On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Wishingtree Publishing wrote:
Hello,
I have just gotten 7.1 to finally install, and now anytime I try to edit
preferences in Netscape, the ENTIRE system locks up, and the only way to
move on is to restart (echos of windows). Any pointers before I am
forced to switch back to
Jeff Malka wrote:
I just received my 7.1 CDs and installed Mandrake 7.1 with no apparent
problems!
However that was no feat because I just used the "recommended" install.
That installed everything together and I would prefer to have separate
partitions for various mounting points.
Prior
Hello,
I have just gotten 7.1 to finally install, and now anytime I try to edit
preferences in Netscape, the ENTIRE system locks up, and the only way to
move on is to restart (echos of windows). Any pointers before I am
forced to switch back to RH 6.1 just so I can get my email?
Thanks for your
There is a package on the EXT CD-ROM of mandrake. Don't know why.
Regards
Kim
- Original Message -
From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 03:37
Subject: Re: [newbie] Anti-virus software
Anti-virus
Hi!
I am trying to put my FTP server working too...
I have mandrake 7.02 air and I have read the following:
Local Telnet and FTP
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/ctrans.html
(this article seems old, because BeroFTPD is not part of LM7.02)
Setting up ftp server
"unsubscribe"
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From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Tsweny wrote:
un subscribe
Tell this to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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What a beautiful fix
unsubscribe
"unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
I have installed Pmfirewall, During a scan of my ports I found three
ports open. 515/tcp printer , 1024/tcp kdm , 6000/tcp x11.
Can any of these be closed? And does anyone know if I should try ? :)
TIA
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote:
Does not sound like much security to me.
as always (hey, it's linux), you can configure this out, if
you feel it's unsafe. to run in single-user mode, you need
to be at a console - you need to be at the machine
physically. your machine can't be hijacked
Hello all,
I have a question about upgrading my current xwindow system (KDE1.1.2).
Does KDE get updated if I click on the update icon on the desktop? If
not, what exactly do I need to do to upgrade KDE? And if the upgrade option
doesn't upgrade KDE, what does it update...? Thanks
Yes, it can !!
With or without 'single' or 'init 1'.
All you have to do is, have a boot and rescue
floppy at dispo.
Eric
Keith Robinson wrote:
Jeff,
if someone can physically access a machine and boot it,
there is no software security possible, regardless of the operating system.
--
comment them out in the services file under /etc/
-Original Message-
From: Hugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 2:08 PM
To: Newbie
Subject: [newbie] How do I close these ports?
I have installed Pmfirewall, During a scan of my ports I found three
ports open.
whats the commands for uninstalling Lilo??? In terminal mode, can I just
type "lilo -U" will that work??? Also Does anyone have a Adaptec 2930??
Linux doesn't see it at all. Is there something special I need to do??
Thanks for your help.
Alan
Jeff
I got tied up yesterday and was not able to get back to you, Sorry.
You could create a boot partition but there would be nothing to put in it
if you are using Grub. I have never used LILO ( in 7.0 it would not install
on my sysytem and in 7.1 I went with the default, Grub) so I do not
Frank,
Thanks for the advice...!
-Original Message-
From: Frank Nazario [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 1:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Question...
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote:
I am very new to Linux, so, forgive me for this stupid
Joe
You can not update KDE using the update option. If you are interested in
updating to KDE 2 you can find info at http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc
KDE 2 is not an update it is a "new" program.
The best way to find out what the update will do is to connect to the
internet and run
Hi,
Should it not be the mail account password rather than the ISP password ?
Roman
"Eric MC.D" wrote:
Darryl Gibson wrote:
Hello list,
When I select "Get Messages" in Netscape I'm prompted for a password. My
user's password doesn't work, but Root's password does. Root isn't even
Tried to install 7.1 but didn't get passed "initializing CDrom" before the
deadly "Transsocket" message appeared.
(Am using SiS 6326 card). And yet, Mandrake 6 worked well on my machine.
Tried the "Linux text" entry but got lost.
Somewhere I read there is a bug in the graphic install mode
Name: Alfred Basta
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (416)492-6323
Product Name:LINUX Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe
Computer: Toshiba Satellite 4020 Laptop
Processor: Intel Pentuim II 300MHZ
Ram:64 MB
Cards: 3Com Megahertz 3CCFEM556B ( Lan + 56K Modem) PCI
Printer: HP Deskjet 722C
Scanner: Storm Scanner
How can I run GNOME from de console?
startx command runs my KDE
- Original Message -
From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 question
Joe
You can not update KDE using the update option. If
Dennis Myers wrote:
I think I saw a brief message about antivirus protection on the list but
have inadvertently deleted it? Anyway, does anybody remeber this
software for Linux? Point me in that direction and I'm off baying like a
hound in persuit. Thanks, Dennis
--
Dennis-Registered
I'm just a little confused about the differences between the Deluxe and
Complete versions of 7.1.
Which is the better package to buy? I did check
Mandrake's site, but still didn't glean much...
Thanks!
--
/\
DarkLord
Okay. I've got a Voodoo 3000 card, with Mandrake
version 7.1, so I've got the 3Dfx stuff working,
(I can run test3Dfx from root or user), and I
can play the Quake3 demo just fine. My question
is; how do I get the GL screensavers, and the Xmms
plugins to recognise everything? In other words, how
What "bug" are you refering to in GRUB. I have seen no posting that would
indicate a bug, moreover there is not a reported problem with GRUB listed at
Mandrake.
I have seen postings in regards to boot problems but those have been
system/hadrware problems Not a bug problem.
I have been
Oh, I am not paranoid. Just a newbie trying to understand the ins and outs
of Linux. Actually it is good to know there is a way out if you should lose
you root password - (or want to impress a newbie).;-)
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user 183185
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I'll answer the one question I can! I have PM 5.0. It can see and create
Linux xf2 and swap partitions. In fact I have used it for that purpose and
then let Linux re-format them because I had mnessed up my partition table
when I let Linux do the whole thing - possibly my fault. I have not
Title: RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Netscape/password
Good question, on my machine it is the ISP password, that's where Netscape goes to get mail. In thinking about it I would say that the password should be what is required to connect to the POP3 or IMAP. So, it may be either the ISP or the mail
I see questions about this on the list.
would it be possible to add instructions to unsubscribe or temporarily stop
receiving messages be put on the bottom of all messages on this list?
Bill
Hi Tom,
Finally got around to checking out the "info grub" and it did indeed do the
trick. I was surprised that I could not change what I needed to change
through the Drakboot interface - I had to edit the grub menu file to
properly indicate where to look for the boot image. Thanks for the
I'm running Gnome w/Enlightment as my window manager, and the first time i
loaded enlightment, i opened up some e-applets. Now it seems, everytime i
login, it spawns 5 copies of like 6 different e-applets I have to kill
like 40 processes to get rid of them all. I checked my startup
I use the graphical login and from the Session menu I can select which
window starts.
From the console you can start GNOME by using Ctrl-Alt-Fn. I think
Gnome is either 3 or 4 but don,t hold me to that.
If you want to change which window manager the startx command launches to
a new
Hi *!*@*.*
IIRC Mandrake 7.0 creates four different partitions when you click on auto
allocate /, /boot, /home and swap
7.1 auto allocates only /, /home and swap (which is sometimes bigger than
128 MB - I read somewhere that this is the limit for swap partition).
What's the advantage of having
Jeff
I have been trying to decide if upgrading to PM 5 would be worth the $20
tag. Between PM 4 and DiskDrake I can do most anything anything I choose so
I think I will save the money. Thanks for your imput.
In as far as I am aware increasing the # of partition you use offers no
more
UNIX/Linux variant of the ILOVEYOU bug.
"This virus works on the honor system:
please forward this message to everyone you know
and delete a bunch of your files at random.
--from linux-list
- Original Message -
From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday,
Thanks for the advice!
Unfortunately, that did not seem to resolve the issue. I set PNP/OS = yes
but the mouse still dies.
Do you have any other ideas?
Darren
-Original Message-
From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 7:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not sure but I think this is a winprinter, check out the newbie archive I
believe there is something in there somewhere
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Name: Alfred Basta
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (416)492-6323
Product Name:LINUX Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe
Computer: Toshiba Satellite
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, William Fisher wrote:
I see questions about this on the list.
would it be possible to add instructions to unsubscribe or temporarily stop
receiving messages be put on the bottom of all messages on this list?
Bill
We'll have to interrogate Dennis when he comes back, the
Roman Korcek wrote:
Hey Romanator,
Hmmm...I used to have MDK7.0 installed but I am using MDK7.1 which
offers a button called MouseDrake to change your mouse driver.
Don't have such a thing (MouseDrake), at least I don't think so.
When you pressed Cntrl+Alt+Backspace, were you able
Anthony Huereca wrote:
Helix Gnome is just an implimentation of Gnome. A company took the Gnome source
code and improved on it, and released it as Helix Gnome (or at least I *think*
that's how it is). Anyway, I really like it, and if you have a fast connection
it's well worth downloading.
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, A. Canela wrote:
How can I run GNOME from de console?
startx command runs my KDE
You can use the "switchdesk" command in a console.
Another option is to edit or create ~/.Xclients and put this in there:
#!/bin/bash
exec gnome-session
To get back to KDE you write:
exec
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Paul wrote:
Not true. Open up port 4000. But that might not allow direct
connections (chat) but you can still message. Better yet get a
firewall proxy that supports ICQ in fully like Sygate. I use it and
ICQ works great.
Oh, nice! Thanks, I did not know that existed!
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Tsweny wrote:
"unsubscribe"
Amazing how stubborn...
- Original Message -
From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Tsweny wrote:
un subscribe
Tell
Any HP7xx printer will be a WinPrinter.
Jerry
I'm not sure but I think this is a winprinter, check out the newbie archive
I
believe there is something in there somewhere
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Name: Alfred Basta
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (416)492-6323
Sorry, but you want to have PNP/OS set to NO.
You want the motherboard to assign the IRQs not the OS.
For your mouse problem try switching to a generic 2 or 3 button mouse
driver and see if the problem still occurs.
Charles
.
- Original Message -
From: "Darren Garner" [EMAIL
The following was copied at www.linux.com
Hewlett Packard DeskJet 722C (http://hp.com)
Category: Printer
Is it usable: sort of
Kernel Versions: = 2.2.10 (my kenel version)
Description: It is possible to use this printer in Linux, but only in black
and white mode. It is necessary to acquire
Check the output of lsdev.
Also try selecting another mouse type driver which works with your mouse.
For instance the MS PS/2 mouse drivers don't always work with the
intellimouse drivers and vice-versa.
-JMS
|-Original Message-
|From: Darren Garner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent:
As far as I know, it is not accurate to say that there
is not an issue with 1024 cyl and LBA mode disks. I
have 2 (8.4 gig and 17.2 gig) drives both in LBA mode
and both had issues with either LILO or bootmagic and
the 1024 cyl thing at one time or another.
As far as I have read, there is also
Charles A Edwards wrote:
Darryl
Yes to both questions.
As usual, it was easier said than done. I can't unmount me / partition
to free up space for the swap partition. Diskdrake tells me something is
busy on the / partition, which makes sense. I thought I might be able to
work around that
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 04:52:34PM -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote:
with their sigs. you can get that from www.countr.li.org
That's http://counter.li.org
Alexander Skwar
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Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com
Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys
ICQ:
You have to have physical access to the machine to do
this. Pretty secure against internet hacks. Not
secure against roommates ;-)
Dacia
--- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does not sound like much security to me.
Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user 183185
-
I don't have sounds either (cannot play system sounds, wav files, etc), but music CDs
and avi videos have no problem: sound is perfect. Try playing a CD, I didn't realized
CD had sound until two weeks after I installed Mandrake. Why CDs and avi files have no
problem with sound? I still don't
John Glasscock wrote:
Swap can only use the same amount of HD space as you have RAM. It
makes no sense to create a large swap partion unless you have immenent
plans to increase the amount of RAM you have in your machine, which
with linux is always a good thing to do.
Ok, there seems to
That's a pretty common problem. I've got a Canon BJC6000 and there aren't
"any" drivers or support for this printer. What I did was use one
of the drivers for an older, earlier Canon model and for what
ever reason it's printing. There's a utility in Mandrake 7.1 called
g-print. Give this a try
Alan,
When you boot your machine, press F8 as it's booting and boot to a C:\
prompt. at the prompt type: fdisk /mbr and hit enter.
This will completely uninstall LILO from the MBR. DO NOT do this though
unless you have a boot disk to get back into Linux cause if you don't have
one you're not
Grub works great for me with my win98 dual boot. I
feel a bit nostalgic for LILO but thats my only
complaint with it.
Dacia
--- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What "bug" are you refering to in GRUB. I have
seen no posting that would
indicate a bug, moreover there is not a
Hugo,
did you have to do anything special to get the sound working for the music
CD's? I can't get mine working for love or money.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 182496
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Hugo GONZALEZ
Mud on your motherboard?!?!?! Holy Schmidt!@
I suggest you buy some isopropol alcohol and q-tips
and maybe some really soft rags and get that mud off
of that board. Simple dust can cause heat build up
and electrical disturbances on a motherboard which
translate to random locks, crashes,
As a heads up to those looking into CD-RW, MaximumLinux magazine is going
to do a feature on CD-RW in the next issue, due to hit the newstands around
1 September 2000.
Be aware that if you write a CD-RW, there is a great probability that
you will only be able to read that CD on the machine that
Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
Mud on your motherboard?!?!?! Holy Schmidt!@
I suggest you buy some isopropol alcohol and q-tips
Yes yes, I understand the implications. The "mud" is only on the solder
side of the motherboard, and it's only a very fine patina, that was left
behind when the
Hugo GONZALEZ wrote:
I don't have sounds either (cannot play system sounds, wav files, etc), but music
CDs and avi videos have no problem: sound is perfect. Try playing a CD, I didn't
realized CD had sound until two weeks after I installed Mandrake. Why CDs and avi
files have no problem with
Jeff, I have 7.1 also.
Is this a pci card or isa? If pci, do a
cat /proc/pci
and look for what it says about your card. There is a helpful
file about this as it applies to modems at
http://www.o2.net/%7Egromitkc/pedersen.txt
but the same process is probably true for sound cards. If you
have an
I would use DrakConf as I have just done an install with it to upgrade
errata. If it doesn't come on the 7.0 distro, you might be able to
download it, install, and then run it. It downloads the packages
and installs them for you. If you want to muck about, don't use it.
but if you have work to
Alright, most of this has probably already been pulverised into the ground,
but I'll ask anyway.
Trying to install Mandrake 7.1 on a Unisys Aquanta HR/6 server. It's a 6
processor Pentium Pro 200 machine, currently with 2gb of RAM. Needless to
say, the installs don't go too well.
Originally the
Hi Alan,
Just caught the end of the thread. I am also looking for burner. We use
a Smart Friendly burner
in our R D department. Is the CD-R4012 a fairly recent model?
Roman
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
BenI use a scsi CD-R 4012 from Smart Friendly, no
problems, but no W either. :-) I had
You have to edit the XF86Config-4 file if you're using 4.0 and then you need
to follow the syntax rules that they are using, ie:
Option"ZAxisMapping""4 5"
Mike
I tried to insert into XF86Config the following statement to get my
wheelmouse
to work
ZAxisMapping 4 5
X won't
please send e-mail in plain text not html, thanks.
--
Keith
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, you wrote:
!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"
html
I would use DrakConf as I have just done an install with it to upgrade
errata.nbsp; If it doesn't come on the 7.0 distro, you might
I have not seen on the list where this was addressed, but if I get the
7.1 distro and put it on my linux box will it work to do an upgrade of
my 7.0? or am I better off doing a clean install? If I upgrade I assume
the partitions will need to be changed to increase boot. Any experience
and
hello all,
i'm a new user in linux and currently using mandrake
7.0. i'd like to ask about how to change my monitor
refresh rate from 56 hz to 85 hz (vertical). because
in my windows 98 (i use both windows and linux
mandrake in the same computer) i can have a 85 hz
refresh rate at 800x600
A correspondent made a plea, not an unreasonable one but one with which
I may not entirely agree, that messages be posted in text only and not
in HTML.
I, for one, find that with HTML one can be more expressive and
informative in conveying important information. I also believe that
those who
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, you wrote:
I'm just a little confused about the differences between the Deluxe and
Complete versions of 7.1.
Which is the better package to buy? I did check
Mandrake's site, but still didn't glean much...
There are a bunch of ebooks in the complete edition along with
Didnt you configure that during your installation ?
- Original Message -
From: "surianto chen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 7:44 PM
Subject: [newbie] refresh rate
hello all,
i'm a new user in linux and currently using mandrake
7.0. i'd like
I agree with you about the HTML; I've found that some people can be agitated
by the use of it. I think it is unreasonable to suggest that just because
*some* people (for sentimental or whatever reasons) want to cling to archaic
text only mail readers, that nobody should be able to use HTML.
Ascii text conveys information. If one needs
expressiveness, then create a web page. There are many here
who use plain text mail programs -- as I do, because I do
not care to read my mail in Netscape nor KDE. It's not that
I cannot read HTML mail, but the expressiveness is wasted on
me.
To all,
One of the most useful programs on the net that I have found for
searching the web, and subparts of it, is Sherlock. However, it is only
on the Mac as an integral part of the MacOS. The next best thing is
Copernic, found at
http://www.copernic.com/
However, Copernic is not available
On 14 Jul, John Glasscock wrote in part:
A correspondent made a plea, not an unreasonable one but one with which
I may not entirely agree, that messages be posted in text only and not
in HTML.
Personally I don't understand the reluctance to embrace HTML. However,
I am prepared to be
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
RomanI bought it from their online store as a special of
the month for $99 within the last 4 to 6 months.
http://www.smartandfriendly.com/
Alan
Romanator wrote:
Hi Alan,
Just caught the end of the thread. I am also looking for burner. We use
a Smart
For me I could care less about the extra weight, band width is cheap.
The exception to this is when you have mailing lists with 20 quoted
messages string together the HTML can make that message VERY Fat
indeed. The issue with HTML is that it can contain nasty Javascript or
VBscript that can be
On mine, it is the mail password NOT the ISP password.
Bambi
"Myers, Dennis R NWO" wrote:
Good question, on my machine it is the ISP password, that's where Netscape
goes to get mail. In thinking about it I would say that the password should be
what is required to connect to the POP3 or
Just my 2 cents but i prefer plain text. I normally handle around 200
emails a day on a server that limits me to 5meg of space. What this means
is that when people start sending me 50 to 100k emails that contain 2
lines of actual text and the rest is html code and midi sounds i get angry
because
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