[newbie-it] star office 5.2

2000-08-14 Thread Davide
Qualcuno ha provato a installare Adabas? Io ho installato Star Office 5.2 nella directory /usr/local/star_office52 (ogni utente deve poi installare alcuni file nella sua home directory). Pensavo di poter fare la stessa cosa con Adabas e l'ho installato in /usr/local/adabas. Ho anche settato a

[newbie-it] ferragosto

2000-08-14 Thread Davide
Buon ferragosto a tutti quanti! Davide

Re: [newbie-it] ferragosto

2000-08-14 Thread Ivano Diodati
- Original Message - From: "Davide" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: [newbie-it] ferragosto Buon ferragosto a tutti quanti! Davide Grazie e ricambio

[newbie-it] (no subject)

2000-08-14 Thread peppesan
..DOmanda: dove posso andare a controllare che si è connesso al mio sistema, attraverso, ftp o telnet..ecc. dovrebbero esserci dei file log, ma non riesco a trovare quelli che cerco. mi sono connesso al mio computer attraverso telnet, ma non ho trovato cenni su quesa connessione (avvenut) e su

[newbie-it] ip

2000-08-14 Thread peppesan
come utente, è possibile sapere il mio indirizzo ip della connessione corrente(internet) dve poteri vederlo. grazie di esistere

Re: [newbie-it] ferragosto

2000-08-14 Thread Paolo Schiavo
peppesan wrote: Davide wrote: Buon ferragosto a tutti quanti! Davide Grazie anche a te Buon Ferragosto a tutti Paolo

Re: [newbie-it] ip

2000-08-14 Thread michel
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, peppesan wrote: come utente, è possibile sapere il mio indirizzo ip della connessione corrente(internet) dve poteri vederlo. /usr/sbin/ifconfig Saluti al mondo intero, ed anche a quello parzialmente scremato. -- Michel ZioBudda Morelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie-it] Problemone col mouse

2000-08-14 Thread cr4608
Descrivo in sintesi il mio problema. Ho la Com 1 e 2 cioccate sulla scheda madre, per ovviare al problema ho messo una scheda Pci con le due porte, in Winzozz tutto ok in Linux non so come fargliele vedere, in installazione (7.1) configuro un mouse seriale standard sulla Com2 (ttyS1) ma non c'è

[newbie-it] Aiuto con connessione LENTA

2000-08-14 Thread Samuele Rudelli
Ok, ci riprovo : da totale neofita ho installato la mandrake 7.1 e sembra funzionare tutto discretamente bene, a parte la connessione internet : ossia, funziona tutto bene, soltanto che e' _mostruosamente_ lenta. Kppp mi dice che si connette sui 50k bps, ma in realta' la navigazione procede

[newbie-it]

2000-08-14 Thread Mulder
Ciao a tutti , ho un piccolo problema con la mia version linux: sia come root che come utente nella cartella /mnt mi visualizza le cartelle /cdrom /cdrom2 /floppy come cartelle bloccate naturalmente impedendo qualsiasi accesso. Ho curiosato le impostazioni su /etc/stab e mi riporta per l'

[newbie] Samba weirdess

2000-08-14 Thread Victor Richardson
I am running Mandrake 7.1 w/ Samba 2.0.6 and have had two annoying, but weird problems: 1) For each individual user, Samba shows their own home directory and all others that they have permissions to(as it should). But, inside of each individual's home directory, it lists all directories in /home

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-14 Thread poogle
Couldn't find the message that you refer to, all I could find was this (extract) from the lists page http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Support Lists These lists can be used for free support: The

RE: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-14 Thread David Hulme
Good morning I believe that this email was sent to me in error. Yes I have just signed up as a "newbie" but no I did not write the article below to which you are replying. Regards David Hulme -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] OT A mag that realy helps newbies

2000-08-14 Thread Mark Hillary
Glad some read my email. Mark Hillary I like some ones idea about the off topic thing so that is wht OT is in the subject bar. Larry Hignight wrote: Mark Hillary wrote: For everyone out there, a great mag to get is linuxformat, it has articals for newbies and experts alike. So I

RE: [newbie] Novell servers

2000-08-14 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Check to see if you have it installed... Type in # rpm -qa | grep ncpfs - If you see a result I.E. ncpfs-2.2.0.16.a-2mdk, etc. You'll be able to mount the Novell Server AFTER you configure IPX. This can be done via nwserv.conf and Linuxconf. (enable IPX). Note: Linuxconf might make using

Re: [[newbie] Wrong Kernel Reported]

2000-08-14 Thread Michael Scottaline
Cindy Bartorillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just took a deep breath and updated my kernel from the 2.2.15-4 that came with my brand-new Mandrake 7.1 to the 2.2.16-9 that the Update feature said I needed. As recommended I downloaded the rpm's myself and installed them by hand. Everything seems

Re: [[newbie] modem]

2000-08-14 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Collin Schroeder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi my name is collin I am having trouble installing my us robotics 56k internal voince fax modem. when I use hardrake and detect isa devices it says that it detects a modem but under kppp I am unable to dial in. I know the modem uses com2 and

Re: [newbie] modem

2000-08-14 Thread Mark Weaver
Collin Schroeder wrote: hi my name is collin I am having trouble installing my us robotics 56k internal voince fax modem. when I use hardrake and detect isa devices it says that it detects a modem but under kppp I am unable to dial in. I know the modem uses com2 and irq3 under windows but

Re: [newbie] Novell servers

2000-08-14 Thread Mark Weaver
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: Check to see if you have it installed... Type in # rpm -qa | grep ncpfs - If you see a result I.E. ncpfs-2.2.0.16.a-2mdk, etc. You'll be able to mount the Novell Server AFTER you configure IPX. This can be done via nwserv.conf and Linuxconf. (enable IPX).

RE: [newbie] VMWare help needed

2000-08-14 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] VMWare help needed Hello everyone, I am currently installing Win98 in VMWare. I know, a horrible thought, but I still need that thing, and VMWare

Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater

2000-08-14 Thread Mark Hillary
In Mandrake 7.1 there are i think all of the how-to from the linux-doc site. In there is one from the kernel, It is very good, read it. All things in Linux need prepeation. If you don't you mess it all up. (even though that it fun) Also go to www.linuxnewbie.org - very good. Mark Hillary.

Re: [newbie] hello

2000-08-14 Thread Mark Hillary
I would recommend getting one of the books for linux programing (trust me there are loads). Also there sould be some documention in the /usr/doc folder on you system. Mark Hillary P.S make sure you chose the development class of install. Adam Haley wrote: Hey I just joined this group because

Re: [newbie] usb backportpatch

2000-08-14 Thread Mark Hillary
Just check if it is installed by typing man patch. If it si not start up rpmdrake and search for a package named patch and install it. BTW it is a console program and not part of the bash shell. Hope this helps Mark Hillary Ed Santiago wrote: I have tried to install the backport patch

Re: [newbie] modem

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Collin Schroeder wrote: hi my name is collin I am having trouble installing my us robotics 56k internal voince fax modem. when I use hardrake and detect isa devices it says that it detects a modem but under kppp I am unable to dial in. I know the modem uses com2 and irq3 under windows but

Re: [newbie] Desktop camera support

2000-08-14 Thread John Couturier
I have a Creative Labs WebCam3 USB, that at least works, the pictures are grainy and the driver for it needs some work. The developer of the Linux driver is working very hard on it. I don't know what the status of any other driver is, but I would start by looking for a camera that is

Re: [newbie] Wrong Kernel Reported

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Cindy Bartorillo wrote: I just took a deep breath and updated my kernel from the 2.2.15-4 that came with my brand-new Mandrake 7.1 to the 2.2.16-9 that the Update feature said I needed. As recommended I downloaded the rpm's myself and installed them by hand. Everything seems to have gone

Re: [newbie] Wrong Kernel Reported

2000-08-14 Thread Cindy Bartorillo
My lilo.conf reads: image=/boot/vmlinuz which is a link to the new kernel. So I figured I shouldn't have to change anything. Does lilo need to be rerun anyway? I'd really like to understand what goes on here. Harvey Janson wrote: Hi Cindyb, You downloaded Kernel 2.2.16-9, but did you

[newbie] XDM and Lestiff WM

2000-08-14 Thread Thomas Adam
Hello, I have been using Linux Mandrake 7.0 for about 4 months now, and I think its fantastic!! I have two questions... 1) I use XDM as my graphical login, and my default Window Manager is Lestiff WM. My question is is it possible to tell Lestiff to launch various apps, once it has started

Re: [newbie] Wrong Kernel Reported

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Cindy Bartorillo wrote: My lilo.conf reads: image=/boot/vmlinuz which is a link to the new kernel. So I figured I shouldn't have to change anything. Does lilo need to be rerun anyway? I'd really like to understand what goes on here. Yes, lilo does indeed need to be rerun anyway.

[Fwd: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] modem]

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
System Administrator wrote: Your message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] modem Sent:Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:42:58 +0100 did not reach the following recipient(s): [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:16:09 +0100 The recipient name is not recognized

Re: [newbie] Wrong Kernel Reported

2000-08-14 Thread Cindy Bartorillo
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, you wrote: My lilo.conf reads: image=/boot/vmlinuz which is a link to the new kernel. So I figured I shouldn't have to change anything. Does lilo need to be rerun anyway? I'd really like to understand what goes on here. Read this

[newbie] KDE Resolution problem

2000-08-14 Thread Pete Clapham
HI, all -- I am having a weird problem with my KDE resolution. Currently using 7.0 (Air). I changed the resolution from 1024x768 to 1280x1024, using DrakeConf and did the test to verify that the higher resolution would work. All seemed OK until I tried to relogin using the higher

[newbie] Problems w/Netscape 4.73 Mandrake Updater

2000-08-14 Thread Cindy Bartorillo
Netscape 4.73 seems unable to load several java pages that are favorites around my house, such as a couple of the games at Yahoo. The Mandrake Update feature gives me a list of all the things it can get for me, among which is Netscape 4.74, but every time I try to get it I get an error ('error

RE: [newbie] Problems w/Netscape 4.73 Mandrake Updater

2000-08-14 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Problems w/Netscape 4.73 Mandrake Updater http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/NByName.html you will find the 4.74 here. I d/l'd it and it has the strong encryption too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Cindy Bartorillo

Re: [newbie] New install

2000-08-14 Thread Eric MC.D
John Eichenberger wrote: I just installed Linux (well actually I did it twice now) and I am having a fundemental problem. I think the problem is that my hardware configuration is wrong for both audio and modem. No specific devices show up for either one. Not anymore anyway. The second

[newbie] New Video card sugestions

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew Brown
At long last i am attempting to use linux as my desktop for just about everythin. One off the final parts of this decision was the porting off specific games to linux. My question is, through research i have come to the conclusion that the best 3d card for me to get fo gaming purposes( quake

Re: [newbie] *All coughed out*

2000-08-14 Thread L. H. LOO
PMJI, I thought you should have a hda5 partition ? But I could be wrong, since I am such a "sin kek" (aka newbie) myself ;-) At 13-08-2000 10:43 PM, you wrote: My configuration has three FAT32 partitions on a single 6Gb disk, plus the suspend partition, plus three Linux partitions! hda1 -

Re: [newbie] RedAlert

2000-08-14 Thread Denis Havlik
:~ATTENTION: RedAlertjust saw this article...please read. :~involves netscape on linux...security hole. :~ :~http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38087,00.html August 6-th: Article on mandrakeforum http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2806115232 August 7-th: article

Re: [newbie] Problems w/Netscape 4.73 Mandrake Updater

2000-08-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Cindy Bartorillo wrote: [snip] Does anyone know if this 4.74 really exists? [snip] Cindyit's in cooker. Pick a cooker mirror site from the Mandrake web site. Alan

Re: [newbie] test

2000-08-14 Thread Bill Coombs
you got through fine this time. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Newbie'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:52 AM Subject: [newbie] test Test. My posts have not been getting through. ... Chris

[newbie] Install problems

2000-08-14 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Hi all, I recently installed MDKLinux 7.1 and when the install got to where it asks for the "Extensions CD", my cd-rom wouldn't open. So, I skipped it. Is there a way to install it after the fact? And, has anyone else experienced this problem? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775

[newbie] CD Rom problem after new install

2000-08-14 Thread Hellmut
Hi! I've just done a new install of 7.1 and now my CD Rom is inaccesable. And I found a very strange process with ktop, it's called "mount", has the pid "414" changes every time I reboot and is owned by: (!) "". I can't kill this process and every time I shutdown the system tries to

[newbie] test

2000-08-14 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Test. My posts have not been getting through. ... Chris

RE: [newbie] New Video card sugestions

2000-08-14 Thread webmaster
QIII fps is better for nVidia products. Tom's hardware just did a nice write up on comparing the nVidia based chipsets .. Sadly he didn't go into great detail on how he reached his high fps scores. Maximum Linux also did a write up in their latest magazine issue. They also didn't discuss

[newbie] Fixed one problem, got the next...

2000-08-14 Thread Hellmut
Hi! I just fixed the problem with the CD Rom drive (I had to deactivate a daemon), but now I've git the next: When kppp has established a connection, I cannot start any applications from the bottom bar anymore. It's possible to run a problem through pressing ALTF2 and then enter it's name,

Re: [newbie] winblows files

2000-08-14 Thread Goldenpi
The hex editing is on io.sys. It changes verious messages, such as the starting windows 98 message. You can edit some other messages in there, browse through it. There is no hex editing needed to change the logo. The logos are stored in the files c:\logo.sys c:\windows\logos.sys

Re: [newbie] Install problems

2000-08-14 Thread Robin Regennitter
Well, I purchased MDKLinux 7.1 Complete which only include the installation disk and application. I had tried installing it on my Old 166 mhz IBM Aptiva. When I got to the end and it ask for the application CD. My CD-Rom wouldnt open. and along side with that. My X-windows would not get

[newbie] Mail Bounces

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
I don't know about you guys, but my last few posts have been bouncing... Regards, Ozz.

Re: [newbie] Logitech wheel mouse scrolling

2000-08-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi again i start imwheel in Kconsole by "imwheel -k" now about the activity manager , it's under tool menu. since i have swedish mandrake i may have translated the wrong term in english. thanks [snip] Zeynalh. Sorry but I'm at a loss, while watching the

Re: [newbie] New install

2000-08-14 Thread Paul
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Eric MC.D wrote: I just installed Linux (well actually I did it twice now) and I am having a fundemental problem. I think the problem is that my hardware configuration is wrong for both audio and modem. No specific devices show up for either one. Not anymore anyway.

Re: [newbie] hello

2000-08-14 Thread Robin Regennitter
yeah I'm seeing this - Original Message - From: Elio Liendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 7:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] hello --- Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appear to be having problems, if any of you are seeing this, that

Re: [newbie] Problems w/Netscape 4.73 Mandrake Updater

2000-08-14 Thread Patti Wavinak
Hi Cindy -- When you go into the ftp site looking for updates make sure that you go to the update folder in Mandrake 7.1 -- you will find the Netscape 4.74 there (and yes, it does exist grin). I personally use ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub/linux/mandrake -- but that is because I am on the West Coast.

Re: [newbie] Linux friendly ISPs, what are their server specs?

2000-08-14 Thread =*=
I don't know if this is the sort of answer you are looking for, but here goes. My ISP is io.com. It runs on Red Hat Linux and uses Apache for its web hosting. Of course, many ISP's use some variant of Unix in the guts of their operations. The difference would be that there is at least one

[newbie] Linux friendly ISPs, what are their server specs?

2000-08-14 Thread Hugo GONZALEZ
Hello. What are the tech specs of a Linux friendly ISP? Hugo.

Re: [newbie] New install

2000-08-14 Thread John Eichenberger
My modem is listed (in Win98 as): Class: Modem Device: SupraExpress 56i SP V.90 SUP2720 Resources: IRQ: 03 I/O: 02F8h-02FFh Class: Sound, video and game controllers Device: Wave Device for Voice Modem No resources used. My sound card

Re: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] New install (fwd)

2000-08-14 Thread Mark Weaver
yeah! that's what I'm talking about. I've been getting these things too and I've got no idea why. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...

[newbie]

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew Brown
At long last i am attempting to use linux as my desktop for just about everythin. One off the final parts of this decision was the porting off specific games to linux. My question is, through research i have come to the conclusion that the best 3d card for me to get fo gaming purposes( quake 3,

[Fwd: [newbie] Wrong Kernel Reported]

2000-08-14 Thread harvey
I don't think this msg got out, because Netscape crashed as I was sending it. Harvey Hi Cindy, I think things would work well if you added "-2.2.16-9" after "vmlinuz" (ex: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-9). Although you have 2 kernels on your hard drive, lilo only knows about the

Re: [newbie] *All coughed out*

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
You are right - I made a typo for hda4 - that should have read hda5. It is hda4 that does not exist on this system. Thank you for pointing out my error. Regards, Ozz. "L. H. LOO" wrote: PMJI, I thought you should have a hda5 partition ? But I could be wrong, since I am such a "sin kek"

Re: [newbie] New install

2000-08-14 Thread Anthony
Have you tried using "sndconfig" on your sound card? That card is definitly supported, and it's odd that it doesn't work. I just installed Linux (well actually I did it twice now) and I am having a fundemental problem. I think the problem is that my hardware configuration is wrong for both

Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] New install (fwd)

2000-08-14 Thread Paul
Huh? -- Exceptions confirm the rule and ruin the budget. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:46:12 +0100 From: System Administrator

[newbie] @$%* windows!

2000-08-14 Thread Goldenpi
Haveing just reinstalled linux after scandisk thought lilo was a boot sector virus and messed up my partition table, I now have to reinstall windows. I really want to get windows and linux installed but I know installing windows will overwrite lilo. Before I start, would someone tell me the

Re: [newbie] winblows files

2000-08-14 Thread Goldenpi
Get the hex editor on the file c:\io.sys. I will come up as unreadable machine code, but If you look further down you will find some text. You can edit the text safely. Change error messages and startup message(where it usually says 'starting windows 98' when you boot) - Original Message

Re: [newbie] hello

2000-08-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Thomas Adam wrote: I appear to be having problems, if any of you are seeing this, that belong to the linux-mandrake mailing list...please reply. That way, I can send my questiona to you :)) Regards, Thomas Adam re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case you haven't heard, it works.

Re: [newbie] test

2000-08-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Test. My posts have not been getting through. ... Chris This one did. Feel good and enjoy. -- Carroll Grigsby

Re: [newbie] Linux friendly ISPs, what are their server specs?

2000-08-14 Thread Barry Premeaux
Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello. What are the tech specs of a Linux friendly ISP? Hugo. I don't know what you are looking for in the way of specs. Most will be running Apache on a Linux platform (usually Red Hat from what I hear). To me, Linux Friendly means they have a staff that are knowledgable

Re: [newbie] Nothing works on mandrake.

2000-08-14 Thread Eric MC.D
IMHO There is nothing to do with the security level. That's the normal and GOOD way to login for all security. Don't login as root if absolutely necessary. Eric MC Anthony wrote: I'm willing to bet that is because you set your security level too high. If you set it at the highest level,

Re: [newbie] Logitech wheel mouse scrolling

2000-08-14 Thread timmy1443
I tried using that script but it still doesn't work. any other suggestins anyone? as always, any help is greatly appreciated. Ken Wahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I would like to say thank-you to everyone for your help. My wheel mouse is now

[newbie] Error In Netscape

2000-08-14 Thread fjhduque.teleline.es
I have a next message in Netscape Domain Not Bound In a moment of start but I click in the Home and not problem Sorry for my poor English Regards :-) -- Windoze es un virus con interface de usuario Linux is a Best S.O. LINUX User #179844 -- --

[newbie] kppp problem

2000-08-14 Thread Wilson
In order to connect with kppp i have to go into linuxconf and connect and disconnect with the ppp in there then kppp will work fine. Must be doing something wrong. and it doesn't connect in linuxconf i just have to do that to connect in kppp. Sounds strange but that's how it works right now.

Re: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] New install (fwd)

2000-08-14 Thread Patti Wavinak
I got one of these at about the same time that you did Paul sigh Paul wrote: Huh? -- Exceptions confirm the rule and ruin the budget. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=- --

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough* - some constructive suggestions

2000-08-14 Thread L. H. LOO
Yes, that is a good idea. Thank you.

[newbie] Netscape New Kernel Problems

2000-08-14 Thread Cindy Bartorillo
Thanks to everyone who helped with my problems. The new netscape *was* on the mirrors. The trick was to look in /pub/updates/Mandrake and NOT /pub/Linux/Mandrake/updates. Also, I finally got it installed, using --nodeps and --force. Neither the Mandrake rpm program nor the KDE rpm program could

[newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-14 Thread Marcia Waller
I had to subscribe again in order to get any of the emails again. Any help with the zip drive would be great. I have a dual boot system with Windows 95 and Linux Mandrake 7.0. I have 2 hard drives and an Atapi internal IDE zip drive. It is supermounted but I do not know how to access and use it.