Re: [newbie] Formatting External Hard Drive

2004-01-13 Thread E. Hines
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:49 am, Owen Berio wrote: > I guess I broke it but good. > while trying to find a mount point that works I think I wiped out the > formatting on my primary hard drive. It had two partitions but only the > partition with Mandrake was formatted for Linux and had a m

[newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-13 Thread S Wieland
I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my mandrake 9.1, dell dimension 8100 to put into my new computer, and put an old cdrom from a OLD 233 pentium II into the dell/linux box. I didnt do any remove hardware thingy in linux nor was the box ON when i did it. At first

Re: [newbie] Test Message

2004-01-13 Thread jason pearl
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:38:05 -0500 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just testing to see if the smarthost relay problems that I had >previously have been fixed yet. If not, this message should never >appear.-- >Bryan Phinney >Software Test Engineer > > so should we get this email... --

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-01-13 Thread newbie
This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. Welcome to Mandrake! - Our Mandrake TWiki: A TWiki is a user-driven webservice, where many members of the lists have helped organize useful information about Mandrake and Linux i

Re: [newbie] Speeding up X

2004-01-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:26 pm, Travis Crook wrote: ->I may have spoken too soon! It seemed to help for awhile but now I'm ->back to my normal unresponsive mouse! I ran top to see what processes ->where churning but I really didn't see a pattern. My mouse is slow ->whether my processor is

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Thread Frank Bax
At 02:44 PM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:03 am, Frank Bax wrote: > No log entry when accessing browser interface. > When trying to add printer through PrinterDrake, I get a shutdown entry (3 > times) when "Making printer available to cups". > In fact, only message i

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:33:09PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: > Todd Slater wrote: > >What happens when you click the text tool in the main tool palette and > >then click on the image? > > > Up comes the text window, see snapshot280.jpg > I type the text and then OK, > but nothing happens, W

Re: [newbie] Fw: 9.2

2004-01-13 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 19:04, P J Scott wrote: > I havent had one reply about any of this only from you . > - Original Message - > From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:53 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw: 9.2 > > > > On Monda

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread robin
John Richard Smith wrote: robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. I got the fonts from http://grsites.com/fonts/. On that site a "preview"is displayed of every font. The quantity is impres

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:24:33PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Todd Slater wrote: With the method I described, once you anchor the layer you can reposition it wherever you like using the move tool (the 4 directional arrows). Just make sure you have the right layer s

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card--FIXED, FOR REAL THIS TIME

2004-01-13 Thread amped
- Original Message - From: Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:30 am Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card > Okay Derek, I'm back. > I've investigated my admin settings for my network, and everything > seems to > match. It seems, because the dhcp isn'

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-13 Thread P J Scott
- Original Message - From: "Adolfo Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MDK Mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] linux install > On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 08:31, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Adolfo - he's not even getting it installed. I think he

RE: [newbie] urpmi/rpm error, long error listing

2004-01-13 Thread Portal Chris
Hi Joseph, Tried the urpmi --fuzzy kernel, got: The following packages contain kernel: kernel-smp-2.4.19.37mdk kernel-p3-smp-64GB-2.4.22.10mdk kernel-source kernel-doc-pdf kernel-2.4.19.37mdk kernel-enterprise-2.4.22.10mdk glibc-devel kernel-enterprise-2.4.19.37mdk kernel-smp-2.4.22.10mdk kernel

RE: [newbie] Formatting External Hard Drive

2004-01-13 Thread Owen Berio
I guess I broke it but good. while trying to find a mount point that works I think I wiped out the formatting on my primary hard drive. It had two partitions but only the partition with Mandrake was formatted for Linux and had a mount point. The other partition was DOS formatted. Here is

Re: [newbie] rename multiple folders

2004-01-13 Thread Charlie
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:39, Pablo Vitoria wrote: > Hi again, > > The perl script 'chcase' I mentioned in my previous posts will rename > folders recursively. > Outstanding! Thanks to all. -- Microsoft Windows... What do you want to reinstall today? Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:03 am, Frank Bax wrote: > No log entry when accessing browser interface. > When trying to add printer through PrinterDrake, I get a shutdown entry (3 > times) when "Making printer available to cups". > In fact, only message is shutdown message when I manually stop cup

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:24:33PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: > Todd Slater wrote: > >With the method I described, once you anchor the layer you can > >reposition it wherever you like using the move tool (the 4 directional > >arrows). Just make sure you have the right layer selected! > > > >T

Re: [newbie] urpmi/rpm error

2004-01-13 Thread Joseph
On Monday 12 January 2004 07:39 pm, Portal Chris wrote: > Hi All, > > I tried searching the archives for something relevant but didn't come up > with anything useful. > > Trying to update the kernel with a recently obtained RPM, I get the > following messages: > > # urpmi kernel > rpmdb: /var/lib/r

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-13 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 08:31, Anne Wilson wrote: > Adolfo - he's not even getting it installed. I think he needs to pass > noapic during the install. Can you tell him exactly how that's done? > > Anne Sorry I couldn't answer before. Here is a link that explains how to pass options during insta

Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel

2004-01-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 17:43, Phil Savoie wrote: > > Hi Anne, > > I too have those packages installed but have no /dev/video or any > indication that Mandrake sees the device. The driver won't install > on the current stock kernel. I'm at work now so I'll have to think > about the path I want

Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel

2004-01-13 Thread Phil Savoie
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 08:01, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 11 January 2004 18:24, Phil Savoie wrote: > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel > > Date: January 11, 2004 13:15 > > From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Phil Savoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Sunday 11 January

[newbie] Video refresh very slow (Mandrake 9.2)

2004-01-13 Thread Steven Vacca
Mandrake 9.2 Pentium II 233MHz 64M RAM (I know, I know, it's slow) I have installed v9.2, but am having an issue with the refreshing of the monitor screen when using Konqueror. It's very slow, so every time I move the mouse around inside Konqueror, the screen flashes wildly. During the install

Re: [newbie] rename multiple folders

2004-01-13 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:07:11AM -0700, Charlie wrote: > Well this seems to have done the first level folders ok, but did not rename > rename any of the subfolders. > > Is there a way to make this work recursively? Yes, use the script I gave you. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from M

Re: [newbie] rename multiple folders

2004-01-13 Thread Pablo Vitoria
Hi again, The perl script 'chcase' I mentioned in my previous posts will rename folders recursively. Pablo Pablo Vitoria Garcia Dpto. Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) Aptdo. 644 48080 Bilbao (Biz

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card

2004-01-13 Thread Marc Resnick
Okay Derek, I'm back. I've investigated my admin settings for my network, and everything seems to match. It seems, because the dhcp isn't granting the network card an IP, that the router isn't allowing the card to access the network, or something similar to that. Is there anything you know about ne

Re: [newbie] rename multiple folders

2004-01-13 Thread Charlie
On Monday 12 January 2004 22:29, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2004 11:38 pm, Charlie wrote: > ->I have a bunch of folders(several hundred) that I copied over from my > Win2k ->partition that I want to rename. Windows names them using a capital > letter ->and I want to rename them al

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-13 Thread Eric Huff
> My info may be dated. I am still on version 1.02 of Open Office > and the last time I did some research, there were still some > compatibility problems with some XP file formats. Version 1.1 is > supposed to be fully compatible according to the website, but I am > not running that version.--

[newbie] usb webcam not working in mdk9.2 fixed

2004-01-13 Thread LtCdData
my usb webcam uses the OV511 module but harddrake failed to load of configure it... even though it worked ok in mkd9.1 after a bit of a google the solution was to edit /etc/modules.conf file adding 'below ov511 ovcamchip' camera now works )) for this fix and other stuff have a look at the site

Re: [newbie] boot messages

2004-01-13 Thread Eric Huff
> > > But it still doesn't have the phantom line i am looking for, > > > which says something about a failure, and that i should > > > configure something... > > > > > > I'll find out what it says next time i boot. > > > > > > thanks, > > > eric > > Does it say something about 'no config - file

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. I got the fonts from http://grsites.com/fonts/. On that site a "preview"is displayed of every font. The quantity is impressive! But are they linux f

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-13 Thread robin
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:02 am, robin wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote: I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Thread Frank Bax
At 09:29 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:19 am, Frank Bax wrote: > CUPS daemon was not running - it's running now > cupsd (pid 2699) is running... > > A quick check of /var/log/cups/error_log and I found a little problem with > hostname, so I fixed that and

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread robin
John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. I got the fonts from http://grsites.com/fonts/. On that site a "preview"is displayed of every font. The quantity is impressive! But are they linux fonts and isn't

Re: Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Moz =?iso-8859-1?q?illa??=

2004-01-13 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Ramin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:17:15 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla? > Thanks, i will try it. My installation has been through the mandrake standard > package installing which i assume

Re: [newbie] boot messages

2004-01-13 Thread moey tony
i thought typing # dmesg would suffice? - Original Message - From: Jerry Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 05:38:13 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] boot messages > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:21:41 -0800 > Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:17:46AM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Charlie wrote: Sorry been busy and haven't followed this thread, but on the little gimp window, left mouse, double click the "T" then enable "use dynamic text" Open a pic and click the "T" and all will

Re: [newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!!

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:40 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: > Thanks for this. However, when the server locked up today, I couldn't > even connect to webmin, (in fact I couldn't connect in any way!) > > Is there any way to get this sort of information through the CLI?? Yes, do a top, get the pid of

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:19 am, Frank Bax wrote: > CUPS daemon was not running - it's running now > cupsd (pid 2699) is running... > > A quick check of /var/log/cups/error_log and I found a little problem with > hostname, so I fixed that and cups now starts properly on reboot. We ar

RE: [newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!!

2004-01-13 Thread Jamie Kerwick
Thanks for this. However, when the server locked up today, I couldn't even connect to webmin, (in fact I couldn't connect in any way!) Is there any way to get this sort of information through the CLI?? Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Ext

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Thread Frank Bax
At 08:25 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:05 am, Frank Bax wrote: > How do I check that - I did not consciously install/configure firewall. Frank, just to provide some background info, the cups daemon listens on port 631 for connections, both for admin and printing

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:02 am, robin wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > > On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote: > >>I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the > >>windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install > >>any so

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.5 Fonts

2004-01-13 Thread robin
J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: To All, I've upgraded to Mozilla 1.5 and now my fonts are crap on to many web sites. For those of you who use 1.5 what fonts do you use? The problem is not the fonts but the rendering. It looks like you downloaded the "vanilla" buil of 1.5. The one you need is the Xft

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-13 Thread robin
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote: I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Update Problem

2004-01-13 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 13 Jan 2004 1:33 pm, Smith, Robert A wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently built a desktop machine with Mandrake 9.2. I used Mandrake > Update to update the system, including all the latest security fixes, bug > fixes and updates. All appeared to go well, but now, I've lost most of the > appli

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-13 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:17:46AM +, John Richard Smith wrote: > Charlie wrote: > >Sorry been busy and haven't followed this thread, but on the little gimp > >window, left mouse, double click the "T" then enable "use dynamic text" > > > >Open a pic and click the "T" and all will become eviden

RE: [newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!!

2004-01-13 Thread Jamie Kerwick
Thanks for the suggestions: The puzzling thing is this server HAD been running flawlessly! and I haven't installed any new software to it since the day it was installed. It serves solely as an Intranet server! I couldn't understand apache using 253mb either, but that's what the gnome system monit

[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 Update Problem

2004-01-13 Thread Smith, Robert A
Hi all, I recently built a desktop machine with Mandrake 9.2. I used Mandrake Update to update the system, including all the latest security fixes, bug fixes and updates. All appeared to go well, but now, I've lost most of the applications that were formerly listed in my menu, my icons in the task

Re: [newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!!

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 07:17 am, Jamie Kerwick wrote: > I did notice earlier that there was a httpd process using 253MB of > memory which seems rather excessive - is there any way to trace what > this process is doing ? One step you might take is to connect to the web server using Webmin, ht

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:05 am, Frank Bax wrote: > How do I check that - I did not consciously install/configure firewall. Frank, just to provide some background info, the cups daemon listens on port 631 for connections, both for admin and printing jobs. If you are unable to connect on th

Re: [newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!!

2004-01-13 Thread Lanman
On 1/13/2004 at 12:17 PM Jamie Kerwick wrote: >HELP!!! > >I have our Intranet server hosted on Mandrake 9.0. Until yesterday it >had been working flawlessly for nearly 200 days. > >Yesterday afternoon after lots of 'Disk Thrashing' the problems began. > >Web page requests (via apache) were served

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:05 am, Frank Bax wrote: > At 06:43 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: > >On Monday 12 January 2004 09:06 pm, Frank Bax wrote: > > > An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: > > > Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) > > > >Is it possible that your

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:05 am, Frank Bax wrote: > At 06:43 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: > >On Monday 12 January 2004 09:06 pm, Frank Bax wrote: > > > An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: > > > Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) > > > >Is it possible that your

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-13 Thread Frank Bax
At 06:43 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 09:06 pm, Frank Bax wrote: > An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: > Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Is it possible that your firewall is disallowing local connections to port 631? How do I check

[newbie] Un-responsive server -- help!!

2004-01-13 Thread Jamie Kerwick
HELP!!! I have our Intranet server hosted on Mandrake 9.0. Until yesterday it had been working flawlessly for nearly 200 days. Yesterday afternoon after lots of 'Disk Thrashing' the problems began. Web page requests (via apache) were served very slowly, (I'm talking 5 minutes to serve a page tha

Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel

2004-01-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 11 January 2004 18:24, Phil Savoie wrote: > Subject: Re: [newbie] Would like to update kernel > Date: January 11, 2004 13:15 > From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Phil Savoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sunday 11 January 2004 17:59, Phil Savoie wrote: > > Well, I took a look and v4

Re: [newbie] rename multiple folders

2004-01-13 Thread Pablo Vitoria
Hi, I use the perl script 'chcase' available from http://www.blemished.net/chcase.html. It is very easy to use. I copy the help below: chcase 1.2 USAGE: chcase [-erdouqnl] [-s ] [-x ''] '' -e : Print EXAMPLES - very helpful! -r : Rename recursively -d : Als

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:22, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:23, P J Scott wrote: > > Well the problem is this. I have a new computer and a new distro > > 9.2. When I try to install it all that happens is I get the > > message lost interupt over and over so have to abort install

Re: [newbie] I'm excited hehe

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 02:03 am, Ramin wrote: > I checked the page you mentioned and saw a lot features. I confess that i > don understand most of the options! However i would like to know if it is > possible to do the following: To define special folders for mailing lists > and have the mail c

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote: > I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the > windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install > any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from You need to speci

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-13 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:23, P J Scott wrote: > Well the problem is this. I have a new computer and a new distro 9.2. > When I try to install it all that happens is I get the message lost interupt > over and over so have to abort installation . > Anne thought it might be the pnp in my bios but like

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:54 am, Ramin wrote: > You are right. I forgot to explain this case. Actually my case was even > more complicated since i wanted to reinstall Windows XP too. Once during > the installation i used Mandrake partition utility to define partitions and > format them but

Re: [newbie] graphical login - again

2004-01-13 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:18, Bill W. wrote: > Hi everyone, > I've been trying to track down the reason that my machine won't boot into a > graphical login manager. Remember, my machine is set to boot graphically in > MCC and it seems to trya blue screen appears for a moment then flashes > of