[newbie] copying data dvd's

2005-01-16 Thread John Bowden
Hi all      Can K3b copy DVDs ? I have a norton ghost image on a rewriteable DVD and I need to burn it onto a write once disk to free up the rewriteable one? If K3b can't do it any ideas. -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going

Re: [newbie] copying data dvd's

2005-01-16 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 18:33, Anders Lind wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:02:03 + John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all      Can K3b copy DVDs ? I have a norton ghost image on a rewriteable DVD and I need to burn it onto a write once disk to free up the rewriteable

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread John Bowden
On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 10:50, M.Schild wrote: I run Mk 10 with an old printer HP Deskjet 690 that seems to have mecanical problems. I am looking for a easy to install, no problem printer with/without scanner. It doesn´t have to offer pro performance. as long as it installs easily. Any

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread John Bowden
On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 21:08, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 12, 2005 05:44, John Layt wrote: ... Short answer: HP or Epson, per your personal preference, as they have the best Linux support. Avoid Canon and Lexmark, as they have terrible support for Linux. ... Personally, I

[newbie] Quick Update Question

2005-01-11 Thread John Bowden
Hi list just a quick one. When updating from mandrake control centre should I close any progs that are running that are on the update list. Will it tell me if I need to reboot or restart x? -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was

Re: [newbie] winmodems

2005-01-11 Thread John Bowden
On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 19:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree get a router, and if you have more than one computer get a 4 port. Though be careful what they say on the boxes, our dsl router broke, so we went out to buy one, and ended up with something you put between your modem and

Re: [newbie] winmodems

2005-01-10 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 10 Jan 2005 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Jan 2005 01:19, Ana Paula Samodossi wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:09:10 -0300, Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are unable to get your winmodem to work, there are hardware modems available, some reasonably priced.

Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 08:51, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 09:58 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: Hello Today I put a third hard drive and an additional 256MB of ram (there were already 2 256MB sticks) in my computer, after which it would not boot. I took the new ram out and it

Re: [newbie] Install Question

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 13:12, et wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 11:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mikkel, I will try subscribing to the expert list and see if someone can help. Cy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember if the standard install offers

Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 13:41, et wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 03:51 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 09:58 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: Hello Today I put a third hard drive and an additional 256MB of ram (there were already 2 256MB sticks) in my computer, after which

[newbie] Kmail Problem

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
Ok 2 Kmail questions probably not related. 1, recently when I start kmail (when machine is first booted up) I get this message box KDEInit could not kontact-Kmail.sh. Kmail stil starts up and down loads any new mail and seems to work ok. I click ok and the error msbox goes away. There is

Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 17:23, Scott Wagner wrote: Thanks for all the responses. Well, stupidly, I tried (actually I succeeded) in putting a stick of DDR ram in an SDRAM slot. The system still worked after I took it out though. This morning I disconnected all the drives, took the ram out and

Re: [newbie] Kmail Problem

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 18:11, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 10:00 am, John Bowden wrote: 1, recently when I start kmail (when machine is first booted up) I get this message box KDEInit could not kontact-Kmail.sh. Kmail stil starts up and down loads any new mail and seems

Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 22:38, JR wrote: I'm wondering which option is best to connect to my laptop to a digital camera (which hasnt been chosen yet). I thought that if I got one that supported mass storage, then it would be as simple as mounting my mp3 player. But someone else reccommended

Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 18:47, J or M Montgomery wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:20:46 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: starting it to see if there was any difference. It ran longer this time, maybe 10 seconds, then there was a blue flash in the vicinity of the power supply and it cut

Re: [newbie] Install Question

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 09:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave since the CDROM is primary. Can

[newbie] Burning disks Q ?

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
Hi Gang     I use a program on that other o/s ( the one who's name should never be spoken ) that checks my CD DVD disks after burning them to check for errors , called CdCheck. It will do a basic read every sector, or crc, or compare check and even try to recover data on a damaged disk.

Re: [newbie] Back again...Booting slow

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 11:55, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I'm back to the list after not knowing why I didn't access to the list a few months?!! I have a new ACER Aspire 1680 notebook since 2 weeks and I installed MDK 10.1 community. Of course I had Win XP installed on the machine and

Re: [newbie] Re: Samba 3.0+ on 9.1

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 19:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Jan 2005 16:15, John Bowden wrote: On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 17:13, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote (long ago): Has anyone upgraded the standard Samba 2.2.8 on MDK 9.1 to 3.0+? stephen kuhn - proprietor

Re: [newbie] Re: Samba 3.0+ on 9.1

2005-01-07 Thread John Bowden
On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 17:13, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote (long ago): Has anyone upgraded the standard Samba 2.2.8 on MDK 9.1 to 3.0+? stephen kuhn - proprietor Hi Stephen, have you managed to do that? I also run 9.1 on a couple of server boxes and might need Samba too.

Re: [newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)

2005-01-02 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 03 Jan 2005 01:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I use nero and just burned the iso into or with a bootable cd. Sounds like I made a mistake.. Normal for me. On 2 Jan 2005 at 16:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got

[newbie] Copy 2 Floppy

2004-12-26 Thread John Bowden
Hi can any one tell me why I can't copy some directories containing files onto a floppy disk. The disk was formatted with ext2 from within mdk10.1 on, a second machine. I am trying to install mdk onto a new machine and I need to use a driver for the on board ide raid chip.

Re: [newbie] Burning problem

2004-12-20 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 20 Dec 2004 06:36, Eric Huff wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:52:17 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when trying to burn ISOs to disk using K3b the disk always fails the md5 sum I have set the burning speed as low as it will go 8x but I still get the problem. I need a

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread John Bowden
On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 14:37, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:29:41 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: I have been getting a load from Germany and also a shed load yesterday from DHTMLcentral. I feel neglected and under privileged. I do not get any that are

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread John Bowden
On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 16:32, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Its a windows virus - Zafi.D It seems it gets your address from somewhere and then starts sending you an email every 2 seconds. I have set up so they all go straight to the trash but it sure is a pain in the neck as I am having

Re: [newbie] TV tuner cards (was: Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question

2004-12-12 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 02:51, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 11 December 2004 08:21 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: Any advice on compatible cards? Leadtek wintv cards seem to work well. Hauppauge WinTV or Leadtek WinFast ? it would be great if everybody with a tv card made a few

Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor

2004-12-11 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 11 Dec 2004 11:52, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:12, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. On my PC I have both Windows 98 and Linux Mandrake. I notice that the screen image under Windows fills completely the monitor, whereas under Linux it is a bit more little: the

Re: [newbie] Screen image does not cover all the monitor

2004-12-11 Thread John Bowden
- and if you do not have the proper settings, you can manually set them there. Same with display resolution. John Bowden wrote: Before you fiddle with your mandrake setup check to see if the monitor has any screen set up buttons, may be round the back on older units. I have a spare monitor

[newbie] Pinnacle PC TV Stereo Question

2004-12-11 Thread John Bowden
Hi got Mandrake on my 1800 and I'm getting ready to install on my new 2600. Does any one know if the Pinnacle PC TV pic card can work in mandrake? It didnot work in mandrake 9 but it did detect the card. It said it had a SA something chip, can't quite remember but I know it was not a BTU chip.

Re: [newbie] Partitioning Question

2004-12-08 Thread John Bowden
cards. They are real hardware raid unlike Promise ones. J.T. From: John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Partitioning Question Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:33:52 - I have got a machine with 2 hds a 80 gb and an 160gb. The 80 gb

Re: [newbie] Re: auto update on 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread John Bowden
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 02:35, Anthony Brooks wrote: Wojciech Podgórni wrote: Wojciech Podgórni PS. Please post below my reply. Top posting is rather unwelcome on this mailing list. Could of snipped some of the original messages before complaining about top posting. Ok will post at

[newbie] Partitioning Question

2004-12-07 Thread John Bowden
Ihave got a machine with 2 hds a 80 gb and an 160gb. The 80 gb dsk has a 20 gb ntfs partition for that other o/s! What I would like to do is set up linux (MDK 10.1)on the rest of the 80gb dsk for the user of that pc and have the 160gb dsk can be used by all the other machines on the network

Re: [newbie] Partitioning Question

2004-12-07 Thread John Bowden
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning Question I have got a machine with 2 hds a 80 gb and an 160gb. The 80 gb dsk has a 20 gb ntfs partition for that other o/s! What I would

[newbie] auto update on 10.1

2004-12-05 Thread John Bowden
I have installed mdk 10.1 over a week ago and am unable to do auto update or do software updates. The kicker bar icon shows red with a question mark. If i click on it .It takes me to the configure wizard. and when I put in my mandrakeonline usr and pasword it gives me your log in password was

Re: [newbie] (Newbie) Another M/Board Q

2004-12-05 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 05 Dec 2004 03:41, care free wrote: did a search on the mdk hardware database for both ide raid and the gigabyte m/board but no joy. On the gigabyte site their are drivers for mdk 9 rh 8 to 9. Check to see if the raid controller is supported in Mandrake 10.1. I bought an off board

Re: [newbie] auto update on 10.1

2004-12-05 Thread John Bowden
install disks. When I try to up date it with any of the online sources that it gives across the world i get the ubove msg On Sunday 05 Dec 2004 14:49, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Uytkownik John Bowden napisa: I have installed mdk 10.1 over a week ago and am unable to do auto update or do software

Re: [newbie] auto update on 10.1

2004-12-05 Thread John Bowden
The version I have installed is the community version. which came off the Linux Format magazine cover DVD. Ok I have typed in the remove media command. How do I add a new online media address? On Sunday 05 Dec 2004 21:07, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Uytkownik John Bowden napisa: Even if i try

[newbie] (Newbie) Another M/Board Q

2004-12-03 Thread John Bowden
Just purchased a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 mother board. It has an on board ide raid controller, ITE 8211 i think. I have 2 X 250GB maxters set up with raid 0 . Will Mandrake 10.1 (Linux Format mag version) detect and set it up OK. I already have win 2000 pro on it. Also will it

[newbie] Kmail error msg

2004-12-02 Thread John Bowden
Hi list Installed mdk 10.1 last weekend. Took 2 attempts to get Kmail to collect my email, though that was more down to blueyonder not accepting my password than Kmail. I ended up del the account that was not working and starting afresh with the wizard thingy. Any way its collecting

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread John Bowden
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 02:24, JoeHill wrote: I run Smoothwall as a fire wall. It will run on a p100 or better with 32mb of ram and a 1 gig drive. Does not need a moniter or keyboard once set up This setup will be more than powerfull enough to protect a home network. Then run a decent av

[newbie] ms search bot address

2004-12-02 Thread John Bowden
Thanks you just saved me some time tracing a number of regular hits on my firewall logs ! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread John Bowden
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 15:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe overkill but had the bits lying around so why not, originally ran it on a 486 DX 120 with 32Mb same Hd and a 56K modem. On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 02:24, JoeHill wrote: I run Smoothwall as a fire wall. It will run on a p100 or better