[newbie] Installing from hard drive using lnx4win

Hello all- Here is what I am trying to do, without much success. I am hoping Someone can tell me how to do it correctly or tell me it cant be done at all. I have 2 physical hard drives and I would like to install Linux on my D drive using lnx4win, keeping Windows and all of it's components

[newbie] Mounting Logical Drives

Hi, I have a disk with a primary FAT32 partition (C drive) and an extended primary partition. The extended partition has logical drives d, e, f and g. These drives are also FAT32. I partitioned these using Partition Magic. Linux (on seperate drive) can mount /dev/hdc1. This is mounted using

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Cinfiguration

Hi: You can find the drivers here: http://linux.aureal.com I asked for the dirvers yerterday, and someone gave me this address. I've downloaded the driver but have not yet installed it. El dom, 20 feb 2000, escribiste: I was wondering if anyone had any success with installing a Monster MX300

[newbie] Kernal Upgrade

Hi, I have Linux Kernal 2.2.13. I would like to upgrade this to the latest version that supports USB, and SB Live! I also have a USB camera and scanner that I'd like to use. How do I do this? Do I upgrade my Kernal level by level (i.e. download and install the 2.2.13 patch first, followed

Re: [[newbie] audio cds]

Just installing Linux and noted that Sound Blaster Live will not work due to driver licensing restrictions. ...despite OS 'recognition'

[newbie] HTML Editor Recommendations

Hey y'all, I'm looking for an HTML Editor for Linux. I used Page Mill in 'doze, but if I could learn to use a Linux html editor, I might just be able to remove all traces of M$ from my machine. I would like to know what y'all prefer. I've seen Webmaker, Bluefish, Coffee Cup, and KDreamsite.

Re: [newbie] LILO problems

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote: mike wrote: snip thanks but I have already tried that several times and just get the following : Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible Added windows * Partition entry not found I have

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Cinfiguration

Hi FlipZ, I think you could take a close look at http://www.alsa-project.org a driver that supports most soundcards which are not directly supported by Mandrake 7. I haven't tried to find your soundcard there, but you could have a great chance to find it there. If so, download the

Re: [newbie] LILO problems

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote: take a look at the hd upgrade howto I think its a minihowto in it theres a way to edit the lilo command string to specify WHICH disks mbr you're writing too. If you have a problem with the mbr goto www.bootdisk.com download aefdisk it can write you a new mbr

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Re: [[newbie] Soundblaster Live]

Well, it worked here (Mandrake 7.0-2). That is... Untill I recompiled the kernel. For some reason even the original source from the creative-site didn't work (unresolved symbols). I had to resort to compiling a standard 2.2.14-kernel from www.kernel.org instead of the secure kernel shipped with

[newbie] More modem woes

I finally got my modem to semi-workthanks to those who posted on isapnp and modifying the .conf file. I'm now have a problem staying online. I stayed online maybe 10 min last night but my connect was a paltry 2kbps when I usually get 4+ kbps. Here's something I'm questioning: [this is

Re: [newbie] Hi, everyone

I believe the archive search is on the same page as the subscribe to the list stuff. Oliver Immich wrote: Hello, I am new to the list as a subscriber and very impressed by the traffic here. Therefor I wonder whether the postings could be reduced to really new questions (a number of them

Re: [newbie] Linux Networking

Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: Hello. This might sound weird, but I need to network 4 linux boxes together. Basically I already have them in a physical network. They are all assigned IP's and they can ping each other. But how do I access the other computer's drives without telnetting into

Re: [newbie] Defragging

Yes. It's the file system, not the OS that allows for more fragmentation. Sevatio Octavio wrote: Would you still have to defrag a FAT32 partition even if linux is the primary OS for it? Seve -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mounting Logical Drives

Michael C wrote: Hi, I have a disk with a primary FAT32 partition (C drive) and an extended primary partition. The extended partition has logical drives d, e, f and g. These drives are also FAT32. I partitioned these using Partition Magic. Linux (on seperate drive) can mount

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor Recommendations

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hey y'all, I'm looking for an HTML Editor for Linux. I used Page Mill in 'doze, but if I could learn to use a Linux html editor, I might just be able to remove all traces of M$ from my machine. I would like to know what y'all prefer. I've seen Webmaker,

[newbie] CD-ROM won't mount, demands filesystem type specification

I cannot open any CD. When I try to mount the CD by clicking on the CD-ROM icon in GNOME it says: mount: you must specify the filesystem type. This happens whether I'm logged in as Ken or root. I've run linuxconfig. It says the cdrom is set to "auto" for file system. Both root and regular

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor Recommendations

I use emacs... DvB On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Lance Borden wrote: Hey y'all, I'm looking for an HTML Editor for Linux. I used Page Mill in 'doze, but if I could learn to use a Linux html editor, I might just be able to remove all traces of M$ from my machine. I would like to know what y'all

[newbie] goofed my Xf86Config

Newbies (and not-so newbies): I was messing w/ my Xf86Config to tweak my display settings, and deleted a little too much. Now, after booting the kernel and before going into the gui, I've gotten "No 'Display' susbection for default depth 8". I think I can fix it, provided I can re-run my

Re: [newbie] LILO problems

Hi thanks for all your help anyway, hopefully I have solved the problem. I thought I would just let you know in case someone else has the same problem. As you know I tried every thing to get lilo to work, then it suddenly hit me.. I had installed a DVD recently and with rearranging the leads had

[newbie] Mouse Problems

I am having problems with my PS2 mouse in Mandrake 7.0. When ever there is a fair amount of disk activity the pointer will jump accross the screen with the slightest movement. Any one experienced this. Also is there anyway to get my mouse wheel working? Thanks Sean

[newbie] Netscape

Is there a newer version of Netscape that the one that ships with Mandrake 7.0. This version is just ugly.

Re: [newbie] Netscape

Nope. Of the most common distros, Mandrake tends to have the newest versions of everything... furthermore, the Netscape that comes with Mandrake tends to crash less than the one that comes with Red Hat (has to do with the fact that it's compiled with glibc, I think). DvB On Sun, 20 Feb 2000,

Re: [newbie] Netscape

yeah the DEFAULT fonts are ugly. You can change those in the preferences. you might also try checking out some other browsers. Only Staroffice comes to mind right now. Maybe lynx will suit you. At 01:09 PM 2/19/00, you wrote: Is there a newer version of Netscape that the one that ships with

Re: [newbie] Spar-Q and Mandrake 7

just create the mount directory, do "modprobe epat" and "modprobe pd", then mount as vfat. I can exchange between windows nt, windows 95, linux mandrake (6.1 and 7). Unfortunately Syquest is dead ! David Michael Felice wrote: Has anyone in this group tried or had success running an external

Re: [newbie] Mounting Logical Drives

Hi Audrey, I could be wrong on this, but the first thing I'd check is why you are mounting hdcX at all. If your master disk on the first ide bus is your C drive, then it should be hdaX. My primary IDE interface has my Linux disk attached as Master, my secondary IDE interface has my DOS disk

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Cinfiguration

Try running sound config. If you windows 95/98 installed print up the complete system summary from the control pannel system. devices thing ( it lists all your devices ) just choose to print and it will give you the optiion of printing a full thing. Then just run sound config, you will

[newbie] Zip Drive Woes cannot mount it...

When i followed the how to ( use modprobe ppa , created /dev/zip and /mnt/zip included it in fstab ( i followed the howto from mandrakeuser.org ) it still does not work The error it states the kernel cannot recognize the device as a block object. I have my computer contected to my zip drive (

Re: [newbie] Netscape

Latest one I believe that ships with Mandrake 7 is 4.6. If you think it's ugly there's not much you can do about it since the current Communicator is not skinnable. :3)~~ Sean Geoghegan wrote: Is there a newer version of Netscape that the one that ships with Mandrake 7.0. This

Re: [newbie] Netscape

It's actually 4.7 DvB On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Ger-Bil Jinn wrote: Latest one I believe that ships with Mandrake 7 is 4.6. If you think it's ugly there's not much you can do about it since the current Communicator is not skinnable. :3)~~ Sean Geoghegan wrote: Is there a

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Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, you wrote: I am having problems with my PS2 mouse in Mandrake 7.0. When ever there is a fair amount of disk activity the pointer will jump accross the screen with the slightest movement. Any one experienced this. Also is there anyway to get my mouse wheel working?

Re: [newbie] Netscape

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, you wrote: Is there a newer version of Netscape that the one that ships with Mandrake 7.0. This version is just ugly. I agree! I just enlarged the display fonts and it looked a tad (not too much) better. Unfortunately it's the latest. Ron

[newbie] Installation after new processor installation

Installed Mandrake 7.0 on system with Celeron 350, recently upgraded to PIII 500. Now, I cannot boot Mandrake, cannot reinstall, cannot even delete Linux partition. Need help please.

[newbie] Irreversible Partioning -- When?

Dear friends: Using Mandrake 7.0. Documentation for partitioning says that "partitioning is irreversible". Question: Exactly when is it irreversible: 1) After you have created the partitions with the mount point, size, etc., or 2) After you click on the "Done" button at the bottom of the

Re: [newbie] Netscape

Download the ALPHA version of Mozilla 5 (Netscape 5) from mozilla.org It's still in development, but is more stable than the current version, is skinnable, and has support for stuff it should've years ago (like DHTML, *real* Java, etc.) Sean Geoghegan wrote: Is there a newer version of

[newbie] Irreversible Partitioning -- When -- footnote

Dear friends: This is an addendum to my earlier message: May I ask if in fact partitioning is IRREVERSIBLE after formatting in the sense that one could not exit the installation process and recover one's former OS installation? Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL

[newbie] Ramdisk problem - please HELP!

Hello; I downloaded Mandrake 7 from an ftp mirror and have the /base and /rpms directories under C:\mandrake. However, everytime I start the installer, it only gets to the part when it loads the second ramdisk/dracX GUI install. At that time, either nothing happens, it says it can't load

Re: [newbie] Netscape

Well I deliberately neglected to mention Mozilla (even though I use it everyday) is that although it is skinnable, there aren't really much of skins right now, although Pete Collins of Alphanumerica recently has created a great, but still in development, skin at

[newbie] FAT Partition Access

How do I enable read/write access for all users to my 2 FAT partitions instead of just the root user? I need to access these partitions. Thanks

[newbie] Intel USB PC Camera

Has anyone gotten the USB INTEL PC Camera, to work under Linux ? I am running the 2.2.14-15 kernel under Mandrake 7.02.. TIA Max Ader [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Supermount Activation Help

When I installed Mdk7.0-2, I did not choose the "supermount" option. Since then, I've upgraded to Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk to that supermount is supported. Now, how do I get supermount to work? Do I need to update/install any software? Seve

[newbie] KMail and KXICQ

Let me rehash my previous question first. I slapped together an older P166 that doesn't support CD-Rom booting, I have an OPTI 929 w/IDE/SONY controller built in, and a Creative CDU33A-C3 CD-Rom (Sony interface). I boot from a floppy, and since I need the CD-Rom drivers loaded to install MDK

Re: [newbie] KMail and KXICQ

On Fri, 28 Mar 2036, you wrote: Lastly...KXICQ...when I sent/recieve msgs. the text is tiny...I have set the system FONT to 14 or higher...but it has no effect on KXICQ...is there a way to increase the font in KXICQ? Go into Setup - Appearance - Fonts I'm using Helvetica 12pt and it's very

Re: [newbie] Irreversible Partioning -- When?

Partitioning is "irreversible" from the moment the partition table gets written to disk. Don't know exactly when this is in the MDK-install. For example: as root you can start fdisk, and start deleting and creating partitions. But if you don't actually write it to disk before you quit fdisk,

[newbie] Help!

Dear Mandrake team, I am new in using any operation systems. Ive been a Computer freak in the late 80's and early 90's. I' ve had the C-64, an Atari later and an 486'er later on, wich wos running on DOS. When Windowns came, I did gave up to keep on the development. Now I've got an Pentium I,

Re: [newbie] Help!

Joerg Reinhardt wrote: Dear Mandrake team, I am new in using any operation systems. Ive been a Computer freak in the late 80's and early 90's. I' ve had the C-64, an Atari later and an 486'er later on, wich wos running on DOS. When Windowns came, I did gave up to keep on the development. Now

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Re: [newbie] HTML Editor Recommendations

I have used Webmaker, Coffee Cup, which is shareware, and asWedit. Coffee Cup is pretty good kind of like Homesite. Webmaker is decent, August is ok and asWedit makes a good basic editor. Haven't tried Bluefish but this is the one everyone seems to like Jeanette - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Installing from hard drive using lnx4win

sorry i can't help you with that problem if i could i would!!! i have a different prob i have two computers both were running windows 98 se. now only is on 98 and one on linux.. the question i guess is i have two smc nic cards. one in each of the computers! the computer that has 98 on it

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor Recommendations

I like Bluefish. It reminds me of Homesite. CoffeeCup is pretty good too. I suggest you download both and just see which one you like the best. I'd have to say I still like Homesite more than either of them, but they do a decent job of being a good HTML editor. I'm looking for an HTML Editor

[newbie] Blocky Text when running X programs

Hi. Whenever I run X programs or use the console/terminal the text is an unreadable blocky black mess. This seem to only happen with certain fonts. Why is this, and how do I fix it? Everything else pertaining to video function seems to work fine. For the record, I have a 2MB SiS 6205

[newbie] Installing tar.gz files

I downloaded a file that was tar.gz assuming that it was not unlike a zip file but soon realized that I had no idea how to install on of these files. Any help is appreciated Thanks Adam

[newbie] Software Questions

I was wondering if anyone can recommend some software that will let me create MP3s from my CD's? Hopefully, a standalone program that doesn't need x, y and z installed already to work. I've also been looking for the latest GIMP RPMs (Devel version). I can't get the source to compile :(

Re: [newbie] Installing tar.gz files

Original Message On 2/20/00, 7:17:42 AM, Adam Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Installing tar.gz files: I downloaded a file that was tar.gz assuming that it was not unlike a zip file but soon realized that I had no idea how to install on of these files. Any help is

Re: [newbie] Installing tar.gz files

And if you just want to view the contents; tar ztvf filename. See the manpage for tar for more info (man tar) On Feb 20 Paul wrote: Original Message On 2/20/00, 7:17:42 AM, Adam Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Installing tar.gz files: I downloaded a file

Re: [newbie] Software Questions

I don't know of any such program, but I use ripperX (X frontend) in combination with cdparanoia (CD-ripper) and lame (mp3-encoder that dan encode with variable bitrate too). cdparanoia and lame come included with Mandrake. ripperX doesn't (or I just overlooked it during the install), but you

[newbie] DVD players

Hi all !! I was wondering if anyone knows where to get a nice player and decoder for DVD's.. RPM'd if possible to minimize newbie strain :-) Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack