RE: [newbie] Mandrake X.X

2000-12-29 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Don't know about the version # but if the schedule used in previous release is adhered to then the next release date should be April/2000 Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Jesso

RE: [newbie] Nvidia Riva 128Z acceleration

2000-12-28 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
I am not Civileme but I think I can answer your question since I have used a Riva128 card before. In order for the 4.0 simple server to be installed you can not accept the generic Riva128 designation you need to select the specific card that you have or if that is not listed 1 with the same

RE: [newbie] Signal 7....

2000-12-28 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
. -Original Message- From: ZER0 FREQUENCY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Signal 7 Charles A Edwards wrote: GPL has nothing to do with the RAM requirement. You can run the install with less than

RE: [newbie] Signal 7....

2000-12-27 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
GPL has nothing to do with the RAM requirement. You can run the install with less than 32MB but with 2 caveats 1)You have to perform the installation in text mode. 2)You can not install the X window system To me, unless you are planning to run your system only as a firewall or a file server,

RE: [newbie] How many partitions?

2000-12-27 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Unless you will need more than 4 FAT32 partitions set them all as Primary Not as part of the of the extended partition. The problem with including them within the logical partition is that regardless of what partitioning program you use there exist the chance that you will no longer be able to

RE: [newbie] Installing StarOffice 5.2

2000-12-26 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
You need to edit the javarc file. You will find it in office52/user/config The 2nd line reads ExcludeVersion Comment out the entry for 1.2.2 Save the changes and exit the editor. From the office52/program folder run jvmsetup. Both your java runtimes as well as Sun JDK will now be listed and

RE: [newbie] Macromedia Shockwave Player

2000-12-25 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Macromedia does not offer the Shockwave player for Linux, only the flash player and then only as a plug-in for Netscape. Charles Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stefaans Mostert Sent: Sunday,

RE: [newbie] Theme manager in Mdk 7.2

2000-12-20 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
No. It requires the old kde base. Same with the themes. Charles Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 3:45 PM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie]

RE: [newbie] BIOS setting: Plug 'n play OS

2000-12-20 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Windows will be quite peacfull with the BIOS set to non PnP OS. I had a problem with SB Live Value in 7.2 with KDE 1.99, no sound, resource busy; but if I logged into gnome (which I like more anyway) the sound worked so the problem is not the card but the program. Charles (-: Forever never

RE: [newbie] hda: no response (reseting drive)

2000-12-19 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Actually the opposite is true. The ASUS A7V has an On Board Promise ATA100 controller. This controller is supported in 7.2 but it is the PCI controller that it looks for, with an on board controller the driver is not loaded and therefor the hd is not seen. civileme in an earlier post listed an

RE: [newbie] DSL

2000-12-13 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
I have to DCHP to a windows box to use mine, other thanthat it is active and healthy. Charles ((-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glenn JohnsonSent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:22

RE: [newbie] Aureal Vortex

2000-12-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Jim The Aureal site is no more other than the home page. You can download the Vortex drivers from http://www.vortexofsound.com/drivers/drivers.htm Just choose your card and the Linux OS from the drop down menus. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message-

RE: [newbie] Upgrading 7.1 to 7.2

2000-12-08 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
If you have a seperate /home you can save it otherwise you need to do 7.2 as a new install Not as an upgrade. KDE2 and directory structure changes will cause problems if if the installation is done as an upgrade. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message-

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Win4Lnx

2000-12-08 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Because Win4Linx requires direct access to DOS and this is blocked and hidden in Win ME you can not install it. The only resolutions to this require registry changes which can adversly effect Win ME and are not advised. Your safest and best bet would be to resize your Win partition and to then

Re: [newbie] BootMagic will not install!!!

2000-12-05 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Keegan Alan is correct, but I am a little suprised that he did not offer you the solutions, it must have been that time of night. 1) You can resize your Win partition so that it is less than 8G ,or 2) You can create a small fat partition at the beginning of you HD. When I say small I mean

RE: [newbie] boot problem

2000-12-05 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Use your boot disk to start linux. Run DrakConf/Tools for booting and configure LILO and install it to either your / or your /boot partition. Restart your system. If SystemCommander now does not list 7.2 as a boot option enter the Setup/Add menu and toggle the partition to which you

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot

2000-12-04 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
NO This is not correct. LILO as included in 7.2 does not have the 1024 limit. And even if it did this would not effect installing LILO to /dev/hb5. I am running Storm from /dev/hdb5 and I am running 7.2 from /dev/hdc5 and using SystemCommander to boot to any of 5 OSes on that system. Charles

Re: [newbie] login screen

2000-12-02 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
The normal login screen, as you refer to it, Is the KDE login screen. You are now getting tne Gnome login screen. You get this screen because the last time you logged into your desktop you logged into Gnome and set it as your default. If you wish to change this, from the Session menu along the

Re: [newbie] Hosed my system

2000-12-02 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Your problem could be related to your software raid in that it can affect how the installation program reads your MBR and therefore wrights to it. There was a posting this week on the Mandrake Forum regarding soft raids. You might want to check it out. Charles - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Installation Fragmented Par

2000-11-30 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "John Sendak" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie Linux Mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "John Sendak" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 7:49 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Installation Fragmented Par I am running Windows ME, and attempting

Re: [newbie] Connection speed

2000-11-29 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
How can you say that! I have DSL and I do not normally get better than 1300kps. Charles (-: - Original Message - From: "Dickman, Jeff" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 6:23 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Connection speed Nah... Cable isn't

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-26 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
How do you hook up an "ISA" "external modem" I sure would like to get one. Seems like your fingers and words are having one of my kind of days. Charles (-: - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 2:13 PM

Re: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download

2000-11-25 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 9:24 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download Hi all, I am still unable to find the desktop that shows up on the linux-Mandrake tutorial for KDE. I have only a tool bar

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Issue...

2000-11-25 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "yayan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 11:54 AM Subject: [newbie] Internet Connection Issue... Dear All, I am new with Linux. I just install LM 7.0 and it's look good, but one problem I have is internet

Re: [newbie] Modem's busy

2000-11-23 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
That could be 1 reason and if that is the case you may find help at linmodem.org. Depending upon what chipset your modem uses you may be able to find a driver module there. There are other possible reasons. 1) Your modem is set to the wrong port in kppp 2) There is an IRQ conflict between your

Re: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2 IS FINAL!!

2000-11-14 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
All the FTP sites which have the 7.2 ISO are the final ISOs and they do contain the final KDE 2. The box version of 7.2 that Does Not contain the final KDE, which MacMillian also published, are those which started appearing in Wal Mart and other such places in Oct. Below is copied a FAQ from

Re: [newbie] LM7.2/Macmillain -- KDE2-Final?

2000-11-13 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Benjamin The 7.2 Complete Does Not include kde 2.0 final. You can update it to 2.0 using Mandrake Update, except in 7.2 it is now just Updates. Charles - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000

Re: [newbie] display or videocard problems

2000-11-12 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Your #1 problem is that you do not have enough power or Ram to efffectivly run 7.2 using X. You need at least 64MB. Sorry Charles - Original Message - From: "Vladimir Morozov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 5:01 PM Subject: [newbie] display or

Re: [newbie] JDK RPM

2000-11-09 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
You can get the RPM from either Sun or IBM. You can also get JDK from Blackdown but theirs is a bzip file. Charles - Original Message - From: "Cal Shepherd" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 6:06 PM Subject: [newbie] JDK RPM Hi... Can

Re: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem

2000-11-02 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
plain old IRQ and DMA. Andy -- From: Charles A Edwards[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem The ModemBlaster PCI is a winmode

Re: [newbie] Creative Modem Blaster PCI modem

2000-11-01 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
The ModemBlaster PCI is a winmodem. Check Linmodem.org. There is a chance that there may be a driver available for your modems chipset. Otherwise, if you want to connect to the internet in Linux you will need to get a hardware based modem. There are PCI models that run under $50. Charles

Re: [newbie] helix code installation problems

2000-10-26 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
ubject: Re: [newbie] helix code installation problems yup thats the one i use with 6.1 it worked fine 7.1 it doesn't go figure - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 9:45 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] zip 100 usb

2000-10-25 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Yes. They are supported in 7.1 and 7.2. Charles - Original Message - From: "jesse martinez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:32 PM Subject: [newbie] zip 100 usb Did someone know if there is any support for my iomega zip 100 usb?? If

Re: [newbie] USB Keyboard

2000-10-22 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] USB Keyboard Marshall Lake wrote: I'm running the 7.1 vrsion of Makdrake. At bootup I get the following messages: usb.c:

Re: [newbie] zip 100 usb

2000-10-22 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Yes From 7.1 on. Charles - Original Message - From: "jesse martinez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:32 PM Subject: [newbie] zip 100 usb Did someone know if there is any support for my iomega zip 100 usb?? If so, please reply...

Re: [newbie] Installing additional components after installation

2000-10-20 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Gerry Kirk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 6:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Installing additional components after installation I'm more familiar with SuSE, which uses YAST/2 for a setup tool. With it I can check what

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??

2000-10-05 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
f the burn process... any thoughts? - Joe :) - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? - Original Message - From: "Joe Brault"

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD??

2000-10-04 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Joe Brault" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 11:54 PM Subject: [newbie] 7.1 Install CD?? Hello all, I have a question about burning a CD of linux mandrake 7.1... I have downloaded from the mandrake website the

Re: [newbie] .bin files

2000-10-03 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Pat McCauley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:11 AM Subject: [newbie] .bin files I just downloaded Star Office 5.2 and it came in one .bin file. How do I install, run, or decompress this? It is an automatic

Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.1

2000-10-03 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Neal Wilkinson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 7:33 PM Subject: [newbie] Linksys LNE100TX and Mandrake 7.1 I'm having difficulty getting the Linksys LNE100TX version 4.1 working with Mandrake 7.1. I'm new to Linux

Fw: [newbie] Question about 2nd HD/dual booting/NOT Windog...

2000-10-02 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Question about 2nd HD/dual booting/NOT Windog... - Original Message - From: "Alan Sh

Re: [newbie] Question about 2nd HD/dual booting/NOT Windog...

2000-10-01 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
I hate to disagree with Alan but I support markO,s view. I just last week upgraded the drives in 1 of my systems. I put in 2 15GB IBM 7200rpm ATA/100 drives ($104 each) and a Promise Ultra100 PCI Controller Card ($35). Should I choose I can now hook up 8 IDE devices to that system, 4

Re: [newbie] How do you turn off automatic dependencies?

2000-09-22 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] How do you turn off automatic dependencies? John I. Azeke wrote: I was trying to update some programs with Mandrake Update and The

Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT

2000-09-19 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Jim Chiang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:03 AM Subject: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT OK. I havea 20gB drive. I installed in this order: win98se Win2K Pro MDK7.1 After Win@K evertyhing was OK. I could

Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT

2000-09-19 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Um...multi boot...NOT - Original Message - From: "Jim Chiang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [newbie] why only ttyS0-ttyS3?

2000-09-18 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "John Rye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 6:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] why only ttyS0-ttyS3? markOpoleO wrote: The question is the Subject..why do they only have 0-3 when most modems I have installed have more

Re: [newbie] Let me go!!!!

2000-09-18 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
I for one also accept either MC or Visa. It should futher be noted that should you choose to remit by check a $25 charge, as allowed by NC law, will be accessed for any items returned. For future reference with the release of 7.2 the fee required for removal from this list will

Re: Helix Gnome KDE (was RE: [newbie] Gnome Desktop looks like Enlightenment)

2000-09-18 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Both KDE and GNOME are shells which can run on top of the window manager of your choice. I run KDE on sawmill and GNOME on enlightenment. Helix-Gnome has become my desktop of choice. Most Kde apps can be run from the menu and all can be run from terminal. Charles - Original

Re: [newbie] ttyS5 modem problem

2000-09-17 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
I do not want to argue with anyone but I have an Actiontec PCI modem. It is on Com 5 in both Windows and BeOS but in linux (any distro) IT IS ttyS3. Charles - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 4:06 PM

Re: [newbie] RE: seti

2000-09-15 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Thurs. 9/15 Ozz wrote [snip] However, my main Internet connection is currently ADSL, with a USB modem that is NOT recognised by Linux. Therefore I have to log out of the ADSL account (currently hooked up to my Wife's Windoze machine, hence all my posts from Outlook Express) and

Re: [newbie] Connecting to NT DHCP Server

2000-09-14 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Robert "JTBob" Holland" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 12:45 PM Subject: [newbie] Connecting to NT DHCP Server Hi, Can Mandrake Linux connect to a Windows NT DHCP server? If so, what settings need to be made?

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-14 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Kenji Wakabayashi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:19 PM Subject: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux Hi everyone, my problem is this: at the moment I am running win98 and I would like to switch to a

Re: [newbie] RPM things

2000-09-14 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
The correct is ftp://rufus.w3.org Charles - Original Message - From: "Kandace Little" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RPM things Link does not work? Stephen - Original Message - From: "Dennis

Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux

2000-09-14 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dual booting with win2k and linux I had a bizarre thought today. What would happen if Mickeysoft decided that a nice feature of their

Re: [newbie] More C++ problems

2000-09-13 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
t supports Large Harddrives? I had previously installed the automated version and it worked just fine, why is there a difference when I install the development version? Mark - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

Re: [newbie] More C++ problems

2000-09-12 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Mark The LBA is causing your problem NOT the # of CDs you install from. I did the Dev. install on 2 machines and on both used all 4 Cds with no problems. If your BIOS does not support LBA(Large Block Address) which is a fancy way of saying Large Harddrives then the bootloader you choose

Re: [newbie] More C++ problems

2000-09-12 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "John Rye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] More C++ problems Charles A Edwards wrote: Mark The LBA is causing your problem NOT the # of CDs you install from. I d

Re: [newbie] I can't detect my modem

2000-09-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Here are my weekly instructions for a PCI modem in Linux. The first thing you need to do is find out if you winmodem or a real modem. Log in as root and from terminal enter the following command # cat /proc/pci This will list all your PCI devices. On this list you should see either

Re: [newbie] lexmark

2000-09-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 5:33 AM Subject: [newbie] lexmark Is there any drivers for the new lexmarks series of printer outhere...?? The Z series Jeremie You can download beta Z drivers from

Re: [newbie] I can't detect my modem

2000-09-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "John" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] I can't detect my modem Charles, I followed your instructions for configuring my port. Unfortunately with no success. Found my device just

Re: [newbie] lexmark(Epson printer)

2000-09-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Gordon Burgess-Parker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] lexmark Charles A Edwards wrote: You can download beta Z drivers from Cooker. They are also included in the Mandra

Re: [newbie] I can't detect my modem

2000-09-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
I had not remembered that but I also ran in to that when I was setting up an external modem on a system where I normally connect using DCHP. Charles - Original Message - From: "John" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 1:53 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] I can't detect my modem - Attention Charles A Edwards

2000-09-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Craig Westerman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I can't detect my modem - Attention Charles A Edwards Craig 2 other things to lok at. Do you have your BIOS set for

Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem

2000-09-10 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Mark Thurston" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I am having problems with my modem I do have a serial mouse, but the modem is on COMM3. I actually found the modem now, and Linux says

Re: [newbie] installing 7.1

2000-09-07 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 6:19 AM Subject: [newbie] installing 7.1 Hello... I'm new to linux in general... I've had 7.0 for a wile now.. and it worked perfect for me.. I was happy when 7.1

Re: [newbie] nic card

2000-09-07 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
d I got a Linksys 100TX 10/100 card and the version says it is 4.20 THis work under Linux anyone know? - Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] nic card | If yo

Re: [newbie] nic card

2000-09-07 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 7:34 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] nic card Thanks! I forgot to mention until I recieve an email that while mandrake autodetected the linksys card it wouldn't work with

Re: [newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another?

2000-09-06 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:43 AM Subject: [newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another? I have finally after months of

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-05 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP Adrian, If you want to get a non-winmodem you'd better hurry up and get one cause I think there's but one company left making them.

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "philomena" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 10:09 AM Subject: [newbie] 7.2 beta Anyone having luck installing the 7.2 beta ? I haven't been able to get it to boot yet. philomena I have it installed on

Re: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning

2000-09-04 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
You've got the right idea, but your numbers are WAY off. /boot = 15MB you only need enough room for the kernel and it'll bever be big enough to need all 15 MB. Not to mention that anything more than that will be bigger than the kernel will ever get. /home = at least 500MB /

Re: [newbie] NEW LILO and Disk Geometry

2000-09-04 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Brian Daniel Kennedy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 5:43 PM Subject: [newbie] NEW LILO and Disk Geometry Hi, I just joined and this is the topic I joined to talk about but it seems

Re: [newbie] ISO files

2000-09-02 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISO files I see, that is much clearer now, thanks alot folks, well I'm off to do some burning... cheers, paul. Mike Tracy Holt wrote: The

Re: [newbie] Modem help needed

2000-09-01 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Verify your BIOS is set for Non PnP OS In Linux PCI modems are ttySs. The setserial commands must be issued as root. For a PCI modem use the followin directions. . Log in as root and from terminal enter the following command # cat /proc/pci This will list all your PCI devices. On this list you

Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux

2000-08-30 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Use partition magic and delete the Linux partition and put it back to a Windows Partition. Then Linux will have been deleted straight away -Original Message- From: Lynn Johnson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8/29/2000 9:51 PM Subject: [newbie] Uninstall Linux Hi! I've

Re: [newbie] Problems with printer and modem install in Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-30 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Lynn Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problems with printer and modem install in Mandrake 7.1 Thanks, Alan! It looks as if it's time to contact Lexmark. Lynn Johnson Alan

Re: [newbie] Question about some of Mandrake's install prompts

2000-08-30 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Mark Most of the Mandrake installation is to your / partition so having 1GB of free space dosen,t mean that you have that much space available for the installation. You are asked how much you want to install because you get a lot of extra programs with any Linux distro. these programs are

Re: [newbie] GRUB bootloader question

2000-08-20 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Kathleen Dickason wrote: Okay, I have kind of a silly question. How do I add another OS to GRUB? Still does, but I have since added a 2nd hard drive and two more OSes, one of which I boot from floppy, and the other of which I access by typing things in GRUB's

Re: [newbie] X

2000-08-02 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
So that means that I won't get this message untill tomorrow and no you is allowed to read this response after yesterday. Charles :-) - Original Message - From: "Seth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X This

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade MBR of HDA (Torrey)

2000-07-24 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Torrey My reference to installing Lilo on hdc was if you were using SC to boot your OSes not if you were going to use Lilo to do so and even then you have to manually add it to SC. I also have a triple boot system. My main boot loader is Grub. It gives me the boot options of linux, safe,

Re: [newbie] isa modem again

2000-07-23 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Martin Try changing your auth. from PAP to CHAP. My ISP uses CHAP and so might yours. Charles - Original Message - From: "Martin B" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 5:40 AM Subject: [newbie] isa modem again well i finally managed to get the

Re: [newbie] How to install grub instead of lilo in 7.1

2000-07-23 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux Newbie Mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 9:28 AM Subject: [newbie] How to install grub instead of lilo in 7.1 When I installed Mandrake 7.1 (custom install) it installed with lilo in the boot

Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop

2000-07-23 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 3:27 PM Subject: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop It is time again for our weekly lesson... For a start: to leave the list: send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade MBR of HDA

2000-07-23 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Harry Can you access Windows with a boot disk? If so you will need to re-install to repair your MBR unless one of your utilitiy programs can do it otherwise I am afraid that you will need to do a New Install of Windows. I don't know why you got the syntac error with Lilo but when you

Re: [newbie] isa modem

2000-07-22 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Martin B" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 8:07 PM Subject: [newbie] isa modem i have just installed 7.1 mandrake and have a dynalink isa modem when i try using kppp to dial provider it gets as far as initilazing and

Re: [newbie] DPMS How???????

2000-07-21 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Gil Open DPMS and press help. There you will find instructions for making your changes pernament. I do not remember off hand what they are because I have DPMS disabled on my systems. Charles - Original Message - From: "Gil Baron W0MN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "AA/MandrakeNewbie"

Re: [newbie] Win2K and Mandrake 7.0 installation problems

2000-07-21 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Leslie Do you have a Win98 boot disk or can you get a friend to make you one? Yes. Boot your machine from this disk and use fdisk to create 2 partitions of roughly the same 2GB size. Install Win2000 in one of the partitions, it does not matter which. I would also use Fat32 rather than

Re: [newbie] Modem works (logs on) BUT *no* net, mail, etc.

2000-07-21 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Tim Make sure you have both of your ISPs DNS addresses are set correctly in kppp. From the message you get in Netscape this sounds to be your problem. Charles - Original Message - From: "Tim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 6:56 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] Motorola Modem

2000-07-21 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Jose M. Sanchez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 10:15 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Motorola Modem Eh, no. This is definiately an HSP Winmodem. Check out Motorola's site for more info. -JMS Jose Winmoden It Is.

Re: [newbie] How to stop screen from blanking out?

2000-07-21 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
m blanking out? I've done that. But when I reboot, it's selected again! I apparently need to change the default somewhere. Do you know where? Thanks for helping. This list is great for newbies. Jeff Malka @orthohelp.com Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message ----- Fro

Re: [newbie] win2k / 7.1

2000-07-20 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] win2k / 7.1 - Original Message - It does nothing that I can tell... Here is what I know... when I 7.1 installe

Re: [newbie] UPDATE from 7.0 to 7.1 is Ridiculously SLOW

2000-07-20 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Would it be faster if I used the SCSI CD drive (my CD-RW) as the install device? WHY then is it slow on update but faster on new install? The hardware does not change. My slower system which has 2 IDE CDROMS is faster by far. My CDROM drives are not on the same cable, they are on the

Re: [newbie] Motorola Modem

2000-07-20 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Motorola Modem On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hi guys... I am trying to make my modem work under linux. I have a Motorola SM56 modem,

[newbie] fdisk/MBR

2000-07-17 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
For those of you who read my post to Walt yesterday It is always hard for those who can not grasp something unless it is carried between their legs that there is life and wonder beyond their narrow minded vision. Good luck with "unsubdcribing". Charles P.S. don't forget to use

Re: [newbie] Cannot configure sound on 7.1

2000-07-17 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Hugo I use KDE so I am not exactly sure how you work it in GNOME but after you enable system sound you still need to associate a sound file with each event that you want sound. Start-up, logout, max, min, and so on. Charles - Original Message - From: "Hugo GONZALEZ" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..

2000-07-16 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
An added note on PM. If you let the Mandrake installation create your Linux partitions then PM will see them all as 1 Type 85 partition and you will not be make any changes to the partitions using PM. You will instead need to use DiskDrake Charles - Original Message - From: "Alan

Re: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP-Walt

2000-07-16 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "walt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 2:18 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP So far I have not found anything useful on this list I wil be unsubdcribing..the right way. So far Linux can't even be compared

Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..

2000-07-16 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - . BTW: Why does Mandrake set the partition type of extended partitions to 85? Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ: 7328191 I should have mentioned that I installed

Re: [newbie] Helix? What is it?

2000-07-15 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Helix GNOME IS a specific build of GNOME. It has features and abilities that no other GNOME distro has. Helix is to GNOME as Mandrake is to RH. Charles - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 4:36 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] Install partitions help

2000-07-14 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
talls of the OS? Thanks for your help. It is much appreciated. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 ----- Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Install part

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