RE: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I don't know if this was luck, but I reinstalled w2k on my dual boot mdk/w2k, and had to do nothing with the mbr. It just booted as normal. Tony. -Original Message- From: Richard Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 8:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

[newbie] Where is everyone?

2002-09-04 Thread Carroll Grigsby
No mandrake mailings (newbie or expert) since Friday. I don't see anything new on the archives, either, but then I'm not certain how current they are. -- cmg (aka Lonely in Raleigh) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] tar hep

2002-09-04 Thread Anthony V
Hello everyone. Im having trouble with creating a tar file out of a directory that I have made filled with Icons so that I can install it on my computer. If anyone knows how to make a tar file please tell me.Anthony VDo You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes

[newbie] RC1

2002-09-04 Thread Miark
Hi all, Quiet couple of days--wow. Anyway, the first release candidate of 9.0 is available. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] java

2002-09-04 Thread Ted
I am trying to get java to run in Konq and Mozilla... I have the permissions setup ok but Konq tells me java applet is loading and then sticks and Mozilla tells me I need a Netscape plugin...I d/load the plugin and it fails to install with an error 202 message.. Anyone tell me where I am going

[newbie] ????

2002-09-04 Thread Damian G
i've been getting no messages from either newbie or expert list for almost two days now. is my subscription to the lists cancelled or expired in some way? is the list dead? am *I* DEAD???!! weird. -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating

[newbie] OMFG the internet is broken!!

2002-09-04 Thread Damian G
is it??? if averyone else is reading the list messages with no problems ( and laughing at my stupidity ) please let me know on a private message!! thanks. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] ADSL - starting at boot

2002-09-04 Thread Brian Parish
I have a server using 8.2 running as a ADSL firewall. Works very nicely. When I run Mandrake Control Center System Services, I can see adsl listed as a service and can start it successfully from there. Clicking on the on boot button also works, but it doesn't stick. i.e. Running MCC again

[newbie] How to trace a samba printing problem

2002-09-04 Thread Brian Parish
I have just set up a new server using 8.2. Samba is installed with the appropriate security updates. File shares work just fine. The printer share is seen by an XP client, put prints sent to it disappear without trace. Can someone point me in the right direction as to how to attack this

Re: [newbie] test

2002-09-04 Thread Michael Adams
Maybe it's a cross between White Eagle and some christian thing. Certainly doesn't sound zen. I'll see what the I Ching has to say! On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 15:44, rob wrote: huh??? On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 23:43, Sean Goh wrote: --

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 05:26, Mark Weaver wrote: Angus Auld wrote: Hi there, I've been running a dual-boot on my Dell Dimm for a few months now w/Mdk 8.2 and WinMe, and they seem to cohabitating peacefully on my hd. I have defragged my Win partition a few times and it hasn't caused any

[newbie] java again

2002-09-04 Thread Ted
Hi.. Following advise from the list I d/loaded as root and installed the Netscape java plugin for Mozilla and it works fine in Mozilla.. I have put the path into Konq and I get the java applet message but nothing comes up the path I entered is..

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-04 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 09:12, Miark wrote: Where? Miark Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Well at the risk of being drawn and quartered, note that you can download a free version of Diskkeeper for 98/ME... Here: http://www.executive.com/downloads/menu.asp cheers Brian P.S.

Re: [newbie] P4 problem with 845gl graphics and CMI9738 sound

2002-09-04 Thread Nelson Bartley
Not to disapoint but there is no way to get the version of XFree that came w/ 8.2 to work w/ the new intel graphics on the i845G chipsets. In theory when 9.0 comes out the latest patches to XFree86 will be available as well as a very basic driver for the i845g, however from reading the [EMAIL

[newbie] Nomad IIc connectivity

2002-09-04 Thread Nelson Bartley
Hi Guys, Just a quick question. I've got a nomad IIc USB based MP3 Player. I want to know if it can be mounted under linux, and if so are there any websites / tutorials that explain how this can be done. (I haven't had time to try it yet, will do it on weekend. I'm gonna feel really stupid if

Re: [newbie] test

2002-09-04 Thread ed tharp
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 11:43 pm, you wrote: - Let each one ask himself, Has not the Lord entrusted me with means for the advancement of His cause? ..Nothing

Re: [newbie] test

2002-09-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 14:39, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 14 Aug 2002 9:22 pm, you wrote: This was cleary an essay-test... -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] test

[newbie] nis password change doesnt work

2002-09-04 Thread Mike Barnard
I have a network that has a samba serving as the pdc, manages my windows logins, roaming profiles and all. I have recently finished configuring nfs/nis over mandrake 8.1 as the server and SuSE linux 7.2 on the client side. all my exports are working fine and nothing could be better, except that

[newbie]

2002-09-04 Thread David Sexton
Can any one tell me how i can setup Konqueror so I can browse the local network like you do under ms windows. Or is that not possable Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mailserver down?

2002-09-04 Thread Ralph Slooten
Please excuse this e-mail, if it comes through... but I think the Mandrake mailserver is down, or for some unknown reason there is like 0,0 traffic. Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] my turn to test

2002-09-04 Thread etharp
hmmm twenty hours with no mail from the list 1. the first president of the US was? 2 the president of the US lives in what city? 3 why are you reading this? 4 why am I typing this? 5 what is the meaning of lfe? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Re: How to associate Opera w/Mdk (Thx Joan Tur!)

2002-09-04 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, Thanks for the replies to my post. Thank you Joan Tur, Opera is now set as my default browser 8) The procedure was as follows: Start Menu=Control Center=FileBrowsing=File Associations=text=html=then, in the application list click 'add'. In the application box type in,

RE: [newbie] ????

2002-09-04 Thread MELEAN Yasmin
Nope, I think its a general problem -Message d'origine- De : Damian G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : lundi 2 septembre 2002 03:28 À : lista-linux-newbie Objet : [newbie] i've been getting no messages from either newbie or expert list for almost two days now. is my

Re: [newbie] Mouse problem

2002-09-04 Thread Chris Spackman
This might not have made it to the list, sorry if it is a dup: On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:27:58 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Mandrake8.2 and when i start my computer the mouse if fine but sometimes when im working the mouse pointer isnt in the right place like ill click and the

[newbie] help please, keyboard rreeppeeaattiinngg

2002-09-04 Thread Chris Spackman
Hi all, I was given a new computer at work and they allowed me to put linux on it (they don't care what i use as long as the work gets done). They were even nice enough to get starsuite for me. :-) (The computer guy said that starsuite is selling like crazy - one of the most popular programs at

[newbie] kde_greet not starting - help

2002-09-04 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Hi, I have done somthing to my set up and don't know how to fix it, (otherwise this email is a bit pointless :-) ) I hope someone can help. I think that I have pinned it down to kde_greet not starting on boot, I have compared two machines installed the same way and this is the process that

Re: [newbie] Firestarter questions...

2002-09-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 01:43 am, you wrote: I get lots of errors with Firestarter too, but it _operates_ like a charm. I'd suggest not worrying about unless it's actually malfunctioning. I dunno about auto-starting it. Miark Yes, it does seem to work OK. I was just looking for some

Re: [newbie] md9.0rc1: mandrake control center not appearing

2002-09-04 Thread Derek Jennings
Does this happen when in Gnome or any other Window Manager other than KDE, but KDE works OK? And do you get the same symptom when trying to open any other 'drak' tool? If so it is a bug I reported to Cooker in 9.0Beta2 but no one else seemed to have a problem with it. When I upgraded to Beta

Re: [newbie] md9.0rc1: mandrake control center not appearing

2002-09-04 Thread tek1
thanks for your reply. i tried su'ing to root, even logging in as root, but couldn't access the mdr ctrl ctr. fortunately, 9.0rc1 was a clean install (not upgrading a system currently is use), so i'll use 8.2 until 9.0 final is released. thanks again for your help. At 20:49 02/09/03

RE: [newbie] test

2002-09-04 Thread Tommy Eaton
1 Corinthians 2:14 -Original Message- From: rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 11:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] test huh??? On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 23:43, Sean Goh wrote: --

Re: [newbie] permissions hell

2002-09-04 Thread Michael Viron
That doesn't really help - but other unices have a 'wheel' but Linux doesn't really have it per se. It can no doubt be added, or even faked, if need be. Actually, linux does have a wheel group, as shown below. mviron@server ~ $ more /etc/group | grep wheel wheel:x:10:root mviron@server ~ $ If

[newbie] Weird lockup solved

2002-09-04 Thread Paul
Hi all, About a month ago my machine locked up bigtime. It just stopped responding, and I could not find out what had happened. Just that a tremendous amount of processes were running under root. Loads of shells, vi's and crond's. I could only think huh and press ctrl-alt-del (which then

Re: [newbie] permissions hell

2002-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 30 Aug 2002 10:27 pm, you wrote: Hello, I'm running Mandrake 7.1 (I know I know, long story..) and I'm having what I think is a permissions problem. Its the cdrom and floppy drives, specificly unless I'm logged in as root I can't get to 'em. This is, a super pain. I want to be a

Re: [newbie] md9.0rc1: mandrake control center not appearing

2002-09-04 Thread tek1
hi dale and all. yes, the pathname was wrong. thank you for your help. :) At 11:15 02/09/04 -0500, you wrote: Hope I'm not missing the point, or saying something obvious, but I've had a similar problem in several incarnations of Mandrake. The problem (in my case, at least), is that the

[newbie] glib dependency hell

2002-09-04 Thread Todd Slater
8.2 download edition. Trying to upgrade some packages, need glib2/libglib2. I can't install via rpm because it conflicts with glib1.3x. I can't uninstall glib1.3x because it wants to uninstall everything else. Tried compiling glib2, even followed the instructions in install, but no happiness. Has

Re: [newbie] ????

2002-09-04 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:52:20 +0200 MELEAN Yasmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, I think its a general problem wow.. i sent that message days ago... Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] ????

2002-09-04 Thread ed tharp
On Sunday 01 September 2002 09:27 pm, you wrote: i've been getting no messages from either newbie or expert list for almost two days now. is my subscription to the lists cancelled or expired in some way? is the list dead? am *I* DEAD???!! weird. well.. at this point... let's blame YOU!

Re: [newbie] Mailserver down?

2002-09-04 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 31 August 2002 12:21 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Please excuse this e-mail, if it comes through... but I think the Mandrake mailserver is down, or for some unknown reason there is like 0,0 traffic. Greetings Ralph Gee, Ralph, it only took 4+ days to show up here. What's your

Re: [newbie] Mailserver down?

2002-09-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 22:12:49 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 31 August 2002 12:21 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Please excuse this e-mail, if it comes through... but I think the Mandrake mailserver is down, or for some unknown reason there is like 0,0 traffic.

Re: [newbie] Mailserver down?

2002-09-04 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:21 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 22:12:49 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 31 August 2002 12:21 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Please excuse this e-mail, if it comes through... but I think the Mandrake mailserver is

Re: [newbie]

2002-09-04 Thread dfox
Can any one tell me how i can setup Konqueror so I can browse the local network like you do under ms windows. Or is that not possable You should be able to click on Services (the yellow star) and then go to lan browser and then (if things are set up correctly) view the other systems on the

[newbie] bringing up and interface

2002-09-04 Thread Duke Glover
Hello Mandrake godz, I am running Mandrake 8.2. Is there any way I can statically assign an IP to an eth interface and bring the interface online without having to reboot ? Thanks, Duke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Cleaning up

2002-09-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:31, Anne Wilson wrote: My new broadband working, I need a cleaning up operation. Old scenario: Mdk as dhcp server for lan, masquerading two W98 boxes over my modem connection. New scenario: All boxes using static IP over router for Internet connection.

it was Re: [newbie] a test message

2002-09-04 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi, it seems that the blackhole was big enough to cover Europe and Brazil! Here I could see the same effect on many servers. I just though the whole internet was down! At least the big connections!! Does anyone know about the sun eletromagnetic radiation

Re: [newbie] Mailserver down?

2002-09-04 Thread Ralph Slooten
Yeah 4 bloody days. One the one side I'm happy it came through, but on the other hand I'd like to know where it's been hiding all this time ;-) According to the headers it's been at smtp.mandrakesoft.com for these 4 days.. so maybe it was taking a holliday ;-) Yeah, it would be nice to