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

2001-08-15 Per discussione Luther
Se il problema è la coesistenza Linux-W2K\WNT e non ti ha risposto nessuno (non ho controllato) questa è una possibile via: 1) Creati un disco di boot per la tua distr. di Linux 2) Se in fase di installazione Linux hai lasciato installare LiLo nel MBR, devi rimuoverlo. ( avvia il pc con

Re: [newbie] Running Eterm in WindowMaker

2001-08-15 Per discussione Len Lawrence
Don't know eterm or Windowmaker but under gnome you can right-click on the title bar to get a menu including history in which you can elect to save position, size, or attributes. Worth a try. -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Running Eterm in WindowMaker

2001-08-15 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Terry wrote: Here's a light-hearted question for all you folks .. I've been keeping up with the list, and I think it's time for something a little less taxing .. I am running WindowMaker 0.65 and use Eterm for my terminal work. I love the look and feel of Eterm,

Re: [newbie] Is postfix really neccesary?

2001-08-15 Per discussione Paul
I know postfix is some kind of mail server. Is their anything else it does? Why is it installed by default on workstations? Is it ok to uninstall it? Postfix is used by Cron (which does all kind of work for you) to send you mails on what went wrong. You can uninstall it, and never know

Re: [newbie] su-incorrect password

2001-08-15 Per discussione Peter Watson
I had this as well . I think it is to do with security levels because on a lower level I can su okay. petew On Thursday 16 August 2001 05:32, Scott Olfert wrote: Hey guys, wondering if you can help me w/ this problem. I've searched for an answer, but i couldn't seem to find much of one.

[newbie] Is postfix really neccesary?

2001-08-15 Per discussione Kevin Fonner
I know postfix is some kind of mail server. Is their anything else it does? Why is it installed by default on workstations? Is it ok to uninstall it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] reiser vs.ext2

2001-08-15 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 03:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING

2001-08-15 Per discussione johnix
At Wed, 15 Aug 2001 01:13:37 -0500 , Adam Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got an e-mail from Chris Harvey that was bounced from the mandrake mailing list server. In my opinion he should be immediately terminated from the forum for abusing it in such a gross manner. I can't help but to

[newbie] d-link dfe-570tx quad channel server card

2001-08-15 Per discussione Jhun Bacala
HI All! I have a new machine P-III 1Ghz with 1 GB of memory and a D-link dfe-570tx quad channel server card. I'm having problem with the D-link card it's not working. I get an error on booting unknown bridge resource 2:assuming transparent Jhun Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING

2001-08-15 Per discussione Robert MacLean
Hi If Chris Harvey made a mistake why doesn't he apologise? But I agree with Adam that SPAM shouldn't be tolerated, its annoying and time consuming. And the newbie list is not the place for it. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[newbie] SPAM

2001-08-15 Per discussione johnix
Could someone define what spam is for me? That is is there a dictionary definition for Spam. I thought spam was sending e-mail that someone is trying to sell me something or someone sending me repeated e-mail even when I have asked them not to. Get your own FREE E-mail address at

Re: [newbie] SPAM

2001-08-15 Per discussione Robert MacLean
Hi SPAM is any unsolicetied, unwanted mail that is sent in bulk/to multiple recipients. I didn't want the trash that CHris Harvey sent, nor did I request it and it was sent in bulk (via the Newbie list) thus it is SPAM. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?!

2001-08-15 Per discussione Charles Punch
Thanx (err, I mean thanks). I stand corrected. However, I think you may have missed my point. With all due respect to Mr. Bourne and Mr. Webster, my point was not about the history of Linux, nor about the technical aspects of spelling in regard to that noble end. Even though this is a newbie

[newbie] SPAM

2001-08-15 Per discussione johnix
I'm sorry I didn't know the situation. It sounds to me like this was not a mistake. I have made mistakes sending mail. I would apoligize for shure plus it would not be multiple or bulk. You are right that the newbie list is not the place for it. No place is the place for SPAM. Get your own

[newbie] Ess56PI modem installation failure

2001-08-15 Per discussione Hugh
Hi,mandrake linux users and specialists, I encouter difficulty while installing my Ess56PI modem.The Ess2898 chip based internal PCI modem is not that sort of winmodem.It's installed in PCI slot 4 using IRQ 11.It works just well under win98 and win2k. After installing mandrake linux 7.0 ,I

Re: [newbie] SPAM

2001-08-15 Per discussione Michael F. Aube
Actually... SPAM is a lovely meat *food* product that comes vacuum-packed in a tin. The taste is so wonderful, it can be used at practically any (non-kosher) meal in combination with any other *food* product. SPAM is a first cousin to the good old Christmas fruitcake, commonly known as a

RE: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING

2001-08-15 Per discussione Jason Guidry
I contacted the webmaster at his domain. mandrake claims to go after people who spam people on this list. I think if we all write a letter to the webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED], that should take care of it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] reiser vs.ext2

2001-08-15 Per discussione skinky
On Thursday 16 August 2001 00:09, you wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:22, Paul wrote: ReiserFS still has some issues with RAID and with certain NFS configurations. For ordinary home use (i.e. one desktop system or a small LAN) you should be fine. Apparently XFS (not officially

RE: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING

2001-08-15 Per discussione Jesse Hepburn
Now here's something that I find amusing. The guy who actually spammed only sent on email...fine, I can handle that, but then everybody starts sending anti-spam emails (and thus spamming everybody), and now we're all supposed to spam the webmaster to take action against the spammer? --Jesse

[newbie] SMTP Server advice / help

2001-08-15 Per discussione Jamie Kerwick
Basically i want to use my home PC as a mail server. Now there are 2 problems i have, my PC is only on a dial-up connection and as such doesn't have a stable IP or a proper domain name registered for it. now the main thing is that i want to be able to use it no matter what internet connection

Re: [newbie] Re: ppp thread

2001-08-15 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 11:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoting skinky: I slow my connection right down to 19200 bps (it connects at the higher speeds but is much slower) Could someone explain that to me? How can I tell what my optimum connection speed is? Trial and error.

RE: [newbie] religion in Linux?!

2001-08-15 Per discussione Mark Johnson
-Original Message- From: Charles Punch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?! manuels would have aquired. It would seem to me, that if someone

Re: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-15 Per discussione Paul
It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:07:56 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: One small question then: how would you go about fsck-ing the partition that has the fsck binary on it? You can't run it when it is not mounted, and you can't run it when it's mounted. Would cp-ing the program be the solution?

Re: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING

2001-08-15 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 08:04 am, Jason Guidry wrote: I contacted the webmaster at his domain. mandrake claims to go after people who spam people on this list. I think if we all write a letter to the webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED], that should take care of it. Before this gets way

Re: [newbie] Re: Another Mozilla

2001-08-15 Per discussione Paul Cox
On Wednesday, Aug 15, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Could you explain the last thing about the local vs. not local server a little more? My email server is in Amherst, Mass. I am in eastern Maine. Is that what you're talking about? I'm also using a dial-up connection if that is at

Re: [newbie] Re: ppp thread

2001-08-15 Per discussione Peter Watson
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 15:08, Tom Brinkman wrote: 'Many d/l agents also display current and average speed. Usually in bytes/sec, ie, 56K is 56,000 bits/sec. I'm getting confused. I thought there were 8 bits in a byte. petew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?!

2001-08-15 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:42, A V Flinsch wrote: On Wednesday 15 August 2001 01:31, Paul wrote: For that we have Jesux, a linux for Christians: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/  That is onbe of the funniest pages that I have seen in a long time -- Alex Steve

Re: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-15 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Good question. You've gotten me wondering about that too. If you wanted to do it manually I would assume that you would have to boot from (or chroot to) another filesystem (like a CD or floppy). How do fscks work on boot? When an fsck is needed at bootup, it is run _before_ the partiton is

[newbie] Re:Lilo skips Windows98

2001-08-15 Per discussione alex
Just reinstalled MDK8.0 and everything works as I wanted. The only problem is, I lost all previous e-amil. Thanks for the help. My advice to all---make a hard copy and floppy copy of /etc/lilo.conf to aid in troubleshooting LILO. Do it while it still works right.Alex Want to

Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please

2001-08-15 Per discussione civileme
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 22:30, Judith Miner wrote: 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

[newbie] UDA33-66-100

2001-08-15 Per discussione Naka Gadjov
I understand that the 2.4.3-20mdk does only support ATA-33 - going by the few comments made on this list. Ho hum, overall I'm not that worried about my hd transfer speed (its not too noticeable) but of course it would be nice to have things running as they're supposed to. I wrote at

Re: [newbie] 2.4.7 kernel

2001-08-15 Per discussione Naka Gadjov
I understand that the 2.4.3-20mdk does only support ATA-33 - going by the few comments made on this list. Ho hum, overall I'm not that worried about my hd transfer speed (its not too noticeable) but of course it would be nice to have things running as they're supposed to. I wrote at

RE: [newbie] Network Printer on Win98

2001-08-15 Per discussione Guilherme Cirne
At 23:08 14/08/01 -0400, you wrote: Before you go as far as MOUNTING a remote share or utilizing a remote printer under Samba you should test to make sure that your Linux machine is able to LOG IN to the winblows machine... Try smbclient -L machine -U user Where machine is the name of the

Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?!

2001-08-15 Per discussione Jim Kempton
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 10:04, Mark Johnson wrote: FWIW, the original meaning of daemon means strong spiritual/natural force and it was used in big snip AMEN Here endeth the lesson? -- MJK Systems-IT Consultants Training

Re: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-15 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 10:02 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Good question. You've gotten me wondering about that too. If you wanted to do it manually I would assume that you would have to boot from (or chroot to) another filesystem (like a CD or floppy). How do fscks work on boot? When an

[newbie] Re: HEY, NO SPAMMING

2001-08-15 Per discussione Adam Willcox
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 08:04 am, Jason Guidry wrote: I contacted the webmaster at his domain. mandrake claims to go after people who spam people on this list. I think if we all write a letter to the webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED], that should take care of it. Before this gets way

Re: [newbie] Mandrake as server

2001-08-15 Per discussione LEONARD_MILLER
Date: 08/15/2001 12:27 pm (Wednesday) From: Leonard Miller To: \Linux Newbie\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET.UD-CCGate.DM-YK-01; \Solver\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET.UD-CCGate.DM-YK-01 Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake as server That depends

Re: [newbie] Is postfix really neccesary?

2001-08-15 Per discussione Kevin Fonner
We'll actually I am planning on setting up my own personal email server. I was thinking of using qmail. I would be interested in hearing opinions of qmail versus postfix. I was just thinking it would be kind of redundent if I have my own mail server AND had a mailserver on every single

Re: [newbie] Re: ppp thread

2001-08-15 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 10:08 am, Peter Watson wrote: On Wednesday 15 August 2001 15:08, Tom Brinkman wrote: 'Many d/l agents also display current and average speed. Usually in bytes/sec, ie, 56K is 56,000 bits/sec. I'm getting confused. I thought there were 8 bits in a byte. petew

Re: [newbie] Re:Lilo skips Windows98

2001-08-15 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 09:05 am, alex wrote: Just reinstalled MDK8.0 and everything works as I wanted. The only problem is, I lost all previous e-amil. Thanks for the help. Next time save a copy of the Mail directory that's in your /home/user directory. MOF, save your whole

RE: [newbie] UDA33-66-100

2001-08-15 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Hey guys, don't mean to beat a dead horse, but UDMA XXX dosent mean anything. no one's hard drive is fast enough to utilize all that throughput. so don't worry about what kernel supports who, It doesn't matter. you will see no performance boost. if you want the most performance from a hard

Re: [newbie] SMTP Server advice / help

2001-08-15 Per discussione Kevin Fonner
I am planning on setting up my own mail server for my home as well. I did use mail deamon when I was in the windows world to grab all my mail out of a single pop mailbox for the domain. I would imagine some linux mail servers would have this feature as well. I have been so busy I haven't

[newbie] GIF software

2001-08-15 Per discussione Andrew
what is the best software for creating a GIF animated banner? Thanks for the help. regards, Andrew -- The power of Knowledge-open source community. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Install problem - 3c509 NIC's

2001-08-15 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello All, Here is my situation: ;) Im Installing 8.0 on a Dell OptiPlex GXi with the onboard NIC disabled and (2) 3com 3c509 PCI NIC's specs for this model can be viewed here: http://support.dell.com/ Durring Install autoprobe detects and lists both NIC's for me, however when I click ok I

RE: [newbie] Network Printer on Win98

2001-08-15 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
If you are at least getting smbclient to work, you are almost there! Now the problem is how Cups' filters treat the remote winblows printer. Cups tries to run thru the Linux/Unix style printer filters which feed GIMP/GHOSTSCRIPT or some other ratherizer. The problem is that the rasterizer

[newbie] How do you uninstall something?

2001-08-15 Per discussione Mark Johnson
Here at work we have 3 linux machines. I was trying to do something with php and mysql. Php installed fine on 2 of the machines but on the third I couldn't get the php-mysql rpm to install. It turns out someone installed v11 of mysql on the 3rd machine (whereas the first two are running v10).

Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?!

2001-08-15 Per discussione John Rye
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:04:48 -0500 Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snip (ps: this thread could go south really fast, we should be careful not to translate religion to mean Catholicism or Protestantism or etc... religio means to link back and there is a reason why the word religion is

Re: [newbie] Re: ppp thread

2001-08-15 Per discussione Gonzalix le Druide
Dear Tom and the others too: Could you please give me a hand with my very, very basic, and very, very stupid problem, I mean help me to get a telephone connection with pppd? I'd really appreciate Please PLEASE please G le D --- Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 14 August 2001 11:04 pm, [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] reiser vs.ext2

2001-08-15 Per discussione Charles Punch
I second that vote of thanx to Sridhar. I am going to use reiser when 8.1 comes out. I am running too stable and smooth to mess with my system at present, but I'm keeping my ears open, so that I will be as informed as I can be, when I'm ready to take the plunge. Oh yeah, I picked up some good

[newbie] Timidity,Kmid and Jazz

2001-08-15 Per discussione Marcia Waller
Dear All, I am planning to set up my linux box for MIDI in the near future. Has anyone here on the list worked with Kmid, timidity, or jazz? Has anyone used Linux for MIDI and with certain instruments? If anyone has done this or is doing this could you let me know how you have set this up?

Re: [newbie] Other screens than :0?

2001-08-15 Per discussione emammendes
Hello I tried what you said but the same error came out. I have attached the log file in case you want to have a look. Many thanks Eduardo - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?!

2001-08-15 Per discussione Charles Punch
It seems we agree on at least one point, that is, that the names of various shells, progs, processes etc. are probably puns or double meanings done in a light vein. However the concepts in the GPL have roots in most religions or at least in spirituality. You know, don't be ruled by greed etc. By

Re: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING

2001-08-15 Per discussione Charles Punch
Jesse Hepburn wrote: Now here's something that I find amusing. The guy who actually spammed This thread is starting to sound like the Monty Python sketch that someone mentioned earlier. All spam and no mail make Jack a dull newbie. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118

Re: [newbie] UDA33-66-100

2001-08-15 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 08:15 am, Naka Gadjov wrote: under UDA33-66-100 UDA33 --- hdparm -X66 /dev/hda UDA66 --- hdparm -X68 /dev/hda UDA100 ---hdparm -X69 /dev/hda This sets udma, but not ata. The two are not necessarily joined. That said, my ata/100 at udma5 drive, 2.4.7 kernel, on

Re: [newbie] Install problem - 3c509 NIC's

2001-08-15 Per discussione Matt Greer
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing that I can think that I am doing wrong is I am useing a 7.0 boot floppy because I don't have a 8.0 boot floppy! Create an 8.0 boot floppy. The 8.0 cd includes all the facilities to do this. Read the readme in the /images

[newbie] RE: [expert] re: sound configuration

2001-08-15 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
sndconfig Run as root from a console not while in X Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lawrence G. Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] installing kde 2.2 stable

2001-08-15 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 03:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I go an update my mandrake 8 to this new version i can see the rpms here.. http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde//stable/2.2/Mandrake/8.0/i 586/ I took a look at those on the KDE mirrors and they're nothin but

Re: [newbie] installing kde 2.2 stable

2001-08-15 Per discussione s
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 03:57 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 15 August 2001 03:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I go an update my mandrake 8 to this new version i can see the rpms here.. http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde//stable/2.2/Mandrake/8.0/i 586/ I took a

Re: [newbie] installing kde 2.2 stable

2001-08-15 Per discussione chrish
Hi, I hope you don't mind me asking I see the readme file... here's the guts... now which process is the safest/brainless As root: - add a new media. Run: urpmi.addmedia a-name file://directory-where-are-stored-packages - install packages you need using: urpmi name-of-package

[newbie] Troubles with the keyboard

2001-08-15 Per discussione Sergio Vergara Gando
Hellos list. I am newbie on Linux Mandrake and this is my first message in this list. Let me try to explain a little problem that i have with the release 8.0 I install this version in my laptop Compaq ARMADA 1750 and at the beggining the instalation was in spanish. All was well in the

Re: [newbie] installing kde 2.2 stable

2001-08-15 Per discussione Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 August 2001 16:32, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I hope you don't mind me asking I see the readme file... here's the guts... now which process is the safest/brainless As root: - add a new media. Run:

Re: [newbie] UDA33-66-100

2001-08-15 Per discussione Naka Gadjov
Jason Guidry wrote: Hey guys, don't mean to beat a dead horse, but UDMA XXX dosent mean anything. no one's hard drive is fast enough to utilize all that throughput. so don't worry about what kernel supports who, It doesn't matter. you will see no performance boost. absolutely true, but

Re: [newbie] KDE locks up the machine during logon

2001-08-15 Per discussione Naka Gadjov
Keith Lynn wrote: Hello everyone, I have been experiencing a strange problem after installing Mandrake 8.0 on PCs with the Intel 810 and 815 Chipsets. Sometimes while logging on, the KDE logo appears and shows the components that are being checked and the machine locks up, and I

Re: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-15 Per discussione etharp
ehh,,, the kernel is read into memory, then the disk unmounted? On Wednesday 15 August 2001 11:02, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Good question. You've gotten me wondering about that too. If you wanted to do it manually I would assume that you would have to boot from (or chroot to) another

Re: [newbie] KDE locks up the machine during logon

2001-08-15 Per discussione s
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 02:21 pm, you wrote: Hello everyone, I have been experiencing a strange problem after installing Mandrake 8.0 on PCs with the Intel 810 and 815 Chipsets. Sometimes while logging on, the KDE logo appears and shows the components that are being checked and the

[newbie] mandrakefreq and software manager

2001-08-15 Per discussione bascule
i upgraded using mandrake freq a week or so ago and immediatley found that software manager was broken, continually telling me that the package i wanted to upgrade was already installed, so i downloaded the new mandrake freq yesterday amd did an upgrade with that, however it hasn't upgraded

[newbie] zsh

2001-08-15 Per discussione johnix
Hi! could someone tell me were I could find some info on zsh.I want to learn basic programming. Thanks Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] zsh

2001-08-15 Per discussione Ah Pook
8/15/2001 2:58:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! could someone tell me were I could find some info on zsh.I want to learn basic programming. http://www.google.com/search?q=zsh Searched the web for zsh.  Results 1 - 10 of about 112,000. Search took 0.05 seconds. 1. http://www.zsh.org/

Re: [newbie] religion in Linux?!

2001-08-15 Per discussione Charles Punch
One more thing and then I'll hold my peace, (true) Christianity should not be confused with religion. I did not for one minute mean anything like that. Yeah, we could quibble with words, but I think I understand what you are a getting at. My whole point was "don't read too much

[newbie] Audio CD's...I can't open them.

2001-08-15 Per discussione h3rb
I have 2 drives in my machine. A DVD and a Burner. I can burn with the burner and watch dvd's with my dvd drive. I can even burn an Audio cd from the burner with MP3's and when I go to listen to it. I can't. Is there something special that needs to be setup to read audio cd's? h3rb

[newbie] A second LILO/GRUB

2001-08-15 Per discussione alex
Let's say you have a Linux whose LILO or GRUB is working perfectly. Then, you install an additional Linux that can create its own LILO/GRUB. What steps would you take with respect to LILO/GRUB? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mandrake and Oracle

2001-08-15 Per discussione Miark
Hi all, A friend of mine asked me to recommend a Linux distribution that would best work with an Oracle database. I normally recommend Mandrake for anything and everything, but I don't know squat about databases, and I figured he deserves a more thoughtful answer. His question, specifically,

Re: [newbie] UDA33-66-100

2001-08-15 Per discussione Leif Madsen
Those 'dummy' wires are for grounding out each pin. Allows for less signal noise. (Just basically as you said.. but the wires are for grounding) so each pin has a ground connection. On Wednesday 15 August 2001 15:08, Tom Brinkman wrote: BTW, an ata/100 capable cable has 80 wires but

[newbie] zsh

2001-08-15 Per discussione johnix
Thanks for your help. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] installing kde 2.2 stable

2001-08-15 Per discussione Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 August 2001 15:22, thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do I go an update my mandrake 8 to this new version i can see the rpms here.. http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde//stable/2.2/Mandrake/8.0/i586/ Chris, You will

Re: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-15 Per discussione David E. Fox
I had a power problem and my machine reset, and I was prompted to login and use fsck. My question is two fold. What is fsck (it seems fsck means file system check. It is similar to chkdsk or scandisk in Windows. What happened on your system was that for some reason the boot process found

Re: [newbie] Audio CD's...I can't open them.

2001-08-15 Per discussione Paul
It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:06:05 -0400 when h3rb wrote: I have 2 drives in my machine. A DVD and a Burner. I can burn with the burner and watch dvd's with my dvd drive. I can even burn an Audio cd from the burner with MP3's and when I go to listen to it. I can't. Is there something

Re: [newbie] fsck

2001-08-15 Per discussione Paul
It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:51:06 -0400 when etharp wrote: ehh,,, the kernel is read into memory, then the disk unmounted? Now you mention it: on boot (lilo text) I sometimes notice (when I look) messages like Remounting file system. That could be part of the process... Paul -- We will either

Re: [newbie] A second LILO/GRUB

2001-08-15 Per discussione Paul
It was Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:09:59 -0400 when alex wrote: Let's say you have a Linux whose LILO or GRUB is working perfectly. Then, you install an additional Linux that can create its own LILO/GRUB. What steps would you take with respect to LILO/GRUB? 1. Have it install Lilo/grub in the root

Re: [newbie] Audio CD's...I can't open them.

2001-08-15 Per discussione h3rb
No..it's not that I can't hear it. When I put the cd in the drive. It 1.) will not auto-mount it. 2.) if I try to mount it myself it tell's me that the media is invalid. And this happens with ANY audio cd. If I put in a factory audio cd..it gives the same results. It's that mandrake will

[newbie] ix86 architectures

2001-08-15 Per discussione dic98
Since someone just brought it up, could one of the smart people please explain the different kinds of architectures, what they mean, and why they matter? I know (from running the GNOME system info program in the monitoring menu) that I have an i686, what's that mean? Thanks, Isaac (i have a

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

2001-08-15 Per discussione Paul
It was Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:59:55 -0500 when Michael D. Viron wrote: Paul, Yep...that's the problem. Remove the second syslog entry, and you should stop getting the message. Yay, it worked indeed! Thank you! Paul -- We will either find a way, or make one. -Hannibal http://nlpagan.net -

Re: [newbie] HTML editor sought

2001-08-15 Per discussione Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 05:38, Andrei wrote: Yes quanta looks about exactly what I need. Which RMP should I download for a Mandrake 8.0 (being a pathetic newbie - I don't feel confortable compiling from sources and I don't really understand the difference between