Re: [newbie] Duplicate emails from list

2001-06-12 Thread Dave DeGear
Quoting Walter Luffman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I get duplicates of some, but not all, e-mails sent to the list. Yes, I also get dupes of some of the emails. ...Dave

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake for 386 processor!??!?

2001-06-06 Thread Dave DeGear
Quoting Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/metalab/Linux/distributions/peanut/Pean ut-Linux-8.3/ Will run on a 386. The later packages for peanut will NOT, particularly 9.0. This package sounds quite interesting. I took a quick look to see the minimum

Re: [newbie] RPM Manager

2001-06-06 Thread Dave DeGear
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:44:1 -00, Dennis Myers wrote: I see this happen when you have a url for a security update and another for general updates in the list of servers to connect to. Seems as they both have the same updates and so both feed the package name back to you. I did have duplicates

[newbie] RPM Manager

2001-06-05 Thread Dave DeGear
I've been using the Software Manager to update my RPM packages. I see that the Installed -- Flat List tab shows most of the packages twice. The name, size, version, and description is exactly for same for each of the duplicate listings. Is there a way to get rid of the duplicates?

Re: [newbie] font antialiasing

2001-05-30 Thread Dave DeGear
I've gone in to the KDE Control Center under Fonts and can't find an option for antialias. Where exactly would I find this? By the way, is there a way to set up the Samba from a Menu? I haven't been able to find it under the Control Center. Thanks. ...Dave Quoting

[newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread Dave DeGear
I have a high speed connection and our provider supplies us with a site to check our download speed. The site is speedtest.telus.net but when using Netscape 4.77 with the plugin package I still get a java error. This site works fine when I reboot to Windows but I can't get it to work under

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread Dave DeGear
I wonder what my problem is? I get the message Reading File then Starting Java and then Done except that the file size options don't show up on the screen. I am supposed to be able to select files sizes up to 10meg for the test. Under Netscape Preferences I have selected, Automatically

Re: [newbie] Java ?

2001-05-29 Thread Dave DeGear
On Wed, 30 May 2001 07:35:40 +0800, Sam wrote: Hello, I've just tried the throughput test at the page and I didn't encounter any problems running it using Netscape 4.77 under Mandrake 8. Well, I wonder what I could be doing wrong? Do you have Enable pluginJVM enabled under the Netscape

Re: [newbie] XFREE86 and CL 5446

2001-05-27 Thread Dave DeGear
find out please let me know james - Original Message - From: Dave DeGear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] XFREE86 and CL 5446 snip Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI, is supported. Whenever I start up KDE I have problems with Mouse Tracks. If I click on the screen it will become

[newbie] XFREE86 and CL 5446

2001-05-23 Thread Dave DeGear
I installed Mandrake 8 without any problems except that my video is funny under KDE and GNOME. I went to the xfree86.org site and found that my video card, a Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI, is supported. Whenever I start up KDE I have problems with Mouse Tracks. If I click on the screen it will

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8

2001-05-10 Thread Dave DeGear
On Thu, 10 May 2001 13:18:05 -0400 (EDT), Rod Upfold wrote: Started to install and the first problem came when it couldn't uncompress 2nd ramdisk (I believe that what it said...it was last night)...so it I had the same problem with one of the iso images that I downloaded. Make sure that

Re: [newbie] MD5SUM

2001-05-10 Thread Dave DeGear
If you go to download.com and do a search on md5sum you will find a program called md5sumer that will calculate these for you under Windows. ...Dave On Thu, 10 May 2001 17:03:58 -0600, Wynne Crisman wrote: How can I get a MD5SUM to check a downloaded ISO? I don't yet have

Re: [newbie] Newbie Question

2001-05-02 Thread Dave DeGear
The inst package will create a bootable CD for you that will install the basic Mandrake system. The ext package contains hundreds of RPM packages that you will probably want to install so that you have a fully operating system. ...Dave Quoting LĂșcio Costa [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion error

2000-12-13 Thread Dave DeGear
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do you tell if its on hdb hdc or hdd I dont know where to look. Also after typing in cd dev/ rm cdrom ln I think that you should be able to tell by checking out your dmesg file. Try "dmesg |more" and see if you can find your cdrom being identified.

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion part 3

2000-12-13 Thread Dave DeGear
Sorry, I thought that your problem was that you didn't know which /dev/hd? your cdrom was attached to. The dmesg should show you this information. ...Dave Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Okay so I ran dmesg | more and it does "see" everything on my system.

Re: [newbie] Enabling Telnet FTP

2000-12-13 Thread Dave DeGear
Quoting -michael- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [root@gauss /root]# rpm -qa | grep telnet telnet-0.17-5mdk gnome-telnet-2.1-2mdk ktelnet-0.62-8mdk [root@gauss /root]# now what? I'm leaving and want to be able to get into my boxen while away You don't have telnet-server installed. I'm

[newbie] Apache

2000-12-12 Thread Dave DeGear
I've got my telnet and ftp servers working ok and would like to try playing with Apache. If I install the latest Apache rpm files should I worry immediately about any security problems with this. I'd like to have it running while I'm learning but not if I introduce too many security leaks.

Re: [newbie] Enabling Telnet FTP

2000-12-11 Thread Dave DeGear
I also had this problem with my initial install of Mandrake 7.2. Make sure that you have the telnet server installed. Type "rpm -qa |grep telnet" and see if you have both the telnet and telnet server rpms installed. I then had to install the proftp rpm to get the ftp server running. My

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot

2000-12-05 Thread Dave DeGear
Thank-you everyone for the suggestions. I won't get a chance to try them out until later this week. So, the concensus is that the Linux Partition is always installed so that it is bootable so that I just need to point Lilo (or another boot manager) to /dev/hdb5 and Mandrake will boot? I was

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 ISO's not right size...

2000-12-04 Thread Dave DeGear
I've downloaded and burned quite a few ISO files. I always like to check the md5sum for the file and make sure that it is correct. Normally I do this under Linux but I also found an md5sum utility for Windows. Just type "md5sum mandrake7-2.iso" and see what you get. I don't remember

[newbie] Installed Server programs?

2000-11-30 Thread Dave DeGear
I did a full install of Mandrake 7.2 and it took about 1.5 gigs. I then tried to telnet and ftp into my computer and it wouldn't allow me. I'm fairly new to Linux and so am not sure if my permissions are set wrong or if the telnet and ftp servers aren't running. I tried "ps ax" and didn't see

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

2000-11-30 Thread Dave DeGear
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 of those files on a system with WinME preinstalled. An upgraded system may still have Are you saying that WinMe doesn't have the