Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Thread chronos
I think that if you have 128 ram or more its almost unnecessary. I have 256 and it never uses the swap. Quoting Adrian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hey Chris -- > i had an idea (which don't happen often) > you could tell linux not to use the swap by > eliminating the swap partition. > tho i don'

[newbie] cdrom deletion part 3

2000-12-13 Thread chronos
Okay so I ran dmesg | more and it does "see" everything on my system. Running man MAKEDEV what am I looking for ? It shows several options. Now I get cdrom not ready make sure disc is in drive. What else ? There has to be a way to fix this. Thank You, Chronos. the s

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion error

2000-12-13 Thread chronos
trying to setup > gnome > >toaster. I issued the command cd /dev && rm > cdrom && In > >-s scd0 cdrom. How do I add my cdrom back in ? > I get the > >error message no such file or directory. Also > it says to > >be sure I have access etc. Wha

[newbie] cdrom deletion error continuing

2000-12-13 Thread chronos
I typed cd /dev rm cdrom it confirmed deletion then typed ln -s /dev/hdc cdrom then it said ln: cdrom: file exists so I typed ln -s /dev/scd0 cdrom no complaints now when I put in a cd for music the cd player says ejected. when using a data cd it say cannot read cd. now what ? the serpent and th

[newbie] cdrom deletion error

2000-12-12 Thread chronos
to reset it back ? Thank you, Chronos. the serpent and the egg

Re: [newbie] Where's sndconfig ?

2000-12-01 Thread chronos
sure. Chronos. Nov 2000, you wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Joan Tur wrote: > > Hi Joan, > > you can only run sndconfig as root. > It should be in /usr/sbin/sndconfig > > Paul > > >I had some

Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-11-30 Thread chronos
That has got to be the most interesting thing I have read on the forum in quite awhile. Thanx, Chronos. Quoting Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Technically, WinME is Win98 without any trace of > DOS under the covers. You > won't find autoexec.bat. config.sys, or any o

Re: [newbie] KPPP and external modem not responging

2000-11-28 Thread chronos
Hi dennis, Actually I really think its just 7.2. I had 7.2 and it was nothing but a headache so I took it off and Im running 7.1 right now and its good. Chronos. On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, you wrote: > Hi folks, this is an update on my exter

[newbie] ram issue

2000-11-22 Thread chronos .
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[newbie] firewalls

2000-11-11 Thread chronos
suggustions. If there are free ones that are decent cool. If not money is really not an issue as I want my box safe. Thank you, Chronos.

[newbie] uninstalling enlightenment

2000-11-06 Thread chronos
Hi all, Well I crashed enlightenment trying to install a theme. So then how do I uninstall it correctly ? I need all the commands. Thank you, Chronos.

[newbie] 2 extension cd (x86)

2000-11-06 Thread chronos
rpm instead. Oh and yes it does detect the lousy winmodem right off the bat, and everything else you have on your box as well. I still have to say that Im very impressed. Thank you, Chronos.

[newbie] 7.2 mandrake

2000-11-05 Thread chronos
. Thank you, Chronos.

Re: [newbie] cable modem, tulip driver and LM7.2

2000-11-04 Thread chronos
care of your issue. If not reinstall your nic card. Chronos. At 07:12 PM 11/04/2000 -0800, you wrote: >I had my @Home service working fine under Mandrake 7.1 with an Ethernet >card which uses the Ma

[newbie] fsck usage

2000-11-01 Thread chronos
allocated or is root the only real partition there ? Thank you, Chronos.

Re: [newbie] Windows

2000-11-01 Thread chronos
space otherwise itll cause problems. 3. use diskdrake and size it out through linux I used gnome and it was incredible easy. So let us know what happens. Chronos. At 08:01 AM 11/01/2000 -0700, you wrote: >When I installed Linux for the first time I wiped out my Windows >Partition

[newbie] fsck(file system check)

2000-10-24 Thread chronos
. Thank you, Chronos.

Re: [newbie] FAT partitions

2000-10-23 Thread chronos
and defrag and fsck in linux to clean up things abit its all quite well and stable as a rock. Honestly Id dump windows though as its a waste of space. Let us know what happens. Chronos. At 12:11 PM 10/23/2000 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, >

[newbie] keyboards

2000-10-23 Thread chronos
y dope. Let me know. Thank you, Chronos.

[newbie] microsoft natural keyboard

2000-10-23 Thread chronos
, Chronos.

[newbie] scandisk

2000-10-21 Thread chronos
. Chronos.

[newbie] mandrake 7.1

2000-10-18 Thread chronos
that. Hate to be a total jerk as Im a newbie too but the question about being at localhost@localhost and what command to type was funny. I really dont mean any mallice it was just funny is all. Thank you, Chronos.

[newbie] g++ compiler

2000-10-18 Thread chronos
enlightenment. Thank you, Chronos.

[newbie] laser eye mice

2000-10-17 Thread chronos
. Thank you, Chronos.

[newbie] sound cards

2000-10-16 Thread chronos
half and hour. System specs- Gateway 20 gig drive partitioned 10 win98 se and 10 linux mandrake 7.0 128 ram pent.3 500 mhz sb live sound card and svga video card. Thank you, Chronos.

Re: [newbie] sb live! sound card

2000-10-14 Thread chronos
too. Hi, Philomena- So how do I get to the list archives ? Also where are the alsa drivers ? Thank you, Chronos.

[newbie] sb live! sound card

2000-10-14 Thread chronos
Thank you, Chronos.

Re: [newbie] DHCP, Pump commands and Cable Modem Setup

2000-10-14 Thread chronos
get. Thank you, Chronos. >Hi everybody, > >Has any one had success setting a single Linux box using DHCP, pump and >setting up >your cable modem? If

Re: [newbie] sb live! sound cards

2000-10-14 Thread chronos
To emerhawk- Hi, yeah I get exactly the same thing, so anyone have any suggustions ? Thank you, Chronos. > I have run into a simular problem. The Problem is that >the bi

Re: [newbie] sb live! sound cards

2000-10-13 Thread chronos
, Chronos. > What type of error messages are you seeing ? Did the compile of the > driver go successfully ? >>> > System specs are as follows- gateway 20 gig drive partitioned 10 win98 se >>> > and 10 linux mandrake 7.0 128 ram pentium 3 500 and sb live

Re: [newbie] sb live! sound cards

2000-10-13 Thread chronos
ed with playing a sample and still no sound. Suggustions ? Thank you, Chronos.

Re: [newbie] sb live! sound cards

2000-10-13 Thread chronos
any other suggestions ? Thank you, Chronos. At 08:15 AM 10/13/2000 -0400, you wrote: >hi, >did you try downloading and installing the most recent emu10k1 driver ? >You can find it at www.opensource.creativelabs.com. That helps >sometimes. >philomen >chronos wrote- > > Sys

[newbie] sb live! sound cards

2000-10-12 Thread chronos
Hello- This is chronos, System specs are as follows- gateway 20 gig drive partitioned 10 win98 se and 10 linux mandrake 7.0 128 ram pentium 3 500 and sb live sound card and svga video card. So, how in the world do i get the sb card to work with my linux system ? Tried drakx and sndconf and

[newbie] X crashes entire system

2000-02-21 Thread Chronos
Whenever I log out of a user session under X (KDE, gnome, etc) my entire system freezes up, does anyone else have this problem and what would be the solution. I didn't have this problem under RedHat 6.1, SuSE 6.3, or any other distribution. My graphics card is a Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 using the