[newbie] How to get right ALT key to work.

2005-01-10 Thread David A. Ferguson
The left Alt key works fine but the right Alt key is ignored. It is like the system doesn't recgonize it as a shifting key. Mdk 10.0 Thanks...David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux Tutorial

2004-06-06 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: OOzy Anybody knows a good tutorial for Mandrake Linux or Linux in general? The Linux Documentation Project is a good place to start. http://www.tldp.org/index.html I would suggest you start with the guides. Here is a good one. Introduction to Linux A Hands on Guide

Re: [newbie] Dell C400 laptop

2004-06-05 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Mike Coppins Has anyone here tried installing Mandrake 10 on a Dell C400 laptop, or a similar Dell laptop? I'm considering giving it a try, but as my efforts to install a *NIX variant on my laptop in the past have always failed, I thought I'd ask first :) Mdk10oe installed on my

Re: [newbie] Laptop choice

2004-06-04 Thread David A. Ferguson
Please .. if you should have the chance to a buy a new laptop..what make..model..etc..would be top of your list. This is for linux use..like mandrake..suse. My DELL Latitude C840 installed Mdk10 without any problems. Runs great. David

Re: [newbie] AMD64 and K8V Bios Issues - help!

2004-06-02 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Rory Gleeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't get MDK10 to do a full install. I've used these discs before without issue. It starts to install correctly. However, after partitioning (I've tried this on two HDs with the same result), it starts to install the files. During this copying

Re: [newbie] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???

2004-06-02 Thread David A. Ferguson
- Original Message - From: The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] Given Tom's comment that removing old kernels is better done with a package manager, I thought I'd ask for opinions on the best package manager, and then I'll build in that package manager. I am new to Linux and mdk but it

Re: [newbie] Strange boot options

2004-06-02 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] First question. I use GRUB as a boot manager, and this box only runs Linux. After the update, I find the following in the GRBU boot menu linux linux_nonfb floppy old_linux old_linux_nonfb 263-7 2421-013 failsafe So most of those I

Re: [newbie] How make a server ftp

2004-05-25 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Donato [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone tell me how to install a server ftp in mandrake 9.2? Try proftpd-1.2.8-4mdk.i586.rpm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Dead Laptop

2004-05-24 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Asa Rossoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sunday 23 May 2004 03:51 am, Asa Rossoff wrote: From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: i have a laptop here that belongs to a friend it is dead no OS i do not have a floppy for it I have set the BIOS to boot

[newbie] How to format install Mdk10oe on JFFS2?

2004-05-23 Thread David A. Ferguson
How to format install Mdk10oe on JFFS2? I would like to put Mdk10 on a small (100MB) IDE flash drive but JFFS2 is not listed as one of the standard options. How can I format the drive as JFFS2 and install Mdk10oe? I was thinking to along these lines: 1. Install Mdk in ram disk 2. Use

[newbie] Option to select eth0 during install?

2004-05-23 Thread David A. Ferguson
Option to select eth0 during install? Mdk10oe selects the wrong ethernet driver during installation. I install/boot via PXE. I can get around the problem by adding the expert option. The expert option will let me pick the network driver manually. It works but then there are a lot of other

Re: [newbie] Why does my eth0 show failed?

2004-05-21 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp try changing this to =static I will give it a try, but ultimately I will need to use DHCP. What is weird is that the network actually works. The trouble I have is that I don't know what log

Re: [newbie] Directory Structure

2004-05-19 Thread David A. Ferguson
Marc - Thanks - that is the type of info this newbie needs. Assuming then that I install just one distro, what directory/partition structure should I use and what size should they be? Preston At 09:31 AM 5/19/04, Marc Hultquist wrote: You want to install both MDK and Fedora on 1 6 Gig

Re: [newbie] mdk 10 official (public) download?

2004-05-17 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Björn Lundin [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is it I see when i browse an offical mdk 10 dowload site such as ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586 ? Is it something that should be burnt on a dvd? Are there no iso-images anymore? I think you have to be a club member

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-17 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square

Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?

2004-05-16 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 15 May 2004 18:40:59 -0700 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 May 2004 09:53 am, David A. Ferguson wrote: Where can I read detailed error messages on my network card initialization? When my computer boots I

Re: [newbie] problen in shuting down mandrake 10 power pack +

2004-05-16 Thread David A. Ferguson
I Have bought MANDRAKE 10 POWERPACK PLUS The problem is that every thing woks well on booting but if i wanted to stop the system or restar the computer or even log out; the screen goes black while the system remains working but without any reaction with me. I am no expert but here are

Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?

2004-05-16 Thread David A. Ferguson
Thanks to several tips I found my problem. Turning off 'Network Hotplugging' in MCC networking fixed it. One poster mentioned you could get the same effect by setting MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. I have a similar message in

Re: [newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-15 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] LW And when you're ready, post those necessary Windows progs and LW we'll point you to the replacements. I would love to find a replacement for DTsearch. It indexes disk files with most popular formats (txt, doc, xls, pdf, and many others), and

Re: Re:[newbie] Floppy under 10CE]

2004-05-15 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:34, David A. Ferguson wrote: I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except read it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a 'permission denied' message. Anyone have

[newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?

2004-05-15 Thread David A. Ferguson
Where can I read detailed error messages on my network card initialization? When my computer boots I see this line: Bringing up interface eth0: [FAILED] The network seems to work ok though. However, the lights on the hub indicate that it is operating in half-duplex. I don't know how to

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-14 Thread David A. Ferguson
I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-14 Thread David A. Ferguson
- Original Message - From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux? Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store

Re: [newbie] Floppy under 10CE

2004-05-14 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except read it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a 'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to get it to work Rich Is the disk write

[newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-13 Thread David A. Ferguson
I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open

[newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-13 Thread David A. Ferguson
I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open

[newbie] How to get indexed help to work in KDevelop?

2004-05-11 Thread David A. Ferguson
How to get indexed help to work in KDevelop? I have brand new installation of KDevelop (from the Mandrake 10 offical distro). The help search doesn't work. I have installed the htdig rpm, but no joy. Has anyone gotten the help to work? Thanks...David