RE: [newbie] Installing OS 10.0 Problem

2004-06-28 Thread Tony S. Sykes
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hoyt Bailey Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing OS 10.0 Problem On Sunday 27 June 2004 16:25, Dmitri wrote: I've run into the same problem

Re: [newbie] Additional drivers floppy

2004-06-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: I am trying to install Mandrake 10.0 Official in a Toshiba laptop and the installation program asks me to insert the Additional Drivers Floppy. Where do I get it?, or what does it mean? Teilhard At a guess, I would say it is asking if you have a floppy

Re: [newbie] Wireless PCMCIA Card

2004-06-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
Glenn wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2004 22:41, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I will probably get flamed for saying this, but the Microsoft MN-520 works with Mandrake 9.2, and I would think 10.0 I think it also works with XP. ;) On the other hand, it doesn't exactly work 'out of the box' in

Re: [newbie] Installing OS 10.0 Problem

2004-06-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 28 June 2004 04:26, Tony S. Sykes wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hoyt Bailey Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing OS 10.0 Problem On Sunday 27 June 2004

Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux

2004-06-28 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia pon 28. czerwca 2004 09:09, M.Schild napisa: I just heard that Microsoft has offered a HUGE rebate to the town of Paris which is in the process of switching to Linux. Maryse It won't help them :) I've read somewhere that in all the France (or maybe Paris only) in gov. administration all

Re: [newbie] Lame mp3x

2004-06-28 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia pon 28. czerwca 2004 00:06, Mikkel L. Ellertson napisa: Cezary Morga wrote: I've found the lame-mp3x package along with lame's rpm. What is it? Try rpm -qpi package name. At a guess, I would say it is a mp3 encoder. Mikkel This is actually a graphical analyzer for lame encoder :) --

Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux

2004-06-28 Thread M.Schild
It won't help them :) I've read somewhere that in all the France (or maybe Paris only) in gov. administration all computers MUST run on open source systems and programs... Never heard about that. So far, the local administration here (back of beyond of France) is still running Windows.

Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux

2004-06-28 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia pon 28. czerwca 2004 14:27, M.Schild napisa: It won't help them :) I've read somewhere that in all the France (or maybe Paris only) in gov. administration all computers MUST run on open source systems and programs... Never heard about that. So far, the local administration here (back

Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux

2004-06-28 Thread Marc
On Monday 28 June 2004 07:59 am, Cezary Morga wrote: Dnia pon 28. czerwca 2004 14:27, M.Schild napisa: It won't help them :) I've read somewhere that in all the France (or maybe Paris only) in gov. administration all computers MUST run on open source systems and programs... Never

Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux

2004-06-28 Thread roger . white-itnet
Try looking at the Mandrake home page. Its under the news part. (June 18th 2004) :. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to

[newbie] Next LM version

2004-06-28 Thread EE
When is the next version comming out? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Chaneg default browser

2004-06-28 Thread EE
Everytime I click on a link Galean pops up. How can I change it so Mozilla comes up instead? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Next LM version

2004-06-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 28 June 2004 08:36 am, EE wrote: When is the next version comming out? http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrakelinux101 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American

Re: [newbie] Mandrake OT

2004-06-28 Thread Bac
Ad horas 01:42, domenica 27 giugno 2004, Chuck MATTSEN Scripsit: || suggests will probably work. | |Bah! Any decent secret society would require virgin sacrifice. | | There is a better use for virgins. Scared me for a second there ... I thought you were going to say you had a better use

[newbie] KDE scroll wheel flakey?

2004-06-28 Thread Scott Mazur
I'm experiencing a problem I've never seen on any of my other Mandrake boxes (9.2, 10.0CE upgraded from 9.2). This was a fresh install from scratch on a new box, then updated to the latest CE and x11.org. The mouse works perfectly except for one extremely annoying problem. When I scroll up

Re: [newbie] KDE scroll wheel flakey?

2004-06-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:43 am, Scott Mazur wrote: I'm experiencing a problem I've never seen on any of my other Mandrake boxes (9.2, 10.0CE upgraded from 9.2). This was a fresh install from scratch on a new box, then updated to the latest CE and x11.org. The mouse works perfectly except

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Scott Mazur
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup Cool! Someone else with a hankering for a backup partition. I partition every HD with at least one backup partion (usually mounted on

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup Cool! Someone else with a hankering for a backup partition. I partition every HD with at least one backup partion

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:42, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup Cool! Someone else with a hankering for a backup partition. I partition every

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 28 Jun 2004 6:06 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Cant answer that. I requested info about partitions and processed those into what I provided. No reason other than I didnt know enough to do it diffenently. The only reason for having a backup partition was because that was what was left

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Scott Mazur
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:06:27 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote On Monday 28 June 2004 11:42, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup Cool! Someone else

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 28 June 2004 12:50, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 28 Jun 2004 6:06 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Cant answer that. I requested info about partitions and processed those into what I provided. No reason other than I didnt know enough to do it diffenently. The only reason for having a

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 28 June 2004 12:56, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:06:27 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote On Monday 28 June 2004 11:42, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004

[newbie] How do I edit a hdlist.cz file?

2004-06-28 Thread Lanman
Can anyone tell me what editor to use if I want to edit an hdlist.cz file? I'm thinking about scaling down Mandrake 10.0 to a single CD and I need to be able to edit the file. Any help would be appreciated! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] How do I edit a hdlist.cz file?

2004-06-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 28 June 2004 02:49 pm, Lanman wrote: Can anyone tell me what editor to use if I want to edit an hdlist.cz file? I'm thinking about scaling down Mandrake 10.0 to a single CD and I need to be able to edit the file. Any help would be appreciated! It is a binary file and I don't think

[newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? Also the settings icon produces no activity. Trying to open settings from the command line with usr/bin/xfce-setting-show gets me No such

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Margot
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not find this, or is it not working for

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not find this, or is it

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread John Drouhard
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not find this, or is it

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Graham Watkins
Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: And finally (for now) the terminal icon doesn't work (although I can get a terminal by opening the manual and starting another shell). I had the same problem - it seems to try to call up a type of terminal I didn't have installed! Solution was to right-click

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Scott Mazur
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:14:43 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote On Monday 28 June 2004 12:56, Scott Mazur wrote: As another personal preference, I always create a single partition mounted as /system at 1g size. I use this partiton to keep custom scripts (like backup/recovery and setup), copies

[newbie] voice recording software for 9.2

2004-06-28 Thread GV
Hi there, I'm looking for a solution to be able to record voice via a micro in my 9.2 box. Thanks for your help GV Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] voice recording software for 9.2

2004-06-28 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:27 am, GV wrote: Hi there, I'm looking for a solution to be able to record voice via a micro in my 9.2 box. Thanks for your help GV Audacity Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Frank Bax
At 03:59 PM 6/27/04, John Drouhard wrote: I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I don't know how to chop it up. Are you the only user and you have no remote access (apache, mail, ftp, etc) services running? Go with one big partition. Multiple partitions are for

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 28 June 2004 23:24, Frank Bax wrote: At 03:59 PM 6/27/04, John Drouhard wrote: I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I don't know how to chop it up. Are you the only user and you have no remote access (apache, mail, ftp, etc) services running? Go with

[newbie] emacs tutorial and add-ons

2004-06-28 Thread Job Evers
I don't seem to have the emacs tutorial installed with my version of emacs. I am running a fresh install of 10.0 Official (Downloaded) and when I went to help:tutorial and received this message help-with-tutorial: Opening input file: no such file or directory,

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Margot
Graham Watkins wrote: Margot wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Dudes, Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? The menus should appear if you right-click anywhere on the desktop. Did you not

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 28 June 2004 15:28, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:14:43 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote On Monday 28 June 2004 12:56, Scott Mazur wrote: As another personal preference, I always create a single partition mounted as /system at 1g size. I use this partiton to keep custom

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-28 Thread Marv Boyes
Graham Watkins wrote: Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about with xfce4. Trouble is some things don't seem to work. Don't have any menus any more - is this right? Not sure about the other configuration troubles you mention, Graham, but one solution to the menu problem would be to run

[newbie] Rpms for sylpheed-claws-0.9.12

2004-06-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
Mdk 10.0 rpms for sylpheed-claws-0.9.12 are now available from my site Note plugins now reside in _libdir/sylpheed-claws What this means is that if you use any of the external src plugin rpms, i.e. fetchinfo, etpan, maildir etc, then these plugins will need to be re-added in Configuration once

[newbie] Laptop pcmcia ethernet card not recognized every other boot up

2004-06-28 Thread Dennis Myers
Subject says the basic problem, if I have ethernet connection and shut down the laptop (Compaq Presario 1700t ), the next time I boot it I get a message that eth0 is removed. I do a restart and eth0 is recognized and it asks if I want to configure it. Am I shutting down incorrectly ? Or is

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Glenn
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:50, Richard Urwin wrote: http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexr eq=viewarticleartid=222 Or if that splits badly: http://tinyurl.com/2ph56 Thanks for that link. Why didn't I know about this site long ago g? -- 18:36:46 up 2

Re: [newbie] weird df output

2004-06-28 Thread Paul Kaplan
Nice script. Question: On one LM10 machine it works fine. On another I get the following error: [execution directory]: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token 'done' [execution directory]: line 13: done with no output. What gives? Where should the line breaks be? TIA Paul On Sunday 27

Re: [newbie] weird df output

2004-06-28 Thread Paul Kaplan
Never mind...figured it out. On Monday 28 June 2004 08:39 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: Nice script. Question: On one LM10 machine it works fine. On another I get the following error: [execution directory]: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token 'done' [execution directory]: line 13: done

[newbie] Eterm command line question

2004-06-28 Thread Chris
I had eterm setup the way I wanted it by setting the command line in $/.kde/share/applnk-mdk/Terminals and it worked great, however a bit ago I had a power hit from a t-storm, rebooted the machine and all my settings are gone. They seem to be saved but I guess not. Anyway to save these other

Re: [newbie] Eterm command line question

2004-06-28 Thread RickS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:54:29 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had eterm setup the way I wanted it by setting the command line in $/.kde/share/applnk-mdk/Terminals and it worked great, however a bit ago I had a power hit from a t-storm, rebooted

Re: [newbie] Eterm command line question

2004-06-28 Thread Chris
On Monday 28 June 2004 08:40 pm, RickS wrote: Hi Chris, I would create an alias in your .bashrc file as alias myEterm=''Eterm -g 120x28 -O -0 --shade 81 -x --buttonbar off - --scrollbar off' substitute any name for myEterm and any other settings you wanted, and all you have to remember is