[newbie-it] modem non risponde

2001-09-09 Thread Mario Beretta
Ciao a tutti,da poco ho installato linux mandrake,e premetto che su questo sistema sono molto ma molto inesperto il mio problema è questo,quando cerco di connettermi la finestra mi dice "modem pronto"in seguito quando clicco su connetti mi dice "il modem non risponde"cosa posso fare?se non

Re: [newbie-it] aiuto: accesso negato a floppy e cdrom

2001-09-09 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 19:35, domenica 09 settembre 2001, hai scritto: Uso il 2.4.3 fornito di serie con la mdk 8.0, installato con i pacchetti rpm dei cd d'installazione... Forse, allora, hai commesso qualche errore in fase di applicazione delle patch e ricompilazione...

Re: [newbie-it] modem non risponde

2001-09-09 Thread freefred
On Sunday 09 September 2001 16:24, Mario Beretta wrote: Ciao a tutti,da poco ho installato linux mandrake,e premetto che su questo sistema sono molto ma molto inesperto il mio problema è questo,quando cerco di connettermi la finestra mi dice modem prontoin seguito quando clicco su connetti mi

Re: [newbie-it] aiuto: accesso negato a floppy e cdrom

2001-09-09 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 23:46, domenica 09 settembre 2001, hai scritto: Daniele Micci ha scritto: Forse, allora, hai commesso qualche errore in fase di applicazione delle patch e ricompilazione... Urka, ma devo patchare il kernel?! 8-) Pensavo che i sorgenti forniti dalla mdk fossero gia` patchati! (e, a

[newbie-it] problema con xmms !

2001-09-09 Thread GiulioF
Ciao vi ringarzio i anticipo per la risposta !! Ho installato xmms scaricando i sorgenti dal sito xmms.org il programma funziona bene e mi legge gli mp3 ma quandi inserisco un cd audio nel cdrom non riesco a caricare i file nel lettore e quindi ad ascoltare musica mentre prima (con una vecchia

Re: [newbie-it] modem non risponde

2001-09-09 Thread dragx
mario wrote: ecco altri dettagli il modem interno è sulla porta com 3 e mi collego a inwind con la normale linea per quanto riguarda provare il collegamento come root chiedo spiegzioni,perchè le mie capacita con linux sono scarse ho installato il sistema una settimana fa per provare ad

Re: [newbie-it] modem non risponde

2001-09-09 Thread mario
ecco altri dettagli il modem interno è sulla porta com 3 e mi collego a inwind con la normale linea per quanto riguarda provare il collegamento come root chiedo spiegzioni,perchè le mie capacita con linux sono scarse ho installato il sistema una settimana fa per provare ad avvicinarmi a questo

[newbie-it] problema con lilo

2001-09-09 Thread Valentino Castelli
Ciao a tutti ho installato Mandrake 8 su un hd da 9 Gb collegato al secondo canale udma 66 (hdg7)nellla cofigurazione dililo ho sceltofd0 ma quando faccio il boot si blocca subito, sullo schermo nero compare solo la scritta LI.

[newbie-it] Chiusura sessione con tastiera

2001-09-09 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Salve, una domanda per il logout. Poichè sono un appassionato della tastiera ed uso pochissimo il mouse, ho un bottleneck quando chiudo una sessione. Con Ctrl+Alt+Del chiudo KDE e ritorno alla finestrella iniziale dove mi si chiede la login e la password. Col tanto Tab riesco ad andare

Re: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-09 Thread Bill R
On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:10 am, you wrote: HSP56 MicroModem Normally a HSP means its a software modem that is tied to the OS/Windows and will not work under Linux though some work has been done in this area. Check out http://www.linmodems.org Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread strab dogg
Hello , I got a problem , my 2 hdd's are full and i need the space from the linux hdd . How can i uninstall Linux and LILO ? And how can i turn my hdd from linux filesystem to fat32 . I thought on part. magic . But i dont know how to do it neither how to uninstall lilo . Ok thank you

RE: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Michael Spivak
Actually, to remove the lilo, you should boot from ordinary DOS diskete, and type 'fdisk /mbr' - this will remove from MBR record of the LILO (clean it) . About the partitions - i think you should use the Linux's fdisk to remove the ext2 partitions, and then use the DOS fdisk to recreate the

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 02:22, strab dogg wrote: Hello , I got a problem , my 2 hdd's are full and i need the space from the linux hdd . How can i uninstall Linux and LILO ? And how can i turn my hdd from linux filesystem to fat32 . I thought on part. magic . But i dont know how to do

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Don Wilson
If you just need disk space, why not do some housekeeping first and use the Windows tools to clean out the recycle bin, temporary files, old Windows uninstall info, down-loaded files, etc.? Also remove old programs you aren't using any more. You will be shocked how much space can be recovered

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Michael D. Viron
There is no uninstall method, except to fdisk format the drive. 'fdisk /mbr' (from a DOS prompt -- boot from a Win98 boot diskette) will get rid of LILO, and 'fdisk' will allow you to delete your non-DOS partition(s) and create one or more DOS partitions. You then need to format each partition

[newbie] Masquerading and Bastille

2001-09-09 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello all, I have a strange problem with Bastille which I'm hoping someone can help with. I'm running lm8 as a logon server for my windows boxes, and have a dial-up connection shared with Internet connection sharing. I am also running DHCP. Everything seems to work ok, but when I set up

[newbie] g++ package?

2001-09-09 Thread Kaspar Landsberg
Hello, i am using Mandrake Linux 7.2 and try to compile a simple C++ program: #include string int main(void) {return 0;} when i try to compile this with g++/c++, the compiler gives me the error message: blah.cc:1: string: file or directory not found it appears that the C++ header files are

RE: [newbie] g++ package?

2001-09-09 Thread Michael Spivak
Actually, you've forgot the '.h' in the #include line : #include string should be #include string.h then everything will be ok ... ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:30, Michael D. Viron wrote: In the next few days, I'll have finished a FAQ relating to questions (using my answers) that have been posted to this list and the expert list--if nothing else, civilme, myself, and the other experts on the list can post the url for

[newbie] CD writer

2001-09-09 Thread Ben Barker
I have recently installed mandrake 8.0. Mostly everything is Ok, but I have one big problem. Although I can access my DVD drive, attempting to access my CD writer inariably crashes the system. Going into harddrake, there appears to be a problem of some sort - the device is listed as both a scsi

[newbie] Installing glibc-2.2.4

2001-09-09 Thread Naish
I've installed Pan 0.10, but it won't work unless I install glibc-2.2.3 or newer. I've downloaded 2.2.4 but when i'm installing, it downloads glibc-devel-2.2.3 also, and, when it's installing, It reports an error: gcc 2.6 has a conflict and glibc(the version I have) too. So, I can ignore, but I

RE: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Michael Spivak
Can you please be more specific about the RH list ? Where can we join it ? -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ? On Sunday 09 September 2001

Re: [newbie] How to change default login group

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:01:18 +1000, George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:03, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:59, George Petri wrote: I know this is a very, very trivial question but for some reason I can't find the manual for it:

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Michael Spivak wrote: Can you please be more specific about the RH list ? Where can we join it ? -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux

[newbie] KDE Desktop Modifications

2001-09-09 Thread Lanman
I'm hoping that someone on the list can help me out with 2 small problems. I'm in the process of trying to Lock Down KDE on Mandrake 8.0 . In other words, I'm trying to remove some functionality. If successful, users will only have the ability to click on designated icons on the desktop. So

Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

2001-09-09 Thread etharp
thanks for all the info. do you have and use USB devices? can you disable USB in BIOS? have you disabled the serial ports? do you not have a modem, and have a high-bandwidth? looks to me as if the cards are not setup in netconf. i also wonder why your video card does not show up in the cat

Re: [newbie] DVD Divx ;-) under Linux?

2001-09-09 Thread s
On Sunday 09 September 2001 08:34 am, Marcin Jendrzejewski wrote: Hey everyone, Much appreciated if anyone can point me to a decent DVD player under linux. Thanks Marcin Jendrzejewski Here's my two favorite: http://www.videolan.org/ - best one, imo http://xine.sourceforge.net/ and

Re: [newbie] DVD Divx ;-) under Linux?

2001-09-09 Thread Mohammed Arafa
www.projectmayo.com is the creator of divx and there is the Playa for divx movie. very nice very Windows(TM). on the other hand, linux is a hassle, and i m talking from experience, if u look back into the mail archives of about a week u will find a request for help from me. (what does ...) and

RE: [newbie] Networking setup

2001-09-09 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Ideally should should have initially inserted the card BEFORE installing Mandrake, so that it would have set everything up for you. If you already have it in place, you'll need to at least once insert the card BEFORE the machine boots so that HardDrake can configure it. lsdev should then show

Re: [newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD

2001-09-09 Thread George Petri
On Sunday 09 September 2001 22:59, you wrote: It depnds on the packages you choose. Likely you didn't choose anything that was on the second disk. I wanted to install DosEMU and TiMidity and Penguin Command (2nd CD) but they weren't even one of the choices. I've installed and re-installed

Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop Modifications

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:20:19 -0400, Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping that someone on the list can help me out with 2 small problems. I'm in the process of trying to Lock Down KDE on Mandrake 8.0 . In other words, I'm trying to remove some functionality. If successful, users will

Re: [newbie] DVD Divx ;-) under Linux?

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 09 Sep 2001 23:34:07 +1000, Marcin Jendrzejewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, Today I just picked up Dark City and was hoping to view it. Initially I had expected to be able to view it fine in Windows 2000 (it still has its uses) but lo-and-behold it didn't (kept jamming

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?OT

2001-09-09 Thread Peter Watson
On Sunday 09 September 2001 14:30 pm, civileme wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2001 03:22, strab dogg wrote: Hello , I got a problem , my 2 hdd's are full and i need the space from the linux hdd . How can i uninstall Linux and LILO ? And how can i turn my hdd from linux filesystem to

[newbie] login manager

2001-09-09 Thread David Robertson
Hi, everyone. I've just defected to Mandrake 8.0 from RH 7.1 because I'm not too happy with the way that RH is going as a company and so far I like it a lot, especially the ease with which you can update. However, I prefer to run Gnome and would rather log in with gdm, but can't get rid of KDM!

Re: [newbie] Installing glibc-2.2.4

2001-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 September 2001 11:25 am, Naish escribió: I've installed Pan 0.10, but it won't work unless I install glibc-2.2.3 or newer. I've downloaded 2.2.4 but when i'm installing, it downloads glibc-devel-2.2.3 also, and, when it's installing, It reports an error: gcc 2.6 has a conflict

Re: [newbie] login manager

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 09 Sep 2001 15:01:57 -0400, David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everyone. I've just defected to Mandrake 8.0 from RH 7.1 because I'm not too happy with the way that RH is going as a company and so far I like it a lot, especially the ease with which you can update. However, I

Re: [newbie] login manager

2001-09-09 Thread cc tsim
Try this First, do a backup of prefdm (for safety): cp /etc/X11/prefdm /root Then delete it: rm /etc/X11/prefdm Then create a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/bin/gdm /etc/X11/prefdm and reboot. That's it. From: David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05

2001-09-09 Thread Jay DeKing
The later version of bash does not mess up your bashrc, but it won't restore your lost one either, if I understand you correctly. Jay On Friday 07 September 2001 11:17, I was honored with this communique: right, some more interesting facts i have just discovered: i have lost the pretty

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread civileme
On Sunday 09 September 2001 03:22, strab dogg wrote: Hello , I got a problem , my 2 hdd's are full and i need the space from the linux hdd . How can i uninstall Linux and LILO ? And how can i turn my hdd from linux filesystem to fat32 . I thought on part. magic . But i dont know how to do

RE: [newbie] I NEED OF HELP - Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-09 Thread EDUARDO CERONI
Yo tambien cuando sepas como cargar el MODEM de la placa madre pc 100 super socket 7, te agracecere me avises gracias EDUARDO CERONI -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adilson Nunes Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 8:13 PM

Re: [newbie] login manager

2001-09-09 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
However, I prefer to run Gnome and would rather log in with gdm, but can't get rid of KDM! I've created /etc/sysconfig/desktop containing only GNOME and /etc/X11/prefdm does seem to specify gdm if the preferred desktop is Gnome, but every time I start up, there's KDM! How do I change this

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 18:43:01 -0700, Ah Pook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 9/8/2001 7:18:43 AM, etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about a million people are going to tell you (and they are correct) that the GIMP is every bit as good as photoshop, and they do not have the US gov. put people in

[newbie] FAQ was re: Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Please post a link to the faq on 'completion'? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

2001-09-09 Thread ryan_steffes
I can disable USB and on board sound in BIOS. Here's how my PnP bios look: I have two options initially: Configuration Mode: [Use PnP OS] PnP OS: [Disabled] This is what it was. Looks like PnP is disabled to me, so that's how I had it. The other thing I can do is change it

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?OT

2001-09-09 Thread A V Flinsch
On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:50 am, Peter Watson wrote: This one puzzles me however, how can you use a linux utility to remove the partitions that linux resides on. This sounds like the computing equivalent of sawing off the branch that you are sitting on. Any explanations gratefully

Re: [newbie] DVD Divx ;-) under Linux?

2001-09-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Marcin Jendrzejewski wrote: Hey everyone, Today I just picked up Dark City and was hoping to view it. Initially I had expected to be able to view it fine in Windows 2000 (it still has its uses) but lo-and-behold it didn't (kept jamming while loading). Anyhow, I thought I might be lucky

Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

2001-09-09 Thread ryan_steffes
ifconfig says: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:1C:47:48 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4

[newbie] Installing ximian-gnome

2001-09-09 Thread skinky
Hi all I have downloaded the ximian-gnome installer from www.ximian.com and all the rpms from ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/mandrake-80-i586. Do I uninstall my current corresponding gnome rpms and then run the installer or will the installer _update_ the packages? Or perhaps I shouldn't

[newbie] /etc/hosts.allow /etc/exports

2001-09-09 Thread nathan wainwright
how do i configure /etc/hosts.allow to let another machine access 'mount -t nfs 192.168.1.100:/mnt/cdrom /cdrom'? also, for /etc/exports i used '/mnt/cdrom *.localdomain(ro,insecure)' the main thing is that the machine that has to be allowed to access this /mnt/cdrom doesnt have full slackware

Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

2001-09-09 Thread Frans Ketelaars
ryan_steffes wrote: I can disable USB and on board sound in BIOS. Here's how my PnP bios look: I have two options initially: Configuration Mode: [Use PnP OS] PnP OS: [Disabled] This is what it was. Looks like PnP is disabled to me, so that's how I had it. The

Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

2001-09-09 Thread ryan_steffes
Looks to me there is a line in /etc/modules.conf like: alias eth0 3c59x and then something like 'irq=...'. I suggest using just 'alias eth0 3c59x'. I commented lines from /etc/modules.conf that said: options eth0 irq=10 options eth1 irq=9 just now, rebooted, and got different errors at boot,

Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop Modifications

2001-09-09 Thread etharp
Oh (he said sheepishly) and will they all have their own login? and can not all be a member of group samedesk? On Sunday 09 September 2001 17:08, you had thoughts to the concept of: Normally I would agree with you, but in this case, there will be upwards of 18,000+ users. That's the

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?OT

2001-09-09 Thread etharp
I read on one of these lists that because there is so much to learn, linux helps prevent oldtimers dease, and if you remember it in the morning, it helps prove you don't have it yet. On Sunday 09 September 2001 17:26, you had thoughts to the concept of: Hey, what about us 65 year old Linux

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?OT

2001-09-09 Thread Ivor Westwood
At 14:26 9/09/01 -0700, you wrote: Hey, what about us 65 year old Linux fans? Art Hey, what about us 76 year old Linux fans? Ivor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-09 Thread Siavash Sefidvash
But as I mentioned earlier web editing tools such as Dreamweaver and UltraDev, InterDev are more important for me. I want to concentrate on server side script and leave the client side stuff to the likes of Dreamweaver. Siavash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread skinky
Got this link on another mailing list - thought someone might find it interesting. Not such a bad idea. http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/9787.html Cheers skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread Tim Holmes
I have no problem with Linux awareness, and Get Linux buttons on webpages. But if Linux starts to use Micro$HAFT like tactics, we're becoming the same kind of evil that we've been trying to avoid. People would start saying Mandrake$HAFT, or other such references. I don't think that's what we

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Whats RH??? RedHat, a competitor to Mandrake. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:33:42 +1200, skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got this link on another mailing list - thought someone might find it interesting. Not such a bad idea. http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/9787.html Cheers skinky Hehe. I can imagine us 'embracing and extending' .NET

Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread Ed Kasky
From the end of the article: For those who didn't immediately see the irony in my editorial, I feel it necessary to mention that this was only written as a joke in response to the frustrating times we're all experiencing in our ever-continuing battle with Microsoft. Written At 05:18 PM

RE: [newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread Franki
yeah, I agree, we don't want to get involved in this sort of thing... However, we don't have the M$ advertising budget,,, the open source comunity needs to start a centralised awareness campaign,,, think of ways we can get the good word out there about just how good the software is... we have

[newbie] Printer Setup for Staroffice

2001-09-09 Thread Linus Drouhard
I just got a new Espon 777 printer. I cannot get it to print in Staroffice. I've run spadmin, but it does not have printer for the 777. I tried the 700 driver, but it makes everything twice as tall on the paper. And to make it worse, now I cannot get anything to print out. I seem to have

Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread Art Rowe
I enjoyed the humour. Art - Original Message - From: Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Open source hits back? From the end of the article: For those who didn't immediately see the irony in my editorial, I

Re: [newbie] partitioning and formatting harddrives

2001-09-09 Thread Matt Greer
On Sunday 09 September 2001 20:24, you wrote: are you using M$ fdisk? or linux fdisk? Oh, whoops. Forgot about MS fdisk. It's linux fdisk, whichever is installed with Mandrake 8.0 Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video

[newbie] Re Internet sharing

2001-09-09 Thread freeman
I have setup the current version of internet sharing using the gui settings in Drakeconf(mandrake 8.0). I must say it went very smoothly and I have not had any problems until recently. My server is sharing my @home connection to a couple of winME and win2000 machines and I wanted to set up

Re: [newbie] partitioning and formatting harddrives

2001-09-09 Thread etharp
have you tried diskdrake? for me, I find it in KDE (mdk 8.0 powerpack KDE default desktop) mandrake control center hardware disks run confiuration tool (radio button in lower right of window) On Sunday 09 September 2001 21:40, you had thoughts to the concept of: On Sunday 09 September 2001

Re: [newbie] Installing

2001-09-09 Thread Linus Drouhard
On Sunday 09 September 2001 8:55, Peter Rymshaw wrote: New problem. I am having a rough time downloading, decompressing, and installing programs. I've pretty much figured out how to download and then decompress, but then don't know how to install them. (Is that compiling?) My current

Re: [newbie] Installing ximian-gnome

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:25:38 +1200, skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I have downloaded the ximian-gnome installer from www.ximian.com and all the rpms from ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome/mandrake-80-i586. Do I uninstall my current corresponding gnome rpms and then run the

RE: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Siavash Sefidvash
Whats RH??? Siavash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: 09 September 2001 17:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ? On Sunday 09 September 2001 05:18, Michel Clasquin wrote: On

Re: [newbie] partitioning and formatting harddrives

2001-09-09 Thread etharp
are you using M$ fdisk? or linux fdisk? On Sunday 09 September 2001 19:26, you had thoughts to the concept of: I have a hard drive which was previously used for Windows that I'd like to convert over to ext2. But when dealing with mkfs and fdisk, I'm getting a couple of contradictions.

[newbie] Installing

2001-09-09 Thread Peter Rymshaw
New problem. I am having a rough time downloading, decompressing, and installing programs. I've pretty much figured out how to download and then decompress, but then don't know how to install them. (Is that compiling?) My current efforts have to do with gnuCash 1.6. There actually are RPM

[newbie] partitioning and formatting harddrives

2001-09-09 Thread Matt Greer
I have a hard drive which was previously used for Windows that I'd like to convert over to ext2. But when dealing with mkfs and fdisk, I'm getting a couple of contradictions. When I first ran fdisk it reported there was one partition and a fat32 file system on the disk, which at the time was

Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread aortiz
i just read this article and i am incredible disturbed by what i read. Either this guy (the one who wrote this article) is unbelievable stupid or he's a paid MS crony. Basically, what he's suggesting is to bark back at the dog that barks at you. Figure that one out!! What exactly is what the

[newbie] PARTIONING HARDRIVE

2001-09-09 Thread Ivor Westwood
Hi All I have a 17Gb hardrive partitioned into three. C. 2.5Gb, D. 6.55Gb E. 6.55Gb. I had this partitioning done when I was going to install BiOs, but the computer shop installed Windows in all three partitions. I really wanted Windows only in the 1st partition. Now my question is

Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
He's not being serious. It's all a joke. On Sun, 09 Sep 2001 17:18:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just read this article and i am incredible disturbed by what i read. Either this guy (the one who wrote this article) is unbelievable stupid or he's a paid MS crony. Basically, what he's

Re: [newbie] PARTIONING HARDRIVE

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:24:10 +1200, Ivor Westwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have a 17Gb hardrive partitioned into three. C. 2.5Gb, D. 6.55Gb E. 6.55Gb. I had this partitioning done when I was going to install BiOs, but the computer shop installed Windows in all three

Re: [newbie] Printer Setup for Staroffice

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:37:58 -0500, Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a new Espon 777 printer. I cannot get it to print in Staroffice. I've run spadmin, but it does not have printer for the 777. I tried the 700 driver, but it makes everything twice as tall on the paper.

Re: [newbie] PARTIONING HARDRIVE

2001-09-09 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 03:24 PM 09/10/2001 +1200, Ivor Westwood wrote: Hi All I have a 17Gb hardrive partitioned into three. C. 2.5Gb, D. 6.55Gb E. 6.55Gb. I had this partitioning done when I was going to install BiOs, but the computer shop installed Windows in all three partitions. I really wanted Windows

[newbie] Re: Re[2]: [expert] httpd as root

2001-09-09 Thread Michael D. Viron
Mulus, If you really want to open up that can of worms, yes, you'll have to re-compile apache from source. If this is a box with an internet connection, that isn't behind a firewall, I would strongly suggest continuing to run apache as the apache user. If it's behind a firewall which blocks

[newbie] Linksys router.

2001-09-09 Thread nathan wainwright
anyone that has installed slackware over nfs... how would i get a router to give the machine a ip address? my linksys router (which i did get runnniing... but i had to take that one back because of bad noises) will NOT give the machine that i want to install slackware to over nfs... a ip

Re: [newbie] FAQ was re: Uninstall Linux ?

2001-09-09 Thread Michael D. Viron
All, Although the FAQ hasn't been completely finished, it can be viewed at http://webspinners.uwf.org/~mviron/faqs/linux.php . Keep in mind, that this is still very much under development, so all of the 200+ postings that I've made probably aren't covered by the FAQ yet. If you have any