Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting

2000-10-11 Thread Goldenpi
ing > How would I do that? > > -Original Message- > From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting > > > The second most through format I know. The most through is th

Re: [newbie] Ultimate Formatting

2000-10-11 Thread Goldenpi
The second most through format I know. The most through is the low-level bios format, but only old bios will do that. - Original Message - From: "Kelly, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:35 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Ultimate Format

Re: [newbie] Problem Loging in ISP

2000-10-11 Thread Goldenpi
For the login problem-Use chap, not pap For the unable to access web problem-Are your DNS servers entered. For the modem-Might be a winmodem, but I dont know any winmodems that fail like that. Cant help you there. Unless you want to change the port it uses, but its a long shot. - Original M

[newbie] Network attempt 2

2000-10-09 Thread Goldenpi
A while ago I tried to get linux going in my home network. Problem is that my home network is built of serial and parallel cables, and runs off the windows utility directcc. Now how do I make linux work with my serial based windows network? I heard something about samba, but I dont know if it work

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-07 Thread Goldenpi
thanks. This shoud be good >:-) That deformed smile was an attempt at an evil grin. - Original Message - From: "Austin L. Denyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 4:47 PM Subject: Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.] > > >

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-07 Thread Goldenpi
It does. It gives a warning about 3.? haveing better support for video cards than 4.0 and asks if you want to use it. Truetype fonts shouldn't need 4.0. If you have 3.? then dont worry as it might still work. - Original Message - From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-07 Thread goldenpi
t; > > >I remember being insanely jealous of the guys who could toggle in the > > >bootstrap code without touching the manual... > > > > I could only do the first 64 switch sequences ;-) > > Still better than I could manage... > > Regards, > Ozz. Woul

Re: [newbie] Telnet through different ports?

2000-10-04 Thread Goldenpi
Now how are you planning to (mis)use that information? Ask on a hacking newsgroup. There a loads of people there who can help. Im not one of them. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 5:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Telnet thr

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-02 Thread Goldenpi
then beep:beep:beep:end loop change to: 11 change_next_line_to "goto "+key+1 goto 11 28 beep:end 65 beep:end 66 beep:end If you can understand my improvised basic-like language, you can see the improvement. - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &

Re: [newbie] hacker or cracker was: Telneting

2000-10-02 Thread Goldenpi
Will try it later. my linux box is currently sans processor, due to the laptop. - Original Message - From: "John Rye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 12:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] hacker or cracker was: Telnet

Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

2000-10-02 Thread Goldenpi
I know z80 asm. I need my reference chart of course, but I have writen programs. Anyone here managed to get windows 95 to run on an amstrad with a z80 and 64k ram? I have. I had to rewrite the gui part so it would run. There were no drives, but it did have a working start menu. It used a loystick

[newbie] Opps.

2000-10-01 Thread Goldenpi
Quick one. I set a seperate home partition, and I set it to 500mi. It sounded like a good idea at the time. Now, can I shrink it to 50mi and if I can what should I do with the extra space? I know how to mount it but not how to mount it as something useful like /bin or /usr without loseing whateve

Re: [newbie] Telneting

2000-10-01 Thread Goldenpi
I have a scale: Hacker elite advanced hacker good hacker Basic hacker script kiddie who knows their a script kiddie<-I am here, boardering basic hacker. Adv script kiddie Script kiddie Wannabe Of course, those rate only skill. They say nothing about how the hacker/cracker uses that skill

Re: [newbie] Just wondering...

2000-09-29 Thread Goldenpi
it didn't detect my 2nd floppy drive. I fitted two, just because I had one spare. - Original Message - From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Just wondering... > It was Sep 29, 2000, 11:03, when [EMAIL PRO

Re: [newbie] Is it my imagination or------

2000-09-25 Thread Goldenpi
My first needed me to hold the sims in. It had elctrical tape as an important part of the case. The next one I built was, and still is, held together by superglue. Its not that im no good at it, its just that they were both built from scrap. - Original Message - From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Incoming ppp connections?

2000-09-25 Thread Goldenpi
Its the outlook express attacker again. How do you get it to show that dialog box each time I open a message. - Original Message - From: "George Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 4:48 PM Subject: [newbie] Incoming ppp connections

Re: [newbie] Mounting new drive

2000-09-25 Thread Goldenpi
CTED]> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mounting new drive > hi goldenpi, your stuff currently on /home would simply become invisible > unless your current /home is a seperate volume that you can mount > elsewhere but i guess not from your intention to use

Re: [newbie] How do i run Aol on linux?

2000-09-25 Thread Goldenpi
Im not sure if AOL even has dns. I think there psudo-internet software doesn't bother with anything so user-unfriendly. I know that it doesn't bother with ip addresses, as I tried to trace someone while playing outpost2. - Original Message - From: "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PR

Re: [newbie] Reading Outlook email files under Linux

2000-09-25 Thread Goldenpi
Why cant microsoft find one path thd stick with it? Why does outlook express have to take over three seperate parts of the drive and who knows how much of the registry. - Original Message - From: "Mike & Tracy Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 20

[newbie] Mounting new drive

2000-09-20 Thread Goldenpi
I have just inserted my new old 500mi drive, to hold my /home partition. Now, should I use ext2 or dos filesystem? If I use ext2, what is the correct format for fstab? If I just mount it to /home what will happen to the stuff in my /home partition now? I see a reformat looming. - Original

Re: [newbie] Floppy drive

2000-09-19 Thread Goldenpi
I have a question too-After in installed my second floppy drive and set it up under linux, Access to both drives became very very slow. They worked through. When I removed the drive setup from fstab and all the other partitioning files it worked fine. The drive is still in and worked under windows

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem: No valid device for filesystems?

2000-09-16 Thread Goldenpi
Ultra ATA 100 Controller for Windows-there is a possible problem. You know the problem with winmodems, that label 'for windows' doesn't look good. Still, I never heard of a wincontroler before. That scsi-ide thing is probably just a bad setup, and shouldn't effect linux is any way. - Origi

Re: [newbie] Re: Q: shutting down W98 remotely

2000-09-14 Thread Goldenpi
rundll32 c:\windows\user.exe shutdownwindows - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Harald Milz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Re: Q: shutting down W98 remotely > > Hi, > > > > I've set up a W98SE b

Re: [newbie] wine and cdrom question

2000-09-11 Thread Goldenpi
You have been annoyed by the disk label. Change the label to match that on the unreal disk, and see if it fixes it. Wine is not likely to run unreal, its far too complex. - Original Message - From: "bascule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 8:0

Re: [newbie] 2nd Hardrive question

2000-09-11 Thread Goldenpi
Linux will go on either drive. lilo/grub goes on hda Windows is annoying, it only goes on the first drive. If you put the linux disk in and boot from it, you will soon be asked to partition your hard drive. Partition it. - Original Message - From: "markOpoleO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread Goldenpi
Oh, just forget it. - Original Message - From: "john bodanske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] penguin icons > you are > > - Original Message - > From: "Gold

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-10 Thread Goldenpi
Where do neurons go in molocules? Could you be comfuseing neurons with nutrons. - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] penguin icons > Larry Marshall wrote: > > > > > > Comme

Re: [newbie] OT: cd createing

2000-09-10 Thread Goldenpi
Great help, now I know what joliet is I will use it to create my cd. - Original Message - From: "WarmFuzzy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: cd createing > John Rye wrot

Re: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-08 Thread Goldenpi
us. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Goldenpi > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Card > > > It works with most cards. Are you planing to do lots o

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-08 Thread Goldenpi
My school has a program installed so you cant get into explorer. The run command is gone, right mouse button is disabled, all the desktop icons are gone. Its called winlock. If you ever use it, there is one hole. It is possible to reach explorer by useing the hyperterminal option. You cant do much

[newbie] OT: cd createing

2000-09-08 Thread Goldenpi
I have been createing cds, for use on both windows and linux, containing programing stuff. I have created it all on my hdd, but when I try to put it on the cd it I am given the choice between iso9660 and some filesystem called jouliet(I think). What is this filesystem, how well supported is it, an

Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-09-07 Thread Goldenpi
ptember 07, 2000 12:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie > Goldenpi wrote: > > > >Did I say this earlier? Either this message was sent 3 times or the > list is playing up again. > > >Never post a background in a newsgroup or mailing list. HTML will not > al

Re: [newbie] it won't install :(

2000-09-07 Thread Goldenpi
ED]> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 12:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] it won't install :( > mm-hmm, and it takes about half an hour to format the disk. I don't use it > that much, but I don't use CDRW disks that much either. > > - Original Message - > From: &q

Re: [newbie] Modem Problems

2000-09-07 Thread Goldenpi
PCI slots are the small card slots in your pc, as opposed to the older, bigger ISA slots. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 10:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem Problems > Is this a PCI

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-07 Thread Goldenpi
I can get past those kiddy things. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 10:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP > And doesn't AOL own Compuserve. They bought it a few years ago, but I'm > not sure if they still own it

Re: [newbie] Linux4Win - never again

2000-09-06 Thread Goldenpi
Windows is a perfect moron system. As long as they stay away from the drives and dont install anything, there isn't much that they can destroy. Linux is faster, cheaper, uses less memory etc. But it needs someone who is able to maintain it. - Original Message - From: Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-09-06 Thread Goldenpi
Did I say this earlier? Either this message was sent 3 times or the list is playing up again.   Never post a background in a newsgroup or mailing list. HTML will not always be accepted, but it ususally will because so many people send it. But NEVER send a background.   Anyway, It makes the te

Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!

2000-09-05 Thread Goldenpi
By asking the school IT teacher :-) But not even he could get redhat to run above 648x480. And he has just designed and upgraded the entire schools network to use firer optics, so he should know what he is doing.. - Original Message - From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [newbie] VCD player?

2000-09-05 Thread Goldenpi
What is a VCD? - Original Message - From: Lovister LJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 6:42 PM Subject: [newbie] VCD player? > I need a program to play VCD's".dat" files. > > > Thanks in advance. > __

Re: [newbie] it won't install :(

2000-09-05 Thread Goldenpi
Error createing second stage ramdisk? I have seen this once before. I was installing redhat on my (shudder) 586 with 32 mi ram and 500mi hdd.I managed to get it to run by removeing two sims. It didn't mater which sims as long as there was only 16 mi ram. I finished with it when I got tired of putt

Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!

2000-09-05 Thread Goldenpi
Inetd has nothing to do with drives. It runs network services.   I expect running scandisk on the bad partition would fix it. Unfortunatly, you need windows to see the partition before you can use scandisk. Chicken and egg. - Original Message - From: John I. Azeke To: Linu

Re: [newbie] umm i have no sound!!

2000-09-02 Thread Goldenpi
2, 2000 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] umm i have no sound!! > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Goldenpi wrote: > > >On a related subject, whenever I run sndconfig I get An error. > > > >/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misk/sb.o:device or resource busy. > > > >I might have the path s

Re: [newbie] umm i have no sound!!

2000-09-02 Thread Goldenpi
On a related subject, whenever I run sndconfig I get An error. /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misk/sb.o:device or resource busy. I might have the path slightly wrong. What does that error mean and how do I fix it? - Original Message - From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sen

Re: [newbie] Wine: How to start?

2000-09-01 Thread Goldenpi
The file not found is most likely a file not found. It should be there, perhaps it is related to the keyboard. My fancy but useless keyboard runs wine perfectly. You could either download the correct profile or you could dump the keyboard and get a plain keyboard. The buttons dont work under linu

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-31 Thread Goldenpi
I have that. Or at least I used to. - Original Message - From: bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT > ah! xtree gold: > them were days (thick yorkshire brogue) > > bascule > > > WC looks to

Re: [newbie] OS Sucks-Rules-o-Meter

2000-08-30 Thread Goldenpi
I noticed it, but I couldn't view it or save it to a file. I decided to leave it be, in the hope it wasn't anything intresting. - Original Message - From: Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 3:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] OS Sucks-Rul

Re: [newbie] downloading

2000-08-30 Thread Goldenpi
gt; To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] downloading > GoZilla is spyware don't use it, try download excellorator plus, but neither > one work with ftp servers > - Original Message - > From: "Goldenpi" <

Re: [newbie] Wine: How to start?

2000-08-30 Thread Goldenpi
from the shell: wine windowsprogram.exe - Original Message - From: Brisco County Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 4:36 PM Subject: [newbie] Wine: How to start? > Been trying to figure out Wine - how exactly do you use it? I can't get it > t

[newbie] Mellenium dome

2000-08-30 Thread Goldenpi
I have just came back from the millenium dome, and I found that most of there computers use windows NT, except for the internet access which use win95. But I found that some of there computers use linux. Linux has been excepted by a famous attraction. Anyone been to the talk zone? The internet ac

Re: [newbie] (OT) Windows 95: the Movie!

2000-08-29 Thread Goldenpi
Its shockwave. Its a rolling stones song, with words makeing fun of windows. - Original Message - From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] (OT) Windows 95: the Movie! > "Brisco County Jr." wrote: > > > >

Re: [newbie] new install

2000-08-26 Thread Goldenpi
Could be video, hard drive, cd, something on the motherboard. I would sugest you just substitute another video card, if you have one and see if that gets you anywhere. At least then you a will know where the problem is. - Original Message - From: Heather & Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <

Re: [newbie] Linux4Win install problems

2000-08-26 Thread Goldenpi
Easy. Just put it in the drave and reboot. If you got the right image then it will boot from the cd. It is able to resize windows partitions, you should not attempt to install it without at least a basic knowledge of partitions. - Original Message - From: Bjørnar Orskaug <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [newbie] Hard Dive info. pleas

2000-08-26 Thread Goldenpi
I am feeling ashamed of my drives :( I have only a 2 drives of 2gi each. One of them is broaken, it will not boot windows but can be used as a ono-boot drive and it wont take linux at all. - Original Message - From: patrick darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturda

[newbie] Directcc is great.

2000-08-26 Thread Goldenpi
One of the network programs I find useful under windows is direct cable connection, which allows me to run file shareing between my two windows computers. Now I would like to network linux and windows, but I have no network cards, just a long serial cable. Linux doesn't have anything like directcc

Re: [newbie] Hard Dive info. please

2000-08-26 Thread Goldenpi
Perhaps. If your hard drive is too small, and you have enough expirence with hard drives and partitioning to set it up, then it will work.   - Original Message - From: Kandace Little To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 4:32 PM Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] kppp error

2000-08-26 Thread Goldenpi
I know someone will tell me not to point out the ovious, but have you checked the dns setup? run kppp, click setup, edit the account thats not working, look under the tab dns. - Original Message - From: Juggernaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mandrake maling list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sund

Re: [newbie] Yo

2000-08-25 Thread Goldenpi
Netscape always crashes, no matter what you run it under. The difference is that in windows it takes everything else with it. - Original Message - From: Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Yo > > > Hugh wrote: >

Re: [newbie] Yo

2000-08-25 Thread Goldenpi
Good old dos, runs so well once you get the memory sorted. I still have a lot of dos games. Even red alert will run under dos, so will warcraft 2. - Original Message - From: Jason Ashman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbi

Re: [newbie] Yo

2000-08-25 Thread Goldenpi
Thats because people dont need a book to use windows. - Original Message - From: Mark Hillary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Yo > Proof that linux has taken off it that I went into waterstones in Milton Keynes > (

[newbie] Why are these ports open?

2000-08-23 Thread Goldenpi
While I was testing a portscaner on localhost(Why do you think I got linux?) I noticed my new installation is running remote login, ftp, and some other services. Why are these open, and how do I close them.

Re: [newbie] How do i go about doing a MD7.1 install on 2nd drive

2000-08-22 Thread Goldenpi
Before you start, I had trouble with installing windows. It want to go on c: drive, and c: drive must be hda1. So windows must go on hda1. - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 5:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] How do

Re: [newbie] Free ISPs Compatible With Linux

2000-08-22 Thread Goldenpi
Oh, now I see. I have used numerous isps, but the closest I have come to that is bt internet. They insist on giveing out an exe which is used to connect, so people cant copy there dun setting onto another system. It doesn't work. I connect on linux fine with it. - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] laptops

2000-08-22 Thread Goldenpi
I prefer McDonalds. They have a tasty ice cream with milk choclete chunks in it. - Original Message - From: Steve Weltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 2:43 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] laptops > KFC?? I hope that it isn't a bucket of Fried Chicke

[newbie] Disk icons.

2000-08-22 Thread Goldenpi
I have been messing with drives, adding more hd's and a seconds floppy drive. I created the link from /mnt/some_drive to a file on my desktop, but had to log in as root to set the icon. Then I found the icon in /mnt had changed as well. An hour of investigating revealed that the icons on the deskt

Re: [newbie] Lilo Failure

2000-08-21 Thread Goldenpi
It means you haven't set up lilo correctly. /dev/hdb1 is the 1st partition on the slave hard drive of your primary controler. The message means its not there. If you want to set the system to boot from the hard disk rather than the floppy, look in the bios. - Original Message - From: Mic

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-21 Thread Goldenpi
Did my 'if microsoft made cars' message reach the list? - Original Message - From: Roman Korcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric MC.D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 1:30 PM Subject: Re[2]: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT > Hey Eric, > >> >> Well if 80% of the cars support it

Re: [newbie] Free ISPs Compatible With Linux

2000-08-20 Thread Goldenpi
I dont know what all this fuss is about, unless us isps work differently than uk. All I had to do was enter the phone number, username, password, dns and a few other things to get both my isps going on linux. apart from aol, compuserve and msn, most isps should work with linux. The isp doesn't kno

Re: [newbie] Partitioning questions

2000-08-20 Thread Goldenpi
I had to use it. Windows 95 insists on booting from hda, which is the only drive big enough to put linux on. Linux needs the whole drive. I fixed it by putting windows on another hard drive, the other hda. Selecting between them is done with a switch in the power cable and a few relays. windows hd

Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking

2000-08-19 Thread Goldenpi
yes. Im getting two of most. - Original Message - From: Kathleen Dickason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Kppp and Networking > I'm getting three copies of some posts now...is anyone else? > > Kathleen > >

Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] reiser fs ? (was: Unexplained crashes)

2000-08-19 Thread Goldenpi
Not so reliable for me. I have already had to reformat once just after I got it, because I didn't shut down properly. - Original Message - From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 10:31 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] Partitioning questions

2000-08-19 Thread Goldenpi
erm...I have no boot partition with lilo, a 2gi /partition and no home partition. Works through. I store a lot of data of my other hard drive which is full of fat32. It is weird, it wont do linux and it will not boot windows. I think it has a bad cilender. I found an alternative boot loader to li

Re: [newbie] OT Linux has on up on windows

2000-08-18 Thread Goldenpi
You forgot the keyboard. The old, plain keyboards work with linux but I have one with lots of extra buttons. There are buttons for connect, suspend, play, pause, next, last, help, support, shortcut butons, website buttons, a volume control and a few more. Linux wont use those, windows will only us

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-17 Thread Goldenpi
making it > easier to set up a game machine. Office machines - Linux has already won - > the press just needs to figure that out. > > Oh well - enjoy your day ! > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Goldenpi >

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-16 Thread Goldenpi
Right there, linux is a great os for expert users but before it goes into common use it must get easeier. For a start it must get that fast install that windows has, and wine must be improved so it will run old windows software. When it runs AOL it should be able to run most things. It will need t

Re: [newbie] Second hard drive

2000-08-16 Thread Goldenpi
If its primary slave, shouldn't it be hdb1, not hdd1? I know all those names, haveing 4 hard drives in my system, includeing cd, with 7 partitions. - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 4:05 AM Subject: [newbie

Re: [newbie] winblows files

2000-08-14 Thread Goldenpi
Get the hex editor on the file c:\io.sys. I will come up as unreadable machine code, but If you look further down you will find some text. You can edit the text safely. Change error messages and startup message(where it usually says 'starting windows 98' when you boot) - Original Message -

[newbie] @&$%* windows!

2000-08-14 Thread Goldenpi
Haveing just reinstalled linux after scandisk thought lilo was a boot sector virus and messed up my partition table, I now have to reinstall windows. I really want to get windows and linux installed but I know installing windows will overwrite lilo. Before I start, would someone tell me the follow

Re: [newbie] winblows files

2000-08-14 Thread Goldenpi
The hex editing is on io.sys. It changes verious messages, such as the starting windows 98 message. You can edit some other messages in there, browse through it. There is no hex editing needed to change the logo. The logos are stored in the files c:\logo.sys c:\windows\logos.sys c:\windows\logow.

Re: [newbie] AOL for linux

2000-08-13 Thread Goldenpi
AOL wont write software for linux, because anyone who uses linux wont want an isp that wants to use a client program. - Original Message - From: Adrian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] AOL for linux > *haha* g

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