[newbie-it] Errato riconoscimento quantità RAM sotto Linux Mandrake

Ciao gente, scusate la mia inesperienza e le domande assillanti ma Linux mi trova soltanto 64 Mb di RAM nonostante io ne abbia installati 128... Come faccio a farglieli trovare tutti ? Grazie!

Re: [newbie-it] Errato riconoscimento quantità RAM sotto Linux Mandrake

Matteo Merlin wrote: Ciao gente,scusate la mia inesperienza e le domande assillanti ma Linux mi trova soltanto 64 Mb di RAM nonostante io ne abbia installati 128... Come faccio a farglieli trovare tutti ? Grazie! Al prompt di lilo digita: linux mem=128 Almeno

Re: [newbie-it] modem USB

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:52:25AM +0200, Lorenzo Lolli wrote: Perche' non inizi dicendoci che modem hai, che tipo di computer (caratteristiche...) ecc.? Cosi' sara' + facile trovare qualcuno che magari e' nella tua stessa situazione. Considera comunque che il supporto delle periferiche USB

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

Bob wrote: Why do I think that the message below has anything to do with me, and how many others have wondered the same thing. It would be appreciated if people could consider if what they are replying to has meaning to everyone on the list. Thank you. Bob Root On Mon, 05 Jun 2000,

[newbie] Sound cuestion

Hello, I have a problem with the Isa pnp sound blaster Vibra; when I make sndconfig, it become to work but when I reset the machine, the modem dont work any more but the sound is ok. The modem (3com 56k internal Isa) is in com 2 irq 3 and work good in win98; the sound is irq 5 dma1/0 (win98). I

Re: [newbie] Boot Sequence Failures?

Owner wrote: I've noticed that during my boot sequence with Mandrake, I've been getting some failures. Snip One failures: eth0 .. I get: Jun 4 13:12:12 cero ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization. Jun 4 13:12:12 cero network: Bringing up interface eth0 failed (cero is the name of me

[newbie] Reading Confirmation Receipt

Hello Steve Olson, Your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], dated Monday, June 05, 2000, 9:17:10 PM, has in fact been read. If your message requires an answer, Gary will answer when time permits. The Bat! - automatic mail servant of Gary.

Re: [newbie] Talking about firewalls.

Paulsorry, I don't know, as I've never used ICQ. But I can tell you that it works fine with both AIM (or gAIM) and MSN Messenger. Alan Paul wrote: On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Paulhere's one that'll work on everything. I use it on my masquerading/gateway machine

Re: [newbie] How do I mount a modem?

Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: but how do I mount my modem? Hmm, I dunno, and I don't think you need to know either, I suspect that is handled by Linux. The way I got my modem working was by playing around with Minicom. Once you have control of the modem thru Minicom, you should graduate to PPP : --

[newbie] Core file, what is it?

Hi Group, I found in my home directory a rather large size file, which was not there previously, called "core," and the graphic of the file looks like a bomb, with a fuse, no joke. I could not find any info or documentation on this thing. Is it safe to delete? Just exactly what is

Re: [newbie] error msg--xauth: /home/buck/.Xauthority not writable changes will be ignored

Paul, I tried out your suggestion and unfortunately chown didnt work..i also tried to chmod a+rwx the file and that didnt seem to solve the problem either. However, i did find out from your suggestion that the ownership was changed from buck.buck to root.root .. i decided to try and delete

Re: [newbie] removing LILO ?

if you installed lilo in the master boot record of hda (which you probably did) you may want to try typing fdisk /mbr at a dos prompt .. that will delete lilo from the master boot record and you should be fine.. i have windows on my primary hard disk and linux on my secondary and i always

Re: [newbie] Still having memory problems!

i had the same problem with mandrake 7.0 not detecting all 128mb of my system ram.. i tried to find information on how to add the append= line and where in the lilo.conf file to add it and it was tough (it ended up being put here: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb1

Re: [newbie] sorry for the dumb question what rpm is---

bind-utils You can get it from here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/updates/6.1/RPMS/bind-utils-8.2.2P5-6mdk.i586.html what rpm is the application 'nslookup' located in? -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

Re: [newbie] What are the fave picks for Learning Linux or Unix

The only book I have on Linux is "Linux Installation Getting Started. Version 3.2" by Matt Welsh. I got it with my first Linux distro (Mandrake 6.0) that I bought back in August. It taught me the basics of linux, and is fairly good. I got most of my Linux knowledge from the web though. I have a

Re: [newbie] Shutting down X

To get to command line mode, hit "alt+ctrl+f2". To get back to X, hit "alt+ctrl+f7" I have a dumb questionI need to run in command line mode and can't seem to get there. Can anyone tell me how to shut down X and get to the command line? thanks Jim -- Anthony Huereca

Re: [newbie] Shutting down X

Do you need to be in command line or will a terminal window do ? If you need to be in command line I think it's init 3 On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote: I have a dumb questionI need to run in command line mode and can't seem to get there. Can anyone tell me how to shut down X and get to

Re: [newbie] Talking about firewalls.

Here is another good firewall/packet filter that friends of myne use. I will use it also once I get my modem on the net. It is located at www.snort.org and you can get good signatures at www.whitehats.com - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] How do I mount a modem?

Contrary to what others have told you, there is a step involved.. Assuming that Lothar reported your modem correctly, go to the console, or Xterm and type this... ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem This creates a symbolic link so that programs know where the modem is... Now while still in the Xterm,

Re: [newbie] SCSI CD-ROM and CD writer not seen

I do not have the link handy but do a search for the linux how-to sites and read the section about setting up scsi cd roms. I've attached the text that got my writer working though!! Mandrake failed to setup my CDROM writter but by following the instructions i got it working fine. I got the

[newbie] Dedicated Burner

Yo! I have some spare junk lying around and would like to throw together a machine dedicated to burning CD's. The "junk" is as follows: Genuine Pentium 133mhz, 32mb EDO Ram, 1.6GB EIDE mode4/DMA Western Dig HDD ATAPI 40speed CD-ROM, SmartFriendly ATAPI 4speed write/2speed re-write/32speed read

Re: [[newbie] Core file, what is it?]

Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Group, I found in my home directory a rather large size file, which was not there previously, called "core," and the graphic of the file looks like a bomb, with a fuse, no joke. I could not find any info or documentation on this thing. Is it safe

Re: [newbie] Core file, what is it?

Den Tue, 06 Jun 2000 skrev du: Hi Group, I found in my home directory a rather large size file, which was not there previously, called "core," and the graphic of the file looks like a bomb, with a fuse, no joke. I could not find any info or documentation on this thing. Is it safe

Re: [[newbie] What is this message?]

:~Thats ok...I keep getting Vacation replies when I post to newbie list from :~Dave Naylor??? whomever that is :~ :~The doubtful benefits of someone who set up an autoresponder... :~ And who subscribed with different e-mail adress from one we gives on autoresponder :-( I have no time to find

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

I don't mean to be rude, but that is the worst run-on sentence I have ever encountered! I don't think that your intended receiver got what you meant clearly. Good luck with future posts!! SteveW... - Original Message - From: "bascule" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: RCPT: [newbie] Linux Internet Programs to replace W

:~Confirmation of reading: your message - :~ :~Date:4 Jun 00, 23:01 :~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :~Subject: [newbie] Linux Internet Programs to replace Win Ones :~ :~Was read at 21:07, 5 Jun 00. Steve, be so kind and fix your e-mail program. We really do not need this kind of

[newbie] Netcape/ftp

A couple of days ago, I decided to download a recent version af LICQ and the corresponding version of Qt. Using Netskape i contaced the coresponding sites and, whithin these sites, their ftp direcories. At this point, the location toolbar of Netscape showed a line beginning by ftp:// . Fine.

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

Yes, It's hardly understandable. And from the little I can understand, I think it better stays in its rude, uncivlised darkness. -- Piero. Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Stephen Weltman wrote: I don't mean to be rude, but that is the worst run-on sentence I have ever encountered! I don't think that your

[newbie] Questions

I am looking for a mapping program. I am now using one that is windoze based. I need to be able to input data from the map i.e. cordinates and text in to a gps unit. Any thing out there for linux that can fill this need. If you know of any program that will allow me to input data into a gps

[newbie] Mail Reading

I use to read mail either through Netscape Messenger or Kmail. I'd need a third program. Could you please tell me how such sort of programs is called ? I don't thing they have anything to do with the Linux administerd resdident mailbox and the relative programs (fetchmail, sendmail, and so on),

Re: [newbie] irq

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:18:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone tell me how to get a list if my irq's? yep.. 1) type "cat /proc/interrupts" at system console 2) have a look at "information/IRQ" in your mandrake control center --quay

Re: [newbie] Shutting down X

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you need to be in command line or will a terminal window do ? If you need to be in command line I think it's init 3 On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote: I have a dumb questionI need to run in command line mode and can't seem to get there. Can

Re: [newbie] CD Writer: Which one?

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Paul Marriott wrote: Creative Blaster CD Studio, Plextor PlexWriter SCSI, Acer 8432 (8MB buffer?) Hi Paul, No matter what HP has and does, I would always go with a SCSI writer. But then, I am SCSI minded. Paul -- Enthusiasm and optimism are the legs of life )0(

Re: [newbie] SCSI CD-ROM and CD writer not seen

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Brett Heller wrote: While installing Mandrake 7.0-2, the install found my Diamond Fireport SCSI adapter. However, when it asked if I had any other SCSI devices, I said "no." Now the SCSI CD-Rom and CD Writer are not seen by the Lothar HW config application, and I can't

Re: [newbie] Core file, what is it?

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Anders Linden wrote: I found in my home directory a rather large size file, which was not there previously, called "core," and the graphic of the file looks Gary mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A core file is (If I´m not mistaking) a file leaved by

Re: [newbie] CD Writer: Which one?

Paul.before you make a final decision visit this web site: http://www.smartandfriendly.com/ I bought a former 'special of the month', the cdr-4012 and it works just fine, both in win98 with the supplied software and in Linux Mandrake 7.0 using the x-cd-roast software (works in KDE) that

Re: [newbie] CD Writer: Which one?

I have a HP 9200i (SCSI 8x/4x/32x; it's basically the SCSI twin of the 9100i) drive, and I've had no problems with it and Linux. Well, let me take that back. For some reason I can't burn .exe's while in Linux. It might be the burning software (gcombust) or it may be something else. But all the

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1beta and 7.1 final

To those interested the replacment 7.1 Beta3 ext. ISO has been posted to Tucows and Free.fr. Of interest probably to more is that Mandrake 7.1 has also been posted allthough not as an ISO file. Happy upgrading. Charles 6/6/2000 3:36pm

[newbie] Administration Question

I don't mean to be rude, but that is the worst run-on sentence I have ever encountered! I don't think that your intended receiver got what you meant clearly. = Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:19:30 No offense meant to the writer of the above, but please do not attempt to turn the

Re: [newbie] Answering questions??

to /dev/null; Flameflame flame.. anything else I can help with let me know (especially if it's this easy...) Jaguar wrote: I wish some of the people that answer questions would put more than "sorry I can't help you with this". If people are answering questions, __GIVE__

Re: [newbie] Connected or not Connected?

check your dns settings Jeffrey Morse wrote: Hello, all! maybe someone out there can help me with my problem, I recently installed an external modem to gain access to the internet with Linux, all that went great, I have configured kppp and Usernet to get connected, here's where my

[newbie] No sound after configuring realplayer 7

Hi, I have been having difficulty configuring realplayer 7 with my system. I have no sound with realplayer only a indicator showing that it is playing. I setup realplayer 7 as root user and configured it to work with netscape which worked although sound quality was poor. I wanted to use it as

[newbie] kppp connected or not

I have a problem. I started out with Mandrake 6.0 installed OK in my machine and I had kppp operating. I could send receive e-mail and get on the internet. I got Mandrake 7.0 and did a new install and could not get kppp to go any where. No ping and Netscape just would just sit there. I then

Re: [newbie] help

first, may I suggest you change your e-mail settings from sending in html to send as plain text. second, you may have to install the "make" rpm from the install disk (cd) if you did the recomended install... make is not a default added program unless you do a developer install. next I would

Re: [newbie] Netcape/ftp

The same thing happened to me. Another way to get around this is to go into preference/navigator/applications and make an adjustment to one of the file types already setup as "save to disk" such that the extension of the file you are downloading will be recognized. Properly, a new application

[newbie] New kernel on the boot floppy

Hi. I have a few questions... 1. I am an experienced Debian user trying out mandrake. I have a motherboard with promise 66 off board controller. That controller/mobo combination requires a custom kernel that's been correctly patched in order to work. With Debian, I simply use the custom

Re: [newbie] Keyboard applet under Helix-GNOME 1.2

Alan Shoemaker wrote: If you don't yet have the square there then open the KDE Control Panel and choose Input devices and International keyboard to access the add keyboard function and be sure to check both autostart and docked in the StartUp tab. Thanks Alan, This almost worked. The

Re: [newbie] CD Writer: Which one?

Paul Marriott wrote: Hi folks, I've got to the stage where I'm going to buy myself a CD writer and Ive narrowed the choice down to 4 or 5(ish) possibilities due to local availability/price etc, namely: HP CD writer Plus 9310i, HP CD writer Plus 9110i, Creative Blaster CD Studio, Plextor

[newbie] It's out!!!!!!!! (7.1)

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/pr-helium.php3 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/71feat.php3 We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Linux-Mandrake 7.1 (Helium). Linux-Mandrake 7.1 continues to build-on and refine the many innovations first introduced in version 7.0 and

Re: [newbie] CD Writer: Which one?

Hi, I need to know the same for: HP 8250i CD-Writer Paul Marriott wrote: Hi folks, I've got to the stage where I'm going to buy myself a CD writer and Ive narrowed the choice down to 4 or 5(ish) possibilities due to local availability/price etc, namely: HP CD writer Plus 9310i, HP CD

Re: [newbie] tar help please

Thanks for pointing this out. Unfortunately, my printer ran out of ink. I'll have to write this out in long hand. Cheers! Philip Gabbert wrote: Quite simple .. Tar is an app that gets many people. Got me to until I finally figured it out :) Say you want to tar and zip up /www/ .. All

Re: [newbie] Partition and Boot Magic

I will buy the book. It sounds like a very handy book. Cheers! Dacia and AzureRose wrote: I got both boot and partition magic (windows versions) when I bought Upgrading and repairing PCs: Linux version. I highly recommend the book and both programs work great. The book costs about 60$

Re: [newbie] Is my mail reaching you? (fwd)

Hi Denis, I thought I had reconfigured that darn it. Fortunately that was one of only three emails that I sent out from my mailq right after my first configuration of my sendmail daemon. I had jsut noticed the two @ symbols, when I realized that the three emails were already gone.

Re: [newbie] Extending D Partition and allowing more space for Linux

Alan... I was hoping to resize the NTFS partition. I have a lot of wasted and unused space. Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanmy winNT 4.0 partition is fat16, just about anything can read it. Alan Romanator wrote: I know. This is very tricky. I think, I should order PowerQuest's

Re: [newbie] Partition Magic

Yes. I got both boot and partition magic (windows versions) when I bought Upgrading and repairing PCs: Linux version. I highly recommend the book and both programs work great. The book costs about 60$ USD at amazon which is about the same as the programs cost. "webug :-)" wrote: is there

[newbie] unsuscribe

unsuscribe --- quaylar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:18:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone tell me how to get a list if my irq's? yep.. 1) type "cat /proc/interrupts" at system console 2) have a look at "information/IRQ" in your mandrake control center

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

My point exactly, that is having no knowledge of what your message might have contained, but having a subject of "Administration Question" we opened the thing and viewed a very nice "Thank You". I would suggest that between just two lists, newbies and blt, upwards of 200 hundred messages are

Re: [newbie] CD Writer: Which one?

wow, Denis...it's about time...you got this fixed I just posted this, about 10 minutes ago KompuKit wrote: Hi, I need to know the same for: HP 8250i CD-Writer Paul Marriott wrote: Hi folks, I've got to the stage where I'm going to buy myself a CD writer and Ive narrowed the

[newbie] Bzip rpm will not install.

I have tried running rpmDrake to install b2zip but I keep getting a message that there is an error in the program and it cannot be executed. Where I can I get a working copy? begin:vcard n:#179293;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:Fueled by Penguin Power

Re: [newbie] Sharing Full Permissions for RealPlayer to User

Hey it's a three for one package install. Paul wrote: On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi Paul, I think the original install was in /root/local/Realplayer7 Since I have no uninstall, I should be able to delete it and reinstall? Yes, that would be a good idea. That way you can

[newbie] Thanks Guys.. :-)

I really appreciate all of the input on my memmory problem. Come to find out it was the miss matched memmory that many of you spoke of. I switched out some memmory from two of my other machines and it came right up. The performance increase was unbelievable. I just wanted to let all of you know

[newbie] Installation error message

Hello all, I am making my first attempt and installing any distro of LINUX. I d/l the iso for Mandrake 7 and burned it to CD. The install seems to go along fine until it gets to the portion of the process where it attempts to configure X It returns an error message as follows,

Re: [newbie] No sound after configuring realplayer 7

Michael...check out www.mandrake.org. There is a great help file for RealPlayer G2. However, it also applies to RealPlayer7 Basic. While in Netscape Navigator, you must edit Applications and add several lines. Once you finish adding the new lines, including the MIME entries, RealPlayer7 will

Re: [newbie] It's out!!!!!!!! (7.1)

I wonder if existing users of Linux Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack that purchased the package recently will receive a free update CD? Mark Potochnik wrote: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/pr-helium.php3 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/71feat.php3 We are very pleased to

[newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0

I want to uninstall Mandrake7.0 since I now have more experiance installing it and configuring it. I did alot of things I did not wanna do during the install. If someone could please advise me on this I would thank them alot. I could not find any papers on this process. I am guessing it to be

Re: [newbie] What are the fave picks for Learning Linux or Unix

Thanks Anthony, I'll check it out Anthony Huereca wrote: The only book I have on Linux is "Linux Installation Getting Started. Version 3.2" by Matt Welsh. I got it with my first Linux distro (Mandrake 6.0) that I bought back in August. It taught me the basics of linux, and is fairly

Re: [newbie] Partition and Boot Magic

It has saved my ass on a number of occasions. And its handy to have those programs too. Dacia --- Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will buy the book. It sounds like a very handy book. Cheers! Dacia and AzureRose wrote: I got both boot and partition magic (windows versions)

Re: [newbie] Netcape/ftp

You can also hold the shift key while you left click on the file you want to download. Nice huh? Dacia --- Fran Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you go to this type of site, right mouse click and choose "save link as" instead of clicking on the file. Then you will get the box to save

Re: [newbie] It's out!!!!!!!! (7.1)

I'm pretty sure not :-( Romanator wrote: I wonder if existing users of Linux Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack that purchased the package recently will receive a free update CD? Mark Potochnik wrote: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/pr-helium.php3

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

Amen to that. Dacia --- "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mean to be rude, but that is the worst run-on sentence I have ever encountered! I don't think that your intended receiver got what you meant clearly. = Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:19:30 No

Re: [newbie] How to TAR directory

wow...got this back in 1 minuteIT's FIXED...hurrah KompuKit wrote: How would I use the command TAR... to compress the /etc/ directory... so I can back it up...on another drive? -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins

Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0

On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Marc wrote: I want to uninstall Mandrake7.0 since I now have more experiance installing it and configuring it. I did alot of things I did not wanna do during the install. If someone could please advise me on this I would thank them alot. I could not find any papers on

Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0

Marc wrote: I want to uninstall Mandrake7.0 since I now have more experiance installing it and configuring it. I did alot of things I did not wanna do during the install. If someone could please advise me on this I would thank them alot. I could not find any papers on this process. I am

Re: [newbie] $25 for me!!!

Any help is appreciated. Thanks for your answer. On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, also sprach: Sorry I sent out a message reply to your last one cause I did not get this one in time. Sorry =) - Original Message - From: "John Arkoulis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0

Thanks I will try it with Partition Magic tonight! I just wanna start from zero again. - Original Message - From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0 | Marc wrote: | | I

Re: [newbie] defragging

Simply put, Linux has an intelligent file system. Defragmenting is unnecessary for this O/S, because hardly any fragments are allowed to form.!!! That's why! On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, also sprach: In seg, 05 jun 2000, John Arkoulis wrote: Linux does not uses defrag programs as the

RE: [newbie] How do I mount a modem?

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: I finally made my modem to dial. I couldn't connect to my ISP though, but before I do anything else I'll check if there is something with their server (it has happened before). It was right under my nose! I just read thoroughly the docs in the mandrake

[newbie] Scanner

I want to buy a scanner. I am open to suggestions. I am talking about a scanner that WORKS with Linux. -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux

Re: [newbie] DISCUSION Upgrade

On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: What do you expect from upgrade? cu Denis -- One topic from a dark side .-) Upgrading a Linux-Mandrake system has been our nightmare for quite some time. François has worked a lot on this for 7.1, and at the end I was

RE: [newbie] How to TAR directory

tar cvf /tmp/etc.tar /etc also could zip it up at the same time tar zcvf /tmp/etc.tgz /etc Ron -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 10:57 PM To: Mandrake Linux Subject: [newbie] How to TAR directory How would I use the command

Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0

Marcthere's no need to uninstall. When you're reinstalling, the installation will re-format your partitions. There will be nothing left of the original install unless you request not to format one or more of your partitions. Alan Marc wrote: I want to uninstall Mandrake7.0 since I now

Re: [newbie] Uninstall/Reinstall Mandrake7.0

Thank you Alan! I will do that. I just got done talking to Bryan Del Rizzo chief editor at www.maximumlinux.com and asked him to include Mandrake7.1 in the next issue and he said he would do it! I have a subscription so I will be waiting to see Mandrake7.1 - Original Message - From: