Re: [newbie] tar

2000-03-27 Thread flupke
_-+Richard Kim=-_ a écrit : how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can anyone tell me? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= My new website made with apache

Re: [newbie] tar

2000-03-27 Thread flupke
Just typing : modprobe es1371 in a console should make it work. HTH Flupke _-+Richard Kim=-_ a écrit : I have a Sound Blaster PCI128 speaker but cant get it to work on sndconfig. is there a driver I can use? if there is then tell me where to get it and how to install it or just

Re: [newbie] VIA Chipset: Sound ? Device busy Error.

2000-03-27 Thread Droptranger
try setting your bois to non plug and play and re run lothar or sndconfig

AW: [newbie] tar

2000-03-27 Thread Drazenko Djuricic
Hello, I also have a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 128 PCI. I configured it with "sndconfig". First I also thought that it did not work, but then I realised that the volume settings were set very very faint. Using a mixer program I increased the sound volumes and voila - I had sound. You may want

Re: [newbie] tar

2000-03-27 Thread Emanuele La Rosa
Il lun, 27 mar 2000, hai scritto: For making things easy download gxtar. It works well Just typing : modprobe es1371 in a console should make it work. HTH Flupke _-+Richard Kim=-_ a écrit : I have a Sound Blaster PCI128 speaker but cant get it to work on sndconfig. is

Re: [[newbie] swap partition needed with 128 meg ?]

2000-03-27 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Sven Vermeulen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, Is it necessary / useful to use a swap partition with 128 meg RAM and a PIII 667MHz to run Linux mandrake 7.0? I didn't found information in the installation guide or howtos. If so, how big should this swap partition be128 meg? bye,

Re: [[newbie] other browsers]

2000-03-27 Thread Michael Scottaline
magick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know of any other really good web browsers for linux other then netscape ? oh yeah not text based ones like lynx either thanks all -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever

[newbie] xterm not refreshing correctly

2000-03-27 Thread Faizel Boorany
The contents of xterm are not legible. All that shows is the highlight as I type.However, if I drag another window over the console window, it refreshes and the contents become visible. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks Faizel Boorany [EMAIL PROTECTED] application/ms-tnef

[newbie] delete from forum

2000-03-27 Thread john jackson
Hi. Please, delete me from a list of the forum.

RE: [newbie] set up problem

2000-03-27 Thread Cesar Octavio Delgado
I got the same problem, It was the CD. Try burning it again. -Mensaje original- De: Leon Bakker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Viernes, 17 de Marzo de 2000 03:28 a.m. Para: newbie Asunto: [newbie] set up problem Just started and already desperate )-:. Help!!! I cooked the

RE: [newbie] Setup Help PLEASE !!!

2000-03-27 Thread Cesar Octavio Delgado
Try runing that file from DOS, not from Windows. To do that, press F8 at boot and select Normal Command prompt or Safe Command prompt. -Mensaje original-De: Ronald Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Enviado el: Viernes, 17 de Marzo de 2000 08:50 a.m.Para: Mandrake Newbie

RE: [newbie] Clock Setting

2000-03-27 Thread Cesar Octavio Delgado
Try timetool, or linuxconfig. -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de HAL 9000 Enviado el: Viernes, 17 de Marzo de 2000 06:32 a.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [newbie] Clock Setting hello all... i re installed linux due to a dumb move on my

RE: [newbie] supported hardware

2000-03-27 Thread Cesar Octavio Delgado
You shouldn't have any prob, so go on and try it. -Mensaje original- De: Philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Viernes, 17 de Marzo de 2000 12:15 p.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [newbie] supported hardware Hi, I'm soon buying a new IBM Aptiva - Athlon 800 with tons of

Re: [newbie] New Questions

2000-03-27 Thread Lance Borden
Ann Blackburn wrote: 2)How do I get my computer to recognize my 100MB Iomega Zip Drive? (parallel) Ann, from a root console do 'modprobe ppa' (w/o quotes!) to install the ppa module (needed for your zip). Then you can check to see if it was installed by doing 'lsmod' (you should now see

[newbie] hardware on linux

2000-03-27 Thread Harold Hartley
I have been reading lots of post on here about hardware problems with the linux. Well, I installed mandrake's powerpack 7 or mandrake 7.0 and never had a problem with a thing... My guess is that some have not bothered to see if they had hardware supported by linux... Don't get me wrong or

Re: [newbie] hardware on linux

2000-03-27 Thread Harold Hartley
Harold Hartley wrote: I have been reading lots of post on here about hardware problems with the linux. Well, I installed mandrake's powerpack 7 or mandrake 7.0 and never had a problem with a thing... My guess is that some have not bothered to see if they had hardware supported by

Re: [newbie] slow Linux

2000-03-27 Thread KompuKit
How do you check for multiple instances of apache running...? that could be my problem also...netscape keeps freezing on me, for some reason...and that could be WHY. Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me

RE: [newbie] 7.02 and xf86 4

2000-03-27 Thread Pittman, Merle
http://bigfoot.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/ This is just one, there are many more. -Original Message- From: magick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 7.02 and xf86 4 i am curious i see alot of

[newbie] Soundcard Problems Still

2000-03-27 Thread Michael Celic
My soundcard still dosent work, i went to the OSS list and they said - The Yamaha OPL3-SAx (YMF715/YMF719) chip cannot be autodetected in all cases (usually in notebooks). In this case you should add manually (soundconf) the "Generic Yamaha

RE: [newbie] Soundcard Problems Still

2000-03-27 Thread Pittman, Merle
the command is "sndconfig" -Original Message- From: Michael Celic [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Soundcard Problems Still My soundcard still dosent work, i went to the OSS list and they said - The

Re: [RE: [newbie] Configure X problems]

2000-03-27 Thread Jaguar
I have that exact vid chipset myself. It is supported well in 7.02 I think possibly the problem is the monitor choice, even though your monitor may be listed, try the Generic Monitor/Multisync, with default settings. That should at least get your Xserver to start. I used "xf86config" to do the

[newbie] Run Levels question

2000-03-27 Thread Kirk McElhearn
What is the difference between the different run levels? I can't find any how tos that explain this. Which should I use if I am a single user with no network? Kirk vice | versa Translations from French to English, English to French

[newbie] sendmail

2000-03-27 Thread Richard Kim
how do you start the sendmail program?

Re: [[newbie] Start-up services]

2000-03-27 Thread Jaguar
Roger Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a dumb thing on the weekend. My machine had been running perfectly-sound, internet, x-windows. I wanted to make it more secure since I am on cable @home. After doing some reading I went into startup services in x (as root of course) and must have

[newbie] everthing's dead. - please help

2000-03-27 Thread Kirk McElhearn
Well, like an asshole, I figured I could just install things and see what happened... Well, I did. I installed a hack called Aurora, that does nothing more than make the screen look a bit nicer during startup, by giving a graphical front end to the init process. First, this hack makes it so

[newbie] Sympatico High Speed Sharing

2000-03-27 Thread freeman
I just got my ADSL connection up and was wondering what is the easist way to share threw a Samba connection to a couple of winblows98 boxes. Any ideas Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com

Re: [newbie] sendmail

2000-03-27 Thread Dan Ferris
Richard Kim wrote: how do you start the sendmail program? As a daemon, or from the command line? From the command line, just type in sendmail and follow its instructions. As a daemon, you will probably have to use some init editor to tell it to start sendmail when the computer boots. Dan

[newbie] New installation

2000-03-27 Thread Greg Martz
Wow! After trying several versions of redhat, 2 of slackware, and 1 of TurboLinux I decided to get Mandrake and it installed first time. No other Linux distributions would install for me, way to go Mandrake!! Only problem right now I seem to be having is with the Mandrake Update program.

Re: [newbie] New installation

2000-03-27 Thread _-+Richard Kim=-_
Greg Martz wrote: Wow! After trying several versions of redhat, 2 of slackware, and 1 of TurboLinux I decided to get Mandrake and it installed first time. No other Linux distributions would install for me, way to go Mandrake!! Only problem right now I seem to be having is with the

[newbie] MandrakeUpdate

2000-03-27 Thread _-+Richard Kim=-_
the utility on the desktop will work and connect and blah does everything fine, but howcome there are no updates do I have the most updated version or what because I got mandrake kernel 2.2.14-1mdklinus and it says no updates, NO WAY, is there a solution or is it just no updates??

[newbie] Red Hat 6.2

2000-03-27 Thread Phil Lamey
Title: Red Hat 6.2 Anybody where I can download the ISO for Red Hat 6.2 Thanks, Phil Lamey PS: The direct FTP from Redhat.com does not have the new ISO yet.

[newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-03-27 Thread magick
i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate it

Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-03-27 Thread _-+Richard Kim=-_
magick wrote: i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate it have you

Re: [newbie] Red Hat 6.2

2000-03-27 Thread steve harris
Phil, is this what you are after? ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/ Wish I had dsl :o( steve Original Message Follows From: "Phil Lamey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Red Hat 6.2 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:27:51 -0600

Re: [newbie] Soundcard Problems Still

2000-03-27 Thread nodyak0
Well I just entered the 'Konsole' and went to 'su'/w password then typed in "soundconfig" without the quotes. It warned me the video was running or something like that. I just clicked on the 'Yes' buttons and all went well. Try it if you like, I am not responsible for any lose of DATA or

[newbie] delete

2000-03-27 Thread P.J.Kierans
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[newbie] NT login's and Mandrake7

2000-03-27 Thread George Jones
I'm trying to access an NT server using Linux. I would like to know how to use the NT logins and passwords to do this. I would also need to be able to see all of the shared drives on our network (that I have access to anyways) and be able to add more at will. In addition to this, I need to be

Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-03-27 Thread magick
YES i have tried startx obviously if i can sy that it gives me the error explicit use of the kill command or sever shutdown i have trie dto startx using the startx command - Original Message - From: _-+Richard Kim=-_ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27,

[newbie] auto detect problem

2000-03-27 Thread curtis patrick
i just installed xfree 4.0, since i got that voodoo card i figured what the hell, might as well since my sound isnt supported maybe it will be now. but what is the command to where it auto detects that

Re: [newbie] delete

2000-03-27 Thread J Fithian
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Re: [newbie] mount ntfs partition

2000-03-27 Thread KM Linux
hi there. try "mount -t ntfs /dev/drive_name /mnt/drive_name" mke sure that the ntfs.o module is loaded. Good luck On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, you wrote: What is the correct way to mount an NTFS partition I did this before, but now I can't get it to work and I don't remember if it is the

RE: [newbie] slow Linux

2000-03-27 Thread Charles Ulwelling
I'm not in linux right now... but you can run a app called ktop... you just type ktop and it should pop up a graphical system monitor, I would change it so you could see all the processes that are running(Its a drop down menu at the bottom of the app) and see if you have a bunch of httpd's.

[newbie] Linux Client on Solaris

2000-03-27 Thread BryanMoorehead
Hi, Is it possible to use a Linux box at work as a client for Solaris? I can telnet in just fine, but would like to enable an Solaris X session as needed. Has anyone else done this with solaris or any other *nix? If so I would appreciate pointers to docs. Thanks, Bryan

Re: [newbie] slow Linux

2000-03-27 Thread Anthony Huereca
At the moment SETI@Home is taking 97% of my CPU (PII 450), and I'm having no problems with speed at all. Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling nope, not

RE: [newbie] slow Linux

2000-03-27 Thread Charles Ulwelling
It would be really easy to see if seti@home is the problem... just don't run it, and see if your speed improves. If it does then you probably have the priority on seti bumped up above lowest, if your speed doesn't improve then its not seti that is the culprit. later, Charles Ulwelling

Re: [newbie] file associations

2000-03-27 Thread Vic
Same for me, too, I wish to cause x11amp to play mp3 files rather than kmp3 or that other one. On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Pittman, Merle mewed: Anyone know how to change file associations. You know in KDE it sets a default app with a file type and loads it in that app on a file click. Well, I want

[newbie] Using my Linux box to route dsl to it and 2 Windows machines

2000-03-27 Thread tymanthius
My isp has an easy way - pay them $3 more per computer and get a static ip for them, just add a hub to my existing setup. I'd like to get around that $6 a month, and be prepared for when I have to move out of my DSL area. Can anyone point me in the direction I need to look for information on

Re: [[newbie] Run Levels question]

2000-03-27 Thread Michael Scottaline
Kirk McElhearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between the different run levels? I can't find any how tos that explain this. Which should I use if I am a single user with no network? Kirk === read your /etc/inittab It gives brief

Re: [[newbie] X wont Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

2000-03-27 Thread Jaguar
XFree 4.0 is still BETA, I suggest you re-install from your MDK CD, whatever version is on it HTH Jaguar "magick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative -

[newbie] How do I mount an IDE Tape drive?

2000-03-27 Thread Don Allen
Hi All, I am running Mandrake Air 7.0 on an AMD 233 Mhz system using 96 megs of ram. The install went well, and it saw all my DOS partitions for Windoze and listed them on the desktop, along with the floppy and CDROM drives. However, there is no entry in fstab for my IDE-ATAPI AIWA tape drive.

Re: [newbie] How do I mount an IDE Tape drive?

2000-03-27 Thread Sevatio Octavio
You don't have to mount an IDE tape drive. As long as your system recognizes the tape drive you can just run "taper -T ide". Seve -Original Message- From: Don Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:24 PM Subject: [newbie] How do

[newbie] Soundcard

2000-03-27 Thread Wayne
I have a soundblaster live card and while it works for cd playing and playing mp3's I cannot get it to run for systems sounds. I have tried both lothar and sndconfig but cannot get the system sounds to work. It worked previously but now it doesn't. When I run lothar it just locks up and lately

[newbie] Further problems

2000-03-27 Thread Wayne
Since I have had the prior mentioned problem with my soundcard my machine is very slow to start up. I get to the login screen and find I have to sit and wait a good 30 seconds for the whole thing to start. This has never been the case, as it has always started first time and very quick. What

[newbie] (Fwd) PE200 driver needed

2000-03-27 Thread Gary Stark
I've just installed Mandrake 6.5 on an old Toshiba notebook, and it has a PE200 PCMCIA card in it. None of the drivers that I tried during the installation seemed to work. Does anybody have the correct one, together with setup instructions? This is my first try at Linux, btw, so any other

Re: [newbie] Laptops

2000-03-27 Thread steve harris
For laptops, this site is very helpful http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ My toshiba 115cs was on the list, I was also able to download the XF86Config file! (toshiba is a little weird about 800x600, actually 800x594 I think)

[newbie] x windows problem cp

2000-03-27 Thread curtis patrick
i have a voodoo 3 and when i am tryin to change the resolution, i run XF86Setup and i get a green line at the top of the screen and it like freezes, whats wrong. i dont like editing the conf file i always screw it up. and have to reinstall. what can i do

[newbie] SCSI driver/Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-27 Thread Paul Lein
I have a Advansys ASB 3949u2w SCSI card. I have been unable to install Stormlinux and Turbolinux but could install SuSE 6.3 . SuSE's new Yast2 couldn't "see" the card and drives so I had to use the older Yast1. The installation was a nightmare and is not my idea of user friendly. My question is:

Re: [newbie] How do I mount an IDE Tape drive?

2000-03-27 Thread Don Allen
At 01:33 PM 3/27/00 -0800, Sevatio Octavio wrote: You don't have to mount an IDE tape drive. As long as your system recognizes the tape drive you can just run taper -T ide. Ok, that worked and it recognized the tape drive. Is there any better tape backup software for Linux? Taper crapped out

Re: [newbie] x windows problem cp

2000-03-27 Thread Bruce Hilliker
curtis patrick wrote: i have a voodoo 3 and when i am tryin to change the resolution, i run XF86Setup and i get a green line at the top of the screen and it like freezes, whats wrong. i dont like editing the conf file i always screw it up. and have to reinstall. what can i do Try using the

[newbie] 6.2 Requirements

2000-03-27 Thread Ronald Brown
Hi Group, System specs, P166 32 RAM 2.0 GIG HD In about 3 months, I will purchase a power PC. Wanted to know if this will be enough to run Linux RedHat 6.2 or an older version of Mandrake? I can tinker around with Linux until my new system gets here that way I will know how to set it up and

[newbie] Questions

2000-03-27 Thread Diego González
hi i have 2 questions: 1.- on the network configuration, what does the dns numbers refer to? are they the dns numbers of my isp? 2.- i downloaded vmware, but i don't understand the configuration it says something about samba can you tell me the exact steps to configure it? tks

Re: [newbie] 6.2 Requirements

2000-03-27 Thread Harold Hartley
Ronald Brown wrote: Hi Group, System specs, P166 32 RAM 2.0 GIG HD In about 3 months, I will purchase a power PC. Wanted to know if this will be enough to run Linux RedHat 6.2 or an older version of Mandrake? I can tinker around with Linux until my new system gets here that way I will

[newbie] Mandrake 7 network problems

2000-03-27 Thread Troy Sherman
I recently upgraded from Mandrake 6.1 to 7. I have all settings the same for my network, but i couldn't get it to work for a long time. Finally i tried turning on DHCP. Now when i turn on my linux box, it searches the network and finds my windows machine that has a DHCP server running. Then it

Re: [newbie] 6.2 Requirements

2000-03-27 Thread Harold Hartley
Ronald Brown wrote: Hi Group, System specs, P166 32 RAM 2.0 GIG HD In about 3 months, I will purchase a power PC. Wanted to know if this will be enough to run Linux RedHat 6.2 or an older version of Mandrake? I can tinker around with Linux until my new system gets here that way I will

[newbie] Internet Sharing

2000-03-27 Thread Michael Celic
Hello again, i have a cable modem, and two network cards working fine, is was wondering what i have to do to enable to share the internet to other computers in the house with a hub. Is there some software i need to download, or do i just need to type something in the consle ThANks

[newbie] stop to send me e-mails

2000-03-27 Thread miguel viamonte
Please, i am not sure what i did, but i was wrong. please how can i stop to receive e-mails? Bye Miguel V __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] stop to send me e-mails

2000-03-27 Thread Harold Hartley
miguel viamonte wrote: Please, i am not sure what i did, but i was wrong. please how can i stop to receive e-mails? Bye Miguel V __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com you can go to the

[newbie] The best audio/video cards for Linux??

2000-03-27 Thread vern
I will be in the positon to purchase an audio and a video card and I want to get everyone's opinion which is the best supported under Linux?? They should be PCI type cards. (tired of fighting drivers!) Thanks! Vern

Re: [newbie] 6.2 Requirements

2000-03-27 Thread nodyak0
This forum is the correct place for ANY questions if you need assistance with any of Linux, mostly Mandrake, but we will work with any of them if we know how. As far as I can tell from my system even with Mandrake, YES, you can select what you want installed. It may NOT install ALL of the

Re: [newbie] root

2000-03-27 Thread CMi1255179
In a message dated 03/27/2000 8:31:00 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You need to pick up a basic book on Linux (or even Unix), it will explain the concept of security on this operating system. I've tried this as well...and had no success in understanding the book...I

Re: [newbie] Red Hat 6.2

2000-03-27 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Title: Red Hat 6.2 Go to a Red Hat mirror and find a folder marked 'rawhide', that's theequivalentto 'MandrakeCooker'. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Phil Lamey To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:27 AM Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] swap partition needed with 128 meg ?

2000-03-27 Thread Jeremy
Sven Vermeulen wrote: hello, Is it necessary / useful to use a swap partition with 128 meg RAM and a PIII 667MHz to run Linux mandrake 7.0? I didn't found information in the installation guide or howtos. If so, how big should this swap partition be128 meg? bye, Sven. I have 128

Re: [newbie] p.s. root

2000-03-27 Thread CMi1255179
In a message dated 03/27/2000 8:51:09 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You need to pick up a basic book on Linux (or even Unix), it will explain the concept of security on this operating system. I've tried this as well...and had no success in understanding the

Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-03-27 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
I haven't had much luck either with 4.0, if you did an rpm install, you can just go back, uninstall and reinstall 3.3.6 from the disk. (At least that would save an entire system reinstallation.) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. sorry I can't tell you how to fix the problem :-o -

Re: [newbie] p.s. root

2000-03-27 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] p.s. root In a message dated 03/27/2000 8:51:09 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You need to pick up a basic book on Linux (or even

Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-03-27 Thread magick
no i didn't do an rpm install i downloaded the files from xfree86.org - Original Message - From: Mike Tracy Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! I haven't had

[newbie] slave drive and linux install

2000-03-27 Thread Chris
i installed linux to the slave hard drive, and it wont boot. lilo doesnt come up, and boot magic says there was an error. = Christopher L Delpmobile e mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.u.arizona.edu/~cldFriend of Bill W.If the futures looking dark, We're the ones who have to shoutIf there's

Re: [[newbie] X wont Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

2000-03-27 Thread magick
the only errors i got which happened with in 2 seconds of typing startx were explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown and when trying to use the mandrake install to to fix it it just syays can't startx and try changing the options which made no difference - Original Message -

[newbie] Sendmail Flush!

2000-03-27 Thread Jon
I am using sendmail, and fetchmail over a very slow ppp connection. I want to make my connection, run fetchmail, have all outgoing mail sent NOW and then break connection. Is there a command to flush the buffer in sendmail similar to what sync does for the harddisk? I just loaded the imap

Re: [newbie] Enable PCMCIA NIC Card

2000-03-27 Thread Jon
Michael Bui wrote: Does anyone know how to enable the PCMCIA NIC Card? I was successfully installed Mandrake 7.0-2 on my Mincron TransPort NX laptop with the 3COM-3CCFEM656 PCMCIA card the 1st time. It was working OK where I can see the network, but have problem with my Xwindow; therefore,

Re: [newbie] How do I mount an IDE Tape drive?

2000-03-27 Thread Jon
Don Allen wrote: At 01:33 PM 3/27/00 -0800, Sevatio Octavio wrote: You don't have to mount an IDE tape drive. As long as your system recognizes the tape drive you can just run "taper -T ide". Ok, that worked and it recognized the tape drive. Is there any better tape backup software

[newbie] MandrakeUpdate

2000-03-27 Thread Jon
Subject: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:04:38 -0500 From: _-+Richard Kim=-_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] the utility on the desktop will work and connect and blah does everything fine, but howcome there are no updates do I have the most updated version or what because I got

[newbie] IDE Zip Drive 100MB

2000-03-27 Thread Thorsten Brenner
Hi everybody, Here is a question from a newbie ! I have a SCSI-System runnig. (hard-disks and cd are working super) On my first IDE I have a100MB Zip Drive. The System recognizes it as hda. Now I want to mount it by using: mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/zip (The directory /mnt/zip exists) The

[newbie] Installation problem

2000-03-27 Thread John Alex M.Reyroso
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 on a Pentium 100 with a 32 Mb Memory. When I boot off through diskette it process smoothly through the initial portion of the installation. After the screen display "second stage install" things go bad I receive an error message reading:

[newbie] Installation problem

2000-03-27 Thread John Alex M.Reyroso
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7 on a Pentium 100 with a 32 Mb Memory. When I boot off through diskette it process smoothly through the initial portion of the installation. After the screen display "second stage install" things go bad I receive an error message reading:

[newbie] USB DSL Modem

2000-03-27 Thread Ron Balch
I just recently started using Linux-Mandrake. And, I would like to get me Efficient Networks USB DSL modem working on it. Anyone know how I can accomplish this? Thanks in Advance! __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo!

[newbie] looking for driver for yamaha 744 DS-XG soundcard

2000-03-27 Thread Zhang Fan
Hi, all, Iinstalled mandrake linux 7.0 on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 4220 CDT, all is ok but the sound card. sndconfig report my soundcard is yamaha 744, and windows 98 use DS-XG driver. I want to know where to download a driver to make my soundcard work. Thx.

[newbie] Kppp/Modem setup help!

2000-03-27 Thread Zhang Fan
Hi, All My linux box can't access internet with kppp. I setup the account, phone number, and login script. every time my computer build the connect with ISP, and begin execute login script, but after that, kppp report that the remote site need auth but it can't get a password. I

Re: [newbie] Enable PCMCIA NIC Card

2000-03-27 Thread Zhang Fan
pls check the pcmcia module is running with: lsmod if not, you should start it. Michael Bui wrote: Does anyone know how to enable the PCMCIA NIC Card? I was successfully installed Mandrake 7.0-2 on my Mincron TransPort NX laptop with the 3COM-3CCFEM656 PCMCIA card the 1st time. It was

help with wu-ftp

2000-03-27 Thread KompuKit
I use webmin 0.78 to admin my servers... after, setting up the original in drakeconf... of course... I've placed all the files I want to use in my FTP server...in: /home/ftp/pub I've got my own username (naturally) so I use this to log in to the FTP server...to test it... for some reason,

Re: [newbie] Start-up services

2000-03-27 Thread Roger Bird
"Pittman, Merle" wrote: text boot by typing "linux 3" at the lilo prompt. Use linuxconf to reset the system services. -Original Message- From: Roger Bird [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:30 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Start-up services