[newbie] DiskDrake Question

I've got some empty space next to my Linux partition, and I'd like for Linux to have it all! Is DiskDrake supposed to be able to resize a partition without loss of data? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [Re: [newbie] How to avoid starting X ?]

the runlevel system. I hope no one will be offended, but this problem for me has gone on for a very long time, and I'm tired of it. So I will only continue participating in the investigation on the Expert list (not that I'm an expert, by any standard). -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows handsdown on stability!!

punctuation is right for that), and it works great with Linux. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Font Sizes

Since I changed to the Mozilla fonts (and can now read the text on Web pages in Netscape) the text in the menu lines (and such) of Netscape and some other X programs is too large. In what file are those font sizes set? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get

Re: [newbie] Starting Linux without X

"Can't Break X Autostart" if you can get back to the earlier messages. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Font Sizes

Since I changed to the Mozilla fonts (and can now read the text on Web pages in Netscape) the text in the menu lines (and such) of Netscape and some other X programs is too large. In what file are those font sizes set? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get

Re: AW: [newbie] windows apps under linux

Drazenko Djuricic said: go to VMware Inc. www.vmware.com I have had only limited success getting the programs I care about to run in WINE. Is VMware any better at running modern 32-bit Windows programs? I have two in mind: Corel Ventura for work and Kyodai for play. -- Lane Lane

[newbie] Makin' Room

is being used by different directories? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Installing Elsewhere

After doing the famous trinity: configure/make/make install, a new program ends up somewhere, generally under /usr. Where does one change an entry so that the installation will go somewhere else? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] Netscape

Vic said: I wonder who I can e mail to tell them that Netscape sucks? The only problem is that it sucks less than any other X browser. g -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Startup Level Not Working

I installed M7 to automatically start X, and now I want to change that to stop at the console logon. I changed inittab to read: id:3:initdefault: ..but X still starts automatically. What needs to be done? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want

Re: [newbie] Installing apps from source code

I left out was the server stuff for my standalone machine. It's wonderful to be able to compile just about anything. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] IDE Zip Drive 100MB

Thorsten Brenner said: I have a SCSI-System runnig. (hard-disks and cd are working super) On my first IDE I have a100MB Zip Drive. Here's my fstab entry that works with my IDE Zip at hdd: /dev/hdd /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County

[newbie] Regular Expressions

I keep running into references to "regular expressions" in different contexts. Where can I learn about regular expressions? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] swap partition needed with 128 meg ?

that that "rule" was set back when people had less than 64M of RAM. I don't think it's valid any more. More to the point is the kind of work you're going to be doing. Major graphics, for example, takes lots of swap. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get wh

RE: [newbie] Applicware

Corel to Mandrake because of the nonstandard stuff. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Starting X Stuff

r starting this thing up every time I start X? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Starting X Stuff

r starting this thing up every time I start X? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] For all those who hate Netscrape

unless you call for it. I switched away to a different virtual desktop, and when I came back, the windows were blank. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] linux ref book

s. Let me get this straight: we have to boot to Windows and use "winrar" to assemble the Linux book? I guess I can find winrar somewhere on the Internet, but ungrateful as I am, I wish you had also posted a complete file for those of us who don't need to put it on floppies. smile -- L

RE: [newbie] linux ref book

Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Adding a Partition

are just a few steps. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] My Mandrake Is Loopy... No More!

! -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Kernels

had pcmcia things? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re[2]: [newbie] My Mandrake Is Loopy!

font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I hope this suggests something! Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake Is Loopy!

Alan Shoemaker said: Lanereinstall video card/monitor with your favorite tool. Wow, I hope that works! One of the guys on the expert list said I'd have to reinstal X! -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] GIMP is Gimpy!

When GIMP loads, I can see a whole flock of plugins being loaded. But the xtrns menu shows very few. Any ideas? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Lost Removeables

,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1 -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Fw: Lost Removeables

superblock on /dev/hdd4, or too many mounted file systems [root@localhost /root]# mount /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Doesn't Support Java

that an "everything but the kitchen sink" installation didn't include Java. I remember hearing that it works well with IBM's Java, which is available for free. I'm pleased to report that it's working well with the blackdown jre. -- Lane ____ Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Li

[newbie] Whither X Startup Files?

know how to control the process... particularly in terms of which X programs start up automatically. I've seen references to homedir/.xsession, but I don't have one of those. I'm afraid to just create one in case I do it wrong and lose access to my system. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County

[newbie] Alias with Input?

Say, I'm going crazy typing in "locate [string] | more". I'd like to put an "lm" alias in .bashrc, but I don't know how to write it so that it will take the [string] argument. I've looked through some doc, but I'm not looking the right place. -- Lane Lane Lester / Mad

Re: [newbie] ./configure error

in the Subject or as you did in your message? If the latter, that would explain why it didn't work. There should be one dot and one dash before "configure." -- Lane ____ Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Mounting Removeables

,unhide 0 0 -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] locate finds symlinks?

a" other than directory names and the new "java" of the blackdown distribution. Entering the full path of the new java works fine. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Mounting Netware Drives

edited fstab for just about every other kind of drive, but I don't know about Netware and LAN devices. If it's too involved to put in a reply, please point me to the docs. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Netware in Mandrake 7

7 on a Netware LAN? If I got the two systems connected, how would I know it? What do you put in fstab for a network drive? Etc. etc.? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Xscreensaver Root

did a just-about-everything install of Mandrake 7.0.2 with an automatic startup of X. Can you tell me which ?dm I'm running? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????

if there's anything there for me. In your message you raised three separate questions. They would be better posted as three messages with specific Subjects. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Booting Another Mandrake

lilo.conf that boots the alternate kernel is: image = /mnt/mandrake2boot/vmlinuz label = m2 vga = normal append = "mem=124M" root = /dev/hda7 -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

RE: [newbie] Mouse cursor is an opaque white square block

My name is Michael Bui and I have the same problem. I got a BIG WHITE block when I am in Xwindows. Is this one of the BUGS on version 7.0 of Mandrake Linux. Not in my 7.0.2. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Killed!

which I learned to dislike heartily). Then I could get at my original Mandrake and fix it. I've got a smaller partition available; maybe I'll put Peanut there for a little more insurance. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Mandrake Killed!

as the reason for failure. Suggestions? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re: [newbie] Appending Ram

. -- Lane ____ Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [[newbie] Swap space 128 Mb?]

mem=124M" above the "root" line in lilo.conf. I'm not sure if placement is important. Oh, yes, I also had to run "lilo -v" after editing the file. I use "124" because my onboard video uses 4M. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [[newbie] User/Root Frustration]

Why not just use root and be done with it then? Because then my email goes out with that as my username, and everyone knows that I'm not a "true believer" in the Linux way. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Doesn't Support Java

. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] Java in 7.0?

haven't had a chance to see if it has the files needed to run moneydance. I also downloaded blackdown, but it's a tar.bz2 and I don't know how to untar it. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Mandrake Doesn't Support Java

in Mandrake, I couldn't find the java files that needed to be there. I was amazed that an "everything but the kitchen sink" installation didn't include Java. So, are any of you running Java apps in 7.0? How did you manage it? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Li

Re: [newbie] Unpacking an archive

ning an OS with an older release... particularly a x.0 version! g Anyway, the 7.0-2 installs lots of goodies to make you feel good about the system. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] Newbie Kills Mandrake

Look at my page for links to the rescue floopy how-to: http://www.wcc.net/~peacemkr/linuxindex.html#newbie Warning not IE friendly! Why would anyone care? Or is there now an IE for Linux? g -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8 for Linux install problem

normally, depending on the window manager you're using. If it's not there, then you really do have a bad install and I don't have a ready fix in mind. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake's Broken! sob

symptoms as having been caused by my changing the host name. Postfix couldn't deal with it and was hanging. I removed postfix from the boot process, since I don't need it. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

[newbie] Starting X Programs at Startup

, or am I completely off base here? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [newbie] new to Mandrake 7.0

2. Also trying to get my Epson 600 printer and Iomega 250 zip drive to work.. When I installed an Epson Stylus 800, I selected the "Epson Color" entry, and that works fine. I don't know the differences between the 600 and the 800. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, G

[newbie] Newbie Kills Mandrake

while I'm at it, I have a boot floppy; is a rescue floppy something else, and if so, how do I make one? Lane ---- Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

[newbie] My Mandrake's Broken! sob

ess begins, and "Stopping at daemon" reports FAILED. I sure hope that suggests something to someone, other than that I have to erase everything and start over. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

[newbie] Info Needed for Un-sub-scribing?

such a file, which makes me wonder if I got such a message. Whether I did or didn't, the flood of unsub messages we get makes me think it might be a good thing to append unsub instructions automatically at the bottom of each message. I've seen this on other lists. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison

Re: [newbie] HELP!! THE INSTALLATION DON'T WORK

entered "linux text" at the boot: prompt, and that gave me a true text install. I had to do this because the graphic install does not provide full keyboard function in the "disk druid" section. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...

Re: [newbie] Now I'm Impressed!

. A question, though: If I follow the procedure you outline above and install LILO, will it automatically pick up the fact that I have Win98 installed and give me a menu at boot time from which I can select an OS? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

[newbie] RPMs Go Where?

I've read the man page, but it just isn't clear to me: what parameter do I add to the rpm command so it will tell me where it's sticking all this wonderful stuff? I've been using -Uhv, but I'd like to have something so that I would see a display like tar -xfzf gives me. -- Lane Lane

[newbie] Java Not Installed in 7?

I did what is basically an Install Everything with 7.0-2, but I can't get a Java app to run. When I started looking for things, it seemed like some of the files are missing. The java program is there, but I don't see the supporting libraries, classes, and stuff. -- Lane Lane Lester

[newbie] RE: Mouse isn't working

50 # Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice # Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms) Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout50 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice # ChordMiddle EndSection -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison

[newbie] Supermount Unhappiness

Am I the only one who finds supermount troublesome? The behavior was too strange to try to remember, but it's out of my fstab now! -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...

Re: [newbie] Linux books in PDF

there. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

RE: [newbie] Ram dectection

ingle append, but I don't remember the format. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

[newbie] Man Pages with Numbers

tab.5" didn't. -- Lane ____ Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

[newbie] Setting Up Exim

can get just her mail from /var/spool/mail/her-username. I really need help on this, because I had a very good system for this in Windows, and she's not very happy about the lack of it in Linux. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

Re[2]: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake

steve wrote: In order of "look here first" man Is there a "path" for man pages? My impression is that some pages get installed where man can't find them. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

[newbie] Replacing One LILO with Another

. If the instructions are simple, would you please provide them, or point me to the appropriate docs. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake

If you want to work efficiently with rpm, I'd suggest you to read "maximum rpm" available at http://www.rpm.org Thanks! I downloaded the pdf. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...

Re: [newbie] autoboot.bat

ons on two systems I tried. I ended up doing a complete reinstall with both. -- Lane ____ Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

[newbie] Segmentation Faults

I've installed two programs, Abiword and gsysboard, and they both give segmentation faults when started. Is there a general approach to solving these problems? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

Re: [newbie] 6.1-7.0: Something Different About LILO?

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: image=/mandrake/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk label=Mandrake_Linux append="mem=124M" root=/dev/hdb8 Oops! I did the usual newbie goof: edit lilo.conf and fail to run lilo. The above works just fine now. -- Lane ____ L

Re: [newbie] questions

take it anywhere I want, so here's this: I looked at the rpm help, and it looks like -Uv are good options. But I seem to recall one or two others that Red Hat gurus regularly use. Which ones do you like? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

Re: [newbie] Running programs

looks in the current directory before consulting PATH. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 or 7.02?

for shipping. Hey, those CDs weigh a ton! g Seriously, folks, that shipping got it to me in two days. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

[newbie] Copying 'n' Pasting in X

to impart to this newbie? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

[newbie] 7.0.2 fdisk Doesn't Support Keyboard

just move to the next partition rather than act on the partition I want. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

[newbie] Which Version Do I Have: 7.0 or 7.02?

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, "Pittman, Merle" wrote: I had this same problem in 7.0 but when I tried 7.02 the problem went away?? Which leads to this question: How can I determine if the supplier sent me 7.02 as they claimed? The text logon says, "7.0". -- Lane Lane Les

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 or 7.02?

. When the logon prompt comes, it says it's version 7.0 (Air). -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

Re: [newbie] Here is the dumbest question ever asked!

What command do you use to logoff and shutdown the system? I use "reboot" which I understand is an alias for a more involved command. -- Lane ____ Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

[newbie] 7.0: CD-ROM Not a Valid Block Device

To check my version, I tried to mount the CD, but I got the message, "Not a valid block device." I did a su root and tried again with a complete mount statement, but I got the same response. I've never seen this before. -- Lane ____ Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getti

[newbie] 7.0: Text Install

nt with a short list of package types in which everything was selected. I unselected "Web Server" and "Network Management Workstation" only. I'm glad to be running 7, whether it's 7.0 or 7.0-2 (but I'm going to check!) -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

[newbie] 6.1-7.0: Something Different About LILO?

b8 BTW, I originally just had "vmlinuz" which is evidently a link to the longer filename. But neither of them work now. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to go with Linux...

Re: [newbie] 7.0: CD-ROM Not a Valid Block Device

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: To check my version, I tried to mount the CD, but I got the message, "Not a valid block device." I did a su root and tried again with a complete mount statement, but I got the same response. I've never seen this before. I discovered that t

[newbie] 6.1 - 7.0: No Mouse!

d of mouse I had, and I didn't even have to do the fiddling described above. But this second install was an update, and the install program skipped the mouse step. How can I get my mouse functioning again? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

[newbie] Getting Packages Online

. If there is a more powerful alternative, please tell me about it. One can specify a URL in kpackage, and I presume this means that the program will look at this site for packages to download and install. If this is so, what is the best URL to use for this purpose? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County

[newbie] Install: Services to Autostart?

automatically. A few looked good, and a few looked useless, and a few looked... well, incomprehensible. Is there a list somewhere with comments that would be a good guide to a newbie about which services do what? And how does one change the list after the install is complete? -- Lane Lane

[newbie] Can Separate Partitions Interfere?

n some way? The boot process certainly looks like the three are independent, and the X interface is unique to each. However, I do see in the Mandrake boot (dmesg stuff) repeated errors that say /boot/System.map has incorrect kernel version." -- Lane ---- Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia U

[newbie] Can Separate Partitions Interfere?

right away. Of course, I also appreciate the suggestions of those who didn't know how badly screwed up things were and were trying to help me solve what looked like a ppp problem, but wasn't. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...

[newbie] 6.1 - 7.0.2 Wipes Everything?

Now that I can get on the Internet with it, I'm delighted with the 6.1 someone sent me. I've already ordered 7.0.2 to get the latest and greatest. My question is whether I should spend any time customizing my 6.1 install if I'm going to need to trash it when I put 7.0.2 on. -- Lane Lane

[newbie] Chopped X

, please tell me how to display the Help (it does have Help, doesn't it?) or how to save and exit. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re[2]: [newbie] Spruce Configuration

cutting and pasting. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re[2]: [newbie] Thank you, Corel, for PPP

to dump everything on my drive. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re[2]: [newbie] Thank you, Corel, for PPP

guess I'll do the Install Everything, although that offends my view about myself. g Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re: [newbie] Spruce Configuration

on the "@mindspring.com". Lane ---- Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

[newbie] No PPP Support in 6.5?

install? (arrrgh!) Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re: [newbie] Forgiveness??

, you get the idea. 3. You have a problem for which no one has a solution. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

Re: [[newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?]

Is anyone using Spruce? I just installed it, and it looks good. I haven't actually used it, though. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux

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