Re: [newbie-it] benvenuti

2001-08-21 Per discussione Stefano Salari
--- brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Il 13:45, lunedi` 20 agosto 2001, hai scritto: qualcuno sa come si chiama e dove e' situata l'immagine con benvenuti in tutte le lingue che appare all'inizio del boot? A me da` fastidio - preferivo Tux ;-) -ma ho paura che per cambiarla dovro`

[newbie-it] Re:connessione fallita

2001-08-21 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
salve ho un problema con il modem un isdn interno riconosciuto perfettamente da mandrake (mi appare anche in hardrake) quando lancio la connessione questa fallisce senza segnalare errori. ho aperto un terminale x controllare il msg dell'applicazione con il comando tail -f /var/log/messages e

RE: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation

2001-08-21 Per discussione Stefano POGLIANI
Any idea where this download can be found? I checked ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome but I did not find it. Thanks a lot /stefano » -Original Message- » From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman » Sent: 18 August 2001 15:15 » To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] »

[newbie] Linux in schools

2001-08-21 Per discussione Paul
Hi Everyone, I think this is good. Esp. the one about Mexico City. Paul http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,43737,00.html Argentina Embraces the Penguin By Agustín d´Empaire 10:40 a.m. May 11, 2001 PDT BUENOS AIRES -- Salta is an Argentinean province located in the country's

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 Beta

2001-08-21 Per discussione Miark
Out of curiosity, is this pronounced rock-LAY or RAK-let? From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raklet is the new 8.1 beta. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-21 Per discussione Luke Randall
I sent this yesterday but it didn't seem to get through so here it is again: Hi, I'm really new to linux and want to know how to set it up to share files and printers with Windows 9x. (ie: so they can be seen through the network neighbourhood button in windows) and also how I can see other

Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-21 Per discussione Robert MacLean
Hi As far as I know you need to use SAMBA. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Luke Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 2:46 AM Subject: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x I sent this yesterday but it didn't seem to get through

Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-21 Per discussione Paul
I sent this yesterday but it didn't seem to get through so here it is again: Hi, I'm really new to linux and want to know how to set it up to share files an d printers with Windows 9x. (ie: so they can be seen through the network ne ighbourhood button in windows) and also how I can see other

RE: [newbie] Install lockup problem reposted

2001-08-21 Per discussione Adams, Jamie
If all else fails, maybe you could try the text install? i cant remember how to do this, can anyone else? -- Jamie -- From: Paul[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2001 00:22 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] apache!

2001-08-21 Per discussione Dan Ray
Newacct-- I want to make a directory not listable.. how can i do that? Options -Indexes Stick that line in an .htaccess file (assuming you've done Allow Override for that directory), or in the section of the httpd.conf that refers to the directory in question. look i want the

Re: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation

2001-08-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1232 On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:49, Stefano POGLIANI wrote: Any idea where this download can be found? I checked ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-gnome but I did not find it. Thanks a lot /stefano » -Original Message- » From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Coding resources?

2001-08-21 Per discussione Michael McGibben
Try www.linux-newbie.org words of wisdom. You will find a newbie NHF on C programming (I think). Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric Caron Sent: 20 August 2001 18:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie]

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 Beta

2001-08-21 Per discussione Paul
Out of curiosity, is this pronounced rock-LAY or RAK-let? RAK-let, since it originates in french. B.t.w. tractopel is pronounces as trahk-toe-'PEL and means something like bulldozer Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-21 Per discussione Colin Jenkins
Hello Luke, Wednesday, August 22, 2001, 10:46:25 AM, you wrote: LR I sent this yesterday but it didn't seem to get through so here it is again: LR Hi, LR I'm really new to linux and want to know how to set it up to share files and printers with Windows 9x. (ie: so they can be seen through the

[newbie] synchronize user account

2001-08-21 Per discussione Jhun Bacala
Hi! I windows you can have a Primary Domain Controller and a Backup Domain Controller, were user accounts in PDC will synchronize to BDC. And when PDC crushes you can promote PDC. How do I do that in Linux Mandrake scenario were in I have two Linux box and I want to sync their user account.

Re: [newbie] synchronize user account

2001-08-21 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
Jhun, Configure nis / nis+ -- you'd need both a master and a slave, if you're wanting to have a similar scenario to PDC / BDC. The HOWTO is off of http://www.linuxdoc.org Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University

Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please

2001-08-21 Per discussione civileme
On Monday 20 August 2001 16:48, Judith Miner wrote: Civileme wrote concerning my printing problem: Is your firewall by any chance blocking port 631? You need 631 open, at least on localhost, for cups to work. How would I find out? I set up my firewall through Mandrake Control Center,

[newbie] Upgrading KDE

2001-08-21 Per discussione John W
I have downloaded all the Mandrake kde rpm's from the kde ftp site. I downloaded them to a directory unto themselves and many are not rpm's I have installed at present. I currently have installed on my LM 8 system, kdeadmin 2.1.1-8mdk kdebase 2.1.1-13mdk kdegraphics 2.1.1-3mdk kdemultimedia

[newbie] compiling my kernel, but no source?

2001-08-21 Per discussione Matt Greer
I sent this a few days ago and it never showed up. Then some other things I sent showed up two days after. I think the list server might be a bit bogged down. Anyway, I want to recompile my kernel for some things vmware wants (rtc and making parallel port support a module). The problem is I

RE: [newbie] Need printing help, please

2001-08-21 Per discussione Adams, Jamie
okay.. ive seen this urpmi command quite a lot, what does it do? -- Jamie -- From: civileme[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2001 21:13 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Judith Miner Subject: Re: [newbie] Need printing help,

RE: [newbie] compiling my kernel, but no source?

2001-08-21 Per discussione Adams, Jamie
Yes, it is possible. I had the same problem. I only have the 1cd version of 8.0, but someone said they are on one of the other cd's in the boxed version. Otherwise you will be able to get them from the mandrake ftp site (the url i dont have im afraid). -- Jamie --

Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-21 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Luke Randall wrote: I sent this yesterday but it didn't seem to get through so here it is again: Luke, It got through yesterday and today. Several factors may influence if / how soon you get a response: 1. see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/AvoidHTMLinEmail 2. how difficult the

[newbie] urpmi

2001-08-21 Per discussione Paul
It was Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:40:04 +0100 when Adams, Jamie wrote: okay.. ive seen this urpmi command quite a lot, what does it do? -- Jamie urpmi finds and installs the rpm you instructed, and when it finds an unfulfilled dependency, it will try and locate (download too) the

RE: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation

2001-08-21 Per discussione Stefano POGLIANI
Thanks a lot, indeed. After having installed Ximian, the doorman application crashes continuosly (Segmentation fault). Is this normal ? /stefano » -Original Message- » From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan » Sent: 21 August 2001 09:44 »

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

2001-08-21 Per discussione David E. Fox
I take it I should be able to use fsck (formatted correctly) *after* completing the shutdown. It seemed Well, there's no sense in fscking the drives prior to shutdown - that is done on power up. Assuming that you can shut down properly, however, part of that process unmounts the partitions and

Re: [newbie]

2001-08-21 Per discussione David E. Fox
I'm new to Linux but I'm ready to make the giant leap forward and chop my HD up to make room for Linux. My question is, I've used Mandrake, 7.2 I think, Well, since you've already used it, you might as well continue to use it -- go with what you know, or at least have some experience with.

Re: [newbie] compiling my kernel, but no source?

2001-08-21 Per discussione Matt Greer
on 8/21/01 4:34 PM, civileme at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, to get the exact source for the kernel you have, look in /usr/src/linux But that's the problem. I don't have a /usr/src/linux directory on my computer. The closest I found was something like (I'm at work at the moment)

RE: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation

2001-08-21 Per discussione Stefano POGLIANI
It is just the standard 8.0, without Freq nor cooker packages (only the Updated packages) I did not install everything, I followed the normal installation. Now, using RedCarpet, I downloaded and installed everything (I think, something like 25 MB more of software) and I will see. I will let you

[newbie] KDE login

2001-08-21 Per discussione great_scot
As a follow-up to my last message, when I tell KMail to check my mail, it tells me that it can't talk to klauncher. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Post Installation Problem

2001-08-21 Per discussione Paul
It was Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:39:53 -0400 when Stanton, Curt (NCI/IMS) wrote: I installed with the recommended option, because this is the first time I have installed Linux. The installation went fine. I booted up into Mandrake and I would click on something and nothing would happen. I decided to

Re: [newbie] Enciclopedia

2001-08-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
http://www.britannica.com/ Is there a Spanish version of that? If so, you can use the online version (I think it's subscription-based). I remember that Britannica 97 (on CD) was made in ordinary HTML. I don't know if there was a Spanish version, though. On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 00:51, Edelmiro

[newbie] Post Installation Problem

2001-08-21 Per discussione Stanton, Curt (NCI/IMS)
Hello, I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on my machine. It is an Athlon T-bird 900 MHz 128 MB NVIDIA TNT2 32Meg video card K7VZA motherboard, not sure if any more info is needed. I installed with the recommended option, because this is the first time I

Re: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation

2001-08-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
No, it isn't. The Doorman worked perfectly for me. It's not a necessity, it just makes setting up your desktop just a little easier. What's your system like? Are you running stock 8.0, or have you installed Cooker/external packages? I installed mine over Freq3, but Ximian GNOME is designed to

Re: [newbie] compiling my kernel, but no source?

2001-08-21 Per discussione civileme
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 10:07, Matt Greer wrote: I sent this a few days ago and it never showed up. Then some other things I sent showed up two days after. I think the list server might be a bit bogged down. Anyway, I want to recompile my kernel for some things vmware wants (rtc and

Re: [newbie] Which Linux?

2001-08-21 Per discussione d
LURKER here, While the subject is here, I have been having most fun with Linux-Mandrake 7.0 for about a year. Still using this olé version for learning as much as possible. I recently purchased a copy of Debian 2.0 but find it much more difficult, more for the Has been drip under pressure

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 Beta

2001-08-21 Per discussione Sergio Vergara Gando
I sow two kinds od iso's in the ftp site which of theses iso's (release 8.1) are neccesary download? MandrakeFreq-20010810-ext.i586.iso or MandrakeLinux-8.1-Raklet-beta1-CD1.i586.iso sevega Miark wrote: Out of curiosity, is this pronounced rock-LAY or RAK-let? From: Paul [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] compiling my kernel, but no source?

2001-08-21 Per discussione Paul
It was Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:44:36 -0500 when Matt Greer wrote: But that's the problem. I don't have a /usr/src/linux directory on my computer. The closest I found was something like (I'm at work at the moment) /usr/src/RPMS/modules which seemed to contain some sources for modules for my kernel.

Re: [newbie] compiling my kernel, but no source?

2001-08-21 Per discussione Matt Greer
on 8/21/01 6:01 PM, civileme at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2001 11:44, Matt Greer wrote: Should mandrake have made a /usr/src/linux when I installed the OS? if that's the case, I could try reinstalling the OS. Matt Depends on whether you installed kernel-source or

Re: [newbie] Install lockup problem reposted

2001-08-21 Per discussione Tim Barnard
Thanks, I didn't know about that feature. Tim - Original Message - From: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Install lockup problem reposted Tim wrote: Here's my question reposted as plain text. I'll make

[newbie] DNS lookup problem

2001-08-21 Per discussione Lisa Evans
I've had this problem a couple of times in the past week, where nothing on my Mandrake 8.0 system can look up the IP addresses of domains via DNS lookup. Browsers can't resolve hosts, fetchmail gives a 'canonical DNS error', ping can't find hosts, etc. (This is while I am connected to my ISP

Re: [newbie] DNS lookup problem

2001-08-21 Per discussione Paul
It was Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:05:26 +0800 when Lisa Evans wrote: You have to set up your /etc/resolv.conf In it you put: search isp-name name-server ip address1 name-server ip address2 And then you should be fine. Paul I've had this problem a couple of times in the past week, where nothing on

[newbie] Configuring 2nd printer on LPT1?

2001-08-21 Per discussione Kirby Urner
Another question: the setup wizard very helpfully found my HP color injet printer, which is actually on a USB port. The test page was perfect. However, I have an HP laser (4L) on the local LPT1 parallel port, and I can't find a way to get the printer config utility to find/sense this option.

[newbie] chmod

2001-08-21 Per discussione johnix
Hi! I'm trying to learn basic programming and running into trouble. When I try (echo Hello, how are you) I have no problem but some of the commands (like chmod u+x hello) do not work. I get an error that says chmod no such file or directoy yet when I do a file search chmod is there. I'm useing

[newbie] LILO freezes up on bootup

2001-08-21 Per discussione Jeremy Davidson
I'm a new Linux-mandrake user (just installed 8.0), but I'm having trouble getting it to boot up. Whenever I start it up, I get a LI on the screen (as though it started to say LILO or something) where it used to say things like Starting Win The computer just stops right there. I've

Re: [newbie] What's Raklet?

2001-08-21 Per discussione Tim Barnard
Make that French, not German. Tim - Original Message - From: Tim Barnard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] What's Raklet? Well, I know it's an alternate spelling for a kind of German cheese more commonly spelled

RE: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation

2001-08-21 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stefano POGLIANI Subject: Re: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation Stefano; Did you use the installer? I can't seem to get

Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-21 Per discussione Kirby Urner
Of course on a single machine you can mount your windows partitions and interact with its files from Linux. But you're interested in sharing over a network. Linux can emulate an NT box using Samba, a utility in widespread use for this purpose. Here's a fat book on the subject, available on the

Re: [newbie] Connection sharing / IP problem

2001-08-21 Per discussione pieter
Problem is I am using kernel 2.4.2-20mdk (at least according to Software Manager). On 20 Aug 2001 09:50:20 -0500, Paul Cox wrote: On Sunday, Aug 19, 2001, pieter wrote: Another strange thing, is that I can't issue iptables -L, it gives the following error: iptables v1.2.2: can't

Re: [newbie] DNS lookup problem

2001-08-21 Per discussione civileme
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 11:05, Lisa Evans wrote: I've had this problem a couple of times in the past week, where nothing on my Mandrake 8.0 system can look up the IP addresses of domains via DNS lookup. Browsers can't resolve hosts, fetchmail gives a 'canonical DNS error', ping can't find

[newbie] PCMCIA AND NETWORK

2001-08-21 Per discussione Scott Pletcher
Hi All, I just got LM 8.0 up and running on my Dell Ispiron with a NetGear 10/100 pcmcia card. The card is correctly detected by cardmgr (I can see this during the boot sequence), but I cant't seem to get the ethernet device going. My (VERY) limited exprience has me trying things like ifconfig

Re: [newbie] Sharing files with windows 9x

2001-08-21 Per discussione Sevatio
First of all, you've got to set up NetBeui on your Windows box. Right click your Network Neighborhood and select properties. Under the Configuration Tab; [ADD], PROTOCOL, MICROSOFT, NETBEUI. Then check your Identification Tab and verify the three fields. Hit enter and prepare for a few

Re: [newbie] What's Raklet?

2001-08-21 Per discussione Pascal Goguey
From Robert Collins French/English dictionary, raclette: a. scraper (tool) b. Swiss cheese dish. Anyone sees a connection with 8.1? Raklet has apparently as much relation with 8.1 as Traktopel with 8.0 or Rhapsody with MacOS. I prefer Rhapsody (as a name, I mean), and it would be great

Re: [newbie] Re: No Taskbar, minimized programs gone

2001-08-21 Per discussione Peter Rymshaw
Got mine back. Don't know if this is the only or best solution, but apparently what I had before and what disappeared was an external taskbar, which is another bar sitting above the panel. I right clicked on the panel / add / external taskbar and it's back. My open programs show there. ---

Re: [newbie] What's Raklet?

2001-08-21 Per discussione A V Flinsch
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 20:13, Paul-H. Gagnon wrote: From Robert Collins French/English dictionary, raclette: a. scraper (tool) b. Swiss cheese dish. Anyone sees a connection with 8.1? Perhaps it's an all gooey install -- Alex Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft, recently referred to

Re: [newbie] Netscape install

2001-08-21 Per discussione Peter Rymshaw
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 August 2001 15:39, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Twice (deleating previous download before proceeding with the second download), I have downloaded and gone through the install process for Netscape 6.1, but when I'm through, the install has

Re: [newbie] Netscape install

2001-08-21 Per discussione steve
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:07:46PM -0700, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Apparently the installation did not complete, because there is no esecutable file by any similar name anywhere (although the existing Netscape is there twice, as Netscpe and as Netscape-Communicator. But regarding Mozilla,

[newbie] rpm problem??

2001-08-21 Per discussione Kevin Fonner
I decided since I wanted to learn more about what was going on undernieth the system that it would be fun to upgrade just the packets I want to on corporate server. Any ways I keep getting a wierd error message from rpm command. only packages with major numbers =3 are supported by this

Re: [newbie] staring samba at boot time.

2001-08-21 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
In the lower version of Mandrake I manage to start samba at boot time. But now in version 8.0 I'm confused, I can't seem to find the inetd.conf which is needed to start samba at boot time. If you are talking about samba, then you'd start it by it's own startup script (as it has been since

Re: [newbie] rpm problem??

2001-08-21 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
At 09:18 PM 08/21/2001 -0400, Kevin Fonner wrote: I decided since I wanted to learn more about what was going on undernieth the system that it would be fun to upgrade just the packets I want to on corporate server. Any ways I keep getting a wierd error message from rpm command. only packages

[newbie] Qmail Log

2001-08-21 Per discussione SK
Hi! I have coonfigure Qmail in my Linux server. Where can I see the log files ? In sendmail I can use the command tail -f /var/log/maillog so ..that I know , that the message has been deliver to user server. How about Qmail ? Best Regards, SKLIM Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Post Installation Problem

2001-08-21 Per discussione Charalampos Tsimenidis
Login as root and run Xconfigurator at the bash prompt. At the end it will ask you if you want a graphical login. From: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],Stanton, Curt (NCI/IMS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Post Installation

Re: [newbie] Qmail Log

2001-08-21 Per discussione Kevin Fonner
I was thinking of setting up a qmail mail server. Did you set it up on Mandrake? If so I noticed they recommend to use tcpserver instead of xinetd with qmail? Was this difficult to switch? Thanks, Kevin SK wrote: Hi! I have coonfigure Qmail in my Linux server. Where can I see the log

RE: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-21 Per discussione Kirby Urner
At 12:34 PM 8/21/2001 -0700, you wrote: Kirby, if you are using KDE desktop or Gnome click on the K or footprint (start button) and then look up for multimedia then sound and you will see several selections pick one that looks like a speaker and you will find sound volume there or the aux ,I

[newbie] chmod

2001-08-21 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

[newbie] Writing from Linux to Win-NTFS

2001-08-21 Per discussione Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I recently tried to copy a directory from LM 8.0 to /mnt/windows. Unfortunately, my Windows (on my dual-boot) uses the NTFS file system and, worse, I forgot this fact when I decided to copy the directory. Konqueror proceeded to copy them. But when I went to /mnt/windows, the

Re: [newbie] What's Raklet?

2001-08-21 Per discussione Paul-H. Gagnon
From Robert Collins French/English dictionary, raclette: a. scraper (tool) b. Swiss cheese dish. Anyone sees a connection with 8.1? Paul At 14:58 21/08/2001 -0700, you wrote: Make that French, not German. Tim - Original Message - From: Tim Barnard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Re: No Taskbar, minimized programs gone

2001-08-21 Per discussione Peter Rymshaw
This has got to be related. When I open my KDE window, the panel is empty until I pass the curser across it and then things appear as if I had painted them on with the sweep. --- Peter Rymshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of a sudden I have no Taskbar. Used to be that when I minimized a

Re: [newbie] DNS lookup problem

2001-08-21 Per discussione Lisa Evans
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:28, you wrote: Actually you probably need to install a different ISP. I have seen this before. Microsoft supplies a neato free add-on to its NT servers for ISP that prevents IP spoofing. It queries port 139 periodically on the connected machines and when it doesn't

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-21 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 19:20, you wrote: At 12:34 PM 8/21/2001 -0700, you wrote: Kirby, if you are using KDE desktop or Gnome click on the K or footprint (start button) and then look up for multimedia then sound and you will see several selections pick one that looks like a speaker and

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 Beta

2001-08-21 Per discussione Richie de Almeida
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 04:58, Miark wrote: Out of curiosity, is this pronounced rock-LAY or RAK-let? From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raklet is the new 8.1 beta. Actually it's pronounced Smith... All the letters are silent. Richie =}

Re: [newbie] Enciclopedia

2001-08-21 Per discussione Richie de Almeida
I don't know of any Linux-based encyclopediae (if there was one, I suspect the C and L sections would be very well developed, but the rest would just be based on Farside comic strips... but I digress) But what you may like to try is your existing Windows apps in WINE, the Windows-emulator for

[newbie] burning mandrake for mac

2001-08-21 Per discussione rand
k, not being slow, i can't figure out how to burn the mandrake ppc images. HLP :)_ i have burned the pc ones, installed and configured it, but don't seem to be able to get the mac ones burned properly. or i'm not doing somethign right after that. what is the next step? i can't boot from

Re: [newbie] LILO freezes up on bootup

2001-08-21 Per discussione Geof Steichen
Mkd 8.0 box says MINIMUM install requirements are: 32MB RAM (text) install or 64MB for graphical 500MB free hard drive space withe 800MB recommended It looks like you may have tried to put Linux on your first hard drive which does not contain enough space. You will have to put part of the

Re: [newbie] Re: No Taskbar, minimized programs gone

2001-08-21 Per discussione Charles A. Punch
Peter Rymshaw wrote: Got mine back. Don't know if this is the only or best solution, but apparently what I had before and what disappeared was an external taskbar, which is another bar sitting above the panel. I right clicked on the panel / add / external taskbar and it's back. My open

Re: [newbie] KDE login

2001-08-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 03:15, johndickson wrote: P.S. After typing the foregoing, I tried to use KMail (in Gnome) to check my mail. An error came up telling me that it can't talk to klauncher. I don't know about the rest of your problem, but I think I may be able to help on this one. Load the

Re: [newbie] chmod

2001-08-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try this: $ which chmod /bin/chmod If you get an error like no chmod in ..., then type: $ echo $PATH You should see '/bin' in there somewhere (probably right at the beginning). If not, go to your ~/.bashrc and edit your path to include /bin. On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:53, [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-21 Per discussione Geof Steichen
Assuming you have the cdrom drive properly connected to the soundcard, use the Sound Mixer (described below) and raise the Pcm line to the max (raise all the lines on the sound mixer). ***88 On Tuesday 21 August 2001

Re: [newbie] PPC version

2001-08-21 Per discussione Matt Greer
--- Mike Borrelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I have an Apple, and would *love* to run Mandrake on it, but I don't have access to a CD burner at the moment. As far as I know there is no Mandrake for the power PC. Linuxppc and all the other ppc distros are made by different

Re: [newbie] PPC version

2001-08-21 Per discussione Robin Regennitter
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 08:25 pm, you wrote: There is a PPC version of Mandrake. It's a Release Candidate of 8.0. Check out thier website at www.linux-mandrake.com. --- Mike Borrelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I have an Apple, and would *love* to run Mandrake on it,

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-21 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 23:34, you wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2001 08:21 pm, Dennis Myers escribió: Thanks Dennis, helpful. Getting loud sounds from Midi, system sounds (e.g. ahem sound). But cdplayer and grip wierdly don't play through my sound card at all. I have to plug

[newbie] mozilla config

2001-08-21 Per discussione Bill Winegarden
Hi, Just d/l'd and installed Mozilla 0.9.3 in my user directory. Is there any way I can set a configuration so that the program does not start with the sidebar open. I find that I don't use it that often and it is a pain to have to close it every time I open a browser. Thanks, Bill W.

[newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!

2001-08-21 Per discussione h3rb
Is there a way to mount a drive on another linux machine on my network? I have 4 other linux servers on my internal network. And having to ssh or ftp files back and forth is becoming an annoyance. Is there a way I can mount the drives from the other machines? Kinda like you would mount a

Re: [newbie] mozilla config

2001-08-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 07:41 pm, Bill Winegarden escribió: Just d/l'd and installed Mozilla 0.9.3 in my user directory. Is there any way I can set a configuration so that the program does not start with the sidebar open. I find that I don't use it that often and it is a pain to have

Re: [newbie] PPC version

2001-08-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 10:25 pm, Matt Greer escribió: --- Mike Borrelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Apple, and would *love* to run Mandrake on it, but I don't have access to a CD burner at the moment. As far as I know there is no Mandrake for the power PC. Sure there is

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-21 Per discussione Paul
It was Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:59:28 -0700 when Kirby Urner wrote: I have two CDs on ide1. Set cdplayer to look at /mnt/cdrom2. When I play a music cd, the volume is incredibly faint. HardDrake found the ISA Ensoniq and played the 8-bit sound test (dunno about getting MIDI up yet -- works in

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-21 Per discussione s
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2001 23:34, you wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2001 08:21 pm, Dennis Myers escribió: Thanks Dennis, helpful. Getting loud sounds from Midi, system sounds (e.g. ahem sound). But cdplayer and grip wierdly don't play

Re: [newbie] mozilla config

2001-08-21 Per discussione steve
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:41:05PM -0400, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Just d/l'd and installed Mozilla 0.9.3 in my user directory. Is there any way I can set a configuration so that the program does not start with the sidebar open. I find that I don't use it that often and it is a pain

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 Beta

2001-08-21 Per discussione s
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 09:09 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2001 04:58, Miark wrote: Out of curiosity, is this pronounced rock-LAY or RAK-let? From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raklet is the new 8.1 beta. Actually it's pronounced Smith... All the letters are silent. Richie

Re: [newbie] PPC version

2001-08-21 Per discussione etharp
wrong, for real with all the stuff that makes ManDrake great. find it at linux-mandrake.com On Tuesday 21 August 2001 23:25, Matt Greer wrote: --- Mike Borrelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I have an Apple, and would *love* to run Mandrake on it, but I don't have access to

Re: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation

2001-08-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:19, Charles A Edwards wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Stefano POGLIANI Subject: Re: [newbie] Ximian-Gnome Installation

RE: [newbie] Mounting Drives on other machines?!

2001-08-21 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
If you are doing this between Linux machines, then NFS is the way to go. You can mount the other machine's drives (or directories) either at boot, in a script or manually. Go into Linuxconf's NFS setup and EXPORT the diretory structure you want to share. Start the NFS service after restarting

Re: [newbie] CD player, volume very faint

2001-08-21 Per discussione Kirby Urner
At 10:41 PM 8/21/2001 -0400, Dennis wrote: That sounds (no pun intended) like the audio cable from the CDROM to the sound card is not plugged in. An extremely logical conclusion to draw and I thought it might be so, as I've installed a new floppy drive recently. Not so though, as I'm

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 update program seems not to work

2001-08-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 05:41 pm, WCBaker escribió: I have found the update program in Mandrake 8.0. However, when I double click on it nothing happens. Can someone let me know how to update Mandrake 8.0? Should I be using a console command with parameters, or something like that?

Re: [newbie] KDE login

2001-08-21 Per discussione great_scot
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 03:15, johndickson wrote: P.S. After typing the foregoing, I tried to use KMail (in Gnome) to check my mail. An error came up telling me that it can't talk to klauncher. I don't know about the rest of your problem, but I think I may be