Rif: [newbie-it] Mandrake 8.0???

2001-05-04 Per discussione gdkcin
Sì è uscita in questi giorni ciao Da: the_viking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 04/05/2001 08:14 A: newbie-it@linux-mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: [newbie-it] Mandrake 8.0??? Ragazzi, ma è già uscita la versione 8.0 oppure l'avete scaricata tutti da Internet? Ciao The Viking

[newbie-it] Linux ed InWind

2001-05-04 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Ciao a tutti, da quando ho scoperto Linux, Windows sta prendendo sempre più polvere. Ormai uso il pinguino per fare praticamente tutto, ma soprattutto per la navigazione Internet. Fino a qualche tempo fa utilizzavo TiscaliNet; da poco, invece, sono passato ad InWind. Mentre con TN non avevo

Re: [newbie-it] Linux ed InWind

2001-05-04 Per discussione Sebastiano Cordiano
On Fri, 4 May 2001 18:38:46 + Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti, da quando ho scoperto Linux, Windows sta prendendo sempre più polvere. Ormai uso il pinguino per fare praticamente tutto, ma soprattutto per la navigazione Internet. Fino a qualche tempo fa utilizzavo

[newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Per discussione tazmun
Hi All I am very new to Linux and the command line is very intimidating yet. I have downloaded a supposedly self extracting file (.bin) as well as the rpm version of the file. They suggest in the install directions that this be done from the command line and tell you that by using a

Re: [newbie] Getting Java to work

2001-05-04 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:26, you wrote: Go to http://www.konqueror.org and follow the instructions for Java. On Thursday 03 May 2001 12:39, Kriselda Jarnsaxa wrote: I thought I'd installed Java on my system, but Netscape and Mozilla give errors indicating that they can't find it, and

[newbie] Can't update software from the web?

2001-05-04 Per discussione Jon Doe
I have only burnt the first CD, just to see if it work and pickup my cable modem. Obviously it does :). But anytime I try to update my software it always wants to use the CD1 and CD2 even if I uncheck them, is there no way to update just from ftp sites with the update feature in 8.0?

[newbie]

2001-05-04 Per discussione newbie-mandrake
thank you but this is not what i actually mean. you can always, of course, type ... kedit name_of_text_file or ark name_of_zip_file in the terminal to open the files associated to kedit or ark in X. what i was looking for is a command in the terminal that will spawn kedit , ark, or any program

[newbie] Re(2): open associated programs

2001-05-04 Per discussione newbie-mandrake
thank you but this is not what i actually mean. you can always, of course, type ... kedit name_of_text_file or ark name_of_zip_file in the terminal to open the files associated to kedit or ark in X. what i was looking for is a command in the terminal that will spawn kedit , ark, or any program

RE: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Per discussione Franki
type in mc at the command line, (you need to have midnight comander installed, but you probably do anyway) That will ring up a lovely blue screen you can navigate around in,, (self explanitory when you see it..) go to where your rpm is,, then highlight in in MC (again, self explanitory when you

[newbie] error messages

2001-05-04 Per discussione Franki
Hi all,,, I am getting alot of strange messages emailed by my server that I would like to clean up Here is one... FATAL ERROR: /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is missing! The file /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is not present. This probably means the machine has not been setup using the

[newbie]

2001-05-04 Per discussione thando kan
Hi , i have a Accton EN1660 PP network-card, is it supported in Mandrake 7.2 ? And does Mandrake 7.2 run on the following enviroment: DX4-486 100MHZ 28MB Ram ?? thanks for info. best regards, thando kan _ Get Your

Re: [newbie]

2001-05-04 Per discussione Paul
i have a Accton EN1660 PP network-card, is it supported in Mandrake 7.2 ? As far as I know, it should work. And does Mandrake 7.2 run on the following enviroment: DX4-486 100MHZ 28MB Ram ?? It will work, but do not count on X-window being very happy with so little RAM. 28Mb is very little.

Re: Re: [newbie] another misconfigured system?

2001-05-04 Per discussione lixin0217
On Friday 13 April 2001 22:40, you wrote: Forwarded message: From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Apr 13 17:39:43 2001 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13 Apr 2001 17:37:48 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Delivery Status Notification MIME-Version:

Re: [newbie] riddle me this -- chmod

2001-05-04 Per discussione Dave Sherman
Not sure if anyone has explained the 'why' of this to you yet, so here goes... The -R (for 'recursive') option only works on directories, not files or even file wildcards. So, if you want to change the directory and all its files and subdirs and subfiles et al, then use chmod -R 644

RE: [newbie]HELP: Athlon, M7M and Radeon

2001-05-04 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
The Radeon requires X 4.02, so it is not going to work in a stock 7.2 install and/or system. I currently have 2 Radeon cards, a 32MB DDR and a 64MB DDR w/VIVO, and I think both cards are great. Both system, a Duron 800mhz and a t-bird 1.00ghz, have the ASUS A7V MOBO and Maxtor ATA100 hds. I have

[newbie] Install Alsa, Kernel and Reiserfs

2001-05-04 Per discussione g
I found the msg from Mark Weaver re; installing RPM's I put Alsa, Kernel and Reiserfs rpms in a separate directory called T I enter the command and received the following msg: [root@dhcp-202-6 T]# rpm -ivh --test *.rpm file /sbin/mkreiserfs from install of reiserfs-utils-2.2.19_3.5.29-4.1mdk

Re: [newbie] Switching from LM 7.0 to Win2000 Pro

2001-05-04 Per discussione Cyphfer
When your boss decides Windows 2000 is causing more headaches than it is worth. Here is some advice. Windows 2000 takes over your hard drive. Please ensure you have a working win95/98 boot diskette somewhere so you can kill the Window 2000 boot loader. Boot the system from the win95/98 boot

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault

2001-05-04 Per discussione AKC Chu
Hi, I think Segmentation fault is a bug or an error in the program, I think you'll have to wait for a bug fix or a newer version of that software. Hope that helps, Aaron On Fri, 4 May 2001, SoloCDM wrote: How can a Segmentation Fault be corrected? No RPM installations or uninstalls are

[newbie] port redirect

2001-05-04 Per discussione Marcel Dijk
Hello, How do you setup port redirect on the firewall? Example: you have a firewall and behind the firewall is a FTP server. The FTP server is on a private IP address. But you want people from the internet to access the FTP. Thanks, Marcel

Re: [newbie]

2001-05-04 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
At 11:24 AM 05/04/2001 GMT, Paul wrote: i have a Accton EN1660 PP network-card, is it supported in Mandrake 7.2 ? As far as I know, it should work. And does Mandrake 7.2 run on the following enviroment: DX4-486 100MHZ 28MB Ram ?? It will work, but do not count on X-window being very happy

[newbie] login/logout/shutdown question

2001-05-04 Per discussione Jeffery Chapman
I recently installed Mandrake 7.2. When I boot the system I don't see the login window with the Penguin icons that the manual says I'm supposed to see. Instead I get a plain box with login and password text fields and an OK button. There are no options for shutdown or session type. In the lower

[newbie] new vmware with kernel 2.4 support is out

2001-05-04 Per discussione Tycho Bizot
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of rh Sent: donderdag 3 mei 2001 3:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Virtual Machines VMWare is supposedly a really good emulator for Windows apps. Apparently it allows you to run virtual machines

Re: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Per discussione Carlos Berardi
I think you should do this as user, not root for the .bin, first do a chmod 744 filename.bin, then ./filename.bin for the .rpm do rpm -i filename.rpm tazmun wrote: Hi All I am very new to Linux and the command line is very intimidating yet. I have downloaded a supposedly self

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault

2001-05-04 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
This sounds like a problem with the rpm database, not with the program itself. You'll need to run the following commands as root: rpm --initdb rpm --rebuilddb This should take care of it. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West

Re: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
First, please turn off "HTML" formatting in your message--in many e-mail programs we end up with all kinds of extra tags. Now, on to the question at hand. First do an 'ls -al filename.bin' from the directory the file is in (This of course presupposes that you are at a command prompt). Check to

[newbie] Monitor/video card problems

2001-05-04 Per discussione Gavin
Hi, I could use some help, I' ve been running mdk 7.2 with no problems, today I finally got 8.0, it loaded up fine but when I got to the main screen to log on. all fuzzy, as if the software could not find the settings. I'm using a HEWLETT PACKARD PAVILION M50 monitor with a voodoo3 banchee

[newbie] xfs problem

2001-05-04 Per discussione Martin Gagnon
Got a problem with xfs at boot time. I worked at it for a couple of days and couldn't get rid of it. Need help! Here's what I get at boot: Starting X font server [ok] At the login prompt, where X usually starts, if I do nothing for 3-5 seconds, I get: Press return to continue INIT: Switching

Re: [newbie] Switching from LM 7.0 to Win2000 Pro

2001-05-04 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Victor Richardson wrote: I know this is going to get me a serious heckling, but... Unfortunately, my boss wants me to switch one of our (very stable) Mandrake servers to Win2000 Pro (only) for a tester. The problem I keep running into is that I cannot get the server to boot from the

Re: [newbie] modem installation hassles

2001-05-04 Per discussione Mark Shaw
Quick followup. I reinstalled the modem to COM5 as described near the end below (in the observations/questions section), and no joy. Reading the setserial manpage a little closer (something I probably should have done sooner), I see that the command doesn't like IRQ9 and indeed maps it to IRQ2.

Re: [newbie] Getting Java to work

2001-05-04 Per discussione Todd Flinders
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Re: [newbie] Thanks to everyone for helping w/ the Win2000 install

2001-05-04 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Victor Richardson wrote: One thing I did notice was that Microsoft assured everyone that Win2000 would put an end to endless reboots when installin and uninstalling software. coughchokewheeze I have a win2k, and this just ain't so... But enjoy. --

[newbie] OT: But it amused me

2001-05-04 Per discussione poogle
Not often that I find myself without a quick retort but this one did... During a quiet nightshift I was playing with Python on my laptop, a colleague asked what I was doing and a brief explanation followed, then a 2nd colleague who regularly enthralls us all by sharing his vast knowledge of all

[newbie] mount win files

2001-05-04 Per discussione kaab kaoutar
Hi! Hi I've tried mount -w -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/! cause i never accessed my win files from linux! but now, when i no more access floppy nor cdrom etc :( can u help please? NB: byt the way , we can never see linux files from windows ? Thanks

RE: [newbie] Sendmail.

2001-05-04 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
Just a few clarifications here: At 12:22 AM 05/05/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: There might be a better way of doing this, but my sendmail port 25 has two security features,, It is set to only allow connections to the internal IP's and the firwall that blocks it from the outside world is

[newbie] mount win files

2001-05-04 Per discussione kaab kaoutar
By the way how to unmount :() I mean if i delete the mounted files does it delete from windws ? :( how to mount D drive ?cause when i typed mount -w -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/ it has mounted only C drive. Thanks _ Get Your

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault

2001-05-04 Per discussione Petre Daniel
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Michael D. Viron wrote: This sounds like a problem with the rpm database, not with the program itself. You'll need to run the following commands as root: rpm --initdb rpm --rebuilddb This should take care of it. heya,this is what i get doing the previous commands:

[newbie] Mail Server again

2001-05-04 Per discussione Mazen
Hi, all I have installed Postfix in my machine. It runs perfectly. I also need to give my user pop3 facility so I have installed QPopper. I have followed the instructions step by step without any problem. It is still not working. I have tried telnet MAILSERVER IP 110 but it seems not working

Re: [newbie] Install Alsa, Kernel and Reiserfs

2001-05-04 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
g wrote: I found the msg from Mark Weaver re; installing RPM's I put Alsa, Kernel and Reiserfs rpms in a separate directory called T I enter the command and received the following msg: [root@dhcp-202-6 T]# rpm -ivh --test *.rpm file /sbin/mkreiserfs from install of

[newbie] firestarter

2001-05-04 Per discussione Danny Gordon
Hello all and thanks for this great list :-) I was wondering as a relitive newbie how i would set up an efective firewall, since i did not know anything about ipchains i was lost. But i found a program called firestarter and it seems simple enough to use. Does anyone have any experiance with

[newbie] How do I switch from XFree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.3?

2001-05-04 Per discussione Steven
I have installed LM 8.0, but for some reason I got stuck with X.3.3.6 instead of the latest 4.0.3? Is there someway to upgrade gracefully? I realize I could try and re-install again, but for one this may not work (as I have done this install a couple times now without noticing any way to

Re: [newbie] login/logout/shutdown question

2001-05-04 Per discussione s
Well, that may be the default gnome login. Isn't there a drop down menubar at the top of the box/graphic? -s On Friday 04 May 2001 08:59 am, you wrote: I recently installed Mandrake 7.2. When I boot the system I don't see the login window with the Penguin icons that the manual says I'm

[newbie] Mandrake 8 Upgrade Policy

2001-05-04 Per discussione Terry Smith
Hi folks, I'm just getting back on the list after being dropped a month ago. I see that LM 8.0 is out, has good reviews, etc. I'd like to get it. I purchased a boxed version of the basic LM 7.2 about two months ago. Does Mandrake/McMillan have any kind of upgrade policy? TIA. Terry Smith

Re: [newbie] mount win files

2001-05-04 Per discussione Todd Flinders
If D: is the second partition on that drive it is hda2. If it is the second hard drive, it should be hdb1. --- kaab kaoutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way how to unmount :() I mean if i delete the mounted files does it delete from windws ? :( how to mount D drive ?cause when i typed

[newbie] Java script

2001-05-04 Per discussione John W
I am at a loss with installing (copying) the .jar files to KDE/share/apps/kjava to enable java scripting support with the Sun jsse. I open the kde directory in my home directory but I do not have a kjava dir. Did I not install something from the begginning or should I be looking somewhere

Re: [newbie] Mounting windows partition

2001-05-04 Per discussione Todd Flinders
You can add this mounting to your /etc/fstab file. This will cause Linux to mount windows upon booting. You need to add the users permission to allow users to mount/umount the drive. I don't remember the exact syntax (unfortunately, I am in NT right now), but you will see others in /etc/fstab

Re: [newbie] How do I switch from XFree86 3.3.6 to 4.0.3?

2001-05-04 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Steven wrote: I have installed LM 8.0, but for some reason I got stuck with X.3.3.6 instead of the latest 4.0.3? Is there someway to upgrade gracefully? I realize I could try and re-install again, but for one this may not work (as I have done this install a couple times now without

Re: [newbie] Update-Alternatives

2001-05-04 Per discussione Civileme
On Thursday 03 May 2001 16:49, D. Hoyem wrote: If you are trying to change the window manager go to Config -- Other -- Mandrake Control Center -- Boot Configuration and at teh bottom of the GUI you cna make the change. --- SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What RPM file for LM8.0 has

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 Upgrade Policy

2001-05-04 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
Terry: AFAIK, their policy is that you're more than welcome to buy another boxed set. If you don't need the Macmillan add-ons, then you can go either the download or Cheapbytes route. My take is that the boxed sets are a pretty good value -- no long downloads via 56k modem, no CD burning, a

Fw: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Per discussione tazmun
- Original Message - From: tazmun To: Franki Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun Thanks all for your suggestions on this installation. By changingpermissions and using midnight commander I was able to get

[newbie] c++ compiler question

2001-05-04 Per discussione Barbara
I am trying to compile ddd. When I run the configure, I get this error: checking whether the C compiler (gcc) compiles and links a simple C program... yes checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ /usr/bin/c++ ) works... yes checking whether the C++ compiler (c++

Fw: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun

2001-05-04 Per discussione tazmun
oops sorry about the html coding..running most of my email yet from windows and much of my output requires html.. :( - Original Message - From: tazmun To: newbie Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 7:02 PM Subject: Fw: [newbie] problems installing runtime environment file from Sun -

RE: [newbie] Sendmail.

2001-05-04 Per discussione Mr S Ganesan
Subject: REdhat 7.1 RH 7.1 is amazing, the apps are very stable. RH 7.1 has almost beaten Windows in interfacing. The scrolling and dragging of windows is very smooth. Mandrake 8.0 is supposed to be the best according to rhe reviews. My friend has started to download Mandrake 8.0. Shall I send