Re: [newbie] Hardware problem. Keeps rebooting/freezing.

2004-08-27 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Power Supply? On Aug 27, 2004, at 1:46 AM, charlie wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:55 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: A couple of months ago, we had a power surge at our house that harmed the computer. Although the computer was on a surge protector, the cable modem was not, and it fried the eth0 on the

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-25 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Service pack 2 is garbage, I have seen numerous issues after installing it on clients machines. Wireless networks stop working, machines that just keep shutting down and restarting. Here are some solutions for you: Adaware, Spybot, cws shredder and hijack this for spyware and such. Clamwin for

[newbie] LG HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B

2004-07-19 Per discussione Dale Kosan
One person mentioned having trouble with this drive, any one else? I was thinking of purchasing one but do not want junk. Thanks in advance. Dale Kosan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-15 Per discussione Dale Kosan
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On February 14, 2004 09:54 am, Dale Kosan wrote: No joy, tons of warnings about conflicts. This come from a stock 9.2 install. Could it maybe be my choice of mirrors and contrib.? Could you send me your

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-14 Per discussione Dale Kosan
, 2004 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On February 13, 2004 07:06 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: How did you add it to urpmi? Dale; You're best bet is to download the whole folder from my server as i have to shut it down

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Per discussione Dale Kosan
So, has anyone been able to get it to work right? What steps did you use to do it? Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-12 Per discussione Dale Kosan
How did you add it to urpmi? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Gordon Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms On Thu, 12 Feb

RE: [newbie] AMD Support

2004-01-22 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Snip I use nothing but AMD here, no problems with any Linux distro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-29 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Can we turn of the return receipts request? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Looks kinda cool

2003-11-30 Per discussione Dale Kosan
JoeHill wrote: Just for the folks who like to liven up their desktop with extra eye-candy: http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1265 and yes, there are Mandrake RPM's :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Per discussione Dale Kosan
snip... I have the same board and cpu combo and have had no freezes or lock ups. I am using an older gforce2 card and have only installed the nvidia driver for it.. I have not found the need to install the rest of the nvidia stuff. Maybe you have bad memory? Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] flash plugin and mozilla 1.4 on 9.2 mandrake

2003-10-26 Per discussione Dale Kosan
I have copied the two flash files to my /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin directory and to the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugin directory but still I do not have the plugins installed, can anyone point me to the how to on this? Also, I see alot of posts regarding texstar rpms, does he make them for 9.2 and

[newbie] computer freezes after screensaver starts

2003-10-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
I have the following system: asus a7n8 deluxe mainboard with sound and 3com nic onboard. athlon 2500+ barton 1 gb 2700 ddr memory adaptec aha2930 scsi card ibm 4mm dat drive 2 maxtor 40gb drives plextor 48x24x48 burner sony dvd rw drive the two maxtor drives are master and slave, first for

Re: [newbie] quick question

2003-10-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 08:13 am, Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the contrib directory but I have

Re: [newbie] computer freezes after screensaver starts

2003-10-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:37:00 -0400 Dale Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after the screen saver starts my monitor power button starts to flash and it seems to go to sleep. I do not use a screensaver but when mouse-movement or keyboard while not bring my monitor out

Re: [newbie] quick question

2003-10-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 20 Oct 2003 12:40 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 08:13 am, Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess

[newbie] quick question

2003-10-17 Per discussione Dale Kosan
I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the contrib directory but I have now idea how or what I am supposed to do. I have found the easy

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Per discussione Dale Kosan
You cant tell me his Realtec card is not supported? I believe every Linux distro supports that chip set. Can he try loading the correct module with modprobe? -- http://www.winsweptrottweilers.com ICQ# 55846749 Registered Linux user #191829 A Cherokee Prayer: Oh Great Spirit, Help me

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-08 Per discussione Dale Kosan
No. I think the problem is the nic is not initialized. He said he was seeing initizing of eth0 failed error... John McQuillen wrote: Hi Greg, This is getting to be a long story, so I'll only include the essentials from previous mails... If interested, here is what is in the modems

Re: [newbie] Write to windows partition?

2002-12-08 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Well, he states he can read the files so it is not NTFS. Root should be able to read and write, to do this as a user you need to edit the /etc/fstab entry. Can not help with that because I do not have Windows on my machine. man mount for details. The option, from memory, is umask=0. Or you

[newbie] Help, 8.0 install

2001-06-17 Per discussione Dale Kosan
I tried to install 8.0 on my machine, the config is as follows: P2-400, Promise ATA 100 PCI card, WD 13 Gig drive, Maxtor 40 Gig drive, the WD is Primary master, Maxtor secondary master. The root partition is /dev/hde5. I installed to MBR and there is no Window's on this machine. When it

Re: [newbie] HELP:8.0 kernel panic

2001-04-23 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Close, hde6.How do I pass that at boot time? Sorry if it is a stupid question.

[newbie] HELP:8.0 kernel panic

2001-04-22 Per discussione Dale Kosan
L could sure use some help here.I downloaded and installed 8.0 final and when it rebooted I received the following message: VFS:cannot open root device 2106 or 21:06 Please append a correct root= boot option kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs on 21:06 I tried to boot with rescue

[newbie] KDE 2.1.1 help

2001-04-06 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Okay, I might have screwed up here.I installed xfree86 4.0.3-2.1 in a vain attempt to install KDE 2.1.1.Now when I do a rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test I get the following error: [dale@gandalf kde2.1.1]$ su root Password: [root@gandalf kde2.1.1]# rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test error: failed dependencies:

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 help

2001-04-06 Per discussione Dale Kosan
How did you upgrade to glibc 2.2?

[newbie] RE:SAMBA

2001-04-04 Per discussione Dale Kosan
I just got Samba working on my home network, I used Webmin to set it up and boy was it easy! One problem with my Mandrake box, I have a 30 gig drive mounted as /public but Webmin wont let me share it. On my Redhat box I tried sharing a directory and it went well. Is there a bug with the

[newbie] konqueror problem

2001-03-31 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Hello all, seem to have a problem with Konqueror in 2.1 KDE, also had this same problem with 2.0. When ever I click on a download link, like to a ftp site I get an error saying"cant read and then the address, any clues?

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Java woes

2001-03-26 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Thanks for those who replied to my question, will try it when I get home this evening. Dale Kosan

Re: [newbie] RPM Packages

2001-03-13 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Sounds like the rpm you are trying to install is made for version 4 of the rpm program.I do not think it will work but someone else might be able to help better than I.Good luck... Dale Kosan

Re: [newbie] Partition information?

2001-03-09 Per discussione Dale Kosan
"df" maybe?

[newbie] kde2.1 help

2001-03-08 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Sorry if this has been answered before, I am trying to install the new kde2.1 final on my Mandrake 7.2 box.I downloaded all the rpms and did a rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test, this is the result: [dale@gandalf test]$ rpm -Uvh *.rpm --test file /usr/bin/kwebdesktop from install of kdebase-2.1-2mdk

Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta

2001-03-07 Per discussione Dale Kosan
DIE THREAD, DIE Dale Kosan

[newbie] logs..

2001-02-28 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Hello, in the /var/log directory I am seeing a whole bunch of tar.gz logs, I assume these are old and that logrotate generated them.Are they safe to delete if I don't need them? Thanks in advance

Re: [newbie] X Question - URGENT

2001-02-25 Per discussione Dale Kosan
First off, it says he's running SUSE.I dont think SUSE has Drakeconfig.I would send this message to a SUSE list and find the tool that SUSE uses.I believe YAST has a entry for xconfig in it,not sure though...

Re: [newbie] boot.ini

2001-02-22 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Well, not as easy as one would think. I have NT and Linux at work on same the machine, along with 98 and 2000.Maybe someone else knows away.I could post the procedure givin to me if you like. The one thing is you should be running lilo.Let me know if you would like the info and I will post

Re: [newbie] FTP

2001-02-19 Per discussione Dale Kosan
ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] you must specify a user that has an account on the Linux box or set-up anon ftp...

[newbie] KDE2.1

2001-02-04 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Hello all,quick question.After upgrading to to 2.1 my floppy and cdrom icons on the desktop no longer function right.Used to be if I mounted a disk and clicked on the icon it would open with Konqueror.Now I get asked wich application do I want to open it with.I have specified Konqueror and

[newbie] netgear fa 510 pcmcia nic failing....

2001-01-23 Per discussione Dale Kosan
While installing Mandrake 7.2 my pcmcia card came back with this error: "* warning: insmod'ing module imm failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 479".When I leave the card in at boot I get:"cardmgr[207]:executing:'modprobe' cb_enabler' " Then it hangs,hard reboot needed. lsmod shows:

[newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Hello,installed the KDE2 rpms and all went well.I did a "rpm -Uvf *.rpm --test" and it came back with no failed dependencies.I then installed from text console outside of x.I then did a "rpm --rebuilddb" followed by "update-menus -v" Once I went to log in I found a whole bunch of system

Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice

2001-01-05 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Civilme, I would love to test the new distro,I have a dsl connection.Let me know what else you might require from me Dale Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-29 Per discussione Dale Kosan
SNIPPED. Whistler is not an update to ME, but an upgraded version of Win2k.As far a stability goes,I have a NT server at work wich has been up for almost 6 months,and a Win2k that was up for 7 until I rebooted for the hell of it,not to shabby.This is the norm for these two

Re: [newbie] scsi tape drive...

2000-12-23 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Thanks,now I can use the drive! Can I tar.gz to the tape using /dev/st0 ?

[newbie] re:scsi tape drive

2000-12-23 Per discussione Dale Kosan
I would like to see the scripts,could I schedule a cron job every night to do all the "dirty" work

[newbie] scsi tape drive...

2000-12-22 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Hello,how do I tar,gunzip files to a scsi tape drive? I have read the man page but dont understand them.Also,how can I find out what device name Mandrake 7.2 has given to the drive,cant find it listed any where.I guess I am not looking in the right place.Thanks for all your help...

[newbie] Merry.....

2000-12-22 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a great New Year...

[newbie] help...

2000-12-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
I downloaded and installed Chris's KDE2 from the site that has been showing up in this list lately.I did a --test first and all passed.I then did a rpm -Uvh *. rpm.Everything went fine till the end when it came up with a "cant find make file" When I went into KDE I don't have sound,the K Panel is

[newbie] RE:KDE2

2000-12-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Okay,I did not use source rpms,should I have? Can I fix the system with the command you mentioned or do a re-install and upgrade to the newest KDE2? I don't mind the re-install,just want to get this right.The site I downloaded from is ftp://nebsllc.com/pub/KDE_UPDATE/ is this the correct site?

Re: [newbie] md5sums

2000-12-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Yes,go to this site and download the program. http://home.worldonline.dk/~andersa/download/

Re: [newbie] RE:KDE2

2000-12-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Okay,should I use the srpms or the normal rpms? I have never used the srpms before,do I install with the normal rpm -Uvh or is the procedure not the same,sort of a newbie here!

[newbie] prompt.....

2000-12-19 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Can someone tell me how to get to a prompt when booting? I am running 7.2 with grub but at times I would just like to boot to a prompt.Thanks in advance...

Re: [newbie] prompt.....

2000-12-19 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Thanks Alan,very simple,should have figured it out myself.

Re: [newbie] prompt.....

2000-12-19 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Thanks Paul, another quick response : )

Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?

2000-12-11 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Not sure about the list but I have a Yamaha scsi burner that works in both Windows and Linux : )

Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-12-01 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Windows 2000 has it's own built in partition utility.Fat,Fat 32 and NTFS partitions can be made,deleted and formatted.

Re: [newbie] Software Installation

2000-12-01 Per discussione Dale Kosan
The file in question is for the free internet service,it will not run in Linux,Windows only

Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-12-01 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Win Me is not just 98 with upgrades.Real time dos is gone unless you install a patch.In order to get to dos with Me you need a boot disk.When you install a program that needs the autoexec.bat or config.sys Windows ME will create them,then when you reboot it will make entries in the registry or

[newbie] RE:NEWBIE

2000-11-30 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Dale Kosan wrote: Well,lets get this war going! I come from a Windoze 98,NT 4.0,2000 background,I love Linux,more stable than the above,but.When a company sells software as complete and it is beta.I think it is a true shame that Mandrake has let the other company make them look

Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and Promise UATA 100 Controllers]

2000-11-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
The 2.2.17 kernel will work with a Promise Ultra ATA 100 pci card,most likely not the onboard controller :( - Original Message - From: "Eddie Torres" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and Promise UATA

Re: [newbie] Problem with Telnet

2000-11-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Nothing wrong,I don't think you can telnet as root,security issue I think.I might be wrong... - Original Message - From: "Fabio Tang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:29 AM Subject: [newbie] Problem with Telnet Hello ALL Here I am having a

Re: [newbie] LILO error

2000-11-20 Per discussione Dale Kosan
snipped I am sure it is not good : (

Re: [newbie] group psychologist

2000-11-17 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Was I abused as a child,lmao - Original Message - From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:59 PM Subject: [newbie] group psychologist i have elected myself as group psychologist :)

Re: [newbie] group psychologist

2000-11-17 Per discussione Dale Kosan
OKAY,I WILL FIT IN, PROMISElmao... - Original Message - From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] group psychologist Dale Kosan wrote: Was I abused as a child,lmao u mu

Re: [newbie] supermount

2000-11-17 Per discussione Dale Kosan
I had same problem,installed with iso's from the web that I downloaded when they first came out.I went and downloaded them again on Monday and all is better than it ever was... - Original Message - From: "Bob Schmidt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and Promise UATA 100 Controllers

2000-11-17 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Well,I did not do anything,the install found it and away we went.One quick note, mine is a add on card, not built into the motherboard,is this what you have? - Original Message - From: "G Shaw" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 5:26 PM Subject:

Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and Promise UATA 100 Controllers]

2000-11-17 Per discussione Dale Kosan
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 and Promise UATA 100 Controllers] *Sigh* - mine's on the M/B, not a card. gS "Dale Kosan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well,I did not do anything,the install

Re: [newbie] Downloading with Netscape

2000-11-14 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Could be,that I cant answer.I just know I can download all Linux programs with IE 5.5 just by left clicking.On my Linux box with Netscape I have to right click,save as.When I left click,all the code scrolls by,have never seen this happen with IE

Re: [newbie] free used disk space

2000-11-13 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Try the command du from a command prompt or use the kde program Dale Kosan Tech Support Chi Corporation 26309 Miles Road #4 Warrensville Heights,Ohio 44128 Voice-1-800-828-0599 Fax-1-216-360-8301 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.chicorporation.com

Re: [newbie] $6.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version)

2000-06-20 Per discussione dale kosan
I think I made this offer to someone before and was publicly flamed for such a thought.I think if I did not download the above I too would go to Matt.. From: "Ralph Day" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] $6.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set

[newbie] HELP...

2000-06-17 Per discussione dale kosan
Hello,trying to install Mandrake 7.1.I am at part of install where it tells me to insert second cd,but the cd is locked in by the installer I would guess.How do I move forward?Thanks in advance. Get Your Private, Free

[newbie] boot partition?

2000-06-16 Per discussione dale kosan
Hello,am installing Linux Mandrake 7.1.I have two drives,one is Windows 98,second is for Linux.Where do I want to put the Lilo? Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-29 Per discussione dale kosan
No,it is a Panasonic,sort off.They are made by a company called Plasmon.The drive he has is a Panasonic,I know,I work for a mass storage distributor and we do sell that model. From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] Installing licq or kxicq

2000-02-03 Per discussione dale kosan
I am not sure what you might be doing wrong,but I have an easier way to go about this.Both programs are in the folder RPMS on your Mandrake cd.Use the package manager to install untill you get more comy with the tar gz format.All the files you need are on the cd.Also check out www.rpmfind.net