Re: [newbie] Help Broke Fstab in MDK 8.2

2002-10-16 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Ralph, > > I think the problem is in all those 'none'. I think that keyword goes in > front of the entries which are not real devices, so you should remove it > from the cdrom and floppy entries. > Here is a good fstab, for example: > > /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > /

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread windwalker
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 08:17, shane wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 16 October 2002 9:12 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled > > masses, saying: > > Walmart is selling systems without OS on them... When i was there only > > thing for a OS on sh

Re: [newbie] FW: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 October 2002 1:29 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > > Technically they can't. Microsoft slapped on new requirements to > > stop them doing that. > > Eh? How can M$ do that? if 90%plus of al

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 October 2002 9:12 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Walmart is selling systems without OS on them... When i was there only > thing for a OS on shelf was Linux in either SuSe,Mandrake or Redhat. they sell on

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 17 October 2002 12:12 am, windwalker wrote: > On Wednesday 16 October 2002 13:00, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: > > Hi There, > > > > Technically they can't. Microsoft slapped on new requirements to > > stop them doing that. > > > > But. Dell have found a way to get around it

[newbie] blackbox config ques

2002-10-16 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, are there any blackbox users in the house? I've been experimenting with blackbox on my Mdk 9.0 a bit (0.62.1-3mdk), and I think it's pretty interesting. I also have bbconfg-1.8-2mdk installed too. I will have to do some reading up on bbconf to learn the in's and out's of it.

Re: [newbie] PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL

2002-10-16 Thread Roland Hughes
The "Quantum fireball" disk drives have a very high failure rate. At work we have replaced every one of them. Roly On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:55:45 -0700 "Dimitris Adamopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Need some help here! > Yesterday I installed mandrake 8.2 on my oldie. P133 with 72mb RAM and

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread windwalker
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 13:00, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: > Hi There, > > Technically they can't. Microsoft slapped on new requirements to > stop them doing that. > > But. Dell have found a way to get around it. If you order their > n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (on

[newbie] Mandrake Update problems (not updating!)

2002-10-16 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Hi, On one machine I still have mdk8.1 but MandrakeUpdate (or urpmi) refuses to update...informing that I have the updated version! Which is not true! In most of the cases I still hold old version but can't update! Any help? Ricardo -- ==

Re: [newbie] Editing grepped files

2002-10-16 Thread Barry Rountree
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 05:10 pm, Miark wrote: > grep -l "Price" * > > but how do I load all the matching files into, say emacs? grep-l "foo" | xargs emacs Doesn't play well with vi, though. > > Miark Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandr

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread Miark
> > But. Dell have found a way to get around it. If you order their > > n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in the box. Hmm. I've never had much use for Dell because of their Wintel mode of business. I think I actually felt a tinge of respect for them today. An odd

Re: [newbie] Linux app for resizing PDFs

2002-10-16 Thread Technoslick
Derek Jennings wrote: > Not sure if you can resize with ghostscript. Doesn't appear to...at least I can't get it to work with my particular laser printer... > > What I do know is that Acrobat 5.05 allows you to print to any size paper, and > it will scale the image to fit the paper. Is that

RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Hi There,     It is probably true that Dell sales people don't want to sell this, because it is mainly for businesses.  Also they probably don't want to peeve Microsoft anymore than they already have. Some more information. http://news.com.

[newbie] Editing grepped files

2002-10-16 Thread Miark
I want to edit all file that match a grep. I figured out how to get just the file names: grep -l "Price" * but how do I load all the matching files into, say emacs? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: Re[4]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-16 Thread Nick Emans
Roman Korcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hey, > >> Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question: > >> I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't >> get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing >> around, just looking and looking all over in the me

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:00:14 +1000 "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > Technically they can't. Microsoft slapped on new requirements to > stop them doing that. > > But. Dell have found a way to get around it. If you order their > n-series PC's it h

Re: [newbie] KonCD

2002-10-16 Thread Sharrea
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 7:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > KonCD appeared to recognise my ide cdreader, so I hoped to use it for a > disk copy. I got the following error: > > /usr/bin/cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for ''. > > > Error, Exit status: 2 > > I have checked that permi

[newbie] Let there be sound please?!?

2002-10-16 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I have setup my /etc/modules.conf as suggested for via onboard 8233 sound and still no sound for mp3, midi, most system sounds. Is there anything else I could check or do? Would I be better off to get the latest alsa source and compile myself? I do not want to go that far if it wil

RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Hi There,     Technically they can't.  Microsoft slapped on new requirements to stop them doing that.     But.  Dell have found a way to get around it.  If you order their n-series PC's it has a copy of FreeDOS (one floppy) included in

[newbie] FW: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: FW: OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft Whoops.  I accidentally sent this to the wrong mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).  I think I might have opened a hornets nest ;-). Craig -Original Message- From: Craig Williamson (ENZ) Sent: Thursday, 17 October, 2002 9:22 AM To: 'Miark' Cc: [EM

[newbie] Evolution -spell checker

2002-10-16 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Does anyones Evolution 'spell checker' work. All I get is:- 'No misspelled word found'. That is in spite of glaring mistakes! Malcolm Candlish. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux app for resizing PDFs

2002-10-16 Thread Derek Jennings
Not sure if you can resize with ghostscript. What I do know is that Acrobat 5.05 allows you to print to any size paper, and it will scale the image to fit the paper. Is that what you want? It is not on the download CDs though :( Acrobat is available as an RPM from Mandrake Club, and is availa

[newbie] PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL

2002-10-16 Thread Dimitris Adamopoulos
Need some help here! Yesterday I installed mandrake 8.2 on my oldie. P133 with 72mb RAM and a 10gb quantum fireball. When I finished the installation everything seemed to be right. The system was stable. Only when I had the kde up was a bit slow, something expected of cource. After about an hour t

[newbie] Linux app for resizing PDFs

2002-10-16 Thread Technoslick
Is there a way to resize A4 PDF pages to U.S. Letter using what comes in a d/l 3-CD distro of MDK 9? I tried using KGhostView without success. I would like to keep the docs as PDFs, if possible, but would glady convert them to something else as long as they print out as they now look in PDF fo

[newbie] [OT] Land of the Free?

2002-10-16 Thread Charlie
...and home of the depraved? So Red Hat has had to link to a server outside the US to explain a kernel security patch? Just because the people that found the vulnerability are outside the US and copyright belongs to them? http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-158.html Link from the above e

[newbie] Perl modules

2002-10-16 Thread Gary Armstrong
Disclaimer = Brand new to linux I was looking to do some CGI work. Perl's CGI module doesn't appear to be resident(MD9). I'm a little confused because I thought CGI::* and CGI.pm were part of Perl's base release since 5.6 and this is 5.8. Anyway, I was wondering if: 1) I'm missing something?

RE: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

2002-10-16 Thread falcaraz
I had to disable supermount (supermount -i disable) and now everything it goes well. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: G_REEPER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Miércoles, Octubre 16, 2002 2:40 pm Asunto: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

Re: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

2002-10-16 Thread Derek Jennings
No... Supermount works just fine for me. You did 'cd /mnt/cdom' before trying to urpmi * I hope (urpmi *.rpms aint gonna work) In any case here is the ***Tip of the day for newbies*** In 9.0 clicking on an RPM within Konqueror causes Kpackage to open, and you can then install the RPM by h

Re: [newbie] Mencoder results and questions

2002-10-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 08:44 pm, you wrote: > > Hola. Ronald: > > I'm using 'video dvd rip' (plf). With a nice gui, dvdrip let you choose > every parameters (video bitrate; 1,2,3,4 CDs as target media, preview > images, etc.). I think mencoder is part of dvdrip. Steps are: Storage > location>R

RE: [newbie] Configuring M-L after installing...

2002-10-16 Thread David
Whoops! Yep... just found the manual, but I was having a bit of trouble navigating around the GUI until I got the mouse working! Thanks very much for that incredibly useful post! Now I can REALLY start to confuse myself :) Can't wait to finish this stupid Windoze 2000 MCSE (need it for work) a

[newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-16 Thread Todd Slater
In another blow to Microsoft, a fourth computer maker plans to bundle Corel's WordPerfect Office with its low-end consumer machines. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962085.html Now if some of the biggies would just sell some puters without an OS! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from Ma

[newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

2002-10-16 Thread G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a question, I have had a lot of trouble getting supermount to work correctly. Mainly when installing rpms off of cds other than the mdk disk. Like the sims cd. Just to give you a blow by blow. I place the cd in and open it with the r

Re: [newbie] Configuring M-L after installing...

2002-10-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 12:48 pm, David wrote: > Hi guys, How do I configure the basics like video, sound, USB, etc... > in Mandrake-Linux 8.0 without having to reinstall? I know it seems like > a dumb question, but the first time I installed last night I had some > problems getting the video w

[newbie] Configuring M-L after installing...

2002-10-16 Thread David
Hi guys, How do I configure the basics like video, sound, USB, etc... in Mandrake-Linux 8.0 without having to reinstall? I know it seems like a dumb question, but the first time I installed last night I had some problems getting the video working (Toshiba 1710CDT laptop) and ended up doing a rei

[newbie] Problems with mouse MK 8.0

2002-10-16 Thread David
Hi y’all,   Just installed ML 8.0 on a Toshiba 1710CDT and everything went fine during the install – detected everything and was able to complete the USB mouse test successfully. Go and StartX and nada.  Mouse is a MS Optical Intellimouse and it’s dead….. Any hints on how to configure it?

[newbie] test

2002-10-16 Thread ivette brusselmans
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Re: [newbie] SMB package missing

2002-10-16 Thread Derek Jennings
There are three RPMS to do with samba samba-common samba-client samba-server To share with Windows mahines you need samba-common and samba-server To mount remote shares on Win machine you need samba-client as well. Use software manager in Mandrake Conrrol Centre to install the RPMS. You are n

Re[4]: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-16 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, > Okay, it seems I need to answer my own question: > I'm still a newbie at Linux, and so I had no idea *why* I couldn't > get those halt/reboot/logout options to appear. Well, after playing > around, just looking and looking all over in the menus, I ran across > the Login Manager. Its kin

[newbie] New HD

2002-10-16 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Hi all, I have installed a new HD as a pri mast on my pc and moved the old pri mast to sec slave. It was a dual boot mdk9 and w2k. I have created the same on my new disk, but I cant get it to boot from the new mbr without the boot disk. It tries to load from the old mbr. How do I get rid of the o

Re: [newbie] setting Mozilla as default browser

2002-10-16 Thread Dennis and Sue
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 03:17 am, you wrote: > As interesting as Konquerer is, I greatly prefer Mozilla and want to make > it the default under Mandrake 8.2. But I don't see any setting that allows > that. Can someone suggest how to do that? > > Thanks If I am not mistaken, Go - K / Configur