Re: [newbie-it] lan con computer windows

2000-09-01 Thread root
Il ven, 01 set 2000, hai scritto: On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 04:40:19PM +0200, root wrote: devo collegare in una piccola lan su piattaforma windows una macchina che monta linux mandrake, come faccio? Cosa intendi per collegare? la macchian windows deve vedere alcune directories windows,

[newbie] mounting win disk on linux4win

2000-09-01 Thread Craig Wallace
Hello there A very basic question, reflecting my absolute begginer status in the world of mandrake. I'm running linux4win, and am wanting to access my windows files, by mounting the win disk. Only problem is that all the procedures I have read assume you have paritioned the hard drive and are

RE:[newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-09-01 Thread JOSE A MIRLES
I was having the same problem, so I ran it from a xterm window. Seems, that since I had no KDE libs installed it would not run. I was strictly sticking to Gnome and ManDrake perfers KDE. Once I installed the required Libs, it ran well. José A. Mirles

Re: [newbie] Modem Trouble

2000-09-01 Thread John A. MacLaughlin
If you have any Plug-n-Play devices the first thing you should do is tell your BIOS that your OS is NOT a Plug-n-Play OS. When you see what an improvement this makes you will realize that it is a true statement. Best wishes, jam - Original Message - From: "Kelley Terry" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Xterm Font Colors

2000-09-01 Thread mrc
Great Paul. Just how does one do that? Michael Coady Use rxvt. At least as good, and you can set All color options to everything you want. Paul -- Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them? http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403

Re: [newbie] Linux Digital Cameras II

2000-09-01 Thread mrc
My security is normal. I'm on a Pentium 333, with an SiS6326 (groan) board and 32 meg ram. I suspect two things: 1) the gphoto rpm installed but my system lacked some critical files. I shall try a .tar.gz version and see what happens. Which version did you use? 2) My serial com port is not

Re: [[newbie] X setup w/new install not working!!]

2000-09-01 Thread Jaguar
Is this CD from the Maximum Linux Magazine??? I get the same problem trying to install also. I was trying to setup with a supported AT24/3DFX video card. I think maybe it's the media from Max. Lin. Mag. HTH Jaguar "forstfed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fresh install of drake 7.1 with a Gladiac

RE: [newbie] DHCP fails at boot time to allocate IP address

2000-09-01 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm not trying to have the host machine assign an IP to itself. I'm trying to have the DHCP server give the linux machine an IP address. -Original Message- From: Booysen RJ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 1:00 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie]

RE: [newbie] Is this real? ]

2000-09-01 Thread Mark Johnson
Don't know if y'all noticed or not, but this is a satire notice it reads micORsoft, not micROsoft -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 5:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Re: [newbie] Is this

[newbie] mandrake 7.1 bootnet.img

2000-09-01 Thread Mike Johnston
I've noticed this problem with both Redhat 6.2's bootnet.img and Mandrake 7.1's. It is impossible to install over FTP with this image.. (at least for me.) Everything is fine until it gets to the 24th file in the list of downloads (in the case where i ask it to install everything.. the file is

[newbie] CDROM tray won't open when prompted to insert the Extension CD

2000-09-01 Thread Mark Johnson
I've tried on two different machines to install 7.1 and when it gets to the part to insert the disk 2 Extension CD, the CDROM tray won't open up. I have to cancel out of that part of the install and continue with the normal one. Has anyone had this same problem? Any suggestions...

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Re:[newbie] CDROM tray won't open when prompted to insert the Extension CD

2000-09-01 Thread Mike Johnston
Here's what I get from what you are telling me. First of all, if linux mounts a drive, in this case your cdrom.. then it will not allow you access to the cdrom until it is unmounted. Ty making a boot floppy. Go into the dosutils directory and run the windows version of rawrite. then where it

[newbie] Readline problems

2000-09-01 Thread Keith Irvin
I am trying to compile ntop on my Mandrake 7.1 machine. I get the error that readline/history.h not such file or directory. The file does not exist anywhere on my drive. I have installed the rpm of readline that came on the 7.1 iso. I can read the man page for readline but the actual file does

Re: [newbie] Readline problems

2000-09-01 Thread lselinger
You may need the development packages for it as well =o) Lonny Selinger

[newbie] Fwd: HardDrake 0.9.3 released

2000-09-01 Thread Denis Havlik
(forwarded from "forum") From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 1 19:01:08 2000 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:44:39 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HardDrake 0.9.3 released HardDrake 0.9.3 released (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2901094425) Here is what our

Re: [newbie] Xterm Font Colors

2000-09-01 Thread Paul
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, mrc wrote: Great Paul. Just how does one do that? Michael Coady Use rxvt. At least as good, and you can set All color options to everything you want. Okay, some examples (also from man rxvt): When I run PINE: rxvt -geometry 80x34 -cr blue -e pine Gives me 80

[newbie] Voodoo3 3000

2000-09-01 Thread J. Ricardo Rizzo
-- Hello everybody, I recently installed Mandrake 7.0-2(Air) on my Athlon K7-600MHz. I have an AGP card Voodoo3 3000. My XFree version, 3.3.5 does not recognize this graphic card, and then I installed it as a Voodoo3 2000. I worked fine with almost all tasks (except with vmware, as I will refer

[newbie] vmware 2.0

2000-09-01 Thread J. Ricardo Rizzo
Hello, I downloaded vmware 2.0 for linux and I could run it on my PC. I have the two OS on the same HD, win98 and Mandrake 7.0-2 (air), kernel 2.2.14-15mdk. I can start the virtual machine, boot but a lot o zeroes appears when the graphic display would be there. Probably the graphic card

Re: [newbie] Modem Trouble

2000-09-01 Thread Kandace Little
Setserial would not work for me, I take it that I type the commands in from the console. I made some changes to the set-up and got some funny thing happing. When I made it Xon/Xoff it would talk to the modem but would not work. My modem is in COM1 which is ttsyS0 but when I changed the settings

[newbie] Modem help needed

2000-09-01 Thread Kandace Little
Setserial would not work for me, I take it that I type thecommands in from the console. I made some changes tothe set-up and got some funny thing happing. When I madeit Xon/Xoff it would talk to the modem but would not work.My modem is in COM1 which is ttsyS0 but when I changedthe settings

Re: [newbie] no carrier

2000-09-01 Thread Hasan
Hmmm, I am new to Linux too.First be sure to connect your line to modem correct.If u v gone through it.check at which com is your modem.For example mine was /dev/ttys3. When i run kppd it said /dev/modem. Change it to correct value. Try this also resolv.conf file. Try to open /etc/resolv.conf

[newbie] mandrake7.1 iso integrity

2000-09-01 Thread bascule
i just (took for ever actually) downloaded the two isos for 7.1, the md5sums check out for both, after burning using xcdroast and verifying the burnt image to be the same as the downloaded iso and double checking the md5sum of the iso to be sure, there is still a discrepency between the actual

RE: [newbie] DHCP fails at boot time to allocate IP address

2000-09-01 Thread Nijs, Vincent
Mark, I was unable to get an IP on the school network (which uses DHCP). Somewhere in the nework-howto documentation it was suggested to use the following the Redhat, Mandrake etc. in this type of situation: Issue the command '/sbin/pump -I eht0 -h hostname' - it worked for me. As I am a

RE: [newbie] Modem Trouble

2000-09-01 Thread Nijs, Vincent
Have you tried using wvdial. I think you can get the lastest version from the Redhat site. Worked great for me! Vincent -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 7:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re:

Re: [newbie] Wine: How to start?

2000-09-01 Thread Goldenpi
The file not found is most likely a file not found. It should be there, perhaps it is related to the keyboard. My fancy but useless keyboard runs wine perfectly. You could either download the correct profile or you could dump the keyboard and get a plain keyboard. The buttons dont work under

Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user) OT

2000-09-01 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Well, when I tried it (which was a good few years ago now) Windoze 3.1 was king, Win95 was still a dream project called Chicago, a college student called Linus Torvalds had just started releasing a (then very basic) Minix/unix clone on an unsuspecting world, and my 486 with 8megs of

Re: [newbie] Voodoo3 3000

2000-09-01 Thread Larry Hignight
"J. Ricardo Rizzo" wrote: -- Hello everybody, I recently installed Mandrake 7.0-2(Air) on my Athlon K7-600MHz. I have an AGP card Voodoo3 3000. My XFree version, 3.3.5 does not recognize this graphic card, You should either download/purchase Mandrake 7.1 or install XFree 4.01 otherwise

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3

2000-09-01 Thread Larry Hignight
It is kind of wierd the way that it hangs up after the music or after the first turn ends in my case. I can then ctrl-alt-backspace and start the game again without sound (apparently the sound device is busy) and it won't hang up at all. Well, at least for 20 minutes or so. At any rate, I

Re: [newbie] Netscape's midi plugin

2000-09-01 Thread Paul
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Joan Tur wrote: Mozilla: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr) playmidi: No playback device found. Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai This is free software with NO WARRANTY. For details please... And now i notice that midis are not

[newbie] how to upgrade rpm's with mdk in the name?

2000-09-01 Thread Larry Hignight
Let me first start off by saying I love Mandrake and rpm I think both are great. However, I'm getting really frustrated with the rpm's that Mandrake is including in their distro. It seems like all of them have the syntax of rpmname-version#-mdk. This makes a simple rpm -Uvh upgrage nearly

[newbie] Adding Additional SCSI disks

2000-09-01 Thread Ellenbecker, Larry
Need Help. Can anyone give me the steps for adding additional SCSI disks after you have Mandrake 7.1 up and running. Thanks.

[newbie] Cron job

2000-09-01 Thread Richard Davies
Hi, I have written the following and I want cron to run it for me. It is in a file called /etc/cron.d/katrina 59 22 * * * root passwd -l katrina 00 23 * * * root halt 00 8 * * * root passwd -u katrina The first line works and locks katrina's password The second line does nothing at all. What

[newbie] Parallel port upgrade of Linux.

2000-09-01 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Hi. I'm running Mandrake 7.0-2 on my laptop. I would like to upgrade to 7.1 for the improved USB support. My previous installation was done by downloading the files from their website onto a FAT32 partition (I have a Win98 dual boot) and doing a HD install. Unfortunately I do not have the

[newbie] linux to unix

2000-09-01 Thread Nijs, Vincent
Dear Mandrake user, I had assumed that if I would telnet to my schools Unix system from within Gnome i would be able to use emacs, xemacs, nedit etc. without needing any additional Xwindows system for the graphical display. Shouldn't this be the case (?) and if not might someone suggest a

Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user) OT

2000-09-01 Thread Larry Hignight
"Austin L. Denyer" wrote: serious snipping Maybe, but at what price? It cost me (at the time) the equivalent of over six week's rent just to upgrade the machine from 4mb to 8mb RAM. Having to pay another three month's worth just to get to a hardware level that would support the OS was not

Re: [newbie] Modem help needed

2000-09-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
Verify your BIOS is set for Non PnP OS In Linux PCI modems are ttySs. The setserial commands must be issued as root. For a PCI modem use the followin directions. . Log in as root and from terminal enter the following command # cat /proc/pci This will list all your PCI devices. On this list you

Re: [newbie] linux to unix

2000-09-01 Thread Glen_Adams
If I'm not mistaken, telnet isn't a graphical environment. For you to use the apps you mentioned, you would need to open an X-terminal on the foreign machine. The concept you described would only work if you were mounting the foreign drives to your machine.

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3

2000-09-01 Thread Vic
Still freezes On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, you wrote: It is kind of wierd the way that it hangs up after the music or after the first turn ends in my case. I can then ctrl-alt-backspace and start the game again without sound (apparently the sound device is busy) and it won't hang up at all. Well,

Re: [newbie] linux to unix

2000-09-01 Thread Scott D. Pletcher
Hi all, I'm no Linux expert, but I got this working awhile back. This is usually the case, unless your school has a firewall that blocks X traffic (in that case I use ssh (secure shell)). You also need to set the DISPLAY environmental variable on the remote machine to point to your machine.

[newbie] Traceroute...

2000-09-01 Thread Robert Griffiths
Hi, when i try to use the command 'traceroute' i get a command not found reply but i searh for traceroute i find it in /usr/sbin/traceroute, I've only been using linux for a couple of days so help would be great, also does 'whois nslookup' come with linux cos i get command not found with them

Re: [newbie] Adding Additional SCSI disks

2000-09-01 Thread Paul
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Ellenbecker, Larry wrote: Need Help. Can anyone give me the steps for adding additional SCSI disks after you have Mandrake 7.1 up and running. Thanks. On Mandrakeuser.org I found this: Hardware Detection SCSI host adapters should be detected and configured

Re: [newbie] how to upgrade rpm's with mdk in the name?

2000-09-01 Thread Paul
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Larry Hignight wrote: Let me first start off by saying I love Mandrake and rpm I think both are great. However, I'm getting really frustrated with the rpm's that Mandrake is including in their distro. It seems like all of them have the syntax of rpmname-version#-mdk.

Re: [newbie] linux to unix

2000-09-01 Thread Larry Hignight
"Nijs, Vincent" wrote: Dear Mandrake user, I had assumed that if I would telnet to my schools Unix system from within Gnome i would be able to use emacs, xemacs, nedit etc. without needing any additional Xwindows system for the graphical display. Shouldn't this be the case (?) and if not

Re: [newbie] Traceroute...

2000-09-01 Thread Mads Rasmussen
You might consider looking at http://www.mandrakeuser.org/admin/ashell2.html#Path Regards Mads - Original Message - From: "Robert Griffiths" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Traceroute... Hi, when i try to use the

Re: [newbie] linux to unix

2000-09-01 Thread Mads Rasmussen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You have to redirect your display and allow access via xhost lookup you IP number using ifconfig allow access using xhost school.edu login using telnet like: telnet scool.edu export display to your current IP number: export $DISPLAY IPnumber:0.0 try

Re: [newbie] Traceroute...

2000-09-01 Thread Mads Rasmussen
It looks like a path problem, what security option did you choose when installing? You can change your search path in the .bashXXX files in your home directory, just start up emacs and add /usr/sbin Regards, Mads Rasmussen - Original Message - From: "Robert Griffiths" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Gnometoaster

2000-09-01 Thread Adrian Smith
are you logged on as root or su? i can't burn a CD as a user, so what i have been doing is opening E-term, go to superuser then start the CD burner from the prompt and it works fine. that way i'm root for doing that, but not for anything else... done had to install Linux 3 times 'cause i keep

Re: [newbie] CDROM tray won't open when prompted to insert the Extension CD

2000-09-01 Thread Robert Griffiths
I can't answer your question but i've installed twice and even when i'm running linux normally my cd rom drawer is always slow in opening, it opens eventually though, the light stays on for a while then it opens. Anyway just to let you know your not the only one...sorry i can't help.

[newbie] What'z zat?

2000-09-01 Thread Darryl Gibson
Hi list, I was shutting down for a storm this afternoon, and accidentally I hit the ` key, next to the 1 on the top row. I lost my Bash prompt, and the screen displayed a . I pressed the ` key again, and the bash prompt reappeared. Did I leave the Bash shell, and enter another command mode? --

Re: [newbie] grub Xserver4.0 Xserver3x

2000-09-01 Thread GAPrichard
Thanks for your reply, and please pardon MY late reply to you. In my newly installed Xserver 4.0 (as part of my 7.1 upgrade), I had white text on a white background (I could SOMETIMES change part of the screen to Pumpkin color (the color I had set for the root toolbar in my 7.0

Re: [newbie] Xterm Font Colors

2000-09-01 Thread Shane Finn
Yes, that is the problem I'm trying to get the answer to. Some of the colors are hard to read. Shane -Original Message- From:mrc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:19:38 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xterm Font Colors Thanks Paul for the

[newbie] usb cam

2000-09-01 Thread Ed Santiago
I got Mandrake 7.1 working ok with my intelli eye explorer USB mouse. Now I need to get my 3Com USB web cam working. Has anyone had any success with USB web cams?

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3

2000-09-01 Thread Jeff Malka
Is this a Linux game or a DOS/Windows game in Linux? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT -- Heroes 3 Still

Re: [newbie] What'z zat?

2000-09-01 Thread A V Flinsch
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hi list, I was shutting down for a storm this afternoon, and accidentally I hit the ` key, next to the 1 on the top row. I lost my Bash prompt, and the screen displayed a . I pressed the ` key again, and the bash prompt reappeared. Did I leave the Bash

[newbie] Network configuration questions.

2000-09-01 Thread James Laine
I am an extreme newbie to Linux or any type of Unix, but am very experienced with Windows networking, and have some minor experience with Netware networking. As a result, most of my questions will be related to the differences between methods on the various operating systems. I am NOT a newbie

[newbie] HardDrake dependency

2000-09-01 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi folks, I d/l'd the new version of Harddrake and then tried to install. I was able to take care of all of the dependencies but one. It needs "detect" , what ever that is. Does anyone know what it is looking for? Thanks for the help, Dennis -- Dennis a registered linux user #180842

[expert] Mandrake Update

2000-09-01 Thread Harry Flaxman
I have been having a problem with mandrake update. It seems like it won't connect to any servers. I have tried running it out of kde and gnome, and still get no response. I have tried running from a terminal, and nothing happens. Is there a new version of the program that I'm missing. This