Re: [newbie] bios question

2001-04-25 Thread Todd Lyons
s wrote: > that uses a via VT82C/686A chipset and 133MHz FSB. The oses start and run > fine, once I get passed the bios. *Problem: the bios takes over two > minutes to boot and pass off to the os.* I can't find any irregularities Some servers do that as well. I wouldn't be overly concern

Re: [newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jrt

2001-04-25 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 21:04, you wrote: > On Wednesday 25 April 2001 03:28 pm, you wrote: > > VIA is a death trap. Problem after problem after problem. I will > > never again buy VIA chipsets. STAY AWAY. > > > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, John Turnbull wrote: > > > I realize that Mandrake 8.0 i

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 - start mail server, etc..

2001-04-25 Thread Michael D. Viron
>> >> Where do I configure those names on Mandrake if I want >> "mailserver.foo.company.com" instead of "pop.foo.company.com", etc.? > >I cannot recall which file one must edit to add and alias to the system. You >can do this in linuxconf, but I don't recall which file has that data in it. >Can an

[newbie] Little Help

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew Harrison
Hi All, I am doing a report on Linux for a final in my college comp class and I am having a little trouble finding any documentation on the Kernel. I am mainly looking for any text that would describe the history of the kernel and also if anyone has any good links the history of linux and all

Re: [newbie] Little Help

2001-04-25 Thread Todd Lyons
Matthew Harrison wrote: > > Hi All, > I am doing a report on Linux for a final in my college comp class > and I am having a little trouble finding any documentation on the > Kernel. I am mainly looking for any text that would describe the > history of the kernel and also if anyone has any go

[newbie] Envelope for ABI or Kword

2001-04-25 Thread g
Is there an envelope feature for ABI or Kword.

Re: [newbie] local account

2001-04-25 Thread Todd Lyons
matthew pirritano wrote: > > I am having a lot of trouble configuring my system as an email server. > I'm using Linux-Mandrake 7.2. Can anyone help me. Fill in the blanks: How is it connected to the internet? What software are you using for the email server? What client program(s) are you tryin

Re: [newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jrt

2001-04-25 Thread michael
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 03:28 pm, you wrote: > VIA is a death trap. Problem after problem after problem. I will never > again buy VIA chipsets. STAY AWAY. > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, John Turnbull wrote: > > I realize that Mandrake 8.0 is very new and as a result, not all the > > surprises are

Re: [newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jrt

2001-04-25 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Mié 25 Abr 2001 20:28, escribiste: > VIA is a death trap. Problem after problem after problem. I will never > again buy VIA chipsets. STAY AWAY. I don't know about AMD. My system: MDK 7.2, 128 mb, mobo SOYO 7BVA, P III 733 mhz (Via chipsets) + 2 SCSI Adaptec (1 HD and 1 CD Recorde

Re: [newbie] Is my hosts.deny working??

2001-04-25 Thread Robert Fargher
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 04:39, Mark Weaver wrote: > Charles, > > It does deny access to anyone to your machine provided that their > machine's ip address is entered into the hosts.deny file. OR, if you have > a line in there such as: > > ALL:ALL > > That single line denies access to all ser

Re: [newbie] Kmail

2001-04-25 Thread Todd Lyons
SteveC wrote: > > > It says that it could not run the program > > > "sendmail". Is this a program that should have been installed. It is > > It is on CD1 of your Mandrake 8.0 CD's. Install the rpm for sendmail. > As far as i know, sendmail is for lan mail.to send via an isp account > click

Re: [newbie] Beta or what?

2001-04-25 Thread Michael D. Viron
Final Release of LM 8.0 has been out since the 19th. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems and Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:55 AM 04/26/2001 +0300, linuxmaxx wrote: >Is Final Relase of LM8 out or still beta? > > >-- >Greetings; Linuxmaxx > >[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mail client

2001-04-25 Thread michael
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 01:59 pm, you wrote: > Do some know a better mail client then Kmail. > I think Kmail can not view mails which are in html format? Max: None better! I use Kmail 1.2 and if you do, then goto settings>configuration>appearance and uncheck the "prefer plain text" box. There y

Re: [newbie] Beta or what?

2001-04-25 Thread Todd Flinders
Final has been out for about a week or so. --- linuxmaxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is Final Relase of LM8 out or still beta? > > > -- > Greetings; Linuxmaxx > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ... 6090411 > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy t

Re: [newbie] Takes 7000000000000000000000 years to install windows fonts

2001-04-25 Thread Chubby Vic
Shyeah, and monkeys might fly outta my butt :) I love Wayne's world hehe. I have no windows partition, all Linux ext2, the comic sans ms are on the /Data drive mounted with the device /dev/hdc, but if that would help if I copied them to the local system drive, I shall do that. I have not been o

[newbie] Video Driver Question

2001-04-25 Thread Tiny
Hi All, I was thinking of buying a Evil Kyro 64mb video card & was wondering if anybody knew if it would be supported in ML7.0 or ML7.2 ... Thanks , Tiny

Re: [newbie] How to do Duel Boot??

2001-04-25 Thread Anthony
Assuming you installed LILO correctly, when you boot up there should be a screen or prompt that comes up asking which OS you want to boot to. Your default seems to be Windows. So just type in "linux" (w/o quotes) and you should boot into Linux then. > Hi List, > > I have two hard drives in my

[newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jrt

2001-04-25 Thread John Turnbull
I realize that Mandrake 8.0 is very new and as a result, not all the surprises are known. A quick peruse with various search engines indicates that there may be some issues between Linux and AMD CPUs or chip sets. None-the-less, if one were considering building an AMD based machine, specifically

[newbie] Mail client

2001-04-25 Thread linuxmaxx
Do some know a better mail client then Kmail. I think Kmail can not view mails which are in html format? -- Greetings; Linuxmaxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ... 6090411

Re: [newbie] Grip

2001-04-25 Thread abram olson
that is really weird! I've done four installs of mandrake 8 so far and they have all been subtely different. I did a "recommended" install on my brothers machine and it yielded a system that was windows for all intents and purposes. I'm not sure of the exact numbers as far as size/bit rate go

Re: [newbie] Takes 7000000000000000000000 years to install windows fonts

2001-04-25 Thread abram olson
I noticed that huge amount of time too Vic. I was running DrakConf from a console and in the console there was about a million error messages saying something to the effect that the file type is not understood. After about 15 minutes of that drakfont finially got done. I;ve seen this behaviour

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 - start mail server, how to attach to it with Outlook Express from Windows?

2001-04-25 Thread Keith Christian
Can someone walk me through: 1. How to make sure Postfix or Sendmail is running on my store-bought Mandrake 7.2 install 2. How to configure Outlook Express on Windows to read mail on the Mandrake server? For instance, what are the entries for the POP3 and the SMTP (incoming and outgoing) mail s

Re: [newbie] Grip

2001-04-25 Thread michael
Thanks! I've got the xmms-vorbis plugin now, but had all the other files already installed. I could encode guess it's harder to unscramble oggs than to...anyway, I wholeheartedly oggree that the audio quality is superior. Way better in fact! On Wednesday 25 April 2001 01:22 pm, you wrote

[newbie] Beta or what?

2001-04-25 Thread linuxmaxx
Is Final Relase of LM8 out or still beta? -- Greetings; Linuxmaxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ... 6090411

[newbie] local account

2001-04-25 Thread matthew pirritano
I am having a lot of trouble configuring my system as an email server. I'm using Linux-Mandrake 7.2. Can anyone help me. Thanks Matt

[newbie] Konqueror & security

2001-04-25 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I'm using Konqueror because of it's low memory requirements but there's a secure page where i cannot log in. It answers me wrong identification (www.lineaabierta.com). And i've been using it in, for instance, www.optize.es (also a secure page) with no problems at all 8-? Any idea???

Re: [newbie] Ximian 1.4 on LM 7.2 -- Instructions

2001-04-25 Thread Eric
I just went trought the Ximian installer with ML 7.2 following your instructions. It failed :-( This is what happened. I went through all the downloading ( many many hours ) and I got this message at the end after the packages verification: xmms-mesa-1.2.3-4mdk requires xmms=1.2.3 gnome-p

[newbie] Dhcp problems

2001-04-25 Thread Rick Nyhan
i have a teensy problem, in order to configure my cable modem, i have to go through a dhcp *not a problem dynamic ips work* but the command i have to run in order for it to send out my host name cx618-b is in this command /sbin/dhcpcd -d -I cx618-b   now the problem... at bootup the process o

[newbie] USB Burner,mdk 7.2 or 8? and CD-RW Linux equiv to Direct CD???

2001-04-25 Thread Franki
Hi everyone.. After a rather nasty experiance with a server reload and reconfiguration caused by not doing regular backups.. I decided that I would give this otherwise unsavory task some thought.. I have a Hewlet Packard USB CD-RW drive... which is basically a HP IDE CDRW (it used to have a 80

RE: [newbie] grub and Windows

2001-04-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Stewart > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [newbie] grub and Windows > > > > If you're talking about Windows 95/98/Me, I doubt it. > > But I'm

Re: [newbie] install and extra's iso's

2001-04-25 Thread Todd Flinders
Should it ask you for the second (extensions) disc, you may hit cancel and you will be just fine. If during install you select to install a package that is located on the second disc, that package will not be installed (obviously). --- Dwight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks alot.Saves me dow

[newbie] ALSA, Kernel reiserfs-utils

2001-04-25 Thread g
OK, Software update lists these three files but gves warning message not to use Mandrake Software Update, but to go to linux-mandrake security and download them, then run RPM. So I went there but can't find them for a 7.2 update at the mirror sites, I see 8.0, 7.1, 7.0 beta etc etc How do

[newbie] Whats up Mandrake?

2001-04-25 Thread Jon Doe
With every new version of Mandrake I install, less and less of my hardware is picked up. Whats up with that? Plus now Hardrake hangs everytime I try to detect hardware. Before anyone suggests that I have defective hardware, let me just say that RedHat6.2 and 7.0, Storm linux, Win95, Win98SE, WinME

Re: [newbie] wine

2001-04-25 Thread Jeremy H.
www.winehq.com - Original Message - From: "linuxmaxx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 2:08 AM Subject: [newbie] wine > I want to run windows appz on LM 7.2 and I installed wine. > When I will try to run it always conf file error, could not r

RE: [newbie] grub and Windows

2001-04-25 Thread Mark Stewart
> If you're talking about Windows 95/98/Me, I doubt it. > But I'm no expert. > > NT/2000 should be able to do it, though. Hmm. Yes, I am talking about installing Windows98. At least two other people have replied that they had success but I don't think they specified which versions of Windows they

[newbie] X problems on Dell laptop using LM8.0

2001-04-25 Thread Johan Papp
I have installed LM8.0 on a Dell Latitude CPi 400CT. This laptop has a MagicGraph 256ZX graphic adapter.Every time I start X I get an error message saying "16bpp not supported on this chipset" (or 24 or whatever I choose). I am aware that laptops are special, but I got it to work in LM7.2 (and the

[newbie] Linux Mandrake 8 Installation

2001-04-25 Thread Pietro Ochi
Hi all, I'd need help for mdk 8 installation. I've a Athlon  TB 1200 on Abit kt7a-raid. I've download iso images and burned it whith nero. The installation is ok but It takes about 2 h for 800 Mb and I think it's a very long time above all for an athlon 1200. Then when I try to boot linux fr