Re: [newbie] How cool!

2003-07-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:33, JoeHill wrote: On 10 Jul 2003 14:52:42 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: are at least 50-80 ft... but once you *get* the Koala, I've heard they are a hot property, IYKWIM. Yeh so stephen told me but eucyptilis ?? trees are hard to climb Want to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible

2003-07-10 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:50:09 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: A very useful page. It should be on the newbie signup page in 50 point bold... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 16:12:48 up 15 days, 21:53, 2 users, load average: 0.01,

Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]

2003-07-10 Thread Mike Wafkowski
Joe - From that magic era I do believe f10 is the key (I made a pun 8^) MRW - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved] Now that was helpful Joe!

Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro

2003-07-10 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:55:17 -0400 Albert Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Note that Compaq Deskpro uses a partition on the hard drive to store bios informations, so if it's not the original hard drive in the system, it is likely you do not have this partition and you won't be able to get

Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro

2003-07-10 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:09:40 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: try F8 Thanks, I'll try that next time I boot. I loaded Win98 for someone, so I am sure I'll be rebooting often! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 16:11:32 up 15 days, 21:52, 2 users,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Install Probs on old Compaq

2003-07-10 Thread Guy Rouillier
I got Sig 7 on an old Pentium 90 with 48 MB of RAM. Fell back to RedHat 7.1 and it installs and runs fine. Though it still messes up on X configuration - creates a version 4 config file then tries to run it with version 3.3.6. Don't know how it does this, because 7.1 came out long before X

Re: [newbie] Network activity indicator

2003-07-10 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 14:00, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:48:31 -0500 Burrows, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: GKrellm is a nice tool and I can and have used it but I'd still like something that parks itself in the taskbar.

[newbie] Should I upgrade some or all?

2003-07-10 Thread Margot
I'm using Mandrake 9.0, still very much a newbie, feeling my way round gently, getting used to the Linux way of doing things after many years of software from the company whose name shall not be mentioned! I'd like to use newer versions of OpenOffice and Mozilla. In your opinion, which would

Re: [newbie] I'M A COMPLETE IDIOT - SHOT ME!

2003-07-10 Thread Guy Rouillier
Rosario Balboa wrote: Just following instructions: http://thor.prohosting.com/~kilgoret/mandrake/ unfortunately, couldn't install MS Outlook Express. Now my question: If by any chance you add an echo to your .bashrc like this: echo inside .bashrc and other in .bash_profile,

Re: [newbie] I'M A COMPLETE IDIOT - SHOT ME!

2003-07-10 Thread Guy Rouillier
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:22:34 -0400 Rosario Balboa [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: not being unable lo loggin in anymore. I'm not sure what you mean here, but I would imagine that there is something in the .bash_profile which is incompatible in .bashrc. as you noted, .bashrc is run

Re: [newbie] Network activity indicator

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 01:40, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:50:02 -0500 Burrows, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: That is one small feature about Windoz that I liked. big slap never, ever, mention windows features you liked! ever! jk anyway, there are many many dockapps,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Install Probs on old Compaq

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 01:32, JoeHill wrote: On 10 Jul 2003 22:42:07 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Have you tried slamming an IDE CDROM in it and trying the installation again? Surely you can afford to knick one outta one of your other machines for 40 minutes, ay?

Re: [newbie] File fragmentation?

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 02:36, Brooks Family wrote: How does linux handle file fragmentation and, thus, defragmentation? No need. Unless you're running a news server or a file server that has thousands and thousands of very small files, and that would be using Ext3 - else, you don't worry about

Re: [newbie] Network activity indicator

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 00:50, Burrows, Scott wrote: Hi all, I'm using MDK 9.1. Love it. Is there any way to have a network activity indicator in the task bar at the bottom, similar to to the two network computers that turn on/off when there is network traffic on a Windoz box? That is

Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 05:26, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:10:37 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: On boot, I don't see any method for getting into the BIOS. I tried the usual del, F1, ctrl-F1, etc. I just keyboard error and it boots anyway. Answer: Can't be done, as

Re: [newbie] Network activity indicator

2003-07-10 Thread JoeHill
On 11 Jul 2003 09:30:01 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nah, use KNETMON - it rocks. I try not to ass-ume people are using K KD can't even say it. :D -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 19:48:40 up 16 days, 1:29, 3 users,

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 01:29, Michael wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 07:19 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: just for fun, edit your lilo.conf so the append line looks like this: append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off ide1=nodma then, in the command line, run `lilo`, and reboot.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Install Probs on old Compaq

2003-07-10 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:13:08 -0400 Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I got Sig 7 on an old Pentium 90 with 48 MB of RAM. Fell back to RedHat 7.1 and it installs and runs fine. Though it still messes up on X configuration - creates a version 4 config file then tries to run it

Re: [newbie] Should I upgrade some or all?

2003-07-10 Thread Guy Rouillier
Margot wrote: I'm using Mandrake 9.0, still very much a newbie, feeling my way round gently, getting used to the Linux way of doing things after many years of software from the company whose name shall not be mentioned! I'd like to use newer versions of OpenOffice and Mozilla. In your

Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro

2003-07-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 04:10, JoeHill wrote: On boot, I don't see any method for getting into the BIOS. I tried the usual del, F1, ctrl-F1, etc. I just keyboard error and it boots anyway. Anyone else have one of these, uh, fine machines? Hey, it was free, what can I say? Hold down the

Re: [newbie] Should I upgrade some or all?

2003-07-10 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 17:39, Margot wrote: I'm using Mandrake 9.0, still very much a newbie, feeling my way round gently, getting used to the Linux way of doing things after many years of software from the company whose name shall not be mentioned! I'd like to use newer versions of

Re: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]

2003-07-10 Thread JoeHill
On 11 Jul 2003 09:36:35 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: HOLD DOWN THE F10 WHILST BOOTING UP. Nope. Not unless you have the original OS installed, which I don't. See other posts. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 20:07:31 up 16 days,

Re: [newbie] Should I upgrade some or all?

2003-07-10 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Mozilla and OpenOffice, or upgrade to Mandrake 9.1 as a new instal with the newer Moz and OO included? On this note a more general question comes to my mind as something I would like to tag onto this thread. Can't you just upgrade to 9.1 without a new install (by new install I assume you

Re: [newbie] Installing new hardware

2003-07-10 Thread Wade Waldron
Okay, maybe some more background is needed. When I run the mandrake configuration utility, and look under the listed hardware I have a few unknown devices (like my network adapter). I have looked around and found that my network adapter probably uses the pegasus driver. I would like to set

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Install Probs on old Compaq

2003-07-10 Thread JoeHill
On 11 Jul 2003 09:29:31 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: 1.) Check the connection between the chair and the keyboard. ha ha ha... 2.) Can you try a different NIC? tried 2 already, both recognized fine. the signal 11 does seem to happen right after the DHCP transaction takes

RE: [newbie] How to get into BIOS on Compaq Deskpro [solved]

2003-07-10 Thread Frankie
Lol!!! Oh god, why do I talk to you... you are gonna get me in trouble again... I certainly hope my reply to that question can't be deemed unintelligable and stupid, not sure I can handle the critism a second time.. :-) Stephen, whatever you are smoking on the east coast of AU... can i have

Re: [newbie] CD Drive REFUSES to work

2003-07-10 Thread Eric Huff
cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0 here it is Vendor_info: 'IDE-CD ' Identifikation : 'R/RW 8x4x32 ' Revision : 'G1.9' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). ok, so what does all this tell us about my setup? thanks!

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