On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Fred Macinster wrote:
I bought this stupid OS because, the guy at
the computer store said, I could manage my microwave with it.
How do I detect connect to it?
Eh?
1. Open door.
2. Insert CD.
3. 2 1/2 to 3 minutes on high, more for crispy.
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Newbe needs help from someone how understands logs. I think my server was
trying to email someone without my knowing it! Can someone tell me what
this means and what I should do??
I was going through my logs and found this in my maillog file:
I'd say
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, you wrote:
%_i have had numerous answers to this, so i was told that X-Windows will not run
under a TNT2 correctly...is this true, and what Dist should i use??
p.s. if Mandrake is better, then how do i uninstall RH from the terminal?
and get mandrake to install on
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi,
I've only been using Linux for about a year , but
I have been using a UNIX workstation at work for
about 9 years so I am fairly familiar with the
unix file system.
I just recently installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0
after having Slackware on for around a
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Also, you are in clear violation of the terms you agreed to by subscribing
to this mailing list.
So?? Why don't you guys just kick him off
John
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, you wrote:
%_It appears that some jerk may be trying to use my Linux server to relay mail.
I don't know if he succeeded or not but I don't to take any chances. Short of
killing all mail services how can I make using my Linux box as a relay VERY difficult?
Thanks.
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I recently battled for two weeks to get my kppp going after upgrading from
mandrake 5.3 to mandrake 6.0. I ended up re-installing 5.3, and had a good
connection about 2 minutes later. Appears that there's a problem with
version 6.0. Try upgrading to ver 6.1 .
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, you wrote:
but seriously is 6.1 available yet other than via D/L
Cheapbytes.com has it available on a Gold CDR for $5 +
shipping.
John
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have seen various posts on this and since I ordered Mandrake 6.1
yesterday, I hope
I can get an "official" answer. Should I UPGRADE 6.0 or should I wipe /
and /user and start over?
I hope to leave my /home alone ( no pun intended ) since I have quite a
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hmm..how much does one of those puppies cost? I need a UPS that'll
shut my system down automagically. :-)
I've been using a PK Electronics BlackoutBuster that I got for $50 (on
rebate). It's not the fanciest, but using upsd with it allows a
controlled
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Then again
maybe my employer will change to Linux (in my dreams).
Nahh...get 'em to switch to Word Perfect... it's free for
Linux as well. ;-)
John
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Ok John, I finally figured out the "#" is the "REM" equivilant of DOS. My
problem is that when I went to do the "mount -w -o remount /dev/hda1/" I get
a message that the /root wasn't mounted or "bad option" and the file is still a
read only. Now I am
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Has anyone else got a repeat on saturday's messages?
I got a couple of dozen repeats.
YES I sent a message to Axalon asking him to pass it
along to the Majordomo "owner."
John
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
well since everyone is talking about netscape i have a question for you. Does
anyone know why my button icons, and the little netscape comet thing all appear in
black and white? its netscape 4.61 and im running in 24bit color mode.
thanks
It's because you
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I haven't had a chance to test it with my new dual-proc machine, but I
was able to get around 20mins on my K6/300. There's nothing else
plugged into the battery backup sockets, but the monitor, speakers, etc
are plugged into the surge protection portion.
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Sorry for the overly simple question... but can anyone tell me what
language Linux was written in? Thanks in advance and don't laugh too long
and hard!
Mostly in GNU C, C++, AFAIK, with some Perl and QT and such
thrown in for good measure.
John
domain is
like trying to find chicken's teeth!)
John Aldrich
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between an iso distro and a
"regular" one?
I'm assuming it has to do with what kind of hardware you've got but beyond
that I haven't a clue.
ISO distro is a CDROM "image" file that can be burned onto
a CDROM.
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does
anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They
won't even answer their phones.
Seve
PS...it should be reachable via www.4front-tech.com as they are owned
by 4front
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
After downloading, installing and modifying the genpower software, I now
have my CyberPower Power99 UPS shutting down the system automatically after
a power failure. If anyone else has one of these UPS's and wants to know how
to get this working, let me know. I
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
After I connect to my ISP using KPPP and launch Netscape I get an error that
says cannot find internic.com, netscape.com and some others. I can't go to
any sites I always get an "Host Unknown" error. Please help!
Do you have your ISP's name servers in your
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I've been trying to get on Opensound's website for the last several days. Does
anyone know what's up with www.opensound.com? They
won't even answer their phones.
Seve
Dunno. It works for me here... Either run a "traceroute" to them and
find out if there are
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Brian Erikson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ty Mixon wrote:
What I usually do is start X/KDE automagically, and if I want to work in
a console use CTRL+ALT+F123456 to get to a console. Best of both
worlds that way.
Ty,
What do you do to go back
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi all, im not sure if this is the proper place for this question but i
hope someone can help me out. I recently installed Mandrake 6.1 (no not the
beta) on my computer. and it works fine except for one thing. I recompiled
my kernel and when i tried to
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Simple and to the point here. After initial install of Linux-Mandrake,
Telnet worked fine. However, after updating it via Mandrake-Updates, it
appears broken and won't provide a user login and password screen...
only tells me that the escape character is ^]
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote:
for future reference it's actualy 'modprobe ne' ;)
Thanks... I knew it had to be something like that...but when I
compiled my own kernel, I accidentally nuked the previous "modules"
directory...and since I didn't need that module it wasn't compiled.
:-)
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hello
I have just installed Mandrake 6.0, (after 3 years of being a Slackware
user) and I have found a small but annoying bug, When I reboot the machine
(with any method like ctrl-alt-del or with the command
"shutdown -r now" or selecting "shutdown" or
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Installed Mandrake 6.0 but have file problems. The program advises
using 'fsck' without the -a or -p switches.
What the heck is fsck and how do I make it work?
fsck is a file
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hello
I have installed "The Complete LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM 6.0" on my computer
using the "Wortstation" class, but there are problems. The Linux cannot
detect my LS-120 super drive. Below are the messages occurred during the
system boot up:
The LS120
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have the same problem, everything was working fine until I upgraded to a
new Epox m/b with a AMD K6-2 450 cpu. Those were the only changes I made
and I get the same errors. Reinstalled RH 5.2 and it runs fine, I think
the error is caused bu Xwindows.
I'm so
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote:
%_I'm connected thru RADSL to the internet thru a local ISP. I also have a LAN with
one LInux-Mandrake 6 machine and 4 win 98 machines. HOWEVER, trying to FTP from a
Win98 machine to my local Linux does not seem to work. I've instlled anonftprpm,
wp-ftp...
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote:
%_How can I set it up where when I restart my machine it runs the command
/etc/setserial /dev/ttyS3 UART 16550A automatically?
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 with a Gloria Synergy card in the box. I then
downloaded the Nvidia TNT2 driver files...shut down the X Server, installed
the drivers, shut down the machine, put my Nvidia card in...then ran
XConfigurator. The card works fine,
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, you wrote:
como...
i just bought a supraMax i56 modem to replace my LT Win-modem... but i cant
get the thing to work in linux... it worked for a day in windows... but now
it does the same thing in windows as it does in linux...
I think the SupraMax 56i is also a
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi,
I just fried my sound card or something to that effect and I was
wondering if there are any recomendations on a sound card for a dual
boot,Windows 98 being the other system.
Just about anything made by Creative Labs. :-) That being
said, if it's an ISA
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote:
In monitoring the /var/log/messages file I notice the following message being
issued every minute:
ns1 ypbind[31484]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out.
What is ypbind?
For user-lookup type stuff, AFAIK. I mean user directory
type stuff, as in "Yellow Pages"
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote:
In a message dated 9/16/99 1:55:11 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
boot with rescue disk, fix lilo to point at the right root= change
/etc/fstab to mount the right root. ta da all done
But what if don't have the rescue disk?
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hello
I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake.
I've booting into from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need to
tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is at hda5
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Done! Works like a charm! Thanks!
Bryan
You're welcome. :-) There IS an archive, you knowgo to
www.linux-mandrake.com and find info on the archives. For
future reference. The question you asked had been answered
about a dozen (now a dozen and one G)
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, you wrote:
You specify multiple
packages on the same command line such as "rpm -e netscape-common-4.6-1
netscape-communicator-4.6-1
But each of the above apparently refers to more than one package :-(
How can I get a lisrt of what is installed (including duplicates?
Oooo...can we have the nice rubber rooms too??? ;-)
John
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Ok, time to break out those stylish jackets with large buckles and
wraparound sleeves!!!
- Original Message -
From: Leonard W. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I can connect to the Internet fine as the root user, however none of my normal
user account can connect. I want to stop using my root account so
much as I am told that it is a great secureity risk, so can anyone
help by telling me how to allow normal users to
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I can connect to the Internet fine as the root user, however none of my normal
user account can connect. I want to stop using my root account so
much as I am told that it is a great secureity risk, so can anyone
help by
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I am sorry. The development on this chip set should have gone in to
maintenance mode by now. I would suggest a log at the change logs and
see if anything has been added in the last few revisions. It also
might be worth looking in the config file to see if
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote:
S3 Virge GX2 (4 meg) on the Linux machine. Xfree is the standard one found
on the Mandrake 6.0 cd. The work machine has an S3 DX.
There may well be acceleration on the windows machine as the S3 virge uses
an svga server. Yeah you are right I can probably
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have Linux Mandrake 6.0, what Linux version should I pick when I go to
download the new netscape ?
Umm...the RPM from Mandrake? ;-) Seriously...that's the
best way to do it! Just go the the 4.61 RPM from Mandrake
or one of the mirrors.
John
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Are there any step by step instructions for troubleshooting a telnet server?
Mine was working but somehow I mangaged to screw it up. Now when I telnet
into it I get the message "Connection Lost." It doesn't even ask me for a
username / password anymore.
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote:
As I stated, I didn't want to spend much money on an "experiment", if Linux
(or Xfree86, in this case) basically supported *most* all ISA/PCI boards.
I guess I am learning what the word "most" implies... AS I said to someone
else, I guess I'll plan a trip to
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote:
'Fraid so, the machines are state of the art (in the late 80's!!), passive
back plane board. Basically the entire PC sits on a single ISA board, and
you have a blank ISA backplane connecting all other card to it. Put it this
way, I have got an ISA video card!!!
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Which is the correct way to recompile the kernel under mandrake 6.0?
I already tried as explained in the kernel-howto and in the redhat web
site and still doesn't work.
Do you have all the "devel" packages installed? If not, do
so first. Then, copy the
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have a similar telnet problem to the person who couldn't telnet into their
box. After installing Mandrake, I could telnet in/out with no problems.
However, the other night curiosity got the better of me and I clicked the update
icon to see what would happen.
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote:
%_From where do I download what to boot one of my networked w98 machines into
Linux.?
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Content-Description:
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I installed linux so that the X windows logon comes on automatically. How do
I bypass this and go directly to the shell logon?
At the LILO prompt, type "linux 3" minus quotes, of course.
If you want it to PERMANENTLY change to booting to console,
go in as root
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi Carl.
We are in almost the same scene. However, mine is an SiS6326/ATI Rage IIC
AGP video cards (8MBs each). I am using a generic SVGA monitor (PnP type).
I've tried everything with xf86config and i am about to pull everything
what's left of my hair. I
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hallo
I installed Mandrake 6.0 and everything went fine to the point of
running KDE
My machine has:
diamond stealth 64 vram pci (S3 968) and is recognized with setup and
tested OK.
This sounds like a video problemor a resource conflict
with the sound
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Thanks to my fruitless exploits in getting my unidentifiable NIC's to work,
I am now in the market to purchase some new NIC's. Can anyone recommend any
10baseT ISA NIC's that are reasonably easy to set up in Linux, IE not
Windows specific? Oh, and cheap must be
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi Mark,
Not sure about your vid card problem. Is it listed as supported? As far
as the boot problem goes, when you deleted your partitions, you did not change
your boot record. Lilo is lookinf for your old kernel which of course, no
longer exists.
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
After a bunch of errors, it concludes with, "/dev/hd1: UNEXPECTED
CONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e. without -a or -p options)
In red, it concludes with, [FAILED].
Basically, it's a corrupted filesystem, I think. So how do I run fsck
and fix it?
I
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi. I have windows and Linux Mandrake installed
in the same HD. I want to have more room for the
windows partition. Do I have to uninstall linux
to resize the partitions with FIPS?
Yes, but WHY would you want to do something like give the bloated
beast of
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I'm not sure if it's my cd or what, but the iso just isn't read properly on
my cd; nor does it boot. I burned it twice, but with no success.
Paul
Did you burn it under Linux or Windows? It may be better to burn it
as a "joliet" CD. IIRC, "Joliet" CDs are
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Well, I got Linux to load just fine. I have tried to install it MANY different
ways and everything wants to boot until it wants to mount (Or whatever it is
called) my ethernet card. then it sits there then it fails. After everything is
done it asks for my login
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I run 24bpp i think (yeah you'd think i'd know that but i dont), the only
time i have color problems with it is while useing the FBDev server, the
tool bar goes this funky inverse bw, but like i said ;) sure does look
neater than the normal ones.
What
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
%_I'm an newbie. With lots of help and luck I've got a new partition
and Mandrake 5.3 installed. I have very little knowledge of Linux.
I was told my ESS 1869 sound wouldn't work but it's fine set up as
ESS1868 or Soundblaster Pro. I'm hoping to have similar
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I tried my user login name and pass work Linux asks when loading and type in my
password
I get:
[caymen@localhost]$
Right...your system name is "localhost" because you didn't set
anything different during install.
I try typing in "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi,
I tried rebooting my machine to see if that would solve the "mount
program not registered" issue. when the machine was shutting down, I
noticed an error message saying:
rpc.nfsd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it!
Would this be causing
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi. I installed Linux Mandrake in my computer that
has a superdisk (120MB) instead of a regular floppy
disk drive. I am not able to mount the floppy. Does
anybody know how can I mount the superdisk drive?
IIRC, that's an IDE device. So, instead of mounting
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have a Creative Modem Blaster Flash56 PCI DI5630 on com3 and I can't get
the kppp dialer to inatialize my modem. Any seggestions on setup or drivers
or a another 56k modem I could buy that has avalible Linux drivers would be
greatly appreciated.
AFAIK,
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi John,
Do you mean IM Wheel? I have that installed. How do you get it to work? The
mouse wheel does not seem to scroll anything.
Nope. When you set up your mouse originally, did you choose
"Microsoft Intellimouse"? That's an option in Mandrake 6.
It
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote:
No I set it for a PS2 Mouse. Its a Logitech mouse so I didn't think it would be
good to set it as an Intelmouse?
BTW, I am back on Mandrake 6 thanks to people on the list.
Jeanette
Hmm...I'd say try setting it to Intellimouse...worth a shot. :-) The
worst
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I am getting ready to install Linux on my PC. Last time I installed
Linux it was on a PC I was putting together a PC for a friend. I tried
to install linux usisg the CD to boot up, but it didnt. I had to use me
Win98 startup disk to load drivers for the
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi guys,
my big question is hardware. I posted a question this morning about my second
floppy, but it doesn't appear to have made it through. Anyway, how do I get my
second floppy drive, my paraport zip+ 100 or my scanner to work in Mandrake 6
(or any Linux,
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote:
OK, well, maybe there's a flaw in how I'm testing this:
[clip]
And then exit out of the konsole I'm in. Start up a new Konsole in KDE or
flip to a new VT, log in and type clr.
Never heard of it, says the shell. (sigh). This has got to be absurdly
easy,
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote:
However, whenever I try to copy anything into my /mnt/disk Linux says "Could
not write file. Perhaps access denied." I've checked my permission tab under
KDE for /mnt/disk and everything is fine, and I can read the drive as well.
YeahI think Linux is
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
okay, if you forget about my last message and knew nothing about my
problems, what would you say the following error message means when I try
to install linux from a CDROM:
One of several things -- bad cdrom, bad cd drive, bad RAM, bad IDE
controller, IRQ
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On this topic if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel can you emulate 3
buttons. If not how can you cut and paste from xterminal?
Jeanette
Jeanette, I have a Microsoft Intellimouse here with the scroll-wheel.
When I installed Venus, I told it I have an
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Another newbie question:
which mail tool should I install/use: the one in Nescape, or sendmail(Kmail)
I have Mandrake 6.0 installed( prety straight farward!). I dial to my ISP
for connection
and I don't have a network.
I can use Netscape, I can surf but the
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Linux Mandrake - Can I rerun Fips to get a larger partition?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:33:42 -0500
From: Brad Bonkoski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Aldrich wrote:
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also I have
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote:
THIS MESSAGE IS BI-LINGUAL. PURISTS STAY CLEAR
ESSA MENSAGEM É BILÍNGÜE. PURISTAS DEVEM SE AFASTAR
==This is NOT a BabelFish translation=
==Esta NÃO é uma tradução do
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have tried that, switched a number of keyboards (including the Swedish you
mentioned, and Western European, which would be appropriate for my using),
restarted KDE a few times, but it did not work at all. How was the keyboard
setup supposed to be activated?
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have a problem with Linux Mandrae 6.0 (Venus). When I boot
up my computer, the BIOS reads that I have 65535 K of ram (64 megs).
However, when I reach the Shell Log In screen, the system reports that
I have only 16 megs of RAM.
What's the deal? what
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I posted a response to this suggestion last night, which doesn't appear to
have made it through. If you mean that I should make the CD my secondary
slave, I suppose I can try it, but I don't really understand why it would
make a difference. My old CD was
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote:
So I can set a scroll wheel mouse to emulate 3 buttons? Two books here say
no?
Select Imouse when setting up your mouse. It'll automatically use the
third wheel to paste. I'm using one right now!
John
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote:
%_When attempting to setup Linux on a machine with 3 HDD, I get an error of an
"Unallocated Partition" with "Reason Undefined" when attempting to setup the root
partition. I can set all other partitions fine but it will not let me set root.
Any ideas? Thanks
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have set LInux up on several machines on a Novell network.
They are causing broadcast storms and sending packets
like you would not beleive. Is there a way to stop the services
that are started at bootup. i.e. NFS, RIP, etc...
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
(Russ)-
I didn't know about this, thanks for the tip.
---
Glad to have been of service. :-)
-
(Russ)-
I know about WinPrinters, I have one. An HP something or other. This
one
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I'm still struggling along with my Canon BJC-2000. After first believing
it simply must be a winprinter, I planned to sell it to a friend.
Researching what new printer to get, I checked the database at
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi and
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I would like to automatically open MS Office documents with Star Office
and WordPerfect documents with WP. In Preferences/Applications, I can
select and edit the relevant section. If I put in the pointer to the
Application, it opens OK, but the file is not
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Having a laptop running NT4. Have one extra HD that i will put into the
laptop and i want to have Mandrake on that one with the possibility to
dual-boot between them. One problem is that when i install the extra HD
i have to remove the floppy. Is it possible to
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I think the problems are defects in Venus with the Kernal and initscripts so
I don't think buying another copy of Venus is the answer. I just want to
get the machine up and running fixed so I can just do work not work on it.
Anyway I am still a new user, and
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi,
Where/what is the command that I use after rebuilding the kernel so that Linux
will boot?
IIRC it's somthing like "./lilo", but I can't remember where I am supposed to
do this.
did you modify /etc/lilo.conf? IF not, do so now. Then, go
run /sbin/lilo.
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have a linux box set up with an external ISDN modem (ttyS1) and have
been successful at logging into my ISP through kppp. I also have a
network setup that I am just beginning to explore and would like to know
if I can set up my linux box with it's serial
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Ok, thanks all. It should be no problem to boot from CDROM with my laptop.
Do you have any suggestions about how to handle the dual boot?
/Lennart
Other than using the NT Boot loader, no. My understanding
is that it's better to put Linux in the boot loader,
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I know what it can do :(
When you enter a channel on IRC your IP is there for everyone to see it. There
are loads of "Nuke" programs for Windoze and all someone has to do is enter
your IP and click send or "Kill IP".
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
You know, you're right. I read that post (after it got to the list of
course) and said to myself "THAT'S going to generate more crap than
John's post!!"
I apologize for the tone, but not the idea. It's a soapbox issue of
mine.
It is, however, sadly
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
i'm currently running:
mandrake 6.0
diamond viper v770d with 32mb
dell trinitron 19" monitor
svga xserver
Hmm...Ok. AFAICT this should work just fine. The Viper v770
is based on the Riva TNT chipset, and IIRC, that's
supported by the SVGA server.
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi all,
#1
I was wanting to upgrade Netscape but they have 2 versions at
Download.com (glibc2 libc5). Which one should I use? or should I get
it from someplace else?
IIRC, glibc2 is the one you want. However, I downloaded the
RPM version from RedHat (for
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Tymanthius Rune Speak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This reply is to John - go get educated man! That is just about the
mostbrpompous post I've read!! People with opinions like that are the
reason otherbrcountries can't stand Average Joe America!brbrDo you think
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
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Are you saying that there is a seperate kernel for each partition?
What about swap space? Do I really need it? I thought I read somewhere that it
should be 2.5 times the amount of ram.
It depends somewhat on the amount of ram that you have. If
you
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I have looked at Kmail briefly as I do not yet use Linux all the time. (I
will have to slowly break my wife in on it.) My impression was that it
looked and acted a lot like Outlook Express which I use all the time. I
think I even saw what you are talking
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Has anyone had any luck setting up an HP 890C? Haven't gotten to it yet
but it's next on the list to rid myself of Uncle Bills death grip.
The following URL should be able to answer that:
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
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