Re: [newbie] Bash and Aliases problem

1999-10-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi everyone: I am trying to set up some aliases for frequently used commands. I have tried adding them to ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc, but have not had any luck in getting bash to recognize the aliases. Would there be any reason at all that

Re: [newbie] Can't telnet in

1999-10-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, you wrote: I just set up a Mandrake 6.1 box but can't telnet in. I think there's a file that I need to edit somewhere in /etc but not too sure what it is. Any help would be appreciated. I believe the telnet server has been separated out from the telnet client. You must

Re: [newbie] Intel 740AGP video

1999-10-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, you wrote: Has anyone gotten this chip to work on Linux-Mandrak 6.0? , or 6.1? I recently finally got a friend who is an "Instructor" for classes for the "Darkside" and NT to try out Linux and his first snag was the "oft-present" video-X not working after install. I

Re: [newbie] Netscape Bookmarks

1999-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi everybody. Iam using Mandrake 6.1 and my Netscape lose my Bookmarks savings every time when I loggin. Someone knows what is happening? Check your ~/.Netscape directory and see if there is a "lock" file. If there is, delete it. John

Re: [newbie] Items of interest

1999-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote: Well, try going to www.sgi.com and see how much luck you have registering for their 1400L Server giveaway. It appears you must approach using windows or else. Do you mean the following URL I just entered using Netscape 4.7 under RedHat 6.0?

Re: [newbie] SCSI support

1999-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote: Is there a way I can enable SCSI support without having to reinstall Linux? Everywhere I look to install a Zip Drive (parallel) you have to have the SCSI enabled at Install. And of course. Thinking I would not need the Zip for anything (and probably still

Re: [newbie] Grapics Scramble in KDE.

1999-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote: #2. A few of the toolbar buttons on kfm and a few other KDE apps have the appearance of being scambled. They still work, but graphically they look like a scamblet tv picture. This has only happened with the Mandrake 6.1 distribution. And it has happened on

Re: [newbie] SMP troubles

1999-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote: Why do i get an error message everytime I try to recompile some program that uses SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing)? For example, I am trying to install VMware's Emulator on my Linux Machine (Mandrake 6.1, kernel version 2.2.13-7mdk) and when I invoke their

Re: [newbie] Installing from other packages

1999-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote: SuSE uses RPM. And RPM's are tons easier than tarballs. :) Yeah...I didn't realize that SuSE uses RPM as well. :-) Good to know. I was wondering why people keep getting referred to SuSE's web site to get apps. :-) John

RE: [newbie] FTP install...

1999-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote: Just out of interest - what is the telnet client included in windows called? Would you believe "telnet" :-) John

[newbie] Fwd: linux-hardware

1999-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
Hello, fellow Linux users. I realize this is somewhat Off Topic, but I, too, have seen a lot of interest in linux hardware, so, I'm forwarding this for anyone who might be interested. :-) John -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: linux-hardware Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999

Re: [newbie] (OT) -- About HTML

1999-10-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote: There is another solution if the list owner chose to implement it. Although I am relatively new to linux, I have run large volumn discussions lists for several years. We have implemented a filter on our lists that rejects all attempts to send attachements

Re: [newbie] LILO and the blasted 1024 cylinder limit

1999-10-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've just used Partition Mmagic to split up a 13.6 gig drive into a few partitions to install Mandrake 6.1 on. However, I can only boot linux from floppy (which takes 5-7 minutes), and not from LILO, cause lilo can't install itself into the MBR due to a "1024

Re: [newbie] Q about excessive HDD swapping when in KDE

1999-10-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote: FYI - the motherboard is an IWill BD100plus which is a really well designed board. The vendor I have build my private label boxes recomended them and BCM/GVC. I tried BCM first and had BAD success when it comes down to BIOS updates - they don't update! As well,

[newbie] Re: [expert] aic7xxx module

1999-10-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi We are running 6.0 on a DELL dimension XPS D266 (128 Megs) and sometimes LILO hangs during the following event: Loading aic7xxx module I can boot from the floppy to get around this, it is just annoying. Can anyone tell me what the aic7xxx module is

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to KDE 1.1.2?

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: KDE 1.1.2 from Cooker here too =) Well, I talked a McMillan rep out of a free copy of "The Complete Linux Operating System 6.5" yesterday at the close of the ALS. I'll probably back up a few directories (somehow...not sure yet G) and give it a shot. John

Re: [newbie] system crash after installation on AMD K7

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: For the record, I did not (try to) use the modem under Linux. But it was in the Pc when I successfully installed Mandrake 6 on the DELL PC. Ahh...Ok. :-) That explains a lot. :-) It won't work under Linux. Not yet, at least... There's no drivers for WinModems

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've been following this thread to see if it would solve my problems as well. I have an IBM 10.1 Gb HDD, and in order to see anything above 8.4Gb, I had to download and install this pgm called Ontrack Manager. Am I right in presuming that Ontrack does the

Re: [newbie] system crash after installation on AMD K7

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: I don't have a K7 but I read an article at www.cpureview.com/rev_k7-linux1_a.html. It appears that the Pentium optimization specifically the MTRR prevent it from loading. I guess until an Athlon specific compilers come out, the only way to use an Athlon is

Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: I'd have to disagree with youwhen I start the installation of Linux-Mandrake the installer says RedHat. Now I wonder why that would be if there was no connection between the two. In the Introduction on page 4 of the Getting Started Manual it says "This

Re: [newbie] Office Suites

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: So what is the general opinion of Star Office? Does anyone recommend it seriously or is there something that would do the job just as well? Thanks all! Word Perfect office suite is coming out in Feb. John

Re: [newbie] cdrw

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am not clear on what a cdrw disk is. I used to write CDW drivers for Kodak, mainly for the PhotoCD Project. I do know that CDs can only be written to once. Furthermore, there is a limitation on the number of times you can write to the CD. The first track

Re: [newbie] Justin Rickert

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, you wrote: I dont know where to get xcdroast. Can you tell me where it is found. It's installed on my Mandrake 6.0 system -- [john@slave1 X11]$ whereis xcdroast xcdroast: /usr/bin/xcdroast /usr/man/man1/xcdroast.1.bz2 that answer the question ??? ;-) John

Re: [newbie] Ethernet card recognition

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: Wow - back to school after all these years About time I jumped into the Linux foray and kept ahead of technology, and not just trying to "keep up" with Windows! Problem 1: using Linux-Mandrake 6.0 I want to setup my network connection in Linux. My

Re: [newbie] MacMillan's Complete Linux Operating System 6.5

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: They said the reason they are calling it Complete Linux Operating System 6.5 is that ANY revision version is automatically incremented by .5. Thus, when Mandrake 6.2 comes out, it's going to be called "The Complete Linux Operating System 7.0" (unless they

RE: [newbie] Backup options

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: Collect all the files you want to back up in a tar archive. Compress this archive with gzip. Copy or transfer the resulting file to the other drive. Thanks for the info. However, this doesn't sound very automated. I would like to be able to backup to the

Re: [newbie] MacMillan's Complete Linux Operating System 6.5

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: Side question... what's the MacMillan's "Linux Security Suite" or whatever? "Maximum Security Linux"??? It's a buncha utils that you can download for free, plus some documentation on how to use 'em. :-) One of the other guys I was with scarfed that up. I

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to KDE 1.1.2?

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: KDE 1.1.2 from Cooker here too =) Well, I talked a McMillan rep out of a free copy of "The Complete Linux Operating System 6.5" yesterday at the close of the ALS. I'll probably bac

Re: [newbie] linux support for savage 4?

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: Thanks, for the info. I'm using xfree 3.3.5, I wonder if it will automatically see my savage card? If anyone is interested I'll keep you posted on my progress. I think so. John

Re: [newbie] 100dpi

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Donny wrote: wat da hell. This faggot dont even ask me to stop using HTML, he makes a friggin sarcastic remark. So im not apologizing for jack crap. U dont like it? tough. And if u dont like HTML mail... at least ~ask~ for me

Re: [newbie] (newbie) screen placement is to the far right

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: An automatic "saver" for modelines would be nice, but I haven't seen anything that will do that. Check out SUSE Linux. :-) Hate to say it, but their XVidtune replacement is MUCH nicer than ours. :-( (Hint, hint, Mandrake guys!!!) John

Re: [newbie] system crash after installation on AMD K7

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: For the record, I did not (try to) use the modem under Linux. But it was in the Pc when I successfully installed Mandrake 6 on the DELL PC. Ahh...Ok. :-) That explains

Re: [newbie] .iso file?

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello, I have ftp'd the file mandrake61-1.iso file. I burned this file using Nero Burning Rom using the ISO section. I now have a CDrom with one file on it; mandrake61-1.iso. My question is now what do I do? How is this file read? When the file was burned to

Re: [newbie] 100dpi

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: Donny wrote: [BIG SNIP] Theres your apology. I truly hope that you find yourself in a good paying job, because it's going to be expensive buying book after book to learn Linux. Your behavior in the last two messages you've posted to this list have

Re: [Re: [newbie] boot disk LILO installation crash down]

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: BTW this is NOT being sent in HTML About the guy who flamed getting flamed re: being TOLD to turn off HTML...I can agree with some of his opinion. Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First tip: turn off HTML in your mail client when posting to this

Re: [newbie] (OT) -- About HTML

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: I think it would be useful if the information on decorum for this list were placed in the majordomo welcome, along with a short tutorial on how to turn off HTML for those who don't realize it. I know how to do it for Netscape, but I am among the unwashed

Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype

1999-10-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: John, I have this same problem with Linux Netscape. Very s-m-a-l-l print. What do you mean about 'swap the order of the "75dpi" and "100dpi" fonts? How does this give 100 dpi fonts? Richard Swap the order of the 75dpi and 100 dpi fonts in the

Re: [newbie] Moving files

1999-10-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: I need to get some files from windows to Linux. the only way I have of updating anything in mandrake is to download it under windows and move it over to the linux drive.. now I need to know how to do that I used the /mnt/windows to get files I needed from

Re: [newbie] Moving files

1999-10-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: Steve. So I need to do the /mnt/windows everytime I restart Linux to have access to my windows drive then. Correct? Also, how do I navigate through dos? my files I need are on F: drive (under dos) and when I did that /mnt/windows it wrote everything to C: .

Re: [newbie] network adapter

1999-10-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: I'm quite new to Linux and I just installed Mandrake 6.0. During the install process I bypassed things such as setting up the video card, as I was under the impression that it could be done later. Is there another information such us this can be added

Re: [newbie] XF86Config? Where is it?

1999-10-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello, I can't find XF86Config. Where would this program reside? Does it get installed with the standard Workstation install? XF86Config is NOT a program. It's a config file. If you want the exe file, it's xf86config (all lower case.) In any event,

Re: [newbie] system crash after installation on AMD K7

1999-10-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Mandrake 6.0 on this system: AMD K7-600 128 MB RAM disk1: WD AC29100D (Western Digital, 8.5 Gb) as master on IDE1 * disk2: ST 36531A (Seagate, 6 Gb) as master on IDE2 * Diamond Viper V770 AGP (32 Mb) Sony DC_RW

Re: [newbie] XF86Config? Where is it?

1999-10-15 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: I guess my problem is that I did a "workstation" install which doesn't include X86 config utility. Try /etc/X11R6/bin/xf86config (all lower case.) John

Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype

1999-10-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: I've turned off the HTML as you suggested, but the type in the browser window is still SOOO tiny. I might have to buy a 26 inch montor!!! Try this... open up a Konsole (or console) window and go to your /etc/X11/ directory. Edit your XF86Config file and swap

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: Boy.. I am going to ask a stupid question and hopefully someone can enlighten me sarcastically if it is really stupid... What is EZ-drive? It's a software solution for a hardware problem -- it allows "stupid" BIOSes to see large hard drives. If you're

Re: [newbie] Using Xwindows after install

1999-10-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: startx is the command to issue at the command line. I have no idea how to go about changing the resolution. startx -- -bpp xx (where xx is the resolution depth you want from 8, 16, 24 or 36.) John

Re: [newbie] changing Staroffice location

1999-10-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hy John, thanks for the tip. Now why didn't I just think of that? Damn! adios, and thanks again, STeve Heh. Well, if you had seen someone else asking that, you probably would've thought of it. :-) John

Re: [newbie] C++ compiler broken?

1999-10-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: Greetings to all: I have a "Workstation" default install of Mandrake 6.1, and loving it! However, I have attempted to compile a few games and have run into a problem: when I run "./configure" the process runs for a while and then returns an error with my

Re: [newbie] dual boot setup

1999-10-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: John, Thanks for the help. What does the fdisk/mbr (I working from memory here...rec'd that email home and now at work) do? Gives you a "clean" master boot record, which is where LILO resides. What I did was, using fdisk, clear all Linux partitions but

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-14 Thread John Aldrich
Linux does NOT depend on BIOS for seeing large drives. It does NOT have the same failing as DOS/Windows. John

Re: [newbie] Upgrading to KDE 1.1.2?

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: I can, at least, confirm that the 1.1.2 packages from Cooker work extremely well. I've molded them into my machine and haven't had any problem with them. Kewl. Thanks... I'll grab 'em tonight, most likely. :-) John

Re: [newbie] Resizing long dialog boxes while in Gnome

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: Ideas, anyone, on how these boxes can be resized to permit config changes in them? Be easier to resize your desktop to something like 800x600, instead of 640x480. OTOH, you can also edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the viewport from something other than

Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape for Linux 2.0

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello, Mike, Another question: How does one unpack and install an *rpm program? I think I asked this question before but I lost that message and so would appreciate a refresher answer. You don't unpack it. You either use the KPackage or (my preference) run

RE: [newbie] 6.1

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: Too late now; I've got another CD with 6.1 - no WP this time. WHere do you get the rewritable CDROM so cheap? I should tell my friend about it. Thanks, Julian Well, Smart and Friendly has their (slow) SCSI CDRW drives on sale for $100. :-) John

Re: [newbie] pcmcia card modem

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: I have just installed linux-mandrake 6.0 on my system. However. I was unable to configure pcmcia card Hayes-Option (COM 3 IRQ 10 in windows) by Kppp. Does anyone know how can I configure it? Thanks in advance, Oder. Please take a look at the documentation you

RE: [newbie] 6.1

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: I can see the CDROM ( I mean the content). I would like to try install WP, see if it works. The problem is: how exactly do I install something from the CDROM? Any clue will be appeciate. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom (assuming cdrom is in FSTAB, you shouldn't

Re: [newbie] placement of .pid files

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi all- My ppp0.pid file is placed in /etc/ppp -- instead of in /var/run with the others. Is this a normal thing for Mandrake? or for Redhat? If not, what may cause this placement on my system? (My ISP is starting up some linux support, and I tested some

Re: [newbie] slow telnet respond time

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi, When i telnet to a RedHat 5.2 box, i have to wait around 30secs before it give me the login prompt. Why is it so slow ? Anything wrong with my network config ? Try putting the ip address of the machine you're telnetting from into your "hosts.allow"

Re: [newbie] Keyboard and mouse freezing on loading

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: I have an Intel P3-450 on a Asus P3B-F with 128 Mb of Ram. The video card is a Diamond V770, the hard drive a Matrox 20 Gb. The problem is probably the mouse which is a Mouseman+ PS/2... Hmmshould work, AFAIK. *shrug* John

Re: [newbie] setserial/modem detection

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_I want to have my modem detected when i run Linux. Under Window it is connected to com3 with an irq 10. According to setserial man page com3=ttys2. I try to see the content of /dev/ttys2 by typing: login as root

Re: [newbie] Windoze partition

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: Help me Wr. Wizard . . . . I still can't write to my Windoze partition from anything but the root account. Where do I have to go and what do I have to do to enable this for my user account. I've gone everywhere I can think of as the root user, and as a super

RE: [newbie] 6.1

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: John - I really appreciate your help. I'll give it a try this weekend and I'll promis I'll stick with M6.1 for a long, long time (maybe 6 month). I started playng with Linux a few month ago and I installed Caldera1.1- 1.3 Redhat6.0 but Mandrake6.0 got me!

Re: [newbie] Where can I go to download these famous cooker packages?

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: Where can I go to download these famous "cooker" packages? I've seen other postings that refer to the cooker packages. What are they? Where can I get them? Go view the Mandrake page at www.linux-mandrake.com. There's links there to "cooker."

Re: [newbie] support for ATI Xpert 2000 graphics card

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: I wouldn't expect that to work... Hmm...Ok. John

Re: [newbie] dual boot setup

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: So...your saying to not use the lnx4win.exe and boot to the Mandrake CDROM and create the partition from there... I'll give it a try tonight. I may have to start from scratch as any corruption of the partition from using lnx4win can't be fixed, as Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: how do i uninstall linux? i messed around with the windows manager and now i can't load KDE... some other windows manager always loads and i want to reinstall it... so how do i uninstall it??? That's a pretty drastic step Try this before you reinstall

Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics card config and SiS5597 problems

1999-10-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: Never mindI just discovered that no SiS graphic chips work with Linux...just my luck! TZ Well, they're SUPPOSED to at least according to www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html They say it *should* work with the XF86_SVGA server. John

Re: [newbie] Changing Graphics and setup programs

1999-10-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: How do I re-run the setup to install a new video driver? (or anything else...I still need to load my sound card module) I don't have a bood for Red Hat...I do have SuSE but I couldn't get past partitioning with it so I put Mandrake on instead. The books I

Re: [newbie] modem detection

1999-10-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: Just because it is not a Winmodem does not mean it is not a Windows modem. Winmodem is a brand name of US Robotics. On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: Under window my modem is known

Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape for Linux 2.0

1999-10-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: I didn't see that in Netscape's 'Other Platform' webpage where I went to get another 'updated' version of Netscape. Have any idea where I can get a copy of Netscape for Linux 2.2 or is there such a place? I looked in the Linuxberg website and the only

[newbie] Re:

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_Good day, I am having a problem with Netscape while running Linux Mandrake 6.5. I have set up my ppp and can connect to my ISP. After clicking to open Netscape I get the nice "Welcome to Mandrake Linux" Screen, but when I attempt to go to the Netscape

Re: [newbie] printing in Word Perfect

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello again I have recently set up my printer, and can print text fine, but my printer (cannon 4200) is not supported in Word Perfect. Is there a place where I can get this driver, or how do I get my printer to work?!? Thanks in advance. I think you

Re: [newbie] Two Problems ATAPI CD BURNER and Soundcard problem on Install.

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: Second I have been trying to configure xcdroast with no success. I have a Mitsumi 4801 IDE/ATAPI cd burner. The xcdroast program only recognizes my scsi cdrom but will not let me choose the writer. I have read the faq and the manual pages. I see where I can

Re: [newbie] error when try to mount zip

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: There must be a folder on the DOS partition (/dev/hda4) named in this case "zip" since that is what you put in your fstab file, as that will be the entry point for the partition, if I remember the post correctly. Err...actually, Ernie, I believe you have it

Re: [newbie] modem detection

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: Just because it is not a Winmodem does not mean it is not a Windows modem. Winmodem is a brand name of US Robotics. On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: Under window my modem is known as: Motorola Modem SURFR 56k internal Input/Output range: 03e8-03ef

Re: [newbie] panoramix must change its name

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: YOU HAVE ONLY 24h to answer before the choice is done... so answer fast :) the panoramix name is unfortunately copyrighted (wishing there were only GPL ;-) so i'm making a poll here to know which name it will change to! - koala Not bad, but the image it

Re: [newbie] setting passthru postscript in linux...

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: Also... In Word Perfect I was unable to find the driver for my printer, I am currently using a driver for the cannon bj 300, while I have a bjc 4200. Is there anywhere I can get the updated driver? You don't necessarily need the driver for WP. It should have

Re: [newbie] modem detection

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: Sorry John but an ISDN modem is 64k/128k. The Motorla line of ISDN modems were BitSurfer and BitSurfer Pro. (I've go 2 of them and KPPP works just fine.) The Surfer 56 was available as a Modem Surfer and Voice Surfer both internal and external models so I

RE: [newbie] running linux

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: I stand to be corrected if I'm wrong but I believe Linux must reside on a master drive, be it the Primary Master or the Secondary Master. If you have two drives on the primary controller only one can be master. I think you're mistaken. I can't prove it, mind

[newbie] Upgrading to KDE 1.1.2?

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
Are there going to be upgrade RPMs for Mandrake 6.0 users to upgrade to KDE 1.1.2? Or should we just grab the new RPMs from Cooker and use them? I just checked on ftp.linux-mandrake.com in the /upgrades/6.0/ directory and there were no new KDE RPMs for 1.1.2. Thanks... John

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux

1999-10-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: John: I got it working... without a manual (too lazy to print it I guess) I got it figured out reading some of the stuff on the Newbie list. I figured out that I could configure the boot and everything I needed with linuxconf. However, the problem I

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: Johnok, if I agree that I'll look at it again when KDE 2 comes out will you get off the soapbox? (-: But I honestly believe we'll still disagree, even then, because we differ even in the orientation of our smileys (yours are upside down). (-: My friend,

Re: [newbie] Can't run MODEMTOOL

1999-10-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: So what if "MANDRAKE IS **NOT** RedHat." I have read some documentation that can make a person think that it is, if the documentation isn't interpreted correctly. The only reason I am replying to this message is because the way it is worded can be taken

Re: [newbie] Executing binaries in Mandrake 6.1

1999-10-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to set up games, etc on my computer running Linux Mandrake 6.1. I downloaded linux-doom-1.8.tar.gz and have extracted it okay. However, I have not been able to launch the game. I have a couple of different executables to

Re: [newbie] X server

1999-10-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hey I have installed Linux Mandrake 6.0 from a CD-ROM I got with a magazine. I have an S3 Trio3D AGP gfx card (yuck), and XF86 3.3.3 that came with the installation does not support it. I read somewhere that it is supported by the SVGA server of XF86 3.3.5

Re: [newbie] OK maybe I should start from scratch

1999-10-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: Linux loads VERY slowly compared to RedHat on an old 486, once loaded however the startup process is normal and generally the machine appears to run OK. LILO also loads very slowly before that, and I can no longer get DOS to load at all from LILO (it says

Re: [newbie] error when try to mount zip

1999-10-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello, I have put the commands in my /etc/fstab file that Jack recommended in a previous post (yesterday) but when I try to mound the drive with mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /mnt/floppy/ it tells me: mount: mount point /mnt/zip doesnot exist What

Re: [newbie] Can't run MODEMTOOL

1999-10-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hello I am a newbie under Linux and have a big difficulty with the modem setup procedure. I run Mandrake 6.1 (which is redhat in fact) and read that the first step is to declare the modem (quite obvious). MANDRAKE IS **NOT** RedHat. Nor is it even

Re: [newbie] Linux Machine Freezing

1999-10-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: One of the main reasons I started using linux was the much touted great reliability and minimal crashes. However recently I have had considerable problems with the machine (pentium 450) freezing up when left alone for several hours. The situation is that I

Re: [newbie] Heh, my XWindows screen is enormous... what did I do wrong?

1999-10-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hrmmm... still no luck. I'm trying to use a Riva TNT2 Ultra card, but obviously in 6.0 there's no support for it. So I've tried a variety of options, from just the plain TNT to Unsupported Cards. I'm also using a Gateway Cystalscan 17" monitor. When I run

Re: [newbie] missing config, menuconfig, xconfig files

1999-10-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: Where can I find the config, menuconfig, or xconfig files for use with the make command to rebuild the kernel? You would get to a console (for config/menuconfig) and change to your /usr/src/linux directories after making sure you have the source. Then just type

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Johnthanks, yeah, I might. That is, I might if/when it supports html (-: Your loss, my friend. :-) It will allow you to READ HTML OK, but trying to reply to messages is a real pain and the incoming word-wrap doesn't always work well, either. :-) Hey,

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: Can Linux-Mandrake 6.0 be installed onto SCSI drives? I continually get an Fdisk error message "An error occured reading the partition table for the block dvice /tmp/sdc. The error was: device not configured". I have 6GB of an 18GB drive free and ready to use

Re: [newbie] TNT video board with Mandrake 6.1

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi On the NVIDIA www I could download the TNT linux drivers. However I don't know which archive I should use (there are 4 gz files which contain almost the same thing) Does someone already have the answer please ? Have you tried going to

Re: [[newbie] Cant open modem]

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: How about a bit more info? What make and type modem? What port is it on? How do you have it configured. Assuming you have windows also, what IRQ does it use? etc The modem is a NEC Thunder - nothing esoteric. I've always used ATZ or ATF1 for

Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Here You Go My Friend... I queried him for you all the info i have found is below, i suggest emailing the following person with your complaint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the admin from which he subscribes "ripe.net") Actually, the person you need to email is

Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: My secure log showed the following entries: Oct 6 16:45:12 C287853-A ipop3d[11229]: connect from 193.137.8.223 Oct 6 16:45:12 C287853-A ipop3d[11229]: error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/ipop3d: No such file or directory nslookup 193.137.8.223 Name:

Re: [newbie] problems with ./configure while trying to install new application

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: What does this mean? How do I fix it so that I can install this program (btw - I already looked for an RPM packaged version of the application and had no success) You need to have the c-compiler packages installed. Obviously you didn't install that stuff

Re: [newbie] Can't open modem

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: I installed Mandrake 6.0 last night (Custom) - no problems with the installation. When I tried to dial in to my ISP, however, (Kppp), I got a message that a file was missing from my /dev/modem directory. I had Kppp query my modem and it told me that it could

RE: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Thanks for the help. I really do appreciate it. I'm very anxious to get this up and running. By the way, I'm getting the impression that LINUX doesn't support PS2 devices. Is that a correct statement? If you mean MCA stuff, you're partly correct. There

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