Re: [newbie-it] posta del 9 Agosto

2001-08-14 Per discussione Stefano Salari
Eccoti il mio /etc/fstab: oltre alle partizioni Linux e Windows, sono definite le unita' removibili, sia con il mount tradizionale che con il supermount (il supermount e' commentato perche' il kernel che sto utilizzando non lo supporta). Secondo me il tuo fstab ha perso in qualche modo la

[newbie-it] Qual'è il file da copiare sotto la partizione NT per mettere nel BOOT.INI anche l'avvio di linux.

2001-08-14 Per discussione Cristian Taraddei
Buongiorno a tutti, qualcuno gentilmente conosce qual'è il file da copiare nella partizione di Windows NT, per poi mettere l'avvio di linux dentro il BOOT.INI. Grazie mille.

[newbie-it] Debian e slackware, dove le trovo?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Stefano Salari
Salve gente, Sapete se in qualche rivista c'e' una versione un po' recente della Debian o della Slackware? Vorrei provarle ma non riesco a trovarle in giro... Non ditemi di scaricarle dal sito, ci impiegherei qualche mese ;) Grazie. Steo.

Re: [newbie-it] Debian e slackware, dove le trovo?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Mauro Scacco
At 10.37 14/08/2001 +0200, you wrote: Salve gente, Sapete se in qualche rivista c'e' una versione un po' recente della Debian o della Slackware? Vorrei provarle ma non riesco a trovarle in giro... Non ditemi di scaricarle dal sito, ci impiegherei qualche mese ;) Grazie. Steo. Ciao! SE

[newbie] Reading mov file (codec SORENSON)

2001-08-14 Per discussione bernard01.chevalier
Hello List, Do someone know if there is a soft (preferably RPM and precompiled) running under Linux Mandrake, that can good read videos .MOV (quicktime) realised with the ** SORENSON Codec ** It doesn't work with xanim (I get only the sound of the mov file), mtv and xmovie. I didn't find

Re: [newbie] Reading mov file (codec SORENSON)

2001-08-14 Per discussione Paul
From the Xanim webpage (http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/xa_unsupported.html) : Sorenson Video The Sorenson video codec is so far exclusive to Apple's Quicktime through an agreement with Apple. XAnim supports quicktime files that have video and audio tracks and could easily support the Sorenson video

[newbie] Annoying multi-part MIME in this list

2001-08-14 Per discussione Hugh Cecil
Hi Has anyone else noticed the multi-part MIME messages with the Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] originating from this list? In Sylpheed these show up as 227 byte *text/plain message.footer* attachments which take up a lot of screen real estate in the preview window, and place

Re: [newbie] Annoying multi-part MIME in this list

2001-08-14 Per discussione Paul
Has anyone else noticed the multi-part MIME messages with the Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] originating from this list? How can you miss it! In Sylpheed these show up as 227 byte *text/plain message.footer* attachments which take up a lot of screen real estate in the

Re: [newbie] Lilo skips Windows98

2001-08-14 Per discussione skinky
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 11:34, you wrote: I just installed Mandrake 8.0 and it is working fine except Lilo cannot boot Windows98. Mandrake / is installed in hdb3 and /home is in hda8. Windows 98 is in hda1. When I try to select Windows98, MDK8.0 boots up. MDK8.0 also boots OK as a

RE: [newbie] Unable to mount second drive

2001-08-14 Per discussione Adams, Jamie
Hi, this is the way i would go about it, cd /mount md windows su root mount -t vfat /dev/[hdx] /mount/windows (substituting x for your drive) Im pretty sure this is the way i used to do it. Make sure that the drive isnt being mounted some other way, ie in /etc/.fstab --

Re: [newbie] Xawtv -still- locks system up tight! ;-(

2001-08-14 Per discussione s
There turns out to be a mandrake version of this zapping that seems a bit more stable, but not quite as many features. http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=zappingsubmit=Search+... -s On Monday 13 August 2001 11:53 pm, you wrote: I found another tuner app with potential

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8

2001-08-14 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
Linus Drouhard wrote: Thanks for helping me. Someday, I hope this makes sense to me. Answers to your queries are below. On Monday 13 August 2001 9:13, Frans Ketelaars wrote: Linus Drouhard wrote: I can't get midi files to play, except in sndconfig. See other responses below. I

Re: [newbie] Installing Programs

2001-08-14 Per discussione Mohammed Arafa
so, nobody knows of a program that will install .tar automatically? - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Programs I occaisionally download programs from the net for my box,

[newbie] name resolution

2001-08-14 Per discussione Colin Jenkins
Hello all, Just a small problem with my LM8 installation... on my local network, if I connect to my linux server through ftp or http using the ip address, connection is almost instantaneous, but if I use the hostname, connection can take about 1-2 min. (I am using dhcp) Could this be a problem

[newbie] OpenGL woes

2001-08-14 Per discussione Robert MacLean
Hi I'm having problems with OpenGL on M8 and I think it's driver related. I'm running the 12.41 nVidia drivers for my Geforce 2 MX. (Indecently the corresponding 12.41 Win2K drivers work, but are unstable. Thus the reason I'm using the 6.50 Win2k drivers). What is happening is that some times

FW: [newbie] Installing Programs

2001-08-14 Per discussione Adams, Jamie
Sorry, i forgot to post to the list. -- Jamie -- From: Tim Holmes[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: Tim Holmes Sent: 14 August 2001 12:02 To:Adams, Jamie Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Programs A lot of times you can use the command: make deinstall

RE: [newbie] Damn Radeon

2001-08-14 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richie de Almeida Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:39 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] Damn Radeon Remember when having Radeon in your basement was a bad thing? But more to the

Re: [newbie] Installing Programs

2001-08-14 Per discussione John Rye
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:18:34 +0200 Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, nobody knows of a program that will install .tar automatically? Take a look at kconfigure you should be able to locate via freshmeat It's a nice GUI Cheers John - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Second VFAT partition invisible in MDK

2001-08-14 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 12:43 am, Velanche Stewart wrote: Well, it almost worked. :-) Linux was able to find the second VFAT drive after following your instructions, so I thank you for that. However, Windows did not find the drive after I rebooted there. When I did fdisk in Linux, it

Re: [newbie] Damn Radeon

2001-08-14 Per discussione James S Bear
I thought that was Radon, no e. jim Quoting Richie de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Remember when having Radeon in your basement was a bad thing? But more to the point, has anyone out there had any success using an ATI Radeon AGP card with Xwindows 4.1.0? X starts up and runs, it even

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-14 Per discussione etharp
Move the video card to the slot next to the AGP slot, it requires a bus master slot, just try it and humour me? On Monday 13 August 2001 23:47, Peter Rymshaw wrote: OK, I tried JDRadio's suggestion of new memory by removing my 63MG and replacing it with a new 128MB (bought at BestBuys for

[newbie] logging

2001-08-14 Per discussione paul rodríguez
What are the best tools out there for system monitoring? I'm pretty new to linux, now that I have my basic hardware/software working as I'd like adn implemented some security, I'd like to start taking a look at my logs, what my system is doing, what Bastille has to say, any output my system

Re: [newbie] Driver installing

2001-08-14 Per discussione Solver
That's where the driver comes from :). Actually, questions is - what may cause such errors to occur, what does it mean? Solver - Original Message - From: D. Hoyem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

[newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are the issues with data optimization/disk defragging under linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] HOW DO I ISTALL AUDIOGALAXY SATELLITE???

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
The AudioGalaxy-supplied binary is only to enable uploads. Once that is loaded (after setting the config file correctly), you can log into audiogalaxy.com and download music from your browser. The AudioGalaxy client will take care of the actual downloading for you. If you don't want to use a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Freq?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Yep. inst = installation, i.e. CD 1 ext = extension, i.e. CD 2 Only CD 1 is required, but CD2 has some extra goodies and is worth getting if you can. On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:08, Jon Doe wrote: I see two .iso files, .ext and .inst are there really two full CD's for the freq? -- Sridhar

Re: [newbie] Reading mov file (codec SORENSON)

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
With CodeWeavers' CrossOver Plugin (http://www.codeweavers.com), popular Windows plug-ins like QuickTime and ShockWave will be able to be emulated (it is based on WINE) in x86 GNU/Linux. It is due to be released in the next few weeks, and they have a page on their site where you can sign up to

Re: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-14 Per discussione Robert MacLean
whats a Journalling filesystems? Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] fsck FSCK = File

Re: [newbie] Network Printer on Win98

2001-08-14 Per discussione Guilherme Cirne
Hi, I tried using smbclient //Rodrigo/HP to test my connection where Rodrigo is the computer's name as defined in Network Neighbourhood properties under Win98 and HP is the printer's share name. I get a reply saying that connection to Rodrigo failed. If I try smbclient //Rodrigo/D where D is

RE: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Per discussione Jason Guidry
sweet. I put all of my partitions on ReiserFS after last month's discussion on filesystems. I'm glad to hear that there is no worry for me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:39, Charles A Edwards wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert MacLean Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] fsck Hi I had a power problem and my

Re: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:48, Jason Guidry wrote: I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are the issues with data optimization/disk defragging under linux? None. Only poorly-designed

Re: [newbie] logging

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:36, paul rodríguez wrote: What are the best tools out there for system monitoring? I'm pretty new to linux, now that I have my basic hardware/software working as I'd like adn implemented some security, I'd like to start taking a look at my logs, what my system is

Re: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
From the Filesystems HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.12): quote File systems update their structural information (called metadata) by synchronous writes. Each metadata update may require many separate writes, and if the system crashes during the write

Re: [newbie] Open hardware

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 (recently revamped - check it out) http://www.linuxhardware.net/ http://www.linux-usb.org/ http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://www.linuxprinting.org/ http://linmodems.org/ On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:26, paul rodríguez wrote: Is there a list compiled

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2001-08-14 Per discussione Chris Harvey
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Re: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Per discussione Paul
It was Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:16:57 -0400 when civileme wrote: Of course, no one really knows what NTFS does but it seems to be another system subject to fragmentation whose performance can be significantly improved by defragmenting. NTFS is most certainly prone to fragmentation. I worked at a

[newbie] Freq 3 and KDM

2001-08-14 Per discussione Clark W. Draper III
Hello. I've just updated to the recently released freq3 Mandrake 8. And now, I have a problem I hope someone can help me with. When the system boots, the KDM appears with icons for every process in the window where one is to select the user to log in. but, root is not among the choices. How do I

Re: [newbie] Freq 3 and KDM

2001-08-14 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 11:17 am, Clark W. Draper III wrote: Hello. I've just updated to the recently released freq3 Mandrake 8. And now, I have a problem I hope someone can help me with. When the system boots, the KDM appears with icons for every process in the window where one is to

RE: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-14 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:21 AM To: Charles A Edwards; Newbie (E-mail) Subject: Re: [newbie] fsck On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:39, Charles A Edwards wrote:

Re: [newbie] reiser vs.ext2

2001-08-14 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 12:41 am, James S Bear wrote: I've been listening to your file system talks and have come to the conclusion that reiser is better. Is it not for any reason? The main reasons are, ReiserFS has a longer track record with Linux than other journalling FS's, and in

Re: [newbie] zip250 way too slow

2001-08-14 Per discussione Linux Newbie
It is SCSI with the Zip zoom scsi card. 00:11.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-7850 (rev 03) Subsystem: Adaptec AHA-2904/Integrated AIC-7850 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF-

Re: [newbie] pppd script

2001-08-14 Per discussione Gonzalix le Druide
Thanks, but I don't know what is ifup ppp0... Please: Anybody who explains this to me? This time my problem doesn't seems interesting for nobody except Franki... G le D (sad) --- Franki wrote: I get the same message, and yet kppp connects fine, its only my ifup ppp0 scripts... go and have

RE: [newbie] pppd script

2001-08-14 Per discussione Franki
Yeah, I am not sure how many people are stuck with dialup accounts nowdays, if you use the standard mandrake setup for creating your dialup account, it will make some files, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 also a chat-ppp0 and to start the pppd connection, you use the command ifup

[newbie] Moving /usr

2001-08-14 Per discussione Barbara Pfieffer
First, have to say I love Mandrake 8. Installed it on my desktop and it works great. I just yesterday bought a new Dell laptop, installed Mandrake 8 on it, and it rocks! found my two pc cards and works great. Here's the question: I setup about 1.4G for / and about 500M for /home. I find I need

Re: [newbie] pppd script. Anybody, please?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Gonzalix le Druide
Yes, I have kppp :-(( thanks anyway G le D --- Franki wrote: Yeah, I am not sure how many people are stuck with dialup accounts nowdays, if you use the standard mandrake setup for creating your dialup account, it will make some files, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 also a

[newbie] Network installation in Linux Mandrake

2001-08-14 Per discussione Andrea Fachiri
- Original Message -From: "etharp" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: "Andrea Fachiri" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 2:06 AMSubject: Re: [newbie] Network installation in Linux Mandrake I have taken a bit of grief for that link, s sorry. I hope this all helps out, or at

Re: [newbie] pppd script. Anybody, please?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Gonzalix le Druide
Franki, why people are not stuck with dialup nowadays? They connect other ways? G Gonzalix le Druide wrote: Yes, I have kppp :-(( thanks anyway G le D --- Franki wrote: Yeah, I am not sure how many people are stuck with dialup accounts nowdays, if you use the standard mandrake

Re: [newbie] pppd script. Anybody, please?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:09:43 -0400 Gonzalix le Druide [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: GD Franki, why people are not stuck with dialup nowadays? GD They connect other ways? Most typically cable or dsl. In both cases, your box is virtually *always* connected

Re: [newbie] pppd script. Anybody, please?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Paul
It was Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:09:43 -0400 when Gonzalix le Druide wrote: Franki, why people are not stuck with dialup nowadays? They connect other ways? Yeah, I am not sure how many people are stuck with dialup accounts nowdays, At least many people in Europe have dialup accounts. Paul --

Re: [newbie] pppd script. Anybody, please?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Gonzalix le Druide
Yeah, I thought so. That's why I send my message to the french list too, but I have no answer yet... G le D --- Paul wrote: It was Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:09:43 -0400 when Gonzalix le Druide wrote: Franki, why people are not stuck with dialup nowadays? They connect other ways? Yeah, I am not

Re: [newbie] pppd script. Anybody, please?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:37:16 -0400 Gonzalix le Druide [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: GD Ah, OK, I understand. GD GD But in my case, I am in troubles because a little debt (some USD 60 or GD so) GD with the cable ISP here, impossible to pay for the bureaucracy, makes GD impossible my

RE: [newbie] pppd script. Anybody, please?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Franki
yeah, I think that nowdays, cable and adsl connections are more commonplace then pppd for linux peoples, good thing too, but it makes things tougher when there are problems,,, as there is not as much feedback from the list... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] forgot my passphrase?

2001-08-14 Per discussione dic98
Yes, the question mark was intentional. I didn't really forget my passphrase. I changed my root password manually last night from the command line from a ten character password to a 49 character (58 counting spaces) passphrase. I logged out at the end of a marathon session of tinkering with

Re: [newbie] one more driver question

2001-08-14 Per discussione s
If it was an rpm, just type as root: rpm -e the_file_name If it was a tarball, just install the others over it. It will write over them. I've done it several times. I flipflop back and forth with the nvidia drivers too. -s On Tuesday 14 August 2001 10:36 am, you wrote: Hi How do I

Re: [newbie] forgot my passphrase?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Paul
It was Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:23:56 -0400 (EDT) when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use lilo textmode, you can run lilo single from there, and change the root passwd without having to log in. Unless you hammered your machine shut with high security (I can imagine, not sure.) Paul Yes, the

Re: [newbie]

2001-08-14 Per discussione YouLikeMyGame
how do i get off this list?

RE: [newbie]

2001-08-14 Per discussione Jason Guidry
how do i get off this list? uhhh- check www.linux-mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Different ways of starting X???

2001-08-14 Per discussione Kevin Fonner
Ahh, I think I am beginning to understand... So what has happened to kdm. When my computer boots up it is supposed to go to a graphical login screen. It use to do that, however now it just comes to a grey screen. Is their a paticular script I should be looking at? Thanks Kevin Naka

[newbie] Where to cop our gaming fix now?

2001-08-14 Per discussione s
Loki filed for bankrupcy. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] upgrading kernel on LM7.2

2001-08-14 Per discussione Michael A. Endsley
Hello, I have kernel 2.2.19-4 with Linux-Mandrake 7.2. My question is how high can I upgrade my kernel before everything breaks? I would like to get a newer kernel in the hopes of it working with my soundcard which is a VIA VT82c686a motherboard chip. This chip works great with win* and also

[newbie] kmail key bindings

2001-08-14 Per discussione bascule
hi folks, does anyone know if there is a key binding for expanding/contracting threads in kmail (mandrakefreq - not the latest one the one before, kde* 2.2-alpha etc.) particularly already read messages? bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] kmail key bindings

2001-08-14 Per discussione s
There's a setting in the config that allows you to start with them all closed and only expand the ones with new postings, I think, if that helps... -s On Tuesday 14 August 2001 03:20 pm, you wrote: hi folks, does anyone know if there is a key binding for expanding/contracting threads in

Re: [newbie] upgrading kernel on LM7.2

2001-08-14 Per discussione s
Well, if I remember correctly, you need to get egcs and upgrade your ppp to 2.4. Then fix your path in mandrake_everytime to point to the new supermount directory before you reboot. But other than that, it was painless. -s On Tuesday 14 August 2001 03:03 pm, you wrote: Hello, I have

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder missing???

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I know that Lame and BladeEnc are entirely coded from scratch, and so are not using any proprietary code. As I have said before, I am not a lawyer, but I have read time and time again that MP3 is a proprietary format (much like GIF and Windows Media are). Thompson have a site dedicated to MP3

Re: [newbie] Installing Programs

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
kconfigure + checkinstall are the best combo. On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:53, John Rye wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:18:34 +0200 Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, nobody knows of a program that will install .tar automatically? Take a look at kconfigure you should be able to locate

Re: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Per discussione civileme
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:48, Jason Guidry wrote: I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are the issues with data optimization/disk defragging under linux?

Re: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-14 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
FSCK = File System ChecK It is the equivalent of Scandisc in Windos (i.e. it finds and corrects file system errors), but it does a much more thorough job. It will usually kick in automatically on your Ext2 partitions if you haven't unmounted them correctly (e.g. not shut down correctly) and

Re: [newbie] Fw: Cron root@tbird run-parts /etc/cron.daily

2001-08-14 Per discussione Paul
It was Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:44:50 -0500 when Michael D. Viron wrote: Well, another one turned up this morning. I will have to investigate further in where this comes from... Paul Either you have multiple syslog logrotate config files under /etc/logrotate.d/, in which case you delete one. Or you

[newbie] Windows shared folders and SMB...

2001-08-14 Per discussione Vincent A.Primavera
Hello, Any of you who are familiar with Windows shared folders, printers, etc. have probably noticed this problem... A good percentage of the time I find that many shared folders etc. are missing. So, I might refresh the screen a few times or even reboot. Sometimes this fixes the

[newbie] Getting a secure firewall environment ?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Anders Jarnberg
Hi all, I'm thinking of making a Linux firewall instead of the dedicated HW-one I got currently. I plan to use the normal MDK8.0 for installation, but can imagine that there's a lot of stuff not needed ? Are there any good info/links about how a Linux environment should look like that runs a

[newbie] drivers for M7.1

2001-08-14 Per discussione Robert MacLean
Will display drivers for mandrake 7.1 work on Mandrake 8? THanx Robert MacLean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] one more driver question

2001-08-14 Per discussione Robert MacLean
Hi How do I uninstall the nvidia drivers? Especially the kernel part.See I need to change my drivers to an older version and I don't want the new ones and the old ones to conflict. Thanx Robert MacLean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] reiser vs.ext2

2001-08-14 Per discussione James S Bear
I've been listening to your file system talks and have come to the conclusion that reiser is better. Is it not for any reason? I have a bunch of machines all formatted ext2. Is there a way to convert it to reiser without reformatting? I went into linuxconf and just changed the filesystem type

Re: [newbie] reiser vs.ext2

2001-08-14 Per discussione civileme
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 01:41, James S Bear wrote: I've been listening to your file system talks and have come to the conclusion that reiser is better. Is it not for any reason? I have a bunch of machines all formatted ext2. Is there a way to convert it to reiser without reformatting? I

Re: [newbie] Different ways of starting X???

2001-08-14 Per discussione Naka Gadjov
Kevin Fonner wrote: OK, Ive got a new interesting problem... If I type startx from a command prompt then X starts up fine... Hoever if I type X then it starts up with that sort of grey screen with a pointer on it but never gets any graphics. I know kdm tries to start x with an X command

Re: [newbie] Moving /usr

2001-08-14 Per discussione Paul
It was Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:56:14 -0500 when Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I setup about 1.4G for / and about 500M for /home. I find I need more space. If I create another partition for /usr, and just move the whole directory structure of /usr there, will it work? Or do I need to do a reinstall?

Re: [newbie] pppd script. Anybody, please?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Gonzalix le Druide
Ah, OK, I understand. But in my case, I am in troubles because a little debt (some USD 60 or so) with the cable ISP here, impossible to pay for the bureaucracy, makes impossible my cable connection... kinda Kafka problem... :~[ So, please, somebody who remembers these dial-in connections, help

[newbie] Mandrake Freq?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Jon Doe
So do you just do a clean install with freq? or Update? How does it work? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Lilo skips Windows98

2001-08-14 Per discussione skinky
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 03:16, you wrote: Windows98 is ignored whether I set it as the default or not. Could you tell me what the Windows98 entries in /etc/lilo.conf or Boot Config should be? Firstly, I apologise to the list for this long message. I noticed your /etc/lilo.conf shows

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Freq?

2001-08-14 Per discussione s
I think you can do it either way. -s On Tuesday 14 August 2001 04:29 pm, you wrote: So do you just do a clean install with freq? or Update? How does it work? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] name resolution

2001-08-14 Per discussione Dallas Haggar
Hello all, Just a small problem with my LM8 installation... on my local network, if I connect to my linux server through ftp or http using the ip address, connection is almost instantaneous, but if I use the hostname, connection can take about 1-2 min. (I am

[newbie] How Do I Read Packet Log?

2001-08-14 Per discussione dallas
Hi, Can someone tell me how to read packet log entries. I've turned on 'log all rejected packets' in System Properties - Alerts' and I've set audit for ICMP echo-request and redirect. I'd like to know what the logs tell me. Is this documented any where? I think what I'm seeing is benign but I

[newbie] Automatically updating Mandrake 8.0?

2001-08-14 Per discussione emammendes
Hello I wonder whether Mandrake 8.0 has a simple gui-program to check for new packages and do the upgrade (plus dependencies) automatically? Many thanks Eduardo NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month!

[newbie] How to check whether the display supports multiple virtual console screens?

2001-08-14 Per discussione emammendes
Hello again I need to run another X session on the same computer. Even though I can go to another screen using alt+ctrl+F1 (for instance), startx won't start (an error mesages comes out; something like :0 is already in use). Is there way to configure the system to get more than :0? Many thanks

[newbie] Mozilla

2001-08-14 Per discussione Ola Lidén
I have used Mozilla since milestone 4 and now I am using 0.9.3. Today I discovered that it is possible to get an RPM package of Mozilla 0.9.3 from cooker. Can someone tell me the differens between the 0.9.3 build from Mozilla and the RPM package from cooker. I know the differens in

[newbie] php and apache

2001-08-14 Per discussione Mark Johnson
Ok, i installed php ( rpm -ivh php-4.0.3pl1-1mdk.i586.rpm ) and created an index.php and when I try to hit it, the web browser prompts me as if I was tryint to download a file. In my httpd.conf I have: DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm index.shtml index.cgi Default.htm

Re: [newbie] Different ways of starting X???

2001-08-14 Per discussione Naka Gadjov
Kevin Fonner wrote: Ahh, I think I am beginning to understand... So what has happened to kdm. When my computer boots up it is supposed to go to a graphical login screen. It use to do that, however now it just comes to a grey screen. Is their a paticular script I should be looking at?

[newbie] terminus

2001-08-14 Per discussione Terry C
I am trying to run the Terminus game demo and have this response when I start it: ./terminus: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory I did a search for libstdc++.so.2.8 and can't find it. Is this lib not included with

[newbie] terminus

2001-08-14 Per discussione Terry C
I am trying to run the Terminus game demo and have this response when I start it: ./terminus: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory I did a search for libstdc++.so.2.8 and can't find it. Is this lib not included with

Re: [newbie] pppd script

2001-08-14 Per discussione skinky
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] pppd script Hi, When I tryied to connect, this is what happens: -Aug 13 21:20:00 localhost pppd (4697): pppd 2.4.0 started by gonzalo, uid 501 Idem...: Using interface ppp0

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2001-08-14 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 04:56 pm, Ola Lidén wrote: I have used Mozilla since milestone 4 and now I am using 0.9.3. Today I discovered that it is possible to get an RPM package of Mozilla 0.9.3 from cooker. Can someone tell me the differens between the 0.9.3 build from Mozilla and the RPM

[newbie] about mandrake freq

2001-08-14 Per discussione Jon Doe
Well it installed ok, no major problems, just have two questions. 1. Why does the tinyfirewall now show ports as closed rather than stealth? What is port 443? 2. How do I change the size of menus in KDE? Damn are they huge...lol. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Not prompted for other cd's during installation

2001-08-14 Per discussione dic98
I'm reinstalling 7.2 on a pretty old box (Eve - 266 MHz PII, 32MB Ram, junker Everex Monitor, etc) and I am not getting asked whether or not I have the other cds (I have the boxed version with 7 cds). I started an install on the computer right beside it (Speedy Gonzalez - 866MHz PIII, 256 MB

Re: [newbie] php and apache

2001-08-14 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
Mark, Install mod_php-*, and you should no longer have the problem. By the way, 4.0.3pl1 has some problems--you may want to think about getting the 4.0.4pl1 rpms from any of mandrake's update sites. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration

Re: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Per discussione Richie de Almeida
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 10:22, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:48, Jason Guidry wrote: I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are the issues with data

[newbie] xinetd + Apache/Samba ?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Jean-Philippe Essert
Hi, I just updated from LM 7.1 to 8.0 so now I have to learn how to use xinetd instead of inetd. I read that xinetd could run any services I wanted. I guess that's right for the services that inetd was already running (cvspserver, ftpd,...). Had someone tried to run other (new?) services

Re: [newbie] Automatically updating Mandrake 8.0?

2001-08-14 Per discussione Andrew
hi Eduardo, From the menu, try Configuration-Packaging-MandrakeUpdate. The program asks for root password then you could download the security updates and cooker. Before you download, make sure you click define source and click on new. Choose where you want to download the files from.

Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please

2001-08-14 Per discussione Judith Miner
Thanks for the explanation and suggestions. I did try printing a file directly with xpp but had the same results: nothing. I have downloaded quite a bit of information on CUPS, cups-o-matic, and Linux printing and will try to work my way through it and figure out what's happening. --Judy Miner

[newbie] Another Mozilla

2001-08-14 Per discussione dic98
More questions from me, and more questions about Mozilla. A redundant night, maybe, but an informational one. This list is really helpful by the way. Anyway, back on target: I'm running 0.9.3 (awesome - a few minor table rendering problems and a small java/flash hassle what with those

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