Re: [newbie] Lilo Failure

2000-08-22 Thread Goldenpi
It means you haven't set up lilo correctly. /dev/hdb1 is the 1st partition on the slave hard drive of your primary controler. The message means its not there. If you want to set the system to boot from the hard disk rather than the floppy, look in the bios. - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Anyone tried [successfully] to get email support?

2000-08-22 Thread Eric MC.D
Sorry to say that, but if you have windoooz installed, take a look how windoooz did it ! Under System-devices. If this can help. Eric MC Dan O'Rourke wrote: Tech support is evil! It took 5 days for them to respond to my repeated emails and requests for help. Then they were abrupt and

[newbie] How do you install a video driver?

2000-08-22 Thread Ken McCune
My video card wasnt listed for xwindows in the drake setup utility. I found the driver online, and now I have no idea how to install it. I have mandrake 7.0. Thanks a lot! --Ken __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from

[newbie] Lime Green Text in windows

2000-08-22 Thread Rick
I have a couple of problems with Mandrake 7.1. The first is when in kde the file window text is always lime green and it's nearly impossible to see. I've tried to change it in the display properties with no luck. Any ideas would be helpful. The other is my Canon BJC250 will not run in

Re: [Re: [newbie] laptops]

2000-08-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Marcia Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - Hello all, Thank you for all of your laptop info and suggestions. I finally purchased a "built

Re: [Re: [newbie] laptops]

2000-08-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Marcia! I don't know what font you're trying to use, but it continues to come out in Chinese at this end! Well, that ,and dots, and big and little empty boxes, intermingled with a word or three here and there, maybe an upside down "A", an "L"

[newbie] OT CPU heat clocking

2000-08-22 Thread Adrian Smith
there was some talk of over clocking how hot your CPU gets. thus, you might find the following interesting. a short excerpt followed by the link to the whole artical. On June 1, 1999, a twenty-seven-year-old

Re[2]: [newbie] OT BSOD (fwd, fun)

2000-08-22 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Jim, Oh, I don't know. I have two machines here - one Windows and one Linux. The Windows machine has to be rebooted every three to four days because of memory leaks (as in poor memory management on the part of Windows). The Linux box runs just fine from one power failure to the next (no

[newbie] Cablemodems in General

2000-08-22 Thread Dan LaBine
Maxtor ; As I've been discovering in the last day or two, it seems that different cablemodem providers,apparently use different technologies. If you'd take a minute to check my follow-up post you'd find that I had corrected myself. I'm not trying to start a fuss (although, I'm sure that

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[newbie] Disk icons.

2000-08-22 Thread Goldenpi
I have been messing with drives, adding more hd's and a seconds floppy drive. I created the link from /mnt/some_drive to a file on my desktop, but had to log in as root to set the icon. Then I found the icon in /mnt had changed as well. An hour of investigating revealed that the icons on the

Re: [newbie] laptops

2000-08-22 Thread Goldenpi
I prefer McDonalds. They have a tasty ice cream with milk choclete chunks in it. - Original Message - From: Steve Weltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 2:43 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] laptops KFC?? I hope that it isn't a bucket of Fried Chicken

Re: [newbie] Kmail / Sendmail question

2000-08-22 Thread Paul
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: I have not been able to find wether KMail uses Sendmail to process the incoming and outgoing mail; does anyone know ? Only if you set it up. File - settings, NETWORK tab. Sending Mail: click the "sendmail" button and it uses sendmail. Never was life

[newbie] Anyone tried [successfully] to get email support?

2000-08-22 Thread Bill Fry
I've been trying to get help on a Mandrake 7.1 install. After buying the Deluxe pack and registering it for support, I still can't get a response to my emails. Anyone had any luck here? My main problem is that the USB module usb-uhci.o fails to load. The dmesg shows that it is seen, doesn't

Re: [newbie] Loading the on-board NIC tulip driver

2000-08-22 Thread Bob
I've found the stock mandrake tulip driver doesnt like my linksys or kingston nics. I've always had to upgrade the driver to v.89h or v.91g before i could get my connect working. At 11:03 AM 8/21/00 -0700, you wrote: Hello all, I installed 7.1 yesterday but during configuration, it did not

Re: [newbie] Lilo Failure

2000-08-22 Thread Hellmut
I don't think that you have to reformate the drive. Has the disk been the primary one before? It should also be enough to boot from floppy and edit the /etc/lilo.conf manually to boot from /dev/hdbx. Much luck! well, so Linux allocates the drive designation /dev/hdbx based on it's read of

[newbie] cracks

2000-08-22 Thread Vic
Hey does anyone know where I can find a crack for mtv mpeg player?

Re: [newbie] BSOD (fwd, fun)

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Steve Weltman wrote: Mandrake does not install well on livestock or domestic pets. Please do not write for support on these installs to this mailing list! But the 'boot' command seems to have a decent affect if used correctly. (Just kidding! It's Monday morning and I'm not at work

Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking

2000-08-22 Thread Greg Stewart
OK, it sounds to me as thought you do not have you modem set up correctly. Maybe an IRQ conflict with eth0 (if you have to take one down to bring the other up), try switching slots if you can and see what happens...do you have Plug-nPlay enabled in your bios? You may want to tun it off (or on, as

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Larry, I think you missed the point of the original message. Sometimes people need to just be honest that yes, Linux has made a lot of improvements but still does have some of it's own problems. That's all it was - not a slam to Linux or Mandrake or anyone else. Of course, everybody has their

Re: [newbie] Support?

2000-08-22 Thread Larry Hignight
Not that it helps now, but in the future you guys can vote with you dollars and dl mandrake then buy support somewhere else. DougC wrote: Hmmm, Is this the level of support we get? I have a similar problem with a PCI network driver. Though I just submitted the question I'm wondering that

Re: [newbie] Anyone tried [successfully] to get email support?

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Weaver
"Eric MC.D" wrote: Sorry to say that, but if you have windoooz installed, take a look how windoooz did it ! Under System-devices. If this can help. Eric MC Dan O'Rourke wrote: Tech support is evil! It took 5 days for them to respond to my repeated emails and requests for

Re: [newbie] Free ISPs Compatible With Linux

2000-08-22 Thread Goldenpi
Oh, now I see. I have used numerous isps, but the closest I have come to that is bt internet. They insist on giveing out an exe which is used to connect, so people cant copy there dun setting onto another system. It doesn't work. I connect on linux fine with it. - Original Message -

[newbie] Loading the on-board NIC tulip driver

2000-08-22 Thread DougC
Hello all, I installed 7.1 yesterday but during configuration, it did not list my 10/100 Linksys Ethernet card for my cable modem ( not a PMCIA card - just a regular card). Overall though,the install went generally well. Linux seems to know it's a PCI ethernet card, just not what kind. I skipped

Re: [newbie] How do i go about doing a MD7.1 install on 2nd drive

2000-08-22 Thread Goldenpi
Before you start, I had trouble with installing windows. It want to go on c: drive, and c: drive must be hda1. So windows must go on hda1. - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 5:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] How do i

Re: [newbie] Internet configuration for Mandrake 7.0

2000-08-22 Thread bpremeaux
The MAC comes from a set of numbers/letters that each manufacturer gets for their hardware. This gives each card (ethernet for example) a unique address that is programmed into the firmware of the card and is traceable to the manufacturer. It is the fundamental address used in routing. Unless

[newbie] Linux book

2000-08-22 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Paul, Awhile back you recommended a good linux book to study and unfortunately I accidentally erased that message. Would you please give me the name of that book again? Also, I noticed that you seem very familiar with commands, how to edit, and just about anything else with linux. Are there

[newbie] Transparent proxying

2000-08-22 Thread Gregor Mocnik
Itried to set up transparent proxy, but didn't make it. I think that the problem is, that I don't have my kernel compiled with Transparent proxy support, is there a way to check that out?? Wellrecompiledmy kernel(using kernel-2.3.9), but I was unable to boot it so I restored the oldone