Hi, Alan,
Now this may sound kinda weird and maybe a bit obvious butthis
sounds *exactly* like me. This is how I fixed mine after umpteen howto's,
posts etc. Open up KDE, open the menu and click on "Printer Queue" in the
box at te top are two small boxes to check, am in win98 right now so
Is there a way to put new apps onto KDE's menu? TIA!
John
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
Dear folks:
I recently had to reinstall Windows after it began seriously
misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2
to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but
have no idea what to do next. I tried
I'm sorry in my previous post I mistakenly said to type in "startx" I meant
to say "/sbin/lilo" then type in "reboot." See if that does anything for
you.
John
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From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:20 PM
Subject: Re:
Dan Voeks wrote:
Hi,
I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0. I have two hard drives. hda has one
partition - a dos/win95 partition. hdb has 3 partitions: hdb1 = /boot,
hdb2 = swap, hdb3 = /
When using linux, I boot from a floppy (the floppy I created during the
mandrake install).
Here's my
Check this out. Kinda scarey.
Johnhttp://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/coverstory19990830.html
Can anyone tell me how to mount my D drive (vfat) it is an extended
patition in Windows. My C is hda1 and can I mount it without problems.
Am not sure what to "name" D in fstab.
TIA!
John Connell
The question I posted earlier in regards to mounting my ext vfat
partition in Win.nevermind, I figured it out. Just changed my hdax
to hda5 and mounted, no problem. Thanks anyway!
John Connell
Ken wrote:
Can someone please explain how to mount the fat partition from Linux so that I
can access all of those office files while running Linux. Or do I just need to
copy them to disk and open them in SO? Thanks
Ken,
Open a terminal and type--mkdir C (or whatever your win is on) then
open
LYNX?
But i think in time you will see a decent non-bloated browser (maybe) on
linux..
i certainly hope so.
Fish.
http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html
John
- Original Message -
From:
Frederic PLE
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 4:00
PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Repost url to linux
realplayer g-2
Rick Murphy wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Rick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I try running Lynx from the console, I get a message,
"Metamail: Can't open temporary file!"
It even happened if I uninstalled metamail. What's up
with that, I can't use X-Windows because my system is too slow, so I
want to use the good old
Jeanette Russo wrote:
How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper
application?
Jeanette
- Original Message -
From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 10:55 PM
Subject: [newbie] Sweet sound of
Rick Murphy wrote:
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Postman wrote:
> I am still looking for a copy of RealAudio G2. What specific version
and what
> specific web site??? Is it in RPM format? The only version I saw
close to it
> on www.real.com was one for Redhat 5.2. I downloaded and installed
it and it
>
Rick Murphy wrote:
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote:
How did you get it to work as a plugin I can only get it to work as a helper
application?
Jeanette
Jeanette,
Perhaps I misspoke. What is the difference between a plugin and helper?
What I meant was that now when I'm
"Gregory S. Hackman" wrote:
Hi,
I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram.
When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have
something like 64 Mb. The appropriate KDE utility tells me the same thing.
Is there some bug in the
I have the G2 file I could email if you like.
John
- Original Message -
From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sweet smell of success real audio G2 part III
- Original Message -
From: John
I keep reading--"never surf the web for security reasons." Just exactly what
type of security risks are we talking about here? Maybe a dumb question but
a legitimate one. Please help me with my ignorance!
John
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lyndon Lininger Sr wrote:
James Schofield wrote:
I have seen that there is two ICQ clients out for Linux.
One is Kicq for KDE
and another is for GNOME.
I like to use KDE as my Desktop.. but I notice that the KICQ project is
still Alpha and is not getting a lot of support.
Can anyone tell me which files in Netscape contain the "Personal
Bookmarks"and the "Address Book?"I found "bookmark.html" it had
everything except the "personal" ones. I justwant to back them up so as not
to have to go through the *big* hassle ofredoing them if/when I have to do a
I have noticed that L-M 6.0 does not recognize my 96MB of RAM. It only
"sees" 65MB. I have two memory modules one is 32MB, the other is 64MB. Can
anyone help with this? Would be nice to have the extra boost!
GW2K
P-586-233
96RAM SDRAM DIMM 32/64
4GB HD
AM BIOS
Lawman P-55C Motherb
Hi,
Yesterday someone posted a URL for a company that was selling Linux
"Personal Internet Appliances."
If you read this could you please either post it again or email me the URL?
Thanks and God Bless,
John
Joseph,
From a terminal type "/etc/lilo.conf" and press enter.
John
- Original Message -
From: Joseph Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:14 AM
Subject: RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]
What does one mean rerun lilo (I know RTFM,
Hi everyone,
I really screwed up this time! I was downloading Klicq from Freshmeat and
as usual I held the shift key down before the download began..BUTsomehow
I didn't do it at the right time and it downloaded all the text (source code?)
instead of the tar.gz file into my
Rick Fry wrote:
Original Message Follows
I've only been using linux since May and it's now just about all I use at
home. It's as easy to use as windows. In fact, I foret I'm not in
windows, except no BSOD ;o)
Why? What's the point? How 'bout Windows for linux, gimme a break! g
JC
- Original Message -
From: Richard Lamont [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Linux? Is there such a thing???
On Sun, 15 Aug
em? Thanks in advance.
(By the way Toby, I sent that modem out on Saturday)
God Bless'
John Connell
Funny, I use my IE5 CD for a coaster also. But everytime I do I cannot
remember where I left my coffee!
Johng
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Browser For Linux?
Cool feature!
I must
Harry Ellis wrote:
My US Robotics 33.6 modem dials my ISP, they "talk", the Kppp reads
connected, but nothing works.
I've installed Venus 6.0 as the only os on a stand alone pentium, trying
both the Linuxconfig and the Kppp to connect. I'm hoping someone will
recognize this as a problem
Paul,
Bring up a terminal and type in "setup" and you can make your adjustments
from one of the choices on the list.
John
- Original Message -
From: Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 7:43 PM
Hi,
Today I installed Linux Mandrake 6.0.
I have tried "lpr"--didn't work! Thanks anyway.
John
- Original Message -
From: Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing from Netscape
John Connell wrote:
Hi All. Can anyone tell me how I can
Jim Snyder wrote:
Hi
How do I use Gnome with Mandrake 6.0?
I am really happy with KDE except for occasional lockups but would like to try
Gnome.
Many thanks.
Jim
Hi Jim!
At the login hit the arrow at the drop down menu and select "gnome."
John
.
To print out of Netscape on my box, I use: lpr -Php5l
I named my queue hp5l because I have a Hewlett Packard 5L, but for you you would use:
lpr -Plp0
Hope this helps.
*
Original message from: "John Connell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have tried "lp
it the mail to you.
John Connell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have formatted disk, long ago.
John
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP
Manny,
Actually this is what my fstab looks like exactly. My problem is I can
mount
and
- Original Message -
From: Bert Bullough [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 12:17 PM
Subject: [newbie] fstab
Can someone give me an example of their fstab entry ( preferably one
with an entry for mounting a windows partition) so
nd unmount it as a vfat
filesystem. Have also put an icon on my desktop which allows me to mount and
unmount like the cd and floppy.
Thanks,
John Connell
#cd /mnt/
# mkdir /zip
Also added the following line to my /etc/fstab file--
/dev/hdd4
/zipvfat
user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0
0
Manny Styles wrote:
- Original Message -
From: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:38 PM
Subject: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP
Please help me! I *need* to copy a whole bunch of downloaded files, rpm's
etc to my ATAPI Zip drive, before my
Jim,
Make a directory in your /mnt/ directory called /zip from root prompt-- cd
/mnt/
then mkdir /zip
then go to your /etc/fstab file and add this line
/dev/hdxx /zipvfatuser,noauto,rw 0 0
hdxx being whatever your zip drive is mine is hdd4
John
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