Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-19 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Four notified me that they could not install. All these were readable and copyable in Windows and I have since reput them with no problem by installing with Install Software. The names are shortened at bit - if you have any doubts - lemmi know. gnome-mime-data tcsh-6.12 -4

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-19 Thread Ralph Bagwell
is the correct way to do that? (and should I bother) ? (still working on trying to print with the Epson thru the LAN from the right box - [while in Windows] ). Having now installed 9.1 on that box (dual booting with XP) printing works just fine.) On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 6:18 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote

Re: [newbie] what do these different things mean? KDE, Gnome, etc

2003-06-19 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Along these lines When I boot up my machine go directly to KDE. If I want to select to run gnome (for instance) at booting time how do I do that? Surely pressing some key at some time in the booting process will offer me that menu - when I logout I do get to this menu. Ralph Want to buy your

[newbie] Cleanup a failed install

2003-06-17 Thread Ralph Bagwell
I have now several suggestions and "howtos" on cleaning up my failed install from you kind people -many thanks - Seems that removing partitions for the Linux install is the answer - I am now doing what all said do - backing up to another drive on my LAN - I notice that Partition Magic

[newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-17 Thread Ralph Bagwell
My 9.1 install went"so-so" on my "left" machine ( I simply replaced the drive - installed XP - left half of the 40 GB available - ) Four "things" failed to install - two from the first disk and two from the second disk. When Linux failed to boot , I selected "Linux - nonfb" and it booted .

[newbie] NTFS ?

2003-06-16 Thread Ralph Bagwell
My effort to install Mandrake 9.1 on a PC that has Windows XP already installed has stopped at the "partitioning" phase twice . I now recall a comment somewhere that Linux doesn't like NTFS systems - Can I install on this XP machine that is using NTFS? If not can I use Partition Magic and

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-15 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Hi Joe, I have gaim up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger programs. I was never able to follow your instructions using urpmi - I tried : urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms with hdlist.cz many times and never got it to work. I

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Sure thing. My smb.conf file is at /etc/samba/ . It says under [printers] path = /var/spool/samba and yes my jobs are there. It also says workgroup = MDKGROUP under [global] Is this file editable? And does it config samba ? Ralph - could you look at /etc/smb.conf to see where it is locating

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Thanks a lot Joe BUT: I have the program running but can only get AOL to work. I have only two options AOL/ICQ and TOC (whatever that is) as proocols available,. I was unable to follow your instructions on setting up the urpmi deal. But I now know how to make the amsn program run - which gives

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-14 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Really great help derek - thanks ralph How do I get an icon on the desktop that runs the program ? ./amsn means run the application amsn which will be found in the current directory. It would also work if you typed /path/to/directory/amsn In Linux any file can be executable if the

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2003-06-10 Thread Ralph Bagwell
help newbie

[newbie] Add printer

2003-06-10 Thread Ralph Bagwell
My 9.1 install went great - I can surf the web, listen to CD's , view images and play mp3's - etc -but I can't get my printer to work which is shared on another computer on my LAN. When I run "Mandrake Control Center 9.1" , under the "hardware" tab I select "PrinterDrake helps you set up

[newbie] super new

1999-04-11 Thread Ralph Bagwell
I downloaded the mardrake image file and made the boot.img floppy . Each time I try to boot I get an error saying "crc errorVFS: Cannot open root device 08:22 - Kernal panic:VFS Unable to mount root fs on 08:22. I downloaded the image again and got the exact same results. I tried booting

Re: [[newbie] super new]

1999-04-11 Thread Ralph Bagwell
the mandrake version because I am told it includes video drivers for my TXPRO board which has an integrated video. Thanks again. Ralph Michael Scottaline wrote: Ralph Bagwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the mardrake image file and made the boot.img floppy . Each time I try to boot I get