Re: [newbie] OT somewhat (sorry), Peanut linux, anyone here used it?

for my little p2 233. I tried Peanut Linux for an even older PC. While it worked, I found that Slackware ran just fine and gave me more. See http://www.slackware.com/ andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Wednesday 31 December, 1969 4:00PM

would assume that the timezone here is -8 from GMT, so Jan 1, 1970 minus 8 hours is Dec 31, 1969 4:00PM. andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] User IDs start at 500 or 501?

letters for the order in which I created them, the users were a=501, b=502, c=500, d=503, e=504, etc. I had to rip out all the users from c up, create a dummy at 500 and redo them. Argghhh. Why? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything

Re: [newbie] Install problems

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:12:22AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: Also, it's correct practice to have master on the cable's end connector, not the middle one. That I didn't know. Why? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

-- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

is to: edit a file, e.g., crontabstuff crontab -r crontab crontabstuff Why? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Miark wrote: Although I can't explain why, I know that crontab -e has a problem with eMacs. I use MicroEmacs and experience the same thing. Hmm, I should have brought that up in Bugzilla. I just tried 'crontab -e' after changing my EDITOR shell

[newbie] Local zone time isn't sticky

the sudden time change on the last line. What is going on? And how do I fix it? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:22:04PM -0700, Russ Kepler wrote: This rings a bell for me. I ran into something like it and if it's similar it's the exit value from emacs - check by editing a file using ls test; emacs test; echo $? Betcha the exit value is non-zero. Nope. It's zero. andy

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

format used by afio allows it to recover from read errors and go on unpacking the next file. And if you are backing up to CD-R, then compression is of great help in keeping the number of CDs down. andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Recombining backup files fails

to give me a clue what I'm doing wrong? andy -- Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] console MUA recommendation

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:19:00AM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:19:21 +0800 Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yup. that's right. sorry i didn't put it clearly enuff. it wasn't really a problem, but specifically, the OE users needed to click and open the

[newbie] Install 8.2 on old laptop

I tried to install 8.2 (and 8.1) on an older NEC laptop and got the following messages: in second stage install install exited abnormally :-( sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done unmounting filesystems: /proc /tmp/image you may

[newbie] SCSI module error installing 8.2

I cannot seem to install 8.2 on an older PC (Pentium-MMX, so I needed the patch for the packages problem) with or without its SCSI card. Early on --- just after I choose Expert mode for the package selection --- I see a message that it is installing scsi|disk card, modules imm and ppa. All goes

[newbie] Error installing 8.2 X windows

I am trying to install 8.2 on an older machine (Pentium-MMX, so I needed the patch for the packages problem) and all goes well until I select the monitor (a Sony Multiscan 15sf hooked to an S3 Virge 375/385 video card) after which I get a screen with the following error messages: /tmp/imm.o:

[newbie] autologin does run .bash_profile

/bin:/usr/games:/home/andyd/bin andy Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Error installing postfix

that says Problems occured during installation Click OK on that and get a qmessage window that says Installation failed. How can I dig myself out of this hole? Where do I look for more information on what went wrong? andy Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research If you know what you're doing

Re: [newbie] USB Scanner not seen

At 05:51 PM 1/14/02 -0200, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, David wrote: Sorry to say this but, this is ONE of the Epson Scanners that *do not* work (for now) on Linux! I've search a lot... all recent models work except 1650! I almost bought one on seasons

Re: [newbie] USB Scanner not seen

At 10:31 PM 1/12/02 -0500, Andre Dubuc wrote: I hope I can help: I have an Epson 1240U, and had similar problems with LM 8.0 (I haven't upgraded yet.) First place to check: cat /proc/bus/usb/devices For my machine the vendor # is 0x04b8 and the Product # is 0x010b (it'll be different for your

Re: [newbie] USB Scanner not seen

At 02:24 PM 1/13/02 +, David wrote: hi goto the Epson website there is lots of info there on getting the Epson scanners working under linux I couldn't find anything there, though the information may have been hidden behind the pages that kept giving me the following error: Your

Re: [newbie] [OT Humor] - ASSISTED COMPUTING

At 11:39 AM 1/12/02 -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: (swiped off an overclocking NG) THE TOUGHEST DECISION: SHOULD MY LOVED ONE BE PLACED IN AN ASSISTED COMPUTING FACILITY? This originated on the SatireWire site several months ago. (See http://www.satirewire.com/features/siliconpines/acf.shtml)

[newbie] USB Scanner not seen

relevant. Where do I look next? Anybody got a spare clue for me? andy Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Can't read CD for hdlists [Solved; Sort of]

At 04:15 PM 1/7/02 -0800, Andy Davidson wrote: I am trying to install 8.1 on a PC (AMD AthlonXP 1700, one IDE drive, one DVD drive, one CD-RW drive) and I get to the point where it wants to display the packages to install. At that point, I get the series of cdrom errors shown in the included

[newbie] Can't read CD for hdlists

I am trying to install 8.1 on a PC (AMD AthlonXP 1700, one IDE drive, one DVD drive, one CD-RW drive) and I get to the point where it wants to display the packages to install. At that point, I get the series of cdrom errors shown in the included dmesg. Sometimes it stops after a few tries and

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

simply done to allow them to become the 4-letter words they deserve to be. :-) andy Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com