Salve non sono riuscito ad installare Linux Mandrake 8.1 perche' il mio
(vecchissimo ) monitor non supporta la risoluzione dell' installazione
con conseguente sfarfallio che non fa capire nulla.
Esiste un modo per far partire l' installazione alla risoluzione
640*480 senza troppi milioni
Ringrazio la ML (sandro) per la risposta
(come sotto)al quesito in oggetto.
Scusate se non sono molto tempestivo nel seguire le
risposte, ma ho il PC solo in ufficio e qui vogliono che lavori (che pretese
!!)
Purtroppo MDK 8.2 non riconosce il portatile,
come si può vedere dagli
Ho installato Linux mandrake 8.2 con kernel 2.4.18-6 e KDE 2.2.2 ed utilizzo
una stampante Epson Stilus color 760 collegata e funzionante con altro
sistema operativo.
Non mi riesce di stampare con Linux.
Ho controllato in Mandrake control center che ha risposto alla ricerca
sto leggendo i
Alle 21:07, lunedì 16 settembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] Gli
scherzi dei CDrom, paolo brusasco hai scritto:
non ti arrabbiare con la lista. ognuno fa il suo meglio.
Opsss... non volevo dare l'idea di essere arrabbiata, con nessuno. chi mi sente spesso
(in privato) lo
Angus Auld wrote:
Well, after installing literally hundreds of megs of software on my system, I'm still
not getting anywhere trying to rebuild my fluxbox-0.1.12-1mdk.src.rpm.
I am getting more lines of text scrolling in my terminal, but the final output is
still the samerpm build errors.
Hi all,
I cannot install OpenOffice1.0. Could possibly teach me how to install OpenOffice on
my computer step by step pelase? I am using Mdk 8.2 and Gnome. I know that this is a
very stupid question, but I am a beginner for Linux. Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Oyaji
Hi,
Here's a link to a page that has open office in rpm format! It works like
a champ and is much easier to install. The links will install to the mandrake
menus under "office." Download the file (you'll need to "save target as"
from netscape) then just go to the console as root and do:
rpm
Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Sunday 22 September 2002 05:17 pm, you wrote:
For reasons I need not go into, I transfer *.JPG files across from
Windblows to Mandrake and work on them in gimp,and
when I'm finished I have a montage of prints I wish to assemble
as a composite.
I've hit a snag.
Printer USB Z53
USB Hub detects it,
kde Printing manager has printer enabled, under CUPS,
Colour cartridge fairly new, black cartridge getting low.
When I send print job to printer , usual print selection window, Ok'd ,
slider bar ,everything looks good.
But nothing appears in Print job
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3353
It can be got from the various mirrors; I'm downloading mine from the
fast and reliable UK academic network
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586
kindly paid for by the
Confirmation: This is the real deal. I haven't burned them yet, but
here's the information from eroaster:
Volume ID: MandrakeLinux9.0-inst-1
Volume ID: MandrakeLinux9.0-inst-2
Volume ID: MandrakeLinux9.0-i18n-doc
I'm still a bit sceptical whether the distro is ready for prime-time
yet, but
I have had problems like the original poster. I solved them by doing a quick
'ps -A' and looking for a process named 'parallel' or something similar, I
can't remember at this time. Then a quick 'killall -9 (process name)' does
the trick
HTH,
tim
It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's,
Hi Erik
I think I originally set up the printer configurations (I have four, with
settings for specific purposes) from Mandrake Control Center. Using the CUPS
printer management tool I find that they are using Foomatic + hpijs. The
problem is that my default setup is two-sided, two up,
--
De: rhp.mac [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: Re: [newbie] Re: monitor flickering problem
Fecha: lun., 23 sept 2002 19:04
Erik,
Which video card did apple put in your iMac? My partner's iMac has an
Nvidia card, so at install, he used video=riva (or whatever it
Good Morning,
I have found this same locking also happens in Star Office - only to a
lesser degree. If I spell check a document (regardless of whether it is
on a local machine or not, or on a Linux or Win2K server) if I add words
to the dictionary then it locks up and unless I saved the file
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Franklin
Sent: 24 September 2002 09:17
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise)
Confirmation: This is the real deal. I haven't burned them yet,
Hi femme,
I just sent a Palladium/TCPA reminder to most of my friends. It seems there
are two dominant opinions among windows users, that I know:
1) sombody will write a crack
2) fuck them, that's horrible - but I am helpless.
there is no
3) I have had enough of this shit, I quit !!
They
On Monday 23 Sep 2002 10:40 pm, you wrote:
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:00, iggy wrote:
I've been reading the documentation for mandrake 9.0 rc2 and came across
this little gem of a linkat
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . I thought I'd
share it with everyone as I can
Hello all,
in preparing for MD 9.0, I am looking for any howto's, faq's or anything
that lists all the steps needed for compiling a kernel specifically for
Mandrake on the web (or blush is the howto already on my system?)
I have found some links, but it seems each one contains different
Damian G wrote:
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:43:56 -0600
Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would I be correct if I guessed that when
you _print_ the page, it comes out correct?
Miark
wouldn't know, miark, i never even tried.
however, i doubt it, i found only minutes later
that the
I have a problem in mozilla that does not occur in galeon -
When visiting a site like amazon.co.uk the tabs and buttons do not display,
so it is impossible to navigate in mozilla. However, launching galeon brings
up everything, and I have no problems at all. I'm using mozilla 1.o with
java
Yes, upgrade to 1.1. there is quite a bit of funkiness with 1.0 that is
fixed with the new one, including that privacy leak problem.
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 07:01, Anne Wilson wrote:
I have a problem in mozilla that does not occur in galeon -
When visiting a site like amazon.co.uk the tabs
Great. I've been told to upgrade so many of my packages now that I think I
need to hibernate for a week to catch up :-)
Anne
On Tuesday 24 Sep 2002 12:17 pm, you wrote:
Yes, upgrade to 1.1. there is quite a bit of funkiness with 1.0 that is
fixed with the new one, including that privacy
Angus Auld wrote:
Well, after installing literally hundreds of megs of software on my system, I'm
still not getting anywhere trying to rebuild my fluxbox-0.1.12-1mdk.src.rpm.
I am getting more lines of text scrolling in my terminal, but the final output is
still the samerpm
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 01:06, FemmeFatale wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27232.html
One of these days when I Can completely stop using windows I will enjoy it
very much.
Being a non-games-player I stopped a year ago; there was no need to
keep a partition to do things. The
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 24 Sep 2002 9:41 am, you wrote:
Printer USB Z53
USB Hub detects it,
kde Printing manager has printer enabled, under CUPS,
Colour cartridge fairly new, black cartridge getting low.
When I send print job to printer , usual print selection window, Ok'd ,
slider
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:00, iggy wrote:
I've been reading the documentation for mandrake 9.0 rc2 and came across this
little gem of a linkat http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html .
I thought I'd share it with everyone as I can state, definatele, I've been
guilty
I believe the problem is that the minus sign (-) on the number pad can
be taken as a minus or a dash by OO. Hence the (?). If you use the dash
(-) on the regular keyboard you should not have that trouble. It works
for me.
Gary
Damian G wrote:
wouldn't know, miark, i never even tried.
On Sunday September 22 2002 01:48 am, Roland Hughes wrote:
The reason for the mem=nopentium in the lilo is that when the
kernal was developed there are memory commands/coding that refer to
pentium only commands. If you are running a Athlon/duron which do not
have these commands they cause
Todd,
I checked out Alastair's "UK" FTP link and the FTP site directory lists the ISO's as rc3's. I haven't downloaded them as yet. Are you saying that they came down that way, but eroaster recognized the contents of each ISO as being "the real thing"?
Alastair,
I tried the PCLinux On-line
El lun, 23-09-2002 a las 15:01, s escribió:
delete the files in /var/spool/cups /var/spool/cups/tmp then
service cups restart.
-s
That, plus rebooting the printer (not the computer) finally took care of
it. Thank you!
--
Warren Post
Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras
This is a hardware problem, not a Linux problem. But perhaps someone has
faced this problem before.
I've amazed my friends by setting up a Linux-firewall-on-a-floppy in our
city hall on an ancient 486 that was retired ages ago. But when I try to
run it headless, it won't boot unless I plug a
Warren,
If your 80486 CMOS BIOS is that old, where it doesn't offer you the opportunity to
ignore the a missing keyboard, then that's the way it is. I suppose someone may have
devised a null plug to compensate. Late-model 486 boards came out with this capability
and that's been the case with
- Original Message -
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:01:29 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] galeon and mozilla
I have a problem in mozilla that does not occur in galeon -
When visiting a site like amazon.co.uk the tabs and buttons do
On Tuesday 24 Sep 2002 3:40 pm, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:01:29 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] galeon and mozilla
I have a problem in mozilla that does not occur in galeon -
When visiting a site
On Tuesday September 24 2002 06:54 am, Steve Jeppesen wrote:
Hello all,
in preparing for MD 9.0, I am looking for any howto's, faq's or
anything that lists all the steps needed for compiling a kernel
specifically for Mandrake on the web (or blush is the howto already
on my system?)
Good
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote,
Yes. By default, it changes all filenames to lower case. So
# chcase *
will probably do what you want.
Many thanks Sridhar,
Can I run my results past you again.
I copied the perl text to a text file called chcase and inserted it
in
Follow these steps:
1. Enter to setup
2. Disable APM in power management
3. Save and Exit
4. When it appears the indicator boot: write linux text and press Enter
5. :)
Greetings !!!
gerCO
-Mensaje original-
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Cory
Enviado el:
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 07:21 am, Warren Post scribbled something about:
This is a hardware problem, not a Linux problem. But perhaps someone has
faced this problem before.
I've amazed my friends by setting up a Linux-firewall-on-a-floppy in our
city hall on an ancient 486 that was
Warren,
Check in the Bios Setup if it's set to stop on errors or only keyboard errors.
Use F1 to continue.
HTHs,
Richard.
On 24 Sep 2002 08:21:02 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a hardware problem, not a Linux problem. But perhaps someone
has faced this problem before.
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:11, Technoslick wrote:
I tried the PCLinux On-line link (even logged in as a member) and it came back with
an error message that stated that the download area doesn't work. Can you tell me
where else you found the real things at?
I have looked around some mirror
Yeah, I have just downloaded the 2/3 isos, but I have bad news for those
using an old CD writer like me (HP 8100i): The isos are too big for the
writers. I have used 700MB CD's, but have never been able to burn over the
690MB's. The first 2 images contain data that is around the 693 and 699
OT personal opinions alert! :-)
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 5:16 am, Patrik Marxer wrote:
Hi femme,
I just sent a Palladium/TCPA reminder to most of my friends. It seems
there are two dominant opinions among windows users, that I know:
1) sombody will write a crack
2) fuck them, that's
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:19:13 +0200 (CEST)
Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, I have just downloaded the 2/3 isos, but I have bad news for those
using an old CD writer like me (HP 8100i): The isos are too big for the
writers. I have used 700MB CD's, but have never been able to burn
I have an HP8100+ (8100i) writer . I have not d/l or tried to burn
these ISOs yet, so I don't have results to compare.
After reading your post, I checked the HP website and found that the
'claim' to support 80 min (700MB) CDs, but add the disclaimer that they
recommend using HP 80 min CDs.
Anybody have any of the printed Mandrake User Guides or Reference Manuals
they want to sell? I'm looking for versions 7.2, 8.1, and 8.2 - In English
or Spanish.
Thanx,
Mike S.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Damian G wrote:
i think you can do it by keeping the bootable iso, and when
using mkisofs to make the new, smaller one, you can
tell it to copy boot sectors from the original image.
this is just the theory, read man mkisofs, you'll find
it quick ( commands are listed
I got lucky,,, my position has some perks, and I use all of them to proclaim
the coolness of linux..
My boss knows I am a nut for it, and HE asked me if I could replace all
their windows/office machines, with linux variants..
So I am starting with one machine, see if I can make it as useful,
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:49:09AM +0500, Angus Auld wrote:
I wonder if someone would tell me how to get the output of my terminal to a file? I
tried adding {filename}.txt after the rpm --rebuild {filename}.src.rpm command,
but it doesn't seem to transfer all of the output to the file.
In mozilla when I tried to open a page, I get
This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can
only be viewed with appropriate Plug-in
I think it is the java virtual machine machine. But I don't know where to
get in RPM format. I have the CDs but I don't know what the
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Sunday September 22 2002 05:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 8:56 pm, you wrote:
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:46:37 -0500
Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
lilo append mem=nopentium
Charles, could you tell me more
C. van Roest wrote:
After installation and configuration of pure-ftpd the problem is solved...
thanks!
Corstian
Hey! good news. glad I could help. I too use Pure-ftp and I really like
this ftp server.
Mark
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Norman Zhang wrote:
In mozilla when I tried to open a page, I get
This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can
only be viewed with appropriate Plug-in
I think it is the java virtual machine machine. But I don't know where to
get in RPM
: In mozilla when I tried to open a page, I get
:
: This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can
: only be viewed with appropriate Plug-in
I found the plugin and downloaded from Sun. May I ask how do I create a
symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in
Jason Guidry wrote:
On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 10:31, Alastair Scott wrote:
On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 13:24, Ralph Slooten wrote:
Sorry for the off toppic e-mail, but the Demo of the Unreal Tournament 2003
has been released, including a Linux version (100MB's)! Works great here =)
oh really?
Sorry Charlie! Meant to send my last reply to Franki!
My bad!
lanman
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charlie M.
Sent: September 24, 2002 4:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too,
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 03:20 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
i'm really looking forward to 9.0
don't get too wound up about 9.0 just yet cause supermount is a
little dodgy where the CDROM is concerned. In order to install
Unreal Tournament on RC3 I had to disable supermount on the CDROM
and
Charlie; I'll be surprised if you actually run into major problems with
the boss. Soon after I started my government job as a network
administrator, I had the Dubious pleasure of telling my boss that our
NT4.0 servers were without licenses, except for the original 5 that
comes with each CD. To
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 3:21 pm, Dan LaBine wrote:
Sorry Charlie! Meant to send my last reply to Franki!
My bad!
lanman
big snip
No harm no foul. Or is that fowl? :-)
--
Charlie
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
I've looked all over and I haven't found anything that really catches my eye
or has a catchy slogan or phrase. With all of the activity creating themes
and everything else to personalize linux the way we want, I thought it would
be easy to find tshirts that show my love for linux when
Derek Jennings wrote:
Ranger has prepared some excellent updated RPMs for Samba which you can find
here http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/ follow the
instructions for urpmi access and you can install them using Mandrake
Software Manager
BTW: What was wrong with the
On Tuesday September 24 2002 09:57 am, Marcia wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
snip spare y'all from repeats ;)
Dear All,
I have been following this thread since the mem=nopentium did not
completely solve my problem afterall. I went to the ftp site with
the fix and downloaded it. Actually I
et:
Interesting question. I don't know the answer with Linux. I have never tried using
that old a 486 in that manner: disconnecting the keyboard after boot-up, then trying
to access a Linux operating system on connecting it up again. Last time I did anything
like that was in the days of
Dear Erik and Anne,
Thanks for helping with this. I configured my printer with cups at the
beginning then went to the www webmin admin to setup with one as lp
using Foomatic + hpijs, and the other xpp using cups+Gimp-printv4.2.0.
This setup always worked fine for me in earlier distributions
I am going to assume that you know next to nothing about Linux. The
following steps, while simple individually, are numerous. They will,
however, make your life easier in the long run.
Step 1 - Confirm location of Netscape 7.0
1 - Click Kmenu, then Home Directory.
2 - Browse to:
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 20:06, FemmeFatale wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27232.html
One of these days when I Can completely stop using windows I will enjoy it
very much.
OTOH, this affects Linux too apparently so... what to do ?
*sigh* I need an OS that won't fuck
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 05:46 pm, you wrote:
I've looked all over and I haven't found anything that really catches my
eye or has a catchy slogan or phrase. With all of the activity creating
themes and everything else to personalize linux the way we want, I thought
it would be easy
I'm trying to do the same thing in my company. I'll never be able to
totally convert over to Linux because of the closed-source software we have
to run is only available for Windows. But, I've installed a Linux machine
as a router (up 83 days and counting). This week, I'm going to convert our
On Tuesday September 24 2002 10:53 am, Marcia wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
Dear Tom Charles,
I just sent a post that should show up mentioning that I downloaded
the patch. It is a text file and I do not know what to do with it
being the newbie that I am.
I already replied to that post,
Uh, I think it's the first one, but what the hell, either one works for
me!
Lanman
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 17:42, Charlie M. wrote:
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 3:21 pm, Dan LaBine wrote:
Sorry Charlie! Meant to send my last reply to Franki!
My bad!
lanman
big snip
No harm no
Here's a thought. Perhaps we should start billing Microsoft for the
increase in Bandwidth consumption that these quiet little reports will
generate? After all, a large network in a corporate office will
certainly increase their bandwidth consumption if the office PC's are
constantly sending
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 12:19 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote:
Yeah, I have just downloaded the 2/3 isos, but I have bad news for those
using an old CD writer like me (HP 8100i): The isos are too big for the
writers. I have used 700MB CD's, but have never been able to burn over the
690MB's. The
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 03:40 pm, s wrote:
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 03:20 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
i'm really looking forward to 9.0
don't get too wound up about 9.0 just yet cause supermount is a
little dodgy where the CDROM is concerned. In order to install
Unreal Tournament
Its working for me, I just downloaded the first CD from the listed FTP
site..
will burn it later...
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers
Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2002 7:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0
We SHOULD all complain to AMD, most of the open source people love and
support AMD.
It would be very sad if they turned their back on us now...
If they do, then I might be tempted to swap to a mac platform.
The funny thing is that M$ and the recording/movie companies think that just
stamping
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 05:22 pm, Chris Edwards wrote:
I am going to assume that you know next to nothing about Linux. The
following steps, while simple individually, are numerous. They
will, however, make your life easier in the long run.
Shoot that's an aweful lot of clicking. I right
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 4:27 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
snip
I know it won't do anything except make me feel better. However this is a copy
of an e-mail I sent to the AMD hardware support address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
earlier today with the subject line:
AMD, Microsoft, Palladium, and the
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 06:24 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
don't get too wound up about 9.0 just yet cause supermount is a
little dodgy where the CDROM is concerned. In order to install
Unreal Tournament on RC3 I had to disable supermount on the
yeah, me too.
Funny, I don't do any
On Friday 20 September 2002 08:09 pm, you wrote:
Many people suggested a FAT32 common area to read/write files between
Linux and WindowsXP but I can't do that here. The Windows disk that came
with my machine will only install using NTFS and it takes the entire 40g
hard drive for itself
I have a fairly new install of Mandrake 8.2. If (when) I decide to upgrade to
9.0 what should I or can I save? Is it easier to start from scratch or can I
save what is in my /home directory? I'm just not sure if eveything in /home
would be compatible with whatever would be installed during an
OK I'm stumped. I've been having a grand time playing with Mandrake 8.2 and
I've got many things configured to my liking. Then I did this
Right click on panel
Add
Applet
Runaway Process Catcher
I now have a smiley on my panel that frowns from time to time. How do I get
rid of him? I can't
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:01:47 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently installed Gqview, which allows browsing of my photo
directories. This week I decided to try my elderly Camedia C1000L with
Gphoto - it uses a serial connection, you can guess how old it is. No
problem -
My mistake, but it still made my system more stable.
Roly
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:01:16 -0500
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday September 22 2002 01:48 am, Roland Hughes wrote:
The reason for the mem=nopentium in the lilo is that when the
kernal was developed there are memory
Last word on the subject:
Mozilla.org announced the release of their Phoenix browser today for Windoze
and Linux. It's supposed to be a real speed demon. I gave it a whirl on
Windoze 2K today (haven't tried LM8.2 yet). My impression is that it was
comparable in speed to Opera 6.05 (win32)
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:53:25 +0100
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Todd Slater wrote:
John Richard Smith saith:
For reasons I need not go into, I transfer *.JPG files across from
Windblows to Mandrake and work on them in gimp,and
when I'm finished I have a montage
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 07:55 pm, Scott Felton wrote:
Thanks for that info Carroll. It didn't look like the Ranish Partition
Manager was going to work for me on NTFS but I did start searching and
found a shareware product (BootitNG) that *did* let me resize my WinXP NTFS
volume, add a
Ok, this seems good news. But the thing is this. I have looked at the man
page already, but I don't understand much of it :-( There are some *.img
files in the images directory, but I presume these are for floppies. Then
there are some files in isolinux, but how and what I would not know.
Well, I think this is the real thing...
I grabbed the first ISO tonight.. (via adsl) and just finished burning it...
I haven't installed it yet, but I booted one system with the CD. to see what
the install screens had to say..
The date on the install screen was Sept 22. (if I remember
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:49:09AM +0500, Angus Auld wrote:
I wonder if someone would tell me how to get the output of my terminal to a file?
I tried adding {filename}.txt after the rpm --rebuild {filename}.src.rpm
command, but it doesn't seem to transfer all of the output to the
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:45:15 -0400 Scott Felton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
OK I'm stumped. I've been having a grand time playing with Mandrake
8.2 and I've got many things configured to my liking. Then I did
this
Right click on panel
Add
Applet
Runaway Process Catcher
I now have a
I prefer to find everything on the entire install that I want to keep,
including home, any config stuff and whatever else.. and put the lot in its
own directory... (say /backup)
Then tar that directory up...:
tar -zcvvf backup.tar.gz /backup
and make yourself a nice compressed tar of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there!
I am using Mandrake Linux on my computer and I installed Netscape 7.0, but there is
no icon anywhere on menu and desktop. What is happening on my computer and how can I
have an icon for Netscape 7.0? I really would like to use Netscape 7.0 on my
you'll need to create a simlink to /usr/local/bin/netscape. If I were you,
I'd try KDE, it's much more user-friendly than gnome, esp for first-time
users. In KDE, just right-click on the desktop, create new, and choose link
to application. Browse to /usr/local/bin/ and select "netscape" You
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:18:08 +0100, John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote,
Yes. By default, it changes all filenames to lower case. So
# chcase *
will probably do what you want.
Many thanks Sridhar,
Can I run my results
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 08:04 pm, Scott Felton wrote:
I have a fairly new install of Mandrake 8.2. If (when) I decide to upgrade
to 9.0 what should I or can I save? Is it easier to start from scratch or
can I save what is in my /home directory? I'm just not sure if eveything in
/home
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:23:06AM +0500, Angus Auld wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:49:09AM +0500, Angus Auld wrote:
I wonder if someone would tell me how to get the output of my terminal to a
file? I tried adding {filename}.txt after the rpm --rebuild {filename}.src.rpm
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 06:11 pm, you wrote:
et:
Interesting question. I don't know the answer with Linux. I have never
tried using that old a 486 in that manner: disconnecting the keyboard after
boot-up, then trying to access a Linux operating system on connecting it up
again. Last
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 09:37 pm, you wrote:
I prefer to find everything on the entire install that I want to keep,
including home, any config stuff and whatever else.. and put the lot in its
own directory... (say /backup)
Then tar that directory up...:
tar -zcvvf backup.tar.gz
hello,
i followed the instructions in the user's guide and was not able to install
my printer. when i put in my cd1 to install the packages, i get numerous
'error in fetching such and such file. i pressed skip because i couldn't
think of anything else to do. tried auto-detection, manual, and
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 09:19 pm, you wrote:
I now have a smiley on my panel that frowns from time to time. How do
I get rid of him? I can't find anything in the help files or menus to
make him go away. TIA...
Keep left or right? clicking on the left side of the little panel the
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