Re: [newbie] 10.1 kernel boot problem

2004-11-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 00:12, Azarnoosh Ali wrote: Hi, I tried to install mandrake 10.1 community on a PIII machin. During the installation anything were ok. but the system could not boot. when the boot process launched vmlinuz, the system restarted. I checked the bootsector and I

Re: [newbie] Parts

2004-11-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 03:59, Tom Karen Pino wrote: Hi all, I am going to start building a computer for linux. I have an old tower that I think will work (it may be too awkward). I would like some recommendations on components. Chipset? Sound card? Video card? Modem (dial up is

Re: [newbie] 10.1 Official

2004-11-02 Thread Richard Gelling
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 00:14 +, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi 4 CD set from the club installed and working without incident. Impressed so far. :-) Plain text document attachment (message.footer) Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Problems updating mozilla

2004-11-02 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Hi all, I just tried to update my mdk 10.0 and had the following problem with mozilla and libnss3: [EMAIL PROTECTED] minos]# urpmi mozilla To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (57 MB): libnss3-1.6-12.2.100mdk.i586 mozilla-1.6-12.2.100mdk.i586 Is this OK?

[newbie] Linking Thunderbird to Firefox.

2004-11-02 Thread Simon Utley
Hi, in an effort to get my wife to migrate from Windoze I have set up Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox on my Mdk 10 box, she has got used to using them in place of IE and Outlook Express. She has one problem with the new setup, when attempting to access a url on a mail Konqueror opens the web

Re: [newbie] User Agent

2004-11-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 01 November 2004 23:42, Marc wrote: 2 reasons # 1 a MLS real estate web site that seems to do nothing but say that it only works with Internet Exployter #2 as a further troubleshooting measure in trying to solve my DSL problems with my local ISP. I have tried everything

Re: [newbie] User Agent

2004-11-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 00:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Tom: The usual reason is that there are many websites which use the browser id string to determine if you are using IE or not; if you aren't, you are denied access. There are also others which restrict access to either IE or Netscape.

Re: [newbie] Problems updating mozilla

2004-11-02 Thread SnapafunFrank
Alexander Ruoff wrote: Hi all, I just tried to update my mdk 10.0 and had the following problem with mozilla and libnss3: [EMAIL PROTECTED] minos]# urpmi mozilla To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (57 MB): libnss3-1.6-12.2.100mdk.i586

[newbie] 10,1 i586 download version available?

2004-11-02 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I saw a lot of ftp site already has 10.1/i586 under officail directory. Is it 10.1 official or simply just community version? Thanks, - Yahoo! http://tw.avatar.yahoo.com/

Re: [newbie] 10.1 Official

2004-11-02 Thread Poogle
On Tuesday 02 Nov 2004 09:57, Richard Gelling wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 00:14 +, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi 4 CD set from the club installed and working without incident. Impressed so far. :-) Plain text document attachment (message.footer)

Re: [newbie] Problems updating mozilla

2004-11-02 Thread Alexander Ruoff
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 13:44, SnapafunFrank wrote: Alexander Ruoff wrote: Hi all, I just tried to update my mdk 10.0 and had the following problem with mozilla and libnss3: [EMAIL PROTECTED] minos]# urpmi mozilla To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed

Re: [newbie] 10,1 i586 download version available?

2004-11-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 09:10 am, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I saw a lot of ftp site already has 10.1/i586 under officail directory. Is it 10.1 official or simply just community version? Waqrly announced on this list that it is official. -- /g

[newbie] Tightvnc and gnome desktop manager

2004-11-02 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Hello all, I can't seem to get the gnome desktop manager when I try to view my mdk machine here at my office. I have put the following in my xstartup but it doesn't seem to be working #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc exec /usr/bin/gnome-session I

[newbie] MSN Gaming Zone with Linux?

2004-11-02 Thread Sevatio
Is it possible to play games at MSN Gaming Zone with Linux? I'm tired of a friend of mine's W2k pc that keeps getting infected despite Norton Antivirus. So I'm going to try and switch him over to Linux but he likes playing in MSN's Gaming Zone. Sevatio (sorry to mention such vulgarities as

Re: [newbie] User Agent

2004-11-02 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 2, 2004 05:25, Bryan Phinney wrote: .. Not that they shouldn't be supporting their clients, however, support issues do tend to be less costly with a braindead (reinstall, reboot, reimage) support model OS. They should support alternates, but the reality is that they are under the

Re: [newbie] Tightvnc and gnome desktop manager

2004-11-02 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 04:09, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: Hello all, I can't seem to get the gnome desktop manager when I try to view my mdk machine here at my office. I have put the following in my xstartup but it doesn't seem to be working #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session

Re: [newbie] Tightvnc and gnome desktop manager

2004-11-02 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
Well I found the issue.. I didn't put a at the end of my gnome-session statement. It works with no problems now. Stephen Khn wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 04:09, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: Hello all, I can't seem to get the gnome desktop manager when I try to view my mdk machine

Re: [newbie] MSN Gaming Zone with Linux?

2004-11-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0800, Sevatio wrote: Is it possible to play games at MSN Gaming Zone with Linux? I'm tired of a friend of mine's W2k pc that keeps getting infected despite Norton Antivirus. So I'm going to try and switch him over to Linux but he likes playing in MSN's

Re: [newbie] MSN Gaming Zone with Linux?

2004-11-02 Thread Sevatio
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0800, Sevatio wrote: Is it possible to play games at MSN Gaming Zone with Linux? I'm tired of a friend of mine's W2k pc that keeps getting infected despite Norton Antivirus. So I'm going to try and switch him over to Linux but he likes

Re: [newbie] MSN Gaming Zone with Linux?

2004-11-02 Thread SME Server
On Tuesday 02 Nov 2004 20:20, Sevatio wrote: Sevatio (sorry to mention such vulgarities as MSN) I'm not sure about the gaming zone, not heard of that yet or anything, but I use MSN here. Kopete is what I use... If you can give me any other info I'll look in to it when I get a chance :) Elwyn

[newbie] changing default browser- help

2004-11-02 Thread geoff
When I click on a URL link in an email, how can I make Mozilla open it instead of Konqueror? I can't find anywhere in preferences to change it. That way, I can bookmark the site if I want to keep it in my preferred Mozilla. Thanks Geoff Want

Re: [newbie] changing default browser- help

2004-11-02 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi Geoff, Start System Configuration.KDE..Components..File Associations . Then just type in the file extension and the priority of application for opening it. Bill W. On Tuesday 02 November 2004 08:11 pm, geoff wrote: When I click on a URL link in an email, how can

[newbie] '0' users?

2004-11-02 Thread Chris
Now this is odd, shouldn't it show '1' user (me) as was shown this afternoon? Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:36pm up 6 days, 1:07, 1 user, load average: 1.03, 0.63, 0.31 The above was from this afternoon. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] changing default browser- help

2004-11-02 Thread Erylon Hines
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 05:11 pm, geoff wrote: | When I click on a URL link in an email, how can I make Mozilla open it | instead of Konqueror? I can't find anywhere in preferences to change it. | That way, I can bookmark the site if I want to keep it in my preferred | Mozilla. | Thanks |

[newbie] Permission denied?

2004-11-02 Thread John linux-user
I did not know how to get around this permission issue after logging on as SU (root), and it showed up like that: bash: ./**: Permission denied __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

[newbie] Thanks re default browser help

2004-11-02 Thread geoff
Tanks guys, it worked a treat Regards Geoff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Kppp settings problem?

2004-11-02 Thread Lorin Jenny Pino
Kppp will dial in and establish a connection. However, I can't access any web sites. If I try ping www.yahoo.com, I get ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com. If I try ping 216.109.118.66 as seen on an earlier post, I get connect: network is not reachable. I am running Mandrake 9.1. What do I

Re: [newbie] Kppp settings problem?

2004-11-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 09:41 pm, Lorin Jenny Pino wrote: Kppp will dial in and establish a connection. However, I can't access any web sites. If I try ping www.yahoo.com, I get ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com. If I try ping 216.109.118.66 as seen on an earlier post, I get connect:

[newbie] Clamav-0.80

2004-11-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
I have Mdk 10.1 rpms for clamav-0.80 now available from my site. They are available ONLY using manual dl NOT with urpmi. ###Important### If upgrading, to maintain your current configuration Rename /etc/clamav.conf to clamd.conf If this will be a new installation and/or if you have not

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-11-02 Thread newbie
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Re: [newbie] Kppp settings problem?

2004-11-02 Thread Marek Pawinski
Lorin Jenny Pino wrote: Kppp will dial in and establish a connection. However, I can't access any web sites. If I try ping www.yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com, I get ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com. If I try ping 216.109.118.66 as seen on an earlier post, I get connect:

[newbie] init level 3 and odd screen display

2004-11-02 Thread cervixcouch
I went into /etc/inittab and changed the runlevel to 3. Now when I boot up, the non-graphical login prompt appears and the upper 8/10ths of the screen is black, but the bottom portion has the blue background that appears during runlevel 5 startup and I can see the word Mandraklinux with a star

Re: [newbie] init level 3 and odd screen display

2004-11-02 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 15:33, cervixcouch wrote: I went into /etc/inittab and changed the runlevel to 3. Now when I boot up, the non-graphical login prompt appears and the upper 8/10ths of the screen is black, but the bottom portion has the blue background that appears during runlevel 5

Re: [newbie] Permission denied?

2004-11-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 02:43, John linux-user wrote: I did not know how to get around this permission issue after logging on as SU (root), and it showed up like that: bash: ./**: Permission denied Is the file executable? (I assume it is not really called ** ) chmod +x **

[newbie] cannot su to root

2004-11-02 Thread Wouter Vanden Hove
Since I installed Mandrake 10.1 Community, I can no longer su to root on the Desktop. I still can in a virtual terminal. I thought this had to do with PAM, so I added my user to the wheel-group, but to no relief. ~ $ cat /etc/pam.d/su #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient

[newbie] Network Gurus--Help

2004-11-02 Thread Erylon Hines
I noticed sending via smtp was really slow--like 20 seconds or more for a message this size--so I did a ping on my smtp server. What I got back is a scad of (DUP!) replys. No packets missing, but wouldn't that tend to slow my sending down? And why the DUP!s? I always thought that a lot of

Re: [newbie] Permission denied?

2004-11-02 Thread John linux-user
Yes, it was like: rpm -Uh --force ati_package_name.rpm Thanks. John Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2004 02:43, John linux-user wrote: I did not know how to get around this permission issue after logging on as SU (root), and it showed up like that: bash: