Re: [newbie]

2003-12-25 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 03:12:41 - (UTC) Patrick Dempster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson said: One thing I would advise, though, is when you get to the partitioning screen, create a separate partition for /home - and make it a reasonably big one. If you feel the need to reinstall

Re: [newbie] Re: Desktop Icons

2003-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 December 2003 03:07, E. Hines wrote: First, try creating another user, and see if the default icon placement is correct after restart. If so, the below will very likely work. Back up your /~/.kde/share/apps/kab directory as well as your ~/Mail and then delete the /~/.kde

Re: [newbie] Mandrakemove and Quanta

2003-12-25 Thread ronald
Op donderdag 25 december 2003 07:02, schreef Trevor Rhodes: Hi Peeps, Has anyone here noticed whether MM has Quanta? I use it and would love to be sure it is in MM before I purchase. It is the main thing I would need. Comments on other editors not needed or solicited. :^) yes it has :-)

Re: [newbie] Mandrake move proceeding please wait...

2003-12-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 12:08:59 +0800 Anguo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I just tried Mandrake move. It boots (part 1,2,3...) but then the screen becomes black and I have a message at the bottom saying: proceeding, please wait. I then fail to notice anything happening. I am supposed

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Sergey Berezka
My fstab already have line dev=/dev/scd1. When I click on the icon " CD-ROM" in the KDE, led on the panel of cdrom blinking a long of time, but when Konqueror opens any disk seems to be blank. CD-WRITER (/dev/scd0) works fine. ??? Sergey Berezka.

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 December 2003 10:41, Sergey Berezka wrote: My fstab already have line dev=/dev/scd1. When I click on the icon CD-ROM in the KDE, led on the panel of cdrom blinking a long of time, but when Konqueror opens any disk seems to be blank. CD-WRITER (/dev/scd0) works fine. ???

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Sergey Berezka
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation On Thursday 25 December 2003 10:41, Sergey Berezka wrote: My fstab already have line dev=/dev/scd1. When I click

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Manolo Canga
El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 11:41, Sergey Berezka escribió: My fstab already have line dev=/dev/scd1. When I click on the icon CD-ROM in the KDE, led on the panel of cdrom blinking a long of time, but when Konqueror opens any disk seems to be blank. CD-WRITER (/dev/scd0) works fine.

Re: [newbie] Mandrakemove and Quanta

2003-12-25 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Hello Ronald, Has anyone here noticed whether MM has Quanta? I use it and would love to be sure it is in MM before I purchase. It is the main thing I would need. yes it has :-) http://www.archlug.org/kwiki/MandrakeMoveReview Thanks mate. Much appreciated. I'll be ordering it then.

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Sergey Berezka
- Original Message - From: Manolo Canga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 11:41, Sergey Berezka escribió: My fstab already have line dev=/dev/scd1. When

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 December 2003 11:36, Sergey Berezka wrote: - Original Message - From: Manolo Canga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 11:41, Sergey

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Manolo Canga
El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 13:12, Anne Wilson escribió: Can you put ls -l /dev/sd0 result here? === typo: /dev/scd0 that. :) Very thank you Anne ¡Mery Christmas! -- Manolo Canga Mi Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mi web:

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 December 2003 12:24, Manolo Canga wrote: El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 13:12, Anne Wilson escribió: Can you put ls -l /dev/sd0 result here? === typo: /dev/scd0 that. :) Very thank you Anne You're welcome :-) ¡Mery Christmas!

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Manolo Canga
El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 13:33, Anne Wilson escribió: On Thursday 25 December 2003 12:24, Manolo Canga wrote: El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 13:12, Anne Wilson escribió: Can you put ls -l /dev/sd0 result here? === typo: /dev/scd0

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 December 2003 12:39, Manolo Canga wrote: El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 13:33, Anne Wilson escribió: On Thursday 25 December 2003 12:24, Manolo Canga wrote: El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 13:12, Anne Wilson escribió: Can you put ls -l /dev/sd0 result here?

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 December 2003 12:39, Manolo Canga wrote: El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 13:33, Anne Wilson escribió: On Thursday 25 December 2003 12:24, Manolo Canga wrote: El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 13:12, Anne Wilson escribió: Can you put ls -l /dev/sd0 result here?

[newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, short question: On my Mandrake 9.2 box, every time I try to use rm on multiple files, I get asked if I really want to remove the file(s). The default behaviour of rm is, not to ask. Can I disable this question in any manner? Gruß

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread Manolo Canga
El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 14:36, Christoph Eckert escribió: On my Mandrake 9.2 box, every time I try to use rm on multiple files, I get asked if I really want to remove the file(s). The default behaviour of rm is, not to ask. Can I disable this question in any manner? use: rm -f

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread Paul
On 12/25/2003 02:36 PM, Christoph Eckert wrote: On my Mandrake 9.2 box, every time I try to use rm on multiple files, I get asked if I really want to remove the file(s). The default behaviour of rm is, not to ask. Can I disable this question in any manner? Have a look at $HOME/.bashrc.

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 25. Dezember 2003 14:46 schrieb Paul: Have a look at $HOME/.bashrc unfortunately, I have had a look to $HOME/.bashrc, $HOME/.profile, /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile. But there are some aliases in /etc/profile.d/alias.sh. I changed

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread Manolo Canga
El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 14:46, Paul escribió: Have a look at $HOME/.bashrc. There probably is an alias in it stating alias rm='rm -i' Replace that by alias rm='rm' and you are fine. /etc/profile.d/alias.sh -- Manolo Canga Mi Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mi web:

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 25. Dezember 2003 15:42 schrieb Manolo Canga: /etc/profile.d/alias.sh many thanks, I just found it occasionally. Changed the file and will see after a relogin if it behaves as I'd like it to. Gruß / regards

Re: [newbie] Mandrake move proceeding please wait...

2003-12-25 Thread robin
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 12:08:59 +0800 Anguo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I just tried Mandrake move. It boots (part 1,2,3...) but then the screen becomes black and I have a message at the bottom saying: proceeding, please wait. I then fail to notice anything happening. I am

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread robin
Paul wrote: On 12/25/2003 02:36 PM, Christoph Eckert wrote: On my Mandrake 9.2 box, every time I try to use rm on multiple files, I get asked if I really want to remove the file(s). The default behaviour of rm is, not to ask. Can I disable this question in any manner? Have a look at

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 25. Dezember 2003 16:37 schrieb robin: typing something like rm ./* Well, I never do a general ./* I always make ls -l and then tell rm to remove - for example - textfile*.txt. I once deleted the content of one whole directory,

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread Paul
On 12/25/2003 04:43 PM, Christoph Eckert wrote: Well, I never do a general ./* I always make ls -l and then tell rm to remove - for example - textfile*.txt. I once deleted the content of one whole directory, and since then I never did this stupid * stuff ;-) . That is _the_ way to learn...

Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-25 Thread Ramin M
Thanks David for the tip. I willcheck if i need to recompile the kernel for usb support. I hope not because i am not that knowledgeable in these. Regards, RaminDavid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 25 December 2003 16:09, Paul wrote: On 12/25/2003 04:43 PM, Christoph Eckert wrote: Well, I never do a general ./* I always make ls -l and then tell rm to remove - for example - textfile*.txt. I once deleted the content of one whole directory, and since then I never did this

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 5:57 am, Anne Wilson wrote: whack a question. http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org is your web? Correction - twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org is hosted by another user, and I'm ashamed to say that I can remember who, at his own

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 25 December 2003 01:03 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: - Allow me to quote the legendary Civileme : He ruled - I miss him on this list... :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread robin
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2003 16:09, Paul wrote: On 12/25/2003 04:43 PM, Christoph Eckert wrote: Well, I never do a general ./* I always make ls -l and then tell rm to remove - for example - textfile*.txt. I once deleted the content of one whole directory, and since then I

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-25 Thread robin
Christoph Eckert wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 25. Dezember 2003 16:37 schrieb robin: typing something like rm ./* Well, I never do a general ./* I always make ls -l and then tell rm to remove - for example - textfile*.txt. Actually I was thinking more

[newbie] MandrakeMove Key USB key locks up

2003-12-25 Thread Dennis Myers
I have d/l'd and made the CD and run Mandrake Move. The first time it detects the usb flash stick and the second time to boot it can't find it. No USB device detected. The 128 MB memory stick is Advance Modules 2.0 usb. It shows up on the USB view but I can not access it in any way. This is

Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove Key USB key locks up

2003-12-25 Thread E. Hines
On Thursday 25 December 2003 11:28 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I have d/l'd and made the CD and run Mandrake Move. The first time it detects the usb flash stick and the second time to boot it can't find it. No USB device detected. The 128 MB memory stick is Advance Modules 2.0 usb. It shows up on

[newbie] Re: [expert] To all

2003-12-25 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 1:01 pm, Chris Fox wrote: On Thu December 25 2003 10:30 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: (damn, thats the longest I've had CAPS on since the last time I was forced/beaten into using a Windoze machine!) grin I would have

Re: [newbie] Re: Desktop Icons

2003-12-25 Thread David
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2003 03:07, E. Hines wrote: First, try creating another user, and see if the default icon placement is correct after restart. If so, the below will very likely work. Back up your /~/.kde/share/apps/kab directory as well as your ~/Mail and then delete

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-25 Thread Sergey Berezka
, 25.12.2003, 13:28, Manolo Canga : El Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2003 11:41, Sergey Berezka escribi: My fstab already have line dev=/dev/scd1. When I click on the icon CD-ROM in the KDE, led on the panel of cdrom blinking a long of time, but when Konqueror opens any disk seems to be

[newbie] USB Card Readers

2003-12-25 Thread David
Ramin M wrote: Thanks David for the tip. I will check if i need to recompile the kernel for usb support. I hope not because i am not that knowledgeable in these. Regards, Ramin */David [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* You and me both Ramin. Ramin to quote from the 9.2 Definitive Guide if you are

Re: [newbie] Re: Desktop Icons

2003-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 December 2003 20:54, David wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2003 03:07, E. Hines wrote: First, try creating another user, and see if the default icon placement is correct after restart. If so, the below will very likely work. Back up your

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] To all

2003-12-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 25 December 2003 20:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: snip Who pissed in your breakfast cereal? May you be blessed with peace. /snip Charlie, what's up ? - We _are_ blessed with peace and a Merry Christmas :-) - I hope you are too. Kaj Haulrich -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] To all

2003-12-25 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 4:19 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2003 20:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: snip Who pissed in your breakfast cereal? May you be blessed with peace. /snip Charlie, what's up ? - We _are_ blessed with

Re: [newbie] Re: Desktop Icons

2003-12-25 Thread E. Hines
On Thursday 25 December 2003 01:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks Anne and 'e' but it woulld appear that do not have a /~/.kde/share/apps/kab directory. Will await the new year and see my Guru. I wonder if Erylon was thinking of ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail - your mail account details ? Or

[newbie] xwin config

2003-12-25 Thread Steve Hammond
Can anyone give me an examply of an xwine config that is similar to situation? I DONT have a seperate windows partition and was planning on installing a game and Flash MX into the windows folders that xwine provides in it's subdirectory. I've got to be misunderstanding something about how

Re: [newbie] xwin config

2003-12-25 Thread ronald
Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 00:16, schreef Steve Hammond: PS: someone give me the link to the online database of all these problems/solutions are. I need to bookmark it for future reference. http://www.frankscorner.org/ was a great help to me setting up wine HTH ronald -- Registered

[newbie] Webam chat in Mandrake

2003-12-25 Thread Carren Stuart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am currently using Eyeball Chat for webcam chat in Windows (actually, I use Eyeball for the webcam part and ICQ for chat as it has better chat options) Unfortunately there is not yet a linux version of Eyeball. Is there anything I can

[newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-25 Thread Guy Rouillier
I'm having difficulty understanding the proper way to configure the Software Media Manager (SMM). I was trying to install the latest Anjuta 1.2.0, and I found it here: ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/contrib/i586 I started by adding the following to the

[newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu

2003-12-25 Thread Guy Rouillier
I brought this subject up before but the conversation veered off, so I thought I would raise it independently. Each time I install a multitude of packages, my menus seem to get reset to some tiny set. For example, the entire Packaging submenu is missing from Configuration. I tried logging