Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop

2002-10-17 Thread Richard Holt
wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Richard Holt Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop On Monday, 22 July 2002 03:41 pm

Re: [newbie] Smart partitioning

2002-10-15 Thread Richard Holt
On 15 Oct 2002 22:14:25 +0200, Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, For those who didn't read the other mail, I'm going to kick Windows and use Linux exclusively on my PC. I intend to re-partition and install Mandrake 9.0 and I need some tips on how to do this in a smart way. I

Re: [newbie] crc error - unable to mount root fs

2002-10-11 Thread Richard Holt
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 06:12:16 -0400, Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake should run on that old fine piece of stuff but you need to turn off plug and pray aware OS in the BIOS, and you need to tell the installer how little memory is left after subtracting for the video memory, so if

Re: [newbie] Spellcheck does not work

2002-10-08 Thread Richard Holt
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:56:05 -0400, Joseph Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 02:22:26 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there I am using OpenOffice 1.0 and trying to use spell-check function, but it does not seem to work. Could you tell me how to activate

Re: [newbie] The print job that wouldn't die

2002-10-01 Thread Richard Holt
I've found that the best way to kill a print job is the following: (using an Epson Stylus Color 640) 1. Open Kups (if not installed, try cups) 2. locate the print jobs 3. Kill all Print Jobs 4. *Don't* touch the printer but let it continue while Kups is working. It will stop usually within a half

Re: [newbie] Mandrake on a low-end machine...

2002-09-30 Thread Richard Holt
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0200, Linux Maniac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! My girlfriend is starting to write her thesis, and I don't want her to loose any data because of winblows. Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. Hello BAT, If her thesis is close, you might do

Re: [newbie] Cannot install OpenOficce1.0

2002-09-28 Thread Richard Holt
Todd, On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:44:03 -0500 Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I cannot install OpenOffice1.0. Could possibly teach me how to install OpenOffice on my computer step by step pelase? I am using Mdk 8.2 and Gnome. I know that this is a very stupid question,

Re: [newbie] Re: Configuring e-mail Web-url location

2002-09-28 Thread Richard Holt
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:00:27 -0400, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:56:09 -0400 Richard Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 01:54:25 -0400, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have found the greatest e-mail program sylpheed

Re: [newbie] Configuring e-mail Web-url location

2002-09-27 Thread Richard Holt
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 01:54:25 -0400, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have found the greatest e-mail program sylpheed. It is a keeper, I've used it for a few hours and love it. One problem; When I highlight a URL, and up pops a window that asks which

Re: [newbie] OT: Won't boot if headless

2002-09-24 Thread Richard Holt
Warren, Check in the Bios Setup if it's set to stop on errors or only keyboard errors. Use F1 to continue. HTHs, Richard. On 24 Sep 2002 08:21:02 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a hardware problem, not a Linux problem. But perhaps someone has faced this problem before.

Re: [newbie] Panel Applet - unadd?

2002-09-24 Thread Richard Holt
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:45:15 -0400 Scott Felton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I'm stumped. I've been having a grand time playing with Mandrake 8.2 and I've got many things configured to my liking. Then I did this Right click on panel Add Applet Runaway Process Catcher I now have a

Re: [newbie] Spellchecker for Openoffice 1.0.1

2002-09-23 Thread Richard Holt
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:35:50 -0400 mudder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I was fooling around tonight and I realized that the Openoffice 1.0.1 that installed with rc3 did not have a spell checker. Looked on the Openoffice.org web page and found instructions to install a spell

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice worry

2002-09-22 Thread Richard Holt
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:12:47 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time I have had problems with an OO save, causing a spontaneous logout. The worry is that sometimes the save has completed OK before the logout, and sometimes the document is corrupted, making it difficult

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice worry

2002-09-22 Thread Richard Holt
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 19:23:52 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 4:30 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:12:47 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time I have had problems with an OO save, causing a spontaneous logout. The worry

Re: [newbie] e-mail agent

2002-09-21 Thread Richard Holt
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:50:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Been a long time since i've been in the mailing list. While everybody seems to have new version of mandrake, I still hang on the old version - Mandrake 8.0 . I was wondering if anyone know a good e-mail agent for the

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-19 Thread Richard Holt
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:46:37 -0500, Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Since I have placed LM8.2 on my new Athlon 1600+ xp, elitegroup motherboard with via chipset, onboard sound and video and 512 megs of ram, my system just flakes out on me constantly. My web browsers will

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-09-05 Thread Richard Holt
On 30 Aug 2002 22:08:18 -0600, Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually there are many more options than just these two. Each has its advantages, so try 'em all and see which one(s) you like the best. When you install Linux, you'll be asked which graphical environment(s) you want to

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-03 Thread Richard Holt
Hello, On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:21:13 -0400, Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniele de Sanctis wrote: didn't try anything yet, but i'd like to say that that happened also on another laptop with windows98 and another question: i'm thinking of installing windows 2k on my windows

Re: [newbie] How to associate Opera w/Mdk

2002-08-27 Thread Richard Holt
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:15:08 +0500, Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Linux users. I am using Mdk 8.2, and would like to know the correct procedure to associate Opera 6.02 w/Mdk so clicking on a link or url will open Opera instaed of Konq. TIA very much for any help.:)

Re: [newbie] Pasting in Sylpheed

2002-08-27 Thread Richard Holt
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:55:21 -0600, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Sylpheed I'd like to paste things at the cursor instead of the pointer. Possible? How? Well, sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. Just highlighted something within the Compose editor and pasted it with Ctrl-V at

Re: [newbie]

2002-08-26 Thread Richard Holt
Art, On 26 Aug 2002 05:39:38 -, Art Juera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you give me a hint on what the Subject shall I search. I tried scanning it one by one but can't find. I'm a newbie and I'm just starting to learn linux. Subject refers to what was written on the subject line of the

Re: [newbie] Dead keys

2002-08-26 Thread Richard Holt
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:38:23 +0200, Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some time ago I saw someone installing RH 7.2 and I noticed one of the first steps, where the user was asked whether enable or not Dead keys. What about Mandrake? Are them enabled? If not, what do I have to

Re: [newbie] Printing and fax in OO

2002-08-08 Thread Richard Holt
On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 20:56:18 -0400, Brendan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile, I uninstalled and re-installed, but I'm confiused now. I used File Manager Super User to install from the 3rd disk. I thought that I had understood that this would install the root part of the program, but

Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)

2002-07-27 Thread Richard Holt
a las 22:17, Richard Holt escribió: On 23 Jul 2002 20:59:50 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes

Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)

2002-07-27 Thread Richard Holt
The greyed out Keyboard Model shows Generic 104-key PC and US English. Richard. 2. Can the U.S. International keyboard driver make an upside down question mark and upside down exclamation point? I want to be able to properly tell you !gracias! Warren El mar, 23-07-2002 a las 22:17, Richard

Re: [newbie] CUPS driver for Star Gemini-10X

2002-07-24 Thread Richard Holt
On Wednesday, 24 July 2002 12:54 pm, Warren Post wrote: I am trying to get my venerable Star Gemini-10X working under LM 8.1 and CUPS but cannot find an appropriate driver. The Gemini-10X is a 9 pin dot matrix printer, so I've tried the dot matrix drivers that are available for Star under

Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop

2002-07-23 Thread Richard Holt
Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: Have you tried making a new icon/link. I seem to recall reading that the kde/mandrake install made link doesnt work, and you need to make a new. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Richard Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday

Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)

2002-07-23 Thread Richard Holt
On 23 Jul 2002 20:59:50 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the letter n with

[newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop

2002-07-22 Thread Richard Holt
Hello, Installed mdk81 on Dell Latitude, PII-D300XT, 128MB. At install, the floppy was connected, not the Zip drive. Hence, problems to access Zip drive. Have created /mnt/zip and added the following line to fstab: /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto ...

Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop

2002-07-22 Thread Richard Holt
On Monday, 22 July 2002 03:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though you created the mount point, did you mount it? In KDE there should be a icon on the desktop for the zip. mount /mnt/zip I think that is what it is Thanks, yes, I tried it. I get a dialog: X Error Could not

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import

2002-02-12 Thread Richard Holt
various delimiters. I wasn't really sure about the | character. Delimited with |'s instead of ,'s ? I've opened *.csv files in OOo directly from the OpenFile dialog. Hope this helps, regards, Richard Holt. GO-TRO,ca Instrumentación, 011-58-265-641-0003, fax.641-3457 Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] test: my posts don't show up

2002-02-11 Thread Richard Holt
Don't panic. Maybe there's a problem with the server. It happens. Richard. On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:38:24 -0700 JSheble [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: I've been trying to respond to the list, but I never seen them come across... testing now...

Re: [newbie] Opera in spanish?

2002-02-06 Thread Richard Holt
; trying to get mdk81 going. Then go here to get the language file, following instructions to install: http://www.opera.com/download/lng/ow512_932es.lng ( chao, Richard Holt. Le 02.2.6 à 4:07, Joan Tur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) écrivit: Hallo! Does any of you have opera (5, 5.05TP1 or 6TP3) running

Re: [newbie] [OT] Opera in spanish?

2002-02-06 Thread Richard Holt
and restart Opera. When it restarts, it comes up in Spanish. I know it says languages for windows at the top, but I'd expect the linux version to do the same, but I haven't gotten it installed yet to try. Suerte, Richard. Es Wed 06 Feb 2002 18:07, en Richard Holt va escriure: Go here to download