I have recently just reinstalled my system.
Since the reinstall i have not been able to not been able to use my
cdrom drive. If i click on the icon on the dekstop it reports that it is
not a valid block device.
The same happens if i use the mount command.
The cdrom device in /dev/ is a
Thanks for all your answers everyone.
I have managed to get Pine up and running and ive got Fetchmail to get
my mail for me from my pop accounts, configuring Fetchmail was a small
task with the help of fetchmailconf.
The only thing ive got to sort now is the crontab, guess its come to the
time
I have heard some remarks like; lets get
back to discussing *Linux related topics*,
Okay, my bad.. to be honest, i am quite enjoying the discussion.
Jamie Adams
Housing Assistant
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From: Charles
hmm, i had the same problem on X install. It detected two graphics cards
(i only have one), and one of them was the Oxygen card, erm which i dont
have.
I say problem, but it isnt really, Mandrake runs quite happily thinking
i have two.
Jamie Adams
Housing Assistant
That was great, much clearer now, thanks!
I would very much like to learn bash programming, any suggestions on
good resources?
Thanks again.
Jamie Adams
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From: [EMAIL
I have to disagree with the comments below.
I have had experience with numerous distributions, including Suse and
Redhat, and i have found the support excellent for both, except that
Redhat has a kind of 'corporate' feel to it which i dont like.
One of the main reasons i have stuck with
A plain old full stop should do it i think..
Jamie Adams
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From: WCBaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 August 2001 21:09
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
okay, seeing as we are abusing each other, can i just say that this
argument is completely stupid?
Okay, i can userstand why the use of HTML is annoying, but does it
_really_ matter weather the message is posted at the top or bottom
Oh, and yes, i am a top poster, if you dont like it..
Kmail will recieve HTML, but it wont send it..
Jamie Adams
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From: Solver[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 August 2001 14:59
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
erm.. sorry, on reading that maybe 'stupid' is a bit of a strong word.
Jamie Adams
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Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 August 2001 15:11
To:'[EMAIL PROTECTED
Okay, flame me too.. i liked IE for windows, but i dont miss it that
much, im getting used to the Opera way of doing things..
Jamie Adams
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From: Matt Greer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To:
Sorry, i might be missing a bit of this story, but couldnt you use KPPP?
its pretty simple to configure and you should be good to go in a couple
of minuites.
-- Jamie
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Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 August 2001
You might also want to make sure you are using the correct protocil, ie
PAP or CHAP.
-- Jamie
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From: R C[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 August 2001 04:42
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP - KPPP - error 19
lol, not a stupid question..
I havnt a clue what all those ' 's and $;s mean, can anyone explain this
script step by step?
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From: Dean Morrell[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Sent: 23 August 2001 14:22
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would unmount your windows partition and cd to /mnt/windows and have a
look in there when the NTFS partition isnt mounted.
-- Jamie
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From: Benjamin Sher[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 August 2001 12:33
To:Newbie
Subject:
Ooops! forgot to post to the list..
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From: Adams, Jamie
Sent: 22 August 2001 11:55
To:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] X woes (Toshiba laptop)
You could also try (from the console) /usr/bin/X11R6/DrakConf (i think that
path is correct
If all else fails, maybe you could try the text install? i cant remember
how to do this, can anyone else?
-- Jamie
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From: Paul[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Sent: 21 August 2001 00:22
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie]
okay.. ive seen this urpmi command quite a lot, what does it do?
-- Jamie
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From: civileme[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 August 2001 21:13
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Judith Miner
Subject: Re: [newbie] Need printing help,
Yes, it is possible. I had the same problem. I only have the 1cd version
of 8.0, but someone said they are on one of the other cd's in the boxed
version.
Otherwise you will be able to get them from the mandrake ftp site (the
url i dont have im afraid).
-- Jamie
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This also requires the 'lesstif' package to install.
(which btw buggered up my konqueror install completly)
-- Jamie
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From: Sridhar Dhanapalan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 August 2001 14:23
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jhun Bacala
Just a note.. Linux believes that unused RAM is wasted RAM, it will
always try and use as much as it can.
Swap is much slower than actual ram, so if it isnt using it, be pleased!
-- Jamie
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Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Anti-Aliased fonts are not activated by default.
I dont know if they work in Gnome, but if you wantt hem activated in
KDE, open the Kde Control Center , head to 'Look and Feel' and theres an
option in there somewhere to use Anti-Aliased fonts.
You will have to restart X to see the effect.
On mine, i usually connect at 52000 and get average download times of
between 4k and 5k per second. I do know that this can vary a lot
depending on your modem and how close you are to the exchange.
-- Jamie
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From: skinky[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: [EMAIL
Hi, this is the way i would go about it,
cd /mount
md windows
su root
mount -t vfat /dev/[hdx] /mount/windows
(substituting x for your drive)
Im pretty sure this is the way i used to do it.
Make sure that the drive isnt being mounted some other way, ie in
/etc/.fstab
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Sorry, i forgot to post to the list.
-- Jamie
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From: Tim Holmes[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: Tim Holmes
Sent: 14 August 2001 12:02
To:Adams, Jamie
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Programs
A lot of times you can use the command:
make deinstall
Sorry, this is OT, but when is 8.1 coming out?
-- Jamie
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From: tazmun[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 07 August 2001 08:03
To:Newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat
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From: X - A - W - K [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I have a similar question.. i have the flash plugin working for Mozilla,
however Konqueror is my preferred browser and i would like to get the
plugin working in this.
I did read the help file for Konqueror and it said that i should goto
configuration and find the plugin part, now suppoedly there
Hiya, this might be completely wrong, and i havnt got net access to look
through the archives here.. but, did someone not say that there was
an issue with a certain SoundBlaster card and a certain type of
motherboard?
It might be worth checking through the archives to see if this is the
case
Thank you all who answered! it wasnt mentioned in the documentation..
now i can go surf happily!
-- Jamie
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From: Terry[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 07 August 2001 14:18
To:Adams, Jamie
Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: AOL
Hiya, NTFS is currently only supported fully in Read mode, Write mode is
in an experimental strage, they do not recommend it for daily usage.
Good luck!
-- Jamie
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From: Jamie Kerwick[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 06 August 2001 15:21
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED];
No Message Collected
Hiya, this also happened to me.. thanks for the info :)
-- Jamie
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From: Jon Doe[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 31 July 2001 20:49
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] httpd-perl and httpd
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 01:58 pm, you wrote:
These fail at
Sorry to butt in here... are we all sure about this low-level format
thing? im sure i heard civileme say that it can do more damage than good
in certain circumstances.
If you are going to stick with Linux and get rid of Windows im sure that
the standard format in the Mandrake install process
And i think you link should be:
http://ipnumber/media/file.zip; as when you type in your ip number it
starts in the document root (/var/www) and not standard root, if you get
what i mean..
-- Jamie
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From: James S Bear[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 01 August 2001
Install the Mesa RPMS from your first CD, they are called Mesa and
Mesa-Common i think.. these need to be installed to make use of OpenGL.
-- Jamie
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From: Olaf Marzocchi[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 July 2001 17:45
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:Olaf
Hiya,
Okay.. i have a problem..
I have just had my phone line reconnected so i can go on the internet
(woohoo!), not the tyink is i have a cruddy winmodem in my laptop, i
have the drivers for it, but they only work with 2.2.x kernels, whereas
My Mandrake 8.0 installation cd dosnt include any of
Hiya, it seems as though somehow your machine is defaulting to the
graphical login. You DO see the text login briefly even if your machine
is booting into X, but you wont be able to login there.
Im not sure how to change this manually but you can change your
preferred boot mode in DrakConf.
Hiya, this is a little OT, sorry in advance.
I like to do a little webdesign in my spare time (though i havnt done
any in a while due to my phone line being cut g). The last time i did
any was in Windows, using IE to check out how the pages looked.
Netscape always had a problem in that pages
The URL for Webmin is https://localhost:1 (note the 's' after http)
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Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 July 2001 15:03
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Webmin and samba
Hi Guys
When accessing swat I am
Another small question, do i have to use a special Mandrake kernel or
can i just use any old run of the mill sources?
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From: s[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 20 July 2001 12:33
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel Probems
Well, don't know if it's an omission
Konqueror works fine for me. Its stable, and seems to render pages well.
If you use KDE, the konqueror icon is on your panel.
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Sent: 19 July 2001 16:25
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Best browser for linux?
Hello: I have
Hiya All,
Im still trying to get my sound card working. Its a Yamaha OPL3-SA2. I
have been informed that this can be configured with the sndconfig
utility as Harddrake no longer detects it.
When i start sndconfig it complains that i do not have a moduler kernel
or sound loaded as a module, how
Hiya, you have to install the NCurses packages. They should be on your
first CD.
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Sent: 19 July 2001 10:23
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] where is curses.h?
I am trying to compile a program and an getting a message
At the moment I have a primary HDD with just win98 on. I also have a 2nd
HD
with Mandrake on an ext2 partition. It boots to LILO when i unhook the
primary
HDD, and asks me if i wanna boot to drake or DOS(my 3rd drive, on my
secondary slave)
I wanna get LILO onto the MBR of my primary HDD and
lol, thats the funniest thing ive heard all day..
Can help you with your problem though.. sorry :-)
Cant you just kill the process?
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Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 06 July 2001 15:26
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This might sound a bit stupid but have you read through the how-to's?
The should be a load installed on your system under /usr/doc/how-to/,
and im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. Sorry,
i cant remember the name of the document.
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From: Judith
Hiya, i would advoid Yamaha sound chips as i cant for the life of me get
the one working in mine.
Everything else in my laptop was picked up fine, i hear that Dell's are
particurly good for Linux compatibility.
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From: Scott Pletcher[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 06 July 2001 20:25
July 2001 00:41
To:Frans Ketelaars; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] No sound for NeoMagic 256AV
did you try it as root in a all text console?
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 06:29, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
Adams, Jamie wrote:
I dont seem to have the sndconfig program installed, does
Hiya,
If i put a cdrom in the drive that the computer can read from, ie a
scratched or dirty disk, the computer just keeps trying to read and will
not let me take the cd out of the drive. I cant unmount it or eject it
using the 'eject' command. Any other way to get the bugger out?
Also, why
Hello,
I have posted this once before, but after much searching on the net for
a solution, and much fiddling with my config im still having no luck.
My sound card, a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 inside a Toshiba Sattellite 2520CDT.
The soundcard was previously detected under Mandrake 7.1, but not with
8.0.
Hiya,
You guys must be sick of getting mails from me by now :)
When i attempt to play Tuxracer or GLTron, the display dosnt render on
my screen properly, the display splits into three/four vertical bars,
each displaying the same portion of the screen (left hand side i think).
Could anyone shed
Hiya,
It all depends how you partitioned your system in the first place, if
you had a separate partition of /home then you need not format that at
install time and all info in there will be safe.
As for the rest, i dunno..
Cheers
-- Jamie
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From: Alexandropoulou
Hello List,
I decided last night that i would have a go at building my own kernel,
unfortunatly i hit a few problems before i could get started.
I got the kernel tarball (2.4.3) and un-tarred it.
I then give the command 'make mrproper' which goes ok.
The howto then tells me to type either
I believe that you can do this from within linuxconf, again from a root
terminal.
Cheers
Jamie
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From: Mark Lucas[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 25 June 2001 14:21
To:Linux Newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] User groups
Thanks for the response.
I don't use X since my Linux box is
My soundcard, a Yamaha OPL3 (inside a toshiba laptop - Satellite 2520)
is not detected by MD 8.0, though it was picked up as a compatable.sb in
hard-drake on ver 7.1.
Can someone tell me how i can get this sound card working once again
please? I was wondering wether i just needed to compile
My soundcard, a Yamaha OPL3 (inside a toshiba laptop - Satellite 2520) is not
detected by MD 8.0, though it was picked up as a compatable.sb in hard-drake
on ver 7.1.
Can someone tell me how i can get this sound card working once again please?
I was wondering wether i just needed to compile
Dear List,
My only computer is a Toshiba Laptop, I dont really have any intention
of buying a desktop system, yet I feel the need to upgrade my hardrive
(4.3gig). The least expensive way of me doing this is to buy an external
one, but are these supported by Linux? I think they come in USB and
Sorry, but the say that Linux becomes like Windows is the day i go back
to windows, i dont want it to be simple! wheres the challenge in that?
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Jamie Adams
Housing Assistant
41 Castle Road
SCARBOROUGH
North Yorkshire, YO11 1BJ
Tel: (01723) 507543
Fax: (01723) 355862
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From: Sridhar
I think this is good news for Linux users. I am a fairly new user to
Linux, ive been using it for the last 8 months or so.
At first when i told people that i no longer used windows people
laughed, but i find now that more people are interested to hear what
Linux is about. The figures are stated
I dont know why you lot should be chuggin'. Im using a Toshiba Satellite
2520CDT (AMD K62-300) with 64mb ram and a 4.1gig HDD, everything runs
perfectly on mine, much faster than 98 did! no complaints here..
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Jamie Adams
Housing Assistant
41 Castle Road
SCARBOROUGH
North Yorkshire, YO11 1BJ
Hello List,
This isnt a life or death problem, heck it isnt even really a problem,
just something thats been niggling at me for a while.
Is it possible to change the font (or res) in which the console runs?
The reson that i ask is that when you boot the Mandrake Installation CD,
all the kernel
I have a similar problem along similar lines to the question below.
I have Mandrake 7.1 installed, i am wanting to have a play with Apache,
I have it starting as a service on startup, but when I try and connect
using http://localhost/ or http://localhost.localdomain/ or 127.0.0.1 it
just returns
I have a similar problem along similar lines to the question below.
I have Mandrake 7.1 installed, i am wanting to have a play with Apache, I
have it starting as a service on startup, but when I try and connect using
http://localhost/ or http://localhost.localdomain/ or 127.0.0.1 it just
returns
I prefer to use a graphical front end for RPM installations, with
mandrake i use KPackage, which comes with KDE, but your can also use
RMPDrake.
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Jamie Adams
Housing Assistant
41 Castle Road
SCARBOROUGH
North Yorkshire, YO11 1BJ
Tel: (01723) 507543
Fax: (01723) 355862
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From: Pedro
Sorry, my first post and its completely off topic :)
Can anybody suggest any other mailing lists for Linux newbies and
intermediates? Could anyone even suggest any that are not just for help
but mebbie some social ones?
I do not have Internet access, just a mail account at work so mailing
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