R: [newbie-it] Red Hat???? DVD

Stessa storia per me. E stessa curiosità: tu come hai fatto? Facci sapere. Grazie Andrea -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Inviato: lunedì 25 giugno 2001 10.06 A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: R: [newbie-it] Red Hat ioadamo wrote: ..

Re: [newbie-it] Spegnimento automatico del PC - Il ritorno

Ciao a tutti, Scusatemi se posto una domanda gia' apparsa piu' volte in ML, ma non ricordo assolutamente come si fa... Ho ricompilato il kernel (2.4.5) solo che al momento dello shutdown il PC non mi si spegne piu' automaticamente come prima. Qualcuno si ricorda cosa

Re: R: [newbie-it] Red Hat????

ioadamo wrote: Il 10:05, lunedì 25 giugno 2001, hai scritto: ioadamo wrote: .. - DVD..per i dvd il problema è risolto con xine+decss, io ho trovato la versione red hat in www.freshrpms.net ciao Ci ho provato questo fine settimana. Gli

[newbie-it] glibc e gcc

Salve, ho aggiornato glibc alla versione 2.2.2.-5 con mandrake update, successivamente ho provato ad installare gcc ma mi da errori di dipendenze. Se forzo l'installazione poi gcc non trova le librerie. Ho provato a disistallare le nuove glibc (pare che le vecchie siano ancora li) ma il

Re: R: [newbie-it] Red Hat????

ioadamo wrote: Ho trovato un xine per Mandrake su: ftp://ftp.sunet.se:/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/contrib/RPMS/ spero che sia buono per la Mndk-8.0 e non solo per cooker..io non l'ho provato ma so solo che se è xine liscio (cioè senza decss devi poi aggiungere il plugin e

Re: R: [newbie-it] Red Hat????

ioadamo wrote: mi sono dimenticato di dirvi che a me xine non ha funzionato una cippa finche non ho creato un link virtuale del tipo: ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd dove ad hdc sostituisci il dispositivo dvd come è riconosciuto in harddrake queste informazioni le ho avute io stesso in questa

Re: [newbie-it] problema all'arresto

Risposta a: '[newbie-it] problema all'arresto', ricevuta alle 14:01, domenica 24 giugno 2001 La mia root directory si è riempita di files core., ma non so a cosa servano. Dovrebbero essere le immagini della memoria al momento in cui e` avvenuto il crash del programma... L'unica cosa

Re: [newbie-it] Il modem, questo sconosciuto

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A me pare che venga visto bene (in maniera empirica, dal momento che le luci dei segnali e i suoni di connessione sono analoghi a quelli in Win). Magari se dici come fare a capire se è visto bene no basta quello, non conosco tanti

[newbie-it] Scheda Audio ISA Opti Audio 16

evidentemente il problema da me sottolineato nei giorni scorsi non riveste grande interesse... ma cmq ci riprovo! Quello che mi dà grande tristezza è il fatto che oggi ho installato un software shareware con licenza a tempo (si chiama oss e la licenza dura tre ore!!!) che purtroppo fa

Re: [newbie-it] Spegnimento automatico del PC - Il ritorno

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:20:34 +0200 (CEST) Stefano Salari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Ho ricompilato il kernel con questa opzione e ora mi capita una cosa simpatica: fa sempre il reboot del sistema! In pratica anche se chiudo con shutdown -h now oppure con halt mi chiude i servizi, ma quando

Re: [newbie-it] Scheda Audio ISA Opti Audio 16

Il 15:07, martedì 26 giugno 2001, hai scritto: evidentemente il problema da me sottolineato nei giorni scorsi non riveste grande interesse... ma cmq ci riprovo! Quello che mi dà grande tristezza è il fatto che oggi ho installato un software shareware con licenza a tempo (si chiama oss e la

Re: [newbie-it] CDROM e HD SCSI

- Original Message - From: Francesco Speranza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:07 AM Subject: [newbie-it] CDROM e HD SCSI E' una domanda che credo di aver gia' fatto in passato ma ci riprovo... il mio CDROM SCSI e' particolarmente lento in

R: [newbie-it] Il modem, questo sconosciuto

A me pare che venga visto bene (in maniera empirica, dal momento che le luci dei segnali e i suoni di connessione sono analoghi a quelli in Win). Magari se dici come fare a capire se è visto bene (è una ML per newbie, quindi credo che ogni buon consiglio serva a tutti, almeno gli altri che ho

[newbie-it] risposta driver per linux da hercules

scusate se posto questa mailma sono sconsolatoecco cosa mi hanno risposto alla hercules quando ho chiesto notizie per la mia prophet 4500 kyro: "Buongiorno sono spiacente ma non forniamo alcun tipo di supporto, al momento, per i sistemi operativi Linux a causa della loro scarsa

RE: [newbie] No hdlists found

I can provide some more hardware info if necessary.. here is some that may be useful: The dvd drive is EIDE ATAPI UDMA66 (on a 66 bus). The CPU is 800mhz Athlon. The HD is a hardware (on motherboard) Mirror RAIDed pair of UDMA100 (on a 100 bus) IBM HDs. The motherboard is an ABIT KT7A-RAID.

[newbie] icewm default mailing client

hello all, I'm using icewm client and how can I set as default mail client kmail except of pine? Michal

RE: [newbie] No hdlists found

No.. I have the DVD on a UDMA66 ribbon (the primary) and I have my HD on a UDMA100 ribbon (primary also). This does seem to work with Mandrake 8.0 just fine (there are other problems with the 8.0 install that are unrelated), just not the Freq distribution.. there must be some kind of bug that

Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:55, Michael Leone wrote: From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel?? or you haven't explained it well enough. You should feel lucky that you have this kind of free community-based support -- you'll never have it

RE: [newbie] No hdlists found

I checked and the motherboard does use a Hightpoint RAID controller. I am about to update the BIOS to the latest Highpoint BIOS. Do the problems with RAID occur when using Mirroring only? The mirroring should not affect the drive size (my HD's are identical). What is the procedure for

RE: [newbie] No hdlists found

I will try to find the update. Thank you for the tip. ~Wynne -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:02 AM To: Wynne Crisman Subject: Re: [newbie] No hdlists found All boards with the SouthBridge 686B have some hardware bug that can

Re: [newbie] AOL

Can anyone get AOL to work in Linux. I doubt it though!!! AOL has its own proprietory protocol and stuff like that. I have never heard someone hooking up linux with AOL before. Paul

[newbie] Thanks for input on Kword

Dear friends: My deep thanks for participating in my informal survey of opinions on Kword. Looks like there is quite a diversity of opinion here. Either way, I do look forward to Koffice 1.1 with the new Kword. Then, we'll be in a better position to judge where Kword is going and how

RE: [newbie] Can't access /~username

I have found that you also have to make the /home/username director world readable and world executable. In my specific case i have /home/fireman with drwxr-xr-x and then i have /home/fireman/public_html with drwxr-xr-x. Hope this helps, Ian K. Harrell EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Weird no such file or directory message

R. Tyler Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has me really frustrated. Say I'm in /usr/games and I type /Maelstrom from a console window. Bash types back at me, No such file or directory, even though there most certainly is such a file, and if I ls or dir it tells me there is.

Re: [newbie] AOL

Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone get AOL to work in Linux. I doubt it though!!! AOL has its own proprietory protocol and stuff like that. I have never heard someone hooking up linux with AOL before. Perhaps the original poster should switch

[newbie] Samba Mounts and Memory

Hi All, I'm using LM8.0, and I routinely mounts a few Samba shares from different NT and Win2000 machines in the department. Occasionally, I notice that the proccess mount.sbfs continually gobbles up memory, and I came in this morning, for example, to find that it had used up nearly all of my

Re: [newbie] Weird no such file or directory message

Say I'm in /usr/games and I type /Maelstrom from a console window. Bash types back at me, No such file or directory, even though there most certainly is such a file, and if I ls or dir it tells me there is. == If you're already in /usr/games, you might have to type:

[newbie] Compiling a Kernel

Hello List, I decided last night that i would have a go at building my own kernel, unfortunatly i hit a few problems before i could get started. I got the kernel tarball (2.4.3) and un-tarred it. I then give the command 'make mrproper' which goes ok. The howto then tells me to type either

Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.0

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 00:32, Absolutezero wrote: i can't even get linux to boot on my machine, i have 8.0, and i keep getting the error can't find root error 22:05 2205 any answers? FEEL THE FREEZE Well do you have a plug-in controller of the ultra-66 or ultra-100 types? Or a board

Re: [newbie] ATI Rage 128 freezes X?

Alex-- Post your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 here and lets take a look at it. It follows. Since I'm basically completely ignorant about XFree86, I have little idea what's relevant in it and what isn't, so I'm including it in its entirety. I'd bet I should be paying particular attention to the

RE: [newbie] Can't access /~username

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Fireman71 wrote: I have found that you also have to make the /home/username director world readable and world executable. bunyip.apna.org.au is accessable just fine, but attempts to go to bunyip.apana.org.au/~username fail: Error 403

Re: [newbie] Weird no such file or directory message

* Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010626 05:39]: Say I'm in /usr/games and I type /Maelstrom from a console window. Bash types back at me, No such file or directory, even though there most certainly is such a file, and if I ls or dir it tells me there is. == If you're

Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??

These lists are also heavily censored. I was once having a look at some messages in an Intel newsgroup when the topic of overclocking was raised. Intel eventually filtered out all messages with mentions of overclocking. I'm sure Microsoft would act in a similar way in similar circumstances.

Re: [newbie] su problem

On Monday 25 June 2001 09:30 pm, Ross Slade wrote: I've neved seen this before... - su - Password: File size limit exceeded I got the same error recently just after upgrading KDE2alpha2 rpms. I errantly quit the Xterm I was using to upgrade the rpms, and when I

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

Hi Romanator, I did download the new version of drakfont,however,i could not install any windows fonts (i have win2k on NTFS).How can i mount an NTFS partion ?.However i copied some fonts from widows m/c, all are *.ttf font,but while i was trying to install those fonts, drakfont gives

Re: [newbie] Weird no such file or directory message

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 20:54, Paul wrote: Say I'm in /usr/games and I type /Maelstrom from a console window. Bash types back at me, No such file or directory, even though there most certainly is such a file, and if I ls or dir it tells me there is. == If you're already

Re: [newbie] Thought on Hardware purchase?

The thing is, there are some people that have had no problem with that motherboard. For example, me. I don't have any weird hardware configs, or just weird hardware either, but the board works just fine with me. Then again I have had problems with custom kernels, but I can't attribute that to

Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 07:48 am, you wrote: These lists are also heavily censored. I was once having a look at some messages in an Intel newsgroup when the topic of overclocking was raised. Intel eventually filtered out all messages with mentions of overclocking. I'm sure Microsoft

Re: [newbie] cannot reboot into Win from Linux...

On Monday 25 June 2001 05:19 pm, Ivan Tomasic wrote: hello! i've installed Windows ME and Mandrake 8.0 on my Toshiba 1755 laptop, and have the following problem: when i reboot from Linux, and select Windows in LILO, Windows cannot boot--the machine switches itself off halfay through...

Re: [newbie] Weird no such file or directory message

Well first off, the actual game for Maelstrom isnt' kept in /usr/games. Secondly /Maelstrom would be that folder in /, which does not exist. Now there is a /usr/games/Maelstrom, but it's just a folder. If you want to play the game itself, try running the actual program. [timh@r2d2 timh]$ which

[newbie] RE: [expert] LM 8 Kernels , VIA chipsets UDMA100

is there a way that if I get mdk8 and 2.4.x kernel, and I have the southbridge bios patch... will I ever be able to use the existing kernels? or do I have to modify the kernel and recompile udma100 or wait for mdk8.1. regards frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] ATI Rage 128 freezes X?

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 06:37 am, Dan Ray wrote:   DefaultColorDepth 24 Have you tried setting 16 bpp? I don't have an ATI card, but most cards work best with 3d accel if you use 16. For many like 3DFX cards, it's a must. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

[newbie] /mnt/windows problem

Hi Romanator, I did download the new version of drakfont,however,i could not install any windows fonts (i have win2k on NTFS).How can i mount an NTFS partion ?. Yes how do we mount an NTFS partition since I had the same problem. I tried to mount it on install but it kept saying there

[newbie] bios stuff

Hi all, The last two bios for the abit KT7133A mb, mention some PCI stuff and a possible fix for the soundblaster live problems... would that have anything to do with the south bridge problem?? here is the writeup on the last two bios's Filename: KT73C.EXE Date: 06/11/2001 ID: 3C NOTE:

[newbie] Import Adressbook from Outlook to Evolution

Hello Can any one tell me how can import my Outlook 2000 address book to Evolution? OOzy

Re: [newbie] Import Adressbook from Outlook to Evolution

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:19, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Can any one tell me how can import my Outlook 2000 address book to Evolution? OOzy I am not sure about Evolution but I transfered my 2000 data to KMail. I could not find a convertor from Outlook 2000, so I imported all my mail into

[newbie] Interesting fact on the southbridge 686b southbridge problem

I found this on the Abit faq site... Its their suggesting for how to fix the file curruption and other problems with the KT7 range of MB... These Large file probs should also be fixed with ZT or 3c bios when you set one or all of the following (test, since they affect performance a bit): -PCI

Re: [newbie] ATI Rage 128 freezes X?

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:50 pm, I wrote: Tom--   DefaultColorDepth 24 Have you tried setting 16 bpp? I don't have an ATI card, but most cards work best with 3d accel if you use 16. For many like 3DFX cards, it's a must. I'll try it, thanks. That did it! Thank you! -- Dan

[newbie] Is there a work around for this?

I'm trying to install the 2 CD set (download) of Mandrake 8.0 on a P133 with 32 meg ram and here is my problem. Its a install problem, when it asks for the second CD I am unable to remove the First CD. I have installed multiple CD install's of Linux on this machine before and this was never a

Re: [newbie] Looking for nice GUI for iptables

On Monday 25 June 2001 11:09 am, grassi, adriano wrote: Hi all, how are you? Does anyone know of a nice and easy to use GUI for iptables? Adriano Grassi I'm gonna ASSuME that you're usin 8.0. You should really specify what Mandrake version you're usin when asking such questions as it

[newbie] Southbridge and so on

Hi all, While I am agonizing over pulling 62 mails on ISDN (halfway there, 34 mails already in an hour), does anyone know if the famous Via bug also affects PCI bridge management? I don't understand that the ISDN card works just fine in Windoze, in LM7.2 on the old machine, and performs less

Re: [newbie] Import Adressbook from Outlook to Evolution

Question: Did you import your mail from Outlook to KMail or also your Addresses to KAB? I am interested in the addresses more than my old mail. Thanks, Eric Indiogine Public Service Co. of NM On Tuesday 26 June 2001 15:32, DStevenson wrote: On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:19, OOzy Pal wrote:

Re: [newbie] Southbridge and so on

Franki: I'm also trying to dig into this southbridge thing. I have an Abit KT7 (no A, no raid), and I'm trying to learn if it is not affected by this. Anyway, have you tried www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm? Regards, Carroll Franki wrote: Yeah, I noticed that myself,, viatech.com

RE: [newbie] Southbridge and so on

Thanks Carol, I had been to that site before,, but I missed the info I was chasing ,, just found it now, thanks... This is the link I found most interesting... http://www.viahardware.com/686bfaq.shtm#_Toc518065961 it answers your question to I think... regards Franki -Original

[newbie] The official statement from Via about the 686b problem.. and some facts.

Hi all, Just found this on a website related to via hardware,, Thought those of you with the kt133 686b southbridge issue would find it of interest.. Official statement from VIA: The data corruption error, which some web sites and people have reported with the 686b Southbridge, is caused by

[newbie] WordPerfect Install in LM8

Dear All, I have been trying to get my WordPerfect installed for days. I had the demo installed and working great in LM 7.2. Now that I have LM 8 I am trying to install the WordPerfect CD I bought from Linux system Labs. I downloaded the libc5-1.0-2.i386 src.rpm but have not figured out how

Re: [newbie] Southbridge and so on

Carroll, You can (and should) read about it, but you may as well go ahead and get the latest BIOS. The C3 BIOS for the KT7s handles all the KT7s, including * KT7 * KT7-RAID * KT7A * KT7A-RAID KT7's page at abit is http://www.abit.com.tw/eng/product/mb/kt7.htm and from there you can get the

Re: [newbie] Import Adressbook from Outlook to Evolution

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 14:06, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: Question: Did you import your mail from Outlook to KMail or also your Addresses to KAB? I am interested in the addresses more than my old mail. Thanks, Eric Indiogine Public Service Co. of NM On Tuesday 26 June 2001

[newbie] ARRRGGHHHH!!!

I am certifiably going CRAZY! Things were slow. Still the 63 mails were not in. I decided to hook up the old 28k8 modem, configure it and pull mail. I stick the phone cord in the modem and the phone line. AND ISDNSPEED GOES UP to 8K/Sec and STAYS THERE! I noticed that. Pulled the plug from

[newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...

Hello: I am tyring to install Mandrake Linux 8.0 on a laptop which has one 20Gb and windows me installed on it. Do I have to use partition magic and partition the drive first or can the installation process use (say 5Gb) for the linux during the installation process. I am stuck at the place

Re: [newbie] Hotmail Mail

It was Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:20:17 +0100 when bascule wrote: They tried to port it to Win NT, but that failed. The amount of addresses was too much for it. Paul er, i don't wish to be pedantic but i believe that hotmail is using some freebsd installations which i believe (could be misinformed)

[newbie] Problem with my HDD

hello. i have some problem with my HDD during install of Linux Mandrake. i have MotherBoard : ABIT BE6 with HPT(SCSI) controller for connection of my HDD. Mandrake and all other Linuxes do not support that controller and i can't install it. please tell me what to do? 'regards Nikola Todorovski

Re: [newbie] Import Adressbook from Outlook to Evolution

I have never been able to find out how to do this. Where do you right-click to get the add to address book? This would have saved me a lot of time. MS Outlook and Outlook express are able to do this. How do you do this in Kmail??? An other issue with Kmail is on how to set up mailing

RE: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...

Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on the remaining space. Make sure the windows partition is defragd and healthy or it will give you problems. If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize. Or, what I really recommend is backing everything up and wipe

Re: [newbie] WordPerfect Install in LM8

Hello I am working on it. I still could not do it. I tried to un-install glibc. BUT no way. This glibc is almost needed by all X programs. Let me tell ya, Corel software sucks when it comes to installation. I am trying to install Corel Paint but I still get an error. --- Marcia Waller

Re: [newbie] /mnt/windows problem

tazmun wrote: Hi Romanator, I did download the new version of drakfont,however,i could not install any windows fonts (i have win2k on NTFS).How can i mount an NTFS partion ?. Yes how do we mount an NTFS partition since I had the same problem. I tried to mount it on install but it

Re: [newbie] su problem

On Monday 25 June 2001 23:37, you wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Dennis M. wrote: On Monday 25 June 2001 22:30, you wrote: I've neved seen this before... - su - Password: File size limit exceeded -Ross snip Sorry, but I'm missing something here. I'm

[newbie] DMA for 686B'res who have flashed BIOS

Civileme will probably know the answer to this: With the 686B problems supposedly resolved with the BIOS updates (i say supposedly because some here have expressed doubt) will there be any option in future kernels to make DMA available for those of us who _have_ done the BIOS update? Miark

[newbie] XML parsers

Hello everybody. I wrote a while ago asking for information about XML resources for Linux. I've found a few on Portalux, (www.portalux.com). They have applications for Linux divided into nifty little sections. I downloaded an XML parser called RXP (it was written in C, wanted to test my

Re: [newbie] Your article is premature in articel

First of all, the desktop is rarely defined by all the people who raise this issue. At which point does a business desktop shade off into a workstation? Is a SOHO desktop the same thing as a corporate desktop? And is there such a thing as a home desktop? Until all these categories are

Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??

Only the ones hosted on the company servers are censored. The vast majority of the help newsgroups for Windows are uncensored. Many have MS employees that offer help in them. Personally, I rather just do a google search and find the answers myself. On Monday 25 June 2001 23:28, Sridhar

Re: [newbie] AOL

I did it using Win4Lin. I imagine you could do it for free using Codeweavers Wine. I also suspect that you would get better results suing an older AOL client. On Tuesday 26 June 2001 05:05, Nitin Kapoor wrote: Can anyone get AOL to work in Linux. I doubt it though!!!

[newbie] Browsing windows peer2peer is possibel?

Hi all This may be a stupid question but is it possible to browse windows shares in peer 2 peer LAN? (I have just installed LM8 (1st time) on my box which is connected to a windoze dominated p2p LAN) I tried Configuring LISA but it keeps telling me that it isnt configured and

[newbie] I can't see the other machine

How can I set a GFXcel Motherboard I have problems with the sound (SIS), the card net (SIS900)and modem (HSP AMR) I can't set SIS900 when I install mandrake it ask me for some parameters but I don't know what to write please help me thanks __

[newbie] Modem

I have tried several versions of Linux and have had no success getting any of them to recognize a modem. I had an internal winmodem. Removed it and have an external modem that is listed as compatible with Linux. It is a Zoltrix FMVSP56e and works great with Win98. Recently installed Mandrake

[newbie] Printer

I recently installed Mandrake 8 and am unable to get the printer to respond. lp is not ready I have a HP Deskjet 694C that is listed in the setup. In fact there are 6-7 drivers listed. I have tried each of them and still nothing. Any help here? Don

[newbie] Programming graphical applications

Hello again, I've been wondering now for a while what the best way to begin programming in Linux is. I have books and manuals about PERL, C++, and Java, and between those and what I already know about them I could probably make a decent program. However, I would like to make something

[newbie] abbrowser wierdness/incompatibility/something

abbrowser- why is it built in such a way that kab will not read any data from it other than names? Everything is in the Comment field, rather than the Phone Number/Email Address/whatever the appropriate field is. Has somebody written a program to handle this and rewrite the data file, or

Re: [newbie] /mnt/windows problem

Thanks Frans, I suspected as much since NTFS makes many things more difficult. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it since win 2K can run fat32 as well. But it seems more stable in the NTFS on mine Tazmun - Original Message - From: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] /mnt/windows problem

FWIW - I tried accessing an ntfs partition via my Mandrake 8 install and some thing wound up corrupting the partition so that I was able to read it from linux but win2k no longer recognized it's own partition... I decided htat if I wanted access to my files on the win partition that It would

Re: [newbie] ./ .... why?

It was Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:49:01 EDT when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It took a while to catch onto the ./ thingy.. now that I know it, I still don't understand *why* this is necessary. I know, it's easy enough to add it to .bash_profile or wherever, but is there a justifiable reason why Linux

[newbie] Thank You

Hello Just wanted to take a second to thank all those here who have taken the time to answer my questions on this list in the past. Sometimes Linux winds me up for a time and I have to just go away for a few days until I'm ready to apply myself again. Due to that lag time it may seem like

[newbie] Telnet/FTP not starting after install

Hi folks, I've got a problem with a recent new installation of Linux-Mandrake v 7.1. The installation was completed without any errors. The PC is connected to an office LAN. I've set up the network options, although I've copied the domain gateway settings from an WinNT box. The problem is the

Re: [newbie] Import Adressbook from Outlook to Evolution

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 17:05, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: I have never been able to find out how to do this. Where do you right-click to get the add to address book? This would have saved me a lot of time. MS Outlook and Outlook express are able to do this. How do you do this in

Re: [newbie] ./ .... why?

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 06:47, Paul wrote: It was Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:49:01 EDT when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It took a while to catch onto the ./ thingy.. now that I know it, I still don't understand *why* this is necessary. I know, it's easy enough to add it to .bash_profile or

[newbie] MandrakeFreq: error in exec of stage2 :-( on Fujitsu Laptop

Hi everybody, I got the MandrakeFreq. 2001/06/19 a few days ago and I'm having some problems. I first updated my desktop and everything went well. But I have no luck on my Lifebook laptop. During installation startup I get: error in exec of stage 2 :-( FATAL ERROR IN STAGE 1: No such file or

Re: [newbie] Browsing windows peer2peer is possibel?

Jan-Willem, First, please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Some e-mail clients add all kinds of extra html tags, reduce the size of the font such that it is unreadable, or change the color to a grayish color, making it much more difficult to read. In answer to your question, it

Re: [newbie] Thank You

Tazmun, Please try not to post htmlized e-mails to the list. Some e-mail clients add all kinds of extra html tags, reduce the size of the font such that it is unreadable, or change the color to a grayish color, making it much more difficult to read. It is always my pleasure when something comes

Re: [newbie] Programming graphical applications

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, I've been wondering now for a while what the best way to begin programming in Linux is. I have books and manuals about PERL, C++, and Java, and between those and what I already know about them I could probably make a decent

[newbie] Re: [expert] modem connection woes

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:38:18 +1200 syed irfan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have used this isp in NZ with mandrake 7.2 with a hardware internal modem, it woked like a breeze, now when i have switched to mandrake 8.0, snip Add the following in your /etc/ppp/options for a start:

Re: [newbie] Motherboard monitoring...

X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit yes, i get a ton of listings for i2c in that dir. i also get a bunch in /dev rather than /proc i added the lines in rc.local and modules.conf at the end, so that sounds ok.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake linux with windows me, help...

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 04:44 pm, Jason Guidry wrote: Should be able to resize your windows partition and then install on the remaining space. Make sure the windows partition is defragd and healthy or it will give you problems. If that doesn't work, then try partition magic and resize.

[newbie] AOL

Can anyone get AOL to work in Linux. I doubt it though!!!

Re: [newbie] AOL

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 09:11, Paul wrote: Can anyone get AOL to work in Linux. I doubt it though!!! AOL has its own proprietory protocol and stuff like that. I have never heard someone hooking up linux with AOL before. Paul Actually I have a binary of AOL for linux that someone

Re: [newbie] SM56 help

On Monday 25 June 2001 05:32 pm, Lucas Aguilera wrote: I have a modem SM56 Motorola and Mandrake 8.0. I installed the linux's driver but don't work. I tried to create internet connection but i don't kwon what is a device? You don't have a modem, not a real one anyway.

Re: [newbie] Hotmail Mail

Edward Barrow wrote: It was also built and runs on Linux (MS are embarrassed by this and plan to migrate it to W2K, I don't know if they've done so yet) It will probably stop working when they do.