Re: [newbie] Triple boot?

2001-03-16 Thread Romanator
michael wrote: > > I was quadribooting for awhile (NT,98SE,RH,MDK7.2). > Make sure windows is on first. > -m- > > Jon Doe wrote: > > > I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but > > I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what i

Re: [newbie] Triple boot?

2001-03-16 Thread Romanator
Jon Doe wrote: > > I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but > I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is > the best way to install all three? > > -- > > linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste Get System Commander 2

Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?

2001-03-16 Thread chuck_495
Hello All, Thanks for all of the information. In response to your question Dan, I'm using the internet on one PC. I have a cable modem. Running static, not DHCP. Just got it working. Does this answer your questions? Let me know. Thanks for your help! Chuck

RE: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 harddisc-I'Will WO2 onboard controller

2001-03-16 Thread falcaraz
Hello folks, I have an WO2 mother board, with a Quantum 30 Gb ATA 66 (hda) with two windows partition and a second harddrive Seagate ATA 100 (hdb) with two mandrake system installed, MDK 7.2 (working fine, including Epson USB scanner, CDrwriter, DVD -with xine I could see splendid dvd-movies-

RE: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100harddisc-I'Will WO2 onboard controller

2001-03-16 Thread Ton Truong
I dunno, but it should be: ide2=0x01f0,0x0400 ide3=0x0170,0x0380 Beware, this is from memory, not from fact as I don;t have an IWill board. Regards, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Liu > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:0

RE: [newbie] Vmware & Linux

2001-03-16 Thread Esteban Villeda
Marcia When you hava vmware running on any Linux platform, is as if you had another machine. If you want to share data from Linux to your vmware or viceversa you need to use SAMBA. It emulates the protocol used to share data in a Win network. If you are also new to samba, you can go to www.ore

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Re: [newbie] Question about QT

2001-03-16 Thread Eric
I am not completely sure but it might be related to the environmental variable KDEDIR. Eric Indiogine On Friday 16 March 2001 13:20, Jon Doe wrote: > I have QT 1.44 and QT 2.2.1 or whatever it is. How do I direct programs > (RPM or ./configure) to the QT2? If I try to install an rpm that requir

[newbie] Vmware & Linux

2001-03-16 Thread marcia
Dear All, I now have vmware running Windows 95 on my LM 7.2 which is great. Thanks to the help of some of those here. Now, I would like to share files between the two. Does anyone know how to do this? I am quite a newbie in this area. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia

Re: [newbie]To varun, Slowly getting there!

2001-03-16 Thread Robert Pena
I know your feeling. I bought Linux4Windows despite many warnig against it because Linux would run faster on its own partition, which is true, or they are very anit-Windows which is the impression I got from them.   On my laptop the CD boots from the CD drive. I could never get pass the dowloading

[newbie] Question about QT

2001-03-16 Thread Jon Doe
I have QT 1.44 and QT 2.2.1 or whatever it is. How do I direct programs (RPM or ./configure) to the QT2? If I try to install an rpm that requires qt2 I get unsatisfied dependancies, if I try to build from source I get the can't create small programs qt2 not found. I did an rpm -q for qt2 and it

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1 install

2001-03-16 Thread Eric
Greetings! Do I have to uninstall KDE 2.0.1 first? Do I have to use one --force --nodeps? I modified my list: 0. mv .kde .kde_old > 1. telinit 3 and su - root > 2. rpm -Uvh qt2*.rpm > 3. rpm -Uvh lib rpms > 4. rpm -Uvh the rest of the rpms > 5. rebuilddb > 6. rpm --rebuilddb > 7. update-menus

[newbie] Setting up VNC

2001-03-16 Thread Graham Trott
Can anyone explain a) Why the following messages result when starting up VNC: xrdb: No such file or directory xrdb: can't open file '/root/.Xresources' /root/.vnc/xstartup: xterm: command not found b) How to start up KDE instead of the default twm. Using 'startkde' I get a whole raft o

[newbie] KDE 2.1 install

2001-03-16 Thread Eric
Greetings! I am downloading the Mandrake 7.2 KDE 2.1 rpms from ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/i586 The rpms are dated 2001-03-05. I would like to kow if there are any special instructions on how to install them. This is my plan: 1. telinit 3 and su - root 2. rpm

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

2001-03-16 Thread Andrew Lazarewicz
** Reply to message from Graham Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:07:53 + In the process of following my own instructions and testing how to do this right, I created the same problems with my Zip drive that you have with your CD drives. Still working on it - Andy

[newbie] VICE / X64 (to Paul Rodríguez)

2001-03-16 Thread Gerry
Hi Paul, sorry for this late reply.. Can't find your email-addy, so i send this to this list for all the world to see :) Joystick setup in the vice is very easy. For the unix/linux versions, just hold the _right_ mouse-button (the left pops up a load-menu), choose joystick setup from the popup

[newbie] RE: Installation of Mandrake7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc

2001-03-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 7:05 AM > To: Charles A Edwards > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Installation of Mandrake7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc > > > > Hi Charles, > > Could you pl

Re: [newbie] Anybody got Sane working yet?

2001-03-16 Thread Adrian Smith
i have also messed with SANE a bit. no luck. at the moment i'm just letting it slide. my scanner isn't fully supported by linux yet anyhow, so i still have to use win to make full colour scans. hopefully soon SANE will be more idiot proof and i'll be able to figure it out.=) Adrian Smith 'd

Re: [newbie] autologin in 7.1

2001-03-16 Thread Quaylar
At 02:50 16.03.2001 -0800, you wrote: >Hi, > >The auto login works for me on 7.1, even though it was >designed for 7.2!! > >Ok? > >Thomas Adam > >- hmm..shouldnt autologin install a /etc/sysconfig/autologin file ?..i installed 1.0.0-3, it had only 8 kB (is this possible ?), but i dont h

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA screen brightness

2001-03-16 Thread Tom Badran
Often brightness problems occur because you havent specified the correct monitor in setup. Try the similar ones until you get a satisfactory result. -- Microsoft is not the answer, its the question. And the answer is no. www.badran.co.uk

Re: [newbie] Anybody got Sane working yet?

2001-03-16 Thread Meph Istopheles
Graham, > I've tried to use Sane under MDK 7.2 but with no luck so far. > It tells me that no sane devices are detected. > I have a Plustek 9630 parallel port scanner and there appears > to be a Plustek back end. Is there anything I need to configure > to get a result? Though it didn't work

Re: [newbie] Spare partition

2001-03-16 Thread Adrian Smith
howdy -- if i understand you correct, you want to take an existing fat32 and convert it to ext2, yes? i have done this in the following way -- run diskdrake and find out exactly which partition i'm dealing with, such as hda4 then i used diskdrake to change the partition type (fat32 to ext2) the

Re: [newbie] Telnet

2001-03-16 Thread Édison Andrés
Telnet don't have this utility. For this you need have a ftp connection. Julio Gutierrez escribió: > 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 -- Édison Andrés Rivera Nor

Re: [newbie] Slowly getting there!

2001-03-16 Thread Jeff Davis
varun The Linux4Win can be installed on your Windows FAT partition by inserting the CD once ME has booted to the desktop. ME will execute the autorun file and give you the option to install Lin4Win on a certain part of your FAT partion. Using a boot disk and the CD will excute an actual LINUX

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

2001-03-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 15 March 2001 12:42 pm, Adam Baxter wrote: > 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? Usually the line append=" hdd=ide-scsi" is in there to accomod

[newbie] Installation of Mandrake7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc

2001-03-16 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Charles, Could you please throw me some light re installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc I'Will WO2 onboard controller From MSWindows > Settings > Control Panel > System > Device Manger > Storage Contoller > Resources, following data were found : a. Input/Output Range 01F0 -

[newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc-I'Will WO2 onboard controller

2001-03-16 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, Re Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc I'Will WO2 onboard controller From MSWindows > Settings > Control Panel > System > Device Manger > Storage Contoller > Resources, following data were found : a. Input/Output Range 01F0 - 01F7 b. Input/Output Range 03F6 -

RE: [newbie] USB ethernet vs NIC

2001-03-16 Thread Wilson
Well I haven't been able to get my Dlink USB 10/100 ethernet card to work in Linux. It works fine in Windows though. There is a driver called Pegasus (I think) that is supposed to work but I haven't been successful and haven't been able to get any help on it here. Wilson -Original Message-

Re: [newbie] Disk usage

2001-03-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Renaud, You can get the information you're looking for by using this neat little command. du -h --max-depth=1 Example: du -h / --max-depth=1 give it a try...you'll love it! Mark Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been trying to find a way to get, for each sub-dire

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

2001-03-16 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I am using tcp/ip. I'm in the process of setting up a proxy server, so I needed something routable... Moose -Original Message- From: Meph Istopheles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:50 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NT

Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?

2001-03-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Dan LaBine wrote: > > [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

Re: [newbie] Just a newbie question

2001-03-16 Thread Jose Ricardo Sabino
at site www.google.com type "c/c++"+"sample"+"examples", or add others words, "tutorial"+"libraries"+"openGL"+"HOWTO"+"alegro" etc, any thing related. you will be moved to plents of links you will appreciate. the path to learn c/c++ is not straight foward, some oscillation occur but you

Re: [newbie] Cups upgrade to 1.1.6

2001-03-16 Thread Jose Ricardo Sabino
hi, I upgraded cups to 1.1.6 yesterday and got the jobs printing again, I dont have printpro installed, and no error were reported in software update interface. I'm using KDE 2.0.1 yet. I curious stuff, in my system when the printer stops working properly, I have to remove any printer configu

Re: [newbie] Migrate RedHat to Mandrake?

2001-03-16 Thread Thomas Adam
Hi Patrik, Rightwhere to begin??? If you plan to upgrade to Mandrake from Rehat, and you want to keep configuration settings, the best thing to do, is to back up you /etc folder, since this is the folder which stores those configuration files. You may also want to copy "/root" and "/home". Th

Re: [newbie] autologin in 7.1

2001-03-16 Thread Thomas Adam
Hi, The auto login works for me on 7.1, even though it was designed for 7.2!! Ok? Thomas Adam --- Quaylar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > heyho all > > does anybody know whether the autologin-package of > 7.2 will also work on 7.1 ? > > --quay > > = Thomas Adam Linux Co-ordinator for Th

[newbie] autologin in 7.1

2001-03-16 Thread Quaylar
heyho all does anybody know whether the autologin-package of 7.2 will also work on 7.1 ? --quay

[newbie] Migrate RedHat to Mandrake?

2001-03-16 Thread Patrik Nylund
Hi everyone. I would like to migrate to Mandrake from RedHat but I need to keep all the qmail,vmailmanager settings and users. Now I wodner if there is any easy way to do this or do I have to install Mandrake on a new disk and copy the whole mail system to the new disk? /Patrik

[newbie] Anybody got Sane working yet?

2001-03-16 Thread root
I've tried to use Sane under MDK 7.2 but with no luck so far. It tells me that no sane devices are detected. I have a Plustek 9630 parallel port scanner and there appears to be a Plustek back end. Is there anything I need to configure to get a result? All advice welcome. Graham Watkins