[newbie] USB external hard drive

2005-01-16 Thread Owen Berio
I have tried several times to get Mandrake version 10.1 to recognize my external USB ( Maxtor Diamond Max) hard drive. If I turn it on before or during bootup it seems to freeze the booting process. It is not recognized. Actually listed hardware states it is a unknown device. If I turn it on

[newbie] Security Update Woes

2004-04-18 Thread Owen Berio
I have just reinstalled the down load version of 9.2 for the fourth time. In the previous installations all appeared well until I installed the security updates. The initial installations identified correctly my cd rom, floppy, hard disc, etc. Most gratifying was xD card reader was identified

[newbie] Security Update Woes

2004-04-16 Thread Owen Berio
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[newbie] Icon for connecting to server

2004-04-15 Thread Owen Berio
I just reinstalled version 9,2 in order to correct one problem. The original problem was corrected but in the process another was created. In my previous installation I had a icon for connecting to the internet. It dialed my provider and connected using my name' and password. Now I no longer

Re: [newbie] Icon for connecting to server

2004-04-15 Thread Owen Berio
Thanks Job, That was what I was looking for. Somehow it didn't get installed on my reinstall. Owen * On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:01 pm, Marc wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 10:55 am, Owen Berio wrote: I

Re: [newbie] xD card reader

2004-04-10 Thread Owen Berio
On Friday 09 April 2004 21:23, you wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 06:22 pm, Owen Berio wrote: I just bought a Olympus C-740 camera and a card reader. Mandrake 9.2 didn't recognize the camera when connected to a USB port. When the xD chip was installed in the card reader

[newbie] xD card reader

2004-04-09 Thread Owen Berio
I just bought a Olympus C-740 camera and a card reader. Mandrake 9.2 didn't recognize the camera when connected to a USB port. When the xD chip was installed in the card reader and installed a icon labled /mnt/removable. Properties revealed that it is nonemntremovable Type Mounted Hard Disc

Re: [newbie] Boot problem with 9.2 upgrade

2004-03-10 Thread Owen Berio
Please resend! My providers server was down from March 8th till this morning. All mail sent to me during this period was lost. Sorry for the inconvenience but please send me or repost any help sent during this time. Thanks, Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Boot problem with 9.2 upgrade

2004-03-07 Thread Owen Berio
With 9.1 I had no problem booting with the graphic format. I just did what I think was a correct upgrade using three disks to version 9.2 But instead of the usual screen for logging on I get the following. A menu listing the following linux - nonfb floppy 2421-13 old_linux old_linux- nonfb

Re: [newbie] Boot problem with 9.2 upgrade

2004-03-07 Thread Owen Berio
below. At 02:26 PM 3/7/2004 -0500, you wrote: Owen Berio wrote: With 9.1 I had no problem booting with the graphic format. I just did what I think was a correct upgrade using three disks to version 9.2 But instead of the usual screen for logging on I get the following. A menu listing

[newbie] HP scanner with SCSI card

2004-03-06 Thread Owen Berio
My HP 4P scanner worked fine with an Adaptec SCSI card in Windows 2000 I installed the card and attached scanner. HardDrake recognizes the SCSI card as a Adaptec AHA 7850 ScannerDrake does not find a scanner. When I manually install the scanner it is listed in list of HP scanners. After supposed

[newbie] formating Kmail

2004-02-26 Thread Owen Berio
Am I missing something with Kmail ? It seems that Kmail does not offer formating such as hi-light, bold, underline or other facets of modifying text. Should I change to different e-mail software if I want those functions? Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Kmail weirdness

2004-02-26 Thread Owen Berio
On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:39 am, aron Smith wrote: Every now and then kmail refuses to send untill I go back and set it up again using the _Same_ settings . any ideas why? thanks smitty (who is puzzled more than usual) Smitty, Mine started doing the samething 2 days ago. It has

Re: [newbie] Flatbed Scanner

2004-02-26 Thread Owen Berio
Thanks everyone. That is what I was afraid of. I have a old HP Illc. If I can find a SCSI card that works I can use this one and leave the Cannon for my MS box. Owen On Thursday 26 February 2004 10:41 am, you wrote: On Thursday 26 Feb 2004 18:39, Owen Berio wrote: I have a Canon 8000F

[newbie] Flatbed Scanner

2004-02-26 Thread Owen Berio
I have a Canon 8000F scanner that utilizes a USB port and is TWAIN software driven. Is there any reasonable (make that simple) way of using this scanner with Mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] USB external hard drive

2004-02-11 Thread Owen Berio
Thanks Guys, Before I impose on you further I am going to simplify the situation. First, as someone suggested I am going to upgrade to 9.2 Second, the BIOS on my Microsoft box is limiting the ability to format my 160 gig hd without using overlay software. I am changing the motherboard with one I

[newbie] Resuming down load

2004-01-17 Thread Owen Berio
I have terrible dial up phone service. More often than not when down loading a file of several megs or more the phone will disconnect. Are there any Mandrake compatible packages that will allow resumption of the down load when I reconnect to my server? Thanks, Owen Want to buy

RE: [newbie] Formatting External Hard Drive

2004-01-13 Thread Owen Berio
I guess I broke it but good. while trying to find a mount point that works I think I wiped out the formatting on my primary hard drive. It had two partitions but only the partition with Mandrake was formatted for Linux and had a mount point. The other partition was DOS formatted. Here is

Re: [newbie] Formating External Hard Drive

2004-01-12 Thread Owen Berio
and you will be fine. Tony. -Original Message- From: Owen Berio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Formating External Hard Drive (I'm Using Mandrake 9.1 I have removed the hard drive from it's USB enclosure

[newbie] Journalised

2004-01-12 Thread Owen Berio
I have run across the term Journalised and Journalised FS.ext3. Would someone please tell me what they are and how they are used? Thanks, Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Formating External Hard Drive

2004-01-11 Thread Owen Berio
(I'm Using Mandrake 9.1 I have removed the hard drive from it's USB enclosure and temp. enstalled it in my dedicated Mandrake box as a second HD I want to partition it into two portions. One portion for backing up WIN 2000 on a MS dedicated box. The second portion for backing up my Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Getting Mandrake's attention

2003-06-26 Thread Owen Berio
At 11:24 AM 6/25/2003 -0700, you wrote: Owen Berio wrote: At 09:23 AM 6/25/2003 -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/contact/address I used the other number. The dates called are today, yesterday (Tue.). Mon. and I may have called last Thur. I also sent two e

Re: [newbie] Getting Mandrake's attention

2003-06-25 Thread Owen Berio
At 09:23 AM 6/25/2003 -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/contact/address Thanks Alan, The phone # at this site is the one I referred to. What you get is a recorded message asking for your phone #. In my case they have never called back.

[newbie] KMail enhancements

2003-03-28 Thread Owen Berio
I'm presently using KMail but I can't find any way to enhance text such as hi-lighting, underline, italicize, etc. Am I missing something or is this the nature of the software? Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] stalled on installing CD burner

2003-03-23 Thread Owen Berio
I downloaded downloaded k3b.0.8.1 from the sourceforge. During the installation I got the following message. I aborted the installation at that point deciding to inquire about the message and weather I should proceed or not? On Sunday 23 March 2003 10:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 23

[newbie] stalled on installing CD burner

2003-03-22 Thread Owen Berio
Mandrake 9 apparently recognizes the presence of my CD burner. But how do I use it? I can't find any installed software on the KD3 menue. I'm real new at this so I need simple- simple instructions. But I sure could use the help .The Installation and User Guide (8.2) doesn't give any help.

[newbie] Family Tree 4.0

2003-03-09 Thread Owen Berio
Has anyone had any experience installing / running Legacy Family Tree 4.0 genealogy software Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] installing java

2002-12-25 Thread Owen Berio
At 08:10 PM 12/24/2002 -0800, you wrote: X86 / 9.0 (Dolphin) / Installation Q I have down loaded java j2re-140-03 from Sun Microsystems download page. It now resides in /home/owen/dlsoftware. (dlsoftware is a folder I created). Now how do I go about installing it? Please explain step by step.

[newbie] ver. 9 virus protection

2002-12-13 Thread Owen Berio
I have bumbled my way through installation. Now I'm concerned about virus protection and a firewall. Any help or suggestions for a fellow with a very log fog index would be appreciated. Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Kmail/Konqueror

2002-11-08 Thread Owen Berio
Im just getting started and have run into this problem. When I receive a email that contains a URL I want to see, Kmail takes me to Konqueror and displays the URL automatically. My problem is that sometimes I want to add this URL to my bookmarks, but there isn't icons or file choices on the

[newbie] Changing screen resolution

2002-11-06 Thread Owen Berio
I'm using a A-B switch box between two computers. One is dedicated to WIN2000, the other is dedicated to Mandrake 8.2. The box allows me to utalize the same monitor, keyboard and mouse. Even though the monitor resolution is set the same for both boxes, some of the menue boxes run off the

[newbie] screen/menu resolution problem

2002-11-06 Thread Owen Berio
I'm using a A-B switch box between two computers. One is dedicated to WIN2000, the other is dedicated to Mandrake 8.2. The box allows me to utalize the same monitor, keyboard and mouse.   Even though the monitor resolution is set the same for both boxes, some of the menue boxes run off the

[newbie] Defrag?

2002-11-05 Thread Owen Berio
After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation. Does this version have a defraging utility? TIA, Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com