Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Per discussione András Keszei
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:11, Deep Thinker wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:57:38 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. Also, most laptop hard drives offer a feature of setting a password on the drive itself. I

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-05 Per discussione András Keszei
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 12:28, Aron Smith wrote: I have an old Compaq Armada here with no CD-ROM by removing the HDD (6Gb) and u7sing an adapter I was able to install ? Mdk 10.1 on the drive. After reinstalling the drive I find that I have a problem Kernel panic : No init found Try passingi

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-05 Per discussione András Keszei
Thanks gang am giving up on using Mandrake on that POS will try Damn Small Linux (Hey it only takes 12 floppys) Sort of hijacking here, but does anyone know if is it possible in any way to install mandrake on a laptop that has no CD or floppy drive. I have a machine that's like this, and it

Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word

2004-12-13 Per discussione András Keszei
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 08:20, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo wrote: On my PC I have Windows 98. In practically all cases, when you attach a file in an e-mail, tipically a curriculum vitae, they absolutely want it in .doc format. I've never had the problem of the version though: I've always sent

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login

2004-12-13 Per discussione András Keszei
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 13:04, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to login at the login window was my account. I don't know how can I login as root ? In fact, the

Re: [newbie] Scientific Citation Manager software?

2004-11-16 Per discussione András Keszei
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:22, John linux-user wrote: I am wondering if there is a Scientific Citation Manager software, like EndNote, Reference Manager, for Linux. Thanks. John G'day John, check these out: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ http://bibkeeper.sourceforge.net/

Re: [newbie] Backup of kontact (KMAIL) email

2004-09-07 Per discussione András Keszei
Strange things can happen. I had no problems with copying mail to my backup partition and reinstalling MDK. I have even manually copied files from KMail to Evolution (maildir format) with no problems at all. Nevertheless it's a good advice. I checked again, the fact that you were able to

Re: [newbie] Backup of kontact (KMAIL) email

2004-09-06 Per discussione András Keszei
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 00:32, Thereidos wrote: W licie z pon, 06-09-2004, godz. 16:37, Marc Hultquist pisze: Does anyone know how to backup mail when using kontact as your general purpose mail client, I can see a import option, but as far as exporting I can't see anything, and I have mail

Re: [newbie] sound and SiS7012

2004-09-02 Per discussione András Keszei
Hi Maryse, I have a laptop from AGN that's really a Clevo something, and it has a SiS7012 chipset. I'm using the snd-intel8x0 module, and I think that you have to enable ACPI to get sound to work. (You can do this when configuring lilo (Mandrake Control Center - Boot - Boot Loader) Now I haven't

Re: [newbie] Postcard

2004-09-01 Per discussione András Keszei
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 14:46, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 31 August 2004 2:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best wishes, your friend. Ok, so, fess up, who clicked the .pif? Time for the truth to be told, and time to run Mdk full time, the easy way is to login in a root. go to

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Per discussione András Keszei
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:14, Asa Rossoff wrote: JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root,

Re: [newbie] mp3

2004-08-29 Per discussione András Keszei
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 06:08, David Wallis wrote: Hi Is it possible with Mandrake 10 and KDE to run a Creative Model PA-20 digital MP3Player Cheers David Hi David, Have one of them things and you won't be able to breathe life into it under linux. It has a proprietary file system, and won't

[newbie] Re: mp3

2004-08-29 Per discussione András Keszei
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 05:37, David Wallis wrote: Morning Andras Many thanks your reply. I am in the same boat Win to run a couple of bits of hardware BTW is there a pocket sized mp3 player that *is* Linux computable Cheers David --- [E-mail scanned by doggy.com.au for viruses with Declude

Re: [newbie]Camera with SD card

2004-07-27 Per discussione András Keszei
Back in Mandrake 9.2, I had something similar with a Minolta DimageX. When I first plugged it in, nothing happened. Then the next time I tried some days later, voila, it accepted it normally, meaning I could mount it from root. It still wasn't automatically added to the desktop. Then I just had

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 + Multimedia keyboard

2004-07-25 Per discussione András Keszei
Hey Stephen, There will be two more shocks for you on the keyboard, as long as you stick to the US international version: ^ and ` will only come up with the spacebar as well. This is all to help people with non-english alphabets and US keyboards to write things like Gänseblümchen and diótörõ.

[newbie] USB 2.0 flashdisk problem

2004-07-21 Per discussione András Keszei
I know USB drives have been discussed to death, but I just can't seem to get to grips with this one. I have an Imation 256MB USB 2.0 drive, a clevo 400-something laptop(it's a different brand, but the system identifies itself as a clevo) and Mandrake 10.0 on it. USB 1.1 drives work perfectly,