Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Dear Anyone, Before my computer crash 4 weeks ago I had sound working in > > Linux but I do not know why it worked finally. Now after my reinstall > > (without windows 95 this time) I am trying to set up sound and I just get > > error me

Re: [newbie] slow printer performance

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
Fabian Jennings wrote: > > I have a PC pentium 233 with 32MB RAM, and am dual booting > between Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and Win 95. My printer is an HP > Deskjet 870Cxi. Under Windows, it prints as expected - 4 to > 5 pages of black and white text per minute, or thereabouts. > Under Linux-Mandrake, h

Re: [newbie] Modem

2000-09-19 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Mwinold: You might wish to consider the U. S. Robotics 56k EXTERNAL modem. It was recommended to me by some of our gurus. It connects every time. However, please remember that it will work well ONLY for data, i.e. as a dial-up connection to the Internet, NOT for faxing. But many Linux expert

Re: [newbie] Knews dependencies

2000-09-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Roger Sherman wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > I just tried to install Knews with Kpackage, and it gave the error message > > Dependency Problem, libpng.so.0 is needed by knews-1.0 b.0-1, libjpeg.so.6 > > is needed by knews-1.0 b.0-1. Can anyone tell me where to get those two > > f

[newbie] IDE CDrom burner support

2000-09-19 Thread David Boles
When I first installed L-M 7.1 it found and correctly configured all of my hardware along with my CD-Rom and my CD-RW. Since I have "upgraded" to kernel-2.2.16-9mdk L-M no longer recognizes my CD-RW. I understand that it must me setup to be seen as a SCSI device. What EXACTLY is different in the

[newbie] Exporting QIF

2000-09-19 Thread Robin Regennitter
hi, I tried Exporting QIF to a directory. But windows wont let me Export but it just says that my printer is not installed. I'm not trying to export my QIF files to the printer for pete's sake. I'm trying to Export the file so that when I go into linux. I can try to import that file to Mone

Re: [newbie] Financial programs

2000-09-19 Thread Robin Regennitter
I have tried importing Quicken to Moneydance. but with no luck. there were 3 extension to that particular file and they were QDF, QEL, and QSD. I've tried each of those and all of them together, none would work. Is there any other one that I have overlooked? Rob - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

2000-09-19 Thread Mwinold
goto linmodems.com if you want to find the most updated list on winmodems, mandrake says most because they havent tested them all but they know there are drivers out there for some winmodems

Re: [newbie] licq 0.85 problem

2000-09-19 Thread Robin Regennitter
Hi I have tried to send this message and it looked like it never made it there. but anyhow, I noticed that LICQ 0.85 needed libcrypto.so.0 and libssl.so.0 as well as gt2. but I couldnt find libcrypto and libssl anywhere in the MDK 7.2 Beta. I gathered that those two files are embedded in anoth

Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Anyone, Before my computer crash 4 weeks ago I had sound working in > Linux but I do not know why it worked finally. Now after my reinstall > (without windows 95 this time) I am trying to set up sound and I just get > error messages when I try to do it through s

Re: [newbie] Overload

2000-09-19 Thread Adam
> Ted Baker wrote: > > Please remove me from the newbie list > Ted remove yourself, are you really that damned lazy?

Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Anyone, When I put in my Linux Mandrake 7.0 #3 CD in order to read > some of the books only one book will open for me. This happened before with > my first install of Linux, too, before the crash. They all opened with > Acrobat reader under Windows 95. What d

Re: [newbie] can not connect to internet

2000-09-19 Thread Paul Payne
I use @home also, and here is how I put this info to use. If you have RH or MDK use linuxconf to get the numbers plugged in. In the X version click on Networking, then fill in the relatively self-explanatory boxes under Basic Host Information, Name server Specification, and Routing and Gateways.

Re: [newbie] FW: Mandrake Win4Linux 7.1

2000-09-19 Thread Eric Flood
There is one dino-might demo at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ ... demos...networking...network basics - Original Message - From: "webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:18 PM Subject: [newbie] FW: Mandrake Win4Linux 7.1 > > > -

Re: [newbie] slow printer performance

2000-09-19 Thread Steve Weltman
Fabian, StarOffice is a resource hog. If you aren't running a P3 600+ with like 128MB RAM, it's slow. It's NOT Linux's system (well, the O/S anyhow). Please try a test...Use the KOffice products for a bit. Let me know if this is faster than before (I don't have access to a printer at the momen

Re: [newbie] Modem

2000-09-19 Thread Mwinold
your in the same boat i am WINMODEM!! no current drivers found so far i have the hsf series and i am still searching, your bet buy a linux based modem i would suggest one from actiontec if you do or you can wait hope pray and keep searching for someone to attempt to build a linmodem dr

Re: [newbie] Knews dependencies

2000-09-19 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, you wrote: > I just tried to install Knews with Kpackage, and it gave the error message > Dependency Problem, libpng.so.0 is needed by knews-1.0 b.0-1, libjpeg.so.6 > is needed by knews-1.0 b.0-1. Can anyone tell me where to get those two > files, and what to do with them onc

Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Weaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Anyone, When I put in my Linux Mandrake 7.0 #3 CD in order to read > some of the books only one book will open for me. This happened before with > my first install of Linux, too, before the crash. They all opened with > Acrobat reader under Windows 95. What

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Weaver
Barry Premeaux wrote: > Mark, > > When I go Mandrakes home page and pull up the 'Supp. Hardware' link, this is all > I find under 'MODEM' > > " Most modems and ISDN adaptors are supported. Most "Win-modems" are NOT > supported." > > 'Most' to me means many, but not all. I am comforted by a Ma

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

2000-09-19 Thread Paul
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Philip Ferguson wrote: >Hello. > >I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. > >What is the differnece between files with a .gz extension and files with a >.bz2 extension? .gz is gzip'd, bz2 is bzip2'd. >How can I extract a file with a .bz2 extension? Using bunzip

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-19 Thread Mwinold
you can but i would pull the other hard drive out and use the new one as a primary to install windows then after your done swap it out and put it in as the secondary, then you just have to add the commands in your boot loader to the second os, although im not exactly sure what the system comand

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

2000-09-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
A&L: Have you tried emulation? According to the Panasonic site (.pansonic.com), your printer can pretend that it is either an Epson FX-850 or an IBM Proprinter X24E. HTH - - cmg A&L wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not > recognised by it. I

Re: [newbie] Financial programs

2000-09-19 Thread Barry Premeaux
Rob wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > well I have a Quicken account in my Windows 98. I can access there from > Linux using wine. it's pretty convenient when it comes to wine. I'm trying > to decrease my dependent with windows as I'm phasing out on windows and to > become totall

Re: [newbie] licq 0.85 problem

2000-09-19 Thread Robin Regennitter
I noticed that LICQ 0.85 needs libcrypto.so.0 and libssl.so.0 as well as the qt2. But I couldnt find the libcrypto and libssl anywhere on the MDK 7.2 Beta. Where can I find those? Are those files on some other programs? QT2 doesnt have those files and niether does LICQ.. Rob - Original Me

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

2000-09-19 Thread Barry Premeaux
Mark, When I go Mandrakes home page and pull up the 'Supp. Hardware' link, this is all I find under 'MODEM' " Most modems and ISDN adaptors are supported. Most "Win-modems" are NOT supported." 'Most' to me means many, but not all. I am comforted by a Manufacturer/Model Number type of list, bec

[newbie] support

2000-09-19 Thread ed
Hey all I was wondering were is the support for mandrake 7.1 for the boxed version I registered and got my id # and went to www.mandrax.org/en/mcpsupport filled out the form with my problem and never heard a thing. So do they answer your emails or what?? __

[newbie] startup file

2000-09-19 Thread alfredo yunes
This has probably been answered many times before, but what file in the home directory controls what gets started in gnome+enlightenment. I have started two apps, Ripple and Raindrops Effects and I can't stop them from loading when I start gnome+e again. I was also changing some enlightenment th

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-19 Thread Willard Seehorn
At 07:55 AM 9/19/00 -0400, Chris Kelly wrote: >Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, > >Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add >another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot >between two hard drives?? If so, has this create

[newbie] startup

2000-09-19 Thread alfredo yunes
This has probably been answered many times before, but what file in the home directory controls what gets started in gnome+enlightenment. I have started two apps, Ripple and Raindrops Effects and I can't stop them from loading when I start gnome+e again. I was also changing some enlightenment th

Re: [newbie] Modem

2000-09-19 Thread Barry Premeaux
glenn crossley wrote: > first things first. > Ive installed 7.1 and think the OS is much cooler than documented by Windows > community. > I,m had no problems installing apart from the OS not detecting my modem > which is a Conexant HCF 56l PCI Internal modem, can anyone direct me to the > drivers

Re: [newbie] was blank - Adobe Acrobat

2000-09-19 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 19-Sep-00 08:14:27 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << some of the non-brits might be a little confused by your salutation to the group >> made perfect sense to me since we talk like that on the phone in the us navy

Re: [newbie] Error msg's while booting up mandrake linux

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Weaver
> > Actually I wish the good folks at Mandrake wouldn't even offer this type > > of installation choice. This is my opinion of course, but in doing so it > > makes an extremely wonderful, dependable, powerful product look like crap > > I second that. I see so many people here having trouble with

Re: [newbie] licq 0.85 problem

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Weaver
Joan, I'm kinda coming in here half way through, but have you tried Kxicq yet? I used to be a staunch LICQ user. However, when I made the switch from RedHat to Mandrake I also discovered Kxicq when LICQ got strange on me and I've been using it ever since. It's very nice and works well. -- Mark

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Weaver
Kelly, You can do what you've mentioned and you shouldn't have any trouble at all in doing so. When I first started using Linux that's very much the way I did it. I had Windows in one drive and Linux on another. Everything booted just fine and both OS's were just happy as clams. -- Mark ---

Re: [newbie] bz2 help!

2000-09-19 Thread Barry Premeaux
You will find 'bunzip2' in usr/bin. Check the 'man bunzip2' for the commands. Barry :-) Philip Ferguson wrote: > Hello. > > For some reason, my last e-mail didn't go through. If it is going through > and just a little slow, then I appologize for sending 2. > > Anyway, can someone please tell

Re: [newbie] Samba master domain

2000-09-19 Thread Paul Payne
"olof.liungman" wrote: > Hi, > > I've never used Linuxconf to configure Samba, but if you change smb.conf you > have to restart Samba for the change to take effect (kill smbd and nmbd and > start them again; maybe kill -HUP will also do the trick, though I don't > know if the command looks the sa

Re: [newbie] Yahooooo - nuther part at Fred's

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Weaver
Larry, If you haven't already take a look into setting up procmail filters. It's relatively easy, quick, and offers precise, hands-on control over the filters and the messages getting filtered. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguin

[newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-19 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Anyone, Before my computer crash 4 weeks ago I had sound working in Linux but I do not know why it worked finally. Now after my reinstall (without windows 95 this time) I am trying to set up sound and I just get error messages when I try to do it through sndconfig. I went through this ex

Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT

2000-09-19 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
> I'm in trouble. > > First of all, I thought 7.1 was supposed to use Grub, but when I boot I have > Lilo not Grub. > Also, at the boot: prompt when I hit Tab it shows: > linux rescue > > WHERE IS WINDOWS > Jim Did you install Lilo on the MBR or secondary boot header? In saying tha

Re: [newbie]

2000-09-19 Thread Paul Payne
> It sounds like you need to have root powers for the install. su to root and try again. Paul (another one) > Dear Sir/Madam, > I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am > encountring with Mandrake Linux 7.1. I am, obviously, a profane in Linux, > however I am bec

[newbie] No user group!

2000-09-19 Thread Steve Maytum
Hello everyone , I wonder if you can help me? I live in Maidstone , Kent(U.K.) I am a newbie and struggling. Is there a user group in the area? If not interested in setting one up? --   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Knews dependencies

2000-09-19 Thread Roger Sherman
I just tried to install Knews with Kpackage, and it gave the error message Dependency Problem, libpng.so.0 is needed by knews-1.0 b.0-1, libjpeg.so.6 is needed by knews-1.0 b.0-1. Can anyone tell me where to get those two files, and what to do with them once I have them? -- peace, Rog http://

[newbie] Overload

2000-09-19 Thread Ted Baker
Please remove me from the newbie list Ted

[newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-19 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Anyone, When I put in my Linux Mandrake 7.0 #3 CD in order to read some of the books only one book will open for me. This happened before with my first install of Linux, too, before the crash. They all opened with Acrobat reader under Windows 95. What do I need to do for this? Thank yo

[newbie] Talk Daemon

2000-09-19 Thread ANTTrunken
alright i had one of my friends telnet onto my comp and log in on an account i made for him. Then i tried to use talk to talk to him but it says "No response from talk daemon" does anyone know why this is? Thanks in advance Dan

Re: [newbie] Need help understanding path mechanisms

2000-09-19 Thread Larry Marshall
> > The current problem is all of us have the path setup correctly under our > > usernames. If we 'su - root' the paths are still correct. However, if we 'su >root', no dash, then for two of us the paths are correct but for the > > other, her path's are screwed up. We are all using bash. I d

[newbie] Compaq Sound Problems

2000-09-19 Thread Phillip L. Gillis
Hello,I am having problems getting my Compaq Deskpro EP Series 6400 sound goingunder 7.1.I copied the driver information Windows 98 was using before I bleemed thedrive completely. Mandrake picked up the same driver, irq, and DMA settingsthat Windows had, yet it doesn't work. To be honest, I

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

2000-09-19 Thread Anthony
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/netscape-communicator-4.75-7mdk.i586.html > I tried to update netscape. I checked several mirrors of > the mandrake ftp server, in the update/6.1 dir there > are netscape-com...rpms with 0 byte size. > > Where can I find the netsca

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

2000-09-19 Thread Phillip L. Gillis
Hello, I am having problems getting my sound going on a Compaq

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem & Internet

2000-09-19 Thread Anthony
Open up DrakConf and then "Network Configuration". Then find out if you have a static IP, or get your IP via DCHP from your ISP. Then fill out the apporitate stuff in "Basic Host Information". Or if you still haven't installed, during the installation it asks if you use a networked computer, so

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 and Ensoniq Audio PCI

2000-09-19 Thread Josh Shirey
Loaded Mandrake 7.1 and my sound has some cracking in the background. I have two drives, one with win98 and other other with Mandrake 7.1 What do I have to tweak to make the cracking in the background go away? Cheers josh

Re: [newbie] Manual

2000-09-19 Thread Anthony
If someone hasn't already sent it to you, I've put it up on my website for you to try to download. I figure that'll be better than to email you it since most emailers only allow up to 2 MB attachments. But if you still want it emailed, I can do that too. http://binaryfusion.net/power_base.ps.gz

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

2000-09-19 Thread Adam
on mandrake type tar -xyvf foo.tar.bz2 you could also type tar -xyf foo.tar.bz2 - Original Message - From: "Philip Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:45 AM Subject: [newbie] bz2 files > Hello. > > I was wondering if anyone coul

[newbie] FW: Mandrake Win4Linux 7.1

2000-09-19 Thread webmaster
-Original Message- From: webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Mandrake Win4Linux 7.1 -Original Message- From: webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 8:42 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] kernel config

2000-09-19 Thread Anthony
Well, if you do "make xconfig" you can see all the options that you have now, and then change them if you want. And I think "make oldconfig" will keep all your old options, and only ask you for input if there is something new in the kernel. > How do i find what options i have in the kernel, so i

Re: [[newbie] Modem ]

2000-09-19 Thread Michael Scottaline
"glenn crossley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > first things first. > Ive installed 7.1 and think the OS is much cooler than documented by Windows > community. > I,m had no problems installing apart from the OS not detecting my modem > which is a Conexant HCF 56l PCI Internal modem, can anyone dir

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

2000-09-19 Thread burlington john
** Reply to message from burlington john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:08:22 +0100 > Hello, > > I tried to update netscape. I checked several mirrors of > the mandrake ftp server, in the update/6.1 dir there > are netscape-com...rpms with 0 byte size. > > Where can I find the nets

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone?

2000-09-19 Thread Patti Wavinak
Hi -- I used gFTP (Menu --->Networking ---> File Transfer) and then went to bookmarks --->Mandrake (this brings up gwyn.tux.org) and went to updates ---> 7.1 > RPMS and scrolled down and got the Netscape Common 4.75 Netscape Communicator 4.75 and Netscape Navigator 4.75 and installed them

Re: [newbie] Need help understanding path mechanisms

2000-09-19 Thread Anthony
Does just plain "su" work? > I share a box with three other people and we are having a murderous time > getting the paths correct. Can anyone explain the secrets of setting up > paths? > > The current problem is all of us have the path setup correctly under our > usernames. If we 'su - root'

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

2000-09-19 Thread Philip Ferguson
Thanks very much! It works great now! Phil >From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [newbie] bz2 files >Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:12:27 -0400 > > >- Original Message - >From: "Philip Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

2000-09-19 Thread Adam
www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/NByName.html - Original Message - From: "burlington john" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:08 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ? > Hello, > > I tried to update netscape

Re: [newbie] Modem

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
glenn crossley wrote: > > first things first. > Ive installed 7.1 and think the OS is much cooler than documented by Windows > community. > I,m had no problems installing apart from the OS not detecting my modem > which is a Conexant HCF 56l PCI Internal modem, can anyone direct me to the > drive

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

2000-09-19 Thread Anthony
bunzip2 the_file_name.tar.bz2 or tar xyf the_file_name.tar.bz2 Should both work. > > I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. > > > > What is the differnece between files with a .gz extension and files with a > > .bz2 extension? > > > > How can I extract a file with a .bz2 extension? >

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
burlington john wrote: > > Hello, > > I tried to update netscape. I checked several mirrors of > the mandrake ftp server, in the update/6.1 dir there > are netscape-com...rpms with 0 byte size. > > Where can I find the netscape 4.75 rpms for mandrake ? I not sure where you were looking... I g

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Weaver
I don't recall seeing them, but then I wasn't looking for them. Follow the link back and check to see if they're there. Mark John Rye wrote: > Mark Weaver wrote: >> >> A&L wrote: >> >> > Hi! >> > >> > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not >> > recognised by it. I

Re: [newbie] Financial programs

2000-09-19 Thread bpremeaux
I'm using 2.0.4 which I have come to like quite a lot. It was quite a transistion from Managing Your Money to Moneydance, but I have become accustomed to the differences. I don't know what the transistion was like for Quicken users. Moneydance 3.0 alpha build 141 is out, but I wouldn't recomme

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
Joan Tur wrote: > > John Rye escribió: > > > In simple terms - yes. But the windows installation for some > > strange archaiac and magical reason closely related to monotonic > > gatesism > > dictates that windows _MUST_ be on the first hard disk. > > Ejem... only windows' boot has to be in

Re: [newbie] Floppy drive

2000-09-19 Thread Goldenpi
I have a question too-After in installed my second floppy drive and set it up under linux, Access to both drives became very very slow. They worked through. When I removed the drive setup from fstab and all the other partitioning files it worked fine. The drive is still in and worked under windows

Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT

2000-09-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT > > - Original Message - > From: "Jim Chiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tu

[newbie] Calling an ICEwm expert

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
I getting to like this interface more and more...now I want to make some changes.. In particular to the terminal/console (what do we call it?) currently it appears to 'rxvt' - I would like to change to the one used in stock KDE - konsole??? How do I do this.. I can't find any docs Cheers --

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

2000-09-19 Thread Mark Weaver
wait...I'm confused about something here. How can the HCL leave you in the dark about whether a peice of hardware is supported or not. Either it's on the list or it isn't. Was yours on the list? Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mandrake's HCL left me in the dark on modems. You can go to > h

Re: [newbie] Financial programs

2000-09-19 Thread bpremeaux
Roger, I think someone may have said this already, but you can open up your terminal and type "gnucash" or "cbb" (without quotes) and check out either program. Barry :-) On Mon, 18 September 2000, Roger Sherman wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > Roger: > > Check out gnucash. Ver

Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT

2000-09-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Jim Chiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:03 AM Subject: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT > OK. I havea 20gB drive. I installed in this order: > win98se > Win2K Pro > MDK7.1 > > After Win@K evertyhing was OK. I

Re: [newbie]Acrobat Reader

2000-09-19 Thread Rob
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, you wrote: Acrobat Reader is packed with Mandrake 7.1 on both Complete and Deluxe versions in case you didn't know.It's in the Application CD in rpm format. > Dear Sir/Madam, > I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am > encountring with

[newbie] Network Printer Installation

2000-09-19 Thread Robert \"JTBob\" Holland
Hi, I'm still chugging away on learning Linux. I have a Lexmark Optra S 2450 and a Lexmark Optra Color 1200 available on our network through specific IP addresses. I noticed on the Mandrake Linux site that these printers aren't supported. Lexmark does have Linux drivers, but none specifically fo

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

2000-09-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Philip Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:45 AM Subject: [newbie] bz2 files > Hello. > > I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. > > What is the differnece between files with a .gz extension a

[newbie] Modem

2000-09-19 Thread glenn crossley
first things first. Ive installed 7.1 and think the OS is much cooler than documented by Windows community. I,m had no problems installing apart from the OS not detecting my modem which is a Conexant HCF 56l PCI Internal modem, can anyone direct me to the drivers or any modem manafacturer which

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

2000-09-19 Thread burlington john
** Reply to message from "Philip Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:45:44 EDT > Hello. > > I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. > > What is the differnece between files with a .gz extension and files with a > .bz2 extension? bzip2 is a new compressor that uses

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

2000-09-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Rodrigo Villela LAB17 wrote: > > I almost giving up. I'll buy an USR 56K.But ISA or PCI ? Any sugestions ? Hi. I'm using an ISA/Supra Diamond 56k modem. Worked fine with Mandrake, right out of the box... Don't know why PCI shouldn't work as well though... Any one else? ;-) --

[newbie] Rotating backups

2000-09-19 Thread Paul
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote: >> >Hitachi are selling 72Gb drives on buy.com for $146, and I've seen >80Gb >> >> A removable disk pack. Slap another one of those in there, mirror the >> disk... ready :) > >OK, now start rotating your backups so that you have something to fall >back

[newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

2000-09-19 Thread burlington john
Hello, I tried to update netscape. I checked several mirrors of the mandrake ftp server, in the update/6.1 dir there are netscape-com...rpms with 0 byte size. Where can I find the netscape 4.75 rpms for mandrake ? -- This mail was sent to you by using 100% pure Java technology.

[newbie] Where is my LAN?

2000-09-19 Thread Jim Chiang
How do I find my LAN? I have a LAN with an NT server, and a couple W98, Win2K clients. Where are they? Can I access the shared directories from Linux?? Jim

RE: [newbie] Internet server

2000-09-19 Thread Jim Chiang
If that's all you want to do than my recommendation is to use a LRP disk instead. Try www.coyote-linux.com I got it installed fine on a 486/33 w/8MB. The latest release includes support for dial-up and PPPoE connections. Fully automated. Problem? Juts reboot and walk away. I'm uisng PPPoE, haven't

[newbie] Sendmail and Graphical Clients

2000-09-19 Thread Eduardo Arauz
If i can use my sendmail server from the machine it is installed and it sends and recieve mail perfectly but when i try to connect to my server from any client... it sends me an connection error my POP3 is running well and the connection between the server and the network is fine too

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-19 Thread Joan Tur
John Rye escribió: > In simple terms - yes. But the windows installation for some > strange archaiac and magical reason closely related to monotonic > gatesism > dictates that windows _MUST_ be on the first hard disk. Ejem... only windows' boot has to be in the first hard disk; i've windows9

[newbie] bz2 help!

2000-09-19 Thread Philip Ferguson
Hello. For some reason, my last e-mail didn't go through. If it is going through and just a little slow, then I appologize for sending 2. Anyway, can someone please tell me how to unzip files with a bz2 extension? Thanks, Phil

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-19 Thread Steve Maytum
Chris , If you know how to install second hard drive and load operating system you should have no problem. You will need to use some kind of boot management (lilo perhaps?) and all should be well - Original Message - From: Kelly, Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Newbie' <[EMAIL PROTEC

[newbie] bz2 files

2000-09-19 Thread Philip Ferguson
Hello. I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. What is the differnece between files with a .gz extension and files with a .bz2 extension? How can I extract a file with a .bz2 extension? Thanks, Phil _ Get You

RE: [newbie] Win2K dual boot?

2000-09-19 Thread Romanator
Login as root, and open the Grub folder. Open the file name menu.1st Add two more '0's to the lined referring to booting up or time out. By default, it should have 50. If you see 3, or 30, change it to 500. The higher the number, the longer it takes for it to reach zero when it times out. Now, co

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-19 Thread Austin L. Denyer
> Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add > another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot > between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? You CAN dual-boot between two different hard drives. However, Windoze expec

RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird & ka7-100]

2000-09-19 Thread Romanator
Argh... Duh, is there free technical support? Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird & ka7-100] My Gawd man! what'll th

Re: [newbie] partition plan -- workable?

2000-09-19 Thread Adrian Smith
yup, that is what i was thinking about. thanks for filling in the blanks. as to mixing fat & linux who knows. i'll find out by trying it. =) if anything goes wrong i still have my current hard drive with win/linux installed & working. all i have to do is swap 'em out & my system is back

Re: [newbie] partition plan -- workable?

2000-09-19 Thread Adrian Smith
>Of course, the biggest problem with these new big drives (I see that >Hitachi are selling 72Gb drives on buy.com for $146, and I've seen 80Gb >(I think Maxtor)) is that although one can buy the drives cheaply >enough, how the heck does one back them up economically? Look at the >prices of tape s

[newbie] multiple dislpays

2000-09-19 Thread Jim Chiang
I would like to install 2 video cards in my MDK7.1 system. I have a Diamond Fire GL 1000 AGP and an ATI Expert98 PCI. Bath are 8 MB cards. Anyone know if I can get this to work and will it be very difficult? I currently the system set up with an ATI Exert@Play AGP. How should I proceed? My plan wa

Re: [newbie] partition plan -- workable?

2000-09-19 Thread Austin L. Denyer
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote: > > >Of course, the biggest problem with these new big drives (I see that > >Hitachi are selling 72Gb drives on buy.com for $146, and I've seen 80Gb > >(I think Maxtor)) is that although one can buy the drives cheaply > >enough, how the heck does on

RE: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-19 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I think that I would choose option 1 over option 2, definately! Thanks, Tom. Now, that i know that I can do it, how is the question. I've never done this before. Any good documentation laying around? Any suggestions?? -Original Message- From: Thomas Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
John Rye wrote: > > A&L wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not > > recognised by it. I have tried all the nearest settings available > > offered by printool to no avail. > > > > Any help greatly appreciated > > > > Thanks! > > As I recall, t

Re: [newbie] was blank - Adobe Acrobat

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
"D.E.Sofiane TEBBOUNE" wrote: > > Dear Sir/Madam, > I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am > encountring with Mandrake Linux 7.1. I am, obviously, a profane in Linux, > however I am becoming absolutely mad about it. I installed Mandrake Linux > 7.1, then I tried t

Re: [newbie]

2000-09-19 Thread Larry Marshall
> Adobe's site. While installing Acrobat Reader, I had an error saying: cannot > create /usr/local/acrobat4/bin ... I wonder why it is not possible to > install it. Most likely you are not "root" when you're trying to do this. You need to be to have permission to write anything into /user/.

Re: [newbie] was blank - Adobe Acrobat

2000-09-19 Thread John Rye
"D.E.Sofiane TEBBOUNE" wrote: > > Dear Sir/Madam, > I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am > encountring with Mandrake Linux 7.1. I am, obviously, a profane in Linux, > however I am becoming absolutely mad about it. I installed Mandrake Linux > 7.1, then I tried t

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