[newbie] How do I...

2005-03-29 Thread Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores
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Re: [newbie] How do I...

2005-03-29 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 07:32 pm, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: Hello, how can I unsubscribe from the list? Regards, Fernando Gómez. P.S. Sorry that I didn't include in the subject something like How do I unsubscribe, because when I did, the email server thought it was a command

Re: [newbie] How do I...

2005-03-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 06:46 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: look at the maillists site where you first subscribed it will tell you how to unsub. HTH The headers of any list message gives unsubscribe info too. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] How do I install Mdk on USB harddisk?

2005-03-09 Thread Mogens Neupart
Hi there, I have a laptop with an external Maxtor harddisk connected through a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card. My internal harddisk is taken up by a Windows partition. I would like to install Mdk on the external harddisk with LILO in MBR but when I boot with the CD-ROM it is only the internal

[newbie] how do I do an absolute minimal install on mini-itx system?

2005-02-05 Thread magnet
Hi all, I am trying to find out some basics for getting linux installed on a mini-itx motherboard 1.2Ghz C3 Processor using a compact flash memory card as a bootable silent harddrive. Card size would be either 512mb or 1gb but the smaller I can get away with would obviously save some expense.

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread John Retermeyer
It still broken my file looks like this. # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; } remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread John Retermeyer
It still broken my file looks like this. # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; } remove snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe -r

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Saturday 29 January 2005 14:56, John Retermeyer wrote: It still broken my file looks like this. # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 { /sbin/modprobe

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread John Retermeyer
OPSSS!! Thank you very much. Also someone else told me to add the noapic command in the lilo.conf file Like this: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent Now it works, thank you

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-18 Thread John Retermeyer
Sorry it diodnot work. I typed in all what you said to type in and it broke. --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 January 2005 12:47 am, John Retermeyer wrote: alias sound-slot-0 audigy # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- But you don't have an audigy.

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:32 pm, John Retermeyer wrote: Sorry it diodnot work. I typed in all what you said to type in and it broke. Did you put it in exactly as it showed up in the mail, because if yea, that would ot work This should all be on one line install snd-emu10k1

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-16 Thread John Retermeyer
very good sir, here is what the file /etc/modprobe.conf contains: # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command alias eth0 via-rhine remove snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1 install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 January 2005 12:47 am, John Retermeyer wrote: alias sound-slot-0 audigy # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- But you don't have an audigy. Shouldn't this be snd-emu10k1, like this alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 and this should not be there alias snd-0

[newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-15 Thread John Retermeyer
Running mdk 10.1 sound card is a pci soundblaster sblive 5.1 already ran the hardrake tool for the sound card. all info (that I know of) is provided below, if need more please ask. Linux localhost 2.6.8.1-12mdk #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ unknown GNU/Linux

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 15 January 2005 04:52 am, John Retermeyer wrote: Running mdk 10.1 sound card is a pci soundblaster sblive 5.1 already ran the hardrake tool for the sound card. post contents of /etc/modprobe.conf Anne, you have this card, don't you? -- /g

[newbie] How do I edit a hdlist.cz file?

2004-06-28 Thread Lanman
Can anyone tell me what editor to use if I want to edit an hdlist.cz file? I'm thinking about scaling down Mandrake 10.0 to a single CD and I need to be able to edit the file. Any help would be appreciated! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] How do I edit a hdlist.cz file?

2004-06-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 28 June 2004 02:49 pm, Lanman wrote: Can anyone tell me what editor to use if I want to edit an hdlist.cz file? I'm thinking about scaling down Mandrake 10.0 to a single CD and I need to be able to edit the file. Any help would be appreciated! It is a binary file and I don't think

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-06-04 Thread M.Schild
As far as I know, you can't open an Excel password-protected file in OpenOffice. Get the sender to save the file again, without the password, and send you the new version - then it should open OK. There are utilities to do this: http://lastbit.com/excel/default.asp else you can

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-28 Thread M.Schild
Are you sure this is an Excel file? IF it is really an Excel file, it should open with OpenOffice, BUT the .exe file extension is *not* an Excel file - it is a Windows executable (program) file! I suggest you double-check with the sender before attempting to open it... Ye it is an Excel

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-28 Thread Margot
M.Schild wrote: Are you sure this is an Excel file? IF it is really an Excel file, it should open with OpenOffice, BUT the .exe file extension is *not* an Excel file - it is a Windows executable (program) file! I suggest you double-check with the sender before attempting to open it... Ye it is an

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:02, Margot wrote: M.Schild wrote: Are you sure this is an Excel file? IF it is really an Excel file, it should open with OpenOffice, BUT the .exe file extension is *not* an Excel file - it is a Windows executable (program) file! I suggest you double-check with the

[newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-27 Thread M.Schild
I received an Excel .exe attachment. I know it is safe. How do I open it, please? I have Mk 9.1 Thanks Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-27 Thread Paul Kaplan
koffice 1.3 - free openoffice.org 1.1 - free or if you need more general MS Office compatibility you can use Wine (free) or Codeweaver's wine (free demo, but $), Netraverse ($) VMWare ($$$) and run Excel natively. On Thursday 27 May 2004 12:44 pm, M.Schild wrote: I received an Excel .exe

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-27 Thread Johan
Hi, First you must save the file to disk..say in Documents..then you can double click on it while in konqueror..or..right click and see what choices you have to open with..maybe the needed software is already installed. Johan Sch On Thu, 27 May 2004 12:51:05 -0400 Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-27 Thread Margot
M.Schild wrote: I received an Excel .exe attachment. I know it is safe. How do I open it, please? I have Mk 9.1 Thanks Maryse Are you sure this is an Excel file? IF it is really an Excel file, it should open with OpenOffice, BUT the .exe file extension is *not* an Excel file - it is a Windows

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 27 May 2004 18:44, M.Schild wrote: I received an Excel .exe attachment. I know it is safe. How do I open it, please? I have Mk 9.1 Thanks Maryse urpmi openoffice as root good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 15:19, Marc Resnick wrote: Phil Savoie wrote: On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-11 Thread Stephen Reynolds
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:50 am, Marc Resnick wrote: $ cat /etc/mandrake-release [EMAIL PROTECTED] steve]$ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 Oops... How did that happen? I wanted a reasonably stable installation, how did I end up with a Cooker installation?

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-11 Thread Phil Savoie
On April 11, 2004 02:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 15:19, Marc Resnick wrote: Phil Savoie wrote: On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried

[newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Todd Slater
Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:33:42 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. cat

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Phil Savoie
On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Hi Todd, Try cat /etc/redhat-release

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread robin
Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Does anything come up on the splash screen at boot? You could also check by

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Marc Resnick
robin wrote: Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Does anything come up on the splash screen at boot? You could

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 06:33, Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Y'are joking, right mate? cat

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Marc Resnick
Phil Savoie wrote: On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Hi Todd,

[newbie] how do I kill crashed program

2004-04-03 Thread hugenots
Haiz newbie, I have installed xing player, bt it sometimes stops responding! maybe some damaged media file or what, bt the question is how do I kill it or restart i know terminam comand kill, bt is there any lame way I'm running MD 9.1 and KDE (default version i gues)

Re: [newbie] how do I kill crashed program

2004-04-03 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op zaterdag 3 april 2004 15:36, schreef hugenots: i know terminam comand kill, bt is there any lame way crtl + alt + esc and you can kill a program with your cursor... even your windowmanager :-) HTH ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 02:15, J Adam Latham wrote: Hi, All ... Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my Mail dir) I was disappointed to discover that my KMail settings (identities, networks,

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-29 Thread J Adam Latham
On Sunday 29 February 2004 08:08 am, Derek Jennings wrote: : On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 02:15, J Adam Latham wrote: : Hi, All ... : : Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a : disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my : Mail dir) I was

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-28 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: Hi, All ... Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my Mail dir) I was disappointed to discover that my KMail settings (identities,

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-28 Thread J Adam Latham
On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:25 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : Hi, All ... : : Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a : disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my : Mail

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-28 Thread Marc Resnick
On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:36 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:25 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : Hi, All ... : : Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a : disc. But when I

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-28 Thread J Adam Latham
On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:40 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:36 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:25 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : : Hi, All ... : : : : Today I had to

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-28 Thread aron Smith
On Saturday 28 February 2004 07:27 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:40 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:36 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: : On Saturday 28 February 2004 06:25 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: : : On Saturday 28 February 2004 09:15 pm, J Adam

[newbie] How do i make my folder into 3 bootable CD?

2004-02-24 Thread jianming ng
Dear newbie-mandrake-support-team, I got the link from the mandrake website and i'm very interested this OS. I downloaded all the files from ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/9.2/i586/ May i know how do i make all of this files into 3 or 4 Bootable disc, so i can keep and install using CD?

Re: [newbie] How do i make my folder into 3 bootable CD?

2004-02-24 Thread Paul
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:01, jianming ng wrote: Dear newbie-mandrake-support-team, I got the link from the mandrake website and i'm very interested this OS. I downloaded all the files from ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/9.2/i586/ May i know how do i make all of this files

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Johan
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't hold me to it. What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake?

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a machine currently setup with Win2000 (6GB) and SUSE 9.0 taking up the remainder of an 80GB hard drive. I downloaded the ISOs for Mandrake 10 Beta 2 and wanted to give it a try on this machine. I'm currently using GRUB as my bootloader. How would I go about

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't hold me to it. What should I

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Johan
Hi, Well..NO NO NO or YES YES YES here is my menu.lst from the mbr starting various OS flavors effortlessly. But you should know what you are doing..thats linux..various ways to reach succes..but the choice is yours.. Goodluck Johan title Windows XP Home hdg1 root (hd1,0) map (0x81)

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 February 2004 10:03 am, Johan wrote: Hi, Well..NO NO NO or YES YES YES here is my menu.lst from the mbr starting various OS flavors effortlessly. But you should know what you are doing..thats linux..various ways to reach succes..but the choice is yours.. I agree,

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 09:42, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33,

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:20 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: So I guess I still don't understand: 1) Will Mandrake offer the ability to resize my ReiserFS SUSE partition? I do not know the answer to this question. I have never tried to resize a reiserFS partition. 2) Will Mandrake share

[newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-13 Thread Trey Sizemore
I have a machine currently setup with Win2000 (6GB) and SUSE 9.0 taking up the remainder of an 80GB hard drive. I downloaded the ISOs for Mandrake 10 Beta 2 and wanted to give it a try on this machine. I'm currently using GRUB as my bootloader. How would I go about installing Mandrake such that

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-13 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:17 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: How would I go about installing Mandrake such that I have a triple boot environment? When it boots up from the CD, you need to resize SuSE. If you have Reiser FS it may be hard, but don;t give up. You need the SuSE partition to be

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-13 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't hold me to it. What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake? MBR? Thanks -- Cheers, Trey --- No lake so still but that it has its wave; No

Re: [newbie] How do I restore original URPMI.cfg settings

2004-01-16 Thread cosnet1
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 04:57, Johan wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:06:19 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an effort to get a steady and current stream of Mandrake updates for version 9.2 I was testing different mirrors and settings. Anyway, I got it so mucked up at some point that I did

Re: [newbie] How do I restore original URPMI.cfg settings

2004-01-15 Thread Johan
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:06:19 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an effort to get a steady and current stream of Mandrake updates for version 9.2 I was testing different mirrors and settings. Anyway, I got it so mucked up at some point that I did the wrong thing.. I did the urpmi.removemedia

[newbie] How do I restore original URPMI.cfg settings

2004-01-14 Thread cosnet1
In an effort to get a steady and current stream of Mandrake updates for version 9.2 I was testing different mirrors and settings. Anyway, I got it so mucked up at some point that I did the wrong thing.. I did the urpmi.removemedia -a which of course deleted everything.. I would like to restore

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:06 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:41:07 + Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going to boot/Drakboot then advanced and in the dropdown

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread John Richard Smith
mike wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I've got a B/W boot script back, It seems to work this way, When boosplash packages are installed, which happened in my case when I reinstalled deleted kernel from CD1 To get a text based boot script , Edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash set SPLASH=no

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be: mkinitrd -f

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be:

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread mike
John Richard Smith wrote: mike wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I've got a B/W boot script back, It seems to work this way, When boosplash packages are installed, which happened in my case when I reinstalled deleted kernel from CD1 To get a text based boot script , Edit

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 02:43 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: GR John, thanks for posting the image - I *never* would have understood GR that was what you were seeing. I just spent an hour trying to make that GR happen under 9.2, and no matter what

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
mike wrote: The blue screen like I said I just removed the splash package with --nodep. Perhaps changing the lilo.config specifically what change ? then running lilo -v might tell us something I'll try that after I back it up. And see what happens. Anyways I was able to change it with the

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Chris wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 07:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John John, are you talking about this entry in

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 05:38 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: GR But it will - if you just hit escape during the bootup process, right? GR GR I switched to LILO graphics for booting. If I hit escape while the LILO GR graphics menu is up, it simply switches to the LILO

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
mike wrote: mike wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=menu vga=791 default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 15 December 2003 4:03 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: [..] Open lilo.conf in the editor of your choice and change the append: splash=quiet to splash=verbose. You'll still get the 'fancy background' but you'll see the messages scroll

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 15 December 2003 03:56 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ? John, I just jumped in on this thread, but it *is* the bootsplash that

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 03:56 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ? John, I just jumped in on this

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be: mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img 2.4.21-0.13mdk May I come back to this see prior email,

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be: mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img 2.4.21-0.13mdk Can I first understand what we are doing

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-16 Thread mike
John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I've got a B/W boot script back, It seems to work this way, When boosplash packages are installed, which happened in my case when I reinstalled deleted kernel from CD1 To get a text based boot script , Edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash set SPLASH=no Edit

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John, I'm unclear if you are referring to the initial boot menu screen (I saw in

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
mike wrote: I boot to run level 3 and use Xtart to get to my window managers. I use lilo in text mode which is a small blue window with the choices. If your talking about the big blue splash screen kinda like a monitor inside of a monitor that shows boot messages, I tried once before to find a

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 09:48, John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John I uninstalled bootsplash urpme bootsplash

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Jerry Barton
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:25:47 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just recently after replacing the deleted kernel that it has gone back to that sqashed into a small white window on blue background boot screen , and I don't like the presentation it's too small , too cramped

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Jerry Barton
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:41:07 + Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going to boot/Drakboot then advanced and in the dropdown menu selecting lilo with text menu instead of lilo with graphical menu? I don't pay a whole lot

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 08:48, John Richard Smith wrote: I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen. It must be something simple, but what? John I've read the rest of this thread, and

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Jerry Barton wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:41:07 + Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going to boot/Drakboot then advanced and in the dropdown menu selecting lilo with text menu instead of lilo with graphical menu? I

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:52:24 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ? John, I have not been closely following this thread but if you are running 9.2 the configuration option you

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Paul
On 12/15/2003 06:05 PM, John Richard Smith wrote: Charlie, Isn't that to remove the gui splash screen if so that is not what I'm trying to do. I want to get back to the B/W full screen width boot script. I want a good screen resolution vga=791 is what I always choose. Did you have a look at

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:05:57 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that to remove the gui splash screen if so that is not what I'm trying to do. The bootsplash and theme are all tied in together. If you boot with splash=no all you will get is a b/w screen with the text

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Guy Rouillier
John Richard Smith wrote: OK I've attatched dscioo21.jpg which is not a particularly sharp image but does to demonstate what I DO NOT WANT. How do I get back to what I want ? John, thanks for posting the image - I *never* would have understood that was what you were seeing. I just spent an hour

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:05:57 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that to remove the gui splash screen if so that is not what I'm trying to do. The bootsplash and theme are all tied in together. If you boot with splash=no all you will get is a

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 15 December 2003 12:39 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:05:57 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that to remove the gui splash screen if so that is not what I'm trying to do. The bootsplash and

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK I've attatched dscioo21.jpg which is not a particularly sharp image but does to demonstate what I DO NOT WANT. How do I get back to what I want ? John, thanks for posting the image - I *never* would have understood that was what you were

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 15 December 2003 12:43 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK I've attatched dscioo21.jpg which is not a particularly sharp image but does to demonstate what I DO NOT WANT. How do I get back to what I want ? John,

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:16:01 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, here is what I think John wants : That is what I also thought and that is what he will get with splash=no Charles -- I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 19:39, Charles A Edwards wrote: snip That is what you want is it not? /snip Charles, here is what I think John wants : Attached image. Kaj Haulrich. That is the very thing I want, but not in some low resolution screen setting. I use

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 15 December 2003 02:43 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: GR John, thanks for posting the image - I *never* would have understood GR that was what you were seeing. I just spent an hour trying to make that GR happen under 9.2, and no matter what combinations I tried, I couldn't GR get the OK

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 15 December 2003 02:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: JR Yes, well I'm stuck with it for the moment. JR I have seen it before, and delt with it before, but for the life of me I JR cannot remember what I did to change it back to what I want. It's some JR text editor job as far can

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 15 December 2003 04:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ? John, I just jumped in on this thread, but it *is* the bootsplash that is giving you the blue background. I am not talking about the LILO bootsplash

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 15 December 2003 01:58 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Indeed I still boot M9.0 which I still have on, today , in this guise, it's just M9.1 I am having trouble with, ever since I replaced that the kernel I deleted, and I just cannot get back to the way it was. If you think

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 02:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: JR Yes, well I'm stuck with it for the moment. JR I have seen it before, and delt with it before, but for the life of me I JR cannot remember what I did to change it back to what I want. It's some JR text

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 04:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ? John, I just jumped in on this thread, but it *is* the bootsplash that is giving you the blue background. I am not talking about

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