R: [newbie-it] Saluti:

grazie,se mi puoi dare dei link dove posso tirare giù gli aggiornamenti ti sarei grato.un saluto mauro root of tzt.it - Original Message - From: BELLAN Andrea To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:52 PM Subject: R: [newbie-it] Saluti:

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

AL wrote: Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not recognised by it. I have tried all the nearest settings available offered by printool to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated Thanks! ALI have a KX-P4420 (laser) and it runs perfectly (and has

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

Hi, I'll give that a try. My Panasonic is a dot matrix :-( Alan Shoemaker wrote: ALI have a KX-P4420 (laser) and it runs perfectly (and has done so since I started using Linux with RedHat 5.2) when I set it up as a HP Laserjet (the earliest, simplest one). Extrapolating that info,

Re: [newbie] licq 0.85 problem

Joan Tur wrote: Hallo (again!)! 8-) There's something wrong with licq or some dependencies. It installed well without beeing forced to do so, but i open a terminal window and launch it from there. It works fine, but when i try to change from "online" to "away" (for instance) it shuts

[newbie] A Cautionry Tale or Tail ???

For three days I have been attempting to send a file containing my kppprc to another list user. And for every attempt at sending that file I was inexplicibly hung-up-apon!! I finally worked it out after examining the content of kppprc and studiying a Hayes Command-set The standard escape

RE: [newbie] Network Card Fails on Startup

First chech to see if it is installed: 1. Go in to Kpackage. Click file -find package and enter DHCP in the dialog box. If nothing comes up. Then you need to install dhcpcd. Its an RPM. It was on the first disk of the ISO down load. --- "Justin W. Udelhofen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is

Re: [newbie] USRobotics modem problems

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Andrew Koepke wrote: I've go a USR Courier V-everything internal modem. I had some problems with setting it up, but finally got them resolved. In KPPP, the highest volume setting doesn't work because the modem doesn't recognize the command for setting that volume.

RE: [newbie] Gnome Desktop looks like Enlightenment

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, you wrote: Maybe my newbieness is really showig here but I was checking out the other desktops last night and after I check out Enlightenment I checked out Gnome. I got the Gnome task bar and file manager and etc. but it had Enlightenment window borders and desktop

Re: [newbie] Gnome Desktop looks like Enlightenment

TiGereYe wrote: hello, This is quiet intresting, i had something of similar nature ... well i tried to fire up an application a while ago (cant remember what the application was) but apparently it depended on Gnome and it went ahead and fired up gnome or maybe it didnt but it gave me the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

Alan Shoemaker wrote: Rodrigo Villela LAB17 wrote: I almost giving up. I'll buy an USR 56K.But ISA or PCI ? Any sugestions ? [snip] Rodrigoexternal Alan yeah...what Alan said. An external or ISA...if you decided to go with an internal check the HCL on the Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

AL wrote: Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not recognised by it. I have tried all the nearest settings available offered by printool to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated Thanks! Your printer does not seem to be on the HCL,

Re: [newbie] Yahooooo - nuther part at Fred's

John Rye wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Junkbuster was pretty easy once I got it to compile - seems I might have some flaky ram here - I'm still looking for easy ways to kill the spam.. Cheers John, When you get that figured out let me know what you did to get it to work. I wouldn't

Re: [newbie] Error msg's while booting up mandrake linux

Actually I wish the good folks at Mandrake wouldn't even offer this type of installation choice. This is my opinion of course, but in doing so it makes an extremely wonderful, dependable, powerful product look like crap I second that. I see so many people here having trouble with this that

Re: [newbie] Yahooooo - nuther part at Fred's

I have managed to get Junkbuster going Result - No more Ads!!! Wonderful John...how is Junkbuster doing its filtering? I've tried a couple of these in the Windoze world and they've always ended up filtering some stuff that I really needed to receive. Cheers --- Larry

[newbie] Re: Mandrake...too many apps?

Paul Bary wrote: One of the few things I don't care for with Mandrake is the large number of apps it installs by default that are of little use to me. Couple this the seeming all or nothing selection process and the lack of documnetation (that I can find) on exactly what is included in the

[newbie] Dual-boot question

Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered

[newbie] Problem 7.1 install

Hi, I'm having a problem installing 7.1 on my machine and I hope someone can help :-) My machine : P166, 64MB RAM, Adaptec AHA1542, 4GB WD HD, Plextor CD-ROM and Ricoh 6200 CD-writer. When I start the install, it detects my SCSI board correctly but then I get the message "Cannot mount/find

[newbie]

Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am encountring with Mandrake Linux 7.1. I am, obviously, a profane in Linux, however I am becoming absolutely mad about it. I installed Mandrake Linux 7.1, then I tried to install Adobe Acrobat Reader that I

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Internet

use the RTL8139 module for your network card, set up the info using netcfg(most people should have this) once that's done, you can use 'ifup eth0' considering that network card is your first ethernet card(otherwise it may be eth1), to see if this 'ifup eth0' worked, type 'ifconfig' or 'ifconfig

Re: [newbie] Yahooooo - nuther part at Fred's

Mark Weaver wrote: John Rye wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Junkbuster was pretty easy once I got it to compile - seems I might have some flaky ram here - I'm still looking for easy ways to kill the spam.. Cheers John, When you get that figured out let me know what you did

Re: [newbie] licq 0.85 problem

I remember licq 0.85 needs qt 2.2 installed, that *could* be your problem, you may have to re-install it, because it comes up with a qt2 error. That's just my 2 cents, I could be wrong, only been using mandrake for 4-5 months and it's basically been beta testing (7.1, 7.2-1 and 7.2-2 so far)

Re: [newbie]

First of all, have u see if Acrobat comes with your Mandrake Distribution? see the rpm's packages, because in Mandrake 7.0 comes. With the installation, I don't know very much about linux yet, (i'm learning too), but perhaps could be that you need to login as root for do it? Regards,

Re: [newbie] Yahooooo - nuther part at Fred's

Larry Marshall wrote: I have managed to get Junkbuster going Result - No more Ads!!! Wonderful John...how is Junkbuster doing its filtering? I've tried a couple of these in the Windoze world and they've always ended up filtering some stuff that I really needed to receive. Larry

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

Mark Weaver wrote: AL wrote: Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not recognised by it. I have tried all the nearest settings available offered by printool to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated Thanks! Your printer does not seem to be on

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

yes you can, either leave linux W/ LILO or GRUB as a boot loader on the first hard drive and be sure to ad WinME to your boot loader and tell it where to find Windows.or I have seen some people just switch the hard drive that boots whenever they want to run Windowsnot very practical but

Re: [newbie]

"D.E.Sofiane TEBBOUNE" wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am encountring with Mandrake Linux 7.1. I am, obviously, a profane in Linux, however I am becoming absolutely mad about it. I installed Mandrake Linux 7.1, then I tried to

Re: [newbie]

Probably because you weren't logged in as root. Btw, two tips: 1) AFAIK there is an rpm package of acrobat reader in power-pack 2) No need to be very formal on this mailing list yours Denis On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, D.E.Sofiane TEBBOUNE wrote: :~Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:21:29 GMT :~From:

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems?

Re: [newbie] was blank - Adobe Acrobat

"D.E.Sofiane TEBBOUNE" wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am encountring with Mandrake Linux 7.1. I am, obviously, a profane in Linux, however I am becoming absolutely mad about it. I installed Mandrake Linux 7.1, then I tried to

Re: [newbie]

Adobe's site. While installing Acrobat Reader, I had an error saying: cannot create /usr/local/acrobat4/bin ... I wonder why it is not possible to install it. Most likely you are not "root" when you're trying to do this. You need to be to have permission to write anything into /user/...

Re: [newbie] was blank - Adobe Acrobat

"D.E.Sofiane TEBBOUNE" wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am encountring with Mandrake Linux 7.1. I am, obviously, a profane in Linux, however I am becoming absolutely mad about it. I installed Mandrake Linux 7.1, then I tried to

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

John Rye wrote: AL wrote: Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not recognised by it. I have tried all the nearest settings available offered by printool to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated Thanks! As I recall, the KXP1150 is a

RE: [newbie] Dual-boot question

I think that I would choose option 1 over option 2, definately! Thanks, Tom. Now, that i know that I can do it, how is the question. I've never done this before. Any good documentation laying around? Any suggestions?? -Original Message- From: Thomas Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: [newbie] partition plan -- workable?

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote: Of course, the biggest problem with these new big drives (I see that Hitachi are selling 72Gb drives on buy.com for $146, and I've seen 80Gb (I think Maxtor)) is that although one can buy the drives cheaply enough, how the heck does one back

[newbie] multiple dislpays

I would like to install 2 video cards in my MDK7.1 system. I have a Diamond Fire GL 1000 AGP and an ATI Expert98 PCI. Bath are 8 MB cards. Anyone know if I can get this to work and will it be very difficult? I currently the system set up with an ATI Exert@Play AGP. How should I proceed? My plan

RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

Argh... Duh, is there free technical support? Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100] My Gawd man! what'll

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? You CAN dual-boot between two different hard drives. However, Windoze expects

RE: [newbie] Win2K dual boot?

Login as root, and open the Grub folder. Open the file name menu.1st Add two more '0's to the lined referring to booting up or time out. By default, it should have 50. If you see 3, or 30, change it to 500. The higher the number, the longer it takes for it to reach zero when it times out. Now,

[newbie] bz2 files

Hello. I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. What is the differnece between files with a .gz extension and files with a .bz2 extension? How can I extract a file with a .bz2 extension? Thanks, Phil _ Get

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

Chris , If you know how to install second hard drive and load operating system you should have no problem. You will need to use some kind of boot management (lilo perhaps?) and all should be well - Original Message - From: Kelly, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Newbie' [EMAIL

[newbie] bz2 help!

Hello. For some reason, my last e-mail didn't go through. If it is going through and just a little slow, then I appologize for sending 2. Anyway, can someone please tell me how to unzip files with a bz2 extension? Thanks, Phil

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

John Rye escribió: In simple terms - yes. But the windows installation for some strange archaiac and magical reason closely related to monotonic gatesism dictates that windows _MUST_ be on the first hard disk. Ejem... only windows' boot has to be in the first hard disk; i've windows98

[newbie] Sendmail and Graphical Clients

If i can use my sendmail server from the machine it is installed and it sends and recieve mail perfectly but when i try to connect to my server from any client... it sends me an connection error my POP3 is running well and the connection between the server and the network is fine

RE: [newbie] Internet server

If that's all you want to do than my recommendation is to use a LRP disk instead. Try www.coyote-linux.com I got it installed fine on a 486/33 w/8MB. The latest release includes support for dial-up and PPPoE connections. Fully automated. Problem? Juts reboot and walk away. I'm uisng PPPoE,

[newbie] Where is my LAN?

How do I find my LAN? I have a LAN with an NT server, and a couple W98, Win2K clients. Where are they? Can I access the shared directories from Linux?? Jim

[newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

Hello, I tried to update netscape. I checked several mirrors of the mandrake ftp server, in the update/6.1 dir there are netscape-com...rpms with 0 byte size. Where can I find the netscape 4.75 rpms for mandrake ? -- This mail was sent to you by using 100% pure Java technology.

[newbie] Rotating backups

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote: Hitachi are selling 72Gb drives on buy.com for $146, and I've seen 80Gb A removable disk pack. Slap another one of those in there, mirror the disk... ready :) OK, now start rotating your backups so that you have something to fall back on, and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

Rodrigo Villela LAB17 wrote: I almost giving up. I'll buy an USR 56K.But ISA or PCI ? Any sugestions ? Hi. I'm using an ISA/Supra Diamond 56k modem. Worked fine with Mandrake, right out of the box... Don't know why PCI shouldn't work as well though... Any one else? ;-) --

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

** Reply to message from "Philip Ferguson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:45:44 EDT Hello. I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. What is the differnece between files with a .gz extension and files with a .bz2 extension? bzip2 is a new compressor that uses another

[newbie] Network Printer Installation

Hi, I'm still chugging away on learning Linux. I have a Lexmark Optra S 2450 and a Lexmark Optra Color 1200 available on our network through specific IP addresses. I noticed on the Mandrake Linux site that these printers aren't supported. Lexmark does have Linux drivers, but none specifically

Re: [newbie]Acrobat Reader

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, you wrote: Acrobat Reader is packed with Mandrake 7.1 on both Complete and Deluxe versions in case you didn't know.It's in the Application CD in rpm format. Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am encountring with

Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT

- Original Message - From: "Jim Chiang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:03 AM Subject: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT OK. I havea 20gB drive. I installed in this order: win98se Win2K Pro MDK7.1 After Win@K evertyhing was OK. I could

Re: [newbie] Financial programs

Roger, I think someone may have said this already, but you can open up your terminal and type "gnucash" or "cbb" (without quotes) and check out either program. Barry :-) On Mon, 18 September 2000, Roger Sherman wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, you wrote: Roger: Check out gnucash. Version

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

wait...I'm confused about something here. How can the HCL leave you in the dark about whether a peice of hardware is supported or not. Either it's on the list or it isn't. Was yours on the list? Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake's HCL left me in the dark on modems. You can go to

[newbie] Calling an ICEwm expert

I getting to like this interface more and more...now I want to make some changes.. In particular to the terminal/console (what do we call it?) currently it appears to 'rxvt' - I would like to change to the one used in stock KDE - konsole??? How do I do this.. I can't find any docs Cheers --

Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT

- Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT - Original Message - From: "Jim Chiang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

Joan Tur wrote: John Rye escribió: In simple terms - yes. But the windows installation for some strange archaiac and magical reason closely related to monotonic gatesism dictates that windows _MUST_ be on the first hard disk. Ejem... only windows' boot has to be in the first

Re: [newbie] Financial programs

I'm using 2.0.4 which I have come to like quite a lot. It was quite a transistion from Managing Your Money to Moneydance, but I have become accustomed to the differences. I don't know what the transistion was like for Quicken users. Moneydance 3.0 alpha build 141 is out, but I wouldn't

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

I don't recall seeing them, but then I wasn't looking for them. Follow the link back and check to see if they're there. Mark John Rye wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: AL wrote: Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not recognised by it. I have tried all the

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

burlington john wrote: Hello, I tried to update netscape. I checked several mirrors of the mandrake ftp server, in the update/6.1 dir there are netscape-com...rpms with 0 byte size. Where can I find the netscape 4.75 rpms for mandrake ? I not sure where you were looking... I got them

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

bunzip2 the_file_name.tar.bz2 or tar xyf the_file_name.tar.bz2 Should both work. I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. What is the differnece between files with a .gz extension and files with a .bz2 extension? How can I extract a file with a .bz2 extension?

Re: [newbie] Modem

glenn crossley wrote: first things first. Ive installed 7.1 and think the OS is much cooler than documented by Windows community. I,m had no problems installing apart from the OS not detecting my modem which is a Conexant HCF 56l PCI Internal modem, can anyone direct me to the drivers or

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/NByName.html - Original Message - From: "burlington john" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:08 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ? Hello, I tried to update netscape. I

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

Thanks very much! It works great now! Phil From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] bz2 files Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:12:27 -0400 - Original Message - From: "Philip Ferguson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Need help understanding path mechanisms

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] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone?

Hi -- I used gFTP (Menu ---Networking --- File Transfer) and then went to bookmarks ---Mandrake (this brings up gwyn.tux.org) and went to updates --- 7.1 RPMS and scrolled down and got the Netscape Common 4.75 Netscape Communicator 4.75 and Netscape Navigator 4.75 and installed them

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

** Reply to message from burlington john [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:08:22 +0100 Hello, I tried to update netscape. I checked several mirrors of the mandrake ftp server, in the update/6.1 dir there are netscape-com...rpms with 0 byte size. Where can I find the netscape

Re: [[newbie] Modem ]

"glenn crossley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: first things first. Ive installed 7.1 and think the OS is much cooler than documented by Windows community. I,m had no problems installing apart from the OS not detecting my modem which is a Conexant HCF 56l PCI Internal modem, can anyone direct me

Re: [newbie] bz2 files

on mandrake type tar -xyvf foo.tar.bz2 you could also type tar -xyf foo.tar.bz2 - Original Message - From: "Philip Ferguson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:45 AM Subject: [newbie] bz2 files Hello. I was wondering if anyone could help

Re: [newbie] Manual

If someone hasn't already sent it to you, I've put it up on my website for you to try to download. I figure that'll be better than to email you it since most emailers only allow up to 2 MB attachments. But if you still want it emailed, I can do that too. http://binaryfusion.net/power_base.ps.gz

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 and Ensoniq Audio PCI

Loaded Mandrake 7.1 and my sound has some cracking in the background. I have two drives, one with win98 and other other with Mandrake 7.1 What do I have to tweak to make the cracking in the background go away? Cheers josh

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Internet

Open up DrakConf and then "Network Configuration". Then find out if you have a static IP, or get your IP via DCHP from your ISP. Then fill out the apporitate stuff in "Basic Host Information". Or if you still haven't installed, during the installation it asks if you use a networked computer, so

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

Hello, I am having problems getting my sound going on a Compaq

Re: [newbie] Mandrakes download site: where are the netscape rpms gone ?

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/netscape-communicator-4.75-7mdk.i586.html I tried to update netscape. I checked several mirrors of the mandrake ftp server, in the update/6.1 dir there are netscape-com...rpms with 0 byte size. Where can I find the netscape

[newbie] Compaq Sound Problems

Hello,I am having problems getting my Compaq Deskpro EP Series 6400 sound goingunder 7.1.I copied the driver information Windows 98 was using before I bleemed thedrive completely. Mandrake picked up the same driver, irq, and DMA settingsthat Windows had, yet it doesn't work. To be honest, I

Re: [newbie] Need help understanding path mechanisms

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] Talk Daemon

alright i had one of my friends telnet onto my comp and log in on an account i made for him. Then i tried to use talk to talk to him but it says "No response from talk daemon" does anyone know why this is? Thanks in advance Dan

[newbie] Only one Linux book opens

Dear Anyone, When I put in my Linux Mandrake 7.0 #3 CD in order to read some of the books only one book will open for me. This happened before with my first install of Linux, too, before the crash. They all opened with Acrobat reader under Windows 95. What do I need to do for this? Thank

[newbie] Overload

Please remove me from the newbie list Ted

[newbie] Knews dependencies

I just tried to install Knews with Kpackage, and it gave the error message Dependency Problem, libpng.so.0 is needed by knews-1.0 b.0-1, libjpeg.so.6 is needed by knews-1.0 b.0-1. Can anyone tell me where to get those two files, and what to do with them once I have them? -- peace, Rog

[newbie] No user group!

Hello everyone , I wonder if you can help me? I live in Maidstone , Kent(U.K.) I am a newbie and struggling. Is there a user group in the area? If not interested in setting one up? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie]

It sounds like you need to have root powers for the install. su to root and try again. Paul (another one) Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you to ask you if you could help me with a problem I am encountring with Mandrake Linux 7.1. I am, obviously, a profane in Linux, however I am

Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT

I'm in trouble. First of all, I thought 7.1 was supposed to use Grub, but when I boot I have Lilo not Grub. Also, at the boot: prompt when I hit Tab it shows: linux rescue WHERE IS WINDOWS Jim Did you install Lilo on the MBR or secondary boot header? In saying that how

[newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

Dear Anyone, Before my computer crash 4 weeks ago I had sound working in Linux but I do not know why it worked finally. Now after my reinstall (without windows 95 this time) I am trying to set up sound and I just get error messages when I try to do it through sndconfig. I went through this

Re: [newbie] Yahooooo - nuther part at Fred's

Larry, If you haven't already take a look into setting up procmail filters. It's relatively easy, quick, and offers precise, hands-on control over the filters and the messages getting filtered. -- Mark ** =/\= No

Re: [newbie] Samba master domain

"olof.liungman" wrote: Hi, I've never used Linuxconf to configure Samba, but if you change smb.conf you have to restart Samba for the change to take effect (kill smbd and nmbd and start them again; maybe kill -HUP will also do the trick, though I don't know if the command looks the same

Re: [newbie] bz2 help!

You will find 'bunzip2' in usr/bin. Check the 'man bunzip2' for the commands. Barry :-) Philip Ferguson wrote: Hello. For some reason, my last e-mail didn't go through. If it is going through and just a little slow, then I appologize for sending 2. Anyway, can someone please tell me

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

Kelly, You can do what you've mentioned and you shouldn't have any trouble at all in doing so. When I first started using Linux that's very much the way I did it. I had Windows in one drive and Linux on another. Everything booted just fine and both OS's were just happy as clams. -- Mark

Re: [newbie] licq 0.85 problem

Joan, I'm kinda coming in here half way through, but have you tried Kxicq yet? I used to be a staunch LICQ user. However, when I made the switch from RedHat to Mandrake I also discovered Kxicq when LICQ got strange on me and I've been using it ever since. It's very nice and works well. -- Mark

Re: [newbie] Error msg's while booting up mandrake linux

Actually I wish the good folks at Mandrake wouldn't even offer this type of installation choice. This is my opinion of course, but in doing so it makes an extremely wonderful, dependable, powerful product look like crap I second that. I see so many people here having trouble with this

Re: [newbie] was blank - Adobe Acrobat

In a message dated 19-Sep-00 08:14:27 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Grin some of the non-brits might be a little confused by your salutation to the group end GRIN made perfect sense to me since we talk like that on the phone in the us navy

Re: [newbie] Modem

glenn crossley wrote: first things first. Ive installed 7.1 and think the OS is much cooler than documented by Windows community. I,m had no problems installing apart from the OS not detecting my modem which is a Conexant HCF 56l PCI Internal modem, can anyone direct me to the drivers or

[newbie] startup

This has probably been answered many times before, but what file in the home directory controls what gets started in gnome+enlightenment. I have started two apps, Ripple and Raindrops Effects and I can't stop them from loading when I start gnome+e again. I was also changing some enlightenment

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

At 07:55 AM 9/19/00 -0400, Chris Kelly wrote: Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey, Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created

[newbie] startup file

This has probably been answered many times before, but what file in the home directory controls what gets started in gnome+enlightenment. I have started two apps, Ripple and Raindrops Effects and I can't stop them from loading when I start gnome+e again. I was also changing some enlightenment

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 / Trying to get modemto work

Mark, When I go Mandrakes home page and pull up the 'Supp. Hardware' link, this is all I find under 'MODEM' " Most modems and ISDN adaptors are supported. Most "Win-modems" are NOT supported." 'Most' to me means many, but not all. I am comforted by a Manufacturer/Model Number type of list,

Re: [newbie] licq 0.85 problem

I noticed that LICQ 0.85 needs libcrypto.so.0 and libssl.so.0 as well as the qt2. But I couldnt find the libcrypto and libssl anywhere on the MDK 7.2 Beta. Where can I find those? Are those files on some other programs? QT2 doesnt have those files and niether does LICQ.. Rob - Original

Re: [newbie] Financial programs

Rob wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, you wrote: well I have a Quicken account in my Windows 98. I can access there from Linux using wine. it's pretty convenient when it comes to wine. I'm trying to decrease my dependent with windows as I'm phasing out on windows and to become totally

Re: [newbie] Printer Help

AL: Have you tried emulation? According to the Panasonic site (.pansonic.com), your printer can pretend that it is either an Epson FX-850 or an IBM Proprinter X24E. HTH - - cmg AL wrote: Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.1 and my Panasonic printer (KXP1150) is not recognised by it. I have

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

you can but i would pull the other hard drive out and use the new one as a primary to install windows then after your done swap it out and put it in as the secondary, then you just have to add the commands in your boot loader to the second os, although im not exactly sure what the system

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