Re: [newbie] 7.2 + Gnome

2000-11-04 Thread Anthony
Nope, no helix-update. That's one of the bad things about Mandrake's Gnome. > > It's not exactly the same, but overall yes. There are a couple of things > > missing in Mandrakes version, but nothing earth shattering. I wouldn't > > worry about it. > > So does it come with Helix-Update? -- Antho

Re: [newbie] Where to buy 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread Eddie Torres
I'm sure not every Wal-Mart will have in stock but they eventually will. BTW, that is a "desktop" version of 7.2 geared to newbies and has KDE 1.99 instead of KDE 2.0. Also I hear that there is no "expert" option in the install program. On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, you wrote: > well, I went to our wal-

Re: [newbie] cable modem, tulip driver and LM7.2

2000-11-04 Thread Peter Heusel
I am set up statically already, but I don't understand why repushing my modem and computer will help. I have completely reinstalled 7.1 several times and my @Home connection works everytime. However, whenever I install 7.2 and follow the exact same network configuration I cannot connect. As I sai

Re: [newbie] install on a new master IDE hard disk

2000-11-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
No it doesn't. I had Win98SE installed on a secondary master drive with no problems at all. This FAT32 partition was the second on the drive, the first being Linux Swap. The primary master HDD contained a primary ext2 and a primary FAT32 partition. If you have Win 2000, as I do now, you should

Re: [newbie] SMP

2000-11-04 Thread Tyler Longren
open /proc/cpuinfo, if you're running with 2 processors, it'll give specifications for cpu0 and cpu1. If you're NOT using both processors, and want to be. Use the mkbootdisk command to make a bookdisk of the SMP kernel located in /lib/modules. If you're running Mandrake 7.2, the command to make

Re: [newbie] install on a new master IDE hard disk

2000-11-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 23:35, Eddie Torres wrote: > On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, you wrote: > > Please help! > > > > I currently run Windows 98 on this system: > > > > Pentium II 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM on an ASUS P2E-M motherboard > > 2 GB IDE HDD [the master HDD -- my only HDD at that] > > > > This is what I in

Re: [newbie] Clock question

2000-11-04 Thread L. H. LOO
FYI, very likely you have set your system time to GMT. Suggest go to timetool reset system time to the time zone of your country's GMT-? That was how I set system time in Linux-Mandrake 7.1 HTH At 11:52 AM 04-11-2000 -0500, you wrote: >When I go to change the date / time in KDE (as root), or wh

Re: [newbie] Where to buy 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread KompuKit
well, I went to our wal-mart...and they don't have it.. Janet Oslund wrote: > > KompuKit wrote: > > > are you sure it was version 7.2 ??? > > and not, 7.02 > > > > Janet Oslund wrote: > > > > > > KompuKit wrote: > > > > > > > Where is the boxed set of 7.2 available? > > > > What stores?

Re: [newbie] need hard disk buying advice

2000-11-04 Thread L. H. LOO
At 11:27 PM 04-11-2000 +0800, you wrote: >make sure that my BIOS can handle a disk of that capacity. FYI Yes, your bios need to be able to 'see' the new drive at boot up. Suggest look at the top left corner of your monitor at boot up, you will see the bios maker, version, and date displayed - p

[newbie] why LM 7.2 is in some stores

2000-11-04 Thread Seth
On the Linux-mandrake website under reviews I found this link to Linux Planet where they explain why some Wal-Marts have 7.2 early. it is a different version from the downloads this was due to a marketing decision to get 7.2 in stores in time for Christmas. The link has the details and a good revi

Re: [newbie] cable modem, tulip driver and LM7.2

2000-11-04 Thread chronos
Hi peter,- Actually I work for the @home network. All you need to do is call tech support and have them repush your modem and computer and set yourself up statically if you havent already. Also have the tech look at the whiteboard and see if there are any outages in your area. That should take

[newbie] No telnet into my 7.2 box?

2000-11-04 Thread cloak
'lo all,   I've recently installed MDK 7.2 on my box (went for the newbie install version, to see what all it does), and tried to telnet into it, no dice, its not listening to the telnet session. I read some FAQs, did what they said (specifically setting up services) and its still not worki

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Steve Maytum
Dear Mwinold@.cs.com do everyone a favour - stop telling everyone how great you are - because if you are why do you keep trying to prove it? [EMAIL PROTECTED].   - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 8:24

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic

2000-11-04 Thread Steve Maytum
Luis , do you need to recover your Windows? If so you will need to boot from a dos floppy and fdisk /mbr to get started reinstalling Windows. Then use FIPS or Partition Magic (whatever you prefer really) to create Linux partition. Then you can try using a Linux rescue floppy. If that fails , you w

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Kevin A Sadler
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >%_bills got enough money so i could care less > -Well don't blame anyone but yourself when something happens to you. You would be one of the smartalecs who eventually get caught. Remember these words 'friend' because if I were in your country I wo

Re: [newbie] Where to buy 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread Janet Oslund
KompuKit wrote: > are you sure it was version 7.2 ??? > and not, 7.02 > > Janet Oslund wrote: > > > > KompuKit wrote: > > > > > Where is the boxed set of 7.2 available? > > > What stores? Can't find it yet? > > > -- > > > Registered Linux User:167369 > > > <=

Re: [newbie] clock KDE2 on 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread philomena
Thanks Tom - the country was set at Default - I thought I had chosen US during install - I changed that to USA and it works fine now. cheers, philomena On Sunday 05 November 2000 01:55 am, you wrote: > On Saturday 04 November 2000 12:27 pm, philomena wrote: > > hi all, > > > > anyone know how t

[newbie] cable modem, tulip driver and LM7.2

2000-11-04 Thread Peter Heusel
I had my @Home service working fine under Mandrake 7.1 with an Ethernet card which uses the Macronix MX987x5 driver. Under 7.1 my Ethernet card is autodetected and my Internet connection works perfectly after going through the network installation wizard. With 7.2 it correctly identifies the same

Re: [newbie] network card

2000-11-04 Thread rbh
well, you are doing better than me... Mandrake 7.0 does not recognize it on my system... I realize it will [should ;-)] work once I explicity provide the IRQ when starting the OS...requires "tulip" I believe... however, for the time being I have a work-around...a PCI card from Linksys - no proble

Re: [newbie] clock KDE2 on 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 04 November 2000 12:27 pm, philomena wrote: > hi all, > > anyone know how to set the clock display in KDE2 to a 12 hour > digital instead of a 24 hour digital clock ? I haven't found that > anywhere in KDE2. > > Thanks, > philomena R-clk on the clock, you need%I:%M:%S %pfor

[newbie] Qmail madness

2000-11-04 Thread Paul
Hi everyone, Things are coming together again here, systemwise. (My jetlag keeps me from sleep, so I am on the machine, isn't that pathetic!) Something strange I can't figure out: For some reason qmail (I suspect it is this) sometimes throws a number of incoming mails to the outgoing queue, as i

Re: [newbie] DSL install

2000-11-04 Thread rbh
I am running DSL from Verizon with my Mandrake 7.0 system... it is easy to configure, and has been very reliable so far... Even more amazing is the fact that the technical support people I have dealt with actually know their stuff!! I would give it a "thumbs up" rbh Linux User 193554 - Orig

RE: [newbie] Problem connecting to Internet

2000-11-04 Thread Bill Shirley
I am running LM 7.1. I had a problem when using compression with pppd. The connection would work for short while and then hang. Only when I disabled compression did I get it to work reliably. I didn't use kppp so I don't know where you should put these. But try these options: nodeflate noacco

[newbie] Problem compiling modules

2000-11-04 Thread Bobby Kubinec
I have 7.2. Installed fine, works great, but my ethernet card is not regognized. I went online, found out that I had to download a driver module. I have a Netgear FA311. The driver is natsemi.c I got it from www.scyld.com . When I try to compile it, I get all sorts of errors, which I should not be

Re: [newbie] Saving data during a clean install

2000-11-04 Thread Paul
It was Nov 4, 2000, 12:17, when Rick Commo keyboarded: >(1) home could be a separate directory on the / partition >(2) home could be a separate partition >(3) home/ could be a separate disk mounted >(4) are separate partitions for each user on another disk(s). > >Do any of you who have lived in

Re: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow

2000-11-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Most definately..you need more RAM. At least 64 to run things confortably. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surpris

Re: [newbie] need hard disk buying advice

2000-11-04 Thread Abraham E Mandac Jr
At 10:35 AM 11/4/00 -0600, you wrote: >On Saturday 04 November 2000 09:27 am, Abraham E Mandac Jr wrote: >> I was about ready to buy a 15 GB hard disk but then I read >> somewhere that I should first make sure that my BIOS can handle a >> disk of that capacity. >> >> My question is: could somebody

Re: [newbie] Problem connecting to Internet

2000-11-04 Thread Dennis Myers
Henningsen wrote: > I send this email from Windows because I have not managed to get my internet > connection to work on Mandrake 7.0. I suspect that "provider" may not be > installed, because when I enter "man provider" at a command line, i get "No > manual entry for provider" (I do have manual

[newbie] Problem connecting to Internet

2000-11-04 Thread Henningsen
I send this email from Windows because I have not managed to get my internet connection to work on Mandrake 7.0. I suspect that "provider" may not be installed, because when I enter "man provider" at a command line, i get "No manual entry for provider" (I do have manual entries for all other stuff

Re: OT(sorry)[newbie] Testimony to Linux was: Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Vic
I used to use windows before I knew of Linux, and I would call my isp like maybe 2 to 3 times a week to ask for help what to do, like when windows would foul up or something, and then one day when I was on the phone with tech my isp's tech support, I just out of the grey said "I wish there was lik

Re: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow

2000-11-04 Thread Larry Marshall
> I have just changed over from Corel to Mandrake 7.2. I have had a couple prob lems with it. Has anyone else felt that it is very slow, You've got some sort of problem with the installation as linuxconfig should take only a few seconds to load. It takes only 2 seconds for the control center to

Re: [newbie] rh to mandrake

2000-11-04 Thread Larry Marshall
> I agree. There are way too many distos that are beta. Marketing Departments > have been known to shoot themselves many times in the foot. Good point :-) > Buggy software in the Linux world can get difficult to iron out. But, then > again, that's part of the fun of learning. Or, is it? Is thi

[newbie] clock KDE2 on 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread philomena
hi all, anyone know how to set the clock display in KDE2 to a 12 hour digital instead of a 24 hour digital clock ? I haven't found that anywhere in KDE2. Thanks, philomena

Re: [newbie] where can get libbz2.so.1?

2000-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 05 November 2000 02:58 am, eric wrote: >Do you know where we can get libbz2.so.1 which is needed from > MandrakeUpdate 7.2 's rpm http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php Found 15 RPM for libbz2.so.1, Mandrake's is bzip2-1.0.1-6mdk-i586.rpm -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 04-Nov-00 17:12:20 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but who let these mental midgets in here in the first place? They seem to take pleasure in ripping off Microsoft. Why not rip them off in the best possible manner? Don't use their products AT ALL! Isn't that wh

Re: [newbie] Saving data during a clean install

2000-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 04 November 2000 02:17 pm, Rick Commo wrote: > This is really aimed at understanding "best practices" from a wide > number of possibilities, especially given the cheapness of HDs > these days. > Do any of you who have lived in the Unix/Linux world for a long > time have strong opinio

Re: [newbie] ipchains

2000-11-04 Thread Daniel J. Ferris
I use ipchains on 2 linux boxes I have here at home (no pmfirewall). There is a pair of scripts, one called ipchains-save, the other ipchains-restore. If you write a bunch of firewall rulesets and you are happy, you can just do something similar to: ipchains-save > /etc/firewall Then in one of

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 04-Nov-00 16:01:48 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike...this thought relies on the thought that you have an alternative to giving it away.  That would be more believable if you knew how to spell "right" and that "i" should be capitalized.   I'd suggest, in a

[newbie] Ok, next ? about 7.2 then

2000-11-04 Thread Jon Doe
Can anyone tell me if the Cheapbytes version will offer the expert install?

Re: [newbie] Expert install on LM7.2 Complete?

2000-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 04 November 2000 03:09 pm, Jon Doe wrote: > I just purchased Mandrake 7.2 complete from the local Wal-Mart, > just want to say I LOVE it! The only problem I am having ( other > than figureing out where everything is...lol) I can't get it to do > an expert install. I like to install the

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Dan LaBine
Hear, Hear! You tell 'em Larry! I just want to know one thing,...Why for Pete's sake is anyone paying these idiots any "Lip Service" ? I don't respond to many of these topics (probably because my responses are usually long-winded), but who let these mental midgets in here in the first place? They

[newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow

2000-11-04 Thread Matt
I have just changed over from Corel to Mandrake 7.2. I have had a couple problems with it. Has anyone else felt that it is very slow, whether it is in KDE 2 or Gnome. KDE 2 is extremely slower than Gnome. It takes around 2 minutes just to start linuxconf or the control center. If its me expecti

Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...

2000-11-04 Thread Erylon Hines
> > OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if > my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the > simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna > be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts > buckled :-)

Re: [newbie] Expert install on LM7.2 Complete?

2000-11-04 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, Jon Doe wrote: > I just purchased Mandrake 7.2 complete from the local Wal-Mart, just want to > say I LOVE it! The only problem I am having ( other than figureing out where > everything is...lol) I can't get it to do an expert install. I like to > install the development ve

Re: [newbie] network card

2000-11-04 Thread James Mellema
KompuKit wrote: > > Thanks for the quick reply... > ARE YOU SURE...that it will see it > right out of the box...with absolutley > no configuration at all of the card itself? > > I don't have to disable the PNP? Nope, Linux is a lot smarter than Windows. It will find your card and co

Re: [newbie] Expert install on LM7.2 Complete?

2000-11-04 Thread Vic
I think unless I missed my guess here, that the missing things that were spoken about were the expert install feature in Wal-Mart version of Mandrake. Any input please? On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, Jon Doe wrote: > I just purchased Mandrake 7.2 complete from the local Wal-Mart, just want to > say

Re: [newbie] install on a new master IDE hard disk

2000-11-04 Thread Thomas Bishop
Hello, Sorry, but I beg to differ... I have Win98 and BeOS on my secondary master and linux on my primary master. Cdrom is primary slave. I have even installed Win98 after installing linux. In your bios, shut down whichever drive you will not be installing to until after installation. I be

Re: [newbie] Where to buy 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread KompuKit
are you sure it was version 7.2 ??? and not, 7.02 Janet Oslund wrote: > > KompuKit wrote: > > > Where is the boxed set of 7.2 available? > > What stores? Can't find it yet? > > -- > > Registered Linux User:167369 > > <=KompuKit=>

Re: [newbie] Problems fixed

2000-11-04 Thread scotchpie
Nice to see you back Paul. Have a nice time? Andrew

Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...

2000-11-04 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 08:55:33 -0600, you wrote: >I'm not too sure why anyone other than me has been having this problem. :) >I know almost zilch about KDE and Mandrake, other than I've been able to >install it successfully time after time. The only thing I did to get my >cable modem to work is mak

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Larry Marshall
> hey i right books and i create many things but you want to know what if i > post them on the internet i am going to have to expect one person buys it and > then redistributes it to their friends and then thier friends and so on. Mike...this thought relies on the thought that you have an alter

Re: [newbie] Forwarded Request + missing messages

2000-11-04 Thread Roland Serman
LRP-Linux Router Project http://www.linuxrouter.org On Saturday 04 November 2000 06:49, you wrote: > Hi > > I'm posting this on behalf of my friend Jim, who's also subscribed to the > list. He's made several attempts to send it himself but, for some reason, > it doesn't appear on the list. Yet

[newbie] SMP

2000-11-04 Thread rserman
How can I find out if I'm running SMP Kernal or not???

Re: [newbie] rh to mandrake

2000-11-04 Thread Romanator
Larry Marshall wrote: > > > Sometimes I think that it was Mandrake's marketing department that > > > released RH7.0 :-) Red Hat's virtue has always been that they weren't > > > quick to incorporate the latest whizbang thingie. That seems to be a > > > > Red Hat's virtue? Marketing? All companie

[newbie] Expert install on LM7.2 Complete?

2000-11-04 Thread Jon Doe
I just purchased Mandrake 7.2 complete from the local Wal-Mart, just want to say I LOVE it! The only problem I am having ( other than figureing out where everything is...lol) I can't get it to do an expert install. I like to install the development version so I have all the required files to bu

Re: [newbie] Where to buy 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread Janet Oslund
KompuKit wrote: > Where is the boxed set of 7.2 available? > What stores? Can't find it yet? > -- > Registered Linux User:167369 > <=KompuKit=> > Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Romanator
Have you every written anything such as a book? Or, spent your time and money on licensing your own thoughts or concepts? Please keep your politics on pirating OFF the newbie news group. Goldenpi wrote: > 1. Microsoft isn't loseing any money if your selling a product thats const > hundreds of

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread scotchpie
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, you wrote: > Can we pirate copy of your bank, credit card and cell phone? > > Romanator Took the words right out of my mouth Romanator, Come on Goldenpi, if you are so committed to freedom and sharing of information, cough up your details! On a serious note though, we mus

Re: [newbie] rh to mandrake

2000-11-04 Thread Romanator
Larry Marshall wrote: > > When installing can I browse through every package and install whatever I > > want? > > In expert mode you can browse through the package listings and > select/deselect which ones you want installed. You can't browse through > each rpm package though...nor would you wan

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Romanator
Can we pirate copy of your bank, credit card and cell phone? Romanator Goldenpi wrote: > I do pirate copies of everything. So what? Take visual basic which can cost > hundreds of pound. I do it for £1 + disk. > > Microsoft probably cound trace me, but why would they want to? I do copies > of so

Re: [newbie] Where to buy 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread Barry Premeaux
KompuKit wrote: Where is the boxed set of 7.2 available? What stores?  Can't find it yet? -- Registered Linux User:167369 <=    KompuKit    => Kit Goins   ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]   

Re: [newbie] Clock question

2000-11-04 Thread KompuKit
Go into linuxconf (not sure how in 7.1) under the CONTROL tab (at top), there's a Date/Time settings ...you set it in here... Michael Judd wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I have just purchased and installed Linux mandrake 7.1 Complete onto a > three year old computer with a 586 Intel Pentium, and it i

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA modems

2000-11-04 Thread poogle
I found that I had bought a pcmia winmodem, so I returned it and bought one by a company called Zonet ( http:www.zonet.com.tw/main.htm) it said 100% hardware modem on the box and it actually is, worked with both 7.1 and 7.2 (kernels as included in the distro.) I bought it from a small wholesaler

[newbie] Need HELP

2000-11-04 Thread Saravut Teepprasan
I just add 2 more 128MB SDRAM-100 to my system but BIOS recognize only 393216KB, if I remove one it recognized 327680K, if I put only 2 news 128MB the bios recognize 262144K correctly. I try with BIOS 2.4 / 2.5 / F1F /F1K /F1L/ F1M /F1N what should I do I wants my system to recognize all 512MB RAM

RE: [newbie] need hard disk buying advice

2000-11-04 Thread gcobb
One of the most useful sites of this nature I've found is www.ping.be/bios. There were specific information about BIOS upgrades and revisions, system board manufacturers and more. You may have to search for your information but it's probably there. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PRO

[newbie] Where to buy 7.2

2000-11-04 Thread KompuKit
Where is the boxed set of 7.2 available? What stores? Can't find it yet? -- Registered Linux User:167369 <=KompuKit=> Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass.

[newbie] NFS installation under Mandrake 7.1

2000-11-04 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
I am running Mandrake 7.1. I wish to use NFS to share files between two Linux boxes. NFS does not appear in /proc/filesystems. Do I have to recompile the kernel, or can it be added as a module ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Those of you who t

[newbie] DSL install

2000-11-04 Thread KompuKit
I'm thinking of getting DSL from Verison... is there a cheaper provider...then them... that doesn't require credit cards?? -- Registered Linux User:167369 <=KompuKit=> Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PRO

Re: [newbie] Slackware 7.1

2000-11-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Eddie Torres wrote: > > On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, you wrote: > > Eddie Torres wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > >This is my setup. /dev/hda 4GB windows (2GB free) > > > /dev/hdb 6.4GB LM 7.1 drive > > > > > > I have a copy of Slackware 7.1 that I would like to

[newbie] SCSI card

2000-11-04 Thread Javier Marcon
How can I configure an ISA "DTC 3010A" scsi card in linux? This card in Windows uses the Adaptec 1510 driver. I have attached a Genius sp2x scanner and a Sony Spressa CD reccorder, how do I configure and mount them?

[newbie] DNS error

2000-11-04 Thread Javier Marcon
When I try to connect to the web using the Fullzero provider (www.fullzero.com.ar), it connect well, but when Itry to reach any web page, I get an DNS error(DNS not specified). This provider assigns automatically the IP and the DNS.

Re: [newbie] Applix Word / StarOffice review

2000-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 04 November 2000 09:08 am, Larry Marshall wrote: > > There's also OpenOffice on cooker mirrors: > > /packages/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ > > openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm (47mb) > > Have you tested these Tom? I thought they were saying that they > were pretty flakey r

Re: [newbie] need hard disk buying advice

2000-11-04 Thread abe
Abraham, you should be fine. It was mostly 386/486 and first generation pentium systems whos BIOS couldn't read hard drives larger then 504MB or 1 gig. Here's how you find out for sure: Go to your setup BIOS and look at the options for your hard drives. You should have CHS, Normal and LBA. As

Re: [newbie] Screen Dies When X Boots Up

2000-11-04 Thread Jacob Straszynski
I too am experiencing this problem. X loads, screen totally freezes. Only option seems pressing the power button, or disabling X on startup. This may seem a little reduntant, but I'm contributing just to point out it isn't some obscure, isolated problem. Comp specs: Pentium Classic 200 One 3.2 g

Re: [newbie] Slackware 7.1

2000-11-04 Thread Eddie Torres
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, you wrote: > Eddie Torres wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > >This is my setup. /dev/hda 4GB windows (2GB free) > > /dev/hdb 6.4GB LM 7.1 drive > > > > I have a copy of Slackware 7.1 that I would like to install on the 2GB > > free from the w

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Barry Premeaux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bills got enough money so i could care less By that, do you mean that you can justify pirating MS software? How much money must the other guy have so you can justify not doing what is right? --  Barry :-) Registered Linux User #183879  

Re: [newbie] need hard disk buying advice

2000-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 04 November 2000 09:27 am, Abraham E Mandac Jr wrote: > I was about ready to buy a 15 GB hard disk but then I read > somewhere that I should first make sure that my BIOS can handle a > disk of that capacity. > > My question is: could somebody give me a rough ceiling on hard > drive cap

Re: [newbie] network card

2000-11-04 Thread KompuKit
Thanks for the quick reply... ARE YOU SURE...that it will see it right out of the box...with absolutley no configuration at all of the card itself? I don't have to disable the PNP? James Mellema wrote: > > KompuKit wrote: > > > > I just bought a Linksys Ether16 10baseT LAN Card... >

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 installation problem

2000-11-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
> Andris Maziks wrote: > > ?? > (snip) Hi Andris, I tried to reply on the list but my setup of Netscape quoted your message all in ? (?). Anyway, I had the same prob. I have a CD-RW that Mandrake accesses by ide-scsi emu

Re: [newbie] Forwarded Request + missing messages

2000-11-04 Thread James Mellema
> Here's Jim's message; > > >Hey > > > >I seem to remember a small app that one ran under doze to configure - i.e. modem >and nic. Then booted a spare machine, with said modem and nic and it booted a small >Linux that acted as a proxy/firewall. It could run on low end boxes, i.e. 486's with

Re: [newbie] Screen Dies When X Boots Up

2000-11-04 Thread root
root wrote: > > This is a strange one to me. I just installed Mandrake 7.2 GPL(clean > install). When I boot up with LILO and select the default (linux), my > monitor goes black when X starts up. The led on the monitor goes amber > like it's no longer recieving signals from the video card. > BUT,

[newbie] PortgreSQL access

2000-11-04 Thread Greg Sarsons
DataBase -> new name -> test select create get Error Tcl error executing pq_exec create database test is not a valid postgresql connection. what do I do to make a valid connection then? Greg

Re: [newbie] Slackware 7.1

2000-11-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Eddie Torres wrote: > > Hello, > >This is my setup. /dev/hda 4GB windows (2GB free) > /dev/hdb 6.4GB LM 7.1 drive > > I have a copy of Slackware 7.1 that I would like to install on the 2GB > free from the windows drive. My question is not about setup but

[newbie] PortgreSQL access

2000-11-04 Thread Greg Sarsons
DataBase -> new name -> test select create get Error Tcl error executing pq_exec create database test is not a valid postgresql connection. what do I do to make a valid connection then? Greg

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Clayton Hoskinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 03-Nov-00 14:41:33 Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >> >> also its not a good idea to discuss "pirating Windows" on a mailing >> list. >> dont want MS lawyers to come knocking at Mandrake's door trying to >> extort >> money > >

Re: [newbie] install on a new master IDE hard disk

2000-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
While, as Paul describes, runnin Windoze on the slave is possible, I'd strongly suggest keeping the Windoze HDD as master and runnin Linux on the new drive added as slave. I just believe it's easier and more foolproof. Linux doesn't care, it'll run just as well on the slave. Winblows pro

Re: [newbie] how to update from 7.1 to 7.2 through 7.1

2000-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 04 November 2000 09:19 pm, eric wrote: > do any one successfully using ftp or drakeconf's update > successfuly from 7.1 to 7.2 in 7.1 , I mean by internet > conncection not by CD? > > thanks in advance if you tell me how > Eric I could always get it to connect to cooker mirror

[newbie] need hard disk buying advice

2000-11-04 Thread Abraham E Mandac Jr
I was about ready to buy a 15 GB hard disk but then I read somewhere that I should first make sure that my BIOS can handle a disk of that capacity. My question is: could somebody give me a rough ceiling on hard drive capacity that can be handled by this sytem: Pentium II 300 MHz on an ASUS P2E-M

[newbie] Kernel panic

2000-11-04 Thread Luis Rodriguez
I recently reinstalled windows and it erased my master boot record (mbr) I have tried to boot linux through a floppy disc and I received this error message: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 What can I do to boot linux? Please help me I have very important files in my linux

Re: [newbie] Applix Word / StarOffice review

2000-11-04 Thread Larry Marshall
> There's also OpenOffice on cooker mirrors: > /packages/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ > openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm (47mb) Have you tested these Tom? I thought they were saying that they were pretty flakey right now in terms of the compile scripts. Cheers --- Larry

Re: [newbie] KDE2's stability

2000-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 03 November 2000 09:43 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: KDE2 is the only > group of programmes I have problems with. GNOME works fine, as did > KDE1.x. Are there any suggestions on what I can do to improve > KDE2's stability? Perhaps I can change some config settings, > either in KDE, X, o

Re: [newbie] KDE2's stability

2000-11-04 Thread Ian Land
Looks like you're just unlucky! 8-) On my machine, konqueror and kmail are v. stable (although, as I said, KDE itself seems pretty flaky). No doubt there'll be lots of patches in the coming weeks... > I initially upgraded Mandrake 7.0 to 7.2. KDE2 was alright (I think -- I > didn't use it much

Re: [newbie] KPP Problem - can't connect to Net as user

2000-11-04 Thread Larry Marshall
> > All you really need to keep from .netscape to accomplish what you're > talking about are the bookmarks.html file and your preferences.js > file. That will virtually restore Netscape for you on subsequent It gets a bit more complicated than this with Nutscape. The reason is that Mandrake has

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
Could you people please discuss this outside of the mailing list. I am getting sick and tired of it. At 09:13 PM 11/03/2000 -0700, you wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> bills got enough money so i could care less > > And just how much money is too much? Is it the amount more than you h

RE: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread gcobb
Almost anyone has run a piece of software that wasn't registered to them at some point. Most people would keep it quiet. It's one of those braindead moments someone has when they blurt it out in a public forum to all to see. Some things you just don't talk about! > -Original Message- >

RE: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...

2000-11-04 Thread gcobb
I'm not too sure why anyone other than me has been having this problem. :) I know almost zilch about KDE and Mandrake, other than I've been able to install it successfully time after time. The only thing I did to get my cable modem to work is make sure the card existed as eth0 and put in my DNS n

Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate

2000-11-04 Thread Mark Weaver
The easiest and best way to do this is to download the necessary rpm's from where ever...rpmfind.net..., uninstall the current netscape rpm's using kpackage and then install the new version of netscape using the same package installer. Works like a charm every time. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucum

Re: [newbie] install on a new master IDE hard disk

2000-11-04 Thread Abraham E Mandac Jr
At 06:35 AM 11/4/00 -0600, you wrote: >> This is what I intend to do: >> 1. Buy a new IDE disk and mount it as the new master drive [to replace the >> old two-gig hard disk] >> 2. Reconnect the old 2 GB drive, this time as the slave drive [with Windows >> and everything else on it still intact] >>

[newbie] how to update from 7.1 to 7.2 through 7.1

2000-11-04 Thread eric
do any one successfully using ftp or drakeconf's update successfuly from 7.1 to 7.2 in 7.1 , I mean by internet conncection not by CD? thanks in advance if you tell me how Eric

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-04 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 03-Nov-00 14:41:33 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also its not a good idea to discuss "pirating Windows" on a mailing list.  dont want MS lawyers to come knocking at Mandrake's door trying to extort money yea like microsoft has anything beter to do then sno

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