Re: [newbie]ethernet card setup

2000-10-03 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
yeah use pnpdump with ISAPNPtools. you probably need to set the cards io/irq to something usable by the driver module. PatMc wrote: > > > > > Dear Anyone, This is going to be long so please excuse. I have been > > >working on this for 3 months.I reinstalled Linux for the 3rd time yesterda

[newbie] Some Emails Returned

2000-10-03 Thread Michael R.
Is anybody else having trouble sending emails to persons using AOL? I recently reinstalled Mandrake 7.1 after two months with very little trouble.Emails sent to AOL addresses get returned with the following message: " This is the Postfix program at host localhost.localdomain. I'm sorry to h

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-03 Thread Paul
It was Oct 3, 2000, 22:51, when Dennis Myers keyboarded: People at Seti@home state you should only use the programs they provide... Paul >Need some help from the list from users of Setiathome. I am trying to >start in a new file and use the -nice 19 command and also the -verbose. >I get all th

[newbie] 7.1 Install CD??

2000-10-03 Thread Joe Brault
Hello all,       I have a question about burning a CD of linux mandrake 7.1...  I have downloaded from the mandrake website the image needed to install mandrake (649mb)  And now I'm unsure of what to do.  I would like to burn a CD that I can use to install LM on my machine.  Is it possible t

[newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-03 Thread Dennis Myers
Need some help from the list from users of Setiathome. I am trying to start in a new file and use the -nice 19 command and also the -verbose. I get all the way to the point where it asks where my computer is located and I enter "3" for home(without the quotes of course) and I get a core dump says

[newbie] Which Iso image

2000-10-03 Thread Chris L. Jeffers
I downloaded both the 7.1 image and the current image. Which one should I use? They both have the same number of files but the current image is bigger.  

Re: [newbie] S3 Stealth III s540 support

2000-10-03 Thread PatMc
Terrel Woolbright wrote: > I am using a Stealth III S540 32 Mb Card in Mandrake 7.1 The board was > detected during setup. It works fine. > > Terrel Woolbright > - Original Message - > From: "Aaron Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 200

Re: [newbie] re read and write rights

2000-10-03 Thread Kevin Scott
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need too change the permissions on an entire directory tree. [eg /public] what is >the easiest way to do this. I wish to give everybody rights to a certain folder and >all the contents inside. try this chmod -R a+wrx /public the -R tells it t

Re: [newbie] soundcore module

2000-10-03 Thread Jose Noel Del Papa
Ok, thank - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] soundcore module > type soundconfig in the console >

Re: [newbie]ethernet card setup

2000-10-03 Thread PatMc
gene wrote: > > Dear Anyone, This is going to be long so please excuse. I have been > >working on this for 3 months.I reinstalled Linux for the 3rd time yesterday. > >Going better now except for ethernet card setup and sound. I will send > >another email about the sound later. Right now ethe

Re: [newbie] Make file/directory hidden

2000-10-03 Thread Kevin Scott
In Linux a file or directory preceeded by a . is hidden ( more or less). for example if I create a directory in roots home dir called .stuff it will not show up in a normal ls. If you us ls -al it will and ofcourse mc will see it too. However if you mount a drive over top of the directory it will

Re: [newbie] Setting up a cable modem

2000-10-03 Thread Eunice Thompson
get out of X and as root type: netconf this should take you to the text mode of network configuration. you'll have to enter everything in manually, but this should work. Roger Sherman wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:20:13 -0400, you wrote: > > >try as superuser > >ifup ethx where x is 0, 1, 2,

Re: [newbie] Samba Assistance

2000-10-03 Thread Kevin Scott
You need to look at/edit the /etc/smb.conf file on the linux box. If you make a change you will need to re-start the daemon's. (/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart or stop and then start). One thing to watch for is encrypted passwords. Window likes them. There is some help in /usr/doc/samba-?. Kevin

RE: [newbie] umount -o loop or what?

2000-10-03 Thread Kevin Scott
Your not in the directory are you? If you are in it you will get a message that it is in use or busy. Kevin On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Vic wrote: > Yeah I typed umount not un-mount and it still does not > want to let go---oh boy > > On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Bradley D. Thornton wrote: > > umount, not unmou

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread ehines
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: > This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact > that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, ??Have I just been lucky? In the past 2 years I've installed 6 different distros on 3 different systems with WD

Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.1

2000-10-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Neal Wilkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 7:33 PM Subject: [newbie] Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.1 > I'm having difficulty getting the Linksys LNE100TX version 4.1 working with > Mandrake 7.1. I'm new to Li

Re: [newbie] Setting up a cable modem

2000-10-03 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:20:13 -0400, you wrote: >try as superuser >ifup ethx where x is 0, 1, 2, etc OK, when I type in the above (exactly as written) this is what I get: usage" ifup >or go into DrakConf and do a network config you might have to pick out your >module try 3com 59x or somethi

Re: [newbie] Setting up a cable modem

2000-10-03 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 19:44:56 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >When you run 'ifconfig' does it show up as eth0 or something like that? If >not you might try using netcfg to setup the networking to know about the >ethernet card and your connections settings. OK, what I get is this: lo Link encap:Loc

Re: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
doesn't your cursor turn into a little clock when something is working? You know...like the cursor on a Mac does. -- Mark ~~~ ...someone once asked Annie Sullivan what she saw in a man she was considering as perspective suiter who had a terrible case of acne. Annie was reported to have replied,

Re: [newbie] PPP (Patch Program Please)

2000-10-03 Thread Larry Marshall
> Can someone help me locate the #()*)@ Patch program? I realize I'm a > newbie, and niavely thought that if the install program installes the > patch-install script located in /usr/src/Linux/scripts, that it would also > install the related patch program, presumably in /usr/bin. Are you sur

RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Actually no, it runs great! Also, it's only the word processor that's running on wine, everything else in the suite has been ported. Mike >In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge - >especially a full blown productivity app...

Re: [newbie] PPP (Patch Program Please)

2000-10-03 Thread Larry Marshall
> Can someone help me locate the #()*)@ Patch program? I realize I'm a > newbie, and niavely thought that if the install program installes the > patch-install script located in /usr/src/Linux/scripts, that it would also > install the related patch program, presumably in /usr/bin. > > I've

Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.1

2000-10-03 Thread Joe Brault
Neal, Hi Neal, I too had problems with this network card in my computer. However, I was unable to get it to work no matter what I tried. I went to a generic ne2000 card, which was recognized automatically by lothar, and have had no problems whatsoever with it. Sorry I can offer no advice on

[newbie] Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.1

2000-10-03 Thread Neal Wilkinson
I'm having difficulty getting the Linksys LNE100TX version 4.1 working with Mandrake 7.1. I'm new to Linux and am having a hard time understanding how to configure it. I've tried several things at the suggestion of some folks on dslreports with not a lot of luck. I'm trying to find out which drive

[newbie] generic scsi device in /dev?

2000-10-03 Thread bascule
the following is a quote from the readme file for grip 2-94 : a cdripper and mp3 encoder prog which use cdparanoia, 'Secondly, cdparanoia requires access to both the cd device and (for scsi drives) the generic scsi device (usually /dev/sg)' this explains the problem that i have been having getti

[newbie] NT Networking with SAMBA

2000-10-03 Thread Rick Bonczek
I need to tie my Linux workstation to the rest of the NT network. I went to install the SAMBA RPM for server, and client. The installation stopped, and said that this RPN was already installed. Where do I execute this so I could connect to the NT Domain? Thanks in advance… Rick Bonczek System

RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread Rick Commo
One on-line commenter had an interesting speculation that goes something like this. With Sun taking StarOffice open source next week Microsoft will be under the gun. Since Microsoft certainly doesn't want Office to be open source it invests in Corel. Then Office can be close source while WordPer

[newbie] PPP (Patch Program Please)

2000-10-03 Thread Wignall, Mark T
Can someone help me locate the #()*)@ Patch program? I realize I'm a newbie, and niavely thought that if the install program installes the patch-install script located in /usr/src/Linux/scripts, that it would also install the related patch program, presumably in /usr/bin. I've did an install 3 t

RE: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread Hugo GONZALEZ
I had the same problem. My box is a PIII500 and 128Mb ram. I was using gnome and enlightenment on top. Some apps had a delay time before popping up. I created a "guest" account and the apps ran fairly well. So I came to the thinking that somewhere, someday, somehow I moved something in the sett

Re: [newbie] Running Setiathome

2000-10-03 Thread Trevor Reynolds
Dan, You may want to use a GUI on top of Seti go to: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/links.html#links_unix and you'll find some nice accessories. Good luck Trevor - Original Message - From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 20

Re: [newbie] Getting apache back to default?

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Uninstalling Apache might not be a bad idea depending on just how misconfigured it is at the moment. You may find though that uninstalling and reinstalling would be easier if you were to use kpackage though. Much easier to use in my experience. You would first want to uninstall Apache using kapck

Re: [newbie] hacker or cracker was: Telneting

2000-10-03 Thread Aaron Zuercher
I believe you can put quotes around the directory so in this case it would be: cd /mnt/windows/"Program Files" Aaron At 07:10 AM 10/2/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Have you tried this one yet? > > cd /mnt/windows/progra~1 > (progra~1) is what you will need to get the

Re: [newbie] opengl [repost]

2000-10-03 Thread Aaron Zuercher
Paul - I'm not an expert but I think Mesa is a 3D interface for running OpenGL software/hardware. I'm not sure if your video card will support OpenGL. I know many newer 3D accelerators do (3DFX Voodoo, nVidia TNT2/GEforce, Matrox G400, etc). I would check out Mesa and see if it supports your

Re: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread markOpoleO
I noticed when i had 128megs of ram Mandrake 7.0 Set default SWAP file to 128, and when i installed MD7.1 with 256ram it made Default 256. That was mine indictionbesides reading it places. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Austin L. Denyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [newbie] What is w3m?

2000-10-03 Thread Paul
It was Oct 3, 2000, 15:52, when Paul R keyboarded: >I may be mistaken, but I believe Lynx and Links are actually two >different simmilar programs (terminal or console based html viewers). >Links having been developed after Lynx. Ah... could be... I only know lynx. One never learns everything!

Re: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread Doug McGarrett
At 11:28 AM 10/03/2000 -0400, someone wrote: > hard drive light is a big indicator It's not much of an indicator if your computer is on the floor, as mine is. I agree, some kind of wait indication would help, but better optimization would help a whole lot more! >In a message dated 03-Oct-00

Re: [newbie] Choosing different desktops

2000-10-03 Thread Paul
It was Oct 3, 2000, 14:24, when [EMAIL PROTECTED] keyboarded: Hello Marcia, If you want to use XFCE as only window manager (as I do :), you can write your ~/.xinitrc like this: #!/bin/sh # # xinitrc file for XFce 3 startxfce script # Some distro needs to allows even localhost to use the displa

Re: [newbie]ethernet card setup

2000-10-03 Thread gene
> Dear Anyone, This is going to be long so please excuse. I have been >working on this for 3 months.I reinstalled Linux for the 3rd time yesterday. >Going better now except for ethernet card setup and sound. I will send >another email about the sound later. Right now ethernet setup is the mos

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Awwwh...come on Ozz...don't be like that. Share! Mark "Austin L. Denyer" wrote: > > > > > The only use I found for self modifying code was speed. example in basic: > > > > do > > a=key > > if a=27 then beep:end > > If a=64 then beep:beep:end > > if a=65 then beep:beep:beep:end > > loop > >

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mark Weaver wrote: > > This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact > that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you > boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? > > I've willing to bet though that what you're exp

Re: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread Austin L. Denyer
> I read MANY places, including the manual with Mandrake that you should set > SWAP file to the ammount of ram on your system. SInce you got 128 ram you > should have it set to 128. Not sure if that is the problem. But apps load > fine for me and i got 256 ram with swap set to 256 Interesti

RE: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Johnson
This would work except that I'm either logged in remotely via Exceed or the physical machine is not immediately visible for me to glance at the hard drive light... thanks anyway... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:29

[Fwd: [newbie] Supermount & 2.2.16-9mdk]

2000-10-03 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo again! Maybe the /var/log/boot.log helps?? Here it is: Oct3 19:02:55 QuiniPC mandrake_everytime: Disabling Supermount succeeded And the system changes "supermount" in /etc/fstab for "iso9660" or "vfat" (CDs/floppy/zip)... Does that help? Thanks!! 8-) Joan Tur escribió: > Hallo ag

RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Johnson
In my mind, it seems like running something in wine is a bit of a kludge - especially a full blown productivity app... -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails ou

Re: [newbie] Choosing different desktops

2000-10-03 Thread Adrian Smith
hi Marcia -- so are you saying that when you get the graphical login box your only choices there are KDE & Gnome?? i ask as you could be trying to change by going in the menu once KDE or Gnome is running & trying to chance it there. my first question would be did you do a full install? if yo

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-03 Thread Austin L. Denyer
> > I was doing work on an IBM System/3 in those days, as well as on > an old Burrought B-7700. The Burroughs could only be fed through punched > cards (always racing to get the optical reader which was 40 times faster > than the mechanical one! ;-) for the average user, there were no keyboard > t

[newbie] Re: OT assembler [was Antique systems]

2000-10-03 Thread Austin L. Denyer
> Holy hanna Ozz! come on man! talk more assembler to me! maybe I'm sick, > but I really like that language. First of all, it is only fair to say that it is a LOONG time since I last used assembler. Like, 13 years ago... Secondly, I feel that if we continue this assembler thread (which I'm

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-03 Thread Austin L. Denyer
> > The only use I found for self modifying code was speed. example in basic: > > do > a=key > if a=27 then beep:end > If a=64 then beep:beep:end > if a=65 then beep:beep:beep:end > loop > > change to: > > 11 change_next_line_to "goto "+key+1 > goto 11 > 28 beep:end > 65 beep:end > 66 beep:end > >

Re: [newbie] "error loading ramdisk" problem during install

2000-10-03 Thread Lee Shelp
Since I downloaded the iso file I don't know where the corruption was. The iso file is just one big file. Once I downloaded right it installed great. It found my ATI card, the sound card (which 7.0 didn't find), my D-Link network card and my ZIP250. It did not have to reboot once until it was fini

Re: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread Mwinold
hard drive light is a big indicator In a message dated 03-Oct-00 10:05:47 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << It takes so long for these apps to startup, I wish that there was a "wait" cursor to let me know that I did successfully start the application and then I can go a

Re: [newbie] soundcore module

2000-10-03 Thread Mwinold
type soundconfig in the console

Re: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread Larry Marshall
> Do I need to adjust something or does it just take a long time for > applications to startup using a window manager (KDE/GNOME). I've got my > swap set for 256MB. I figured I have a pretty strong machine (PII400/128MB) Your machine is definitely not at fault. > Also, is this just a bad ha

Re: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread markOpoleO
I read MANY places, including the manual with Mandrake that you should set SWAP file to the ammount of ram on your system. SInce you got 128 ram you should have it set to 128. Not sure if that is the problem. But apps load fine for me and i got 256 ram with swap set to 256 markOpoleO - O

[newbie] Choosing different desktops

2000-10-03 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Anyone, As was suggested I did reinstall Linux Mandrake 7 because I could never get the graphical login to comeup. Now I have it! I am thrilled. However, I cannot figure out how to get into the other window desktops such as xfce, enlightenment, etc. The choice is there but I can only get i

Re: [newbie] re read and write rights

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Mike, You can do that like this: chmod ### -Rf dirname Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need too change the permissions on an entire directory tree. [eg /public] what is >the easiest way to do this. I wish to give everybody rights to a certain folder and >all the content

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
I don't care what anyone says...Assembler is just plain awesome! Mark Vic wrote: > > I remember assembler code for the old Z80, > well I don't remember all the codes but I remember > a few of the nemonnics, like DJNZ and NOP. > > I could make a lot of neat little programs > with it, like a bur

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Adam, I like yours possibility better than mine...that's for sure. Mark Adam wrote: > > I wouldn't know if its your hard drives, but I have 2-10.2 WD hard > drives and linux installed like a dream, except in 7.2 beta1 (where it kept > crashing while trying to format the hard drive) > I

RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread Larry Marshall
> hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as linux > goes. There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own distribution > of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux. I can't > believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux

Re: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread Mwinold
as far as corel linux, from everything i have heard in the linux community its not that big of a loss, and if microshaft ports a linux distro which i doughbt given bill gates quote of linux that its just a fad and is not a stable or reliable system (he obviously downloaded the wrong linux distr

Re: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread Mwinold
.deep in the far reaches of the Gates islands in the large gates mansion runs an interesting peculiarity. as we hear the clacking away at key strokes we come across the horid creature of the gates and on his monitor a large penguin is dancing away, as the behimith screaches LINUX ROCKS!

[newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Johnson
Do I need to adjust something or does it just take a long time for applications to startup using a window manager (KDE/GNOME). I've got my swap set for 256MB. I figured I have a pretty strong machine (PII400/128MB) but linux is just dogging it. I was thinking about getting a second machine somew

[newbie] soundcore module

2000-10-03 Thread Jose Noel Del Papa
I'm trying to configure my sound card (YMF-724) and in the Readme File says: 1.- You must turn on sound support (soundcore module). How I turn on the sound support? Where this soundcore module? Please, I need your help. I don't know the Linux well Thank Noel

Re: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread markOpoleO
There is a company in St.Louis that made some sort of Database Software for Linux to manage there ENTIRE database for there manufacturing plant, and they made it opensource of course and he mentioned in article after it was put up for download it was downloaded 10 times from someone at Microsoft.

Re: [newbie] .bin files

2000-10-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Pat McCauley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:11 AM Subject: [newbie] .bin files > I just downloaded Star Office 5.2 and it came in one .bin file. How do I > install, run, or decompress this? > It is an automati

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-03 Thread Vic
I remember assembler code for the old Z80, well I don't remember all the codes but I remember a few of the nemonnics, like DJNZ and NOP. I could make a lot of neat little programs with it, like a burglar alarm and telephone answering voice mail system control box, as well as have it control a cen

Re: [newbie] OT : Best place for cheap network cards...

2000-10-03 Thread Vic
I would try http://www.jdr.com and ask for a catalogue. Unless someone else knows of a cheaper company. Hope this helps On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Clif Caldwell wrote: > I realize I'm imposing on this list but I desparately need to obtain about 3 > cheap Linux friendly network cards to share my home

Re: [newbie] Re: changing cursor shapes in X

2000-10-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Jeff Malka wrote: > > After much searching I discovered that if in a console I type: > > xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -fg cyan -bg white & > > I will get a cyan colored left pointing arrow. > > BUT, this setting dissappears after I logout and then back in when the X > cursor returns. > > If

Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

2000-10-03 Thread Austin L. Denyer
> I know z80 asm. I need my reference chart of course, but I have writen > programs. > > Anyone here managed to get windows 95 to run on an amstrad with a z80 and > 64k ram? I have. I had to rewrite the gui part so it would run. There were > no drives, but it did have a working start menu. It us

[newbie] re read and write rights

2000-10-03 Thread freeman
I need too change the permissions on an entire directory tree. [eg /public] what is the easiest way to do this. I wish to give everybody rights to a certain folder and all the contents inside. Is it possible to keep the rights above set to even thing created afterwards? [ie user1 creates a f

RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Johnson
hmm, maybe i'm just naive but so what if MS bails out Corel as far as linux goes. There is/was nothing stopping MS from creating their own distribution of linux nor stopping them from building applications for Linux. I can't believe that there aren't any MS programmers running linux at home (or

[newbie] .bin files

2000-10-03 Thread Pat McCauley
I just downloaded Star Office 5.2 and it came in one .bin file. How do I install, run, or decompress this? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Adam
I wouldn't know if its your hard drives, but I have 2-10.2 WD hard drives and linux installed like a dream, except in 7.2 beta1 (where it kept crashing while trying to format the hard drive) I've noticed that with a few people that I've helped out that have gotten Signal 11, it's been a pr

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Larry Marshall
> This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact > that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you > boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? Ssshhdon't tell my WD153 that Linux doesn't like it. So far neit

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Holy hanna Ozz! come on man! talk more assembler to me! maybe I'm sick, but I really like that language. -- Mark ~~~ ...someone once asked Annie Sullivan what she saw in a man she was considering as perspective suiter who had a terrible case of acne. Annie was reported to have replied, "His face

RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Yeah...really. they should stick to makeing office suites. -- Mark ~~~ ...someone once asked Annie Sullivan what she saw in a man she was considering as perspective suiter who had a terrible case of acne. Annie was reported to have replied, "His face is an easy read!" On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 2:44pm

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Mark Weaver
This may be a mute point, since it's been a fairly well established fact that Linux and Western Digital drives don't like one another, but did you boot the CD to start the install, or did you start from a boot floppy? I've willing to bet though that what you're experiencing is that when Linux sa

RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread Larry Marshall
> Well, we all should go down and buy their products. I'm thinking about buying > the wordperfect suite. The one thing I wouldnt buy from them is Corel Linux. No thanks. If they'd actually ported their suite to Linux I'd be the first in line but I don't need Franken-Windows applications ru

RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-03 Thread Larry Marshall
> turns StarOffice into something decent. Wordperfect was buggy, like all > commercial software. They should have made it opensource. A shame RedHat > couldn't buy Corel. They do have some useful software I'd like to see > opensourced. What would you do with it? Large chunks of Word Perfect

[newbie] Samba Assistance - Update

2000-10-03 Thread Michael Corbin
All, Thanks for the assistance. I found the SWAT program and with some of the text changes to the smb.conf file. All is working well - now. Will have to figure out the NT domain integration stuff later. For now I have the "sample" the programmers were after. And a day to spare! Thanks to e

[newbie] Some questions regarding 7.2

2000-10-03 Thread George Labuschagne
Hi I have some questions regarding LM7.2 1. When is it coming out? 2. Will it have native support for the Geforce2 chipset?, This is my main reason for not using LM7.1 at the moment due to the fact that I have never used any linux before. I read some posts with people having problems with the ge

Re: [newbie] Running Setiathome

2000-10-03 Thread Dan
If you want to run it in text mode you can add the verbose option. Just add -verbose at it will show lots of detail and once in a while the percentage done. If you let it run all the time it will try to connect to the internet and get a new work unit. I think it checks every hour for a network