[newbie-it] problemi con il floppy

2000-10-16 Per discussione bruno mandelli
Ciao a tutti avrei questo problema, se digito '$ cd /mnt/floppy' ottengo questa risposta 'bash: cd: /mnt/floppy/: Errore di input/output Riavviando il sistema funziona. Bruno

Re: [newbie-it] problemi con il floppy

2000-10-16 Per discussione Casa
Il lun, 16 ott 2000, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti avrei questo problema, se digito '$ cd /mnt/floppy' ottengo questa risposta 'bash: cd: /mnt/floppy/: Errore di input/output Riavviando il sistema funziona. Spiega meglio il caso, ci dici un po' pochino. Nicola.

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi di navigazione internet

2000-10-16 Per discussione loris gava
Scusa il ritardo , comunque navigazione tutto ok ora. From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Problemi di navigazione internet Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 11:21:06 +0200 At 08.27 09/10/00 +, loris

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi di navigazione internet

2000-10-16 Per discussione loris gava
Scusa per il ritardo della risposta , comunque navigazione tutto ok ora. From: Fabio Coatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Problemi di navigazione internet Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:41:12 +0200 On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:27:04AM

Re: [newbie-it] telnet linux e controlllo remoto....

2000-10-16 Per discussione Fabio Coatti
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:08:58AM +0200, peppesan wrote: Il ven, 13 ott 2000, marco signoretto ha scritto: ho letto su una rivista che è possibilie connettersi a linux da remoto utilizzando telnet da una macchina che monta un qualsiasi sistema operativo. provando da win 2000 a eseguire

Fw: [newbie-it] Upgrade kernel 2.4.0 test 9-patch

2000-10-16 Per discussione ENx
Grazie mille Fabio, ho trovato la patch giusta, ma come faccio ad applicarla??? ENx

Re: [newbie-it] Gnome

2000-10-16 Per discussione freefred
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, a day in the life, Andrea Gentili wrote: Mi piacerebbe provare ad installare l'interfaccia grafica di Gnome ma ciò si sta rivelando un'impresa (almeno per me). Ho scaricato l'installer dal sito della Helixcode ma, pur seguendo le istruzioni per avviarlo, non riesco a

Re: [newbie]

2000-10-16 Per discussione Glen Scott
At 02:35 15/10/00, emerhawk wrote: I'm asking for a frend. Is there a dist. for an amega machine. Emerhawk Do you mean Amiga? Start here, http://www.amiga.com - Glen - Design Solution Limited t: +44 (0)1502 513008 f: +44 (0)1502

[newbie] modem

2000-10-16 Per discussione alan
hi canyou tell me where I can find any information on which modems will work with linux I have installed at the moment a diamond supraexpress 56i pro v cc pci modem. regards alan

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS or ext2 ?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Ketil Vestby
I have a Compaq Presario 5726 (unfortunately), and ReiserFS have proved to be the ONLY partitioning system that is stable enough, and with enough errorcorrection - systems to make my machine reliable. The problem is that i somehow loses information about where the harddisk locate some of its

Re: [newbie] MS optical mouse works better in Linux than in NT!

2000-10-16 Per discussione Julio Gutierrez
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: My MS Intellimouse gave up on me. Despite a lot cleaning, etc, the buttons were getting stuck and causing me to either have to click more than once to get a click or one click would act as a double click. So with trepidation I bought a MS optical

Re: [[newbie] modem]

2000-10-16 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
"alan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi canyou tell me where I can find any information on which modems will work with linux I have installed at the moment a diamond supraexpress 56i pro v cc pci modem. regards alan === Alan, Keep in mind that the majority of PCI modems

Re: [newbie] modem

2000-10-16 Per discussione John Rye
alan wrote: hi canyou tell me where I can find any information on which modems will work with linux I have installed at the moment a diamond supraexpress 56i pro v cc pci modem. regards alan This site lists hardware known to work. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 Most modems

Re: [newbie] Toshiba and video woes

2000-10-16 Per discussione Ricardo Zevallos
Hi Mark, I am a little behind you but maybe I can help. I have a Toshiba Satellite 4090 XDVD notebook with Win2000 and LM 7.0 installed. I also had some problems configuring my video card. My computer has a Trident Cyber 9525 Graphic Adapter which is not available. I chose the closest option

[newbie] Scanners and Mandrake

2000-10-16 Per discussione Mike Smith
How do I get my Mustek 600cp parallel port scanner to work under Mandrake ?? Mike

Re: [newbie] modem

2000-10-16 Per discussione Kandace Little
I have a 56 Supermax modem and it is a winmodem :( I think all of the made by diamond are winmodems ;(.. There is a site out there but I think you best bet is to write diamond and ask them if you modem is dependent on the CPU, they don't like people calling their modems winmodems hehe..

RE: [newbie] Toshiba and video woes

2000-10-16 Per discussione Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Dear Ricardo I have a Toshiba satellite 4090 XCDT and finally I have reached to install the Mandrake 7.1. I had no problems to install the 7.0 version, but the 7.1 was more difficult I do not know wy; the way to install is in text mode installation, that means, when the installation CD show you

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Support

2000-10-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 7:37pm ,rharvey spake passionately in a message: I have called micrsoft and got my free support that comes with the purchase of a new operating system. they helped me on the spot and I had 30 day left to ask for more help. Hmm... :) there's always the exception

Re: [newbie] Mandrake supportI

2000-10-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
:) holy cow Larry! sounds like some of the shaninigans that goes on down here with my ISP. I wonder if they're related some how? -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them

Re: [newbie] MS optical mouse works better in Linux than in NT!

2000-10-16 Per discussione Jeff Malka
The scroll wheel works everywhere for me in linux. But I do use imwheel -k and it is attached as a PS/2. As for the 2 additional buttons it should be a matter of finding out what keypresses they send out and entering them in a keybinding somewhere (Netscape, Opera, etc.). Jeff Malka [EMAIL

[newbie] How to copy a file to a diskette?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Kenneth Marcy
The XServer on my brand-new installation of Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 refused to start the first day after it was installed (without error messages), then shut down, and rebooted the next day. At the end of a long list of messages were two lines: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'

[newbie] Adding dirs to the path

2000-10-16 Per discussione Michael Lueck
/etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: 1) Where Mandrake hides the ability to update the path 2) Where this and other differences in Mandrake vs popular Linux how-to books are

Re: [newbie] Modem is busy

2000-10-16 Per discussione Austin L. Denyer
I have problem to make my connections to the internet to work using my portable PC. Each time I launch kppp, I have the following message : "Sorry, the modem is busy" What is that ? I've never had any problem with my other computers running Linux, but it's the first time I install Linux

Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path

2000-10-16 Per discussione Larry Marshall
/etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: You didn't say why you wanted to change the path but I think you're looking in the wrong place. 1) Where Mandrake hides the

RE: [newbie]

2000-10-16 Per discussione Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG
I believe thats Amiga made by Commodore a while ago. I would be interested as well, as I have an old one in my garage! Carlton J Doc Dodd -Original Message- From: emerhawk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 3:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [newbie] where's the iostream library?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Mark Johnson
If you have access to news groups you really probably ought to ask programming related questions in comp.os.unix.programmer, you'll probably get much quicker and more correct responses. If you have missing pieces of the development library, it's not like you can just drop in a header file and

Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path

2000-10-16 Per discussione John Hendrickx
3) Is it a standard *nix security configuration to not search the current directory? Most annoying for an OS/2, Win32, DOS based person. grin...I recall an explanation of this at one point but I can't recall There's an answer to this in the comp.unix.questions faq. The example they give

[newbie] Samba Network

2000-10-16 Per discussione freeman
I normally have my samba network configured as a workgroup I was thinking of switching it over to a domain server possible dhcp server. I was just wondering what it entails to do this chore. Regards Mike Freeman Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder! Linux Registered

Re: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux

2000-10-16 Per discussione GAPrichard
In a message dated 10/14/2000 9:19:38 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All: I think my Master Boot Record is corrupt. My system only sees 2 gigs of 6.4 gig HD. Do I have to take it in too shop and get a low level format? I can create an extended

[newbie] sound cards

2000-10-16 Per discussione chronos
Hi all- Question, if I uninstall the drivers and sound card from windows and then boot up linux and do a clean install do you think that the sound card will work ? Everytime I use drakX it tells me the sound card has already been configured. So I figure what do I have to lose except about a

RE: [newbie] Bad mbr-cannot load or boot linux

2000-10-16 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
I have a program that I can send you called Efdisk. It is awesome and you will be able to use to create real linux partitions. If you want, I can send it to you off-list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:09 PM To:

[newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

2000-10-16 Per discussione Wignall, Mark T
Hoping for some help here: I previously had the following setup within my network at my residence. 1 Linux box w/ 2 NIC cards. 1 connected to the DSL modem, and 1 to a HUB where other computers throughout the house are connected. I configured NIC 1 for the IP address given to me by my DSL

Re: [[newbie] How to copy a file to a diskette?]

2000-10-16 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
Kenneth Marcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The XServer on my brand-new installation of Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 refused to start the first day after it was installed (without error messages), then shut down, and rebooted the next day. At the end of a long list of messages were two lines: Fatal

Re: [[newbie] wp8]

2000-10-16 Per discussione GAPrichard
Yes, I have buttons like this. I thought it was intentional (free version and all). Haven't had any time to work with it. I'm interested in solutions others have. -Gary- In a message dated 10/14/2000 6:27:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone have this problem?

Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

2000-10-16 Per discussione Dennis Veatch
"Wignall, Mark T" wrote: In summary, my question is this. Is this the best/only approach I can take in setting up my environment? Is there a way to accomplish this by setting up my own route tables? The reason I ask is because when everything is "idle" on my network, I see blips on the

[newbie] password for Netscape mail?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Marcia L Waller
Dear Anyone, It has been a long haul and I am finally on cable internet with linux mandrake! One person in this newbie group helped me so much privately to get this going and I certainly appreciate it. I am in a hurry right now, but I will send info about the steps I had to take to get my SMC EZ

[newbie] LILO hangs

2000-10-16 Per discussione Joseph Bourque
I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons that are too lengthy to explain I need to completely remove both Windows and Linux from my system. I've reformatted my second drive where Linux was installed, but when I reboot, LILO tries to come up then hangs with just the first two letters

RE: [newbie] LILO hangs

2000-10-16 Per discussione Sparks, Charley
Boot with a DOS FLoppy and perform fdisk /mbr this will remove LILO -Original Message-From: Joseph Bourque [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:32 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] LILO hangs I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons

[newbie] still having trouble booting

2000-10-16 Per discussione Alex Hopson
I have changed the partitions as suggested but am still having problems, once I select linux from grub I get the following message and nothing happens: Booting Linux Internal (hd0, 4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 hdd=ide-scsi [linux-bzImage, setup=0xe00, size=0xa4530 this is what partition info

Re: [newbie] LILO hangs

2000-10-16 Per discussione Larry Marshall
I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons that are too lengthy to explain I need to completely remove both Windows and Linux from my system. I've reformatted my second drive where Linux was installed, but when I reboot, LILO tries to come up then hangs with just the first two letters LI

[newbie] Napster rpm?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Marcia L Waller
Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck with understanding tar yet. Thank you, Marcia

Re: [newbie] sound cards

2000-10-16 Per discussione Philomena
I don't see how drivers and/or devices installed in Windows will have any affect on a Linux install - changes to the bios will have an affect, but I don't think software installed in Windows will affect anything. Maybe someone else knows differently - or give it a try anyway, since I guess

[newbie] Configuring an Ehternet Adapter

2000-10-16 Per discussione dom972
Hi! I am a brand new Mandrake user and appreciate very much the initiative of a list supporting dummies like me! I have a Network card (PCI) provided by Road Runner, an american cable services provider. They do not support Linux users. I feel like I am close to the goal of making this card

RE: [newbie] LILO hangs

2000-10-16 Per discussione Wignall, Mark T
Boot from your windows startup floppy and then at the A: prompt, type SYSTEM. this will overwrite the MBR on your hard disk, by transferring the system files from the floppy to hard disk. This is NOT like formatting your hard drive, so all your files will be intact. Mark Wignall

Re: [newbie] Napster rpm?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Joan Tur
Marcia L Waller escribió: Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck with understanding tar yet. Go to rpmfind.net and

Re: [newbie] password for Netscape mail?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Eddie Torres
What's the advantage of using fetchmail and sendmail? -- On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:43:04 ZZ wrote: Marcia L Waller wrote: Dear Anyone, It has been a long haul and I am finally on cable internet with linux mandrake! Great!! I am still on a dilaup 28.8:P the net using Nestscape I have one

Re: [newbie] linux isp

2000-10-16 Per discussione Mwinold
In a message dated 15-Oct-00 23:31:16 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seriously - look around your local area - ask your colleagues It should not matter whether the ISP is "Linux Friendly" data is data is data and that is all you exchange with the ISP some isps want

Re: [newbie] Napster rpm?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Larry Marshall
Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck with understanding tar yet. Thank you, Marcia I use knapster occasionally and

Re: [newbie] sound cards

2000-10-16 Per discussione Larry Marshall
I don't see how drivers and/or devices installed in Windows will have any affect on a Linux install - changes to the bios will have an affect, but I don't think software installed in Windows will affect anything. Maybe someone else knows differently - or give it a try anyway, since I

Re: [newbie] sound cards

2000-10-16 Per discussione Mwinold
In a message dated 16-Oct-00 15:22:58 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While Windows has taken "unpredictable" to a new high, it's none of the Windows software drivers are even loaded when Linux is running so you're right; their residence on a hard drive won't affect

Re: [newbie] Napster rpm?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Roger Sherman
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:41:44 +0200, you wrote: Marcia L Waller escribió: Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable internet with Linux I would like to get Napster going if possible. Is there a napster software for linux that is rpm? I saw one that is a tar file but I have had no luck with

Re: [newbie] sound cards

2000-10-16 Per discussione Philomena
yes, you can get lots of information that way and it can be very helpful with debugging - I used that to help fix my own SBLive! problems - but the original question (not from me) was about problems configuring an SBLive ! card in 7.0 , and someone asking that if the Win driver's were

Re: [newbie] modem

2000-10-16 Per discussione Dennis Myers
alan wrote: hi canyou tell me where I can find any information on which modems will work with linux I have installed at the moment a diamond supraexpress 56i pro v cc pci modem. regards alan Hi, I have a "Best Data" internal modem on one machine and a "Best Data 56SX" external on another

Re: [newbie] Napster rpm?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Adam
look on rpmfind.net for knapster gnapster one of those should work for yah :o] - Original Message - From: "Marcia L Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 4:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Napster rpm? Dear Anyone, Now that I am finally on cable

Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path

2000-10-16 Per discussione Michael Lueck
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:10:01 -0400 (EDT), Larry Marshall wrote: /etc/profile has a comment that PATH is taken care of by Mandrake Security. Removing the # and adding dirs has no affect on the path. Could someone point out: You didn't say why you wanted to change the path but I think you're

[newbie] Can't log in to root account

2000-10-16 Per discussione Duke Glover
Hello Linux gods, Mandrake Linux 7.0 I made the mistake of running Bastille Linux 1.1.0 on my machine. Anyway, ever since I rebooted I can no longer login to the root account. Does anyone know a way around this ? Without root access I can't do anything. There may be a "uninstall/undo" in

Re: [newbie] Samba Network

2000-10-16 Per discussione Michael Lueck
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:56:13 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: domain server possible dhcp server. I was not aware that Samba could emulate an NT Domain Controller. Doesn't it act as an additional server in the domain? Adding DHCP would be separate from changing the workgroup/domain

Re: [newbie] Re: FW: How can I install LM 7.0 to laptop?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Pete Clapham
Hi -- Mandrake 7.0 runs on a laptop -- I regularly use it on my Toshiba satellite. But I have discovered that it does not like to run on less than 64 mb memory. Others on this list have suggested that this isn't so, but I have had several bad experiences where 6.1 would run but 7.0 would

Re: [newbie] Napster rpm?

2000-10-16 Per discussione Robin Regennitter
Hi all, There is a RPM version of Knapster (Napster for the KDE) at the Mandrake Cooker sites, any mirror should do. It would be listed under contributions. That's where I get most of my application from. Rob - Original Message - From: "Roger Sherman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Configuring an Ehternet Adapter

2000-10-16 Per discussione Greg Stewart
Check, in linuxconf, to see whether device eth0 is set as "enable at boot". --Greg - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I am a brand new Mandrake user and appreciate very much the initiative of a list supporting dummies like me! I have a Network card (PCI) provided

Re: [newbie] copying music cd onto hard drive

2000-10-16 Per discussione Larry Marshall
Is it possible to copy music cd's onto the hard drive that you can then play back without having to load the cd in the cdrom. Sure...grip comes with LM. This will take tracks off your CD by calling cdparanoia (also comes with LM) . It will then hand the result to some program (I downloaded

Re: [newbie] Configuring an Ehternet Adapter

2000-10-16 Per discussione Michael
netcfg might be a little easier to use if you have it. It's very straightforward. All it does is handle network stuff. :) *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Greg Stewart wrote: Check, in linuxconf, to

Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

2000-10-16 Per discussione Greg Stewart
You need to alias the external interface to act as all 5 external "real" IP addresses a,d use ipmasqadm to port forward the incoming requests to the appropriate masqeud internal IP address. The format for setting IP aliasing is (where the "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"s correspond to the IP addresses and

[newbie] large hard disk

2000-10-16 Per discussione Joseph Bourque
A few months ago I bought a Maxtor Diamondmax 40 gig hard drive. I installed it with Windows 98 using the included Maxblast Plus software floppy. The software included a BIOS overlay called EZ BIOS. Everything installed correctly and gave me two 20 gig partitions labeled D: and E: Whenever

Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall

2000-10-16 Per discussione stephen
you need to re compile the kernel for this ok for ip masq you need to re config the kernel ok stephen - Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux/Networking/Firewall You need to

Re: [newbie] linux isp

2000-10-16 Per discussione Larry Marshall
Seriously - look around your local area - ask your colleagues It should not matter whether the ISP is "Linux Friendly" data is data is data and that is all you exchange with the ISP some isps want specific data such as windows aps that run on the system Huh? Sure haven't seen that.

Re: [newbie] sound cards

2000-10-16 Per discussione Larry Marshall
While Windows has taken "unpredictable" to a new high, it's none of the Windows software drivers are even loaded when Linux is running so you're right; their residence on a hard drive won't affect anything. You're also right that changing the BIOS will affect Linux. this maybe true,

[newbie] Can't See My Apache

2000-10-16 Per discussione Altoine Barker
Help! I've installed apache-1.3.12-30mdk.i586.rpm and the other compliments with suexec, common, and perl_mod. I was able to see and use my website up until I went into DrakConf and Clicked on the "Security Level" and set it to high. Now my server denies all access to the server even to me when I

Re: [newbie] large hard disk

2000-10-16 Per discussione Mwinold
well for one dos fdisk is limited your bios settings will tell it something it cant comprehend, remember how we mention lilo only able to detect so many cylanders well in this case dos has the same limitations, my mom had the same problem she bought a 20 gig hard drive and for some reason her

Re: [newbie] large hard disk

2000-10-16 Per discussione Greg Stewart
DOS will not see anything past the 1028 cylinder limit--approximately 7.8GB (sually rounded by DOS to 8GB). You do not need the "EZ-BIOS" app. to run properly. If you are only installing linux, then scrap the DOS utilities, and only use the installer (I'm assuming Mandrake). Use "expert mode"

[newbie] ? Arkeia backup utility

2000-10-16 Per discussione ai4a
On disk 5 of my mandrake deluxe package there is a program named Arkeia backup utility. I looked on Arkeia's web pages and it appeared as if this utility will backup to tapes only. Is that correct? Or have I missed read the info about Arkeia. I wish to backup to a disk drive. Will this utility

Re: [newbie] Can't See My Apache

2000-10-16 Per discussione Dan Gibbs
this is the same problem I've had... but I started with no acess to anything but 127.0.0.1 (even though it took a day to install lm7.1 + pcmica) If you find out how to fix it let us know.. I'm just trying a rebuild :( Altoine Barker wrote: Help! I've installed apache-1.3.12-30mdk.i586.rpm

[newbie] ANSI C++ library

2000-10-16 Per discussione Larry Marshall
In the past month or so at least two people asked about locating iostream.h under Mandrake. I haven't done any C++ coding and so couldn't answer their question but it seemed an odd one since, by appearances, LM installs the standard GNU compilers/libraries. I stuck it on a "check this out"

Re: [newbie] ? Arkeia backup utility

2000-10-16 Per discussione Larry Marshall
On disk 5 of my mandrake deluxe package there is a program named Arkeia backup utility. I looked on Arkeia's web pages and it appeared as if this utility will backup to tapes only. Is that correct? Or have I missed read the info about Arkeia. I wish to backup to a disk drive. Will this

Re: [newbie] sound cards

2000-10-16 Per discussione Dennis Veatch
Larry Marshall wrote: I think the significant thing in this thread (about whether removing Windows drivers would help Linux) is whether Linux can get any information from Windows device drivers. I'd submit the answer is, as I suggested, no. You are correct. If you are dealing with a

Re: [newbie] large hard disk

2000-10-16 Per discussione Dennis Veatch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well for one dos fdisk is limited your bios settings will tell it something it cant comprehend, remember how we mention lilo only able to detect so many cylanders well in this case dos has the same limitations, my mom had the same That is why Linux-Mandrake developed

[newbie] I keep having problems with X windows

2000-10-16 Per discussione Mark Thurston
I installed Linux on my computer only to find that it did not have the C++ libraries, so I downloaded the tar file for that and then followed the instructions to install gcc on my computer. All went well until I rebooted my machine. Now I can not get it to go into the GUI mode. I have tried

Re: [newbie] Can't See My Apache

2000-10-16 Per discussione Dan Gibbs
make sure your acually running apache!! and not roxen - god only knows what it is, but kill it the run apache... Dan Gibbs wrote: this is the same problem I've had... but I started with no acess to anything but 127.0.0.1 (even though it took a day to install lm7.1 + pcmica) If you find out

Re: [newbie] large hard disk

2000-10-16 Per discussione Dennis Veatch
Dennis Veatch wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well for one dos fdisk is limited your bios settings will tell it something it cant comprehend, remember how we mention lilo only able to detect so many cylanders well in this case dos has the same limitations, my mom had the same That is

[newbie] transfering dirs/files

2000-10-16 Per discussione KompuKit
I want to save and/or transfer my whole public_html directory to another drive on my computer...(have two) However, my public_html dir is very large, and I definitly want to save/transfer this whole dir...and at the same time, keep all case in tact...(upper/lower case) of filenames/directories.

Re: [newbie] transfering dirs/files

2000-10-16 Per discussione Greg Stewart
What was you tar syntax? Did you tar a directory from just above it? If not, try the following: tar -cvpf filename.tar directoryname -c = create -v = verbose -p = preserve (permissions) -f = filename (the filename must come immediately after the 'f' or the next argument becomes the filename)