On Wed, 31 May 2000, Alan Dunford wrote:
Am having a problem configuring the software for my Iomega internal tape
streamer. The device is connected correctly and I can force it to write
and read tapes.
However, before it will work (in fact before it will recognise that
there is a tape in
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
Should save his strength and help mandrakeuser.org instead of setting up
Yet Another Tips Site, and loosing interest after a few weeks.
Do not get me wrong, I would be really happy to see you doing that work,
but setting up yet another web site is not as
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Robert wrote:
euhm that's just nederland
not nederlanden. it's just one country...
Still, not bad for a foreigner. Netherlands is after all Koninkrijk der
Nederlanden... (Kingdom of Netherlands)
Paul
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Wisdom is as rare as
On Wed, 31 May 2000, flupke wrote:
Thanks a lot for your help but I could configure my menus, finally.
I just didn't saw that there was a "session.menuFile" entry in the
~/.blackboxrc file.
Now, I can have my menu the way I want. But Paul still can't set the
window raising as he want to do it
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Andy wrote:
Ahh i use blackbox but about the only thing i found out how to do was change
the menu hehe it took a little while. But blackbox is nice and fast so i
like it.
I also found out how to change the background. *grin*
Paul
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Fran Parker wrote:
Hi Paul (Denis2 :)
I will try this out.
I thought I would also try just leaving the
owner as root, but allow writes by the group users to see
if that would work.
Do you think this would work too?
Thanks
Bambi
I can only say: give it a try. Good
On Tue, 30 May 2000, KompuKit wrote:
I changed ISP's a week ago...
the other ISP...only took about ten minutes to come back to me
Very interesting. I am some other mailing lists (different topics than
Linux, yes, these exist! ;) and from there the return's are as fast as
within a few minutes
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote:
On Tue, 30 May 2000 19:42:54 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote:
Paul
who is thinking about collecting all the assistance here and putting that
up on a website...
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Tue, 30 May 2000 21:43:28
That is a lovely Idea Paul, it would be a perfect
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
Niet te geloven!
Ik heb een alter-ego uit Nederlanden!
! .-)
Next thing you know I will walk around in clogs... I already have a
bike.
Denis
Hahahaha!!! x 10,000!!!
Remember, if you wear clogs and you get cold feet, put straw in
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Glyn Millington wrote:
Can I make suggestion? - hell, I'm going to. When you post to
the list could you make the subject line tell us something about
your problem or news, rather than simply the fact that you need
help? Almost ALL of us need help, that's why we're here.
I
On Wed, 31 May 2000, John Rye wrote:
Hi,
it would be indeed the proper way to do as you already wrote.
Create a new directory, chown that to
anyone.group_where_fred_and_tom_will_be_in and then add tom and fred to
that group.
Paul
I have two users call them 'fred' and 'tom'
I need for these
Hi,
Isn't the 7.1 production release supposed to be out today, June 1 ? I
thought I recall seeing mesages that Mandrake was actually ahead of
schedule.
philomena
I think what my friend is reffering to, is that he
found the Linux joystick drivers on the M$ site and not the windows. No irony
here just a point of how difficult is to find what you want (especially with the
outdated HOWTOS) help or specific things for Linux. We all know why and we all
For you to use the "configure" command the PATH (not sure yet how to set the
PATH) to THAT dir has to be listed. If you use the "./configure" command it
means to run configure IN the dir your in.
HTH
Jaguar
"Barry Winch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please explain the concept behind ./
In qua, 31 mai 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
:~ 3) What about the three checkboxes?
SNIP
3) Disabled: This is new. I was asked by a blind guy if we could include
some programs for blind and for people who have problems with hands. This
chategory does not exist yet, but if we introduce it, it
I don't know ... I have the new Acrobat reader and it works great.
I too am using Linux Mandrake 7.0 mine is the (Air) version
Did it install correctly without errors?
Bambi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
When I try to read a PDF file using Acrobat reader, I get segfaults and this
error
If I understand you correctly, you are trying to move messages to
another folder?
Going on that assumption, you have two choices, a matter of
personal preference, you can click, hold and drag the message to the
folder you want to put it in (my choice), or you can highlight the
message and choose
Alan,
Thank you for clearing that one up...I need to get the proper
lingo down to understand what people are saying.
Bambi
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
EdisonI believe you meant to address Andrew, not me.
Anyway, KDE has one thing called a Panel and it's not what you
are calling a panel
I've got to vouch for Gnome 1.2; it's very very nice. I installed it Tuesday,
and it's much better than my old verision of Gnome, the one that came with 6.1.
And the installation was really slick, I liked it. You just go here:
I just downloaded Adobe Acrobat Reader. Should I install it while I'm
logged in as 'root' or 'user?
Or, does it really matter...
Roman
I stand to be corrected but doesn't windoze have to be on the primary master ?
On Wed, 31 May 2000, you wrote:
Aaron wrote:
Linux is on the primary disc (hda) and win98 is on the secondary disc (hdb).
I tried adding it to lilo but when I choose win98 at boot it doesn't do
anything. Do
"Mark D. Flood" wrote:
Processing files: I810Gtt
Two files on one line: /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/misc/wavefront.o:
File must begin with "/": unresolved
Two files on one line: /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/misc/wavefront.o:
File must begin with "/": symbol(s)
Two files on one line:
what rpm is the application 'nslookup' located in?
I installed jazzware
http://www.jazz.com ? I think but
if that is not correct please go to
http://freshmeat.net and do a search for jazz
it should find it for ytou
On Tue, 23 May 2000, TRBishop wrote:
On Tue, 23 May 2000, W_GROVES wrote:
I am a developer, and a musician. I have just
Not that I would buy one (thanks very much for the warning)
but do they give you your money back if you did buy one
by mistake? If not I would sue their butts.
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Jay Latham wrote:
I'm sorry to hear that you got suckered into buying a linksys card. These
guys are ripoffs. I
Hiyas,
Being a newbie, I may have this totally wrong (please let me know if I do!).
However, I believe it is due to some shells not considering the working
directory part of the path. bash and tcsh do not consider the working
directory (where you are currently entering commands) as a part of
flupke wrote:
rharvey wrote:
I setup a linux box with the server choice and high
security. I finally
found the place to turn on the web service. http web
services are running
now. The ftp seems to be installed. all the info I have
found says its all
set up but I can't ftp into the
Hiyas,
Check your /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/hosts.allow.
Also make sure ftpd is installed and running.
Chris.
-Original Message-
From: rharvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] ftp
when i try to ftp into my linux
Hiyas,
You shouldn't need to reinstall. There are applications within Linux that
will allow you to resize existing partitions (anyone mention names, please?)
and you can hot-install almost any application or service from the RPMs on
the CD (or off ftp sites). If you need some help,
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dear anyone,
hi, i have a compaq 7940 Presario, 128 MB of RAM, L2 cache, AMD-K6
650mhz processor. my problem is i tried to install linux, and when
its
done installing the packages, it says it's going to install
x-windows.
and i wait for the screen to load. when it does, first a blank black
I've heard good and bad stories. Of those selections you would want
Linux-ix86-glibc21. I would download the RPMS from the cooker site though. Most of
them are in the contribs directory and the XServer rpm is in the cooker/Mandrake/RPMS
directory. That is by far the easiest way to upgrade.
I had the same problem and when I researched it, it came down to Windows and therefore
Windows programs read the partition table in a different order than Linux. The error
I got was #120. It is because Linux programs chain logical partitions together in the
order they were created and
Interesting I just downloaded ksnuffle and it compiled and ran perfectly. I have gcc
2.95.3 I downloaded the source RPM from the cooker site and rebuilt the whole gcc
suite and installed it. I also did that with glibc-2.1.3. So it could be that last
.3 in my gcc or possible glibc that makes
Then what you wrote was a typo as I suspected...
Anyway, don't use the update feature. Download all of the affected RPM's as
per the directions I sent.
I will install this way without problems...
-JMS
-Original Message-
From: Don Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday,
Hi there,
This is my first posting, so "hello,
everyone".
I installed Mandrake Linux v7.0 a bit over a week now. It
basically went OK, but with a few teething problems that I can't seem to
resolve.
When I first logged in, I noticed that it woke up in
640x480 mode. So I furiously set
Thanks for your answer :)
"...software 'perl' terminated the
installation for the reason that my system or whatever was not in
'english'
mode...very peculiar..."
I had the same problem. What I did:
I formatted again Linux partitions and I accepted the size that
appeared in /swap partition
:~Just checking - have I got this right? Macmillan have exclusive
:~rights?
Exclusive rights to Power Packs and similar. GPL-CD-s ala cheapbytes are
just as free as they used to be. OK, maybe i underestimated the amount of
negative energy in the word "monopoly", I will have to explain this
Right! That gets my vote too...
Glyn M.
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 03:28:17PM -0400, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I agree with Joseph S. Gardner's comment (below). A firewall as part of
the initial installation of Linux-Mandrake (even for a newbie) is a good
idea. Some people
I have a pecular problem which i'm not sure is actually to do
with Kmail but occurs when picking up mail.
I seem to get numbers of empty files shown up as from either
from 'unknown' or 'null'.
Looking at the headers doesn't throw any light on the source
of these files.
Is anyone able to throw
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, you wrote:
Two options.
Very Large Snip
Thank You,
Problem solved
Cheers
I have 256 meg of ram in my machine and mandrake only sees 64 meg. How do I
rectify this? It really makes running things like vmware and gatos sluggish.
Thanks
Cy
On 1 Jun, Jose Manuel Llorens Montolio wrote:
I want to run in my Netscape 4.70 a .mov film, but I don't find any
plug-in for Linux in Internet.
I have found an application called Wine to simulate Windows 3.1, I want
to know if somebody has tested it.
Hmmm... with my
On 31 May, Andrew Scotchmer wrote:
Hi again,
I have got Linux installed on hda1 after ditching Windoze a couple of months
ago now. When at the lilo prompt I have to wait 5 seconds for it to boot the
kernal or press enter for instant booting.
I know it is petty but how can I configure
hello,
can anyone help me with this problem.
1st, i tried to install linux. i had the opportunity to have linux
take over my whole computer, since i ended up formatting everything.
so i had autoallocate allocate and create the partitions in the linux
setup. then, i installed it. after installing
Still having problems getting Mandrake to recognize all of my ram. I have
256 installed and all it sees is 64. Any help would be appreciated...
Cy
Hello,
Could you point me to information regarding installing from a hard drive?
Can I ftp the files I will need to install Mandrake (btw... what files and
what version) onto a hard drive and install from that hard drive rather than
buying a CD?
Should the files be copied on to a fat file
On 31 May, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anybody who has any information on this subject is welcome to respond.
Thanks.
Hmmm... I don't remember when this was configured but at installation time,
you can tell the system to boot KDE or GNOME or something else. I had to do
a partial reinstall
I looked at the disc that came with Maximum Linux, purchased a retail
copy and mailed in an enclosed card. There were no registration numbers on
the card. Is this sufficient; do I need to register on-line also, or what?
-Gary-
In a message dated 6/1/2000 7:10:32 AM Eastern Daylight
Are you using the DittoMax internal (second (ISA)) floppy controller, or
are you using the floppy controller that your computer uses to run your
floppy drive(s)? Now that Techmar has bought the Ditto drives from Iomega,
does anybody know a good (read: reasonably priced) source for tapes?
hi flupke,
your answer to john's post is interesting because it says that a group
can own files, i always assumed that an 'owner' had to be a user (though
i never saw that written anywhere), can a group also be a member of
another group like a user can?
bascule
flupke wrote:
I think the best
In a message dated 6/1/00 6:19:36 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can someone please explain the concept behind ./ in executing a command.
If I am in the directory where the programme resides and type the programme
name, I get a:
"bash: programme name: command not
Understand that MBR and sys are two separate issues. If one can boot
from a floppy and use the DOS partition [can you?], failure to boot is either
MBR or system files (sys). Lilo, partition magic or others can goof up the
MBR. With a DOS floppy boot the computer and "fdisk /mbr"
I was wondering if there was a way to set up my adsl from
sympatico threw mandrake 7.02 to connect to bell on boot
up without any other software. I am currently using
another piece of software to do this but am thinking of
reinstalling cleanly and setting it up again.
Mike
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, you wrote:
Can someone please explain the concept behind ./ in executing a command.
If I am in the directory where the programme resides and type the programme
name, I get a:
"bash: programme name: command not found" message
If, from the same directory I type
There's a grate talking of Partition Magic around... Do we have it on the MK
CDs?
Piero.
--
Dr Piero Caracciolo
Ecole Normale Superieure
...humani nihil a me alienum puto.
I mis-typed(?). I needed to remove Boot Magic, which must be 1)
disabled, then 2) uninstalled. "fdisk /mbr" is not needed for this one.
-Gary-
earlier today I wrote
Understand that MBR and sys are two separate issues. If one can boot
from a floppy and use the DOS partition [can
Perhaps the confusion here is that Windows looks in the logged directory
FIRST and executes "namedcommand" if found. If the "namedcommand" is not
found it then searches the path, in order, and executes the first match it
finds. I found this handy and will alter my bash preferences to
In a formaer mail, I suggested that MK should improove client support, and I
complained that the franch support team has never been able,
or willing, to answer one of my questions.
This was hyperbolic, but just slightly so. Denis asked me which were my
questions: here are a couple of them.
-
Hi List,
I sent a post in over twenty four hours ago and it still has not been posted to
the list. This is just a test?
b/web
Wade
Hi,
I just downloaded and installed Helix GNOME 1.2 Everything is working nice,
except for the keyboard applet. It used to work fine in the previous ML 7.0
installation but now, I can't get it to toggle my keyboard between a Quebec
keyboard and a Us keyboard. setxkbmap always returns this
Please unsbscribe me from the list..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1 Jun, wayne petherick wrote:
I am looking at upgrading to XF86 v4.0 and was wondering a few things.
First of all, is this release stable yet, and second, there are a few
version for Linux iX86 systems.
Linux-alpha-glibc21/17-Mar-2000 09:55
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xv does that also. And it'll happily save JPG's.
Hi Lauren,
I have never been able to figure out xv. Next time I need a screenshot
I'll look at it again.
Thanks for the tip.
Paul
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We cannot do everything at
On 1 Jun, wayne petherick wrote:
I am looking at upgrading to XF86 v4.0 and was wondering a few things.
First of all, is this release stable yet, and second, there are a few
version for Linux iX86 systems.
Linux-alpha-glibc21/17-Mar-2000 09:55
Linux-ix86-glibc20/ 17-Mar-2000
I'm all for it. While I personally hate most flash/shockwave because most of it
is more flash than substance, I would really like it if it was supported; since
some sites require it before they'll let you in or they might have some neat
thing that requires shockwave.
Hey out there everybody,
anyone out there ? I posted a question over 24 hours ago and I never saw it
on the list - even checked the archives - not there. The list goes for
hours at a time with no messages - what gives ?
As a newcomer who still can't get LM7 to install and therefore has got
nowhere so far I find that I can read the list but something I posted 2 days
ago has still to appear (cry for help). Not impressed to date.
Pete Taylor.
Hi there,
This is my first posting, so "hello,
everyone".
I installed Mandrake Linux v7.0 a bit over a week now. It
basically went OK, but with a few teething problems that I can't seem to
resolve.
When I first logged in, I noticed that it woke up in
640x480 mode. So I furiously set
Hi there!
Well, MUO says the release for mandrake 7.1 is this weekend! I can't
wait to see it and can't download that much stuff with my 28.8 connection
here, so I ordered it from LinuxLand
when They said they were planning to ship early next week!
My KDE specific comment(s):
Like most mandrake
Does anyone out there know how to burst a digest after it has been recieved
into kmail?
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
yea, diskdrake has been really sweet to me too
During all my installations ;-)
Dacia
--- Wayne Petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Playing devils advocate her but when I originally
installed MDK, I let
diskdrake do the work and it worked like a charm.
Even did a fresh
install of
I don't know if you've already gotten this, my e-mail keeps getting bounced!
---
Assuming I've got more than one working modem, each on their own phone line, is
their anyway to use then both at once on separate connection?
How on earth does an
It isn't there. Yeah, make doesn't show up! I can't compile anything anymore.
Where in Linux did it go?
-Jeff
--
Don't you use envelopes for your e-mail too? Use PGP for your e-mail!
VicI'd suggest a new hobby. :-)
Alan
Vic wrote:
Well what if someone is so p*ssed off that they are
smashing things because they don't know what to do
I have done a re-install and I am not ashamed to admit it,
I was smashing things and punching holes in my walls here
because I was
Garythis newbie list and its partner, the expert list,
have a much broader knowledge base, especially for solving
Linux Mandrake specific problems, than any paid email or phone
support system could possibly have. I'm sure that you'll be
able to solve your problem using one or both of these
WayneI just installed Corel 1.0 yesterday on a similar
system as you describe. I got my copy as a freebie when I
bought some books from Linux Mall.
Watch out, I installed with expert, assuming I'd get the most
control possible. But it never made a boot floppy, nor did it
give me any
I was trying to create a kde.lnk to my virtual desktop
/home/roman/desktop. When I selected it as an application, I was plagued
with all sorts of Mime type=...entry under user. It was if the kde
errors were asking me to fill out missing mime entry fields. I'm still
new to this. I wasn't sure how
I will try it again. I'm still getting used to the tar commands.
Roman
Philip Gabbert wrote:
I would try and redownload and reinstall Acrobat Reader .. I myself installed the
version from Acrobat's site and had no trouble at all.
-- philip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
When I
On Wed, 31 May 2000, you wrote:
SirI have purchased three different MacMillan packages
over the last year and a half. I, in point of fact, have been
very happy with each one of them, and have recommended their
purchase to others. This is certainly not hostile.
The only possible hint
I'm not sure if this has been answered yet, so here goes: the '.' before
the slash (./) is sort of a 'wildcard'. It means just look in the directory
that I'm in right now. I'm sure that you're aware that just a plain slash
would mean that you want to look in the root directory for said file.
Mandrake is only recognizing 64 meg of my 256 on my system. How can I get it
to see the rest? Please help...
Cy
Hello,
Can the 600mb ISO image file be used for an install directly from the
hard drive it is downloaded onto without being written to a CD?
Is there some information available how to do this ?
Thanks,
Jon Dowd
is there a list of all or most common error codes and what causes them and
maybe the way to fix the error?
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Jeffrey B. Ferland wrote:
Assuming I've got more than one working modem, each on their own phone line, is
their anyway to use then both at once on separate connection?
Technically I would say yes. I know it can be done in OS/2, I have done it
there. I don't know how to do
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Fran Parker wrote:
Alan,
Thank you for clearing that one up...I need to get the proper
lingo down to understand what people are saying.
Bambi
I think that this is a problem of more areas than just computers, or
Linux. It often depends on what is taught as english in areas
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On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, you wrote:
Hi Guys!
Somebody work with Oracle on Linux? I am looking for a package's editor.
I know this Email isn`t for this kind of question, but maybe someone can
help me.
I have been playing around with it, but don't know of a package editor, but
take a look a
OK thanx im guessing you found any answers at bb.themes.org on Blackbox?
Andy
- Original Message -
From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] About blackbox window manager
On Wed, 31 May 2000, flupke wrote:
Thanks a
Paul
Ater you logon and get the prompt $ , type startx and then press enter.
It should look thus
paul]$ startx
If the install completed this will launch x-windows.
Charles 6/3/2000 8:25am
- Original Message -
From: "Paul John Kiener" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody,
I have installed Linux to my D partition. The size is about 2047 MB.
Linux Mandrake installation uses 2044 MB. However, I have another 14
Gig. of unused space using NTFS (factory installed). I have manually set
the following setting during installation:
/boot ==15 MB
/root
Hello,
System:
Celeron 433
128 Mb Ram
3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 video card AGP (16Mb)
When configuring X Windows during installation, the test screen displays
successfully.
On bootup, I login with no problems (X Windows not configured to boot
automatically). When I type startx, the problems begin.
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, vern wrote:
"Mark D. Flood" wrote:
Processing files: I810Gtt
Two files on one line: /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/misc/wavefront.o:
File must begin with "/": unresolved
Two files on one line: /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/misc/wavefront.o:
File must begin with "/": symbol(s)
Two
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote:
Sometimes descriptions of programs really stump me... I just ran over this
one:
ZPoPyDA is a postgresql database adapter for Zope based on PoPy
This is a most perfect illustration that illuminates with precision
what I
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Paul John Kiener wrote:
Hi Paul,
You probably told the installer to check the video modes. I have heard
(and once also experienced) that sometimes probing the video card for X is
not a good idea all of the time. Depends on your hardware a lot, so I
can't tell when you should
Windows does not have to be on the primaey master to boot it just has to
think it is.
The first thing you need to do is to verify that Win will boot . To do
this change the setting in your BIOS so that it boots first from hd1 instead
of hb0 (some list them as C and D). If Win boots all you
I have 128 meg of memory, the first time I installed I picked the
recommended option and only 64 meg was recognised.
I reinstalled using expert until the memory was recognised and then went
back to step 2 installation class and worked from there.
now it recognises all the RAM
hope this works
Nice site Paul...I have put in my netscrappy bookmarks.
Thanks,
Bambi
Paul wrote:
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote:
On Tue, 30 May 2000 19:42:54 +0200 (CEST), Paul wrote:
Paul
who is thinking about collecting all the assistance here and putting that
up on a website...
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