[newbie] Mandrake 8.0 and executables that don't.

packages installed and ran fine under 7.2. Anybody got any ideas? Thanks for any help Will

[newbie] How to enable numlock when I startx

Hi When I start X-window, the light of Numlock will go out automatically. How to enable numlock when I startx? Thanx. ©_¼¯¹q¤l«H½c¡E·¾³q¤ß¥@¬É http://mail.kimo.com.tw < ºô ¸ô ¥Í ¬¡¡EºÉ ¦b ©_ ¼¯ > http://www.kimo.com.tw

RE: [newbie] RE: your mail

I must argue this. VI is a very powerful and useful tool if you take the time to learn it. try reading the man page and you will find that if does not open every document read-only, you just haven't done enough research to know how to use it. I will take vi over any editor out there

Re: [newbie] Samba problem 2

Damien Mc Kenna wrote: > On 1/13/00 2:48:46 PM, Will Trepanier wrote: > > I had that problem when mounting a novell server volume as a samba share. > > I had to add -d 777 -f 777 to the mount command. -d sets the directory > > permissions and -f sets the file permissi

Re: [newbie] Removing Drive 0 of Dual Boot System

cept and activate all the changes or it won't work. shutdown the system and take drive 0 out. reboot with drive one as drive 0 and you should be all set to go. I tried this on my system and it worked fine. I did go back into linuxconf and changed install lilo on back to /dev/hda tho so it didn't hose me later. good luck Will Trepanier [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Samba problem 2

erything rwxrwxrwx. It seemed to override our file and directory permissions on the novell box tho, kinda a security hole for the avid user. Will Trepanier [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] FTP Install

then load this version on that box? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance Will Trepanier [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] upgrades

Seth Gibson wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, M Thompson wrote: > > MDK 6.5 doesn't exist. Macmillan took Mandrake 6.1, put it in a shrink wrap > > package, and then called it Mandrake 6.5. > > > Actually they called it Macmillan Complete Linux 6.5. The box very clearly > states that it is Mandrake

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1,keyboard and mouse problem.

chip, & did you select it from the list during install ? -Warren - Original Message - From: Will Downs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 5:20 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1,keyboard and mouse problem. > I hope some one

[newbie] Mandrake 6.1,keyboard and mouse problem.

I hope some one can help me, thanks in advance.. I just finished installing Version 6.1. during the installation, when I was trying to configure X. I couldn't do any thing at the test window, my mouse and keyboard where unresponsive... I couldn't type or move my mouse. I had to wait for the time

[newbie] Mandrake 6.1,keyboard and mouse problem.

I hope some one can help me, thanks in advance.. I just finished installing Version 6.1. during the installation, when I was trying to configure X. I couldn't do any thing at the test window, my mouse and keyboard where unresponsive... I couldn't type or move my mouse. I had to wait for the time

Re: [newbie] arrgh vfat and msdos unknown?

e one on the bootdisk into my c:\linux directory. Matt Stegman wrote: > On 15 Aug, Will wrote: > > well I got those 2 emails telling me how to get into my windows drive > > but both of your approaches didn't work. I reinstalled linux somewhat > > successfully (for the 3r

[newbie] arrgh vfat and msdos unknown?

well I got those 2 emails telling me how to get into my windows drive but both of your approaches didn't work. I reinstalled linux somewhat successfully (for the 3rd time!) but get a few warnings about the wrong kernel ver in system.map and an error with mounting somewhere when booting. I don't kn

[newbie] some questions regarding booting and win partitions

all I wanted to do was access my windows partition from linux and I've created tons of errors. I was reading up on it and someone it said that there is no support for FAT32 in linux, only FAT. this was ok, I'd just set up a 2gig FAT partition to be an intermediate partition, right? I created the p

Re: [newbie] deleting /mbr

I was having that problem with LILO. It displays the LI then freezes right? well what I did is went into the etc directory and found this .0300 file and used the dd command with some arguments to replace the mbr with the old version. I found the command in some faq on the CD. The question is how d

[newbie] Thank you all!

I just fixed the monitor, mouse, and mbr and got my win98 system up and now I'm enjoying my spankin' new win/linux system! Thank you everyone who helped me out. I couldn't of done it without you. hah best tech support I've ever seen! Thanks all. Regards, Will

[newbie] First time linux user in DIRE need of help!

ange message! Fortunately I can still access windows98 to write you this message. What should I do?? -Will

[newbie] No Related Subject

I know that this sounds awful, but how can I get off this mailing list? I don't even use Linux any more. Thanks ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]