Re: [newbie-it] Mailreader + gpg

2001-07-27 Thread Fabio Coatti
Il 22:47, giovedì 26 luglio 2001, scrivesti: On Thursday 26 July 2001 18:43, you wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 01:22:58 +0200 Mr_Brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il 05:58, mercoledì 25 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Se non ti serve l'interfaccia grafica allora mutt. A me piacerebbe

[newbie-it] Files Corel Draw

2001-07-27 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Salve, vorrei sapere se ci sia un'utiliity per poter gestire i files prodotti da Corel Draw (*.cdr). Grazie anticipate, Alberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it] informazione

2001-07-27 Thread Cristian Taraddei
Uso il VI o l'editor di MC, capisco che sono utili, ma noi sviluppiamo su quella macchina procedure per la telecom, e scriviiamo file in continuazione!!! :) Grazie per l'aiuto. - Original Message - From: Fabio Coatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001

R: [newbie-it] non riesco a leggere i cd

2001-07-27 Thread kokkix
- Original Message - Ciao a tutti, avrei un problemino: ho installato mdk 8 senza problemi, ma sul desktop non avevo le icone dei cdrom; ho aggiunto un icona cdrom col tasto destro del mouse (aggiungi disp. cdrom), ma quando provo ad accedere ad esso, mi comunica che impossibile

[newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] Secondo voi si può fare?

2001-07-27 Thread Luca Branca
Il problema rimane dove scaricare i vecchi sistemi operativi considerati obsoleti. Sto cmq facendo delle prove (avendo 2 di questi notebook): su uno metterò (o proverò a mettere appena finisco di scaricarla) RH 5.2 come suggeritomi, provando a far partire un X molto leggero e guardando i

Re: R: [newbie-it] non riesco a leggere i cd

2001-07-27 Thread Sandro
Il 11:57, venerdì 27 luglio 2001, hai scritto: /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy

Re: [newbie-it] non riesco a leggere i cd

2001-07-27 Thread Stefano Salari
--- kokkix [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, avrei un problemino: ho installato mdk 8 senza problemi, ma sul desktop non avevo le icone dei cdrom; ho aggiunto un icona cdrom col tasto destro del mouse (aggiungi disp. cdrom), ma quando provo ad accedere ad esso, mi comunica che

Re: [newbie] test box took 5.75 hours to load mandrake..

2001-07-27 Thread Robert MacLean
I had the same problem with my 52x CDRom I replaced the CDRom and it loaded in 40minutes. The CDRom appeared to be very very very slightly off track, and that caused the problem, Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [newbie] newbie and hardware questions

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 05:37, George Baker wrote: Content-Length: 759 Status: R X-Status: N Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:53, Robert MacLean wrote: Good Morning Bunnies ;) My next one is also hardware. I have a Genius Netscroll Optical mouse. But for some reason

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:40, John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, This was specific to the fix from you re ONE of my problems. A lot of data to copy from an Email message into a black screen. (*x commands are not intuitive! :-) ) You mean it isn't intuitive for a Windos user? Then you are correct.

Re: [newbie] NOW: philosophy of the Newby book

2001-07-27 Thread John Rigby
Hi Tiny, On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:02, you manipulated electrons to produce: John, IMHO: you are spot-on with the intent and benevolence of your project. I have had to learn most of what I know from doccumentation, beginner to [self-described ;] expert... LOL I would love to help you in

Re: [newbie] THat stuck message from Kmail - again.

2001-07-27 Thread John Rigby
Hi there and thanks for info, however: 1. fetchmail in all variants is command not found 2. kcron does start - comes up with multiple errors then KMail locks up ( loses all text, cannot be killed and requires reboot) I think now my Distro is seriously flawed. -- Cheers, John

Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?

2001-07-27 Thread John Rigby
Hey Michael, Gee you must be OLD.. :-) On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:06, you manipulated electrons to produce: In fact Mozilla is one of the grandaddys of web browsers Nope; that was Mosaic. -- Cheers, John http://counter.li.org GO HERE IF YOU SUPPORT LINUX! Fablor is now

Re: [newbie] Alternatives help like Win4Lin?

2001-07-27 Thread John Rigby
Hi Miark folks, On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:54, you manipulated electrons to produce: I've never tried voice recognition, so I don't know. I think there might have been something about it on this list too, but that was probably regarding Wine rather than Win4Lin. Good question. At any rate,

Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?

2001-07-27 Thread Paul
It was Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:23:13 +1000 when John Rigby wrote: Hey Michael, Gee you must be OLD.. :-) In fact Mozilla is one of the grandaddys of web browsers Nope; that was Mosaic. I resent that! I used Mosaic too! :-) Paul -- Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

Re: [newbie] ug, windows cave man got head sore. (mostly x-windows related)

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:55, Robert MacLean wrote: ug ug ug bunnies ;) (hello bunnies ;)) I have some questions about x-windows. My biggest worry is that when my machine is starting up (in aurora, I think it's called) It try's to load something called X Windows System [K and that seems to

Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
It _is_ a default. If you use Konqueror, you should be able to open a PDF file inside it.. Otherwise, you can install the xpdf (then run xpdf to execute) and/or ggv (then run ggv to execute) packages. On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:05, John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, In its default state, my M8 won't

Re: [newbie] Samba stopped working..

2001-07-27 Thread Daryl Johnson
I have a LINUX OS computer which is used to store my back up files for all computers I have at home. It used to work but last week I could not access to this computer. I did not change anything at this computer. I checked everything and pretty sure that there is no problem with this

Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!

2001-07-27 Thread John Rigby
Hi Sridhar, On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 18:55, you manipulated electrons to produce: It _is_ a default. If you use Konqueror, you should be able to open a PDF file inside it.. Otherwise, you can install the xpdf (then run xpdf to execute) and/or ggv (then run ggv to execute) packages. -- I can

Re: [newbie] Vacation Notice

2001-07-27 Thread steve
On Thursday 26 July 2001 23:23, civileme wrote: I will be absent from posts to this list for the next two months. It is time from a vacation from my favorite hobby to turn my attention fully to my work tasks. LSB compliance testing, software testing, preparation of updates, and coordination

[newbie] Restoring Dual Boot-Up After HD Fails

2001-07-27 Thread Ivan Tefalco
Okay, this one's worrying me a bit. Originally had my PC setup with DualBoot through Grub. WinME on Master LM8 on Primary Slave My Master drive failed recently after four years of faithful service, leaving me with LM8 fully functional on my slave but no way to access it. Simple question is

Re: [newbie] Strange X problem I have never had before. (damn thing crashed again.)

2001-07-27 Thread James S Bear
I've had this same problem. The only way I've found to cure it is to do a low-level format and start all over. This brings to my mind a question: How efficient is the formatting of ext2? Compared to a dos format, it takes next to no time. I've always been taught that haste makes waste, but I

Re: [newbie] Time to Quit the Install?

2001-07-27 Thread John Rigby
Hi Sridhar, On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:45, you manipulated electrons to produce: Actually, the price is about the same when you take into account the exchange rate (about $US1 = $A2 at present). THAT is the fiction of Foreign Exchange - don't get me started on that ! :-) Believe me, if you

[newbie] Kerenel 2.2.x

2001-07-27 Thread Adams, Jamie
Hiya, Okay.. i have a problem.. I have just had my phone line reconnected so i can go on the internet (woohoo!), not the tyink is i have a cruddy winmodem in my laptop, i have the drivers for it, but they only work with 2.2.x kernels, whereas My Mandrake 8.0 installation cd dosnt include any of

Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Just like in any other browser (Windos browsers included), you can right-click the link and select Save link as... (the actual name can differ between browsers). On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:56, John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 18:55, you manipulated electrons to produce: It

Re: [newbie] ug, windows cave man got head sore. (mostly x-windows related)

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
It's a winmodem. Manufacturers like to be sneaky about it, using jargon that makes it sound better than it is. In this case, the offending line is Host signal processing for both controller and DSP. A newbie may think this sounds great, but it isn't. The host is your computer, and it is doing

Re: [newbie] login problem

2001-07-27 Thread root
On Friday 27 July 2001 04:43, etharp wrote: is this while you wait to login? have you installed mandrake security and what level? (paranoid?) or a firewall? what reaction are you expecting? i was expecting no reaction, since I had never heard of that method of logging on before. I hit alt-f4

Re: [newbie] SuSE User on Mandrake List

2001-07-27 Thread Tim Holmes
I agree completely. I think every Linux should try the other flavors. Kinda like Kool-Aid. :0) Personally, I've installed most of the distros. I don't think that I've missed any of the major ones. But each distro handles things different. I currently have 3 machines at home. JEDI --

Re: [newbie] Time to Quit the Install?

2001-07-27 Thread John Rigby
Hi Erylon, No we don't allow flames here!! But you might have saved my sanity!! :-) Everyone else seems to have serious problems - like Networking Apples, their Grannie and their 4 totally incompatible clones of 386 vintage to run unattended! I was feeling very lonely .. On

Re: [newbie] @ symbol in latin american keyboard

2001-07-27 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 00.09 27/07/01, you wrote: El Jue 26 Jul 2001 12:20, escribiste: Hello everyone, I was wondering if any of you has a latin american keyboard layout. I have it, but I haven't found where the @ symbol is. Regards. Hugo Hola, Hugo. Probá AltGr + q o si no AtlGr + 2

Re: [newbie] THat stuck message from Kmail - again.

2001-07-27 Thread Michael D. Viron
John, Install fetchmail-* from the CDs--that should clear up #1. I'm not sure about kcron, since I've never used it. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:38 PM 07/27/2001 +1000, John

Re: [newbie] Kerenel 2.2.x

2001-07-27 Thread Michael D. Viron
Jamie, You can download the 2.2.x kernel source for Mandrake 8.0 at ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel22-sour ce-2.2.19-10mdk.i586.rpm Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of

Re: [newbie] login problem

2001-07-27 Thread etharp
well, we can look at the logs, if you want, or we could create a new user from the text prompt, and see how it logs in. On Friday 27 July 2001 09:05, root wrote: On Friday 27 July 2001 04:43, etharp wrote: is this while you wait to login? have you installed mandrake security and what

[newbie] webmin, portmappin

2001-07-27 Thread James S Bear
WEll, because I have been a windows person for a couple of years and old habits are hard to break, I rebooted to see if that would help my webmin dilemma. When it went to reboot, on its way down, it froze at the portmapping shutdown. I don't know why, but got a hunch they are related. When

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 install hangs after IDE detection

2001-07-27 Thread poogle
On Thursday 26 July 2001 20:18, you wrote: The install locks up the system only on the Western Digital WDC AC24300 drive. Various utilities report that there are no errors on that drive, though the Disk Minder utility whines about the boot loader not being present even though Grub works just

Re: [newbie] Konqueror Problem

2001-07-27 Thread Jay DeKing
I had the same problem until I upgraded to LM8.0 with KDE 2.1.2 and Konqueror 2.1.1. Occasionally it pops up again but only rarely. What versions of KDEand Konqueror are you using? Jay On Thursday 26 July 2001 h:05, Darren wrote: Hey everyone, another minor problem. Konqueror will not

Re: [newbie] Time to Quit the Install?

2001-07-27 Thread Tom Cada
I too have had some very strange problems with LM 8.0. My desktop took an inordinate amount of time to load the system with the installer pausing in the middle of program loads for 20 or 30 seconds. It took about 3 hours to load. With my laptop, the software update manager does not work

[newbie] boot menu

2001-07-27 Thread Kevin Fonner
Where do I configure the boot menu and and the menu item names. I had windows 2000 and Mandrake on my system and then I reconfigured the partitions. Now the Windows 2000 menu item boots up to the wrong partition. Thanks, -- Kevin

[newbie] GUI doesn't load

2001-07-27 Thread Michael Mitchell
I using the lnx4win and installing into the windows partion. All appears well, the video card and x86config seems well. When it presents the multiple Penguins, it appears to be the end of the install. Nothing. On previous installs, a reboot results in normal operations. On almost 100% of

[newbie] Delivery Receipts

2001-07-27 Thread Kevin Fonner
When I was running Windows I used Outlook 2000 and we have a MSExchange server. On outlook I could choose to get a delivery receipt(I don mean read receipts). I always hated those read reciepts except on sesitive documents. When I would check delivery reciept I would get an email back

[newbie] webmin

2001-07-27 Thread James S Bear
I've got my webserver running, sorta, but I am really not a command prompt type of person. Can anybody tell me how to run webmin? I tried typing it from the command line, but it tells me from a browser go to http://localhost:1/ Okay, I did that. In Konqueror, now it tells me that

RE: [newbie] webmin

2001-07-27 Thread Franki
for starters, if its a recent webmin, the link is https://localhost:1 then you can check that it is running.. open a console: /etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin start then make sure its running at boot: ntsysv scroll down and make sure webmin is selected. (you can do that last one from Drakconf

[newbie] pretty graphical editor

2001-07-27 Thread Kevin Fonner
I know I asked this question once and got some reponses but if it ok I would like to just check once more but being a little clearer. Perhaps I am contaminated coming from the windows world but I like it when I am programming in a graphical editor and the editor colorizes on my code

[newbie] X server troubles.

2001-07-27 Thread Gonzalix le Druide
Hi all !! I can't install X after a reinstallation. It has worked fine with FBDev, but I tried to do the same thing without results. My specs: LM7.2 on a Pentium II 350 Mhz, hda Win 98, hdb LM 7.2 on a hdd 15 Gb. RAM 64 Mb. It starts with GRUB (I don't know why LILO wasn't installed) I'll

Re: [newbie] pretty graphical editor

2001-07-27 Thread Roger Sherman
Try Kwrite (listed as Advanced Editor in the menu, under ApplicationsEditors)...you might have to enable code highlighting, but it does the job for me... On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Kevin Fonner wrote: I know I asked this question once and got some reponses but if it ok I would like to just check

Re: [newbie] pretty graphical editor

2001-07-27 Thread bpremeaux
Have you taken a look at VIM? Its GUI version of VI. Barry On Fri, 27 July 2001, Kevin Fonner wrote: I know I asked this question once and got some reponses but if it ok I would like to just check once more but being a little clearer. Perhaps I am contaminated coming from the windows

Re: [newbie] webmin

2001-07-27 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, James S Bear wrote: I've got my webserver running, sorta, but I am really not a command prompt type of person. Can anybody tell me how to run webmin? I tried typing it from the command line, but it tells me from a browser go to http://localhost:1/ Instead of http,

Re: [newbie] webmin

2001-07-27 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Friday 27 July 2001 06:00, James S Bear wrote: I've got my webserver running, sorta, but I am really not a command prompt type of person. Can anybody tell me how to run webmin? I tried typing it from the command line, but it tells me from a browser go to http://localhost:1/ [...]

Re: [newbie] webmin

2001-07-27 Thread Randy Kramer
James, I haven't used Webmin, but I keep seeing messages that you have to use https instead of http. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer James S Bear wrote: http://localhost:1/

Re: [newbie] buying Domain Name from Yahoo

2001-07-27 Thread Charlie Oriez
I'm a fan of gandi.net, over in France. I registered a US org domain with them last spring, and will be moving most if not all of my domains to them in the future as registrations get closer to expiration. It cost 12EU per year (EU currently trading around 86 cents US to the EU if memory

Re: [newbie] Viruses.

2001-07-27 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 11:51, Adams, Jamie wrote: Just a small note about the SirCam virus, i had never heard of this, but on my windows machine at work this morning i have recieved 3 messages from an unknown person infected with it. Get a life, mate. I've had over 30 of the damn things so

Re: [newbie] Delivery Receipts

2001-07-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Kevin: Netscape provides several options for this; don't know about other mail programs. Go Edit Preferences Return Receipt. I'm not sure how effective it is, though. Several weeks ago I sent an important document and requested a receipt. The doc went through, but I never got a receipt. It

Re: [newbie] Time to Quit the Install?

2001-07-27 Thread etharp
was this done as a upgreade to 8.0 or a complete fresh (reformat HD) install? On Friday 27 July 2001 12:15, Tom Cada wrote: I too have had some very strange problems with LM 8.0. My desktop took an inordinate amount of time to load the system with the installer pausing in the middle of

Re: [newbie] OT; the truth about Civilme's vacation

2001-07-27 Thread skinky
Good one! GO CIVILEME!!! - Original Message - From: Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] out of reach.. http://www.tenerife-direct.com Nice cover story, but I'm not buying any of it. According to my source, Elongated Esophagus, civilime has assumed a false identity and has accepted a

Re: [newbie] pretty graphical editor

2001-07-27 Thread Romanator
Check out Cooledit. Roman Randy Kramer wrote: I tried Kwrite, and it's not bad. I switched to nedit because it has: -soft wrap (they call it continuous) -macros However, the search and replace in kwrite is nicer than that in nedit if you want to accept changes one at a time -- nedit

Re: [newbie] Time to Quit the Install?

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:43, John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:45, you manipulated electrons to produce: Actually, the price is about the same when you take into account the exchange rate (about $US1 = $A2 at present). THAT is the fiction of Foreign Exchange - don't get

Re: [newbie] Strange X problem I have never had before. (damn thing crashed again.)

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Don't use Aurora -- it's more trouble than it's worth. Do a fresh reinstall (just in case), making sure to format (but _don't_ low-level format as James suggested below!) the partition before installing. When you get to choose the boot loader, choose either LILO or GRUB, but _without_ graphics

Re: [newbie] Libc.so.6

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:48, Dave Sherman wrote: On Friday 27 July 2001 02:19, thus spake Sridhar Dhanapalan: Mandrake 7.2 has GLIBC 2.1. For this binary to work, you need GLIBC 2.2. You have three solutions: * Compile from source (get an srpm). * Find another binary that will work. *

[newbie] Completely empty software update...

2001-07-27 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have a 7.2 box, and I wanted to keep it up to date, so I ran software update in drakconf (incidently is there a console version of that?) anyway, no matter which mirror I choose, no matter if I choose development updates or just normal ones, I get nothing in my update list, and I know

Re: [newbie] webmin

2001-07-27 Thread Romanator
James, This works for me: https://127.0.0.1:1 Press the [enter] key. Roman James S Bear wrote: I've got my webserver running, sorta, but I am really not a command prompt type of person. Can anybody tell me how to run webmin? I tried typing it from the command line, but it tells me

[newbie] Modem Configuration

2001-07-27 Thread Tom Malone
I am having a lot of trouble configuring my modem. One problem is that I have never used Linux before - today is my first day. I just got Mandrake 8.0 installed, and I don't know where to go to configure the modem. During install I told the configuration program that the modem was on COM2 (which

Re: [newbie] libc.so.6

2001-07-27 Thread Romanator
Everette wrote: I am trying to install some software and keep getting errors. It say's Dependency Problem libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by my software. I looked at the list archives and found several people with the same problem, but never seen an answer. Could someone please tell me

Re: [newbie] Delivery Receipts

2001-07-27 Thread Kevin Fonner
No... You didnt read my email carefully. What you described was a read receipt. These are common to most mail clients, and your right! They are a real pain when used for anything except important emails. I am talking about a DELIVERY receipts. They are not returned by the user but by

[newbie] Apparently small challenge

2001-07-27 Thread Marcos Nobre
Hi all. Imagine a sub-network with 10 windows-boxes. These machines does not have DD and it does not contain CDROM drive. Simply they are connected in the same network. Its HDs measures 10gb and contains windows-ME installed as primary operational system. In these conditions, how can I

Re: [newbie] Modem Configuration

2001-07-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 27 July 2001 23:09, you wrote: Dennis, It is a winModem, and I am using KPPP in the KDE desktop. The KPPP configuration dialogue says the modem is on /dev/modem, if that help.. I am completely new to this linux stuff - I don't know how to change the port the modem is on, and I am

Fwd: RE: [newbie] Modem Configuration

2001-07-27 Thread Dennis Myers
Ok folks, here's another that is over my head for now. Please jump in here and advise Tom on his need for help. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: RE: [newbie] Modem Configuration Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:09:39 -0400 From: Tom Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dennis Myers [EMAIL

Re: RE: [newbie] Modem Configuration

2001-07-27 Thread pepe torrres
u can run as root kpackage n open the file or rpm -i rpmthing.rpm - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Linux-Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 9:20 PM Subject: Fwd: RE: [newbie] Modem Configuration Ok folks, here's another that is

Re: [newbie] Modem Configuration

2001-07-27 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:18:22 -0400 Tom Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, First off - Welcome to Linux OK then, a couple of points to start with.. You need to give us rather more information.. What kind of system do you have?? What kind of modem? (You are dual booting with Windows - I

RE: [newbie] Modem Configuration

2001-07-27 Thread Tom Malone
Ok everyone, Sorry to drag you through another newbie-from-windows-convert-transition - I'm sure it was painful enough for you all the first time you went through it ;) Anyway, I found a binary rpm driver that matched my distribution and kernel, installed it, and had some success. However, it

[newbie] I've gone and done it now!

2001-07-27 Thread John
Hey gang, sigh...I think I've really screwed up this time. I thought I'd go into Drakfont, and remove a mess of fonts I never use. It was going real easy, but apparently it went too easy. I figured I'd reboot just for the heck of it and now, I can't get xwindows to start. Why?...heh...no font

Re: [newbie] I've gone and done it now!

2001-07-27 Thread erylon hines
If you do re-install, you should have all your mail, etc. saved, as long as you don't mess with your /home partition (you did make a separate /home, didn't you?). Note to all newbies--always make a separate /home partition, so if you do have to re-install, you can save your settings, backups,

Re: [newbie] pine in an xterm and copy/paste

2001-07-27 Thread Paul
It was Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:46:11 -0700 when Justin Kao wrote: Did you enable mouse support in Pine? If yes, that might be the reason. Paul I have Mandrake 8. When I run pine in an xterm (or any other terminal in X), I am unable to select text in pine, and unable to paste with the middle mouse

Re: [newbie] pretty graphical editor

2001-07-27 Thread Randy Kramer
I tried Kwrite, and it's not bad. I switched to nedit because it has: -soft wrap (they call it continuous) -macros However, the search and replace in kwrite is nicer than that in nedit if you want to accept changes one at a time -- nedit doesn't highlight the found selection. Also, kwrite

[newbie] About to take the plunge

2001-07-27 Thread Kaldren
Well, I'm about to install LM 8.0 and end a life shackled to M$. Any suggestions or helpful sanity-saving proceedures?

Re: [newbie] Dual booting win 2000 with NTFS file system with aurora and lilo

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
This is a boot loader (the graphical menu that allows you to choose what OS you want to load at bootup) issue, not a distro one. Mandrake used LILO up to 7.1, when it replaced it for GRUB. LILO at that time was not able to boot from a partition that was past the 1024th cylinder. This is a BIOS

Re: [newbie] Restoring Dual Boot-Up After HD Fails

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I've forgotten the command (I use LILO), but I know you can write to the boot sector through the Mandrake Control Centre. On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:36, Ivan Tefalco wrote: Okay, this one's worrying me a bit. Originally had my PC setup with DualBoot through Grub. WinME on Master LM8 on

Re: [newbie] How to execute a specified command string with codeweavers-WINE

2001-07-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
You need to install the X11R6-contrib package. To run a command with switches, etc. encase it in quotes, e.g. $ wine /mnt/windos/windows/command/format.exe c: That should work :-) On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 00:03, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I need to execute a specified string in order to use Eudora

Re: [newbie] libc.so.6

2001-07-27 Thread Romanator
Everette wrote: I am trying to install some software and keep getting errors. It say's Dependency Problem libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by my software. I looked at the list archives and found several people with the same problem, but never seen an answer. Could someone please tell me

FW: [newbie] Modem Configuration

2001-07-27 Thread Franki
if you loaded linuxconf, run it, go to misc options, and select modem that windows has a detect option, if you select that, it will query your ports and look for a modem, if it finds one, it will make a symlink between your port and /dev/modem from then on, you just select /dev/modem in

Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!

2001-07-27 Thread Romanator
John, You will need the following: acroread 4.0.5-6mdk and acroread-nppdf 4.0.5-6mdk (for Netscape plugin) Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, In its default state, my M8 won't recognise

Re: [newbie] About to take the plunge

2001-07-27 Thread etharp
Just my opinions, and I bees a newbie too. first. if you are going to dual boot (I recomend it since that way you can still use winders to connect to this list and get help after you botch something else up) first is to run scandisk in winders or from a dos prompt. then defrag. This assumes

RE: [newbie] About to take the plunge

2001-07-27 Thread Kaldren
Nope, no Windose at all. I am installing it on a clean hard drive, Linux only. Chugging right along.

Re: [newbie] Modem Configuration

2001-07-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Tom: They are called WinModems because they only intended to work under windows. However, SOME of them can be made to work under other operating systems. Go here: www.idir.net.~gromitkc/winmodem.html and here: www.linmodems.org Regards, Carroll Tom Malone wrote: When I go into the KDE

RE: [newbie] webmin

2001-07-27 Thread Tuan Duc Tran
Please read the email attach below. I fixed it by doing this on my LM8.0 Tuan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tim Holmes [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:32 PM To: David Travis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Remote access to Webmin There's something else

Re: [newbie] Monitor Switch?

2001-07-27 Thread Jon Doe
thanks for the quick responses! I dual boot both linux and winME with an older 17 IBM monitor that I got for $99 and it works just fine. My dad is kinda weird about these things and I have him really interested in linux, but when he had the monitor problem of course he blamed it on linux and

Re: [newbie] Modem Configuration

2001-07-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 28 July 2001 00:01, you wrote: Ok everyone, Sorry to drag you through another newbie-from-windows-convert-transition - I'm sure it was painful enough for you all the first time you went through it ;) Anyway, I found a binary rpm driver that matched my distribution and kernel,

Re: [newbie] Alternatives help like Win4Lin?

2001-07-27 Thread Miark
*** Have since been told officially: can not record via W4L. No plans to implement it either... ! :-( Hmm. Too bad. Have been tryting to get to undersatand the W4L install, but small things like system trashing keep interrupting.. :-) My take was you had to virtually

[newbie] ug, windows cave man got head sore. (mostly x-windows related)

2001-07-27 Thread Robert MacLean
ug ug ug bunnies ;) (hello bunnies ;)) I have some questions about x-windows. My biggest worry is that when my machine is starting up (in aurora, I think it's called) It try's to load something called X Windows System [K and that seems to crash. I couldn't find any reference to it in any of the