Re: Fw: [newbie-it] Upgrade kernel 2.4.0 test 9-patch

2000-10-17 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:51:18PM +0200, ENx wrote: Grazie mille Fabio, ho trovato la patch giusta, ma come faccio ad applicarla??? ENx Dunque, per prima cosa scompatti i sorgenti dal tar.gz originale, qualcosa del tipo tar xvfz linux-2.4.0-pre9.tar.gz (se compattato gzip) oppure tar

[newbie-it] impostazioni kde: accelerazione mouse e editor predefinito

2000-10-17 Thread Casa
Ciao. Dopo aver installato staroffice(stress) ho un problema: i file di testo prima bastava cliccarci sopra e venivano aperti con text editor. Ora invece vengono aperti con staroffice, che pero' e' pesantissimo e ci vuole una vita perche' parta. Come si fa e reimpostare text editor come

[newbie-it] unsubscribe

2000-10-17 Thread Pierpaolo Cofano

[newbie-it] linux e ultra ata 100

2000-10-17 Thread Gigi Cyber
Ciao a tutti! Ho acquistato un pc così configurato: Duron 600 Mb Asus a7v 64Mb ram Riva Tnt 2 ho provato subito ad installarvi la mandrake 7.1, ma l'installazione si interrompe perchè non viene trovato nessun supporto su cui creare il filesystem cioè l'hard disk che è, dimenticavo, un samsung 20

R: [newbie-it] linux e ultra ata 100

2000-10-17 Thread Lookdown
La controller è integrata, vero? Conosco diversa gente a cui ha dato dei problemi, alcuni non riuscivano a istallare neanche windows. - Original Message - From: Gigi Cyber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 4:11 PM Subject: [newbie-it] linux e ultra

[newbie-it] icon editor

2000-10-17 Thread Floods
Qualcuno si ricorda in quale pacchetto si trova l'icon editor? Grazie -- Davide Cavallarie-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie-it] Come si installa Grub?

2000-10-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao a tutti, la reinstallazione di winzoz mi ha sovrascritto l'mbr cancellandomi grub come si fa per reinstallarlo(dopo aver caricato linux con il disco di avvio,ovviamente)? So come si fa per LILO, ma io voglio GRUB :-(). Ciao e grazie!

Re: [newbie-it] linux e ultra ata 100

2000-10-17 Thread Alessandro
Secondo voi si tratta del controller promise u-ata 100? Se ti puo' aiutare: io so solo che il supporto per l'ultraATA100 era in sperimentazione alcuni mesi fa. non so se gia' nella Mandrake 7.1 sia stato implementato (anche se mi pare che cosi' non sia perche' io faccio sempre

Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI

2000-10-17 Thread paksdm
On 14 Oct 2000, at 9:51, Romanator wrote: Hi Larry, When I registered, I had a response within 48 hours. That's not bad considering the hundreds of emails they must receive from around the world. I don't know if any one out there has ever worked in a technical support environment. I'm

[newbie] WOW, Mozilla M18

2000-10-17 Thread Jon Doe
Is it just me or has there been major improvment from M11 to M18. On my box anyhow M18 screams! As fast if not faster than netscape 4.75 and much faster than Opera so far. But why oh why did they change the GUI to look more like netscape I actually liked the M17 GUI. Anyone think I'm nuts

Re: [newbie] large hard disk

2000-10-17 Thread Larry Marshall
That is why Linux-Mandrake developed GRUB, it does not have the problem with 1024 cylinders Uhm...Linux-Mandrake didn't develop GRUB...it's a GNU program. Current versions of LILO don't care abut 1024 cylinders either. All this presumes that the BIOS is recent enough to deal with large

Re: [newbie] large hard disk

2000-10-17 Thread GAPrichard
Joe, See all of my earlier discussions on "shim" programs. A lot in the last month, for some reason. Use shim programs ONLY if you MUST. Being that you say your motherboard is only two years old I would expect it to support LBA drives; are you ABSOLUTELY sure that you have to use the

[Re: [newbie] Cant See My Apache]

2000-10-17 Thread Altoine Barker
You are right. I ran apache manually. Now, I can see my server again. But that explains my second problem which turns out to effect and cause my first: I can't save my changes in the "StartUp Services" in "DrakConf" when I click on httpd, mysql, ipchains, and etc. Is there a way to avoid using

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 S3 Trio 3D

2000-10-17 Thread Iagoba
Hello again I was trying to Install Mandrake 7.1 in my job's computer, (I wanted show the Linux excelences to my boss), and I ever got the same problem, when I'm configuring the X Server, when I try to test the resolution mode the instalation crash! the window appears black and never

[newbie] Lib's of 7.2 Beta

2000-10-17 Thread Burak Acar
Hi, I have recently downloaded Mandrake 7.2 beta version, which I really need to run my GeForce2 GTS video card properly. Installation was OK. However, I need to run matlab (5.3) and it requires 'libdl.so.1' library. But 7.2 has a newer version and I cannot install libdl.so.1 on top of a newer

Re: [newbie] transfering dirs/files

2000-10-17 Thread Michael Lueck
I wrote a Rexx script as part of the Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) systems I develop which uses the SysFileTree API to build a list of files and dirs for both the from and to, and notes differences by copying the file from the from to the to. Pretty quick and easy, built a hash table to

[newbie] cmi8338 sound card

2000-10-17 Thread Michael Dolan
has anyone got this sound card to work in linux?? i have tried two different ways the first way was i got 2.2.17 kernel turned off the code maturity level so i could compile the driver( as the cmi8338 driver is still experimental) compiled the kernel, everthing went fine no errors or anything,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 S3 Trio 3D

2000-10-17 Thread stephen
have you tried standard video setup there could be a problem with your cards chip set ok stephen - Original Message - From: "Iagoba" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Listas-Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 5:42 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 S3 Trio 3D Hello

[newbie] Macro Changes

2000-10-17 Thread SoloCDM
When I used RedHat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36 I had the follow hacks in my macro file for creating sendmail.cf. When I upgraded to Mandrake 7.0, kernel 2.2.14-15, and Sendmail 8.9.3-18 I wasn't able to use the following hacks. What has replaced the hacks or are any of them still used?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 S3 Trio 3D

2000-10-17 Thread Iagoba
I tried with standard SVGA and got the same result, I'll try standard VGA, perhaps that could be works don't you think? stephen wrote: have you tried standard video setup there could be a problem with your cards chip set ok stephen - Original Message - From: "Iagoba" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] transfering dirs/files

2000-10-17 Thread KompuKit
well...it worked for awhile...but stopped after an error it said delayed error found...or something like that... does TAR have a limit of how many files it will tar? or will it tar as many as you want? Greg Stewart wrote: What was you tar syntax? Did you tar a directory from just above it? If

Re: [newbie] Lib's of 7.2 Beta

2000-10-17 Thread Dennis Veatch
Burak Acar wrote: Hi, I have recently downloaded Mandrake 7.2 beta version, which I really need to run my GeForce2 GTS video card properly. Installation was OK. However, I need to run matlab (5.3) and it requires 'libdl.so.1' library. But 7.2 has a newer version and I cannot install

[newbie] Problems with wheel mouse

2000-10-17 Thread AF1
I've installed LM 7.1 and everything works fine except my mouse! Instead a pointer I only see a white square :-(( What can I do? My mouse as two buttons and a wheel (Intellimouse compatible). I've tried change the type of the mouse in Drakconf but it don't change! Some help, please! AF

Re: [newbie] ? Arkeia backup utility

2000-10-17 Thread ai4a
Larry Marshall wrote: On disk 5 of my mandrake deluxe package there is a program named Arkeia backup utility. I looked on Arkeia's web pages and it appeared as if this utility will backup to tapes only. Is that correct? Or have I missed read the info about Arkeia. I wish to backup to a

Re: [newbie] linux isp

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Ummm...that pretty much depends upon where you live. And, this thing about "Linux Friendly" ISP's is a misnomer. Since the ISP, except for AOsmeLl don't care what OS you're running, there really isn't any such thing as a Linux friendly ISP. When you sign up with an ISP for service you normally

RE: [newbie] ANSI C++ library

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Johnson
Just FYI (under mandrake 7.1) , I found iostream.h under: /usr/include/g++-3/iostream.h The various C++ stuff /usr/doc/libstdc++-devel-2.95.2 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.3/libstdc++.so /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.3/libstdc++.a

[newbie] Samba Problem

2000-10-17 Thread Rick Cawood
I can access my shares with smbclient so Samba must be working, but when i try to get inwith Win98 my password isnt accepted. Anyone have any idea whats going on and how to remedy it? Thanks Richard CawoodICQ. 841290http://www.teampicard.co.uk/http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

[newbie] Re:Mandrake 7.1 S3 Trio 3D

2000-10-17 Thread Iagoba
Well, I could configure X Windows Server to run in VGA16 mode, but I'm wonderful that I couldn't configure it for more resolution, now I got it in 640x480x16, and the card allows more, if someone got a similar PC configuration, could send it xFree86 conf. to me? my configuration is...

[newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-17 Thread Vinayak Pai
hi all, thnaks for your help I am an Oracle DBA and so far have worked only on WindowsNT. Now i am trying to install Oracle8i (8.1.6) on Linux. I have got Linux Mandrake version 7.1 installed on a intel system. 300 MHz 64MB RAM The oracle Documentaion asks to create 4 mountpoints. One for the

[newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake.

2000-10-17 Thread Cobra176
ok, ok, ok So 500 MB wasn't enough partition space to make a properly working Linux Mandrake without eventually crashing. I learn from these things. [: As I result, I'm trying to uninstall the linux partition and put all back to the original state. I want to get rid of the LILO boot and

RE: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake.

2000-10-17 Thread Sparks, Charley
boot from a DOS disk, perform an fdisk /mbr and you will be back to square 1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake. ok, ok, ok So 500 MB

Re: [newbie] Lib's of 7.2 Beta

2000-10-17 Thread Burak Acar
Yes it did, Linux 7.2 Beta is (at least so far) just fine for GeForce2 GTS cards. It detects it. Burak Sorry I am not answering your question but actually asking you one, hope this is fine ;~) I also have a GTS card and could not get LM7.1 installed to work, I am very new to Linux and

Re: [newbie] WOW, Mozilla M18

2000-10-17 Thread Jon Doe
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: The earliest version I tested was M17 and M18 is definitely better than M17 so I would assume it's also better than M11 Oops, I meant M17 not M11 Hmm..in my experience it seems (mostly) as fast as NS 4.73 but definitely not as fast as Opera. maybe its

[newbie] Error installing Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Duval, Dominique
During the install when it prompts me wether this is an install or and upgrade I get an error that no partitions could be found. How can I create partitions? I get this error very early during the setup (before I get into the graphical installer Only the insane have strength enough to

Re: [newbie] Help With MBR

2000-10-17 Thread GAPrichard
Jim, I hope you don't mind if I put my response to your message to me [which is copied below] on the newbie list. Many people are having problems with the same things you are. This response is a natural followup to several things I've written about, ususally under the topic "[newbie]

[newbie] Screen shots?

2000-10-17 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Anybody have any Mozilla screen shots? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775

RE: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake.

2000-10-17 Thread Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG
I just found "Peanut" Linux installation that claims to need less than 200MB for install. Maybe it's not too late to keep Linux. The readme file says there's an option to overwrite larger installations. Does anyone have experience with Peanut? It looks like just what I've been looking for to

RE: [newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-17 Thread Wignall, Mark T
The mount points are in support of Oracle's OFA, and not a requirement. You can have just a single mount point if you like. In my case I've just created a single mount point of /db ... in fact my first installation just did a mkdir off of root for /db. I've since changed to a whole new drive

[newbie] Deaktop Security for Linux

2000-10-17 Thread Dan LaBine
To the newbie group! I am the Network administrator for a municipal government. Currently, we are in the process of performing a rollout in our Public Library, in preparation for an automation system due in the spring. In the process, we are attempting to replace Windows 98 SE with

[newbie] PPP Errors

2000-10-17 Thread Richard Davies
HI everyone, I have just had to move due to work from Mandrake 7.0 to SuSE 7.0. Ever since this move I have not been able to dial out and connect as user but can dial and connect to the net as root. I presume that this is because I have done something stupid here and I don't know what. Any

[newbie] network problems

2000-10-17 Thread Alex Haun
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on my system. At first, I installed over 7.0 to keep all of my preferences and such, but because of a recurring problem with the theme manager not changing the colors in the panel and in windows (whereas in root it would work fine) I decided to go ahead and do

Re: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake.

2000-10-17 Thread Cobra176
boot from a DOS disk, perform an fdisk /mbr and you will be back to square 1 Will this clear off my Win95 partition too, or just kill off the Linux one? I just found "Peanut" Linux installation that claims to need less than 200MB for install. Maybe it's not too late to keep Linux. The

[newbie] Hardware detection

2000-10-17 Thread Ambler Dee
After Linux detects my sound card(creative64) and my mouse(intellimouse optical ps2) WRONG how do go in and change them. thanks devon ___ Free Unlimited Internet Access! Try it now!

Re: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake.

2000-10-17 Thread Mwinold
easy as 123 i think i have had to tell several people how to do this, use fdisk in the dos prompt type fdisk /mbr lillo is now dead and your comp will only boot windows now type fdisk now you can delete the linux partition all together using the options in its menu

RE: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake.

2000-10-17 Thread Sparks, Charley
it will only kill LILO .. nothing else -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake. boot from a DOS disk, perform an fdisk /mbr and you will be

Re: [newbie] Error installing Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Paul Hefferan
Does your BIOS see the hard drive you are trying to install to? Is there already an OS on the drive and working? - Original Message - From: Duval, Dominique To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 12:09 PM Subject: [newbie] Error installing

Re: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake.

2000-10-17 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 17-Oct-00 12:32:54 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: boot from a DOS disk, perform an fdisk /mbr and you will be back to square 1 Will this clear off my Win95 partition too, or just kill off the Linux one? no this kills lilo after this type fdisk and

Re: [newbie] network problems

2000-10-17 Thread Dennis Veatch
Alex Haun wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on my system. At first, I installed over 7.0 to keep all of my preferences and such, but because of a recurring problem with the theme manager not changing the colors in the panel and in windows (whereas in root it would work fine) I decided to

Re: [newbie] PPP Errors

2000-10-17 Thread Ted Wager
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Richard Davies wrote: HI everyone, I have just had to move due to work from Mandrake 7.0 to SuSE 7.0. Ever since this move I have not been able to dial out and connect as user but can dial and connect to the net as root. I presume that this is because I have done

Re: [newbie] Error installing Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Simon Martin
Paul Hefferan wrote: Does your BIOS see the hard drive you are trying to install to? Is there already an OS on the drive and working? - Original Message - From:Duval, Dominique To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 12:09 PM Subject: [newbie] Error installing

[newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Simon Martin
Dear List, I’m hoping some kind soul will help me with this... I’m a Mac user so keep it simple;-))) I’m attempting to install Mandrake 7.0 on an old Compaq. I start up with the boot floppy that came with the Mandrake pack, I also have CD disk one in the CD drive. The machine boots on the

RE: [newbie] Error installing Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Duval, Dominique
The bios detects the hard drive and so does linux (when the install initializes everything. Win98 was on the drive before It wa formated, now there is jst a win95 system (to boot to C: prompt) -Original Message-From: Paul Hefferan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, October

RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Duval, Dominique
Title: RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 SAme problem I'm having exactly the same. -Original Message- From: Simon Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:08 PM To: Mandrake send, Mandrake send Subject: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 Dear

Re: [newbie] Screen shots?

2000-10-17 Thread - -
http://www.mozillazine.org/screenshots/ have fun --- "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have any Mozilla screen shots? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk

Re: [newbie] Re: ? Arkeia backup utility

2000-10-17 Thread ai4a
paddock wrote: Hi -- I started with an idea from Linux Gazette for doing "tar" backups to disk, and expanded it so it makes one weekly "full" backup and then daily incrementals. The tar files have the same name as the base (not "root" in Linux, thank you!) of the directory tree which they

Re: [newbie] Problems with wheel mouse

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
AF1 wrote: I've installed LM 7.1 and everything works fine except my mouse! Instead a pointer I only see a white square :-(( What can I do? My mouse as two buttons and a wheel (Intellimouse compatible). I've tried change the type of the mouse in Drakconf but it don't change! Some

Re: [newbie] Problems with wheel mouse

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
AF1 wrote: I've installed LM 7.1 and everything works fine except my mouse! Instead a pointer I only see a white square :-(( What can I do? My mouse as two buttons and a wheel (Intellimouse compatible). I've tried change the type of the mouse in Drakconf but it don't change! Some

Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Larry Marshall
I have not formatted the hard drive yet, I’m expecting to be given that option in the next window. I am *not* wanting a dual boot system, Linux only!! Any ideas? Yes, run fdisk and delete all existing partitions. Then repeat the steps you've described. My guess is that your hard drive

RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Duval, Dominique
Title: RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 I tried doing fdisk and leaving no partition no help -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:09 PM To: Simon Martin Cc: Mandrake send, Mandrake send Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 S3 Trio 3D

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Iagoba wrote: Hello again I was trying to Install Mandrake 7.1 in my job's computer, (I wanted show the Linux excelences to my boss), and I ever got the same problem, when I'm configuring the X Server, when I try to test the resolution mode the instalation crash! the window

[newbie] no sound

2000-10-17 Thread David
i have installed mandrake 7.1 on an IBM 300pl desktop P3 550mhz PC it has no soundcard but has the onboard crystal sound chip. Mandrake cant see the sound chip and hence no sound. is the only option a soundcard or does linux support it but i havnt got it set up correctly chederz

Re: [newbie] clock in title-bar

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Hendrickx wrote: Is there a clock program that will display the time in a digital form in the title-bar of the active window? I want to autohide the panel and taskbar but I still want to know the time (without removing my left hand from the keyboard, rotating my wrist, sliding back my

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 S3 Trio 3D

2000-10-17 Thread Duval, Dominique
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 S3 Trio 3D we had the same problem on an IBM 300PL with the same video card, you need to use the Xfree86 server for VGA not SVGA and it will work fine, or do what we did we set it up with the SVGA server but ran VNC on it and attached to it remotely

Re: [newbie] Error installing Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
"Duval, Dominique" wrote: During the install when it prompts me wether this is an install or and upgrade I get an error that no partitions could be found. How can I create partitions? I get this error very early during the setup (before I get into the graphical installer "Only the

RE: [newbie] no sound

2000-10-17 Thread Duval, Dominique
IBM has drivers for linux on there website, my 300PL works fine same sound chip but its a PII 400MHZ machine -Original Message- From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] no sound i have installed mandrake 7.1

Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Paul Hefferan
Title: RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 When you ran fdisk did you create any partitions? You need to have an existing partition table for the LM installer to work from. When you fdisk you need to create (and set active) a primary partition. You may also create an extended partition

Re: [newbie] no sound

2000-10-17 Thread Kevin . McCann
David, I had a similar problem with an onboard chip on an ASUS board. Go to the Mandrake website, click on the HardDrake link (under the curly-haired penguin) there are 4 rpm's to download and install detect-xxx and harddrake itself. You will also need the alsa rpm. Load these and then run

RE: [newbie] Error installing Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Duval, Dominique
Title: RE: [newbie] Error installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 Ok first I should of mentionned this is a hitachi notebook (MX133T) The only thing that is removable is the hardrive/floppy drive and the pcmcia cards there are no cards installed. When I get the setup program to detect them it detects

[newbie] I cannot see my network card!

2000-10-17 Thread David Dieguez
I just install the mandrake, but I cannot see the network card. How can I configurate my card. I know the card have irq # but I doesn't how to configure! Thanks. David -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0

2000-10-17 Thread Duval, Dominique
I did create a partition. and made it active. -Original Message- From: Paul Hefferan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 When you ran fdisk did you create any partitions? You need to

[newbie] xfce question

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Malka
This is a dumb question, but I have not found the answer yet. I am exploring the xfce window manager. Looks good so far. However I am having the following problems: 1. I have added an icon on the panel for kppp which I had previously configured in kde. It starts up fine and dials fine in

Re: [newbie] DHCP, Pump commands and Cable Modem Setup

2000-10-17 Thread Dennis Veatch
"Thomas F. RuBane" wrote: Hi Roman All: I'm using Mandrake 7.1 (With an automatic install) and a Netgear 310tx which is a tulip chipset compatible card. My DSL service uses DHCP, but I haven't gotten that working either. I entered all the information manually (I checked using winipcfg the

Re: [newbie] WOW, Mozilla M18

2000-10-17 Thread Michael
The nightly builds tend to be even better than the milestones and far better than the Netscape previews. The build I'm using is as great. It's progressing so fast now that it's really interesting to watch. Like seeing a building go up. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts

Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

2000-10-17 Thread Doug McGarrett
I'm not sure I understand your question, but what if you use a Linksys BEFSR41 router as your firewall? Then connect the various computers to the router. Will that work? (I'm not into any computer games outside of the occasional solitaire or Windows Pinball (really well done, I think!)) But

[newbie] laser eye mice

2000-10-17 Thread chronos
Hi all- Does anyone use the laser eye mouse with their linux box ? If so what did you have to do to get it to work ? Also how do I correctly uninstall linux ? Im going to kill windoze and devote my entire drive to linux so I want to do it right.

Re: [newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-17 Thread D.M. Mattix
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, A V Flinsch wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: hi all, thnaks for your help I am an Oracle DBA and so far have worked only on WindowsNT. Now i am trying to install Oracle8i (8.1.6) on Linux. I have got Linux Mandrake version 7.1 installed on a intel system.

[newbie] info on building a kernel...

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi list, Before I get started could someone please pass me the cheese to go with my wine? That being said, I've been working on this getting this stupid kernel recompiled to accomodate a Turtle Beach sound card for two stinkin weeks and the darn thing continually bombs out on one error or

Re: [newbie] laser eye mice

2000-10-17 Thread Mwinold
to correctly uninstall linux delete it from the partition that is the only method currently available, use fdisk since your deleting windows as type fdisk /mbr this kills lillo or grub makes things a little easier when you re install linux, then type fdisk now using the menu choices available

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
I'm not sure I understand what you mean about the bookmarks. I've found the operation of Mozilla M18 to be pretty fair considering that it's not a finished product yet. As far as performance goes it's almost as fast and stable as Netscape 4.75. While it still doesn't handle Java yet it is far

RE: [newbie] DHCP, Pump commands and Cable Modem Setup

2000-10-17 Thread D.M. Mattix
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Thomas F. RuBane wrote: Hi Roman All: I'm using Mandrake 7.1 (With an automatic install) and a Netgear 310tx which is a tulip chipset compatible card. My DSL service uses DHCP, but I haven't gotten that working either. I entered all the information manually (I checked

Re: [newbie] OT / Penguin dance!

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
That's interesting...I've never seen a hamster dance before. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
A good start would be to report them to your ISP. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */ Registered Linux user #182496

Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Definately! I'm all ears...rather I'm all eyes since I can't see with my ears. My wife would tell you that when I'm sitting in front of this monitor I can't hear with my ears either! :) -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's

Re: [newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-17 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: The release notes say that a minimum of 128MB are required to install the Oracle product. Has anyone tried it with less?? I had 8.1.5 running on a machine with 96M. I did have to upgrade to 128M to do the install however. Once installed, it ran acceptably

Re: [newbie] Problems with wheel mouse

2000-10-17 Thread Zap
AF1 wrote: I've installed LM 7.1 and everything works fine except my mouse! Instead a pointer I only see a white square :-(( What can I do? My mouse as two buttons and a wheel (Intellimouse compatible). I've tried change the type of the mouse in Drakconf but it don't change! For the

Re: [newbie] OT / Penguin dance!

2000-10-17 Thread Greg Stewart
You know... I actually went looking for the original "Hampster Dance" site today and I couldn't find it for BEANS!!! Finally, though, tonite I stumbled on the second incarnation of the site at: http://www.hampsterdance2.com/hampsterdance2.html It's got a revamped techno-pop theme song, but the

Re: [newbie] info on building a kernel...

2000-10-17 Thread John Rye
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, Before I get started could someone please pass me the cheese to go with my wine? That being said, I've been working on this getting this stupid kernel recompiled to accomodate a Turtle Beach sound card for two stinkin weeks and the darn thing continually

[newbie] Browsers

2000-10-17 Thread Dennis Myers
I have d/l'd Opera, Netscape 6, and Mozilla and find that I can not install Opera due to wrong architecture, and the other two flow like molasses in January. They are so slow to load anything that I feel like I have timewarped back to the good old dos days and booting with floppys etc. Anybody

Re: [newbie] Portsentry traps

2000-10-17 Thread Greg Stewart
My wife would tell you that when I'm sitting in front of this monitor I can't hear with my ears either! :) Hell, I'm so blind (and probably deaf, too) my co-workers think the only way I can see what's on a computer screen is by smelling the damned thing! --Greg - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] I cannot see my network card! new informatio!!

2000-10-17 Thread Greg Stewart
I know this message is about "I cannot see my network card!", but I must not be wearing my contacts 'cause I can't see the last reponse posted to the end (except for that "Get you free e-mail" thing!). Did someone type something in invisible ink? Or do I *really* need that eye transplant?

RE: [newbie] OT / Penguin dance!

2000-10-17 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
I get a kick out of all of those! Here's what I did to my co-workers with it: Save the web page (they changed the format to java now so I'm not sure if it will still work) and then take the 'originaldedodedo.wav' - about a 9 second .wav - and use a wav editor to loop it for about an hour and

Re: [newbie] Browsers

2000-10-17 Thread D.M. Mattix
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: I have d/l'd Opera, Netscape 6, and Mozilla and find that I can not install Opera due to wrong architecture, and the other two flow like molasses in January. They are so slow to load anything that I feel like I have timewarped back to the good old dos

[newbie] Acrobat install error

2000-10-17 Thread James Michele Brown
I'm trying to install Acrobat 4.0 from a 7.0 cd. After Installing platform dependent files I get the error "./INSTALL: ed: command not found" ERROR installing /usr/local/Acrobat4/bin/acroread. Anyone have any ideas, couldn't find anything in the archives. JT

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Browsers

2000-10-17 Thread D.M. Mattix
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: I have d/l'd Opera, Netscape 6, and Mozilla and find that I can not install Opera due to wrong architecture, and the other two flow like molasses in January. They are so slow to load anything that I feel like I have timewarped back to the good old

[newbie] Tracing Email Addresses

2000-10-17 Thread SoloCDM
Can a trace (just as in traceroute) be placed on an email address as it goes about the Internet? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. * Signed, SoloCDM

[newbie] DrakX halt while installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe on SONY PCG-SR9G/T notebook

2000-10-17 Thread Lawrence Lee
Hi, I am trying hard to install Linux-Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe on my new notebook computer SONY PCG-SR9G/T with a 12.1GB harddisk. The best way I can do is installing from harddisk. I've made 7 subdirectories: disk1 .. disk7 on a spare partition d: and copied files from the 7 installation disks to

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-17 Thread Larry Marshall
Bookmarks??? I thought they handled just fine. When I'm cleaning them up and placing them in seperate folders I usually just cut and paste them from one place to another. That's the same as I've always done with them Two things here Mark. First, I wrote that before I figured out that I can

RE: [newbie] DHCP, Pump commands and Cable Modem Setup

2000-10-17 Thread Larry Marshall
I saw Larry's post about PPPoE and it just depends on what your DSL service is offering evidently not all offer PPPoE... Really? What are the alternatives? I thought the main thing that was allowing DSL to become reasonably priced was the simple pppoe approach. I'm also one of the dumbest

Re: [newbie] Browsers

2000-10-17 Thread Dennis Myers
"D.M. Mattix (Mike)" wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: I have d/l'd Opera, Netscape 6, and Mozilla and find that I can not install Opera due to wrong architecture, and the other two flow like molasses in January. They are so slow to load anything that I feel like I have

Re: [newbie] Browsers

2000-10-17 Thread Larry Marshall
I have d/l'd Opera, Netscape 6, and Mozilla and find that I can not install Opera due to wrong architecture, and the other two flow like If you want to try this, download the tar file instead. I dont know what's going on with their rpms but you've bumped into what's a common problem there.

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