Re: [newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-19 Thread Marcia Waller
This sounds like a good idea. How would one get instructions on how to set this up that are very good and step by step? Thanks. Marcia On Wednesday 19 September 2001 05:56, Franki wrote: What about just using Webmin it has upload/download apps in there.. so you can move files back and

[newbie] Kmid /dev/sequencer

2001-09-13 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I downloaded a MIDI file a couple of weeks ago and played it with no problems using kmid. Then yesterday I downloaded some .kar files and tried to play them and when I tried kmid I got a message that /dev/sequencer could not be opened. I then tried the MIDI file that I had

Re: [newbie] AudioGalaxy

2001-08-26 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Sridhar and TezcatlipocA, Thanks for the explicit directions. I think I can make this work now. I will give it a try as soon as I get a chance and let you know if it worked. Thanks, Marcia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1;

[newbie] AudioGalaxy

2001-08-24 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I started an account at AudioGalaxy and thought I had downloaded and installed the linux application correctly. It tried to download a song but was unsuccessful so when I went back to try again it just told me my satellite was not running because of errors in my account.txt file. I

[newbie] Phex

2001-08-18 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I have been using Phex for awhile however, now I rarely can find any music that does not have the .dl extension . Is there anyway around this? Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Timidity,Kmid and Jazz

2001-08-15 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I am planning to set up my linux box for MIDI in the near future. Has anyone here on the list worked with Kmid, timidity, or jazz? Has anyone used Linux for MIDI and with certain instruments? If anyone has done this or is doing this could you let me know how you have set this up?

[newbie] MIDI

2001-08-13 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I will be taking an Intro to MIDI class at the college this autumn. Of course, they will be using Windows for the MIDI editing and playing instruments I am sure. Has anyone here used Linux for MIDI? Has anyone setup a MIDI keyboard to their computer and used Linux for MIDI? Could

Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I agree about using System Commander. I had my hard disk totally go bad 2 weeks ago and then put in a new one. I almost used fdisk to partition but last minute I decided to try my System Commander. It worked absolutely great. I was very impressed. I am up and running now without a

[newbie] Internet college classes

2001-07-20 Thread Marcia Waller
for Unix. Linux is my interest but is Unix just about the same thing? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller

[newbie] vmware(trying to install Windows95)

2001-07-16 Thread Marcia Waller
directions to install my Windows 95 with bootdisk and all I get is a system disk error when I try to install. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you very much. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller

[newbie] Sap and Linux

2001-07-15 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear all, My husband says that he works with Sap at his work and he really is enthralled with it. Does anyone know anything about Sap and how Linux can work with it? I have done a search on it and found some interesting web pages but do not know exactly what Sap is. I am curious. Thanks,

[newbie] Installing vmware2.04 in LM8

2001-07-13 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I had vmware 2.03 installed, working and running Windows 95 just fine in LM7.2. After I did the LM8 installation, I cannot get vmware to come up using the terminal and vmware command. I know the vmware installation is still there because I found the file. What can I do to get this

Re: [newbie] Java (again)

2001-07-12 Thread Marcia Waller
On Wednesday 11 July 2001 23:00, Anguo wrote: Marcia, Try one more thing and if it doesn't work, we'll have to ask more advanced people for help. In the console, type 'which java'. - $ which java /usr/local/j2re1.3.0/bin/java Dear Anguo, I typed the 'which java' and I got

Re: [newbie] Java (again)

2001-07-11 Thread Marcia Waller
How did you configure it? I first tried to use the GUI Konqueror configuration tool, where you can put in the path to your java file, but it didn't work for me. I then did it manually, using the console and it worked. 1- open a console 2- su to root 3- cd to /etc/ in it you

Re: [newbie] Java no longer working(for chat)

2001-07-10 Thread Marcia Waller
. Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller

[newbie] GinRummy for Linux

2001-07-09 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I am looking for a GinRummy card game to run on my LM8. Does anyone know where I can get one? Thank you very much. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok?

2001-07-07 Thread Marcia Waller
On Saturday 07 July 2001 10:18, uli wrote: Am Freitag, 6. Juli 2001 17:19 schrieben Sie: Dear Jeffrey, I am ready to begin installing and running Wine. You are the only one that I have seen on this list who has been able to run MSOffice or Photoshop, etc, with Wine. Could you explain how

Re: [newbie] Playing videos

2001-07-06 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Thank you for your suggestions. I think I will tackle installing and using Wine. Does anyone know of good documentation or instructions for installing and running Wine? This has interested me for some time and now I think this video movie thing will motivate me to get Wine going.

Re: [newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok?

2001-07-06 Thread Marcia Waller
using tarballs and compile your kernels like good girls and boys! good luck and don't get frustrated! i've been using linux and bsd type stuff for all of a year now and i'm STILL learning a lot! -- Marcia Waller

[newbie] Playing videos

2001-07-05 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, My brother sent me a video that says vmail.vid.exe. I thought I could play it on Linux with RealPlayer but it does not play it. I have already played it on my Win98 on my laptop. I was wondering if there is a Linux program that would play a video file like this. I have tried xmovie

Re: [newbie] Playing videos

2001-07-05 Thread Marcia Waller
On Thursday 05 July 2001 21:47, Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcia, Standard comment re: html mail applies... (kmail automatically made my reply in html, even though I default to plain text!). What is the file format of the video? An exe is not a

Re: [newbie] Display in LM8

2001-07-03 Thread Marcia Waller
that you display is set to 600x400 and that display is hard to see like you say. Try 800x600 and see if that works better. Don --- Marcia Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Since I have had LM8 I cannot get my display to the correct config. Alot of my programs are cut off

[newbie] Display in LM8

2001-07-02 Thread Marcia Waller
config file with xf86config. That did not seem to change anything. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller

[newbie] Logitech Videocam

2001-07-02 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I was just wondering if the Logitech Videocam is supported by LM8 and is it easy to setup? Thanks. Marcia -- Marcia Waller

[newbie] Chess

2001-07-01 Thread Marcia Waller
this installed. I have never installed anything like this before. Does anyone know how to install a program like this? Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller

[newbie] Java Plug-in for Netscape

2001-06-30 Thread Marcia Waller
this again? Thanks for your help. Marcia Waller

[newbie] WordPerfect Install in LM8

2001-06-26 Thread Marcia Waller
very much. Marcia -- Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie]No Printing so far

2001-06-02 Thread Marcia Waller
On Monday 28 May 2001 14:49, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups

Re: [newbie]cups printing again

2001-05-31 Thread Marcia Waller
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 23:49, John David Molina wrote: El Jue 24 May 2001 13:16, Marcia Waller escribió: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-30 Thread Marcia Waller
. Also, do I have to use that same command everytime I want to use Phex or is there another command to start it? May I make a desktop icon link to phex? Thanks so much for your help. I am thrilled that I finally have a way to download some music. Sincerely, Marcia --- Marcia Waller [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-29 Thread Marcia Waller
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 18:33, Dan wrote: Can I make a suggestion? Try Phex. It was really easy to use. All you need is the http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/ There's no real installation. It run right out of your home directory. http://www.konrad-haenel.de/phex/ Dear All, Thank you

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-28 Thread Marcia Waller
On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:42, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-28 Thread Marcia Waller
On Monday 28 May 2001 14:49, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups

Re: [newbie] LimeWire Again

2001-05-28 Thread Marcia Waller
On Monday 28 May 2001 21:54, s wrote: U really should use a downloader. Netscape seems to convert binarys to ascii or some sh*t. Anyway, nt webdownloader is a good one. Go to rpmfind and do a search for nt. It's an easy rpm install and straightforward gui controls. -s I went to several

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-27 Thread Marcia Waller
On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:42, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-26 Thread Marcia Waller
not stopped. Are there any files I can check? I do not know what else to do. I thought of installing LM8 again in expert mode so that I do not lose my other files. Does anyone have any other suggestions again? Thanks. Marcia -- Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie]cups printingMess(cont)

2001-05-26 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I checked my services that should be running in the Mandrake Control Center and there was no cups listed at all. It was before but since I reinstalled the cups it is not there. There is nothing for a printer there. Is not Cups and lpd supposed to be listed? Why would it not be?

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-26 Thread Marcia Waller
with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much for your detailed instructions. It seemed to all get installed. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)

2001-05-25 Thread Marcia Waller
On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print

[newbie] Compressing files with zip

2001-05-25 Thread Marcia Waller
laptop only has Win98 which is why I want to use the zip format.Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie] Compressing files with zip

2001-05-25 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Thank you for your answers about zip. It seems quite easy. I will try this. Thanks again. Sincerely, Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)again

2001-05-25 Thread Marcia Waller
On Friday 25 May 2001 12:45, Marcia Waller wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration

[newbie]cups printing Mess

2001-05-25 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I have not been able to install the new cups 1.1.8. Has anyone successfully installed this in LM8? I am the one who has been asking for cups printing help for my Epson Stylus Color printer on LM8 for days now. I installed all of my cups rpm's from my LM8 again. Nothing is working I

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-24 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I finally have my Epson Stylus Color printing now that I added xpp, however the quality is horrrible. The colors are fine but the BW has banding through the letters. I have it configured with the cups+gimp print at adaptive hybrid, 360 dpi, and photograph. I tried 720 but that did

[newbie]printing with Cups in LM8 again

2001-05-23 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, My Epson Stylus color printer does not work at all now. I installed the new cups , I did a test page which printed but had alot of bands with the black white print. I was able to finally use the calibration for Epson but I cannot print anything other than test pages and

Re: [newbie] Funky fonts back to normal in 8.0

2001-05-23 Thread Marcia Waller
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 22:57, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, I installed all the fonts I could find. And, voila! The web pages look normal again. Lucida Console looks kinda nice. Thanks all that helped. Roman How does one install fonts from Windows or Linux in LM8? Thanks. -- Marcia

[newbie]printing with Cups in LM8 again

2001-05-23 Thread Marcia Waller
about this. Thanks for any help. Sincerely, Marcia --- -- Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-22 Thread Marcia Waller
On Monday 21 May 2001 21:10, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Lanman and All, Thank you for the ftp site and suggestions. I did get the new cups. How would I check to see which version of cups is running now? Run the updates first, and delete your Epson printer, then do a fresh config

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-21 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Lanman and All, Thank you for the ftp site and suggestions. I did get the new cups. How would I check to see which version of cups is running now? Run the updates first, and delete your Epson printer, then do a fresh config for the printer. Assuming that Mars and Venus (?) are in proper

Re: Fwd: [newbie]LimeWire

2001-05-20 Thread Marcia Waller
is? Thanks for your help. Marcia -- Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-20 Thread Marcia Waller
On Friday 18 May 2001 20:12, s wrote: Well, Marcia, I think we ought to quit wasting ink. Seems our Epson printers are also broken in 8.0. Mandrakesoft is being a little too quiet about these problems people are having. Anyway, our choices - buy a HP, go back to 7.2, or do without a

[newbie] Archiver

2001-05-20 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I have LM 8 and I just tried to use the archiver. It said sorry that it was not in my path. How can I use this again? It worked well in 7.2. Also, how does one unzip a file with the .zip on the end by hand? Thank you. -- Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-18 Thread Marcia Waller
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:49, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I just installed LM 8 after having LM 7.2 for awhile. I am having some problems getting decent printing quality with my Epson Stylus Color printer. I am using the cups + gimp printer driver which worked great in 7.2. I have

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] kmail

2001-05-16 Thread Marcia Waller
Thank you very much to all of you who helped me with the kmail setup for my husband. I actually have it working now. I needed to use the part of his email address that was his user name instead of just his name to get it working. It is a little different than Netscape's setup but is working

[newbie]

2001-05-16 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Have any of you downloaded and setup limewire yet? I am trying to do this. I have downloaded it but cannot figure out how to install and get it going. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Sincerely, Marcia

[newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-16 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I just installed LM 8 after having LM 7.2 for awhile. I am having some problems getting decent printing quality with my Epson Stylus Color printer. I am using the cups + gimp printer driver which worked great in 7.2. I have tried to adjust the resolution, etc, but nothing has helped

[newbie] Font problem in LM8

2001-05-16 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I had great looking fonts in 7.2 but some of the fonts on the internet and in some apps are almost illegible in my newly installed LM8. What can I do to improve this? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Marcia

Re: [newbie] kmail

2001-05-14 Thread Marcia Waller
I am using the correct one. In LM7.2 I successfully set up everything in Netscape and Netscape Messenger for us both. Does anyone have any ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie] kmail

2001-05-14 Thread Marcia Waller
. In other words he logs in with his name and a user password into his Linux desktop then he will go to kmail which should use the password from cox cable. It is not accepting this, though. I hope this informations helps. Thanks, -- Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie] error on boot-up

2000-08-28 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Paul, Alan, Mark, Thank you for your help. I would definitely agree that my system is stalling as it's attempting to mount the 'root' file system in read/write mode. I typed the' linux single' and it made no difference. I have not found a way to get to a console or linuxconf. I have read

Re: [newbie] error on boot-up

2000-08-27 Thread Marcia Waller
Hi Paul, I have not tried booting "linux failsafe". I would like to try that. I am very much a newbie so could you explain exactly how I would do that? Thank you very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] error on boot-up

2000-08-27 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Paul, I went to the Lilo boot prompt and typed "linux failsafe".I got back "no such image. [tab] shows a list. I then used the tab key and then I got : linux windows floppy. I do not know what this means or what to do now. By the way how do you exit the Lilo prompt and setup ? What

[newbie] error on boot-up

2000-08-26 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I have been using Linux Mandrake 7 for about 5 weeks now. Everything (almost) was fine until I decided to try a different desktop last night. I have used different ones before without a problem but last night I used Xfce(sp?). After I logged out I shut down X and as usual it started the

[newbie] Linux book

2000-08-22 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Paul, Awhile back you recommended a good linux book to study and unfortunately I accidentally erased that message. Would you please give me the name of that book again? Also, I noticed that you seem very familiar with commands, how to edit, and just about anything else with linux. Are there

Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking

2000-08-20 Thread Marcia Waller
Yes, I am getting about 3 copies of some posts, too. I prefer it to getting nothing.:) Marcia

Re: [newbie] Test

2000-08-20 Thread Marcia Waller
Yes, it has arrived.:) Marcia

Re: [newbie] laptops

2000-08-19 Thread Marcia Waller
From some of your responses it sounds like there are more than a few good laptops out there for running Linux. Are 6.0 gigs of harddrive and 32 megs of memory enough for running Linux Mandrake and Windows easily? Would I be better off getting at least 64 megs of memory and 10 or more gigs of

Re: [newbie] laptops

2000-08-19 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Has anyone heard of Linux on the new Emachine notebook called Eslate or on a KFC notebook? Are these good notebooks? Marcia

[newbie] laptops

2000-08-18 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I know there is a place I found awhile ago where you can find out about alot of different laptops and how they work with Linux. I just do not remember where I found that. Anyone know? I am in the market for a laptop and I am looking for a good used one that can run both Windows and

Re: [newbie] laptops

2000-08-18 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Ingo, What kind of Toshiba laptop do you have and or like? How many gigs of harddrive and rams of memory does one need for a dual boot system-Linux/Windows? Did the Linux Mandrake install well? Thanks for the info. Marcia

Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-17 Thread Marcia Waller
ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type>

[newbie] newbie-saving into floppy

2000-08-17 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear all, Usually I have no problem with opening my floppy disk with my floppy icon until tonight. I tried saving a file into it which just did not work. I gave up on that. Then I went to my floppy icon and tried to open it and got an error message that it was already mounted or busy. I must have

[newbie] internal zip drive

2000-08-17 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Anyone, I did look up the zip drive in the archives and I really can't seem to find the answer that applies to my problem so far. The etc/fstab does have /dev/hdc4 in it. Also, Drakconf says it is now mounted (supermount) but I just do not know how to get my zip icon to open my zip

[newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-14 Thread Marcia Waller
it. Thanks for your help. The rest of the needed information for this zip should be below. Marcia - Original Message - From: Marcia Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 10:12 PM Subject: zip disk drive Dear Anyone, First of all, I have not received any

Re: [newbie] ISA PNP Modem and Sound Card

2000-08-10 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I have been having problems getting my sound set up and I wrote an email about it posting all of the error messages I got when I went into soundconfig and did not receive an answer yet. That was during last weekend when there were some email dryspells so I am asking again.:) These are

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-07 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Thank you very much for all of your wonderful suggestions for the zip drive. I will try them. Also, someone asked me to post my /etc/fstab file so here it is:/dev/hdc/mnt/zip msdos user,exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=501,gid=100,umask=0,opt1=va1,opt2=none,o pt3,opt4=2 1 1

[newbie] Re:Quicken

2000-08-07 Thread Marcia Waller
Thank you very much for the gnucash web page and information. I actually was able to download this within 5 minutes on my Windows side then used kpackage(within Linux of course) to install it which it did with absolutely no problem. It looks like it was just what I was looking for. I think this

Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days

2000-08-05 Thread Marcia Waller
Yes, I have noticed the dry-spells. I think the problem has gone beyond this group. My other email was not getting through either. I called Cox Internet tech service and they were blaming ATT for a routing problem. Marcia - Original Message - From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Missing Interfaces(NIC's)

2000-08-03 Thread Marcia Waller
I am a newbie and I would like to know how exactly would you re-install the network card driver modules? Thank you. Marcia

[newbie] Soundcard

2000-08-03 Thread Marcia Waller
I am a newbie and now I am ready to get my sound working. I did go through the process from the installation guide of Mandrake 7.0 and it did not work or at least the sound test did not work. My soundcard is ESS Es1868 Plug Play Audio Drive and Input is 0800, Output is 0807. I checked and this

[newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-03 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Anyone, I would like to get my zip drive to work now. I installed Mandrake 7.0 complete, purchased the OS complete with CDs and guides. I used Partition Magic, Bootmagic, and the supplied graphical installer. My zip is listed in Lothar. It is an Atapi Zip 100 IDE internal drive. I even put

[newbie] Soundconfig again

2000-08-03 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear anyone, I went into a terminal window as 'su' to set up my sound configuration. It tried to do it but I ended up with error messages. One saidThere is already a file /etc/isapnp.conf and it will be rewritten and renamed /etc/isapnp.conf.bak. I kept going and got another error message saying

[newbie] Internal Zip drive

2000-08-03 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Anyone, I would like to get my zip drive to work now. I installedMandrake 7.0 complete, purchased the OS complete with CDs and guides. I usedPartition Magic, Bootmagic, and the supplied graphical installer. My zip islisted in Lothar. It is an Atapi Zip 100 IDE internal drive. I even

[newbie] Quicken?

2000-08-03 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I sent about 3 emails to the group yesterday and there must be aproblem since I have received nothing from this group including the emails Isent since . I hope it is resolved soon.My question : Is there something like "Quicken "already supplied withMandrake 7.0 Complete or a place

Re: [newbie] Testing does this work?

2000-07-22 Thread Marcia Waller
It works. Marcia

[newbie] Cox Cable ethernet problems

2000-07-17 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Thank you for your help. A different technician came to fix my ethernet problem. A different card was necessary. I now have cable service with Windows 95 and will sooner or later set it up in Linux. The technician said he knows nothing about Linux and wants to learn about it. He said

[newbie] Ethernet problems.

2000-07-16 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Hello again. Can anyone help me find the easiest way to get on the internet with my newly installed FriendlyNet Asante 10/100 Fast PCI 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter? The Cox cable technician came yesterday, installed it for my Windows 95 but could not get it to work in my Windows 95.

Re: [newbie] StarOffice5.1KpackageInstalling

2000-07-06 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Thank you for your help. I found the installation file because of your input. I still do not know how I go the StarOffice installed from the kpackage into the /opt/office but somehow I did. I imagine the other programs need to be installed the same way so I hope I can figure out what I

[newbie] StarOffice5.1KpackageInstalling

2000-07-05 Thread Marcia Waller
such as through KPackage or RPMDrake. Thank you very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Waller

[newbie] Two printers in Mandrake 7.0?

2000-07-05 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear anyone, I have Linux-Mandrake7.0 Complete and successfully configured my Epson Stylus Color printer. I would like to use a 2nd printer with this-an Okidata Ole 400 laser printer. I use them both with my Windows 95.May I do this with Linux? How can this be done? Thank you for your help.

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-03 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear all, Thank you very much for your help. Because of your help I have Linux installed and I can actually login now as user and into the root :). I have a few problems left and I am looking for answers on my own so far. One problem that I have not found an answer for is this: I have 2 printers

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-02 Thread Marcia Waller
Larry Marshall wrote: that it is an option but a technician told me it is not anyway. My Bios setup is C,A,SCSI. Should not that be changed to the floppy first and how do I do that? I am a true newbie and have not done much on the Setup My guess is that you've got an Award BIOS. Yes, you

[newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-01 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Thank you everyone who gave me wonderful advice. Unfortunately I found out that my CD rom is not bootable. In the Bios setup it shows that it is an option but a technician told me it is not anyway. My Bios setup is C,A,SCSI. Should not that be changed to the floppy first and how do I do

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete installation

2000-07-01 Thread Marcia Waller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CMOS (i.e. the motherboard BIOS, what you are referring to as the setup screen) -- there are many brands, and they all differ. TYPICALLY after you get in, via DEL or F2 or F10 (the three most common ways) or whatever, look at what is displayed for options

[newbie] Trying to install Linux-Mandrake 7.0

2000-06-29 Thread Marcia Waller
Hello all. I have Linux Mandrake OS 7.0 Complete. I have Bootmagic installed and Partition magic. The bootmagic screen gives me a choice to go into Windows 95 or Linux. When I choose Windows it boots fine but Linux just gives me a black screen that says preparing to open Linux and just sits

Re: [newbie] Trying to install Linux-Mandrake 7.0

2000-06-29 Thread Marcia Waller
Partition Magic has partitioned my HD supposedly. That was done first. Thank you for your help.Marcia

Re: [newbie] Trying to install Linux-Mandrake 7.0

2000-06-29 Thread Marcia Waller
I will check out the website, thank you. Your suggestion sounds good. If this bootmagic thing does not work I will do what you suggest. Thank you for your help. Marcia

Re: [newbie] Trying to install Linux-Mandrake 7.0

2000-06-29 Thread Marcia Waller
This seems to make sense. Thank you. I will try this. Marcia