Re: [newbie] fonts etc. in rc1

2001-04-17 Thread CB
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:08:09PM +0300, Florian Struck wrote: honest; looks REALLY AMAZING . A few days ago i sayd in the mandrake irc channel that MDK 8 will make the hop into mainstream someone answered that linux will make the hop if someone develops a browser as fast and good as IE

Re: [newbie] help configuring network card

2001-04-17 Thread CB
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:18:12AM -0700, Tyrak Sunstorm wrote: detect the card properly, but when I try to assign an IP address, it doesn't take. I can't ping the address of the card I assign, or the default gateway. I can It makes sense that if you can't ping the card itself, you won't be

Re: [newbie] changing 24 hr clock to 12 hr clock

2001-04-17 Thread CB
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:02:45PM -0500, David Travis wrote: How do I change the clock on KDE 2.1.1 to 12hr time instead of 24 hr time. Right click on the clock Select Date Time Format The dialog box that pops up is going to be for selecting your locale. You can select NorthAmerica-US and it

Re: [newbie] changing 24 hr clock to 12 hr clock

2001-04-17 Thread CB
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:02:45PM -0500, David Travis wrote: How do I change the clock on KDE 2.1.1 to 12hr time instead of 24 hr time. Addendum: Forget to say in the last email that you must restart KDE for it to take effect. If in runlevel 5, logout and then log back in. If in runlevel 3,

Re: [newbie] boot error

2001-04-13 Thread CB
"Mcintosh, Duncan" wrote: Have you tried at boot up to run linux single?. That should get you started. To find the answer I duplicated the problem he had. The answer is no, you can't specify runlevel 1, nor can you specify init=/bin/sh. The problem is that in all of these methods, the linux

Re: [newbie] How to copy a floppy?

2001-04-13 Thread CB
Gordon Packer wrote: one floppy disk to another? I want to make a copy of my boot disk without To copy from floppy to hd dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img To copy from hd to floppy (the same way you make your boot disks) dd if=filename.img of=/dev/fd0 man dd for more info. dd can be used

Re: [newbie] how to triple-boot? i.e. with 2 Mandrakes?

2001-04-10 Thread CB
Syamsul Anwar wrote: How do I insert an entry in GRUB or Lilo such that I'd have the option to boot from either Mandrake installation? Grub makes things very easy. I'm not a grub expert, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. What I've written below is a hack that I did for lilo to

Re: [newbie] Intel inside Idiot outside

2001-04-10 Thread CB
"Mcintosh, Duncan" wrote: Im looking for documentation for linux for an idiot. Iv checked a bunch of sites but they all seem to be different. How to configure the kernel A to Z. There is a help key in many of the screens when you do "make menuconfig". Do you need more information than

Re: [newbie] file server

2001-04-10 Thread CB
Mattias Segerdahl wrote: Well, For a fileserver you don't need that much cpu or ram, but ofcourse hard drives... You would probably be best of reading about samba in this case, Agreed, but one addition. Get SCSI hard drives. You will not be impressed with the speed of IDE drives. --

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

2001-04-09 Thread CB
Meph Istopheles wrote: 'xset s noblank' Yes. I've tried it, but it's ignored. Are you sure it's noblank...? Positive. I will say that I have worked on one system that I absolutely could not get it to stop blanking. My next suggestion would be to look in the BIOS, but now I'm guessing.

Re: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01

2001-04-09 Thread CB
g wrote: I downloaded kdelibs-2.01-2mdk.i586.rpm and it is sitting in the download directory w/all the other files? each says it needs the other. You can specify more than one file on the command line to be installed. Assuming that all the required rpm files are in ~/rpms, you can do the

Re: [newbie] Weird compile-time error for GAIM

2001-04-09 Thread CB
Nathan Russell wrote: -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/CORE perl.c:34: EXTERN.h: No such file or directory perl.c:38: perl.h: No such file or directory perl.c:39: XSUB.h: No such file or directory The hints are all there, just not easy to pick out. (answer below) Look at how it's

Re: [newbie] Need help installing 2 NICs

2001-04-09 Thread CB
Lon Lentz wrote: 2 identical ISA NE2000 comp. cards. Win98, on the same machine, recognizes same here both of them and sets them okay. I'm assuming I have to get Linux to recognize these before I can assign them as eth0 and eth1. The installer You must first know the io and irq addresses

Re: [newbie] compiling kernel

2001-04-09 Thread CB
s wrote: BTW is there any guide to intalling glibc 2.2 on mandrake. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Help___How_To/Glibc-2_2/glibc-2_2.html The only thing he missed was also putting /usr/local/lib in the ld.so.conf file. Almost everything that gets installed from source will put things in the

Re: [newbie] Bootnet.img problems

2001-04-09 Thread CB
Adam Willcox wrote: I know this is supposed to be a mandrake forum but I commonly see posts about Suse and other distributions. I'm currently using Mandrake 7.1 but not wanting to buy any more cd's but still wanting to upgrade I decided to attempt a network install of redhat. If anyone

Re: Griff, you're fired Re: [newbie] stupid ftp server broken

2001-04-08 Thread CB
Chubby Vic wrote: running inetd and in.ftpd produces same result, Are you running proftp, wu-ftp, or other for your server? Are you running inetd or xinetd? Is ftp configured in inetd and there is already a proftp server running? Try turning off inetd and see what happens (if you get

Re: [newbie] Machine hangs in X

2001-04-08 Thread CB
Alan Rolfe wrote: Could anybody tell me why my machine hangs when i try and run X Quick test. If you hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, does it go back to the text screen? If so, then press Ctrl-F7 and see if it pops up with something that looks like a desktop. I've seen numerous cases with machines that

Re: Griff, you're fired Re: [newbie] stupid ftp server broken

2001-04-08 Thread CB
Chubby Vic wrote: I am trying to use wu-ftpd and yes, when I kill both xinetd and inetd I get connection refused, but when I turn it back on I still get A search on google shows that 500 is a "syntax error" with wu-ftp. Look in your logs to see if it's telling you anything

Re: [newbie] Machine hangs in X

2001-04-08 Thread CB
CB wrote: Quick test. If you hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, does it go back to the text screen? If so, then press Ctrl-F7 and see if it pops up with something Sorry. Alt-F7. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net