Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 slowdown

This can happen if your swap partition is too small What size is yours? Paul wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since moving up to Mandrake 7 from M 6 I find that the loading time for KDE, and even the Kmail program inside KDE takes much longer than it did in

Re: [newbie] kppp

Rainer Lindenmaier wrote: after made my settings in kppp on new installed LM 7.0 I get connection to my IPS (indicatet on the taskpanel) but then comes nothing more. Ping gets no answer. I tried all the tips inside kppp-handbook , howtos etc. without success. With LM 6.1 there wasn't any

[newbie] Mandrake 7 install failure

Trying to install Mandrake 7, having big problems. Anybody got a suggestion to where I should start looking for a workaround? Here's the deal: I tried installing, but the graphical installer keeps generating error messages at some points: When it goes to give me the timezone menu: "an error

[newbie] Network stuff

Hi there, and thanks ahead of time for any help. I'm still _very_ new to Linux, and I'm having trouble setting up my network card with Mandrake.. I burned the 7.02 ISO to a CDRW and it installed fine. I have _NO_ idea how to set up the network card though.. I have all the relative info, the

Re: [newbie] kppp

Martin Solms wrote: Rainer Lindenmaier wrote: after made my settings in kppp on new installed LM 7.0 I get connection to my IPS (indicatet on the taskpanel) but then comes nothing more. Ping gets no answer. I tried all the tips inside kppp-handbook , howtos etc. without success.

[newbie]

hi all. i seem to have a problem with sound under kde..i use the alsa drivers to activate my soundcard.ver0.5.2...on mandrake 6.1, kernel 2.2.14.the problem is...i can play cds with the kde cd player...but i cant play any wav or mp3 files...including kde system sounds..kde

Re: [newbie] Network stuff

Kefka wrote: Hi there, and thanks ahead of time for any help. I'm still _very_ new to Linux, and I'm having trouble setting up my network card with Mandrake.. I burned the 7.02 ISO to a CDRW and it installed fine. I have _NO_ idea how to set up the network card though.. I have all the

[newbie] External ISDN Adapter

Hi all ... I have recently installed Linux-Mandrake which went well but I do not know how to set up my Speedster TA adapter. It is connected to Com 1. Can anyone assist or point me in the right direction with regards to documentation etc. Thanks Richard -- This communication contains

[newbie] script: host available??

How can I check within a script if a specific computer is reachable within my LAN? I need something like: if hostname_is_online then xxx else yyy fi Thanks! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de

[newbie] AARGHHH! - I killed windows - can I get it back?

Hi all, I recently installed Linux 7 using the cover CD from PCplus magazine. Since doing this I discovered that I should also have downloaded a floppy image to do the install. :-( Since I didn't do this I seem to have corrupted my Windows partition - nice. Any way I can get this back? or any

Re: [newbie] AARGHHH! - I killed windows - can I get it back?

Ok, is the windows partition corrupt or not? Because if it's corrupt, there's not much of a chance your average joe can retreive the data that was originally on it. If you can get to the data (for example on /mnt/DOS_hda1 or whatever mandrake calls it by default), and all is still there, your

Re: [newbie] Make?

You need to install make from the Mandrake CD. You probably didn't install with the "development" option. -- Original Message -- From: "John Catral" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:15:07 -0400 Hi! I tried compiling

Re: [newbie] script: host available??

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, flupke wrote: I think a "ping -c 1 hostname /dev/null 21" should do it. Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for! Regards, Claus. -- Atzenbeck. Data structures design http://www.atzenbeck.de Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

Re: [newbie] not starting linux after 2 weeks

pRiZnA wrote: Hi, This is my first e-mail to you, I've installed LM 7.0 on a Pentium II 96MB RAM Voodo Graphics SB Sound card 20GB (master ide - windows) 10GB (sec ide - linux) Everything worked fine, but after approx 2 weeks, when Linux started, it displayed: dev/hd? unmounted

Re(2): [newbie] Make?

[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: You need to install make from the Mandrake CD. You probably didn't install with the "development" option. How does one install make from the CD after the initial installation? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.

Re: [newbie] FTP problems

Just a guess, but I assume your firewall is set for masquerading. That means the client configurations on your machines would most likely be passive mode FTP. Is wuftp set for he proper addresses in passive mode on your main machine? Civileme Yes that is correct, about the firewall

Re: [newbie] USB printer?

I don't have a usb printer, however if it is setup on lp0 etc... then all you should have to do is load the drivers for it. su to root type printtool select "add" and follow the directions. Also does the kernel usb drivers directly support your particular printer or is that just the generic

Re: Re(2): [newbie] Make?

mount the mandrake CD. (if you installed with supermount it will mount itself when you put it in) if you didn't use supermount. Open a shell (dos like box). 1. su type in root password If now supermount support 2. mount /dev/cdrom 3. cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS 4. rpm -Uvh Make*.rpm

Re: [newbie] Linux Partition

- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have one question for you, and for everyone on the list for that matter. Did you install Lnx4Win? If not and easy was your primary objective, why didn't you give it a go? No, I wanted to give a 'proper' Linux os a go. I'd read that you

RE: [newbie] Hi

yes you are, so ask away -Original Message-From: Henri Bouchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 25 April 2000 01:01To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Hi Am I at the right place to ask a question or could u tell me where I go for that Henri

RE: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems

my sound balster live seems to work fine, there have been some probles with it though, you can get the latest drivers from soundblaster. i'm not sure whats up with the floppy drive, and what type of cd-rom drive do you have. -Original Message- From: root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: [newbie] Problem on install with CD-ROM drive

Try checking this page: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/airlast.php3 cu Denis On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, David Murphy wrote: :~Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:48:26 -0700 (PDT) :~From: David Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: [newbie] Problem

[newbie] HP 8100 CD-RW problems

Hi, Justin Could you please test this new "supermount" script? (Save the /etc/fstab first, please...) cu Denis On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, irotsoma wrote: :~I have an HP CDWriter+ 8100 and I can't seem to get it to work with the :~supermount. I can unmount and mount it manually using

Re: [newbie] 2 Questions about install....

There is a driver for the Promise Card, but it must be used post-install, The install kernel does not support Ultra DMA Mode 4 (ATA/66). Just a quick note about this.. That is a true statement about it being a post-install, but that does not mean you can not connect your hard drive to

Re: [newbie] Error during system install and Mandrake 7.0 on hdb, 2 questions

: PS, I just thought of something: perhaps I must make sure mboard is not using ATA66 during installation? I now remember seeing something about that. I'll post this anyway, but I'll check on that. That is true, what I know. There is a kernel patch available for ATA66, but you can only

Re: [newbie] kppp

It sounds like it could be a gateway problem. I have to disable my Eth0 adaptor (using Static IP address) and then use KPPP to get a connection. Once the connection is established, I have no problems. Use ifconfig eth0 down prior to dialing! Your on the right track, but there is no

[newbie] RELAY All in Mail Server

Hi all, I just got a question duringconfiguring the mail server (sendmail). How can I configure the mail server to accept any request from any valid userson any host? Actually, I think it should be sth like that " RELAY" in \etc\mail\access file?! Best Rgds, Cheung Chun Ming

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 install failure

Basically where I see the whole install fall apart is at package selection, time zone selection, and printer selection and setup. After failing those parts if I try to continue it keeps coming back to try those selections and fails. Any suggestions? Anybody?? With our best regards,

RE: [newbie] Problems with IWheel

looking at the security list there is a bug in imwheel /* * * * * imwheel * - * * A security bug was found in imwheel; the bug can be exploited to * provide local users with root access. Version 0.9.8 fixes this * problem. Please upgrade (manually or with MandrakeUpdate) to: * * Mandrake

Re: [newbie] not starting linux after 2 weeks

Hi, This is my first e-mail to you, I've installed LM 7.0 on a Pentium II 96MB RAM Voodo Graphics SB Sound card 20GB (master ide - windows) 10GB (sec ide - linux) Everything worked fine, but after approx 2 weeks, when Linux started, it displayed: dev/hd? unmounted

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 install failure

With regards to your message at 08:33 AM 4/25/00 -0400, Andy. Where you stated: Maurice you might want to try the tex install. - Original Message - True, but I would really like to make the graphic install work.. With our best regards, Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone:

[newbie] Stormix LILO, DPKG software on Mandrake?

I'm an almost-newbie (nothing installed yet) who discovered Linux through the Maximum Linux magazine. I liked what I read on the included Mandrake CD (the Install Guide and Manual are in HTML, and thus accessible) and went out and bought the Mandrake7Deluxe package [sick tired of Win98

Re(2): Re(2): [newbie] Make?

[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: mount the mandrake CD. (if you installed with supermount it will mount itself when you put it in) if you didn't use supermount. Open a shell (dos like box). 1. su type in root password If now supermount support 2. mount /dev/cdrom 3. cd

[newbie] X-Window, Mandrake 7.0, SiS6326

Hi to everybody!!! Sorry for my terrible English. Russian is my native language. I have a very popular problem: I can't correctly configurate X-Window. Interesting fact: Linux Mandrake 7.0 has a graphics instalation and during the instalation graphics works in my computer correctly, but after

Re: [newbie] not starting linux after 2 weeks

pRiZnA wrote: Hi, This is my first e-mail to you, I've installed LM 7.0 on a Pentium II 96MB RAM Voodo Graphics SB Sound card 20GB (master ide - windows) 10GB (sec ide - linux) Everything worked fine, but after approx 2 weeks, when Linux started, it displayed: dev/hd?

Re: [newbie] How do I get my CDROM??

John Catral wrote: Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mounting a cdrom was automatic? I couldnt mount it! I have 2 cdroms but both did not work. Any ideas? Thanks! =) John - John Vincent Medina Catral [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Make?

John Catral wrote: Hi! I tried compiling EveryBuddy last night. So I used ./configure and it went well but when I used make or make install, linux was stating that there was no such command. Do I need to install something for me to compile? I always thought it was one of the bare

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 install failure

Andy wrote: Maurice you might want to try the tex install. - Original Message - From: Maurice Hilarius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 2:57 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7 install failure Trying to install Mandrake 7, having big problems.

[newbie] a couple of questions...

hi, i am new to linux and having a couple of problems that you might be able to help me with. The first questions is that my computer has 256 MB's of ram, but the system can only see 65 MB's, what can I do to resolve this? and I also have a small LAN network ( Just two computers ) but my

[newbie] system commander in linux mandrake gold pack 2000

I do not have Linux installed yet, so I guess that makes me a newbie. I've used UNIX on various platforms off and on since about 1982 so I'll switch to the expert list if most of you think I should. I've had various dual boot or multiboot systems. They have all seemed fragile, with strict

[newbie] Moving usr and home

Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra partitions now are called

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Hanging

Hardware problem. Check the chip fan is working. Install another OS and see if the same thing happens. Use a Win-98 boot disk if you have to. If these problems occure in Windows too (and you can see that chip fan turning) then you have a shot motherboard/memory/cpu. Sorry. - Original

Re: [newbie] FTP problems

ptah wrote: Just a guess, but I assume your firewall is set for masquerading. That means the client configurations on your machines would most likely be passive mode FTP. Is wuftp set for he proper addresses in passive mode on your main machine? Civileme Yes that is

Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results

Okay, being an old skeptic and a young Linux mechanic what's the "downside" of such a tweak?? Will I have data errors (read/write) corrupted files, and such?? Why is the "default" set so low?? Vern Larry Varney wrote: Mine was similar, until I did the "hdparm -d1 hda", and the result jumped

[newbie] HELP

I just did a new install of mandrake 70-2. I was using mandrake 6.2 with KDE and it worked great. I figured it would be the same with 7.02. I was unfortunately wrong. When I installed I got threw flawlessly and rebooted. Now I'm stuck. I got a log in screen in some unknown interface. I logged

[newbie] Still Can't Get GUI I need

Hello. First, thank you to everyone who has helped me with all my very newbie question. Here's the most recent problem: So, I still can't get linux to boot to a nice GUI login window. I still get the lego looking penguin window. A couple of you suggested that I login at the lego penguin

[newbie] Quake2 - recursive shutdown

I just got the Quake2 RPM from rpmfind.org and installed it, but couldn' t figure out what to do to start it. I finally managed to "start" it from the console, I think by typing ".\quake2", but then it immediately quit with this message: couldn't exec default.cfg couldn't exec config.cfg

Re: [newbie] Make?

Thanks a bunch. Instructions like that I understand! I did not find Make*.rpm but did find make*.rpm so i did that instead. Was that a mistake? no that is fine. How do I use kde or gnome? I startx, but it is plain old x AFAICT. Once in x, how do I exit? --- lee If you don't want to

RE: [newbie] a couple of questions...

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] a couple of questions... hi, i am new to linux and having a couple of problems that you might be able to help me with. The

Re: [newbie] mouse configuration problem

I'm having exactly the same problem... but I have Mandrake 7.0, Xfree 3.3.6, which is supposed to "see" my Trio 3D agp 2x... It is "accepted" like SVGA, instead: there are some tuning I can do through XF86Setup, or any other way? Thanks! Corrado Paul wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Po Yuen

[newbie] OT-HTML

HTML is for web pages, not for mailing lists. many of the people waiting to help you on this list do not have or use mailers that respond to HTML I have a filter that throws away HTML messages I notice since rejoining this list that my trash fills up with newbie list messages at breakneck

[newbie] Boot Failure Message on 7.0

I'm installing 7.0 deluxe on my laptop (PIII-500, 128 MB RAM, 6GB drive) using the floppy so that I can partition my drive and I got this meesage when I booted: SYSLINUX 1.48 MDK-7.0 Boot failed Does anybody know what this means. I couldn't find it referenced anywhere. Thanks in advance,

[newbie] PCMCIA hung

Mandrake 7.0 runs beautifully on my Toshiba Satellite after a fresh install, but upon rebooting later, it gets down as far as "Starting PCMCIA" and just hangs there. I used the recommended install route and there is no other OS on this machine. WaddoIdo now?

Re: [newbie] not starting linux after 2 weeks

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: OK, here's what happened. Assuming you were running linux when you shut your machine down for the evening, it appears you did not issue a shutdown command and/or wait for the system to inform you that the system has been halted before you turned the

Re: Re(2): Re(2): [newbie] Make?

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, _lee _kinkade wrote: Thanks a bunch. Instructions like that I understand! I did not find Make*.rpm but did find make*.rpm so i did that instead. Was that a mistake? How do I use kde or gnome? I startx, but it is plain old x AFAICT. Once in x, how do I exit? Hi Lee, When

[newbie] templates-cdrom-floppy

I've just installed Mandrake 7.02 (workstation) but I don't have templates, cdrom and floppy icons in my desktop. what should I do to correct this problem? Thanks in advance, Oder.

Re: [newbie] hdparm speed test results

The downside involves just how much data you're reading in. Seeing as how the speed is now so much greater - about 5 times greater - you run the risk of having your hard drive coming loose, bouncing around inside the case, and perhaps causing bodily harm if it should escape altogether.

Re: [newbie] HELP

this may be stating the obvious but... The login screen should include a selection box for which desktop manager you want at the foot. If you opted to install KDE then you should be able to just select it at that point. Otherwise, CTRLALTF3 should drop you out of x-windows to a command prompt

[newbie] X11 Server Lacks DPMS Support

ALright so now no one has been able to help me out yet. I get the error "X11 Server lacks DPMS Support" in KDE how do either turn DPMS or make kde allow me to use DPMS? THanx

Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home

Do a copy (cp) not a move (mv) ! It's a whole lot safer. Then you can delete the old directories when you're *sure* you're system's *not* messed up. cp -R /home /mnt/b1/ I'm guessing you've already edited fstab in your /etc partition to automount the new partitions under ./mnt/. Otherwise, try

Re: [newbie] HELP

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a new install of mandrake 70-2. I was using mandrake 6.2 with KDE and it worked great. I figured it would be the same with 7.02. I was unfortunately wrong. When I installed I got threw flawlessly and rebooted. Now I'm stuck. I got a log in screen in

Re: [newbie] a couple of questions...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] a couple of questions... hi, i am new to linux and having a couple of problems that you

Re: [newbie] mouse configuration problem

Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter wrote: I'm having exactly the same problem... but I have Mandrake 7.0, Xfree 3.3.6, which is supposed to "see" my Trio 3D agp 2x... It is "accepted" like SVGA, instead: there are some tuning I can do through XF86Setup, or any other way? Thanks! Corrado

[newbie] Re: Mandrake 7.1

Mandrake 7.1 Beta is out with some new features Here are several new features that have been introduced in this new release: Hardware Enhanced USB support for modems, printers, Zip drives

Re: [newbie] Moving usr and home

Paul wrote: Hi all, Now I am in need of an answer. I have /usr and /home as subdirectories on the / (root) partition. This is a 1.6 Gb partition. Now I got 2 large partitions extra available, 4 and 4.5 Gb. I want to move /usr to one of them, and /home to the other one. These extra

Re: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Ian Carmichael wrote: My machine is a Compaq Presario 1200xl109 Laptop and the documentation I got with it isn't very comprehensive. I have found that the driver is for a 'Trident CyberBlade i7 (47)' which is listed in the first part of the setup but then I cannot choose

Re: [newbie] Still Can't Get GUI I need

Andrew Brackenbury wrote: Hello. First, thank you to everyone who has helped me with all my very newbie question. Here's the most recent problem: So, I still can't get linux to boot to a nice GUI login window. I still get the lego looking penguin window. It is called a command line

[newbie] DrakConf

I started DrakConf under my own user, and checked the "save password" box. Unfortenately I entered the wrong password, so now I can't start DrakConf at all under my own user. I have to use root. Anyone knows how to solve this? I tried to uninstall DrakConf and installing it again, but that didn't

Re: [newbie] mouse configuration problem

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Po Yuen Kwok wrote: Greetings. I am having problem with getting my mouse to appear properly on the X-windows. So far, it appears as a large, white square on the desktop. What Mandrake version are you running? I have heard that the S3 card is not supported well in

[newbie] Network settings

Howdy, just got 7.0 totally up and running however my network settings didn't take. Does anybody know how I can go back edit network settings w/o having to re-install? thanks, bg

Re: [newbie] Still Can't Get GUI I need

Actually someone told me another way sign in as root. Then tpy linuxconf. Then go to Miscellaneous, then you go to Somethign with system under that category and then select 5 and it will go to GUI boot up and you can choose there. _ NetZero - Defenders

[newbie] scsi cdrom

Now that I have kde and mandrake 7 running so well at work, i am tempted to install the same at home. I have a pentium 75 with 48 MB mem a scsi hard drive and a scsi cd rom any suggestions for getting started? --- lee If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.

R: [newbie] a couple of questions...

Hi Paul! Even this is not the first time I deal with Linux (the first time was over 5 years ago, with Linux Slackware, and the configuration was very very hard!!), now I've the same memory problem! My Athon 600MHz on a Microstar's motherboard is not able to recognize more then 65Mb instead of

Re: [newbie] Quake2 - recursive shutdown

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, 404 Error wrote: I just got the Quake2 RPM from rpmfind.org and installed it, but couldn' t figure out what to do to start it. I finally managed to "start" it from the console, I think by typing ".\quake2", but then it immediately quit with this message: try to run

[newbie] cd rom increase speed??

I noticed that the cdrom driver says (10 X), is that just the speed of all cdroms true or is my cdrom actually running at its fullspeed and thats just the name of the generic (atapi ide) driver? And, I saw a way (On zdtv) of making your computer talk to the cdrom better by selecting a "dma"

[newbie] kmail

I had a strange thing ahppen the other day and I'm not sure if it was kmail of if the vmware problem I was having caused it. Well first off I tried to use vmware and got it up and running but i think i filled up my linux partitions. The question I have is does kmail have a limit on msg's per

RE: [newbie] Networking + gaming

I am extremely new to mandrake linux, about 6 hours to be exact, i have managed to configure most of my hardware including dvd decoder card, however i am having problems configuring my network card to run properly. I am trying to connect to the internet through an NT network, I have entered all

Re: [newbie] DrakConf

AndersI did that once and the problem cleared itself when I rebooted the system. Alan Anders Linden wrote: I started DrakConf under my own user, and checked the "save password" box. Unfortenately I entered the wrong password, so now I can't start DrakConf at all under my own user. I

Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems

Hi Paul, no, the entries in my fstab don't resemble yours too much - I think I did not enable supermount during installation. After looking around some more I saw that my ethernet card and the sound card are assigned the same IRQ - I'm sure that can't be a good thing. I can't find where to

Oops, text? Re: [newbie] OT-HTML

Does my K-Mail come through in plain text here? On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote: HTML is for web pages, not for mailing lists. many of the people waiting to help you on this list do not have or use mailers that respond to HTML I have a filter that throws away HTML messages I notice

RE: [newbie] Network settings

type netconf Howdy, just got 7.0 totally up and running however my network settings didn't take. Does anybody know how I can go back edit network settings w/o having to re-install? thanks, bg

[newbie] {newbie} Unable to mount CDRW

Hi Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mountinga cdrom was automatic? I have1 cdrom and1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is set up as follows /mnt/cdr2,

[newbie] Problem mounting CDRW

Hi Hi! I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mountinga cdrom was automatic? I have1 cdrom and1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount. It is set up as follows /mnt/cdr2,

Re: [newbie] Quake2 - recursive shutdown

My mistake - it's actually rpmfind.net! It's a great resource, and it will show you all the dependencies you'll need for an application so that you can be sure you have everything. At 09:04 PM 04/25/2000 +0200, you wrote: Hi, I just tried toget into rpmfind.org and all I get is a "Coming Soon"

Re: [newbie] X11 Server Lacks DPMS Support

Nope its a single Linux Box Not hooked up to anything. I now decided to move on from kde and use another window manager. Which when i start doesnt say that error message but if i go to system configurations and go DPMS it will give me that error message - Original Message - From: ptah

[newbie] TESTS

I was just wondering what are some basic tests/ cleanup tool you can use with linux? Such as disk defragment or scandisk? Thing that will clean out unnecessary temp files

RE: [newbie] Network settings

linuxconf -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Network settings Howdy, just got 7.0 totally up and running however my network settings didn't take. Does anybody know how I

[newbie] First modem setup

I am trying to install a modem, new LM 7.02 install, and after watching the posts for the last week, attempting the following to now avail. The modem is not identifying the com port, #2, irq 3, The irq is not ID'ed. Setting up TCP/IP connection Have attempted to: setserial

[newbie] partitioning on machine with win2000

Hi all, just got a new laptop and win2000 is the only OS and there is only one partition. Q: can I use any utility, e.g. fdisk and an older version of Partition Magic, to repartition the disk and re-install win2000; and install Linux-Mandrake together? thanks, ron

[newbie] Many Questions

Hi all. Got a few Mandrake related questions, but first a comment. Mandrake has to be by far the BEST package that I've installed to date. I've tried Caldera, Redhat, Suse, Storm, Debian, etc. They are all pretty good, but none of them worked as well as Mandrake. When I was done with the

[newbie] CDRW Mounting problems

Hi! I am extremely new to mandrake linux I just installed Mandrake 7.02 and it works great but I thought mountinga cdrom was automatic? I have1 cdrom and1 cdrw (Smart Friendly CD Pacer RW2224). Mandrake installed icons on my desktop for both cdrom and cdrw but the cdrw will not mount.

[newbie] Video mini problem

Hey all. Here's another curiosity. Although I stated that Mandrake supports my ATI Rage video card, the screen is off center, shifted to the right side. I usually get around this by running XVidtune. That works well, but only last the session. I dual boot Linux/Windows, so I frequently reboot. my

[newbie] Netscape

Hi all. Wondering why Netscape never goes to my home page upon loading. It always seems to go to some sort of internal 'about' screen. I HAVE set the preferred home page in preferences. If I click anywhere on the 'about' screen, then it goes to the home page.

[newbie] GCC

And yet another question. I've downloaded a few programs and tried to install them to no avail. After I untar the file, I type './configure'. There is some activity, and then a message that states the following: loading cache ./config.cache checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C

Re: [newbie] partitioning on machine with win2000

you dont even need to reinstall if you dont want to. you can just make new ones - Original Message - From: Ron Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 9:06 PM Subject: [newbie] partitioning on machine with win2000 Hi all, just got a new laptop and

Re: [newbie] kmail

I don't think kmail has a limit on messages per folder, I have 1,174 right now in the Newbie folder that comes from this list. But I'm not sure why kmail and VMWare screwed up on you. I had a strange thing ahppen the other day and I'm not sure if it was kmail of if the vmware problem I was

Re: Oops, text? Re: [newbie] OT-HTML

Yes, kmail uses plain text. Most of the HTML crap comes from Microsoft Outlook. Does my K-Mail come through in plain text here? -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.