Doug Lerner wrote:
I installed the Java runtime environment and it was easy to do and works
fine. And now the Konqueror browser runs Applets too (better than IE 5.1
under OS X does, I might add, which is the only OS X browser so far to
support Java).
But why doesn't Mandrake Linux install the
Dennis Myers wrote:
On Monday 24 December 2001 20:15, you wrote:
I went to Control Center Boot Boot Config, but Windows was already
there. Clicking on Modify for that entry didn't really seem to indicate
anything wrong - it was still specified as being on the second partition,
which is where
robin wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
MandrakeSoft has a policy of not supplying closed-source software. In
the
download edition, the only exception to this rule (out of necessity)
is Netscape
4.
Just out of curiosity, why 4.* not 6.*? I installed Netscape 6.2 on
our office
Doug Lerner wrote:
What do people think about free vs commercial software in general? I
myself don't object to commercial software. In fact, I work for a company
that makes very high-quality commercial software with a great, loyal
customer base.
Surely there is nothing wrong with paying to have
Doug Lerner wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001):
You are addressing a windows issue
Win2K has its own bootloader, which will boot various windows versions.
While we mormally have no problem with this, it seems to break down
once a non-windows partition has been
Ricky Parks wrote:
Hi, I am new to this mail listing, I dont realy think this mail listing is
going to help me but I though I would try any ways. I have been having some
troble getting my sound card and my network browsing to work. I am writting
this from windows since I can get my e-mail
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 19:28, Doug Lerner wrote:
Followup:
After unchecking the Office package option it seemed to proceed. But
then the same error occurred again later on. Does the installation of
packages actually work?
doug
Original post:
While running the installer (boot floppy,
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 04:35, Doug Lerner wrote:
The spec sheet for the HP Pavilion 2000 says the video is an integrated
graphic controller, so I guess that is something on board.
When does the initializing ram disk process take place?
Unfortunately a different CD reader is not an option.
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 04:29, Anguo wrote:
I have three partitions under win98: hda1 (c:) hda9 (d:) and hda4 (e:)
(if you want to know why I still have windows, you may read this:
http://www.mandrakeexpert.com/index1.php?tab=paidact=viewincident=7114w=0
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 06:31, Doug Lerner wrote:
Wow! It worked!
After getting this piece of critical advice from you Civileme, the
installer worked just fine! It is true that in under 30 minutes you can
install a working system.
Really great points:
* Mandrake Linux found with no
Ok
LILO doesn't always work well booting from other than the primary disk
so try to set up the boot sector on Drive A or else trudge through the
extensive and obtuse documentation of the world's best bootloader, GRUB,
which will do everything but put out the cat once you become familiar
with the
The guideline fro kernel 2.0 was twice RAM up to 127M (biggest swap
available.
The guideline for kernel 2.2 is 2xRAM up to about 250M, thenequal to or
even smaller than RAM is probably OK for desktops (might be better to
have more with some memory-hungry servers).
For kernel 2.4 up to 2.4.13
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 for ATA100/ATA133. No special designed
controller is
On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 14:01, Doug Lerner wrote:
Hi. Thanks for the reply. I believe the ISO is good, and the CD-ROM was
verified after the burn.
Have you heard of other HP Pavilion 2000's running Mandrake Linux? It
isn't on the Mandrake hardware list.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 22:39, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
One Caveat:
/boot or whatever the /boot directory is in MUST be an EXT2 file system
or the kernel will not load!
-JMS
Ummm, actually we did a number on initrd.img so it doesn't have to be,
but if you want more than one system on the
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 06:20, (null) wrote:
hi civileme,
do you have a link or something to that article or any supporting documents? i
know a friend who can really use it to knock some senses on his noggin.
thanks!
Should be near the top of the articles at
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 08:25, Nelson Bartley wrote:
I dunno,
At this point your best bet is to get the NVidia card. Even though there
have been problems, which are going to happen regardless of the
videocard you buy, they are releasing updates which Hopefully fix the
problems. I'm not sure I
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 02:10, Wendy Nexcom wrote:
# This is Linux. not windows. it will never be windows and I
# seriously doubt it will ever do anything like windows. Some
Right, but this OS should bring easy way.
# any Linux system will Never do the .exe thingy and RPMS are forever.
Well if it were software, it would work the same on both systems unless
it were a driver dependency problem.
But once you have reached package install, you can be defeated by only a
few things and none of them are software.
1. CDRW media used to burn the isos. CDRWs are necessarily a little
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 10:40, ai4a wrote:
If I enter the alias command, it shows I have an alias 'ls --color=auto
-F'. Where is this alias defined? I have looked in /home/~/.bashrc
/root/.bashrc and I do not see it there.
I am running Linux MD 7.2.
Tks Charles
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 11:47, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
I'm planning on installing (not updating) LM 8.1 over 8.0 this weekend. I've
always been told that the PNP aware O/S option in BIOS should be set off, and
that's what I've been doing in the past. Insofar as I know, whatever problems
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 13:11, Neville Cobb wrote:
I've been reading all the posts regarding the operation of Realplayer
and Mozilla as I was experiencing problems with Realplay in that it
would not pop-up when the appropriate URL was clicked on. I eventually
solved the problem by
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 14:40, David wrote:
hi
my linux box suddenly has become very unstable, so i decided to re-install
the root only to find its still the same. During the boot up ther is
something about a segmatation fault and lots of numbers ??? whizz by.
is there any way to log what
On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 14:37, Grant Fraser wrote:
I cannot seem to get the firewall to switch off.
My IP is 24.67.229.176
temporary user name - dufus, password - dufus
=_1008977871-11608-1007
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 13:42, Julian Opificius wrote:
Can anyone tell me the standard places to put files?
Specifically :-
On a multi-user workstation I would obvious use /home/accountname for
personal stuff.
If I set up my LM box as a server, accessible by a couple of Windows
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 16:37, Julian Opificius wrote:
Thanks for the input, Civileme.
Where would I put the public access directory? Under /home, say
/home/public, or is there some other traditional place?
If I do this, presumably I could put /home on a separate /dev/hda'n'
partition, or,
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 17:18, Julian Opificius wrote:
Now you did it ... answered a question, and set up another ;-)
What is /usr/local used for?
/usr/local is used for programs. It is privileged access but not usually on root's
path though on the paths of users. If you download a
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 11:17, Kelly McCormick wrote:
Thanks for the quick response civil!
Nonstop, eh?
Err, ok, I guess I meant exclusively although the system does get a LOT of
usage, I do sleep once in a while! ;)
I bet you slowly toasted the on-board electrolytic capacitors
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On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 14:14, Rodrigo Monteiro wrote:
hi folks !!!
i've got an adsl conection in my Mandrake 8.1. I get
conected but cannot navigate
Can you help-me?
i'm loosing my hair over that !please help-me
thankss
Talk to your ISP and make sure the IP
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