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

2002-01-02 Thread jclark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mi chiedevo.. ci sarebbero degli interessati a partecipare ad un corso on-line per amministratori di sistema? si interessato se la cosa va' avanti segnalamelo anche in forma privata. grazie anticipatamente -- Mario Vittorio Guenzi Zincometal S.p.A. c.so Europa

Re: [newbie-it] modem usb + linux = :(

2002-01-02 Thread linux58
Vai sul sito di Mandrake e cerca il modem alla voce HARDWARE RICONOSCIUTO . Troverai le istruzioni per lo scarico delle risorse che cerchi. Salve a tutti, Io invece ho il modem Alcatel ADSL Speed touch USB (sul sito mandrake risulta supportato) e una versione Mandrake 8.0 da due CD,

Re: [newbie-it] installazione xine

2002-01-02 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:32:54 -0800 (PST) luigi pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ho provato ad installare tutto bene... quando l'ho fatto partire prima non trovava le librerie libdvdread ma ho risolto installando l'rpm presente nel sito, e ho lanciato. l'errore non c'era pi_ in compenso

Re: [newbie] no 'control center' after InteractiveBastille

2002-01-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 01:56, you wrote: What feedback do you get from the console when you try to run su? Open up a console window and type su+enter followed by the root passwprd. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 21:38, ai4a wrote: Hi, After I ran InteractiveBastille I can

[newbie] Colorado Jumbo 350 on 8.1

2002-01-02 Thread Lee
Hi list I just bought a Colorado Jumbo 350 tape drive to recover some old old files left over from another life. It came with the old MS 95 drivers, but I want it on my ML8.1 box. Anyone have experience with this dinosaur? TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] VI Question and Building Pine

2002-01-02 Thread Pauljames Dimitriu
Hello All, I have a couple of questionshopefully you will be able to answer them ;-) 1) When I use VI on Unix, in order to get the system command, I hit Shift-Q, then I can write, quit, etc. However, when I do this, I don't get the system command. Also, when I ssh into my

[newbie] CVS and SSH

2002-01-02 Thread Paul Zarson
I am trying to set up a CVS server using SSH as defined by http://www.wincvs.org/ssh.html and I use the version of SSH as described by the instructions. Now, I set up my ssh keys as described by using name@server, etc. Now, when I finalize the instructions and try to log on without a

[newbie] Another new problem.. :(

2002-01-02 Thread Eric Budinger
Hey All, Well I got my box backup and working. Now here is my other problem. I have only 7.9 megs left on /dev/hda1 which is my root my /home has over 300 megs. I have a several hundred meg hard drive sitting here that I want to install and run the programs off that. What would be

Re: [newbie] no 'control center' after InteractiveBastille

2002-01-02 Thread ai4a
Paul Rodríguez wrote: What feedback do you get from the console when you try to run su? Open up a console window and type su+enter followed by the root passwprd. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 21:38, ai4a wrote: Hi, After I ran InteractiveBastille I can not get into 'control

[newbie] Reading UDF on CDRW problem

2002-01-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, CDRW mounting and reading UDF problem. /dev/cdrom and /mn/cdrom CRWriter /dev/cdrom1 and /mnt/cdrom1 CDRom /etc/fstab table as follows: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults1 1 none/dev/ptsdevpts

Re: [newbie] ScanJet 4c

2002-01-02 Thread Randy
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:35 am, you wrote: Being that I am coming from a limited FreeBSD back ground, I am haveing some trouble with another device. I now have a ScanJet 4c with the SCSI card that came with it from HP. I am running LM 8.1. LM does not find the card. All I did was

Re: [newbie] Euphoria

2002-01-02 Thread Barb
I've played around with it in the past. I have a somewhat outdated page on it www.bejay.com/euphoria.htm. It's an interesting little language. Barbara At 09:33 PM 1/1/2002, you wrote: Dear All, Has anyone used Euphoria? Is it worthwhile? Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] cron message

2002-01-02 Thread Hal Wigoda
I think that the job is trying to display and recevive info from the screen and it can't as you are running the job as a script. This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1009904480-11608-2751 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

Re: [newbie] no 'control center' after InteractiveBastille

2002-01-02 Thread ai4a
ai4a wrote: Paul Rodríguez wrote: What feedback do you get from the console when you try to run su? Open up a console window and type su+enter followed by the root passwprd. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 21:38, ai4a wrote: Hi, After I ran InteractiveBastille I can

Re: [newbie] no 'control center' after InteractiveBastille

2002-01-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 07:31, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 02 January 2002 01:56, you wrote: What feedback do you get from the console when you try to run su? Open up a console window and type su+enter followed by the root passwprd. -Paul Rodríguez

Re: [newbie] no permission to mount cdrom

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Viron
Julian, It must be related to what security setting you use. On both a Mandrake 7.2 and an 8.1 box, I have a cdrom group listed. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:47 PM 01/01/2002

Re: [newbie] RE: Zip Drive and fstab

2002-01-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I am using Mandrake 8.1. I can access my floppy and my cdrom but not the Zip disk. It is an internal Atapi drive. My fstab entry looks like this: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,icharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 when I try to mount with

[newbie] Re: Colorado Jumbo 350 on 8.1

2002-01-02 Thread [ © ª N ª ® i º JØË ]¹
Lee, Mandrake-group: I had one of those for a zillion ... no, wait, 2 zillion years ago :-) There ARE linux drivers for that beast. I didnt know they still existed. Have a look in the drivers data base ... where was it ... I dont remember ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] RE: Zip Drive and fstab

2002-01-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
tester wrote: In this case you need to create the device mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 69 Civileme Hi Civileme...can I butt in here? Please further my 'Nix education. grin Why does he have to mknod here? I've seen this kind of reply before to/from other users and I'm afraid I just don't

[newbie] Update problem in 8.0

2002-01-02 Thread Barbara Pfieffer
I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and when it gets to the security site, it stops at 26% (every time) and freezes.

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2002-01-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Michael, Happy New Year !!! Further to my email of 12/31/2001 rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom1/Tetex/tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: dialog is needed by tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk libintl.so.1 is needed by tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk rpmdb: Item 118 on page 547 hashes

Re: [newbie] Update problem in 8.0

2002-01-02 Thread Eric McClure
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:58, you wrote: Try urpmi.removemedia ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu without the quotes of course and fill in the ftp where you where ftp. take care, Eric L. McClure I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Viron
My question now is what version of Mandrake are you using? If you are using 8.1, the dependencies are a lot different than 7.x (ie, a 7.x rpm won't work properly on 8.x, and a 8.x rpm will give off all kinds of errors on a 7.x box) Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior

[newbie] TV card suggestions?

2002-01-02 Thread Michel Clasquin
Hi all My TV was hit by a lightning surge and has entered TV-heaven :-( If it is beyond fixing I may consider getting a TV card for my 'puter rather than a new TV. I don't really care about frame-grabbing etc: I just want to watch the occasional program, and I don't care if it is fullscreen

[newbie] icons in KDE 2.2.2

2002-01-02 Thread G.M.Laudone
Hi guys I just tried to upgrade my KDE from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 downloading it from a cooker ftp. I downloaded what I thought was enough to make it work finebut when I restarted my boxpuff...almost all the icons gone!!! which of the packages did I miss??? or which dependency did I

Re: [newbie] Re: Colorado Jumbo 350 on 8.1

2002-01-02 Thread Jim Dawson
The FTape HOWTO might be what you need. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Ftape-HOWTO.html -Original Message- From: [ © ª N ª ® i º JØË ]¹ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:20:54 + Subject: [newbie] Re: Colorado Jumbo 350 on 8.1 Lee,

Re: [newbie] RE: Zip Drive and fstab

2002-01-02 Thread tester
tester wrote: Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I am using Mandrake 8.1. I can access my floppy and my cdrom but not the Zip disk. It is an internal Atapi drive. My fstab entry looks like this: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,icharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 when I try to

Re: [newbie] USB Smart Media Card Readers/Was RE: Zip Drive and fstab

2002-01-02 Thread Larry Varney
I've been thinking that MKNOD is what I should be doing, rather than MAKEDEV. MODPROBE doesn't give me an SDA1, but I do have an SDA. I'm curious: how do you determine those major and minor numbers? Is this something to be found in the UsbView output? Or is this limited to IDE and not USB?

[newbie] can not read acrobat files

2002-01-02 Thread Stojs
When I click a pdf it starts up something called PS and PFD Viewer, in wich I can see the page numbers in the left of the window. The problem is that all the pages appear blank. I tried a number of different pdfs and every single one does the same. do I have to somehow configure this program?

Re: [newbie] can not read acrobat files

2002-01-02 Thread Derek Jennings
That application is kghostview I assume it needs ghostview installed to work so it is worth checking that Ghostview is present. It is also worth checking how your documents look in Ghostview. You should be able to view your documents with Ghostview if you right click on them in konqueror file

Re: [newbie] Update problem in 8.0

2002-01-02 Thread Derek Jennings
A lot of people are having that problem as Texstar remarks here http://66.69.180.165:8080/article.php?sid=1055mode=threadorder=0thold=0 It seems to be related to the servers rather than your computer so updating to 8.1 would not help. To remove your current non functioning mirror use

Re: [newbie] Another new problem.. :(

2002-01-02 Thread tester
Eric Budinger wrote: Hey All, Well I got my box backup and working. Now here is my other problem. I have only 7.9 megs left on /dev/hda1 which is my root... my /home has over 300 megs. I have a several hundred meg hard drive sitting here that I want to install and run the programs off

Re: [newbie] can not read acrobat files

2002-01-02 Thread bascule
i have more consistent success with 'xpdf', in kde you can configure the filetype by right clicking on a pdf file so it opens with this instead (you may have to install it of course!) my guess is that some later version of acrobat makes pdfs that can't be read by the kde viewer since some pdfs

Re: [newbie] Update problem in 8.0

2002-01-02 Thread tester
Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and when it gets to the security site, it stops at 26%

[newbie] KDE Startup Sound

2002-01-02 Thread Miark
Sound has never worked as it should on my 8.1 with SB Live Value, but it's worked well enough to do what I want (for instance, using mpg123 or ogg132 instead of xmms, etc.). Things are still fine, but I'm regularly expiencing something strange that I thought I ask about. When startx into KDE,

Re: [newbie] Another new problem.. :(

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Viron
Well surgery on / is very difficult, because you cannot unmount it from a running system. You have several options... Method A: If /usr is a subdirectory of / instead of a separately mounted partition, you can move that to the second disk if there is room--Here's how: 1. Put in your second

Re: [newbie] can not read acrobat files

2002-01-02 Thread tester
Stojs wrote: When I click a pdf it starts up something called PS and PFD Viewer, in wich I can see the page numbers in the left of the window. The problem is that all the pages appear blank. I tried a number of different pdfs and every single one does the same. do I have to somehow configure

[newbie] Conflict between Printing Sound in LM8.1

2002-01-02 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I have been having a long struggle getting my ethernet, sound, and printing all working at the same time. I have studied all relevant files, how-to's, and asked many questions but so far no answer that has worked. I do have a clue now. My sound module is not loaded when I start up.

Re: [newbie] problem correctly detecting cdrom

2002-01-02 Thread skinky
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 13:41, mr_tortoise wrote: | I'm have problems mounting my cdrom. I assume that supermount was | installed on the system. I have tried mounting the cdrom drive at the | command line and using konqueror with no success. I have two cdroms | installed - a TEAC CDRW and

Re: [newbie] Conflict between Printing Sound in LM8.1

2002-01-02 Thread tester
Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have been having a long struggle getting my ethernet, sound, and printing all working at the same time. I have studied all relevant files, how-to's, and asked many questions but so far no answer that has worked. I do have a clue now. My sound module is not

Re: [newbie] huge fonts!

2002-01-02 Thread Miark
Sounds like a good excuse to me to buy a bigger monitor ;-) But admittedly, there may be another solution. Is it just a problem with fonts, or is everything big? Perhaps the screen resolution got reset. If it's just with fonts, try using the Control Center to change the font sizes. Miark

Re: [newbie] TV card suggestions?

2002-01-02 Thread hardcorepush
i Have an ATI TV wonder ve card. autodetected in 8.1 and works fine rob On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:26:29 +0200 Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all My TV was hit by a lightning surge and has entered TV-heaven :-( If it is beyond fixing I may consider getting a TV card for my 'puter

Re: [newbie] Update problem in 8.0

2002-01-02 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 14:29, you wrote: Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and

Re: [newbie] Capturing audio

2002-01-02 Thread Neville Cobb
grecord came with md 8.1 and should already be on your system. Nev -- John Rye wrote: 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

[newbie] Modules

2002-01-02 Thread Bob Bomar
I am trying to figure out how to get my HP Scan Jet 4c up and working. It has the SCSI card that came wth it from the factory. I was told the I need to use the module Sym53c416. I went to figure out how to load it, so I did, modprobe Sym53c416, I get this: [root@booga bob]# modprobe

Re: [newbie] problem shutting down

2002-01-02 Thread skinky
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 06:42, Paul Rodríguez wrote: | On my 8.1 system I have recently encountered a problem shutting down | the computer. I'm not sure what could be causing the problem since I | rarely need to power down, but when I choose 'halt', the system powers | down and then right

Re: [newbie] Update problem in 8.0

2002-01-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:29:35 -0900, tester wrote: Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and

Re: [newbie] KDE Startup Sound

2002-01-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:14:44 -0700, Miark wrote: Sound has never worked as it should on my 8.1 with SB Live Value, but it's worked well enough to do what I want (for instance, using mpg123 or ogg132 instead of xmms, etc.). Things are still fine, but I'm regularly expiencing something strange

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2002-01-02 Thread s
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:01 am, you wrote: error: failed dependencies: dialog is needed by tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk libintl.so.1 is needed by tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk rpmdb: Item 118 on page 547 hashes incorrectly error: db3 error(-30985) from db-verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD:

Re: [newbie] TV card suggestions?

2002-01-02 Thread s
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:26 am, you wrote: Hi all Can anyone suggest a hardware/software combo that works well, TIA Michel Hauppauge WinTV xawtv. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Conflict between Printing Sound in LM8.1

2002-01-02 Thread Marcia
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:54 pm, you wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have been having a long struggle getting my ethernet, sound, and printing all working at the same time. I have studied all relevant files, how-to's, and asked many questions but so far no answer that has

[newbie] net appliance, or diskless terminal?

2002-01-02 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Hi, I'm building a computer to be used as an internet appliance basically. An old computer (PII 266) I'm connecting to the network for someone to browse the internet and write email. I have all the parts inclusing a new hard drive (5400rpm), but it occured to me that perhaps it might be

Re: [newbie] TV card suggestions?

2002-01-02 Thread Guy Zelck
s wrote: On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:26 am, you wrote: Hi all Can anyone suggest a hardware/software combo that works well, TIA Michel Hauppauge WinTV xawtv. -s Add kwintv to that. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] huge fonts!

2002-01-02 Thread Guy Zelck
Hi, I run mandrake 8. I changed X to the 4.x version using mandrakes setup program (can't rem the name, but, it let's you change the version running. So, I changed from 3.x to 4.x and now X has HUGE fonts. Everythings giant. What should I do?! Thanks for any help. Tom. Do you run by any

[FYI] Re: [newbie] Conflict between Printing Sound in LM8.1

2002-01-02 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:40:51 -0500 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I have been having a long struggle getting my ethernet, sound, and printing all working at the same time. I have studied all relevant files, how-to's, and asked many questions but so far no answer that has

[newbie] SecurityUpdates and Kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk

2002-01-02 Thread Andre Dubuc
Well, I finally got SoftwareUpdate to work again. Browsing through the updates I notice the new kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk. Now, I vaguely recall Civileme or someone else warning against updating the kernel through Update. I'm of the school If it ain't broke, don't fix it! -- is this update really

[newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable

2002-01-02 Thread Noah Swint
NTFS is compiled in the kernel but I'm unable to mount the drive I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems If it is a bad superblock how do I check and correct the problem and just how many mounts are too many?

Re: [newbie] Zip file system not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread s
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 08:30 pm, you wrote: I thought everything was OK when mounting my zip, until I put a disk in it. I have the type set to auto, which works fine for floppy and cds, but when I insert a zip disk, I get an error message that it can't recognize the file system, and

Re: [newbie] Zip file system not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread tester
Todd Slater wrote: I thought everything was OK when mounting my zip, until I put a disk in it. I have the type set to auto, which works fine for floppy and cds, but when I insert a zip disk, I get an error message that it can't recognize the file system, and none is specified. I'm using

Re: [FYI] Re: [newbie] Conflict between Printing Sound in LM8.1

2002-01-02 Thread Marcia
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 05:59 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:40:51 -0500 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I have been having a long struggle getting my ethernet, sound, and printing all working at the same time. I have studied all relevant files, how-to's, and

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Where is StarOffice?

2002-01-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:44:06 -0500, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forwarded for the lists discusion and input. I personally don't get a chance to use Open Office much of late but how about some of you who do. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Where

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] hotmail

2002-01-02 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:36:23 +0100 (CET) Jody Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK Does hotmail really support pop3 ? Accessible tru kmail etc If OK so what is the POP3 adress ? ... OK Sure does. I forget what the POP3 is, but is on the site. I have never really tried it in Kmail. So i

Re: [newbie] how can I connect Linux-Mandrake 8.1 to a Windows/Netware LAN?

2002-01-02 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
i followed the sparse instructions included with LISa but still no luck. komba2 works just fine as you can mount whatever shares you want. not much of a solution to what you want but it works nonetheless so it might be of some use to you. ciao! On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:48:50 -0800 Matthew

[newbie] like to get source code, rpm -bp gcc.spec

2002-01-02 Thread eric
Dear linux programers: at /usr/src/RPM/SPECS I have gcc.spec then I tried rpm -bp gcc.spec it not work just show how rpm 's option also in my /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES I had gcc-2.95.2-2.95.3.diff.bz2* is it matter? I also did, rpm -bp goo-2.95.spec same thing, not work-I check my SOURCE and

Re: [newbie] what to use for hostname

2002-01-02 Thread ajax
Thanks, I signed up with dydns.org. It seems to be working. On Tuesday 01 January 2002 08:01 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 21:43, ajax wrote: Hi, I'm was looking at trying to set up postfix on my gateway/router. The mandrake-user doc say that I need a fully qualified domain

[newbie] MandrakeUpdate - where to get a list or sources

2002-01-02 Thread Pen Gwynne
Really dumb question folks. Where can I get a list of ftp/http sites to pass into MandrakeUpdate. I am non-adventurous user in that I am primarily interested only in security updates. I looked on the Mandrake site but didn't find anything obvious. Course if it was obvious then I guess I

[newbie] Configure Internet Access (DHCP)

2002-01-02 Thread Steve M.
In Mandrake Control Center for LM 8.1 there is a section to configure Internet access when in expert mode. The DHCP Client box pull down menu has 3 choices, dhcpcd, dhcpxd, and dhcp-client. What is the difference between them? Is there any advantage/cons to using one over the others?

[newbie] using a dvd-ram drive on linux/mandrake?

2002-01-02 Thread tek1
happy new year to everyone! :) is it possible to use an external dvd-ram drive (specifically panasonic lf-d200 4.7gb/side drive), connected via a pci scsi2 card, on linux/mandrake? if so, any pointers to info on how to do this would be greatly appreciated. thanks. :) Want to buy

Re: [newbie] no permission to mount cdrom

2002-01-02 Thread Julian Opificius
Michael, Actually it's more than that ... When I looked at the behavior of CD-ROM access my system, it didn't occur to me until after I'd sent the email that I had my Red Hat 7.2 installation up ! Sorry about that :-) j. = At 10:13 AM 1/2/02 -0600, you wrote: Julian, It

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable

2002-01-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 02 Jan 2002 21:45:56 -0500, Noah Swint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NTFS is compiled in the kernel but I'm unable to mount the drive I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems If it is a bad superblock how do I

[newbie] Setting up Winmodem/Linmodem under Mandake 8.1

2002-01-02 Thread David Cooper
HI, First time posting to the support list. I have installed Mandrake 8.1 successfully, but can not get it to connect to the internet. My internal modem is a Lucient which has been correctly identified. I have checked this Harddrak. The system complains of no configuration for the modem.

Re: [newbie] Setting up Winmodem/Linmodem under Mandake 8.1

2002-01-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 22:53, you wrote: HI, First time posting to the support list. I have installed Mandrake 8.1 successfully, but can not get it to connect to the internet. My internal modem is a Lucient which has been correctly identified. I have checked this Harddrak. The

[newbie] HP Scanjet 4300C

2002-01-02 Thread Marcia
Dear All, Is it possible to get a USB/parallel HPScanjet 4300c scanner to work in LM 8.1? If so , how would I do this? Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Setting up Winmodem/Linmodem under Mandake 8.1

2002-01-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 10:53 pm, you wrote: HI, First time posting to the support list. I have installed Mandrake 8.1 successfully, but can not get it to connect to the internet. My internal modem is a Lucient which has been correctly identified. I have checked this Harddrak.

[newbie] How do I get a Wine app to run from icon?

2002-01-02 Thread Fred Fraley
Running Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1, wine 20010305 Gray haired grandfather ( so be gentle:-) started with Apple //e, DOS experience back to 3.3, WIN to 3.1, new to really using Linux, though I installed it all the way back to Slackware and Yggdrasil from floppies (kernel 0.9something as I recall)

Re: [newbie] CPU and mobo monitoring

2002-01-02 Thread Terry Smith
Thanks to you I've now got 3 temp and 3 fan sensors running as well as a bunch of voltage sensors. Very nice. Terry Smith On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 21:17, s wrote: On Wednesday 02 January 2002 07:55 pm, you wrote: Do we have anything in this wonderful world of Mandrake 8.1 (I have the

Re: [newbie] HP Scanjet 4300C

2002-01-02 Thread s
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Is it possible to get a USB/parallel HPScanjet 4300c scanner to work in LM 8.1? If so , how would I do this? Thanks, Marcia Well, according to http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html it isn't supported. I feel your pain

[newbie] simple c++ compiler error, need help

2002-01-02 Thread eric
Dear gcc-help programers: I had simple c++ program [root@localhost c_program]# cat hello.cpp #include iostream.h int main() { int i=0; char message[] = {'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '\0'}; for ( ; i5; i++) { cout *(message+i); } cout endl; return

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Viron
Which version of Windows is it from? If it is from Windows 2000 / XP, it won't mount because it uses a newer NTFS than is supported by the current kernel release (I think they support up to NTFS 4 read, and (very experimental) write). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978

[newbie] Zip and parallel printer

2002-01-02 Thread Todd Slater
Looking at my mountpoints, I see: /dev/sda /mnt/zip /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip2 With the zip2 I access the zip drive, no problems. Problem is, I have a printer plugged in to the back of the zip drive. It seems the zip is SCSI and the printer is parallel. Is it possible for both of these to work in

Re: [newbie] SecurityUpdates and Kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Viron
At 09:44 PM 01/02/2002 -0500, Andre Dubuc wrote: Well, I finally got SoftwareUpdate to work again. Browsing through the updates I notice the new kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk. Now, I vaguely recall Civileme or someone else warning against updating the kernel through Update. I'm of the school If it

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable

2002-01-02 Thread Noah Swint
XP... NTFS 5.1 I went to the http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ site and downloaded the rpm but it still doesn't work. On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 00:55, Michael Viron wrote: Which version of Windows is it from? If it is from Windows 2000 / XP, it won't mount because it uses a newer NTFS than

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable

2002-01-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/. On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:55:05 -0600, Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version of Windows is it from? If it is from Windows 2000 / XP, it won't mount because it uses a newer NTFS than is supported by the current kernel release (I think they

[newbie] Re: simple c++ compiler error, need help

2002-01-02 Thread eric
Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:48:07PM -0500, eric wrote: [root@localhost c_program]# g++ hello.cpp Can't exec /usr/bin/g++-2.96: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/IPC/Open3.pm line 217. open3: exec of /usr/bin/g++-2.96 hello.cpp failed at

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200: What am I missing?

2002-01-02 Thread Paul Rodríguez
This may not be much of an answer, but I have had success downloading the source rpm's instead of the pre-compiled ones. If your files are already editted, maybe it's worth a shot? -Paul Rodríguez On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 19:12, Terry Smith wrote: Hi gang, My new computer is up and running