R: [newbie-it] BIOS

2002-09-17 Thread LILO
nel mio compaq il tasto è F1 ciao -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di giamgax Inviato: lunedì 16 settembre 2002 18.00 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] BIOS Pollo wrote: Il quesito è un po OT. Mi hanno appena dato un

Re: [newbie-it] ancora di driver nvidia

2002-09-17 Thread ENx
I file che hai provato e quelli che scarichi dal sito dell'nvidia sono entrambi i driver, probabilmente versioni differenti. Io disinstallerei quelli che hai già installato prima di usare quelli scaricati dal sito della nvidia, nel dubbio, tanto non succede niente. Ciao ENx P.S.: quando usi

Re: [newbie-it] grub.conf, anyone?

2002-09-17 Thread paolo brusasco
puoi farlo anche tramite interfaccia grafica. sotto 8.2 era così: apri control center, avvio, configura, ok; ti compaiono le scelte del bootloader. scegli linux, modifica voce. alla riga aggiungi devi scrivere devfs=mount hd?=ide-scsi. dove hd? è il cd-rom. dicono che nella 9 hanno cambiato il

Re: [newbie-it] ancora di driver nvidia

2002-09-17 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 11:47, martedì 17 settembre 2002, piero ha scritto: NVIDIA_GLX 1.0_1251.2mdk NVIDIA_kernel 2.4.8-26mdk se usi il kernel originale mandrake, cerca i driver per QUELLA versione di kernel, io consigli sempre di usare i sorgenti e ricompilarli

Re: [newbie-it] Gli scherzi dei CDrom

2002-09-17 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 14:51, domenica 15 settembre 2002, Arwan ha scritto: Buongiorno... :-) [snip] ..puoi mandare lo script? voglio proprio vedere come sia possibile invertire gli ID di due periferiche spippolando via SW!! (certo che se non hai errori

Re: [newbie-it] Posta spazzatura...

2002-09-17 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 13:53, sabato 14 settembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Alle 22:00, venerdì 6 settembre 2002, Mike ha scritto: Da un po' di tempo ricevo posta non desiderata e non autorizzata... non so come questo sia potuto accadere... è

Re: [newbie-it] Aggiornamento ssh

2002-09-17 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 21:04, venerdì 13 settembre 2002, Riccardo ha scritto: Saluti a tutta la lista! Qualcuno mi saprebbe indicare un how-to in rete oppure fornirmi una guida su come fare per aggiornare il mio demone ssh? Vi ringrazio, Messaggio firmato da

Re: [newbie-it] HP omnibook xe 4500

2002-09-17 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 00:12, venerdì 13 settembre 2002, Chiara Bianchi ha scritto: Ciao a tutti! Vi forwardo l'e-mail di un amico che ha avuto problemi col portatile in oggetto, non solo nell'installazione di Mandrukkia, ma anche di altre releases di Linux. ...

Re: [newbie] html to pdf

2002-09-17 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Same here... I tried to download and compile the latest version, but had compile errors in the htmldoc source (there's a call to a non-existent FLTK function). Then I discovered the MDK8.2 had the rpm included ;-) raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have once used a tool called htmldoc. The

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Miark
Marco, Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what George W. Bush says or does, is automatically considered a terrorist or terrorist sympathiser, and can be detained indefinitely without a shred of evidence, legal representation or even visitation rights for his next of kin. Have Newbie

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Patrik Marxer
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 06:42, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 16 September 2002 10:27 pm, Marco Nadal wrote: Shane! you've just decribed better then half the people reading this list, myself included! ;) Mark Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what George W. Bush says or

Re: [newbie] Minor irritation

2002-09-17 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm on KDE 2 - I wonder if that's why mine is different. There is no Receiving tab. On Miscellaneous I have the Beep option checked. It worked for a while. Anne On Monday 16 Sep 2002 8:07 pm, you wrote: Anne, 1) Open KMail. 2) Select Settings Configure KMail 3) Click the Network

RE: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Barran, Richard
Wrong, we have a bill of rights. It isn't a Bill Gates of rights but it works none the less. People disagree with W all the time and live to tell about it, and in this day and age most Americans know their rights very well, we have tv programs with new episodes every week that let

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 08:13, Patrik Marxer wrote: To be honest, we don't like bush much over here. I guess not many in europe do. In the rest of the world it may be similar. In fact he is the most unpopular leader in the world, as I have heard - even more unpopular than Saddam Hussein.

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 06:16, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Em Ter 17 Set 2002 01:42, Dennis Myers escreveu: That was before G.W.Bush! I'm Brazilian and I've lived during our so called military period (they were rulling the country for over 30 years!) None of those military

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread et
On Monday 16 September 2002 11:27 pm, you wrote: Shane! you've just decribed better then half the people reading this list, myself included! ;) Mark Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what George W. Bush says or does, is automatically considered a terrorist or terrorist sympathiser,

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Patrik Marxer
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 11:47, Alastair Scott wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 08:13, Patrik Marxer wrote: To be honest, we don't like bush much over here. I guess not many in europe do. In the rest of the world it may be similar. In fact he is the most unpopular leader in the world, as I

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread et
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 03:26 am, you wrote: Marco, Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what George W. Bush says or does, is automatically considered a terrorist or terrorist sympathiser, and can be detained indefinitely without a shred of evidence, legal representation or even

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:19, Damian G wrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:01:36 -0400 Richard Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:45:56 -0300, Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:02:41 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread et
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: Wrong, we have a bill of rights. It isn't a Bill Gates of rights but it works none the less. People disagree with W all the time and live to tell about it, and in this day and age most Americans know their rights very well, we have

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Em Ter 17 Set 2002 06:52, Alastair Scott escreveu: As his motto: Or we agree with him or we are against him! You are absolutely right! Although, I've listenned him saing that! Great emphasis on TV! I agree that the idea was what you mentioned, but ... The problem I see is the over-reaction on

Re: [newbie] graphic adapters

2002-09-17 Thread et
On Monday 16 September 2002 11:18 pm, you wrote: 14/09/02 8:49:32 AM, FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kyros Suck big donkey dick. ICK! You couldn't pay me to use one... they were the worst grafx card to come out ever. --- Femme Worse than WANG 256k VGA? ^_^ I had one on my

Re: [newbie] html to pdf

2002-09-17 Thread _nasturtium
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:12, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I should have been more precise... The method you suggest is definetly correct, but I would like a tool which follows the links recursively: for example, index.html contains link to chapter1.html and chapter2.html. I'd like a tool which

Re: [newbie] html to pdf

2002-09-17 Thread Alastair Scott
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 10:12, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I should have been more precise... The method you suggest is definetly correct, but I would like a tool which follows the links recursively: for example, index.html contains link to chapter1.html and chapter2.html. I'd like a tool which

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread et
snip call me a consiprisy theroy nut, but in my lifetime you will _never_ convince me that of Geo. the elder had not survived WW2, we would have never been in 'Nam. let me (at least) correct the double negitive; that if Geo. the elder had not survived WW2, we would have been in 'Nam. Want to

[newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Read
Looking for best way to fix my 8.2. It has been working fine, and still seems to be OK when I boot from a floppy, but booting from the HD it gets to about press I for interactive and stalls. It is a dual boot with win98, and I had been updating windows (after a long period of disuse) between the

[newbie] Multi-Distro Wks --- MDK Srvr

2002-09-17 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
Are there any consequences or hurdles in having multiple distibutions connecting to a specific distribution server with Samba? In this scenario, a hardware firewall/router provides Internet access and DHCP for all machines. Example: Wks 1 = RH 6.1 Wks 2 = MDK 7.2 Server = MDK 8.2 Will all

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread John Richard Smith
I'm not going to add much to this thread, except to say, I do not feel proud of my Country today , I feel that a much loved friend, with whom in the past we have shared many experiences, has just insisted that I help him murder his motherinlaw because he and his wife want to live off the income

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread et
the part I really enjoy tho.. is who gets to decide, and by what criteria, what make a person a terrorist? that to me is (at the least) one of the biggest malfunctions of this whole pile. Am I a terrorist? what if I speak openly against the Bush Family? what if I call for the USA to join the

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 September 2002 11:27 pm, you wrote: Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what George W. Bush says or does, is automatically considered a terrorist or terrorist sympathiser, and can be detained indefinitely without a shred of evidence, legal representation or even visitation rights

RE: [newbie] graphic adapters

2002-09-17 Thread Franki
what about the old ark chipset?? thats about as crappy a video chipset that I can remember.. and don't knock the virge, they were alright for their age.. I still have a 4mb virge in a linux box and it runs 1024x768 pretty well considering its age.. :-) rgds Frank -Original Message-

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: And Americans wonder why much of the rest of the planet hates them :-( I do... Yes, you have a Bill of Rights. And it applies to (white) Americans. It just looks like it doesn't need apply to anyone who isn't an American. Thats just plain

Re: [newbie] Question

2002-09-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 September 2002 02:21 pm, you wrote: As I understand it, yes it is true. Of course, you could sue him for damages to you and your kin, but he could and probably would sue you for his injury. As far as I can see he would almost certainly get them too. Anne But Anne - does it

Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-17 Thread Brian Parish
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 22:53, Bob Read wrote: Looking for best way to fix my 8.2. It has been working fine, and still seems to be OK when I boot from a floppy, but booting from the HD it gets to about press I for interactive and stalls. It is a dual boot with win98, and I had been updating

[newbie] Customizing themes in Gnome 2.x?

2002-09-17 Thread Terry Sheltra
Good day all, I'm having problems trying to customize the look of my Gnome 2.x session. I am able to use the metacity themes that come preloaded with LM 9.0RC2, but can not install any new ones that will work properly. The ones I download from places like themes.freshmeat.net or

Re: [newbie] Upgrade of Samba - help!

2002-09-17 Thread tek1
have you tried going to samba.org (or rpmfind.net), downloading the latest .rpm, and installing it using mandrake's package manager? At 10:17 02/09/17 -0400, you wrote: Hello, I am new to Mandrake Linux, and am hoping that someone can help me to upgrade to the newest version of

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 09:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: (Certainly, in the United Kingdom, nobody would consider even the less successful Prime Ministers of recent times, such as Jim Callaghan and John Major, to be stupid; Couldn't resist jumping in here - John Major made a great play

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Patrik Marxer
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 15:05, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 17 September 2002 03:13 am, you wrote: To be honest, we don't like bush much over here. I guess not many in europe do. In the rest of the world it may be similar. In fact he is the most unpopular leader in the world, as I

[newbie] conditionnal test in bashrc

2002-09-17 Thread Rooms Frederic
Hi, I'd like to mount automatically a samba account when I log in a graphic session. Up to now, I have modified the bashrc file so that it logs in. Unfortunately, it mounts my account each time I run a new terminal which is annoying as it takes two seconds. Therefore, I would like to test if

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Patrik Marxer
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 09:26, Miark wrote: Marco, Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what George W. Bush says or does, is automatically considered a terrorist or terrorist sympathiser, and can be detained indefinitely without a shred of evidence, legal representation or even

[newbie] tux racer wont launch

2002-09-17 Thread chris shockley
I have just recently installed mandrake 8.2 in a dual boot situation with win98se. As I have been exploring extensively I thought that I'd try Tux racer. It appears to try and launch, but then after about 30 seconds it just goes away (never getting to a splash screen or window just sitting in

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
THANKS EVERYBODY who responded to this question, BUT... I still have some significant problems... (1) WHERE can I obtain Mandrake 7.0 ??? The site appears to have 8.1 only. (2) HOW can I install it from a 3.5 floppy? This is my only choice. Please HELP! Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Upgrade of Samba - help!

2002-09-17 Thread Derek Jennings
Ranger has prepared some excellent updated RPMs for Samba which you can find here http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/ follow the instructions for urpmi access and you can install them using Mandrake Software Manager BTW: What was wrong with the Samba on the CDs? derek On

[newbie] automated or serial based installation.

2002-09-17 Thread awesome-dave1
Hello, I'm trying to install mandrake linux v8.2 on a box which is eventually going to act as a domain controller. I'm trying to do it either via an automatic install, similar to the rh kickstart method or via a serial terminal. Does anyone have any information on either of these

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 September 2002 9:42 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what George W. Bush says or does, is automatically considered a terrorist or terrorist sympathiser, and can be

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 September 2002 12:26 am, Miark did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: You, on the other hand, just criticized the US. Worse, you are wrong, and clueless as to what goes on here. (And watching Aussie news doesn't count.) Do you

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 September 2002 11:47 am, robin did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I think all this pro-/anti-American stuff is a smokescreen to prevent people noticing that we are using a French distribution. Hasn't anyone noticed the

RE: [newbie] Linux forwarding Windows viruses

2002-09-17 Thread Chad
Must you incorporate it: No Should you incorporate it? Depends on your moral obligation. Some people take the high road and say, They are running Windows. They deserve what they get. Virus's and all. Some take the low road. Some of my friends still run Windows I don't want to pass on an

[newbie] updating 9.0 rc 2

2002-09-17 Thread iggy
hi, all! does anyboby know if 9.0 rc 2 will be updatable (is that a real word?) to 9.0 final version or i'll have to download 9.0 when it becomes available? -iggy ps. with 9.0, i finally feel i can dump MS crap and be able to do all the things i need. OO, databases, spreadsheets, etc.

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Gilbert wrote: THANKS EVERYBODY who responded to this question, BUT... I still have some significant problems... (1) WHERE can I obtain Mandrake 7.0 ??? The site appears to have 8.1 only. (2) HOW can I install it from a 3.5 floppy? This is my only choice. Please HELP! I still

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 September 2002 8:36 am, Richard Gilbert did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: (1) WHERE can I obtain Mandrake 7.0 ??? The site appears to have 8.1 only.

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
Shane, Now I am back to where I started -- this is what I downloaded, and it is 8.1 Please advise Richard - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

Re: [newbie] updating 9.0 rc 2

2002-09-17 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:21, iggy wrote: hi, all! does anyboby know if 9.0 rc 2 will be updatable (is that a real word?) to 9.0 final version or i'll have to download 9.0 when it becomes available? Here's the (complex) answer which, I believe, is correct :) If you subscribe to cooker (as

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
Yes, I have done this -- they are all 8.1 in this section. I'm about to give up. - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [newbie] Question

2002-09-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 3:36 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 17 September 2002 09:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 1:55 pm, you wrote: On Monday 16 September 2002 02:21 pm, you wrote: As I understand it, yes it is true. Of course, you could sue him for damages to you and

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 September 2002 10:09 am, Richard Gilbert did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Yes, I have done this -- they are all 8.1 in this section. I'm about to give up. i am concerned then, cause i have it open now, and it has no 8.1,

[newbie] disk quota?

2002-09-17 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I enable Use Quotas on /home in webmin/system/Disk and Network Filesystems to Users and Group. But webmin/system/Disk Quota still cannot be enable or started? Would someone please give me some help? Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] automated or serial based installation.

2002-09-17 Thread Thomas D. Ward
Hi, have you read the drakx autoinstall guide yet?That will give you lots of information on hand building an autoinst.cfg and building an autoinstall cd. I've been having similar problems, and hopefully the good folks on this list can help us out. On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[newbie] ot - file sharing tools

2002-09-17 Thread iggy
hi, all. was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? side note... i mainly work in kde, for what it's worth.

Re: [newbie] Upgrade of Samba - help!

2002-09-17 Thread Robert W. Dempsey
Thank you Derek and Tek1, First, there is nothing wrong with the Samba on the Mandrake 82 cds, however, I cannot get winbind and samba 2.3.3a to fully integrate into my Win2K domain. I have made all of the adjustments as I did on my RH7.3 machine, however, it wouldn't fully go through

Re: [newbie] tux racer wont launch

2002-09-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 11:26 am, you wrote: I have just recently installed mandrake 8.2 in a dual boot situation with win98se. As I have been exploring extensively I thought that I'd try Tux racer. It appears to try and launch, but then after about 30 seconds it just goes away (never

Re: [newbie] ot - file sharing tools

2002-09-17 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:58, iggy wrote: was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity to kazaa? Well, _the_ Gnutella

Re: [newbie] ot - file sharing tools

2002-09-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
On 17 Sep 2002, Alastair Scott wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:58, iggy wrote: was wondering is anyone knows if anybody knows of a decent file sharing program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on

Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Notforyou
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 10:10, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday September 17 2002 07:53 am, Bob Read wrote: Looking for best way to fix my 8.2. It has been working fine, and still seems to be OK when I boot from a floppy, but booting from the HD it gets to about press I for interactive and

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
Shane, I'm sorry, I finally found it, and burned a CD of it. But now, lo and behold, my damnable Windows machine can't even SEE my CD drive!!! Any thoughts? I have an old BIOS, and may be hopeless. - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Linux forwarding Windows viruses

2002-09-17 Thread robin
Chad wrote: Must you incorporate it: No Should you incorporate it? Depends on your moral obligation. Some people take the high road and say, They are running Windows. They deserve what they get. Virus's and all. Some take the low road. Some of my friends still run Windows I don't want

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 10:36 am, Richard Gilbert wrote: THANKS EVERYBODY who responded to this question, BUT... I still have some significant problems... (1) WHERE can I obtain Mandrake 7.0 ??? The site appears to have 8.1 only. (2) HOW can I install it from a 3.5 floppy? This is my

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
I can not view the cd, but my BIOS does not allow me to boot from a cd! Can I create floppies? - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: OT: privacy [was: Re: [newbie] Question]

2002-09-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 03:56 am, Barran, Richard wrote: Wrong, we have a bill of rights. It isn't a Bill Gates of rights but it works none the less. People disagree with W all the time and live to tell about it, and in this day and age most Americans know their rights very

[newbie] ISA NE2000 NIC woes

2002-09-17 Thread Peregrinf
I'm wrasslin' with my thinnet ethernet setup. I have a 16 bit ISA ethernet card with BNC (thinnet) connector that worked great on my old Novell setup. Well, actually I have two identical ones, but more on that in a minute. They are pretty standard NE2000 cards, with a dp8390-1A chip. I've

RE: [newbie] boot patch for PI machines

2002-09-17 Thread John Silson
A follow up on this one the advice I got was to simply copy the patch.pl file onto the boot disk, but when I try and do that (at least in windows) the disk is locked, and I cant do anything. How do I go about unlocking the disk so that I can put the patch on there. John -Original

Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-17 Thread et
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 05:15 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 10:10, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday September 17 2002 07:53 am, Bob Read wrote: Looking for best way to fix my 8.2. It has been working fine, and still seems to be OK when I boot from a floppy, but booting from

Re: [newbie] Multi-Distro Wks --- MDK Srvr

2002-09-17 Thread et
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 08:56 am, you wrote: Are there any consequences or hurdles in having multiple distibutions connecting to a specific distribution server with Samba? In this scenario, a hardware firewall/router provides Internet access and DHCP for all machines. Example: Wks 1

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Bill Spatz
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 15:50, Richard Gilbert wrote: I can not view the cd, but my BIOS does not allow me to boot from a cd! Can I create floppies? How did you burn the ISO if your machine can't see the CD? You have another machine? If so, take the CD to the machine you burned with

Re: [newbie] Multi-Distro Wks --- MDK Srvr

2002-09-17 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
You caught me, et. I have to maintain some M$ workstations, so Samba will be necessary on the Linux server. I just wasn't sure if the Linux clients (by version) were going to have to be the same or not. Obviously, the server's version will be the most current in the hopes of minimizing security

Re: [newbie] Question

2002-09-17 Thread et
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 09:59 am, you wrote: On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 1:55 pm, you wrote: On Monday 16 September 2002 02:21 pm, you wrote: As I understand it, yes it is true. Of course, you could sue him for damages to you and your kin, but he could and probably would sue you for

Re: [newbie] updating 9.0 rc 2

2002-09-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 17 2002 12:00 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:21, iggy wrote: hi, all! does anyboby know if 9.0 rc 2 will be updatable (is that a real word?) to 9.0 final version or i'll have to download 9.0 when it becomes available? Then, if you keep going

Re: [newbie] boot patch for PI machines

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Read
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf OfJohn Silson Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 7:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] boot patch for PI machines I think I've got the first problem from the errata page on the mandrake

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
Richard, I haven't paid as much attention to this thread as I probably should have, so please bear with me if I require you to get me caught-up with the rest... Are the following true? 1) You have a 80486 and want to install some distro of Linux? 2) Your CD-ROM drive will not work? Choose

Re: [newbie] Linux forwarding Windows viruses

2002-09-17 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
Thanks, Chad. I gathered this after reading a few comments passed my way. As a technician for others, I can't take the high road. I pretty much new the answer before asking the question, but was really curious as to how many were using any kind of anti-viral protection, and for what reasons. With

[newbie] When the final version be released?

2002-09-17 Thread Kyle
I heard it was supposed to be released yesterday(Monday).I didn't see any new about it on the site. Thanks. Kyle

Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Read
Michael: You're right that the problem is after lilo. Brian:I ran the upgrade and it completed -- but no change. John: Failsafe boots ok but doesn't find or solve the problem Tom: Updating lilo doesn't solve the problem, but experimenting with it proves that the

Re: [newbie] conditionnal test in bashrc

2002-09-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:55:11 +0200 Rooms Frederic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to mount automatically a samba account when I log in a graphic session. Up to now, I have modified the bashrc file so that it logs in. Unfortunately, it mounts my account each time I run a new

[newbie] Getting to Gnome 2

2002-09-17 Thread Todd Slater
Is there a painless way to move up to Gnome 2? I'm currently running 8.2. Todd -- Todd Slater Not currently listening to tunes Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

Re: [newbie] Getting to Gnome 2

2002-09-17 Thread s
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 07:30 pm, Todd Slater wrote: Is there a painless way to move up to Gnome 2? I'm currently running 8.2. The most painless in my opinion is installing 9.0. (as an alternative, you might google for garnome). -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
Bill, I am stuck at the following: D:\IMAGES/dosutils/rawrite I get: d:\dosutils\rawrite.ext is not a valid Win32 application. - Original Message - From: Bill Spatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help!

[newbie] Autoinstalling all packages?

2002-09-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hello, list. Is there a way to tell the drakx autoinstaller to install all of Mandrake's packages without having to list every single package in the auto_inst.cfg file? Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Upgrade of Samba - help!

2002-09-17 Thread Robert W. Dempsey
Derek, Thank you for your help. I reinstalled Mandrake 8.2 without Samba and I still could not upgrade. It seems that there are some dependencies that I am not aware of. It gives me a few errors. However, a more pressing PROBLEM is this: after I install all is well. after an initial

Re: [newbie] Autoinstalling all packages?

2002-09-17 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Thomas Ward wrote: Hello, list. Is there a way to tell the drakx autoinstaller to install all of Mandrake's packages without having to list every single package in the auto_inst.cfg file? Thanks. Thomas, I didn't read your post, because I use a text only email

[newbie] Linux virus wall

2002-09-17 Thread Belkie, Dan
Can anyone recomend a good (Prefer Free) virus wall? Somthing like trend micros virus wall? What I need this software to do is accept email, scan it and then forward it onto the mail server if its ok. I have 2 seperate mail servers. 1 qmail and 1 exchange both on the inside of the lan. So the

Re: [newbie] Question

2002-09-17 Thread Marc
MY 2 cents worth, If I was going to go to jail I would want to make shure it was for something worth while. Personally If this jerk was to press charges and cause me to go to jail while I was in jail I would be doing only 1 thing, Figuring out the best method of pay back for this skum,

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 09:27 pm, Damian G wrote: What about openoffice with the above setup? If that also runs reasonably good, then for office users can get benefit from your experience. will try it soon. however i do not expect OO's startup time to be under a minute. given the

Re: [newbie] Upgrade of Samba - help!

2002-09-17 Thread Robert W. Dempsey
Derek, Thank you for your help. I reinstalled Mandrake 8.2 without Samba and I still could not upgrade. It seems that there are some dependencies that I am not aware of. It gives me a few errors. However, a more pressing PROBLEM is this: after I install all is well. after an initial

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Damian G
I timed OO and it opened in 20 secs. Using 900mhz Duron and a 40gig 7200rpm uhm we were talking about old ( i.e. Pentium 233 ) machines.. :o) Maxtor hd. Not super fast but not any worse than MSword. Oh, this is on 9.0rc1. ML 9.0 seems to be faster than 8.2 anyhoo, just an

[newbie] Linux on School Network

2002-09-17 Thread Brian Koppe
Hello, I'm trying to get a Mandrake Linux 8.1 server that my friend had set up running on my school's network, but unfortunately it is not getting an IP address. I've taken the network card and plugged it into my Windows box, activated it on the network, and placed it back in the server

[newbie] Major Install Problem - Reboot Causes Crash

2002-09-17 Thread Robert W. Dempsey
Hello, I have a Mandrake 8.2 box with the following hardware configuration: Adaptec 2110S RAID Card 3, 18 GB Fujitsu Ultra160 10K RPM SCSI Drives RAID 5 Configuration (configured through the Adaptec card) Installing Mandrake 8.2 is no problem. The problem occurs after the initial log

Re: [newbie] Linux on School Network

2002-09-17 Thread Flash!
You need to configure the card with DHCP, to do that edit the profile file for the adapter (probebly eth0) can't remember where the file is though, somewhere like /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/ifeth0. See if that work Flash! Flash! was here ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Getting to Gnome 2

2002-09-17 Thread Tarmo Hyvärinen
grap it from gnome.org =) On ke, 2002-09-18 at 03:33, s wrote: On Tuesday 17 September 2002 07:30 pm, Todd Slater wrote: Is there a painless way to move up to Gnome 2? I'm currently running 8.2. The most painless in my opinion is installing 9.0. (as an alternative, you might google