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

2003-03-06 Thread civileme
On Thursday 06 March 2003 07:55 am, 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)

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

2003-03-06 Thread civileme
: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - 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

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

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
- Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Ummm, first of all, please set your mailer to plain text messages. I had to retrieve yours from

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

2003-03-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 07:34, civileme wrote: Diane, I think you have an older computer with a CD that expects 650Mb CD media. Mandrake 9.0 is distributed on 700Mb (80 minute audio) CD media, and older drives often have difficulty booting from though not normally reading, the later media.

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

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
- they are set as per my last post with system specs. My internet connection is dial-up, and not very fast at all. Diane - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help

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

2003-03-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 07:51, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hello Civileme, Oops - sorry about the HTML - I didn't realize it wasn't set to plain text. OK - info about my computer. It's a HP Pavilion 7915, and I purchased it from a company that sells factory overstocks from HP. It came hardware

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

2003-03-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:09:22AM -0800, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Graham Watkins
Diane Arsenault wrote: Hello Civileme, Oops - sorry about the HTML - I didn't realize it wasn't set to plain text. - 128 Mb SDRAM PC 100, 2 DIMM sockets. I had 128 Mb added, for a total of 256. (NOTE - when the BIOS fires up it report 255 Mb's, not 256) - 40 Gb 5400 RPM Hard Drive - 48x

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

2003-03-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday March 6 2003 12:09 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO 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 Di, are you sure the drive jumpers are set as such. Many Windoze computers

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

2003-03-06 Thread Yoel P. Krigsman
] 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 placed my Cd-ROM drive at the top of the boot priority list, but some reason I can't boot from

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

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thursday March 6 2003 12:09 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO 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 Di, are you

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

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 19:37, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi Tom, No, I haven' ttried these CD's on anohter system - Good thought. I'll be sure to try that before I pack this thing up and send 'er back! Bravo -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo

[newbie] Need help installing gnucash

2003-01-26 Thread cwhmlist
Hello all, I need some help. I am new to Mandrake but not new to Linux. Anyway, I found a website that talked about adding package sources and I have added several (http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/12/03/mandrake_9_getting_more_software.html). Using the information provided, I have tryied

Re: [newbie] Need help installing gnucash

2003-01-26 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I need some help. I am new to Mandrake but not new to Linux. Anyway, I found a website that talked about adding package sources and I have added several

Re: Re: [newbie] Need help installing gnucash

2003-01-26 Thread cwhmlist
From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/01/26 Sun PM 09:45:57 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Need help installing gnucash On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I need some help. I am new to Mandrake but not new to Linux. Anyway

Re: Re: [newbie] Need help installing gnucash

2003-01-26 Thread civileme
On Sunday 26 January 2003 06:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/01/26 Sun PM 09:45:57 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Need help installing gnucash On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I

Re: [newbie] Need help for Sound in Mandrake 9.0 using VT8233 (AC97sound chip)

2002-12-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Ralph De Witt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 December 2002 02:18 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Ralph De Witt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I am using a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 mobo. That has a VT 8233 AC97 sound chip using the

[newbie] Need help for Sound in Mandrake 9.0 using VT8233 (AC97 sound chip)

2002-12-17 Thread Ralph De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I am using a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 mobo. That has a VT 8233 AC97 sound chip using the snd-via8233 sound driver. My problem is that sound in my games is choppy, almost a stutter. This is true for the Mandrake games that installed from the DVD as well

Re: [newbie] Need help for Sound in Mandrake 9.0 using VT8233 (AC97sound chip)

2002-12-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Ralph De Witt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I am using a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 mobo. That has a VT 8233 AC97 sound chip using the snd-via8233 sound driver. My problem is that sound in my games is choppy, almost a stutter. This is true for the Mandrake games that installed

Re: [newbie] Need help for Sound in Mandrake 9.0 using VT8233 (AC97 sound chip)

2002-12-17 Thread Ralph De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 December 2002 02:18 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Ralph De Witt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I am using a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 mobo. That has a VT 8233 AC97 sound chip using the snd-via8233 sound driver. My

[newbie] Need help with CDROM Copying

2002-12-01 Thread Ralph De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I have just done a new install of Mandrake 9.0 on a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 motherboard. I am having some problems with the DVD/CDrom. When I open a cdrom to copy files to the hard drive the system is loosing files and directories from the cd and a

Re: [newbie] Need Help configuring Mozilla/*.pdf

2002-07-30 Thread Erylon Hines
Since no one could answer this question, I spent several hours looking for the solution. My problem stems from the plugger.so plug-in having already registered the pdf mime type to xpdf. Here is what I found about how to fix it and make Adobe Acrobat the default app for opening *.pdf files

[newbie] Need Help configuring Mozilla/*.pdf

2002-07-28 Thread Erylon Hines
I have a site that I must get *.pdf forms from, but xpdf persists in cutting off one side so that I cannot print the form correctly. I discovered that the Linux version of Acrobat does not do this, but Mozilla persists in opening all *.pdf files with xpdf, even though I have set acroread to

[newbie] need help with X-config

2002-06-16 Thread n1uan2
Hi I been trying to config X and not having much luck i have an ATI xpert 128 pci video card and an philps 109S monitor and it seem i have try so many settings but not doing something right if someone could tell me what settings i hould be adding and where thi would be an big help thanks in

Re: [newbie] Need help on GAIM

2002-06-16 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 June 2002 9:32 am, _nasturtium wrote: Hello, I'm using GAIM (i downloaded MEGS of everybuddy mdk rpms and none worked!) and i've loaded the msn plugin. I can instant message, join chatrooms(MSN) but i can't start a

Re: [newbie] need help with Mandrake crashing problem

2002-05-15 Thread Robin Turner
Yay, got a sort of 8.2 running! Turned out it was the new kernel my system didn't like. What I found worked in the end was: 1. Boot from 8.2 disk (expert mode) 2. Select upgrade packages only 3. Boot with old-linux (i.e. the old kernel) In fact I only upgraded the packages I needed - you

Re: [newbie] need help with Mandrake crashing problem

2002-05-15 Thread Stormjumper
hi Robin, can i check the version numbers of the following components? 1. kernel 2. xfree 3. any other you think may be helpful. - Original Message - From: Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] need help

Re: [newbie] need help with Mandrake crashing problem

2002-05-12 Thread Stormjumper
on this topic, pls do post it on this list. thanks again. - Original Message - From: Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with Mandrake crashing problem On Friday 10 May 2002 07:33, Stormjumper wrote

Re: [newbie] need help with Mandrake crashing problem

2002-05-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 12 May 2002 12:05, Stormjumper wrote: thanks for all the suggestions. i do not have interrupt conflicts, so thta isn't the problem. this issue seems to be common, altho not widespread amongst the recent distributions, as i've tried Mandrake 8.2, Peanut 9.2, gentoo 1.1a, so it

Re: [newbie] need help with Mandrake crashing problem

2002-05-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Sunday 12 May 2002 09:05 pm, Stormjumper wrote: snip when i'm free, hopefully in abt 2 weeks, i'll try to compile a early kernel, with Mandrake 8.2 in console mode, and see if my X will run w/o crashing. (any suggestions? was thinking of 2.4.10 vanilla) the other possiblility may be X

Re: [newbie] Need help with inittab

2002-04-30 Thread Paul
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:08:51 -0700 Eric wrote: I changed a line in this and now I can't boot up. Is there any way back in so I can change it back? Boot from the installation CD, hit F1 for more options and type rescue at the prompt (without the quotes) That gets you into your system. Paul --

Re: [newbie] Need help with inittab

2002-04-30 Thread Barry Premeaux
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 01:08 am, you wrote: I changed a line in this and now I can't boot up. Is there any way back in so I can change it back? Mithrilhall's Linux Server AMD-K2 350MHz http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net This email has been scanned

Re: [newbie] Need help with inittab

2002-04-30 Thread Diego García
may if you must try to recover from one backup file, please rename your old inittab files, eveven worst but an idea, you can use another inittab files and cfombine with your old corrupted files. Be carefully, not all services will be running corectly but this is an start point. Dr. gz Eric

[newbie] Need help with inittab

2002-04-29 Thread Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=-
I changed a line in this and now I can't boot up. Is there any way back in so I can change it back? Mithrilhall's Linux Server AMD-K2 350MHz http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net This email has been scanned with Norton AntiVirus

[newbie] Need help with Newspro

2002-02-06 Thread Jesse Angell
I've tried to install newspro on my linux mandrake 8.1 server. .. . It's a perl script, when I try to run it in linux I get the following error Access Forbidden Error 403 ... I chmoded the files 777, and chmoded /usr/bin/perl 777 and still get the error whats the problem??? Jesse Angell

[newbie] Need help on Cisco806

2002-02-05 Thread Tuan Tran
Hi all, I just bought a Cisco806 router. This is education price (about 50% off) so I can not get any support from Cisco. Now, I have Cisco IOS Firewall Features Set software which also available for free download. I don't know how install this software on this router. Do I MUST use console port

Re: [newbie] Need help using a usb SanDisk cardreader

2002-01-13 Thread Bryan S.Tyson
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Dave wrote: I am having problems getting images from my usb sandisk cardreader. Any ideas how I can access the sandisk? Hopefully as if it was just another drive? modprobe usb-storage mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /compactflash (or whatever mount point you want)

[newbie] need help on erase glibc-devel-2.2.4-18mdk rpm

2002-01-01 Thread eric
Dear linux-mandrake users: I ever upgrade glibc-devel from 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 but it seem not nice to compile my c++ program-many compile error, so I decide to erase 2.2.4 then reinstall 2.2.2 but when I do erase by rpm -e glibc-devel-2.2.4 [root@localhost ~/c_program]# rpm -e glibc-devel-2.2.4

Re: [newbie] need help on erase glibc-devel-2.2.4-18mdk rpm

2002-01-01 Thread Paul
On Tue, 01 Jan 2002 07:48:32 -0500, eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear linux-mandrake users: I ever upgrade glibc-devel from 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 but it seem not nice to compile my c++ program-many compile error, so I decide to erase 2.2.4 then reinstall 2.2.2 but when I do erase by rpm -e

RE: [newbie] need help on erase glibc-devel-2.2.4-18mdk rpm

2002-01-01 Thread Franki
rpm -e glibc-devel-2.2.4 --nodeps then put the old one back on. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of eric Sent: Tuesday, 1 January 2002 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] need help on erase glibc

[newbie] Need help using a usb SanDisk cardreader

2001-12-22 Thread David
Hi all, I am having problems getting images from my usb sandisk cardreader. I have configured my Kensington usb webcam.and had some success at making it workbut what I really want to work is my usb SanDisk cardreader. I have a hp digital camera with a 64mb sandisk and would love

Re: [newbie] Need help to setup LOCAL DOMAIN

2001-11-26 Thread Michael Viron
At 11:52 PM 11/25/2001 -0700, you wrote: Hi, Could please give an example of what you meant by Network Filesystem? Typically this is a drive (in Windows) or a filesystem (in linux) that is mounted from a different PC / server either via nfs (for linux) or via samba (for windows). Michael --

[newbie] Need help to setup LOCAL DOMAIN

2001-11-25 Thread Tuan Tran
Hi, Could any of you please tell me how to setup my Linux server acts like local (intranet) domain for all other computers (Win Linux). Do I need to use any kind of software to setup local domain? What software is need to setup proxy server on Linux machine? What is the difference between proxy

Re: [newbie] Need help to setup LOCAL DOMAIN

2001-11-25 Thread lee
Most on here seem to prefer squid for proxy software.It's available in mdk 8.1 I know for sure,or from squid-cache.org. There's a config file under etc directory..something like /etc/squid/config :-) ok..definitions.I'll do the best I can here,altho there are others that can no doubt explain

Re: [newbie] Need help to setup LOCAL DOMAIN

2001-11-25 Thread CmdrRoot
Alright...From what I know here is what I think/can remeber To serve windoze computers you want to use SAMBA, an open source implementation of SMB.A GUI tool for this is GNOMBA. To serve Linux Windoze computers depending on how many you have, I reccomend setting up a Network Filesystem that

Re: [newbie] Need help to setup LOCAL DOMAIN

2001-11-25 Thread Frank McKenna
Hi, Could please give an example of what you meant by Network Filesystem? recomend setting up a Network Filesystem that serves all the clients as though they where on. Basically (cuz you wanted GUI stuff) setting up a proxy server could probably be done in mandrake control centre

[newbie] Need help installing DVD

2001-11-14 Thread JDRadio
Miark, I did the ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/dvd and now show /dev/dvd. I can read cdroms with the drive but with vlc It doesn't display any dvd play lists or seem to access the drive. If I use a file manager to look at the dvd disk then it shows audio.ts and video.ts Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to

Re: [newbie] Need help with rpmdrake

2001-10-24 Thread Newbie
Oh, not yet, what is the url to the new rpmdrake? On Tuesday 23 October 2001 09:56 pm, you wrote: Have you tried upgrading to the newest version of rpmdrake from one of the ftp's on the website? I had a similar problem, but it was cleared up by updating rpmdrake. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue,

[newbie] Need help with rpmdrake

2001-10-22 Thread Newbie
I don't understand these errors. How can I fix my rpmdrake? It will not update my list of mirrors, so I can't do any updates. rpmdrake * Connected to www.linux-mandrake.com (63.209.80.235) GET /mirrorsfull.list HTTP/1.1 Host: www.linux-mandrake.com Pragma: no-cache Accept: image/gif,

Re: [newbie] Need Help

2001-09-27 Thread poogle
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 22:11, you wrote: Does anyone know how I can change the email address that i get these messages sent to??? Thanks Jeff How about unsubscribing using your current e mail address and then subscribing again with your new one ? -- Poogle Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Need help with Squid

2001-09-13 Thread Robt. Miller
If I do that I can't even get the Access Configuration error - maybe because it doesn't know about port 3128? Is this supposed to work without configuring it as a proxy? On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:24:32 -0400, etharp wrote: try turing off the proxy selection in win98 On Wednesday 12 September

Re: [newbie] Need help with Squid

2001-09-13 Thread Robt. Miller
Are the IP tables something I'm supposed to build? Does my squid.conf look ok to you? If not, can you email yours privately? On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:37:59 -0400, etharp wrote: yep, as i understand it, and I can connect to the net thru my linux dialup to the other wife and kids winder$

Re: [newbie] Need help with Squid

2001-09-13 Thread Robt. Miller
I've been using 10.2.1.x for years here, I'll try changing ip's later. Where's the internet connection sharing GUI? I'm using v7.02 On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:02:10 -0400, etharp wrote: I think it is OK but I am not positive if you are using a reserved for home lans IP number. where did you

[newbie] Need help with Squid

2001-09-12 Thread Robt. Miller
I'm trying to configure Squid with the following squid.conf file but I'm getting the following error at the Win98 workstation.. Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. The workstation's address is 10.2.1.77 and it can ping and Telnet into the

[newbie] Need help with Squid

2001-09-11 Thread Robt. Miller
I've been working on this for days, I swear it looks right based on the FAQ and Google searches. When I try to connect from a workstation I get.. access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time I'm trying to connect from a workstation with the address

[newbie] need help to install without CD-ROM

2001-06-27 Thread Lin
hi, I have MDK 7.0 on CD, but my notebook doesn't have a CD-ROM. It didn't let me do network install neither because Red Hat asks for more than 16mb RAM. Is there any way I can install linux on it? It is 133mhz, and 16mb RAM, will linux work ok with it? Thanks Eric

Re: [newbie] Need help on PCI Modem installation

2001-05-30 Thread h3rb
] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:03 PM Subject: [newbie] Need help on PCI Modem installation Guys, Pls. help. I have Mandrake 8 installed and it could not detect my internal modem. The modem specs are: Manufacturer: Cirrus Logic, Inc. Chipset: CL-MD5620-DT Memory: 32K DSP RAM UART

[newbie] Need help on PCI Modem installation

2001-05-29 Thread Frederic O Kho
Guys, Pls. help. I have Mandrake 8 installed and it could not detect my internal modem. The modem specs are: Manufacturer: Cirrus Logic, Inc. Chipset: CL-MD5620-DT Memory: 32K DSP RAM UART: 16550AN This modem works well in Windows. Any of you have this problem? Thanks. Deric

Re: [newbie] Need help on PCI Modem installation

2001-05-29 Thread gizim69
This is what you call a WINMODEM they use the OS (This case Windows) to use the modem. Linux does not support WINMODEMS Never will You have to get a HARDWARE Modem or a External Modem. On Wed, 30 May 2001 14:03:58 +0800 Frederic O Kho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guys, Pls. help. I have

Re: [newbie] Need help on PCI Modem installation

2001-05-29 Thread h3rb
Negative. Winmodems are supported. http://www.linmodems.org On Wednesday 30 May 2001 02:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what you call a WINMODEM they use the OS (This case Windows) to use the modem. Linux does not support WINMODEMS Never will You have to get a HARDWARE Modem or a

[newbie] Need help setting up XFree86 on Compaq 1800 laptop

2001-05-16 Thread linatic
Hello.. Does anyone out there have Mandrake 7.2 on a Compaq 1800T? I've got KDE running at 800/600... but that's all I can get after reading the Linux-Laptop howto Kernel howto... even some Compaq 1800 specific helpiles. Other people have done it... The resolution goes up to 1400/1050.

[newbie] Need help installing 2 NICs

2001-04-09 Thread Lon Lentz
I'm setting up a firewall system for a DSL connection using 7.1. I'm using 2 identical ISA NE2000 comp. cards. Win98, on the same machine, recognizes both of them and sets them okay. I'm assuming I have to get Linux to recognize these before I can assign them as eth0 and eth1. The installer

Re: [newbie] Need help installing 2 NICs

2001-04-09 Thread CB
Lon Lentz wrote: 2 identical ISA NE2000 comp. cards. Win98, on the same machine, recognizes same here both of them and sets them okay. I'm assuming I have to get Linux to recognize these before I can assign them as eth0 and eth1. The installer You must first know the io and irq addresses

[newbie] Need help with SoundStudio PLEASE RESPOND!!!

2001-03-13 Thread Vic
I can't get soundstudio to work, all versions are useless and broken, one says: [ntr@kittypuss ntr]$ studio Error in startup script: couldn't read file "/home/lenny/rpm/BUILD/SoundStudio/init.tk": no such file or directory while executing "source $MYFILES/init.tk " (file

[newbie] Need help installing Perfect Office 2000 - jrt

2001-03-07 Thread John Turnbull
It would seem that I have managed to install most of Corel Perfect Office 2000 under Mandrake 7.2. When I execute wordperfect, as a user, I get the following error messages: No running font server was detected. I will try to start a font server on this host and then wait for 30 seconds

Re: [newbie] need help on DSL with LM7.2

2001-03-06 Thread Glenn Johnson
Install rp-pppoe. All you will need to know for that install is your user name, password, and what eth card you will be using. In my case Imade sure I chose eth0, which is the only eth card in my box. When asked for a DNSnumber type 'server'. Choose 1,2,or 3 for the built in firewalling. Then,

[newbie] Need Help with groff problem

2001-03-04 Thread Jack Gillis
I issued the following command to print a man page: man -t mkfs | lpr and got the following messages: /usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ps' Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man ; /usr/bin/bzip2 -c -d

Re: [newbie] need help on DSL with LM7.2

2001-03-04 Thread eric
I do have static ip and gateway, I also tried both with ppoe and withuot pppoe in DSL network of Drakeconf I also tried adsl-start pppoe(timeout) but still failed I can see my eth0 by ifconfig my kernel is 2.2.17, DSL modem is Cisco 678 isp is qwest not work need help Anthony wrote:

Re: [newbie] need help on DSL with LM7.2

2001-03-04 Thread Steelhead
not work right on 7.1. my 2 cents. Steelhead. - Original Message - From: eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] need help on DSL with LM7.2 I do have static ip and gateway, I also tried both

Re: [newbie] need help on DSL with LM7.2

2001-03-04 Thread eric
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] need help on DSL with LM7.2 I do have static ip and gateway, I also tried both with ppoe and withuot pppoe in DSL network of Drakeconf I also tried adsl-start pppoe(timeout) but still failed I can see my

Re: [newbie] need help loading debugger

2001-03-04 Thread michael
Ok first about your CD rom. if you are using linix Mandrake 7.2 you should have Drake config installed. At least I do but I not running linux4Windows. Run drake config (go into) - "linix config - system configutartion" - file systems - access local drive. From there you should be able to mount

[newbie] need help on DSL with LM7.2

2001-03-03 Thread eric
I had Qwest.net 's Cisco 678 dsl modem and intel ethernet card, my isp told me my scriber line is on and three green light on dsl modem (lnk of wan and lan adn power) os keep on with yellow flash light on ACT of wan and lan I tried to use DrakeConfig and pppoe wtih dhcp still get error The

[newbie] Need help on backing KDE before upgrade

2001-02-17 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I want to make a backup of KDE before I try to upgrade again to KDE2.1 beta 2. I'm trying use Midnight Commander. However, the directory seems rather small after moving it to /usr/local. Any tips out there? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Little Tux Email

[newbie] Need help

2001-02-07 Thread MN
Hi I just installed Mandrake 7 and I need to know how to brighten up the screen!Like adjust my gamma!or change the background wallpaper to lighter! Also need to know how to connect to the net! Thanks Mark

RE: [newbie] Need help

2001-02-07 Thread David Pilcher
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of MNSent: 07 February 2001 18:14To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Need help Hi I just installed Mandrake 7 and I need to know how to brighten up the screen!Like adjust my gamma!or change the background wallpaper to lighter

Re: [newbie] Need help

2001-02-07 Thread Steve Maytum
: RE: [newbie] Need help To connect to the web, use KPPP or Gnome Dialer I'd recommend KDE, but that's a personal choice. Check out http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/modems/kppp1.htmlor http://64.209.212.162/dell/step/0,2595,26538+28719+29773+29775_0,00.html Dave

Re: [newbie] Need help

2001-02-07 Thread Steve Maytum
: [newbie] Need help Hi I just installed Mandrake 7 and I need to know how to brighten up the screen!Like adjust my gamma!or change the background wallpaper to lighter! Also need to know how to connect to the net! Thanks Mark

[newbie] need help loading debugger

2001-02-01 Thread mike smalheiser
ok, this is the first time i've ever posted a question, and i'm not very knowlegdeable with linux at all, so forgive me if i ask questions with painfully obvious answers. first off i guess i should say that i am using linux mandrake 7.2 complete. i am trying to learn c programming, so i need

Re: [newbie] need help loading debugger

2001-02-01 Thread Tom
On Thursday 01 February 2001 06:19 pm, mike smalheiser wrote: ok, this is the first time i've ever posted a question, and i'm not very knowlegdeable with linux at all, so forgive me if i ask questions with painfully obvious answers. first off i guess i should say that i am using linux

Re: [newbie] need help with installing KDE 2.1 Beta 1

2001-01-03 Thread Johan
thanks alot, your tips and another guys tips combined worked fine. -Johan- At 09:05 2001-01-03 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2001 00:21, you wrote: All I have now is 33 rpm files in a dir and I have no idea what to do next.. when I try to unpack a file it says it can't because

[newbie] need help with installing KDE 2.1 Beta 1

2001-01-02 Thread Johan
All I have now is 33 rpm files in a dir and I have no idea what to do next.. when I try to unpack a file it says it can't because it depends on another file.. I'm really confused here :) -Johan-

Re: [newbie] need help with installing KDE 2.1 Beta 1

2001-01-02 Thread Michael O'Henly
I can't say whether this is the "best" way, but here's what I did: 1. Starting with a reasonably fresh install of 7.2... 2. From the URL in the announcement message, download all the RPMS. Put them in a directory. 3. Create a subdirectory called "libical" and move the libical RPMs into it.

Re: [newbie] need help with installing KDE 2.1 Beta 1

2001-01-02 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 03 January 2001 00:21, you wrote: All I have now is 33 rpm files in a dir and I have no idea what to do next.. when I try to unpack a file it says it can't because it depends on another file.. I'm really confused here :) -Johan- You may need to go through clearing out the

[newbie] Need help Samba Start-up

2000-12-17 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
Hi I have a clean install of Mandrake 7.2 power-pack. I have chossen the recommend install all option. I have updated all packages that were available in the normal/security update area. I have Samba-Common and Samba-Client 2.0.7-18mdk installed. I finally got around to modifing my smb.confg

Re: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP ROAD RUNNER CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
For starters, try going through your BIOS and setting "Plug 'n Play OS" to "no". This worked for my SMC PCI card, which uses the Realtek RTL8029 driver. On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 03:12, Travis Mcbride wrote: I am getting an eth0 initilization has failed error message at bootup. Can anyone tell me

Re: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP ROAD RUNNER CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-15 Thread NeoMatrix
Did you install a dhcp client and set you card to get info thru dhcp? If you haven't installed dhcpcd from the mandrake cd. then type ifup eth0 This will bring up eth0 interface . Sofian Get a Free Linux Guestbook at http://www.iamnewbie.com On Thursday 14 December 2000 18:40, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP ROAD RUNNER CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-15 Thread Mr S Ganesan
There should not be any problem with the config of eth0. It might fail in the initial stages for u may not have given the proper ip addrress etc.Pl go to DRAKECONFIG and do the needful. Try giving the ip of 127.0.0.1 for the loopback and 192.168.1.1 with netmask 255.255.255.0 Give ilt a local

[newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP ROAD RUNNER CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Travis Mcbride
I am getting an eth0 initilization has failed error message at bootup. Can anyone tell me how to fix this. The machine recognizes my ethernet card and I know I have the right module setup. Thanks Travis __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping -

[newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Travis Mcbride
I need help setting up my cable connection. I am unable to connect through netscape. The error message says that all the local hosts are unknown. I recieved information from the support team on how to set my connection up. I did exactly what they told me to do and it didn't work. Network

Re: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Joseph Red
. Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Travis Mcbride" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 8:13 AM Subject: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0 I need help setting up my cable connect

Re: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Roger Sherman
PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Travis Mcbride" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 8:13 AM Subject: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0 I need help setting up my cable connection. I am unable

Re: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Joseph Red
: "Travis Mcbride" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Joseph Red" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] NEED HELP SETTING UP MY CABLE CONNECTION FOR MANDRAKE 7.0 --- Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most likely you need to enter the DN

[newbie] need help on sound driver of chip VIA 97

2000-11-09 Thread eric
Dear any linux user or expert: I had compaq notebook , it had VIA 97 pci sound card, but my sounddrake response as Can not read /usr/share/harddrake/soundcard it also show a panel Select an Sound Card it default put me as SB that is not my card, and I can not find VIA chip on it I check

[newbie] Need HELP

2000-11-04 Thread Saravut Teepprasan
I just add 2 more 128MB SDRAM-100 to my system but BIOS recognize only 393216KB, if I remove one it recognized 327680K, if I put only 2 news 128MB the bios recognize 262144K correctly. I try with BIOS 2.4 / 2.5 / F1F /F1K /F1L/ F1M /F1N what should I do I wants my system to recognize all 512MB

[newbie] Need Help Understanding Linux

2000-10-18 Thread Michael Mordenti
Installed LINUX 7.1 abt. 3 weeks ago. Everything was going good booting from win to LINUX Until I restarted my PC and I got. --- stage1 stage 2 GRUB version 0.5.94 (638K lower / 65526K upper memory) [ Minimal Bash-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible

Re: [newbie] Need Help Understanding Linux

2000-10-18 Thread Mark Freeman
Are you using lin4win? Michael Mordenti wrote: Installed LINUX 7.1 abt. 3 weeks ago. Everything was going good booting from win to LINUX Until I restarted my PC and I got. --- stage1 stage 2 GRUB version 0.5.94 (638K lower / 65526K upper memory) [ Minimal Bash-like line editing is

Re: [newbie] Need Help Understanding Linux

2000-10-18 Thread Mwinold
this happened to me once as well, question did you make a boot disk for linux how did you install linux are you using win4lin? if you answered no to those then probably the best thing is to install a new boot loader i find grub to be a pain in the butt and even my linux boot disk doesnt

Re: [newbie] Need help understanding path mechanisms

2000-09-19 Thread Anthony
Does just plain "su" work? I share a box with three other people and we are having a murderous time getting the paths correct. Can anyone explain the secrets of setting up paths? The current problem is all of us have the path setup correctly under our usernames. If we 'su - root' the

Re: [newbie] Need help understanding path mechanisms

2000-09-19 Thread Larry Marshall
The current problem is all of us have the path setup correctly under our usernames. If we 'su - root' the paths are still correct. However, if we 'su root', no dash, then for two of us the paths are correct but for the other, her path's are screwed up. We are all using bash. I don't

[newbie] Need help understanding path mechanisms

2000-09-18 Thread Mark Johnson
I share a box with three other people and we are having a murderous time getting the paths correct. Can anyone explain the secrets of setting up paths? The current problem is all of us have the path setup correctly under our usernames. If we 'su - root' the paths are still correct. However,

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