[newbie] partition woes

2002-01-30 Thread Carl Lafferty
Question about partitioning.. Friend has brought his pc to me a few times to install Linux on it with mandrake 8.1 being the most recent. Now his comp has a 20gig and a 600meg drive. The 20gig is master and is broken up into a 4gig partition and the remaining is a windows data drive. I used

RE: [newbie] SSH problems

2001-12-10 Thread Carl Lafferty
did you make sure that you told putty to use ssh protocol? and you need to turn off telnet since ssh is much more secure. I use putty quite often and one of my main bugaboos is forgetting to tell it to use ssh when I go to my machine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] SSH problems

2001-12-10 Thread Carl Lafferty
to know why he couldn't ping it. From: Carl Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] SSH problems Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:40:39 -0500 did you make sure that you told putty to use ssh protocol? and you need to turn off telnet since ssh

RE: [newbie] Transgamings Winex (I can play Diablo 2)!!!

2001-12-08 Thread Carl Lafferty
In fact, next Mandrake update (8.2), methinks there will no longer be dual-booting... ;-) That would be cool!! Now we will install microsoft office xp on your machine :) /me ducks outta way of heavy thrown objects:) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] Transgamings Winex (I can play Diablo 2)!!!

2001-12-08 Thread Carl Lafferty
Not only are they heavy (metallic) thrown objects, but I right-clicked on properties and made them heat-seeking as well... ;-))) You obviously don't know I am cold blooded so there ya go. :) hehehehe:) Seriously have you tried the IPX stuff with starcraft yet?? Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] Linux to Windows connection problem

2001-12-08 Thread Carl Lafferty
When I ping the linux from windows I get an ok message (100% ok, 0% dropped) but when I ping from linux it keeps on pinging forever. Does this mean that only one of my machines is misconfigured, and if this is the case, wich one? What do you mean it keeps pinging forever? does it return

RE: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-14 Thread Carl Lafferty
Hi. If you are running a networked setup, you may have to (as some of have had to do) a: ifconfig eth0 down (as root/su) If I don't do this first, I have the same symptoms you do. Afterwards, I can restart my network with: ifconfig eth0 up Ron, I have no idea why your network

RE: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-14 Thread Carl Lafferty
Seriously though, I've got it fixed! I followed the tip on the list from one of the other users and changed my /etc/resolv.conf file and bingo! It was: Why didn't I have to do that??? Cause I was running the firewall/ICS server? So hurrah! ;-) PS --- WHICH --- personality do you think

RE: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?

2001-11-09 Thread Carl Lafferty
Hey guys, what abou the 7.0 distro that is setup to run on a 486? Might that not be the answer to his problem? Did you mention this one to me when I was trying to install on my laptop?? I think so since I had to do a network install (laptop is OLD, P133 with floppy OR CD-Rom and no ability

RE: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?

2001-11-09 Thread Carl Lafferty
Just this morning??? grin ha ha:) Seriously though, I don't remember...Didn't u also try the Linux on a floppy thing as well? Ive installed slackware on a floppy before but don't care to repeat the process of creating the floppies again. Thought there MAY be a way to install mandrake

RE: [newbie] Sound card oddity

2001-10-18 Thread Carl Lafferty
Maybe LM8.1 chooses an OSS/Free driver for some sondcards and an ALSA driver for others. Muting everything by default is an ALSA tradition :) Any way I can tell, so I can know what is going on?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Sound card oddity

2001-10-18 Thread Carl Lafferty
/mnt/zip to the usual /dev/hdd4 and its fine. Until I reboot. Then its the same way again. Checked fstab of course - it shows /dev/hdd4! Ive not tried my zip 250 yet but I will attempt it tonight. 2. XawTV has no sound. Picture perfect. Took tv card out so no be able to help there. 3.

Re: [newbie] Sound card oddity

2001-10-18 Thread Carl Lafferty
. - -This is a multi-part message in MIME format... - -=_1003442080-1734-1389 -Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - -Carl Lafferty wrote: - - Maybe LM8.1 chooses an OSS/Free driver for some sondcards and an ALSA - driver for others. Muting everything

[newbie] SCSI CD-R (was Re: [newbie] Sound card oddity)

2001-10-18 Thread Carl Lafferty
- -Looks like thats what I got too... ;-) - - take a look at this and see if it look familiar:) [carl@starfury carl]$ su Password: [root@starfury carl]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot

[newbie] Sound card oddity

2001-10-17 Thread Carl Lafferty
Why, when I installed lm81 on a comp with a sb64 in it did the sound start with mixer setting that allow me to hear the KDE jingle and yet when I installed on my home system with a Yamaha 724F (DS-XG) card the mixer settings were set so that EVERYTHING was muted by default?? beat my head on the

RE: [newbie] chromium

2001-10-04 Thread Carl Lafferty
does anyone have any cheat codes for chromium??? what is the highest score you have gotten? -- ^-m-^ Haven't you heard? Chromium's design philosophy is that few survive beyond the first 5 mins! grin Don't remember my score, but 3rd level is about as far as I get. (hate those

[newbie] attachments in every message??

2001-10-03 Thread Carl Lafferty
to it. Is this normal?? -- Carl Lafferty Sys Admin Floyd County Public Library www.fclib.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] network card woes

2001-03-04 Thread Carl Lafferty
internet connection sharing. Any help is, as always, appreciated. -- Carl Lafferty System Administrator, Floyd County Public Library Registered Linux User #201131

[newbie] dialin ppp connection

2001-01-23 Thread Carl Lafferty
for.. My purpose is to have a 'backup' internet access point thru work as well as a way to dial in and diagnose local network problems if our main connection is down. -- Carl Lafferty | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.netins.net/showcase/carl -The-UQWK-guy-| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Alpha processor

2001-01-16 Thread Carl Lafferty
e unstable on it, I will switch to one of those. thanks -- Carl Lafferty | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.netins.net/showcase/carl -The-UQWK-guy-| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.fclib.org Need your daily fix of B5?? Check amazon.com or your local bookstore for B5 in print.

[newbie] Mandrake for Alpha processor

2001-01-15 Thread Carl Lafferty
I soon will have back in my possession an Alpha server 800/400 with 64meg and 6gig of space. This USED to be an NT (phewy) server that I would like to get back into use as a more useful linux server where I work. what I would like to know is if anyone has any experience in installing on this

[newbie] kwintv and ML7.2

2001-01-15 Thread Carl Lafferty
I have tried everything I know to do (very little I suppose) to get kwintv that ships with ml7.2 to work. (xawtv works fine after reading the manpages) but can't seem to get it to work. Anyone have an idea I can try?? -- Man lives in the sun lit world that he believes to be reality

Re: [newbie] Hostname problems...

2001-01-14 Thread Carl Lafferty
diagnosis. probably a hosts file that needs to be updated but since I have never installed linux without a network to put it on (even my home network) I have had no problems like this. -- Carl Lafferty | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.netins.net/showcase/carl -The-UQWK-guy-| [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] kicq2.0.0b1 make

2001-01-06 Thread Carl Lafferty
-- # On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 Carl Lafferty spake passionately saying: Got the 2.0.0.b1 tar.gz of kicq as well as the new icqlib that goes with it. the icqlib compiled/installed perfectly and now my configure script runs just dandy.. However when I run make I get

Re: [newbie] kicq2.0.0b1 make

2001-01-06 Thread Carl Lafferty
for kicq at all. would it be somewhere else besides /usr/bin ?? (I did a find from a command shell and didn't find it in the /usr at all anywhere) still stumped. :( Z -- Carl Lafferty | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.netins.net/showcase/carl -The-UQWK-guy-| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive, Part II

2001-01-05 Thread Carl Lafferty
, of course, have zip drive problems of my own that no one has been able to comment on (ron posted them for me before I joined the mailing list) Needless to say, if it can be screwed up, I will succeed in doing it:) -- Carl Lafferty | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.netins.net/showcase/carl

[newbie] kicq2.0.0b1 make

2001-01-05 Thread Carl Lafferty
Got the 2.0.0.b1 tar.gz of kicq as well as the new icqlib that goes with it. the icqlib compiled/installed perfectly and now my configure script runs just dandy.. However when I run make I get the following error. [carl@starfury ~/kicq-2 .0.0b1]$ make cd . make -f admin/Makefile.common

[newbie] Compiling KICQ with kde2

2001-01-02 Thread Carl Lafferty
Did a fresh install saturday and decided to try out kicq at the prompting of Ron "darklord" hall so I download the src and the src for icqlib that it suggests. ICQlib compiles/installs just fine but kicq will NOT compile. I configured it with ./configure --with-kde-version=2 and it worked

RE: [newbie] Netscape-kppp weirdness

2001-01-01 Thread Carl Lafferty
desktop, but as soon as I reached the desktop the "Internet" icon started to show a "starburst effect" (no kidding) and multiple copies of the connection window began to appear--like really fast, filling up my taskbar and continuing to spawn the app way faster than I could hope to kill it.