Re: [newbie] desktop choice

1999-06-04 Thread Philip C. Hewitt II
nd up with a machine that infinitely restarts X. Not a good thing. John -- Philip C. Hewitt II Power to the Penguin

Re: [newbie] No Delete key in Netscape 4.51

1999-06-03 Thread Philip C. Hewitt II
the linux version. Jeanettte - Original Message - From: Philip C. Hewitt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] No Delete key in Netscape 4.51 I can delete the text in front of the cursor(to the right) using

Re: [newbie] Shortcut keys in Netscape 4.51

1999-06-03 Thread Philip C. Hewitt II
. in KMail, you use Ctrl-X for cut and so forth) For Mandrake6 we have redefined the keys to have Ctrl-c Ctrl-v Ctrl-x, instead of Alt-?. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com --Chmouel -- Philip C. Hewitt II Power to the Penguin

Re: [newbie] Problem with kdm

1999-06-03 Thread Philip C. Hewitt II
to shut down or reboot, the root fs is never unmounted properly and is always show as 'bussy'...causing the lengthy fschk on restart. Anyone know what could be wrong here? -- Philip C. Hewitt II Power to the Penguin

Re: [newbie] Mounting Remote Windows Drives

1999-06-01 Thread Philip C. Hewitt II
A real handy utility to setup SAMBA once you have it running is SWAT(Samba Web Administration Tool)...it runs as a web service from your linux box on port 901...I think by default...and you can fully configure your SAMBA shares, users, printers, and passwords and a whole lot more...read the man

[newbie] SAMBA

1999-06-01 Thread Philip C. Hewitt II
Windows it prompts me for the password for IPC$...my user name and passwords are all sync'ed...help -- Philip C. Hewitt II Power to the Penguin

RE: [newbie] guess need more suggestions

1999-05-21 Thread Philip C. Hewitt II
I might also add that through my own experience the auto configuration of a serial port using the rc.serial file can at least for me give the wrong settings to the system...I for whatever reason had changed my com2 settings in the BIOS to non-standard settings and sure enough I couldn't seem to

RE: [newbie] Enlarging partitions

1999-05-21 Thread Philip C. Hewitt II
Curious...I wonder if DiskDruid has a bug or was it maybe a shortcoming of your PCs BIOS? I've partioned a 10 Gb HD Western Digital without a problem...maybe thats the breaking point for DiskDruid...has anyone else noticed this...if so maybe a quick note to the Mandrake developement team is in

[newbie] 2.2.x kernel and KPPP

1999-05-14 Thread Philip C. Hewitt II
but after recompiling a new one with PPP support I still was unable to connect...I can connect from windows98 and I was able to connnect before with the 2.0.36 kernel so I know my modem is good...any help would be great. Philip C. Hewitt II