Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Mandrake 7.2

2001-02-09 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Lino Riboldi wrote: . ho pensato di installare mandrake 7.2 (Preso dalla rivista Linux C) .. Ho visto sui NG che molti hanno avuto problemi con quei CD. Le soluzioni che giravano erano due: - accurata pulizia del CD e verifica che non ci fossero graffi (in quel caso la

Re: [newbie-it] ATA 100

2001-02-09 Per discussione Andrea Celli
stefano wrote: Salve a tutta la lista, sono un assoluto neofita di linux e vorrei installare il sistema su un hard disk ATA 100, qualcuno pu dirmi se ci sono problemi di compatibilit? Stefano un po' ma si risolvono. vedi l'apposita pagina su www.mandrakeuser.org. ciao, andrea

Re: [newbie-it] ATA 100

2001-02-09 Per discussione Flavio Bosio
Il 08:19, venerd 09 febbraio 2001, scrivesti: Salve a tutta la lista, sono un assoluto neofita di linux e vorrei installare il sistema su un hard disk ATA 100, qualcuno pu dirmi se ci sono problemi di compatibilit? Stefano S, stato rilevato qualche problema di incompatibilit tra Linux e i

[newbie-it] KDE 2 Crash

2001-02-09 Per discussione Asgro
Ho installato da poco la mandrake 7.2 con i CDs di Linux C, dopo l'installazionone, ho riavviato il comp. e tutto era apposto, al secondo avvio non è riuscito a partire il server X(il 4 con acc 3D)rimanendo in console. Unavolsta fatto log-in provo a dare il comando startx ma non parte

Re: [newbie-it] KDE 2 Crash

2001-02-09 Per discussione Claudio
On Friday 09 February 2001 15:05, you wrote: Ho installato da poco la mandrake 7.2 con i CDs di Linux C, dopo l'installazionone, ho riavviato il comp. e tutto era apposto, al secondo avvio non riuscito a partire il server X(il 4 con acc 3D) rimanendo in console. Unavolsta fatto log-in provo

[newbie-it] Re: [linux] mdk7.2 lan

2001-02-09 Per discussione roberto
Il 18:14, venerd 09 febbraio 2001, scrivesti: Vorrei collegare il mio portatile al mio pc, tutti e due con mdk7.2 appena installate. al mio pc , oltre naturalmente a localhost attribuisco il nome roberto e 10.0.0.1, riavvio il sistema, e con http://roberto mi collego al server, ma ne con

[newbie-it] Epson Stylus Color 480

2001-02-09 Per discussione Yasu
Ciao a tutti! Qualcuno di voi è riuscito a configurare correttamente una Epson Stylus Color 480 ? E' da quando ho installato la mandrake che ci provo, finora senza nessun risultato: tutte le volte quando eseguo il test di stampa (con DrakConf) la stampante non da assolutamente segni di

[newbie-it] Samba

2001-02-09 Per discussione max
Salve, ho installato MD 7.2 (..si i cd di Linux C..), funziona tutto egregiamente: "vedo" la partizione winz dalla quale,anche come utente non root ,faccio il drag and drop con konqueror, funziona alla grande il mio terminale isdn (grazie ai suggerimenti di questa lista) e riesco a collegarmi

[newbie] Newly compiled 2.4.1 kernel won't boot- grub to blame?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Craig Hagerman
Hi, I have compiled the new 2.4 kernel and everything seems to have gone OK, but I can't boot into it. All of the on-line "how to compile and install a new kernel" web pages end up talking about configuring lilo but I am using grub (+ Mandrake 7.1 with upgraded KDE, developer tools etc.) I

Re: [newbie] 20 gig HD install

2001-02-09 Per discussione Tim Holmes
I think I have that same drive that you're talking about. I went and bought the 20 Gigger and put in my system. Here's what I had to go through. First of all, the drive would seriously complain if it wasn't part of the MASTER IDE chain. Wouldn't even work if it wasn't! I plugged in the

[newbie] Broken user agent Konqueror please post solution helpm

2001-02-09 Per discussione Vic
Hi Konquerors user agent save is broken How do I fix it? Thank you

[newbie] Gnome and Sawfish

2001-02-09 Per discussione Nick Cross
Hi, Just installed Mandrake 7.2. All went fairly well except one small problem. If I log in as root I can run the Sawfish configure tool and Gnome configure reports that sawfish is running. If I log in as a user Gnome reports Sawfish isn't running and I can't bring up the configure tool. I can

Re: [newbie] Path

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
no...you take out yourself. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Victor Parra wrote: Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 23:29:17 -0800 From: Victor Parra

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
well now...let me re-download the critter and see what happens. As I remember Beonex ran great out-a the box for me and I didn't need to get any plugins at all. I had a catastrophe since I loaded the thing and hadn't gotten around to reinstalling it since. I'm still using good ole Netscape 4.75.

Re: [newbie] X and Sony VAIO PCG-C1VN

2001-02-09 Per discussione Viboon Chaojirapant
Hi Skye, Check out the Linux on Laptops page at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ I have counted 11 links to successful install of Linux (not necessary Mandrake though) on the Picturebook. Try to click out some of these pages and see whether you can find any clues. I think

Re: [newbie] Desktop

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
O heavens..I've used Blackbox before, but over all I like KDE the best. plus, with the new updates for KDE I've put a lot of work into getting KDE to where it is at the moment on this system. But as far as functionality I think KDE is way ahead of Blackbox. I don't have to work as hard to get

[newbie] Fontastic - Corel Photo

2001-02-09 Per discussione donald hinds
I loaded Corel PhotoPaint from the CD included with the Brit Linux magazine. I installs fine, but when I run it it says it can't find the 'path for Fontastic' fonts. Any Ideas? I've searched the WWWeb for 'linux fontastic' and come up with nothing. Don Don Hinds - photo,

[newbie] Problems with xinetd, telnet, and mandrake 7.2

2001-02-09 Per discussione Kevin Tambascio
Hello, I wanted to have the telnet service running under Mandrake 7.2. This box is not used for anything secure, so I don't worry about telnet and clear passwords. I read up on xinetd, and added a file called telnet to my /etc/xinetd.d directory. that file looks like this: # default: on #

[newbie] Partition sizes for / and /usr

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Johnson
How big should my / and /usr partitions typically be?

Re: [newbie] Fontastic - Corel Photo

2001-02-09 Per discussione Adrian Smith
interesting. a few of us on the list recently went thru something similar. i could not run PhotoPaint because the fontastic software did not install, so i had to install it myself (the RPM is among the PhotoPaint RPMs). so may i ask you, are you sure it has been installed? maybe that is

Re: [newbie] Is there a way to access ext2 or ReiserFS fromwindows?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Adrian Smith
Is there a way to access ext2 or ReiserFS from windows? there is a program out there called Captain Nemo which will access ext2, don't know about ReiserFS. i have it intalled and have taken a look at my linux drives with it, but haven't really used it as i've had no reason, so i can not

RE: [newbie] Is there a way to access ext2 or ReiserFS from windows?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
Here it is... http://www.runtime.org/captain.htm Moose -Original Message- From: Adrian Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 9:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Is there a way to access ext2 or ReiserFS from windows? Is there a way to

Re: [newbie] Partition sizes for / and /usr

2001-02-09 Per discussione Sevatio Octavio
Assuming you're installing LM-7.2: /usr should be 3Gigs - initial install will put 2.5GB on here leaving you with 0.5GB /usr/src - 250MB - make this bigger if you like messing around with different kernels /usr/local 800MB / - 350Mb (that's because this contains

Re: [newbie] Is there a way to access ext2 or ReiserFS from windows?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Dave Sherman
At 10:22 PM 02/08/2001 -0900, you wrote: On Thursday 08 February 2001 21:35, you wrote: Hmmm depends on your install choice i think If ya did the Linux4win install it has links to your windows from linux but the other way around I would have to say I truly doubt it If you find out

Re: [newbie] KDE, GNOME start-up problems

2001-02-09 Per discussione andrew
Or you can just use the command to start x by typing startx Andrew On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Michael Scottaline wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings from O-town, Mickey-ville aka Orlando, FL! I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on a Gateway laptop. Each and every time I boot-up the

Re: [newbie] Desktop

2001-02-09 Per discussione Dave Sherman
At 07:53 AM 02/09/2001 -0500, you wrote: O heavens..I've used Blackbox before, but over all I like KDE the best. plus, with the new updates for KDE I've put a lot of work into getting KDE to where it is at the moment on this system. But as far as functionality I think KDE is way ahead of

[newbie] Still no luck with Agfa Snapscan Touch

2001-02-09 Per discussione Jon Doe
I have created the link in the Gimp plugin directory for xscanimage and it does add the Aquire Image menu in the Xtns menu, it adds device dialog under aquire image and anytime I click on it it doesn't do a thing. The hard drive is trying to do something, but nothing ever happens. Any one

Re: [newbie] Newly compiled 2.4.1 kernel won't boot- grub to blame?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Friday 09 February 2001 05:42 am, Craig Hagerman wrote: I have compiled the new 2.4 kernel and everything seems to have gone OK, but I can't boot into it. do you have modutils-2.4.2-1mdk ? Downloaded the source for kernel 2.4.1 to my /root directory extracted the tarball with %

Re: [newbie] Fontastic - Corel Photo

2001-02-09 Per discussione Martin Cleaver
I loaded Corel PhotoPaint from the CD included with the Brit Linux magazine. I installs fine, but when I run it it says it can't find the 'path for Fontastic' fonts. Same problem with Corel WP Office 2000 (which cost a lotta money!) There are a couple of fixes floating around that seem to

[newbie] Using precompiled kernel

2001-02-09 Per discussione Pascal Touch
I downloaded kernel-2.4.1-5mdk.src.rpm. Did rpm --rebuild kernel-2.4.1-3mdk.src.rpm Got error message : error: failed build dependencies: libbinutils2-devel is needed by kernel-2.4.1-5mdk egcs is needed by kernel-2.4.1-5mdk OK I didn't install egcs. I know it's on my distro. No

Re: [newbie] Using precompiled kernel

2001-02-09 Per discussione Franco Oberti
Download: binutils-2.10.1.0.2-3mdk.src.rpm from a mdk mirror: for example: ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/SRPMS rebuild and you will find: libbinutils2-2.10.1.0.2-3mdk.i686.rpm libbinutils2-devel-2.10.1.0.2-3mdk.i686.rpm binutils-2.10.1.0.2-3mdk.i686.rpmk regards Franco On

Re: [newbie] Using precompiled kernel

2001-02-09 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Friday 09 February 2001 09:47 am, Pascal Touch wrote: I downloaded kernel-2.4.1-5mdk.src.rpm. Did rpm --rebuild kernel-2.4.1-3mdk.src.rpm Got error message : error: failed build dependencies: libbinutils2-devel is needed by kernel-2.4.1-5mdk egcs is needed by

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2001-02-09 Per discussione -michael-
On Friday 09 February 2001 03:33, you wrote: well now...let me re-download the critter and see what happens. As I remember Beonex ran great out-a the box for me and I didn't need to get any plugins at all. I had a catastrophe since I loaded the thing and hadn't gotten around to reinstalling

[newbie] starband linux (sorry if this is a repeat)

2001-02-09 Per discussione angry
I dont see that my original message went through so I'm trying again Has anyone got any experience with starband and linux, if so, how did you get your NIC to get an ip via dhcp? mine works if I enter in an ip manually but I am thinking dhcp would be better. any help would be appreciated.

[newbie] Auto-Install Modules on bootup?

2001-02-09 Per discussione dalet
I'm another LM newbie, new to the list. I am not real clear on how to get my HP OfficeJet 700 drivers loaded and usable, and don't know how to find out if they are active. I've checked various sources, and being a Windows-weaned Linux newbie, I am having trouble deciphering what I need to

Re: [newbie] Deleting Netscape lock file--how?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Charley Peggy Robinson
I ran into this same problem. I couldn't find the file in question by any file search method in the book. I also got an error msg that I had two dialers running at the same time. Couldn't find that file either. I tried looking for both files while I was on line, reasoning that they might

Re: [newbie] Partition sizes for / and /usr

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
/ (root partition) about 500MB /usr 2.5 - 3GB is a good start. I'd be more interested to know how to enlarge them once they get full. that seems to be the tricky part. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them

Re: [newbie] Partition sizes for / and /usr

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
this is a good plan too. but here again..what to do when things get too cramped? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 15:01:46 GMT

[newbie] Jump from 2.2.14 to 2.4.x kernel?

2001-02-09 Per discussione dalet
Can I jump straight from kernel 2.2.14 to 2.4.x, or do I need to do it in increments? TIA... -DM --- Failure is not an option. It comes with Windows. ---

Re: [newbie] Deleting Netscape lock file--how?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Friday 09 February 2001 12:59 pm, Charley Peggy Robinson wrote: I ran into this same problem. I couldn't find the file in question by any file search method in the book. I also got an error msg that I had two dialers running at the same time. Couldn't find that file either. I tried

[newbie] Kernel questions

2001-02-09 Per discussione Blomquist, Niklas
What is the difference between kernel-source-xxx and kernel-x.x.x.src? Who do I compile a kernel-x.x.x.src? The kernel-2.4.1 has not RAID support enable, must I recompile the kernel to add that? I get problem with the soundcard and nic after compiling the 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 kernel.

[newbie] Window Maker desktop screenshot

2001-02-09 Per discussione Dave Sherman
Here's my promised Window Maker desktop screenshot: http://www.users.qwest.net/~dcsherman/dms/desktop1.png Dave -- Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

Re: [newbie] Boot disks only

2001-02-09 Per discussione goldenpi
under windows the command "fdisk /mbr" will remove all bootloaders and put back windows. Remember to make the bootdisk first. I have a similar problem with my dad now. Heres a suggestion. Install lilo with windows as default and a one second timeout. Then you can still boot linux to make a

Re: [newbie] Window Maker desktop screenshot

2001-02-09 Per discussione Michael O'Henly
That looks really nice! By the way, what functionality do you give up when you run KDE apps under WindowMaker? M. On Friday 09 February 2001 11:01, Dave Sherman wrote: Here's my promised Window Maker desktop screenshot: http://www.users.qwest.net/~dcsherman/dms/desktop1.png Dave --

Re: [newbie] Desktop

2001-02-09 Per discussione Anthony
It's all a matter of personal preference. I personally like Gnome, but others swear by KDE/WM/etc. So just try them all out, and figure out which one you like the best. Hey is there an advantage in booting up to KDE, GNOME or the other desktops Just wondering what the differance in

Re: [newbie] Deleting Netscape lock file--how?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Anthony
You usually get that error when netscape crashes. Netscape puts that lock file in there so that two people don't use the same config files as the same time. Anyways, to fix it just remove the lockfile, "rm ~/.netscape/lock" when Netscape isn't running, and then Netscape should start up just

[newbie] RE: Boot disks only

2001-02-09 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:49 PM To: Charles A Edwards Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot disks only Thanks for the advice on eliminating LILO (or GRUB) I've

[newbie] No access

2001-02-09 Per discussione Gavin
newbies, I'm trying to backup my mail directory to floppies, I've tried to drag and drop but nothing happened, I clicked on the floppies icon to check if it copied and I got the message "unable to enter file :/mnt/floppy you do not have access right to this location. I logged out of my account

Re: [newbie] Kernel questions

2001-02-09 Per discussione Paul Jones
soory to e-mail you but how the hell do i stop all these linux e-mail's - Original Message - From: Blomquist; "Niklas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:30 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel questions What is the difference between kernel-source-xxx

RE: [newbie] Kernel questions

2001-02-09 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
You've got to be kidding me! -Original Message- From: Paul Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel questions soory to e-mail you but how the hell do i stop all these linux e-mail's - Original

[newbie] Can't Access Floppy

2001-02-09 Per discussione dalet
Out of the blue, my first floppy drive (3.5" 1.44 megs) won't read disks. Nothing seems to have changed in /etc/fstab or in the mounting sequences. Makes no difference if I am logged as a user or root. Is there something unseen that could prevent my disks from being seen? The indications

[newbie] Apache should be simple

2001-02-09 Per discussione Luc Martineau
Hello I have a domain name the DNS server is set up just fine with aliases (www.domain.com user1.domain.com ETCETC) in httpd.conf i have added one virutal server this is what i have added VirutalServer ipaddyofserverhere ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot

Re: [newbie] No access

2001-02-09 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Gavin wrote: newbies, I'm trying to backup my mail directory to floppies, I've tried to drag and drop but nothing happened, I clicked on the floppies icon to check if it copied and I got the message "unable to enter file :/mnt/floppy you do not have access right to this location. I logged

RE: [newbie] Can't Access Floppy

2001-02-09 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't Access Floppy Out of the blue, my first floppy drive (3.5" 1.44 megs) won't read disks. Nothing seems to have

[newbie] SV: [newbie] Kernel questions

2001-02-09 Per discussione Blomquist, Niklas
Nope -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Kelly, Christopher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 9 februari 2001 21:07 Till: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Ämne: RE: [newbie] Kernel questions You've got to be kidding me! -Original Message- From: Paul Jones [mailto:[EMAIL

[newbie] unsubscibe me

2001-02-09 Per discussione Paul Jones
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Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Michael, Last I heard Netscape used an internal Java machine to take care of all that stuff. I don't know that you need java external to Netscape. When I get a chance this evening I will load Beonex Communicator and see what happens. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they

Re: [newbie] Re: [Loo] Distro

2001-02-09 Per discussione L. H. LOO
At 08-02-2001 +, you wrote: Loo: What do you mean by "This is my $0.002"? This is my $0.002 worth of opinion/information. Regards. Ok, so installation process is far beyond effective and easy to do.

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 vs PartitionMagic version 5,0 ?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Michael Hagen
I can install 7.2 as secondOS(/root, swap, /home partitions) ito 8GB of free space on my primary drive (following Win 98 in first 8GB) and boot to it no problem from rescue floppy. But when I launch Partition Magic from Win, I get this error: Disk 2(8056MB 1027c 255h 63s) appears to have

Re: [newbie] Fresh install, no sound

2001-02-09 Per discussione Michael O'Henly
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I think tomorow morring I'll reinstall 7.2... Cheers. M. On Friday 09 February 2001 17:51, Anthony wrote: Try running "sndconfig" as root. That should fix it. Hi there... I reinstalled 7.2 last night and now I have no sound in

Re: [newbie] Partition sizes for / and /usr

2001-02-09 Per discussione Romanator
That's a lot of partitions. goldenpi wrote: About that enjargeing when full, DONT. It can be done but is not easy. You must remember that you can not change the start sector. So makeing a partition bigger often means removeing another. - Original Message - From: Mark Weaver

[newbie] win98 freezes after 7.2 install

2001-02-09 Per discussione Craig Rowan
I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now my windows 98 seems to pause for about 20 seconds at certain times. I'm not sure whether its mandrake or not, maybe its something to do with the boot loader. Anyone had the same problem.

[newbie] Ok I give up---HOW is it done???

2001-02-09 Per discussione Vic
How do you get Konqueror to save the user agent? Is it broken? Is it a mystery? Is it a contest for all to figure out and win a big buttload of money? What am I missing here?!?!?!?! My goal, to go to Shockwave.com and fool it so it will quitF*@%$@# ing with me and lying and saying

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2001-02-09 Per discussione Dennis Myers
Robin Regennitter wrote: I went to a website that has chat rooms that used java. Once I had it up. it was making a ding-ding noise. it wouldnt stop till I shut it down. after I closed netscape6.1. My sounds is inoperable until I reboot. So much of that. - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 vs PartitionMagic version 5,0 ?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
Michael: First off, what really sucks is posting HTML messages. Some mail readers (where the term "mail readers" includes both programs and people) don't like it. The yellow background really pissed me off. TURN IT OFF. It's been my experience that PM 6 doesn't have any problems with Linux,

[newbie] Problem with KPPP

2001-02-09 Per discussione John bale
Hello all, I've installed ML 7.2, when I run KPPP dialer I got the message stated that KPPP has died unexpectedly with the return codes of either 10 or 16. When I use console and activated PPPd through "ifup ppp0" it works and connected to my ISP. What shall I do to get KPPP working, This

Re: [newbie] win98 freezes after 7.2 install

2001-02-09 Per discussione Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now my windows 98 seems to pause for about 20 seconds at certain times. I'm not sure whether its mandrake or not, maybe its something to do with the boot loader. Did you defrag your windows harddrive before you partitioned it

[newbie] Allegro PCI soundcard problem

2001-02-09 Per discussione Adi W. Rahadi
Hi there, Please help, i've been installing my Allegro PCI soundcard with sndconfig, probing result found my PCI card, but it can't recognized what vendor and device. what should i do?, where i can find any driver for my card?. Thanks alot. -- Newbie

Re: Re[8]: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile

2001-02-09 Per discussione Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have two options. Fix it manually or reformat. I was thinking of reformating because I have so much junk up in here: installing things, meeting dependencies or trying to install things and trying to meet dependencies. A few little things like the

[newbie] stdlibc++

2001-02-09 Per discussione Abraham Mandac
Anybody know the difference between just stdlibc++ and stdlibc++-devel ? Thanks -- Abe

Re: [newbie] Problem with KPPP

2001-02-09 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 10 February 2001 03:46 am, you wrote: Hello all, I've installed ML 7.2, when I run KPPP dialer I got the message stated that KPPP has died unexpectedly with the return codes of either 10 or 16. When I use console and activated PPPd through "ifup ppp0" it works and connected to

Re: [newbie] SV: [newbie] Kernel questions

2001-02-09 Per discussione Altoine B
soory to e-mail you but how the hell do i stop all these linux e-mail's **Interrupt*** Create a filter to send any mail withou an "Re:" to the trash. LOL Next select only those subjects that interrest you. Delete the rest. All will be fine after that. If it is too much of a task to

Re: [newbie] Deleting Netscape lock file--how?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You usually get that error when netscape crashes. Netscape puts that lock file in there so that two people don't use the same config files as the same time. Anyways, to fix it just remove the lockfile, "rm ~/.netscape/lock" when Netscape isn't running, and then

Re: Re[8]: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile

2001-02-09 Per discussione s
Well, apparently supermount support is still missing in the generic 2.4.1 tar.gz cause I went through it again tonight and I saw automount only. Tried to use it and choose to configure it in as a module. Still no fix. Maybe I should get the cooker rpms for the kernel. Oh well, not really

Re: [newbie] Jump from 2.2.14 to 2.4.x kernel?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I jump straight from kernel 2.2.14 to 2.4.x, or do I need to do it in increments? TIA... -DM Jump. Incremental jumps are educational but unnecessary. -- Al -- .--. ` |__| .---. |=.| |.-.| |--| ||ABORT|| | | |'-'|

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

2001-02-09 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Michael, ok...I've got it installed and it's running just fine. Other then enabling Java and Javascript I don't know of anything else that needs to be done with Java and Communicator. Is there someplace that you had in mind that is very Java intensive that I could test drive this thing to find

Re: [newbie] Is there a way to access ext2 or ReiserFS from windows?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Altoine B
yes, do a google search for ex2plorer you will have better results with download.com ==Al -- .--. ` |__| .---. |=.| |.-.| |--| ||ABORT|| | | |'-'| |__|~')_(' http://www.maximumtime.com __ Get your own

Re: [newbie] Auto-Install Modules on bootup?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm another LM newbie, new to the list. I am not real clear on how to get my HP OfficeJet 700 drivers loaded and usable, and don't know how to find out if they are active. I've checked various sources, and being a Windows-weaned Linux newbie, I am having

Re: [newbie] Huge swap file!!!

2001-02-09 Per discussione Altoine B
What happened was that you didn't configure your "extra" drive space. By default, linux sets any new partiton as either blank (nonGUI), or SWAP (GUI). What you will have to do, is to do it all again but to make sure that you don't specify the partition for anything (unmounted). If it is to be

Re: Re[8]: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile

2001-02-09 Per discussione Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you so much for your reply, and I would do that as I have seen it for he has posted it in several places; except for (okay, this is really embarrassing) that I don't seem to have a supermount.o module. I remember an automount choice in the config, but

Re: [newbie] telnet and ftp access

2001-02-09 Per discussione Allan Parreno
run setup under root's account under system services look for inetd then activate next you restart your computer it should work. about talk same thing edit your inetd.conf, be sure the talk is uncomment. then type mesg=y hope this will help On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Adi W. Rahadi wrote: Thanks,

[newbie] weird stuf with kernel and kde...

2001-02-09 Per discussione Franki
Hi all, This is my first post to this list., and my first time away from the slackware and Redhat dists... I am impressed as hell so far.. and I love Webmin. Questons Is there a "relased" stable version of the 2.4 kernel for Mandrake available? I notice that from the kernel.org that the

Re: [newbie] Is there a way to access ext2 or ReiserFS from windows?

2001-02-09 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:20, Ian wrote: Is there a way to access ext2 or ReiserFS from windows? http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a

Re: [newbie] Partitioning and ReiserFS

2001-02-09 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 15:27, Ribbo wrote: Tanggal 09 Feb 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan mengatakan, rebooted. The kernel startup halted when trying to mount the new ReiserFS partition as /, giving an error. what was the error said? Here is an extract from my kernel startup messages: Partition