[newbie] KPPP and Desktop icons

2000-02-07 Thread glyn
Hi - to questions, having finally got Mandrake 7.0 up and running (beautifully!) 1. Setting up Kppp - I've followed the instructions carefully but each time I try to dial up with Kppp I get a "pppd died suddenly" message. The log says "localhost pppd[1821]: the remote host is required to

Re: [newbie] I'm new, help :)

2000-02-07 Thread David Odin (aka DindinX)
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:07:14PM -0800, Anthony Mage wrote: Hi I'm entirely new to the Linux world, and I was interested in trying out Mandrake's Linux. First of all, I would like to know if it will run on such a system with 233 mhz AMD-K6 and 32 MB ram. (It's my old computer ^_^)

Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?

2000-02-07 Thread David Odin (aka DindinX)
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 07:45:11AM +, Lothar Mandrake wrote: From: Dan Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] In your .bash_profile file, or whatever shell you use, add the following: alias ls='ls -Fa' then whenever you type ls, it will actually do an ls -Fa. Dan Yes, that is a

Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?

2000-02-07 Thread David Odin (aka DindinX)
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 08:01:41AM +, Lothar Mandrake wrote: From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] lsd appears to be an alias and not a file since "find" turned up nil when I ran a search for it. You can probably put your script in the bindir without screwing up the system but you may

[newbie] TESTING

2000-02-07 Thread Jackie
HI JUST TESTING -- "I don't object to sex before marriage, but two minutes before?!?"

Re: [newbie] how to delete Linux partition

2000-02-07 Thread Pamela Okoro
unsubscribe "Marc Herms (Mercator GmbH)" wrote: I want to put Linux on another PC that is entirely dedicated to Linux. So far, I have a PC where I have a linux and a windows98 partition (with Boot + partition Magic). How can I delete the Linux partition and use it entirely for Windows?

Re: [newbie] KPPP and Desktop icons

2000-02-07 Thread RRPotratz
Well, on the Kppp question if you've typed in your password in the kppp window I'm not sure.. To put a new icon on the desktop you click your right mouse button on an empty area on your desktop and a menu will popup and from there go to "new" on that menu and chose what type of icon you want to

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] 2.2.13-22 kernel update

2000-02-07 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: OK, I was looking for an update for the stdlibc and gcc gcc+ libraries and such (got tired of installing software that required one library or another that didn't install when I selected "everything" from the 6.1

Re: [newbie] KPPP

2000-02-07 Thread root
I'm having the same problem, and I installed with 'Welcome to Crackers' setting, Mandrake is wayyy to secure :) Fran -- From: RRPotratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; glyn [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mandrake-newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KPPP and Desktop icons

Re: [newbie] telnet

2000-02-07 Thread Julian Rendon Yepes
You need to set it up from Rpm's. Mandrake doesn't install telnet daemon and any other things in a normal installation. Bye, Julian *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/4/00 at 8:52 AM Agi Subagio wrote: How to activate telnet daemon in Linux Mandrake 6.1? Regards, agi

Re: [newbie] Config Problems

2000-02-07 Thread Julian Rendon Yepes
There's a module that you can load for your genius ethernet card. /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o I have a 2500II Genius pci card and it works fine. I Hope this module work for you too. Bye *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/5/00 at 9:34 AM root wrote: Recently my NT

[newbie] installation

2000-02-07 Thread Tony
newbie to mandrake (72 year old living on yacht in Caribbean, computers since 64k, no hard drive, Basic o/s days) on trying install of 70-2 iso downloaded yesterday failure occurs with message "failed pcmcia core", since the only such device is the wireless card which connects me to the ISP

[newbie] Help

2000-02-07 Thread chris
Dear Sir, This is the first time I install Linux, my computer configuration includes CPU processor AMD-K7-500Mhz and 64M Ram.Moreover, I have installed Win98 on my computer and therefore I install Linux on a new partition. I allocate 1.5Gfor root partition, 353M for home partition and

[newbie] Welcome to list newbie

2000-02-07 Thread newbie-request
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[newbie]

2000-02-07 Thread chris
Dear Sir, This is the first time I install Linux, my computer configuration includes CPU processor AMD-K7-500Mhz and 64M Ram.Moreover, I have installed Win98 on my computer and therefore I install Linux on a new partition. I allocate 1.5Gfor root partition, 353M for home partition and

Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Lothar Mandrake wrote: From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] lsd appears to be an alias and not a file since "find" turned up nil when I ran a search for it. You can probably put your script in the bindir without screwing up the system but you may not be able to

Re: [newbie] telnet

2000-02-07 Thread R_Yeo
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, Agi Subagio wrote: How to activate telnet daemon in Linux Mandrake 6.1? I presume you mean that you want to run the telnet server? Make sure the package is installed; edit /etc/inetd.conf to make sure that the line starting with telnet is not commented out; restart inet

RE: [newbie] Lilo! Eek!

2000-02-07 Thread Family ZOMBIE
Hi! I had the same problem. It seems, that you installed lilo to NTFS partition. That is not possible (not yet anyway). Now you have to re-install Windows NT and choose: repair damaged installation (or something like that). That will repair WinNT boot. After that you can boot WinNT, but won't be

[newbie] interesting read

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
Thought some might find this an interesting read. I just learned about a couple apps for linux I didn't know about myself... http://linuxguiden.linpro.no/experience.php DvB

Re: [newbie] I'm new, help :)

2000-02-07 Thread vishal bansal
Hi Anth: I would recommend that you first create the linux native and swap partitions using fdisk or Partition magic. Partition magic is very easy to use, I do! Then reboot from CD-ROM (if your bios supports that). Else run the cd-rom from dos, else use linux floppy disk for installation.

RE: [newbie] I'm new, help :)

2000-02-07 Thread Joe Sircy
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Joe Sircy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 February 2000 09:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] I'm new, help :) who needs windoze? sorry, I am new. I agree dreamweaver is the bomb, and I wish it was

[newbie] libg++.so.2.7.2

2000-02-07 Thread Harold Hartley
does anyone know where I can find the libg++.so.2.7.2 as I have a plug-in that won't install with out it... thanks.. its the realaudio plug-in I'm trying to install... I have realplayer G2 installed on my mandrake 7.0 thanks Harold

Re: [newbie] Setting the time in Mandrake?

2000-02-07 Thread Dan Ferris
You could try using the timetool. Go to a console and type "su -c timetool" enter the root password and off you go. Dan

[newbie] Configuring Postfix

2000-02-07 Thread Dale Morris
I want to use exmh mail program, or maybe mutt. I have a cable modem connection with DHCP and am running Mandrake 7.0. Can anyone tell me how to configure Postfix? I read the man page, but that didn't help much and I can't find much on the web. Before, when I had redhat 6.1 installed, I used

[newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread Mark Sheppard
What web browser does everyone use with Linux? I hate to say it, but the main reason I keep booting back to windows every couple hours is because the NS version that comes with Mandrake just totaly blows, and If I want to view any web pages I have got to have a decent browser. are there any

Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!

2000-02-07 Thread Josh McCaffrey
snip KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each That's damned odd. I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap area. Oh, that explains everything. P133/16MB RAM ^ ^ | | | `-- You intend to run a GUI with this?! Stick to the command prompt

[newbie] GLX drivers

2000-02-07 Thread Britt Selvitelle
Has anyone had any luck getting their riva TNT card to run Mesa apps using the new GLX-Mesa beta driver? I'd like to hear some success stories about this.

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread Mike
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: What web browser does everyone use with Linux? I hate to say it, but the main reason I keep booting back to windows every couple hours is because the NS version that comes with Mandrake just totaly blows, and If I want to view any web pages I have got to have

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread HAL 9000
i have to agree... although i am anti-Micro$oft, i despise netscape. especially the mail client. IE is easy to use, and especially on linux, no THAT system demanding... just my thought ;o) seth On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mark Sheppard wrote: What web browser does everyone use with Linux? I

[newbie] screenshots?

2000-02-07 Thread HAL 9000
its prolly the most simple thing to do, and i have no idea how to do it. how do i do screenshots? thanks in advance. seth

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread Mark Sheppard
I've been to about 45 Linux pages today, I'll go through my history and see if I cant find it again. ...well give me a few on that... but a quick search on go.com turned this up: http://www.sunworld.com/swol-11-1997/swol-11-ie4.html Where did you see the IE port to unix? rgds: Mike

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread Mark Sheppard
And here is MS's official page on it which actually says IE5 with Outlook5 which would be very nice to see for Linux too. http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp ...well give me a few on that... but a quick search on go.com turned this up:

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread Harold Hartley
you can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/unix/ie40 and should be there... Harold Mark Sheppard wrote: I've been to about 45 Linux pages today, I'll go through my history and see if I cant find it again. ...well give me a few on that... but a quick search on go.com turned this up:

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread Dale Morris
Mark Sheppard wrote: And here is MS's official page on it which actually says IE5 with Outlook5 which would be very nice to see for Linux too. http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp ...well give me a few on that... but a quick search on go.com turned this up:

[newbie] Welcome to list newbie

2000-02-07 Thread newbie-request
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[newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE

2000-02-07 Thread Vic
Just to announce, Mandrake 6.1 has a bug, you cannot, no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, there is NO make menuconfig in Mandrake 6.1, they screwed up, you install the kernel headers and the sources, and still will not make menuconfig or xconfig, it is BROKEN, ie DEFECTIVE, ie

[newbie] KNETLoad doesn't work

2000-02-07 Thread Dale Morris
I'm sure this is a real simple fix, but how do I get KNETLoad (Network traffic monitor) to work in my /home/user account? It works fine in /root so I'm sure it's a permission problem, but I don't know what file to change permission on. I'm using mandrake 7.0 with a cable modem connection and

[newbie] GIMP Chinese???

2000-02-07 Thread Cameron Kerr
Why is it, that when I use Gimp to create characters in Script-fu, it takes a _REALLY_ long time, with lots of disk paging, and then I'm presented with one or two chinese characters??? Very perculiar, and I only wanted it to write "CTK" Cameron Kerr - Computer Technician Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Setting the time in Mandrake?

2000-02-07 Thread Cameron Kerr
Go to a console and type setup (your looking for the timetool). Find the bit where it says "Time stored in GMT" or something similar, switch it. HIH -Original Message- From: Lothar Mandrake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 February 2000 9:00pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!

2000-02-07 Thread Tony
i am just buying AMDK6/2 450 ($54) and TYAN 1590 M/board ($84) from Computergate.com - Original Message - From: "Josh McCaffrey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow! snip KDE runs very slow. It takes

[newbie] Configuring PCMCIA

2000-02-07 Thread Wil Gayle
Greetings folks, I have just installed the full Linux-Mandrake 7.0 on a Compaq Armada 7400. When I attempting to start the pcmcia services, I get the messages: /lib/modules/2.2.14-1mdklinus/pcmcia not found When I attempted to reinstall pcmcia using rpm, the system states the package is

[newbie] Logging in as root trough telnet

2000-02-07 Thread Cameron Kerr
Why is it that I can telnet to my box as an unprivilidged user, but not as root? Cameron Kerr - Computer Technician Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph:474 3367 or 474 3800 if unavailable Cell: 021 2938869

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread Vic
No it isn't On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Harold Hartley mewed: you can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/unix/ie40 and should be there... Harold Mark Sheppard wrote: I've been to about 45 Linux pages today, I'll go through my history and see if I cant find it again. ...well

Re: [newbie] screenshots?

2000-02-07 Thread Anthony Huereca
You probally installed Gimp when you installed, so use that. You can just type "gimp" in the command prompt in X. Then after it starts up, go to "Xtns" in the menu bar, then hit the "Screen Shot" option. Then it'll give you a dialog box asking whether to get a single Window, or the whole screen.

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
Yes, it's been discussed before, Netscape for Linux blows and there's not much else if you want to view flash or javascript content. I often end up using Windows to view web pages that make Netscape crash. As to alternatives that may be available in the future, there's Mozilla which is entering

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
Yeah, it does sound good. They don't have a release date though... I think it's important not to stop supporting the open source browsers out there while we wait for Microsoft's vaporware. If Microsoft does release IE for Linux and it's a good product, great, but meanwhile I plan to assume that

Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!

2000-02-07 Thread George Jones
Anyone have the dirt on the Evergreen AMD K6-2 upgrade? I'm running a P133 also, and have seen the 333-400mhz AMD upgrades for $100-200US w/ BIOS upgrade. And then there's SO MANY motherboards around, I'm having a difficult time choosing one. With all the graphics cards moving from PCI

Re: [newbie] screenshots?

2000-02-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
sethgimp does screenshots and even has a built in delay so you can get the gimp window minimized before the shot. Alan On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: its prolly the most simple thing to do, and i have no idea how to do it. how do i do screenshots? thanks in advance. seth

Re: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?

2000-02-07 Thread Lance Borden
Craig wrote: dave wrote: Craig wrote: I am very new to Linux, I'm triple booting with Win2K, Win98, Linux my Epson Stylus Photo 700 works fantastic in all three. Craig Photo printing looks good/great??? Really sounds like Epson is the only way to go! I still have on a

Re: [newbie] Configuring Postfix

2000-02-07 Thread Steve Wright
Dale Morris wrote: I want to use exmh mail program, or maybe mutt. I have a cable modem connection with DHCP and am running Mandrake 7.0. Can anyone tell me how to configure Postfix? I think there are some good html docs available for postfix installed with Mandrake. Try looking in:

Re: [newbie] Logging in as root trough telnet

2000-02-07 Thread Steve Wright
Cameron Kerr wrote: Why is it that I can telnet to my box as an unprivilidged user, but not as root? sarcastic mode on ...erm, now let me think about that for a minute. If anyone could telnet into your box as root I wonder if that might just pose some kinda security risk? /sarcastic mode

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread Steve Wright
Mark Sheppard wrote: What web browser does everyone use with Linux? I did see that there is an IE port to unix available, and a possible linux port in the works. N don't do it! What makes you think the UNIX version of IE will be any more stable than the Win32ver. (or

Re: [newbie] screenshots?

2000-02-07 Thread dave
Anthony Huereca wrote: You probally installed Gimp when you installed, so use that. You can just type "gimp" in the command prompt in X. Then after it starts up, go to "Xtns" in the menu bar, then hit the "Screen Shot" option. Then it'll give you a dialog box asking whether to get a single

Re: [newbie] Logging in as root trough telnet

2000-02-07 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: Why is it that I can telnet to my box as an unprivilidged user, but not as root? Security. Try logging in as a regular user then su -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

[newbie] RAM question and Time

2000-02-07 Thread John Catral
Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7 and I noticed that it is only reading 64 Mb of my 224 Totyal RAMS I have. Is that an error that 7.0 has? Another thing that I am perplexed about is the fact that it is giving a qrong time. I live here in New Jersey and all my other OS' like redhat works fine

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread Vic
Speaking of Mozila, I wonder why it is so slllowww? On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Anthony Huereca mewed: I use Netscape, as it's the closest thing to IE on Linux. I agree though, Netscape blows, and I'd do almost anything to get IE on here. Mozilla looks sorta promising, but it's much too

RE: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

2000-02-07 Thread Cameron Kerr
Dude, I totally agree, variety and open source are the two major things that make linux great (as well as price (or lack thereof)). There is one thing you could pretty much guarantee though. Since there are minor variations between the many different flavours of *nix boxes, M$ would be forced to

[newbie] CVS

2000-02-07 Thread Vic
I know enough Linux to do light system administration, but my biggest newbie thing is cvs, what is it? why is it? and how can it benefit me the most if i want to start writing freeware for the Linux community? -- Linux Cat

Re: [newbie] Logging in as root trough telnet

2000-02-07 Thread Britt Selvitelle
Yeah, with telnet, anyone with your ip could just snoop your root pass and that'd be the end of it. You can SSH (secure shell) into your comp and log on as root though. try ssh your ip -l username On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: Cameron Kerr wrote: Why is it that I can telnet to my box as

[newbie] Problem with PCMCIA IDE CD drive?

2000-02-07 Thread Scott Balmos
Greetings all, I recently bought an HP Omnibook 800CT at a computer show for school, and am in the process of wiping it clean and installing Mandrake 7. Minor problem though... DrakeX doesn't seem to like my PCMCIA CD drive. Just as a quick background, I'm using the 7.02 ISO burned to a CD,

Re: [newbie] Logging in as root trough telnet

2000-02-07 Thread Sam
Steve Wright wrote: Cameron Kerr wrote: Why is it that I can telnet to my box as an unprivilidged user, but not as root? sarcastic mode on ...erm, now let me think about that for a minute. If anyone could telnet into your box as root I wonder if that might just pose some kinda

RE: [newbie] Logging in as root trough telnet

2000-02-07 Thread Cameron Kerr
Yeah, I thought that might have been the case. Is there a sater way, it's on my local, exclusive network (may connect to 'net one day) -Original Message- From: Steve Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2000 10:29am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]

RE: [newbie] screenshots?

2000-02-07 Thread Cameron Kerr
what about non-kde? X-Window in general -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2000 10:50am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] screenshots? Anthony Huereca wrote: You probally installed Gimp when you installed, so use that. You

Re: [newbie] I'm new, help :)

2000-02-07 Thread Michelle Schneider
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Anthony Mage wrote: Hi I'm entirely new to the Linux world, and I was interested in trying out Mandrake's Linux. First of all, I would like to know if it will run on such a system with 233 mhz AMD-K6 and 32 MB ram. (It's my old computer ^_^) I run Mandrake on a system

Re: [newbie] CVS

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
In simple language, CVS is where you keep your code when lots of people are working on it at the same time. When one person makes changes to the code, he/she submits them to the cvs repository so everyone else can see them/modify them. Obviously, this helps open source by making it easier for

Re: [newbie] Problem with PCMCIA IDE CD drive?

2000-02-07 Thread caedy walters
Greeting all. Has anyone sucessfully installed a HP 820c or other ppa printer with the built in drivers in Mandrake7. If so could you explain how to, or point me in the right direction? thanks. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: [newbie] CVS

2000-02-07 Thread Sam
Vic wrote: I know enough Linux to do light system administration, but my biggest newbie thing is cvs, what is it? why is it? and how can it benefit me the most if i want to start writing freeware for the Linux community? -- Linux Cat Here's what I found: http://www.sourcegear.com/CVS

re: [newbie] Logging in as root trough telnet

2000-02-07 Thread alansnider
Dude ... that would leave a big hole in your security. Linux has deliberately blocked root from logging in remotely. If you really want to do it, then I think you can create a "super user" with access to everything (haven't tried it but told by a friend it can happen) OR: load VNC server on

[newbie] rpmdrake

2000-02-07 Thread T.R. Henigson
I'm trying to use rmpdrake. I attempted to add rmpfind.net/linux/ as the URL for a directory containing RPMs. Is this correct? What should I put for the location for hdlist? Thanks, Ted

Re: [newbie] CVS

2000-02-07 Thread Vic
Thank you On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Sam mewed: Vic wrote: I know enough Linux to do light system administration, but my biggest newbie thing is cvs, what is it? why is it? and how can it benefit me the most if i want to start writing freeware for the Linux community? -- Linux Cat

Re: [newbie] RAM question and Time

2000-02-07 Thread Alek
John Catral wrote: Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7 and I noticed that it is only reading 64 Mb of my 224 Totyal RAMS I have. Is that an error that 7.0 has? Hello, I had the same problem. How do you launch Linux? If with lilo, then you should add in the lilo.conf a line specifing t othe

Re: [newbie] RAM question and Time

2000-02-07 Thread Dale Morris
John Catral wrote: Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7 and I noticed that it is only reading 64 Mb of my 224 Totyal RAMS I have. Is that an error that 7.0 has? Another thing that I am perplexed about is the fact that it is giving a qrong time. I live here in New Jersey and all my other OS'

Re: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?

2000-02-07 Thread Craig
Lance Borden wrote: Okay, I see what y'all are saying...high praise for the Epson S. P. 700! Since I'm looking for a new printer right now, I went right out to find me one of those, and where I live (Austria) I couldn't find one! Or could I? I found Stylus Color 740, 750, 860 and

[newbie] chroot help

2000-02-07 Thread ATL Oledog
Does anyone have any working syntax that displays how to use chroot to jail a user or group into a particular directory. I want to provide one account for ftp but do not want the users rampaging my system. Could you please explain where to put it. Thanks

[newbie] Stupid RAM troubles.

2000-02-07 Thread jerlin
OK, i had MDK 6.1 on my syatem a week ago, and in my lilo.conf file i added append="mem=128M" to get all my 128M of RAM supported. But now with MDK 7, this does crap, and I still get 64Ms at boot. Running Netscape and other things all at once *deserve* all my RAM, but i just cant get it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Install Problem

2000-02-07 Thread Willbur Gayle
The problem is linux does not yet support Ultra66 - at least not from the install CD. I had the same problem and will probably buy a cheap non-Ultra66 HD for Linux. Wil - Original Message - From: Roc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 6:32 PM Subject:

re: [newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
6.5 is MacMillan's repackaging of 6.1... it's supposed to be exactly the same. DvB On 7 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friend bought a genuine Mandrake 6.5 boxed release .. and inside we found the cd was labeled 6.1 (as is the install wiz) Perhaps this is the release # of the fixed

Re: [newbie] Epson 700 refurbs

2000-02-07 Thread dave
On the topic of the Epson 700 printer - I found one at PCConnection.com, refurbished, for $99.95. I should have it tomorrow, and if it prints as well from Mandrake as I'm hoping, I'll report to the group. dave w

re: [newbie] Mandrake Install Problem

2000-02-07 Thread alansnider
Question: What do you mean "drive D reserved for Linux"? Ideally the partition you are gonna install into should not be defined at all (Linux will do the partitioning for you). do you already have NT on drive e:? If it is necessary to keep the drive letter for the NT, then I believe you will

[newbie] StarOffice

2000-02-07 Thread HAL 9000
hello.. thanks for the replies about screenshots :o) another question. i just downloaded staroffice 5.1 (i love my t1 connection) and it is in *.tar format. however when i try to untar is, i get the following error (using terminal emulation): gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

Re: [Re: [newbie] Epson 700 refurbs]

2000-02-07 Thread Jaguar
If I understand correctly...the ENTIRE 700 ie: 700, 701, 702, - 799 series of Epson printer are considered to be WIN printer's. CMIIW Jaguar "dave" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the topic of the Epson 700 printer - I found one at PCConnection.com, refurbished, for $99.95. I should have it

[newbie] crontab help

2000-02-07 Thread dave
I thought I had this licked last night, but I guess I didn't. It seems that using crontab I can do neat console things like wget an image from a web site, but I can't seem to make anything happen in X. Can anyone tell me why this crontab wgets the file on schedule but doesn't display it? 25 * *

[newbie] New install... Network problems

2000-02-07 Thread Rodney Fulk
Hello, I have a problem that nothing I have seems to explain... I have a linux box running on an Asus P2B-S motherboard with 32 meg of memory, Celeron 300a, Diamond Stealth 2000 video card (Pci with standard S3 chipset.), 8 Gig hard drive, LinkSys 10/100 Network card and a CD rom. I have Linux

Re: [[newbie] RAM question and Time]

2000-02-07 Thread Michael Scottaline
"John Catral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7 and I noticed that it is only reading 64 Mb of my 224 Totyal RAMS I have. Is that an error that 7.0 has? = Try editing /etc/lilo.conf add: append="mem=224M" =

Re: [newbie] X configure help PLEASE

2000-02-07 Thread Terence So
Gina, Before install the drive, I install Mandrake 7.0-2. and must choose "Generic VGA" in the VGA adapter section. According to the document we must instal "VGA16" X server First of all, I downloaded two RPM files from Intel WEB. Then Follow the instruction in the release note!-

Re: [newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE

2000-02-07 Thread Rodney Fulk
Hmm, I have this and it does work.. I compiled a kernel on the first try... Used Xconfig from the KDE desktop. Was able to compile from there and make zlilo and am running that kernal now.. Now if I could get my network to network I would be happy... - Original Message - From: "David van

[newbie] VMWare

2000-02-07 Thread James W. Brodack
Has anyone tried installing VMWare 1.1.2 under Mandrake 7.0?

[newbie] Invalid Block Device w/md 7.0

2000-02-07 Thread Kenneth Lawrence
Help, I just upgraded from 6.1, where my cdrom(memorex 4224) worked, to 7.0 and now I get an invalid block device when I try to mount a cd. What can I do to fix the problem??? Thanks Ken

RE: [newbie] New install... Network problems

2000-02-07 Thread Cameron Kerr
What is the output of dmesg? also /var/log/messages might offer some help. You might also try using linuxconf to set hostname -Original Message- From: Rodney Fulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2000 4:22pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] New install...

Re: [newbie] New install... Network problems

2000-02-07 Thread HAL 9000
Rodney Fulk wrote: Hello, I have a problem that nothing I have seems to explain... I have a linux box running on an Asus P2B-S motherboard with 32 meg of memory, Celeron 300a, Diamond Stealth 2000 video card (Pci with standard S3 chipset.), 8 Gig hard drive, LinkSys 10/100 Network card and

Re: [newbie] crontab help

2000-02-07 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, dave wrote: I thought I had this licked last night, but I guess I didn't. It seems that using crontab I can do neat console things like wget an image from a web site, but I can't seem to make anything happen in X. Can anyone tell me why this crontab wgets the file on

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2000-02-07 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
what command did you use? sounds like a tar zxvf file.tar if the arcgive is not compressed you will get the error you mentioned try tar zvf file.tar is that failes re-download in binary mode *if ftp'ed) On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, HAL 9000 wrote: hello.. thanks for the replies about screenshots :o)

[newbie] StarOffice

2000-02-07 Thread Mike Fieschko
"HAL" == HAL 9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] HAL untar is, i get the following error (using terminal HAL emulation): gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child HAL returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous HAL errors [snip] What options are you passing to

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2000-02-07 Thread David van Balen
I had it installed on a seperate partition under 6.1. I installed 7.0 from scratch, ran vmware-config.pl and... voila, it worked. DvB On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, James W. Brodack wrote: Has anyone tried installing VMWare 1.1.2 under Mandrake 7.0?

RE: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake to a 2nd IDE hard drive?

2000-02-07 Thread Hill, Andrew
You may already have the answer by now, but I'll put my fourpence worth in. When you boot/install from the Mandrake CD-ROM you will be given the option to configure the hard drive spaces. You will be able to select one of the two hard drives, hda or hdb, for the linux installation, just select

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2000-02-07 Thread HAL 9000
"Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: what command did you use? sounds like a tar zxvf file.tar if the arcgive is not compressed you will get the error you mentioned try tar zvf file.tar is that failes re-download in binary mode *if ftp'ed) On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, HAL 9000 wrote: hello.. thanks

[newbie] Lilo, Mandrake 7, and Windows 2k?

2000-02-07 Thread Richard M.
Hello. I have just reconfigured my system to make it more accessible by non-MS Operating systems. This is what I have. I have a 6.4 gig (C partition) drive on my primary Controller, a DVD as master on my Secondary, a Mitsumi CDR on slave on my secondary. I have a 9.1 gig on my promise Ultra66

[newbie] fsck prob

2000-02-07 Thread Funboy
hello. big problem. i had to disconnect my system components for maintenance and when i reconnected them (with a new cpu), everything went haywire on the bootup. since then, i managed to get to the "unmounting old kernel" bit. then, it says that my linux partition (hda3) was not cleanly

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2000-02-07 Thread Warren Doney
"James W. Brodack" wrote: Has anyone tried installing VMWare 1.1.2 under Mandrake 7.0? Not me, but the 2.0 beta installed without a hitch works fine, except for repeatedly warning me that I did not have lockdoor for my cdrom (something to do with supermount?) sound not going (may be pointed

[newbie] NIC Problems.

2000-02-07 Thread Xkaliber19
I have been trying to determine the problem that is causing my LED on my NIC to drop as soon as my boot reaches Bringing up interface eth0 [ok} . My NIC is attached to my cable modem. I have a dual boot and I have connectivity through my cable modem in Win98. I am assuming that the LED

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