RE: [newbie] help a poor goober out with lilo

2001-02-15 Thread Bryant Morrison F47743C
hoorn Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] help a poor goober out with lilo On Thursday 15 February 2001 12:34, you wrote: I got it on my laptop now I cant get it off. How do I tell lilo to hit the hills and give me back control of my computer? W

RE: [newbie] help a poor goober out with lilo

2001-02-15 Thread Franki
...) then just boot from the floppy and type sys c: that should overwrite lilo if you havn't already... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott Cundiff Sent: Friday, 16 February 2001 2:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] help a poor

Re: [newbie] help a poor goober out with lilo

2001-02-15 Thread Édison Andrés
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] help a poor goober out with lilo On Thursday 15 February 2001 12:34, you wrote: I got it on my laptop now I cant get it off. How

Re: [newbie] help a poor goober out with lilo

2001-02-15 Thread Sebastiaan Vandenbore
ary 15, 2001 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] help a poor goober out with lilo On Thursday 15 February 2001 12:34, you wrote: I got it on my laptop now I cant get it off. How do I tell lilo to hit the hills and give me back control of my computer? What do you mean? wisdom, Harm Bathoo

Re: [newbie] help a poor goober out with lilo

2001-02-15 Thread Scott Cundiff
Right on this was the answer. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Bryant Morrison F47743C" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] help a poor goober out with lilo If your referring to REMOVING LILO, boot up wit

[newbie] Help with X

2001-02-15 Thread Aldo Colussi
Hi there. I have a Matrox G450 video card. When I first intalled Linux Mandrake 7.2 I had to copy in the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/modues/drivers the mga driver provided in the matrox website, and to change a little bit the XF86Config-4 file. Everything was working ok. Now I installed I

[newbie] Newbie Help

2001-02-14 Thread JohnFox
I have upgraded from 6.1 to 7.0, but I have a problem I cannot use Drakeconf, as it does not open. What do I need to accomplish for this application to work? Do I run upgrade again or do another full install of 7.0. John Fox _ Free

[newbie] help: X problems because of Mandrake 7.2 update

2001-02-13 Thread Aldo Colussi
Hi, I'm new on Linux and I installed the Mandrake 7.2 version. At first I had some problems with X because of my video card (Matrox G450 32MB) that is not supported by Linux Mandrake. Specifically when I started X from the text mode I got an "Out of Scan Range Error" and the computer freezed. I

Re: [newbie] help: X problems because of Mandrake 7.2 update

2001-02-13 Thread Daniel B. Haun
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 12:29, you wrote: Hi, I'm new on Linux and I installed the Mandrake 7.2 version. At first I had some problems with X because of my video card (Matrox G450 32MB) that is not supported by Linux Mandrake. Sure it is supported. I find it in the list of Graphics

Re: [newbie] Help with upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2

2001-02-11 Thread Mark Weaver
Terence Golightly wrote: Terence Golightly wrote: Hello, I have been unsuccessfully trying to upgrade to 7.2 from 7.1. I have read a few posts regarding upgrading and am forewarned about some of the issues involved here. However, my problem is during the installation the

Re: [newbie] Help with upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2

2001-02-11 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 11 February 2001 09:11 am, you wrote: Terence Golightly wrote: Terence Golightly wrote: Hello, I have been unsuccessfully trying to upgrade to 7.2 from 7.1. I have read a few posts regarding upgrading and am forewarned about some of the issues involved here. However,

[newbie] Help needed - Updating linuxconf (7.2)

2001-02-10 Thread Lionel Chan
Greetings, OK, the 1st posting didn't appear on the list so I'm posting again. Help needed here. Tks When I run DrakConf's Software Update it picked up: - 1) linuxconf 1.21r1-2mdk (Installed) 1.21r5-5.1mdk (Update) 2) linuxconf-lib 1.21r1-2mkd (Installed) 1.21r5-5.1mdk (Update) But when it

Re: [newbie] Help needed - Updating linuxconf (7.2)

2001-02-10 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Lionel Chan wrote: Greetings, OK, the 1st posting didn't appear on the list so I'm posting again. Help needed here. Tks When I run DrakConf's Software Update it picked up: - 1) linuxconf 1.21r1-2mdk (Installed) 1.21r5-5.1mdk (Update) 2) linuxconf-lib 1.21r1-2mkd

Re: [newbie] Help needed - Updating linuxconf (7.2)

2001-02-10 Thread Lionel Chan
It does! :-). Thanks very much. On Sunday 11 February 2001 01:03, you wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Lionel Chan wrote: Greetings, OK, the 1st posting didn't appear on the list so I'm posting again. Help needed here. Tks When I run DrakConf's Software Update it picked up: - 1)

Re: [newbie] Help with upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2

2001-02-10 Thread Terence Golightly
Terence Golightly wrote: Hello, I have been unsuccessfully trying to upgrade to 7.2 from 7.1. I have read a few posts regarding upgrading and am forewarned about some of the issues involved here. However, my problem is during the installation the install program hangs in the middle of

[newbie] Help with upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2

2001-02-07 Thread Terence Golightly
Hello, I have been unsuccessfully trying to upgrade to 7.2 from 7.1. I have read a few posts regarding upgrading and am forewarned about some of the issues involved here. However, my problem is during the installation the install program hangs in the middle of installing apps. I am

Re: [newbie] Help!! Ayuda!! (en español de preferenci a!!!)

2001-02-02 Thread Joan Tur
Carlos Pedreros Lizama escribi: Mandrake: lo consigui lo trate de instalar el 7.0, y al finalizar y configurar el x server se me fue a la cresta Consigue el 7.2. Trae muchas mejoras y seguro que no tendrs problema alguno ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Help!! Ayuda!! (en espa ñol de preferenci a!!!)

2001-02-01 Thread falcaraz
. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Carlos Pedreros Lizama" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Mircoles, Enero 31, 2001 7:30 pm Asunto: [newbie] Help!! Ayuda!! (en espaol de preferenci a!!!) htmlDIV PSoy principiante en linux, me compre corel linux que es un

[newbie] Help!! Ayuda!! (en español de preferencia!!!)

2001-01-31 Thread Carlos Pedreros Lizama
Soy principiante en linux, me compre corel linux que es un asco, lo pude instalar y no podia configurar nada. Mandrake: lo consigui lo trate de instalar el 7.0, y al finalizar y configurar el x server se me fue a la cresta necesito ayuda, saber por que pasa, llevo dos computadores diferentes,

[newbie] Re: [newbie] Help!! Ayuda!! (en español de preferencia!!!)

2001-01-31 Thread Don Munson
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 2:30 PM Subject: [newbie] Help!! Ayuda!! (en español de preferencia!!!) Soy principiante en linux, me compre corel linux que es un asco, lo pude instalar y no podia configurar nada. Mandrake: lo consigui lo trate de instalar el 7.0, y al

[newbie] help with driver

2001-01-28 Thread KompuKit
I realise that this isn't the correct forum for this question... and I'm sorry for submitting it...here...but i have nowhere else to turn... I'm looking for the drivers for the following modem: Conexant softk56 data fax rtad PCI modem Model# FB WS-5614PM3C FCC# 409TAI-27413-M5-E (on the card)

Re: [newbie] help with driver

2001-01-28 Thread Dennis Myers
Try the FCC site and see if you can figure out who really made the device. http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/ Good Luck On Monday 29 January 2001 03:51 am, you wrote: I realise that this isn't the correct forum for this question... and I'm sorry for submitting it...here...but i have nowhere

Re: [newbie] help with driver

2001-01-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 28 January 2001 09:51 pm, KompuKit wrote: I realise that this isn't the correct forum for this question... and I'm sorry for submitting it...here...but i have nowhere you're in the right place else to turn... I'm looking for the drivers for the following modem: Conexant

Re: [newbie] help with driver

2001-01-28 Thread KompuKit
Thankyou so much...you're a Godsend... found what I was looking for...great site thanks Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2001 09:51 pm, KompuKit wrote: I realise that this isn't the correct forum for this question... and I'm sorry for submitting it...here...but i have nowhere

[newbie] Help

2001-01-23 Thread Edward John das Neves Lake
I think that you can do a litle help to me. I installed linux mandrake 7.1 in one machine ( Pentium II with 128 MB Ram ). I installed a new hard disk IDE Quantum Fire ball with 30 GB , but linux is not seeing all the space, is seeing just around 2 GB. There is something that I nedd to

[newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Thread Bob Currey
It started yesterday, after there was a power failure. Its a dual PIII - 600 with 1/2 gb SDRAM and dual UW SCSI with dual UW 5.4 ms Barracuda drives. The video is a Creative Labs Savage4 with 32 mb. No, it can't be slow!!! Without running X its horribly slow. With X, its

Re: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Thread civileme
On Sunday 21 January 2001 16:27, you wrote: It started yesterday, after there was a power failure. Its a dual PIII - 600 with 1/2 gb SDRAM and dual UW SCSI with dual UW 5.4 ms Barracuda drives. The video is a Creative Labs Savage4 with 32 mb. No, it can't be slow!!! Without

Re: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Thread Donald Hinds
I've had that happen when I couldn't do a clean re-boot. Once it comes up enough to [ctrl][alt][f2] then [ctrl][alt][del] to shut down re-boot normally everything is OK. I wish I knew what causes it so I could fix it. Or better, how can I boot into the 'user' screen, where you pick a user

RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Thread Bob Currey
, 2001 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow On Sunday 21 January 2001 16:27, you wrote: It started yesterday, after there was a power failure. Its a dual PIII - 600 with 1/2 gb SDRAM and dual UW SCSI with dual UW 5.4 ms Barracuda

RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
]]On Behalf Of Bob Currey Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow It started yesterday, after there was a power failure. Its a dual PIII - 600 with 1/2 gb SDRAM and dual UW SCSI with dual UW 5.4 ms Barracuda

RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Thread Bob Currey
. BobC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jose M. Sanchez Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow Sounds like a resolver issue. Most applications

Re: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Thread abe
say, I'll have the same problem again. BobC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jose M. Sanchez Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
revent those long pauses. Even then you'll still see one or two during startup, as services start up which look for a DNS... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Currey Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 5:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE

[newbie] Help! Need analysis of freeze during 7.2 install

2001-01-18 Thread Bradford Sturtevant
Help! I need to get Mandrake 7.2 Complete installed! I would like to obtain detailed error message information but cannot read messages briefly displaied during stage 1 of install. (they scroll by too quickly to read) After about 30 reboots I did piece together a stage 1 message: Unknown IDE

[newbie] Help with Matlab

2001-01-17 Thread Manuel Miranda
Hello! In my jod there is Matlab 5.1 for Linux, other persons in my office use with RedHat 6.2 7.0 and SUSE 6.4 7.0, I use LM 7.2 and i cann't use matlab. When i try to use sumilink appears the message /usr/local/matlab/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't resolve symbol 'dlopen' Help me M.C. Manuel

[newbie] help configuring a SMB printer on LM7.1

2001-01-02 Thread Liaw, Andy
Hi everyone, Can someone help me configuring LM7.1 to print to a printer on our NT network? I was told that I should not run the LM7.1 box as a Samba server, so all I want to do is print to this network printer. The info: The printer is a HP 4050 (Postscript) on our corporate NT network. The

Re: [newbie] Help with digital camera.

2000-12-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Joseph Red wrote: If you aren't using one of the serial ports, disable it in BIOS (to free up IRQ) manually set the other one. Then try it. Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Joseph. Well, I tried that. First I went to my MB's manual to make sure which serial port was which. I disabled

Re: [newbie] Help with digital camera.

2000-12-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Len Lawrence wrote: Have you tried Camera - Summary? That should tell you if the camera is properly recognized. The information would include battery state and the number of photos already taken. Hi Len. Yep, I tried that. It waits several seconds then blows up an info box that has blank

[newbie] Help with digital camera.

2000-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hi. Okay, my fiance' bought a Polaroid 640 PDC Plus camera for me for Christmas. I downloaded Gphoto, and I'm trying to get it to work. The camera takes pictures, I've got them stored on its memory stick. I hooked the serial cable from the camera to 1 of 2 external serial ports I have on my 'Nix

Re: [newbie] Help with digital camera.

2000-12-26 Thread Joseph Red
ECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 4:31 PM Subject: [newbie] Help with digital camera. Hi. Okay, my fiance' bought a Polaroid 640 PDC Plus camera for me for Christmas. I downloaded Gphoto, and I'm trying to get it to work. The camera takes pictures, I've got them stored on its memory stick.

Re: [newbie] help,please...

2000-12-26 Thread Mr S Ganesan
no sir , it will work whether u have a tape drive of the ide or the scsi type since they will be recognised on start up. We only help it to get mounted.On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2000 04:16, you wrote: do you have KDE installed? Kde will configure the

Re: [newbie] Help with digital camera.

2000-12-26 Thread Len Lawrence
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hi. Okay, my fiance' bought a Polaroid 640 PDC Plus camera for me for Christmas. I downloaded Gphoto, and I'm trying to get it to work. The camera takes pictures, I've got them stored on its memory stick. I hooked the serial cable from the camera to

Re: [newbie] help,please...

2000-12-25 Thread Mr S Ganesan
do you have KDE installed? Kde will configure the tape drive for you. Try to mount it as /mnt/nt0 or /dev/nt0 and the tape will be recognised. -- S.Ganesan Senior Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O)

Re: [newbie] help,please...

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
There's a program on your system that will help you backup files from your system to the tape drive. It's called Taper. If your tape drive is the only scsi device on your system you would start the program like this. taper -T st0 Once you issue the command in a terminal window

[newbie] help...

2000-12-20 Thread Dale Kosan
I downloaded and installed Chris's KDE2 from the site that has been showing up in this list lately.I did a --test first and all passed.I then did a rpm -Uvh *. rpm.Everything went fine till the end when it came up with a "cant find make file" When I went into KDE I don't have sound,the K Panel is

Re: [newbie] help...

2000-12-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 08:47 am, Dale Kosan wrote: I downloaded and installed Chris's KDE2 from the site that has been showing up in this list lately.I did a --test first and all passed.I then did a rpm -Uvh *. rpm.Everything went fine till the end when it came up with a "cant find

Re: [newbie] Help with soundcard

2000-12-20 Thread Aric S. Bergren
Yuliastanto -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mickey Soltys Sent: 20 Desember 2000 9:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with soundcard Hello all, I am running Mandrake 2.2.17-21. I have a Soundblaster Live soundcard

RE: [newbie] Help with soundcard

2000-12-20 Thread Amin Yuliastanto
] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with soundcard HI All!!! First get out of x-windows by going to the shutdown section and selecting console mode..(after it boots into it you may have to press enter to get a login prompt)log in as rootand then run sndconfig.i had the same problem

[newbie] Help with soundcard

2000-12-19 Thread Mickey Soltys
Hello all, I am running Mandrake 2.2.17-21. I have a Soundblaster Live soundcard which works fine under Winblows. However, when I try to configure it with Harddrake, I get the following message /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-emu10k/.0:init.nodule: device or resource busy. Has

RE: [newbie] Help with soundcard

2000-12-19 Thread Amin Yuliastanto
]]On Behalf Of Mickey Soltys Sent: 20 Desember 2000 9:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help with soundcard Hello all, I am running Mandrake 2.2.17-21. I have a Soundblaster Live soundcard which works fine under Winblows. However, when I try to configure it with Harddrake, I get

[newbie] help with soundcard

2000-12-16 Thread Mickey Soltys
I have the following instructions for building a driver for my soundcard: . . . STEPS TO BUILD DRIVER

[newbie] HELP - StarOfiice 5.2 does not print !

2000-12-10 Thread Ashley Moore
all you guru's my epson stylus 740 is setup fine under LM 7.2, but SO 5.2 does not print anything to it. In the SPadmin i added the driver from the cups databse directory. 'usr/share/cups/model/epson'. when i send a print job to the printer, it appears very briefly in the print job queue. any

Re: [newbie] HELP - StarOfiice 5.2 does not print !

2000-12-10 Thread Paul
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Ashley Moore wrote: all you guru's my epson stylus 740 is setup fine under LM 7.2, but SO 5.2 does not print anything to it. In the SPadmin i added the driver from the cups databse directory. 'usr/share/cups/model/epson'. when i send a print job to the printer, it appears

[newbie] Help: Sound and Iomega Zip drive

2000-12-10 Thread Jeremy Lopett
Hello, I am new to Llinux and am working through reconfiguring my system. Although I have been able to solve many of the problems myself, I am still stuck on a few things. First, I cannot get sound to play. There are no error messages and I cannot figure out what the probelm could be. I

Re: [newbie] Help: Sound and Iomega Zip drive

2000-12-10 Thread Rosiher Sibaja
From one newbie to another The best solution to installing a sound card is; log out and go to "console" mode then use use "sndconfig" to install the sound card. As far as the zip drive is concerned, you may need to unmount the drive. The quickest way to do that is hit ALT-F2 to bring up the

Re: [newbie] Help - USB Printer - Urgent

2000-12-06 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have found out that some printers work excellently on the parallel port and do not work at all on the USB. Because it worked on the parallel port under Mandrake 7.1 it will also work on the parallel port under 7.2. All drivers of 7.1 are also available under 7.2. Note that they are presented in

[newbie] Help - USB Printer - Urgent

2000-12-04 Thread Ashley Moore
I've connected my Epson Stylus 740 using USB to my LM7.2 m/c How do I go about accessing it. (what device do I use?) I used the same printer sucessfully thru lpd (parallel port) on LM 7.1 After upgrading I want to give the USB support a shot. I'm totally blank on the subject. Any pointers on

[newbie] Help - USB Printer - Urgent

2000-12-04 Thread Ashley Moore
I've connected my Epson Stylus 740 using USB to my LM7.2 m/c How do I go about accessing it. (what device do I use?) I used the same printer sucessfully thru lpd (parallel port) on LM 7.1 After upgrading I want to give the USB support a shot. I'm totally blank on the subject. Any pointers on

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Monday 04 December 2000 03:04, you wrote: i've just installed linux 4 windows! after installation i clicked the icon from the desktop and then windows boot to linux with a lot of text coming then afterwards asked me for the login name then password, i entered the username and password

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread Jeff Dickman
type startx On Sunday 03 December 2000 18:04, you wrote: i've just installed linux 4 windows! after installation i clicked the icon from the desktop and then windows boot to linux with a lot of text coming then afterwards asked me for the login name then password, i entered the username and

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Marlon Guzman wrote: i've just installed linux 4 windows! after installation i clicked the icon from the desktop and then windows boot to linux with a lot of text coming then afterwards asked me for the login name then password, i entered the username and password then a

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread David Grubb
Try startx, but you may have to run xf86setup first - never having used lin4win before I'm not sure if it would have already setup X Windows for you. Also, have a look at the HOW-TO docs (should be able to find them at www.linux.com) if you need any reference material for xf86setup, and let us

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread BobC
Marlon Guzman wrote: i've just installed linux 4 windows! after installation i clicked the icon from the desktop and then windows boot to linux with a lot of text coming then afterwards asked me for the login name then password, i entered the username and password then a word localhost

Re: [newbie] help

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
the command you're looking for us startx -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ *REPLY SEPERATOR* On Sun, 3 Dec 2000

Re: [newbie] Help! Trying to get a Voicemail system to work...

2000-12-02 Thread John Arkoulis
!!! Sorry I cannot help but finally I gave up on Voicemail programs. - Original Message - From: "BobC" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 9:14 PM Subject: [newbie] Help! Trying to get a Voicemail system to work... If anyone here has a clue

RE: [newbie] help with diald and/or alternatives

2000-11-26 Thread Bill Shirley
les implemented when the system booted. HTH, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ian K.Harrell Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 7:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] help with diald and/or alternatives I have a small lan setup cu

Re: [newbie] help with diald and/or alternatives

2000-11-26 Thread Thomas Bishop
On Thu, 01 Jan 2037, Ian K.Harrell wrote: I have a small lan setup currently (5 computers, 4 running windows 98 and 1 running Mandrake 7.1) and I have been trying to set them all up to use some form of on demand dialing to my local ISP. All the computers talk to each other and everything

[newbie] help with diald and/or alternatives

2000-11-26 Thread Ian K.Harrell
I have a small lan setup currently (5 computers, 4 running windows 98 and 1 running Mandrake 7.1) and I have been trying to set them all up to use some form of on demand dialing to my local ISP. All the computers talk to each other and everything with the local lan works fine (so far). I run

[newbie] Help with upgrade

2000-11-22 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
I just installed LM 7.2 purchased from Wal-Mart. I've also downloaded and installed all the current updates. Most things seem to be working OK but would like to know if anyone could provide me with some information on how to correct a few problems noted in the .xsession-errors file. Running

[newbie] HELP, Desperate Plea to mount CDROM!

2000-11-18 Thread S. Stubbs
Hey, it has been a while now and I have not been able to mount my CDROM drive. I have mdk 7.2. I have one cdrom drive, it is recognized correctly in the hardware. It is IOMEGA Zip650 cd writer drive which is an internal IDE writer drive. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP, this is driving me nuts. I went to a

[newbie] Help with setting up a monitor

2000-11-18 Thread scarimonger
I have just purchased a Sony HMD-A200/L 17"(16" vis) display monitor. I used drakconf to set it up. My current settings are 32 million colors at 1024x768 @ 85hz. My video card is a Voodoo3 2000 PCI with 16MB of onboard video ram. I still get some flicker from the screen like on my Compaq P50

[newbie] Help with some drivers

2000-11-15 Thread M.J. Constant
Hi, I'm trying to set up my first linux machine. I've installed mandrake 7.0. my soundblaster live was detected, no problem. I have AON-325 ethernet card fron Aopen and US robotics PCI voice 56k modem. But I don't know if these two are compatible with linux and if yes where to get the

Re: [newbie] help with AON-325 Ethernet card, USrobotics pci voice 56k modem mandrake7.0

2000-11-14 Thread Vladimir Morozov
Hi, Internet Explorer is famous for rendering code (which it doesn't understand) into some format that it can understand (text, for instance) Try to download this file with Netscape. Plus, don't just left-click on the link to the code and wait to see what the browser shows you - when you

[newbie] help quickly please

2000-11-12 Thread kompukit
This is Kit of Kompukit...I'm on windows 98...right now. due to I can't log onto to my ISP...and/or retrieve my mail for some odd reason...and I can't figure it out. I went into my "host.allow" file...and my "hosts" file and inserted my new domain name (even though it is not activated yet)...I

[newbie] Help with Sound, Network and LILO issues!

2000-11-11 Thread Graham \DarkMonk\ Balharrie
Hi, I have a Vortex2 sound card, and my hardware config (under Mandrake 7.1) will pick it up, but it doesnt install it as a sound card or install any drivers for it... So, I searched the net, and found that I needed some Aureal Drivers, so I downloaded them, and it tells you to unpack them,

[newbie] Help!!!! How do you give a user rights to make them stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one user?!

2000-10-27 Thread rharvey
How do you give a user rights to make them stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one user?

RE: [newbie] Help!!!! How do you give a user rights to make them stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one user?!

2000-10-27 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
=-Original Message- =From: rharvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] =Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 11:10 AM =To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =Subject: [newbie] Help How do you give a user rights to make them =stay in his own home dir? How do you turn off services to just one =user?! = = =How do

[newbie] help! lock up when local printer setup

2000-10-26 Thread Bradford Sturtevant
Using DrakConf and Printer Configuration, when I add a new print queue with a Printer Configuration that is "local printer" the system freezes. Any hints? How can I setup local printer manually? Ststem details: Mandrake 7.1 Tyan Thunder 2500 (S1867) mainboard ELSA GLoria II 256MB SRAM

RE: [newbie] help! lock up when local printer setup

2000-10-26 Thread TomST
on the Xterm session. Tom -Original Message- From: Bradford Sturtevant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] help! lock up when local printer setup Using DrakConf and Printer Configuration, when I add a new print queue

Re: [newbie] help! lock up when local printer setup

2000-10-26 Thread Larry Marshall
Using DrakConf and Printer Configuration, when I add a new print queue with a Printer Configuration that is "local printer" the system freezes. Any hints? How can I setup local printer manually? Edit the /etc/printcap file. Cheers --- Larry

Re: [[newbie] Help: LM7.1 installation on notebook]

2000-10-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
Lawrence Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm now trying to install LM7.1 Deluxe on my SONY VAIO notebook. After having tried for a few weeks, I still cannot complete the installation. DrakX halt at the "install system" step. Text mode installation does not response when it "Setup

Re: [newbie] Help: LM7.1 installation on notebook

2000-10-25 Thread poogle
Hi, It went straight onto my Sony Vaio PCG F250, just as easy as on the PC, Internal floppy, Internal CD-ROM 4.3Gb HDD it only has 32mb of ram so it tends to be a little slow compared to the PC (128mb) otherwise it's fine. BTW it was the freebie from the cover of Maximum Linux On Wed, 25 Oct

[newbie] Help: LM7.1 installation on notebook

2000-10-24 Thread Lawrence Lee
Hi, I'm now trying to install LM7.1 Deluxe on my SONY VAIO notebook. After having tried for a few weeks, I still cannot complete the installation. DrakX halt at the "install system" step. Text mode installation does not response when it "Setup filesystems". The boot image for the SCSI problem in

Re: [newbie] Help With MBR

2000-10-17 Thread GAPrichard
Jim, I hope you don't mind if I put my response to your message to me [which is copied below] on the newbie list. Many people are having problems with the same things you are. This response is a natural followup to several things I've written about, ususally under the topic "[newbie]

[newbie] help with booting

2000-10-15 Thread A.J.O.HOPSON
Hi, I have had a lot of trouble installing linux and booting it. I tried red hat 6.2 and mandrake 7.0 to nbo avail. Mandrake 7.1 works though - maybe something to do with grub? I have two linux partitions on my hd (both logical not primary) the first is mounted as / and is under the 1024

Re: [newbie] help with booting

2000-10-15 Thread Mwinold
well normally you mount the partitions as primary, or at least that is what the auto install feature does to my hard drive

Re: [newbie] help with booting

2000-10-15 Thread A.J.O.HOPSON
I have win 98 partition as primary. well normally you mount the partitions as primary, or at least that is what the auto install feature does to my hard drive

Re: [newbie] help with booting

2000-10-15 Thread Greg Stewart
I thiink you've managed to confuse your partition scheme. Typically, the best way to prepare a linux drive, especially for the distros you mention, is to have the following partitions: /boot 16MB+ swap(twice your RAM size) / 500MB+ /home 500MB+ The / and /home directories need

Re: [newbie] help with booting

2000-10-15 Thread A.J.O.HOPSON
I'm afraid I'm new to the whole thing and don't understand the use of the /home partition. I'm not using any networked stuff, I just want to allow myself to run linux there will only be 1/2 users at most. So what should I store in /home rather than /? I'm afraid I wasn't to clear about grub.

Re: [newbie] help with booting

2000-10-15 Thread Greg Stewart
as for the /home stuff as I am the sole user of this system what do I stand to gain from installing stuff to /home rather than /usr? For personal configuration files, and depending on the application, if you have a separate /home partition, you can remove a linux / partition, reinstall another

[newbie] help ineed to connect to the internet as user

2000-10-12 Thread borg1
HII need some help i have been using linux mandrake 6.1 for some time now but i am still not so great at the command line things like chmod and stuff. Here is the problem, i have been dialing out as root and it is the family computer. I use it to use the net in my room using ip masq

[newbie] newbie Help me!!!Netscape...

2000-10-11 Thread Andrei
Ludi pomogite!!! Kak normalno nastroit Netscape chtob russki bil! A tochnee chtobi i pisal na russkom i videl nekotorie veshi na saite!! Jas imeu vvidu knopki nekotorie i nadpisi!!! Hot u mena on i russki no to chto est tolko nazvanie russki!

[newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1

2000-10-08 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
I would like to share StarOffice 5.1. I am working with Mandrake 7.0 and would like to have StarOffice 5.1 available for root, Myself, and visits users. Before, I was able to install StarOffice from Myself user under the directory home/Myself/Office51/ and could use it with root and Myself but

RE: [newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1

2000-10-08 Thread falcaraz
: Ricardo Zevallos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Domingo, Octubre 8, 2000 11:18 am Asunto: [newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1 I would like to share StarOffice 5.1. I am working with Mandrake 7.0 and would like to have StarOffice 5.1 available for root, Myself, and visitsusers. Before, I

RE: [newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1

2000-10-08 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
PROTECTED] Fecha: Domingo, Octubre 8, 2000 11:18 am Asunto: [newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1 I would like to share StarOffice 5.1. I am working with Mandrake 7.0 and would like to have StarOffice 5.1 available for root, Myself, and visitsusers. Before, I was able to install StarOffice

Re: [newbie] Help! I know nothing of networks!

2000-10-06 Thread Doug McGarrett
When you set up your Linux OS, it should have found your ethernet card, and it should have asked you if you have DHCP, which practically everybody has. You say yes, or whatever the correct answer is, and the installer will do the rest for you. Perhaps your ethernet card is not really

Re: [newbie] Help with Kernel

2000-10-04 Thread Joan Tur
Joe Morris escribió: I'm working with Mandrake 7.1. I decided to upgrade my kernel to 2.2.16, so I downloaded linux-2.2.16.tar.gz from kernel.org. Hallo Joe! I'm a newbie also! So if someone finds something wrong, correction will be apreciated! 8-) I've downloaded the rpm's from Mandrake

[newbie] Help on Pine, Fetchmail and @Home Cable

2000-10-01 Thread Romanator
Hi Mark, I'm still trying to set up Pine with Fetchmail. For now, I am using Netscape 4.75. Any @Home cable users out there that have successfully set up Pine and Fetchmail. I welcome any .png files to see how you set up Pine and Fetchmail There seems to be some confusion about the server name,

[newbie] help in getting gcc to work on mandrake 7.1

2000-09-28 Thread Kevin J Curran
Hi (my first posting. I've just installed Mandrake 7.1 on a Dell Pentium Laptop with a 1 gig partition. Everything went well the second time (first time i tried a windows install with not enough free space and I lost everything on my computer!). Therefore three days later I am finally back

[newbie] Help with Intel PRO/DSL 2100 modem

2000-09-26 Thread Rich Jones
Has anyone successfully installed an Intel PRO/DSL 2100 modem on their linux system? I got it as part of a DSL package from US West (now Qwest), our local telephone company. It works great in Windows 98, but there are no Linux drivers that I can find. Mandrake Linux does not find it when

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