Re: [newbie] Installing WinXows again

2001-02-17 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Saturday 17 February 2001 08:27, you wrote: Hi: Do to the poor quality of a certain operating system, I'm having to reinstall it on a duel boot system. Linux is still running great (both were installed on the same day) and I don't want to lose it, but given the nature of WinXos, I will

Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking

2001-02-15 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Thursday 15 February 2001 21:24, you wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2001 08:06 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: isn't there a way to filter HTML mail from the list? We could issue 12 ga shotguns ? Set the email reader to only display text? :) Or... in Kmail's case... uncheck " Prefer

Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Second Edition Removes Multi Partitions

2001-02-14 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Wednesday 14 February 2001 10:15, you wrote: Try Partition Magic 5.0 it's great... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 8:12 PM Subject: [newbie] Windows 98 Second Edition Removes Multi Partitions I use

Re: [newbie] Cirrus Logic modem

2001-02-13 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 04:32, you wrote: I am *very* new to all this, so ya'll be gentle. I got mandrake 7.2 installed, got my sound card configured I think. Still don't have my cd-rom and all going. I am having modem hassles. I have a Cirrus Logic PnP V34 Modem. When I use HardDrake it

Re: [newbie] ibm 1200i laptop - smells like chicken

2001-02-13 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 09:10, you wrote: It has a 12.1" svga tvt display -when LM installs, I get the graphic interface, so I assume that it somehow see's my display then. How come I cannot get "startx" to then recognize a display after it has installed? I installed the 1200mb

Re: [newbie] help: X problems because of Mandrake 7.2 update

2001-02-13 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 12:29, you wrote: Hi, I'm new on Linux and I installed the Mandrake 7.2 version. At first I had some problems with X because of my video card (Matrox G450 32MB) that is not supported by Linux Mandrake. Sure it is supported. I find it in the list of Graphics

Re: [newbie] Getting a ISA modem to work

2001-02-12 Thread Daniel B. Haun
Hey Devin, Give this link a try and look under the "Isapnp" section. The author gives a quite interesting argument as to why you should turn the PNP option in bios ON, not off. This advice helped me a whole lot in getting some of my PNP cards to work in LInux. Enjoy... daniel in NJ...

Re: [newbie] Newly compiled 2.4.1 kernel won't boot- grub to blame?

2001-02-10 Thread Daniel B. Haun
Hi Michael, For us really green newbies, those that have never recompiled a kernel. What would be your best stepxstep? You seem to have a pretty good handle on this stuff:) I have LM 7.2 installed, just the stock one, I guess. Daniel in Nj... :) On Saturday 10 February 2001

Re: [newbie] win98 freezes after 7.2 install

2001-02-10 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Saturday 10 February 2001 21:37, you wrote: If u are pausing at your startup screen then yes Linux is the problem.Now thats if you changed the /mbr of the windows hdd. Thats why its pausing.Havent found a fix myself yet Have Sys.com on a Win98(or SE, if that is what you have

Re: [newbie] Desktop

2001-02-08 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Wednesday 07 February 2001 21:38, you wrote: Hey is there an advantage in booting up to KDE, GNOME or the other desktops Just wondering what the differance in options were or if you guys had a favorite one. BTW Im a three day Newbie to Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with the rpms upgrades

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem

2001-02-08 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Wednesday 07 February 2001 20:42, you wrote: If I remember correctly, as root, edit the following file: /sbin/ifup Look for a section that looks like this: f [ "XXX$DHCP_CLIENT" != "XXX" ];then case $(basename $DHCP_CLIENT) in dhcpcd) [ -n "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" ]

Re: [newbie] Re: Boot disks only

2001-02-08 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Thursday 08 February 2001 16:49, you wrote: I've had problems when I tried ' fdisk /mbr ' to remove the boot menu and restore Windows as the default. A few times, I lost Windows and had to do a reinstall to get it back. And, it seems to make floppy booting some of the Linux distros

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem

2001-02-08 Thread Daniel B. Haun
Wierd, huh? Thanjks for the info, tho...:) daniel in NJ... "Daniel B. Haun" wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2001 20:42, you wrote: If I remember correctly, as root, edit the following file: /sbin/ifup Look for a section that looks like this: f [ "XXX$DHCP_CLIENT&

Re: [newbie] Linux and DSL

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 05:16, you wrote: Get Roaring Penguin's roe software, install it, configure it, and reboot. Jeff Filapose wrote: I've just signed up for verizon DSL. I'll be on in about 3 or 4 weeks. Anything You guys can tell me about getting it to work with mandrake 7.2?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel B. Haun
Christopher Molnar wrote: 7.3 NO, No, no. 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you

Re: [newbie] double messages

2001-02-06 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 17:32, you wrote: Funny, but its getting a bit tiresome when downloading my mail and it says over 400 emails and most are duplicates Are you using a regular email program? Have you checked the settings in the configurations settings to make sure it is deleting