Hi Tom Civileme,
Thanks much for your answers - see below...
Re: How do I see my Linux Drives in Win98SE?
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
Explore2fs is prob'ly the oldest, most widely used, best Windoze
app to access your ext2 partition. Take the authors warnings to
Dear all,
I have a 200mmx with 48meg ram with two disks.
C is 3.2 gig with wondoze installed
E is only 540meg but is empty.
How best should I chop up C to give me appropriate partition room for the
mandrake install?
Or should i skip this and use 'PhatLinux' instead?
David and Alicia
Hi,
Depends probably a lot on the machine in question, you need to have
plenty of ram for the KDE desktop, but on my machine:
AMD K6-2 500, 192mb ram, 18 gb HDD, there is simply no comparisation
even KDE is coming up twice as fast as win98se, I'm clearing windows
now off my machine.
Cheers,
Hi,
Linux will run along with this amount of ram, albeit a bit slow, for
a comparisation, what version of windows are you running?
A good low resource WM would be Blackbox, needs some getting used to.
KDE and Gnome will run much better with more ram.
As for the partition, will you run a dualboot
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, mcoady wrote:
When I run
$lpr text.txt
I get the message: printer unknown.
But on my Mandrake 7 I have installed my HPLaserjet 4L on lp0 and a when I
check using Printtool, it is definitely there. However, the print test only works
when sent directly to the port. When I
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote:
ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the
impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on
older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download
size. How much disk space will a bare
Captian Nemo is shareware and a single license is $90.
Charles
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
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Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 12:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] How
Hi Manuel,
Download Captian Nemo from www.download.com and instal this under
win95/98/nt and you will see your linux drives under windows.
Thanks! But for $90 just so I can see them, even though it does
a lot more, methinks I'll pass. They do not show up in the "for
DOS" version. Gee, with
I am using Mandrake 7.1 and was wondering if I can install the kernel that
comes with 7.2 ie: 2.2.17-21.mdk.rpm ? Or is this kernel specifically for 7.2?
Also, I was wondering what kernel rpms do I actaully need to install, I see
there are several rpms and I didn't think they all needed to be
After trying to print a file as "cat filename | lpr", what caused
the following message to be sent to administration?
lp printer job "stdin": Your printer job (stdin) was not printed
because it was not linked to the original file
Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing
Hey Mark, my email client uses Procmail just fine! ;-) Pine, by the
way...;-p
peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
Registered Linux user #19071
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
Nope...you are correct and this fact leaves me wondering how in the world I
can filter duplicate
Please ignore my previous email. I figuered how to solve it
Berthold
El Vie 29 Dic 2000 23:18, escribiste:
Hello,
I used to get a nice boot shell when booting into Mandrake 7.2. While
booting the kernel I used to see the Mandrake logo on the upper half of the
screen and the Init part used
Paul wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, IRoKd wrote:
Hi IRoKd
While by far am I the Linux expert, I would say that you experience some
kind of buffer over run or something in your printer. Before killing the
spool, I would turn the printer offline, then power it off to clear the
buffer.
Paul wrote:
ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the
impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on
older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download
size. How much disk space will a bare install need?
Abraham Mandac wrote:
When I was just about getting fed up with how Visual C++ fails to compile
simple bits of code, I read somewhere that the best C compilers run under
unix [and that sort of includes linux, doesn't it?]. I got LM 7.1 more than
2 months ago, and now I'm still learning to
i have mandrake 7.1 complete
and cdrecord 1.81 program
what is the correct string to burn a iso image onto
a blank cd
thankyou
stephen
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hey! lets go for 7!
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
Romanator wrote:
Wow,
Is every one getting 6 copies of each email?!
--
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
I did just now, from Barry... This seems to come and go, as has been discussed
before, but 6 is the most I've seen.
On Friday 29 December 2000 01:06 pm, Hektor Meyer wrote:
I am having exactly the same problem as Dan, libkscan.so.1 is needed
and I was so far unsuccessful in finding it (ufff...) HELP please!
It's not needed. Install kdeaddutils-2.1-0.20001213.1mdk with
the --nodeps option and all
Hi civileme,
I'm getting ready to do this because it seems simple enough, but
the one to fix the CDs is a bit tougher. What my question is, I
want to make sure the install version is installed on the smaller
Mandrake load I did since I saw nothing about Wine in the Custom
install. How, or what
Hello s,
Thursday, December 28, 2000, 10:55:51 AM, you wrote:
s On Thursday 14 December 2000 12:16 am, you wrote:
Hellos,
Wednesday, December 27, 2000, 5:31:59 PM, you wrote:
s Great thanks. That did the trick. Now if I could get the agpgart
moduled to s load so I could install the
Hi Tom,
Wine is prob'ly installed, but not setup. ( locate wine )
I'm newbie-newbie!-) Is that a command to run from somewhere and
then do I click on a wine gear wheel to run it, or is it like
commandline driven: locate wine run /application/notetab pro.exe? g
Thanks!
Jody
Clean-Funnies:
On Friday 29 December 2000 01:32 pm, Romanator wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
kdevelop-2.0-4mdk was available (and still is by an ftp
search), but it's either unusable or seg11's on start. It's one of
the KDE1 apps that wasn't ready when KDE2 was released.
Hi Tom,
Thanks for pointing
Hi Roman,
Have a happy new year. I'm going to. I am playing with kde now trying
trying to upgrade to 2.0.1 and having a ball.
Anthony Daniell (Tony)
Romanator wrote:
Hey Tony,
Have a Happy New Year.
Cheers!
--
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
Anthony Daniell wrote:
Ok
On Friday 29 December 2000 01:36 pm, Vic wrote:
But how can I run an .exe file in linux?? dos emulator don't work,
it won't see any other files on the drive except the
stupid little pre-installed idiotic stupid set of files already in
there, so thats worthless dos emulator. I can't just copy
Hi all, I have a fairly stable installation of 7.2 and KDE2.1beta1. My
problem is I just added another 64mb of ram and it shows up on the initial
boot before the OS comes up and it shows up on the control center on hda
which has 7.1 installed. It also shows on the first pixmap on boot (the one
Greetings all,
I have viewed my /var/log/message file and I have a few questions about
some error messages that I see.
The first is as follows :
modprobe: can't lcate module char-major-4
The second is :
modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-
The third is due to my own lack of good
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michael O'Henly wrote:
The way I understand it, portsentry senses a port scan and then immediately
creates a rule that adds the scanning host to a REJECT or DENY rule. So if
you've told your firewall to do this by default for all external hosts, is
that the same thing?
It
Hello,
I used to get a nice boot shell when booting into Mandrake 7.2. While booting
the kernel I used to see the Mandrake logo on the upper half of the screen
and the Init part used to be on a graphical shell.
The grub used to have two entries for each boot option
1. kernel
2. Don't remember
Can someone point me to a gcc tutorial [on the internet or a good book]?
I find the man pages a bit overwhelming as yet.
Thanks,
Abe
Hi Herman
My Mandrake install CD's have a kernal for a 486 installation as well as the
pentium optimised kernal
James
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote:
ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the
impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be
David and Alicia wrote:
Dear all,
Can i install mandrake on my (shame) p200mmx 3.3gig machine?
will it run apps faster than windoze bloatware?
David and Alicia
Sure (I'm typing this on a P200)--it'll work fine. Use at least 64M of
Ram. As far as being faster than Windows, you know,
Hi All,
I'm using 7.1, printer is a Canon BJC 3000, works fine in standard mode with
BJC 600 driver, for high quality work I'm saving SO5.2 and The Gimp files to
their windows counterparts and print from there.
Question: in MD 7.2 is there better support for this printer? (Cups?)
Not willing to
Joseph Red wrote:
Well, for myself, I got sick of rebooting whenever I wanted to play
a game. And the crashes. Since I was rebooting for games anyway, why
not dual-boot?
Then I started discovering how far Linux has come (the last time I
used it was a pre-1.0 version of Slack). Heck, there
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Friday 29 December 2000 04:41 am, David and Alicia wrote:
ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the
impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be
used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i
saw
What is the tool Mandrake uses to add/remove packages and modules.
I need to check if the sound modules are installed.
Thanx.
Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design
For any and all
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Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 9:55 AM
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Hi All,
Can somebody tell me what is the latest 4.7x version of Netscape?
I'm running 4.73, after trying to find a later version I was told
by Netscape that I was already running the latest version for my
platform (MD 7.1), afaik the latest is 4.76, will this not run on
MD 7.1?
TIA, Herman
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 11:47 PM
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Revenant wrote:
Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are
pushing our resources to their limits.
shrug Our resource limits are
On Friday 29 December 2000 12:18 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Hmm. Well, Gphoto didn't freeze, it just told me that it couldn't
find the camera (might as well be the same diff, as far as results
go, eh? smile) Anyways, what about the problem I had with the "-"
character in front of the
I am very new to Linux having installed Mandrake 7.2 about 3 weeks ago
and two or three times since.
A problem I am having and completely fail to understand is that my HP
930 C printer was auto detected and installed on a automagic
recommended installation and printed a test page but just sits
Hello all,
I'm sure someone out there can help me.
After discovering that I did not have a command line ftp program like the
one on most UNIX systems, I downloaded ftp-0.17-2mdk.src.rpm .
When I try to install it, rpm --rebuild ftp-0.17-2mdk.src.rpm
I get the following:
I changed the locations of my CD-RW and LS-120 drives and now the system
thinks the LS-120 is my CD-RW. When I do a 'cdrecord -scanbus', it list the
Matshita LS-120 on 'scsibus0 as a removable drive. And when I start
X-CD-ROAST, it only shows the LS-120 as a device (it worked before). I assume
Hello,
I don't blame linux for not having drivers or surport for my hard ware.
I believe that the company that makes the device should do this not
mandrake or any other distro. Like you said M$ put the companies on the
spot and they should not be aloud to do this. If only our politations
would
On Friday 29 December 2000 01:32 pm, Jeffrey Norris wrote:
I finally managed to update everything on my system (7.2).
Except.'linuxconf' (1.21r5). MandrakeUpdate says it needs
'libgd.so.1'. I've downloaded all the updates so I'm not sure what it
is or where to get it. Anyone have an idea
Ha folks,
In line with my policy to put something back ...
Here are some additional descriptions that can help us all here:
Newby-Newby:
Someone stuck it to them. "Just plug it in and switch it on"
Remember the Applecore ads?? Even *I* nearly rushed out and bought one
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote:
I am having exactly the same problem as Dan, libkscan.so.1 is needed and I
was so far unsuccessful in finding it (ufff...) HELP please!
Have a great New Year you all!
Hektor
Don't worry about it. I ignored it and installed the package, everything
seems to
Dear sir/madam,
How can I make my PCI(internal) 56K modem function in mandrake 7.1?
Thank you for answering my question.
Kenneth
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I have resently installed mandrake coporate server 1.0 on a petium 100 with
48 megs of ram and a 2.1 gig hard drive...
It installed fine. and its main purpose is to be a mail, samba and web
server for a university residencs server with internet connection.
the appache web server that came
Win4Lin is a really good product. I had in running in Mandrake 6.0. I
was running Windows 95 running Opera for Windows, Internet Explorer,
TurboCAD, and PaintShop Pro on it with no problem at all. Windows loaded
on my 266 P=II with 96M ram in about 5 seconds.
It wont do Direct X but everything
Dear friends:
I have a dual-boot Linux/Win98 system. In Windows use Juno as my ISP,
that is, Juno Premium, the commercial version without the banner ads.
I would very much like to use Juno as my dial-up in Linux. Is there any
way to do this? Currently, I use Bellsouth dial-up, which doesn't
Hey,
I will likely be switching my dual-boot from lm7.2 W2k to
lm7.2 W98 (can't get games to find the sound card -- besides I
only use Windows for games). I thought I saw a way to do that in
DrakConf, but now I look can't find what I thought I'd seen.
How would I do that?
Meph
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Subject: SCSI, CD-RW, LS120 Problem
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:41:26 -0500
From: Jeffrey Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I changed the locations of my CD-RW and LS-120 drives and now the system
thinks the LS-120 is my CD-RW. When I do a
Morning,
But how can I run an .exe file in linux??
Only if the app is actually something that runs in Linux. The
extensions, in most cases in Linux, are arbitrary.
In this case, not likely. But again, if you can find a way to
get it to floppy, you may have a chance. If it's not
The latest edition of O'Reilly's 'Running Linux' is the second edition, right?
Just want to be absolutely sure before I go out to get it.
Thanks -- Abe
I decided to give the new 2.4 test kernel a try out, downloading from a
cooker mandrake rpm site, but this kernel crashes my pc after 5 minutes of
browsing/ using xmms, machine just locks, anyone guess any reason, Maybe I
have an idea. the kernel seems to load some superprobe thingy , This
Hi, is the mail server up? If it is and this goes thru (2nd try) I am
having a problem doing an install on a two disk sys. Hda is windows
trying to install LM on hdc. The system starts with CDROM and goes thru
hard drive detection and shows ide0 and ide1 addresses and then hangs.
Hda is Samsung
How do you get Netscape to run xmms when you click a ShoutCast *.pls
link? I've tried messing with netscape but it just won't respond
correctly.
Seve
Hello, Gang:
I'm taking my first stab at messing with the Kernel. Such as recompiling
and then I'm going to compile a new kernel. The problem I'm having now
is that the kernel source wasn't installed during the install. Is there
a way to install the source kernel so I can do things such as `make
Does anyone here know why a background cann't be desplayed on KDM. Also is
there a fix for it. I am useing the KDE that came with the downloaded
version of Mandrake 7.2
Cheers to anyon that can help. And happy new year to you all.
Mark Hillary
Hello,
I have made a set of update RPM's for 7.2 available for KDE 2.1 CVS code. The
RPM's are made from CVS code of 12-29-2000. These RPM's are NOT supported by
MandrakeSoft. Please report bugs in the code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the bug
reporting utilities found on Help--Report Bugs in any
Hallo!!
I've got a scanner and i load it's module whenever i want to use it.
The problem is that i have to scan using xscanimage because under Gimp
the option adquire shows only "screen shot" 8-?
What else do i have to do?
Thanks!!
--
Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, you wrote:
As I am typeing this I am thinking of two small errors I just had while getting
email.
The first is a missing charset error./ Easy to fix if I could just find the
dialog to set up fonts.
The OOther is this speed. Now I am getting email something is makeing
iSNT A P60 A PENTIUM THOUGH?
David and Alicia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Herman Christiani
Sent: 29 December 2000 20:52
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a
straight answer
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