Re: [newbie] Network is unreachable

1999-12-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote: A week ago, I installed Mandrake 6.0 on my second PC -- my first attempt at a dual-boot system. While initial installation was simpler on this one than the first one, I cannot get my Internet connection to work. Unfortunately, it was necessary for my first PC

Re: [newbie] Angry network cards

1999-12-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dos anyone have the Advanced Networking Products 10/100 cards working? They use the tulip driver. It is easy to bring them up, but it appears they will not send or receive without the I/O port being set. On my other machine that I want to make into a router,

Re: [newbie] Kppp Problem

1999-11-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi, i'm new in this list and quite new in Linux, but i'm trying to learn something. Hi, i've got a problem with the Internet conection. The kppp doesn't recognize the modem. I've got an internal modem (/dev/ttyS2), but kppp says that he can´t find

Re: [newbie] Linux Time Setting

1999-11-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote: John,(and Tom) I thought I made it executable SUID but rdate only worked as root. I'll seek further advice on that problem. As for the hardware clock, I got a message: bash: alias: 'hwclock --systohc' not found. I added your words and quotes exactly to the

Re: [newbie] riva tnt drivers

1999-11-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote: hi again, has any one download the drivers for linux of the RIVA TNT from www.nvidia.com ? well I' m a little confused. from their ftp server I don't know which file I need to download in order to use it. I don't have any problem with my system. All works

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling - What are the general rules for uninstalling? (NON-RPM)

1999-11-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote: When you install software from source code, what is the general rule for uninstalling it? (non-RPM) Try using "make uninstall" from the command line where you ran the "make" and "make install." John

Re: [newbie] DNS documentation

1999-11-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm looking at the help screen for IP aliases configuration. At paragraph 5.2 Tell the DNS about this reference is made to "Configure domain name server" menu and 'IP allocation space". Where is this? Bill Barnes Well, the way *I* have always

Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgrade from Mandrake Linux 6.0 to 6.1]

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: Secondly, would some nice programmer make a script to _autoinstall_ the updated kernel, ie: step thru _ALL_ the make, make mod, etc so that given a set install DIR, that once the new kernel is located there in uncompressed format, that a simple _UPDATE_ or

Re: [newbie] lilo

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: When you update the kernel you have to put what in lilo so it uses the new kernel? Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description:

Re: [newbie] Kernel Update

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: Last question. How do I create a boot disk for the new kernel? The install CD wouldn't let me. Do I amend the old boot disk or, since I have kept the old kernel, add the new kernel to the old boot disk? Thanks for any help. Get to a console prompt and type

Re: [newbie] Installation help!

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hey all... Totally new to the Linux thing, but not new to the Unix thing. Though familiar with Unix, I have never had to install it, and being totally new to Linux, have no clue why I am having problems. I'm running a Abit BE6 motherboard, Celeron500,

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: P.S. Is there an ls command that will allow the directory contents to stop at the end of each page so I can read them? Yes: ls |less (that's the "pipe" symbol, in case you don't recognize it.) As for your "x-server" problems, what video card do you have and

Re: [newbie] figured it out... different problem now...

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hey again all... New problem, I have gotten into Disk Druid (finally! ;)) and now it wont assign the root partition because it says that "the boot partition is too large?" I believe this has something to do with it being over 1024 cylinders.. or perhaps

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Linux Mandrake via ftp

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi people, How can I upgrade Linux Mandrake via ftp? Do you currently have a RedHat or Mandrake installation? If so, you should be able to do an upgrade. If not, you'll need to do a full install via ftp. The first thing you need to do is download a network

Re: [newbie] Before I start?

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have to install WinNintyHate, so I've been giving this some thought. A friend of mine installs win98 in 2 partitions, where most of the programs are in the second and win98 itself in the first. Better off in a crash situation he says. Sound idea. :-)

Re: [newbie] Kernel Update

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: Also I read man mkbootdisk and through trial and error rather than clear assistance I entered: mkbootdisk --device /dev/floppy 2.2.13-22mdk and it worked. Each time I made an error I got a clue about what to try next. Better than Riven! Actually, you

Re: [newbie] Linux Time Setting

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: I put ' alias rdate="rdate -sp time.nist.gov" ' in 'bashrc'. All I have to do is type 'rdate' and the time and date are set correctly. Tom: You might also want to add "hwclock --systohc" to that alias so that you sync your HARDWARE clock to the software

Re: [newbie] Before I start?

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: John.. I too am brand new to Linux...and would like to know how i go about making a boot disk(?)..I am using system commander delux on win98...upon making the boot disk...do i load it first and then the cdrom (linux mandrake 6.1) or do i load both and they

Re: [newbie] Before I start?

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: John.. I too am brand new to Linux...and would like to know how i go about making a boot disk(?)..I am using system commander delux on win98...upon making the boot disk...do i load it first and then the cdrom (linux mandrake 6.1) or do i load both and they

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] need help

1999-11-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: Thanks to all for your help so far, I'm still working on it. BUT, I haven't found the rescue image on the cd , just the readme about it and the boot disk info and I already have a boot disk. Ok.well, I can't seem to find one on the 'net either! You may

RE: [newbie] eth0

1999-11-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have ADSL and it doesn't require a dynamic IP, my isp gave me a static IP for my nic and a seperate one for my virtual web hosting account. Just FYI. :-) Around these parts, they don't give out static IPs for ADSL. :-) At least not according to my

Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic

1999-11-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi! I know this is off topic, but I noticed that a lot of you guys are Network Admins or similar.. I was just wondering if the following Saga is common practice by you guys... We have just been connected in the past month to the Internet at work and the

Re: [newbie] Netscape not working

1999-11-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: G'day ... a small problem with netscape! I've checked the mail archives and a few other places but still can't findout how to get Netscape to work when I log into X as a regular user or as root (I have a static IP going out through a router on our LAN). I can

Re: [newbie] /home partition -- how?

1999-11-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: I would usually figure out how much space I'll want for /home, subtract that and 128MB from my total HD space, and put the result into root, then make the 128MB swap, then make the /home partition with the rest of the space (which will of course be around what

Re: [RE: [newbie] eth0]

1999-11-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Contrary to what you may think...not all Cable modems are Dynamic, mine is STATIC, and along with just about all I personally know with cable modems, they are ALSO static. IMHO Jaguar *shrug* I'm just going by what I've heard from others. :-) I work for my

Re: [newbie] MVP3 chipset and L-M 6.0

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello, I've been happily using L-M 6.0 on a single-boot system for a couple months. Now I'm in the process of assembling another system from spare parts and would like to configure it as triple boot setup with 2 installs of Win98 (one for games the other

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: Negative, suffer the month and buy the linux version, it truely is the only way others will get the hint. And as for complaining, make sure you only whine about the shipping dates not all being the same, as they really are only trying to help in shiping

Re: [newbie] Athlon Linux

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: instructions) recently. There's nothin on the market right now that deserves going to ... or is ready yet 'specially in a U*ix environment that lags behind the leading edge

Re: [newbie] need help

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi Gurus, I have been running LM 6.1 on my ide drive c (hdc) and have it somewhat configured enought to get online, print, etc. Today I installed another copy on a clean drive which is hdb. It boots OK but I don't have it configured as yet. My problem

Re: [newbie] Scanner

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: The sane-mustek.5 notes say: "The only non-SCSI scanner that has some support at this point is the 600 11N scanner which comes with its own parallel port adapter (i.e., it does not attach to the printer port)." I guess "some support"= not very much since I

Re: [newbie] Monitor resolution settings

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: Help! I want to set the screen resolution of my Q-71 monitor to 1024x768. Problem is that installation of Mandrake Linux 6.1 set default resolution to something around 1280x1024. When using xConfigurator, the default resolution is about 640x480 with the

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: Bummer! :-( Guess we need to email Id and complain! :-) John I dunno actually. . .theyre reasoning wakes good sense. carmack stated that the reason that he wants to hold off on downloadable linux binaries is so that they

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 Telnet problem

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: What changes were made between Mandrake 6.0 and 6.1 related to the Telnet server? I installed 6.1 (from the downloaded ISO image) on a computer (P200 with 32 megs RAM, 2 gig hard drive, WD ethernet card) using the "server" choice and the machine won't accept an

Re: [newbie] amd question

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: Can someone please tell me what this means in the syslog and what needs to be done about it? Thanks! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Nov 22 16:53:17 tiger amd[508]: Unknown host: .directory Nov 22 16:53:17 tiger amd[508]: Using NFS version 0, protocol udp on host

Re: [newbie] O.T. the billy dance

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Sorry about this but I had to send this through. Enjoy http://halloweendance.com/billy/ snip Crashed Netscape trying to play it, any suggestions? KFM. ;-) I used plain old KFM to view the site! :-) John

Re: [newbie] Memory - what a hoot!

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: Eric Mings wrote: I originally posed the question about where to find good prices on memory. Thanks to everyone who responded! Anyways, as a comparison, the local CompUSA quoted me a price close to $500 for 128 meg PC 100 memory. I just ordered it

Re: [newbie] kmail won't load, tool bars mangled

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, I wrote to kde-users with my woes and they haven't been able to help (thus far, anyway) other than to suggest a reinstall. Just installed my fresh new mandrake 6.1 with k. when I run kmail for the first time it set up its new mail folder in my

RE: [newbie] eth0

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: Its plugged in from my 'puter to a 4-port hub *shrug* I think the answer given yesterday was to turn OFF DHCP. I never have any problems 'cause I *always* use a static IP for my system 'course I'm using an ISDN router and not a cable modem or ADSL which

Re: [newbie] need help

1999-11-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, you wrote: To append the directly above: I copied the bootup screen messages and the relative part is as follows. Checking filesystems fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb1 (null): The super

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: CompUSA, Bestbuy, and Linuxmall will all carry it when it's released i'd wager. Kewl. I'll have to see if I can put in a "pre-order" order. ;-) Thanks, man! :-) John

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi John, I tried from a console window within KDE and I unpack it whit tar xfv file.tar Oder. I don't recall how I did it, but you might try running ./setup (or whatever) from a console TTY (NOT a console window.) I don't know why it would make any

RE: [newbie] ADSL?

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: While this is fine if you have a box to destroy, I mean put windows on. I'm sure they have a tech that can verify the ethernet connection with a laptop. Setting up the network

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Oder Santos wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: My processor is a intel 200MHz with MMX, 96 MB EDO DRAM - notebook toshiba 315 CDS - and 350MB free drive space. regards, Oder. Hmm..Pentium

Re: [newbie] Re: your mail

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: On 20 Nov 1999, Jaguar wrote: Can I boot from LM 6.0 CDRom, and then using a cable modem point to LM 6.1 on an FTP and end up with a working LM 6.1??? TIA Jaugar no, the cd would need to be remade to use the network.img instead of the cdrom.img from

Re: [newbie] eth0

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hey everyone. When booting, it takes FOREVER to start interface eth0. Is it plugged into anything? John

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm still waiting (myself) to find out where/when I can buy the Linux version of Q3 Arena. :-) I called Id software on Friday and they said they don't have a release date yet. :-( Yah rumor was nov 24, then dec 7. .

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: Me too.. Epic is doing the same thing.. Making the Linux client available for download instaed of including it on the CD.. I guess we cant expect miracles overnight.. At least companies are starting to recognize that Linux users want to play games. And Id

Re: [newbie] How to

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: I install StarOffice in my root under "Gnome and X apps" k menus but I'm not found it in my user account,why ? please advise how can i install [StarOffice] it in my user account ? You probably needed to do an "install --net" to get multi-user support.

Re: [newbie] It's here

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hey John, quake3 official demo (test version anyway?) is out. . .grab it now before everyone finds out about it!!! yes i know it's sad ive been sitting here the last 2 hrs waiting for carmack's announcement. . .no, i have no life(:-D :-) I just need it

Re: [newbie] Scanner

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: Sorry, John, parallel. How's this from the SANE-mustek.5 notes: "Note that this scanner comes with its own ISA card that implements a funky parallel port (in other words the scanner is not connected to the printer parallel port. The code present in this

Re: [newbie] Samba

1999-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: Sounds like an "encrypted password" problem. I bet when you click on the sahre in Network Neighborhood it asks for a password for the a share with "$" in it. If so, you must enable password encryption in your Samba setup. Keith wrote: Or, I think, if the

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?

1999-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: My processor is a intel 200MHz with MMX, 96 MB EDO DRAM - notebook toshiba 315 CDS - and 350MB free drive space. regards, Oder. Hmm..Pentium 200mmxI don't see anything obvious here Have you tried from a console window within X as well as from console

Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)

1999-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even. John

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack

1999-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: StarOffice 5.1 is included as a 30 day full-trial pending your registration. Don't know if registration is free or not as my trial isn't up yet. -Josh If you download it, it's free, so I would assume that the version on the CD is free. John

Re: [newbie] Sound card integrated on board.

1999-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: ESS and Crystal Audio and several others I can't think of right now make chipsets that OEM's stick on their cards. Does Linux support the chipset directly or the OEM's card which in some cases has a slightly modified version of the chipset? For Crystal

Re: [newbie] Quake

1999-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: How/where does one get Quake for linux?? Presumeably in the software store. :-) John If you've been unfortunate enough to buy the windows only version, you will find

Re: [newbie] FW: Bouncing!! (991117-8324497)

1999-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote: Looks like a lot of #$@# to me!! I have a feeling that either they don't know what they are doing, or we are in a lot of trouble :-( The problem is NOT with mindspring.com

RE: [newbie] ADSL?

1999-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, you wrote: While this is fine if you have a box to destroy, I mean put windows on. I'm sure they have a tech that can verify the ethernet connection with a laptop. Setting up the network card is truly trivial, no matter what OS good ones don't even require a reboot. Do

Re: [newbie] ISP connection good...FIRE BAD

1999-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: Boy, people thought I was a 'puter geek when I was using windoze... After several re-installs and reconfigurations of internet sofware, I think I've finally gotten pretty close to where I'd like to be. I can use my ISP connection as an unpriveleged user!

Re: [newbie] pine setup

1999-11-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: I get a message while booting about httpd failing. Is this bad? I have gotten a few times before, but I don't think that it keeps me from doing anything. Are you running a web server? If not, just disable httpd in your startup info. John

Re: [newbie] Installing on omnibook- mouseconfig hangs

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have recently tried to install mandrake 6.1 on my omnibook 2000ct. Everything went smoothly until I reached the point where it probs for a mouse after installing the packages. The response was: Probing found some type of PS/2 mouse on port psaux. The

Re: [newbie] modem install

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I bought US Robotics 56K PCI modem... How can I configure it under Mandrake Linux 6.1 Is there a utility that I can use??? The vast majority of PCI 56k modems are "WinModems" and as such are unuseable under Linux. If you want to be absolutely sure that your

Re: [newbie] No bounces???

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Bad form to reply to my own message, I know, but just a "heads up" that the bounces are still occuring. :( I know... :-( Sheesh. I'm doing the same job they are and at least *I* admit when there's a problem with our configs. :-( John

RE: [newbie] modem install

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Singer XJ Wang [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: â 16 ðåáîáø 1999 8:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [newbie] modem install Confirmed WinModem [Mike Perry] Anyone write software to emulate

Re: [newbie] Font trouble

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have a similar problem. I downloaded a seven meg file from rpmfind.net, but it appears to be the wrong file. As I am a dummy, can someone let me know what I'm looking for? *I* certainly don't know...however a quick search of the archives of this list for

Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings (OT)

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi John, I certainly don't disagree with you, as I've seen postings like this before, but I'm not good enough to offer a constructive software solution. What I was offering was a definite hardware config solution, so the guy wasn't compounding a kernel problem

Re: [newbie] No telnet?

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Mandrake 6.1 [Q1] I and two of my friends have installed Linux-Mandrake all in the same night just by chance and it happens that none of us can use telnet on ourselves? $ telnet localhost fails says it connected but then that the server

[newbie] bounced emails

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
ally route all incoming email for "racetrac.com" (regardless of what's before the "@" symbol) to their mailbox *sigh* Let's make 'em sit up and take notice that it's NOT just one or two people having problems! John Aldrich

Re: [[newbie] modem install ]

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: No it's not a winmodem... I checked for that before I bought it... How is modem configuration done under Linux, and I will try if it works... Peter: Please visit the following page: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/19991113a.html Then, if it's listed as "OK"

Re: [[newbie] modem install ]

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: I just checked US Robotics site for my modem and in fact it will work under DOS, so I assume that it should work in Linux. I just don't know how to configure it... What's the exact model number of your modem? John

Re: [newbie] Printing problems

1999-11-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm using linux Mandrake 6.0 with KDE. I have a remote printer - HP LaserJet 5 - part of the LAN. Lpd works when I try printing with lpr but there are problems when I try to print from Maxwell for example. I think that there is some problem with filters but I

Re: [newbie] HD sizes and such

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Howdy all. Just joined this list, and should be installing Mandrake next week, if all goes well. I am wondering if someone could tell me how much HD space i should partition for it? I have 1.7 gigs left on my drive. Winblows and stuff takes the rest up. Would

Re: [newbie] US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi My US Robotics 56kb V.90 modem runs at 49000 in windows 95, but only 37333 in Linux. What am I missing here. Is their a setting I missed. Thanks for any help. AFAIK, Windows isn't giving you the whole truth. Linux is reporting the "nominal" connect rate.

Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know what the particuliars are if any for hard drives and linux... I have purchased a new motherboard and have a 4.2gb Ultra DMA 2 Maxtor hard drive spec 8184cyl 16hd 63sec. I have set it up using Large, LBA, and Normal bios settings. I have

Re: [newbie] Linux and bios\harddrive settings

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: The first thing I can suggest is set it to LBA and leave it there, Linux doesn't like Normal or large. Leave UDMA active, although if it is UDMA 66 (I have no idea what UDMA 2 is, I've only seen UDMA 33 and UDMA 66), you may have to go back through the mailing

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: John, I am currently using KDE and am rather pleased with the results. Admittedly I am still trying to get used to linux but so far I'm happy. Yes I use Netscape but with my ISDN line I don't really notice much in the way of delay, come to think of it

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Is Gnome (for give spelling if incorrect), less of a memory hog than KDE? Not really. It's still very much a "pretty" GUI. For a less memory-intensive GUI, try FVWM or something like that. John

[newbie] No bounces???

1999-11-15 Thread John Aldrich
HeyI think we may have finally solved the bouncing problem. :-) I got tired of the bouncing emails and sent a message to Mindspring's support. THEY claimed it was on the list's mail server, but since receiving the note from Mindspring (AND having posted a couple messages) I haven't seen any

Re: [newbie] forced checked

1999-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Figured out the problempartition has gone bad. What's the easiest way to reformat it and check it for bad sectors? mke2fs /dev/hdXZ where X=the hard drive LETTER (a-z) and Z=the partition NUMBER on the hard drive, ie hda5. John

Re: [newbie] X problems

1999-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: I got a serious problem with X when I make a new instalation of Mandrake 6.1. I installed it on a machine with a previous Mandrake 6.0, working fine with X - KDE. When I got my Mandrake 6.1 CD I backuped my machine and I formatted it and make a full

Re: [newbie] X problems

1999-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: I try config X with generic VGA, with generic monitor at 640x480, 8 bits and not works. I try installing from another CD, nothing You haven't given enough info. What video card, what processor, how much RAM, etc. John

Re: [newbie] Monitor Setup Program Used During Installation - How to find it run?

1999-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: How do you get back to that program that helped setup the monitor? It had that visual test to see what your settings would look like before you accept it. Seve boot to console mode (at LILO type "linux 3") and then type "setup" and select "x configuration"

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

1999-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: I have a K6-2 350 with 32Mb RAM and the thing runs great - OK, I still only use it for internet browsing and Email but so I haven't needed to add more RAM. You might however consider adding some more hard drive though. Which window manager are you using? I

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2

1999-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, you wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is a version of Realplayer for LINUX? Thanks YES! There is!

Re: [newbie] A real Newbie Question.

1999-11-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi all, I´m very new to linux. Well, i havn´t really used Linux at all. Thats my question. I have a old computer that i want to run linux on the specs are: Pentium 120 32MB RAM 1 gig hd is that enough to run e.g. Mandrake 6.1 Everything but the RAM is

Re: [newbie] strange things

1999-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, you wrote: How do we get him to stop? Jeanette Well, we can mail-bomb Mindspring's technical guys until they get in touch with their client, or we can mail-bomb the person responsible for the "racertrac.com" domain or both. :-) John

Re: [newbie] Flatbed Scanners - How to setup for Linux?

1999-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm trying to setup a Umax 1200S SCSI flatbed scanner. The problem is that I'm having trouble tracking down some info on this subject so here are a few questions. Does Linux need a Twain driver or is there an alternative? I could not find any Linux drivers

Re: [newbie] root user unable to access user X server...

1999-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, you wrote: Before you run an application in a terminal as root, you need to type: xhost localhost If you close that terminal, you will have to retype it to run apps in another terminal as root. I think you can also add it to .xinitrc to have it executed every session.

Re: [newbie] Can't start KDE

1999-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi All, I had KDE running ok until I choose a KDE desktop theme. I choose the theme and press ok to restart and since then I have not been able to get back into KDE. Sometime I get only the background and other times I get the black/gray background. Any

Re: [newbie] Reverse Windoze Internet sharing

1999-11-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote: A few reason , 1. We are talking about a dial up line , not a full time connection. 2. We both use icq, as well as other software which works off of different ports. if I remember what I read. I would have to enable the ports to allow use of these

Re: [newbie] too many mounts?

1999-11-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: Sorry about the HTML, I'm a bit too used to windows. I'm a VERY new Linus user. I'm still working on my first install. Anyway, I've attached my fstab file, take a look and see what you think. PLease keep in mind that even for a newbie, I'm a linux idiot.

Re: [newbie] PCI Modem Configuration

1999-11-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi, I have a Motorola PCI PnP SM56 modem, and from the Win98 I can see it takes the "COM4". I searched the Mandrake and Redhat webpages, but didn't find out how to configure a PCI PnP modem. Thanks in advance. Tony You have a "SoftModem" aka

RE: [newbie] Books

1999-11-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, you wrote: Have to disagree with you here. 'Using Linux' by Bill Ball has to be one of the most incomplete books I have read. It ranks right up there with any of the Sams learn anything in 24hrs/days books. I think one would be far better off to purchase a book like

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

1999-11-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hello, again. I've been using Free Agent as my NG reader in window$ for as long as I have been online. Now that I'm moving up to Linux, what do you recommend? Thanks. Joe Honestly? Probably Netscape. :-) I know...it's not NEARLY as good as Free

Re: [newbie] PCI Modem Configuration

1999-11-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, you wrote: If you decide to get a new modem, check out http://www.pricewatch.com to find the lowest prices. If anyone knows of a better site, please let me know. This was has been the best so far for me. www.shopper.com isn't bad either (C|Net Shopper.) It's not

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

1999-11-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, you wrote: I would like to know this too, as I'm in the same predicament. Been using Agent for years. Free Agent (or perhaps Agent32) and WINE??? I know I've been told that Free Agent runs BEAUTIFULLY under WINE, and that Agent32 MAY work well... John

Re: [newbie] strange things

1999-11-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, you wrote: %_not sure whats going on but everytime I try to post to the mandrake list I get this weird not found email for someone on mindspring. anyone else know whats going on here? Only happens when I post to mandrake list? Jeanette It's some idiot on Mindspring

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive parallel help

1999-11-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm new to the list ( about a week or so) I bought a 100mb parallel zip but just can't seem to get it to work. When I type ( mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip) it reads can't find device (maybe insmod driver) Any help would be great. I need as much detail as

Re: [newbie] Reverse Windoze Internet sharing

1999-11-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Windows 98 Second Edition (second try?) shipped the new Internet Connection Sharing functionality. As to the problem, it sounds like the Windows box isn't being referenced as the default gateway on the Linux machine. Should be fixable using netcfg,

Re: [newbie] FW: Creative Labs 3D Blaster S4

1999-11-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know if XFree86 3.3.5 supports the Creative Labs 3D Blaster with the Savage 4 chipset? I am sorry if this message was received twice. I'm having some problems I'm trying to iron out. Rick... Go to www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html. Search for "savage"

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