Re: [newbie] Problems setting up paths

2000-01-07 Thread Matt Stegman
this line at the bottom of /etc/profile to set it for all users. And by the way, a brand-new-shell IS started just by opening a new xterm. There's no need to restart X. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Mike Ladwig wrote: On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, you wrote: How do you set the path?

Re: [newbie] Distribution

1999-12-29 Thread Matt Stegman
(new name for X11amp). -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, cb3hn wrote: Sehr geerte Damen und Herren, ich habe zufällig Ihre Homepage gesehen und benutze seit einige Zeit schon SuSE Linux 6.0. Und habe vor die neue ver. 6.3 zu erwerben. Nennen sie mir gute Gründe Ihre Distr

Re: [newbie] Shutdown Rights

1999-12-27 Thread Matt Stegman
I believe that adding the appropriate usernames to /etc/shutdown.allow will do the trick. If that dowsn't work, or if you want to know more, check out the man page for "shutdown.allow". -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Rick Bonczek wrote: When I log in as r

Re: [newbie] Uninstall? Please Help a Newbie!

1999-12-22 Thread Matt Stegman
stall LILO and point it to the NT partition. In this case, it would not have to be marked active (NT doesn't really care; the whole "Active" bit is for the benefit of the DOS MBR.) -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] /usr/local versus /usr/local

1999-12-22 Thread Matt Stegman
. While you may need to change the partition number when you copy this line into /etc/fstab, don't change the dump or fsck numbers in the above example. Those are the correct values. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, WH Bouterse wrote: /dev/hda; The 1-gig has M$/Linux-Mandrake 6.1

Re: [newbie] Monitor Configuration

1999-12-22 Thread Matt Stegman
to (gasp!) edit an ASCII config file by hand. Depending on what monitor settings you want to change, though, xvidtune may the utility for you. It's hard to say; you weren't very verbose in your e-mail. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Joe Brault wrote: I have

Re: [newbie] Updating netscape ver. 4.7

1999-12-22 Thread Matt Stegman
've downloaded the appropriate packages, run `rpm -e netscape-common netscape-communicator` to erase the current packages, and `rpm -ivh netscape*` to install the new ones. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Howard Lee wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the help. Where

RE: [newbie] Updating netscape ver. 4.7

1999-12-22 Thread Matt Stegman
Can't say as I ever had any dependancy problems with Netscape, but I probably installed more packages than you did. Does `rpm -q compat-libs` come up with nothing? If so, go get it from a Mandrake FTP mirror. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Howard Lee wrote: Thanks

Re: [newbie] libc5 or glibc

1999-12-20 Thread Matt Stegman
. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: How can I tell if my Linux installation is libc5 or glibc? Is upgrading a library as simple as installing the rpm? Thanks,

Re: [newbie] LILO problem need urgent help

1999-12-15 Thread Matt Stegman
Mount your Caldera filesystem and copy the portion of /etc/lilo.conf that pertains to the Caldera kernel, and paste it into RedHat's lilo.conf. Be sure to specify the correct root partition (like you do for RedHat). Then re-run lilo, and you ought to be set. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install

1999-12-14 Thread Matt Stegman
address to subscribe. Don't worry about showing how little you know about UNIX/Linux. That's why there is a "newbie" list in place- to help people learn. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jeffrey L Sawyer Jr wrote: I didn't want to show how ignorant of linux or

Re: [newbie] hdc1 win98 partition lost

1999-12-14 Thread Matt Stegman
I believe the "Server" option under install will wipe all your hard drives of all data. I don't think there's any way to get your data back now. Unfortunately, you'll have to re-install Windows now. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Bernard Pidoux wrote: I ha

Re: [newbie] GNOME to KDE

1999-12-10 Thread Matt Stegman
Run `switchdesk` from a terminal. If you get something like "command not found" try `desktopcfg`. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, David Loke wrote: How can I switch from GNOME to KDE full environment?

Re: [newbie] KDM and Gnome

1999-12-10 Thread Matt Stegman
make /etc/X11/prefdm (a symlink) point to /usr/bin/gdm -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Joshua Hoffman wrote: How can I switch from KDM to GDM (or whatever the login manager for Gnome is called)?

Re: [newbie] partition trouble

1999-12-10 Thread Matt Stegman
. A gigabyte of swap is way too much overkill. Next time netscape locks up, see if you can kill it individually before you have to reset your computer. Try Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc to kill X; this may help, even if X doesn't seem to be responding. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, raymond

Re: [newbie] (Off Topic Sorta) SCO-Linux

1999-12-10 Thread Matt Stegman
You may need to recompile your kernel, or at least compile a module for the SCO filesystem (System V?). Also, your kernel will need to support iBCS (Intel Binary Compatibility Standard); I don't know if Mandrake does this by default. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] X window remote access?

1999-12-09 Thread Matt Stegman
log in as root (no need to su). -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Eric Mings wrote: I have read some information about x window being a server and client program. I was under the impression the server and client could exist on seperate computers. Is it possible to access

Re: [newbie] Desktopcfg

1999-12-07 Thread Matt Stegman
choosing the "default" option in the drop-down box. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Josh McCaffrey wrote: I ran desktopcfg as root and chose to set the system wide default as Xfce, but when I log in as user, Window Maker starts; if I log in as root, Xfce starts.

Re: [newbie] Getting rid of the penuin on bootup

1999-12-07 Thread Matt Stegman
this is the solution you're looking for, though. Before showing the login prompt, something (mingetty?) clears the screen. This will wipe out the last of the boot messages in any case, whether or not the penguin is displayed. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote

Re: [newbie] Installing Downloaded Files

1999-12-07 Thread Matt Stegman
images, and which one is right for you. Once you've created a boot disk from the appropriate image, you can boot from this, and it will step you through the installation. Be sure you have some unpartitioned space on your drive. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jonathan Jackson

Re: [newbie] Window Managers and xdm

1999-12-01 Thread Matt Stegman
You'll also need to use KDE's "kdmconfig" tool to add it it to the drop-down box. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Richard Yevchak wrote: I download blackbox and I was wondering how to add it to the list of wm's I am presented with when booting into run leve

Re: [newbie] Can't start KDE

1999-11-13 Thread Matt Stegman
booting, and login at the "penguin screen." After you run the rm command above, logout and press Alt-F7 to go back to X. You can now login, and KDE will be unmarred. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Gregory D. Fox wrote: Hi All, I had KDE running ok until I ch

Re: [newbie] Arbitrarily recognizes CD ROM drive

1999-11-08 Thread Matt Stegman
plugged in all the way. That would be the "ribbon" cable attached to the back of the drive. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586?

1999-11-08 Thread Matt Stegman
;686" processor. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] second HD partition

1999-11-08 Thread Matt Stegman
a FAT16 or FAT32 partition. Linux can see this fine, but if you want to preserve file permissions and ownership, you'll want e2fs on that partition. The quick way to do this is change it's type to Linux in cfdisk, then run `mkfs /dev/hdd2` ... replacing hdd2 with the real partition name. -- -Matt

Re: [newbie] KDE is unreadable - weird transparent windows

1999-11-03 Thread Matt Stegman
. On the other hand, the second of Pablo's links looked pretty good. I didn't go through it too much- I don't have one of these cards. I'd guess, though, that it'll work pretty well for you. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] kernel boot problem

1999-11-03 Thread Matt Stegman
/lilo This should install lilo, and you'll be set to reboot! -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] executing programs

1999-10-31 Thread Matt Stegman
gram like `./a.out` to specify that the program is in the current directory. Any help would be appreciated, also, what does the "sh" before a filename do? That would start up a new instance of the Bourne Shell and execute the program inside that new shell. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Partition setup help

1999-10-28 Thread Matt Stegman
he right tool- DOS fdisk for DOS partitions, Linux fdisk (or disk druid) for Linux partitions. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] What's the best way to autostart programs upon bootup/logon?

1999-10-28 Thread Matt Stegman
Notice, also, that your ~/.bash_profile will run ~/.bashrc, so everytime you start a new shell (like opening a Konsole window) anything in ~/.bashrc will also be run. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: ...you could put

Re: [newbie] Problem with swap partition

1999-10-18 Thread Matt Stegman
. Don't worry- NT doesn't care about the MBR. It's only it's own partition's boot sector that has to be intact. You can safely put LILO in your MBR. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] boot disk LILO installation crash down

1999-10-17 Thread Matt Stegman
more? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, granduke wrote: Hi everyone, this is the first time I get on list. I have tried to install Mandrake 6.0 on my Pentium, 2Gb, computer without success. Two main problems occcur me: first - when the installation process gets

Re: [newbie] sound card install

1999-10-17 Thread Matt Stegman
A good place to start would be running `sndconfig` from a command line (as root, not a normal user). Does this work for your card? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, M. L. Cates wrote: I need some basic information on how to go about getting linux to recognize my sound card

Re: [Re: [newbie] boot disk LILO installation crash down]

1999-10-17 Thread Matt Stegman
nto two lists- those who post in and respond to HTML, and those who don't. I hope that doesn't happen; I'd hate for anyone to be restricted to helping only a certain group of people. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape for Linux 2.0

1999-10-12 Thread Matt Stegman
get rid of the GNOME utilities (the second-to-last package on the list). You'd run rpm -e gnome-utils No version numbers or file extension. Does this make sense? Hopefully, it's more readable than a man page. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Re: LICQ personal user info

1999-10-12 Thread Matt Stegman
or similar program. The first time Licq is run (or if it doesn't find a personal info file) it will ask you for it- but not in a window; You must be at a command line. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Fwd: licq libstdc++-libc6

1999-10-09 Thread Matt Stegman
made qt2 and/or libstdc++ easier to install (i.e. no dependency issues with 6.x), in which case I'd try it again. As it stands, though, I'll stick with what works right now. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Widgets?

1999-10-09 Thread Matt Stegman
of the "x"s to something that provides a higher color contrast. Sure- on the "Style" menu, change uncheck the Windows 95 style widgets. The resulting "checkboxes" show up well on dark backgrounds. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] What now?

1999-10-09 Thread Matt Stegman
ble to use the drive. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Aol Instant Messenger

1999-10-07 Thread Matt Stegman
you to run a shell script to determine environment variables. Might this be a situation similar to yours? -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake

1999-10-07 Thread Matt Stegman
On 7 Oct, Mike Easter wrote: you need it it contains important system files No, you don't need it. /RedHat is just a symlink to the /Mandrake directory. This is, I would guess, to maintain compatibility with RedHat install disks. I can't think of any other reason, anyway. -- -Matt

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux

1999-10-07 Thread Matt Stegman
similar. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] the programming language

1999-09-19 Thread Matt Stegman
ions, were written in C. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Joe Brault wrote: Sorry for the overly simple question... but can anyone tell me what language Linux was written in? Thanks in advance and don't laugh too long and hard! Joe :)

Re: [newbie] losing lilo

1999-09-08 Thread Matt Stegman
already have a /boot directory on the rescue disk (I don't know, never used it) then: bash# mv /boot /old-boot ln -s /mnt/boot /boot Perhaps this will work for you? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] screen size

1999-09-07 Thread Matt Stegman
ange. As far as I can tell, there is no way around this. This will happen, regardless of your "Viewport" settings. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ed Santiago wrote: I am running Linux Mandrake 6.0 with the 2.2.9-27 kernel. Everything seems to work fine but I have this ques

Re: [newbie] how to dual boot

1999-09-03 Thread Matt Stegman
Whoops- I lied. The command for step 4 should be: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/root/BOOTSECT.LIN bs=512 count=1 Of course, you still replace hda1 with your Linux partition. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to dual boot Here's what I know

Re: [newbie] Display problems and LILO question

1999-09-03 Thread Matt Stegman
still have to be installed- installed on the Linux partition, instead of the MBR. OS-BS should go in the MBR. And as always, read README's first. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] grep and replace

1999-09-03 Thread Matt Stegman
tory names. With this pseudo-script, you also get backups of your HTML files (with a .old extension) in case it screws up. If it works, then you can rm `find . |grep .old` to recusively remove all old files. I think. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, James Stewart wrote: Been inv

Re: [newbie] Doc

1999-09-02 Thread Matt Stegman
Look in the "docs" directory on the CD. As for installation, look for files called README or README.html or README.txt. Also, if you see HTML files, look for index.html as it will usually have useful information too. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Iulian Ungur

Re: [newbie] How daunting is a kernel upgrade?

1999-09-02 Thread Matt Stegman
installing, not about Mandrake kernel RPMs). -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] how to dual boot

1999-09-02 Thread Matt Stegman
e" your NT install using the rescue disk set (run rdisk if you haven't got one). -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, peterwt wrote: i install both winnt4 and mandrake 6.0 on my computer. i want to use nt'boot loader to boot mandrake. how to do that? now i use a floppy disk

RE: [newbie] Not getting anywhere!!

1999-08-20 Thread Matt Stegman
try a lower color depth, but the same resolution- does that help? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Rick Fry wrote: I'll be the first to admit that the monitor that I use is a $200 special at Sears. And, I too am getting the black on black menus and background until I put

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot

1999-08-20 Thread Matt Stegman
t;win" at the LILO prompt. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Jason Cunningham wrote: In some of the messages I have been reading there is mention of determining which OS to boot with. Mine will only boot on Linux. There is no choice. I did not partition the whole

Re: [newbie] failing to unmount

1999-08-20 Thread Matt Stegman
rf to http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdownload.php3 and choose a mirror near you. You'll find update RPMs in the updates/6.0/RPMS directory. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Joe Brault wrote: HELP!!! my linux system is failing to unmount the file system. How can I have the syst

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer G2 and MP# problems

1999-08-20 Thread Matt Stegman
use to decode the MPEG audio files? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?

1999-08-20 Thread Matt Stegman
than 1GB of hard drive space seems like way too little. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Changing the Window Manager

1999-08-20 Thread Matt Stegman
, and that I notice a speed difference (AfterStep is much faster on my machine). If this pager works well, I may just have to buy some RAM to make up the difference. Too bad it's going up in price again. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] lnx4win

1999-08-17 Thread Matt Stegman
ilename for the root partition (probably not), but if you can round up a team of hackers, you might be able to use this to use Linux from a FAT partition without usinng UMSDOS. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Sean Armstrong wrote: I have installed the new Mandrake 6.0. Ho

Re: [newbie] Can I install Linux like this?

1999-08-17 Thread Matt Stegman
help? I hope I did. Thanks, Chris You're welcome, Chris. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RE: [[newbie] realy dumb and revisited Q]]

1999-08-17 Thread Matt Stegman
; it cannot handle multiple PRIMARY partitions, much less multiple bootable (active) partitions. LILO, on the other hand, can even boot from logical drives inside extended partitions. That, as little and incorrect as it may be, is my two cents... -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 17 Aug 1999

Re: [newbie] arrgh vfat and msdos unknown?

1999-08-15 Thread Matt Stegman
the conversion table for cluster size, but I know it's available on the Internet. FAT32 has smaller cluster sizes for larger partitons- my 7.2GB drive was once formatted as a single FAT32 partition with 4kB clusters. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] bash scripts

1999-08-14 Thread Matt Stegman
the `kill` command sends by default (too lazy to read the man page), but I think if you do `kill -TERM pid` the process should terminate, after doing whatever cleanup it needs- assuming it recognizes the TERM signal. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] The shutdown and halt user

1999-07-31 Thread Matt Stegman
`shutdown` checks a file /etc/shutdown.allow (which is just a list of usernames) for users allowed to run it. Everyone that you want to have permissions to shut down the machine should have their username listed in /etc/shutdown.allow. -Matt On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Ikhlasul Amal wrote: I

Re: [newbie] Removing LILO

1999-07-29 Thread Matt Stegman
Lilo resides in the Master Boot Record (MBR) which is, I think, the first sector of the drive, not included in any partitions. Thus, you can wipe all the partitions without touching the MBR. To clear it, run `fdisk /mbr` from DOS. This will clear LILO out of the MBR. -Matt On Thu, 29

Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..

1999-07-28 Thread Matt Stegman
/etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. Is it a list of user names (or UID's)? Is there a man page on it? I'm away from Linux right now... I don't feel like

Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions

1999-07-28 Thread Matt Stegman
The way to increase your color depth in X is to add a line to /etc/X11/XF86Config: DefaultColorDepth bpp This line goes in the "Display" subsection of the "Screen" section for your X server (I think- just put it by the list of resolutions, wherever that is). bpp is the color depth you

Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions

1999-07-28 Thread Matt Stegman
"accel" server (Accelerated X server) if SVGA doesn't work for you. -Matt On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote: The way to increase your color depth in X is to add a line to /etc/X11/XF86Config: DefaultColorDepth bpp This line goes in the "Display" subsec

Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions

1999-07-28 Thread Matt Stegman
When you put the CD in a windows machine, what do you see on the cd? Do you see one file (mandrake60-1.iso) or do you see several directories (Mandrake, RedHat, images, etc.)? If you see the former, well, now you've got a fine shiny coaster. You made a mistake when you burned the CD. The .iso

Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..

1999-07-27 Thread Matt Stegman
/etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. Also check /etc/inittab to see if Ctrl-Alt-Del is being caught. If so, anybody (not just those in shutdown.allow) may shutdown the

Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..

1999-07-27 Thread Matt Stegman
7 Jul 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote: Can you control what Ctrl-Alt-Del does by user? (i.e.: Let root reboot the system that way, but have it just log everyone else out?) - Theo Matt Stegman wrote: /etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown

Re: [newbie] Problems with updatedb ?

1999-07-27 Thread Matt Stegman
Do you have a FAT or FAT32 partition mounted anywhere? If so, I think you can fix this by First: killing the offending process (`killall slocate`) Second: Telling updatedb to ignore that partition in the future (edit /etc/updatedb.conf and add the mount point of the FAT

Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah

1999-07-26 Thread Matt Stegman
Sounds like bzip2. Except that bzip2 uses symlinks, instead. I believe that "bunzip2" and "bzcat" are both _symlinks_ to "bzip2." Although, I imagine that if you're paranoid about deleting files, you might use hard links as a "backup." As was stated earlier, all regular files are hard links

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-23 Thread Matt Stegman
The Ontrack program--DDO--is there to make sure that the whole drive can be accessed without cylinder wrap. The proprietary format is there to make sure that the drive cannot be read without DDO. Guess what. Linux read it with no trouble (and with no DDO loaded). This means you use a

Re: [newbie] How do I wipe the MBR?

1999-07-23 Thread Matt Stegman
Can't you boot off the NT CD? If not, you should boot to DOS from a floppy, and run the NT setup program to make the NT boot floppies. Then boot from those. -Matt On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Ty Mixon wrote: I'm trying to re-install WinNT on hda, but every time I try to boot, Lilo jumps in

Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah

1999-07-22 Thread Matt Stegman
I heard that I should have two Linux partitions. Can anyone give me more information on this? Sure. You should have one partition for files, and another for swapping. Of course, you can distribute your file system between several partitions- I have /home on a separate partition so that when

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-22 Thread Matt Stegman
How do I install LILO on a different disk? How do I make sure it doesn't trash the Ontrack program? Well, the "boot=..." line tells LILO where to put itself- in the MBR of the specified drive, or in the boot sector of the specified partition. As for trashing the Ontrack program, there's one

Re: [newbie] Downloading Files

1999-07-22 Thread Matt Stegman
This is a fault of Netscape. It foten thinks that binary files are actually text files, and so loads the binary file into the browser, giving you plenty of gibberish. It has something to do with file extensions and MIME types on the server, and I'm not sure if you can configure Netscape to

Re: [newbie] Installing

1999-07-21 Thread Matt Stegman
I don't know about that "special driver" you mention. It sounds like a problem with your motherboard (or IDE controller not recognizing 2 disks). If that's so, then what I'm about to say won't help, and may even hurt (you'd have to re-format the MBR and put that "special driver" on again).

Re: [newbie] Sound -- probably revisited.

1999-07-21 Thread Matt Stegman
Have you run 'sndconfig' yet? -Matt On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Beo d'Wulfie wrote: The soundcard I'm using is a sb16. It doesn't work. I've gone through the help docs and followed their instructions but still no go. Can anyone help with this??? A few things to note: - Yes, the

Re: [newbie] RoadRunner Person

1999-07-20 Thread Matt Stegman
let me know if this works. Maybe then I actually WILL write up a mini-HOWTO. References: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/DHCP.html http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/ http://usmcug.usm.maine.edu/~kpesce/rr/ -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] DHCP problems (fwd)

1999-07-20 Thread Matt Stegman
You might try to use the "-h" option on pump (to request a specific hostname). Make sure you have the latest version of pump (0.6.7-2mdk I believe). If so, you might want to try a different DHCP client (i.e. dhcpcd). I believe the pump commandline for the hostname thing would be pump

Re: [newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner

1999-07-13 Thread Matt Stegman
it working with static IP, even if only for a few hours. I'll try this when I get home this afternoon. Thank you, all, for your suggestions. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner

1999-07-12 Thread Matt Stegman
ssing, i.e. that Windows takes care of behind the scenes, but Linux doesn't? I'd rather not have to rely on Windows for internet access... Thanks, -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] starting xwin

1999-07-02 Thread Matt Stegman
n for your server. That way, it'll take hold for all users. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: hevnsnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 12:34 AM Subject: [newbie] starting xwin Ok guys/gals, I have another question.. I would l

Re: [newbie] X screen resolution

1999-07-02 Thread Matt Stegman
From: jsm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] X screen resolution In Xwindows with Redhat you can change screen resolution with Ctrl+Alt + or - . It does not work with my Mandrake 6.0 KDE . How can I change resolution ? The reason it doesn't work with Mandrake is because the default for X

Re: [newbie] starting xwin

1999-07-02 Thread Matt Stegman
Oops, sorry- I guess I assumed you'd want to boot to it. There is another way; you can run 'kdm' from the console. It has the exact same effect, and has to be run as root. Also, GNOME has it's own desktop manager thingy... called 'gdm'. Just in case you're interested. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] wine

1999-06-30 Thread Matt Stegman
, at the worst! Have fun, and good luck. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] 3COM Fast Etherlink

1999-06-28 Thread Matt Stegman
Best bet is to re-install and set up your card during the process. Or you could just run 'netcfg' -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Daryl Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 3COM Fast Etherlink hmmm, I have that card (3COM 3c900b) on my dual-boot

Re: [newbie] Partitioning

1999-06-14 Thread Matt Stegman
. If not, rebuke me and make me try again. Good luck. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 10:56 AM Subject: [newbie] Partitioning I have Mandrake 6.0 that came with Partition Magic, and after u

[newbie] Re: XWindows Interface Other than KDE

1999-06-11 Thread Matt Stegman
t; fromthe command-line. Choose your window manager, and restart X. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] desktop choice

1999-06-04 Thread Matt Stegman
Does this work in Mandrake 5.3? Yes, it does indeed work with Mandrake 5.3. - Original Message - From: Jose Alberto Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] desktop choice Rhichard Barth Family wrote: You can

Re: [newbie] formatting hard drive

1999-06-04 Thread Matt Stegman
Are you still using the command line "/sbin/mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda3 7461216"? If so, why not try ommitting the partition size? As in, might "mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda3" work for you? Or maybe "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda4" instead. May I ask why you included the size in the command in the first place? -

Re: [newbie] Kpackage (was 'More lilo problems...')

1999-05-25 Thread Matt Stegman
s you know. Look up a local Linux User's Group. Just be sure to keep making an effort to learn. Good luck with Linux! -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Pliler Main Unit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 5:06 AM Subje

Re: [newbie] how to get apps on KDE desktop

1999-04-20 Thread Matt Stegman
de/share/applnk/WhateverDropdownMenuYouWant in a user's home directory. This will be under "non-KDE apps". For all users, you can add the shortcut to /opt/kde/share/applnk/WhateverMenuYouWant (this must be done as root). Probably the easiest way to create the .kdelnk files is by way of the desk

Re: [newbie] Java -- TWO JRE's?

1999-01-03 Thread Matt Stegman
, I've got Kaffe and Blackdown installed, and I have to rename Kaffe's java, javac, java-doc, etc. to kjava, kjavac, etc... This way, you know which JRE you're running. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] EZ-drive

1999-01-02 Thread Matt Stegman
Win9x, as it's just extensions to DOS (and as far as I know, NT too, but I haven't tried that) - does need to be on the primary master drive. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] enlightenment

1999-01-02 Thread Matt Stegman
, freetype, and all the accompanying "-devel" packages. Also get imlib-cfgeditor and you may want the enlightenment-conf package, too. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]