Re: [newbie-it] chiocciolina

2001-03-14 Per discussione Fabio Coatti
Il 20:55, marted 13 marzo 2001, scrivesti: la tastiera sotto linux non edita la chiocciolina cosa posso usare? Sotto Netscape: sto compilando un form, tipo l'attivazione di una email e provo a digitare il mio indirizzo email, sorpresa con ctrl alt e chiocciolina questa non viene digitata.

[newbie-it]

2001-03-14 Per discussione Loris
Ho dovuto reinstallare windows che naturalmente mi ha riscritto l'MBR facendomi perdere GRUB. In che maniera posso reinstallarlo? Ciao e grazie. -- Chieder è lecito, rispondere è cortesia.

Re: R: R: [newbie-it] modem interni

2001-03-14 Per discussione germano percossi
Il 11:32, mercoled 14 marzo 2001, Demis hai scritto: Seppelliamo l'ascia di GUERRA!!! ho un modem Conexant Soft56K con chip Rockwell. Ho scaricato dal sito www.Olitec.com il driver scritto appositamente per i chip Rockwell montati sui modem Olitec. Con qualche ritocco manuale sono riuscito a

Re: R: R: [newbie-it] modem interni

2001-03-14 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adesso leggo anch'io il messaggio di Demis (che sinceramente non ricordavo di aver letto e pensavo di aver cancellato per errore). Grazie alle tue indicazioni, Demis, anch'io sono riuscito a far funzionare il mio modem Conexant. Perhcé il modem funzioni, ogni volta che entro in Linux devo

[newbie-it] GRUB

2001-03-14 Per discussione Loris
Ho dovuto reinstallare windows che naturalmente mi ha riscritto l'MBR facendomi perdere GRUB. In che maniera posso reinstallarlo? Ciao e grazie. (scusate,prima mi sono dimenticato l'oggetto). -- Chieder è lecito, rispondere è cortesia.

Re: [newbie-it]

2001-03-14 Per discussione freefred
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 10:49, Loris wrote: Ho dovuto reinstallare windows che naturalmente mi ha riscritto l'MBR facendomi perdere GRUB. In che maniera posso reinstallarlo? Ciao e grazie. Dovrebbe bastarti, una volta entrato nel sistema col cd o con un disco di boot, lanciare il

Re: [newbie-it] Problemino con la shel...

2001-03-14 Per discussione Flavio Bosio
Il 09:37, mercoled 14 marzo 2001, scrivesti: Il 21:37, marted 13 marzo 2001, Flavio Bosio scrisse: ci che vorrei sapere se possibile realizzare uno script che automaticamente infili il "login", la pwd ecc.. visto che il ";" pare proprio no funzionare:-( ci sar pure un modo per

Re: [newbie-it] update-menus -v

2001-03-14 Per discussione Tommaso Leddi
I Update-menus[1106]: Running method:/etc/menu-methods//fvwm e dopo quest'ultima linea, tutto si blocca sino a che non faccio un Ctrl+C Non sembra che sia normale. Cosa devo fare? Ho notato anch'io che non riappare il prompt. Pero` non c'e` bisogno di un Control-C, basta un Return.

R: [newbie-it] Problemi con LILO

2001-03-14 Per discussione Giuseppe Foti
Grazie per aver risposto. lilo stato eseguito pi e pi volte. Attualmente LILO corrotto e non si avvia pi. Il PC avvia sempre windows e per entare in Linux devo usare per forza il floppy di boot. Sai cosa significa "esattamente" il comando rm -rf /dd/ me lo hanno dato in chat ma non mi sono

Re: R: [newbie-it] problemone mouse!!!!!!

2001-03-14 Per discussione Tommaso Leddi
ho un problemonein mdk 7.2 ho erroneamente cambiato le impostazioni del mouse (in drakconf).mettendo un mouse diverso dal mio.(bravo l'idiota!) ora all'avvio parte solo la modal. testo,faccio init5 a parte quella grafica...ma il puntatore rimane fermo e non posso fare niente!!!

[newbie-it] [newbie-it] Configurazione rete: la storia infinita (2° round)

2001-03-14 Per discussione Modnar
- Original Message - From: "Modnar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 4:38 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Configurazione rete: la storia infinita Il problema era sempre il solito, non partiva la rete, e a quanto mi parso di capire dalle LDR era perch

[newbie-it] invio automatico di e-mail

2001-03-14 Per discussione marco signoretto
salve a tutti, sto cercando il modo di realizzare uno script che invii automaticamnte una mail che informi determinati utenti remoti ogni qual volta si verifichi il cambiamento dell'indirizzo ip pubblico di un server. come fare? grazie in anticipo per i vostri consigli. Marco

Re: [newbie-it] mandrrake 7.1: errore durante l'installazione

2001-03-14 Per discussione pacmo
Ti dico solo che mi capitato tempo fa (allora avevo Red Hat) che durante l'installazione si sia bloccata ed il problema era di una usr troppo piccola rispetto al numero dei programmi da installare. Mi pare anche di aver letto che pu nascere il problema. Dovrebbe essere quello, ma per

Re: R: [newbie-it] mandrrake 7.1: errore durante l'installazione

2001-03-14 Per discussione Enrico Mischi
Il 18:33, mercoled 14 marzo 2001, scrivesti: Grazie per la risposta, ma sei sicuro che la partizione /usr serva necessariamente? Io non credo serva per forza... deve per forza esistere una DIRECTORY /usr, ma una partizione no di sicuro, almeno su di un dsktop... Te lo chiedo perche' la

Re: [newbie-it] [newbie-it] Configurazione rete: la storia infinit a (2° round)

2001-03-14 Per discussione Fabio Coatti
Il 19:46, mercoled 14 marzo 2001, scrivesti: Purtroppo non l'ultima puntata. Sendmail non si chiude perch in realt non si avvia mai, ogni volta che tento di avviarlo mi da ok, ma se immediatamente controllo il suo stato da linuxconf (gestione servizi) mi dice che sendmail morto (dead) ma

[newbie-it] aurora

2001-03-14 Per discussione osvaldo
ciao a tutti! si tratta di una curiosità più che di un vero problema...ora vi racconto: dopo aver installato a casa mdrk7.2 (da rivista) ho deciso di togliere spazio a bilgheiz anche al lavoro e mi sono messo al lavoro sul pc del mio ufficio. a parte qualche piccolo problemino che affronterò

[newbie] Install Linux over a network

2001-03-14 Per discussione Development.Pretoria
Is it possible to install Mandrake linux over a network? How? Could I get it natively installed over a network, without having a cd on the computer? Or is it only possible vor Lin4win Geert

Re: [newbie] Can't Access CD Drives - even as root

2001-03-14 Per discussione Graham Watkins
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Well, don't know if this applies, and I don't want or intend to insult your intelligence as related to linux, as I am a complete newbie, but I know my cd drives do that if the disc doesn't have any relation to linux

Re: [newbie] Can't access CD drives - even as root

2001-03-14 Per discussione Graham Watkins
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], angry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I've experienced this problem too, In my case, i had the devices mounted as supermount filesystem when there was no media in the drives i would get similar errors, however putting media in them did the trick. also got the same type of

Re: [newbie] Can't access CD drives - even as root

2001-03-14 Per discussione Graham Watkins
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Lazarewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ** Reply to message from root [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:12:54 + 2. Go in as root to your device and mount points and check that you indeed have read/write permissions set properly -- that means they

Re: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon

2001-03-14 Per discussione PENA FAMILY
Well, I followed the link you provided me and wrote down the info for my modem listed under WindowsME. Logged into Linux under root. I am completely new to Linux so terms like "terminal" and the like have no meaning whatsoever. Nevertheless, I did figure how to get into terminal and typed in the

Re: [newbie] I got it working

2001-03-14 Per discussione PENA FAMILY
I am not clear on this DNS. Do you mean I have to type in the configuration window the Domain Name Server as in this example. Prodigy.net Or am I missing something and need to go out and by a Mac to get a clue...lol

Re: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon

2001-03-14 Per discussione PENA FAMILY
Well, tried configuring the system to get my modem working but Linux tells me that "Sorry, the modem is busy". Apparently, I might have to breakdown and get another modem that is compatiable with Linux.

Re: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon

2001-03-14 Per discussione PENA FAMILY
I appreciate the help your link although turned out to be a dead end with an error message about the site no longer existing. I was hoping, what my last sentence meant, to download any patch up or Linux driver for my modem. The modem is less than a month old and would hate to replace it just to

Re: [newbie] Install Linux over a network

2001-03-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
There's an ongoing discussion about this at www.mandrakeforum.com: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20010313155220 Have a nice day :-) On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:40, Development.Pretoria wrote: Is it possible to install Mandrake linux over a network? How? Could I get it natively

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.8 mail amount not showing corectly

2001-03-14 Per discussione Paul R
That's odd. I haven't seen that. But Mozilla is Beta as well. Something like that happens to me sometimes, but it is fixed when I swicth folders. Does this help? -Paul R Neville Cobb wrote: when I download mail, say there is 200 incoming. When it has completed receiving the mail the

Re: [newbie] RPM Packages

2001-03-14 Per discussione Paul R
Check to see if there is a source package availabale, or another rpm of the same package. Sometimes they have different suffixes for rpm4 and rpm3 rpms, but I don't remember what they are. -paul r Dale Kosan wrote: Sounds like the rpm you are trying to install is made for version 4 of

[newbie] glx drivers ...

2001-03-14 Per discussione Jose Ricardo Sabino
I need to use some programs which use glx, it seems to me the libglx.so is not present in the official distro of Mandrake 7.2, I saw in others lists the glx driver is not well behaved with XF4.0 wich is the version in distro from mandrake. Does somebody know about the solution of this fealure?

Re: [newbie] Can't access CD drives - even as root

2001-03-14 Per discussione Jon Doe
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 04:01 am, you wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], angry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I've experienced this problem too, In my case, i had the devices mounted as supermount filesystem when there was no media in the drives i would get similar errors, however putting

Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 and Xfree and CD-RW

2001-03-14 Per discussione Adrian Smith
hi, don't know about the first question but as to your Xfree question, with 7.2 (i have only done the expert mode install -- so i don't know if you can get this option with other installs) you can use either vesion 3.x.x (don't recall the exact, but i believe it's the same as 7.1) or version

Re: [newbie] video card compatable with xfree

2001-03-14 Per discussione Adrian Smith
hey, thank you Alan. it didn't occure to me to check the mandrake site once i looked at the xfree site. i'll keep that in mind for next time. thanks again Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4:42:16 PM 3/13/01 Adrian Smith

[newbie] video card compatable with xfree

2001-03-14 Per discussione Adrian Smith
hey, thank you Alan. it didn't occure to me to check the mandrake site once i looked at the xfree site. i'll keep that in mind for next time. thanks again Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL

[newbie] SSL on PINE

2001-03-14 Per discussione Andrew
Does anyone know how to setup SSL to use with PINE so I can assure that my emails received and sent are encrypted?? Andrew

Re: [newbie] OT check this one out too!

2001-03-14 Per discussione Adam Willcox
Yea, but you have to sign your life away to actually get the stuff. - Original Message - From: "Julio Gutierrez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 4:00 PM Subject: [newbie] OT check this one out too! 2. == HOT OFF THE PRESS ==

RE: [newbie] OT check this one out too!

2001-03-14 Per discussione Mark Johnson
In my opinion effectively this is *not* even close to OpenSource and is an insult from MS to insinuate that it is. This is your standard non-disclosure proprietary information exchange. -Original Message- From: Adam Willcox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Re: [newbie] SSL on PINE

2001-03-14 Per discussione Jordi Salvador Pont
I know a link to an internet page, but this page isn't in English. It's in a local laguage, and I think that very few people understand Catalan. The page is: http://www.salleurl.edu/~is08139 I don't know enough English to translate the page. I'm sorry. -

[newbie] Partitioning problem

2001-03-14 Per discussione Renaud OLGIATI
I have just been installing Linux Mandrake on a new computer. The interesting bit was that LM 7.2 would not install, it seems that it could not read of write the partition table, whether with diskdrake of fdisk. So I installed LM 7.1, with no trouble. Anyone met this problem ? Is there a

Re: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon

2001-03-14 Per discussione poogle
Yes, you are right - it has moved to :- http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html On Wednesday 14 March 2001 18:28, you wrote: I appreciate the help your link although turned out to be a dead end with an error message about the site no longer existing.

[newbie] Desktop problems

2001-03-14 Per discussione James carlson
Hello, I just installed Mandrake Linux, and I am somewhat new to linux. I am having trouble with Mandrake. The desktop does not come up when I boot into Linux. I just get a prompt with a Dos graphic of the linux penguin. What did I do wrong in the install??? Thanks, James -- James

Re: [newbie] Kernel-2.4-2 vs VMware

2001-03-14 Per discussione Lúcio Costa
At 09:49 14/03/2001 +1100, you wrote: Hi there, vmware makes use of prebuilt modules that suit most kernel versions, but when you recompile a new kernel, the modules that vmware uses may not match the kernel. To update the vmware modules (not real clear as its been some time since I've done

Re: [newbie] LM 7.2 and Xfree and CD-RW

2001-03-14 Per discussione Gerry
Do you have scsi-emulation enabled ? Pass the option hdx=ide-scsi to the kernel at boot (through lilo or grub), where x is the "hd" number (a = first primary, b = first secondary, c = second primary etc.) Try "cdrecord -scanbus" to see if the recorder is recognized. Gerry

[newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-14 Per discussione Jeff Davis
Hell, Can some one advise me on the best way to allow Mandrake 7.2 to read and write to my FAT NTFS partitions? Thank you

Re: [newbie] SSL on PINE

2001-03-14 Per discussione Paul R
If no other documentation exists, you can translate this page into Spanish, and someone on the list can then translate it into English. -paul r Jordi Salvador Pont wrote: I know a link to an internet page, but this page isn't in English. It's in a local laguage, and I think that very few

Re: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon

2001-03-14 Per discussione Bob Parker
On Thursday 15 March 2001 04:28, you wrote: I appreciate the help your link although turned out to be a dead end with an error message about the site no longer existing. I was hoping, what my last sentence meant, to download any patch up or Linux driver for my modem. The modem is less than a

Re: [newbie] Partitioning problem

2001-03-14 Per discussione Miark
Ron, I have the same problem: 7.2 doesn't install, telling me along the way that it can't find /hda, /proc/mem, zoneinfo (sometimes) and other things that it should have no trouble locating. But 7.1 installs with no problem whatsoever. I've afterward made changes to my partition, hoping that

Re: [newbie] Time Space

2001-03-14 Per discussione Gerry
Then there are the new subscribers that don't have the original on disc or those of us who don't want to or wouldn't be practical to search through the list to find the original in the over 7000 messages currently in newbie@linux-mandrake. All attempts to standardize this list meet with

Re: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon

2001-03-14 Per discussione Robert Pena
Thank u i will check it tonight when i get home after work From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:11:19 + Yes, you are right - it has moved to :-

RE: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon

2001-03-14 Per discussione Henry B. Wangle Jr.
Mr. Pena , Before you breakdown and buy a new modem give me a day to get my instructions together and I'll try to talk you step by step through it as I had the same problem with mine and it is an identical modem as yours Actiontec PCI call waiting modem. The book instructions are a little

Re: [newbie] Desktop problems

2001-03-14 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 14:37, you wrote: Hello, I just installed Mandrake Linux, and I am somewhat new to linux. I am having trouble with Mandrake. The desktop does not come up when I boot into Linux. I just get a prompt with a Dos graphic of the linux penguin. What did I do wrong in

Re: [newbie] Partitioning problem

2001-03-14 Per discussione Renaud OLGIATI
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 16:39, Dennis Myers wrote: I have just been installing Linux Mandrake on a new computer. The interesting bit was that LM 7.2 would not install, it seems that it could not read of write the partition table, whether with diskdrake of fdisk. So I installed

Re: [newbie] installation, rights uninstall 101

2001-03-14 Per discussione Miark
Andrei, 1) Typically, yes. 2) Users don't have rights; files have permissions. Do a "ls -l" (no quotes) to see who has permission to read, write, or execute the files in your current directory. 3) echo $HISTSIZE 4) rpm -e package.name You don't need to know where all the files

[newbie] Login screen options

2001-03-14 Per discussione Ross Slade
[Mandrake 7.2] After recently downloading some stuff with Gnome Helix installer I discover that when I reboot I have lost my window manager options from the graphical logon screen. What I have left in the little drop down box where they appear is an option for "failsafe" (which still works)

RE: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon

2001-03-14 Per discussione Robert Pena
Thank you i will await for help you can provide From: "Henry B. Wangle Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:17:38 -0600 Mr. Pena , Before you breakdown and buy a new modem give me a

Re: [newbie] Kernel-2.4-2 vs VMware

2001-03-14 Per discussione David Grubb
Hi again, Not sure how modules work exactly, but in vmwares case I guess they are like drivers that allow the virtual machine to access various resources (screen, harddisk, cdroms etc). I've had a look at vmwares site, in their required software section (

Re: [newbie] MS Outlook

2001-03-14 Per discussione Oliver L Plaine Jr
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 02:15, Aldo Baez wrote: I think he means whether he can import individual pieces of mail from outlook to kmail. I've always wondered that myself. What I've done in the past is just forwarded/copied all the mail I wanted to have in my new mail client, the in the new

Re: [newbie] Kernel-2.4-2 vs VMware

2001-03-14 Per discussione David Grubb
Actually, I've just delved deeper into the VmWare site, and found the release notes for 2.0.3 - as of this release, it does have support for 2.4.x kernels... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15 1:50 pm Hi again, Not sure how modules work exactly, but in vmwares case I guess they are like drivers that

[newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness

2001-03-14 Per discussione Adam Michael Baxter
Well, I took myself onto a limb and tried to have fun with kernels. I downloaded the 2.4.2 kernel and did as the instructions said. It compiled greately and as it should have (I guess). Then I installed the kernel in my boot directory and updated lilo (keeping my old linux kernel). To test it

[newbie] Triple boot?

2001-03-14 Per discussione Jon Doe
I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste

Re: [newbie] Triple boot?

2001-03-14 Per discussione KompuKit
good question...I'd like to know this also... as I'd like to add redhat 6.0 to the current 20 gig HD /root 5 gig /home 10 gig mandrake /swap 128 meg have about 4.9 gig left over for redhat Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but

Re: [newbie] I got it working

2001-03-14 Per discussione Bob Parker
On Thursday 15 March 2001 04:15, you wrote: I am not clear on this DNS. Do you mean I have to type in the configuration window the Domain Name Server as in this example. If you are setting up kppp (or is it Kppp?) you will need to comple the primary and secondary DNS entries. The numbers you

Re: [newbie] Triple boot?

2001-03-14 Per discussione michael
I was quadribooting for awhile (NT,98SE,RH,MDK7.2). Make sure windows is on first. -m- Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all

RE: [newbie] Installed ppp daemon

2001-03-14 Per discussione Henry B. Wangle Jr.
Mr. Pena, Well here goes, I'll try to keep brief but write this like I wish someone had been able to do for me. First sign in as root to KDE as this is the easy (most similar to Microsoft interface) then after your in click on the K to bring up the menu then go to Configuration, then to

Re: [newbie] Desktop problems

2001-03-14 Per discussione Michael
James carlson wrote: Hello, I just installed Mandrake Linux, and I am somewhat new to linux. I am having trouble with Mandrake. The desktop does not come up when I boot into Linux. I just get a prompt with a Dos graphic of the linux penguin. What did I do wrong in the install???

Re: [newbie] Triple boot?

2001-03-14 Per discussione philomena
triple boot should be no problem - I have 5 on one machine - 4 linux and a win98. There's probably a better way, but I just set up a different boot partition for each OS, and use grub as the bootloader. I did the partitioning first using Partition Magic. cheers, philomena Jon Doe wrote: I

[newbie] aviplay 053.5 segmentation fault under KDE2.1

2001-03-14 Per discussione fumarc
Hello , I seem to have run into a bit of a problem with aviplay053-5 after upgrading to KDE2.1 (which went quite smooth except for the usual stuff...). Whenever I try to run it (aviplay)it spits out on the terminal: Xlib: Connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorised to

Re: [newbie] Triple boot?

2001-03-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
There shouldn't be anything wrong with what you propose. Just make sure that you have a different partition for each OS (of course) and that you set up your bootloader (LILO, GRUB, etc.) properly so that you can boot all three OSs. I have even heard about people having several distros

Re: [newbie] Desktop problems

2001-03-14 Per discussione A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 15:37, you wrote: Hello, I just installed Mandrake Linux, and I am somewhat new to linux. I am having trouble with Mandrake. The desktop does not come up when I boot into Linux. I just get a prompt with a Dos graphic of the linux penguin. What did I do wrong in

Re: [newbie] Login screen options

2001-03-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I had the same problem when I installed Helix (now Ximian) GNOME. Go to the directory /etc/X11/wmsession.d. You will see that the contents are text files with names like 01KDE, 02GNOME and 06XFce, depending on what you have installed. If you have an environment installed that is not

[newbie] sun java 1.3

2001-03-14 Per discussione EugeneFrie
Hello, I installed Suns Java sdk 1.3 on LM 7.2. I can compile a program using javac, but I get the following message: [praha@localhost praha]$ java hello Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hello. [praha@localhost praha]$ The programs code is the following: public class