Re: R: [newbie-it] problemi con floppy

2001-06-20 Thread Stefano Salari
Ora a dir la verita non so se il bug è stasto risolto nella MDK 8 perchè preferisco montare il dispositivo con linea di comando : mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Con la 7.2 anch'io ho avuto problemi con il supermount ma ora con la 8.0 lo uso senza problemi ed e' davvero comodo!

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 8.0 e mouse seriale

2001-06-20 Thread Andrea Celli
Tiscali wrote: Ho installato da alcuni giorni mandrake 8.0. Purtoppo, anche in fase di installazione, il mouse, un seriale a tre tasti, pur essendo stato riconosciuto correttamente non viene attivato e la freccia rimane sconsolatamente bloccata al centro dello schermo. Tutto il resto

[newbie-it] rimozione GRUB

2001-06-20 Thread Cristiano Orlandelli
Salve a tutti, qualcuno mi sa dire come eliminare GRUB come MBR, premetto che con fdisk /MBR mi si toglie solo LILO ma al riavvio del computer , nella fase di boot mi compare la scritta GRUB e mi si blocca tutto.Non mi parte piu windows.Tutto questo perchè in MDK8.0 ho deciso di utilizzare

Re: [newbie-it] rimozione GRUB

2001-06-20 Thread Andrea Celli
Cristiano Orlandelli wrote: Salve a tutti, qualcuno mi sa dire come eliminare GRUB come MBR, premetto che con fdisk /MBR mi si toglie solo LILO ma al riavvio del computer , nella fase di boot mi compare la scritta GRUB e mi si blocca tutto.Non mi parte piu windows.Tutto questo perchè in

Re: [newbie-it] GRUB continua...

2001-06-20 Thread Andrea Celli
Cristiano Orlandelli wrote: Grazie Daniele,Andrea e Pierantonio è successo questo,premetto che ho 2 HD separati per windose e MDK8 , Lilo non mi faceva più partire windose...allora l'ho tolto con fdisk /MBR ma al riavvio mi è comparsa la scritta GRUB e il PC mi si blocca! Ho riavviato

Re: [newbie-it] Aurora, Mandrake 8.1, USB

2001-06-20 Thread freefred
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 01:47, Tommaso Leddi wrote: Sono finalmente passato anch'io alla mandrake 8.0. Mi viene segnalato un problema nei moduli del kernel per l'USB. A qualcuno è successo qualcosa del genere? C'è un modo di sistemare questa cosa? dovresti forse dire qualcosa di piu'

Re: [newbie-it] Kernel 2.4.5 e driver scheda video

2001-06-20 Thread Gigi Cyber
se vuoi compilare i sorgenti nel caso del nvidia kernel dvi usare, anzichè make semplice un bel make SYSINCLUDE = pathdovehaiisorgentidelkernel/include ciao --- Stefano Salari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ok, ora tutto funziona ma in questo modo (con opzioni lilo al boot): - vecchio

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win2000? (una prima risposta)

2001-06-20 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 10:10, mercoledì 20 giugno 2001, hai scritto: Forse parlo a sproposito, ma mi sembra che konquerror abbia la possibilita` di spacciarsi per un browser diverso. Serve per ingannare quei siti ( esistono !) che escludono automaticamente i browser che non ritengono idonei a fruire dei loro

Re: [newbie-it] rimozione GRUB

2001-06-20 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 10:38, mercoledì 20 giugno 2001, hai scritto: Salve a tutti, qualcuno mi sa dire come eliminare GRUB come MBR, premetto che con fdisk /MBR mi si toglie solo LILO ma al riavvio del computer , nella fase di boot mi compare la scritta GRUB e mi si blocca tutto.Non mi parte piu windows.Tutto

Re: [newbie] iptables

2001-06-20 Thread Ross Slade
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Jeffrey M. Reed wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2001 21:10, Ross Slade wrote: Is there an iptables (newbie) mail list? If not I'll start bugging you guys... 8-) real men use ipchains. LOL I'd rather do that, everything worked fine on 7.2 with ipchains. Iptables is

RE: [newbie] Hotmail Mail

2001-06-20 Thread Edward Barrow
On Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:31 PM, Jose [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hotmail was designed to be used from any browser. You can still go to www.hotmail.com to read, answer, write and save your emails. While it is easier to use Outlook Express, you can use any browser. It was also built

Re: [newbie] Hotmail Mail

2001-06-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:24, Edward Barrow wrote: On Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:31 PM, Jose [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hotmail was designed to be used from any browser. You can still go to www.hotmail.com to read, answer, write and save your emails. While it is easier to use Outlook

Re: [newbie] I simply have not a clue

2001-06-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
There are many Linux IRC channels. with different names and different foci. You might want to try these: Server: us.xchat.org Channel: #mandrake Server: ChatJunkies.Net Channel: #mandrake On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 04:35, Mark Johnson wrote: I think there is a #linux channel on IRC, however, with

Re: [newbie] I have strange letters in all Browsers...

2001-06-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:20, Demosthenes wrote: jan wrote: Hi, on some websites, the letters, or the whole text if you want, looks strange on my MD 8.0 system. It seems as if all the letters are on a different level of height in one line. ( seen from far away, it looks for me as if they

Re: [newbie] Corel Paint and FontTastic

2001-06-20 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 23:01, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello I installed corel paint fine but when I run it, it asks about FontTastic server? Where can I find it. It should have been included with the download/cd from corel. it is fonttastic-glibc-2.1-something-or-other.rpm you will need to install

Re: [newbie] Desktop Publishing

2001-06-20 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 11:04, Kevin Fonner wrote: I want to get into graphics and animation, but at the same time I am beginning to use Linux more and more. Do any professional graphics editing, desktop publishing, and animation programs exist out there? graphics editing - gimp, should be

RE: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS

2001-06-20 Thread Norman Teferle
Tuan, many thanks. After spending 1.5 days trying to get my printer working from my Mandrake box I finally managed within one hour using CUPS. Cheers, Norman Tuan Duc Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/01 03:12am Well, The best way to setup is using CUPS. First, I assumed you installed CUPS

Re: [newbie] Doom

2001-06-20 Thread Nico Krzebek
To obtain a list of all files belonging to an installed RPM, type rpm -ql package (without .rpm ending) For further options man rpm Nico On Monday 18 June 2001 18:15, you wrote: Hello I installed doom from an RPM that I downloaded from www.rpmfind.net but I don't know

Re: [newbie] Desktop Publishing

2001-06-20 Thread Jordan Elver
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 05:52, you wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2001 11:04, Kevin Fonner wrote: I want to get into graphics and animation, but at the same time I am beginning to use Linux more and more. Do any professional graphics editing, desktop publishing, and animation programs exist

[newbie] Text console

2001-06-20 Thread Kirill Usachev
I just install Mandrake-Linux 7.2 on my computer and after reboot i got graphical screen witn booting progress. Can I switch it to text mode? Another problem: After booting complete I have text console with 43 lines, can I switch it to 25, where is the configuration file for this

Re: [newbie] sendmail installation problem

2001-06-20 Thread Jim Nuytens
God in Heaven! Why would anyone install SENDMAIL? It's got a security rap sheet longer than your arm. I highly suggest qmail. See http://freezer-burn.org and click on the link for qmail under Linux-Mandrake. I had a basic qmail server up and running within 8 hours and I'm a complete neophyte

Re: [newbie] Text console

2001-06-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:33, Kirill Usachev wrote: I just install Mandrake-Linux 7.2 on my computer and after reboot i got graphical screen witn booting progress. Can I switch it to text mode? In the Mandrake Control Centre, go to Boot - Boot Config. Uncheck Launch the X-window system at

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Bankrupt??

2001-06-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I know I've posted this several times before, but I believe it is important for peope to know. Expect me to post it in the future :-) If you REALLY want to help Mandrake, you should send a donation: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/ This is the best way to guarantee that ALL your money

[newbie] Some stupid questions

2001-06-20 Thread strab dogg
Ok i on my linux the second day , and i know about it :( . OK here are the questions. 1.Who of you has ISDN ? I need that someone tells me how to config. it . I tried , but it didn't connect . 2. I downloaded a file ( it is ICQ for linux ) it packed into .tar . So what do i do whit this

Re: [newbie] Some stupid questions

2001-06-20 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:21:20 +0300 when strab dogg wrote: 1.Who of you has ISDN ? I need that someone tells me how to config. it . I tried , but it didn't connect . www.wurtel.demon.nl has good info on this all. I have ISDN also. On the old machine there is no problem but on the new pc it

Re: [newbie] Check ip address.

2001-06-20 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:34:52 -0400 when Dan Gordon wrote: Is there an app or command in Manrake 8.0 to check what your ip address is ? Im on cable and found my ip had changed over night, it gave me some trouble till i had figured this out. ifconfig is the magic word. -- Well begun is half

RE: [newbie] sendmail installation problem

2001-06-20 Thread Franki
go to rpmfind.net, and look for those packages,, I did what you discribe not that long ago, and hat to do just that to work out what packages to update,,, its an involved process, but in the end, I did get the same version of sendmail working on 7.2 mandrake, so if I can do that, you should

[newbie]

2001-06-20 Thread KM
Finally, my health permits an attempt to learn something of MD Linux ver 7.2. As any newbie might, after an apparently snag free installation, I click on the kde desktop icons. Access to the cdrom is ok but a click on the floppy icon produces the fol msg box: *unable to enter file:/mnt/floppy.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0

2001-06-20 Thread Daniel Voyer
Folk, Ok, I answer at my question. Find it on the vmware web site. After installing vmware-linux-tools.tar.gz you must do the followed task: cd /etc ln -s /etc/X11/XF86Config.vm XF86Config and then startx ;-) Thank's anyway .. - dan The best players, I think, are always the ones who

Re: [newbie] Check ip address.

2001-06-20 Thread Dan Gordon
Thanks, ifconfig is what i was looking for. On June 20, 2001 08:11 pm, you wrote: as root ifconfig or netstat as anyone Civileme -- Regards, Dan Gordon Powerd by KMail Registerd Linux user #217868

[newbie] USB Mouse and Mandrake 8.0

2001-06-20 Thread Jeff
I am new to the list. I have a logitech Optical USB mouse. 1. Is it possible to get it to work during the install? I can use text install and get by without, but would like to get it to work in XWindows. 2. If it is possible to get it to work in XWindows, what do I need to do? It works

[newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread Gary
Hope you don`t mind - Ive just bought this distro and got as far as the file system part of install when: windows partition is too fragmented, please run defrag first at /usr/bin/perl_install/install_interacti ve.pm line 113 I have defragged using Norton speeddisk (2001) and win98se defrag. All

Re: [newbie] error trying install LM8.0, somebody help me

2001-06-20 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:22:49 -0400 when jgarrido wrote: Must be indeed a problem with the harddisk. on mandrakeuser.org I found that someone went around the problem by installing things directly from an ISO file. Don't know how or what, but there are possibilities... Paul I am getting an

[newbie] INN news service

2001-06-20 Thread Paul
Hi all, On the MDK8 machine (where I am still facing ISDN slowness) the INN news system is automatically started. I know that it is loaded through /etc/rc3.d/S95inn something. Can I just delete that symlink to prevent it from loading? Somewhere something is sending mails to news@tbird with all

RE: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gary Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Install error Hope you don`t mind - Ive just bought this distro and got as far as the file system part of

[newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake

2001-06-20 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello Guys there are not a lot of book for mandrake in my area. But there are a lot for Red hat. Will redhat books be ok for mandrake? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:01:31 +0100 when Gary wrote: I don't mind. What are you installing? Linux 4 Windows? Hope you don`t mind - Ive just bought this distro and got as far as the file system part of install when: windows partition is too fragmented, please run defrag first at

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Bankrupt ?? -- No Way!!

2001-06-20 Thread etharp
Heck the TRUTH is there is at least one linux user who is MORALLY bankrupt. that was all...MORALLY g On Tuesday 19 June 2001 22:16, Kevin Fonner wrote: Whew!! Am I glad. After you said that earlier I immediately scanned all the linux news sites and couldn't find it anywhere. Mandrake is

[newbie]

2001-06-20 Thread Andre

Re: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake

2001-06-20 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:26:56 -0700 (PDT) when OOzy Pal wrote: The basics would be the same. The specifics (the part where's the fun) would be different. Paul there are not a lot of book for mandrake in my area. But there are a lot for Red hat. Will redhat books be ok for mandrake?

[newbie] Re: Re SETI question

2001-06-20 Thread etharp
these should be dial on demand and a time out after a period of inactivitiy. maybe 2 min.? these are options in a file called /etc/ppp/options to understand the options in the file /etc/ppp/options, read the man file for pppd. in a console type man pppd I believe you need to (as root) add a

RE: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake

2001-06-20 Thread Mark Johnson
What are the the differences betw. Mandrake and RedHat... any sigificant differences? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:46 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Is Redhat books ok for Mandrake It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001

Re: [newbie] Is windows REALLY easier to install?

2001-06-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Civilme: I ran a test today that may be of interest. I'm in the process of assembling a second computer (Lazarus) from some old stuff that I've accumulated; eventually, it is to be a server for a home network. Right now, Lazarus consists of: TMC Socket 7 motherboard AMD K6-2-500

Re: [newbie] I got me a new Motherboard,,, woohoo

2001-06-20 Thread Van Winssen Ramaakers
Op woensdag 20 juni 2001 09:55, schreef u: After much thought, I got an Abit KT7A motherboard,, possibly any problems I can expect? I Have the Abit KT7A with the bios from may 11 2001, and it working o.k. Also with A Creative 512 pci soundcard that is recognised as A soundblaster live!

[newbie] I need some help

2001-06-20 Thread KoRn
Hi, My name is Israel, i live in japan, but i am not japanese, i will buy the Mandrake 8.0 in spanish, i am using windows 98 second edition,i am using a ADSL internet connection, my PC is a laptop, i need to insert a card in to my pc to connect it to the ADSL modem, that card is called LAN

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Bankrupt??

2001-06-20 Thread John
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 02:33:13 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I know I've posted this several times before, but I believe it is important for peope to know. Expect me to post it in the future :-) If you REALLY want to help Mandrake, you should send a donation:

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse and Mandrake 8.0

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin Fonner
I have a Logitech usb optical mouse too! I just went under the Mandrake control center.. under hardware.. under mouse and selected a usb generic mouse. I still have not yet get the wheel to work on mine though but I really haven't tried yet. Hope that helps. Kevin - Original Message

[newbie] Merging Mail Folders

2001-06-20 Thread Richard Davies
Hi, I have 3 different hard drives here that have come from 3 different systems and locations over the last 12 months. All of them have the directories /home/user/Mail with Mail containing different folders on each one inbox, outbox and sent mail being common to them all. I want to somehow

[newbie] Re: Digest for list newbie

2001-06-20 Thread Michael Leone
Here is my comp : Motherboard Soyo 7vca , video geforce 2mx , ram 128mb , cpu intel pentium 733 , windows Windows 2000 Pro . I have 2 hdd's and the first is partitioned into 2 . Both are 20,5 hdds. C: SYSTEM (this is the first partition on my 20,5 hdd , there is win2kpro) D: ARCHIVE

[newbie] server monitoring

2001-06-20 Thread Luc Martineau
Hello all I was wondering if there is a way to monitor apache at all so that you can tell how many hits you got (without using a counter) how much megs you received and sent how much bandwith you use average ETC? there a way to do this using mandrake 7.2 or 8.0? thanks all Luc Registered

Re: [newbie] wine

2001-06-20 Thread Sam
Which apps were you able to run successfully? Codeweavers recently launched an easier-to-access Wine Application Database. You might want to post your comments and rate too. http://appdb.codeweavers.com/ I use the Wine RPM from Codeweavers. It has a really user-friendly setup. On Thursday 21

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:48:51 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy, Those 'can't be moved' clusters always gave me trouble when I attempted skrinking. For the past few Linux installs where dual-booting was going to be used, I found it a better option to remove and reinstall

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Bankrupt??

2001-06-20 Thread Chris Keelan
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 18:15, you wrote: Hi!! A friend of mine (who is in the business and is pro-OS/2 and anti-windows tells me that he heard the Mandrake had gone bankrupt. Is there any truth to this? Before I load Mandrake for the first time, i would like to make sure I am not going

[newbie] Konqueror utf8 encoding

2001-06-20 Thread Dennis M.
I have found that the fonts in konqueror web browser look good if once in konqueror I click on View set encoding and then select utf8. Only it doesn't stay that way. Next time I open up konqueror I have to set it again. I have tried through control center but am having no success. Any

Re: [newbie] Merging Mail Folders

2001-06-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try this, after closing Kmail and backing up all your mail files (just in case): 1. In your /home/user/Mail directory, delete all *.index files. 2. In this directory, make a subdirectory: .newmail.directory 3. Copy your mail files from the other drive across into this directory, leaving out

[newbie] ECS K7VZA onboard soundcard problem

2001-06-20 Thread Guybrush Threepwood
Hi all, I'm finally have myself a first linux. I suceeded to install Mandrake 7.1 on my computer. Installation works very fine, it's detect all my peripherals except one thing,.. the soundcard. My MB is ECS K7vza with via vt82c686 chipset and built in soundcard. Each time linux boot, it shown

Re: [newbie] Konqueror utf8 encoding

2001-06-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
No problems here. I am using Windows TrueType fonts imported through DrakFont (in the Mandrake Control Centre). Everything looks great. On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:23, Dennis M. wrote: I have found that the fonts in konqueror web browser look good if once in konqueror I click on View set

Re: [newbie] I need some help

2001-06-20 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:37:46 +0900 when KoRn wrote: I user a Realtek 8139 which works really fine. Hi, My name is Israel, i live in japan, but i am not japanese, i will buy the Mandrake 8.0 in spanish, i am using windows 98 second edition,i am using a ADSL internet connection, my PC is a

[newbie] Squid?

2001-06-20 Thread Ross Slade
I'm having problems which I think are cause by the firewall. I finally have masquerading partially working, but still have issues... Bunyip (203.14.156.30, 10.0.2.15) = Mandrake 8.0 box with modem attached Wallaby (10.0.2.16) = WinME box which was working fine under Mandrake 7.2 Bunyip is

[newbie] Volume Control in KDE?

2001-06-20 Thread Ed Kasky
Is there a volume control anywhere in KDE desktop? I hate to admit to being used to the slider in windoze But... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . Improve the computing world. Toss a Mac off a cliff.

[newbie] Has anyone used an SM56 modem on Linux

2001-06-20 Thread Keffa
Hello Everyone I use Mandrake Linux at work, and have decided to finally install it at home. I am downloading the ISO's (From a modem, I intend to publish my harrowing story when it's complete! He he!) and I am ready to burn them to their CD's. I have but one problem (I may have more later

[newbie] Conecting COM 1 and COM 2

2001-06-20 Thread Carlos Eduardo Colon Rangel
Hi, How can I stablish a connection between COM port 1 and COM port 2? Thanks,

[newbie] MBR overwritten

2001-06-20 Thread Cliff Gosden
I have boot magic installed. When I installed LM8 it overwrote the MBR. When booted to windows and re-enabled boot-magic it overwrote the LILO. Now all I can get is WME because if I use the lInux option on Bootmagic it takes menowhere. If this is as clear as mud it represents the state of

[newbie] buying mandrake

2001-06-20 Thread Luc Martineau
Hi all I want to BUY linux mandrake corprate server edition does anyone now if its for sale if so where? I wnat to buy it so i cna get tech support cause i have corprate server installed and i tried ALOT to get help and no one seems to be able to help me and i dont mind buying it to help

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread Randy Kramer
Charles (or anyone else), Noticed your post, thought you might be able to answer a few questions related to shrinking Windows partitions: 1. Sometimes when I defrag a Windows partition there are clusters that can't be moved in various locations throughout the partition -- can resize move those

Re: [newbie] buying mandrake

2001-06-20 Thread s
I saw it on their site store. You may not find links from their homepage to it, but you'll see 'em there for 8.0. Same place. It ain't cheap tho. -s On Wednesday 20 June 2001 08:18 pm, you wrote: Hi all I want to BUY linux mandrake corprate server edition does anyone now if its for sale

[newbie] Possible fix for 'ldconfig failed' error during Install

2001-06-20 Thread Jolyon Terwilliger
I've seen this problem on a number of websites and mailing lists and even experienced it myself. Here's my story: I had initially installed LM 8.0 on a PII 350, Asus mobo, Maxtor 8 gig HD, 128 meg ram, 3Com NIC, and generic SVGA about a month ago, no problems. One caveat regarding the install

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 and Promise FastTrack RAID 1

2001-06-20 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:45, Norman Teferle wrote: I have posted a message with respect to my Mandrake 8.0 box with a Promise FastTrack Ultra ATA-100 RAID 0 - 1 controller a couple of days ago with no response. Scrolling throught the mailing list archive, I can see that this topic has

Re: [newbie] sendmail installation problem

2001-06-20 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 12:19, Paul wrote: It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:11:05 -0400 (EDT) when Jim Nuytens wrote: I had a basic qmail server up and running within 8 hours and I'm a complete neophyte about mail servers. With the proper info of www.postfix.org I managed to get postfix going

[newbie] Check ip address.

2001-06-20 Thread Dan Gordon
Is there an app or command in Manrake 8.0 to check what your ip address is ? Im on cable and found my ip had changed over night, it gave me some trouble till i had figured this out. -- Regards, Dan Gordon Powerd by KMail Registerd Linux user #217868

Re: [newbie] sendmail installation problem

2001-06-20 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:31:02 -0400 when civileme wrote: With the proper info of www.postfix.org I managed to get postfix going in 15 minutes... It is said that no one is a _REAL_ unix system administrator until he has installed sendmail by hand. 0:-) Never claimed to be real!

Re: [newbie] Some stupid questions

2001-06-20 Thread civileme
Ummm, sorry those questions didn't qualify as stupid. Civileme

Re: [newbie] Some stupid questions

2001-06-20 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 13:21, strab dogg wrote: Ok i on my linux the second day , and i know about it :( . OK here are the questions. 1.Who of you has ISDN ? I need that someone tells me how to config. it . I tried , but it didn't connect . 2. I downloaded a file ( it is ICQ for

RE: [newbie] I got me a new Motherboard,,, woohoo Overclocking Details...

2001-06-20 Thread Franki
I will tell you when I try it tomorrow,, I have all the bad ingrediants,, so if it works, I'll be happy... I have a Western Digital, ATA100 7200rpm 20 gig hdd, Updated Mandrake 7.2 with ReiserFS, And the Southbridge chip... Its gonna be interesting.. As for the Bios,, here is the bios page

Re: [newbie] Check ip address.

2001-06-20 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 13:34, Dan Gordon wrote: Is there an app or command in Manrake 8.0 to check what your ip address is ? Im on cable and found my ip had changed over night, it gave me some trouble till i had figured this out. as root ifconfig or netstat as anyone Civileme

[newbie] Question

2001-06-20 Thread Jay needs a Guinness
Can I safely uninstall printpro and it's related files safely. I can't configure my printer and I believe printpro to be the culprit. When I installed LM 7.2 from a single CD, me printer was configured OK. Only when I installed the Power Pack and all the CD's, did my printer become

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread Ed Tharp
to minimize the can't (or maybe won't) be moved clusters, you can try and set virtual memory to nothing while you run defrag and scandisk, and turn off your screensaver too - Original Message - From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [newbie] Linux installed :) new problem :(

2001-06-20 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 12:20, strab dogg wrote: OK i installed linux : swap file was 256 and all the other / . Ok now if i turn on my comp a blach screen comes : linux windows floppy and stuff is written there and there is a boot: if i write there windows it says VIRUS ALERT i click

Re: [newbie] I have strange letters in all Browsers...

2001-06-20 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 16:31, jan wrote: Hi, on some websites, the letters, or the whole text if you want, looks strange on my MD 8.0 system. It seems as if all the letters are on a different level of height in one line. ( seen from far away, it looks for me as if they always go up and

Re: [newbie] cd writer for linux

2001-06-20 Thread Jordan Elver
I also use a Plextor and it works fine. Jord On Tuesday 19 June 2001 16:59, you wrote: It was Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:52:30 -0500 when Carlos Cifuentes wrote: I want to buy a cd writer for linux but i dont know what machine work in linux Can some person help me? Any decent CD-RW will work,