Re: [newbie-it]

2001-01-18 Thread Andrea Celli
meucci wrote: 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? run fsck manually = lancia "fsck" a mano ( da una console) ossia, entra nel sistema con in modalita`

Re: [newbie-it] configurazione masterizzatore

2001-01-18 Thread Andrea Celli
Fiore Adolfo wrote: 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

[newbie-it] I: Urgesi moduli

2001-01-18 Thread Germano
A chiunque abbia una mandrake 7.1 con kernel 2.2.15: Sareste cos gentili da inviarmi 3 moduli contenuti nella directory /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc, ve ne sarei immensamente grato (i miei li ho erroneamente sovrascritti con 3 pi vecchi per installare un modem asuscom isdn pci).

[newbie-it] java runtime environment

2001-01-18 Thread Francesco Speranza
Ho scoperto Linux solo da poche settimane e sto cercando di iniziare i primi passi . Ho installato piu' volte Mandrake 7.2 nel tentativo di installare correttamente Start office 5.2 . Infatti nel programma di installazione si richiede il Java runtime environment che permette il corretto

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 and Mime Types SOLVED!!!

2001-01-18 Thread Traci Collins
Thanks, I haven't had time to do it all yet but I'm glad to get a comprehensive answer that definitely looks like it has gotten all the bases covered. Traci Altoine Barker wrote: I would like to shift to Netscape 6 instead of 4.7x because of its ability to manage multiple e-mail accounts

[newbie] audio software recommendations please - the more the better

2001-01-18 Thread Vicar In A Tutu
My dear, dear fellows, I have a question which I would very much like answered thoroughly, extensively and possibly off-list to avoid generating excess traffic (this address is also on the Discordian egroup, and the postings of the two mix in a way inspired by Eris herself. The question is: what

Re: [newbie] HDParm and DMA

2001-01-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 18 January 2001 01:27 am, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: When I turn on the UDMA the speed is increasing a lot, but I can't start any program. The Icons on the destop is removed when I click on the and the panel is gone when I click on that one... What does "turn on the UDMA" mean ?

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

2001-01-18 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 17:36, you 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

Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost

2001-01-18 Thread Kearney
I am a real Newbie too (two weeks) but have learnt a lot in that time. Especially useful are two PDF files included on the 7.2 CDs (after installation). First is RUTE.pdf and the other is the Mandrake Reference Manual (another pdf). If you search for *.pdf you will find them. I printed them out

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

2001-01-18 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 17:55, you wrote: 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

[newbie] found out the problem with mandrake

2001-01-18 Thread Arman Zakaryan
ok i think i found out the prob with linux mandrake. i have a mobo with integrated video display sh*t. i dont use that one anymore. i use a 3dfx voodoo3 2000 pci. how can i set it to use that display card rather then the built in on the mobo? can you please be specific in the command i am

Re: [newbie] CDR

2001-01-18 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 22:37, you wrote: Stupid question time: I have a Memorex 1622 CDR that is working just fine in Linux (Mandrake 7.2). The problem is, I can only write to it as the root (superuser). When I have a regular cd in it (already written), the permissions read wide open

SV: [newbie] HDParm and DMA

2001-01-18 Thread Blomquist, Niklas
I'm guess'n you're referring to 'hdparm -d1' /dev/hd*' ? That is correct, when I'm turns this on, the system become unstable and do strange things... What does 'hdparm -v /dev/hd*' say? Multcount = 16 on I/O Support = O unmaskirg = 0 using_dma = 0 keepsettings = 0 nowerr = 0

RE: [newbie] audio software recommendations please - the more the better

2001-01-18 Thread ron peake
Hi Loved your email and sense of humour. Can't help you. Oh dear. -- Original Message -- My dear, dear fellows, I have a question which I would very much like answered thoroughly, extensively and possibly off-list to avoid generating excess traffic (this address is also on the Discordian

Re: [newbie] Increasing font size in Netscape on Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-18 Thread blinddog
Netscape does fonts badly they are small even on 800x600. I have used the following in Mandrake 7.0 Mandrake 7.2. The main problem is that Netscape wants to use 75dpi fonts which is typically too small. You can fix this by specifying the appropriate X resources in your .Xdefaults file:

[newbie] Increasing Netscape Fonts

2001-01-18 Thread blinddog
Netscape does fonts badly they are small even on 800x600. I have used the following in Mandrake 7.0 Mandrake 7.2. The main problem is that Netscape wants to use 75dpi fonts which is typically too small. You can fix this by specifying the appropriate X resources in your .Xdefaults file:

Re: [newbie] Re: soundcard

2001-01-18 Thread cstoh
How do you do a Google search?

[newbie] No sound can't find in archives

2001-01-18 Thread Vic
I installed 7.2 today. No sound. Why? Soundblaster Awe64 ISA sndconfig 'command not found' where did it go? Where is the sound?

Re: [newbie] Re: soundcard

2001-01-18 Thread Vic
Go to http://www.google.com and there should be a little space for putting the search words in. Then press the Enter key or click the Search button On Thursday 18 January 2001 05:09, cstoh wrote: How do you do a Google search?

Re: [newbie] No sound can't find in archives

2001-01-18 Thread Vic
Ok I got it now, somehow, sndconfig did not get installed, so went and downloaded the rpm, now have sound. Weird, must have been a funky iso image. On Thursday 18 January 2001 05:33, you wrote: do it as root and before you startx hth Vic wrote: I installed 7.2 today. No sound.

Re: [newbie] No sound can't find in archives

2001-01-18 Thread -michael-
do it as root and before you startx hth Vic wrote: I installed 7.2 today. No sound. Why? Soundblaster Awe64 ISA sndconfig 'command not found' where did it go? Where is the sound?

Re: [newbie] Patch

2001-01-18 Thread s
Hey Tom, Thanks for the heads up. That nt is kinda cool. The installer even put a link in my menu. I haven't used it yet, but it opens to a nice comfortable gui. I'll have to read up on later when I have more time, as I've never used downloader before (with 99% being spyware for windows

Re: [newbie] Re: soundcard

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Weaver
On Thursday 18 January 2001 06:09 am, you wrote: How do you do a Google search? http://www.google.com -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds

Re: [newbie] Increasing font size in Netscape on Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-18 Thread Altoine Barker
type this command in to see rpm -qa | grep XFree and look for anything with "fonts" in the package name. Also, do you have your system setup as a dual boot? P.S. Sorry for taking so long to reply but I had killed my X server trying to compile it and had to trace my errors. Now all I need to

Re: [newbie] KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1

2001-01-18 Thread Christopher Molnar
If your a new linux user. Don't! Upgrade to 7.2. The dependencies require a bunch of additional packages and stuff. Also, 2.1 should be out in a month so this gives you plenty of time to upgrade :-) On Wednesday 17 January 2001 06:18, Cristiano de Lima Logrado wrote: Hi, I'm a new

[newbie] No hard disk

2001-01-18 Thread Micha POZARZYCKI
Hi everybody! I've got a problem with Mandrake 7.2 installation. All goes well until the programme asks me for existing SCSII driver. Recording to the manual of my motherbard (ASUS VIA 761 Chipset) there is a driver Promise. There is no such a driver in the list I have to choose from. Anyway I

RE: [newbie]

2001-01-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
This happens because you are not running Sndconfig "properly". Sound config needs to be run on a system that has -NO- sound components already loaded. Get out of Xwindows altogether. Make sure that any window managers or X sessions are "killed" and you are at a prompt at the console logged in

RE: [newbie] audio software recommendations please - the more the better

2001-01-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Try: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/ Let me know what you think! -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vicar In A Tutu Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] audio

Re: [newbie] local unix-win microlan

2001-01-18 Thread Quaylar
At 06:44 18.01.2001 +, you wrote: How are the two machines connected? Via a hub/switch or just a single cable? If you want to connect them with a single cable from one to the other then this needs to be a crossover cable. An ordinary cat5 ethernet cable will not work. they are connected

Re: [newbie] No hard disk

2001-01-18 Thread Dan LaBine
Dear Micha; You can't install Mandrake, because you don't have any free partitions left. You said that you had 3 - 10Gb partitions all formatted with DOS? you need at least one partition UNFORMATTED for Mandrake. It will format the partition for Linux-Mandrake while it is installing. If all 3

RE: [newbie] local lan problem

2001-01-18 Thread Quaylar
im experiencing the same problem.connecting a win and linux box directly via ethernet cards..all things configured properly but as u said 100% packet loss..so u r not alone..;) --quay At 02:04 18.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: Post the output of: ifconfig route -n cat

RE: [newbie] Halt Command

2001-01-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
HALT is normally the last step of the shutdown process. You are not permitting your system to shut itself down properly. Try running "shutdown" instead. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of AL Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 11:34 PM

RE: [newbie] DHCP Server

2001-01-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Getting Linux to "share" your single internet connection is very simple under 7.2. There is a GUI interface to set this all up for you. In 7.1 you need to do all the work yourself. 1) Edit your /etc/rc.local file Make sure it includes the following lines: # #CRITICAL: Enable IP forwarding

[newbie] Enlightenment install problem

2001-01-18 Thread Tim Goodaire
Hi everyone, I'm trying to install the latest version of Enlightenment. I downloaded the tarball from ftp.enlightenment.org, untarred it and tried to do a ./configure. It said that it couldn't find my IMLIB_CONFIG. I know that I have IMLIB_CONFIG. It's in usr/bin (which is also in my path).

RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan

2001-01-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Quaylar Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] local unix-win microlan hiho, im trying to set up a unix-win microlan (how it is called in the

RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan

2001-01-18 Thread Quaylar
--- Being able to ping your machines across the LAN is the first important step. This establishes that your LAN cards are correctly configured and that your wiring is ok. Assuming for the moment that your lan cards are correctly configured, look again at your wiring. Since you are using

Re: [newbie] Increasing font size in Netscape on Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-18 Thread Keith Christian
Hi Al, rpm -qa | grep XFree sounds good. I now have a dead video card, when that's swapped out I'll try the command. Thanks for all your great help. ===Keith --- Altoine Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: type this command in to see rpm -qa | grep XFree and look for anything with "fonts"

Re: [newbie] No sound can't find in archives

2001-01-18 Thread civileme
On Thursday 18 January 2001 12:30, you wrote: I installed 7.2 today. No sound. Why? Soundblaster Awe64 ISA sndconfig 'command not found' where did it go? Where is the sound? the installation of alsa detects pci very well but not ISA You do need to use sndconfig but first you

[newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Thread Dale Kosan
Hello,installed the KDE2 rpms and all went well.I did a "rpm -Uvf *.rpm --test" and it came back with no failed dependencies.I then installed from text console outside of x.I then did a "rpm --rebuilddb" followed by "update-menus -v" Once I went to log in I found a whole bunch of system

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-18 Thread Adrian Smith
this will be a shock to you all, but i have an opinon here. =) i agree with Tom -- although i fully confess Tom is much better at saying than I am. probably because i am an obnoxious and arrogant and Tom isn't. but i can't figure this one out ether, why do you guys care so much about

RE: [newbie] Hard drive light always lit

2001-01-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Some IDE hard drive/cdroms have jumpering configurations which differ from what you expect. I.E. the factory default may be |--... |. and the user jumpers one as master ..|... ..|... and the other as slave .|... .|... however the "leftmost" jumper which was originally installed makes

RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan

2001-01-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Assuming your cabling is ok, then it's time to look for trouble with Linux vis-a-vis your ethernet cards. First type in lsdev This will show something like this... DeviceDMA IRQ I/O Ports aic7xxx 5 e800-e8fe

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Thread -michael-
On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:02, regarding [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM, you said: Hello,installed the KDE2 rpms and all went well.I did a "rpm -Uvf *.rpm --test" and it came back with no failed dependencies.I then installed from text console outside of x.I then did a "rpm --rebuilddb" followed by

Re: [newbie] Grub Question

2001-01-18 Thread Philomena
Its just a text file - make sure you are root, and use whatever text editor you prefer. Save the file and thats that - your changes will be in effect when you boot. cheers, philomena At 07:11 AM 1/12/2001 -0500, you wrote: I know that this has been covered, because I remember seeing it. So,

[newbie] e-mail

2001-01-18 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Sorry about the re-posts guys. My e-mail server at work is having trouble and it is re-sounding the messages from the last week or so. My apologies... Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it...

RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan

2001-01-18 Thread Quaylar
At 11:17 18.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: Assuming your cabling is ok, then it's time to look for trouble with Linux vis-a-vis your ethernet cards. First type in lsdev alright..lsdev.command not found.but i know what u are aiming at...so here we go : first : DMA 4: cascade

Re: [newbie] Supermount and new kernel

2001-01-18 Thread Francois Massonneau
I've just installed kernel 2.2.18 and I have 3 things that don't work as before : - Kheader : I solved this one by adding a "0" in the kheader file and it works now. - Supermount : I do not have supermount anymore. How can I do to get it back ? - The alsa drivers I have installed

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Thread Dennis Myers
I've not noticed that I lost all the other window managers, I'll have to check that, but I do have a user named Tina on the login gui. So does anyone know what that is all about, and is it safe to delete Tina as a user? Probably need to report to Mandrake and kde.org, it is a bug

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Thread -michael-
Christopher Molnar wrote: I just got back from a Sun Developers conference in Boston :-) (have to spy on the other people every once in a while). I am about to kick off my build scripts so let's see what happens when I put out some 20010119 RPM's in about 8 hours. I suspect this problem

RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan

2001-01-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Quaylar Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan At 11:17 18.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: Assuming your cabling is ok, then it's time to

[newbie] subscribe newbie@linux-mandrake.com

2001-01-18 Thread Jim Keigher
subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I loaded Mandrake 7.2. Everything worked well. Then I tried to make a change. Theerror belowoccured after I added a subdirectory to my user home directory. I could not make the addition, while logged in as the user, so I logged out and back in as root. After

[newbie] Pre Instalation query; partitions

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Burrows
I am preparing to install Linux Mandrke 72 as a second OS on my currently Win98 machine (Celeron 366, 128 RAM, 10 gig). For now, I just want to begin learning it; I have no programming skills. My HD is partitioned into 4; OS on C:\ (1.17 gig avail), applications on D:\ (911 meg avail), data I

Re: [newbie] Xfree86 RPMs for Mandrake 7.0

2001-01-18 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 18:49, root wrote: I have mandrake 7.0 and everytime I try to update Xfree86 to v4.0.2 it screws up my whole system so I thought if I used RPMs for Mandrake it would make sure everything worked right, well anyways where can I get the RPMs and which ones do I need?

RE: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: Adrian Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux a honda accord has a purpose. a freightliner tractor/trailer rig has a purpose. they are not the same

Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02

2001-01-18 Thread Francois Massonneau
Thank you Chris, Your advice is to download .tgz files, but I have already downloaded the XFree4.02 rpm source file. I've just finished to rebuild the files from the source file, and now I have the following files built : -rw-r--r--1 root root 1274861 Jan 18 22:01

RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan

2001-01-18 Thread Quaylar
At 15:52 18.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Quaylar Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan At 11:17 18.01.2001 -0500, you wrote:

[newbie] I'm using a hotmail acct fot this user group and

2001-01-18 Thread Beckycould
I don't know how to be removed from this very busy usergroup. How do I ask to get removed please?

[newbie] windows/word

2001-01-18 Thread Kmaier26
I recently installed lm 7.2 and i'm still learning it, but my question is, is there a way to access and use microsoft word from ,my other partition. I can access my windows fine but i can't run any programs from that OS. Just curious Kurt

[newbie] how do I caopy a file from another Linux box?

2001-01-18 Thread Homer Shimpsian
I have samba setup, how do I get a file off it into another linux box?

[newbie] NIC Cards

2001-01-18 Thread Rob Callow
I have just installed Mandrake on a P60 with 2 3Com 3c509b Ethernet cards. The system doesnt recognise the cards, what command can I use to add the correct device drivers ?? Rob

Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02

2001-01-18 Thread Chris Hall
H... I can't really help you now because I've never installed using RPM's. :( I've always used the tar files. I'm sure someone else can tho. - Original Message - From: "Francois Massonneau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:16 PM Subject: Re:

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

2001-01-18 Thread s
I don't know why, but Linux sees my 733 processor as a 735 and my 256 mb ram as 255. So I would say: 255. -s On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:19 pm, you wrote: Hooorah if at the boot prompt I type "linux mem=256M" I get the full amount ... however, try as I might I cannot get

[newbie] Help! Need analysis of freeze during 7.2 install

2001-01-18 Thread Bradford Sturtevant
Help! I need to get Mandrake 7.2 Complete installed! I would like to obtain detailed error message information but cannot read messages briefly displaied during stage 1 of install. (they scroll by too quickly to read) After about 30 reboots I did piece together a stage 1 message: Unknown IDE

Re: [newbie]Linux careers

2001-01-18 Thread Anthony
http://linux.com/jobs/ Dear Anyone, Are there any Linux career possibilities? Is there a place to research this on the internet? Thank you, Marcia -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.

[newbie] 3com NIC

2001-01-18 Thread Rob Callow
I have just installed Mandrake on a P60 with 2 3Com 3c509b Ethernet cards. The system doesn't recognise the cards, what command can I use to add the correct device drivers ?? Rob --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version:

Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02

2001-01-18 Thread mark
I should mention that when I followed Chris' directions several times, you cannot boot anymore. I finally traced it to running graphical login (xdm) although I was able to get the upgrade to work if I used a shell login, and copied my old /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc from 3.3.6 back onto the new

[newbie]] Linux Careers

2001-01-18 Thread marcia
Dear Anyone, Are there any Linux career possibilities? Thank you. Marcia

RE: [newbie] local unix-win microlan

2001-01-18 Thread Quaylar
jose, i found the config utility u spoke from, i configured the card to use the BNC port and linux came up recognizing that the card was supposed to use the BNC port. ( *hurray*) i added eth0 routes as u specified but unfortunatly the original problem persists ( *argh*) as before i am not

RE: [newbie]Linux careers

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Johnson
Can anyone suggest a good place to informally find folks interested in being hired for development positions? A place for sponsors/recuiters to informally discuss potential projects? Like a certain newsgroup or something? -Original Message- From: Anthony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [newbie] No sound can't find in archives

2001-01-18 Thread KompuKit
had same problem vic...turn on icq... Vic wrote: I installed 7.2 today. No sound. Why? Soundblaster Awe64 ISA sndconfig 'command not found' where did it go? Where is the sound? -- Registered Linux User:167369 ==http://www.KompuKit.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-18 Thread Mark Weaver
Heavens! don't do that. ToJams don't wash down too easily. And I happen to agree with what you said. All things have a purpose and I, like you, don't want Linux to be anymore like windows then the next guy. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"

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

2001-01-18 Thread Altoine Barker
Try capitalizing the "M" in "append=256M" otherwise the problem is with your bios (I think) Cheers -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why, but Linux sees my 733 processor as a 735 and my 256 mb ram as 255. So I would say: 255. -s On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:19 pm, you

[newbie]] Linux Careers

2001-01-18 Thread NERILL
Has anyone succesfully installed Resin ( JSP and Servlet engine) with the Apache Server which comes with Linux Mandrake? I am confused with the configure and make commands. I have Mandrake 7.0 Thanks

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

2001-01-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 18 January 2001 10:27 am, s wrote: I don't know why, but Linux sees my 733 processor as a 735 and my 256 mb ram as 255. So I would say: 255. -s The clock generator chip on any motherboard is never exact. That's a 133.33mhz bus cpu and the motherboards givin it 133.63mhz.

Re: [newbie] x-config.SOLVED

2001-01-18 Thread Altoine Barker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Andres wrote: Hi, is there a way of changing the xfree server(4.0.1) back to the 3.3.6 using drakonf? or the only way is by "upgrading" the O.S.? Yes, and here is your answer. snip From: s [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same

[newbie] RESIN with APACHE

2001-01-18 Thread NERILL
Has anyone succesfully installed Resin ( JSP and Servlet engine) with the Apache Server which comes with Linux Mandrake? I am confused with the configure and make commands. I have Mandrake 7.0 Thanks

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

2001-01-18 Thread Altoine Barker
Better yet, you are right! Send us your actual lilo.conf file and all it's entirety and we will know for sure what is wrong. Expecially if you have SCSI specified in your lilo.conf. Cheers -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try capitalizing the "M" in "append=256M" otherwise the problem is

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

2001-01-18 Thread Altoine Barker
Better yet, you are right! Send us your actual lilo.conf file and all it's entirety and we will know for sure what is wrong. Expecially if you have SCSI specified in your lilo.conf. Cheers -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try capitalizing the "M" in "append=256M" otherwise the problem is

Re: [newbie] 3com NIC

2001-01-18 Thread Quaylar
At 22:51 18.01.2001 +, you wrote: I have just installed Mandrake on a P60 with 2 3Com 3c509b Ethernet cards. The system doesn't recognise the cards, what command can I use to add the correct device drivers ?? Rob rob, at first u will have to ensure that your precompiled kernel has

[newbie]Linux careers

2001-01-18 Thread marcia
Dear Anyone, Are there any Linux career possibilities? Is there a place to research this on the internet? Thank you, Marcia

Re: [newbie] No hard disk

2001-01-18 Thread abe
Be aware of any IRQ sharing with the promise controller. In windows sharing seems to work ok with that device but I've had some serious problems in linux. The (can't remember for sure) third or fourth pci slot from the top (agp slot) always shares with the promise controller. If you really

Re: [newbie] windows/word

2001-01-18 Thread Michael Scottaline
Kurt wrote: I recently installed lm 7.2 and i'm still learning it, but my question is, is there a way to access and use microsoft word from ,my other partition. I can access my windows fine but i can't run any programs from that OS. Just curious Kurt = Hi Kurt,

Re: [newbie] Tecra8100 + Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-18 Thread Charles A. Punch
James Hallam wrote: hi again, has anyone had any experience of installing drak7.2 on a Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop i can install 7.2 but cannot get X up and running. thanks in advance I have a Satellite Pro 465 CDX, which I have used some Tecra settings, which worked for me, when there

Re: [newbie] No hard disk

2001-01-18 Thread abe
you've got an A7v? Promise 100 controller? the mandrake 7.2 installer down't recognize that controller correctly at boot time. You have to pass the loader a command to get it to work. I can't remember the hack though ;-( Try looking at http://www.mandrakeforum.com for it. You could also

[newbie] Mandrake / Redhat

2001-01-18 Thread Dan Belkie
In a debate over Flavors of Linux, How different would you say Mandrake is from Redhat? Sincerely, Dan Belkie hostinghouse.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hostinghouse.com ***We are now giving away free .com domains names!*** _

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

2001-01-18 Thread Altoine Barker
Try capitalizing the "M" in "append=256M" otherwise the problem is with your bios (I think) Cheers -- Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why, but Linux sees my 733 processor as a 735 and my 256 mb ram as 255. So I would say: 255. -s On Thursday 18 January 2001 07:19 pm, you

RE: [newbie]] Linux Careers

2001-01-18 Thread Homer Shimpsian
Welp, I work in Silicon valley.. We use only Linux on our servers and more then half our workstations. We're using Linux as a replacement to Exchange. I love it. I've been paid to setup Linux for web servers, firewalls, file servers, and backup solutions always a joy. And to further answer

Re: [newbie] Upgrade to XFree4.02

2001-01-18 Thread Chris Hall
Those directions were just what worked for me. I have an NVIDIA Geforce 2 MX and it worked just fine. I had no problems booting either way. mark wrote: I should mention that when I followed Chris' directions several times, you cannot boot anymore. I finally traced it to running

Re: [newbie] Preliminary Survey Results

2001-01-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 06:18, civileme wrote: Keep Mandrake as is : 20 Add a "simple" option to install: 13 of whom 9 recommended a system I guess it doesn't hurt to have a "simple" option, as long as nothing else changes. As a new user gets more experienced, they can make choices for

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Downloadable Version...

2001-01-18 Thread Chris Hall
hey all, Is the kde 2.0 that comes with the downloadable version of mandrake a beta version? I can't seem to find the theme manager in it. Thanks. Chris

RE: [newbie] Mandrake / Redhat

2001-01-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Belkie Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 8:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake / Redhat In a debate over Flavors of Linux, How different would you say Mandrake is from

Re: [newbie] No hard disk

2001-01-18 Thread eryl
Dan LaBine wrote: Dear Micha; You can't install Mandrake, because you don't have any free partitions left. You said that you had 3 - 10Gb partitions all formatted with DOS? you need at least one partition UNFORMATTED for Mandrake. One solution to this problem is to get a copy of

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment install problem

2001-01-18 Thread Jesse C. Chang
Tim Goodaire wrote: I've been trying to edit the configure.in file to see if I can figure out how to get it to find the IMLIB_CONFIG and I'm not having any luck. It appears to be looking in $PREFIX/bin. What exactly is $PREFIX? Anyone have any ideas of how I can get this damn thing to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Downloadable Version...

2001-01-18 Thread Michael O'Henly
There isn't one. Look for it in the upcoming KDE 2.1. M. On Thursday 18 January 2001 19:02, you wrote: hey all, Is the kde 2.0 that comes with the downloadable version of mandrake a beta version? I can't seem to find the theme manager in it. Thanks. Chris

Re: [newbie] HDParm and DMA

2001-01-18 Thread jason-snyder
How do you know that the speed is increased? I have been having problems where when I use the -d1 option by itself, the next disk access locks things up. I get around this by explicitly setting the x-fer rate (-X66 for Ultra33, -X68 for Ultra66, and -X69 for Ultra100.) "Blomquist, Niklas"

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Downloadable Version...

2001-01-18 Thread Dennis Myers
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Re: SV: [newbie] HDParm and DMA

2001-01-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Does your hard drive actually support DMA? If it doesn't you could damage your data (and possibly the drive itself) by having it turned on. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:56, Blomquist, Niklas wrote: I'm guess'n you're referring to 'hdparm -d1' /dev/hd*' ? That is correct, when I'm turns this

[newbie] Download to CD?

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Burrows
I aim to write the downloadable files to CD. How should the files be distributed between the 2 (if even both CDs of data are included in the downloadable files)? Anyone work this way to install 7.2? I read in one place and here that only 1 CD is necessary to install the most important files.

[newbie] Compa LTE5300 Dock Sta.

2001-01-18 Thread kbrowne
I have Mandrake 6.5 installed as a standalone OS on my Compaq LTE 5300 laptop. * Pentium 133mmx, 80 meg RAM, 1.3 GB HDD, sound, video, etc. Docking station is plugged into a 3 workstation peer to peer WIN 9x network, laptop has a 33.6K USR (Megahertz)

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
If everything "has a purpose" then what exactly *is* Linux's purpose? Is it to run desktop workstations? Servers? Supercomputers? PDAs? Web pads? Wristwatches? Linux has been proven to run well on all these devices, and it is continuing to push both downwards (towards embedded devices, etc.)

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