RE: [newbie] Sound and net

2004-01-20 Thread pjscott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 20 January 2004 11:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound and net On Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:02, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Philip, Have you installed dhcp software? It is the

Re: [newbie] Sound and net

2004-01-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 13:19, pjscott wrote: Not sure I have just about downloaded everything off the disks. Is urpmi and dhcp two seperate programs or is it one ??? abd are they located on the installation disks. urpmi is the tool for installing and uninstalling. It takes care of

RE: [newbie] Sound and net

2004-01-20 Thread pjscott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 20 January 2004 13:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound and net On Tuesday 20 January 2004 13:19, pjscott wrote: Not sure I have just about downloaded everything off the

[newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
I've forgotten the correct incantation to remove the boot splash on boot up(back to text boot) my append line looks like this, append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi nosplash acpi=off and the nosplash is wrong , what should it be ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to

[newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread Angus Auld
I was wondering if anyone here has used, or is using either xmule or amule from plf? It is a file sharing client compatible eDonkey. I don't seem to be able to download anything. I can get the list of available servers and connect, I can search and get results, but when I try to download all

Re: [newbie] Upgraded to 92 :(

2004-01-20 Thread Frank Bax
At 07:00 PM 1/19/04, Mike Adolf wrote: Problem 3: (minor) 92 swiped my control center icon from the lower task bar! Right click on the task bar - you will find options to add MCC icon. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread Tony S. Sykes
John, Not sure off the top of my head but you can do it through mcc. Tony. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:05 PM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf I've forgotten the correct

[newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
I've forgotten the correct incantation to remove the boot splash on boot up(back to text boot) my append line looks like this, append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi nosplash acpi=off and the nosplash is wrong , what should it be ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread Paul
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 16:06, Angus Auld wrote: I was wondering if anyone here has used, or is using either xmule or amule from plf? It is a file sharing client compatible eDonkey. I don't seem to be able to download anything. I can get the list of available servers and connect, I can

[newbie] Recovering Files

2004-01-20 Thread Marc
Yesterday I went to do a clean install of 9.2 I had a number of files in my home directory and before formatting the hard drive burnt everything in home to CD. I had a number of files that must have been email attachments. They were in my home/documents directory and had jpg images in them.

Re: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Tony S. Sykes wrote: John, Not sure off the top of my head but you can do it through mcc. Tony. Well, MCC changed, append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi nosplash acpi=off to, append=NoSplash devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off big deal. but what is more it didn't work,

Re: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi John, Simple. Just remove the 'nosplash' alltogether, worked for me. I used to have 'splash=silent' on my append line before. HTH. On Tuesday 20 January 2004 16:14, John Richard Smith wrote: I've forgotten the correct incantation to remove the boot splash on boot up(back to text boot)

RE: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread Tony S. Sykes
John, Try splash=silent. Tony. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf Tony S. Sykes wrote: John, Not sure off the top of my head but

Re: [newbie] Recovering Files

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc wrote: Yesterday I went to do a clean install of 9.2 I had a number of files in my home directory and before formatting the hard drive burnt everything in home to CD. I had a number of files that must have been email attachments. They were in my home/documents directory and had jpg

Re: [newbie] Recovering Files

2004-01-20 Thread Lanman
Might also be permissions. Cd would have read-only perms set by default, and pics may also have permissions set for the previous user. If GID's don't match this could also be the problem. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/20/2004 at 3:11 PM John Richard Smith wrote: Marc

Re: [newbie] Recovering Files

2004-01-20 Thread robin
Marc wrote: Yesterday I went to do a clean install of 9.2 I had a number of files in my home directory and before formatting the hard drive burnt everything in home to CD. I had a number of files that must have been email attachments. They were in my home/documents directory and had jpg

Re: [newbie] Sound and net

2004-01-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 14:00, pjscott wrote: I havent tried that yet but I will. I have just installed everything I could find with dchp in it, and still its dead. When I shut it down just now to get back to my email I noticed that webmin was shut down, so I presume it is there. You

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 2:06 pm, Angus Auld wrote: I was wondering if anyone here has used, or is using either xmule or amule from plf? It is a file sharing client compatible eDonkey. I don't seem to be able to download anything. I can get the list of available servers and connect, I can

Re: [newbie] Recovering Files SOLVED

2004-01-20 Thread Marc
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 09:21 am, robin wrote: Marc wrote: Yesterday I went to do a clean install of 9.2 I had a number of files in my home directory and before formatting the hard drive burnt everything in home to CD. I had a number of files that must have been email attachments.

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:32:12 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] xmule/amule? On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 2:06 pm, Angus Auld wrote: I was wondering if anyone here has used, or is using either xmule or amule

Re: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi John, Simple. Just remove the 'nosplash' alltogether, worked for me. I used to have 'splash=silent' on my append line before. No, that's how I got into this in the first place, by hashing out the old append line and using a temporary append line for an

Re: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi John, Simple. Just remove the 'nosplash' alltogether, worked for me. I used to have 'splash=silent' on my append line before. No, that's how I got into this in the first place, by hashing out the old append line and using a temporary append line for an

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Derek, I can't find Apollon or giFT on the plf mirrors I checked. I am interested to try it. Could you tell me where I may get it? Have you tried urpmi? -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is

[newbie] any xfce users on here?

2004-01-20 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Been playing around with xfce and I quite like it. One thing that I can't work out is where to find the xml file that you are supposed to edit to add option to the menu. There are some pretty useful things missing from it like any office stuff etc... I read in the help pages that the file is

Re: [newbie] any xfce users on here?

2004-01-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:38:36 + Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read in the help pages that the file is called menu.xml but a search of my HDD does not some up with any files by that name. /etc/X11/menu.xml but it will not help you the edit that file. If you used my rpms

Re: [newbie] any xfce users on here?

2004-01-20 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
/etc/X11/menu.xml Got it! Its actually in /etc/X11/xfce4 on mine and is called menu2.xml :-) but it will not help you the edit that file. I see what you mean! Its got everything listed there but only about 1/3rd actually appears on the menu when you right click it. If you used my rpms

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:14:31 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] xmule/amule? Derek, I can't find Apollon or giFT on the plf mirrors I checked. I am interested to try it. Could you tell me where

Re: [newbie] 92 iso download problem

2004-01-20 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 19 January 2004 11:00 am, Poogle wrote: On Monday 19 Jan 2004 17:09, Aron Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:59:25 -0800 Michael.Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded cd 1,2,3 iso for 92. The problem is cds 2 and 3 are

[newbie] configuration media for mandrake 9.2

2004-01-20 Thread jpreal
Hello, I am trying to install software with drakx coming directly from the net, i used to have this working with mandrake 9.0, but i can not remember how i did that!!! Does somebody can tell me what is the ftp or http address a need to put into the configuration media tab to have that working.

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Thank you for the reply John. Yes, I have tried urpmi. For apollon I get, no package named apollon. That's odd it comes up for me. Are you using 9.2 or 9.1? -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is

Re: [newbie] any xfce users on here?

2004-01-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:38:36PM +, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Been playing around with xfce and I quite like it. One thing that I can't work out is where to find the xml file that you are supposed to edit to add option to the menu. There are some pretty useful things missing from

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:19:49 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For apollon I get, no package named You can get it from my site apollon-0.9.1-3plf.i586.rpm libapollon0-0.9.1-3plf.i586.rpm You can add my site to urpmi with urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/ with

Re: [newbie] Remove boot splash from lilo.conf

2004-01-20 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 20 January 2004 7:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I've forgotten the correct incantation to remove the boot splash on boot up(back to text boot) my append line looks like this, append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi nosplash

Re: [newbie] configuration media for mandrake 9.2

2004-01-20 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 19 January 2004 4:09 pm, jpreal wrote: Hello, I am trying to install software with drakx coming directly from the net, i used to have this working with mandrake 9.0, but i can not remember how i did that!!! Does somebody can tell me what

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread jason pearl
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:32:12 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 Jan 2004 2:06 pm, Angus Auld wrote: I was wondering if anyone here has used, or is using either xmule or amule from plf? It is a file sharing client compatible eDonkey. I don't seem to be able to

[newbie] USB RCA Cable Modem

2004-01-20 Thread TJ
Hi, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and I have it installed as a dual boot system with Windows. I don't know how to tell Mandrake to use my USB RCA Cable modem. A friend of mine told me I might have to compile the Linux kernel, but I don't know how to do that even if I did. So, I was wondering if

[newbie] [Slightly OT] Enigmail 1.6 problem

2004-01-20 Thread robin
I recently installed the Cooker RPMs for Mozilla and Mozilla Mail 1.6 and everything worked fine. However, installing Enigmail borked my toolbar by showing a solid block of icons taking up half the screen. Anyone else have the same problem? Sir Robin -- People pay economists vast amounts of

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule?

2004-01-20 Thread David
Angus Auld wrote: Can anyone offer any advice/tips/comments? What is a good P2P client for Mandrake? I tried eDonkey a while back, and I found it rather difficult to comprehend. amule/xmule have very nice gui's and seem easy to understand, but, haven't been cooperative thus far. :-| TIA for

Re: [newbie] [Slightly OT] Enigmail 1.6 problem

2004-01-20 Thread Margot
robin wrote: I recently installed the Cooker RPMs for Mozilla and Mozilla Mail 1.6 and everything worked fine. However, installing Enigmail borked my toolbar by showing a solid block of icons taking up half the screen. Anyone else have the same problem? Sir Robin Robin, I installed Moz 1.6

Re: [newbie] strangness with PPP modem

2004-01-20 Thread Linux
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:22:27 -0700 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:39:42 +1300 John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:16:45 -0700 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone offer insight into this situation: I am

Re: [newbie] USB RCA Cable Modem

2004-01-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:30:31AM -0600, TJ wrote: Hi, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and I have it installed as a dual boot system with Windows. I don't know how to tell Mandrake to use my USB RCA Cable modem. A friend of mine told me I might have to compile the Linux kernel, but I don't know

Re: [newbie] xmule/amule? (apollon)

2004-01-20 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:46:23 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] xmule/amule? On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:19:49 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For apollon I get, no package named You can get

[newbie] Lost Keys

2004-01-20 Thread Aron Smith
I did somthing stupin (never would have thought it) when I do a urpmi ALL programs come back with missing keys I deleted some progs and one of them must have had the keys in it any thoughts? TIA smitty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] photo printers

2004-01-20 Thread Ramin
Hi, I know little about printers and now i need to buy one: I would like to buy a photo printer and i would like to know your opnion on the following: 1- Which photo printers (in terms of brands models) are best supported under Linux and Mandrake in particular? I mean to have the most

[newbie] running dual boot and wanting windows and linux running at the same time

2004-01-20 Thread TJ
Hi, I have a dual boot system with Windows XP Pro and Mandrake 9.1 and I was wondering how I could run them both at the same time. I have heard of VMware but I also heard that Microsoft has bought them out and it is very slow and uses ALOT of resources and it costs alot of money. I was