Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron screen problems (final)

2004-02-29 Thread franki
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, just wanted to say the 845patch, installing it in /sbin and loading it up in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, with the line: /sbin/845patch 32000 worked. I've got a 1024x768 screen right after I boot up now. Its all about the shared memory. I'm assuming better laptops with ATI

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 01 March 2004 12:13 am, Johan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network > HOSTNAME=johannes > NETWORKING=yes > GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 I'm not sure about your setup, but here, using cable-modem service, there is no gateway statement in my network file. In fact, I do

[newbie] Scanner unaccessible as a user (root access is okay)

2004-02-29 Thread Anand S Bisen
Hello I have a HP USB 63x0C series flatbed scanner installed and it's detected by drake and i can use xsane to scan image as root. But when i run xsane as a user it says no device found. Where should i enable permissions for accessing this scanner for normal users. Thanks Anand -- Anand S Bisen

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin..... (help!)

2004-02-29 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Sunday 29 February 2004 16:55, Derek Jennings wrote: Tks, Derek! but ONE more question! (see below, pls) > On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 19:40, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: > > Hi! > > I've been using spamassassin for a while, but I must have missed some > > detail on the config pro

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Johan
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:55:05 -0500 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <<< snip >>> Hi Greg, > > This should work. What does /etc/sysconfig/network have in it? * [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=johannes NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 * >

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 29 February 2004 3:04 pm, Marc Resnick monotonically droned on: > I have libdvdcss installed already...and I can never get Xine to work. But > I'm going to try to remove it then install it once more. Sorry, Marc, Walt's right, Xine is the way to go, and since this isn't Widows land, th

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-02-29 Thread Christophe Hannecart
Someone in a newsgroup suggested that iptables was the culprit. I uninstalled it and voila ... it works. Your help was much appreciated. Thanks, Chris From: Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web page

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:50:52 -0500 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 29 February 2004 06:24 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:37:07 + > > > > LtCdData disseminated the following: > > > how win users get by on one is beyond me ;-)) > > > > Not only has this feat

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-02-29 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 29 February 2004 07:49 pm, Christophe Hannecart wrote: > I don't think there is a problem with my ISP as I never had this kind of > problem with this computer (same hardware, same software) prior to > reinstalling it yesterday and I am using the same ISP account with my > laptop. I probab

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-02-29 Thread Christophe Hannecart
I don't think there is a problem with my ISP as I never had this kind of problem with this computer (same hardware, same software) prior to reinstalling it yesterday and I am using the same ISP account with my laptop. I probably didn't install Mandrake the exact same way as before and it failed

Re: [newbie] KDE restart

2004-02-29 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 29 February 2004 08:05 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: > I restarted KDE one day while a few apps were running and now everytime > I restart cpu/KDE these applications (totem & Xmms) restart. > How can I fix this it's not a real problem but it's sure is real anoying. > I've already tried shuttin

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-02-29 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 29 February 2004 06:21 pm, Christophe Hannecart wrote: > Here is my resolv.conf when connected to my ISP: > > search weaveworx powerup.com.au local > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > > nameserver 210.80.58.34 # ppp temp entry > nameserver 210.80.58.42 # ppp temp entry > nameserver 210.80.58.34.

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 09:21 pm, Christophe Hannecart wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply. > > I've tried that but it does not work. I've noticed that KPPP correctly > inserts my ISP's DNS servers IPs into resolv.conf when it connects. > > Here is my resolv.conf when connected to my ISP: > >

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 03:57 pm, Johan wrote: > Hi Greg, > It now seem from my friend it does exist but in another directory... here > is the info...from my workstation. Use a dial-up modem on single > phone-lineNo router..just workstation and gateway via cross-over cable. > * > [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!

2004-02-29 Thread jimdawson
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 13:32, Margot wrote: > I assume that once you have paid for the licence they will *send* > you the binaries - for that price, I expect them to be hand > delivered to my door, on a velvet cushion! > The extra cost is to pay for the lawyers to explain to you how SCO can sel

Re: [newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2

2004-02-29 Thread William Warren
Any takers on this one?.. William Warren wrote: FYI i do have sshd running and webmin running so i can do this either way..:) William Warren wrote: I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have bee

Re: [newbie] Identifying people by IP

2004-02-29 Thread Mike Fehse
--- Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All > > I am looking for a program to collect all the > information possible about an > Internet user, given the IP he/she is using. > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > Paul In addition to the "whois" suggested by others, you may want to look a

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade gone awry

2004-02-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:41 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > I attempted to upgrade my 9.2 kernel from 2.4.22-10mdk to 2.4.22-28mdk, > following the procedure given at: > www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php > > On booting, it ran into problems with XFree, resulting in the following: > (Cle

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:37:07 + LtCdData disseminated the following: > how win users get by on one is beyond me ;-)) Not only has this feature been available on Windows for some time now, MS is seeking a patent on it. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/25/1346201 Pretty funny, huh? --

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 06:10 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 18:04, Marc Resnick wrote: > > What's MCC? > > > > I have libdvdcss installed already...and I can never get Xine to work. > > But I'm going to try to remove it then install it once more. > > > > Thanks for the help, >

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Lanman
I've found the rpms for scribus on 9.1, 9.2, and 10.0. There are two - scribus and libscribus IIRC, and I'm sure they're on the download CD's. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/29/2004 at 9:58 PM Keith Powell wrote: >Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus any

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 18:04, Marc Resnick wrote: > > What's MCC? > > I have libdvdcss installed already...and I can never get Xine to work. But I'm > going to try to remove it then install it once more. > > Thanks for the help, > Marc > Mandrake control center. Want to buy your Pack or Se

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Marco Verheul
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 21:58, Keith Powell wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? > > Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. > > I've spent some hours trying to install a tarball of it, but get my usual > screenful of things it can't find and needs. I have

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 05:54 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:10, Marc Resnick wrote: > > Well I can't get DVD playback to work. I get the error 'Can't Open VMG > > Info' with Mplayer. Here's my lilo, just in case it has to do with how I > > boot Linux: > > You need to get th

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:10, Marc Resnick wrote: > Well I can't get DVD playback to work. I get the error 'Can't Open VMG Info' > with Mplayer. Here's my lilo, just in case it has to do with how I boot > Linux: > You need to get the proper codecs to play dvd's. do a google search for plf and cl

Re: [newbie] shorell setup

2004-02-29 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 13:19, Derek Jennings wrote: > The Mandrake Firewall GUI is pretty simple and often screws up configuration. > > A common mistake the GUI makes is to get the interface connected to the > internet wrong. It will assume eth0 is connected to the net. > > Take a look at the fil

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Jason Greenwood
Yes, I agree, it does but for Newbies (it was posted to the newbie list, no?), RPM's are the best/easiest. Besides, URPMI was originally designed for RPM's not Tarballs IIRC. =) Cheers Jason H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 23:09, Jason Greenwood wrote: No, for Mandrake Systems

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 29 February 2004 23:09, Jason Greenwood wrote: > No, for Mandrake Systems you should ALWAYS use URPMI for installs Ehmm, mandrake installs tarballs fine but you DO have to have the kernel-source package installed for your particular kernel. I do quite a lot of tarball installs and don

[newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
Well I can't get DVD playback to work. I get the error 'Can't Open VMG Info' with Mplayer. Here's my lilo, just in case it has to do with how I boot Linux: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default="linux" keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw im

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Jason Greenwood
No, for Mandrake Systems you should ALWAYS use URPMI for installs anyway. Yes, there are Scribus RPMS's (depending on which version MDK) you are running of course). Go here: http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and set up an URPMI source for your version and then from the CLI: urpmi scribus Scr

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:58, Keith Powell wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? > > Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. > > I've spent some hours trying to install a tarball of it, but get my > usual scr

[newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Keith Powell
Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. I've spent some hours trying to install a tarball of it, but get my usual screenful of things it can't find and needs. I have almost completely abandoned tarballs, as I can rarely get t

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Job Evers
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:55:48 +0200 "Weiers Coetser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi... > > This is my third request for assitance and I've appreciated the input that > I've received every time. > > I don't know if the following scenario is a posible one: > > Lets say I've divided my work into f

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:25, Anne Wilson wrote: > IIRC xeyes is a panel applet - that is it is on the extreme right of > the taskbar. If so, look at that group of icons. To the left of the > group is a narrow band with an up-arrow. Right-click on that, then > select Panel Menu > Remove > A

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Jason Greenwood
Ok, ok, Top in a console then. =) LOL Philip Cronje wrote: On Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:14, Jason Greenwood wrote: Or hit ctrl+esc to start system monitor (graphical TOP) and then stop the program there. Many ways to do it. =) Cheers Jason Yes, but KDE System Guard takes yonks to start up ;)

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 20:34, Doug wrote: > Greetings all > > I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. > I went and started the xeyes program found under the Amusement tab, > nice little diversion, but I can't remove them. No wh

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:14, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Or hit ctrl+esc to start system monitor (graphical TOP) and then stop > the program there. Many ways to do it. =) > > Cheers > > Jason Yes, but KDE System Guard takes yonks to start up ;) pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 19:55, Erylon Hines wrote: > > Anne, why don't you turn off msec to check if that is what it is. > Just rename the msec executable to msecDISABLE in /usr/sbin > Problem is that I'm so busy sorting out other people's (family)

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: No backup for XP. No backup for XP, so what do you do it it gets screwed up, for whatever reason? That means you cannot recover a situation in XP at all. Backups come in many guises but the only true backup is to external media. That way, come what may, it's recoverable. Sec

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Jason Greenwood
Or hit ctrl+esc to start system monitor (graphical TOP) and then stop the program there. Many ways to do it. =) Cheers Jason Philip Cronje wrote: On Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:34, Doug wrote: Greetings all I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. I went and started the xe

[newbie] Re: j2sdk installation

2004-02-29 Thread Björn Lundin
Henrique Oliveira Santos wrote: > Hi all, > > this is my first questions here, but many of discussions here solved many > of mine problems. > > I've download and installed j2sdk rpm from sun. It installed succesfully. > Even in mozilla 1.6 i can run applets with the symlink. Instead of symlinks

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Johan
Hi Greg, It now seem from my friend it does exist but in another directory... here is the info...from my workstation. Use a dial-up modem on single phone-lineNo router..just workstation and gateway via cross-over cable. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ip-up.d]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcf

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:34, Doug wrote: > Greetings all > > I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. > I went and started the xeyes program found under the Amusement tab, nice > little diversion, but I can't remove them. No where in any of the docs have > I found any ment

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:34, Doug wrote: > Greetings all > > I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. > I went and started the xeyes program found under the Amusement tab, nice > little diversion, but I can't remove them. No where in any of the docs have > I found any menti

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread LtCdData
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 H:55, Weiers Coetser wrote: i use 8 desktops and sometimes thats not enough ))) how win users get by on one is beyond me ;-)) > Hi... > > This is my third request for assitance and I've appreciated the input that > I've received every time. > > I don't know if the following sc

[newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Doug
Greetings all I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. I went and started the xeyes program found under the Amusement tab, nice little diversion, but I can't remove them. No where in any of the docs have I found any mention of stopping a KDE recognized program. Any idea how t

Re: [newbie] Re-fried Urpmi upgrade

2004-02-29 Thread Lee Wiggers
I usually wait til all the Aussies are drunk, then use theirs. Lee On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:33:28 -0500 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:01 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I came in on the tail of a thread about upgrading last week, so > > I kept my keyboard

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Weiers Coetser
Wow... Got an answer withing 3 minutes of posting the question! Thank you so much! I'll try it. - Original Message - From: "Weiers Coetser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Four Desktops > Hi... > > This is my third re

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 19:55, Weiers Coetser wrote: > Hi... > > This is my third request for assitance and I've appreciated the input that > I've received every time. > > I don't know if the following scenario is a posible one: > > Lets say I've divided my work into four categories. I would like to

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread J Adam Latham
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:55 am, Weiers Coetser wrote: : Hi... : : This is my third request for assitance and I've appreciated the input that : I've received every time. : : I don't know if the following scenario is a posible one: : : Lets say I've divided my work into four categories. I would

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:55, Weiers Coetser wrote: > The same is true when I open several programmes. If I opened Open Office > Writer on Desktop one, I can still see the bar for that document at the > bottom, even if I am on Desktop two. If I have six or seven documents open > at the same t

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Johan
Hi Greg, I forwarded your message to my friend with the know-how that set up the system so we can get correct answersbe back to you as soon as I get the info. Thanks for the time to help me. Johan On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:51:26 -0500 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Weiers Coetser
Hi... This is my third request for assitance and I've appreciated the input that I've received every time. I don't know if the following scenario is a posible one: Lets say I've divided my work into four categories. I would like to use one of the four KDE desktops for each of these four categori

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin..... (help!)

2004-02-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 19:40, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: > Hi! > > I've been using spamassassin for a while, but I must have missed some > detail on the config process! > > It's configured system wide. And as I use procmail and kmail, the > spamassassin insist on putting the loc

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 29 February 2004 17:48, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Sunday 29 February 2004 09:29 am, Johan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > We have setup a gateway and one workstation. > > > Workstatio

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:01 pm, Johan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 > cat: /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0: No such file or directory Interesting. This looks like your problem right here. This is the file that is supposed to holds the configuration settings

[newbie] Spamassassin..... (help!)

2004-02-29 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Hi! I've been using spamassassin for a while, but I must have missed some detail on the config process! It's configured system wide. And as I use procmail and kmail, the spamassassin insist on putting the lock file at ~/Mail/ (kmail directory). How can I change this? I have set two direct

Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread Scott Mazur
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 01:18:17 -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote > On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:59 am, Adrian Earnshaw monotonically > droned on: > > Hi to all, > > > > I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real > > foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:13 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 29 February 2004 19:03, Marc Resnick wrote: > > Anne, > > I know I'm a different Marc, but I'll answer you anyway =). Yes, > > this does give you three partitions. It makes the /h

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 19:03, Marc Resnick wrote: > Anne, > I know I'm a different Marc, but I'll answer you anyway =). Yes, > this does give you three partitions. It makes the /home a little > bigger than the /, and the swap is the right size. It'

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 29 February 2004 16:34, Marc wrote: > > Click on the gray > > part and then near the bottom of the screen click on auto allocate. > > Mandrake will divide the gray part into 3 par

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 17:48, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 29 February 2004 09:29 am, Johan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have setup a gateway and one workstation. > > Workstation MDK 9.2 fully updated up to saturday 28/02/04. > > > > This workstation

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-29 Thread J Adam Latham
On Sunday 29 February 2004 08:08 am, Derek Jennings wrote: : On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 02:15, J Adam Latham wrote: : > Hi, All ... : > : > Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a : > disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my : > Mail dir) I

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote No spare computer. The last time I screwed up and had to reinstall it took 4 days. Mostly fighting those nasty virisus that sneek in while I'm downloading the norton virus definations. I dont mind reinstalling windows but the virus definations are tough. Also linux is trashed

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Marc
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:06 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:34 > Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition > > > > > > > No spare computer. The last time I scre

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:34 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition > On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:11 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "John Richard S

Re: [newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2

2004-02-29 Thread William Warren
FYI i do have sshd running and webmin running so i can do this either way..:) William Warren wrote: I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have been trying for the past couple of months to get thi

[newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2

2004-02-29 Thread William Warren
I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have been trying for the past couple of months to get this working and it is beyond me..:) the directory i want to share is /files/server/calendar i am not w

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Marc
On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:11 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "John Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 09:53 > Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition > > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Worry not

Re: [newbie] Re-fried Urpmi upgrade

2004-02-29 Thread et
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:01 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > Hi All > > I came in on the tail of a thread about upgrading last week, so I > kept my keyboard out of reach. > > Curiosity is killing me though. > > Can I upgrade to 10.whatever is now, by adding cooker to my urpmi > sources and > > 'urpmi

Re: [newbie] Re-fried Urpmi upgrade

2004-02-29 Thread et
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:01 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > Hi All > > I came in on the tail of a thread about upgrading last week, so I > kept my keyboard out of reach. > > Curiosity is killing me though. > > Can I upgrade to 10.whatever is now, by adding cooker to my urpmi > sources and > > 'urpmi

Re: [newbie] shorell setup

2004-02-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 14:46, Josenildo Marques wrote: > Hello ! > I haven't used any firewall so far and as I read posts that show a > concern over this way of protection, I tried to set up Shorewall. In > DrakFirewall, I unchecked 'everything - no firewall' and checked all the > other options as I

Re: [newbie] Mirror Directories

2004-02-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 29 February 2004 03:34 am, Stephen Reynolds wrote: > On windows machines I use a Microsoft tool called robocopy to mirror > directory trees. I use this tool to synchronise my documents directories > onto a usb flash drive. rsync, fmirror, wget, draksync, etc. -- Bryan Phinney Software

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 09:37 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I went

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "John Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 09:53 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > > > > > Worry not - I know, it's easy for me to talk . Someone will he

[newbie] Re-fried Urpmi upgrade

2004-02-29 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hi All I came in on the tail of a thread about upgrading last week, so I kept my keyboard out of reach. Curiosity is killing me though. Can I upgrade to 10.whatever is now, by adding cooker to my urpmi sources and 'urpmi.update -a --wget && urpmi -v --auto-select --wget'. Seems way too simpl

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 02:15, J Adam Latham wrote: > Hi, All ... > > Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a > disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my > Mail dir) I was disappointed to discover that my KMail settings > (identities, netw

Re: [newbie] shorell setup

2004-02-29 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 29 February 2004 08:46 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: > Hello ! > I haven't used any firewall so far and as I read posts that show a > concern over this way of protection, I tried to set up Shorewall. In > DrakFirewall, I unchecked 'everything - no firewall' and checked all the > other opti

[newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Johan
Hi, We have setup a gateway and one workstation. Workstation MDK 9.2 fully updated up to saturday 28/02/04. This workstation keep losing its LAN settings...have to launch LAN wizard every time after reboot. Win xpsuse 9.0fedora...they all keep their settings on same box. Kindly some po

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: Worry not - I know, it's easy for me to talk . Someone will help dig you out, then you'll wonder what all the fuss was about ;-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? There isn't one of us that didn't want to mess our pants

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I went I saw I didnt do very well. Don't sell yourself short, Hoyt. You're learning, and that's always good. > I did find the resize option > but it said I should run chkdisk from the run com

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 07:18 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 13:03, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Ok I ju

[newbie] shorell setup

2004-02-29 Thread Josenildo Marques
Hello ! I haven't used any firewall so far and as I read posts that show a concern over this way of protection, I tried to set up Shorewall. In DrakFirewall, I unchecked 'everything - no firewall' and checked all the other options as I am not sure yet which services are activated or disabled. The t

[newbie] j2sdk installation

2004-02-29 Thread Henrique Oliveira Santos
Hi all, this is my first questions here, but many of discussions here solved many of mine problems. I've download and installed j2sdk rpm from sun. It installed succesfully. Even in mozilla 1.6 i can run applets with the symlink. But im trying to run .jar java applications. I've done these to

Re: [newbie] Concerning about viruses

2004-02-29 Thread robin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is it true that one should not worry about virus when using Linux? It depends on whether you are running a server or a workstation. A Linux workstation is immune to Windows viruses (NOT "virii"!) and while there have been a few worms made to target Linux, the average w

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 07:18 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 13:03, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Ok I ju

Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 03:59 am, Adrian Earnshaw wrote: > Hi to all, > > I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real > foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any > drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only hardware I can't g

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 03:24 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:25 pm, Glenn monotonically droned on: > > Anne; > > Just saw this on the Iriver site. Possibly they'd have the 350 for > > less than you were able to find? > > I see that at www.pricewatch.com, that t

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 13:03, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Ok I just went and booted CD1 for 9.2 install. There is a screen > with two options Install and F1 for help. Clicking on install goes > directely to install this is what I normally use. That's

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Miroslav Skoric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:35 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > I have been advised to defragment windows. Then boot linux from cd (I > > assum

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:40 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:27, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > - O

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:27, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:11 > Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition > >

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have been advised to defragment windows. Then boot linux from cd (I assume CD1 with either 9.2 or 10.orc1) then shrink the windows partition. The problem is I dont know how to do that. Could somewone provide some detail? Try: LILO mini-HOWTO Miroslav "Misko" Skoric, skori

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:11 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:05, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I have

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:05, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I have been advised to defragment windows. Then boot linux from cd > (I assume CD1 with either 9.2 or 10.orc1) then shrink the windows > partition. The problem is I dont know how to do that. Coul

[newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I have been advised to defragment windows. Then boot linux from cd (I assume CD1 with either 9.2 or 10.orc1) then shrink the windows partition. The problem is I dont know how to do that. Could somewone provide some detail? Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http:

Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:59 am, Adrian Earnshaw monotonically droned on: > Hi to all, > > I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real > foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any > drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only

Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Adrian Earnshaw wrote: Hi to all, I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only hardware I can't get to work. It says that it is supported

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Laptop LCD at 1280x800 on ATI 9600 Radeon Mobili ty

2004-02-29 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:00:39 - "Sweeney, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Guy, > >Apparently the ATI Linux drivers do support this chip, > >Graphics Accelerators: >ATI Radeon 8500, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, >ATI Mobility 9000, 9600 <--- Think this is the one you want

[newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread Adrian Earnshaw
Title: Message Hi to all,   I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only hardware I can't get to work. It says that it is supported unde

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