[newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati

2001-08-31 Thread Vincenzo Manenti
Ho installato Mandrake 8 su una partizione del mio hard disk, per prova, bello veramente, unico neo (x me) è che non mi fa vedere il resto del disco, cioè tutti i miei dati, c'è qualcuno in grado di aiutarmi?

R: [newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati

2001-08-31 Thread Baron
Hai windows nell'altra partizione? - Original Message - From: Vincenzo Manenti To: mandrake newbie-it Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:36 AM Subject: [newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati Ho installato Mandrake 8 su una partizione del mio hard disk,

Re: R: [newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati

2001-08-31 Thread ferdi bau
Ciao, hai installato lilo come boot-loder nel mbr record? se si riprendere i dati sarà facile ferdi --- Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Hai windows nell'altra partizione? - Original Message - From: Vincenzo Manenti To: mandrake newbie-it Sent: Friday, August

Re: [newbie-it] aiuto-rivoglio i miei dati

2001-08-31 Thread gheblond
Il 07:36, venerdì 31 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Ho installato Mandrake 8 su una partizione del mio hard disk, per prova, bello veramente, unico neo (x me) è che non mi fa vedere il resto del disco, cioè tutti i miei dati, c'è qualcuno in grado di aiutarmi? Secondo me sei troppo generico

Re: [newbie-it] Chi ha il KDE 2.2 per mdk8

2001-08-31 Thread OKreZ
On Thursday 30 August 2001 14:46, you wrote: Il 09:21, martedì 28 agosto 2001, hai scritto: On Wednesday 29 August 2001 18:26, you wrote: Salve a tutti, vorrei acquisire il KDE 2.2 stabile. Data la mia connessione lenta (modem 56K) vorrei chiedere se qualcuno che l'ha già acquisito

Re: [newbie-it] domanda stupida

2001-08-31 Thread OKreZ
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 16:04, you wrote: ciao a tutti domanda stupida potrei sapere cos'e' esattamente un daemon? grazie Marcello Un daemon (demone) e' un programma che gira in background, tipo lpd che gestisce la stampa, usbd che gestisce l'usb, etc... -- -- OKreZ --

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

2001-08-31 Thread jennifer
Please keep this off list. Again, respond to me if neccsary, and Isaac off list. This is not the appropriate place to expounde your moral beliefs. This is a linux help list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Epson USB scanner on Mandrake 7.1

2001-08-31 Thread Renato Tognaccini
Hi, I cannot install Mandrake 8 and so I would like to install an USB Epson scanner (1240) on my Mandrake 7.1 system but kernel 2.2.15 does not support USB scanners. Is there any newer kernel working on 7.1 supporting USB scanners? Thank you to everybody Renato -- Renato

[newbie] icons and sounds

2001-08-31 Thread Robert MacLean
Hi Is it possible to use windows icons (.ico) in KDE and is it possible to change things like startup sounds and shutdown sounds? Thanx Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] CPU question

2001-08-31 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I have a BP6, with 466 celerons in it - clocked at 75 Mhz each rather than 66. This gives me a pair of 525 MHz little fellas. They run fine under 2.2.13 (from MDK 6.5) without a hitch. They did cause kernel messages under the 2.4 kernels APIC CPU1 error or suchlike. Dropping them down from the 78

[newbie] Hello and Keyboard Map

2001-08-31 Thread lagaffe
Hello to everybody in the list, Just a few line to present myself: my name is Pierre Houben, I'm not Italian but ... I live in Italy, I work in Theatre like technician, and I'm a Macintosh user from about three years and just by chance, this is my only experience with computers, no windows

RE: [newbie] Not prompted for other cd's during installation

2001-08-31 Thread FLYNN, Steve
ISTR, that under low memory circumstances, 6.5 wouldn't prompt for the 2nd CD either. Memory (pardon the pun) is hazy on this as I only read about it on this very list about 1.5 years ago. I think 32 meg was OK with 6.5 though - people installing with 16 and 24 meg were having grief. You can

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

2001-08-31 Thread Charles Punch
jennifer wrote: Please keep this off list. Again, respond to me if neccsary, and Isaac off list. This is not the appropriate place to expounde your moral beliefs. This is a linux help list. You didn't hesitate to post *your* moral beliefs to the group, so why is it that you don't

Re: [newbie] Ximian mines for gold in Linux desktops

2001-08-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:15, Charles A. Punch wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:36, Mark Johnson wrote: Just FYI... http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5096249,00.html If you can afford it and it suites your needs I would encourage you to support

[newbie] Kmail problem

2001-08-31 Thread Scott Pletcher
Hi all, For some reason kmail no longer allows me to save, print or otherwise work with attachments. If I left click on them, nothing happens, if I right click the only options I get are open url and copy to clipboard. This is true for all types of attachments, text, .ps, .pdf, etc. The copy

Re: [newbie] Hello and Keyboard Map

2001-08-31 Thread Anguo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - Hello to everybody in the list, Welcome to Linux and to Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. - 1) there is no mapping for the Italian or QZERTY keyboard, the one - you have to press shift to write the numbers,

[newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.

2001-08-31 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have just got the opportunity to swap my Western Digital 20gig 7200rpm (three month old) drive,, and I have chosen a 61.4 gig IBM 7200rpm drive to replace it, (also upgrading the box to 512mb ram) I have heard many bad things about the WD harddisks, so when a friend needed a new

Re: [newbie] icons and sounds

2001-08-31 Thread Charles Punch
Robert MacLean wrote: Hi Is it possible to use windows icons (.ico) in KDE and is it possible to change things like startup sounds and shutdown sounds? Thanx Robert I am not sure about your questions, but GNOME is a lot more configurable than KDE and you can change various sound

Re: [newbie] CPU question

2001-08-31 Thread Pascal Goguey
Hello! Anyway, the original Celeron had the multiprocesing pins messed up. The moire recent ones had the pins disconnected internally (more properly, never connected at all). Intel was very cautious about letting the Celeron compete against its Pentium II/III/IV line and has always kept

[newbie] Modem won't work after kernel upgrade

2001-08-31 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Hi all, I upgraded the kernel from the rpm files as stated in the security alert. I did the iptables and lm-utils with the rpm package manager. I used the instructions that came with the security alert. rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.i586.rpm etc. Rebooted with no problems.

[newbie] How to work oo my PC from school?

2001-08-31 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello Guys What should I do to be able to work on my PC from school. I want to be able to mount a directory in my PC to a virtual directory in the school PC. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts

Re: [newbie] CPU question

2001-08-31 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 August 2001 01:59, Pascal Goguey wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake on a Abit motherboard (Abit BP6) with dual celeron. It looks like the smp kernel works fine. The celerons I use are quite old (400 MHz) and their FSB clock rate is 66 MHz. I was thinking I would

RE: [newbie] How to work oo my PC from school?

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
Someone probably knows better than me, but if firewalls and VPNs do not get in your way you might be able to mount a share drive via Samba or NFS depending on your particulars. To mount with Samba from a linux machine to a windows machine: root@morpheus {/home/mjohnson} $ mount -t smbfs -o

Re: [newbie] 486 and Mandrake

2001-08-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:01, Robt. Miller wrote: I want to install Mandrake on a 120mhz 486 with 64mb ram. I was just about to order the 8.0 CD and saw in Google that I should possibly be installing 7.0 instead. Is this the case? If so, how can I download it and install it without a CD burner?

[newbie] PCI modems

2001-08-31 Thread mrc
If anyone on this list is successfully using a PCI modem I would appreciate knowing the model. It's a jungle out there when it comes to finding out about linux-compatibility in modems. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] PCI modems

2001-08-31 Thread Carroll Grigsby
mrc wrote: If anyone on this list is successfully using a PCI modem I would appreciate knowing the model. It's a jungle out there when it comes to finding out about linux-compatibility in modems. -- Michael Michael: The best map through the jungle is at

[newbie] Installation in a loop.

2001-08-31 Thread Lex Middelberg
Hi I am trying to install MD 8.0 dualboot on hdb with an existing W2k installation on hda. My system's information is at the bottom hereof. I have done some earlier installations with the same set of disks, also dual boot w2k on two different HDs to test and play with Linux before installing it

Re: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.

2001-08-31 Thread mike.roberts
look up on dd disk dump copies mbr the lot! Let me know if you still have probs - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie]

RE: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.

2001-08-31 Thread Franki
Thanks Guys, I will think hard and work out what the best method is.. I have a CD with all the updates on it, so I might just tar a few directories and go with that if I did go with something like Ghost, then I'd just have to redo all the partition sizes to work with the new drive anyway..

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-08-31 Thread Charles A. Punch
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Mandrake has taken a few elements from Ximian GNOME for Mandrake 8.0. However, Ximian's official Mandrake 8.0 packages are even better. Things are smoother and faster than in 8.0 (especially Nautilus), and there are a few extra little niceties like Doorman and Red

RE: [newbie] TELNET help! Please?

2001-08-31 Thread Franki
it is, telnet is started by inetd or xinetd (depending on what you have installed..) if its xinetd, go into /etc/xinetd.d and check the telnet entry... make sure it doesn't have disable=yes in there, also, it might not hurt to comment out the +=USERID lines for logon success and logon

Re: [newbie] Modem won't work after kernel upgrade

2001-08-31 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, Aug 31, 2001, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I upgraded the kernel from the rpm files as stated in the security alert. I did the iptables and lm-utils with the rpm package manager. I used the instructions that came with the security alert. rpm -ivh

Re: [newbie] TELNET help! Please?

2001-08-31 Thread Tim Holmes
Telnet is easy to use, but it's starting to be phased out because it's insecure. The odds are, if you're dealing with a Mandrake 8.0 install, the telnet server is not installed. As I recall, it's not set to install automatically. But run this command to determine if the server is actually

[newbie] Software Manager(rpmdrake) frustrations

2001-08-31 Thread Bryan Harper
Hi All, Could someone tell me why I can't add a new source for rpms and get it to actually work? Every time I add new one the software manager doesn't appear to look at the new source. I have had absolutely no luck adding an ftp location. The Security update part doesn't work either. Nothing is

RE: [newbie] Software Manager(rpmdrake) frustrations

2001-08-31 Thread Franki
I went through the same thing today... there were no url's listed, and it wouldn't update the list... In Mdk7.2 in my case,, for some reason, all the url's in the normal updates section disappeaared.. so I setup the dev section and opened one of the FTP urls in netscape, then I chanced the url

[newbie] Configuration Files (repost)

2001-08-31 Thread Isaac Curtis
(I'm reposting this because it never got answered and I had flagged it because I was waiting to hear a response. Thanks to anyone who can help. - Isaac) Hello! In my system, I see .bashrc, .dosemurc, .kderc, /etc/bashrc, /etc/inputrc, /etc/rc.d etc. etc. etc. 1. What does rc stand for, as

Re: [newbie] SNF packet forwarding problem.

2001-08-31 Thread Isaac Curtis
John Turnbull wrote: I am sorry to repost this request, but I have still not managed to turn on forwarding in Mandrake SNF (original description follows). I do know a little more. I have managed to install a different firewalling distro - smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org), so I do know that

RE: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.

2001-08-31 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Ghost and Partition magic will both automatically resize Linux ext2 partitions for you... The problem is that if the /boot partition is beyond the 1024 track limit (does this still apply anyone?). You should make a Linux boot disk then use Ghost to transfer your partitions to the larger drive.

[newbie] Midnight commander in Single Network Firewall

2001-08-31 Thread Draconis
Hi there! Last few day's I spend my time with installing SNF (Single Network Firewall) from Mandrake, and I must say it look realy good. I'm not complete a newbie at linux, but don't have so much expirience with mandrake. But I have a few questions. First: Is there a complete FAQ about the SNF

Re: [newbie] Configuration Files (repost)

2001-08-31 Thread Tim Holmes
Well I have no idea why .*rc files are used. But I know they're basically personal config files. /etc is basically full of config files and information files. There are some scripts in there to start services. Things like /etc/modules.conf are really just informational config files. You can

[newbie] glibc and LM 8.0f2

2001-08-31 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Anybody happen to know what version of glibc comes stock with LM 8.0 f2? I also need some instructions on uninstalling a newer version to install an older version. -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: [newbie] Configuration Files (repost)

2001-08-31 Thread Matt Greer
on 8/31/01 1:13 PM, Tim Holmes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I have no idea why .*rc files are used. But I know they're basically personal config files. rc stands for resource configuration. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-08-31 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
You can download the RPMS from a Ximian FTP mirror. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Charles A. Punch wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Mandrake has taken a few elements from Ximian GNOME for Mandrake 8.0. However, Ximian's

Re: [newbie] Configuration Files (repost)

2001-08-31 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Isaac Curtis wrote: (I'm reposting this because it never got answered and I had flagged it because I was waiting to hear a response. Thanks to anyone who can help. - Isaac) Hello! In my

[newbie] Carte Trident

2001-08-31 Thread Gonzalix le Druide
Hi ! I had to reinstall LM 7.2 because I changed a lot of things on my machine. Now I have the same old problem: X doesn't work. I have read here that my card -Trident 3D 975- may be the problem. Do you actually think so? Because if so, I will change it, because I'm sick and tired of video

[newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in a web based email system that can be used with say Evolution or KMail or something. For example, I have a hotmail account which makes things really convient when travelling because you can always check email where ever you are. But I actually

Re: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?

2001-08-31 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Hotmail doesn't have pop or imap access? Wiggie. If they did you could access it that way. Anyhoo, you could use this program from a box thats up all the time: http://www.hawkins.emu.id.au/gotmail/ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Mark Johnson wrote: Just curious, would anyone out there be interested

RE: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?

2001-08-31 Thread Franki
hotmail is not using pop3, but outlook express is setup to interface with their http setup.. so I use that occasionally too. yahoo offer free email accounts and you can access them using either web or true pop3.. I have fetchmail collecting my girlfriends mail from her yahoo account and

[newbie] ModemBlaster help...

2001-08-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Ever since I've installed the new Shuttle MB, I've had no ISA slots so I lost my 56k Diamond Supra internal ISA modem, which ran great. I've been limping along on a Practical Peripherals 28.8 external which works ok. I picked up an external 56k Creative ModemBlaster today. I switched the modems

[newbie] Port Forwarding

2001-08-31 Thread Nadin Merali
Hey All I want to port forward a port. I current use iptables with the following chains. OPEN FTP PORTS AND FORWARD $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 123 -j ACCEPT $IPT -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d $EXTERNALIP --dport 123 -j DNAT --to $FTPMACHINE $IPT -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d

[newbie] Oh boy! I done it now! (kinda long)

2001-08-31 Thread John
Hey gang, Well, I finally got my CD with the KDE 2.2 on it. I placed everything in a folder in my /home directory and then as root, I opened up package manager and tried to install everything...dependency errors. Fine. I downloaded and installed everything I needed, but kept getting this:

Re: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?

2001-08-31 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:50:41 -0500 Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: MJ Just curious, would anyone out there be interested in a web based MJ email MJ system that can be used with say Evolution or KMail or something. For MJ example, I have a hotmail account which makes things

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
Mark, Thanks for the response! Really appreciate it because I couldn't get mcopy to work as I expected. Downloaded DOS2UNIX.EXE (for win32) from http://www.bastet.com/software/software.html -- seems to work fine. (I don't have an ftp server on either computer, and, for security / loading

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
civileme, Thanks! Very simple! Randy Kramer civileme wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 13:57, you wrote: I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. Open those mounts on your machine with a file manager like

[newbie] How to Remove queued print files

2001-08-31 Thread Geof Steichen
I have used lprm . I also removed all print files using Cups Administration--Jobs . but my printer keeps spewing out garbage. lpq says there are no jobs and printer is idle.so does Cups Admin but each time I turn on my printer it starts printing junk (one line or so per page). I have

[newbie] a dumb postfix question

2001-08-31 Thread Linux Newbie
Would anyone know where the spam controls for Postfix are? I can't seem to find them. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Scanners on usb

2001-08-31 Thread Derek Jennings
Renato I found this archived mail of great   help when I installed my scanner http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg72833.html Derek On Friday 31 August 2001 03:30, you wrote:  Hi,  I cannot install Mandrake 8 and so  I would like to install an USB Epson scanner

[newbie] Maureen's Modem

2001-08-31 Thread klhkhkh
Hello Maureen, 1. Delete your present connection and run set-up again. 2. Make your modem /dev/ttys0 . 3. Make sure your log-on is PAP or CHAP - they aren't interchangeable. 4. Try a connection that you know to work. Hope it helps. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Re: PCI modems

2001-08-31 Thread klhkhkh
Lo Michael If you can find one Dynamode do a cheap internal or external modem. Mine works fine with doze or Linux. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How to set Default paper size?

2001-08-31 Thread Geof Steichen
Where is the kprint config file? How can I change the default paper size ? Mdk 8.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
Tom Brinkman wrote: Well, I don't understand. If it's a dual boot situation, you surely don't need floppy's. AND you don't need anything extra to mount windoze partitons. Your properly configured fstab and normal kernel with vfat enabled should be able to work with windoze partitions,

[newbie] gtkhtml error

2001-08-31 Thread Carlos Arigós
I just have installed Pronto (an email client) without dependencies problems, but when I run it I get the following error: [carlos@localhost carlos]$ pronto [carlos@localhost carlos]$ gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf is not initialized, please call gconf_init before using GtkHTML library

[newbie] Can't run scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d

2001-08-31 Thread Aldo Caruso
Hi, There's a very strange behaviour I noted when I try to create a script in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory (logged as root, of course), and give it execute permissions. After creating that script by means of the KWrite editor (let's say it's name is xxx), when I run it ( ./xxx), I get

Re: [newbie] icons and sounds

2001-08-31 Thread Terry
Changing the startup and shutdown sounds in KDE is fairly simple. Go to the KDE Control Center, and open up the Look and Feel section. Click on System Notifications and in the right side of the window, open the KDE System Notifications section. There you will see 2 entries labeled KDE is

[newbie] Installing Mandrake on Apple G3..please help!

2001-08-31 Thread Kalarness, Bill
Hi, I'm attempting to install ML 8.0RC1-1ppc to an Apple B/W G3 minitower. This system has two scsi hard drives, where one is the original drive from apple (IBM 9.1Gb Deskstar scsi-2) and the other I added (IBM 18.2Gb Ultrastar scsi-2). I'm booting the Mandrake installer from a CD... and all

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

2001-08-31 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 August 2001 10:50, Eyedeal wrote: I guess this will come as no surprise - I'm having problems with my video card. Its a trident 9750 agp. My monitor is LG studioworks 440Si and my mandrake version is the old 6.1 Any ideas ?? Much appreciated 6.1 is no longer supported but the

Re: [newbie] Off Mailing list

2001-08-31 Thread Dean Morrell
At 14:19 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: milim1 wrote: How do you get off the mailing list ? See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists. You can also check the headers of every email from this list. Just saw it there myself. Dean

Re: [newbie] Trident 9750 video (was: Linux, Borders, and social consciousness)

2001-08-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:50, Eyedeal wrote: I guess this will come as no surprise - I'm having problems with my video card. Its a trident 9750 agp. My monitor is LG studioworks 440Si and my mandrake version is the old 6.1 Any ideas ?? Much appreciated I used to have that same card about a year

Re: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.

2001-08-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Don't imaging apps take sector-by-sector copies? If so, that should mean that they can copy any type of filesystem, since they don't have to be able to read the partition data. On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:47, Lin wrote: Hi, I use use Drive Image by Power Quest to back up my windows configurations

Re: [newbie] WoooHooo!!! Hard disk upgrade, but now a problem.

2001-08-31 Thread civileme
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have just got the opportunity to swap my Western Digital 20gig 7200rpm (three month old) drive,, and I have chosen a 61.4 gig IBM 7200rpm drive to replace it, (also upgrading the box to 512mb ram) I have heard many bad things

Re: [newbie] sound card and cd player

2001-08-31 Thread Dean Morrell
At 16:49 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: OK. What is the difference between on-board sound and a sound card? SW On-board sound is just an el-cheapo sound card built into the motherboard. They can almost always be turned off in the BIOS. This is advantageous because many folk like to upgrade to

Re: [newbie] Modem won't work after kernel upgrade

2001-08-31 Thread d
LURKER here, I feel sure you are aware of this, but; the PNP in the BIOS should be set to OFF. I changed my setting and my MODEM took off like, well it works now. At 04:46 AM 8/31/01, you wrote: Hi all, I upgraded the kernel from the rpm files as stated in the security alert. I

[newbie] TELNET help! Please?

2001-08-31 Thread Marchetti, Peter
I have read every man page, searched the web 12 dozen times...tried EVERYTHING I can think of...telnet WILL NOT let me log into my server. If anyone would like to help me out, please drop me an e-mail...I'm losin my mind here... I thought telnet was supposed to be easy to use? Peter [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] TELNET help! Please?

2001-08-31 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 August 2001 12:26, Marchetti, Peter wrote: I have read every man page, searched the web 12 dozen times...tried EVERYTHING I can think of...telnet WILL NOT let me log into my server. If anyone would like to help me out, please drop me an e-mail...I'm losin my mind here... I

[newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. I think I've found one way to do it -- using mcopy with the -a (or -t ??) option, but I thought I'd ask for other suggestions. I'll start out transferring on floppies (today)

RE: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Mark Johnson
use FTP in ASCII mode... it'll auto correct linux to dos and dos to linux for ya... Also, check freshmeat.net, they probably have a dos2unix/unix2dos utilities for linux. Solaris comes with this utility... -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Midnight commander in Single Network Firewall

2001-08-31 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 August 2001 14:06, Draconis wrote: Hi there! Last few day's I spend my time with installing SNF (Single Network Firewall) from Mandrake, and I must say it look realy good. I'm not complete a newbie at linux, but don't have so much expirience with mandrake. But I have a few

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 August 2001 13:57, you wrote: I'm going to need to transfer text files back and forth between Linux and Windows regularly for some period of time. I think I've found one way to do it -- using mcopy with the -a (or -t ??) option, but I thought I'd ask for other suggestions.

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 31 August 2001 05:36 pm, Randy Kramer escribió: The only thing you might run into is /n (line feed) differences. Linux does it properly, windoze doesn't. Well, cept for DOS's 'edit'. If you move or copy a txt file to windoze, open it with 'edit' and then save it. Then even

RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall

2001-08-31 Thread Siavash Sefidvash
Hi all, Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order to encourage more suggestions. Since installing Linux 8

RE: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall

2001-08-31 Thread Siavash Sefidvash
I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error message about command not being found same for the lower case u. Cheers Siavash -Original Message- From: Siavash Sefidvash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 September 2001 00:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall

2001-08-31 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:36 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error message about command not being found same for the lower case u. Cheers Siavash -Original Message- From: Siavash Sefidvash [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use a texteditor called TextPad www.textpad.com it will open unix files and save as the same with having to convert them. Its also a great general editor with tons toys. my $0.02 Steven - Original Message - From: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

RE: [newbie] uninstalling a tar and zip file

2001-08-31 Thread Todd Zashin
Hi guys, I went to the rpm.net site and downloaded the checkinstall rpm now I get this after double clicking the file and typing checkinstall at the prompt. Checkinstall 1.4.1 Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL The

[newbie] Prelude how to start?

2001-08-31 Thread Dennis Myers
Since it looked pretty interesting I thought I would go ahead and download prelude and try it out on the 8.0 2.4.7-12 kernel. It untarred and installed just dandy. Only thing is I'll be durned if I can figure out how to start it up. The Documentation is up to the usual skeleton and only a

Re: [newbie] hotmail like platform for linux?

2001-08-31 Thread Richie d
On August 31, 2001 08:04 pm, Tim Holmes wrote: For lack of a better explanation, what you're doing with Outlook Express and Hotmail is IMAP. You're viewing the remote folders and the information in it. It may not be IMAP they're actually running, but in a way, that's what they're doing.

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread David E. Fox
need to do batch conversions for '\n' between U*nx and DOS (windoze), do a Google or ftp search for 'unix2dos'. I believe there's also 'dos2unix'. And don't forget 'tr' and/or 'sed', both of which can do these batch conversions, and much more. Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] PCI modems

2001-08-31 Thread R C
I recently bought US Robotics 3com PCI 5610A modem. I have been in contact w/US Robotics and I inquired about this modem. They have a model 5610 which is a winmodem but they tell me that the 5610A is a hardware modem. ($70 to $90) I had it up and running for about a week and then I kept

Re: [newbie] PCI modems

2001-08-31 Thread s
I have the pci 5610 (as harddrake calls it) and have never had a bit of trouble with it. A simple setserial with kernels 2.2.x and nothing but setting up kppp in kernels 2.4.x. It cost like $80 or so back in the fall of '99 I guess it was. -s On Friday 31 August 2001 09:41 pm, R C wrote:

[newbie] install Star Office freezes mouse mdk80

2001-08-31 Thread Ken Browne
Trying to run/complete the installation of Star Office 5.2 freezes my MS Intellimouse and stops install dead in its tracks. I've tried installing from the CD and from a 90+ MB download. Same results. Any ideas? Athlon 850, Epox MB, 128mb RAM, Mandrake 8.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Floppy distro

2001-08-31 Thread Charles Punch
Anyone know where I can find a Linux distro that will fit on a floppy. It seems like I heard about this somewhere, but can't seem to find one now. Even the Peanut Linux I checked our required a cd rom. I just got a 486 with no cd rom. I would prefer a free one that I can download, but have not

Re: [newbie] Floppy distro

2001-08-31 Thread David E. Fox
Anyone know where I can find a Linux distro that will fit on a floppy. It seems like I heard about this somewhere, but can't seem to find one I think the Tom's Root-Boot disk set can fit on a floppy (or two). Ob- viously there's not a whole lot that can be stuffed onto one or two floppies, but

Re: [newbie] ModemBlaster help...

2001-08-31 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 01 September 2001 01:07, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: actually I don't think kudzu will find an external cause it won't need drivers or any thing like that. I would go to the KPPP setup and choose the ttyS0 or ttyS1 and put in you ISP server ip addresses etc and then see if

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-08-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 01:30, Charles A. Punch wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Mandrake has taken a few elements from Ximian GNOME for Mandrake 8.0. However, Ximian's official Mandrake 8.0 packages are even better. Things are smoother and faster than in 8.0 (especially Nautilus), and there

Re: [newbie] Mounting CD burner

2001-08-31 Thread s
On Friday 31 August 2001 07:08 pm, David Park wrote: I am currently having trouble mounting my CD Burner. Can some one please tell me how I should define it in fstab. I have created a directory under /mnt but I am confused because under Harddrake,it is listed twice - as an IDE device and

[newbie] Mounting CD burner

2001-08-31 Thread David Park
I am currently having trouble mounting my CD Burner. Can some one please tell me how I should define it in fstab. I have created a directory under /mnt but I am confused because under Harddrake,it is listed twice - as an IDE device and SCSI device. ie hdd and scd0 TIA David Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Converting Text Files between Linux and Dos/Windows

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
Tom Brinkman wrote: Just thought it was worth mentioning that 'edit' in M$ products still does it right if you save a u*nx created file with it. I suspect it's the only M$ editor that adheres to ASCII standards. FWIW, if you need to do batch conversions for '\n' between U*nx and DOS

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Mark Weaver wrote: nah...i've had my head buried in some PERL scripts pretty deeply the last couple of weeks and i only come up for air when my boss forces me to have lunch or something. that, or one of the users calls up and can't figure out why the monitor is black simply because it's not

Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall

2001-08-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 31 August 2001 06:31 pm, Siavash Sefidvash escribió: Few days ago I sent out a long message regarding first time installation woes. Amit and Dennis were kind enough to respond but alas their suggestions has not solved the problems. So I will split the issues into byte sizes in order

Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall

2001-08-31 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:46 am, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:36 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error also -ul or -U -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

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