Re: [newbie-it] Piccola indagine di mercatato..

2001-12-31 Thread max
Il 02:38, lunedì 31 dicembre 2001, hai scritto: Se è gratis Buon Annoa tutti Max

[newbie-it] files.directory

2001-12-31 Thread Tommaso Leddi
Da qualche settimana mi sono apparsi un sacco di files.directory in giro per il computer. Probabilmente quando apro una directory, a monte viene costruito questo file. Devo aver smanettato un po' troppo nel Centro di Controllo ;) Qualcuno sa chi li produce e come si fa a spegnerne la

[newbie-it] Riavviare mgetty senza riavviare il pc

2001-12-31 Thread max
Salve, sto facendo delle prove con il server ppp per il login remoto, per passare dal server al client (connessione al mio isp) uso linuxconf per disabilitare il server ma per riavere il mio modem operativo devo riavviare. Come posso far ripartire il servizio senza riavvio? Grazie Max PS

[newbie] Blue iMac OpenFirmware problem?

2001-12-31 Thread David Bovill
I seem to have installed Mandrake on my iMac, but as indicated may happen openfirmware does not detect the linux partition on startup... The documentation differs from the infor at the end of installation and I could get neither to work... I can get the Openfirmware console up and I type in:

[newbie] the MANDRAKE way to look at $PATH

2001-12-31 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Dear Michel daRcmaTTeR Take a look at the Bash script (in ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile)which loads the profile from each user. It actually takes the info from /etc (I don't remember from which file exactly). I tried removing this script - but the script in /etc is, I think,

Re: [newbie] How to correctly change Lilo Configuration

2001-12-31 Thread Onur Kucuk
DB Awhile back a few users where asking about changing their lilo DB configurations and I remember some other users suggesting that they VI their DB lilo config. This in itself does not work. I knew that but had to get DB caught up with other things before looking further. Anyway,

[newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Eric Budinger
Hi All, I hope someone might be able to help me. I had a power loss at the house today and after the linux box rebooted it wouldnt boot into KDE. IT booted into a login prompt. I was able to login as root or my user name. When I Rebooted the machine in booted into screen and asked me

Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader

2001-12-31 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 31 December 2001 01:05, you wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 23:38, you wrote: MAKDEV, or makdev, or mkdev don't seem to be the correct commands. I just keep getting command not found. TC try this, MAKDEV /dev/sda1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] nVidia Splash Screen - Yes 3D/OpenGL - No!

2001-12-31 Thread Wes Gregg
On Saturday 29 December 2001 03:09 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2001 01:44 pm, you wrote: Is this fubar repairable without major surgery? Load glx Well, I forgot to add that line, so I went back and did so. Now it doesn't even display the splash screen and

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread bascule
do an 'upgrade' from your cd, this will not format any partitions and should leave your /home alone bascule On Monday 31 December 2001 10:56 am, you wrote: Hi All, I hope someone might be able to help me. I had a power loss at the house today and after the linux box rebooted it wouldn't

Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader

2001-12-31 Thread poogle
I may be completely off base here but I'll try anyway, I have an Olympus USB camera which uses Smartmedia cards but is not recognised by any of the photo packages. Thanks to Ric Tibbets I am able to download from it by doing the following:- modprobe usb-storage mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/cam

[newbie] Rune errors my machine

2001-12-31 Thread Allen May
I got a Linux magazine that had a demo software CD on it. I tried running a game, Rune, and had problems. When I run the run_demo.x86 or the run_demo it locks up my system. It looks like it starts to launch the game but just hoses my computer. How do I troubleshoot this? What could be

[newbie] Any nVidia TNT Users?

2001-12-31 Thread Wes Gregg
Hello, I was just wondering if anyone else is using Mandrake Linux 8.1 with an nVidia TNT (16meg if it matters) AGP card. What I'm wondering is if there is any point in installing the later (20- series) drivers. I installed the 1541 [NOTE: On a previous Linux install - NOT

[newbie] Any nVidia TNT Users?

2001-12-31 Thread Wes Gregg
My apologies, I forgot to sign my last post. -- Wes Gregg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 252649 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] I Really Do Like Mandrake!

2001-12-31 Thread Wes Gregg
Hello, I wanted to let you all know that I really _do_ like Mandrake's flavor of Linux. I am trying to find a cheap computer for my father who has terminal cancer and can't get around and do anything like he used to so he will have something to do instead of just staring at

RE: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Eric Budinger
It tells me I don't have enough space (hard drive space) for installation or upgrade.. It's an 800 meg hard drive.. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of bascule Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 6:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[newbie] neither will install

2001-12-31 Thread Charles Jennings
Dear List, I have tried to install Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 and both fail at the point of installing the packages. The only difference is that 8.1 gives me an error message, while 8.0 just locks up the computer. The message has to do with calling certain packages that fail. Does anyone know what

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Mohammed Arafa 2 Mailing Lists
bill, u can do a fresh install .. leave the partitions as they are when u get to diskdrake BUT beware that u dont format ur /home partition. in diskdrake ..take note which partition is /home and DEselect it. of course .u lose all ur programs if u do this - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread bascule
On Monday 31 December 2001 12:21 pm, you wrote: odd, since you must have installed in the first place? what is your partition scheme, can you tar up your home directory and put it somewhere else (a windrive?) and do a format and reinstall? alternatively you could describe in more detail what

Re: [newbie] neither will install

2001-12-31 Thread Derek Jennings
We would have more chance of helping if you told us what the error message was. What are the 'certain packages'. What hardware you are using. i.e. motherboard processor video card, sound card. the more info you give the more likely you are to get an answer... derek On Monday 31 December

RE: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Eric Budinger
It seems that the updater is looking for a a bunch of free space for some strange reason and it wont just overwrite the stuff that is there.. basically my problem is this: When I boot Linux it asks me to enter a run level. When I enter a runlevel it hangs. It says no more processes or something

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread lee
When you do the upgrade,make sure you're not installing any new packages :-) Lee It tells me I don't have enough space (hard drive space) for installation or upgrade.. It's an 800 meg hard drive.. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On

[newbie] SSH Problem

2001-12-31 Thread Noah Swint
Whenever I attempt to connect to my machine using ssh I get the error. ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Any help? I can connect to other machines, just not mine and the server is running. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Firewall Configuration

2001-12-31 Thread Randy Kramer
Jamie Fowlie wrote: Present setup: Internet ROUTER (212.51.61.xxx) --- NT Server NIC 1 (212.51.61.xxy) NT Server NIC 2 (10.10.10.1) --- Linux/PCs(10.10.10.n) (Windows NT is running WINROUTE lite to

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Mohammed Arafa 2 Mailing Lists
i dont really like upgrades coz it takes 16 hours or so as opposed to 1 to 2 hours of an install ..but its up to u of course - Original Message - From: lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Major problem When you do

[newbie] HardDrake/isapnp Prob

2001-12-31 Thread Noah Swint
I'm trying to get my supported isa USR 56K modem to work in Mandrake 8.1. I have isa-pnp tools located on my computer and when I try to configure the modem in HardDrake I get the error. modprobe: Can't locate module isa-pnp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Capturing audio

2001-12-31 Thread John Rye
Hi all, I'm looking for a usable program for capturing audio from my soundcard. I've hunted all over Freshmeat and Google but don't seem to be abble to find anything which compiles let alone works!! If it's of any help I'm running Mandrake 8.1, kernel 2.4.16. Biggest problem is locating the

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread bascule
can you type 'linux single' at the lilo prompt? this ought to boot into single user mode, it's unusual in my experience for a single power cut to trash a system to such a degree, i guess the first thing to do would be to check your filesystems by booting into single user mode, booting off the

Fw: Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:13:53 -0500 From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major problem On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 17:49:47 -0500 lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you do the upgrade,make sure you're not installing any new

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-31 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 17:52, Doug Lerner wrote: I wouldn't mind doing that myself, and encouraging our company to do that. I have no particular love for Microsoft proprietary products. But I can't force our customers to change. As we say here in Japan, the customer is God. If the client wants

Re: [newbie] SSH Problem

2001-12-31 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 31 Dec 2001 08:58:19 -0500 Noah Swint [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Whenever I attempt to connect to my machine using ssh I get the error. ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Any help? I can connect to other machines, just not

[newbie] How to REMOVE GL libs/etc and nVidia 2313/2314?

2001-12-31 Thread Wes Gregg
Hello, I believe I have been asking the wrong questions. I think I need to remove my gl things and my 2313/2314 GLX/kernels. I am pretty sure I now have the correct commands to install these if I can get back to a clean system first. Hopefully one of you guru's can tell me

Re: [newbie] SSH Problem

2001-12-31 Thread Noah Swint
Thanks. It works now. I guess when I upped the security level the mandrake added this line to my /etc/hosts.deny # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 09:38, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On 31 Dec 2001 08:58:19

[newbie] My 3 year old computer, is it compatible?

2001-12-31 Thread Richard Kim
I have a 3 year old computer that is an NEC and it has a motherboard with a really oldBIOS( I don't know its name ) And it has about 64 megabytes of ram and a voodoo 3 or 4 video card and plug and play card with microphone, sound, phone port and another card that is an Ethernet card, will I be

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2001-12-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 30 December 2001 11:27 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Tom, Further to my late posting Sorry, I made a mistake adding '~$' to the command line Tried at root / # which tex /usr/bin/tex /usr/bin/which: no tex in (/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/

Re: [newbie] Capturing audio

2001-12-31 Thread bascule
what do you mean by usable? there is 'rec' for the command line (you probably have this installed already try 'rec --help' at a prompt, in gui i use 'audacity' which is on cooker if not the main distro, and is an mdk rpm, as for the device file i keep reading about how devfs uses different

Re: [newbie] c compiler and its problem in 8.0

2001-12-31 Thread Pen Gwynne
Eric, Please do gcc -v or cc -v and tell us what it says. I have the following 4 line program: int main() { printf(Hello World!); } It compiles and run properly, even without the normal #include files. I am using a straight Mandrake 8.1 installation

[newbie] Euro symbol?

2001-12-31 Thread Paul
Hi everyone, I am trying to figure out how to display and enter the Euro symbol. Is there someone here who can tell me what to do for this to work? I am running XFCE on Mandrake 8.0. Thanks Paul -- Bureaucracy is nothing more than the hardening of an organization's arteries. -William P.

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Pen Gwynne
I hope someone might be able to help me. I had a power loss at the house today and after the linux box rebooted it wouldn't boot into KDE.. I may have had a similar problem recently. I was running Mandrake 8.1b3 on this box at the time of a power flicker. About a 1 second loss of

[newbie] Resolving HW conflicts

2001-12-31 Thread Mark Shaw
Hi All, Short version: I need a general methodology for determining what resources my peripherals are using; i.e. a list of files to examine or diagnostics to run that will tell me that my soundcard is using IRQ n / port m / DMA x / whatever y, my modem is using IRQ etc etc Long version:

Re: [newbie] SSH Problem

2001-12-31 Thread Michael Viron
At 01:33 PM 12/31/2001 -0500, you wrote: Everything is working now. I changed the security level and /etc/hosts.deny denied localhost connections Actually, that was everything except for 'localhost' connections, since the line you posted was 'ALL:ALL except localhost:DENY' Michael -- Michael

Re: [newbie] My 3 year old computer, is it compatible?

2001-12-31 Thread tester
Michael Viron wrote: If it is a Pentium or above, you'll be able to install Mandrake. If it's a 486, you'll still be able to install Mandrake 7.0 for i486 (although that might be a bit sluggish). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant

Re: [newbie] SSH Problem

2001-12-31 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 31 Dec 2001 09:56:34 -0500 Noah Swint [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Thanks. It works now. I guess when I upped the security level the mandrake added this line to my /etc/hosts.deny # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.

Re: [newbie] Any nVidia TNT Users?

2001-12-31 Thread s
On Monday 31 December 2001 05:53 am, you wrote: Silly me was still having lockups, I thought at the time it was the video since it was locking up during graphics. It turned out to be my soundcard, but I didn't know at the time and reinstalled Linux to wipe the 1541 drivers. Here's

Re: [newbie] Welcome Picture

2001-12-31 Thread s
On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:36 pm, you wrote: Heyo, Just a frivulous question, the picture that is shown @ boot time that has the 50 different ways to say hello, where is it located? I would like to change this to something different. NB I think that's something you'd have to compile

Re: [newbie] HardDrake/isapnp Prob

2001-12-31 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Monday 31 December 2001 01:17 pm, you wrote: On 31 Dec 2001 09:07:05 -0500 Noah Swint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get my supported isa USR 56K modem to work in Mandrake 8.1. I have isa-pnp tools located on my computer and when I try to configure the modem in HardDrake I

Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader

2001-12-31 Thread skidley
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, poogle wrote: I may be completely off base here but I'll try anyway, I have an Olympus USB camera which uses Smartmedia cards but is not recognised by any of the photo packages. Thanks to Ric Tibbets I am able to download from it by doing the following:- modprobe

Re: [newbie] where is source code go after I untar patch.bz2

2001-12-31 Thread eric
Dear skidley: I actually have both somesource.patch.bz2 and somesouce.patch.bz2.orig I tried your suggestion [root@localhost SOURCES]# bzcat gcc-i386-address-cost.patch.bz2.orig gcc-i386-address-cost.patch.bz2 | patch -p0 can't find file to patch at input line 7 Perhaps you used the wrong -p

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:15:43 + bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: can you type 'linux single' at the lilo prompt? this ought to boot into single user mode, it's unusual in my experience for a single power cut to trash a system to such a degree, i guess

Re: [newbie] How to REMOVE GL libs/etc and nVidia 2313/2314?

2001-12-31 Thread skinky
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 03:53, Wes Gregg wrote: [snip] | I also screwed something up because it gave me this line: | Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i686.rpm | somewhere along, I must have followed the wrong directions in more ways | than one because I haven't tried

Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader

2001-12-31 Thread Larry Varney
I've been having problems getting my usb card reader to be recognized properly. I think I may have come upon some clues, anyway. When I have my card reader plugged in, with or without booting the computer with a card in the reader, a 'modprobe usb-storage' will result in an SDA being

RE: [newbie] Welcome Picture

2001-12-31 Thread William R. Nash
Try looking in /etc/lilo.conf Hope this work Bill Nash. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of s Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Welcome Picture On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:36 pm, you

Re: [newbie] RPM or just a script?

2001-12-31 Thread skinky
On Monday 31 December 2001 15:24, Jon Doe wrote: | I am trying to make some sort of package for a friend who is new to | linux. Basically I want replace the KDE splash screen with different | screens. I made a script that will move the default png's to a new | folder called old. This is as far

Re: [newbie] Resolving HW conflicts

2001-12-31 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 31 December 2001 11:28, you wrote: Su to root and run: cat /proc/pci Since you are using 7.2 be sure that PnP OS is set to No in your BIOS. also nice and your friend is (without the quotes, as root, in a text console) cat /proc/interrupts Charles Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] java applets on konqueror

2001-12-31 Thread Eric McClure
Ok I think I've tried everything to get the browser to see the applets. Even sun's site doesn't load the applet. Pointed Konqueror where the java is and nothing. I'm using sdk1.4.0beta3 and I know Kaffe doesn't work with the browser since I viewed the help files and web site. The web site

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Pen Gwynne
Civileme, Yep, reiser will help prevent the error. So also will XFS and ext3. . . . It is a good idea to make /home a separate partition... Thanks for the words of advice. I have another partitiona that I can play with and I might just try one of the other file systems. I have always kept

Re: [newbie] where is source code go after I untar patch.bz2

2001-12-31 Thread eric
skidley wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, eric wrote: Dear skidley: I actually have both somesource.patch.bz2 and somesouce.patch.bz2.orig I tried your suggestion [root@localhost SOURCES]# bzcat gcc-i386-address-cost.patch.bz2.orig gcc-i386-address-cost.patch.bz2 | patch -p0

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Paul
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:47:55 +, bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 December 2001 12:21 pm, you wrote: odd, since you must have installed in the first place? what is your partition scheme, can you tar up your home directory and put it somewhere else (a windrive?) and do a format

[newbie] Mesa: Missing These Files?

2001-12-31 Thread Wes Gregg
Hello, I may have figured out which files were removed from my system. I searched for mesa in my software (package?) manager. It had ?'s by all the files in the files tab. I clicked on the ? mini-tab and it changed some to checkmarks, and some to X's. I assume the X's mean

Re: [newbie] Mesa: Missing These Files?

2001-12-31 Thread s
On Monday 31 December 2001 04:30 pm, you wrote: Hello, I may have figured out which files were removed from my system. I searched for mesa in my software (package?) manager. It had ?'s by all the files in the files tab. I clicked on the ? mini-tab and it changed some to

Re: [newbie] Rune errors my machine

2001-12-31 Thread Grant Fraser
Experience with Windows has taught me to NEVER run anything DEMO. Ever. I wont do it with Linux either. A demo is made by ripping a chunk out of a full program and cauterizing the dangly bits. I hope you liked the magazine. Grant On Monday 31 December 2001 03:47, you wrote: I got a Linux

Re: [newbie] KDE Dialogs Too BIG!

2001-12-31 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 31 December 2001 18:29, Randy Kramer wrote: Wes Gregg wrote: Some of my program boxes in KDE are too big. For example in KDE ~ LooknFeel ~ Style, I can only see the top part of the box. I know I can resize it to some extent. I shrank it from the top down as far as it

Re: [newbie] I Really Do Like Mandrake!

2001-12-31 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 31 December 2001 14:06, Wes Gregg wrote: I have heard horror stories of people screwing up OS installations, or even deleting/mangling the wrong file before they learned not to. Some of us have managed to do it afterwards too ... regular visits to the cooker will make you an

Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader

2001-12-31 Thread Terry C
It may be that you need to modprobe usb-storage and then mount it as /dev/sda1 I have done modprobe usb-storage and mounting returns this: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist I have tried other mount points too: /dev/sda /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb,

[newbie] sony cybershot dsc-s85 howto

2001-12-31 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I got this digital camera to work under linux and wanted to share my experiences in case it ever comes up (while I still remember how). I got this to work pretty easily. You need USB and SCSI pre-compiled into your kernel. It is by default in Mandrake. First I typed insmod usb-storage. Then

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-31 Thread Michael Leone
I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever file formats, and it will be illegal for Sun or anyone else to reverse-engineer that file

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-31 Thread tester
Michael Leone wrote: I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever file formats, and it will be illegal for Sun or anyone else to

Re: [newbie] My 3 year old computer, is it compatible?

2001-12-31 Thread Erylon
On Monday 31 December 2001 11:11, you wrote: Michael Viron wrote: If it is a Pentium or above, you'll be able to install Mandrake. If it's a 486, you'll still be able to install Mandrake 7.0 for i486 (although that might be a bit sluggish). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Resolving HW conflicts

2001-12-31 Thread Erylon
On Monday 31 December 2001 08:28, you wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:40:29 -0600 Mark Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Short version: I need a general methodology for determining what resources my peripherals are using; i.e. a list of files to examine or diagnostics to run that

[newbie] noarch?

2001-12-31 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I am trying to download some source codes for compilation. But it comes in two flavors, one is regular and the other is noarch. What does noarch stands for? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned

2001-12-31 Thread Charles Jennings
Just to let everyone know, I tried them all and ended with Partition Magic; but only in the DOS mode, as something was wrong with the partition table. I repartitioned the drive into two and went from there. I had trouble with the install, but that's another matter. See neither will install.

Re: [newbie] noarch?

2001-12-31 Thread Michael Viron
If you are dealing with the Intel Architecture, there are 3 different types of packages (one of which is common to all platforms): ix86.rpm - these are binary, installable packages, which must be installed on x86 or later (ie, if it is for i586 (Pentium), it can't be used on a 486.) noarch.rpm

Re: [newbie] c compiler and its problem in 8.0

2001-12-31 Thread eric
Dear Pen: I tried your 4 lines program, it still not print out even I use gcc -v or cc -v to compile, actually after the gcc -v I got a lot of junks waring. Same thing, at bash it is not be printed, but it can be shown at csh. rpm -q gcc 2.96-0.48mdk (probably straight from 8.0 standard

[newbie] AOL CDROM help!

2001-12-31 Thread AOL Systems
Pls help! I mounted my cdrom using mount /mnt/cdrom then i went to the directory using cd /mnt/cdrom when i command ls no directories or files found when i command mount /dev/cdrom an error occured saying fs: iso9660 is not supported by your kernel so how will i installed packages so my cdrom

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 31 Dec 2001 20:05:55 -0500, Michael Leone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever file formats, and

[newbie] SO 5.2 won't share

2001-12-31 Thread Grant Fraser
I am trying to install SO 5.2 from the 8.0 CD. The setup program is in the KDE menu. I want to put the program where it can be installed once and used by all. SO seems to want to have a full copy of itself in each user directory. I have tried Network install and Workstation install. As root I

[newbie] Re: simple c 's printf problem in mandrake8.0

2001-12-31 Thread eric
Michael Veksler wrote: eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: both are not work on bash but work on csh on my mandrake 8.0, I also webmail them (mandrakesoft) on tech support, but they said it in not in the scope they want to support. I did not follow the thread up until now, so I may be off