[newbie] Netscape6 desktop shortcut revisited

2000-05-15 Thread Eunice Thompson
Hi all , I was having a really hard time adding the shortcut to Netscape6 to the Desktop. Normally to start it up I would open a console change directory to /home/mydir/netscape6/package and then type './netscape' (without the qoutes) and it would start no problem. .the problem of adding the shor

RE: [newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu

2000-05-15 Thread Paulus Hendarwan
You can set the initial window type in LinuxConf. At the prompt, just type : #linuxconf. Select Boot something I forgot. And in there you can configure to start with X-Windows system (KDE) May it helps. Best Regards, Paulus Hendarwan > -Original Message- > From: Michael A. Kello

Re: [newbie] Wow...

2000-05-15 Thread Mark Potochnik
Ron Greer wrote: > Geez, I leave for the weekend, and I get 200 messages :) I'm leaving for 9 days I probably will have 2,000 messages when I come back. :-) MarkP

Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice & Mandrake7

2000-05-15 Thread Mark Potochnik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Also, why is it so important to have Wordperfect in addition to Star Office > (or visa >versa)? > I'm used to Word Perfect (and have a book about half-done with it) and I > like it. I would also like to have a spread-sheet program under Linux. I'm > dual-booting

Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)

2000-05-15 Thread Dave Lers
On Mon, 15 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I read the HOWTO some more and with your help modprobed the > nessesary modules and this is what happens afterwards. > > echo > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > echo > bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission Denied > echo > whoami > echo > r

Re: [newbie] attn Michael

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Michael wrote: >Uh oh! How do i do that? I thought linux was virus free- now you're >telling me I've got worms? Does it affect Linux or only the other os? > >please tell me soon as I need to know! I don't say that you have them, it would however be good if you make sure that

Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice & Mandrake7

2000-05-15 Thread vern
Alan Shoemaker wrote: > Alan > > P.S. I bought my first computer in 1978, it was a TRS-80 Model > I with 4 K of ram and a cassette deck to load programs and > save data. This was way before my first wordprocessor, > Electric Pencil. :-) > Hey Alan remember when the "new thing" was Wordstar? I

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romandid you try the below when you had web ordering problems? "Please call Net10.net at (800) 338-6192 if you are experiencing problems with the shopping cart." Unless you have better than a dial-up (dsl or cable at a minimum) connection downloading the iso is close to impossible (a single

Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice & Mandrake7

2000-05-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Garyso do you really need Star Office? I ask because whatever anomaly is causing this is getting you down and maybe a compromise is the best way out. Wasn't recofiguring X enough to fix things. Did you look for damage to the /etc/X11/XF86Config file? Possibly backing this file up before in

Re: [newbie] Unsubscription feature doesn't work?

2000-05-15 Thread Jean-Sebastien Gasse
I thought it was just me, I have the same problem On Mon, 15 May 2000, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if there's a problem with the mail server? I have made > an unsubscription request 2 days ago, through the web page, and I'm > still getting all the email. Does it take so long for th

Re: [newbie] Charles/DSL?

2000-05-15 Thread vern
Same story in Kentucky the satellites will probably beat the wire guys around here! I'm in the woods miles from my central office and the best I ever get is 26K. So thank goodness for CD's, otherwise Linux would be still a dream! My first brush with Linux was Slackware on about 15 floppies I bel

Re: [newbie] 3dfx (Vern)

2000-05-15 Thread vern
Hi again Michael, I'm not much of a gamer, in fact the only games I own are the one's that came with the Voodoo card and the Soundblaster card. :-) The original idea behind all this madness was to get back into a decent flight simulator for Linux. I found a web site for one complete with screen sh

Re: [newbie] Reformatted my entire drive

2000-05-15 Thread GAPrichard
I can advise you about a couple of items. My program specific comments are from Mandrake-Linux 7. I do not have experience with other versions, so adjust accordingly. BIOS The first problem is to get in. , or are the most common, and you have to do them early enough. If worse com

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread GAPrichard
As a technician I used to see hard drives act flakey but keep working. It was a warning that they were going to fail. If you can verify that you do not have a temperature problem (is the power supply fan working!), put in a new data cable. If problems continue consider yourself twice war

re. [newbie] StarOffice & Mandrake7

2000-05-15 Thread GAPrichard
replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Garywhat does "reload Linux" mean exactly? After each problem with WordPerfect and StarOffice I did a total reinstall: partition, format, the works. >Install of what, gave an '"install failed" at about 80% complete'? Sorry for summarizing to the

[newbie] DrakX is working

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Charles, After many, many hours DrakX is now running. I was trying to install the i586 on the wrong machine. The hard drives and ZIP drives were old. I think the i486 will work with the 10 Gig PII 200 MHz machine. My first stumbling block in DrakX, is the fact that when I selected hda5 (D partit

Re: [newbie] lost X! help

2000-05-15 Thread bascule
thanks eric, i'll be trying this tomorrow! bascule Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: > > You mean /tmp ?? > There is no so much space to win when deleting this one. > Try: > mkdir /tmp > mkdir /tmp/.X11-unix > mkdir /tmp/.font-unix > and reboot with runlevel 3, startx. > If you mean /my account/tmp, > Th

[newbie] A Broken Mandrake

2000-05-15 Thread Drake X
Thanks to everyone who responded to my posts about my recent crash. I printed out all the posts before launching my latest assault on the problem. This time rather than trying just "fsck" by itself, I followed someone's suggestion and added the path to the problem partition (fsck /dev/hda5) an

[newbie] Setting Up DrakX Help Needed

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Hi folks, I am back on my newer computer. I was just running the DrakX installer. Everything went well, right up to mounting. I have two red buttons from left to right. One for the first partition (hda), and the other for the second (hda5). I selected the drive of which Linux identified as hda5.

Re: [newbie] needed programs

2000-05-15 Thread vern
"Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: > > On Mon, 15 May 2000, you wrote: > > Ron, > > XMMS kicks a**. If you will try, you will see it is the same as winamp. > > -michael- > > Hi folks! I also like XMMS but can't seem to get it to automatically boot up > when I try to listen to a radio station in www.sh

Re: [newbie] Replies

2000-05-15 Thread vern
Ron Greer wrote: > > I use outlook :) Hey Ron! I've got this r33l K00l visual basic script you should try!! Just kidding, still I find it odd that the guy who wrote that was kind enough to include his name and address!! H! Me thinks there's a false trail out there somewhere! vern --

Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)

2000-05-15 Thread freeman
I read the HOWTO some more and with your help modprobed the nessesary modules and this is what happens afterwards. echo > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo > bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission Denied echo > whoami echo > root any ideas Mike > Here is the list : > ip_masq_vdoliv

Re: [newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Holt
"Michael A. Kellogg" wrote: > > Hi Folks! > > Well, I don't quite know how I did it, but when I reboot the computer, I'm only > given a command prompt (login name, password) rather than the nice graphic > screen I was accustom. It's not a big deal, I type startx and get things going > but I wou

[newbie] Unsubscription feature doesn't work?

2000-05-15 Thread kiriakos
Hi all, I was wondering if there's a problem with the mail server? I have made an unsubscription request 2 days ago, through the web page, and I'm still getting all the email. Does it take so long for the server to process the request maybe? GG

[newbie] Audioconferencing

2000-05-15 Thread Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter
Now, before I fall asleep :-) , a BIG help about another topic is needed: I'll be very grateful if someone could give me a full introdutcion to audioconferencing, I need to be told all from scratch, in fact... Quiet silly, if you think my first computer was a Commodore VIC 20, but that's the trut

[newbie] Booting into Graphic Menu

2000-05-15 Thread Michael A. Kellogg
Hi Folks! Well, I don't quite know how I did it, but when I reboot the computer, I'm only given a command prompt (login name, password) rather than the nice graphic screen I was accustom. It's not a big deal, I type startx and get things going but I would like to reset my initial boot in to a gr

Re: [newbie] Kvirc frozen up...

2000-05-15 Thread Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter
Thanks, Fran: I have the newest one as well, and I'm VERY aware :-) of the miscellaneous button little drawback... Perhaps I've finally found what's wrong, but I think I'll verify tomorrow... };-> Sometimes, I need some sllep, too... ^__^ Aniway, does anybody know if I can set the channel I'm o

[newbie] OT /3dfx (& Quake)

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Holt
Hello again! This is an extra installment to my previous question about 3dfx. I just bought a copy of Quake 2 for Linux and had some disapointment. I'm using an AMD k6-3 450 w/192 MB RAM and an ATI Rage Fury 32MB Vid card; I'm only able to use a max window size of 640x480 before the sou

Re: [newbie] setting RAM

2000-05-15 Thread bill
Martin Marier wrote: > > Hello list, > > I'm having problems letting Linux know that I have 96 MB of RAM (it only > sees 64 MB). I tried edit lilo.conf file adding a parameter in the append > line : > > append="hdb=ide_scsi,mem=96M" append="hdb=ide-scsi mem=96M" ^

Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
Amazon does have it. Linux-Mandrake Complete 7.0..$25.99 That is where I got mine, but I had a Gift Certificate otherwise I would have bought it local for $29. Charles - Original Message - From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 7:5

[newbie] DrakeX Graphical Installer Works

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I took a chance, and cleared my D drive on my new computer. After I popped the installation CD in the tray, DrakeX Graphical Installer started working. Hooray! Hooray! After Allen mentioned that I the hard drive and ZIP drives could be old and that I would need the i486 installatio

[newbie] HP Deskjet 842C

2000-05-15 Thread Steve Edmunds
Hi, Has anyone managed to get one of these working under 2.2.x? I run Mandrake 7.0 and none of the available filters there will work Thanks for any advice Steve -- Steve Edmunds Work:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] 3dfx (Vern)

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Holt
I'm sorry to hear about your winwoes; I'm not sure, but I would think if you've made sure to disable the onboard card (through a jumper or a switch) the only thing that would be left would be the bios settings. I have another however; I don't know if you're a gamer, but I just bought a copy of

Re: [newbie] Charles/DSL?

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
When i went to the phoneco in sitka and asked about a DSL they said,"Huh?" We'll have cablemodems by 2004. Til then it's 28.8. -michael- Paul wrote: > On Sun, 14 May 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > >Paul > > DSL( Digital Subscriber Line) is the big brother of ISDN. It requires a > >special

Re: [newbie] Kvirc frozen up...

2000-05-15 Thread Fran Parker
What version of KVirc are you running...I have the new one from the KVirc site and it works great...as long as you don't choose the miscellaneous button (closes program)not done yet. :) Very nice revision. Bambi vern wrote: > I have had similar results with Netscape and XCDroast they'll > f

Re: [newbie] Replies

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
Charles- Apologies! I thought I was responding to a post by Denis (although reviewing I see where it could cross apply;) ) -michael-

Re: [newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Hi Nickolay, I found out what the reason was for my non-graphical install problems. The computer that I was practicing on was PII 200 MHz and the drives were from around 1996-7. I had the install for i586s. As Allen mentioned, for older machines use the i486 install CD. I inserted the install C

Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
However if you buy the $29 distro you get documentation, tech support, staroffice, bootmagic, partitionmagic, e-books on linux... not to ment... Where does someone on an island in alaska get one?? Amazon.com doesn't have it! -michael-

Re: [newbie] Shockwave for Linux

2000-05-15 Thread Fran Parker
If you are trying to use Shockwave in Netscape..might want to try going to the help section on the left top and choose About Plugins. Bambi Vic wrote: > I have tryed (f*ck the spelling i'm not in the mood to deal with > this piece of crap keyboard) > > I tryed to get shockwave for Linux and I c

Re: [newbie] attn Michael

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
Uh oh! How do i do that? I thought linux was virus free- now you're telling me I've got worms? Does it affect Linux or only the other os? please tell me soon as I need to know! -michael-

Re: [[newbie] PCMCIA / IBM Ethernet Credit Card support]

2000-05-15 Thread Jaguar
If your ehterrnet card is PCMCIA, you will have to load your PC CARD drivers before the NIC, otherwise you will be forever getting the NIC to work...I am not sure how to re-arrange the install list but I am sure someone here can enlighten you... HTH Jaguar El Nada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hel

Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
Paul Since all he said he had was an old SCSI CDROM I did not believe that he would have a CD-RW and therfore he would have no way to burn a CD. I was giving suggestions for the hardware he said he had . Charles - Original Message - From: "Ron Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EM

RE: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Bill . Gardner
However if you buy the $29 distro you get documentation, tech support, staroffice, bootmagic, partitionmagic, e-books on linux... not to mention source code. thanks, bg > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 5:13 PM > T

Re: [newbie] Burn ISO download with CDRWIN

2000-05-15 Thread Rial Juan
This is what I do in linux: go to the console, log in as root, and type: cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -v image.iso Works nice too, saves me a reboot. If you want to burn bin/cue combos, you can either use cdrdao (or so I heard) or convert them to a .iso with bchunk (but always mount the result

RE: [newbie] Encarta

2000-05-15 Thread Y u r i
www.britannica.com may be a good replacement? unless you need multimedia stuff, it's far superior IMHO -Original Message- Small, maybe unrelated insight, I'd really give some thought to not as "root" most of the time. I'm another newbie giving thought to going Linux only. My new vid

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 / IM

2000-05-15 Thread Rial Juan
As a matter of fact, there is a better way... Since people keep asking this on the list, I saved this old mail of me in a file, and here's the contents of that file: ### BEGIN ### Ok, Quite a few people here asked how to run this new netscape, and the answers generally were: "cd into the newly

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Alan, I tried to purchase the CD but there was some sort of billing address discrepency. If I download the ISO file to one of my partitions, that is the one that I want to have Linux Mandrake installed to, do I still have to run rawwrite.exe again. I checked the FAQ section and there appears to

Re: [newbie] changing back to kde

2000-05-15 Thread Rial Juan
make a file called .xinitrc in your homedir, containing the single line: kde On May 13 Bruce Endries wrote: > I re-installed Mandrake 7.0-2 today, and found that somehow I had > configured X to start up with gnome. I want the kde desktop. Is > there an easy way to change it to kde? > > >

Re: [newbie] X-Chat "No Ident response"

2000-05-15 Thread Rial Juan
Quick guess: uncomment the line: auth stream tcpnowait nobody/usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -l -e in /etc/inetd.conf On May 13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I am checking things out I fired up X-Chat and told it to connect to > EFNet right off the user menu on the tool bar and I g

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Canon Printer Probs

2000-05-15 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Canon Printer Probs Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:04:37 -0800 From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew- acquired not aquired sorry but i'm a spelling freaque -michael- ---

Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Marc
My Mandrake7 cd was burned. Well by maximumlinux but, it was still burned free of charge. All I did was buy the magazine. - Original Message - From: "Ron Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 4:40 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in

[newbie] KFM not starting.

2000-05-15 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi all, Here's something weird, or at least to me, and it has only just begun. I have kppp in autostart so every time I begin an X session I just have to click connect and forget about it. All was well except that from a few days back whenever I have started my connection kfm does not start. I

Re: [newbie] needed programs

2000-05-15 Thread Anthony Huereca
> hey didnt xmms use to be 'x11amp'? Yep. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

[newbie] setting RAM

2000-05-15 Thread Martin Marier
Hello list, I'm having problems letting Linux know that I have 96 MB of RAM (it only sees 64 MB). I tried edit lilo.conf file adding a parameter in the append line : append="hdb=ide_scsi,mem=96M" But it doesn't work. The memory is still at 64MB and /dev/hdb remains an IDE dr

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and disk space

2000-05-15 Thread vern
Small, maybe unrelated insight, I'd really give some thought to not as "root" most of the time. I'm another newbie giving thought to going Linux only. My new video card has pushed me over the edge, works beautifully in Linux and garbage in Windows. I'd like to see someone port one of the encyclo

Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)

2000-05-15 Thread flupke
Here is the list : ip_masq_vdolive ip_masq_user ip_masq_raudio ip_masq_quake ip_masq_portfw ip_masq_mfw ip_masq_irc ip_masq_ftp ip_masq_cuseeme ip_masq_autofw HTH Flupke On Mon, 15 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry trying to understand the HOWTO and it's not straight > forward. Which m

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA / IBM Ethernet Credit Card support

2000-05-15 Thread Brian Tompkins
Senor, I feel your pain. I got around this issue by doing the following ( no scripting needed ). I openned DrakConf and clicked on the startup icon (traffic light). Check pcmcia, dhcpd, postfix, cron - if they are not already checked - if dhcp is not available you can mount your cd and find the

RE: [newbie] needed programs

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Greer
Yep, sure did. It changed over like a year and a half ago :) Where've you been? -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] needed programs hey didnt xmms use to be 'x11amp

RE: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Greer
Why can't he burn one? It should be legal. -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop Mauricio Part of this is gues

[newbie] once again: ISDN setup

2000-05-15 Thread Christian Mathes
Hi folks, First I would like to thank all who tried to help me with my ISDN configuration. I think the easiest to understand solution is offered in the online manual at www.mandrakeuser.org According to this manualI have to edit these files: '/etc/isdn/profile/link/myisp', your dial-up profil

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanas I believe I said before, run partinfo.exe. I believe you have errors in your partition table that can be identified by partinfo.exe and fixed with ptedit.exe (both are part of PM). Concerning the lost interrupt errors, they are usually associated with hard drives and cdroms. The

Re: [newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic

2000-05-15 Thread Cyber Eagle
Nickolay Belostotsky£¬ÄúºÃ£¡, do it, u can get it! ÔÚ 00-5-15 10:40:00 ÄúдµÀ£º >Hello! > >My current configuration is, a 9Gb hard drive divided into two 4.5Gb >partitions - C: and D:. I have Linux installed via Lnx4Win. >Now I want to install Linux onto its own partition. Will Partition Magic b

[newbie] attn Michael

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Michael wrote: Michael, The original post of "GREAT BOOKS" (lost the real e-mail address) had a virus attached to it. I think it was the KAK worm virus. Go see the www.symantec.com site, or www.mcafee.com to find it and remove it if needed. Good luck Paul >What's up with th

[newbie] [expert] OT - Wine & StarCraft

2000-05-15 Thread GAGLIANO, ANGELO
Title: [expert] OT - Wine & StarCraft I am not sure if this is a Wine issue or a MDK 7 and Wine issue but here: I used to run StarCraft with Wine (I forgot the version) in MDK 6. I installed MDK 7 a few months earlier this year and have not been able to get StarCraft to start anymore with th

[newbie] running prgrams as user

2000-05-15 Thread quaylar
hello all ! i have the problem that i want to use a program that obviously only works as root user, as a non-root user.im speaking of kvoice, the fax sender..i configured it as root and im able to send and receive faxes as root..but when starting it as another user i always get errors

Re: [newbie] 3COM, @Home Service and Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
I thought it would be a good safe practice to try out my installation on my slightly older Dell Computer XPS M200s. If I partition my drive in 2 Gig. sections, should it not work? In addition, do you know why my install always goes into text mode rather graphical. This is totally bizarre. I will

RE: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Greer
Network install? -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Mauricio Tavares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop My laptop is a lowly P75 without CDROM drive. Well, I

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Romanator
Hi folks, My install keeps booting to text install and then does not recognize my partition table. Sample message: hdb: drive not ready for command hdb: status error: status = 0x00 {} unable to read partition table hdd:hdd: lost interrupt hdd: lost interrupt The line: 'hdd: lost interrupt' keep

Re: [newbie] (VIRUS WARNING) from Great Books

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
What's up with this message? I hope there's nothing to it- I am in the habit of just deleting or next-ing to the next message without going back to the list(NS4.70)-especially when there's 250+ msgs like this am. Anyway, heeding the warning I went to the list and highlighted the message from Paul

Re: [newbie] needed programs

2000-05-15 Thread Michael A. Kellogg
On Mon, 15 May 2000, you wrote: > Ron, > XMMS kicks a**. If you will try, you will see it is the same as winamp. > -michael- Hi folks! I also like XMMS but can't seem to get it to automatically boot up when I try to listen to a radio station in www.shoutcast.com If I download the file (*.pl) an

Re: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-[newbie]Making a backup copy of Linux-Mandrake boot disk for version 6.5

2000-05-15 Thread John Arkoulis
What do you want to back up??/ What do you mean with backcopy?? On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: > Hi All, > Have installed a linux-mandrake version 6.5 on my system. I use a > boot disk to install the system. Not sure how to make a backcopy? May seem very > obvious but not sure as I'm

RE: [newbie] Replies

2000-05-15 Thread Ron Greer
I use outlook :) I'm forced to at work. There is no exchange server mail client for linux. No, I'm not admin on the exchange server, so I can't add pop support or anything else. -=Ron=- -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 May 2000, X Drake wrote: >Yeah Windows seemed to boot and run as usual, but I'll run Scandisk. One >thing I just thought of - I just installed an anti-virus program in Windows >earlier in the day. I didn't think it could have any affect on the Linux >partition because Windows ignore

[newbie] PCMCIA / IBM Ethernet Credit Card support

2000-05-15 Thread El Nada
Hello, After compleating my install of LinuxMandrake 7.0 (w/o PCMCIA support or selecting a network adapter) I am trying to get an IBM Ethernet Credit Card Adapter II (I/O Range 1000-101f, IRQ 10, Memory Range 0200800-02008FFF, Memory Range 0200400-02007FFF). I have PCMCIA=yes in /etc/sysconfig/p

Re: [newbie] Charles/DSL?

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: >Paul > DSL( Digital Subscriber Line) is the big brother of ISDN. It requires a >special modem and phone line hook-up and is provided most often by the local >phone companies. With DSL I can achive upload speeds of 256k and download >speeds of up to

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 / IM

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 May 2000, bluebottle wrote: >On Sun, 14 May 2000, you wrote: >> This NS 6 you talk about, is that the preview that is available on the >> Netscape site? > >Hi Paul > >That's the one - I've used it since it was released and it's not bad. I run it >from a command prompt but there may be

Re: [newbie] Reformatted my entire drive

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Roman wrote: >I think, I have to use Partition Magic to create separate partition for >the following: >C:WIN98Fat16 >* Extended >/boot LinuxExt2 >/root LinuxExt2 >/sLinuxSwap >/home LinuxExt2 >/usrLinuxExt2 >/var

Re: [newbie] Trouble installing Mandrake 7

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Subroza wrote: >I guess this is the Xserver having trouble with my display and I've tried >two different graphics cards a Trident and ATI All in Wonder Pro but both of >them give me this error. Here are the specs to the system I'm trying to >install on: > >Cyrix 150 >Hot - 541

Re: [newbie] Modem locks

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Tue, 16 May 2000, John Rye wrote: >Hi folks - > >I had a power outage a short time ago and assume it's the reason for >my problem. > >If I attempt to dial out kppp returns a message that the modem is locked > >I need to release that lock but have been unable to find any info locally.. Hi John

Re: [newbie] Button 2: Netscape

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Martin Solms wrote: >Hi > >What is Button 2 in Netscape and how would you use it? Button2 is either the middle button on a 3 button mouse, or a double click of one of the two other buttons (don't recall which one). You can use that to open a link in a new browser window. Mor

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: >Paul/Euniceyou really don't want to go to the binary for >this link. The launching of netscape is done by a shell >script and that is what you should be linking the desktop icon >to. It's located at: > >/usr/bin/netscape Thank you! Paul )0(-

[newbie] Funny thing

2000-05-15 Thread Paul
Hi all, On my other machine I have something funny going on. Nothing that I can't live with, just something remarkable. It used to boot into the WinNT bootmanager, defaulting to Linux (LILO). Now it boots into LILO. When I type "dos" it kicks into the WinNT boot manager, from where I can go back

[newbie] FAQ: Installing mandrake in my laptop

2000-05-15 Thread Mauricio Tavares
My laptop is a lowly P75 without CDROM drive. Well, I do have one, but it it is external through a SCSI PCMCIA card according to the manufacturer is not supported by linux (fujitsu chipset). I would like to initially install Linux in a 800MB HD I have here doing nothing (I would swap it

[newbie] File Size Limitation

2000-05-15 Thread anils
Hello, What is the file size limitation with LINUX ? I am transferring a 4 GB file (.dmp) from SOLARIS 2.6 into Mandrake-Linux 7.0 using FTP. Getting a "550 Broken Pipe" error after transferring 2 GB of file. I zipped the file and successfully able to ftp. But while unzipping on the LINUX box, ge

Re: [newbie] Reformatted my entire drive

2000-05-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
Roman When you go into your BIOS you should see a listing for PCI/Plug and Play Setup( the wording and such may be different depending upon who supplied your BIOS). When you enter PCI Setup the first listing will read something like Plug and Play Aware OS and it can be set to either yes or no.

[newbie] Re: mothers day

2000-05-15 Thread Bill Smith
and don't forget Ma' Gatesone of the biggest mothers I know! *tongue planted firmly in cheek and no offense meant to the ladyfolk* Bill Smith Registered Linux User #78337

Re: [newbie] Replies

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
A question back (from several of us I'm sure...) Why would you use outlook suppress to maintain your presence on your list, daddy-o, when there is Netscape (and several mail utilities) included in Mandrake? Have you joined the Dark Side??? ;-) -michael-

Re: [newbie] needed programs

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
Ron, XMMS kicks a**. If you will try, you will see it is the same as winamp. -michael-

Re: [newbie] Modem locks

2000-05-15 Thread J D
go to setup in kppp. click on the device tab. there will be a box that says "Use lock file". uncheck it. that's usually the problem when my modem is locked. later. jd >From: John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [newbie] Modem locks >Da

Re: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Michael
control + alt + backspace has always worked for me and I haven't lost a thing

[newbie] Newbie wierd question about telnet

2000-05-15 Thread freeman
I can telnet to my box and login on my local net but I can't login remotely. I know my ip and I am on Adsl at all times any ideas Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com

Re: [newbie] Modem locks

2000-05-15 Thread quaylar
Am Mon, 15 Mai 2000 schrieben Sie: hmm...i remember there was something mentioned about a lock option in the kppp help file..u should have a look at that...i think theres a faq which contains especially your question... --quay > Hi folks - > > I had a power outage a short time ago a

RE: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....

2000-05-15 Thread Eduardo Arauz
i haved the same problem a month ago.. try first to run : fsck/dev/hda5.. once you ve got into root.. and see if that solve the problem... i am about to quit mandrake too but because other problems finally i reinstalled all ... and upgraded my PC but it still doesnt work 100% i cant mount e

RE: [newbie] Modem locks

2000-05-15 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
check under /var/lock maybe kpp has a .lock file out there somewhere??? -Original Message- From: John Rye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Modem locks Hi folks - I had a power outage a short time ago and assume it's

[newbie] Shockwave for Linux

2000-05-15 Thread Vic
I have tryed (f*ck the spelling i'm not in the mood to deal with this piece of crap keyboard) I tryed to get shockwave for Linux and I can't find it, I can't even e mail shockwave to tell them this. Maybe I should reverse-compile thier windows shockwave so I will be able to use it, I already ha

Re: [newbie] ip chains (newbie confusion)

2000-05-15 Thread freeman
Sorry trying to understand the HOWTO and it's not straight forward. Which modules are suppose to be modprobed. It lists several but all I want to do is share a internet connection(for now:). > If you just want to share your connection, you just have to go through > some easy steps : > Firs

Re: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-[newbie]Making a backup copy of Linux-Mandrake boot disk for version 6.5

2000-05-15 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~>Hi All, :~> Have installed a linux-mandrake version 6.5 on my system. I use a :~>boot disk to install the system. Not sure how to make a backcopy? May seem very :~>obvious but not sure as I'm very new to linux. as root do: 1) put a boot floppy in drive 2) type: dd if=/dev/

[newbie] Mandrake and disk space

2000-05-15 Thread Jason Lindsay
Hopefully I'll get some good insights on this. Windows appears to have taken a massive poop on me over the weekend, and since I really haven't booted into it for quite some time now, I think I'm going to redo my system linux-only. Here's the question: I have a total of 10.1G HDD space, on 2 4.3

Re: [[newbie] Trouble installing Mandrake 7]

2000-05-15 Thread Jaguar
There is a known install bug in Mandrake 7.0, all you should have to do it grab the updated floppy install image from Mandrake's site's, and use your 7.0 CD and the image from Mandrake. HTH Jaguar "Subroza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's my first time to install Linux and I'm having a terrible

Re: [newbie] hello mothers

2000-05-15 Thread Hellmut
No to forget all the motherboards out there! Happy Mother's Day for all motherboards!!! ;) > Happy Mother's Day...to all you mothersout there. > > -- >Registered Linux User:73821 > <===KompuKit===> > Kit Goins ICQ#

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