[newbie] SNF admin password change

2002-01-23 Thread Ed Colmar
logged in, but can I change it simply from the command line? If so, how? Thanks so much! -ed- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Domain hosting--how to?

2002-01-15 Thread Ed Kasky
A static ip and registered domain name are necessary to create an address record in DNS. Your isp can handle this. See if they have that as a service. Of course they'll charge extra to set it up, etc At 09:30 PM 1/15/2002, you wrote: I've been playing with Apache and am able to access

Re: [newbie] What can Linux do ???

2002-01-12 Thread Ed Tharp
yes if you either download the block (module), or write it your self, heck a shorter list might be what PHP and MY sql can NOT do. you might try hoard, imap-php, php-groupware, as far as other stuff linux can do, what do you want to do? windows=where do you want to go today Mac= go

Re: [newbie] Video Capture Suggestions Sought

2002-01-12 Thread Ed Tharp
I have quite a bit of analog video footage (i.e. standard VHS videocassettes) that I am interested in capturing and outputting into some kind of vcd format. From what I read, it is possible to put video onto a standard (non-DVD) CD-R in a format that can be played by most DVD players. If

Re: [newbie] KMail install?

2002-01-12 Thread Ed Tharp
often deleteing the first message (In the Kmail outbox) will cure the sending problem you had, often a mal-formed address will cause no server to pick up the message, so it stays in the outbox ,blocking the rest of the messages. On Friday 11 January 2002 09:52, you wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan

Re: [newbie] install win after install linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Ed Tharp
winblows does not have to be first, the install likes it (insists?) better tho, you can install and then change the harddrive toi the second channel, use lilo to dual boot. On Friday 11 January 2002 15:27, you wrote: As far as I know, Windows has to be the first primary partition of the

Re: [newbie] Help with Real Player Plugin

2002-01-12 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 17 December 2001 13:36, you wrote: Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_tcob1.net-7179-1008635553-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Re: [newbie] OT: Windows format command

2002-01-11 Thread Ed Tharp
I just jumped in, but might have been a permissions thing if in linux On Friday 11 January 2002 08:50, you wrote: On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 10:42, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Dave Sherman wrote: Try booting from a rescue floppy, as this will put you in pure DOS. Tried and the response

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 vs Redhat 6.2

2002-01-10 Thread Ed Tharp
probly running some servers and/or services you don't need, and MDK runs them if you installed them by default. On Thursday 10 January 2002 08:29, you wrote: I have a Redhat 6.2 system running on a 133 Mhz Pentium with 64 MB memory, and It is much faster than my LM 8.1 running on a 450 Mhz

Re: [newbie] cron

2002-01-10 Thread Ed Kasky
One can also change their EDITOR env setting to pico should one be so inclined... Ed At 11:38 AM 1/10/2002, Real Name wrote: or just enter crontab -e from any prompt and make your edits in VI Dan B On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:20:27 -0500 sda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2002

Re: [newbie] FTP upload; did I miss something?

2002-01-06 Thread Ed Tharp
are you sending (or recieving) the file type as ascii text? ot bininary? On Sunday 06 January 2002 01:24, you wrote: I am signing as user type. When I use FTP it walked to my folder (my user name) and I can see this folder but can not up load. I read a book about WU-FTP but really don't know

Re: [newbie] Ouch - I cannot install the C/C++/Make packages...

2002-01-06 Thread Ed Tharp
boot with cdrom1, choose update, expert (working from bad memory here..) chose developer? On Sunday 06 January 2002 02:16, you wrote: During the install I decided I would not need the C/C++ dev system (DOH!). Now I am trying to get gcc and make onto my system. ALL installs to GCC and/or

Re: [newbie] FTP upload; did I miss something?

2002-01-06 Thread Ed Tharp
. it is important to make sure the FTP program is set to the type of file you are sending. what ftp program are you using? On Sunday 06 January 2002 14:20, you wrote: I sent(up load) a *.GIF file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Tharp Sent

Re: [newbie]was two questions:NOW.Linux ppc but not in 68k.

2002-01-05 Thread Ed Tharp
On Saturday 05 January 2002 02:15, you wrote: On Sat, 17 November 2001, Roy Hershberger wrote: Gina, Gimp is there but you might have to run the software manager to install it if it didn't install initially. Linux ppc should work in any PPC mac, but not in 68k. snip I have been told

Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?

2002-01-05 Thread Ed Tharp
On Saturday 05 January 2002 02:17, you wrote: On Sat, 17 November 2001, Franki wrote: I recently stopped using Reiserfs on the server boxes, I swaped to ext3, the reason being that recently I have had some data corruption on both mdk7.2 and mdk8.1 and in both cases, it appears that

Re: [newbie] test

2002-01-05 Thread Ed Tharp
Oh MY FREAKING gosh,,, what they have been saying is TRUE Oh my. On Saturday 05 January 2002 12:19, you wrote: And who hasn't been there? ;-) But isn't that half the reason for being on a list in the first place - to make sure you get some mail from somebody? Not that I want to get

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] test]

2002-01-05 Thread Ed Tharp
On Saturday 05 January 2002 15:45, you wrote: Welcome back on the list, Mick ! - How did you fix it ? - And to all you kind folks who are philosophical : Mick isn't a mail-junkie, but he DID have some very serious problems posting to the list-server, to the extent og asking me to post for

Re: [newbie] named configuration

2002-01-03 Thread Ed Tharp
, does not find it there, looks for resov.conf, finds the dns numbers for the ISP. Nmaed is a bit of overhead most folks don't really need. On Thursday 03 January 2002 20:31, you wrote: Hi Ed, This is what I sent to Ric Tibbets privately. He bravely offered to help. As I said to to him, I

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2002-01-01 Thread Ed Tharp
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 01:38, you wrote: On 31 Dec 2001 20:05:55 -0500, Michael Leone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be able to make a minor change to their

Re: [newbie] A sound question!

2002-01-01 Thread Ed Tharp
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 15:27, you wrote: I have found that if you need a thing to load up each time you boot (kinda like adding it to autoexec.bat in dos 5.x +) you could add it as one of the last lines to the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local and save that file (also as root) where does this

Re: [newbie] USB smart media reader

2001-12-31 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 31 December 2001 01:05, you wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 23:38, you wrote: MAKDEV, or makdev, or mkdev don't seem to be the correct commands. I just keep getting command not found. TC try this, MAKDEV /dev/sda1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Resolving HW conflicts

2001-12-31 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 31 December 2001 11:28, you wrote: Su to root and run: cat /proc/pci Since you are using 7.2 be sure that PnP OS is set to No in your BIOS. also nice and your friend is (without the quotes, as root, in a text console) cat /proc/interrupts Charles Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-29 Thread Ed Tharp
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 23:17, you wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:02:20 +0900 Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Well, I didn't mention responsibility or anything like that. :-) But since the Mandrake online information *does* say that you can

Re: [newbie] Mandrake support

2001-12-28 Thread Ed Tharp
this is NOT mandreake suport, and you probly should look on the web pages you were on on mandrake-expert to contact them about the problem. what was the problem tho? On Wednesday 26 December 2001 21:11, you wrote: I have purchased mandrake powerpack 8.1. I got registered also. I did login.

Re: [newbie] Change Time

2001-12-28 Thread Ed Kasky
But does it work??? ;-) I forgot to mention before to look at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm for an explanation of how the time server strata works and for any special requirements when using any of the public time servers. Ed At 03:21 PM Friday, 12/28/2001, you wrote

[newbie] System attack Recovery Question

2001-12-26 Thread Ed Kasky
not permitted Thanks in advance... Ed ~~ Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it; when people are saying it can't be done. - Mary Francis Berry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question

2001-12-26 Thread Ed Kasky
At 03:45 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, you wrote -= On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:47:25 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: hard link so that it can't be deleted or updated until we find the hard link. My question is how do I trace this link so I can delete

Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question

2001-12-26 Thread Ed Kasky
We tried runlevel 1 but the file system for hda1 gets mounted as read only for some reaon How does one get around that? Ed At 03:45 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, Mark Weaver wrote -= have you tried going in at runlevel #1, umount the partition where ps lives and tried deleting it that way

Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question

2001-12-26 Thread Ed Kasky
At 08:26 PM Wednesday, 12/26/2001, daRcmaTTeR wrote -= On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 15:34:47 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: We tried runlevel 1 but the file system for hda1 gets mounted as read only for some reaon How does one get around that? Ed

Re: [newbie] SMTP Authentication (as a user)

2001-12-24 Thread Ed Tharp
kmail On Monday 24 December 2001 05:55, you wrote: My ISP requires SMTP authentication ... which I can do fine on Outlook Is there a way I can send a UserName/Password combo using postfix when I send mail? Or can anyone recommend a mail client that has this feature? Currently, I

Re: [newbie] Unable to install: Kernel Panic

2001-12-24 Thread Ed Tharp
does if motherboard have on-board video? try specifying say 8 megs less ram. do you get to the point of initializing ram disk? maybe a different cd reader is the answer? On Sunday 23 December 2001 22:55, you wrote: This is a re-post because I have new information now: I am able to run

Re: [newbie] Where's my E: drive (after reinstalling Mandrake).

2001-12-24 Thread Ed Tharp
do you run some sort of disk compression ? I remember that drivespace or something like that, as well as stacker created a hidden drive for the compression info, as to why window$ can not (should not?) see the contents of the drive and linux can? Linux works right, M$ winders works the way

Re: [newbie] file system accessible by windows and linux

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
M$ products (win9x) will only be able to read fat, fat32, vfat, and on nt or 2000, ntfs Linux has no such hangups. On Sunday 23 December 2001 12:21, you wrote: Greetings Well, my xmas gift to myself -- a new laptop -- arrived via FedEx yesterday, and I've successfully created a dual

Re: [newbie] ls -d

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
ls -d * (without the quotes) might be a little more like what you had in mind, it requires an operator to match. the * is a wildcard showing all the files matching any letter or number. ls -d e* would get you any directory name with an e and then some other letters. ls -d e would only get

Re: [newbie] LS Command help

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
with out the quotes man ls On Sunday 23 December 2001 16:18, you wrote: when using the ls command there is to many files to show on the screen so it just flashes them up quick and shows the bottom ones, In does you just put a /p after the command to fix that problem, what extension do you use

Re: [newbie] LS Command help

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
sorry about that... I think what you may need is ls|less without the quotes. the character in between ls and less is the pipe, it is above the \ slash (caps) so I guess my wise a$$ remark should have been man less, man pipe, and then man ls On Sunday 23 December 2001 14:34, you wrote:

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Review - please comment] - corrected link

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
no better On Sunday 23 December 2001 14:39, you wrote: Oops, bad link ! http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewfile=index; reg=showcontentid=14 http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=indexreg =showcontentid=14 The original link will not

Re: [newbie] LS Command help

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
also, in a few different consols in X, there is a scroll bar on the left side of the consol that will allow you to see what scrolled by. On Sunday 23 December 2001 16:18, you wrote: when using the ls command there is to many files to show on the screen so it just flashes them up quick and

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Review - please comment] - corrected link

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
On Sunday 23 December 2001 14:59, you wrote:   http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=index® =showcontentid=14 after index should be Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [Fwd: [newbie] Review - please comment] - corrected link

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Kasky
Layne - I went directly to killertux and found it under recent reviews. http://www.killertux.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Reviewsfile=indexreq=showcontentid=14 You had Reviewfile - SB Reviewsfile Ed At 02:59 PM Sunday, 12/23/2001, you wrote -= Ed, That should be the correct link

Re: [newbie] Telnet config

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
of course if you are asking where is a graphical front end to allow configuration of telbet, you could try webmin On Sunday 23 December 2001 14:51, you wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:03:50 -0800 Jesse Angell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where are the telnet config files located on Mandrake

Re: [newbie] LS Command help

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
On Sunday 23 December 2001 14:54, you wrote: also, in a few different consols in X, there is a scroll bar on the left side that was dumb, I don' know my left from my right, the scroll bar is on -- that side (the right side) of the consol that will allow you to see what scrolled by. On

Re: [newbie] Review - please comment

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Kasky
Warning: Failed opening 'modules/Review/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='./:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/linuxz/linuxtests-www/modules.php on line 41 Tell them to check line 41. Ed At 02:30 PM Sunday, 12/23/2001, you wrote -= Forwarded message: Hello, My daughters have been

Re: [newbie] Telnet config

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
do you have a text based web browser? On Sunday 23 December 2001 17:26, you wrote: Nope the text configuration files, my 166mhz 32 meg ram is almost incapable of xwindows... - Original Message - From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001

Re: [newbie] Telnet config

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
of xwindows... - Original Message - From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Telnet config of course if you are asking where is a graphical front end to allow configuration of telbet, you could try

Re: [newbie] Telnet config

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
try pine might be installed already On Sunday 23 December 2001 17:47, you wrote: Not that I know of, where can i get one and where can i get a text based pop3 email client - Original Message - From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001

Re: [newbie] Telnet config

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
h, since that should be the LO interface of YOUR computer, and the 1 port is standard for webmin, maybe you don't have webmin installed? On Sunday 23 December 2001 17:54, you wrote: hm Lynx works but that address does not - Original Message - From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] Fwd: I have a voodoo 3-3500 Tv card

2001-12-23 Thread Ed Tharp
Please reply to Doug doug shock [EMAIL PROTECTED], as he says his message is not getting to the list. I have a voodoo 3-3500 Tv card installed in my mandrake box. About 1 year ago I saw a thread regarding how to get the TV aspect of this card working under Linux. Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?

2001-12-21 Thread Ed Tharp
Yes they are the same hard drives, no changes have been made to the hardware with the exception of a replacement MB with an updated bios. worth noting that this was only one time, and I was looking at about a dozen boxes a day during that time frame, for over a year right then. ( I don't even

Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?

2001-12-21 Thread Ed Tharp
snip On Thursday 20 December 2001 23:55, you wrote: I have seen a hard drive (if I remember correctly it was either a maxtor or seagate) where almost the same symptoms happened, judgeing form your list of symptoms (this was in a winders box, about the time windows 98 came out). I never did

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version

2001-12-20 Thread Ed Tharp
On Thursday 20 December 2001 11:10, you wrote: I am 12 (twelve) years experience Windows user but only 6 months using Mandrake, and I hope Mandrake 8.2 (or 9.0 ??) will support: Just as correct typing is important when using computer commands, some folks might be surprised to learn of the

Re: [newbie] Some opinion for Mandrake Website

2001-12-20 Thread Ed Tharp
Billy a jingle and let him know you would like the repaired? (the following message from Ed's keyboard: SLAP -damn Ed, you said you were going to work on not being so damn sarcastic Windy is a nice person, leave her alone. /end keyboard speaking) The keyboard is correct, I am a ba$tard some

Re: [newbie] gateway/router help

2001-12-20 Thread Ed Tharp
you cann't have static IPs and use dhcp. dhcp is Dynamic and allocates IP# On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:16, you wrote: I'm trying to set up a p200mmx 32mb ram as my gateway/router/firewall. I'm having some problems. I'm using mdk8.1. I have one network card connected to my cable modem

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version, OT now

2001-12-20 Thread Ed Tharp
On Thursday 20 December 2001 17:15, you wrote: At 01:08 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: thingy and RPMS are forever. Nothing is forever. :-D wow how zen like of you... deep. the temporaryness of it all... I love it... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Could Mandrake Kill My Motherboard?

2001-12-20 Thread Ed Tharp
On Thursday 20 December 2001 17:41, you wrote: Can you say Ground Fault? I agree w/Jose, most likely problem. I have never seen (does not mean it don't happen) the MB toast from Linux, but it is worth noteing, in my opinion anyway, that you well can toast the monitor by driving it beyond it's

Re: [newbie] gateway/router help

2001-12-20 Thread Ed Tharp
dhcp for the internet and static for the internal network? - Original Message - From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gateway/router help you cann't have static IPs and use dhcp. dhcp is Dynamic

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Ed Tharp
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 18:07, you wrote: Well let's not get too flamin' high and mighty and make judgements about each others' intelligence, shall we? OK I agree, but why then did you do EXACTLY that? An installer that destroys partitions without adequate warning, ESPECIALLY in easy

Re: [newbie] Can I run Mandrake on PPC Clone?

2001-12-19 Thread Ed Tharp
as long as it is a power PC chip, has enough Memory, should go fine. On Tuesday 18 December 2001 14:50, you wrote: Sorry to repost - but I can't find anywhere to ask on the Mandrake site - and couldn't find any specific answers in the installation manauls... Anyone know if I can install

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Ed Tharp
long ago... I sorry. Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
thanks for correcting MY typo you were correct. Yup - I knew about find files, but I needed the right file name - I guess maybe dmesg is what you meant, not dmseg. Assuming that to be correct, here are the files from both the server and a client machine. how do you shut down the

Re: [newbie] OK my own first question

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 04:25, you wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:45:49 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] So my question is I can use Licq as Root. I have attempted to change the permissions on Licq (which file is the *.exe, so to speak!?)...and well it just won't stick... DON't

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 07:55, you wrote: I shutdown by right click | logoff | choose Halt from the KDE desktop. Problem? don't guess that caused it, but could you also send the output of cat /proc/pci, and cat /proc/interrupts as well as an ifconfig? if ya wanna send them to me off list

Re: [newbie] Install Debian Packages

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
We can tell you are new to linux, in fact still using m$-lookout for your mail. and sending some kinda wider$ attachment to a Linux users list what the heck is winmail.dat? it don't show up as anything but an attachment to me. what packages do you think debian has that Mandrake ain't? you

Re: [newbie] confirm ac961c2c1553ec788dd55830754372f8 (fwd)

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
I got it, I sware the filter got nothing to do with the list, and the poor slob who does not get this through the list won't ever know, cause it is his work e-mail address. snip (Ed...i wonder if this message will get filtered?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] test message

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
considering the nature of the internet, the fact that i would rather do it myself (please mom), the great deal of cash we expend to be on this list, I would suggest that control is almost always better if _I_ control it, so for those reasons I would suggest a local filter would be a better

Re: [newbie] Excellent idea.

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
start best southern drawl y'all done checked out mandrake-expert for those that want beer money, but I'ld be more'in happy to buy one for anyone shows up in this neck aw'da woods/end drawl On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:59, you wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:06:48 -0500 Mark Weaver

Re: [newbie] OK my own first question

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
voyeuristicly roflmao On Tuesday 18 December 2001 21:04, you wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, FemmeFatale wrote: wow, so please... don't forget the details... .8- I can't wait for that! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] please help!

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 15:14, you wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:35:00 -0500 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed frantically in their message: Nzaoui wrote: I want to desabled my registration in this list and not receive the message of this mailing-list but I don't now to do

Re: [newbie] convert outlook express address books to Kmail format.

2001-12-18 Thread Ed Tharp
in kmail mail client window (default when first opened) file import chose the format, ? On Tuesday 18 December 2001 21:11, you wrote: Though some posts were there for converting mail to Kmail, how to convert outlook express address books to Kmail format. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
post the output of your dmseg file, do you have ypbind running? do you have a local network? is this box the dhcp server or a client? On Sunday 16 December 2001 23:20, you wrote: Thanks for the responses to this. I don't think that there are any extra servers running. One thing that may

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
this IS appropriate, and is the directions from Mandrake, as I recall On Monday 17 December 2001 13:11, you wrote: Hmm. I did this update some time ago via the package manager without problem. System has not been rebooted since...I don't think that a blanket DO NOT DO THIS is appropriate.

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
I Strongly recomend theat you, (not anyone else, just you) go BACK TO REDHAT!!! typos and all. then any problems you have will not be the fault of MAndrake, it will be REDHAT's. not yours, not mine, but Redhat's. so you are right, a lot better than RTFM, go to redhat. and after you get there,

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
of course, if you had the CD's you could boot from the CD and do a developer install as an upgrade I do believe. might get you all the fine stuff you require. On Monday 17 December 2001 13:38, you wrote: I am sorry for being a boogerface, but this distribution as far as I am concerned is

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
to locate a file on your computer, there are a few good utilities, the one I use in KDE is found at K(menu bar bottom left corner, like start in M$ prod.) Applications file tools find files. dmesg is the log of the boot up messages that you see if you use a text boot up. /var/log/dmseg is

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
well, if you don't reboot, you are still reading the kernel you booted with, so you have not yet experianced the problems you will have when ever you do reboot On Monday 17 December 2001 13:56, you wrote: That's the beauty of Linux. I shouldn't HAVE to reboot...right? :-) Fortunately,

Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
. From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Warning for newbies, learn from my mistake Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:30:45 -0500 this IS appropriate, and is the directions from Mandrake, as I recall On Monday 17 December 2001 13:11

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!! OT now, w/snip

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
yep, I did recognize the kittypuss address. not really a problem, heck if I had better stuff going on in MY life, I would not have bothered to reply, my delete key works GREAT!!! On Monday 17 December 2001 14:36, you wrote: Ed, Don't you recognize Vic? I didn't realize at first it was him

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
I believe it was said previously that; This list does not contain any answers or solutions, only opinions, some just happen to be either helpful or correct. On Monday 17 December 2001 14:41, you wrote: I have no one who can help me, and probably no one cares either. What a totally lame

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!! OT now, w/snip

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
, heck if I had better stuff going on in MY life, I would not have bothered to reply, my delete key works GREAT!!! On Monday 17 December 2001 14:36, you wrote: Ed, Don't you recognize Vic? I didn't realize at first it was him either until I kept reading the rant. it all sounded so

Re: [newbie] LILO issues with 2 hard drives.

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
answer... you NEED the cd and dvd on the same IDE channel, and you NEED to use the slowest common speed (ie dma33) on each channel, and you NEED the ata 100 (special) ide cable On Monday 17 December 2001 15:26, you wrote: I did go to thearchive of the mailing list and didn't see it. Repost it

Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
and promise that you have (as root, in a text console, without X running, and without the quotes) typed sndconfig On Monday 17 December 2001 16:19, you wrote: At 12:38 PM 12/17/2001 -0600, Newbie wrote: I guess I'm too neurologically crippled to figure things out myself well damn it, I need

Re: [newbie] I have HAD IT!!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
bubba, it IS the user, if it installs 7.2, but not 8.1, it is something that is different between they way the 2.2.x kernel handles stuff and the 2.4.x kernels handles the same stuff, so if the USER could PROPERLY cofigure the machine, it would not be a software problem would it? did that guy

Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled

2001-12-17 Thread Ed Tharp
got any numbers on the modem? On Monday 17 December 2001 21:31, you wrote: Thanks Charles, Ed, DarkLord :-)) I had gone to the Diamond site before posting this to the list. I checked again including the PDF manual but no jumper settings to be found. Have emailed them twice now but am

Re: [newbie] cd rom and cd writer

2001-12-16 Thread Ed Tharp
what command are you using to mount? what is the error message? On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:53, you wrote: In harddrake I can see my cdrom and my cd writer, however, they will not mount in root. How do I force them to? These are SCSI. RB Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Modem causes mouse to be unistalled

2001-12-16 Thread Ed Tharp
turn OFF plug and pray aware OS in bios, yes that is the first thing. how did you do it? reserve (also in Bios , isa-pnp) an IRQ for the ISA slot slot the modem is in. you might also have to see if there is a setup utility to set the modems IRQ (probly dos based) or if this modem has jumpers

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-14 Thread Ed Tharp
have you both considered turning off all the servers possible ? this sounds to me like a dns , routed or ypbind server running (that you don't need, and is not correctly configured. are you trying to run a local DNS server? (as oppsosed to a local cacheing name server) do you have ypbind

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-14 Thread Ed Tharp
On Friday 14 December 2001 06:37, you wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 06:10:08 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: have you both considered turning off all the servers possible ? this sounds to me like a dns , routed or ypbind server running (that you don't

Re: [newbie] linux networking

2001-12-14 Thread Ed Tharp
plaes, when sending to this list, turn off HTML formating in your mail, it looks like this to a number of us, and some of the best folks here filter out HTML mail so they will never see your question. the commands you question are typed (as root) in a text console or term. do you use KDE? is

Re: [newbie] clipboard

2001-12-14 Thread Ed Tharp
On Friday 14 December 2001 11:57, you wrote: Is there a clipboard feature in the download edition of 8.1? I've looked everywhere but I can't find it. TIA, Randy Donohoe I find the Klipper on my menubar. 8.1 standard. are you asking how to use it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Question on floppy

2001-12-14 Thread Ed Tharp
On Friday 14 December 2001 15:09, you wrote: On Friday 14 December 2001 05:48, you wrote: | Everytime I try to mount the floppy drive by clicking on the drive icon | on the desktop it goes to open the drive and then displays and error. The | error is as follows: Could not read / | | I have

Re: [newbie] Slow image activation

2001-12-14 Thread Ed Tharp
nope ypbind is for NIS do you connect to a sun OS machine? turn it off and see. On Friday 14 December 2001 16:26, you wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:21:21 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed frantically in their message: On Friday 14 December 2001 06:37, you wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec

Re: [newbie] Question on floppy

2001-12-14 Thread Ed Tharp
am correct you're talking about the File System Type? If so it's set to auto. - Original Message - From: Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Question on floppy On Friday 14 December 2001 15:09, you wrote

Re: [newbie] kamp-idled Better answer for future referance NOT

2001-12-13 Thread Ed Tharp
On Thursday 13 December 2001 17:52, you wrote: Fred, This is idle time on your machine. From a previous answer on this list I believe that instead of just recording idle time, it actually tries to minimise energy use by fiddling with the power management. Hence the apm part of the name.

[newbie] future referance NOT

2001-12-13 Thread Ed Tharp
On Thursday 13 December 2001 21:09, you wrote: Really Ed with too much time on his hands and not anything to watch on tv...just blowing off some steam and really should appologize to all the pay by the minute folks on the list for such a grotesque waste of bandwith. just trying to make

Re: [newbie] detecting an internal ISA modem

2001-12-11 Thread Ed Tharp
it doesn't display it under the Mandrake Control Centre when I am logged as as either a user or root. Tnx to Ed who suggested I try the command of'/proc/pci|/home/hylton/proc-pci'. Turns out on opening the box that the USR modem is in an ISA slot. I tried to use the command but replace the PCI

Re: [newbie] detecting an internal ISA modem

2001-12-11 Thread Ed Tharp
and MOST important, turn OFF plug and pray aware OS in the BIOS On Tuesday 11 December 2001 17:22, you wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:52:39 -0500 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK try cat /proc/interrupts On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:19, you wrote: Just enquired on the price

Re: [newbie] Setting up internet connection in Mdk 8.1

2001-12-11 Thread Ed Tharp
is plug and pray aware OS turned off in BIOS? how do you know it won't configure? what file are you reading this information from? On Tuesday 11 December 2001 19:05, you wrote: Hi all, My first post here, can someone can point me in the right direction. I'm using a D-Link 530TX+ LAN adapter

Re: [newbie] Setting up internet connection in Mdk 8.1

2001-12-11 Thread Ed Tharp
in that case (your ISP requires you to use DHCP) do NOT put any number where ever you are attempting to configure it, instead, just get number automagicilly or use DHCP or BOOTP or something along those lines. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 19:41, you wrote: Yes, pnp is off. Not reading from

Re: [newbie] conflict between USR modem and Com 2?

2001-12-09 Thread Ed Tharp
cat is short for catolog like the type command in dos, it just shows it to the screen (as default) unless you direct it to a printer que. in order to copy the info to a file, (without the quotes, in the text console, as root, in a users (named et for me) home directory) I do a touch proc-pci

Re: [newbie] internet sharing setup

2001-12-09 Thread Ed Tharp
are we rating connection (as reported connected at 33600 or whatever speed or transfer speed, as seen with, say, the details tab of kppp? or in M$winders on the sysmon setup with bytes recieved or bytes sent? On Saturday 08 December 2001 22:45, you wrote: Have you tried flashing your

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