Re: [newbie-it] partizioni

2001-01-17 Thread Andrea Celli
osvaldo wrote: ciao a tutti, volevo chiedervi un consiglio: mi sono comprato un HD 20G nuovo volevo partizionare l'HD in due, in modo da poter utilizzare su una met mandrake e sull'altra provare qualche altra distribuzione (mi hanno regalato suse)...immagino che sia possibile...no? i

[newbie-it] configurazione masterizzatore

2001-01-17 Thread Fiore Adolfo
Ho recentemente installato Mandrake 7.2 su un Pentium III 450. Al termine dell'installazione il sistema vedeve regolarmente il masterizzatore ide Waitec e l'altro cdrom utilizzato per la lettura. Dopo aver settato la scheda audio Sb 16 (non riconosciuta automaticamente ma manualmente

[newbie-it]

2001-01-17 Thread meucci
dopo un black-out il mio sistema linux mdrk 7.2 non sia avvia pi dicendo /dev/hda6:unexpected inconsistency, run fsck manually (i.e.,without-a or-p options) e ora ?che f?

[newbie-it] Tradurre

2001-01-17 Thread Corrado
Ciao a tutti! Mi sarebbe utile un'applicazione in grado di effettuare traduzioni da una lingua all'altra su testi completi, non singole parole; cosa posso trovare per il Pinguino? Grazie Corrado

[newbie-it] Funzionamento kmid.

2001-01-17 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Ciao, ho un problema con l'uso di kmid, un tool per ascoltare file midi. Quando cerco di sentirne uno mi compare una finestra con su scritto Couldn't open /dev/sequencer Probably there is another program using it Se faccio ps -ux tra gli altri processi attivi compaiono ... alberto

[newbie] Leaving

2001-01-17 Thread Paul
Hi folks, I have to leave the list. I've had a lot of fun here, and learnt a big lot, but the amount of mail we all generate is becoming too much for me to handle. THanks for all the help and advice, and keep it Linux! Paul

[newbie] Matlab

2001-01-17 Thread Manuel Miranda
Hello! In my jod there is Matlab for Linux, other persons in my office use with RedHat 6.2 7.0 and SUSE 6.4 7.0, I use LM 7.2 and i cann't use matlab. When i try to use sumilink appears the message /usr/local/matlab/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't resolve symbol 'dlopen' Help me M.C. Manuel

RE: [newbie] local lan problem

2001-01-17 Thread Fireman71
No, i cannot ping from either of the win 98 machines to the linux box, nor from linux to the windows machines but i can ping from one windows machine to another one fine. Ian K. Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread abe
have you checked out this? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ Its for 7.2 but the principal is the same. In fact I also suggest that you update to 7.2. It is truly a beautiful thing ;-) Abe Vic wrote: I can't find it, is there anyone on this list who can find

[newbie] Help with Matlab

2001-01-17 Thread Manuel Miranda
Hello! In my jod there is Matlab 5.1 for Linux, other persons in my office use with RedHat 6.2 7.0 and SUSE 6.4 7.0, I use LM 7.2 and i cann't use matlab. When i try to use sumilink appears the message /usr/local/matlab/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't resolve symbol 'dlopen' Help me M.C. Manuel

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Re: [newbie] Leaving

2001-01-17 Thread abe
Bya Paul. Come back soon! Paul wrote: Hi folks, I have to leave the list. I've had a lot of fun here, and learnt a big lot, but the amount of mail we all generate is becoming too much for me to handle. THanks for all the help and advice, and keep it Linux! Paul

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order.

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order.

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order.

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order.

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:17:21 -0600, Vic said: I'm getting ()*(*^% off.!! this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. Vic, Settle down, take a few deep breaths, and short walk in the woods, But not neccasarily in that order.

Re: [newbie] Piece of )(*(*^ Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
On 17 Jan 2001 22:30:31 NZDT, John Rye said: Four Times he did !! FOUR times!! My apologies for your indulgencences John -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd

[newbie] Sendmail/PHP/Apache

2001-01-17 Thread Mattias Pettersson (Frizon)
Greetings salutations newbie, Hi... trying to run php/apache/sendmail together in the form of using a phpfunction called mail() which uses sendmail to send mail to a specified address. Apache is working, PHP is working, Sendmail is working (separately), since apache is running as

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Tom; You did read my entire post , right? Did you catch the rest of my message? Please don't make assumptions about my preferences. As I stated, it is the most similar to Windows, and therefore more likely to cause tension with first-timers. Once they gain a level of confidence with Linux and

[newbie] modules dont get installed

2001-01-17 Thread Quaylar
hiho, im running into strange things here, i compiled a 2.4.0 kernel, then made "make dep", "make bzImage", "make modules" and "make modules_install". upon "make modules_install" i can see linux entering all the modules dirs in /usr/src/linux/drivers/ telling me "nothing to be done for

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Correction; LEAST Likely to cause tension with first-timers. My Bad! Dan LaBine Registered Linux User #190712 - Original Message - From: "Dan LaBine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:20 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome Tom; You did read

[newbie] Slow computer with MD 7.2

2001-01-17 Thread Blomquist, Niklas
Hi all! I have just download the MD 7.2 and installed it om my computer. It's a Asus AV7, AMD 1000MHz, 256MB Ram, 3 Harddrives. I magages to get the ATA100 to work, but it s l o w. It takes log time before the program starts and it takes log time to start the computer. I did run MD 6 or 7

Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost

2001-01-17 Thread Steve Maytum
Ralph , can't help right now , but i'll try to e-mail tonight (17/01/01) with help. Meantime send info on your system. Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Ralph Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:29 AM Subject: [newbie] I'm

Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Steve; Here's a few things to try. I haven't been following your thread (conversation topic) enough to know everything you've tried, but here goes. If we look at the basics, your problem may be video-related. Assuming that this is the case, check your video card itself, and see if it has jumpers

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tuesday 16 January 2001 22:23, you wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do it. I am using mandrake 7.0-2 Is that broken and can't use cdrecorder? I have a

Re: [newbie] x3270

2001-01-17 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 01:43, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2001 12:00 am, Carl Lafferty wrote: A friend of mine not on the list yet (she teaches a great deal of the time) has some problems with x3270. on my 7.2 install I can use it to connect just fine but everytime she

Re: [newbie] pppd Not Working

2001-01-17 Thread L. H. LOO
At 16-01-2001 +1300, you wrote: Hi! Just installed LM 7.2 but can't get the pppd working. How do I set it up? Under Windows 2000 the modem is in COM4. In LM 7.2 it is /dev/modem. Is this right? FYI, com4 in Win2K is /dev/ttyS3 in Linux, it is Big S.

Re: [newbie] Halt Command

2001-01-17 Thread L. H. LOO
At 16-01-2001 +1300, you wrote: Hi! Running LM 7.2. The system reboots ok but when I issue the 'halt' command it hangs up and errors/segmentation faults appear. What is causing this? Thanks! IIRC, the command is : shutdown -h now for immediate shutdown.

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 05:30, you wrote: Thank you, but I just installed the cdrecorder, and not during install. kudzu then came up on the next boot, saw your cd-redorder and offered to configure it? Civileme I did the scsi link, what I need to know Ii guess is how do I load the

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 06:57, you wrote: I can't find it, is there anyone on this list who can find this info please. I am asking all subscribers who might have a clue please. Thank you and much appreciuated to those woh can give me the into Vic-- let's see ls -l /dev/cd* cat

RE: [newbie] VPN Client software

2001-01-17 Thread Steve Gulick
FWIW, A company called Netmax makes a Linux based VPN out of the box. They clain it can be up and running in about 15mins. It cost $499 :( But if you can get work to pay for it it may be worth the money. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

[newbie] Partition Query

2001-01-17 Thread John Rye
The following is my /dev/hda partition layout: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart End BlocksId System /dev/hda1 * 1 192 1542208+6 FAT16

Re: [newbie] Is the Korn shell freeware?

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Weaver
that's what I was talking about. thanks Tom. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 07:39

Re: [newbie] Is the Korn shell freeware?

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Um...thankyou, but I'm very familiar with "what" a shell is having been an avid Linux user for 2 years now. Maybe I should have been a little more clear in my query. What is a "Korn" shell? As in, what is this particular shell program like and what are it's attributes? How does it perform and

[newbie] win2K and ML7.2

2001-01-17 Thread Emilio Correa
Hi, I wanna know if somebody could install win2K and LM7.2 on the same hard disk. I couldn't yet. I made the following: (30 HB HD) 1- I partition the disc in one FAT32 unit, and leave the rest of the disc free 2- I installed win2K on this partition (FAT32) , without any other extra option (Is

RE: [newbie] dual boot help

2001-01-17 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Boot with you Linux boot disk. That will get you into 7.2. Then, as root open the console. Goto /boot/grub and type ./install.sh You may have to change the permissions too. If that is the case, just use chmod to modify the permissions. This will restore the boot loader. Problem solved! Oh, and

Re: [newbie] Leaving

2001-01-17 Thread philomena
sorry to see you go Paul - come back and visit every now and then ! philomena Paul wrote: Hi folks, I have to leave the list. I've had a lot of fun here, and learnt a big lot, but the amount of mail we all generate is becoming too much for me to handle. THanks for all the help and

Re: [newbie] Intalation Problem

2001-01-17 Thread pavas
cesar sosa wrote: Hi, this message is in Spanish because I don't speak English verry well, if you don't have some one who speak spanish, just tell me and I'll try my best with my english. Hola, Soy un usuario nuevo de Linux y acabo de comprar Linux Mandrake 7.2. Al llegar a casa, no

[newbie] KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1

2001-01-17 Thread Cristiano de Lima Logrado
Hi, I'm a new user ... and i'd like to know where can I get the KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1 ? Thanks, C.Logrado

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 7 or 8 -- which is better?

2001-01-17 Thread s
I haven't seen one bit of difference! -s On Wednesday 17 January 2001 04:28 am, you wrote: Dear friends: This would seem to be a no-brainer: one should certainly prefer RealPlayer 8 to RealPlayer 7. However, what puzzles me is the size of the file. The Real 7 for Linux rpm is 6.5 megs in

[newbie] ftp passwords

2001-01-17 Thread s
What's up with these ftp download sites that claim to be public, then can't download from cause of a derned ole' password request? Is there some Linux-community secret handshake that I haven't heard about yet? -s

RE: [newbie] VPN Client software

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Johnson
$499 would be outrageous for a VPN client... In my opinion that should be as standard as a mail and news reader that comes with your distribution, or just plain built-in kernel support that comes along with ppp and etc... -Original Message- From: Steve Gulick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Johnson
Abe and Mark, this is an example of what I was talking about in the "Mandrakesoft CEO defend Linux" thread. The community is divided. Some think Linux existence is to vanquish Microsoft (i.e.to be a viable replacement for the MS Desktop among the masses, not among folks like Abe, et al.),

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Mark, You're absolutely right about that! My company is in the process of becoming established in Quebec, Canada, where we already have about 200 programmers ready to start writing fresh apps SPECIFICALLY for Linux. I've been working on this little project for about 6 months now, and one of

Re: [newbie] win2K and ML7.2

2001-01-17 Thread Quaylar
At 09:31 17.01.2001 -0300, you wrote: Hi, I wanna know if somebody could install win2K and LM7.2 on the same hard disk. I couldn't yet. I made the following: (30 HB HD) 1- I partition the disc in one FAT32 unit, and leave the rest of the disc free 2- I installed win2K on this partition (FAT32)

[newbie] glide V3 libraries

2001-01-17 Thread Chris
Hi, I'm under the impression that I cannot play 3dfx-based games on my LM 7.2 system unless I download and compile the 2.4 kernel. Is this true? I have installed the Glide V3 and Device 3dfx libraries, yet Unreal Tournament is unable to locate the Glide drivers. It exits with a segfault. I

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Dennis Myers
Dennis Myers wrote: The tutorial is still there, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:23 pm, Vic wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do it. I

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Vic
Hmm ok this time with both commands I got: [root@kittypuss ntr]# HardDrake bash: HardDrake: command not found [root@kittypuss ntr]# harddrake harddrake: error in loading shared libraries: harddrake: undefined symbol: s_ignore [root@kittypuss ntr]# I'm using mandrake 7.0-2 On Wed, 17 Jan 2001,

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Vic
Yes, but it was useless because kudzu configuring it did nothing to connect it to the file system as a recorder. On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2001 05:30, you wrote: Thank you, but I just installed the cdrecorder, and not during install. kudzu then came up

[newbie] USB scanner support

2001-01-17 Thread Adrian Smith
greetings. i'm working on getting my USB scanner to work. so far i have managed to break a few things =) so i guess that is progress. my first question -- so i know i've got something to work with. are the modules to support a USB scanner built into the mdk kernal? i am using 7.2 this is

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Vic
Duplicate entry 'append' near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf what this mean? my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-17 Thread Adrian Smith
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6:12:43 AM 1/15/01 I personally don't like this solution, but it's yet another way for Linux (and Mandrake) to gain market share (at the expense of becoming more like M$). I believe that if anyone is stupid enough not to understand the already very

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Vic
Yes sir, it is a Plextor drive On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vic...this is Kit...are you sure the drive is LINUX compatible...?? this could be the problem Vic wrote: Thank you for trying I can't find anything to type. I just saw a bunch of distorted stuff

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Vic
Sorry dude I can't upgrade until I burn the 7.2 image On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, abe wrote: have you checked out this? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ Its for 7.2 but the principal is the same. In fact I also suggest that you update to 7.2. It is truly a beautiful

[newbie]

2001-01-17 Thread Matt Schroeder
Hi everyone, I'm trying to get my sound blaster live X-gamer working. I got some ideas from some people here yesterday to try and went home last night and really went nuts on trying to get it to work. I even yanked my network card and swapped slots with it to see if that helped. Anyway, here

[newbie]

2001-01-17 Thread John Lee
I have on-board sound card CMl8330 and it doesn't work with Linux Mandrake 7.2. Where could i download drivers for it and how should i install them? Thank you

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 08:20 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:23 pm, Vic wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do

Re: [newbie] Patch

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 01:45 am, s wrote: When I try to patch something, I get an error about patch being an unknown command. So I figured it must be an app I need. I do a search and find only a gnu patch utility that is provided on a $70 cd. Is everyone out there patching kernels,

[newbie] ping IP

2001-01-17 Thread Dan Belkie
Hey Guys! ok I have set up a Mandrake corp 7.1 and all seems to be fine. I have 2 network cards in the box and they booth were found. I have one set to my DSL line. Internet works fine.. the other one I have set to 192.168.0.100. I can ping 192.168.0.100 from the local box. I cant ping from

Re: [newbie] KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 05:18 am, Cristiano de Lima Logrado wrote: I'm a new user ... and i'd like to know where can I get the KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1 ? Please opost with plain text. There's a list of cooker mirrors here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Vic
Ok, what is the url for 7.0-2 tutorial? Thankx On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: The tutorial is still there, Tom Brinkman wrote:

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Dennis Myers
Vic wrote: Duplicate entry 'append' near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf what this mean? my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe

[newbie] I found it! CD-RW problem solved

2001-01-17 Thread Phil Murphy
I was composing a long letter to the list asking for help, listing all the steps I had done. (I'll include it anyways as it may help someone else in the same boat) Just before posting, I noticed that the instructions for creating the link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0 differed on

RE: [newbie] Disappearing memory... and non accessilble CD-ROM

2001-01-17 Thread Allton Paul
yes it is does that mean I cant use it, or have to do somethign different ... -Original Message- From: abe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Disappearing memory... and non accessilble CD-ROM

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-17 Thread James Mellema
Adrian Smith wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6:12:43 AM 1/15/01 I personally don't like this solution, but it's yet another way for Linux (and Mandrake) to gain market share (at the expense of becoming more like M$). I believe that if anyone is stupid enough not to understand

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Setup Hangs

2001-01-17 Thread David
I boot from the cd and I get all the way through the kernel booting up and then it check for SCSI devices(i have none). Then it says Starting ...Please Wait and doesn't do anything. I have tried installing on another computer and it works fine. I have taken out all hardware but nothing works

Re: [newbie] Patch

2001-01-17 Thread s
Thanks for the info. rpmpackager doesn't show it and can't find it. When I try to download it from rpmfind I get one of the d*** password requests again. What's up with that? Are only certain people allowed to download from these places? I checked around the site and the faq and nothing

Re: [newbie] Ghost Mailspool

2001-01-17 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:48:19 -0500 (EST), you wrote: Where are you telling it to go when you download the mail from the server? -- Mark Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:51:06 Hi MarkThe Kmail is setup to go to ~/Mail and that dir does exist..this is default and I did

Re: [newbie] Permission to mounted drives?

2001-01-17 Thread bascule
in /etc/fstab ypu can enter a umask setting to set the permissions for the drive, for some reason the umask figure is the permissions you want taken from 777 (in numeric form) so if you set umask to equal 777 the permisions for the drive would be 0 all round however since root can lock itself

[newbie] Re: Burning CD - not from ISO

2001-01-17 Thread Ardavan
Greetings! Tell me if I'm wrong, but I thought something you want to avoid is something you don't want to do. Of course, I only learnt English :-) I was asking for the directory structure/files of CD1 because I already downloaded some files (about 250 MB); methinks I have almost all I need

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot

2001-01-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
AL wrote: Installed LM 7.2 on secondary master hard drive. When booting up the only available os to boot is linux. Windows 2000 (installed in primary master hard drive) is NOT available in the boot menu. List members previously suggested that LM 7.2 will automatically detect Win2000. How

Re: [newbie] Leaving

2001-01-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paul wrote: Hi folks, I have to leave the list. I've had a lot of fun here, and learnt a big lot, but the amount of mail we all generate is becoming too much for me to handle. THanks for all the help and advice, and keep it Linux! Paul Paulsorry to hear that, pop in on AIM and say

[newbie] How does one uncompress files?

2001-01-17 Thread pogo
I am having problems understanding how to uncompress programs or files.Is there a doc that would explain rpm and other de-compression tools?

Re: [newbie] x3270

2001-01-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2001 12:00 am, Carl Lafferty wrote: A friend of mine not on the list yet (she teaches a great deal of the time) has some problems with x3270. on my 7.2 install I can use it to connect just fine but everytime she tries to run it it says

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Vic wrote: Duplicate entry 'append' near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf what this mean? my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe

RE: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: James Mellema [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux I would like to see a documentation link on the splash screen as you open the installation

[newbie] Ping Onur!!!

2001-01-17 Thread s
Hey dude. Guess what?! I got them NVidia drivers loaded!!! I can't believe it. I can play Chromiun and Gltron now. I need to adjust my fonts now. They are all a little smaller, but success on a day that I was becoming so frustrated. I wasn't getting sh*t done. No luck with glibc 2.2,

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-17 Thread Dennis Myers
Very well said, I will vote for you for vice-President next go around, sorry already committed to someone else on the list for prez. OK, I'll be quiet again. James Mellema wrote: Adrian Smith wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6:12:43 AM 1/15/01 I personally don't like this

Re: [newbie] win2K and ML7.2

2001-01-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Emilio Correa wrote: Hi, I wanna know if somebody could install win2K and LM7.2 on the same hard disk. I couldn't yet. I made the following: (30 HB HD) 1- I partition the disc in one FAT32 unit, and leave the rest of the disc free 2- I installed win2K on this partition (FAT32) , without

Re: [newbie] ping IP

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
You got me on that one Dan ! Er,..Sorry Dr. D. ! Dan LaBine Registered Linux User #190712 - Original Message - From: "Dan Belkie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:38 PM Subject: [newbie] ping IP Hey Guys! ok I have set up a Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Slow computer with MD 7.2

2001-01-17 Thread abe
hey, I'll tell you what I do to make mandrake really scream. 1. HDparm. Read this article. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/272 That oughta get your hard drive going as bit faster. 2. recompile the kernel and get rid of everything you don't use. If you've never done this, email me

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Right On James! Dan LaBine Registered Linux User #190712 - Original Message - From: "James Mellema" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux Adrian Smith wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan

[newbie] Adding memory to 7.1

2001-01-17 Thread Victor Richardson
I want to add another 128 megs of RAM to my 7.1 (kernel 2.4.0.0-13mdk) system and was wondering if there is anything special I need to do or look out for. Most directions imply that added RAM hould be auto detected on reboot, or change the setting in LILO or GRUB. Is this all that is needed?

Re: [newbie] ping IP

2001-01-17 Thread Dan Belkie
Ha ha ha Hey Dan! Ok well I guess I keep playing! Sincerely, Dan Belkie hostinghouse.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hostinghouse.com ***We are now giving away free .com domains names!*** _ - Original Message - From: "Dan LaBine" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] glide V3 libraries

2001-01-17 Thread abe
you are using X 4.01 aren't you. Glide doesn't work with X 4.01. You have to use opengl as your renderer. Go to /usr/local/games/ut/System and edit UnrealTournament.ini. Here is what it should look like [Engine.Engine] GameRenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice

Re: [newbie] modules dont get installed

2001-01-17 Thread s
I just found this in a ng submitted but not signed by a Roger, it may (or may not) be what you need, but I think it's worth looking into: "another one that didn't read the readme file! (i didn't either lol :) you may need the new modutils package (i had mdk 7.2 for which i upgraded my

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-17 Thread Dan LaBine
Hear! hear! Bang on the money! Dan LaBine Registered Linux User #190712 - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux Very well said, I will vote for you

Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 10:49 am, Vic wrote: Ok, what is the url for 7.0-2 tutorial? Tom Brinkman wrote: It's not there anymore for 7.02. I believe you said you have a cdrom (hdc) and a cd-rw (hdd) on the second ide. That is the same as my setup. what is your output from

[newbie] Where is the 'compress' (*.Z) command on Mandrake 7.2 ?

2001-01-17 Thread Keith Christian
Need this to uncompress a .tar.Z file and it's nowhere to be found. I'm not talking about gzip, zip, unzip, nor bzip2, but plain old 'compress.' Anyone have it on their Mandrake 7.2 distribution? If not, where can I download it? Thanks. =Keith

Re: [newbie] Adding memory to 7.1

2001-01-17 Thread Dennis Myers
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2001 01:58 pm, Victor Richardson wrote: I want to add another 128 megs of RAM to my 7.1 (kernel 2.4.0.0-13mdk) system and was wondering if there is anything special I need to do or look out for. Most directions imply that added RAM hould be

Re: [newbie] KDE or Gnome

2001-01-17 Thread Adrian Smith
i may as well jump in also. =) i like Enlightenment as user. not the fastest nor best for using less memory, but i'm all about the eye candy. KDE as root, as it's easier to get around... lots of tools... more "dummy proof" in my mind, and when i'm root i want to do what i need to do get

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-17 Thread Adrian Smith
opps... i mean, Hi James (wasn't trying to call you a name or something) =) my fingers sometimes i don't think they listen to my brain. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Adrian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:47:01 PM 1/17/01 Hi Jame. i assume you are

Re: [newbie] Where is the 'compress' (*.Z) command on Mandrake 7.2 ?

2001-01-17 Thread Fred Schroeder
use tar. "man tar" - Original Message - From: "Keith Christian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:47 PM Subject: [newbie] Where is the 'compress' (*.Z) command on Mandrake 7.2 ? Need this to uncompress a .tar.Z file and it's nowhere to be

Re: [newbie] How does one uncompress files?

2001-01-17 Thread Fred Schroeder
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/tar/tar_toc.html will tell you a lot. Tar will take care of *.tar and *.gz files, *.sh are normally shell scripts, you would run these scripts. For instance if you had a file named install.sh, you would run this script by typing "./install.sh" without the

Re: [newbie] How does one uncompress files?

2001-01-17 Thread pogo
Fred All of them. Tar, gz and sh. Are they internal commands or have a program like winzip.?Can you do it from the gui or do you have to go to the dos? - Original Message - From: Fred Schroeder To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:48 PM

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-17 Thread Adrian Smith
Hi Jame. i assume you are responding to the paragraph you quoted. if this is so, then Sridhar wrote that, not me (Adrian). tho i do agree with him. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Mellema [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:58:51 AM 1/17/01 Adrian Smith

Re: [newbie] Patch

2001-01-17 Thread s
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 08:37 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2001 06:16 am, s wrote: Thanks for the info. rpmpackager doesn't show it and can't find it. When I try to download it from rpmfind I get one of the d*** password requests again. What's up with that? Are only

[newbie] local unix-win microlan

2001-01-17 Thread Quaylar
hiho, im trying to set up a unix-win microlan (how it is called in the mandrakeuser.org-guide) and ive followed the steps as described in the guide at mentioned adress: unix side : ethernet card is recognized eth0 modules are loaded without probs local ip adress configured by ifconfig to

Re: [newbie] Where is the 'compress' (*.Z) command on Mandrake 7.2 ?

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 03:47 pm, Keith Christian wrote: Need this to uncompress a .tar.Z file and it's nowhere to be found. I'm not talking about gzip, zip, unzip, nor bzip2, but plain old 'compress.' Anyone have it on their Mandrake 7.2 distribution? If not, where can I download it?

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