Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Install Woes

Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root on 01:03 . Whilst booting the install linux kernel. Well, just a guess, the BIOS may be giving bad info to the kernel about memory mapping so that the screen is wiping or displacing pointers to memory and disk. Try this F1 at the splash

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

John Richard Smith wrote: This may sound a simple question but what if anything can computer owners do, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg , to protect their equipement from bad weather. john, all of replies you have had are on mark as to what you can and should do to protect yourself and

Re: [newbie] Don't know how to install M8.2..HELP!!!

Sean Goh wrote: ok i managed to get past that screen. I'm presented with another screen where it asks me to select which partition to format. By default it's selected as both and i click Ok. Then it says something like , Formatting partition hda1 it has been on like this for 1.5 hours

[newbie] CD RW

What I need to do to obtain to read a CD-RW in the Linux ?? T+ = Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: This may sound a simple question but what if anything can computer owners do, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg , to protect their equipement from bad weather. john, a surge, increase or decrease in voltage can be cause by various other

Re: [newbie] Network Problems - Desperate

Since the recent changes I have lost the functionality I had. The first sign was last evening when I discovered that Micky could no longer log on at all (nothing shows up in her Network Neighbourhood and she can't be pinged by anyone) and Andy was apparently logging in as Guest. I do not know

[newbie] Help with screen area resolution and ethernet adapter

Hello, I am just a Linux Newbie... When installing Linux I accidentally change my screen area from 720 by 480. I want to change it back to 1024 by 768 or higher resolution but i dont know how. I just need your help guys. Also Linux did not detect my Ethernet Card. I have a driver tar.gz format

Re[4]: [newbie] normalize

Hi, So, to rephrase it, what does normalize do *without* any switches? dunno, when I realized the -mix mode is what I needed, that's all I've ever used OK, thank you anyways. Does anyone else know, please? -- TIA Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Network Problems Re-Stated

False alarm - I think there must have been some damage from the storm, affecting the hub. I changed Micky's connection to another hub port and I am now back to where I was. It is now clear that, as I suspected all along, both machines are logging in as Guest. Anne Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Installing Netscape 6.2 from CD

On Wednesday 31 Jul 2002 2:51 pm, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: Mandrake 8.2, normal installation. I have a Netscape 6.2.1 CD and I am trying to install Netscape 6.2.1. But, if I follow the instructions on the CD cover, every time I try to run ./netscape-installer I get the message: bash:

Re: [newbie] Kpanel doesn't reload

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 31 July 2002 9:56 pm, eric jackson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I can't figure this out. I'm using 8.2. I have lost my Kpanel when seting up at least 2 different users. It's there when I shut down but it's not there

RE: [newbie] Manually editing a file

Thanks Howard At last someone with sense. I have found the shell (that's the console thing, right?) But when I type in pico and all that stuff it says command not found. I tried nano but it's too complicated, I don't know what it all means. Nick From: Howard Stredwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] network usage script

Does anyone have a shell script example or a better idea on how to monitor network usage? I don't think I need anything as big as MRTG. I have a small network behind a Linux router (2 LAN cards) Can I pull this info with a shell script with ifconfig? and have it emailed daily? or monthly Really

Re: [newbie] Kpanel doesn't reload

shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 31 July 2002 9:56 pm, eric jackson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I can't figure this out. I'm using 8.2. I have lost my Kpanel when seting up at least 2 different users. It's there when I shut down but it's

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:10:24 + Nick Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK guys and gals get this straight, no flaming please because I am a user not a computer fan. I am a complete newbie and to connect to the dreaded British Telecom Openworld I have been told I need to edit

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 15:11:17 + Nick Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Howard At last someone with sense. I have found the shell (that's the console thing, right?) But when I type in pico and all that stuff it says command not found. I tried nano but it's too complicated, I don't

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

Howard Stredwick wrote: Thanks Howard At last someone with sense. Thanks :-) I have found the shell (that's the console thing, right?) But when I type in pico and all that stuff it says command not found. I tried nano but it's too complicated, I don't know what it all means. Yeah, shell

[newbie] Ardour

Dear All, Has anyone here used Ardour? If so, how did you or do you use it and what do you think of it? Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

Actually nano has the same command structure as pico, and to get pico you need to install pine. You won't be seeing pine in the download edition any longer because the authors have clarified their license terms and it is abundantly clear that it is neither free nor open-source nor

Re: [newbie] Help with screen area resolution and ethernet adapter

When X is running, try pressing Ctrl-Alt-Plus or Ctrl-Alt-Minus. (The plus and minus on the numeric keypad, that is.) If that doesn't work, drop out of X and type XFdrake as root to reconfigure X. Miark When installing Linux I accidentally change my screen area from 720 by 480. I want to

Re: [newbie] CD RW

I am not obtaining, the CD I was formatted in windows, I only obtain to read the file of the UDF Reader. --- Jure Repinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos wrote: What I need to do to obtain to read a CD-RW in the Linux ?? T+ A CD-ROM/DVD/CD-R(W)

[newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

Howard Stredwick writes: There are loads of Linux editors; Gurus will be using VI or EMACS, newbies like you and me will be using Pico. From the shell: I used pico for a while. I now use vi. My suggestion: bite the bullet and learn vi. It will hurt at first but it's well worth the effort.

Re: [newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 August 2002 1:15 pm, Mad Scientist did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Remember: That which does not kill you, strengthens you! ;-) that would mean my time with microsoft made me superman.. - -- Steve Balmer, CEO of

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

Thanks Bill I had tried to use the Control Center (sic). but found it wouldn't work because of some peculiarity with Alcatel and BT. I had to edit the adsl file in peers. I managed by the advice of using kedit. Thanks again. Nick From: Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Sound Blaster Audigy

I would like to say to all linux users that may have a sound blaster audigy sound card. I have found some beta drivers for the audigy cards. this website seems to say the drivers work really well. I haven't been able to try these drivers yet. if you linux users want you can give it a try. heres

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

John Richard Smith wrote: This is all very interesting, I have 4 computers in this one premises, at least two are constantly on sometimes all 4, I'm one of those people that just likes to have things running most of the time, indeed I only turn the constantly on ones off when I go to bed,

[newbie] All quiet on the list front

Is it me, or is it reely slow today on Newbie? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:01:02 -0600 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it me, or is it reely slow today on Newbie? Miark wha? Joe Sixpack -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] network usage script

Hi, This was a very good question. I didn't see any responses. I, too would like to be able to extract this type of info. Hope someone tackles this one. Regards, Bill W. On Thursday 01 August 2002 08:28 am, you wrote: Does anyone have a shell script example or a better idea on

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Audigy

wow, my Audigy works great right out of the box in 8.2, lsmod shows this: audigy 66336 0 soundcore 4452 4 [audigy] ac97_codec 9664 0 [audigy] lp 6624 0 On Thursday 01 August 2002 05:27 pm, you wrote: I would like to say

[newbie] dell inspiron 8100 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

I'm having troubles installing mandrake 8.2 on my dell laptop (dell inspiron 8100 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500) When I get to the point of setting up my graphics card for xfree the display goes black when testing. I have tried both the 3d support set up and 2d support set up Any info

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

I know I am strange, but I like and always install jed for newbies, or folks that might have used edit in dos On Thursday 01 August 2002 11:11 am, you wrote: Thanks Howard At last someone with sense. I have found the shell (that's the console thing, right?) But when I type in pico and

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

It's not that it's quiet, it's just those people w/ problems appear to be waiting for 9.0 as it'll be out in 30 days or less. I know the cooker list has been unusually busy this past week, and will be even more busy next week when beta 2 comes out. NB On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 19:01, Miark wrote:

Re: [newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

I used pico for a while. I now use vi. My suggestion: bite the bullet and learn vi. It will hurt at first but it's well worth the effort. Remember: That which does not kill you, strengthens you! ;-) I couldn't have said any better. However, I can't seem to find out how to copy paste a block

Re: [newbie] CivilEme petition.

On Thursday 01 August 2002 09:01 am, you wrote: _nast-mdk81 _nasturtium@bigpond To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] network usage script

On Thursday 01 August 2002 08:28 am, you wrote: Does anyone have a shell script example or a better idea on how to monitor network usage? I don't think I need anything as big as MRTG. I have a small network behind a Linux router (2 LAN cards) Can I pull this info with a shell script with

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 09:06, Nelson Bartley wrote: It's not that it's quiet, it's just those people w/ problems appear to be waiting for 9.0 as it'll be out in 30 days or less. I know the cooker list has been unusually busy this past week, and will be even more busy next week when beta 2

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

Miark wrote: Is it me, or is it reely slow today on Newbie? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com CodeBlue/Nimda is tearing up the world. Looks like Hotmail

Re: [newbie] dell inspiron 8100 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Try setting up X with known values that should work ;) and do not test it during the install. That has happened to me before with various computers - when attempting to test the graphics, the screen goes blank and never recovers. If one of the values does not work after completing the

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

On Thursday 01 August 2002 06:01 pm, Miark wrote: Is it me, or is it reely slow today on Newbie? Miark mumf, yawn, stretch, scratch, must be slow. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:43:50 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Well, the problem is bugs in the current revision and it is up to Mandrakesoft to fix them. My involvement with the fixing process is becoming distant as I struggle to complete a few more testing tools

Re: [newbie] Is there anybody out there.... internet sharing question

civileme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to no how to enable a port threw mandrake internet sharing? the port is 3602. please let me know Best regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com

Re: [newbie] CD RW

On Thursday 01 Aug 2002 11:20 am, Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos wrote: What I need to do to obtain to read a CD-RW in the Linux ?? T+ CD-RW have to be configured for SCSI emulation in Linux (even if they are physically IDE devices). This will be automatically configured by the

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

et wrote: I know I am strange, but I like and always install jed for newbies, or folks that might have used edit in dos On Thursday 01 August 2002 11:11 am, you wrote: Thanks Howard At last someone with sense. I have found the shell (that's the console thing, right?) But when I type in

RE: [newbie] Manually editing a file

Thanks Howard At last someone with sense. Thanks :-) I have found the shell (that's the console thing, right?) But when I type in pico and all that stuff it says command not found. I tried nano but it's too complicated, I don't know what it all means. Yeah, shell is a bad name for the

Re: [newbie] CivilEme petition.

July 31, 2002 06:45 pm, _nast-mdk81 wrote: snip Don't do that. That post to the list was inadvertant. I meant it as a private reply on 9.0 I was on this list and on the expert list with more than 1000 posts before I was ever a mandrakesoft employee, and I have no plans to leave

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

Nick The file you want to edit is a 'system file' That means you will not be able to edit it unless you are root user (otherwise known as 'SuperUser'. (This is a security thing which is one reason Linux is so much more secure than Windows)) The easiest way to do this is in yourKDE desktop

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 August 2002 6:00 pm, civileme did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Now you know you CAN be affected by windows worms/viruses even if you don't use windows. Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth

[newbie] Mandrake 9.0: Xinerama + XFDrake

I had no luck using xinerama under 8.2 and was wondering if there were significant improvements to XFDrake in 9.0 ? I am installing it regardless, just to check it out; but is it was worth my time to try Xinerama again? I never had any luck writing my own Config-4 file by following the how-to.

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

On Thursday 01 August 2002 08:43 pm, shane wrote: Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. I had a script during the code red days that ran on my apache server. If a remote server tried to run cmd.exe or

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0: Xinerama + XFDrake

Joe Dennehy wrote: I had no luck using xinerama under 8.2 and was wondering if there were significant improvements to XFDrake in 9.0 ? I am installing it regardless, just to check it out; but is it was worth my time to try Xinerama again? I never had any luck writing my own Config-4 file by

Re: [newbie] All quiet on the list front

On Thursday 01 August 2002 09:03 pm, Mad Scientist wrote: ...changed the script to do a net send to the server's subnet. The server's domain, not subnet, I meant... meaning the Windows domain of course, not the *real* domain in the sense that those of us who make us of the Internet think..

[newbie] test

testing... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] dell inspiron 8100 with ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

if worst comes to worst, you will be able to get it working using framebuffer instead of the ATI driver. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Jeppesen Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0

yeah, I'd join for the same reason... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dale Huckeby Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0 On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:43:50 -0800

[newbie] can't remember how to mount hda1

i was wondering how to mount hda1 so i can access my win xp files even though i hate win xp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] can't remember how to mount hda1

On Thursday 01 August 2002 11:00 pm, you wrote: i was wondering how to mount hda1 so i can access my win xp files even though i hate win xp. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk Replace /mnt/disk with your mountpoint. -Mad -- Madness is soil in which creativity grows