Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-28 Thread Mike Chalmers
From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:46:19 -0600 On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:27 pm, Mike Chalmers wrote: From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 Jan 2005 06:47, Mike Chalmers wrote: Derek, I clicked on the link you posted for the 2.6.8 kernel. I then clicked on the file kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and the download box appeared. It gave me the option to Open with

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 27 January 2005 06:47, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP I clicked on the link you posted for the 2.6.8 kernel. I then clicked on the file kernel-2.6.8.1.12mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and the download box appeared. It gave me the option to Open with the default application (Software Installer).

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-27 Thread Mike Chalmers
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:20:13 + On Thursday 27 January 2005 06:47, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP I clicked on the link you posted

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:03, Mike Chalmers wrote: Thank you both. I went to the web site ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main/ , that Derek recomended. I tried to install several of the 2.6.8 kernel's and I get this message- Some package requested

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-27 Thread Mike Chalmers
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:33:27 + On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:03, Mike Chalmers wrote: Thank you both. I went to the web site ftp

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:27 pm, Mike Chalmers wrote: From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:33:27 + On Thursday 27 January 2005 12:03, Mike

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Chalmers
(I cleaned up the post to make it easier to read. From, Mike) To answer this question and the similar question from Bill Mudry :- For a given Mandrake release MandrakeSoft will support a specific kernel. For Mandrake 10.0 that is 2.6.3 , and for 10.1 it is 2.6.8.1 So you will not find any updates

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 03:48, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP To install a kernel from an ftp mirror, simply navigate to the mirror using konqueror and click on the kernel you wish to install. For example, go here for Cooker :-

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-26 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:32, Derek Jennings wrote: I had already given instructions on how to install the Mandrake 2.6.8 kernel. Just click on the link above using konqueror, find the kernel you want to install and click on it. That will invoke 'gurpmi' which is a little graphical

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Chalmers
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:32:28 + On Wednesday 26 January 2005 03:48, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP To install a kernel from an ftp mirror

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-25 Thread Mike Chalmers
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:14:42 + On Monday 24 January 2005 05:32, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP There are instruction on compiling new kernels

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 January 2005 05:32, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP There are instruction on compiling new kernels in the manual http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Command-Line.html/compil ing-kernel-chapter.html But be aware Mandrake apply lots of patches to the standard kernel.org

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-24 Thread yankl
On Monday 24 January 2005 05:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 05:32, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP There are instruction on compiling new kernels in the manual http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Command-Line.html/comp il ing-kernel-chapter.html But be

[newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Chalmers
I currently have kernel 2.6.3-7mdk installed. I want to update to 2.6.10. I downloaded the file patch-2.6.10.bz2 from kernel.org. I also installed patch-2.5.9-2mdk.i586.rpm. I don't know how to install the 2.6.10 patch. Will someone tell me the command to use to update the kernel to 2.6.10.

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-23 Thread yankl
On Sunday 23 January 2005 18:39, Mike Chalmers wrote: I currently have kernel 2.6.3-7mdk installed. I want to update to 2.6.10. I downloaded the file patch-2.6.10.bz2 from kernel.org. I also installed patch-2.5.9-2mdk.i586.rpm. I don't know how to install the 2.6.10 patch. Will someone tell me

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Chalmers
From: yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:57:48 -0500 On Sunday 23 January 2005 18:39, Mike Chalmers wrote: I currently have kernel 2.6.3-7mdk installed. I want

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 January 2005 01:04, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP Unless you like to go through the pain you will be better using urpmi to install kernel. Try to find kernel rpm on rpm repository and urpmi it. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL:

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Chalmers
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:19:03 + On Monday 24 January 2005 01:04, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP Unless you like to go through the pain you

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-23 Thread Bill Mudry
At 08:19 PM 1/23/2005, you wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 01:04, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP Unless you like to go through the pain you will be better using urpmi to install kernel. Try to find kernel rpm on rpm repository and urpmi it. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free.

Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Chalmers
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help patching kernel Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:19:03 + On Monday 24 January 2005 01:04, Mike Chalmers wrote: SNIP Unless you like to go through the pain you

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles

2005-01-09 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 07:30:31 + Thank you Derek for the reply. I am really new at this network stuff. :-) I

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 23:09, Derek Jennings wrote: hosts.config is not familiar to me. I do not have that file. Mine says order hosts,bind multi on This is the default as set up by Mdk 10.0 - I haven't touched it. Anne - -- Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles

2005-01-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 08:21, Angus Auld wrote: Thanks Margot. :-)) I set the adsl not to start at boot and then rebooted. Bootup went fine, eth0 came up OK, and, ppp0 came up OK too. :-/ What's that about? When my x-session was fully loaded I also

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-09 Thread Brett Lyon
Check out this excellent tutie on the subject: http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-hn/network-linux.htm It put the see in my TCP/IP. Brett --- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I wonder if some kind soul here could instruct/inform me on how I can properly config these

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles

2005-01-09 Thread Sanket Medhi
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 08:21, Angus Auld wrote: Thanks Margot. :-)) I set the adsl not to start at boot and then rebooted. Bootup went fine, eth0 came up OK, and, ppp0 came up OK too. :-/ What's that about? When my x-session was

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles

2005-01-09 Thread Trevor
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 08:21, Angus Auld wrote: Thanks Margot. :-)) I set the adsl not to start at boot and then rebooted. Bootup went fine, eth0 came up OK, and, ppp0 came up OK too. :-/ What's that about? When my x-session was fully loaded

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-09 Thread et
On Sunday 09 January 2005 04:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 23:09, Derek Jennings wrote: hosts.config is not familiar to me. I do not have that file. Mine says order hosts,bind multi on This is the default as set up by Mdk 10.0 - I haven't touched it. Anne you might

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles

2005-01-09 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:18:27 + -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 08:21

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles

2005-01-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Angus Auld wrote: ---[ SNIP ] I removed ppp0 and eth0 from my configuration, and then added the adsl ppp0 back, using MCC. Things are working OK now, except I am not able to connect to my mail server with KMail using my new account. :-/ I wonder where

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.configfiles

2005-01-09 Thread Eric Huff
Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shot in the dark - maybe things were loading in the wrong order? Anne Anne, I think you are on to something there. The *order* of these devices coming up seems to be what was giving me the trouble. Since ppp0 is just a *software* device that uses

[newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I wonder if some kind soul here could instruct/inform me on how I can properly config these files?? What should they contain and how should they look on my 10.1 system? I just setup ADSL broadband, and I fear I messed things up a bit. ;-) My broadband is working OK, but my local

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:24, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I wonder if some kind soul here could instruct/inform me on how I can properly config these files?? What should they contain and how should they look on my 10.1 system? I just setup ADSL broadband, and I fear I messed things up a

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread mikkel
On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:24, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I wonder if some kind soul here could instruct/inform me on how I can properly config these files?? What should they contain and how should they look on my 10.1 system? I just setup ADSL broadband, and I fear I messed things

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:09:52 + On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:24, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I wonder

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Chris
On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:29 pm, Angus Auld wrote: Thank you Derek for the reply. I am really new at this network stuff. :-) I have been using dial-up for all my years of computing, and I just started using braodband now that it has finally come here to the boonies. I edited some of the

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:42:45 -0600 On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:29 pm, Angus Auld wrote: Thank you Derek

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread mikkel
On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:29 pm, Angus Auld wrote: Thank you Derek for the reply. I am really new at this network stuff. :-) I have been using dial-up for all my years of computing, and I just started using braodband now that it has finally come here to the boonies. I edited some of

Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files

2005-01-08 Thread Margot
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config resolv.config files Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:09:52 + On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:24, Angus Auld wrote

Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1

2004-12-06 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
I sent this last night, but sympa never sent me a confirmation, so here it is again... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1 Date: December 5, 2004 23:00 From: Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On December 4, 2004 14:05

Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1

2004-12-05 Thread Johan
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 23:26:48 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:10:36 + -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

[newbie] need help installing 10.1

2004-12-04 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I just got my 10.1 cd's from Cheapbytes, and I am trying to get it installed on my Dell Inspiron. Trouble is, I can't seem to figure out how I can access the option to choose another type of filesystem other than the default ext3. Could someone here give me the lowdown on choosing

Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1

2004-12-04 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 Dec 2004 21:05, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I just got my 10.1 cd's from Cheapbytes, and I am trying to get it installed on my Dell Inspiron. Trouble is, I can't seem to figure out how I can access the option to choose another type

Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1

2004-12-04 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:10:36 + -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 Dec 2004 21:05, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I just

Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1

2004-12-04 Thread care free
From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] need help installing 10.1 Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 23:26:48 -0300 - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] need help

Re: [newbie] Need help passing params while starting my pc

2004-11-24 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
Are changes made by this method permenent after writing the command in the prompt as you said, or do they anly aply for this boot? Regards Vegard On Tuesday 23 November 2004 07:03 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: In www.mandrakeexpert.com I got this hint to fix a problem I am experiencing.

Re: [newbie] Need help passing params while starting my pc

2004-11-24 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 Nov 2004 20:54, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: Are changes made by this method permenent after writing the command in the prompt as you said, or do they anly aply for this boot? If you pass them at bootup like that they only apply to

[newbie] Need help passing params while starting my pc

2004-11-23 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
In www.mandrakeexpert.com I got this hint to fix a problem I am experiencing. Try to pass this params while starting your pc : linux noapic nolapic I am new tp this, and was hoping someone could describe to my in detail what I am supposed to do and when? Best regards , Vegard

Re: [newbie] Need help passing params while starting my pc

2004-11-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 07:03 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: In www.mandrakeexpert.com I got this hint to fix a problem I am experiencing. Try to pass this params while starting your pc : linux noapic nolapic I am new tp this, and was hoping someone could describe to my in detail

[newbie] need help with menu

2004-08-28 Thread Bobby
It's the newbness in me. lol have to check everything out to see what is what, and during this process I had changed my menu from the MDK default style to KDE style. How can I get the MDK menu style back. Because of this it also had altered my taskbar and it's back to the default layout. I had

[newbie] Need help with Samba Server

2004-05-21 Thread van Dyk, Wikus
Hallo everyone , I just got Mandrake 10 and want to test it as a good alternative to Windows. However , I got the download version and don't have any Manuals or documentation for it. I want to ask 2 things : - I am struggling to configure my SAMBA server. I use the wizard and when I enter the

Re: [newbie] Need help with Samba Server

2004-05-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 21 May 2004 11:16, van Dyk, Wikus wrote: Hallo everyone , I just got Mandrake 10 and want to test it as a good alternative to Windows. However , I got the download version and don't have any Manuals or documentation for it. I want to ask 2 things : - I am struggling to configure

Re: [newbie] Need help with Samba Server

2004-05-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 21 May 2004 12:10, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 11:16, van Dyk, Wikus wrote: Hallo everyone , I just got Mandrake 10 and want to test it as a good alternative to Windows. However , I got the download version and don't have any Manuals or documentation for it. I

Re: [newbie] Need help getting my printer to work in Mandrake 9.2

2004-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 07 May 2004 10:40, John Henderson wrote: Can anyone assist me in getting my printer (HP OfficeJet 4100) working? Mandrake Control Center sees the printer and autoconfigures, and even does a test print, but I can't print from any applications. Any ideas what I can check or tweak to

[newbie] Need help getting my printer to work in Mandrake 9.2

2004-05-08 Thread John Henderson
Can anyone assist me in getting my printer (HP OfficeJet 4100) working? Mandrake Control Center sees the printer and autoconfigures, and even does a test print, but I can't print from any applications. Any ideas what I can check or tweak to get this working. PLEASE HELP, not being able to

Re: [newbie] Need help getting my printer to work in Mandrake 9.2

2004-05-08 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 07 May 2004 04:40 am, John Henderson wrote: Can anyone assist me in getting my printer (HP OfficeJet 4100) working? Mandrake Control Center sees the printer and autoconfigures, and even does a test print, but I can't print from any applications. Any ideas what I can check or tweak

Re: [newbie] Need help installing SATA drive!!!(Please help)

2004-03-06 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 02:46, DC A wrote: Yes I tried 10 but it's taking a long time to load. I donno why thorugh. (I tried to auto allocate 20GB for linux and it's taking more than an hour and still it's formatting) So I donno whether I'll be able to linux on this system. Is there any other

[newbie] Need help installing SATA drive!!!(Please help)

2004-03-05 Thread DC A
Hi! It's me again. I've got a problem and I'm really desperate. I've MSI K6T mobo with athlon 64 3400+ processor. I've installed Maxtor's Diamond plus 9 hard drive on WinXP. When I checked in Computer properties it says WinXp Promise SATA 378 IDE controller. And the hard drive works fine on

Re: [newbie] Need help installing SATA drive!!!(Please help)

2004-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 05 March 2004 11:44 am, DC A wrote: Hi! It's me again. I've got a problem and I'm really desperate. I've MSI K6T mobo with athlon 64 3400+ processor. I've installed Maxtor's Diamond plus 9 hard drive on WinXP. When I checked in Computer properties it says WinXp Promise SATA 378 IDE

[newbie] need help installing driver for wireless card, Dlink DWL 520 chipset: rtl8180

2004-03-04 Thread jimmy
Hello, everyone   I am new to this list and also a newbie for linux. I want to get my wireless card working in linux. It is Dlink DWL 520 with reaktek rtl8180 chipset. Somewhat expert users please help me :)   I am writing what I have done till now: I found the driver from realtek site

Re: [newbie] need help installing driver for wireless card, Dlink DWL 520 chipset: rtl8180

2004-03-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:28, jimmy wrote: ./wlanup: line 72: /sbin/iwpriv: No such file or directory You need to install iwpriv!;) BTW you don't need to add the option infra as it's already specified in the wlanup script. You might want to change that to ad-hoc if there's no access point

[newbie] need help adding external modem to mandrake 8

2004-02-24 Thread Kenn
Greetings. I guess it should be obvious how to do this, but I'm not finding the right place to read my Mandrake 8 box has a built-in Winmodem (which Mandrake detects but cannot configure), and rather than mess with configuring a winmodem, I'd rather just add an external modem to the

[newbie] Need help upgrading from Mandrake 9.0

2004-02-16 Thread Sweeney, Stephen
Hi All, I recently got broadband installed and I wanted to update my Mandrake 9.0 installation to the very latest of... well... pretty much everything - Including KDE, Open Office, etc. My problem is that I don't fully understand the use of urpmi yet. I did the following, Set up some mirrors

Re: [newbie] Need help upgrading from Mandrake 9.0

2004-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Feb 2004 10:19 am, Sweeney, Stephen wrote: Hi All, I recently got broadband installed and I wanted to update my Mandrake 9.0 installation to the very latest of... well... pretty much everything - Including KDE, Open Office, etc. My problem is that I don't fully understand the

Re: [newbie] need help with greek!

2003-06-10 Thread manolis
Am I the only one that has this problem? don't know what to do 08 2003 00:15, / manolis : Hi guys! After my installation of mandrake 9.1 I have one little problem. I use the greek keyboard but I cannot enter punctuation notation marks on vowels. for example I can write but if

Re: [newbie] need help with greek!

2003-06-10 Thread Paul
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 11:27, manolis wrote: Am I the only one that has this problem? don't know what to do Do you mean you cannot type things like and ? If so, run mcc, go to the keyboard settings and change it to US International. And pronto the keyboard accepts your : over the

Re: [newbie] need help with greek!

2003-06-10 Thread Troy Davidson
Manolis, Seems that the majority of people here don't use Greek. Is there a Linux group in your area that you can direct this towards? You might get better help with an answer there. Here is a list of LUGs in Greece: http://www.linuxhq.com/users/groups/greece.html Sorry we can't help you

Re: [newbie] need help with greek!

2003-06-10 Thread arocho
Mandrake 9.1 does support UNICODE. I have my installation set for UTF-8, CODE2000 and SILGREEK fonts, and xwg, a keyboard handler. The keyboard program was prepared by a professor of classical greek at the Moscow univ. Xwg will map the keyboard from US to polytonic greek and back. It allows

[newbie] Need Help

2003-06-09 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Hi all Had my Laptop work until I made a time that it was time to reinstall Mandrake 8.0 now I can not install any version of Mandrake, RedHat this is what I get? The Laptop is Compaq Armada 3500, PII 266, 128MB RAM. RAMDISK: Compressed format (err=1)6Freeing initrd memory: 286k freed Kernel

Re: [newbie] Need Help

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:30:23 + Benjamin Jeeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Had my Laptop work until I made a time that it was time to reinstall Mandrake 8.0 now I can not install any version of Mandrake, RedHat this is what I get? The Laptop is Compaq Armada 3500, PII 266, 128MB RAM.

Re: [newbie] Need Help

2003-06-09 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Get it working by using my usb cdwriter and 9.1 hdcdrom_usb.img looks likey things are looking up and learn abit about the booting and kernel of linux On Monday 09 Jun 2003 1:09 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:30:23 + Benjamin Jeeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Had my Laptop

[newbie] Need help with router setup

2003-06-06 Thread Russ Rollins
I have setup the Mandrake Internet Sharing connection and am successfully able to utilize the second NIC in my box to share the internet with my laptop. However, when I plug the cable into my Wireless Router, and then attempt to get online with my laptop (wirelessly) I am unable to do so--I,

RE: [newbie] Need help with router setup

2003-06-06 Thread Dennis . R . Myers
Title: RE: [newbie] Need help with router setup -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Rollins Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Need help with router setup I have setup the Mandrake

RE: [newbie] Need help with router setup

2003-06-06 Thread Russ Rollins
: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:38:47 -0700 Subject: RE: [newbie] Need help with router setup -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Russ Rollins Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Need help with router setup

Re: [newbie] Need help with router setup

2003-06-06 Thread Dennis Myers
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:38:47 -0700 Subject: RE: [newbie] Need help with router setup -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Russ Rollins Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:58 PM

RE: [newbie] Need help with router setup

2003-06-06 Thread Russ Rollins
:47 -0700 Subject: RE: [newbie] Need help with router setup -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Russ Rollins Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Need help with router setup I

Re: [newbie] Need help with router setup

2003-06-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 06 June 2003 09:03 pm, Russ Rollins wrote: Mandrake box has two nics, eth0 and eth1. Eth0 is receiving feed from cable modem. Eth1 is what I plug into receiving device (laptop or wireless router). If feed from eth1 goes straight into the laptop, the laptop can connect to the

[newbie] Need help with internet sharing and router

2003-06-05 Thread Russ Rollins
I have setup the Mandrake Internet Sharing connection and am successfully able to utilize the second NIC in my box to share the internet with my laptop. However, when I plug the cable into my Wireless Router, and then attempt to get online with my laptop (wirelessly) I am unable to do so--I,

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-08 Thread David E. Fox
of the board, but it does have Fresno printed along one edge. FSB is I guess the bus speed to the expansioh slots - supposedly the front side of the CPU. Doesn't make much sense. I guess it's related to the speed that the CPU can interface with the peripherals, memory, etc. If it's in front of

[newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
Hello everyone, I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, andwant to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD) I created a 2 Gb primary Dos partition to install Win95 -

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:55, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hello everyone, I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD) I

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Anders Lind
I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD) Welcome to the wonderful of Linux *smiles* I created a 2 Gb primary Dos

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:55, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hello everyone, I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Marc Oestreicher
If you do not have a owners manual handy you can watch the screen closely during startup. You will probably see something saying press F1 or some other key to change settings. Press and hold that key. That should bring you to the BIOS setup screen. While you are in the bios you may also want

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing - MORE INFO

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
- need help installing Mandrake 9.0 I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD) Welcome to the wonderful of Linux *smiles

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Shilling
: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies. Unfortunately, I have already placed my Cd-ROM drive at the top of the boot priority list, but some reason I

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:19, Diane Arsenault wrote: Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies. Unfortunately, I have already placed my Cd-ROM drive at the top of the boot priority list, but some reason I can't boot from it regardless. What now? Diane Let me ask you something.

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Lanman
Diane; You need to make a small change in your BIOS so that the CDROM drive is the first to boot. After that, everything will work fine. Check your owner's manual, and look for information which tells you how to enter your BIOS. Once you get into the BIOS, you should be able to change the order

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing - MORE INFO

2003-03-06 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Bad burn? sounds like the burn isnt bootable. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Diane Arsenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Simon Prosser
of Linux! -Jonathan -Original Message- From: Diane Arsenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:19, Diane Arsenault wrote: Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies. Unfortunately, I have already

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
, and welcome to the world of Linux! -Jonathan -Original Message- From: Diane Arsenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Thanks to both Lanman

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 11:21 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: If you do not have a owners manual handy you can watch the screen closely during startup. You will probably see something saying press F1 or some other key to change settings. Press and hold that key. That should bring you to the

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 5:56 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi Simon - My HDD is Primary master, I have a Cd-ROM drive set as Secondary master, and a CD-RW set as Secondary Slave. Both CD's are on Auto. Diane P.S. I have checked the cables - all is well I've never come across this before -

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot Record??? Just a stab in the dark, mind you! Any help at all is very much appreciated at this point.

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread et
much appreciated at this point. Diane - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:19, Diane

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot Record??? Just a stab in the dark, mind you!

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Diane Arsenault Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Shilling
setting, Jonathan -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:14 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master

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