Re: [newbie] Linux and Win XP

In a message dated 2/22/2002 9:21:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sorry ... not enough coffee yet ... what i meant to ask was, "shouldn't he be able to ping even without samba installed?" ... with apache on my linux box, i could use a browser to reach the linux box with no

Re: [newbie] Linux and Win XP

In a message dated 2/22/2002 12:41:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i agree, it is way too early, i meant subnet. what netmask have you got? i am going back to leep. im not sure where to find that at... sorry, im new at this too... ~Lance

Re: [newbie] Samba/Windows XP

In a message dated 2/23/2002 4:39:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My laser printer is on my windows box. I wish to set up Samba so that I can print from my linux machine onto the windows machine. So today I downloaded and installed Samba (2.2.3a). I've browsed the web,

Re: [newbie] Linux and Win XP

In a message dated 2/22/2002 11:58:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes, he should. what are the addresses and gateways on the respective machines? is there a gateway disagreement? The Windows gateway is 255.255.0.0. when i try to give that the the Linux box thee ip

Re: [newbie] Linux and Win XP

does the fact that one is dhcp and the other isnt have anything to do with it? ~Lance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Linux and Win XP

Any luck networking Linux and Win XP? I cant get the Linux box to log on on dhcp. It will make a static connection at 192.168.0.1 but Win XP can not see it. Neither machine can ping each other. Neither machine is running a firewall. Thanks in advance ~Lance Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Linux and Win XP

In a message dated 2/21/2002 8:57:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have heard that XP is crippled in the networking area if you run the home edition. do you have home or pro? professional

Re: [newbie] IBM Thinkpad 600X

Well, I tried and Got LM 8 to go on it. There is just a small X Problem which I asked in another thread called "Funny X Problem" ~Lance

[newbie] IBM Thinkpad 600X

I just got a used IBM thinkpad 600X from a computer show. I was wondering if anyone had any horror stories/success stories with putting Linux Mandrake on one. Thanks in advance ~Lance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Quake 2

In a message dated 07/31/2001 6:57:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: start q2 with command line # ./quake2 +set s_initsound 0 When I did this, the game launched. So I can play, just without sound. What can I do about that. You said something about ALSA. How would I

[newbie] ATI Rage Fury Pro

How can I get my ATI Rage Fury Pro to use 3d acceleration. With Mandrakes install it works, but locks up a whole lot, so much that any game using it is impossible. I tried nvidia, but I couldnt get it to install right. Maybe someone else had this problem? Im so confused, can someone help me?

[newbie] Samba on Start-up

How can I make it automatically mount a Samba Filesystem on Boot-up? Is the like an automount type program that will configure when the client computer is turned on? ~Lance

Re: [newbie] AMR modems

Well, is there anything that slot is good for on Linux? ~Lance

[newbie] Windows 98 + LM 8.0 Networking Questions

Heres what I want to do: I have Linux on PC A and windows/Linux dual boot on PC B I want PC B to be able to access shared files on PC A no matter what OS PC B is in. I want PC A to be a web server, in which PC B could access through some way(probobly the IP num) PC A's web box. I made a program

Re: [newbie] 1Ghz + 256 MB = Not Linux-Mandrake 8.0

I have had LM on another computer, it was AMD 300 w/ 40GB (another time I had a 10GB in there and it worked on both) The new computer that 8 doesnt work on specs go as follows: AMD 1Ghz 256 C2 Ram(as long as the guy didnt rip me off) ATI Rage Pro 3d AGP 32 MB 3d accelerator Simmantec PCI

Re: [newbie] 1Ghz + 256 MB = Not Linux-Mandrake 8.0

I got it working, it was the CDROM drive. For anyone who wants to know, the CD ROM was: ACER 32X MAX, using the ATAPI device driver MOdel No: 632a 002 mfg date: 1998

[newbie] 1Ghz + 256 MB = Not Linux-Mandrake 8.0

I just built a new system, a AMD 1Ghz with 256 MB of RAM and I went to install LM 8.0 on it, and it freaked out. The error is as follows: Loading program into memory [***] install exited abnormally :-( -- recieved signal 11 sendind termination

[newbie] GRUB on floppy

How do I upgrade the kernel on a floppy for GRUB? Thanks in advance. ~Lance

[newbie] Mandrake on Ebay

I was looking around on Ebay and noticed that they were auctioning Linux Mandrake 7.2 and RedHat 7.0 for like 3 dollars. Has anyone ever used this route before? Is it worth it or should I just go to the store and get it? Thanks ~Lance

[newbie] Wierd Windows Hard Drive Problem.

Specs: 40 GB Western Digital Hard Drive IDE, Primary Master 10 GB Western Digital Hard Drive IDE, Secondary Master 40GB Partitioned into 18, 8, 8, 8 all Fat 32 10 GB Partitioned into 250MB (swap) 8 GB (/) 1.75 GB (/root) Windows recognizes 40 GB partitions fine. It also reads the different

Re: [newbie] Apache CGI configuration.

So where do I put the files to get CGI to execute if Apache works out of the box? ~Lance

Re: [newbie] Installing WinXows again

Boot into Linux and make a boot disk. Make sure the boot disk works. Then reinstall windows. Afterward, use the botdisk to get back into Linux. Then go into the LiLo configuration and reinstall Lilo on your Master Boot Record. ~Lance

[newbie] Bootload Problems.

I got my HD problems set, (see Windows 98 Second Edition Removes Partitions) and now I am having more problems. I had an old 10 GB hard drive which I split between 98 and Linux. Now I got a 40Gb. I have the 40 split of into 20, 10, 10 and when I installed Linux it said that I had two 20GB. And

[newbie] Apache CGI configuration.

I want to be able to test CGI scripts on my home computer so I can write them for my web site easier than uploading waiting andtesting. I tried configuring the Apache but had no luck. Does someone know where I can find a step by step documentation on how to do this? I am also intresesting in

[newbie] Windows 98 Second Edition Removes Multi Partitions

When I install Windows 98 Second Edition it runs a test to see if the primary master hard drive is partitioned into 2 or more drives. I have a 40 GB which I split up into 2 20GB drives. When I install windows it erases the 2 partitions and creates one large 40 GB making it impossible for me to

[newbie] Linux on a single floppy disk

Does anyone know where I can download a linux OS that will run completly off a floppy. I remember reading something about it a while back. Thanks ~Lance

Re: [newbie] LILO configuration

There are a couple of things you can do, first you can try using KLILO, its a KDE form of changing the lilo configuation. Or you could use DRAKBOOT, a file in DRAKCONF, that will configure LILO too, if you need more help, email me. ~Lance

[newbie] 2.2.17 Kernel Sound and others...

I recently downloaded the 2.2.17 kernel and re-compliled it from scratch with the USB backport and there are two main problems I am having. It says it can not uncompress it, says its an invalid format. And when I can get into the kernel I cant get sound to work at all, can someone tell me

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

In a message dated 12/1/00 4:54:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if MS ever decided to distribute a flavor of linux I believe they would give Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat, and etc. a very hard run for their money. But, wouldnt we all just download it off the net for free

Re: [newbie] LinCity - The Game

http://www.floot.demon.co.uk/lincity.html Thats were I got it from You can catch it from freshmeat.net if you do a search for "lincity" thats one word! ~Lance In a message dated 11/28/2000 10:06:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, this has no chance of helping you

[newbie] Iomega Zip through Iomega SCSI

I bought one of those cheap IOMEGA SCSI cards for my iomega 100 MB zip drive a while ago, has anyone had any luck getting Linux to access these. I dont know where to even begin. I have a normal SCSI one and it works fine there, but on my other computer I dont have a SCSI card, so I have to use

[newbie] LinCity - The Game

I was messing around and I read about LinCity. Being an avid SIM fan I had to find it and download it. Well, Im stuck. Im using Mandrake 7.1 and when I try to "make xlincity" it says: [root@localhost lincity-1.11]# gmake xlincity gcc -c main.cxx -o xmain.o -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align

Re: [newbie] Two Questions for thought

In a message dated 11/24/2000 7:42:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have two problems that need addressing. The first one: I have a SoundBlaster 16PCI Sound Card that I can't get configured properly, therefore no sound. What is the easiest and most effective

[newbie] SDL Games in General.

As with my past few emails, I have been goofing around trying to get some things to works, and the only one I can get is SDL. They all are asking for some files, (SDL_mixer.h, vector, and others) and I dont know what I could be doing wrong. I installed 100% of the install on one bought CD. I

Re: [newbie] how do you turn off windows-x autoloading?

How do you start it from the command prompt? ~Lance

Re: [newbie] Linux Games

In a message dated 10/24/00 9:28:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i suggest vmware myself its not free but it is the best and most stable available although you have to install portions of windows Where can I get that at?

Re: [[newbie] wp8]

Anyone have this problem? The buttons for word perfect, the linux version, will not show up. They are there, you can click on them, but the all look like a garbled mess. Any help would be appriciated. ~Lance

[newbie] Aol and Linux

I received an email a while back about them getting a port for AOL on Linux, then there was a whole bunch of hype over it, but now nothing. Im still looking out for this, if anyone knows any info on it and could tell me id really appriciate it. ~Lance

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Re: [newbie] Wine: How to start?

In a message dated 08/30/2000 10:53:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks - but here's what it says when I set the path to any Win program: /usr/x11r6/bin/wine-strip: Can't exec '/mnt/dev/hda1/windows/notepad.exe': file not found. And it also says it

Re: [newbie] Linux4Win - never again

I didnt like the linux4win because i thought it was really hard to play with the kernal, i didnt really understand the different ways. I think it is much better to just repartition your drive or even go out and buy a small 5 gigger or somthing. Im runing mandrake 7.1 on a 4 gig drive with 98

[newbie] Perl for 7.1

Im trying to get my perl scripts to work so I can work on the on my system instead of having to play with the upload and download on windows crap. I cant get it to execute the perl scripts though. They are called *.cgi, but I know i cant the the *.pl's working either. Can anyone help me?

Re: [newbie] Perl for 7.1

I Cant get them to work in any directory, but I havnt tried all of the,. Can you tell me one that I should try it from. THanks In a message dated 08/21/2000 11:23:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: which directory are you running them from and I beleive you need to

[newbie] 2.2.16 Kernal Update

I updated my kernal to 2.2.16 from 2.2.15 and I got a bunch of errors on the next startup. Did anyone else get a bunch of errors and could they tell me how to fix them? Thanks in advance. ~Lance

[newbie] AOL for Linux

Is there anyway that anyone knows to get AOL set up on a linux operating system(Mandrake 7.1) Thanks in advance ~Lance

[newbie] ISA PNP Modem and Sound Card

I have an ISA Audio Drive Sound Card and an ISA Communicate 56k modem. I cant seem to get either to work on my Linux 7.1 system. Has anyone else had these problems? Any help would be greatly appriciated. ~Lance