Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 09:03, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's "usual" or > > something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) > > > > I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently > >

Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 27 March 2004 09:03, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's "usual" or > > something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) > > > > I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently

Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's "usual" or > something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) > > I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently > "rute" and "gimp-2" via urpmi, but also most others I can > r

Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Paul
On 03/27/2004 10:01 AM, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Do others experience this regularly/is this common? Again, just a minor annoyance and always just a solitary, nonrepeatable "crash," but one of those "Hmmm..." things, nonetheless. Very strange. I have never had this happen in all my Linux life (whi

[newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's "usual" or something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently "rute" and "gimp-2" via urpmi, but also most others I can recall), the first attempt to run that app from the KDE menu will res

Re: [newbie] hmmm, odd

2003-10-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [newbie] hmmm, odd

2003-10-26 Thread Margot
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[newbie] hmmm, odd

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Re: [newbie] hmmm.. two questions.

2002-01-04 Thread Peter Bussiere
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. > > Roy > > On Saturday 17 November 2001 00:10, you wrote: >

Re: [newbie] hmmm.. two questions.

2001-11-17 Thread David E. Fox
> One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with > gimp? Is it perhaps that I do not have a full set of > libraries? I'm sure gimp is there - use rpmdrake to look for the gimp RPM and install it. It might not be installed by default, depending on how you decided to install your system. >

Re: [newbie] hmmm.. two questions.

2001-11-16 Thread Roy Hershberger
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. Roy On Saturday 17 November 2001 00:10, you wrote: > One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with > gimp? Is it perh

[newbie] hmmm.. two questions.

2001-11-16 Thread G A
One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with gimp? Is it perhaps that I do not have a full set of libraries? Out of curiosity (my partner is a complete mac freak -ok so I haven't looked at osX as of YET)- Can you run linux on (I should stress) older mac architecture? Gina __

Re: [newbie] hmmm.... LM 7.2 installation queries

2001-02-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 18 February 2001 01:36, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just decided to give Mandrake a go (Redhat otherwise) & am > having some fun getting the LM 7.2 installer to work...: > > 1) perl script errors on trying to mount "/" in the diskdruid > (??) program. I'd set the mount point & format t

Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32

2000-04-22 Thread Kenneth L. Yoho Jr.
yes but your fstab.conf file has to have vfat as the type. Vic wrote: > Just out of curiosity, I wonder if Linux (any version) can > read a fat32 partition. > > No rush, just curious. > -- > Want to make some extra pocket change > listening to your realplayer while you surf? > http://www.radi

Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32

2000-04-22 Thread Dan LaBine
#x27;s get back to being cocky, arrogant computer geeks! Woo Hoo!) - Original Message - From: "Michael Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 2:25 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32 > haha! Happy Easter to you too! > M

Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32

2000-04-21 Thread Michael Holt
haha! Happy Easter to you too! Mike Dan LaBine wrote: > > Enough is Enough!! Have some compassion for the rest of us will ya? It's > easter for God's sake! Most of us ( I hope! ) just ate a hell of a lot of > ham or something, and all you can talk about is FAT??? Why not wait until > tomorrow wh

Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32

2000-04-21 Thread Michael Holt
Yeah, when I first started with Linux (not that long ago)I assigned my windows partitions the dos file system and I couldn't figure out why all my file names were getting chopped up (dos only allows 8 char for file names and 3 for extensions). I switched to vfat and have lived happily ever after!

Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32

2000-04-21 Thread Vic
Oh wow, someone told me that fat32 was not vfat, whups. Thankx for the update. :) On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, you wrote: > Yes, most distributions come preconfigured to read and write to FAT32. Linux > calls it vfat. > > Mike > > Vic wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity, I wonder if Linux (any versio

Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32

2000-04-21 Thread Michael Holt
Yes, most distributions come preconfigured to read and write to FAT32. Linux calls it vfat. Mike Vic wrote: > Just out of curiosity, I wonder if Linux (any version) can > read a fat32 partition. > > No rush, just curious. > -- > Want to make some extra pocket change > listening to your realpla

[newbie] hmmm, fat32

2000-04-21 Thread Vic
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RE: [newbie] Hmmm

2000-03-13 Thread Tom Berger
On 13-Mar-2000 Wayne wrote: > Sorry guys. > > Further to my last, I have cheked the ownership of my device (hdd1) under > my /dev directory and have found that it is owned by me (wapether) and not > by root, yet root owns all of the directories on it and I cannot change > the attributes as root

[newbie] Hmmm

2000-03-12 Thread Wayne
Sorry guys. Further to my last, I have cheked the ownership of my device (hdd1) under my /dev directory and have found that it is owned by me (wapether) and not by root, yet root owns all of the directories on it and I cannot change the attributes as root or myself. HELP! Wayne **

Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work

1999-10-28 Thread ajackman
Is there a way to do the auto-update with 6.0? --Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 20177604 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Bill Munden wrote: > > Are you signing in as root from within a user account that you created? I > > did and was having the same problem. I exite

Re: [Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads wont work]

1999-10-28 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Singer XJ Wang wrote: | Does Mandrake actually work with an 486/ | Yes it does! I installed both Mandrake 6.0 then 6.1 (both are Macmillan releases) without any hitches. Of course, my CPU is an AMD x5-133 and this may not exactly be a 486, but it is on a 486-style board,

Re: [Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads wont work]

1999-10-28 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
Yup, My old box does keep me waiting some, but not nearly as bad as in Win95. I mostly wait for apps to load, once their loaded, things work pretty good. I am using an AMD x5-133 with 80M RAM on a 486a-VIP MB wh. a PCI bus - it was a pretty good board when I got it. A new board-CPU is on the wish

Re: [Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads wont work]

1999-10-27 Thread Singer XJ Wang
Does Mandrake actually work with an 486/ On 27 Oct 1999, Jaguar wrote: > FYI > When I first got L-M 6.0 home, and installed it...it was to an AST 486 - 66, > with 16 MB Ram. It installed perfectly ie: no conflicts with CPU, but was > extremely S L O W...:( > I have since put L-M on a Cyrix GM

Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work

1999-10-27 Thread Bill Munden
ROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 3:51 AM Subject: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work > Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake update > program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it w

Re: [Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads wont work]

1999-10-27 Thread Jaguar
FYI When I first got L-M 6.0 home, and installed it...it was to an AST 486 - 66, with 16 MB Ram. It installed perfectly ie: no conflicts with CPU, but was extremely S L O W...:( I have since put L-M on a Cyrix GM 233 Pentium system with 32 MB Ram, same install...but much faster. Jaguar "Ernest N

Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work

1999-10-27 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
Rick, I had a variety of seemingly unrelated problems when I did the update from Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. Most if not all of them were fixed when I removed the kcmclock package, and reinstalled the kdelibs package. I also did some changes to my rpmrc file, to let rpm install the Mandrake packages on

[newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work

1999-10-27 Thread Rick Murphy
Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake update program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it will not download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when I re-installed mandrake? Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped o