Re: [newbie] man, man, man

2005-01-24 Thread SnapafunFrank
Dan Gordon wrote: On January 23, 2005 07:44 pm, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: Quick question: when I type 'man man' in Konsole, and I don't want to read it, but instead I want to go to 'man rpm', how do I do that? The only way I found to do that now was starting a new Konsole session... there surely

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 January 2005 05:32, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP There are instruction on compiling new kernels in the manual http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Command-Line.html/compil ing-kernel-chapter.html But be aware Mandrake apply lots of patches to the standard kernel.org

Re: [newbie] Samba Newbie!

2005-01-24 Thread et
On Sunday 23 January 2005 04:22 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 02:19 pm, Siposs Attila wrote: 2005. január 23. 17.12 dátummal Mike Adolf ezt írta: I recently went to 10.1 and now would like to set up a simple home network consisting of: Dlink DI-514 router connected

[newbie] konqueror help

2005-01-24 Thread id1davewp
can konqueror be made to load pages faster.is there any settings i can ajust. any help would be gratefull. dave... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Swap partion

2005-01-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 23 January 2005 03:29 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote : I always prefer to put /swap as the first partition (hd?1) on a drive. R/W's slow as much as 40% the further down a partition is on a drive, regardless of the drive's rpms, size, number of disks, age, etc. This

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-24 Thread jallan6977
I can tell you this much, the output is supposed to be three files of information about the modem possibilities. I figured it was wrong somewhere because of that and the gcc thing. I guess I need to know about that also. I will try researching it on this end. Maybe that would make it

RE: [newbie] turn off computer?

2005-01-24 Thread steve.goodey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Huff Sent: 22 January 2005 21:00 To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] turn off computer? Andy Yankovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snip 4. Is the anti-span feature built

Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-24 Thread bascule
do you have the latest version of mandrake, previous ones had cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /base/ /RPMS/ or just cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /RPMS(N)/ the latest ones seem to have cdroot/ /media/ /main/

[newbie] Re: installation problem

2005-01-24 Thread Cyber Killer
Anne Wilson wrote: Have you tried having unplugged your extra USB things incase there is a problem there?? That's a good point. Setting them up later may be a better option. disconnecting everything doesn't help - any other ideas? -- Cyber Killer mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Installing only the kernel.

2005-01-24 Thread Mike Chalmers
Will someone tell me how to install only the kernel from www.kernel.org? From, Mike Chalmers

[newbie]

2005-01-24 Thread Owen
Last time I got this far I messed up my system so bad that I had to do a complete reinstallation. I would like to have a icon on my desktop that will allow me to access my external USB hard drive. Hopefully I will then be able to read and write to it. This is the current state of

[newbie] Re: upgrade 8.2 to 10.1: Error, some other host already uses address 127.0.0.1.

2005-01-24 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Jan 23, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: As soon as I get a chance (probably tomorrow) I'll boot the MDK 10.1 and try the ping -a 127.0.0.1 I'll post the results shortly afterwards. Thanks again Ati, I appreciate the

[newbie] Alt-F2 Openoffice

2005-01-24 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
I just removed Openoffice 1.1.3 from my system, downloaded the latest 1.9.etc snapshot and installed it. I found out I can open Openoffice by Alt-F2 'soffice'. However, this is a pure coincidence that I found out about this. What is the right way to find out about this? Is there a list of

Re: [newbie] Installing only the kernel.

2005-01-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike Chalmers wrote: Will someone tell me how to install only the kernel from www.kernel.org? From, Mike Chalmers I am

Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 15:37, Cyber Killer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Have you tried having unplugged your extra USB things incase there is a problem there?? That's a good point. Setting them up later may be a better option. disconnecting everything doesn't help - any other ideas? Are you

Re: [newbie] Re: upgrade 8.2 to 10.1: Error, some other host already uses address 127.0.0.1.

2005-01-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Jan 23, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: As soon as I get a chance (probably tomorrow) I'll boot the MDK 10.1 and try the ping -a 127.0.0.1 I'll post the results shortly afterwards. Thanks again

Re: [newbie] konqueror help

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can konqueror be made to load pages faster.is there any settings i can ajust. any help would be gratefull. dave... Don't think so. Usually the problem is data bottlenecks. They can be anywhere... What sort of problems and

Re: [newbie] Alt-F2 Openoffice

2005-01-24 Thread Miark
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:45:48 +0100, Michaël wrote: I found out I can open Openoffice by Alt-F2 'soffice'. However, this is a pure coincidence that I found out about this. What is the right way to find out about this? Is there a list of all the Alt-F2 names of the programs installed on

[newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Paul
Hi all, I am facing my age=old problem again. I try to set up IP forwarding (frm w98 box through mdk10.0). Which logfiles should I check to see if there are problems? I downloaded a script from http://www.speakeasy.org/~curby/filelib/curbywall which states to work with mdk10. It loads. But that

Re: [newbie] Alt-F2 Openoffice

2005-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 January 2005 16:45, Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: I just removed Openoffice 1.1.3 from my system, downloaded the latest 1.9.etc snapshot and installed it. I found out I can open Openoffice by Alt-F2 'soffice'. However, this is a pure coincidence that I found out about this. What is

Re: [newbie] Alt-F2 Openoffice

2005-01-24 Thread Avi Schwartz
Michaël Van Dorpe wrote: I just removed Openoffice 1.1.3 from my system, downloaded the latest 1.9.etc snapshot and installed it. I found out I can open Openoffice by Alt-F2 'soffice'. However, this is a pure coincidence that I found out about this. What is the right way to find out about

[newbie] Re: installation problem

2005-01-24 Thread Cyber Killer
Elwyn wrote: Are you able to try a different video card? I don't see the point of using a different gfx card, cause mandrake 7.0, 8.2, 9.0, 9.2 worked just fine with my current card I had this problem only with 10.0 and 10.1 (so far) If You insist, I could find a different card, but that

[newbie] upgrade 8.2 to 10.1: df lists /dev/hda4 as /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 ???

2005-01-24 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I upgraded a working MDK 8.2 installation to MDK 10.1 (powerpack) I just noticed something about the output of the df command... Where I expected: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 13464644

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 January 2005 17:02, Paul wrote: Hi all, I am facing my age=old problem again. I try to set up IP forwarding (frm w98 box through mdk10.0). Which logfiles should I check to see if there are problems? I downloaded a script from http://www.speakeasy.org/~curby/filelib/curbywall

Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 Jan 2005 15:23, bascule wrote: do you have the latest version of mandrake, previous ones had cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /base/ /RPMS/ or just cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /RPMS(N)/ the

Re: [newbie] Alt-F2 Openoffice

2005-01-24 Thread Michaël Van Dorpe
Thanks to the both of you, that was very helpfull. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Paul
Op Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:18:01 + schreef Derek Jennings: I downloaded a script from http://www.speakeasy.org/~curby/filelib/curbywall which states to work with mdk10. It loads. But that is all I see... Why do you need a script? What is wrong with simply going through the Internet sharing

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Monday 24 January 2005 18:33, Paul wrote: Op Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:18:01 + schreef Derek Jennings: I downloaded a script from http://www.speakeasy.org/~curby/filelib/curbywall which states to work with mdk10. It loads. But that is all I see... Why do you need a script? What is

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:33 pm, Paul wrote: A lot has been said about urpmi already, these days, but still I dare ask: how do I update the urpmi database? Thanks, Paul If you have good reliable sources Paul, then usually: (as root) urpmi.update -a works fine here. HTHs. --

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Paul
If you have good reliable sources Paul, then usually: (as root) urpmi.update -a Thank you and Pablo. Apparently some of my sources are not so reliable anymore: retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of main...

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Paul
Hmmm... the problem is not the firewall, nor the firewall, I find out now. I can ping locations on the internet through IP-address from the w98 box. So I have to figure out what to do with DNS on that thing... The plot thins! Paul -- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing

Re: [newbie] konqueror help

2005-01-24 Thread Dave Needham
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 16:52, Elwyn wrote: hi elwyn thanks for the reply.im using mandrake 10.1 and konqueror as the browser.it takes about 20+ seconds to load.just woundered if there was a way to speed it up a little. On Monday 24 Jan 2005 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can konqueror be made

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:55 pm, Paul wrote: IP-forwarding the hard way, I guess ;-) Thanks for the help! Paul I like your indomnitable spirit though! :-) Seriously, find better mirrors, then try it again. Patience may be required. I've had this same problem, then a day later, the

Re: [newbie] upgrade 8.2 to 10.1: df lists /dev/hda4 as /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 ???

2005-01-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I upgraded a working MDK 8.2 installation to MDK 10.1 (powerpack) I just noticed something about the output of the df command... Where I expected: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Paul
Op Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:22:05 -0500 schreef Ronald J. Hall: I like your indomnitable spirit though! :-) :-) Aries at the keyboard *grin* Seriously, find better mirrors, then try it again. Patience may be required. I've had this same problem, then a day later, the site would be back up and

Re: [newbie] Re: installation problem

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 17:14, Cyber Killer wrote: Elwyn wrote: Are you able to try a different video card? I don't see the point of using a different gfx card, cause mandrake 7.0, 8.2, 9.0, 9.2 worked just fine with my current card I had this problem only with 10.0 and 10.1 (so far) If

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can tell you this much, the output is supposed to be three files of information about the modem possibilities. I figured it was wrong somewhere because of that and the gcc thing. I guess I need to know about that also. I will try researching it on this end.

[newbie] Re: installation problem

2005-01-24 Thread Cyber Killer
Elwyn wrote: On Monday 24 Jan 2005 17:14, Cyber Killer wrote: Elwyn wrote: Are you able to try a different video card? I don't see the point of using a different gfx card, cause mandrake 7.0, 8.2, 9.0, 9.2 worked just fine with my current card I had this problem only with 10.0 and 10.1 (so far) If

Re: [newbie] new MDK installs get to reboot in rw mode then PERMISSION DENIED

2005-01-24 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Jan 18, et did say: my guess is either you set your msec level to high, or you have /root on some filesystem that it does not like, or you split some files or partitions where they should not be. on msec, standard

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
Right. I've done all of that, however. It's gone a little, erm, odd. In Network Neighborhood on both windows machines what was the machine name within the group MDKGroup has now changed into my workgroup (YorkCov) with the machine name changed to Samba Server 3.0.10 ( yorkcov (linux) But

Re: [newbie] konqueror help

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 19:08, Dave Needham wrote: On Monday 24 Jan 2005 18:52, you wrote: WELL ACTUALY im using an pentium 3 with about 200 megs on broadband connection., but when i installed it and loaded ther driver for the modem which was the eagle driver i did something which made the pages

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Paul
So I have to figure out what to do with DNS on that thing... Got the bloody thing tackled. Point gateway to linux ip address, use nameservers from resolv.conf. URGH, I remember now why I hate MS-windows so much. I have not rebooted my Linux box that often in a year!! You moved the mouse. Do you

Re: [newbie] konqueror help

2005-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 January 2005 18:09, Dave Needham wrote: On Monday 24 Jan 2005 16:52, Elwyn wrote: hi elwyn thanks for the reply.im using mandrake 10.1 and konqueror as the browser.it takes about 20+ seconds to load.just woundered if there was a way to speed it up a little. On Monday 24 Jan

[newbie] Installing packages and their dependencies from a http site

2005-01-24 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to know how to use urpmi to install a package from a http site and with the respective dependent packages online at the same http site. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list.

[newbie] External USB hard drive

2005-01-24 Thread Owen
Last time I got this far I messed up my system so bad that I had to do a complete reinstallation. I would like to have a icon on my desktop that will allow me to access my external USB hard drive. Hopefully I will then be able to read and write to it. This is the current state of

Re: [newbie] Swap partion

2005-01-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 24 January 2005 14:44, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 03:29 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote : I always prefer to put /swap as the first partition (hd?1) on a drive. R/W's slow as much as 40% the further down a partition is on a drive, regardless of

[newbie] postfix problem - Could not complete sender verify

2005-01-24 Thread amalasingh
Folks, I have a postfix mail sending problem. Attached is the error message. First time installed MDK 10.1, do not know how to configure the postfix. Tried to send an email from an email client. This is the log. Could be due to DNS setup. Do I need to setup my own DNS? I have Dynamic DNS

[newbie] re konqueror

2005-01-24 Thread Dave Needham
hi elwyn dont mater what i use browser wise,just takes for ages to load.now i no you can speed up firefox with settings in about config but i tryed dwnloadin firefox but couldnt get it to work.same with plugins like flash.i suppose its getting use to linux as i was with windows,

Re: [newbie] postfix problem - Could not complete sender verify

2005-01-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 24 January 2005 16:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sending a mail from the user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local host is amalasingh.com is configured and works fine from inside and outside. snipped ** Jan 24 20:50:37 localhost postfix/qmgr[3875]: B21F078061: from=[EMAIL

[newbie] re konqueror

2005-01-24 Thread Dave Needham
thanks for the info ann and for every one else that has supplyed me with info.nothing is ever easy in life and you have to start some where.oh well i supose it will be like going to school again dave.. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] re konqueror

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 21:39, Dave Needham wrote: hi elwyn dont mater what i use browser wise,just takes for ages to load.now i no you can speed up firefox with settings in about config but i tryed dwnloadin firefox but couldnt get it to work.same with plugins like flash.i suppose its getting

Re: [newbie] SOS

2005-01-24 Thread teguh
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 22:14, teguh wrote: Hello guys, First of all.I'm completely newbie in Linux so I need your help. 1.how to connect to internet using Linux (Mandrake 10.0)? 2.My printer(Epson LX 300) can not print? Welcome teguh First : In order for us

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 19:13, Elwyn wrote: Right. I've done all of that, however. It's gone a little, erm, odd. In Network Neighborhood on both windows machines what was the machine name within the group MDKGroup has now changed into my workgroup (YorkCov) with the machine name changed to

[newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-24 Thread Andy Yankovich
Please, do not assume this is apostasy. What are the main differences between SUSE Pro 9.2 and Mandrake 10.1? My understanding of SUSE is that it includes integrated Opera 7.54, Firefox and Thunderbird on its DVD. I also understand that beginning about two weeks ago and continuing for a few

Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 January 2005 23:31, Andy Yankovich wrote: SNIP I have tried to install Opera from The Club and failed miserably - undoubtedly due to my lack of know-how. If you want Opera just click here :- http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=26339location=122nothanks=yessub=marine That

Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 10:23 AM 1/24/2005, bascule said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): do you have the latest version of mandrake, previous ones had cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /base/ /RPMS/ or just cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /RPMS(N)/

Re: [newbie] new MDK installs get to reboot in rw mode then PERMISSION DENIED

2005-01-24 Thread et
On Monday 24 January 2005 02:01 pm, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Jan 18, et did say: my guess is either you set your msec level to high, or you have /root on some filesystem that it does not like, or you split some files or partitions where they should not be.

Re: [newbie] Changing partitions...

2005-01-24 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 24 Jan 2005 23:30, Elwyn wrote: I've now got two shared folders elwyn and ELWYN SHARED. The first one is my /home/elwyn directory, the second is a directory within home folder Right. The Elwyn Shared is the right one. However, the Elwyn entry relates to the login ID that's

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-24 Thread jallan6977
Thanks, will do. I like to leave this puter in linux at night anyway. The screensaver gives off more light to see my way to the john. It is also a nice level to wake your eyes up to. I use the linux slide show as screensaver. On 24 Jan 2005 at 12:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Installing only the kernel.

2005-01-24 Thread Glenn
Mike; If you'd follow up on the information you got in your What Is URPMI? thread, you'd be able to urpmi kernel and have a selection of kernels to install (which would install next to whatever kernel you're currently running.) Everything from kernels optimized for memory above 1 gig, 4

Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-24 Thread SOTL
On Monday 24 January 2005 06:31 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Please, do not assume this is apostasy. What are the main differences between SUSE Pro 9.2 and Mandrake 10.1? 9.2 is installable in thinkpads with out modification 10.1 is not 9.2 uses KDE 3.1 10.1 uses KDE 3.2 which has close x on tab

Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-24 Thread Andy Yankovich
On Monday 24 January 2005 06:43 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 23:31, Andy Yankovich wrote: SNIP I have tried to install Opera from The Club and failed miserably - undoubtedly due to my lack of know-how. If you want Opera just click here :-

[newbie] [Fwd: Setting up urpmi sources]

2005-01-24 Thread Charles Lee Ying
Original Message Subject:Setting up urpmi sources Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:43:48 -0400 From: Charles Lee Ying [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Home To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com I've recently joined the list and noted in the past few days a lot of references

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-24 Thread yankl
On Monday 24 January 2005 05:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 05:32, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP There are instruction on compiling new kernels in the manual http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Command-Line.html/comp il ing-kernel-chapter.html But be

Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 24 January 2005 07:41 pm, SOTL wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 06:31 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: Please, do not assume this is apostasy. What are the main differences between SUSE Pro 9.2 and Mandrake 10.1? 9.2 is installable in thinkpads with out modification 10.1 is not Can

Re: [newbie] SOS

2005-01-24 Thread Erylon Hines
On Monday 24 January 2005 03:03 pm, teguh wrote: | | | Type of conncection (dial-up, DSL, wireless, LAN, direct etc..) | | I use dial-up connection (Kppp) but the answer always /modem does not | respond./ with XP I had no problem. | | Graphical interface (KDE, Gnome, ICEwm, Fluxbox, XFCE etc...)

Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-24 Thread Erylon Hines
On Monday 24 January 2005 03:31 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: | Please, do not assume this is apostasy. | | What are the main differences between SUSE Pro 9.2 and Mandrake | 10.1? | | SuSe isn't as cutting edge as Mandrake--the upside--most stuff works without hassles. Because it is cutting edge,

Re: [newbie] SUSE Pro 9.2 vs. Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-24 Thread linuxgirlie
Mandrake 10.1 comes with Opera on the dvd disk. Though it could be as I have the powerpack version ;) On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:26:32 -0800, Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 03:31 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: | Please, do not assume this is apostasy. | | What are