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Howdy all,
I was just trying to download the latest Mandrake (6.0) from one of
the FTP mirrors (500+ Meggers, but I figure I might as well put my new
DSL to work). Everything's great, except my FTP programs seem to be
choking on some directories. There are a
Bob Schmidt wrote:
Hi All,
I'm pretty new at this stuff, I'm trying to install kxicq on my machine. But
it says that I need a compiler, well I looked through my mandrake 6 box and
installed colorgcc. But when I run ./configure it says that the gcc can't
create an excutable. Any ideas
Andy Goth wrote:
Well, I'm no programmer, but it must not be terribly difficult as I have a
couple of programs that do similar things. But Partition Magic is still the
best, and comes with more than just the partition creator and resizer. I
have Partition Magic 4.0 which has a Windows
Richard Myers wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Richard Myers wrote:
Neat stuff, huh? This is Unix.
best wishes,
richard myers
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, darkknight wrote:
: ) Ever thought about teaching?
We, I taught an online college-level Intro to Unix course for several
years.
inmodem. I would never buy another.
My advice to you would be to buy either an external modem or an ISA
REAL modem.
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DOCS FIRST!!
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ut
I don't know what it is) are Winmodems. Either get an external modem
or an ISA modem.
Lloyd Osten
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While cruising through fdisk, I noticed there are four partition
types relating to Ontrack Disk Manager.It might be helpful to whoever
was using it to set their partition types to one of these.
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internals of my computer. I try to learn all
I can about everything I use. What is Linux's answer to the FAT?
as far as I know, it's EXT2, which is far superior to FAT.
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about /usr and all those other directories I am forgetting?
So, what if I install some great package and then have to reformat and
reinstall the OS? How can I salvage that great package?
just copy the package to a partition you aren't going to format. You
can copy it back later.
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! computer...
By the way, I got it for $1500. grin shakes head
Modern hardware is much nicer and faster. Much cheaper, too. When I
bought my Pentium motherboard in '95, the cpu (90 Mhz) was nearly
$1000 Cdn. The board was about $800. And 16 Mb of RAM was $900.
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vel
format program.
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One more info, I am running the Mandrake 6.0
Thanks
Did you install the kernel headers AND sources?
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On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Did anyone else just get 5 posts from 7-8-99?
A couple of days ago, I got some from 9 days earlier...
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tart Win98 or just hit
"enter" for Linux. :-)
the timeout can be changed to. I thing the default is 50 1/10 of a
second.
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g problems with it?
the BEST method is just to delete it permanently...:-)
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and edit a file and press Home
a 'H' appears, pressing End show a 'F' .
2. XMan doesn't show the man-pages. Only garbage...
Bye... Andre
I think the default key bindings can be changed.
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re it does
translation, too. Maybe there's a BIOS update for your
motherboard-assuming it has a flash rom on it (but from that era, I
kinda doubt it.
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that you use a swap partition.
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se they're Microsoft and want to make things as easy as possible
for the computer illiterate. Just another reason we use something
superior. We basically have total control over where stuff goes.
I personally don't put my programs in there.
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that
seems logical to me. You might want to check it out.
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Lloyd Osten wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Andy Goth wrote:
mind. If only I could map "\Program Files" to be on a different
partition...
Of course, such things are trivially easy in Linux... Wonder why
Micro
extract or decompress a gz file?
For example if the filename is file.gz, what the command line should be
looked like?
thanx
Actually, you can uzip and untar the file all at once. I think the
command is tar zxvf filename
Lloyd Osten
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yes, there are some versions that run on a Mac, like LinuxPPc,
Mklinux, and Yellow Dog Linux
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Today I received two messages from this list dated July 12 (today is
the 21st)
Strange.anyone else have that happen?
Lloyd Osten
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Is there a way i can run X (startx) even i'm not using the root account.
Bobby
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try using startx. It worked for me.
Lloyd Osten
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to install. The only thing you might have
trouble with is the disk partitioning. Please read the install guide
BEFORE you try to install it. You could end up saving yourself a lot
of frustration.
Lloyd Osten
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Lloyd Osten wrote:
I have two computers, one running LM6.0 (this one) and the other one
is running Win98. They are both connected to a cablemodem via a
10BaseT hub. They both have their own separate static IP addresses.
How can I
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Lloyd Osten wrote:
I have two computers, one running LM6.0 (this one) and the other one
is running Win98. They are both connected to a cablemodem via a
10BaseT hub. They both have their own separate static IP addresses.
How can I make my Linux box talk
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Hello.
By default when I start Mandrake 6.0 it goes straight to the cute little
logon manager. Is there a way to change this so that it will go straight
to a command prompt?
you are SUPPOSED tolog in so it knows who you are..it's a security
thing required
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, you wrote:
I suppose I was unclear regarding my posting earlier.
I am the only person I know who has ventured into linux and therefor have no way to
compare graphics adapters / monitors. I have the STB Lightspeed 128 adapter
installed and it gives what I would consider
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999, you wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Matt Milano wrote:
Also, when I try to send mail from Kmail, I get a 550 error message,
saying that my user, name and e-mail address, doesn't exist. It just
worked last night too. I can receive mail with it, just not send. Does
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote:
John Aldrich wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Ken Wilson wrote:
for Xwindows type 'startx '
Excuse me but...
(showing glaringly my newbie status :-))
What's the ampersand for? I normally just type "startx" and hey presto! It
static IP (for twice
the priceno thanks.
Lloyd Osten
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Is there a way i can run X (startx) even i'm not using the root account.
Bobby
just type in startx.
Lloyd Osten
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote:
how do i shut down properly when i see Tux right when i boot?
thanks
j
login as root, type your password and then type
shutdown -h now. If you want to reboot, the change the -h
to -r.
Lloyd Osten
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it up as a static IP and DNS. I've
had no problems with getting mail with either Kmail or
Netscape. However , I'm now leaning towards Kmail because
it seems much faster on this woefully underpowered Linux
box...:=)
Lloyd Osten
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