[newbie] Software mirror on mandrake

2002-06-18 Thread A A
Hi all, I am loocking if it is possible to migrate from WinNT to Mandrake 8.2 as server platform. I readet many docs about how stable and good is linux as server solution. But I do not find nothing about the software mirror in mandrake. In NT the software mirror is very simple and with very good

RE: [newbie] Ripping with Man. 8.2 ?

2002-06-18 Thread Barran, Richard
hello, i'm relatively new to linux but have been ripping awhile with windows. i was wondering what programs (?) etc i would need to start doing this on mandrake 8.2. i installed the workstation with multimedia. i would like something that uses some sort of look-up if possible, rips as

RE: [newbie] xcdroast help

2002-06-18 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] xcdroast help -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jure Repinc Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 1:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] xcdroast help PBone wrote: I also had lots of problems getting cd

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:41:31 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My grandson likes to visit games and graphics sites, and he tells me that he is plagued with pop-up porn. I haven't seen any of it, so I don't know how serious it is, but he obviously thinks it undesirable. He asked

[newbie] Postfix can't receive internet email

2002-06-18 Thread Tuan tran
Hi, I'm setting POSTFIX as my mail server for some reason it does not receive email from the internet. It keep saying that user unknow eventhough I tested locally and know this user does exist (I tested local mail). If anyone knon please help me. Thanks

RE: [newbie] Ripping with Man. 8.2 ?

2002-06-18 Thread John McQuillen
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 22:53, Barran, Richard wrote: Grip will lookup track names for you, and has no limitation on encoding bitrates. On the downside, it doesn't seem to like reading from IDE CD-writers :-( although I got it to work in the end. Somehow. snip longest sig I've ever seen!

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-18 Thread tom Brinkman
On Monday 17 June 2002 07:03 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Thank you for your comments about upgrading. I am still window shopping and comparing barebone kits running Athlon XP's. Sometimes I see OEM and I really do not know what that means. I am comparing a Jetway 830CF Barebones w/AMD XP

Re: [newbie] Ripping with Man. 8.2 ?

2002-06-18 Thread tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 08:21 am, John McQuillen wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 22:53, Barran, Richard wrote: Grip will lookup track names for you, and has no limitation on encoding bitrates. On the downside, it doesn't seem to like reading from IDE CD-writers :-( although I got it to

RE: [newbie] xcdroast help

2002-06-18 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Title: RE: [newbie] xcdroast help xcdroast (newer versions at least) has an option when run as root for setup, for entries on users to allow to use the program. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message-From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, June

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-18 Thread dfox
Athlon Socket-A Ali Chipset, DDR/SDRAM support. My son-in-law said to stay away from Duron. It sounds like many of you use Duron though without a problem. The Jetway 830CF is being offered for 229.00 I believe while the I have an Athlon as well, but many people say Duron runs fine. The big

[newbie] No Message Collected

2002-06-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
I got about 8 or 10 of these messages this morning from this list and the expert list. It's something I've not seen before. What's it mean? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 09:09 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:41:31 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My grandson likes to visit games and graphics sites, and he tells me that he is plagued with pop-up porn. I haven't seen any of it, so I don't know how

Re: [newbie] No Message Collected

2002-06-18 Thread Randy Kramer
Carroll Grigsby wrote: I got about 8 or 10 of these messages this morning from this list and the expert list. It's something I've not seen before. What's it mean? I got a bunch of messages from the list this morning with no content -- that is, just the headers, no message, even if I viewed the

[newbie] Pentium 233MMX

2002-06-18 Thread kahwoon's
hey hey hey! i've got some good news!! i've got LM 8.2 running on my good ole 233MMX!!! :) now how do you congratulate me??!?!?1 thanx Mohammed and ian.. and everyone else.. :) your help is really good.. :) now i am face with another problem.. i can't access to cd-rom or floppy disk drive when i

Re: [newbie] No Message Collected

2002-06-18 Thread Paul
In reply to Randy's mail, d.d. Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:31:28 -0400: I have not received any of those so far... Paul Carroll Grigsby wrote: I got about 8 or 10 of these messages this morning from this list and the expert list. It's something I've not seen before. What's it mean? I got a bunch of

Re: [newbie] Pentium 233MMX

2002-06-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 06:58 am, kahwoon's did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: i feel that with LM8.2 in my Pentium 233MMX, i really feel.. Windows98SE runs faster thanLM8.2 could there be any setting that i might have miss out?? 8.x is

[newbie] Group Listing

2002-06-18 Thread Pauljames Dimitriu
Simple questions: How do I get a list of all the groups available on a system. Also, how do I get a list of groups attached to a project? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to

Re: [newbie] Pentium 233MMX

2002-06-18 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
About the worst question I've seen yet. You can't compare the two. One has 5000 instructions in the kernel, other around 200 ( i think ). So yeah, linux is way faster. Plus Mandrake doesn't have the 386+ source, and is compiled for the 586+ class machines. If you are trying to compare X

Re: [newbie] Pentium 233MMX

2002-06-18 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
did you mount your CDrom and floppy? Regards, Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. - Original Message - From: kahwoon's [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:58 AM Subject: [newbie] Pentium 233MMX hey hey hey! i've got some good

Re: [newbie] Pentium 233MMX

2002-06-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 14:58, kahwoon's wrote: hey hey hey! i've got some good news!! i've got LM 8.2 running on my good ole 233MMX!!! congrats now i am face with another problem.. i can't access to cd-rom or floppy disk drive when i am in LM.. even when i am log in as root with the

RE: [newbie] package downloads need conversion?

2002-06-18 Thread Cory
Just so you know, I dont believe that the DHCPD is what you need if you are trying to configure it as a client. Dhcpd is the daemon which provides the service to others. If you are not trying to make a dhcp server, I wouldnt recommend that you install this package. If you go into

[newbie] Writing .iso file to CD

2002-06-18 Thread RichardA
Hi all, This sounds like a daft question... but how do I write an .iso file to a cdr using cdrecord? I know this often comes up as a problem, but I actually want to do it (to archive an .iso image, is that so strange?). ttfn, RichardA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux? [OT]

2002-06-18 Thread robin
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:41:31 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My grandson likes to visit games and graphics sites, and he tells me that he is plagued with pop-up porn. I haven't seen any of it, so I don't know how serious it is, but he obviously thinks it undesirable. He asked me

Re: [newbie] No Message Collected

2002-06-18 Thread Bill Davidson
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:31:28 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote: I got about 8 or 10 of these messages this morning from this list and the expert list. It's something I've not seen before. What's it mean? I got a bunch of messages from the list this

Re: [newbie] Writing .iso file to CD

2002-06-18 Thread RichardA
...unless I just make an iso of the iso, so that only one of them gets 'unwrapped'. Note to self: Think before posting. RichardA, Tuesday 18 June 2002 18:54: Hi all, This sounds like a daft question... but how do I write an .iso file to a cdr using cdrecord? I know this often comes up as

Re: [newbie] Group Listing

2002-06-18 Thread robin
Pauljames Dimitriu wrote: Simple questions: How do I get a list of all the groups available on a system. If it's your system, Userdrake will show you groups and let you alter them (select View groups under, er Settings, I think). If you just want a list, less /etc/group Also, how do I get

Re: [newbie] Group Listing

2002-06-18 Thread Bill Davidson
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simple questions: How do I get a list of all the groups available on a system. 2 ways: 1. From a console type 'less /etc/group', no quotes, or 2. You can use userdrake from kde or whatever. Also,

Re: [newbie] Can't install with 8.2

2002-06-18 Thread Jagpal Singh
Micheal, I have at least 64mb for sure. This machine is an IBM PC 300GL. I tried making a dos boot disk with the win.exe program but got some type of error saying that it is not a Win32 application. Wut Else can I try? Jag --- Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2002

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-18 Thread Marcia
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 10:17 am, you wrote: Athlon Socket-A Ali Chipset, DDR/SDRAM support. My son-in-law said to stay away from Duron. It sounds like many of you use Duron though without a problem. The Jetway 830CF is being offered for 229.00 I believe while the I have an Athlon as

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Miark
Anne, You can turn off pop-ups in Konqueror, Opera, and Galeon--perhaps others too. Let us know which browser you're using, and we'll tell you how to turn them off. Miark My grandson likes to visit games and graphics sites, and he tells me that he is plagued with pop-up porn. I haven't

[newbie] xcdroast question

2002-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
I have used xcdroast for the first time today, and found it easy to burn a data cd. I then tried to duplicate an audio cd, and hit problems. I want to use my CD-DVD drive to read the CD, but only the CD-RW drive is listed in the setup pages. Putting the CD into the CD-RW drive gets the 'no

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Josef Lowder
Great! -- Please do tell us how does one turn off pop-ups in Konqueror? On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:43, you wrote: Anne, You can turn off pop-ups in Konqueror, Opera, and Galeon--perhaps others too. Let us know which browser you're using, and we'll tell you how to turn them off. Miark

[newbie] HardDrake oddities

2002-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
Whilst looking for my CD-DVD drive under HardDrake I noticed several things. There is no entry under Soundcard. This is my Audigy, and I guess explains the sound problems I asked about before. (Side issue: xcdroast's test sound used surround speakers! I couldn't get them when playing a

Re: [newbie] File format gripe

2002-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
Vahur Lokk wrote: On Monday 17 June 2002 18:11, C.Anne Wilson wrote: I could not believe the .rtf and .csv are not supported, but they seem to be missing. OpenOffice.org 1.0 definitely supports .rtf - I do most of my outside communication in this format. Note that build 641c

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
Baka Attila Tamás wrote: Use Opera 6.x where you can turn off pop-ups... BAT I might look at that. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] access to /mnt/windows as a normal user

2002-06-18 Thread civileme
Azrael wrote: As a normal user I cannot access /mnt/windows .. this is the line from my /etc/fstab /dev/hde1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,user,umask=0 0 0 try that Civileme Is there any way I can 'set' it so that normal users can read this? many thanks

Re: [newbie] Writing .iso file to CD

2002-06-18 Thread RichardA
That command would write the contents of the .iso - which is what is usually wanted, but not this time. RichardA Gerald Waugh, Tuesday 18 June 2002 20:02: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:54 pm, RichardA wrote: Hi all, This sounds like a daft question... but how do I write an .iso file to a

Re: [newbie] VIA C3 Processor

2002-06-18 Thread civileme
Gerald Waugh wrote: Anyone using a VIA C3 Processor? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Yep, have two of them in regular use. Better than a Celeron in performance

[newbie] bash_logout

2002-06-18 Thread mc . curry
Hi, I have a script in my bash_logout file, which I expect to be executed when I logout of the shell. The problem is that this does not happen - despite my understanding of the bash_logout file. The script which deletes mail trash works fine as does source bash_logout. Anyone let me know what

RE: [newbie] Can't install with 8.2

2002-06-18 Thread Franki
I have a 233mmx IBM300pl system with 160mb ram and it is running linux and this email went through it to get to this list.. so they work well enough.. I had to use rawrite on the mandrake CD to make a linux boot disk.. (I think the directory on the cd that contains the images is called /images)

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 7:55 pm, Josef Lowder wrote: Great! -- Please do tell us how does one turn off pop-ups in Konqueror? - From Konqueror select the Settings menu, then the Configure Konqueror ... item, then, on the window that opens, press

[newbie] Some e-mail clientes

2002-06-18 Thread Klemm
Hi Can anybody advise Is there a mail client that would be able to handle several profiles (identities) without logging off from the whole system. Something Outlook or OutlookExpress style, where the identity is easily changed. (a logon window asking witch users mails to open) thanks Klemm

Re: [newbie] xcdroast question

2002-06-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:51 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I have used xcdroast for the first time today, and found it easy to burn a data cd. I then tried to duplicate an audio cd, and hit problems. all i can say

Re: [newbie] Some e-mail clientes

2002-06-18 Thread Jure Repinc
Klemm wrote: Hi Can anybody advise Is there a mail client that would be able to handle several profiles (identities) without logging off from the whole system. Something Outlook or OutlookExpress style, where the identity is easily changed. (a logon window asking witch users mails to

Re: [newbie] Some e-mail clientes

2002-06-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:55 pm, Klemm did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Is there a mail client that would be able to handle several profiles (identities) without logging off from the whole system. Something Outlook or OutlookExpress

[newbie] Douple Posts

2002-06-18 Thread Langsley T Russell
Since sometime on Saturday I've been getting double posts on this list. Is this happening to everybody? Is there something I can do to stop it? LTR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] cooker snapshot themes

2002-06-18 Thread s
Anybody running cooker snapshot and want to try some theme rpms? I made some rpms from Texstar's mosfet's liquid and keramik src.rpms for the cooker snapshot. Will have to email them cause I don't have anywhere to host them, so if you would like to try them, email me. They are about 300k

Re: [newbie] Writing .iso file to CD

2002-06-18 Thread RichardA
I'm astonished. Don't you know your role as a linux guru demands you push the command line alternative at all times? BTW, what do you think of iso'ing the iso? Feels like a hack (in a bad sense), but I can't see how else to do it. RichardA shane, Wednesday 19 June 2002 21:16: On Tuesday 18

Re: [newbie] Some e-mail clientes

2002-06-18 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, shane wrote: -pgpenvelope processed message On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:55 pm, Klemm did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Is there a mail client that would be able to handle several profiles (identities) without logging off from the whole system.

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Josef Lowder
Thank you for that very helpful explanation. I am using KDE 2.2.1 and my version of Konqueror has only three radio buttons, not four: Allow, Ask, and Deny. Deny is too restrictive because there are some good and useful uses of popups such as you described with your banks. Allow is a poor

Re: [newbie] xcdroast question

2002-06-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 19:51, Anne Wilson wrote: I have used xcdroast for the first time today, and found it easy to burn a data cd. I then tried to duplicate an audio cd, and hit problems. I want to use my CD-DVD drive to read the CD, but only the CD-RW drive is listed in the setup pages.

Re: [newbie] Some e-mail clientes

2002-06-18 Thread Gavin Laking
On 18 Jun 2002 22:55:23 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a mail client that would be able to handle several profiles (identities) without logging off from the whole system. Something Outlook or OutlookExpress style, where the identity is easily changed. (a logon window asking

Re: [newbie] Writing .iso file to CD

2002-06-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:47 pm, RichardA did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I'm astonished. Don't you know your role as a linux guru demands you push the command line alternative at all times? i am a rebel in the linux world, i like

Re: [newbie] Some e-mail clientes

2002-06-18 Thread Charlie
June 18, 2002 02:35 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: snip On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, shane wrote: Are we talking about multiple users or multiple email accounts here? If it's the first, (multiple users) then I would strong recommend that you create a login on the system for each user. If, on the other hand

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Derek Jennings
If you install privoxy you can use any browser, and control behaviour for pop ups, adverts etc site by site. It works really good. Mandrake Forum has an article on it and you can get it from here http://www.privoxy.org/ derek On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:08, Josef Lowder wrote: Thank you for

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-18 Thread civileme
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Thank you for your comments about upgrading. I am still window shopping and comparing barebone kits running Athlon XP's. Sometimes I see OEM and I really do not know what that means. I am comparing a Jetway 830CF Barebones w/AMD XP 1600+ CPU and PC Chips 817LR Athlon

[newbie] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...

2002-06-18 Thread iggy
my system locks when shutting down/rebooting with this error message umount: /net: device is busy. reinstalled to make sure i didn't have a bad install (it did happen, once). got the same error message. my system is a: amd athlon xp 1700 w/ 256 mb ram, msi motherboard, 40 gb hard drive, cd

Re: [newbie] xcdroast question

2002-06-18 Thread John Richard Smith
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:13, you wrote: I then tried to duplicate an audio cd You can make your DVD-ROM a scsi device quite simply. Just put the entry hda=ide-scsi in the 'append' line of your /etc/lilo.conf file and then run /usr/sbin/lilo as root in a terminal window. derek

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 wishlist :-)

2002-06-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 04:39 pm, Charlie did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: idea of using a board with that chipset on the new system I plan to build but I've decided to wait for the Opteron/Hammer/Whatever they'll call it to be

Re: [newbie] Douple Posts

2002-06-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 06:32 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 06:49 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:20 am, Langsley T Russell wrote: Since sometime on Saturday I've been getting double posts on this list. Is this happening to everybody? Is there something I can do to

[newbie] xircom/nic and modem

2002-06-18 Thread Roland Hughes
I have instlled Mandrake 8.2 on a Gateway Solo 5150 with a xircom pcmcia card containing a ethernet nic and a modem. I was pleasantly surprised with the install and the xircom/modem/nic was detected and set up.I know the nic works (eth0) and have set up kppp to dial out and connect to my isp.

Re: [newbie] Douple Posts

2002-06-18 Thread et
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 07:53 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:32:09 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 06:49 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:20 am, Langsley T Russell wrote: Since sometime on Saturday I've been getting double posts on this

[newbie] Trouble adding nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Jeppesen
I am attempting to add a couple DNS IP's to /etc/resolv.conf in this format; nameserver 24.31.3.8 nameserver 24.31.3.9 however, everytime I do this the file is overwritten immediatly by something else. I have even tried to add the IP's directly into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts (various

Re: [newbie] Trouble adding nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf

2002-06-18 Thread et
your ISP is assigning DNS as connection is made, this should be correct. On Tuesday 18 June 2002 09:21 pm, you wrote: I am attempting to add a couple DNS IP's to /etc/resolv.conf in this format; nameserver 24.31.3.8 nameserver 24.31.3.9 however, everytime I do this the file is

Re: [newbie] VIA C3 Processor

2002-06-18 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 07:29 pm, et wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 03:33 pm, you wrote: Gerald Waugh wrote: Anyone using a VIA C3 Processor? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] qt3 problem with kyim

2002-06-18 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have mdk 8.2 with kde 3 in /opt. I wanted to install kyim. It asks for qt-dir.I gave configure as follows. [root@localhost kyim-1.0]# ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3 --with-qt-includes=/usr/lib/qt3/include --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3/lib Still I get checking for Qt... configure:

[newbie] Help with an upgrading hardware

2002-06-18 Thread Terence J.Golightly
Hello, I post infrequently, so if the problem I am about to address has been discussed as such in a faq or a web page I would be gratelful if someone could send me the url otherwise, here goes. I am upgrading my hardware. I would like to swap my current harddrive out of my 586 box and

Re: [newbie] Trouble adding nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Jeppesen
Ok, I have just now tried to disable DNS considering you say that my ISP is assigning DNS as connection is made. Still no luck. I can ping my Internet server at 192.168.0.118 and I get positive results. However when I ping www.yahoo.com I get; ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com which leads me to

Re: [newbie] getting the latest patches for mandrake 8.1

2002-06-18 Thread Edward M. Harris
Harm, thanks for the reply, I will try it.. Thanks again Ed H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tue 18 Jun 2002 05:44, Edward M. Harris wrote: Hello all, I just installed mandrake 8.1, and would like to get all the patches(security and operating system) that are available. Is there a

Re: [newbie] Pentium 233MMX

2002-06-18 Thread civileme
Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: did you mount your CDrom and floppy? Regards, Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. - Original Message - From: kahwoon's [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:58 AM Subject: [newbie] Pentium 233MMX hey hey

[newbie] KDE 3.0,1 which?

2002-06-18 Thread Carlos Arigós
I'm going to d/l KDE 3.0.1, but I don't know which are the differences between this two distros, and which is te best option: http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.0.1/Mandrake/8.2/ or: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/ Thanks in

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-18 Thread civileme
civileme wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, Thank you for your comments about upgrading. I am still window shopping and comparing barebone kits running Athlon XP's. Sometimes I see OEM and I really do not know what that means. I am comparing a Jetway 830CF Barebones w/AMD XP 1600+ CPU and

Re: [newbie] Can't install with 8.2

2002-06-18 Thread civileme
et wrote: you might have 64 megs stuck in the box, but if you have 8 megs for the shared on board video you then only have 56 megs max and NEED to tell that to the installer. when you first hit enter to install, try f1, then, without the quotes; mem=54 and do the text install. it will be slow

Re: [newbie] Trouble adding nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf

2002-06-18 Thread civileme
Steve Jeppesen wrote: I am attempting to add a couple DNS IP's to /etc/resolv.conf in this format; nameserver 24.31.3.8 nameserver 24.31.3.9 however, everytime I do this the file is overwritten immediatly by something else. I have even tried to add the IP's directly into

Re: [newbie] VIA C3 Processor

2002-06-18 Thread civileme
Gerald Waugh wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 07:29 pm, et wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 03:33 pm, you wrote: Gerald Waugh wrote: Anyone using a VIA C3 Processor? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

RE: [newbie] Pentium 233MMX

2002-06-18 Thread Franki
8.2 runs pretty well on my 300PL, but that has 160mb ram and has a UDMA100 controller card and 40gig 7200rpm hard drive as well as a TNT2 PCI card. and I only use KDE if there is something that I need to do that requires it. other then that its icewm. Incidently for the gentleman that posted