[newbie] Access to CD-Rom?

i am trying to access my cd-roms in linux as a user and they were both locked (i don't have access). so i logged in as root and tried to use them, and again, they were both locked. how can i unlock them? TIA seth

Re: [[newbie] Access to CD-Rom?]

Jim Simpson wrote: I had the same problem when I installed Mandrake 7.0. The first time there was an error installing "fstab" so I reinstalled. Still didn't work. So I turned down the security setting to low and then had access as root but not as user. After using the CD-Rom to install the

Re: [newbie] slow Linux

Charles Ulwelling wrote: Check to see if you have a bunch of instances of httpd running, thats apache and it screwed me earlier today... later charles Ulwelling nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the performance??

[newbie] Clock Setting

hello all... i re installed linux due to a dumb move on my part (part of the learning process, eh?) and i accidentally set my clock to GMT, which is 5 hours behind the time here. how can i reset it to display my local time? thanks. seth

[newbie] PalmPilot?

hello all... just wondering if MDK has support for palm pilots... thanks seth -- _ (_'_ ..

[newbie] (no subject)

hello all... quick question.. i am running mandrake 7.0 with the K desktop. how can i get Kmp3 to play my MP3's instead of kmpg? thanks seth -- _ (_'_ ..

Re: [newbie] just re-install windows...over it

Sean Galland wrote: DO NOT DO THIS!! I just did that and spent 5 hours on the phone with Bynari systems trying to fix it - Original Message - From: Kit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 10:13 PM Subject: [newbie] just

[newbie] KDE Themes and Colors

i have unsuccessfully attempted to change the color themes in KDE. i am running Mandrake 7.0. can anyone help? seth -- _ (_'_ ..

Re: [newbie] Mitsumi Scrolling Mouse Support?

Alan Shoemaker wrote: HALactivate imwheel according to its directions. Alan HAL 9000 wrote: Hello all.. i have installed mandrake 7.0 and i read that it supports scorlling mice. i have a mitsumi scrolling mouse, and was just curious as to how i would enable this option

[newbie] Mitsumi Scrolling Mouse Support?

Hello all.. i have installed mandrake 7.0 and i read that it supports scorlling mice. i have a mitsumi scrolling mouse, and was just curious as to how i would enable this option. thanks. seth -- _ (_'_ ..

Re: [newbie] what web browser do you all use?

i have to agree... although i am anti-Micro$oft, i despise netscape. especially the mail client. IE is easy to use, and especially on linux, no THAT system demanding... just my thought ;o) seth On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mark Sheppard wrote: What web browser does everyone use with Linux? I

[newbie] screenshots?

its prolly the most simple thing to do, and i have no idea how to do it. how do i do screenshots? thanks in advance. seth

[newbie] StarOffice

hello.. thanks for the replies about screenshots :o) another question. i just downloaded staroffice 5.1 (i love my t1 connection) and it is in *.tar format. however when i try to untar is, i get the following error (using terminal emulation): gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

Re: [newbie] New install... Network problems

Rodney Fulk wrote: Hello, I have a problem that nothing I have seems to explain... I have a linux box running on an Asus P2B-S motherboard with 32 meg of memory, Celeron 300a, Diamond Stealth 2000 video card (Pci with standard S3 chipset.), 8 Gig hard drive, LinkSys 10/100 Network card and

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

"Ronald J. Yacketta" wrote: what command did you use? sounds like a tar zxvf file.tar if the arcgive is not compressed you will get the error you mentioned try tar zvf file.tar is that failes re-download in binary mode *if ftp'ed) On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, HAL 9000 wrote: hell