Re: [newbie-it] lilo

2002-03-06 Thread Andrea Celli
Fabio Manunza wrote: Alle 19:22, martedì 5 marzo 2002, hai scritto: salve a tutti sul mio pc avevo sia win 2000 che mandrake 8.0 ho cancellato tutto per reistallare i due sistemi operativi ma alla partenza continua a partirmi lilo, come fare per eliminarlo? Da DOS un buon vecchio

Re: [newbie-it] Aggiornamento del kernel : quanto serve ?

2002-03-06 Thread Andrea Celli
Stefano Lena wrote: Ciao, faccio girare felicemente ( cioe' senza blocchi di sistema, ne' riavvii, riuscendo a fare praticamente tutto quello che mi serve, con tutte le periferiche che funzionano e questo grazie soprattutto a questa mailing list - grazie ! ) ) Mandrake 8.1 con kernel

Re: [newbie-it] Ma che fatica con i sorgenti..........

2002-03-06 Thread Germano
Non sono un esperto quindi al 99% sbaglio ma mi sembra che ci siano dei banali ( ma gravi ) errori di sintassi nel header (lp.h) che serve al programma per essere compilato. La cosa strana e che ho visto che quello header fa parte della dotazione di linux e non è del programma che vuoi

Re: [newbie-it] ICQ

2002-03-06 Thread Germano
Io ho sia LICQ 1.04 (compilata) che la precedente ( con rpm) e anch'io ho alcuni problemi sia quando spedisco messaggi ( non sempre arrivano ) che ad inviare files ( ma non a riceverli). Può darsi che alcuni problemi derivino dal fatto che posso ricevere connessioni dirette. La cosa strana (

[newbie-it] Code di stampa

2002-03-06 Thread Tommaso Leddi
Mentre stampavo un lungo documento con la mia DeskJet 520, mi si sono incastrati dei fogli. Sbloccando la stampate, purtroppo dopo stampa solo strani caratteri. Ovviamente questo problema si risolve resettando la stampante e cancellando la coda di stampa. Questa coda di stampa è però

Re: [newbie-it] Code di stampa

2002-03-06 Thread Luigi De Pascale
Prova a connetterti con netscape a localhost:631 dovresti potere lavorare sulle code. CIao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini

Rif: Re: [newbie-it] shutdown improvviso

2002-03-06 Thread bosva
Da: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 05/03/2002 14:24 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] shutdown improvviso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: salve ragazzi...mi trovo una bella gatta da pelare... tempo fa avevo avuto problemi con il mouse.. adesso se avvio linux mdk

[newbie-it] Portatile: scelta

2002-03-06 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
Dopo mesi e mesi di attesa ho deciso: Mi faccio il portatile. Si ma quale? Chi di voi mi indica un portatile linux like? Meglio se intel free (AMD!), con un modem che funzi ecc. ecc. Se poi si trovasse in vendita da CHL sarei felicissimo.

Re: [newbie-it] Portatile: scelta

2002-03-06 Thread vaiconlinux
Stefano Sebastiani wrote: Dopo mesi e mesi di attesa ho deciso: Mi faccio il portatile. Si ma quale? Chi di voi mi indica un portatile linux like? Meglio se intel free (AMD!), con un modem che funzi ecc. ecc. Se poi si trovasse in vendita da CHL sarei felicissimo. stai attento che gli

[newbie-it] niente siti con netscape

2002-03-06 Thread vaiconlinux
La connessione va OK, ma aprendo netscape non riesce a collegarsi ai siti. Come mai ? Per farlo funzionare devo andare in Linuxconf-configurazione di rete-configurazione ppp-interfaccia ppp, scegliere connetti, lasciare tutto in sospeso e poi lanciare kkkp. Allora va tutto bene. Se chiudo tutto,

Re: [newbie-it] Portatile: scelta

2002-03-06 Thread miKe
Il 22:49, mercoledì 6 marzo 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Portatile: scelta, vaiconlinux ha scritto: Posso dire la mia ? Lascia perdere l'intel-free o il microsoft-free, è tutta una illusione e una magnaria, sulla prima affermazione ok, solo per i portatili, al 50% sulla seconda 0% la

R: [newbie-it] Aggiornamento del kernel : quanto serve ?

2002-03-06 Thread Di Fresco Marco
alla 8.0 la Mdk comprendeva il supporto al supermount -che poi e' stato abbandonato- mentre il kernel standard non conteneva questa patch. Io devo dire A proposito del supermount: qualcuno sa se nelle fututre versioni di Mandrake verrà ripristinato o pure è stato mollato del tutto? Di

Re: R: [newbie-it] Aggiornamento del kernel : quanto serve ?

2002-03-06 Thread Corrado
Il mer, 2002-03-06 alle 21:19, Di Fresco Marco ha scritto: A proposito del supermount: qualcuno sa se nelle fututre versioni di Mandrake verrà ripristinato o pure è stato mollato del tutto? Già ripristinato da alcuni mesi, c'era un'incompatibilità con la versione del kernel utilizzato per la

Re: [newbie-it] Portatile: scelta

2002-03-06 Thread Corrado
Il mer, 2002-03-06 alle 20:00, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Dopo mesi e mesi di attesa ho deciso: Mi faccio il portatile. Si ma quale? Chi di voi mi indica un portatile linux like? Meglio se intel free (AMD!), con un modem che funzi ecc. ecc. Se poi si trovasse in vendita da CHL sarei

[newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows

2002-03-06 Thread Seb Kinnaird
Hi, I'm currently running dual-booting Windows with Mandrake, which are on seperate physical drives. Is there any way I can get terminal access into Linux from within Windows without rebooting?? Also, I'm having problems getting a winmodem up and running under Mandrake (most places I've

Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows

2002-03-06 Thread secfoc
i have read about a tool for windows, that enables you at least to mount ext2fs partitions for reading them. on the other hand, you could try vmware, which enables you to even boot your linux-partition in windows and work under linux, independent of the filesystem your linux is installed on.

[newbie] gaim crash - won't go away!

2002-03-06 Thread Heather Reed
Hi all, I thoughtI might be able to give you some peace, but no such luck! I tried to use gaim to get onto my msn account, but it has crashed and I can't get rid of it. I have it sitting there not responding on my desktop, and can't shut it down. Under windows I would simply do a

[newbie] a gaim ps

2002-03-06 Thread Heather Reed
A PS to my last post - how on earth doI get it to work with msn? I have loaded the plugin - what else doI have to do? H

[newbie] Problem setting up sshd

2002-03-06 Thread Roberto Armenteros
When i ran sshd for the first time I realized that I had to create the key first, then start sshd. I did this, but it created a key for sshd protocol 1, and when I ran sshd it said that sshd protocol 2 was going to be disabled because it didnt have a key. How do I get this key? I would

Re: [newbie] SBLive question

2002-03-06 Thread Heather Reed
- Original Message - From: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive question Hi Heather, I have had this very problem, and have figured out how to fix it. In my /etc/modules.conf file, there is an entry that

Re: [newbie] fonts supplementary qu. -corrected

2002-03-06 Thread Heather Reed
- Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] fonts supplementary qu. -corrected Heather, go to KDE Control CenterLook N Feel Fonts you should be able to change them there. HTH Thanks

Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing

2002-03-06 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising. But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul user on linux box: paul Isn't Linux case sensitive i.e. user

Re: [newbie] gaim crash - won't go away!

2002-03-06 Thread Derek Jennings
Ctl+Alt+Esc then click on the locked up window There is also an icon on your desktop called XKill Click on that then click on the failed application Ctl+Alt+Backspace to kill your KDE session All this stuff is covered in the manual which is accessed by the Documentation icon on your

Re: [newbie] gaim crash - won't go away!

2002-03-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 17:44, you wrote: Hi all, I thought I might be able to give you some peace, but no such luck! I tried to use gaim to get onto my msn account, but it has crashed and I can't get rid of it. I have it sitting there not responding on my desktop, and can't shut it down.

Re: [newbie] SBLive question

2002-03-06 Thread Heather Reed
- Original Message - From: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] SBLive question Hi Heather, I have had this very problem, and have figured out how to fix it. In my /etc/modules.conf file, there is an entry that

Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows

2002-03-06 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 08:16:13 + Seb Kinnaird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm currently running dual-booting Windows with Mandrake, which are on seperate physical drives. Is there any way I can get terminal access into Linux from within Windows without rebooting?? Also, I'm

Re: [newbie] gaim crash - won't go away!

2002-03-06 Thread ed tharp
open a text console (or term) to log in (as root you if you need to kill a program started as root, type su [enter] root [enter] type password for root, do not expect to see anything echped to screen as you type the password) type top [enter] (without the quotes) and look for gaim there are a

Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wed, 06 Mar 2002, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: %_Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising. But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul

[newbie] IMAP+Postfix

2002-03-06 Thread Lucas Aguilera
How can I setup the IMAP server?. I running Mandrake Prosuite 8.1 Please, step by step Thanks Lucas Aguilera [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] IMAP+Postfix

2002-03-06 Thread Lucas Aguilera
How can I setup the IMAP server and Postfix?. I running Mandrake Prosuite 8.1 Please, step by step Thanks Lucas Aguilera [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] SBLive question

2002-03-06 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] SBLive question Heather, have a look in userdrake and see if your user is still showing audio as a group. If not edit and add audio and hopefully that will fix it. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

[newbie] please post in plain text

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
I am not trying to be a list cop or anything, but some of the post on this list are very difficult to read. Mailing list in general and Linux mailing list in particular require plain text postings. ( saves bandwidth, looks good when using mutt, or pine ) -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your

[newbie] single network firewall configuration problem

2002-03-06 Thread maurizio . laudone
Hi guys, I'm trying to install a SNF to protect the computer of my research group , cos we are not very happy with the security offered by the university netrwork. All the computer have port 80 and 25(i think cos of the internal mail system) open on the external world and they work with NT on any

Re: [newbie] Network card configuration

2002-03-06 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:39:22 +0200 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to connect my Win box to my current Linux box as the win box has all my documentation on it. I have a NIC (Realtek 8139) in in each machine and a cross-over cable connecting them. The win

Re: [newbie]

2002-03-06 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:19:43 - VeNT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: subscribe newbie See http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 to subscribe :) Note the address. -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] run linux from cd

2002-03-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 19:26, you wrote: the suse is up to version 7.3 now and is on the suse site under download a little surfing. there is also http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Li ve_CD/ -- Let's not forget Simply GNUstep

[newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
This thing is running quite well and seems real snappy running X Now I want to know about fine-tunning it. What are people using for overclocking? and what CPU Freq Multiplier? I have the multiplier on AUTO, so I am not sure what speed the CPU is running at. /proc/cpuinfo says 1.4 Ghz but I

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread NB
Does the system work beautifully? Good. Don't touch it. You've got 1.46Ghz... 1.48 isn't gonna do you much good. Be happy with what you have and don't risk doing damage to your processor. On a related note, as for overclocking, if you begin to play with the bus speed remember that it throws

Re: [newbie] kernel-2.4.17.17mdk

2002-03-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:12 am, shane wrote: i should know this, but what is the remove switch? anything special to remove a bad kernel? i have about 6 now and only two that are worth keeping :-) On Wednesday 06 March 2002 06:38, Tom Brinkman opened a hailing frequency and

Re: [newbie] SBLive question

2002-03-06 Thread Heather Reed
Title: RE: [newbie] SBLive question Hi Dennis - no it wasn't, and yes it did :-)) Thanks Heather - Original Message - From: Myers, Dennis R NWO To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:46 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] SBLive question

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Jeff Quandt
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 01:34 pm, you wrote: This thing is running quite well and seems real snappy running X Now I want to know about fine-tunning it. What are people using for overclocking? and what CPU Freq Multiplier? I have the multiplier on AUTO, so I am not sure what speed the CPU

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Jeff
And for god sakes, don't over clock... I challenge you to find something which will run NOTICEBLY faster at 1.48 vs 1.46 I must agree, since, at the present time, memory bandwidth is the major bottleneck to system performance. Your proc spends most of its time waiting for something to

[newbie] Konqueror 2.2.1 Javascript problems

2002-03-06 Thread Mike Cochrane (MC)
I'm using the Konqueror web browser from the Mandrake 8.1 installation (KDE 2.2.1) and have several sites on the WWW that won't work when the Javascript option in Konqueror is on. One of those is my bank from which I do my on-line bill paying. Netscape works OK on those sites but I'd like to

[newbie] installing rpms

2002-03-06 Thread Heather Reed
Hi again Sorry to be asking all these stupid questions. I uninstalled gaim from software manager, and downloaded a newer version, whichI have stored in my root directory. However, I can't get either software manager or package manager to find it (KDE). In package manager I set/rrot/ as a

Re: [newbie] start a program as user on boot

2002-03-06 Thread Stephen Kitchener
On Monday 04 March 2002 18:07, you wrote: Hi, This sort of program is usually started by an entry in the users crontab, for instance 0 * * * * cd /root/Seti-Dir/Seti/setiathome; ./setiathome -nice 19 /dev/null 2 /dev/null Have a look a crontab in the man pages... Hi, I am trying to

Re: [newbie] start a program as user on boot

2002-03-06 Thread Stephen Kitchener
On Monday 04 March 2002 18:07, you wrote: Forgot to say that you need to edit the crontab of the user that you want the command to run as.. Hi, I am trying to start a program as user on boot. But not sure how to do it. I've been trying to use rc.local, but not running the program as root.

Re: [newbie] installing rpms

2002-03-06 Thread Brian Parish
Heather, No thickness or slowness is evident. Your willingness to ask simple questions is I am sure appreciated by many readers of this list. Anyway... The great thing about RPMs is that they know what to do with themselves. I find the easiest way to deal with them is to download to my home

Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing

2002-03-06 Thread Michael
Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wed, 06 Mar 2002, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: %_Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising. But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data:

[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 OB6100 Video Mobility M6

2002-03-06 Thread Bryce_Johnson
I can't get Mandrake 8.1 to recognize the video card inside my OB6100 HP. It's a ATI Mobility M6 and there is no way I can get MCC to recognize it as anything. It won't recognize this card for some reason. I've tried installing some new RPMS for the XFConfig-4 file. I am totally lost, does anyone

Re: [newbie] SBLive question

2002-03-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 15:08, you wrote: RE: [newbie] SBLive questionHi Dennis - no it wasn't, and yes it did :-)) Thanks Heather - Original Message - From: Myers, Dennis R NWO To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:46 PM Subject: RE: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] How to change X resolution

2002-03-06 Thread Michael
Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I've heard about a keys combination to change resolution windows-style (on the fly). This was CTRL+ALT+ + but it's not working... Maybe it was for X v.4 (i'm using v.3 to use experimental 3D on my Ati Mobility M1) ? 8-? Thanks! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza -

Re: [newbie] How to change X resolution

2002-03-06 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
I've heard about a keys combination to change resolution windows-style (on the fly). This was CTRL+ALT+ + but it's not working... Maybe it was for X v.4 (i'm using v.3 to use experimental 3D on my Ati Mobility M1) ? 8-? Try Ctrl Alt + on the numeric keypad only and Ctrl Alt - on

Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows

2002-03-06 Thread Jose Mirles
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 03:16, you wrote: Hi, I'm currently running dual-booting Windows with Mandrake, which are on seperate physical drives. Is there any way I can get terminal access into Linux from within Windows without rebooting?? I wonder if you could use VNC to access the other

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 05:03 pm, you wrote: And for god sakes, don't over clock... I challenge you to find something which will run NOTICEBLY faster at 1.48 vs 1.46 I must agree, since, at the present time, memory bandwidth is the major bottleneck to system performance. Your proc

Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows

2002-03-06 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
I'm currently running dual-booting Windows with Mandrake, which are on seperate physical drives. Is there any way I can get terminal access into Linux from within Windows without rebooting?? I wonder if you could use VNC to access the other drive. They do have a Windows client as well

Re: [newbie] run linux from cd

2002-03-06 Thread Steve M.
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 12:11 pm, you wrote: Hi, Real quick question.a while back there was a thread on a linux distro that runs off of a cdI think without installing or making any changes to the computer. Does anyone have a link to the webpage on this one? Thanks and

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-06 Thread ed tharp
as i understand it, it finises booting that is the error in the ctrl+alt f12 term On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:50, you wrote: Does it finish booting? Or is it just that term that seems to hang? - Paul Rodriguez On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 20:03, FemmeFatale wrote: Bizarre. Guess it's a bug?

Re: [newbie] SBLive question

2002-03-06 Thread FemmeFatale
I had a very similar problem. Turned out I had to install Alsa, the linux audio files from the CD's. Try that? Otherwise Im a clueless newb like you. :) FemmeFatale Heather Reed wrote: - Original Message - From: Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-06 Thread FemmeFatale
I can use KDE *its what i'm working with ATM* yes its finished booting. Its just that 1 (one) term. It seems to be hung-up. I think it was Ed who said its done that as long as he's had LM8. Is it normal? Now I'm just curious *ya i'm a kitty I wanna be killed* :) Thx, Femmey Paul Rodríguez

[newbie] USB memory stick access

2002-03-06 Thread Dr Joe Brand
Hi, How can I access my memory stick reader via the USB port? Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] eth0 hangs on shutdown

2002-03-06 Thread Dr Joe Brand
Hi, How can I prevent eth0 from hanging on shutdown. It hangs there for a long time then I have to shut the powere off. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-06 Thread Damian Gatabria
sorry for not following the whole thread, maybe you explained this before, if this is the case feel free to ignore my question, but... do you really need to log in all of them? is your system affected in any other way than the ctrl-alt-F12 message screen? mine works perfectly, and

Re: [newbie] run linux from cd

2002-03-06 Thread FemmeFatale
http://www.demolinux.org/ Enjoy Femme Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Real quick question.a while back there was a thread on a linux distro that runs off of a cdI think without installing or making any changes to the computer. Does anyone have a link to the webpage on

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread FemmeFatale
UMM OK... Don't say I didn't warn you but... Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk frying the CPU. As for OCing, if you want links on how to do so

Re: [newbie] HSP56 Pctel modem - better explanation

2002-03-06 Thread shockwave
Hi, pctel-0.8.6.tar.gz was the first driver I downloaded, I couldn't make it work so I tried another drivers after that. Here are the steps i took with the driver you mention, I unpacked the tarball, then i typed ./configure --with hal=i810sis the includes were not found so I made a link to

Re: [newbie] installing rpms, OT to Brian

2002-03-06 Thread FemmeFatale
Thx much, your explanation was concise wonderfully phrased. :) Ever consider a job as a support person!? :P I know I appreciated the answer as it outlined some answers to my own questions I had yet to ask of the list. Merci Monsieur Parish Femme Brian Parish wrote: Heather, No

Re: [newbie] USB memory stick access

2002-03-06 Thread FemmeFatale
If you'd like I can scan an article on how to get USB any device with USB to work, including the stick. Would that be helpful? I got the article from a UK magazine called Linux Format. Femme Dr Joe Brand wrote: Hi, How can I access my memory stick reader via the USB port?

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-06 Thread FemmeFatale
More than anything I just want to know if its a bug. Yes, my F1-6 are normal term text only login screens. IE, they have a $login: on the screen only. But the F12 term seems to be kind of whacked. No, I hadn't answered your question before. And no, I don't need more than 6 terms. In fact,

Re: [newbie] USB memory stick access

2002-03-06 Thread Dr Joe Brand
That would be great! I learning as I go... Thanks, Joe FemmeFatale wrote: If you'd like I can scan an article on how to get USB any device with USB to work, including the stick. Would that be helpful? I got the article from a UK magazine called Linux Format.

[newbie] star office and jre

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
sorry for asking a dumb question? 1) where is the archives? 2) and shouldn't there be a link in the list signiture? As I know this question must have been asked hundreds of times... I have installed the IBM jre it (the loader) is at /usr/jre118/bin/linux/jre But for the life of me I can't get

Re: [newbie] OT, I know this is a LM List, but...

2002-03-06 Thread FemmeFatale
Has anyone tried installing or had experience with RH 7.2? I have several partitions, thanks to Partition Magic 7. Great program. However when I tried to install RH 7.2, I had a problem. Seems it will NOT install to anything but a primary partition. What gives? My current drive looks like

[newbie] Firewall setup

2002-03-06 Thread Dr Joe Brand
Where can I get information on configuring a firewall? The GUI in drakconf is hosed. It says I need to install iptables and Basstille. I would rather understand how to configure manually and what files need to be edited. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] virus scanners (again)

2002-03-06 Thread Todd Slater
I know there was a recent discussion of virus scanners, and how they are not necessary unless it is to protect Windows clients. Well, that is just the situation I am in. I want to set up a server to experiment with educational applications of GPL/Open Source/Free Software, but the MIS guys won't

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:00 pm, you wrote: I can use KDE *its what i'm working with ATM* yes its finished booting. Its just that 1 (one) term. It seems to be hung-up. I think it was Ed who said its done that as long as he's had LM8. Is it normal? Now I'm just curious *ya i'm a kitty

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:06 pm, you wrote: UMM OK... Don't say I didn't warn you but... Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk frying the

Re: [newbie] eth0 hangs on shutdown

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:05 pm, you wrote: Hi, How can I prevent eth0 from hanging on shutdown. It hangs there for a long time then I have to shut the powere off. As a suggestion you might try explicitly issuing an ifdown eth0 before issuing the shutdown command shutdown -h now --

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-06 Thread shane
to the best of my knowledge you only get 6 term sessions by default, and that is what you are seeing on F1-F6. i seem to recall that the 6 session are the six mingetty programs you will see if you open a monitor program like system guard. could be wrong there, i never got into that end of

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:40 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:00 pm, you wrote: I can use KDE *its what i'm working with ATM* yes its finished booting. Its just that 1 (one) term. It seems to be hung-up. I think it was Ed who said its done that as long as he's had LM8.

Re: [newbie] Firewall setup

2002-03-06 Thread Ashley Reynolds
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Dr Joe Brand wrote: Where can I get information on configuring a firewall? The GUI in drakconf is hosed. It says I need to install iptables and Basstille. You could easily install iptables and Bastille to fix DrakConf, by issuing the following commands, as root: urpmi

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-06 Thread Ashley Reynolds
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: Get MASSIVE cooling into that system ASAP If you want to OC an Athy. I kid not... Have at least 3 - 4 80mm Fans going in your PC. No joke, otherwise you do risk frying the CPU. The heat issues associated with overclocking aren't nearly as dangerous as

Re: [newbie] star office and jre

2002-03-06 Thread Damian Gatabria
I have installed the IBM jre it (the loader) is at /usr/jre118/bin/linux/jre But for the life of me I can't get star office to find it. I use the dialog browser to get to /usr/jre118/bin/linux but no jre shows, and star office says it coud not find it. Help! TIA uhm.. i once installed

Re: [newbie] OK New install, probs with virtual Terms

2002-03-06 Thread Michael
To see if your last boot-up has succeeded go to /var/log/boot.log and trot on down to the last line of text. Perhaps you should check /var/log/syslog. The last few lines of this ongoing log are repeated on the F12 screen. If they match then rest assured you have a perfectly normal system. Also

[newbie] Problems with Harddrak

2002-03-06 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos
Hello all !!! I install the Mandrake 8.1, in a Pentium III with a motherboard of Asus. After I try run the harddrak, but the computer stop run and I have of initialize again. Don't appear anyone error message simply, it stop. Somebody already had this problem? T+

Re: [newbie] Viewing Linux partition from Windows

2002-03-06 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
Ï/Ç Jose Mirles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå: On Wednesday 06 March 2002 03:16, you wrote: Hi, I'm currently running dual-booting Windows with Mandrake, which are on seperate physical drives. Is there any way I can get terminal access into Linux from within Windows without rebooting??I wonder if