Re: [newbie] samba wizard

2005-04-07 Thread Christopher Taylor
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com You need to install drakwizard - urpmi drakwizard -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Taylor
be a big plus on its own. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-03 Thread Christopher Taylor
and not a clean install, but... The main problem that I had regarded installing packages. Many of the packages wouldn't install because they required older dependancies. 10.1 had been very good for me. With the help of this list, I have the most stable system I've had in 14 years. -- Christopher

[newbie] Cannot access the archives

2005-04-01 Thread Christopher Taylor
I have not been able to access the archives today. I s there something that I have wrong? I am using the URL http://archives.mandrakelinux.com The operation is always timing out. Thanks. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please

Re: [newbie] To Twiki Editors, Welcome to Newbie Manager and List-Members.

2005-03-29 Thread Christopher Taylor
and that email will really help out. I would suggest things such as Easy Urpmi and logging in as su. Some of the simplest things have made the biggest difference to me. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write

[newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta

2005-03-21 Thread Christopher Taylor
certainly backup my home directory to cd, but if I have to setup the users again then the ids will be wrong. Thanks in advance. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot

Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta

2005-03-21 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:12:46 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 Mar 2005 18:10, Christopher Taylor wrote: I am debating whether or not to upgrade to the 10.2 beta. Primarily the updates in KDE are appealing and some of the others as well. I know that I can get

Re: [newbie] Attempting upgrade to 10.2 beta

2005-03-21 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:42:54 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 Mar 2005 20:12, Christopher Taylor wrote: My home is on a searate partition. I am just unfamiliar with the upgrade process. I started with a blank machine and let Mandrake do the rest. At installation

[newbie] 2 questions on Mandrake Move 2.0

2005-03-17 Thread Christopher Taylor
development without fear of interfering with the laptop. The laptop uses ntfs, so its write protected under Mandrke Move. Any help would be appreciated. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field

Re: [newbie] Possible alternative format for forum

2005-03-17 Thread Christopher Taylor
. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver

2005-03-13 Thread Christopher Taylor
try this site:http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out

Re: [newbie] Bittorrent setup {FIXED]

2005-03-11 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:36:27 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 10 Mar 2005 17:21, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 14:03, Christopher Taylor wrote: Some of the sites that I am looking at only have downloads via bittorent. Can someone explain what

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Christopher Taylor
. HTH. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out. Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Bittorrent setup

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Taylor
Some of the sites that I am looking at only have downloads via bittorent. Can someone explain what this is and how it is setup? Thanks. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field

Re: [newbie] Strange occurance with Firefox install FIXED

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:17:54 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:53, Christopher Taylor wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:12:17 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:28, Christopher Taylor wrote: I had to re

[newbie] Strange occurance with Firefox install

2005-03-09 Thread Christopher Taylor
deleted the mozilla in my root folder and my account folder, the downloading 1.0.1 and installing to a folder in my home. Now I can save bookmarks. Tonight, I am going to try and go through the same procedure with Thunderbird which does not save my accounts. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Strange occurance with Firefox install

2005-03-09 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:12:17 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:28, Christopher Taylor wrote: I had to re-install Mandrake 10.1 due to some stupidity on my parrt. Before I did I backed up my home folder onto CD. After re-installing, I installed

[newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server

2005-03-08 Thread Christopher Taylor
world (using dynamic dhcp) so that I can do some remote access when I travel (ftp mainly). Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save

Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server

2005-03-08 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:06:35 +, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 March 2005 14:44, Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address

Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake 10.1 as DHCP Server

2005-03-08 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:08:56 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Taylor wrote: I currently have a Lynksys Router setup to handle the DHCP on a 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 network. The computers are setup with 192.168.4.1 (the address of the router) as the gateway

Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post

2005-03-07 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:26:10 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 Mar 2005 01:27, Christopher Taylor wrote: If you have already edited it, post a copy here. Have you added samba users yet? Again, ask if you need help

Re: [newbie] Re: Forum post

2005-03-07 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:45:07 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 Mar 2005 13:59, Christopher Taylor wrote: Anne, Thanks for getting back. I had a problem last night and had to re-install 10.1. Unlike windows, you

[newbie] Locked Myself Out

2005-03-06 Thread Christopher Taylor
system is set to automatically log me in so I do not even know how to log in as just the root. -- Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327 If this message is sent to a mailing list please 'Reply to List' or re-write the To field. This will save on a lot of duplicate emails going out

Re: [newbie] Locked Myself Out

2005-03-06 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:52:11 -0500, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:23 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: I feel sort of foolish, but I don't know what to do. I inadvertantly did a chmod 777 recursive on the whole system while logged into a root console. Now I cannot log

Re: [newbie] Locked Myself Out

2005-03-06 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:15:52 -0500, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 08:09 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:52:11 -0500, et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 07:23 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: I feel sort of foolish, but I don't know

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 07:15:26 +, riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:14 pm, Christopher Taylor wrote: This is to help me in case I need to re-install In Linux, most things can be fixed, without re-installing. best rgds I'm still used to Windows

Re: [newbie] any question

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Taylor
operating system. But, I have small problem. I've got mobilphone with GPRS and I don't know how to join it with PC, because software for my phone is made for windows. Can you help me and tell me, how to do it? Or can you tell me what program can run windows applications? -- Christopher

[newbie] Re: Forum post

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:18:35 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher, I just looked at your forum, particularly about the Samba problem. I did see that someone advised you to use LinNeighborhood (this is one of several options

[newbie] Mandrake Forum - OT

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher Taylor
to do to get things to work. I also hope that it may help others. I have posted here to find out if this is a good idea or not. The link is http://mandrake.cjt-design.com. Different members of the list have helped me and I hope that I can return the favor in the future. Christopher Taylor

[newbie] Webserver/network setup

2005-02-28 Thread Christopher Taylor
at http://www.dnsstuff.com as the test. If I can access via the IP, then I will get a domain name and DNS. Any help is greatly appreciated. Christopher Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] accessing windows shared drives

2005-02-26 Thread Christopher Taylor
is acceptable. Thanks. Christopher Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Installing PHP

2005-02-24 Thread Christopher Taylor
. Christopher Taylor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Re: new monitor, starting X causes no signal

2004-07-17 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: btw, i'm the one who started that thread switching from fedora core, need advice. decided to give mandrake a try. i have to admit urpmi is pretty nice...=) fonts look different than fedora, but thats just something i'll get used to. 3 programs crashed within

[newbie] screen scrolls (desktop bigger than screen)

2004-07-16 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
hello, when i set my screen resolution to anything higher than 1024x768 in the MCC, then my desktop becomes bigger than the screen and when i move the mouse off the end of the screen, it scrolls the screen. how can i avoid this? i just want my entire desktop to fit on my screen at a high

[newbie] new monitor, starting X causes no signal

2004-07-16 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
btw, i'm the one who started that thread switching from fedora core, need advice. decided to give mandrake a try. i have to admit urpmi is pretty nice...=) fonts look different than fedora, but thats just something i'll get used to. 3 programs crashed within an hour of using it, but

[newbie] vpn client?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
hello, my work provides a cisco vpn client for windows.obviouslyifi'mhere,i'm not using windows...;)whatkindofvpnclientshouldibeusingforlinux and where do i get it?i'musingmandrake-10.0. thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Re: Re: switching from fedora core, need some advice

2004-07-12 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
wrote: On Sunday 11 July 2004 02:36 am, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: wow all, thanks for the great replies. well i'm sold! now is there a dvd iso for download? i've looked around the download mirrors, searched google some...can't seem to find any dvd iso's...=/ I don't think so. You

[newbie] switching from fedora core, need some advice

2004-07-10 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
hello, i've been a pretty devout redhat user since around 2000. that being said, i'm thinking of switching over to mandrake 10.0 because of a couple reasons: 1) i'm a huge KDE fan and that is default desktop on mandrake (as opposed to fedora core's gnome) 2) fedora core 2 seems to have been

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-21 Thread Christopher Winkler
USB compiled into your kernel, have the USB core modules loaded, and have the usbdevfs filesystem mounted. Where should I start in solving this? switch off acpi - it worked in my case! -- Christopher Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Driver for Fuji FinePix 2650 Camera

2003-11-06 Thread Christopher Taylor, PE
Does anyone know if drivers exist for the above camera? I am currently running ML9.1 and did not find this model listed in Mandrake Control Center. Any chance it was added in 9.2? Thanks, -Chris Tracking #: EE10BFD2E2A48344977A8928216122F8240DACB8 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Help... specifying an IP range

2003-09-03 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
- Original Message - From: Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Help... specifying an IP range Hi all, This should be a simple question. I am using a private network IP range for my internal

Re: [newbie] xcdroast reboots my computer

2003-08-01 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
On Friday 01 Aug 2003 1:22 pm, Linus Drouhard wrote: I don't get so far as trying to burn. It reboots just after I type xcdroast in a terminal. I reinstalled xcdroast several times and Mandrake 9.1 once. No change. Linus In that case I would certainly suspect a bad install.

[newbie] OT - Browser Back and the keyboard

2003-04-02 Thread Christopher Shaffer
I've got a general Linux (or I should say, non-windows) question. Why do most (if not all) Linux web browsers not support the Backspace key as 'Back' in the web browser. 'Back' is something you hit all the time, and I'd rather use a keyboard shortcut than generate all those mouse miles

[newbie] PostgreSQL

2003-03-25 Thread Christopher Shaffer
Forgive my silly question, but I'm trying to experiment with PostgreSQL (all I've used till now is MySQL...) on Mandrake 9.0, but I have know idea what the default username/password is. Is it kind of like MySQL, with a root user? Thanks, Chris

Fw: [newbie] Linux+ certification???

2003-03-21 Thread Christopher Steimer
- Original Message - From: T E [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Christopher Steimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux+ certification??? I too have this question. I like certifications becuase they give you a goal to strive for and also teach

Re: [newbie] Starting MySQL at boot time

2003-03-21 Thread Christopher Shaffer
This did the trick: chkconfig --level 35 mysql on Thanks, guys. Chris Shaffer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Linux+ certification???

2003-03-20 Thread Christopher Steimer
I was wondering if anyone had any advice or opinions about the Linux+ certification. I am new to Linux and just graduated from Penn State and while I'm trying to find a job, I have decided to tackle Linux. All suggestions and comments would be greatly appreciated (job offers are accepted as

[newbie] duplicating hard disk

2003-03-19 Thread Christopher Joseph
number of services failed to shutdown or start despite there being no failures in the copy process. Again probably down to permissions. The Question: How should I migrate partions (/var, /usr, /home) onto the new disk and grow the remaining ones (/, SWAP). Thanks in advance. -- Christopher

[newbie] Starting MySQL at boot time

2003-03-19 Thread Christopher Shaffer
What would be the easiest way to get MySQL server to start when the system boots? I just installed Mandrake 9.0, and installed MySQL server from packages, but it does not start at boot time. Thanks, Chris Shaffer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!

[newbie] Mandrake 9.0 and Oracle 9i

2003-03-10 Thread Christopher Steimer
I have just installed Mandrake 9.0 onto my computer and I am interested in installing Oracle 9i onto the comp as well. I have just downloaded the Oracle 9i Database for Linux software from Oracle.com. Does anyone know anything, or have any experience with this? If so, please help me. If you

[newbie] Partition Failure. PLEASE HELP!!!

2003-03-07 Thread Christopher Steimer
I have recently purchased a book, SAMS Teach Yourself LINUX In 24 Hours, in order to inroduce myself to LINUX and all it has to offer. It comes with Linux-Mandrake 7.1, GPL Edition. I also just purchased a used Dell Pentium II, 450MHz, 128MB RAM, 8G hard drive off of EBay. When attempting to

Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode?

2002-12-24 Thread christopher j bottaro
like 10 rpms that i had to track down from various places, dvd::rip didn't work at all. i ended up learning how to do all that stuff from the command line...which i'm realizing is the best way to learn how to do things...=/ -- christopher - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread christopher j bottaro
my expectations of wal-mart are so low, that nothing they do can disappoint me...;) -- christopher - Original Message - From: Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 5:35 AM Subject: [newbie] Lindows Greetings

[newbie] looking for a new distro

2002-12-16 Thread christopher j bottaro
or are they either kde or gnome/gtk specific? 5) as i said before, i get most of my rpms from rpmfind.net. i tried searching for qt and gtk packages for mandrake and didn't find much...whats with that? i have more questions, but i can't remember them now...=) thanks for the help/info, christopher

[newbie] Apple Airport Card

2002-10-15 Thread christopher geddes
Title: Apple Airport Card Hello, I am a newbie and I just installed mandrake 8.2 on my powerbook g4 667. I am very satisfied with the OS with the exception that I cannot seem to get the airport card to work. If anyone has encountered this problem and resolved it your help would be greatly

Re: [newbie] ppp

2001-07-07 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :)I am new to mandrake, but have used redhat before. Now, I have my :)home computer set up with a dual boot mandrake/Windows ME. I like :)mandrake, but a problem comes up when using the ppp. :) :)I have my modem set up and it works great when I use

Re: [newbie] attached log

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, bc wrote: :)error log attached, i could not get up into KDE? any ideas? :) (**) Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 (**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (II) Keyboard Keyboard1 handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Mouse1 (type: MOUSE) Could not

Re: [newbie] attached log

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, bc wrote: :)darn, after i typed in those to commands, the xfs stop, then the xfs start, it :replyed with no errors that i saw, just some typing commands or such? anyway, i :startx after that and it could not get in, i attached the error log again for you :to see if you

Re: [newbie] Logitech Mouse

2001-06-29 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, William Hughes wrote: :)I currently am running LM8 with a PS2 mouse. Everything works fine this way. :)I have a Logitech optical wheel mouse I use when I'm in my Other OS. Has :)anyone had any luck with getting this logitech to work. Thanks :) :) :)Will :) I just

RE: [newbie] My Choice for Duron Motherboard...

2001-05-11 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I have an Abit myself. It is great. The softmenu is easy to use and it is jumperless! No compaints. Moose -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:27 PM To: Rules Address for MDK Subject: [newbie] My Choice for Duron Motherboard...

[newbie] Milo on Alpha XL300 - How to boot after install?

2001-04-20 Thread Christopher Voss
I have an Alpha that doesn't support SRM boot. How do I boot my installation after it has successfully completed? I have alphabios 5.66. ???

Re: [newbie] Re:Kde help

2001-04-19 Thread Christopher Molnar
Ricardo Gmez S wrote: Hi all. I install the Mandrake 7.2, and all the times the Kde returns an error and I can't do anything. I try some variations at the install time, but all the is the same thing. What happend? What is the error message?

[newbie] Milo on Alpha XL300 - How to boot after install?

2001-04-19 Thread Christopher Voss
I have an Alpha that doesn't support SRM boot. How do I boot my installation after it has successfully completed? I have alphabios 5.66. ???

[newbie] Tape backup

2001-04-13 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Does anybody have any suggestions for good tape backup software for Linux? Thanks, Moose

RE: [newbie] Ping doesn't respond

2001-04-10 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Your firewall is preventing access to the Ping command to get to the internet. I don't know allot about PMFirewall so, you will have to wait for others to respond for that info. Moose -Original Message- From: g [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Slow hdd access

2001-04-09 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Check the hdparm settings. Moose -Original Message- From: Michael Falzon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Slow hdd access hi all I'm runing mandrake 6.1 with a ata 100 m/b and ata 66 hdd i'm sure that the

[newbie] ATI XPERT 98 card

2001-04-08 Thread Christopher
id, "I can auto load X Windows for you - yes or no." I told it yes. Thanks for your time, Christopher.

[newbie] Linksys 10/100 and LInux-Mandrake 7.2

2001-04-05 Thread Christopher
same card. I'm used to just opening up Internet Explorer, and bam, there's the net (no log in procedures) (and none behind the scenes). Thanks, Christopher.

RE: [newbie] GRUB problems

2001-04-04 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Boot from your Linux boot disk, Login as root, goto /boot/grub/menu.lst and do a ./install.sh This will get things going. Moose -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] GRUB

Re: [newbie] networking question

2001-04-04 Thread Christopher
How did you get Linux to see your network card? I've Mandrake 7.2 Deluxe, and have yet to get it to see my LinkSys 10/100 card. I'm lost. Any help there? Thanks, Christopher. - Original Message - From: "BJS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April

[newbie] Big fonts are overtaking my PC

2001-04-02 Thread Kelly, Christopher
This is an annoying problem. My NIC card in my Linux box died over the weekend, so, I had to shut down the PC to make the swap. All went well with the operation but, when I started KDE all of my fonts where as large as anything. What would cause this? I don't think that it has anything to do

RE: [newbie] Big fonts are overtaking my PC

2001-04-02 Thread Kelly, Christopher
The NIC is configured. What should I be looking for in /etc/x11/xf86config? I'm not really sure what things to check? Is it going to be a font type or something like that? Moose -Original Message- From: H.J.Bathoorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:54 PM To:

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Kelly, Christopher
This is because you are not booting from the disk. You must boot from the Dos disk and then do a fdisk /mbr. Moose -Original Message- From: Ammon Cooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble How

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Kelly, Christopher
, Kelly, Christopher wrote: This is because you are not booting from the disk. You must boot from the Dos disk and then do a fdisk /mbr. Moose -Original Message- From: Ammon Cooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Kelly, Christopher
, Christopher wrote: This is not true. I dont think you want to do it this way. I believe win2k and win98 use diffeerent mbr records. If you replace you win2k boot parition with a win98 one, I dont think it will be very happy Fdisk /mbr just erases the master boot record. It is re-written when

RE: [newbie] Linux is draggin' A$$

2001-03-28 Thread Kelly, Christopher
r complete instructions as this is a common "newbie" mistake. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelly, Christopher Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:03 PM To: 'Newbie' Subject: [newbie] Linux is draggin' A$$ What would cause p

[newbie] LinNeighborhood questions

2001-03-28 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I have another question... as always. I d/l'ed LinNeighborhood last night and installed the rpm. I was wondering if anyone has ever configured it before? I can't even find where it is installed to. I need your help! Moose

RE: [newbie] LinNeighborhood questions

2001-03-28 Thread Kelly, Christopher
thanks, dave -Original Message- From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LinNeighborhood questions On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:28:02 -0500, spake "Kelly, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I ha

[newbie] Linux is draggin' A$$

2001-03-27 Thread Kelly, Christopher
What would cause pauses in Linux? When ever I try to open something, be it a program or a directory, it always pauses and it will take 2 mins to open. My system is a PII 233 with 64megs of RAM. This should run fine from what I've heard. Let me know what to check. Thanks, Moose

RE: [newbie] Sound on 7.1

2001-03-26 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Disable the on-board sound in the bios. Moose -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Sparks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 2:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Sound on 7.1 I have a SoundBlaster 16 (PCI) that I am using instead of the on-board ESS

[newbie] Bad Magic???

2001-03-22 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I got an error when trying to install an RPM: Unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad Magic What the heck does that mean and how can I fix it??? Much thanks as always, Moose

[newbie] More Neighborhood Questions

2001-03-21 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I got LinNeighborhood up and running last night. All seems good. My next question. Is there any utilities/programs that will allow Windows to see Linux files? Just in case I want to go the other way... As always, Much thanks. Moose

RE: [newbie] More Neighborhood Questions

2001-03-21 Thread Kelly, Christopher
files from a windows box. - Original Message - From: Kelly, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Newbie' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:16 AM Subject: [newbie] More "Neighborhood" Questions I got LinNeighborhood up and running last night. All seems goo

[newbie] Network Neighborhood???

2001-03-20 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Is there a way to graphically see all PC's on a network? Like Network Neighborhood in Winblows. I have a small LAN at home and I want to set up some file sharing. I didn't know if it could be done this way or if I had to mount the drive to see it... Much thanks, Moose

RE: [newbie] Network Neighborhood???

2001-03-20 Thread Kelly, Christopher
, Christopher wrote: Is there a way to graphically see all PC's on a network? Like Network Neighborhood in Winblows. I have a small LAN at home and I want to set up some file sharing. I didn't know if it could be done this way or if I had to mount the drive to see it... Much thanks, Moose

RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-19 Thread Kelly, Christopher
ok, I'll give it a whirl. thanks, Meph. Moose -Original Message- From: Meph Istopheles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 11:24 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT Moose, I am using tcp/ip. I'm in the process of

RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-16 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I am using tcp/ip. I'm in the process of setting up a proxy server, so I needed something routable... Moose -Original Message- From: Meph Istopheles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:50 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] read/write to and from

RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-15 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Meph, Whether Jeff wants the detailed instructions or not, I would like them. Thanks a bunch. Moose -Original Message- From: Meph Istopheles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-15 Thread Kelly, Christopher
That's really good. What about Fat partitions, is it the same deal? Here's my scenario: I have two machines. One is running Linux MDK 7.2 and the other is Windows 98se. I want the Linux box to have access to the Windows drive. I have the machines set up in Point to Point topology through a hub.

RE: [newbie] Grub timeout!!!

2001-03-09 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Tom, use your windows bootdisk and do a fdisk -mbr. Then reinstall Grub. It sounds like something got hosed. Moose -Original Message- From: Thomas Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Grub timeout!!!

RE: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta)

2001-03-09 Thread Kelly, Christopher
The Bible actually does say that the earth is a sphere/circle. I believe that it is in Job. Moose -Original Message- From: KompuKit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WAAAYYY OT! (Was: Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta) Oh

Re: [newbie] Mandrake on Ebay

2001-03-04 Thread Christopher Jordan
Actually, Ebay is the way that I was first introduced to Mandrake. I got Mandrake 6.0 for like, six bucks. Worked great. In fact they accidently sent me two identical CDs so I was able to give one to a friend. Both were bootable CD's and I still have them today. I think three bucks is worth

Re: [newbie] permission changing

2001-03-02 Thread Christopher J. Crowe
David cd into the directory that contains the files, after you have copied them back onto the machine and try chown user_name ./* That should work Chris Ps run command as root - Original Message - From: "David" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001

Re: [newbie] Installing a netgear FA311 NIC...help!!!

2001-03-02 Thread Christopher Walter
so, would someone mind giving this newbie STEP BY STEP directions on how to install them? I've trying this for over 2 months now. Any help would be MORE than appreciated!!! Thanks in advance!!! -christopher

Re: [newbie] kde2.1

2001-02-27 Thread Christopher Molnar
Hello, I can no longer speak for Mandrake as I am no longer working for the company, but here is my guess: There was probably a slight confusion over who is responsible for making the new RPM's. I had been creating all RPM's for the 7.2 KDE updates until about 2 weeks ago. It takes time to

RE: [newbie] (OT)Half-Life server question

2001-02-23 Thread Kelly, Christopher
py servers and whatnot. Good luck and happy fragging. - Original Message - From: "abe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] (OT)Half-Life server question "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: This is

[newbie] (OT)Half-Life server question

2001-02-22 Thread Kelly, Christopher
This is off-topic... Does anybody on this list run a Half-Life server? I was wondering, if I want to setup a Linux Half-Life server, do I need to perform a server installation of Mandrake? Or can I run it in the Normal installation? Thanks, Moose

RE: [newbie] Intel AN430TX Onboard Sound

2001-02-22 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Did you try the Intel site? Moose -Original Message- From: Domitian X [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Intel AN430TX Onboard Sound Anybody know where I can get drivers for the built in sound on the Intel

Re: [newbie] XConfig

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Monday 19 February 2001 11:28, you wrote: are there any xf86 (ver 4?) config tools for mndrake 7.2 that do not use x other than XF86Config? vi Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Re: [newbie] FTP

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Monday 19 February 2001 12:47, you wrote: I have a L-M 7.2 at 192.168.101 and NT 4.0 at 192.168.1.100 and linksys at 192.168.1.1 I don't have samba running. ftp is there an each end. OK How do I get ftp to connect? You can by default ftp from the Windows box, to the Linux box

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