Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

- Original Message - From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:14 AM Subject: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1 Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is

Re: [newbie] I'never seen this before

switch. I use CTRL CTRL F2 to switch between computers. CTRL CTRL F1 sets auto scan and it switches every 4 seconds for me too. To switch off auto-scan, I just have to hit CTRL CTRL HTH Al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Web Service or What

- Original Message - From: SigmaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Web Service or What BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Going thru a career change here and it looks like I'm going to need a web page. After

[newbie] Norton Ghost

Hi all, Is there a freeware app similar to Norton Ghost? TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

Basic Scripting HTH Al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] OT - Secure (ish) Win XP Setup

Hi all, I have to setup a Win XP box. I think I remember somebody on this list saying something about what services should be shut down and which software firewall / antivirus / anti spyware should be installed prior to allowing said box access to the internet. But I can't find it in the

Re: [newbie] Update site for Mandrake 10 official

snip Many thanks, have gone with the download all optionI love this broadband stuff..Wish it was available in New Zealand :(:(:(:( Regards Al I'm wondering how mant CD's were required? -- Regards: Hoyt Not including Mandrake itself. 12 cds for Main,PLF,Contrib and Updates. after

[newbie] Video Software

Hi! Is there an equivalent software like DVD2SVCD for Mandrake 10? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Kernel version

Hi all I've googled, looked through the how-to's, Twiki'd FAQ'd, and everywhere else I can think of. There are hundreds of pages of help for upgrading the kernel. Most of it incomprehensible:) But I cannot find how to tell what version I currently have. Anybody TIA Shaz Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Kernel version

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 06:19, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:57 am, al wrote: Hi all I've googled, looked through the how-to's, Twiki'd FAQ'd, and everywhere else I can think of. There are hundreds of pages of help for upgrading the kernel. Most of it incomprehensible

Re: [newbie] Kernel version

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:15, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:04:51 +1300 al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do I need to update? You did not say what release of Mandrake you are running. BTW you are aware that the smpkernel is for multi-processor systems (more than 1 CPU

[newbie] wget / download managers

Hi all Can anybody recommend a good download manager? or can anybody tell me what i'm doing wrong with wget? I've been using wget, but on dialup it doesnt seem to work to well. It's fine as long as I stay connected, if there are any errors at the other end or it loses itself, it resumes

Re: [newbie] wget / download managers

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:45, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 05 January 2004 08:14 pm, al wrote: But I just had to disconnect to use my phone, and when I reconnected wget did nothing. I suspect, based on my own experience with a dodgy DSL router (until I figured out what the problem

[newbie] ftp server setup

First of all, many thanks to all of you who have helped me with other issues. Thanks Sharrea, the autostart script for kde works great. Now, my next question I would like to setup an ftp server on my linux box so that I can transfer files to and from work. What ftp server software would

Re: [newbie] Connection two mandrake boxes via ethernet

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 03:34, maziar h wrote: I am trying to conncet two linux boxes together directly via their NIC cards but they are unable to recognize each other. there is no connection and I can't ping the other one. I have set everything including IP address and subnet mask correctly and

[newbie] Autostart in KDE.

HI all. First of all, many thanks for all your help in getting Samba to work. I have it working now, maybe not perfectly, but it does enough. :):) Now, I've managed to figure out how to make KDE start a program for me. My question is, How can I make the program go to another desktop?

Re: [newbie] Samba help please?

- Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Samba help please? On 12/7/2003 at 5:51 PM Al Destiny wrote: Hi all, I have MDK 9.1 setup on an old box to link with my XP box. Samba seems

[newbie] Samba help please?

Hi all, I have MDK 9.1 setup on an old box to link with my XP box. Samba seems to work great as a server...I can browse my home dir from the XP box. But I cannot see any files on the XP box from Linux. I can browse the network. I can find the XP box. I can see the share name ddrive (I know,

Re: [newbie] Can't boot after install

Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't boot after install On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:07 am, many eyes noted that Al wrote: Hi all, I have a dual Pentium 200 cpu system with 256mb ram (8 x 32Mb

[newbie] Can't boot after install

Hi all, I have a dual Pentium 200 cpu system with 256mb ram (8 x 32Mb 30pin) 8 x SCSI HDD 4 x 4Gb 4 x 8Gb attached to an AMI Megaraid controller with 16Mb ram Matrox Millenium 4Mb video card (ex server) I have attempted to install Mandrake 9.1 many times, each time I have done a complete

[newbie] Installing software problems

How do I install a software on Mandrake 9? I am a brand new user and I cannot figure out how to install any software or programs. I have a cd with slackware and other programs that I cannot install into Linux. I am getting frustrated, but I dont want to give up, so someone help me. Thanks.

[newbie] XMMS Bookmarks (Favorites)???

I am familiar with Winamp for Windows' Bookmarks feature. Is there a similar way to store and retrieve bookmarks (favorites) in XMMS? Thank you very much. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/

Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?

Thank you Michel, I downloaded star office in binary format from Sun's website, and as you said installing it was as easy as clicking on a .exe But since this was brought up, would any of the list gurus please kindly post a short list clearifying how do u know how to install the diffirent

[newbie] kylix

from where I can download a full free kylix version, with all the components tabs their, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Network

If I want to have a network of one server let us say three stations, I in windows we use WINDOW NT Server for the server and WINDOWS NT workstation for work station now what about LINUX, do we have OS for sever and other for work stations, or is their any special installation for both thanx in

RE: [newbie] How can I determine if I'm root in a script

check also the value $USER it should give root for root or try this which is tricky username=`who am i | awk '{print $1'}` now $username holds the logged in user name juts copy the line above as it is don't forget the ` this tills linux to execute what is inside -Original Message-

[newbie] SMS

I need to build an SMS application, don't know any thing about the subject any help will be highly appreciated Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] OT: Life of a CD -R

If I understand u then check the links http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO/index.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html -Original Message- From: Mohammed Arafa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

[newbie] Installation

I have WINDOWS ME installed in my computer, one physiacla HD 40GB, partioned as (C,D,E,F) each 10GB (FAT32), I wanna install linux from HD using HD.img, I have dowloaded the files to my C drive, is it possible to make the F drive is the linux drive, or how can I have linux installed on my

[newbie] Making CD of mandrake8.1

I have downloaded the mandrake8.1/i586 from the ftp server, it is 942MB, one dirctory is 823MB (\mandrake\Rpms) I need to copy the files to CDs, which should i take and how to distribute the files between more than one CD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Browser Problem

Dear List, Running LM7.2; whenever I use Netscape 4.75 or Konqueror for a few minutes browsing, it _always_ shuts down (or more approriately, the application dies), and I'm returned to the desktop or worst to the login screen. Any ideas? Thanks

[newbie] Win2000 Partition

Hi! How can I set LM7.2 to see a Win2000 partition? Thanks!

[newbie] KDE Problem

Hi, I'm running LM7.2. Whenever I login into KDE I randomly get kicked back to console mode. All my hardware is recognised. Any ideas from the gurus? Thanks a lot!

Re: [newbie] demon PPPD

Verify if ppp is installed by opening a terminal box as root and type: "rpm -q ppp" (without the quotes). If ppp is installed, "ppp-2.4.0-3" will appear or "ppp not installed" if not. HTH Emiliano Ogando wrote: Ive a PIII 550, 64 mb ram, Modem US robotics ext. and Mandrake 7.2 The

Re: [newbie] Halt Command

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try... Best regards, Al "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Hi. Sometimes this is the motherboard/chipset combination. I had something like this happen (as have others). What you have to do, as su/root is: use vi, kedit, (fill in word processor h

Re: [newbie] pppd Not Working

Done that. Still no go, still coming up with pppd error. "E. Stewart" wrote: Try using port ttyS3or you can just make the symbolic link yourself. After that /dev/modem should work.

Re: [newbie] pppd Not Working

Done that. Still no go, still coming up with pppd error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try /dev/ttyS3 and see if it comes up then. Barry :-)

[newbie] Dual Boot

Installed LM 7.2 on secondary master hard drive. When booting up the only available os to boot is linux. Windows 2000 (installed in primary master hard drive) is NOT available in the boot menu. List members previously suggested that LM 7.2 will automatically detect Win2000. How do I include

Re: [newbie] pppd Not Working

I am setting up and trying to connect to the internet as 'root' user. Christopher Molnar wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 12:07, you wrote: Done that. Still no go, still coming up with pppd error. "E. Stewart" wrote: Try using port ttyS3or you can just make the symbolic link

Re: [newbie] pppd Not Working

A real modem :-) I've never used a winmodem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What modem are you using? It may be what is refered to as a windows only modem. Barry :-)

[newbie] Halt Command

Hi! Running LM 7.2. The system reboots ok but when I issue the 'halt' command it hangs up and errors/segmentation faults appear. What is causing this? Thanks!

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

But Excel2000 has a LOT more functionality than Lotus 123 version 1 had! Plus Lotus 123 ver 1 cost (not counting inflation) MORE then than the professional version of Office 2000 (including Word, PowerPoint and Access) cost now!! PLUS the 8086 PC cost 3 times (not counting inflation) MORE than my

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

Here's a quick rule of thumb, don't install every package, especially ones that you don't know or specifically need, you could be creating security holes. Go look around for security documents, it'll show you things that you need and don't need. Also, mandrake7.1 (and 7.2) has a security level

Re: [newbie] Hostname

You can fire up linuxconf, or I think hosts are defined in /etc/hosts --- Geoff Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where in the startup files is Hostname set? I'd like to permanantly change my hostname. Currently, the hostname is my ISP IP address (???) GT

Re: [newbie] install mandrake

Yes sure, don't "upgrade" but just go for a full blown installation (format partitions good thing too). Don't forget to backup old important files. --- Michael zhao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can i install mandrake to substitute the redhat on my computer? thanks, Michael

Re: [newbie] mounting cdrom problems

mount /mnt/cdrom --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/14/2000 6:35:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mount /mnt/cdrom shouldnt it be 'mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom' ~Lance __ Do You Yahoo!?

RE: [newbie] Fw: 7.1 hardware bug

website (trouble shooting for Mandrake 7.1 I think) there's a 'special' cdrom.img file that includes support for the aic7xxx controller family. It might work for you. HTH, Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pete Smith Sent: Tuesday

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

Hi, I'll give that a try. My Panasonic is a dot matrix :-( Alan Shoemaker wrote: ALI have a KX-P4420 (laser) and it runs perfectly (and has done so since I started using Linux with RedHat 5.2) when I set it up as a HP Laserjet (the earliest, simplest one). Extrapolating that info

[newbie] Printer Help

Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not recognised by it. I have tried all the nearest settings available offered by printool to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated Thanks!

[newbie] Partitioning an existing W98 drive on Toshiba laptop

I want to install 7.1 on my Toshiba Satellite 4080XCT laptop which currently has Win98 installed with no partitioning. I do not want to re-install Windows or lose any of my current data. I have plenty of space for a 1.5GB partition for Linux. Will the utilities in 7.1 allow me to partition my

Re: [newbie] Star Office Install

Hi Tim, Issue the command: "chmod 777 starofficefilename.bin" without the quotes and then single/double(?) click the file and it will install. HTH Al = Tim wrote: Hi all, Just spent FOREVER downloading Star Office 5.2 from the Sun site ("only" 100 MB ... d

[newbie] Boot floppy file requre

Hay Im new user too i need a help I need boot floppy for Mandrake 7.1 Can somebody send me file called ( rawwrite.exe ) My Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: semtets [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Problems with configuration Date: Wed, 26 Jul

RE: [newbie] Disk Space?

df -k should show total and free disk space in Kbytes for all drives. How can I tell how much disk space I have free on a drive?

[newbie] tmp/

Greetings! Can I safely delete sub-directories and files on the tmp/ directory? Or are these needed by the system? Thanks!

RE: [newbie] Upgrading kernel

the other times, it would fail saying that it could not connect. This time, it seems that most of the programs installed. The two openssh programs failed due to some error reported by Mandrake. Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Some guy hit my fender, and I said to him 'Be fruitful and mul

RE: [newbie] Upgrading kernel

? Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Some guy hit my fender, and I said to him 'Be fruitful and multiply', but not in those words." ~ Woody Allen

[newbie] Upgrading kernel

Hello, all, Has anyone been successful upgrading the kernel using MandrakeUpdate? I have tried a number of times, but always end up having to re-install. Any instructions (that work) would be appreciated. Oh, yes, I am using ReiserFS and Grub. Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Netscape Cache

Greetings! I hope I am not the only one to have this problem :-) I have set up Netscape Navigator to store in cache the web sites that I visited. However, when I log out and re-log in and open Navigator (without connecting to the net), I usually get an error saying that it cannot find the site

[newbie] VMWare Win98

Greetings! I have successfully (after so much tinkering) installed VMWare. My problem now is how do I format a *virtual disk* to a FAT32 one so that I can install Win98? Thank you for your help.

[newbie] Wine VMWare

Greetings! I am having extreme difficulty in making Wine or VMWare work on a Mandrake 7.1. I have tried numerous options and read the man pages for both of these but no joy. I only wish to run MSMoney :-) Which of the two (if I get it working) is easier to use? And are there any Linux

Re: [newbie] Wine VmWare

Now downloading it at the moment and will give it a try... Thanks Alan Shoemaker wrote: Aljust my personal opinion, but I think that the program available at the below URL is a better alternative than messing around with trying to get M$Money functional on a Linux machine. http

Re: [newbie] Wine VmWare

Hi, From your statement below, am I correct in assuming that I have to install Win98 (to run MSMoney) on top of VMWare? Thanks Ralph Day wrote: I just downloaded VMWare 2.01 last night and it installs just fine on LM 7.1. I haven't finished installing Win98 yet on it. HTH - Ralph

Re: [newbie] Wine VmWare

Hi, The data contained in my MSMoney file goes back 4 years and are very important to me. I just hope MoneyDance has an import utility fot my data. Thank you for your help! Alan Shoemaker wrote: Aljust my personal opinion, but I think that the program available at the below URL

[newbie] Problem with Xwindows.

I'm having a problem with Xwindows, I tried to configure it but when it was done the window came out huge and it was shifted to the right. I tried to choose different resolutions but it didnt fix the problem, I tried different monitors and it didnt fix the problem either, could it be my

[newbie] I need help with X Windows.

After Installing Linux, I came to Configure Xwindows, but the screen always comes out too big and shifted to the right. I tried using different resolutions but it was no use, and changing the ver/hor for the monitor didn't work either, the window was the same big size and in the same place

[newbie] Cannot Access Website Mail

://www.netscape.com, I get the error message that it cannot connect to this name server. What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do to access any website? Any help from any guru would be highly appreciated! Unfortunately, I am still using Win98 to get help :-( Thank you and best regards, Al

[newbie] Windows Emulator

Greetings! Is there any Mandrake Windows emulator program that can access MS Money files? Any URL pointing to the right direction greatly appreciated. Thank you and best regards, Al

[newbie] Useful Mailing List (was: Worthless email list)

or fifty messages a day to find something useful is a skill I have not yet mastered. But I do find it worth my time to make the effort. Al

[newbie] Problem updating xemacs

a mirror with the kdesu update on it. Where are the RPMs stored? Are they added to the existing RPMs on my drive? So many questions; so few answers. Thank you, Al Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [[newbie] Installing tar.gz files]

to install a tar.gz file simply give the command in an e-term tar zxvf and this will extract the directory and then once this is done then look for a something called configure and run that in root. remeber you must type the absolute path like /home/star/program name/configure and then if there

Re: [newbie] Graphical FTP server

Hi, I think you should try using gFTP .. On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:15:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to download QUITE a bit from an FTP server, In windows, I always used Ws-Ftp, I'm looking for a similiar program or just something graphical would be nice. With