.isoat a 56kb speed and it downloaded using getright up to 22 % of the file then it could no longer find the file. I know that they are free distributions and

Re: [Re: [newbie] Email programs?]

2000-02-02 Thread Randall Randall
Michael Scottaline wrote: Randall Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used kmail, spruce, mutt, tkrat, balsa, Arrow, Mahogany, and many others. They almost all lack encryption, and the one that has good support for that is TEXT (mutt). :( So I keep coming back to netscape, since

Re: [newbie] Lilo 1024 Cyl 64RAM limit

2000-02-02 Thread Richard Yevchak
I'd have to say you are stuck with loadlin. You can have Windows/Dos display a menu at startup giving you the choice of O/S. Look at the Loadlin+Win9X howto. Just put the "mem=256M" on the line with loadlin. Here is what mine looks like: c:\linux\loadlin c:\linux\vmlinuz1 root=/dev/hda6 ro