Re: [newbie] Trouble innstalling Mandrake 9.0

2003-01-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 12:47, Birger wrote: Sorry for repeating myself :-) I`ve dowloaded several iso files an burnt them like the manual says with Nero. the same problem happens everytime 1. the very first velcome screen shows 2. i press enter a (normal) innstall 3 it does some kind

Re: [newbie] Boot disc creation with Nvidia drivers

2003-01-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 19:55, John Richard Smith wrote: I have a problem, cannoget new boot disc to boot, it hangs attempting to start xwindows on the command line startX long error message, ending lookin /var/log/xfree86.0.long please see file enclosed. This is a newly created bootdisc

[newbie] Good looking fonts on 9.0

2003-01-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hallo all, A short while back somebody wrote about a tutorial on getting good looking fonts on 9.0. I can't find it any more, so will whoever wrote that tell me again, please. After installing 9.1beta1 and going back to 9.0 to get some serious work done, I find the fonts horrible now. The

Re: [newbie] Boot disc creation with Nvidia drivers

2003-01-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 22:21, John Richard Smith wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 19:55, John Richard Smith wrote: I have a problem, cannoget new boot disc to boot, it hangs attempting to start xwindows on the command line startX long error message, ending lookin /var

Re: [newbie] Boot disc creation with Nvidia drivers

2003-01-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 00:47, John Richard Smith wrote: But you know the problem with my M9.0 boot floppy is that it hangs on the nvidia screen drivers, it doesn't know how to use them, though they are there in the OS so why cannot the boot floppy run them ? John Well, because the

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE - But don't laugh - yet...

2003-01-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 11 January 2003 12:42, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Out hunting articles again... http://www.sudhian.com/docs.cfm/id/304.sud ...not that I totally agree, but sometimes you DO have to stop and think about fame and fortune... Actually I think it's a totally pointless and superfluous

Re: [newbie] OT Obscenity for fun and profit

2003-01-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 11 January 2003 19:31, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 02:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 3:07 pm, RichardA wrote: I live in Leeds now, where if someone says fuck off you can be fairly sure they're swearing at you. Hi, neighbour. I'm south of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 update on install CDs?

2003-01-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 10 January 2003 02:40, A. Contreras wrote: Maar je praat zo goed engels! Je hoeft niet de Nederlandse versie te installeren! A. Contreras My CR website: http://www.elnonio.dns04.com Some people do have non multi-lingual kids, every now and then=;o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 update on install CDs?

2003-01-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 09 January 2003 07:09, ivette brusselmans wrote: Hello, is it possible to burn install CDs that include the updates? There is that bug in the dutch version which blocks Mandrake Control Center, so when I reinstall, I have to pick the English version, do an update that fixes dutch

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Software Manager problem

2003-01-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 09 January 2003 07:01, ivette brusselmans wrote: Tried your suggestion, but got the message can't find CD1 although CD1 was in CDROM drive. Poured myself a glass of good wine and installed MDK 9.0 again, added the mirror in MSM and updated the whole bunch. How come the update

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Software Manager problem

2003-01-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 08:12, ivette brusselmans wrote: Experimenting is a good way to learn, isn't it? Unfortunately, I messed around with the entry for CD1 in Mandrake Software Manager (MSM), deleted it and than added it again. Now when I try to add software from CD1, the system keeps

Re: [OT]: U.S. politics in Linux? Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Which

2003-01-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 06:05, Jim Dawson wrote: Ok, That's enough. Let's get on with something more important Which is better. vi or emacs? ducks and runs... Very fast Oi, you there with the funny stoop! NO running in the hallway, EVER Good ducking =:o) HarM Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Removable media problem

2003-01-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 17:15, Anne Wilson wrote: Have you got fs=auto in your fstab lines? Mine mounts automatically, with the right-click offering unmount. Anne Mine only has 'fs=' in /etc/fstab when supermount is enabled. When/if it's disabled the 'removable media' are extremely

Re: FW: [newbie] Umgangston in dieser Liste

2003-01-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: I wondered what on earth you were on about, for a moment. However, thanks for the translation. It was, of course, addressed to the German list - couldn't mean us, surely ;) Anne They say you're as young as you feel over here in the

Re: [newbie] Removable media problem

2003-01-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 17:50, Anne Wilson wrote: Harm, I lost the supermount on my LS120 (another story), but use automount now, with this line in my fstab /dev/sda /mnt/LS120 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,dev,sync,codepage=850,suid,umask=0 0 0 (all one line, of course). It works

Re: [newbie] Removable media problem

2003-01-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 18:53, mike wrote: On Wednesday 08 January 2003 01:33 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 3:32 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Wednesday 08 January 2003 18:07, John wrote: NO MORE DON'T SEND ANY MORE QUESTIONS TO ME. Fix your system

Re: [newbie] Removable media problem

2003-01-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 08:07, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Sorry to disagree but this works in Removeable media as well. You just right-click *inside* of the open Removeable media window and its the same diff as if you do it on the desktop...just whichever you prefer, desktop or Removeable

Re: [newbie] VNC

2003-01-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 08:43, Lee wrote: Hi All Can I urpmi a Red Hat RPM? Lee Yes, you can, and others (i.e. noarch)as well. If it's no good it usually won't install =:o) Good Luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] update mirrors MDK 9.0

2003-01-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 18:09, ivette brusselmans wrote: Hello When I try to update, I keep getting the message: There was an error downloading the mirrors list: couldn't connect The network, or MandrakeSoft website, are maybe unavailable. Please try again later. I can mail and surf

Re: [newbie] Gimp question

2003-01-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 16:38, Anne Wilson wrote: Whilst installing something else, I saw what I thought was a Gimp plugin, and installed it. The menu says that it is Gimp 1.3.8. It looks like a later version of Gimp, but seems incomplete. Certainly it doesn't see my scanner, and few

Re: [newbie] update mirrors MDK 9.0

2003-01-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 19:27, ivette brusselmans wrote: Yes, I added the relative path, but when I click on update to update the update_source, save and quit, reopen mandrake software manager, update_source is not indicated. I had a simular sort of problem. First deleting the existing

Re: [newbie] VNC getting OT to urpmi

2003-01-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 10:39, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 19:43, Lee wrote: Hi All Can I urpmi a Red Hat RPM? Lee You might be able to, but keep in mind that MDK and RH have different directory structures for different applications - you could very well cause

Re: [newbie] New Ati drivers for linux

2003-01-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 06 January 2003 22:16, Charles A Edwards wrote: I picked up it, Decent3, and SOF sometime back from EB for $8 apiece. I've just installed Loki's 'Mindrover' and their 'Kohan' version on Mdk9.0 and using an Nvidia Geforce2 card...No glitches whatsoever=:o) All the other games on

Re: [newbie] VNC can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel

2003-01-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 05 January 2003 13:32, ivette brusselmans wrote: Still having VNC problems! MDK 9.0 when I type vncviewer in terminal and give the IPaddress of the remote box I want to administer, I get the message VNC server default format: 16 bits per pixel. Least significant byte first in

[newbie] lincity

2003-01-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hi all, Is there anyone that's gotten 'lincity' to run on Mdk9.0? I've tried installing the sources and the binaries as well-- no go! Then made a .rpm (lincity-1.11-7.noarch.rpm) using 'alien' from a .deb (lincity_1.11-6_all.deb) package --no go! Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Books (or lack of them)

2003-01-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 03:56, Adolfo Bello wrote: Is there any good book on Mandrake 9? 8.2? I really don't understand why there are that many books on RH and none that I know on Mandrake. BTW, I really enjoyed the KDE or Gnome thread. Adolfo Well there is a book along with the boxed

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 - lin4win or lnx4win

2002-12-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 23 December 2002 18:42, Russ wrote: Hi All, I have toyed with Mandrake in the past but never really got it working 100%. Always had little issues that I couldn't iron out. Now I am back to give it another go. I want to install it into a Windows directory first to see if I can get

Re: [newbie] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 23 December 2002 23:38, Charlie wrote: On December 23, 2002 04:11 pm, civileme wrote: I have some good news and some urgent news 1. I will be returning to the lists. I will have an email address that can handle list level traffic. 2. All of you are desperately needed to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 22 December 2002 03:09, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:17 am, you wrote: Mandrake got slashdotted today, I just saw the article, then I saw an email from the Mandrake team. http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/20/1815214.shtml?tid=147 I also read

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 on my notebook

2002-12-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 19 December 2002 18:12, Belkie, Dan wrote: Hey guys! I am looking at installing Mandrake 9 on my notebook. I am running win2000 and have over 20 GIG free on my d drive. Should it be pretty easy, without harming my 2000 install? Would this be the correct steps? Insert the first

Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)

2002-12-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 08 December 2002 00:02, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, This is somewhat an illegitimate question, as it deals with hardware and not with linux per se. However, since there are quite a few helpful folks around here, and since my laptop runs Mandrake 9, I dare this breach of etiquette:

Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)

2002-12-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 16:53, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, Ok. But does keeping my laptop with the battery inside CONSTANTILY connected to the power outlet qualify as recharging or not (since the battery does not really discharge the battery to being with, right?). Thanks, Andrei

Re: [newbie] installation with laplink...

2002-11-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 November 2002 05:01, harry wrote: thanks to Franki, I will install 7.0 version on my laptop!! it only has 16mb RAM. could anyone help me figure out how to transfer the installation file onto the laptop hard drive via laplink? that is all I have, aside from 1.2 gb hardrive

Re: [newbie] Linux book in normal english

2002-11-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 November 2002 04:28, Marc wrote: A friend and I have been discussing linux in general and Mandrake in particular. below is part of a email that I received from him. Can anyone suggest some good reading material for this guy? Thanks all Marc Personaly I have

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 November 2002 18:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday November 4 2002 11:08 am, Miark wrote: Wooky, MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your DVD drive. (Use the hdx notation, even

Re: [newbie] two different Linux distributions

2002-11-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 November 2002 18:20, john drouhard wrote: I currently have Mandrake 9.0. It is installed on a 40 GB hard drive. I want to mess around with RedHat 8.0 a little. I was wondering how to set up my machine so I can boot into either Mandrake or Redhat. I also need to know how to install

Re: [newbie] two different Linux distributions

2002-11-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 November 2002 20:52, John Richard Smith wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 18:20, john drouhard wrote: I currently have Mandrake 9.0. It is installed on a 40 GB hard drive. I want to mess around with RedHat 8.0 a little. I was wondering how to set up my

Re: [newbie] install repair help

2002-11-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 November 2002 22:10, Rick Bailey wrote: I have an Internet Appliance (I-Opener) that I have hacked to work with an external hard drive. I'd like to dual boot Win98SE and Linux Mandrake on it. I installed the hard drive in another machine, and copied win98 setup files, and ran

Re: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?

2002-11-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 November 2002 22:38, Carl J. Bauman wrote: Hi All, I'm using Netscape 7.0 with Mandrake 9.0 and was wondering if there's plugin that I can use to handle the video/quicktime MIME type. If so, how would I implement that plugin? I apologize if this is OT for the list. Hopefully,

Re: [newbie] how automatically load drivers for ISA soundcard?

2002-10-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 05:49, joe wrote: I am running ML 8.2 on an old pentium with an ISA soundcard. Every time I restart i have to use modprobe opl3sa2 to get my soundcard working. Is there any way to automate this? TIA for your help. Just add opl3sa2 to /etc/modules and it will be

Re: [newbie] HP ScanJet 3200C(again)

2002-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 28 October 2002 12:37, Maarten Vanraes wrote: I scanned before in mdk8.2 (i had to be root), but since I installed mdk9, i can't scan anymore. I configure it in mandrake control center, but when I use XSane, it says scanner not found? I looked at umax_pp.conf and saw that the

Re: [newbie] Dedicated firewall machine

2002-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 25 October 2002 22:36, RichardA wrote: H.J.Bathoorn, Friday 25 October 2002 18:29: I've got a P133 running Smoothwall very nicely. Smoothwall has a GPL download and even if you decide not to install it: their docs and faq's are well written and clear. When a GPL project

Re: [newbie] Preserving /home

2002-10-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 24 October 2002 22:08, bascule wrote: i haven't had any problems with that part of upgrading except that a few desktop items lost their icons, and the mandrake control centre icon had the wrong path to drakconf, all fixable by right clicking on them and entering the correct info,

[newbie] buying 9.0

2002-10-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together with 8.2. Wanting to help I did so, butnow 9.0 is coming and out it's deafeningly quiet!:o( I don't mind buying 9.0 again, it's all in a good cause, but

Re: [newbie] buying 9.0

2002-10-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 19:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 5:51 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:19 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, A few months back with Mandrake being in financial hard times, there was an offer of pre-buying 9.0 and 9.1 together

Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail?

2002-08-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed 21 Aug 2002 10:03, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm getting more and more of these 'undelevered mail' messages, addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: which turn out to be messages I have posted to the list, and which have appeared on the list. It's getting to be really annoying. Anne So am

Re: [newbie] lost network connection

2002-08-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sun 18 Aug 2002 05:20, b w wrote: OK, a newbie problem. I installed Mandrake 8.2 Thursday night. Was able to connect to the internet with my Cisco uBR900 cable model (through Adelphia), but only after some fiddling with the Mandrake Command Center (it didn't work immediately after

Re: [newbie] running X remotely

2002-08-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Fri 16 Aug 2002 16:34, Kenn Murrah wrote: Greetings ... Okay, I've configured my mandrake box for ssh, and i can reach it from my windows machines using putty ... next step: what is the best approach to running X ... i've seen some windows programs to run X server on the windows box,

Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation

2002-07-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed 03 Jul 2002 03:55, Roland Hughes wrote: I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp will kill me, and I can not find out how. Roly Roland, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put SET newbie NOMAIL (without the quotes) in the message body. to recieve

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thu 27 Jun 2002 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 26 June 2002 03:18 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wed 26 Jun 2002 04:29, John Rigby wrote: The main problem is not your Linux setup or anything else, it is the not-allowed-to-be-discussed-sanely, Cybernazi anti-spammers

Re: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems

2002-06-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thu 27 Jun 2002 20:03, Steve Mendizabal wrote: I want to know why i'm getting failed eth0, failed eth1 messages at boot. I tried looking through the docs but found nothing. Any help or gentle push would be greatly appreciated. well here's some gentle pushing: Go to a commandline by

Re: [newbie] Windows, small OT on Linux-nonfb

2002-06-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sun 23 Jun 2002 02:43, Michael Adams wrote: I thought the answer to this one (showing what is starting Ok) was to remove quiet in the lilo.conf stanza, then run lilo. Yep, Right you are but I'm not the only user over here and some do like the graphical version, so that's the default:o) I

Re: [newbie] Windows, small OT on Linux-nonfb

2002-06-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sat 22 Jun 2002 15:59, robin wrote: nonfb = non-frame-buffer. Sometimes necessary with older video cards (I had to use it for a while - I think it was on my Trdent 3DImage). If normal linux is working fine in X, you should never need it. And I can add to that, that it uses the lovely

Re: [newbie] Windows

2002-06-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thu 20 Jun 2002 02:08, Den wrote: Hi! First, I want to know, do you have someone who speaks russian? If you don't, I try in my bad english! ;) I'm newbie in Linux. I just installed it on my computer. So, my question is how can I choose OS to load? If I have not just Linux! Actually, on

Re: [newbie] Pentium 233MMX

2002-06-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed 19 Jun 2002 05:58, civileme wrote: Ummm, on a P233 you would want perhaps ML 7.2 or 7.1, not 8.0 or later. Those are the contemporary equivalents of 98SE, while 8.2 is contemporary with XP Professional and really only comparable to it. Civileme I'm surprised to hear you say that. I

Re: [newbie] xircom/nic and modem

2002-06-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed 19 Jun 2002 03:00, Roland Hughes wrote: I have instlled Mandrake 8.2 on a Gateway Solo 5150 with a xircom pcmcia card containing a ethernet nic and a modem. I was pleasantly surprised with the install and the xircom/modem/nic was detected and set up.I know the nic works (eth0) and have

Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?

2002-06-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Fri 14 Jun 2002 23:03, D. Olson wrote: Whiles we're bitching about copy and paste, let me throw my anger in here too. Stupid Klipper doesn't work as expected all the time. Why is it that sometimes it doesn't pick up what I selected? And why is it that sometimes I select something, and

Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.2 + usb-mouse hotplugging

2002-06-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thu 13 Jun 2002 14:53, schall rauch wrote: Hi everyone, I posted this message about a month ago in comp.os.linux.misc nobody has answered so far. I guess it was the wrong place to post something mandrake specific. Well, my problem is my usb-mouse. It works fine after startup, but after

Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Fri 12 Jun 2009 02:41, robin wrote: This is more pertinent in a lot of countries where you can buy any Windows game for $3 on the street (I sometimes think penguinistas should support moves to stamp out software piracy, as this would kill the Windows monopoly in most of the world). Yeah,

Re: [newbie] test

2002-06-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 08 June 2002 00:23, Derek Byram wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 15:03, you wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Jay wrote: Oh tks! ;-) But as someone has mentioned before... this kind of thread is only possible due to the subscribers maturity level as well as nice sense of

Re: [newbie] test

2002-06-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 08 June 2002 01:31, Derek Byram wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 00:24, you wrote: Don't push what Why can't anyone speak coherently? What coherently?? That's 'Hollish' for: Who pee'ed in my vodka?? Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 18:13, you wrote: Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going support and staff training costs would be too much for most small to mid sized enterprises. People don't know Linux. Windows is expensive up front, but has lowish support costs as most

Re: [newbie] video card replacement/system won't boot

2002-05-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 23:44, you wrote:  I've been running a dual-boot Mandrake 8.2/Windows system since 8.2 became available.  Today, I had to upgrade/replace my old video card because it has gone bad Just for curiosity: How do you recognize a video card going bad? Lines on the screen,

Re: [newbie] cable modem question

2002-05-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 21:16, you wrote: I have linux 7.1 and i dont know a thing, but want to learn. I am on a cable modem but dont know how to configure linux to operate on the cable modem. I have internet through att broadband. Could someone give me a step by step instructons? Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Is VNC-Only possible?

2002-05-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 20 May 2002 12:47, you wrote: I have a Linux machine with no monitor. Is it possible not to run X, but just a VNC server on screen :0 for access from my XP machine? I will also run a SSHD server so I would be able to restart the VNC server in the event of an accidental logoff. :)

Re: [newbie] Command-line command list

2002-05-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 18 May 2002 18:03, you wrote: Where should I go to find a listing of the command-line commands? I've been trying to copy the MP3's from the CD's that I burned over to a personal folder, but it buggers up rather often. Last time I tried, it gave me an error message when the file

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Networking

2002-05-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 18 May 2002 23:01, you wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Networking Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 16:58:57 -0400 From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 09 May 2002 02:23 am, you wrote: On Thursday 09 May 2002 8:41 am,

Re: [newbie] Can't Boot Linux

2002-05-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 18:38, you wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2002 08:47:52 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can no longer boot into Linux, and I need to get files from my Mandrake drive. I have a dual boot system with Windows 98 on hard drive 1, and Mandrake 8.1 on Hard Drive 2. I had

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem

2002-03-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 25 March 2002 11:36, you wrote: Hi. I'm using a Conexant HSF internal modem to connect to the net, the drivers installed OK and I'm not receiving any error messages but I cant access any sites on the WWW at all. It connects fine then just sits there doing nothing DHCP seems to

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem-sorry typo!

2002-03-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 25 March 2002 13:28, you wrote: Typo! that should've been service network stop -- -- Harm Bathoorn. One has authority, until it's called on Corto Maltese..Sign of the Capricorn;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] plizzz help me

2002-03-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 08 March 2002 10:10, you wrote: hi , i just install linux mandrake 8.1 after install win xp, after all finished i change the size of my linux swap partition with partition magic after that all lilo can;t boot anymore...pliz help me As a last resort you could try to put the swap

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake TROUBLES

2002-03-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 08 March 2002 17:31, you wrote: I am having THREE very persistant, very annoying problems with my Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack installation on a Celeron 533 machine... Here they are. Can ANYONE help me? 1. Cannot log into X as root. I know, I know I shouldn't use X as root, but I

Re: [newbie] gaim crash - won't go away!

2002-03-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 17:44, you wrote: Hi all, I thought I might be able to give you some peace, but no such luck! I tried to use gaim to get onto my msn account, but it has crashed and I can't get rid of it. I have it sitting there not responding on my desktop, and can't shut it down.

Re: [newbie] run linux from cd

2002-03-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 19:26, you wrote: the suse is up to version 7.3 now and is on the suse site under download a little surfing. there is also http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Li ve_CD/ -- Let's not forget Simply GNUstep

Re: [newbie] OK new question... ya i'm full of em.

2002-03-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 23:22, you wrote: OK I feel better.  I hope it wasn't at the expense of making you folk feel worse. -- You never do Civileme. I personally find your rants a very good read and humorous to boot:) Nice to have things put 'right' every now and then. -- Good hunting,

Re: [newbie] fill in the blank.directory question...

2001-11-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 30 November 2001 00:01, you wrote: Okay, I asked this before, but I've not been able to resolve it...if I copy/move/delete a file from any folder/directory, it leaves a file called: the name if that folder.directory I don't want this, its useless as far as I can tell, and

Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now

2001-11-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:09, you wrote: Regarding Canon BJC 2100 and BJC 2000 I actually work for Canon and I use at home a BJC2100 why do you say never buy that? It works for  that little printing that I do at home fine for over a year now . Christian Posratschnig My main

Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now

2001-11-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 22:01, you wrote: Dear Linus, Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately I cannot even get a test page to print now. Test pages were printing for awhile but not anymore. It is very strange, because everything worked at first then just slowly stopped working.

Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)

2001-11-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 16:51, you wrote: i have been laughing my way through the recent problem with linux threads, and just had to add this somewhat off topic but i think very called for thought Things I hate about linux.. lets face it, there are things you dislike about the

Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now

2001-11-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 17:34, you wrote: Dear All, I have recently installed Linux-mandrake 8.1. I have an Epson Stylus Color printer which worked fine with cups in 7.2 and after a fix from Till worked eventually in 8. I thought it was going to work great in 8.1. It worked at first and

Re: [newbie] Lnx4win

2001-11-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 23 November 2001 21:48, you wrote: Hi everyone. I would like to install the lnx4win option on my son's computer. I know that Mandrake 8.1 has the option of installing with the command lnx4win. I tried that, but it appears that it will repartition the hard drive. I don't want to

Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux

2001-11-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 25 November 2001 11:43, you wrote: at the moment the diversity of Linux is its downfall, why should anyone want one killer app when you can have 5 half finished ones, 2 main desktops toolkits, several office suits (none of which talk the industry standard MS office) ad nausea

Re: [newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 23 November 2001 15:19, you wrote: Gidday folks (sorry coundn't find the original posters name) I can't help wondering if the fault lies with the floppy drive being used rather than the system formatting incorrectly rgrds max I thought the same at first. So I kicked ol'

Re: [newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 22 November 2001 12:06, you wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2001 05:12 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Since mdk8.1 I'm burning floppies like hell. It's not the drive itself, I tested that, so it's got to be Mandrake. I know Linux is more demanding on floppy quality, but 2 good

[newbie] formatting floppies

2001-11-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, Since mdk8.1 I'm burning floppies like hell. It's not the drive itself, I tested that, so it's got to be Mandrake. I know Linux is more demanding on floppy quality, but 2 good floppies out of 10 is overdoing it :( Anybody else have similar troubles? Harm Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Re: running 'kylix'

2001-11-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2001 4:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re: running 'kylix' On Monday 19 November 2001 15:10, you wrote: I had the same thign with Kylix version 1, I upgraded to version 2 this weekend and it works fine

Re: [newbie] Cable Modems, Linux and NICs

2001-11-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 17:23, you wrote: Hi gang, I'm one of the new newbies on the listhave been playing with my linux box at home for a few months (currently running LM 8.1 via the PowerPack). Before I lay down some cash I wanted to ask the list some questions. I'd like to add

[newbie] Re: running 'kylix'

2001-11-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 19 November 2001 15:10, you wrote: I had the same thign with Kylix version 1, I upgraded to version 2 this weekend and it works fine. The matrix loads up in a few seconds now. Thanks a lot, that worked allright:) A worrying thing though: In the install (readme) it says very

running 'kylix' was Re: [newbie] problems installing 'kylix'

2001-11-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Yeah, Mine started after a while as well (thanks). Dunno why tho, didn't leave this widget running all night though. Funny thing: I installed the crossover-wine and presto: all the icons were ther (they weren't before) on the taskbar. Then. I moved my /home/harm directory to

Re: [newbie] Web page design

2001-11-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 15 November 2001 21:34, you wrote: Hello, What program is the best to design web pages without knowing now to program. I have been using frontpage 2000. I'm trying to get away from windows and just use linux. next i need to change over my hp joranda 450 to use under linux

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 12 November 2001 23:20, you wrote: From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word - Original Message - Got anymore info? What printer? Were you using the lpr command i.e

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 04:02, you wrote: Currently I am using Abi Word version version 0.9.2 and I cannot get it to print on Mandrake 8. The setting in Abi Word is Printer and command lpr. But nothing. I can print to file (ps) all OK, but when I print to the printer nothing happens.

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 12 November 2001 18:26, you wrote: I had a related problem - Abiword would only print the LAST page of a document! Anyone got any clues about this? Abiword certainly isn't perfect yet, but it shouldn't/doesn't do that :-p Got anymore info? What printer? Were you using the lpr

Re: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?

2001-11-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 08 November 2001 13:30, you wrote: On Thursday 08 November 2001 08:24 am, Eric Caron wrote: I tried to install mandrake linux on a pentium 100 with 24 megs of ram and I couldn't get to the end of the installation. The packages are installed, but either when configuring the

Re: [newbie] Another Sound problem

2001-11-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 02 November 2001 21:21, you wrote: Did you check if the specific user that you are running has audio enabled i.e. has audio marked as a group? If not ; do so as root :) Good luck. Well, sice I didn't get a reply and I had the time, I re-installed Mandrake from scratch with the

Re: [newbie] Another Sound problem

2001-11-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
TV card and hey presto: SOUND!!! -- all the rest was still mute :o( THEN -- After a reboot all was fine ?? There's no valid reason for this kind of thing (excluding the Redmond beast), so who's got the insight?? Good hunting, Harm From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 02 November 2001 19:22, you wrote: Hey guys, Don't y'all think it would be better to rename this thread 'athlon' instead of 'Pentium IV' ? :) Hi Tom, My case currenly has no sides on it at all, front or back, there is a power supply fan directing air directly onto the CPU via a

Re: [newbie] problems installing 'kylix'

2001-10-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 26 October 2001 19:54, you wrote: Hi, My system is running LM 8.1. When I try to install 'kylix' I get this message: [root@main kylix_oe]# sh setup.sh : command not found : command not found : command not found 'etup.sh: line 54: syntax error near unexpected token `{

Re: [newbie] Burping a printer?

2001-10-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 05:19, Joseph Zitt wrote: Printing to an Epson Stylus Color 880 via CUPS under Madrake 8.0... Occasionally a random print job goes awry and, instead of printing thePostscriptdocument properly, it prints the Postscript code, which is, of course, huge. When this

Re: [newbie] mount umount cdrom

2001-10-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 19:29, you wrote: Grr.. I'm not sure what the problem is here, but this is still not working for me. My porblem is a little different in that supermounting works fine, I get a nice little icon on my desktop and everything, with data cds. But I still can't

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