[newbie] DHCP configuration to improve detection on dynamic IP

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, Kindly advise a simple and straightward method to configure network settings in using DHCP to improve the detection on dynamic IP address. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Reading UDF on CDRW problem

2002-01-02 Thread Stephen Liu
with following command; mount /dev/cdrom -t udf /mnt/cdrom or mount /dev/cdrom1 -t udf /mnt/cdrom mounting CDRW on CDWriter desktop icon only reading following 2 files; - autorun.inf - udrinst.exe Any suggestion on modifying /etc/fstab for remedy. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2002-01-02 Thread Stephen Liu
in (/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bi n:/root/bin)... what I have been missing ? B.R. Stephen At 09:05 AM 12/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi All People, When I rebuild src.rpm

[newbie] Make : tex Command

2001-12-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, When I rebuild src.rpm it prompted Make : tex : can't find command What is this command ? Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2001-12-30 Thread Stephen Liu
: On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi All People, When I rebuild src.rpm it prompted Make : tex : can't find command What is this command ? ~ $ which tex /usr/bin/tex ~ $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/tex tetex-1.0.7-31.1mdk Note: the -31.1mdk means

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2001-12-30 Thread Stephen Liu
At 09:05 AM 12/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi All People, When I rebuild src.rpm it prompted Make : tex : can't find command What is this command ? ~ $ which tex /usr/bin/tex ~ $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/tex tetex

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2001-12-30 Thread Stephen Liu
)... what I have been missing ? B.R. Stephen At 09:05 AM 12/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:26 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi All People, When I rebuild src.rpm it prompted Make : tex : can't find command What is this command ? ~ $ which tex

[newbie] Cannot mount CDWriter

2001-12-29 Thread Stephen Liu
) if [ $PROMPT != no ]; then /sbin/getkey i touch /var/run/confirm fi wait Any suggestion ? Thanks B.Regards Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How to open/view .vcf file

2001-12-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, How to open/view .vcf file, which software to be used ? B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to open/view .vcf file

2001-12-27 Thread Stephen Liu
specification on google and try to visit versit.com. ciao! On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:25:32 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All People, How to open/view .vcf file, which software to be used ? B.R. Stephen Liu -- Programming, an artform that fights back

Re: [newbie] Hot keys for toggling btw text and graphic modes

2001-12-26 Thread Stephen Liu
for text and graphic mode selection at boot/start ? Thanks in advance. B.Regards and Merry X'Mas Stephen Liu At 12:20 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, you wrote: ehh.. not sure of exactly what you mean, but, you can start linux as without Xwindows running, if you have configured lilo to start at run level 5

Re: [newbie] RAID question-ATA133 hard disc and hard discs connection

2001-12-25 Thread Stephen Liu
. Stephen At 12:43 PM 12/23/2001 -0900, you wrote: On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 23:04, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi All People, Merry X'mas I have some further RAID questions to ask : 1) Can ATA-133 hard drive be used on RAID controller available on market such RAID 0, 1, 0+1 etc. with cable

[newbie] RAID question-ATA133 hard disc and hard discs connection

2001-12-23 Thread Stephen Liu
hard discs c) What does it mean Low ratio of ECC (Parity) disks to data disks means high efficiency ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Hot keys for toggling btw text and graphic modes

2001-12-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, What will be the hot keys for toggling between text and graphic modes at starting Linux Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] (OT) How to install software in .bin format.

2001-12-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, Sorry for (OT) Kindly advise how to install SO.6.beta in .bin format to Mandrake 8.1 and where to join the discussion list of StarOffice. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mounting udf files (CDRW) and iso 9660 files (CDR)

2001-12-18 Thread Stephen Liu
when inserted Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How to test the performance of a Video Card

2001-12-18 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, Kindly advise : How to test the performance of a Video Card Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Apache + Perl5 + PHP406

2001-11-21 Thread Stephen Liu
: Copy the httpd.conf file to the /etc/httpd/conf/ directory. Copy the apache file to the /etc/logrotate.d/ directory. Copy the httpd script file to the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory. Where can apache file and httpd script be located ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu At 08:45 PM 11/21/2001

[newbie] Help: Linux cannot connect mail server via broadband

2001-11-18 Thread Stephen Liu
name and password I can connect the same ISP mail server in Eudora and Outlook Express to download emails. Kindly help !!! Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Installation and config of apache + php 4 + mod_ss

2001-11-18 Thread Stephen Liu
) What are the difference between openssl-0.9.6b-8.i386.RPM and openssh-server-2.9p2-7.i386.rpm Kindly advise. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] procmail recipe

2001-11-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Arthur, In your email of 10/31/2001 to the list you attached a procmail recipe to your email. Could you please email it to me. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:38:06 -0500 (EST) From: Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Derek, Thanks for your response. At 11:34 PM 11/13/2001 +, you wrote: I would not worry about that too much. Evolution is still not final code. It does crash sometimes. I would be more interested in what the output of the fetchmailconf test showed you. Derek At time performing

RE: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-13 Thread Stephen Liu
) has crashed due to fatal error (Segmentation fault) I could not connect to the email server of ISP B.R. Stephen -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Stephen Liu Enviado el: domingo, 11 de noviembre de 2001 7:38 Para: Rafael Lepra CC: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-13 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Derek, At 01:19 PM 11/11/2001 +, you wrote: Sounds strange. Does it work with another mail client such as Evolution? I think that most likely the problem came from my OS - Mandrake 8.1 When I tried Evolution, on retrieving email from ISP it prompted : evolution - mail (Process. 2623)

Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-11 Thread Stephen Liu
in Kmail, a warning pop-up saying Error, incorrect password. But it can send emails without problem. I am quite sure the password entered in configuration is correct. Any guy on the list came across such strange thing ? B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-11 Thread Stephen Liu
, a warning pop-up saying Error, incorrect password. But it can send emails without problem. I am quite sure the password entered in configuration is correct. Any guy on the list came across such strange thing ? B.R. Stephen Liu Password is case sensitive. You might try reentering your

RE: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-11 Thread Stephen Liu
configuration, and if you are not including capitals letters. I hope this helps :-) Rafael Lepra -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Stephen Liu Enviado el: viernes, 09 de noviembre de 2001 14:01 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [newbie] Kmail cannot

[newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen Liu
across such strange thing ? B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Hard Disk surface scan

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Poogle, Sorry. The correct link should be ; http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/ B.R. Stephen Liu At 04:05 PM 11/8/2001 +, you wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2001 21:04 pm, you wrote: Can anyone tell me how to do a surface scan on a hard disk, known to contain bad sectors

Re: [newbie] setting up proxy server

2001-10-31 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ron, Thanks for your further advice. I think your first step, Stephen, is to clearly define what you want to *do* with all that hardware. Until you do that, it's difficult to advise you more specifically. I am planning using the Linux box, a slower machine with following config. ; CPU

Re: [newbie] setting up proxy server

2001-10-30 Thread Stephen Liu
, Squid will serve it up even if it is not connected. But I think he was refering to WWWoffle (I don't know it). It sounds similarly to certain software in Win environment which can download the whole website allowing you browsing it off line. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem

2001-10-28 Thread Stephen Liu
psux crw - r - - - - rootrootrtc Any guy on the list has encountered the aforesaid problem previously please advise. Thanks in advice. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Recording/burning question

2001-10-19 Thread Stephen Liu
-At-Once 2. To select which write speed a) 2 x (300KB/sec) b) 4 x (600KB/sec) c) 8 x (1200KB/sec) 3. Can I use CD RW disc for multi-record CDROM for software installation 4. How to check the recording condition of the CD after burning. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your

[newbie] Corrupted files -RPM

2001-10-19 Thread Stephen Liu
.rpm xmms-skins-1.0.0-11mdk.noarch.rpm I checked RPMNet but could not find them there. Kindly advise where can I have them downloaded. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 download problem !!!

2001-10-18 Thread Stephen Liu
result. B.R. Stephen Liu At 09:55 AM 10/17/2001 +0200, you wrote: i used to have problems like that till i found out the firewall (axxent) was screwing around with the downloads maybe u have a similar problem - Original Message - From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 problem

2001-10-04 Thread Stephen Liu
left in this runlevel The PC hanged on forcing me to re-boot the PC No improvement made after re-starting. I tried twice re-installing Linnux-Mandrake 8.1 with the same result Could any guy on the list shed me some light. Thanks in advance. Best Regards Stephen Liu At 03:24 PM 10/4/2001

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

2001-10-04 Thread Stephen Liu
re-installing Linnux-Mandrake 8.1 with the same result Could any guy on the list shed me some light. Thanks in advance. Best Regards Stephen Liu At 09:01 PM 10/4/2028 +0800, you wrote: try to change your Mandrake CD try buying agai.that is the good part of Linux it is very

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

2001-10-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Stephen Liu At 11:30 AM 10/2/2001 -0700, you wrote: Dear Sir Stephen Lui before adding a / linux native root partition just add first a native partition /boot with 5MB needed then after press add again for the swap partion your swap partion must be 2x your memory so for example you have 64mB

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 (resend)

2001-10-03 Thread Stephen Liu
Stephen Liu At 11:30 AM 10/2/2001 -0700, you wrote: Dear Sir Stephen Lui before adding a / linux native root partition just add first a native partition /boot with 5MB needed then after press add again for the swap partion your swap partion must be 2x your memory so for example you have 64mB

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

2001-10-01 Thread Stephen Liu
necessary ? Thanks in advance. B.Regards Stephen Liu which you originaly configured so it will not conflivt with your existing linux native. then dont forget to add a swap partition. I hope my little knowledge on this can help you. Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com The Technology Specialist

[newbie] Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

2001-09-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Regards Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How to start LyX

2001-03-25 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, Has LyX already been pre-installed in Mandrake 7.2 ? If Yes how to evoke it, from KDE or Gnome ? Kindly help. Thanks in advance. Stephen

[newbie] Help !!! Can't mount CDRom / CDWriter

2001-03-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, I have a CDROM and a CDWriter installed running Mandrake 7.2. Using KDE desktop I create an icon for CDROM with following steps; right click on KDE desktop Create New CDRom device Device in Device drop-down list - select /mnt/cdrom in Mount Point - select /mnt/cdrom

[newbie] Help !!! Can't mount CDRom / CDWriter

2001-03-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, I have a CDROM and a CDWriter installed running Mandrake 7.2. Using KDE desktop I create an icon for CDROM with following steps; right click on KDE desktop Create New CDRom device Device in Device drop-down list - select /mnt/cdrom in Mount Point - select /mnt/cdrom

[newbie] How to start LyX

2001-03-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, Has LyX already been pre-installed in Mandrake 7.2 ? If Yes how to evake it, from KDE or Gnome ? Kindly help. Thanks in advance. Stephen

[newbie] Can't mount CDRom / CDWriter

2001-03-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, I have a CDROM and a CDWriter installed running Mandrake 7.2. Using KDE I create an icon for CDROM with following steps; right click on KDE desktop Create New CDRom device Device in Device drop-down list - select /mnt/cdrom in Mount Point - select /mnt/cdrom File System

[newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc-I'Will WO2 onboard controller

2001-03-16 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, Re Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc I'Will WO2 onboard controller From MSWindows Settings Control Panel System Device Manger Storage Contoller Resources, following data were found : a. Input/Output Range 01F0 - 01F7 b. Input/Output Range 03F6 - 03F6

[newbie] Installation of Mandrake7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc

2001-03-16 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Charles, Could you please throw me some light re installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc I'Will WO2 onboard controller From MSWindows Settings Control Panel System Device Manger Storage Contoller Resources, following data were found : a. Input/Output Range 01F0 - 01F7

Re: [newbie] can 't install on ASUS A7V133

2001-03-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Dan, Kindly advise : Use the standard IDE interfaces for now. Apparently there is a way to make it work on 7.2 but even so it's still "buggy". Is it using IDE cable for ATA33/ATA66 to connect the ATA100 hard disc first before installation ? Try installing your O/S using the stabdard

[newbie] How to burn CD RW in Mandrake 7.0

2001-03-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, Kindly advise: How to burn CD RW in Mandrake 7.0 Can it support UDF burning and reading ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen