Re: [newbie-it] Enlightenment

2000-06-23 Per discussione Matteo Merlin
Il gio, 22 giu 2000, hai scritto: Ciao, simile al problema di Matteo;ma anche per enlightenment. Nonostate aver fatto diversi tentativi di avviare i daemons audio per Gnome ed Enlightenment,non ottengo nulla; - sia da root che da utente - Ad esempio,provo ad abilitare il suono sotto E,e la

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2000-06-23 Per discussione Francesco Napolano
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Re: [newbie-it] Enlightenment

2000-06-23 Per discussione codutti michele
mmm... strano, i passi da fare sono: 1) eseguire sndconfig accertandosi che tutti i suoni di esempio vengano riprodotti correttamente 2) fatto questo sndconfig oltre a configurare la scheda audio crea in /dev un file dsp che viene utilizzato come periferica di output sonoro, andare su

[newbie-it] emulatore win

2000-06-23 Per discussione Davide Cavallari
Ho bisogno di utilizzare un dizionario della Garzanti che gira solo su Windowz :-( Qualcuno di voi sa consigliarmi un emulatore di win per linux in modo che mi sia possibile utilizzare in qualche maniera questo dizionario? Ciao, Davide

[newbie-it] Ripartizionamento delle partizioni

2000-06-23 Per discussione cosscara
Salve a tutti, Ho installato ormai da un po Mandrake 7.0 su un sistema ove preesiteva windows 98. Nell'installazione l'utility e' stata piuttosto parca nel dimensionare le partizioni linux. Ora mi ritrovo le partizioni linux piene (98%) mentre quella windoes (che ovviamente NON USO!) praticamente

[newbie-it] Mandrake 7.0 e Plexwriter 8432A

2000-06-23 Per discussione Enrico
Hoconnesso il masterizzatore (Plexwriter 8432A) e il drive CDROM allo stesso controller IDE (il secondo) rispettivamente come master e slave; dopo aver terminato l'installazione della MAndrake il masterizzatore risulta montato ma non riesco a leggere da quest'ultimo (msg di errore:"non e'

[newbie-it] Installazione/Configurazione XFree86 4.0

2000-06-23 Per discussione Merz Luca
Ciao a tutti, ho un piccolo problema, ho installato il suddetto server x sulla MDK 7.1, ma si ostina a non voler partire. Mi da FATAL ERROR perchè non trova il font 'fixed'. Io ho provato a cercarlo ovunque ma pare proprio che questo font sul mio pc non esista proprio. Non so se, e dove può

Re: [newbie-it] Enlightenment

2000-06-23 Per discussione freefred
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, a day in the life, Simone Ravarotto wrote: Ciao, simile al problema di Matteo;ma anche per enlightenment. Nonostate aver fatto diversi tentativi di avviare i daemons audio per Gnome ed Enlightenment,non ottengo nulla; - sia da root che da utente - Ad esempio,provo ad

Re: [newbie] mouse problem

2000-06-23 Per discussione Anthony Huereca
Yes, that mouse works just fine. i read that mandrake can use almost any mouse, but i have a microsoft intellimouse,can linux also use that mouse? i dont know if they could make it only used on windows, since they also have the winmodem, which unfortunately i also have, and i hear cant be

[newbie] Right Mouse Button and kde problems

2000-06-23 Per discussione Marta Kein
Hello everybody, I have just installed Mandrake 7.1. Using kde when i click on the right button of the mouse on the desktop to add link to a new application of file system device and so on the only option I get is:new folder ( nothing more), this isthe same problem i used to have after

RE: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation

2000-06-23 Per discussione Peter Ogden
Where did you get the idea that Hard Disk Drivers flash the BIOS? Every different model of motherboard has a different BIOS, there is no way they could provide BIOS changes for every motherboard. Yes, these drivers can cause problems and they can be difficult to remove (though some do now have

Re: [newbie] Right Mouse Button and kde problems

2000-06-23 Per discussione Jeff Lee
What works for me is to right-click within any other directory (i.e. AutoStart) and create the new link, and then move it to the desktop. At 11:29 PM 6/22/2000 -0700, you wrote: Hello everybody, I have just installed Mandrake 7.1. Using kde when i click on the right button of the mouse on the

Re: [newbie] Right Mouse Button and kde problems

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mike Tracy Holt
Another quick fix is to open your 'home' directory icon from the desktop and then click on 'Desktop'; you should have all the options at that point. I'm curious though, I'm using 7.1 and my $user account does have right click options - root however doesn't. Is that your case also? Mike Jeff

Re: [newbie] simple question

2000-06-23 Per discussione flupke
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Gary Morgan wrote: ok, I'm new to Linux, the only knowledge I have is from the books I have read. But all of them have seem to skip over, what seems to me as, simple questions. 1. I notice when I do an "# ls" I get a directory listing but some objects (files,

Re: [newbie] Right Mouse Button and kde problems

2000-06-23 Per discussione Marta Kein
From: Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Right Mouse Button and kde problems Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:39:13 -0700 Another quick fix is to open your 'home' directory icon from the desktop and then click on 'Desktop'; you

Re: [newbie] error with install of tar.gz files

2000-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: thanks so much...you were right...I was missing these packages !!! I installed them...and then tried again...to install "screem" and got the attached error...what's wrong NOW? it went fine until I got this error...I then installed both ... pixbuf 0.7.0 and

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 7 si up and running

2000-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi, I appears that MDK7.1 does add the icons for RealPlayer as 7.0 did. And, the Panel to be very lean. Does any one know how to add RealPlayer7 under Multimedia? Not only that but you have to type in and call up the kmenuedit. Whenever you try to

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione flupke
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on furiously for a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program set up by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look

Re: [newbie] How to install Netscape ?

2000-06-23 Per discussione David BAUDENS
Piero écrivit : I just down loades Netscape 4.73. It's a src.rpm and I never installed such packages. What do I have to do? Thanks. Why have you download this package. It's used to build RPM packages, witch are available in 7.1 and Cooker distributions. To use it, just enter « rpm --rebuild

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 startup problem

2000-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: Somebody help me please, After installtion of my MandRake 7.0 is doesn't boot/startupB. When I boot it with my Floppy created bootdisk during installation it start/boot. How do I configure my new Linux Box to startup from hardisk? thank you! We need

RE: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error

2000-06-23 Per discussione Federico Silva
Hi, am having the same problem. Can use the CDPlayer ok but when it comes to system beeps and blurps it won't. I can't get xmms to reproduce any mp3 either. I had Debian installed and it worked OK, i had to configure it all by hand, recompile the kernel and all but it worked. As

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione David Talbot
If your security is set to High or Paranoid, it's running a nightly security system audit. -David Talbot At 06:58 AM 6/24/00 -0400, you wrote: I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them until it's

[newbie] svgalib not as root

2000-06-23 Per discussione Oliver Stieber
how do i give non root users io permissions for svgalib? i have lots of gfx programs and a few games that use it, and i'd rather not logon as root(or su ) unless it is necessary.

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mark Weaver
What if it's set to medium? If I remember correctly that's what I have mine set to. I tried setting it to because I don't yet have my firewall in place. That's another issue...anyway, when I set it to high I couldn't use sendmail, or httpd (internally) I use httpd internally to develope with

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione Joe Lore
That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Joe Lore wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Piero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24,

RE: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione Oliver Stieber
you can use fsck which is kinda like scandisk i don't know about a defrag tool.(i once had an nt box that was 98% fragmented!) -Original Message- From: Joe Lore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 June 2000 14:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

RE: [newbie] mouse problem

2000-06-23 Per discussione Nicholas Avenell
-Original Message- From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 June 2000 05:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mouse problem i read that mandrake can use almost any mouse, but i have a microsoft intellimouse,can linux also use that mouse? i dont know if

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione David Talbot
ext3 filesystems don't need a defrag program because they don't become fragmented (Well they do, but not more than a fraction of a percent) as for scandisk, it's "fsck" or filesystem check. If you yank the cable out of the wall, or power off your computer without shutting down, next boot time it

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione David Talbot
I looked at the cron.daily and it's probably rotating the log files. To see what your system is running at midnight look at: /etc/cron.daily -david Talbot At 09:42 AM 6/23/00 -0400, you wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione flupke
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Joe Lore wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe I already saw a "defrag.tgz" package, but AFAIK, the ext2 driver takes care of defragmentation by itself. About scnadisk, there is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 startup problem

2000-06-23 Per discussione Paul
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Linux Neophite wrote: Somebody help me please, After installtion of my MandRake 7.0 is doesn't boot/startupB. When I boot it with my Floppy created bootdisk during installation it start/boot. How do I configure my new Linux Box to startup from hardisk? thank you! Did

Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-23 Per discussione Paul
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: Verified :'s. I think I may have set the security level to High on this machine (usually I use medium and handle security details like open ports and daemons myself... Maybe when you tell the installer to use High security, meebe methinks it could take

Re: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error

2000-06-23 Per discussione Paul
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Joe Lore wrote: I'm not, however, able to enable system sounds. When I try to enable system sounds I get an error like: There was an error with the audio server (Esound) (is this the ESD?) system sounds have been disabled. When I am in Gnome, this happens to me too, with

[newbie] NTFS Partition and GRUB

2000-06-23 Per discussione Alan Carpenter
I am happy to say that I really like Mandrake 7.1. Finally it has the support for my video card "voodoo 3000", and some of my usb devices =). I only have one problem. I can't get to my windows 2000 partition anymore. When the boot loader install came up, I sat there for about 5 minutes

[newbie] test

2000-06-23 Per discussione Alan Carpenter
this is a test =) Alan Carpenter PC Specialist Department of Computer Services Virginia Wesleyan College 1584 Wesleyan Dr. Norfolk Va. 23502 Office (757)455.3267 Cell (757)449.0381

[newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux

2000-06-23 Per discussione Hugo GONZALEZ
Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk

RE: [newbie] mouse problem

2000-06-23 Per discussione Christian Punchin
Title: RE: [newbie] mouse problem XFree 4.0 has support for that type of mouse... check XFree's web site... However, I still cannot make my wheel to work under Xfree 4 -Mensaje original- De: Nicholas Avenell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Viernes 23 de Junio de 2000 10:03 AM

RE: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error

2000-06-23 Per discussione Philomena
Hi, I've been wrestling with this problem since 7.1 was first out. At a minimum, I downloaded, compiled and installed the most recent driver from www.opensource.creativelabs.com (there is a newer driver there now that I haven't tested yet). That gave me CD sound, but no .WAV (so no system

[newbie] kde strangeness....

2000-06-23 Per discussione Oliver Stieber
it's obviously a good day for questions from me... (ie. my internets down, so i cant browse for answers). Linux locked up while i was changing themes (i also thick someone was vncing into my box at the time) any how i have got some dodgy gfx drivers so i do get the occasional lockup.. when i

Re: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error

2000-06-23 Per discussione Joe Lore
Yes I believe the issue is that ESD is not running. How do we check this and then get it to load at boot? Thanks, Joe - Original Message - From: Federico Silva To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error

Re: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error

2000-06-23 Per discussione Joe Lore
Yes I believe the issue is that ESD is not running. How do we check this and then get it to load at boot? Thanks, Joe - Original Message - From: Federico Silva To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error

[newbie] my kde/x problems have got lot worse

2000-06-23 Per discussione Oliver Stieber
i've go some page faults etc... in the messages log.. kdm[1152]: server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 0 kernel: unable to handel kernel paging request at virtual address 8be44591 kernel: current-tss.cr3 = 0c458000, %cr3 = 0c458000 kernel: *pde = kernel: Oops:

Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO Boot Magic install ?] new explanation

2000-06-23 Per discussione Peter Yellman
Right, that's my impression as well. EZ-BIOS is actually referred to as a "BIOS overlay", it loads after the BIOS. I have dealt with EZ-BIOS and other pre-installed HD software (as on HP-distributed SCSI drives, Compaqs, etc.) in various ways, including: For EZ-BIOS, I've used unistall on the

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 7 si up and running

2000-06-23 Per discussione Romanator
I'll try that and post the results. Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi, I appears that MDK7.1 does add the icons for RealPlayer as 7.0 did. And, the Panel to be very lean. Does any one know how to add RealPlayer7 under Multimedia? Not only that but you

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mark Weaver
That sounds awesome. Almost enough to make me want to upgrade to 7.1 already. Even though my 7.0 installation is just over a week old! -- Mark I love my Linux box... REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 David Talbot wrote: ext3 filesystems don't need a

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mark Weaver
flupke wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Joe Lore wrote: That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? Thanks Joe I already saw a "defrag.tgz" package, but AFAIK, the ext2 driver takes care of defragmentation by itself.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 startup problem

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Paul wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Linux Neophite wrote: Somebody help me please, After installtion of my MandRake 7.0 is doesn't boot/startupB. When I boot it with my Floppy created bootdisk during installation it start/boot. How do I configure my new Linux Box to startup from

[newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition to Linux - how to fix

2000-06-23 Per discussione M. R. N. Weston
This email is a warning and solution that I hope will help someone out there. Also included (of course) is my fix! Symptom: After installing Linux Mandrake 7.1, Windows can't read any FAT drives in the extended partition. Further description: Computer that I was installing on had a 13G drive

[newbie] Preventing Bandwidth Hogging

2000-06-23 Per discussione David Talbot
At home I have a 384k U/D DSL with 4 machines masqed behind it. This is a problem that has been irking me for awhile, and my wife almost beat me to death last night, so here it is: If I start a big download with a fast site (Like a CDROM iso or a DIVX) All available bandwith is choked completely

Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux

2000-06-23 Per discussione Chris Hall
I had this same problem with Red Hat 6.1 a few months back. I fixed the problem by having a 15mb boot partition as hda1, win98 on a 10gb on hda2, and then a 10gb linux partition on hda3. Lilo worked fine like that to. - Original Message - From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello everyone. I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows 98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb),

[newbie] DSL Questions

2000-06-23 Per discussione Vic
Hi I am planning to migrate from cablemodem to ADSL for a while to see if its going to be what I want. Is the setup basically the same? I do know that there will be a couple of differences, like the IP is going to be static so I will have to insert the IP address and the sub net mask I think

[newbie] EPIC-100 Network Cark

2000-06-23 Per discussione Pete Clapham
Hi, all -- Do any of you know what the driver for the EPIC-100 Network chipset is? Specifically, the card is an SMC 9432, and in Mandrake 6.1, the proper driver was Epic-100. This driver doesn't seem to exist in the network configuration menu for Mandrake 7.0. I can't believe that anybody

[newbie] Ok dumb firewall question time

2000-06-23 Per discussione Vic
Is any firewall just for blocking ports or can it also protect the needed open ones like ftp 21 www 80 and so forth?

Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux

2000-06-23 Per discussione Sevatio Octavio
Cut down your VFAT partition to 8Gigs and try the install again. Seve -Original Message- From: Hugo GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:02 AM Subject: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux Hello everyone. I had

Re: [newbie] Cable modem

2000-06-23 Per discussione Vic
If you have a dynamic ip address, like one that changes, then when your machine asks you to setup your network, then tell it to use dchp (or dchpd) someting like that, anyway, if your isp has to give you your ip numbers and stuff, then its more thanlikely a static ip On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you

Re: [newbie] kde strangeness....

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Oliver Stieber wrote: it's obviously a good day for questions from me... (ie. my internets down, so i cant browse for answers). Linux locked up while i was changing themes (i also thick someone was vncing into my box at the time) any how i have got some dodgy gfx drivers so i do get the

[newbie] Re: IP y POP virtuales

2000-06-23 Per discussione Gabriel Capalbo
El jue, 22 jun 2000, Gabriel Capalbo escribió: Hola Amigos. Tengo un problema que me esta llevando mucho tiempo y no logro resolver. Desearia hacer funcionar el IP virtual y el Virtual POP. Poseo el Mandrake 6.1 esta funcionando en este momento como server de correo perfectamente, ahora

Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux

2000-06-23 Per discussione Jose Alberto Abreu
I think that you should go with the second scheme. (I heard that Mandrake 7.1 solves this problem, though) Anyway the /boot partition shouldnt be too large either... Somebody more knowledgeble than me should be able to tell you how big (10megs?) Hugo GONZALEZ wrote: Hello everyone. I had

RE: [newbie] What happens at midnight? -- This!

2000-06-23 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
Several things happen at night. 1) Msec runs it's security updates 2) If tripwire is installed it runs it's check 3) slocate runs to create the "locate" database 4) makewhatis runs to create the "whatis" database 5) Most of your services are stopped as ... 6) the logrotate job runs to truncate

FW: [expert] FW: [newbie] Esound (ESD?) error

2000-06-23 Per discussione Federico Silva
I've forwarded the mails of this thread to thew expert list for help. This may be an answer, I must wait 'till I get home and then till monday cause ain't got no line at home now. So if somebody can try this and report I'll be grateful (dead -f. -Original Message- From: Anton Graham

Re: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition toLinux - how to fix

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mark Weaver
"M. R. N. Weston" wrote: This email is a warning and solution that I hope will help someone out there. Also included (of course) is my fix! Symptom: After installing Linux Mandrake 7.1, Windows can't read any FAT drives in the extended partition. Further description: Computer that I

RE: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition to Linux - how to fix

2000-06-23 Per discussione Nicholas Avenell
-Original Message- From: M. R. N. Weston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 June 2000 18:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition to Linux - how to fix *de'snipity* If you have the same problem as this and this works then I feel

Re: [newbie] Ok dumb firewall question time

2000-06-23 Per discussione Paul
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Vic wrote: Is any firewall just for blocking ports or can it also protect the needed open ones like ftp 21 www 80 and so forth? Depending on how you configure things, you can hammer shut each and every port that you like. You should also be able to limit the allowed IP

Re: [newbie] Ok dumb firewall question time

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mark Weaver
yes, and yes. here is a link to a site where you can download a very configurable firewall great for beginners. http://www.pmfirewall.com/PMFirewall/ -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Vic wrote: Is

RE: [newbie] mouse problem

2000-06-23 Per discussione Anthony Huereca
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/wwwboard/messages/397.html XFree 4.0 has support for that type of mouse... check XFree's web site... However, I still cannot make my wheel to work under Xfree 4 -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent.

Re: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition toLinux - how to fix

2000-06-23 Per discussione M. R. N. Weston
Here's an even BETTER solution. Don't install Linux on anything other than it own partition. That includes Extended DOS partitions. If you have to use Partition magic to resize your DOS primary partition and create another primary parition which is where your Linux installation will go. I

Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux

2000-06-23 Per discussione Chris Hall
That sounds good but if I was you I wouldn't use Dos Fdisk. I would use the partition program that came with Mandrake. It is SO much more powerful. Using the mandrake partitioning tool do this: Create a /boot partition on hda1. Create a DOS/Windows partition on hda2 Then a linux native partition

Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux

2000-06-23 Per discussione Chris Hall
I'd do a 15mb boot partition. That way you can store many kernels there. :-) - Original Message - From: Jose Alberto Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux I think that you should go with

Re: [newbie] error with install of tar.gz files

2000-06-23 Per discussione KompuKit
well, did what you said...and still nothing... attached is the latest error.txt I remind you...that I did install PIXBUF Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote: thanks so much...you were right...I was missing these packages !!! I installed them...and then tried again...to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.5 install problem

2000-06-23 Per discussione Garyreedy1
Hi. I have the same problem,and I tryed to find what i did wrong , I got the same message I have compaq 5170 p350 128 ram 10 gb hd I need some help. thanks Gary

Re: [newbie] error with install of tar.gz files

2000-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: well, did what you said...and still nothing... attached is the latest error.txt I remind you...that I did install PIXBUF Jeezzz, I'm in over my head. don't you know I'm an ol' man redneck NASCAR fan (I'm an Earnhardt fan you see, I live an 'die

Re: [newbie] DSL Questions

2000-06-23 Per discussione Mike Tracy Holt
Hi Vic, I've just started using DSL from GTE about a month ago and it's great! I've got their cheapest package (768k / 128k) with dynamic ip - the only problem I had was getting my Netgear RT311 dsl router working. That was simple as realizing that I needed to use the cross-over cable

[newbie] Alliance Promotion AT25/AT3D

2000-06-23 Per discussione Jaguar
I just reinstalled Mandrake for various reasons, and I put in a Alliance Promotion AT25 3DFX video card, the driver is there in XWindows 3.3.6 (I think is the version # in MDK 7.0-2). I setup the video card as well as I could with the "no-accel" option in the driver. However I can't seem to

Re: [newbie] Ok dumb firewall question time

2000-06-23 Per discussione Dennis Myers
Mark Weaver wrote: yes, and yes. here is a link to a site where you can download a very configurable firewall great for beginners. http://www.pmfirewall.com/PMFirewall/ -- Mark I love my Linux Box! REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows! Registered Linux user #1299563 On

[newbie] Restated... Problems mounting.

2000-06-23 Per discussione John T. Seebold
My fstab file... # # The 26 GB Diamond Maxtor Super Drive. /dev/hdb1/ ext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb5/home ext2defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7/usrext2

Re: [newbie] Ok dumb firewall question time

2000-06-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, you wrote: I tried the mentioned firewall and once again I am feeling stupid. I loaded it and immediately could not get Netscape to load . It would stall with only the stop sign and the frame showing. I then uninstalled and got my Netscape and mail back. I must have

Re: [newbie] Restated... Problems mounting.

2000-06-23 Per discussione Dennis Myers
Dennis Myers wrote: "John T. Seebold" wrote: My fstab file... # # The 26 GB Diamond Maxtor Super Drive. /dev/hdb1/ ext2defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb5/home ext2

[newbie] Chopped up e-mail

2000-06-23 Per discussione Dennis Myers
Since we're not on the subject, anybody know why e-mail I write , looks okay on screen when I write it but then when it shows up on the net-mail it's all chopped up. I use Netscape and it's embedded e-mail. Non linux question, I think, but curious none the less.

Re: [newbie] LILO Boot Magic install ?

2000-06-23 Per discussione Chris Hall
aifusionextreme wrote: HiI jave succesfully installed mandrake 7.0 before but on smaller dirves. When trying to install it on a 14 GB with only 1 partition, everything appears fine, but once we reboot, instead of lilo I get a screen full of '01010101010101 ..' for ever or until reboot.So I

Re: [newbie] I just get a Big White Box :-(

2000-06-23 Per discussione John Couturier
I would check www.xfree86.org they have a part where it shows common problems and solutions listed by video card. I don't know if yours is on the list but I would check. Also check which version of XFree86 your using 3.3.6 or 4.0 and make sure you check that version on www.xfree86.org. Hope

Re: [newbie] I just get a Big White Box :-(

2000-06-23 Per discussione John Couturier
I would check www.xfree86.org they have a part where it shows common problems and solutions listed by video card. I don't know if yours is on the list but I would check. Also check which version of XFree86 your using 3.3.6 or 4.0 and make sure you check that version on www.xfree86.org. Hope

[newbie] rpmdrake 1.0 broken at Mandrake 7.1?

2000-06-23 Per discussione Alexander Werner Skwar
Hello, World! I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my machine. I wanted to add some packages with rpmdrake, so I ran 'urpmi.addmedia ftp Crypto_auf_ftp.leo.org ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-crypto/7.1/ with ./hdlist-crypto.cz2'. Now I have a new hdlist in /var/lib/urpmi and

[expert] LM7.1 - Blank screen during shutdown

2000-06-23 Per discussione Richard Oldham
BLANK SCREEN DURING SHUTDOWN EXPERIENCES WITH INSTALLING LINUX-MANDRAKE 7.1 INTRODUCTION I have a problem that I normally lose the display on shutdown. This e/mail describes two installations of LM7.1, the problems found and provides extracts of the relevant logs. I can provide full logs on