Re: [newbie] More 64Mb

add append="128M" to your /etc/lilo.conf file and then issue the command 'lilo', without the quotes, from the command line. buena suerte! Mike patolucas wrote: Hello people. (Sorry for my english, i speak spanish) This is my first instalation of Mandrake linux an this not detect mare tha

Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32

haha! Happy Easter to you too! Mike Dan LaBine wrote: Enough is Enough!! Have some compassion for the rest of us will ya? It's easter for God's sake! Most of us ( I hope! ) just ate a hell of a lot of ham or something, and all you can talk about is FAT??? Why not wait until tomorrow when

[newbie] Caldera solved

Just found out why Caldera was running slow on my 486. The new install sometimes does not set up the swap partition properly. Edited the fstab file, and all is working well. Phil Mandrake still very stable on my Celeron 400 :)

Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32

Just figured that with all the arguing going on in here that we could use a little humour. I will admit however, that us Linux folks are passionate about our O/S 's. What'cha gonna do, eh? Have a good one, but go easy on the chocolate bunnies! Dan ( here ends the easter comments! Let's get back

[newbie] off topic

I don't know if this is a off topic question but I have no idea where can I find alt.os.linuxmandrake in a public news server. Does anyone have any information? Thanks in advance. Oder.

Re: [newbie] off topic

Hi Oder, It is alt.os.linux mandrake. I have it on the news server that my ISP subscribes to. Note the space between linux and mandrake. Sometimes those news servers can be finicky. Maybe that's why you aren't finding it. Did you try running a search at deja.com? Thanks, Kathleen

[newbie] Device Under SCSI bus?

Hello! What device under /dev would be the SCSI bus? The reason I ask is because I am trying to give my regular non-root user access to burn CDs. I added it to the cdwriter group, so it does have access to /dev/scd0 (the CD burner device itself) and can burn CDs under Linux. However, I would

Re: [newbie] off topic

Oder Santos schrieb: I don't know if this is a off topic question but I have no idea where can I find alt.os.linuxmandrake in a public news server. Does anyone have any information? Thanks in advance. Oder. there's a newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake jogger

[newbie] Color Ls edit

In listing files in terminal mode (Mandrake 7.0) I find the color green hard to read. Is there a way to change to another color? Any suggestions much appreciated. Michael Coady

Forw: [newbie] What driver for the Adaptec ASW B626

Sent this a while back, but no luck. Any find out yet? Ty C. Mixon F.T.C. Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 26147713 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 5 Mar 2000 02:23:09 Received: from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com [216.71.84.35] by nmcst153 via mtad (2.6) with ESMTP id

Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32

yes but your fstab.conf file has to have vfat as the type. Vic wrote: Just out of curiosity, I wonder if Linux (any version) can read a fat32 partition. No rush, just curious. -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf?

Re: [newbie] Start-up Screen

Hi again, Just out of curiosity, is the start-up boot manager just an addition to the Debian versions such as Corel and Storm Linux? Thanks, Evan Holt

[newbie] Tape Backup Problems

Hi there, I have set up my PC (a Gateway G6-233) as a dual boot systen. I am able to boot into Windows 95 and Linux Mandrake 7.0 without any problems. I have a Seagate tape drive which works perfectly well under Windows. When I boot into Linux the operating system seems to recognise its

[newbie] Need help

Hi all, I need some help with CommuniGate Pro. I want to evaluate it but I have some questions. Can anyone send me to a news group or list for help? I checked Stalker.com and didn't see anything that could help. I have it configured to poll a pop3 server but I'm not sure of how a client on my

Re: Forw: [newbie] What driver for the Adaptec ASW B626

I recently found an old 386 Unisys PC that I'm trying to install Red Hat 6.1 on. It has the Adaptec ASW B626 SCSI card on the motherboard. None of the RH drivers will load, and the hd is scsi as well as the apple cdrom I scavanged. Anyone have any ideas? Wow! That's probably before my

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Re: [newbie] running windows in linux

I'm using VMWARE. You can boot an OS as a Virtual Machine from Linux using this product. Download a trial copy at http://www.vmware.com/. Hope this helps. Regards, Tim McCluskey Amdahl Corporation "Jason R. Lucier" wrote: Try a program you can find it at www.vmware.com - Original

Re: [newbie] Tape Backup Problems

I was having similar problems. I needed to do the following: insmod ftape insmod zftape in that order before anything would work Michelle On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi there, I have set up my PC (a Gateway G6-233) as a dual boot systen. I am able to boot into Windows 95 and Linux

[newbie] LlinusConf CD rom

First day with Linux and with a few questions: Pg 83 User Guide and Reference Manual "You can launch LinuxConf directly from a terminal and select the Networking heading or type netconf directly." What the heck does that mean? While in root typing netconf in konsole it seems to come up

Re: [newbie] off topic

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Oder Santos wrote: I don't know if this is a off topic question but I have no idea where can I find alt.os.linuxmandrake in a public news server. Does anyone have any information? Thanks in advance. Oder. Oder, try alt.os.linux.mandrake terry --

[newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

Hi! Just having spent a couple of days installing and configuring Mandrake, I find that I can access all my drives *except* my internal ATAPI Zip drive. Can someone please tell me if it's possible to access it and if so, how? Regards, Martin

Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

It takes a couple of days? How did you get the other drives to show? I'm tying to get at the IBM Lotus. Sparks - Original Message - From: Martin Foster To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 9:33 AM Subject: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

Re: [newbie] LlinusConf CD rom

After you get everything installed, go to your desktop and click on 'DrakConf', from there you can select linuxconf. It's an administration tool used to simplify those sort of tasks. For more info go to: http://dns.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/ Mike WSJ wrote: First day with Linux and with

Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

Try "modprobe imm" at the command line, no quotations. Mandrake works fine with my external ZIP +. On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, "WSJ" wrote: Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:18:22 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "WSJ" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI

[newbie] Networking (PCs, and Macs and Linux oh my!)

Hi there, I just caught a little bit of the previous discussion on Samba when I joined this list, so please excuse me if I'm re-earthing an already beat to death topic on newbies and Samba ;-) I'm running Mandrake and Win98 (dual boot) here at home durring my summer holidays from College. My

[newbie] FREE yourself of this mailinglist....

If there are any out there still attempting to rid themselves of this mail list, go to: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 scroll down to the Newby listings and then do your dispearing act. Good Luck, don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought

Re: [newbie] Another Programming Question

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: I'm just getting started programmming in Linux ( I know C/C++ pretty well in windows ), and I'm wondering where is a good place to start with C/C++ can anybody recomend any good books or freee docs, or anything else that can help me get started? If you

[newbie] modem

Hello there, I'm having problems w/my us robotics 56k ISA modem (no switches or jumpers). For some reason it's reconized by the linux software as being ttys0. W98/w2000 see it as com3 irq10. What can I do to force linux to see it as ttys2? I cannot use ttys0, it's used by the mouse. Also,

Re: [newbie] modem

If the modem's box it came in says "requires Windows", then it cannot be used under Linux. It's what's called a "WinModem", and will ONLY work under Win 95/98/2k, and not under any other OS that's not belonging to the "monopoly family". John "Jay" Serafin, owner/audio engineer Serafin

Re: [newbie] running windows in linux

You could also give VNC a try. It is a program that lets you run an X desktop using the windowmanager of your choice from a Windows or Mac, and a Windows desktop from your X Workstation. The client is very fast, and even comes as a java applet you can run in a browser. What it does is it

Re: [newbie] Linux-MD 6.0 Display Probs

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i thank you all for the answer to my previous question - but i have just one more.. is there a way to reconfigure the display/monitor settings in the Linux GUI interface? I am able to see everything, but it is huge - where do i go to fix that?Thanks,

Re: [newbie] display blinking

If you don't find X*Setup on your system, then check for Xconfigurator and or a drak configuration tool. SuperProbe will also tell you about your video card. Before running SuperProbe, though, read the man page for this tool. Supposedly, running SuperProbe (with uppercase S and P) can cause

Re: [newbie] installing failed :-(

Claus Atzenbeck wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, J D wrote: did you partition your hdd? or do you have an empty hdd? are you running any other os's? if you can, provide a little more info, and we'll see what we can think of. Thanks for you mail, also to Eric! Yes, there were no

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome removal

Emmette Hutchison wrote: how to I remove or stop using a desktop environment like gnome or kde? At this point I just want enlightenment running. (I'm assuming that I have to edit an x settings file somewhere, but I'm not quite sure where.) Emmette To be able to stop using or to uninstall?

Re: [newbie] 64Mb instead of 128Mb??

Claus Atzenbeck wrote: On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: Hello! It's my first ever installation of Linux, so please be nice :-) Fine! So. I installed it into my D: DOS partition using Linux4Win (not the best variant, I know... Just didn't want to lose my 8Gb of

Re: [newbie] OT - Partition magic

Wayne Petherick wrote: This is OT so I will take it OLcould anyone here who has partition magic v5 contact me off list please.Thanks,Wayne Why is that OT? The subject is pertinent to this mailing list, because this list is about supporting people with installation and configuration of

Re: [newbie] can't read partitionn table, too corrupt???

Martin Dowman wrote: Product: Complete Linux Mandrake 7.0. After running the included partition magic and setting up the Linux partition @ 860MB I am recieving a message during Linux install: Mandrake provides PM, from PQ? Try the real PM from PQ? mike "I can't read your

Re: [newbie] in second stage install problem

J D wrote: well, i can tell you that it is a problem with X. i had the same problem, but it was caused by another problem (mainly my hdd becoming read only). but i don't know how to fix it. sorry man. May have already been answered, but in case it hasn't, then try with the text install

Re: [newbie] How-to have Multiple distros on one hard drive

May have already been answered, but in case it hasn't I'll provide an answer. You need a separate /boot for each Linux configuration you have installed. Whether or not you give /boot it's own filesystem or make it part of the / filesystem partition is up to you (I have separate filesystems for

Re: [newbie] GUI is gone and so is my sanity

Might be able to use Xconfigurator to tell Linux to boot into gui mode. Check out this tool; although, there may also be a drak tool for this, and you could search your system to find the drak tool. mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean you started playing w/ Linux BEFORE you went insane.

Re: [newbie] X

Erik B. Flitman wrote: My system was powered down improperlyto make a long story short, I get the following error when attempting to run anything that requires X: /usr/X11R6/bin/X: error in loading shared libraries: libfont.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: [newbie] Qt

Because qt is installed from an rpm, you can find the files for qt with rpm rpm -qil qt If you need more information on qt, then read the man page on rpm, for query options, and you might find useful information in the qt documentation directories under or in the /usr/doc directory. mike

Re: [newbie] floppies

KompuKit wrote: hey, you know what? I just realised...that it's possible that , in order to copy files over to a floppy...in linux... I first must RE-FORMAT the disks for the linux OS... Is this true? If so, How do I accomplish this? I haven't needed to copy files to a floppy

Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

Martin; To mount your internal zip drive; 1st - open a terminal window; 2nd - change to directory "/mnt"; 3rd - make a directory for it (I used "zip"); 4th - now mount it. i.e. cd / cd /mnt md zip cd / mount t- vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip The "sda4" in "/dev" maybe different on your machine.

Re: [newbie] OT - Partition magic

Wayne Petherick wrote: This is OT so I will take it OLcould anyone here who has partition magic v5 contact me off list please. Thanks,Wayne Why is that OT? The subject is pertinent to this mailing list, because this list is about supporting people with installation and configuration of

Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote: It takes a couple of days? Yes but naturally, I didn't spend the whole of each day doing it :-) How did you get the other drives to show? During the installation, I "told" it to start KDE automatically and when KDE starts, all my DOS logical drives are

Re: [newbie] 64Mb instead of 128Mb??

I noticed in my version of lilo.conf it has a lilo="" or somthing like that... If I ever need to add the mem statement do I leaver the other one in??? MarkP Mike Corbeil wrote: Claus Atzenbeck wrote: append="mem=128M" -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's

Re: [newbie] OT - Partition magic

Nice try Andy, though wrong. For those of you who are dying to know I lost some documentation in a recent move and wanted to know a few things about re-installing the software. Wayne - Original Message - From: andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000

Re: [newbie] floppies

KompuKit wrote: hey, you know what? I just realised...that it's possible that , in order to copy files over to a floppy...in linux... I first must RE-FORMAT the disks for the linux OS... Is this true? If so, How do I accomplish this? In the true Linux-Everywhere-on Everything. Linux