Re: R: Re:[newbie-it] Problemi con LILO

2001-03-15 Thread germano percossi
Il 19:20, mercoled 14 marzo 2001, Giuseppe Foti hai scritto: Grazie per aver risposto. lilo stato eseguito pi e pi volte. Attualmente LILO corrotto e non si avvia pi. Il PC avvia sempre windows e per entare in Linux devo usare per forza il floppy di boot. Non ho capito bene, che vuol dire

R: R: [newbie-it] mandrrake 7.1: errore durante l'installazione

2001-03-15 Thread Emi80
Grazie a tutti coloro che mi hanno risposto. Volevo solo dire che ho provato a fare l'installazione raccomandata invece della personalizzata. A tal proposito volevo fare due domande: 1) Innanzitutto devo dire che questa e' andata bene e non capisco perche', visto che io non facevo altro che

Re: R: [newbie-it] Problemi con LILO

2001-03-15 Thread Andrea Celli
Giuseppe Foti wrote: Grazie per aver risposto. lilo stato eseguito pi e pi volte. Attualmente LILO corrotto e non si avvia pi. Il PC avvia sempre windows e per entare in Linux devo usare per forza il floppy di boot. Sai cosa significa "esattamente" il comando rm -rf /dd/ me lo hanno

[newbie-it] INFORMAZIONI ADSL

2001-03-15 Thread Andrea Monaci
CIAO Mi potete dire quali sono i providers che offrono un collegamento ADSL (con un IP statico), per i privati padovani, veloce IN PRATICA. Da questo, potete capire che non vorrei mettere ADSL tanto per dire che io ho un tale collegamento MA vorrei uno che mi garantisca, in ogni momento, una

Re: [newbie-it] aurora

2001-03-15 Thread Enrico Mischi
La risposta semplice... non hai installato il pacchetto auorora, oppure aurora stesso, se installato (controlla con rpmdrake), non abilitato, ma sinceramente io non saprei dove andare ad attivarlo. Ciao Enrico

Re: [newbie-it] aurora

2001-03-15 Thread Andrea Celli
osvaldo wrote: facendo la stessa installazione dagli stessi cd in ufficio, parte grub, avvio linux...ma di aurora non c' traccia...voglio dire...nessun problema perch comunque arrivo alla schermata di login...solo che mi piacerebbe capire il perch, visto che ci

Re: [newbie-it] aurora

2001-03-15 Thread Tommaso Leddi
Il 08:56, gioved 15 marzo 2001, scrivesti: a casa mi si avvia linux con grub, poi parte aurora con il suo bel pinguino ed infine compare la schermata grafica di login. facendo la stessa installazione dagli stessi cd in ufficio, parte grub, avvio linux...ma di aurora non c' traccia...

[newbie-it] SB AWE32

2001-03-15 Thread Marc (aka: Verbal)
Non riesco a riprodurre suoni con la sb in oggetto. durante l'installazione di M7.2 me l'ha vista e installata, ma non c'è verso di configurarla! Che fare? CU S%N!Ciaociao Byez ! \\marco[www] http://verbal.webjump.com ||| http://surf.to/verbal_666[email] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||| [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] MS Outlook

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Johnson
Ok how about this for a solution? You can select multiple items of mail and then do a File | Save As and give the name of a text file. I think I could pretty easily write a console app for windows that would parse that text file and reforward each email so that the FROM line is still intact.

RE: [newbie] Desktop problems

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Johnson
you should add... to start the desktop after logging in type the command: startx -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 6:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Desktop problems On Wednesday 14 March 2001 14:37, you

Re: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-15 Thread Meph Istopheles
Jeff, Hell, Can some one advise me on the best way to allow Mandrake 7.2 to read and write to my FAT NTFS partitions? Well, it could be a little tricky depending upon a few things. First, You say you'd installed NTFS, you may have to recompile your kernel choose the r/w module. (Though

RE: [newbie] Backup needed

2001-03-15 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Backup needed I believe ghost is a vfat environment program, not absolutely sure. If you can check into DriveCopy, the adds I have seen say it works with all windows and linux OS's. It sells for about 25 U.S. and can be used on single, multiple partitions or to copy one

[newbie] Kppp

2001-03-15 Thread Robert F. Trettel
Hi, All I just had callwaiting put on my phoneline. My Question is how and where do I tell Kppp about it?? I have touch-tone ,so the *70, will work in Windoze. My ISP doesn't have a script. All I had to do before was to put the properTelephone number and Kppp did the rest. Is this the

[newbie] Help? USB ports

2001-03-15 Thread donald hinds
How do you tell HardDarke or Linux to look on USB ports for devices? I have a supported (ZOOM USB) modem (linux-USB.org). LM-7.2 sees my TWO USB ports. When I run HardDrake to install a modem, it gives me options of Serial, ISDN and so forth, but not USB. What file to I change (and how do I

[newbie] LM7.2 and kde2 is not working ...

2001-03-15 Thread ZeynalBandari
hi a couple of weeks ago i sent an email about kde2.0 been disfunctional on my installation av LM7.2 . i was recommended to update the kde with mandrake update but i'm still out of luck. are there any configuration files i have to edit after downloading the updates from mandrake update? is

[newbie] BOOTING LINUX DESKTOP

2001-03-15 Thread Mike K.
When I installed Linux-Mandrake, I read in the docs that the "startx" command will boot the linux graphical user interface, just like the ms-dos command "win" boots the windows desktop from ms-dos. I wish you luck! Sincerely,*==* Mike Kilday *

RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-15 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Meph, Whether Jeff wants the detailed instructions or not, I would like them. Thanks a bunch. Moose -Original Message- From: Meph Istopheles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

RE: [newbie] Desktop problems

2001-03-15 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Desktop problems OOOPS! Mia Culpa, right you have to type startx and then hit return again. Sorry, I usually boot to the graphical log in and forgot the startx part. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson

[newbie] Problem installing Mandrake 7.2. Help :(

2001-03-15 Thread A.G.
Hello there, I wanted to try Linux Mandrake. I downloaded the iso image, I burned it on cd now I'm trying to install Mandrake. I am already running Windows Me and OpenLinux 2.4 from Caldera Systems on their separate partitions but I wanted to try Mandrake. The installation gets stuck after

RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-15 Thread Meph Istopheles
Whether Jeff wants the detailed instructions or not, I would like them. Thanks a bunch. Alright Moose ( all), Keep in mind that there are reasons some do this one way reasons others do this another. I, by no means, claim the only or right way, but a way I've learned which works for me

Re: [newbie] LM7.2 and kde2 is not working ...

2001-03-15 Thread Andrei Raevsky
hi a couple of weeks ago i sent an email about kde2.0 been disfunctional on my installation av LM7.2 . i was recommended to update the kde with mandrake update but i'm still out of luck. are there any configuration files i have to edit after downloading the updates from mandrake update? is

Re: [newbie] sorry, a followup to my question!

2001-03-15 Thread James carlson
So I type it in right after I log on right? Cause that doesn't work. Nothing happens. Is there any directory I have to go in and then type XF86Setup? h Thanks, James On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 04:46:12 -0500, Michael Scottaline wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, it says "Driver can't

Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness

2001-03-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
Your lilo conf shows you are using scsi emulation, but the line is wrong. Should be:append=" hdd=ide-scsi" Also, you must have scsi enabled in the kernel, and 'mkinitrd' a ram disk image as per the instructions here: http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade3.html here's my

Re: [newbie] sorry, a followup to my question!

2001-03-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 15 March 2001 01:14 am, James carlson wrote: Ok, it says "Driver can't support depth 24" what does this mean!? Color depth, ie, 8 is 256 colors, 16 is 65,000 colors, 24 and 32 are 16 million. Set color depth to 16 and it should fix it, specially if you've got a 3DFX video

Re: [newbie] sorry, a followup to my question!

2001-03-15 Thread Matt Schroeder
It means you have your settings set to use 24 bit color (In different terms 24 bit color depth) The driver you are using is most likely one that has 3d acceleration buillt in and I think most of them stick to 16 bit. --Matt - Original Message - From: "James carlson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-15 Thread Kelly, Christopher
That's really good. What about Fat partitions, is it the same deal? Here's my scenario: I have two machines. One is running Linux MDK 7.2 and the other is Windows 98se. I want the Linux box to have access to the Windows drive. I have the machines set up in Point to Point topology through a hub.

Re: [newbie] Kppp

2001-03-15 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:43:33 -0500 "Robert F. Trettel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All I just had callwaiting put on my phoneline. My Question is how and where do I tell Kppp about it?? I have touch-tone ,so the *70, will work in Windoze. My ISP doesn't have a script. All I had to do

[newbie] Netscape no longer opens copied URL

2001-03-15 Thread Syamsul Anwar
When I highlight a URL, the small popup with the list of browsers appear at the bottom right-hand corner of my screen. But when I click on "Open with Netscape", it does not run. This used to work however, before I installed KDE 2.1. No such problem with Konqueror or Mozilla. Is there anything

Re: [newbie] Triple boot?

2001-03-15 Thread Peter Smith
Can I ask how you folks got the second (and beyond) linux distributions installed? Everytime I've tried that I've run into problems because the new distribution sees the old distributions root, boot, usr, etc, and refuses to create new ones. I have a windows/mandrake dual boot system with about

[newbie] Dual Boot Win 2000 / Mandrake 7.2

2001-03-15 Thread Raja Damodaran
Hi. I want to setup a Dual Boot with Win2k and Mandrake 7.2. Is there any documentation that will walk me through each step? I have very little experience with Linux so I have no idea how to go about doing this. Thanks, Raja

Re: [newbie] Kppp

2001-03-15 Thread s
Just put *70 in front of the isp phone number or at the end of the dial string under modem commands. I've used both ways and they both work equally as well as the other. -s On Thursday 15 March 2001 08:43 am, you wrote: Hi, All I just had callwaiting put on my phoneline. My Question is

[newbie] Scanner Access

2001-03-15 Thread Derek Rayne
Hi there, I am wondering about using a scanner with Linux. I am using LM 7.0 and someone told me to use the utility called SANE. First off, it is on my SCSI chain (after my zip drive, which IS recognized by Linux). The scanner is one listed in the official list by LM. The ID number is set as

Re: [newbie] Web Cam III

2001-03-15 Thread Lúcio Costa
At 20:46 13/03/2001 -0500, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.linuxnewbie.com look at the menu on left Hi Kit. I can´t the information about Web Can III in (www.linuxnewbie.com look at the menu on left) Can You tell more about it ??? Lúcio Costa

[newbie] pmfirewall?

2001-03-15 Thread chuck_495
Hi, I've just downloaded pmfirewall. I have some pretty bad questions as I am a complete newbie. I want to get this up and running so that I can feel safe about getting on the net. My question is, after I unzip it where should I point the file when I untar it as root? ie tar -xvf

[newbie] NVIDIA screen brightness

2001-03-15 Thread Pascal Poirier
My screen and card have always been a little darker then normal especially with the loopback for the Hollywood Plus card. I was wondering if there is someway of adjusting the brightness in KDE or in xfree86 (which ever one is possible or easiest)? Any help would be great so I won't have this

Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?

2001-03-15 Thread Dan LaBine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just downloaded pmfirewall. I have some pretty bad questions as I am a complete newbie. I want to get this up and running so that I can feel safe about getting on the net. My question is, after I unzip it where should I point the file when I untar it

Re: [newbie] Can't access CD drives - even as root

2001-03-15 Thread root
Jon Doe wrote: For those of you who are interested in this problem, I got the following message from Mandrake today: As root in a shell, type : supermount -i disable reboot then you'll have to mount manually your devices : for instance : mount /dev/cdrom umount /dev/cdrom Concerning

Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?

2001-03-15 Thread Michael O'Henly
On Thursday 15 March 2001 12:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just downloaded pmfirewall. I have some pretty bad questions as I am a complete newbie. I want to get this up and running so that I can feel safe about getting on the net. My question is, after I unzip it where should I point

Re: [newbie] Kppp

2001-03-15 Thread Jay needs a Guinness
On Thursday 15 March 2001 09:43, you wrote: Hi, All I just had callwaiting put on my phoneline. My Question is how and where do I tell Kppp about it?? I have touch-tone ,so the *70, will work in Windoze. My ISP doesn't have a script. All I had to do before was to put the proper Telephone

[newbie] Help? USB ports

2001-03-15 Thread donald hinds
How do you tell HardDarke or Linux to look on USB ports for devices? I have a supported (ZOOM USB) modem (linux-USB.org). LM-7.2 sees my TWO USB ports. When I run HardDrake to install a modem, it gives me options of Serial, ISDN and so forth, but not USB. What file to I change (and

Re: [newbie] Triple boot?

2001-03-15 Thread Philomena
I haven't run into anything like that, possibly since I have setup the partitions before I do the installs. For example, I have my machine setup with about 16 different partitions - when I installed any of the distros, I made sure to use the expert or custom mode, so that I could specifiy the

Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?

2001-03-15 Thread chuck_495
Thanks for the input Dan. I have a cable modem that I just got up and running connected to one PC. My ip address is 24.23.1.1. Like I said before, I don't know much about IP chains. I've heard that they're kind of like ACLs. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA screen brightness

2001-03-15 Thread Matt Schroeder
I've been wondering the same thing. I have a considerably dark old monitor. --Matt - Original Message - From: "Pascal Poirier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:56 AM Subject: [newbie] NVIDIA screen brightness My screen and card have always

[newbie] Partition problem - - Help me, O Ye Sky-Gods of Mandrake !

2001-03-15 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
This is a problem that is potentially embarassing for Mandrake, and I'm surprised not to have heard from them when I first posted it: LM 7.1 installs without any problem, and while installing it I can create the partitions I need with either fdisk or diskdrake without any trouble. When I

[newbie] Telnet

2001-03-15 Thread Julio Gutierrez
does anyone know how I can copy files from a Win2k telnet server to a linux box? or is this possible? if anyone knows pls let me know Thanks in advance Julio

[newbie] The BUG (race condition) is in PING -- NOT in your hardware...

2001-03-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi all, If this looks familiar, read on... PING 64.53.54.1 (64.53.54.1): 56 octets data 64 octets from 64.53.54.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=4452.8 ms wrong data byte #0 should be 0x3b but was 0x3737 da b0 3a 88 9e e 0 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21

RE: [newbie] Kppp

2001-03-15 Thread Hans N.
Just put the phone number to dial as "*70, 555-1234" Sincerely and respectfully,Hans N.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert F. TrettelSent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:44 AMTo: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?

2001-03-15 Thread s
If you don't have ipchains installed, go into rpmdrake and install it first. Then after you untar it, type: cd pmfirewall-1.1.4/. Then type: sh install.sh It will install to a common directory. Then answer the questions. And if you're on a dial up select as your interface: ppp0. Then

RE: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness

2001-03-15 Thread Adam Baxter
Yet that's the wierd thing, I shouldn't have SCSI on my computer..the commands came with the origional kernel on Madrake 7.2. How would I turn the SCSI emulation off? Adam Baxter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent:

Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness

2001-03-15 Thread Charalampos Tsimenidis
Remove vga=788 from the lilo.conf file and try to reboot again From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:00:46 -0600 Your lilo conf shows you are using

[newbie] conexant HCF v.90 56k Data, Fax, speakerphone PCI modem

2001-03-15 Thread dan
Please help me i have a conexant HCF v.90 56k Data, Fax, speakerphone PCI modem on com4, i belive that this is a hardware modem. now it works fine in win98 (with a driver) and win2000 without any driver. i am also running linux mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0.0 and i cant seem to get the modem

[newbie] Spare partition

2001-03-15 Thread Wayne Alexander
I have a 3 gig partition I would like to give to linux to use (currently vfat) and was wondering as it is mounted already as WINDOWS, if I was to change it to ext2 would I have to messa round with my fstab or would MDK7.2 pick it up and make the appropriate changes for me? Would this cause

Re: [newbie] Telnet

2001-03-15 Thread Meph Istopheles
does anyone know how I can copy files from a Win2k telnet server to a linux box? or is this possible? if anyone knows pls let me know Well, if you don't have ftp available on the Windows box, the only way ~I~ know is to open the file with a text editor highlight paste into an editor on

Re: [newbie] no support for my video card???

2001-03-15 Thread Scott Patrie
Hate to get in a rut here, but like I'm sure you'll hear from lots of others: DITCH COREL, I did. Get yer hands on some Mandrake. I've got a voodoo banshee installed and it works like a champ. Peace, Love and Lollipops, Scott Original Message Follows From: James carlson [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] conexant HCF v.90 56k Data, Fax, speakerphone PCI modem

2001-03-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
dan burrows wrote: Hi alan thanks fot that!! but i still have a question.. i have read all the information on the pages you provided... and still no help... any ideas how i can resolve this problem? is there anything i can do to sort this out?? and i feel that i maybe going out to give

Re: [newbie] The BUG (race condition) is in PING -- NOT in your hardware...

2001-03-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Wow, that was amazing! I have been receiving these errors quite frequently over the past week or so. I had no idea what they meant until I read this. Thank you, it is relieving to hear that there is nothing wrong with my hardware! On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:40, Pierre Fortin wrote: Hi all, If

Re: [newbie] Login screen options

2001-03-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Do you have the packages locales and locales-en (assuming your preferred language is English) installed? You can find them at http://www.rpmfind.net/. Look for the Mandrake versions, or you can get them off your Mandrake CD. On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:55, Ross Slade wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2001,

[newbie] IRC

2001-03-15 Thread michael
howcome there's never anybody on the mandrake IRC channel??

[newbie] USB ethernet vs NIC

2001-03-15 Thread Blaine Owens
Hello, I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on PC #1 and am very pleased. I now plan to install Linux on PC #2 but before I do I would like to have it "network ready" as I have recently switched to a cable modem ISP. PC #2 does not have an ethernet card but it does have 2 USB ports. I understand that

[newbie] Slowly getting there!

2001-03-15 Thread James carlson
Alright, thanks for the help guys, I am now able to get into the desktop. I used XFdrake, and was able to access the desktop. The only problem is, I can only use it in 256 colors! Whats up with that? All the other settings don't work! I really don't want to be stuck with only 256. Is there

Re: [newbie] Slowly getting there!

2001-03-15 Thread Varun Kumar Verma
Hello friends, Hi! I am facing a problem with my Linux Mandrake 7.2 installation.I have got a laptop with 20gb harddisk and windows ME installed on it.I wanted to install linux using the Linx4win.My comp doesnt boot from the CD so I made a boot floppy.When I start installing LINUX on the

[newbie] Just a newbie question

2001-03-15 Thread Allen Joseph M Hernandez
* I've been using Linux exclusively for the past two months and it's absolutely given me a new direction. My Exploration seems to have ended when I saw that little foot at the lower left hand cornerand I saw not a START but a finish.