Re: [newbie-it] installazione xine divx 4.02

2001-12-17 Thread Stefano Salari
--- luigi pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: è vero: le librerie son state installate correttamente l'unico problema quando vado a fare il configure di xine-ui mi dice che non trova installate le librerie perchè son in un'altra directory (precisamente in /usr/local/lib/xine). come

Re: [newbie-it] kernel

2001-12-17 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Mark_AKA_VèrB@L [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Dove trovare versioni aggiornate del kernel mandrake? Son fermo alla 2.4.3-mdk! Se vuoi per forza il kernel mdk puoi scaricare i sorgenti dal sito Mandrake e ricompilarlo. C'e' il 2.4.8 che e' quello che monta la mdk 8.1. Altrimenti puoi

[newbie-it] Modem HAMR5600

2001-12-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao, anch'io ho un notebook progress e non riesco a fare funzionare il modem HAMR5600. Qualcuno potrebbe spedirmi l'RPM per farlo funzionare?? Ho visto che anche qualche altra persona ha avuto problemi con il monitor, anch'io ne ho avuti e ho deciso di scrivere alla progress. Loro mi

Re: [newbie-it] SAMBA

2001-12-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Allora, c'ho perso un pò di tempo... ma alla fine con piena soddisfazione ce l'ho fatta (quasi!) :) compilato il pacchetto Samba 3 in versione Alpha! installato e installato il suo 'tutore' XINETD, egregio deamon! Compilati i due file sotto /etc/xinetd.d/ per smdb e nmbd! che dire, gira tutto

Re: [newbie-it] kernel

2001-12-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S.: Occhio che nel kernel 2.4.8 della mdk hanno tolto il supporto per il supermount, quindi devi poi modificare l'/etc/fstab. Come mai? Era tanto comodo... :( Cu s%N! Ciaociao Byez ! L8r \\marco [www] http://members.xoom.it/verbal_666 ||| http://surf.to/verbal_666 [email] [EMAIL

Re: [newbie-it] Salve

2001-12-17 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Claudio Pedretti wrote: Ciao a tutti, ho appena installato Mandrake 8.2 sul mio note acer travelmate 212tx. Non funziona ne la scheda audio ne il modem!!Confesso che non so dadove cominciare,che faccio? Ciao grazie Claudio Ciao, per la scheda audio puoi provare

[newbie-it] mount cdrom

2001-12-17 Thread lori cava
Ciao a tutti. E' possibile montare il cdrom in modo che veda sia il file system iso9660 che l'udf contemporaneamente? Bye __ Iscriviti al Meglio della Settimana, la newsletter di Yahoo! Per saperne di più vai alla pagina:

[newbie-it] prova !!!!

2001-12-17 Thread mino
scusate !!!

Re: [newbie-it] kernel

2001-12-17 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Mark_AKA_VèrB@L [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: P.S.: Occhio che nel kernel 2.4.8 della mdk hanno tolto il supporto per il supermount, quindi devi poi modificare l'/etc/fstab. Come mai? Era tanto comodo... :( Sembra che dopo una versione del kernel (che non so quale sia) desse dei

Re: [newbie-it] SAMBA

2001-12-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hint trovato, se può servire: Note the valid users line above. Windows has a username and password scheme, which looks nothing at all like the Unix one. And unlike a certain round-heeled excuse for an operating system, Unix (Linux) is not about to let some stranger start messing around with its

Re: [newbie-it] Salve

2001-12-17 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 16:03, lunedì 17 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Claudio Pedretti wrote: Ciao a tutti, ho appena installato Mandrake 8.2 sul mio note acer travelmate 212tx. Non funziona ne la scheda audio ne il modem!!Confesso che non so dadove cominciare,che faccio? Ciao

[newbie-it]

2001-12-17 Thread Ale
Vorrei sapere il metodo previsto per la cancellazione dalla ml. GRAZIE!

Re: [newbie-it]

2001-12-17 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 20:08, giovedì 27 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Vorrei sapere il metodo previsto per la cancellazione dalla ml. GRAZIE! Sempre lo stesso di tutte le ml: torna sul sito da cui ti sei iscritto e cerca il link per eliminare la tua iscrizione. Oppure guarda tra gli headers

[newbie] FTP help please

2001-12-17 Thread Eric Budinger
Hi All, Im running Mandrake 8.1 and im trying to get the FTP server up and running. Any help? Point me in the right direction? Please. Thank you! Eric

Re: [newbie] Vmware

2001-12-17 Thread Jun Liu
Install both kernel-source and kernel-headers before compiling it. On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:28:17AM -0500, Marcia wrote: :Dear All, : :I have downloaded Vmware 2.0.4 plus the 2.0.4 prebuilt kernel modules however :I am having trouble getting it all installed in my Linux Mandrake 8.1. I

Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.

2001-12-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Ivan Offalich wrote: I looked all over the Linux Documentation Project website for this information. I couldn't seem to find it anywhere so I was hoping someone could help me with it on this list. I'll explain my situation. I have two hard drives installed on my computer. hda is

Re: [newbie] Cannot get into system, how do I rescue Lilo?

2001-12-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Mick wrote: Hi folks, A dual boot system. I was trying repair an earlier problem, and of course made it even worse. Now Lilo will not boot up. It gets to LI and just sits there blinking. How do I re-install Lilo so as to access the system again. I have tried booting into the boot cd and

Re: [newbie] FTP help please

2001-12-17 Thread Jun Liu
install proftpd-xxx, the default setting should work well with either inetd or standalone mode. Good luck! /Jun On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:59:59AM -0500, Eric Budinger wrote: :Hi All, : : Im running Mandrake 8.1 and im trying to get the FTP server up and :running. Any help? Point me in the

RE: [newbie] FTP help please

2001-12-17 Thread Eric Budinger
Ok.. I installed it.. what next? Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jun Liu Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP help please install proftpd-xxx, the default setting should work

RE: [newbie] FTP help please

2001-12-17 Thread Eric Budinger
Ok. I can log in as anonymous but nothing else.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jun Liu Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP help please install proftpd-xxx, the default setting

[newbie] Problem with bastille and samba

2001-12-17 Thread Neil R Porter
Hi all I've used the tiny firewall configuration tool within the control centre to configure bastille and it's v v v nicely setup according to http://grc.com however, it stops my samba shares from working!? How can I use this setup but modify the conf file slightly to allow samba shares to work

Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.

2001-12-17 Thread Onur Kucuk
IO I looked all over the Linux Documentation Project website for this IO information. I couldn't seem to find it anywhere so I was hoping someone IO could help me with it on this list. IO I'll explain my situation. IO I have two hard drives installed on my computer. IO hda is dedicated to

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA Card Question

2001-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
Are you sure it has not already been autodetected. With my 3com PCMCIA card in my laptop Control Centre does not list my driver either, but yet the card still works. Running the Configure wizard does the same as in your case. It offers me a list which does not include the driver I know it

Re: [newbie] Problem with bastille and samba

2001-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
How about this http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1467mode=threadorder=0thold=0 You can edit the firewall setup tables and configure it as you please. Derek BTW: Samba needs ports 138 and 139 open if I remember correctly. On Monday 17 December 2001 11:07, Neil R Porter wrote: Hi

RE: [newbie] Cannot get into system, how do I rescue Lilo?

2001-12-17 Thread Franki
can't you just boot from the CD, when it comes up, type rescue once that is done, type chroot /mnt and you have simulated your system.. then you should just be able to type lilo (or edit /etc/lilo.conf and then type lilo) to update your lilo and write it to your mbr.. has worked for me in the

Re: [newbie] FTP help please

2001-12-17 Thread Jun Liu
it's up and running, configure it as you want. On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:21:18AM -0500, Eric Budinger wrote: :Ok. I can log in as anonymous but nothing else.. : :-Original Message- :From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jun Liu :Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
post the output of your dmseg file, do you have ypbind running? do you have a local network? is this box the dhcp server or a client? On Sunday 16 December 2001 23:20, you wrote: Thanks for the responses to this. I don't think that there are any extra servers running. One thing that may

[newbie] Sound trouble, again, plus joystick

2001-12-17 Thread Ville V Sinkko
I've got a Soundblaster Live card, plus an integrated i810 sound chip. I'm using the SB exclusively - I don't want to have anything to do with the latter. The sound configuration on my system, which never worked adequately to start with ( =midi nonfunctional), has gone from bad to worse. One day

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-17 Thread Brian Parish
Now you're just trying to make me look greener right? :-) Where would I find a dmseg file? ...is this on the server, the client, or both? ypbind is not running. My network is of the 192.168.0.1 variety with a shared ppp dialup. The slowess occurs on the clients, although of course that

[newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread Wendy Nexcom
Some one say that Mandrake create from RedHat. This meant that Mandrake very depent on original RedHat. Is this true? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread Wendy Nexcom
Someone say that Mandrake create from RedHat. This meant that Mandrake very depent on original RedHat. Is this true? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] FTP help please

2001-12-17 Thread Mark Weaver
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:57:25 +0100 Jun Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: it's up and running, configure it as you want. On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:21:18AM -0500, Eric Budinger wrote: Eric, What you do next depends upon what you want to do with it. If you're

Re: [newbie] Problem with bastille and samba

2001-12-17 Thread Mark Weaver
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:07:33 - Neil R Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Hi all I've used the tiny firewall configuration tool within the control centre to configure bastille and it's v v v nicely setup according to http://grc.com however, it stops my

Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread Mark Weaver
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 19:44:56 +0700 Wendy Nexcom [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Someone say that Mandrake create from RedHat. This meant that Mandrake very depent on original RedHat. Is this true? long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away Mandrake was once

Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:06:00 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away Mandrake was once loosely based on the RedHat distro...it is no longer the case. Mandrake is clearly Mandrake.-- daRcmaTTeR I think at

RE: [newbie] Problem with bastille and samba

2001-12-17 Thread Neil R Porter
Perfect! According to grc I am now very secure (for a 'windows' machine this is very rare, according to his site hehe). However, in order to get it to work I had to also define the PUBLIC services to allow 138 and 139 ports. Strange, although as I say, grc says it's in stealth mode (139 that

[newbie] Automating backups

2001-12-17 Thread Brian Parish
There is always a danger that having access to a bunch of bright people on a list like this could make me lazy. As I'm already lazy, I'm going to ignore that hazard and ask for advice on setting up automated backups. I would like to set up a daily disk to disk backup and dump snapshots onto

[newbie] PPC Clones

2001-12-17 Thread David Bovill
Anyone know if I can install mandrake on an old PowerComputing PowerCentre 180 (clone)? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Re: [Newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.

2001-12-17 Thread Ivan Offalich
Since this will be a long post I snipped everything previous. I will post my IDE chain and my /etc/lilo.conf file and hopefully that will help everyone with determining what exactly I'm what I'm missing. ;) Primary IDE Master: 6.4 GIG EIDE Harddrive (aka hda) 3 partitions C:, E:, and F: in

Re: [newbie] Crazy Mouse

2001-12-17 Thread Wes Gregg
I thought this may be an issue with Intellimouse Optical Mice (Mouses?), but you mentioned that it happened with your Logitech mouse also. I own an Intellimouse Explorer which also uses an optical eye. I've seen it display the same behaviors that you've mentioned (including the one on the

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread Randy Kramer
Julian, I can't help you with the boot manager problem, but I do recommend you use exper mode if you install Mandrake again. Initially, I worried about whether I was expert enough to use it, but it really gives you a lot of flexibility that is not present in the other modes. One example is

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread Julian Opificius
Will do Randy, thanks. I don't remember if I was in Expert when I did the install - though I'm not an expert, I'm certainly gutsy enough to have done so ;- One thing I distinctly remember is that there was no FUNCTIONAL Cancel button on most of the dialogs, which I saw as sloppiness, and it put

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Johnson, David
Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a blanket DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when doing something as drastic as updating your kernel. Just make sure you have a

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
this IS appropriate, and is the directions from Mandrake, as I recall On Monday 17 December 2001 13:11, you wrote: Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a blanket DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate.

[newbie] system rescue disk/s

2001-12-17 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I would like to create a rescue disk that can give me a very similar interface, Lilo wise, to my current system as well as all the other necessary files on a system disk. I am thinking from a Windows background where having a rescue disk was 9.9 times out of 10 needed. Is the same needed under

[newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread Newbie
When is this damn useless compiler going to work? I have Mdk 8.1 and the default compiler is useless, 2.96 is a piece of trash, so I took it off and put on gcc3, again TRASH, so I try to put on 2.95 and all it can give me is the same bullshit over and over WHEN IS THIS STUPID ASS THING going to

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?

2001-12-17 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 17 December 2001 06:04, Brian Parish wrote: Usually when I get to this point I give up because I knew a little about what I tried to do first, less about the next layer and so on until I figure I know so little about what I'm doing that all I'll acheive is a totally screwed system.

[newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Thread Newbie
I am sorry for being a boogerface, but this distribution as far as I am concerned is too hard for me to fix. I don't know whether to downgrade to 7.2, 8.0, or leave the Mandrake distribution until it can actualy compile something other than dust. I have no one who can help me, and probably no

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread David ..
Ah so you haven't rebooted eh. Go ahead, and reboot then come back to the list with your findings. I did the package install and it was fine for a few hours, after i did the reboot, then it took the new kernel and thats when the problems started. From: Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread David ..
?? Mandrake says it's ok to install the kernal via packagemanager? I did some searching on the net and found alot of others who had the same problem as I did with the update via PM. From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
I Strongly recomend theat you, (not anyone else, just you) go BACK TO REDHAT!!! typos and all. then any problems you have will not be the fault of MAndrake, it will be REDHAT's. not yours, not mine, but Redhat's. so you are right, a lot better than RTFM, go to redhat. and after you get there,

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
of course, if you had the CD's you could boot from the CD and do a developer install as an upgrade I do believe. might get you all the fine stuff you require. On Monday 17 December 2001 13:38, you wrote: I am sorry for being a boogerface, but this distribution as far as I am concerned is

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread David ..
Why not boot up the ML CD's and selection the option for UPGRADe then select the Developer packages. From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT! Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:42:47 -0500 you know...at this point I

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread shane
actually i believe he is saying that mandrake also recommends not doing the kernal by package. i seem to recall a statement from mandrake about that, though it may have been reguarding only a certain kernal. On Monday 17 December 2001 10:53, you spoke unto me thusly: ?? Mandrake says it's

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
to locate a file on your computer, there are a few good utilities, the one I use in KDE is found at K(menu bar bottom left corner, like start in M$ prod.) Applications file tools find files. dmesg is the log of the boot up messages that you see if you use a text boot up. /var/log/dmseg is

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Johnson, David
That's the beauty of Linux. I shouldn't HAVE to reboot...right? :-) Fortunately, it's only a machine for me to learn the OS on, so I don't have a problem wiping and re-installing... -Original Message- From: David .. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:52 AM

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
well, if you don't reboot, you are still reading the kernel you booted with, so you have not yet experianced the problems you will have when ever you do reboot On Monday 17 December 2001 13:56, you wrote: That's the beauty of Linux. I shouldn't HAVE to reboot...right? :-) Fortunately,

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
NO Mandrake says do NOT upgrade the kernal VIA packagemanger On Monday 17 December 2001 13:53, you wrote: ?? Mandrake says it's ok to install the kernal via packagemanager? I did some searching on the net and found alot of others who had the same problem as I did with the update via PM.

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread David ..
Oh ok. I thought thats what he was saying From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:07:04 -0800 actually i believe he is saying that mandrake also recommends not

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread David ..
With the kernel you have to reboot for it to take effect. Try this at the command line type in : uname -a You'll see the current kernel that your using. Before you do reboot. Make sure you have a bootdisk and you have read the steps I had to take. Because once you reboot, your not going

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread David ..
Ok, that makes more sense. From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:11:09 -0500 NO Mandrake says do NOT upgrade the kernal VIA packagemanger On Monday 17

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread Randy
On Monday 17 December 2001 01:50 pm, Ed Tharp wrote: I Strongly recomend theat you, (not anyone else, just you) go BACK TO REDHAT!!! typos and all. then any problems you have will not be the fault of MAndrake, it will be REDHAT's. not yours, not mine, but Redhat's. so you are right, a lot

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake I recall something like that and did it anyway to see what would happen. My logic being that if this was a dangerous thing to do why would it be set up to show up on the Mandrake update. Anyway, I have rebooted both machines since

RE: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread David ..
Or the lovely thing about Linux. It was all a fluke! :) Funny, I had the problem and before I could tell one of my work buddies we was calling me on Sunday morning with the same problem. I was up until about 4am just trying to get my system back up and running without having to reinstall the

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Thread Miark
I have no one who can help me, and probably no one cares either. What a totally lame attitude. Nobody ever claimed either that this list would solve every problem, or that it was the only means of help. And no reasonable person would expect it to be. Try MandrakeExpert or other lists

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread Mark Weaver
you know...at this point I think I would go back and reinstall the system and this time I would do the developer install if you didn't happen to do that the first time. I'm really sorry you're having such a hard time with it, but I've never experienced any of the troubles you're having with the

Re: [newbie] Samba question - making shares invisible

2001-12-17 Thread Michael Leone
- Normally NETBIOS name to IP resolution is done by the DNS, but you probably don't have one. NETBIOS name to IP resolutin is (or can be) done by a WINS server (which SAMBA will emulate, if you tell it to), or - optionally - from an LMHOSTS files (not LMHOSTS.SAM - that's a SAMple file). -

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!! OT now, w/snip

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
yep, I did recognize the kittypuss address. not really a problem, heck if I had better stuff going on in MY life, I would not have bothered to reply, my delete key works GREAT!!! On Monday 17 December 2001 14:36, you wrote: Ed, Don't you recognize Vic? I didn't realize at first it was him

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Thread Mark Weaver
ah come on...poor Vic is just a little pissed and frustrated, thats all. we've all been there a time or two. Mark P.S. flames are ok, but please don't throw anything at me. Miark wrote: I have no one who can help me, and probably no one cares either. What a totally lame attitude.

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
I believe it was said previously that; This list does not contain any answers or solutions, only opinions, some just happen to be either helpful or correct. On Monday 17 December 2001 14:41, you wrote: I have no one who can help me, and probably no one cares either. What a totally lame

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!! OT now, w/snip

2001-12-17 Thread Ivan Offalich
Isn't kittypuss the name of Bill Gates machine? ;) Maybe he's just trolling cause he knows people are losing interest in Windoze. hehe At 02:51 PM 12/17/01 -0500, you wrote: yep, I did recognize the kittypuss address. not really a problem, heck if I had better stuff going on in MY life, I would

Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.

2001-12-17 Thread Ivan Offalich
Actually I did post my /etc/lilo.conf file earlier today. If you didn't receive it through this list let me know and I'll repost it. Ivan. At 03:15 PM 12/17/01 +, you wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!! OT now, w/snip

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
Roflmao On Monday 17 December 2001 14:58, you wrote: Isn't kittypuss the name of Bill Gates machine? ;) Maybe he's just trolling cause he knows people are losing interest in Windoze. hehe At 02:51 PM 12/17/01 -0500, you wrote: yep, I did recognize the kittypuss address. not really a

Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.

2001-12-17 Thread David ..
I did go to thearchive of the mailing list and didn't see it. Repost it please. From: Ivan Offalich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives. Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:01:05 -0600 Actually I did post my

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Andrew George
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 05:11, you wrote: Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a blanket DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate. Of course you must be very careful when doing something as drastic as

[newbie] Re: [Newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.

2001-12-17 Thread Ivan Offalich
[Repost] At 08:10 AM 12/17/01 -0600, I wrote: Since this will be a long post I snipped everything previous. I will post my IDE chain and my /etc/lilo.conf file and hopefully that will help everyone with determining what exactly I'm what I'm missing. ;) Primary IDE Master: 6.4 GIG EIDE

Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
answer... you NEED the cd and dvd on the same IDE channel, and you NEED to use the slowest common speed (ie dma33) on each channel, and you NEED the ata 100 (special) ide cable On Monday 17 December 2001 15:26, you wrote: I did go to thearchive of the mailing list and didn't see it. Repost it

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!! OT now, w/snip

2001-12-17 Thread Mark Weaver
nah, its poor Vic and I think he's really got his pickle in a tight spot this time. ooops...pardon the pun. Mark Ivan Offalich wrote: Isn't kittypuss the name of Bill Gates machine? ;) Maybe he's just trolling cause he knows people are losing interest in Windoze. hehe At 02:51 PM

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread NDPTAL85
For future reference, urpmi is a safe way to update your kernel. su to root and enter urpmi kernel. Its the CLI end to the Software Manager so if you want newer kernels put the cooker ftp's in your sources. - Fate protects

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread shane
On Monday 17 December 2001 11:16, you spoke unto me thusly: well, if you don't reboot, you are still reading the kernel you booted with, so you have not yet experianced the problems you will have when ever you do reboot ...and still have a chance to fix the problem before it _is_ a problem.

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Thread Lee Roberts
At 12:38 PM 12/17/2001 -0600, Newbie wrote: I guess I'm too neurologically crippled to figure things out myself well damn it, I need more help with that than other people. sorry did not know other way to express it. Don't be too down on yourself. No one person knows everything. Have you asked

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!! OT now, w/snip

2001-12-17 Thread David McGlone
On Monday 17 December 2001 02:04 pm, you wrote: nah, its poor Vic and I think he's really got his pickle in a tight spot this time. ooops...pardon the pun. I have to agree, Linux is very fustrating at times and people need a way to vent, I think Vic is only asking for an ear to listen.

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread David ..
True, very true From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:15:30 -0800 On Monday 17 December 2001 11:16, you spoke unto me thusly: well, if you don't reboot, you

Re: [newbie] Sound trouble, again, plus joystick

2001-12-17 Thread Richard Wenninger
did your integrated i810 sound card get turned on in the bios? I would first disable this card in the bios, then try to reconfigure via Mandrake Control Center. On Monday 17 December 2001 06:14 am, you wrote: I've got a Soundblaster Live card, plus an integrated i810 sound chip. I'm using

Re[2]: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.

2001-12-17 Thread Onur Kucuk
May you add the following disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x82 disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x83 or if it does not work disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x81 to the /etc/lilo.conf right under the line boot=/dev/hda ? and of

[newbie] strange behaviors?

2001-12-17 Thread Curt Tresenriter
Hi all, I'm new to mdk8.1 and, right now, am reading help files. I notice some of the help files (not all of them)- presently Linuxconf's add-ons - open the full length of the screen but I can't see all that's there - info continues off the bottom of the screen. Resizing the window to the

[newbie] Strange behaviors

2001-12-17 Thread Curt Tresenriter
Hi all, I'm new to mdk8.1 and, right now, am reading help files. I notice some of the help files (not all of them)- presently Linuxconf's add-ons - open the  full length of the screen but I can't see all that's there - info continues off the bottom of the screen. Resizing the window to the

RE: [newbie] Sound trouble, again, plus joystick

2001-12-17 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I've posted extensive messages and a mini-howto on getting the SBLive working, on this list... Since I do not feel like retyping the long posts again, please search the Archives. I detail how to get EVERYTHING (except the Live drive, although you'll even find this in the search) working...

Re: [newbie] HSE sympatico DSL

2001-12-17 Thread civileme
On Friday 14 December 2001 09:47 pm, Vicious Diablo wrote: I just wanna know, before I install Linux, can i connect to teh internet with my HSE DSL modem from Bell Canada (Quebec)? _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger:

Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.

2001-12-17 Thread Randy Kramer
Ivan Offalich wrote: At 12:00 AM 12/18/01 +0200, Onur Kucuk wrote: May you add the following disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x82 disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x83 snip You were right about adding the Octal addresses. (That is

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Monday 17 December 2001 11:31, you wrote: When is this damn useless compiler going to work? I have Mdk 8.1 and the default compiler is useless, 2.96 is a piece of trash, so I took it off and put on gcc3, again TRASH, so I try to put on 2.95 and all it can give me is the same bullshit

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
and promise that you have (as root, in a text console, without X running, and without the quotes) typed sndconfig On Monday 17 December 2001 16:19, you wrote: At 12:38 PM 12/17/2001 -0600, Newbie wrote: I guess I'm too neurologically crippled to figure things out myself well damn it, I need

[newbie] mount Nautilus

2001-12-17 Thread Smiley
When I mount a cdrom device in Gnome, Nautilus starts... I can I disable this feature? Thanks, Corrado Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Classes.zip for Java?

2001-12-17 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
hi, i think i remember that classes.zip used to hold all the sun classes but was replaced by tools.jar in jdk1.2.x and up. try installing jdk/jre 1.1.x or maybe the bundled kaffe java interpreter will suffice. ciao! On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:22:02 +0100 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have installed Mandrake 8.1 in a few machines. I am using extended operating system loader(XOSL) which is free and also comes with ranish partition manager t partition your HDDs. I have installed lilo(linux boot loader) in the corresponding linux partition. I have winme, RH7.1, Caldera

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Whether it is SUSE or RH or Mandrake, When you remove an RPM, dependencies checking is a must. Otherwise some other programs may not work. It is not specific to a distro. Some rpms may not have dependencies. Remove the same rpm in any distro and see. On Monday 17 December 2001 22:13, David

Re: [newbie] Video Capture Suggestions Sought

2001-12-17 Thread L.V.Gandhi
see www.vcdhelp.com You need a video capture card. Normally all TV tune cards are having capture facilities. You should capture in .avi format and convert them to .mpg format using encoders and then convert them to VCD format. I have captured using my Pixel view Play TVPro tvtuner card using

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread skidley
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Newbie wrote: When is this damn useless compiler going to work? I have Mdk 8.1 and the default compiler is useless, 2.96 is a piece of trash, so I took it off and put on gcc3, again TRASH, so I try to put on 2.95 and all it can give me is the same bullshit over and

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread Skippipix
In a message dated 12/17/01 11:45:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lets remember something here. it's the famous 80/15/5 % rule. 80% of computer problems are user 15% are software and... 5% are hardware problems. I know that that isn't something

Re: [newbie] mount Nautilus

2001-12-17 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 02:59:54 +0100 Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I mount a cdrom device in Gnome, Nautilus starts... I can I disable this feature? == Are you mounting from a command line?? How are you giving the mount command? Mike -- Alcohol is the

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