Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 00:58, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Hello > Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new > thread. It all depends on what you are doing. For me: / gets 6 Gb 35% free /home gets 13 Gb 94% free /swap gets 500 Mb and it never fills up. I use a

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:48, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Rosmary, > >> If you are going to wait, but you don't realy feel like messing around > >>with a lot of stuff in the mean time, we can get you a s

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosmary, If you are going to wait, but you don't realy feel like messing around with a lot of stuff in the mean time, we can get you a system that will boot, and that you can work with, withoug getting everything

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >>>Hello > >>> > >>>I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I > >>>don't seem to find my

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 23:33, riccardo wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2005 08:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > My main question is:  will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows > > access. > > ___ > > my LILO.CONF [ /etc/lilo.conf ] is like this :- > ___ > > # M

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) m

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I > > don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. > > > > My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) main

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 23:50, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 > > Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. > > someday, you will look at "reinstalling" a thing of the past! I know,

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose i

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 28 March 2005 05:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 > > Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. > > someday, you will look at "reinstalling" a thing of the past! I

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 11:50 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > someone else could give a go here - I use just the basics. Âjust > /, /home and one for swap (3 total) ___ ~ maybe, it handy, to have complete Reserve system on another Partition . . . kept up-to-date by a cron job to run rsyn

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:58:38 +1200 Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. someday, you will look at "reinstalling" a thing of the past! I know, I was once there. >I don't seem to find my way around there pa

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread riccardo
On Monday 28 March 2005 08:58 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > My main question is: Âwill the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows > access. ___ my LILO.CONF [ /etc/lilo.conf ] is like this :- ___ # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Sep 28 02:21:33 2002

[newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hello I've been looking at the Twiki for issue relating to reintalling. I don't seem to find my way around there particularly well. My main question is: will the boot loader (Lilo) maintain windows access. Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread. Tha

Re: [newbie] questions on 10.1

2004-09-18 Thread Chris
On Saturday 18 September 2004 03:54 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > In time of course it will. At the moment 10.1 is currently only available > in 'Community' either as an iso download for Mandrake Club members or as > a bunch of RPMs on the public Mandrake-devel mirrors. > > Anyone with access to b

Re: [newbie] questions on 10.1

2004-09-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 18 September 2004 21:32, Chris wrote: > I'm currently running 9.0 and thinking about upgrading to 10.1. I noticed > that in the 10.0 release there was a community and then an official > release, will there be the same with 10.1? Looking at the Mdk Store I only > see the 10.1 community

[newbie] questions on 10.1

2004-09-18 Thread Chris
I'm currently running 9.0 and thinking about upgrading to 10.1. I noticed that in the 10.0 release there was a community and then an official release, will there be the same with 10.1? Looking at the Mdk Store I only see the 10.1 community offered in DVD format, does anyone know if it will be

Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-28 Thread Margot
rhein wrote: Ok I can see know my reduced windows in a panel... In fact I did not install most of the plugins. Now I have no access to my softwares(like Kafeine or openoffice...) because I don't know the comand lines... Do I have to install manualy all links to all my softwares??? Is there not

Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:57, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:39, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:58:58AM +0300, rhein wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I installed XFce4 last night... I don't know if I installed everithing > > > because I downloaded packages untill th

Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-27 Thread rhein
Josenildo Marques wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:39, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:58:58AM +0300, rhein wrote: Hello, I installed XFce4 last night... I don't know if I installed everithing because I downloaded packages untill the rpms installed without error message... :

Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-27 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:39, Todd Slater wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:58:58AM +0300, rhein wrote: > > Hello, > > I installed XFce4 last night... I don't know if I installed everithing > > because I downloaded packages untill the rpms installed without error > > message... :-[ It is a bit

Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:58:58AM +0300, rhein wrote: > Hello, > I installed XFce4 last night... I don't know if I installed everithing > because I downloaded packages untill the rpms installed without error > message... :-[ It is a bit confusing the way rpms work! > 2. My problem is the fo

Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-27 Thread Anders Lind
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:58:58 +0300 rhein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1. So now I have XFce4 running and it is loading a lot faster then > KDE... Is it possible to know the ram used by it? i would like to > use it on a 16 MB ram machine. Open up a console window and type top >

Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-27 Thread rhein
Hello, I installed XFce4 last night... I don't know if I installed everithing because I downloaded packages untill the rpms installed without error message... :-[ It is a bit confusing the way rpms work! 1. So now I have XFce4 running and it is loading a lot faster then KDE... Is it pos

Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 07:56, Marc Resnick wrote: > Okay so I have a few questions about XFce4, my new WM. > > 1. Is there a way to skin/theme it? There are quite a few GTK2 "themes" or "skins" you can change them via the Settings Manager => Window Manager and User Interface. > 2. I heard there w

[newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-19 Thread Marc Resnick
Okay so I have a few questions about XFce4, my new WM. 1. Is there a way to skin/theme it? 2. I heard there were a bunch of features, like KDE. How do I use dockapps and stuff? 3. When I minimize windows, where can I find them, besides alt+tabbing. Is there a parallel dimension where all the m

Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices

2004-03-06 Thread rhein
Ok Thanks for the tip Christophe Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 21:01, rhein wrote: Hello, My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5 called /mnt/win_d with 525 MB. When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror t

Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices

2004-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 21:01, rhein wrote: > Hello, > My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5 > called /mnt/win_d with 525 MB. > When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror there are 2 > directories: = a system volume inf

Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices

2004-03-06 Thread rhein
Hello, My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5 called /mnt/win_d with 525 MB. When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror there are 2 directories: = a system volume information with a file _restore{2F3FC359-5C9C-424F-B0EF-325C191C6F2E} = recycled with a nprotect direct

Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices

2004-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 15:21, rhein wrote: > > 2/ There is no such D drive on my win partition. I have one big > 14,6 GB for windows. Where does it come from?? > It's small - could this be one of those systems with a hidden restore partition? OTOH

[newbie] Questions with storage devices

2004-03-06 Thread rhein
Hello, Last night I was looking to create a usr partition using diskdrake under Mandrake Control Center...Then I could not understand why I have a mnt hda5 partition called win_d (it shows /r on the file system. So I went to see my storage devices and there I found this: Device Type Size MountP Fr

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 11:16 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > The "user_name:password" is the log in. Naturally it must be a > valid combination. > Duh!That comes of grabbing a quick read between other unrelated jobs. I didn't read the line, just used it - so, no username, no password. Silly b*

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:16:22 +0100, Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: >As a workaround use the command >urpmi.addmedia Club --wget >http://user_name:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:47:05 +, Dick Gevers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: >On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:35:21 +0100, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie ques

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 9:14 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: >SNIP > > > > Open a terminal window enter > > su followed by your root password. > > (This makes you root user) > > Now type > > > > urpmi.addmedia Club > > http://user_name:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads2/comm/9.2 > > with ./hdlist.cz > > > > (th

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Anne, On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:35:21 +0100, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: >Hmm - I wonder then why I couldn't add the club source, then? I suppose because it doesn`t directly give

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 10:08 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:14:40 +0100, Anne Wilson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: > >Isn't it necessary to do some sort of login for the club > > downloads? >

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:14:40 +0100, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: >Isn't it necessary to do some sort of login for the club downloads? Only if you delete the cookies. It recognizes t

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:23 pm, S. Wieland wrote: > Thanks a bunch. > Everything worked out fine. > Well except d/l from mandrake club (i signed up for silver) but how do i > d/l stuff i searched for flash and such but theres no "download link" You can either browse the commercial area of t

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:23:30 -0700, S. Wieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks a bunch. Everything worked out fine. Well except d/l from mandrake club (i signed up for silver) but how do i d/l stuff i searched for flash and such but theres no "download link" Secondly when i come across a .run

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread S. Wieland
Thanks a bunch. Everything worked out fine. Well except d/l from mandrake club (i signed up for silver) but how do i d/l stuff i searched for flash and such but theres no "download link" Secondly when i come across a .run file do i want to click on it and let it load in the browser then after it

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:16 pm, S. Wieland wrote: > I first installed mandrake 9.1 on monday 10-20-03 and everything went > smoothly. I figured out how to use irc and mozilla and konquer.And so > yesterday after reading the mandrake starter pdf (on my win2k box) i got > the bright idea to re

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-11 Thread RichardA
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:24:04 -0500, "Wilson, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok so if I backup /home, does that also backup the user information > (username and passwds?) I know each user has a directory under /home. If you back up /home, you do back up personal data, but usernames and passwor

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:45, Wilson, Jack wrote: > I have a Mandrake 8.2 system that I have been using to learn mandrake > on. I have a few questions I hope someone might answer for me > > 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I > looked at Trend Micro's product, but th

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread Derek Jennings
> > > 3) if I have 2 ethernet cards, eth0 and eth1, and let's say I want to > > disable eth0 and just use eth1, how do I do that? > > Just for now? "ifconfig eth0 down". > Permanently? Not sure, why not just ignore it and not plug anything in? > Actually, there must be something in the init files

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread Nigel Wilkinson
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:53:15 -0500 "Wilson, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Mandrake 8.2 system that I have been using to learn mandrake > on. I have a few questions I hope someone might answer for me > > 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I > looked at

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread RichardA
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:53:15 -0500, "Wilson, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I > looked at Trend Micro's product, but their product only covers the > Redhat kernels. I am assuming you CANNOT compile a RedHat kernel in > Mandrake.

[newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread Wilson, Jack
I have a Mandrake 8.2 system that I have been using to learn mandrake on. I have a few questions I hope someone might answer for me   1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I looked at Trend Micro's product, but their product only covers the Redhat kernels. I am

[newbie] newbie questions

2003-09-10 Thread Wilson, Jack
I have a Mandrake 8.2 system that I have been using to learn mandrake on. I have a few questions I hope someone might answer for me 1) What antivirus platform seems to be the standard for Mandrake? I looked at Trend Micro's product, but their product only covers the Redhat kernels. I am assuming y

Re: [newbie] questions about mdk 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread manolis
I corrected gnome GUI that way. But kde doesn't correct itshelf with a removal of the $/.kde folder. I still cannot get the splash screen while loading the kde, and I get a network wizard each time I load the kde. The network wizard pops up BEFORE the desktop appear. Any advice? Στις Σαβ 26

Re: [newbie] questions about mdk 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
manolis wrote: I corrected gnome GUI that way. But kde doesn't correct itshelf with a removal of the $/.kde folder. I still cannot get the splash screen while loading the kde, and I get a network wizard each time I load the kde. The network wizard pops up BEFORE the desktop appear. Any advice

Re: [newbie] questions about mdk 9.1

2003-07-26 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Erylon Hines wrote: Looks to me like your .kde user is corrupted because all the other desktop GUI's work. Save the stuff you need from .kde (your address book is a big one), then rename the ~/.kde directory to something like .OLDkde. Try starting KDE again. It will probably work, creating a

Re: [newbie] questions about mdk 9.1

2003-07-26 Thread Erylon Hines
Looks to me like your .kde user is corrupted because all the other desktop GUI's work. Save the stuff you need from .kde (your address book is a big one), then rename the ~/.kde directory to something like .OLDkde. Try starting KDE again. It will probably work, creating a new ~/.kde in the p

Re: [newbie] questions about mdk 9.1

2003-07-25 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
manolis wrote: ??? 26 2003 02:35, ?/? Stephen Kuhn ??: Look - especially for a newbie, reinstallation ain't nothing more than a lesson - doing repeated installations only makes you smarter about how you're installing it, how you're making use of your disk space for optimal perform

Re: [newbie] questions about mdk 9.1

2003-07-25 Thread manolis
Στις Σαβ 26 Ιουλ 2003 02:35, ο/η Stephen Kuhn έγραψε: > > Look - especially for a newbie, reinstallation ain't nothing more than a > lesson - doing repeated installations only makes you smarter about how > you're installing it, how you're making use of your disk space for > optimal performance, wha

Re: [newbie] questions about mdk 9.1

2003-07-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 05:53, manolis wrote: > Hi to all the people in the list. I have some questions about my linux mdk > 9.1 installation. > > #1. After a "by-mistake" reset at the time the mdk 9.1 was doing fsck check > in my system. Some files have been lost. > The only way to find out what

[newbie] questions about mdk 9.1

2003-07-25 Thread manolis
Hi to all the people in the list. I have some questions about my linux mdk 9.1 installation. #1. After a "by-mistake" reset at the time the mdk 9.1 was doing fsck check in my system. Some files have been lost. The only way to find out what files are missing from my installation is kpackage tha

Re: [newbie] questions on apt-get

2002-12-01 Thread Barry Michels
I run Debian on my server and I think it's great. Just leave it running and it takes care of itself, apt-getting the latest updates automatically. I thought I'd give this a try on my Mandrake system. Synaptic has half of my system marked for removal! There's only 3 broken packages. When I tel

Re: [newbie] questions on apt-get

2002-11-30 Thread RCD
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 19:01:16 + Keith Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 30 Nov 2002 1:41 pm, Thought Progress wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am hearing a lot about how apt-get is the end all be all of > > dependency resolution. Can someone tell me.. > > > > 1. What is apt-get ?

Re: [newbie] questions on apt-get

2002-11-30 Thread Keith Powell
On Saturday 30 Nov 2002 1:41 pm, Thought Progress wrote: > Hello All, > > I am hearing a lot about how apt-get is the end all be all of > dependency resolution. Can someone tell me.. > > 1. What is apt-get ? > 2. Does it really work (ie is it worth learning about)? > > and > > 3. A good source to

[newbie] more newbie questions

2002-09-29 Thread William Chan
Thanks to those who helped answer my previous questions, and now I have some more. I'm planning on doing a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0. Before doing so, I'd like to know how I should partition my 15 gig hard drive. I'd like to run both a small web server and an ftp server for friends' to anon

Re: [newbie] Lots of Newbie Questions

2002-09-27 Thread robin
William Chan wrote: >Hi, > >I'm very new to Linux and decided I'd try Mandrake, >which seems cool so far. But, there are certain >things I've had troubles with: > >My sound does not play. I loaded Hard Drake, ran >sound care configuration, and when it says it is >playing an 8 bit sample, I don

[newbie] Lots of Newbie Questions

2002-09-26 Thread William Chan
Hi, I'm very new to Linux and decided I'd try Mandrake, which seems cool so far. But, there are certain things I've had troubles with: My sound does not play. I loaded Hard Drake, ran sound care configuration, and when it says it is playing an 8 bit sample, I don't hear anything. I have a ES

Re: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networki ng

2002-05-24 Thread Alan Tu
quot;Myers, Dennis R NWO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 07:53 Subject: RE: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networki ng > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networki ng

2002-05-24 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up dialup networking -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Tu Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] questions about modem and setting up

Re: [newbie] questions

2002-04-06 Thread Oder
On Saturday 06 April 2002 04:16 am, you wrote: > Robin wrote: > >On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 11:07, Oder wrote: > >>I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - > >> intel celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but > >> I still have some problems: > >>when

Re: [newbie] questions

2002-04-05 Thread civileme
Robin wrote: >On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 11:07, Oder wrote: > >>I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel >>celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still >>have some problems: >>when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes;

Re: [newbie] questions

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 16:07, Oder escribió: > > I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel > celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still > have some problems: > when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; > in t

Re: [newbie] questions

2002-04-05 Thread Robin
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 11:07, Oder wrote: > > I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel > celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still > have some problems: > when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; try run it

[newbie] questions

2002-04-05 Thread Oder
I have recently installed MDK 8.2 on my toshiba satellite 1800-s208 - intel celeron 1.1GHz with DVD-ROM/CD-RW. Installation went smoothly but I still have some problems: when I run xine, it appears for a second and then vanishes; in the desktop I have 2 icons of floppy - Floppy and Floppy2 -

Re: [newbie] Questions about some BIOS settings....

2002-04-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Tom Brinkman wrote: > Google 'bios settings', you'll get plenty of links with > explainations. For more concise/appropriate explaination, go to your > motherboard's web page, your bios' web page, or screen by screen > descriptions are probly also in your mobo's manual. > > Normall

Re: [newbie] Questions about some BIOS settings....

2002-04-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Femme wrote: > AFAIK they should be OFF. Apparently they are holdovers from DOS days when > it was necessary to cache some parts of memory b/c DOS couldn't do it > efficiently enough. > > For now, I believe all windows versions don't use or reference the bios at > all. > > I presume linux

Re: [newbie] Questions about some BIOS settings....

2002-04-02 Thread Femme
On Monday 01 April 2002 07:10 pm, you wrote: > Hey all. Just wondering, should video ram and BIOS be so that they are > cached or or not? I've always had them turned off, but recently turned them > on. Its the only thing I changed (besides my new HD) when I had all the > troubles with my Nvidia dr

Re: [newbie] Questions about some BIOS settings....

2002-04-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 01 April 2002 08:10 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hey all. Just wondering, should video ram and BIOS be so that they > are cached or or not? I've always had them turned off, but recently > turned them on. Its the only thing I changed (besides my new HD) > when I had all the troubles with m

[newbie] Questions about some BIOS settings....

2002-04-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hey all. Just wondering, should video ram and BIOS be so that they are cached or or not? I've always had them turned off, but recently turned them on. Its the only thing I changed (besides my new HD) when I had all the troubles with my Nvidia drivers. Thanks much! --

Re: [newbie] questions! TWO of them!! sort of...

2001-11-30 Thread Jon Doe
On Sat, 01 Dec 2001 03:56:54 + "Damian G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi..! how ya doin' ? ;oP > > > this time these are my questions.. > > i've noticed that when i log into windoze ( yes unfortunately i still use > it, however less and less often ) my zonealarm firewall logs > repeat

[newbie] questions! TWO of them!! sort of...

2001-11-30 Thread Damian G
hi..! how ya doin' ? ;oP this time these are my questions.. i've noticed that when i log into windoze ( yes unfortunately i still use it, however less and less often ) my zonealarm firewall logs repeated attempts from a single IP address trying to connect to my computer ( repeated = HUNDRED

Re: [newbie] Questions,questions and more questions from a potentialbuyer

2001-11-02 Thread Grant Fraser
> >1. Will Mandrake 8.1 run on my system? > >AMD-K6-2-500 > >64MB RAM > >SIS 530 on-board AGP 2x 8MB video RAM > >ES-SOLO on-board sound card > >Does Mandrake support the drivers for my devices? I have LM8.0 on my system. Bear in mind I have only been at this a few weeks. Under videocards I hav

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-02 Thread shane
well i can try on a few of these On Wednesday 31 October 2001 22:57, you spoke unto me thusly: > > 1. Will Mandrake 8.1 run on my system? get more ram. it will run, but ram is the best thing you can do to a linux box. > 2. Is Mandrake 8.1 vulnerable to viruses such as CIH or BIOS-infectin

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potentialbuyer

2001-11-02 Thread Randy Kramer
Jal wrote: > >1. Will Mandrake 8.1 run on my system? > >AMD-K6-2-500 > >64MB RAM > >SIS 530 on-board AGP 2x 8MB video RAM > >ES-SOLO on-board sound card > >Does Mandrake support the drivers for my devices? > > Drivers are rarely a problem on any Linux, especially for older devices. > There's almo

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-02 Thread Paul
In reply to John Hokanson Jr.'s words, written Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:51:44 -0800 >Yes, KDE 2.x is rather painful with only 64megs. :( Supposedly it is >the bare minimum. You're probably going to see a lot of swaping and >slowdown. GNOME isn't terribly better at this point. > >They supposedly do m

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potentialbuyer

2001-11-02 Thread Jal
Kumusta pare? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Dear Sir/Madam: > > >Good day! > >I am an avid gamer and I plan to migrate to Linux. The Windows upgrade is >too steep and the product requires me to upgrade my computer hardware as >well. I am sad that I have to pay expensive licenses and hardware for >Wi

RE: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-02 Thread Franki
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:57:03 +0800, "Michael Peligro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam: No need for formalities - this is a list where users help other users! :) >

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:57:03 +0800, "Michael Peligro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam: No need for formalities - this is a list where users help other users! :) > Good day! > > I am an avid gamer and I plan to migrate to Linux. The Windows upgrade is > too steep and the product requi

[newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-01 Thread Michael Peligro
Dear Sir/Madam: Good day! I am an avid gamer and I plan to migrate to Linux. The Windows upgrade is too steep and the product requires me to upgrade my computer hardware as well. I am sad that I have to pay expensive licenses and hardware for Windows XP only to get an operating system that is t

Re: [newbie] Newbie questions

2001-06-08 Thread Jeff Needle
> > >Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842 >Ok, then Kppp must not be installed. you can check that with software manager >by doing a find kppp and if it is not installable then you should have it >somewhere. I am guessing that it didn't install. So if you have a "software >manager " icon on

Re: [newbie] Newbie questions

2001-06-08 Thread Jeff Needle
When I click on Networking, I get the following submenu, with their submenus: File Transfer Lftp Instant Messenger Gaim Mail Netscape Messenger News Netscape Collabra WWW Bookmark Editor Konqueror Web Browser Links Lynx

Re: [newbie] Newbie questions

2001-06-08 Thread Jeff Needle
Thanks for this! I'll give it a try. >Not Command Center (not correct name) or Control Center. If you are using >KDE then you click on the Kpanel icon and on the pop up list click on >networking >remote access>internet dialer >Kppp . All of your connection >settings should be configurable fr

[newbie] Questions during Install

2001-05-26 Thread Damodaran Raja
Hi all. I have a three year old Compaq Presario computer that I want Mandrake 7.2 installed in. When I inserted the disks and rebooted the computer, there was a problem with detection of the CD ROM. I was asked to pick a cd rom from a list. Mine [Matshita] wasn't on the list. I picked *ide cd

Re: [newbie] Questions for LM8

2001-05-12 Thread Tim Holmes
Hey Marcia. First off. If you have a stable 7.2 going right now, I wouldn't rush out and install 8.0 just yet. A lot of people have run into problems with the install and boot of 8.0. I had two myself, but with my experience I resolved the problem and everything is fine now. So if your 7.2 in

Re: [newbie] Questions for LM8

2001-05-11 Thread marcia
Thank you Randy, Kompukit, and Dennis for your answers and suggestions. I am not sure exactly how I will do this yet. It sounds like 8 is worth having so I will not wait too long. Thank you again. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] Questions for LM8

2001-05-11 Thread Randy Kramer
marcia wrote: > > Dear All, I have received my LM8 disks and I am getting excited about > installing. I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2. Is it better to update or do a > fresh install? I'm not sure. I tried a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 and had trouble with my video card (which isn't supported in XFr

[newbie] Questions for LM8

2001-05-11 Thread marcia
Dear All, I have received my LM8 disks and I am getting excited about installing. I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2. Is it better to update or do a fresh install? Would I be able to do a fresh install in expert mode and preserve my home partition somehow? I have my 7.2 so fine tuned with alot of added p

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2001-01-22 Thread John Catral
--- Riza Manshuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello forum > i just installed my first linux, and intend to do > that for a small networking. i have several > questions (sorry if my english is bad): > 1. My sound card is Yamaha PCI. how come my linux > don't detect it ? is it not compatible

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2001-01-22 Thread Riza Manshuri
- Original Message - edited-- > What type of modem do you have? Is it Linux-compatible? Err..i'm not sure..it's just a usual plain 56 K modem with a rockwell chipset. when i detect it in harddrak, the result is unknown.should i change it ?? > Also, please don't post in HTML

Re: [newbie] newbie questions

2001-01-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:58, Riza Manshuri wrote: > hello forum > i just installed my first linux, and intend to do that for a small > networking. i have several questions (sorry if my english is bad): 1. My > sound card is Yamaha PCI. how come my linux don't detect it ? is it not > compatible y

[newbie] newbie questions

2001-01-22 Thread Riza Manshuri
hello forum i just installed my first linux, and intend to do that for a small networking. i have several questions (sorry if my english is bad): 1. My sound card is Yamaha PCI. how come my linux don't detect it ? is it not compatible yet ? what should i do ? 2. i have configured the bas

[newbie] Questions triggered by "glibconfig.h not found"

2000-09-26 Thread Rick Commo
Not sure if this question belongs here or in [expert], so I'll start here since I've just subscribed to both. I am a fairly recent Mandrake 7.1 user. After purchasing "GTK+ / Gnome Applications Development" I needed to install the various support libraries. I used RPMDrake and installed a bunch

[newbie] Questions on rlogin

2000-09-05 Thread Susana Duarte Flores
Hello everybody! I'm trapped in the following situation: I have a LAN network and I used to have the Linux Red Hat 6.0 distribution; but I have bought the Mandrake 7.0 distribution and installed it in all the machines (except one). The problem I have is that I can start a remote session only

Re: [newbie] Questions

2000-06-18 Thread nikolaos mpenias
Check www.tucows.com There are many programs for mapping and for GPS. Try Grass4.3 I've heard that it's the best. >From: "Mark Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [newbie] Questions >Date: Tue,

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