[newbie-it] molti messaggi risposte 0 la speranza รจ l'ultima...

2000-10-28 Thread lobaxteen
sperando che questa volta qualc'uno risponda,vorrei mettere a posto staroffice che ho installato con l'opzione ./net il prog non trova nessun ambiente java la documentazione dice di scaricare 2 pacchetti il jre117-v1a nativo e l'altro con lo stesso nome senza il"nativo",io li scaricati e

[newbie-it] oversized ethernet frame

2000-10-28 Thread Andrea Stella
a big problem my realtech 8139 works perfectly in win environment but under linux when i try to connect whith a computer (i.e. ping) a message appears on my screan: oversized ethernet frame! my hw configuration: MB k6bv3-a proc. k6-2 500MHz ethernet RealTech 8139 10/100 pci can

[newbie]

2000-10-28 Thread Ashley Moore
Hi, I'm still very much a newbie and I wanted to know what do I need to do to set up my system to play games. I'm running LM 7.1 (I do not have the ' mandrake71-ext' CD ). My hardware is AMD K6 450Mhz / 144 Mb RAM / ATI Rage Fury 32 MB AGP / SoundBlaster Live! All my h/w is detected and works.

[newbie] Setup for Games

2000-10-28 Thread Ashley Moore
Sorry, This is a repost. Forgot to put in the subject. My apologies :-| Hi, I'm still very much a newbie and I wanted to know what do I need to do to set up my system to play games. I'm running LM 7.1 (I do not have the ' mandrake71-ext' CD ). My hardware is AMD K6 450Mhz / 144 Mb RAM / ATI

[newbie] Postfix anybody

2000-10-28 Thread mike
If anyone out there is familiar with Postfix I could really use your help. Users who try to send mail Using a client like Outlook Express or Netscape messenger get a "User rejected by server" error message. Is there a file where I need to add all the users so Postfix will recognize them?

Re: [newbie] Fujitsu Drives and Linux 7.1b

2000-10-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
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 Romandoes a Fujitsu 18.2 gig scsi count? :-) -- MandrakeSoft Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Altadena, CA USA

Re: [newbie] Compatabilty

2000-10-28 Thread Goldenpi
Sort off. Three things you must remember: 1. install me first. 2. -Never- run the recovery program. It says it will fix the computer if it breaks down but it also rewrites the mbr(rumor, but play it safe) 3. Have a linux bootdisk. Just in case. - Original Message - From: "Anthony"

Re: [newbie] 'mandrake70-2_i486.iso' image burnt a blank CD

2000-10-28 Thread Ashley Moore
Hi, Thanks for the info on the md5sum. I guess I download got screwed up. I downloaded the iso again and successfully burnt the CD. I can't wait to try it out later at home. Does anyone know if the boot image (from 'mandrake70-2_i486') will support installation from an ext. parallel port CD

Re: [newbie] Postfix anybody

2000-10-28 Thread rharvey
I am going thru that now. I have been told it is dns. I went to www.postfix.com I printed out the configuration page.,... and dns stuff. I'll let you know what works. - Original Message - From: mike To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 2:20 AM

Re: [newbie] Java Install for Star Office 5.2

2000-10-28 Thread Dennis Myers
Barry Premeaux wrote: 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

RE: Re: [newbie] Java Install for Star Office 5.2

2000-10-28 Thread veloct
Remember, it all depends on what version of glibc or libc you are running. It has to match. I happen to be using glibc 2.1.3 so I used that one. --- Original Message --- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:23:12 -0500 -- Barry Premeaux wrote: I

[newbie] Still No Sound

2000-10-28 Thread David
Hi ive installed Mandrake 7.1 on an IBM P3 550mhz desktop after the install mandrake failed to see the sound crystal chip, i then downloaded the Alsa rpm files on the mandrake website and the new hardrake rpms too. howerver there is still no sound :-(( ive chatted to people who have sound chips

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

2000-10-28 Thread Riker
I'm still surpised! I have to keep looking at the box to make sure I'm not delusional. But it's 7.2 Complete. Installed it last night, in fact. Anyone else see it at Wal-Mart??? Riker On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, you wrote: Riker wrote: Gang: I sent out a message earlier but I don't

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

2000-10-28 Thread Bob McWilliams
How Much was it ? - Original Message - From: "Riker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores??? I'm still surpised! I have to keep looking at the box to make sure I'm not delusional. But it's 7.2

Re: [newbie] Postfix anybody

2000-10-28 Thread Brian K. Garel
Hi, Don't know if this helps butafter spending a little bit of time on the Postfix website, (and seeing sendmail so prominantly mentioned), I decided to uninstall postfix and install the latest version of sendmail. The postfix website states "It is Wietse Venema's attempt to provide an

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

2000-10-28 Thread Riker
It was $24.95 U.S. dollars. The same price I paid for 7.0. On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, you wrote: How Much was it ? - Original Message - From: "Riker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 27 October 2000 06:11 pm, you wrote: 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. 7.2 final just began showing up on Mandrake ftp mirrors late yesterday (10/27). The cheap CD sites will

[newbie] How 7.1 will not load solved

2000-10-28 Thread James
I was asked to repeat the problem and how it was solved so all could benefit. Problem: I bought a new hard drive so could put linux on a drive by itself. I inserted the boot disk and the cd rom and tried to load. I got the window that said use f1 for help or hit return to install. I got a boot

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

2000-10-28 Thread Bob McWilliams
Wow thats a good deal Thanks - Original Message - From: "Riker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 8:25 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores??? It was $24.95 U.S. dollars. The same price I paid for 7.0. On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, you

[newbie] Ethernet and DSL

2000-10-28 Thread Brian Jacob Rogers
Hi all, I am a real newbie to trying to set this up. I have a 3com ethernet card which is connected to my dsl modem. I have a 2 station network with the other one running win98se. I can't seem to configure my sound (creative sound blaster audioPCI 128D) or my nic (3com Etherlink 10/100). Can

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
7.2 final just began showing up on Mandrake ftp mirrors late yesterday (10/27). The cheap CD sites will prob'ly have it available in a day or two. The retail box sets will more likely be two weeks. Can someone from Mandrake tell us whether the release version is any different from

Re: [newbie] Fujitsu Drives and Linux 7.1b

2000-10-28 Thread Romanator
Hi Alan, Sounds like you have one. I'm in the process of tearing apart my computer. It might the way it's configured Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, Has any one been successful in installing Linux 7.1 on a Fujitsu drive 10 Gig.? -- Roman

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Larry: Maybe I'm missing something here. Yesterday an article was posted at the Linux Mandrake site saying that they are in the final stages of putting 7.2 together. Linked to it are several forums where they are soliciting user comments on what should/should not be included. Based on that, my

RE: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Rick Commo
Also, is the version with ML7.2 release and KDE 2.0 beta/rc. Or is it the version with final ML7.2 release and KDE2.0 release. -rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Marshall Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread veloct
Well, according to Deno from Mandrakeforum.com. There is no way that it's out to retail yet since it wasn't release until early this morning. --- Original Message --- Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:51:03 -0400 (EDT) -- 7.2 final just

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
Can someone from Mandrake tell us whether the release version is any different from the Oct12th beta version? Cheers -- Larry Larry, the same questions been asked on the cooker list. So far the consensus is that 7.2 final is the latest beta with about a dozen rpm patch level

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread nomad creaktop
At 10:51 AM 00/10/28 -0400, you wrote: 7.2 final just began showing up on Mandrake ftp mirrors late yesterday (10/27). The cheap CD sites will prob'ly have it available in a day or two. The retail box sets will more likely be two weeks. Can someone from Mandrake tell us whether

[newbie] Specific users allowed to use smtp server

2000-10-28 Thread Vic
Hello list. I was wondering, I have my spammer relay controls on so spammers can't of course steal smtp service from me, but rather than allowing a whole domain to use my smtp, is it possible to allow only a certain user on my system to not only download their pop mail, they can already do this,

Re: [newbie] 7.2?

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 28 October 2000 10:43 am, you wrote: Hmmm, I would find it very weird if they would package a beta for retail. Depends on who 'they' is. I don't doubt the person who says the K-Mart box is marked 7.2, but it's not Mandrake's 7.2 ;) If it was 7.2 final it would have KDE2

Re: [newbie] Postfix anybody

2000-10-28 Thread rharvey
I plan to try the same thing but I have to get several cgi scripts move to a different box before I take this one down. - Original Message - From: "Brian K. Garel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "rharvey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 7:06 AM Subject:

RE: [newbie] 7.2?

2000-10-28 Thread Rick Commo
There had been an earlier thread (on NEWBIES, EXPERT or FORUM can't remember which) where the chat centered around whether or not to release ML7.2 with some KDE2.0 pre-release version or to wait. Later there was a comment that the decision had been made to go with whatever KDE2.0 was available

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Maybe I'm missing something here. Yesterday an article was posted at the Linux Mandrake site saying that they are in the final stages of putting 7.2 together. Linked to it are several forums where they are soliciting If it's the Oct 27th blurb that heads the Mandrake news board, I think that

RE: Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Well, according to Deno from Mandrakeforum.com. There is no way that it's out to retail yet since it wasn't release until early this morning. This would seem "odd" as they told us that it wouldn't be released until the 28th and I wouldn't expect that Walmart would have it before it was

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Larry, the same questions been asked on the cooker list. So far the consensus is that 7.2 final is the latest beta with about a dozen rpm patch level upgrades, Linuxconf, DHCD, and some locales. My take is that the last beta == 7.2 final for all practical purposes. Thanks

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
I'm not from MandrakeSoft, but here is what Deno said on Mandrakeforum.com (best site for Mandrake news and discussions...): No doubt there's good stuff there. The format, however, makes it painfully slow to move through it and I have to make a living so I'm Linux-overloaded right now.

[newbie] Sound Card, Modem, Etc. configuration

2000-10-28 Thread Ralph Avery
I'm a complete newbie to Linux, so this may seem a little lame to most of you. I've been following these messages for some time looking for information on how to configure, install, and use my sound card and modem. I have a VIA sound card that has a (Red Hat) Linux driver on the CD. It's a

[newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread veloct
The 7.2 that you download will have the final kde2 files. The 7.2 that will be sold via retail will have kde1.99 and they will patch it via MandrakeUpdate. This is from one of the VP's of MandrakeSoft. The posts that come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or similar are from a program that they have

[newbie] Boot problems...

2000-10-28 Thread Joseph Brault
Hello all I have a problem with my computer... I just installed LM7.1 over my old 7.0 version. I have a dual boot system with 7gig hd, 128mb ram, (this is a laptop). After the install, when I went to reload, I was presented with some odd message lik: stage1 stage2 error something like

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

2000-10-28 Thread WoodyUSSLUCE
I just bought 7.1 from Walmart,the box said 7.0 but it had 7.1 inside with a note that they had released the newer version.I haven't seen a 7.2 yet! Jeff

[newbie] Quantum hard drives

2000-10-28 Thread Vic
Hello list Has anyone had any trouble with their large (mine is 10Gb) Quantum ide drives with Mandrake 7.1 and above? I am running 7.0-2 and am afraid to upgrade, I don't know whether it was just rumour on the newsgroup or what?

[newbie] Wheel mouse

2000-10-28 Thread root
Hi everybody. I have just a quick question for you all. I have a Logitech MouseMan Optical and I was wondering, how do you make the wheel work on it? Thanks a ton! Joe

Re: [newbie] Quantum hard drives

2000-10-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Vic wrote: Hello list Has anyone had any trouble with their large (mine is 10Gb) Quantum ide drives with Mandrake 7.1 and above? I am running 7.0-2 and am afraid to upgrade, I don't know whether it was just rumour on the newsgroup or what? I think Western Digital is the only ones

[newbie] StarCraft: slow under Wine but...

2000-10-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
It does work... Just installed it today, and it does work. Its just on this side of playable though. Wonder what an Athlon, Geforce2, and 256 megs of ram would do to help it? ;-))) --

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 28 October 2000 12:12 pm, you wrote: Larry, the same questions been asked on the cooker list. So far the consensus is that 7.2 final is the latest beta with about a dozen rpm patch level upgrades, Linuxconf, DHCD, and some locales. My take is that the last beta == 7.2

Re: [newbie] 7.2?

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 28 October 2000 11:37 am, Rick wrote: There had been an earlier thread (on NEWBIES, EXPERT or FORUM can't remember which) where the chat centered around whether or not to release ML7.2 with some KDE2.0 pre-release version or to wait. Later there was a comment that the decision

[newbie] DL location of 7.2?

2000-10-28 Thread rt
Hi gang, I lost the message that had the address to dl iso images of 7.2 Could someone please repost the locations? Thanks

Re: [newbie] Ethernet and DSL

2000-10-28 Thread Bombardier Systems Consulting
Brian, I recently installed 7.1 and had problems that folks here helped me with. This is how I set it up to finally work: This is what I did in NETCONF. Basic Host Information Host name + domain = linux.myNTserverdomain name Adaptor1 = enabled DHCP, net device = eth0, kernel module =

Re: [newbie] StarCraft: slow under Wine but...

2000-10-28 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 28-Oct-00 14:42:59 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It does work... Just installed it today, and it does work. Its just on this side of playable though. Wonder what an Athlon, Geforce2, and 256 megs of ram would do to help it? ;-))) what is your current

Re: [newbie] Ethernet and DSL...do this first

2000-10-28 Thread Bombardier Systems Consulting
Brian, I forgot to pass on the install info that I was given for DHCP if it is not already installed. These are the instructions given to me. Sounds like you did an automatic install under Mandrake. The automatic install does not install the dhcp client. You had to do that manually. You

Re: [newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 28 October 2000 12:57 pm, you wrote: The 7.2 that you download will have the final kde2 files. The 7.2 that will be sold via retail will have kde1.99 and they will patch it via MandrakeUpdate. This is from one of the VP's of MandrakeSoft. I suspect that was revised.

Re: [newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread nomad creaktop
At 10:57 AM 00/10/28 -0700, you wrote: The 7.2 that you download will have the final kde2 files. The 7.2 that will be sold via retail will have kde1.99 and they will patch it via MandrakeUpdate. This is from one of the VP's of MandrakeSoft. The posts that come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

RE: Re: [newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread veloct
creaktop, If you look a little further below the 7.2beta and the 7.1 and 7.0 entries they have one for 7.2 final pre ordering. I think is $3.99 for 2 CD's. --- Original Message --- nomad creaktop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Sat, 28 Oct 2000 22:48:16 +0200 -- At 10:57 AM

Re: [newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Maybe Larry or Tom could explain what the best way to setup 7.2 would be, either update what you have or clean install? Tom may provide guidance but I'm afraid you don't want to follow me :-) I've got 7.2 installed but I've got to boot it off a floppy because something goes nuts during the

Re: [newbie] Boot problems...

2000-10-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Joseph Brault wrote: Hello all I have a problem with my computer... I just installed LM7.1 over my old 7.0 version. I have a dual boot system with 7gig hd, 128mb ram, (this is a laptop). After the install, when I went to reload, I was presented with some odd message lik: stage1

Re: [newbie] Quantum hard drives

2000-10-28 Thread Romanator
No problem with Quantum IDE but I am having a terrible time with Fujitsi 10 Gig. on an older Dell Dimension XPS 200 MMX ala 1997. Roman Vic wrote: Hello list Has anyone had any trouble with their large (mine is 10Gb) Quantum ide drives with Mandrake 7.1 and above? I am running 7.0-2 and

Re: [newbie] Quantum hard drives

2000-10-28 Thread Romanator
Do you think it may be an old BIOS? I'm having a terrible time configuring a Fujitsu 10Gig. I think Dell never tested anything over 8 Gig. Roman "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Vic wrote: Hello list Has anyone had any trouble with their large (mine is 10Gb) Quantum ide drives with Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Quantum hard drives

2000-10-28 Thread Vic
Whups sorry about that dude, I shouldda specified that I have a 10Gb running in 7.0-2 I'm was just afraid to upgrade to 7.1 or beyond, I heard a rumour in a newsgroup and wondered if it were true or only a rumour. Thanx On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Romanator wrote: Do you think it may be an old BIOS?

Re: [newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
nomad creaktop wrote: [snip] Did you order 7.2 beta 3 or 7.2 final ? If final, then how because there isn't a link there for ordering it... or can you pre-order and how ??? [snip] creaktop.it's on the page where you list all of the CheapBytes CD's.

Re: [newbie] Java Install for Star Office 5.2

2000-10-28 Thread Barry Premeaux
Larry Marshall wrote: > 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?

[newbie] Re: StartOffice

2000-10-28 Thread Barry Premeaux
SKLIM wrote: 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 If

Re: [newbie] Java Install for Star Office 5.2

2000-10-28 Thread Barry Premeaux
Dennis Myers wrote: Barry Premeaux wrote: > 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

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

2000-10-28 Thread Barry Premeaux
Benjamin Sher wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Fujitsu Drives and Linux 7.1b

2000-10-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanator wrote: Hi Alan, Sounds like you have one. I'm in the process of tearing apart my computer. It might the way it's configured Roman [snip] Romanno trouble at all with mine. Good luck on your electronic quest! -- MandrakeSoft Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread nomad creaktop
At 03:01 PM 00/10/28 -0700, you wrote: nomad creaktop wrote: [snip] Did you order 7.2 beta 3 or 7.2 final ? If final, then how because there isn't a link there for ordering it... or can you pre-order and how ??? [snip] creaktop.it's on the page where you list all of the CheapBytes

[newbie] Portsentry Config

2000-10-28 Thread John Wheat
I have installed and configured portsentry to my likings but after following the tutorial at www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/portsentry1.html and adding the lines /usr/local/psionics/portsentry/portsentry -atcp /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry -udp the program does not load and run

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

2000-10-28 Thread Barry Premeaux
Benjamin Sher wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Thanks a lot I found it... they ought to really list it on the front ... oh well Anybody got some good links on where to get free linux books (download) or documentation projects that are not too broad. I've already got the LNAG, www.oreilly.com They have a lot of their books online.

Re: [newbie] StarCraft: slow under Wine but...

2000-10-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is your current system configuration? i am running with 64mb ram 550 celeron ati4mb 3d rage lt pro and i would love to ditch windows! but still keep my games, if you can run starcraft then atleast one of my games could work with linux, Okay, I've got an

[newbie] imwheel

2000-10-28 Thread Eddie Torres
How do I get imwheel to work? I read the man page but that didn't help much. -- Eddie Torres www.veloct.net

[newbie] upgrading Mandrake

2000-10-28 Thread KompuKit
I was just wondering...I've spent alot of time setting up... Mandrake 7.02...installing this and that...tar.gz's and such, etc. etcwhich I don't want to lose...and have to do all over again. such as Majordomo lists... If I was to buy and install 7.1 or 7.2; would it completely undo

[newbie] unsubscribe newbie

2000-10-28 Thread Quen Lian
--- Barry Premeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SKLIM wrote: blockquote TYPE=CITEHi ! pI am Linux Mandrake user as well . The same problem I have when installing brstartoffice at mandrake 7.1 pI have download the JRE and I copy in into /tmp . pI have enter the command tar xvzf jre* pWhat next

Re: [newbie] re:7.2 stuff

2000-10-28 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: Maybe Larry or Tom could explain what the best way to setup 7.2 would be, either update what you have or clean install? Tom may provide guidance but I'm afraid you don't want to follow me :-) I've got 7.2 installed but I've got to boot it off a floppy because

Re: [newbie] Portsentry Config

2000-10-28 Thread John Rye
John Wheat wrote: I have installed and configured portsentry to my likings but after following the tutorial at www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/portsentry1.html and adding the lines /usr/local/psionics/portsentry/portsentry -atcp /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry -udp the

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

2000-10-28 Thread Mike Adams
At 10:52 PM 10/27/00, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Setup for Games

2000-10-28 Thread Mike Adams
At 11:44 PM 10/27/00, you wrote: Sorry, This is a repost. Forgot to put in the subject. My apologies :-| Hi, I'm still very much a newbie and I wanted to know what do I need to do to set up my system to play games. I'm running LM 7.1 (I do not have the ' mandrake71-ext' CD ). My hardware is AMD

Re: [newbie] Re: StartOffice

2000-10-28 Thread SK.LIM
Thank you Barry You have help me to solve my problem . Thank you very much .. Best Regards, SKLIM - Original Message - From: Barry Premeaux To: SKLIM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 6:13 AM Subject: [newbie] Re: StartOffice SKLIM

[newbie] Getting the user to be able to use the internet

2000-10-28 Thread Robert Valska
Have gone through the installation of 7.1 and am able to get on the internet as root and even able to dial up as a user, but when I try to run Netscape or the mail I get: Netscape says it is unable to locate server www.fidnet.com and to please check the server name and try again. this is the

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

2000-10-28 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Barry: Thanks for the clarification. But I tried the ---2.1.3 JDK. It didn't work on my LM 7.1 with SO 5.2. So what do I do? Thanks. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Getting the user to be able to use the internet

2000-10-28 Thread Bob Chin
Robert Valska wrote: Have gone through the installation of 7.1 and am able to get on the internet as root and even able to dial up as a user, but when I try to run Netscape or the mail I get:Netscape says it is unable to locate server www.fidnet.com and to please check the server name and

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

2000-10-28 Thread Barry Premeaux
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Barry: Thanks for the clarification. But I tried the ---2.1.3 JDK. It didn't work on my LM 7.1 with SO 5.2. So what do I do? Thanks. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you copy the tar to /usr and run 'tar

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2000-10-28 Thread Eyal Graif
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[newbie] ftp users

2000-10-28 Thread Aaron Lynch
how can I have a user with ftp access to a specified directory (inside another user's home dir) but not a shell account? -- Featured on TV: "How do we get it all in? Hey, We're Pizza Hut... We've put cheese in places you've never dreamed of"

Re: [newbie] Starting Linux for the first time

2000-10-28 Thread Greg Stewart
This seems to be a common dilemma these days, and the reality is: you've already opened linux. To enter the GUI environment you need to type the command: startx --Greg - Original Message - From: "Paul Fiske" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Mandrake Support, I have just installed Linux