RE: [newbie] AMD system question

|-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir |Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:17 PM |To: NewbieMandrake-List |Subject: RE: [newbie] AMD system question | | |I say to P4 advocates, ignore |the smoke and mirrors and look at the man b

RE: [Fwd: [newbie] REPOST:Samba and Printing to a Windowssharedprinter]

I'm having no trouble printing in either direction from 8.1 to 8.2 and vice versa. Both machines are also connected to Winblows printers under XP. I'm also using the 8.1 machine as a PDC for Winblows. You might want to check the permissions on the 8.2 files. 8.2 tightened up quite a few things,

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

At the dell site, this Dimension XPS T-450 is listed in the Specs section as having: Internally accessible ports: Primary EIDE 40-pin connector Secondary EIDE40-pin connector Diskette drive 34-pin connector It says nothing anywhere about ATA. ?? I also looked up the kernel

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

How timely! I got called away from my project and just got back and was working on repartitioning when I noticed you had just posted. I'm not sure of the ATA issue ... Charles, I was just hoping it would work without the manual changes, because newbie that I am, I am struggling mightly as it is.

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:39:47 -0800 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > > > > > >I am going to give this one more shot. > > > >RH 5.1 uses a pre 2.0 kernel (not sure of exact but 5.2 used the 2.0.36). > >In order to install it to a hd connected to an ata33 contr

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

Charles A Edwards wrote: >On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:31:46 -0700 >"db" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Civileme, >> >>I'm back by the machine and able to give your last suggestions a whirl. I >>also looked up your article that you referred me to. Reading it, causes me >>to ask ... will the person cr

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

db wrote: >Civileme, > >I'm back by the machine and able to give your last suggestions a whirl. I >also looked up your article that you referred me to. Reading it, causes me >to ask ... will the person creating the data with the app in 5.1 be able to >boot into 8.1 to burn it into a CD ... and

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:31:46 -0700 "db" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Civileme, > > I'm back by the machine and able to give your last suggestions a whirl. I > also looked up your article that you referred me to. Reading it, causes me > to ask ... will the person creating the data with the app

[newbie] Maestro 2E in laptop

Hi ALL, I just installed LM 8.2 on my laptop and have problem with Maestro 2E sound card - I cannot configure it using HardDrake and sndconfig. Before I had a few Mandrakes before 8.2 and FreeBSD and it worked fine. Any advice, please. Thanks, vl ___

Re: [newbie] Crashes

Top sez: Swap: 248968K av, 0K used, 248968K free Memtest86 shows zero errors after doing three passes. So, if it's not a too-small swap and my memory appears good, what else might it be? -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:16:53 +

Re: [newbie] Cannot install 8.2 - strange !

On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:41 pm, civileme wrote: > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > >Hello list. > > > >Now I'm having a problem. Hitherto every Mandrake install from 7.0 --> 8.1 > >succeeded flawlessly (..well, sort of). Yesterday I received my > > pre-ordered set of 8.2 (7 CD's). As usual (after bac

[newbie] Another Partitioning Question

I have watched with interest Civileme's posts over the last month or so on the multi-boot (windows plus two linuces) issue. My situation is similar to others. I have: $ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb5 3.7G 2.5G 1.0G 71% / /dev/hda1 7

Re: [newbie] Cannot install 8.2 - strange !

Kaj Haulrich wrote: >Hello list. > >Now I'm having a problem. Hitherto every Mandrake install from 7.0 --> 8.1 >succeeded flawlessly (..well, sort of). Yesterday I received my pre-ordered >set of 8.2 (7 CD's). As usual (after backing up everything to CD), I shuffled >the first CD into the

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

dbota wrote: >Civileme, >Well, we leapfrogged each other there with our posts. I have not yet >succeeded at getting 5.1 on the 40 gig with win98 and Mandrake 8.1. I have >attached both of your replies below and inserted further questions in >CAPITAL type. I am still doing something wrong it se

[newbie] Cannot install 8.2 - strange !

Hello list. Now I'm having a problem. Hitherto every Mandrake install from 7.0 --> 8.1 succeeded flawlessly (..well, sort of). Yesterday I received my pre-ordered set of 8.2 (7 CD's). As usual (after backing up everything to CD), I shuffled the first CD into the cupholder and invited some

Re: [newbie] installing RPM

On Thursday 25 April 2002 20:54, you wrote: You need to be root to install packages onto a system. > this is what I get when trying to install the rpm package, can someone > please tell me what I am doing wrong or what I need to do to install this. > > $ rpm -ivv geneweb.rpm > D: ==

Re: [newbie] printer set up

the printer is a compaq ij750 - Original Message - From: Joseph Braddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ron Grace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] printer set up > Do you know what model the printer is? A lot of times, Compa

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 23:41:38 -0700 "db" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I went ahead and re-did the Mandrake 8.1 install in the manner that > was suggested but then when I got to trying to install the RH 5.1, the > process got hung up at Disk druid. "An error occured reading the partition > t

Re: [newbie] Enterprise Linux Network

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm more familiar with Novell and (god help me) Windoze than >Linux, but I have been dabbling at the penguin for awhile. Now I >am thinking of an enterprise Linux network with servers in remote >offices etc.Right now I have mostly netware with NDS. I like a

Re: [newbie] installing RPM

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:54:25 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >this is what I get when trying to install the rpm package, can someone >please tell me what I am doing wrong or what I need to do to install this. Run rpm -rebuilddb on the RPM database and then try again. Perhaps that helps. Paul --

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

Civileme, Well, we leapfrogged each other there with our posts. I have not yet succeeded at getting 5.1 on the 40 gig with win98 and Mandrake 8.1. I have attached both of your replies below and inserted further questions in CAPITAL type. I am still doing something wrong it seems. =

RE: [newbie] installing RPM

>>You need to su/root: # rpm -ivv geneweb.rpm >>You can not install as usr: $ rpm -ivv geneweb.rpm >> Charles Thanks Charles I should have tried that anyway. Stupid me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.

Re: [newbie] installing RPM

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:54:25 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this is what I get when trying to install the rpm package, can someone > please tell me what I am doing wrong or what I need to do to install this. > > $ rpm -ivv geneweb.rpm > D: == geneweb.rpm > D: Expected size: 20

[newbie] InteractiveBastille - CPU cycles

LM 8.2 - After running top, I see that my CPU is 0.0% idle and that InteractiveBastille seems to be the offending program. I chose the "standard" security setting during installation, but never set up Bastille. The system seems to run OK, but why the heavy CPU usage? --

[newbie] installing RPM

this is what I get when trying to install the rpm package, can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong or what I need to do to install this. $ rpm -ivv geneweb.rpm D: == geneweb.rpm D: Expected size: 2032953 = lead(96)+sigs(68)+pad(4)+data(2032785) D: Actual size:

[newbie] Enterprise Linux Network

I'm more familiar with Novell and (god help me) Windoze than Linux, but I have been dabbling at the penguin for awhile. Now I am thinking of an enterprise Linux network with servers in remote offices etc.Right now I have mostly netware with NDS. I like a lot of the features in Novell

Re: [newbie] OT: Test

On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:40 pm, Jennifer Sheltra wrote: > Sorry, just want to make sure that people are seeing my emails .. have > sent 3 in the last week or so, and got no responses, so I wanted to > check to make sure people are in fact seeing them. > > Thanks! > > Terry Well Terry, I see y

[Fwd: [newbie] REPOST:Samba and Printing to a Windows shared printer]

Trying again ... > -Forwarded Message- > > > From: Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [newbie] Samba and Printing to a Windows shared printer > > Date: 25 Apr 2002 10:54:23 -0400 > > > > I'm having trouble setting up a windows shared printer using KUPS and

[Fwd: [newbie] REPOST:Samba and Printing to a Windows sharedprinter]

-Forwarded Message- > From: Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Samba and Printing to a Windows shared printer > Date: 25 Apr 2002 10:54:23 -0400 > > I'm having trouble setting up a windows shared printer using KUPS and > Samba 2.2.3a in LM 8.2 .. I have

[newbie] OT: Test

Sorry, just want to make sure that people are seeing my emails .. have sent 3 in the last week or so, and got no responses, so I wanted to check to make sure people are in fact seeing them. Thanks! Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.co

Re: [newbie] cd tower mount question

That's what I was looking for. Works perfectly. Thanks -- John Bodden htttp://www.csuniv.edu 2:29pm up 12 min, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.17, 0.18 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT? mouse problem

On Thursday 25 April 2002 18:59 pm, Marc,wrote : > >I have disconnected the PS2 connector from the 4 pin terminal on the MB > > and reseated it and the problem went away for a while, now it's back. > > Does this indicate that my MB is on the way out (Yes would be a nice > > answer then I can just

RE: [newbie] AMD system question

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 05:10, Baka Attila Tamás wrote: > Dear Tony, > > Thank you for your answer. I'm glad to hear you had no problems. Still I'd > like to know if anyone used the motherboard I described > > BAT First: Never, ever buy a motherboard without researching motherboards on the

Re: [newbie] LM 8.2 shutdown problem

Marcia wrote: > > Dear All, > > I just installed LM 8.2 onto my laptop and desktop. Everything seems fine so > far except neither one will shutdown properly. It starts to shutdown normally > and shutsdown quite a few programs then stops at umount2 and cannot umount > /dev/net or something close

Re: [newbie] OT? mouse problem

>I have disconnected the PS2 connector from the 4 pin terminal on the MB and >reseated it and the problem went away for a while, now it's back. >Does this indicate that my MB is on the way out (Yes would be a nice answer >then I can justify an upgrade from K6 II - 450 to " She who must be obey

Re: [newbie] access permissions to ntfs partitions

Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 02:35, David wrote: > > I know I have seem this posted before, but I haven't been able to find it yet. >Below is am excerpt from my fstab. Root can access the partitions, a user can mount >them but not access them. Error reads: permission denied.

Re: [newbie] cd tower mount question

There's no reason you can't put the mount commands in a script. You could put the commands at the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, which I believe is run at every boot (after all the other init scripts). You may be able to even create a separate rc.something file in this directory, just to k

Re: [newbie] cd tower mount question

The noauto option was not set. Can I just mount them with a script that runs at boot? and if so where would I put that script? John On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:32 am, K Montgomery wrote: > Do the cdrom drives have the "noauto" option set in the /etc/fstab > file? If so, I think removing it mi

[newbie] msec settings

I have a single machine, no local network, with a broadband (cable modem) connection. Using msec,level 3, which uses a default umask of 022. Is there any reason to create a perm.local file rather than simply edit the settings in the /usr/share/msec/perm.xx files? I want to chan

Re: [newbie] cd tower mount question

Do the cdrom drives have the "noauto" option set in the /etc/fstab file? If so, I think removing it might do the trick. - Kathy On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 11:13, John Bodden wrote: > I have a cd tower and I would like for the drives to be mounted automatically > at boot with the same mount point ev

[newbie] LM 8.2 shutdown problem

Dear All, I just installed LM 8.2 onto my laptop and desktop. Everything seems fine so far except neither one will shutdown properly. It starts to shutdown normally and shutsdown quite a few programs then stops at umount2 and cannot umount /dev/net or something close to that. Does anyone know

Re: [newbie] How do you get Xcdroast to recognise my DVD/CDROM

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 16:09, you wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:03:15 +0100 > > John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wed12.30BST > > Seems I may of found at least a large part of the answer. > > If you go to these files and modify:- > > /etc/xcdroast.confmodification to

[newbie] cd tower mount question

I have a cd tower and I would like for the drives to be mounted automatically at boot with the same mount point every time. Where do I configure this? The drives are defined in the /etc/fstab file, but I have to manually mount them with the mount command. John -- John Bodden htttp://www.csu

[newbie] Samba and Printing to a Windows shared printer

I'm having trouble setting up a windows shared printer using KUPS and Samba 2.2.3a in LM 8.2 .. I have a LM 8.1 machine running Samba 2.2.2 and KUPS and have no trouble printing to a windows shared printer through it. Both machines are joined to the domain, and I used SWAT to verify that all sett

Re: [newbie] Have I got a Virus ?

Well John, It turns out you are more or less right, Seems that my long held settings have been changed without telling me, typical freeserve-anytime, or as the local wags like to call it fixedprice/lousytime. for it is very expesive and shockingly hopeless quality of service. Anyway that has

Re: [newbie] KDE 3

I have followed the instructions from alastair to install KDE3 in 8.2 and all goes fine, but it doesn't appear in the drop down list when i log out and try to log back in. KDE is in the menu but it simply loads KDE2 has before. Any ideas would be appreciated Cheers Matt >>

[newbie] samba .. nmbd wont run

hi i decided to have a go at setting up samba. things seemed to going well enough until i noticed the linux share no longer showed up on the 2k pc. i checked samba to notice that nmbd was not running, after many attempts it still refuses to run. smbd is running ok but not nmbd does anyone know w

RE: [newbie] ssh / telneting

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Pauljames Dimitriu wrote: > >%_Thanks everyone for the info. > > Now, here's my next question: Say I want to telnet > into the computer from another computer behind the > same firewall. > > for instance, I want to ssh from computer 192.168.1.x > to 192.168.1.x+1 > > I

[newbie] Mounting HDs

I have a file server for my mp3 files here at home and the machine blew up and is no longer working. however the hd that I was using is in excellent working condition but my problem has become getting my files off of it. I have never done it before but I would imagine that I can take it out

Re: [newbie] Kmail sig file in kde3

Never mind. I just found it. It was under the drop down box that said where to get the sig file from. I had to chose "output from a program". I just never saw that in all my searching. On Thursday 25 April 2002 06:35 am, John wrote: > What happened to the box in Kmail to check that the sig

Re: [newbie] samba .. nmbd wont run

Did you check the log entries in /usr/local/samba/var/log.nmbd? Keith Lynn Systems Administrator School of Computer and Information Sciences University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36608 Phone: (251) 460-6390 Fax: (251) 460-7274 Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/

Re: [newbie] Have I got a Virus ?

- Original Message - From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Have I got a Virus ? > John Richard Smith wrote: > > > All my Kmail emails have become blocked . >

[newbie] samba .. nmbd wont run

hi i decided to have a go at setting up samba. things seemed to going well enough until i noticed the linux share no longer showed up on the 2k pc. i checked samba to notice that nmbd was not running, after many attempts it still refuses to run. smbd is running ok but not nmbd does anyone know w

[newbie] Kmail sig file in kde3

What happened to the box in Kmail to check that the sig file is a program? I just installed kde3 and can't find that option in Kmail anywhere. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

I have a 40 gig drive which I partition with PQ Partition Magic, I stick with that only. It knowes how to handle large drives. and because you stick to one partition tool throughout you get hard drive measurement all exact.Your partition table is straight. I partition my drive, hda1 = NTFS W2K

AW: [newbie] Have I got a Virus ?

do you own a yahoomail john ? --- ... XP , while X stands for cra -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von civileme Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. April 2002 11:24 An: John Richard Smith Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re:

Re: [newbie] Have I got a Virus ?

John Richard Smith wrote: > All my Kmail emails have become blocked . > > > > every time I go to send an email I get the usual error message:- > > > > Command RCPT > > Response 550 relaying to < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Prohibited by administrator. > > message will st

[newbie] Have I got a Virus ?

All my Kmail emails have become blocked .   every time I go to send an email I get the usual error message:-   Command RCPT Response 550 relaying to < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Prohibited by administrator. message will stay in outbox,blah,blah,blah, transport protocol smtp://mail.mnopq.net25   and y

Re: [newbie] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 & Mandrake 8.1 ??

db wrote: >Well, I went ahead and re-did the Mandrake 8.1 install in the manner that >was suggested but then when I got to trying to install the RH 5.1, the >process got hung up at Disk druid. "An error occured reading the partition >table for the block device hda. The error was :: No such fil

AW: [newbie] mozilla / yahoo mail

pay for mail ? oh my ... how far will this go ... --- ... XP , while X stands for cra -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von Lyvim Xaphir Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. April 2002 09:21 An: NewbieMandrake-List Betreff: R

Re: [newbie] mozilla / yahoo mail

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 03:07, Brian York wrote: > Does anyone use mozilla messenger / yahoo mail service > combo and yahoo isn't accepting your password? > Today is the 25th. Yesterday was the yahoo cutoff date for free mail. They have required that all yahoo users pay for their mail now, 19.95

Re: [newbie] access permissions to ntfs partitions

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 02:35, David wrote: > I know I have seem this posted before, but I haven't been able to find it yet. >Below is am excerpt from my fstab. Root can access the partitions, a user can mount >them but not access them. Error reads: permission denied. > > I've tried everythi