RE: [newbie] Linux Hardware Database

2003-01-09 Thread Jim Hubbard
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Hardware Database Sridhar: Are you aware of another Linux HCL? I sometimes refer to the Mandrake list, but sometimes its a good idea to get a second opinion. -- cmg On Thursday 09 January 2003 08:42 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Microsoft Apologist

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-03 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Smiley wrote: Hi, I know this topic isn't exactly new :) but I need help in order to allow a friend of mine to get rid of W2000 :-D What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding re-installation) of W2000 without losing any datas... I know diskdrake can't do that... So, any suggestion

RE: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-03 Thread Tony S. Sykes
the software and do what ever you feel comfortable with out of the suggestions put forward so far. Tony. -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 7:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux W2000 yeah, I'll agree

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-03 Thread Guy Rouillier
- Original Message - From: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux W2000 partitions, provided it is installed on Windows. I only have V5 which doesn't support anything past NT, but I think

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-03 Thread Aurélio Diniz
In my case, has i said before, PM7 worked fine to make a new partition for my linux. But first you must do the following steps before using it: - Scandisk and Defrag - Backup all you important data (just in case) Ando go for it! The worst that can happen is that you'll have to reinstall your

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 12:05 am, Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:30:02 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smiley: Don't even think about resizing your win2k partition with diskdrake. It can mess up your win2k. I didn't :) I bought PM6, which is already unsupported by

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Smiley wrote: Hi, I know this topic isn't exactly new :) but I need help in order to allow a friend of mine to get rid of W2000 :-D What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... I know diskdrake can't do that... So, any suggestion

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Acronis It comes with the power pack 9.0 El Mié 01 Ene 2003 23:38, Smiley escribió: Hi, I know this topic isn't exactly new :) but I need help in order to allow a friend of mine to get rid of W2000 :-D What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread Guy Rouillier
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux W2000 PM6 is no good for partitioning where the windblows made partitions will be remade for the purpose of linux installs, don't

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux W2000 PM6 is no good for partitioning where the windblows made partitions will be remade for the purpose

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread Warren Post
El mié, 01-01-2003 a las 16:38, Smiley escribió: What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... FAT32 or NTFS? If the latter, I can't help you. But if the Win2K partition is FAT32, then try parted, available at Freshmeat or at:

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread FemmeFatale
At 10:41 AM 1/2/2003 +, you wrote: On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 12:05 am, Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:30:02 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smiley: Don't even think about resizing your win2k partition with diskdrake. It can mess up your win2k. I didn't :) I bought

RE: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread Franki
not fix it, so I deleted it.. no use for useless software.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FemmeFatale Sent: Friday, 3 January 2003 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux W2000 At 10:41 AM 1/2/2003 +

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-01 Thread mike
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 05:38 pm, you wrote: Hi, I know this topic isn't exactly new :) but I need help in order to allow a friend of mine to get rid of W2000 :-D What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... I know diskdrake

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-01 Thread Aurélio Diniz
10:38 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux W2000 Hi, I know this topic isn't exactly new :) but I need help in order to allow a friend of mine to get rid of W2000 :-D What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... I know diskdrake can't do

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-01 Thread Smiley
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:30:02 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smiley: Don't even think about resizing your win2k partition with diskdrake. It can mess up your win2k. I didn't :) I used partition magic 7 and all worked fine. I was reported PM 6 could mess all things up; if 7 is

RE: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-01 Thread walt
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux W2000 On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:30:02 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smiley: Don't even think about resizing your win2k partition with diskdrake. It can mess up your win2k. I didn't :) I used partition magic 7 and all worked

RE: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-01 Thread A. Contreras
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of walt Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 6:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux W2000 Just back up any data you need and just start over again..I've had nothing but trouble with partition magic and resizing partitions without loosing

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-01 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:38 PM 1/1/2003 +0100, you wrote: Hi, I know this topic isn't exactly new :) but I need help in order to allow a friend of mine to get rid of W2000 :-D What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... I know diskdrake can't do that...

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-01 Thread erylon hines
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 03:30 pm, you wrote: Smiley: Don't even think about resizing your win2k partition with diskdrake. It can mess up your win2k. I used partition magic 7 and all worked fine. It is o.k. to use diskdrake IF the W2k partition is FAT. If it is NTFS you shouldn't try

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-01 Thread Smiley
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:05:05 -0800 erylon hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is o.k. to use diskdrake IF the W2k partition is FAT. If it is NTFS you shouldn't try it. Uhm... I was just told diskdrake can resize ntfs partition, but can't move datas; so defragging on W2000 and being sure how

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-01 Thread Chuck Burns
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 19:05, erylon hines wrote: snip previous-reply It is o.k. to use diskdrake IF the W2k partition is FAT. If it is NTFS you shouldn't try it. Partition Magic will work, but it will only do ext2, and be careful--it can mess up your partition table (for sure--it

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-01 Thread erylon hines
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 06:05 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 19:05, erylon hines wrote: snip previous-reply I've used PM for years with my Linux installs, and all I do is resize the FAT32/NTFS partition(s), and then create the *nix partitions with the DiskDrake, cfdisk, et al.

Re: [newbie] linux office suite comparison?

2002-12-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 6:33 pm, Joeb wrote: On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:52:13 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 2:57 am, Andrei Raevsky wrote: What does StarOffice6 offer which OpenOffice 1.0.1 cannot do? Not a lot. There are a few extra modules, which I

[newbie] Linux Boot Message

2002-12-26 Thread Kamal Gathani
I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local

Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message

2002-12-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 00:42, Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message

2002-12-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is

Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message

2002-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 2:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem

Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message

2002-12-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 2:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions

Re: [newbie] linux office suite comparison?

2002-12-26 Thread Joeb
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:52:13 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 2:57 am, Andrei Raevsky wrote: What does StarOffice6 offer which OpenOffice 1.0.1 cannot do? Not a lot. There are a few extra modules, which I haven't explored yet, but look as though

Re: [newbie] linux office suite comparison?

2002-12-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 25 Dec 2002 2:57 am, Andrei Raevsky wrote: What does StarOffice6 offer which OpenOffice 1.0.1 cannot do? Not a lot. There are a few extra modules, which I haven't explored yet, but look as though they are things like a quick access to label templates, etc. I understood that

Re: [newbie] linux office suite comparison?

2002-12-25 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 04:57, Andrei Raevsky wrote: What does StarOffice6 offer which OpenOffice 1.0.1 cannot do? AFAIK, a database component, some fonts and graphics, and a free support hotline for a limited period (after which you pay for support). But you're a club member:

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-24 Thread ET
On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:18 am, jmarcom wrote: I had good luck with Earthlink when I was on dial-up, and still have it for broadband. Following are my notes for dial-up: connection name: Earthlink jmarcom authenticationPAP IP address (provided) Login

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 11:04, ET wrote: BTW, they changed the login from a ELN/username to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still login fine with ELN/username. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP inUS sought

2002-12-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Charlie wrote: On December 21, 2002 09:15 am, John Richard Smith wrote: snip If there is I don't see it. John John; Open your Mozilla Messenger (mail) client then in the left column highlight your user account, then on the Mozilla Mail - username@wherever (right) side click on View

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 12:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Your non list mails will not be affected since all mail clients will address reply mails to the e-mail address they originated from if a 'Reply To' address is not specified. Do you mean like this John That's better Thank

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP inUS sought

2002-12-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 12:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 20 Dec 2002 10:23 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP WARNING - The following text will be of no interest to any non Britons,

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP inUS sought

2002-12-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 12:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Your non list mails will not be affected since all mail clients will address reply mails to the e-mail address they originated from if a 'Reply To' address is not specified. Do you mean like this John

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 1:00 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: be easier, but if such a policy were possible it has to be specificly for newbie type lists because in all other cases you DO want replyto address to be included in composer windows. OK - if you say so :) but I never use the reply

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP inUS sought

2002-12-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 1:00 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: be easier, but if such a policy were possible it has to be specificly for newbie type lists because in all other cases you DO want replyto address to be included in composer windows. OK - if you say so :) but

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP inUS sought

2002-12-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 1:15 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 1:00 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: be easier, but if such a policy were possible it has to be specificly for newbie type lists because in all other cases you DO

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 18:00, K. Spress wrote: I actually own my own internet company and we offer nationwide US access and are linux friendly for $19.95 a month. Unlimited service Usenet and 100 Megabytes for Personal Webspace and 10 E Mail Accounts Kenneth E. Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 12:26 am, Charlie wrote: On December 19, 2002 02:23 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Dear friends, I have recently had the worst of times with my ISP who also is my main internet address provider (I use Hotmail, alas, only for my public messages since it is saturated with

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 20 Dec 2002 12:26 am, Charlie wrote: On December 19, 2002 02:23 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Dear friends, I have recently had the worst of times with my ISP who also is my main internet address provider (I use Hotmail, alas, only for my public messages since

[OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 11:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 20 Dec 2002 12:26 am, Charlie wrote: On December 19, 2002 02:23 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Dear friends, I have recently had the worst of times with my ISP who also is my main internet address provider (I

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 11:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 20 Dec 2002 12:26 am, Charlie wrote: On December 19, 2002 02:23 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Dear friends, I have recently had the worst of times with my ISP who also is my main internet address provider (I

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP inUS sought

2002-12-20 Thread David Robertson
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 12:12, Derek Jennings wrote: WARNING - The following text will be of no interest to any non Britons, and will be tediously boring to anyone who reads it. - --snip boring bit

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread magnet
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 12:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: WARNING - The following text will be of no interest to any non Britons, and will be tediously boring to anyone who reads it. --- Zz Zz... Only j/k is

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 12:46 pm, David Robertson wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 12:12, Derek Jennings wrote: WARNING - The following text will be of no interest to any non Britons, and will be tediously boring to anyone who reads it.

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP WARNING - The following text will be of no interest to any non Britons, and will be tediously boring to anyone who reads it. -- - SNIP Well, there you are, it's not entirely bunk after all. One further question

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP inUS sought

2002-12-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP WARNING - The following text will be of no interest to any non Britons, and will be tediously boring to anyone who reads it. -- - SNIP Well, there you are, it's not entirely bunk

Re: [OT] - Boredom warning - Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP inUS sought

2002-12-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 20 Dec 2002 10:23 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP WARNING - The following text will be of no interest to any non Britons, and will be tediously boring to anyone who reads it.

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 snip My Inbox Happily Received This From Stephen Kuhn @ 20 Dec 2002 16:13:40 +1100 On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 16:01, Greg wrote: Some isp will not give out the dns numbers I have had two like that Greg If an ISP (or the idiot tech support person

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 16:46, Mohammed Sameer wrote: who cares about their DNS servers ? install pdnsd use the root DNS servers! Yeah - good point - I remember setting up a full blown internal DNS server when I lived in Garland, TX to deal with my two incoming cables - was a great help - ran

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread jmarcom
I had good luck with Earthlink when I was on dial-up, and still have it for broadband. Following are my notes for dial-up: connection name: Earthlink jmarcom authenticationPAP IP address (provided) Login ELN/jmarcom checkmark no autoconfig host

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread David E. Fox
If an ISP (or the idiot tech support person sitting behind the phone) won't give you the DNS servers for an ISP, you can get them from If that ever happens, run away from that ISP. It's like ordering phone service from the phone company and them not giving you your phone number. Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread David E. Fox
Some isp will not give out the dns numbers I have had two like that That's incredible. Imagine the telephone company not telling you what your phone number is. Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread David E. Fox
What I'm trying to fully understand is what exactly does one mean by stating Linux Compatible ISP. Well, if they require windows-only software (aol, msn, etc.) they won't be linux compatible. I'm not sure I wouild even classify aol as an ISP in the strict sense. They're more like a portal to

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 16:38, David E. Fox wrote: Assoming you're on a dialup connection - even if you were on DSL - what's needed (or strongly desired) is static IP, your own host- name, etc. Vanity hosts aren't strictly necessary, as long as your hostname is addressable, that's what counts.

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread Charlie
On December 19, 2002 02:23 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Dear friends, I have recently had the worst of times with my ISP who also is my main internet address provider (I use Hotmail, alas, only for my public messages since it is saturated with spam anyway). Ideally, I would look for a company

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread Keith
Here in Wisconsin (USA) there are lots of options for internet (big cities in particular), who are REAL internet providers, not quasi like aol... On Thursday 19 December 2002 03:57 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: Andrei, Check out this website:

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 19 December 2002 04:23 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Dear friends, I have recently had the worst of times with my ISP who also is my main internet address provider (I use Hotmail, alas, only for my public messages since it is saturated with spam anyway). Ideally, I would look for a

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
What I'm trying to fully understand is what exactly does one mean by stating Linux Compatible ISP. What ISN'T compatible about an ISP? All you need is a phone number, a username and password. That's all. That's all that's required. What else could there be? Two DNS servers, a mail server, a

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:58:09 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 4. I'm planning on upgrading to cable soon, using Earthlink as my ISP over Time Warner/Cablevision lines. (Less expensive, and more favorable TOS on what I can do at my end.) My second choice: Earthlink over

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread Eric McClure
try www.eskimo.com I love them, eric On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Charlie wrote: On December 19, 2002 02:23 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Dear friends, I have recently had the worst of times with my ISP who also is my main internet address provider (I use Hotmail, alas, only for my public

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread Greg
I have used earthlink in the past and can say I was very happy with them They even helped me set up my first Linux system for my dial up I use time warner cable now I did not know earthlink had cable service or I would have used them Greg Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrei,

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread Greg
Some isp will not give out the dns numbers I have had two like that Greg What I'm trying to fully understand is what exactly does one mean by stating Linux Compatible ISP. What ISN'T compatible about an ISP? All you need is a phone number, a username and password. That's all. That's all that's

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 16:01, Greg wrote: Some isp will not give out the dns numbers I have had two like that Greg If an ISP (or the idiot tech support person sitting behind the phone) won't give you the DNS servers for an ISP, you can get them from INTERNIC. Every DNS server is registered

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread James R. McKenzie
] - Original Message - From: Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought Andrei, Check out this website: http://www.affinitypath.com/cgi-bin/mi/welcome.cgi?cb=2174 They even

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-19 Thread K. Spress
I actually own my own internet company and we offer nationwide US access and are linux friendly for $19.95 a month. Unlimited service Usenet and 100 Megabytes for Personal Webspace and 10 E Mail Accounts Kenneth E. Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] (586) 945-3801 You Finally Have A Choice In Local

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-16 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:50 PM 12/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: I never thought to go any further on my original answer, which might have given you some peace of mind on this. I have had one of those weeks, and my weekend was spent on my knees tearing my network apart and cleaning. (Yuck! I hate cleaning!) Maybe this

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-16 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:56 PM 12/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: Femme, I took a look at your latest post to Spence just before sending off my response. I have been away from the list because of work, so my time here has been spotty, at best. You are right. If you asked for boot-up assigned IP addressing during the

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-16 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:10 PM 12/15/2002 -0600, you wrote: I should mention that I didn't install dhcpcd as an add-on stand alone install. I'm not sure which option I checked during the installation of Mandrake 9.0 that caused it to be installed but it was ready to go as soon as the OS installation finished.

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 9:22 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen no problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no problems emerged either.

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 11:21 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Ok, sorry, like I said I was behind on the thread. What linux wants is the static IP of your computer the gateway address whether it is your gateway or the IPs gateway and the IPs DNS addresses. So if you set up your internal computer

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 15 December 2002 03:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 11:21 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Ok, sorry, like I said I was behind on the thread. What linux wants is the static IP of your computer the gateway address whether it is your gateway or the IPs gateway and the IPs

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread greg
You know, I recently had this problem on my LM9 installation, and never managed to get my router working with it. You probably will, but I could not be buggered trying any more. It beat me like a dog! But this is something I feel Mandrake need to really address, as my Red Hat system configured

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:12 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: I know I'm coming into this thread a little late but I thought I'd throw my $.02 in anyway. I'm running 9.0 behind a Linksys router that's operating as a DHCP server and I'm not having any problems accessing the internet at all. But then, I also have

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread Spencer Anderson
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:14:09 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:12 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: I know I'm coming into this thread a little late but I thought I'd throw my $.02 in anyway. I'm running 9.0 behind a Linksys router that's operating as a DHCP server and I'm not

RE: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice (a freebie script I wrote for connection monitoring.)

2002-12-14 Thread Franki
$date; } exit(0); END OF SCRIPT ### -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2002 9:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux installation

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread FemmeFatale
FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen no problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no problems emerged either. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems on my

RE: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice (a freebie script I wrote for connection monitoring.)

2002-12-14 Thread FemmeFatale
At 02:39 AM 12/15/2002 +0800, you wrote: I had a problem where my pppoe connection was lost two or three times a day.. Since I use it to host works stuff. I needed it to be able to reconnect itself.. so I wrote this script.. it needs a few perl modules installed.. but it works great.. Its

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 December 2002 03:22 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen no problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no problems emerged

RE: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice (a freebie script I wrote for connection monitoring.)

2002-12-14 Thread Franki
servers and telling me when they are down as well. very handy.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FemmeFatale Sent: Sunday, 15 December 2002 5:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread FemmeFatale
At 03:33 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd. I went to install linux, everything went fine I chose DHCP connection as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server after all, giving out addy's for our comps here.

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread Technoslick
- Original Message - From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The changeover from shared connection to PPPoE

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread FemmeFatale
At 05:46 PM 12/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: Femme, For the longest time, I was letting my Lynksys router/firewall/gateway do the DHCP for my mixed O/S network. During that time, my NT 4.0 Server was acting as a Primary Domain Control (PDC) and a secured resource center file sharing between my

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:40 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 03:33 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd. I went to install linux, everything went fine I chose DHCP connection as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I know I'm coming into this thread a little late but I thought I'd throw my $.02 in anyway. I'm running 9.0 behind a Linksys router that's operating as a DHCP server and I'm not having any problems accessing the internet at all. But then, I also have dhcpcd version 1.3.22pl1-3mdk installed.

[newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-13 Thread FemmeFatale
All I'm asking is there any special things I need to know when installing linux behind a router? I bought one recently, works great with the windows installs... Took some fiddling but its all good now. So any special caveats, instructions, advice? warnings? Thx - FemmeFatale

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-13 Thread Rog
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:18:11 -0700, you wrote: All I'm asking is there any special things I need to know when installing linux behind a router? I bought one recently, works great with the windows installs... Took some fiddling but its all good now. So any special caveats, instructions,

Re: [newbie] Linux installation Router Advice

2002-12-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 09:18, FemmeFatale wrote: All I'm asking is there any special things I need to know when installing linux behind a router? I bought one recently, works great with the windows installs... Took some fiddling but its all good now. So any special caveats,

Re: [newbie] Linux meetups anyone?

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 19:15, Lanman wrote: Talk about being a mushroom Stephen! No wonder I've seen so many posts to the list by you! You must have one massive callouse on your typing finger by now! This Meetup thing might be a good opportunity for you to get some vitamin D (a.k.a. sunshine),

Re: [newbie] Linux meetups anyone?

2002-12-07 Thread ET
On Saturday 07 December 2002 03:15 am, Lanman wrote: Talk about being a mushroom Stephen! No wonder I've seen so many posts to the list by you! You must have one massive callouse on your typing finger by now! This Meetup thing might be a good opportunity for you to get some vitamin D (a.k.a.

[newbie] Linux meetups anyone?

2002-12-06 Thread Lanman
Just a quick note for your attention folks, but have any of you attended a Linux Meetup yet? Meetups are social gatherings of people in your community who have something in common, in this case Linux. If you're curious, check out http://linux.meetup.com/ for details. There is no fee or

Re: [newbie] Linux meetups anyone?

2002-12-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 16:56, Lanman wrote: Just a quick note for your attention folks, but have any of you attended a Linux Meetup yet? Meetups are social gatherings of people in your community who have something in common, in this case Linux. LINUX + GETTING SOCIAL --- H...strange

[newbie] Linux Mandrake 9.0 and Compaq proliant 2500R install

2002-11-30 Thread William R. Nash
Hello, I'm trying to reinstall linux on a compaq proliant 2500R with 458752 of memory. my problem is it keeps telling me out of memory and it only sees 16 meg. i have type the following line that work with 7.2 linux append mem=exactmap mem=0x9000@0 mem=0x1B80 this gave me 440 with 7.2

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 9.0 and Compaq proliant 2500R install

2002-11-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 06:40, William R. Nash wrote: Hello, I'm trying to reinstall linux on a compaq proliant 2500R with 458752 of memory. my problem is it keeps telling me out of memory and it only sees 16 meg. i have type the following line that work with 7.2 linux append mem=exactmap

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 9.0 and Compaq proliant 2500R install

2002-11-30 Thread William R. Nash
yes that was the first thing i did. I'm now trying to find information by look at the bugzilla reports. still nothin Bill nash On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 15:04, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 06:40, William R. Nash wrote: Hello, I'm trying to reinstall linux on a compaq proliant

Re: [newbie] Linux and pre-schoolers

2002-11-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:59, Todd Slater wrote: I have a 3 1/2 year old daughter who likes to type in OpenOffice, play with Tuxpaint and Stickers, and listen to some .wav's I captured from one of her favorite cartoons. I created an account for her, but never found a desktop/window manager I

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