[newbie] mdk 6.0 boot disc question

2000-04-13 Thread Russell Simmons
I neglected to take out my boot disc when I was making a floppy, and overwrote it. I am dual booting, and use a boot disc to get to linux. I need to make a new bootdisc and am unsure how to. Here's what I tried: I loaded tomsrtbt into my box, and mounted my linux partition, and gave the command

[newbie] max linux mag mdk7.0

2000-03-29 Thread Russell Simmons
I saw that the new magazine, Maximum Linux, includes a copy of mdk 7.0, as well as a copy of Storm Linux. Does anyone know if this is version 7.0-2, or 7.0? tia russell

Re: [newbie] Boot Partition too big...

2000-03-25 Thread Russell Simmons
disk druid never worked for me...try linux fdiskit's the best way to carve your hd Dave wrote: > Heya guys, > > (before I start, I did check the archives and I did see a couple messages > about this , but they all related to FAT32 systems...) > I just installed Win2k on a new 13 gig HD w

Re: [newbie] newbie books

2000-03-22 Thread Russell Simmons
Running Linux by Matt Welsh/et al from O'Reilly. If you did a poll I believe that this book would be the most recommended. It's available at most book stores, such as Barnes & Noble, and of course from on line purveyors like amazon. Russell Philomena wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend

Re: [newbie] Mouse Question - MS Intellimouse Explorer (USB)

2000-03-17 Thread Russell Simmons
I have the same mouse, and have had difficulty getting the scrolling feature to work. I chose generic mouse drivers during the install, and my mouse works fine except for scrolling. If you really need scrolling support, check this out... http://www.linux.ie/beginners-linux-guide/intellimouse.htm

[newbie] 6.0 bug fixes

2000-03-15 Thread Russell Simmons
I am running mandrake 6.0. So far I haven't run into any problems, but if anyone knows of known problems/bug fixes for this release, I would be most grateful for a pointer to any relevant url's. tia russell

[newbie] Pine

2000-02-28 Thread Russell Simmons
I'm not so crazy about n.s.'s mail, and i would like to try Pine to send and retrieve mail on my Linux partition. I am using MD 6.0. Is there an rpm for pine on the distro? If not, could someone tell me the steps I would need to take to get and use Pine? Any info would be much appreciated. ti

[newbie] mount/make/windoz-files?

2000-02-28 Thread Russell Simmons
Can someone tell me how to mount my windoz partition, and make a directory there to use for linux? I would like to direct error messages, and log files to windoz from linux. I know this is a really newbie ?. hda1windoz 98 fat 32 hda 2 linux native hda3linux swap mandrake 6.0 200mmx

[newbie] kppp/problem

2000-02-23 Thread Russell Simmons
i'm running mandrake 6.0 on a 200mmx with 96 megs of ram after configuring kppp in kde, i querry the modem and it is ok when i dial my isp my connection drops and i get this error: the pppd dameon died unexpectedly this is the log Feb 23 17:32:09 localhost pppd (2215) : pppd 2.3.7 started by bu

Re: [[newbie] Mandrake 70-2 install]

2000-02-14 Thread Russell Simmons
i had the same problem...try checking _no_ at this prompt...when i did, the rest of the install worked... Jaguar wrote: > At one point I found a HOWTO on Toshiba laptops...maybe do a search of > ""toshiba laptops" and "linux"". > HTH > Jaguar > > David Michael Felice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

[newbie] 7.0 partioning ?

2000-02-13 Thread Russell Simmons
i have a dual boot box (windoze 98/lm 6.0) on a 5.1 gig wd hd...when i partitioned the drive i gave 4 gigs to windoz, (c), and i gig to use for linux, (d), (hda1=windoz, hda2=linux swap, hda3=/, hda4=/home)...i used linux fdisk to partition the 1 gig...a friend of mine went to linux world expo, an