[newbie-it] modifica caratteri netscape

2000-10-27 Thread loris gava
come si fa per visualizzare le pagine web con caratteri più grandi? Grazie. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at

Re: [newbie-it] modifica caratteri netscape

2000-10-27 Thread Andrea Celli
loris gava wrote: come si fa per visualizzare le pagine web con caratteri più grandi? Grazie. _ Installi i true type fonts e poi da edit- preferences- fonts di Netscape scegli il font che preferisci. Sicuro di non

[newbie-it] unsubscrive

2000-10-27 Thread 1SD044
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2000-10-27 Thread Rolando Bussoli
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[newbie] mdk 7.1, gradient background, sawmill, gnome

2000-10-27 Thread Jeff Cours
I'm running Mandrake 7.1 on an X86 system. I'm using Gnome + Sawmill and have the background set to a simple vertical gradient, but whenever I restart X windows the background comes up solid in the "primary color" as reported in the Gnome configuration tool, and the selection box for the

[newbie] TAR

2000-10-27 Thread Manuel Tuthill
Hello everyone, Please can you help i'm getting desprete now. I need to restore some files from a tape i have but cant workout how to do it. have done a "tar tv log.txt" toget a list of all the files and have fond it but cant get it back. the filename in the log.txt says

[newbie] X-Windows mouse cruser

2000-10-27 Thread SKLIM
Hello To all Linux user . I am having some progblem with my mouse cruser running at Linux X-windows. My VGA card is S3 Inc.Trio3D/2X 128MB Ram Pentium III 600 10.2GB Harddisk 3Com SOHO Network Card I have done the installation in X-Windows but the mouse cruser is not a arrow but is a box

[newbie] Best to use RPMs ???

2000-10-27 Thread Bradford Sturtevant
Are particular RPMs better for Mandrake? I have done some work with Redhat and it always seemed like you had to use their RPMs. Example, if you downloaded the latest Apache server from apache.org, installed it, then downloaded the RPM from Redhat and installed you would end up with Apache

[newbie] How find XFree86 version?

2000-10-27 Thread Bradford Sturtevant
I am about to install some drivers that require XFree86 4.0.x How to determine the version? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/

Re: [newbie] Best to use RPMs ???

2000-10-27 Thread Michael Lueck
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:46:28 -0700 (PDT), Bradford Sturtevant wrote: Example, if you downloaded the latest Apache server from apache.org, installed it, then downloaded the RPM from Redhat and installed you would end up with Apache installed in two different locations. Sounds like RedHad changed

Re: [newbie] How find XFree86 version?

2000-10-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 27 October 2000 05:30 am, you wrote: I am about to install some drivers that require XFree86 4.0.x How to determine the version? type 'XFree86 -version' (see 'man XFree86) -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [newbie] Best to use RPMs ???

2000-10-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 27 October 2000 05:46 am, you wrote: Are particular RPMs better for Mandrake? http://www.rpmdp.org/rpmbook/ will answer your questions, might even turn you into a rpm guru ;) Short answer is you can use any rpm on Mandrake as long as you understand the possible difficulties

Re: [newbie] Best to use RPMs ???

2000-10-27 Thread Larry Marshall
Sounds like RedHad changed the install dir in their distribution, and then the developers RPM put it in their intended place which gave you two copies. If the code is something which Mandrake shipped on their install CD, then generally they do a good job maintaining their MDK files which

[newbie] uninstalling packages

2000-10-27 Thread jesse martinez
How do I uninstall a package?? How do I know which packages are installed in a system?? Did anyone know of any How-To uninstall packages document?? OK, thats it for today!!! :) Thanks in advance... Jesse __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk

RE: [newbie] uninstalling packages

2000-10-27 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
=-Original Message- =From: jesse martinez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:16 AM =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Subject: [newbie] uninstalling packages = = =How do I uninstall a package?? rpm -e packagae name =How do I know which packages are installed in a

Re: [newbie] uninstalling packages

2000-10-27 Thread Larry Marshall
How do I uninstall a package?? How do I know which packages are installed in a system?? Did anyone know of any How-To uninstall packages document?? Jesse, I just load up kpackage (as root). This will give you a list of rpm packages on your system. Clicking on the ones you want to uninstall,

[newbie] Help!!!! How do you give a user rights to make them stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one user?!

2000-10-27 Thread rharvey
How do you give a user rights to make them stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one user?

RE: [newbie] Help!!!! How do you give a user rights to make them stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one user?!

2000-10-27 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
=-Original Message- =From: rharvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 11:10 AM =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Subject: [newbie] Help How do you give a user rights to make them =stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one =user?! = = =How do

Re: [newbie] Bad Disk - need replacement

2000-10-27 Thread Aaron Zuercher
Well if you want it ASAP run down to the local Walmart or BestBuy. I've seen the retail package of Mandrake 7.1 for sale at those stores. It was running about $30. Or if you can wait, order just the CDs from Cheapbytes or the like. There you get just the CDs, but at an extremely low cost.

Re: [newbie] 7.1 will not load is solved---Thanks

2000-10-27 Thread GAPrichard
Jim, Tell us what you tried--what didn't (quick overview) and what finally DID make for your success (and a restatement of the original problem + any refinements as you learned about your problem along the way). Such a summary helps us (newbie) [or let me speak for myself and say ME], and

Re: [newbie] kde question

2000-10-27 Thread GAPrichard
And whenever a good enough change comes along, I will buy it thus supporting the Mandrake infrastructure. I'm not into this "new version every 6 months" thing, but when there is fundamental improvement (functionality or reduction of (install) problems, etc.) I will vote my approval with

Re: [newbie] Advice on Library Versioning in Linux

2000-10-27 Thread GAPrichard
Colin, And please post the answer here. Now that you asked the question I'm interested. This list is about learning. -Gary- In a message dated 10/26/2000 8:39:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks to all fro the replies. I''ll try the expert list

[newbie] sendmail error

2000-10-27 Thread freeman
I have installed sendmail on my machine. I can send mail to it but when I try to retrieve the mail from a windows machine I get the following message. Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period

[newbie] mouse support

2000-10-27 Thread leslie.hamilton
I have recently loaded Mandrake 7.1 which was on the cover CD of Linux Magazine. I wanted to try it out and see if I liked it before buying the full boxed version. I have tried Red Hat and Caldera but wasn't over keen with those. I had Mandrake 7.0 on my machine a while ago but cleared it

Re: [newbie] Compatabilty

2000-10-27 Thread John Arkoulis
Yes they play well together. Mind you they hate each other too!!! Install ME first and then Linux. - Original Message - From: "Scott B. Ferguson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:32 PM Subject: [newbie] Compatabilty To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Re: Sorry, wrong list!

2000-10-27 Thread Doug McGarrett
Sorry, wrong list! (I had asked a SuSE question here.)

Re: [newbie] mouse support

2000-10-27 Thread Adrian Smith
hi -- i'm still in newbie land also -- i wasn't totally clear on your email, do you mean that you have no mouse even when you get into linux? as in after you log on? see, when i installed mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 i had no mouse in the install program. you can work around this on the keyboard (for

Re: [newbie] Compatabilty

2000-10-27 Thread Scott B. Ferguson
Yes, I mean dual boot. The reason I ask is that Win. ME has no native dos support. Another question, can LN 7.1 be installed from a dos boot or windows recovery disk? - Original Message - From: "Yacketta,Ronald J" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000

Re: [newbie] Compatabilty

2000-10-27 Thread Anthony
I'm not totally sure on the Windows ME compatibility part, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Also, I would install WinME first because knowing Microsoft they'll over write the boot sector. So if you had installed Linux first it would over write LILO/GRUB and then you couldn't get to Linux

Re: [newbie] grub loader

2000-10-27 Thread Greg Stewart
Yes, the new version of Lilo can handle placing the system files beyond the 1024 cylinder mark...but... If you partition your linux installation to include 16MB or so /boot partition below the 1024 cylinder mark, you do not have to worry about this at all. If all you are installing on this HD

RE: [newbie] sendmail error

2000-10-27 Thread Phil Connor
Unfortunately this is not this problem. SSL is not enabled. Any other ideas? Have you double ck'd your username/passwords. What does the mail log say for your log in try? Phil Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #189889

[newbie] Can't get CDRW to work

2000-10-27 Thread Jim Weimer
I'm haveing problems accessing the CDRW on a recent install of Mandrake 7.1 on a 166Hz pentium with 64 meg ram. When I try to open the folder I receive the following message-Could not list directory contents file:/mnt/cdrom. Yes a CD is in the drive and yes it is a data CD the Linux mandrake

Re: [newbie] Can't get CDRW to work

2000-10-27 Thread KompuKit
How can I get my FTP/pub dir to recognise my cdrom drive,so that people can download from off the CDbut at the same time...configure it to allow this setup automatically, instead of everytime I place a new CD in the drive...? Jim Weimer wrote: I'm haveing problems accessing the CDRW on

Re: [newbie] Best to use RPMs ???

2000-10-27 Thread Mike Adams
At 06:35 AM 10/27/00, you wrote: ...(snip,snip)... The developers don't seem to be reading these books either which is probably what drives the distros to try to solve the problems. One would expect, in a pure Unix interpretation, for Acrobat reader to be installed in /usr/local/bin. The

[newbie] Java Install for Star Office 5.2

2000-10-27 Thread Barry Premeaux
I recently asked if anyone knew how to set up Java for Star Office 5.2. Since I got no reply, I assumed no one knew. I have it up and running now and it actually turns out to be fairly straight forward. 1. Download JDK118_v3-glibc-2.1.2.tar.bz from the Blackdown site. http://www.blackdown.org

Re: [newbie] Best to use RPMs ???

2000-10-27 Thread Larry Marshall
In the Nov 2000 on page 38 is an article titled: "Where to Install My Products on Linux?". Mike...what magazine are you referring to here? I've heard about the FHS but have yet to see the standard in document form. According to the FHS ver1 (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) you would expect

Re: [newbie] Best to use RPMs ???

2000-10-27 Thread Mike Adams
At 05:39 PM 10/27/00, you wrote: In the Nov 2000 on page 38 is an article titled: "Where to Install My Products on Linux?". Mike...what magazine are you referring to here? I've heard about the FHS but have yet to see the standard in document form. ...OOPS... Mea Culpa! Mea Maxima Culpa!

Re: [newbie] Java Install for Star Office 5.2

2000-10-27 Thread Larry Marshall
Since I got no reply, I assumed no one knew. I have it up and running now and it actually turns out to be fairly straight forward. Thanks for the "keeper" msg. Since you're working on SO, have you figured out how to convert TT fonts to Adobe and get them into SO? Cheers --- Larry

Re: [newbie] Best to use RPMs ???

2000-10-27 Thread Larry Marshall
I've got the mag right in front of me and duh! forgot to list the mag name (the shame, the horror, the FLAMES I'LL GET...) Feeling the heat (grin)? sorry, it's the Nov 2000 issue of Linux Journal ... Great...My Oct issue is only a couple weeks old so it should show up soon. Cheers ---

[newbie] Fw: X-Windows mouse cruser

2000-10-27 Thread SKLIM
Can some ones help me what should I configure at XF86config files ... - Original Message - From: SKLIM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 4:08 PM Subject: X-Windows mouse cruser Hello To all Linux user . I am having some progblem with my

[newbie] StartOffice

2000-10-27 Thread SKLIM
Hi ! I am Linux Mandrake user as well . The same problem I have when installing startoffice at mandrake 7.1 I have download the JRE and I copy in into /tmp . I have enter the command tar xvzf jre* What next ... ? Is it the startoffice will auto search for it ? Best Regards, SKLIM

Re: [newbie] after install

2000-10-27 Thread Michael Lueck
1) If you want to just start the GUI after you logon to a text session, run "startx" 2) If you want your system to start the GUI by default, logon text mode as root and run "Xconfigurator" - at the end of this program you can choose to start XWindows when the system boots. Kind of a good idea to

[newbie] Fujitsu Drives and Linux 7.1b

2000-10-27 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, Has any one been successful in installing Linux 7.1 on a Fujitsu drive 10 Gig.? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: [newbie] Fujitsu Drives and Linux 7.1b

2000-10-27 Thread stephen
yes i have had no problems installing on that type of drive stephen - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 12:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Fujitsu Drives and Linux 7.1b Hi everybody, Has any one been successful

Re: [newbie] No-one answers ?

2000-10-27 Thread Kevin A Sadler
Hi yoall again. Well people are alive out there and a big thank you to all who replied about my problem. Putting all answers together I have been able to get a 15" view of my 30' picture. It is great to have so many willing to assist and I can now get down to learning how to use this system

Re: [newbie] Fujitsu Drives and Linux 7.1b

2000-10-27 Thread abe
I've got it installed on an 8.4 gig fujitsu drive. Actually, that drive has had 7.0 through 7.2 beta 1 installed on it. Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Has any one been successful in installing Linux 7.1 on a Fujitsu drive 10 Gig.? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -- The

[newbie] 7.2

2000-10-27 Thread Riker
When did 7.2 come out at the stores? Just bought it and wondered how long it had been out and I didn't know about it. :) Just curious. -- Linux - The way of the future

[newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-27 Thread Riker
Gang: I sent out a message earlier but I don't think it made it to the list. I went to Wal-Mart tonight to buy my brother Mandrake 7.0, and while looking through the software isle I found Mandrake 7.2. When was this released? I thought the beta version 3 had just been relase. Can someone tell me

[newbie] Re: Fit G to DT

2000-10-27 Thread Kevin A Sadler
Hi again Alan. Shows how these problems are getting to me. I have ALREADY put out a general thank you to all and sundry. That was in addition to the three I sent direct so I don't think I let anybody down. Iv'e got the thank you in my list so you should have it also. Cheers Kev Sadler

[newbie] Hawkeye Errors

2000-10-27 Thread Eric
Hello, I am running Hawkeye on my p75 compaq with madrake 7.0. In my messages file I am getting a couple error messgaes:Haykeke [21570]: :Error: cant bind soket to prt 80: Address already in use Hawkeye[21533]: Error: Connect to mail relay failed. I am not sure what they mean exactly and how

[newbie] Hawkeye Errors

2000-10-27 Thread Eric
Hello, I am running Hawkeye 1.3.5 on my p75 compaq with madrake 7.0. In my messages file I am getting a couple error messgaes:Haykeke [21570]: :Error: cant bind soket to prt 80: Address already in use Hawkeye[21533]: Error: Connect to mail relay failed. I am not sure what they mean exactly and

Re: [newbie] Java Install for Star Office 5.2 -- WHERE?

2000-10-27 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Barry and friends: Where in the world did you find JDK118_v3-glibc-2.1.2.tar.bz? The only version currently available is JDK118_v3-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz. I downloaded it, untarred it, it installed perfectly, opened StarOffice, Bookmarks, Java, Java Setup and ... it said it couldn't find Java.

[newbie] Gateway Preformance 500 and Drake 7.1,7.0 and any other.

2000-10-27 Thread tweeter
I was trying to install drake on a friends system which is a gateway prefromance 500, and when we get into the X install program the keyboard and mouse no longer work, and we have tried with several diffrent keyboards. What is the problem here, is it something that gateway has against linux?

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-27 Thread Dennis Myers
Riker wrote: Gang: I sent out a message earlier but I don't think it made it to the list. I went to Wal-Mart tonight to buy my brother Mandrake 7.0, and while looking through the software isle I found Mandrake 7.2. When was this released? I thought the beta version 3 had just been relase. Can

Re: [newbie] after install

2000-10-27 Thread eric
Michael Davis wrote: After installing Mandrake 7.1 when I start my computer all I can get is the Console mode login session. How can I get a Graphical mode login session?? you may try edit /etc/inittab at the line id:3:initdefault:. change 3 to 5 then reboot. hope that help

[newbie] RE: no driver for my scsi cd rom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

2000-10-27 Thread Fuad
hi, i wanna install linux mandrake 7.0 onto a 486 dx2 66mhz pc which has a scsi cd rom driver by adaptec (150x model) but it seems that mandrake doesn't have this when i use linux4win install can u help? iam a novice when it comes to linux...this is my first install HELP!!! Fuad