Try the same thing I sent to the list earlier:
"I think I answered this for somebody else yesterday.
do an ls-l on your cdrom
you will find that it is a link to some other filename
and the other name does not have the necessary permissions.
whatever name the file points to (--) do a chmod on
At 09:40 12/10/2000 +, you wrote:
Apologies for the silly question in advance, but I have found this a bit of
a riddle. I have managed to install Mandrake 7.2 deluxe on my machine, but
when it reboots, it does so straight into Windows 98se and not Linux. Could
anyone tell me what I have done
At 12:05 12/10/2000 -0600, Dennis wrote:
Whenever I use an editor like gedit i get the error message seen in the
attached screen shot. Hope it's ok to send something like this, it's the
first time i've tried and I don't know how resource intensive it might be
for
others to recieve.
--
It was actually me that originally wrote
One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click
when a single click will do. For those of us
who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I
think the Linux way makes more sense.
So it's only kde that does it. Good! I'm glad that
One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click
when a single click will do. For those of us
who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I
think the Linux way makes more sense.
Another bad habit of MS is always having to say
"yes you may" whenever you want to print something.
I hope Linux
At 12:24 AM 12/04/2000 -0600, Abraham Pinzur wrote:
If you're willing to spend $30, you can download Partition Commander
URL?
- Av -
--
Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav
/snip/
And attached a .vcf file. Please turn off your .vcf generator.
Any modern version of WordPerfect will read them.
Probably MS Word will read them. (You obviously must
run Windows to do that, or maybe Wine works?) Try
StarOffice. I don't know if that works or not, but
it's free. --doug
At 01:51 12/03/2000 -0600, you wrote:
Hello list
Anyone know where I
Someone on the SuSE list told me how to solve this:
do ls -l cdrom (or whatever your mnt file is called).
It very likely points to something else. The output
looks something like this:
ls -l cdrom
cdrom - sdc1
change the permissions on whatever the file that is pointed TO.
I made mine 444,
All may not be lost. If you can run a floppy version of Linux, or
an older (manual) install, use Linux's fdisk to set the partition
information for that old DOS partition to be fat32 and "active" or
bootable, or whatever they call it, save what you have done, and
reboot. You _could_ get lucky.
"The Cube" --Corel's email journal for Linux users-- which came
out just a few days ago says that they are actively working on a
new Linux release. For what it's worth, that's what it says.
At 11:06 AM 11/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
I also read an article that says Corel is thinking about
I am presently running another distro than mdk, so I'm not
familiar with grub. Why would one want to use grub instead
of the usual LILO, especially now that LILO can load anywhere?
--doug
At 19:07 11/24/2000 +0100, Paul wrote:
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote:
Ok, here today's
At 14:00 11/23/2000 -0700, you wrote:
/snip/
i have just recently tried out ApplixOffice and posted a brief review and
some screen shots on my web site. Applix claims (i can't really say for
sure it is or isn't) a Linux native program, not something ported. i found
it mostly useable... a few
A year or so ago, I asked on one of the lists about LinuxCad, and at
that time received a reply from someone who was really torqued about
it. He said that you had to buy all kinds of add-ons, and that it
was really buggy. He was so p.o.'d he offered to send me his copy!
Now I know that there is
And how are you going to be able to tell when the CD in the
box at Borders or wherever was pressed? H? Particularly
without opeing the box!
At 03:21 PM 11/14/2000 -0600, you wrote:
Dear friends:
Good news!
I am happy to report that I was WRONG. I just heard from Kevin Loane at
Macmillain.
At 07:51 AM 11/08/2000 -0500, you wrote:
What is the difference between the ext2 and ReiserFS filesystems?
What are the pros cons of both?
I going to be doing a fresh install on a computer, and want to find out
which I should pick.
What I have read on the various lists and URLs is the
At 08:01 AM 11/01/2000 -0700, Jason Cunningham wrote:
When I installed Linux for the first time I wiped out my Windows
Partition. How do I re-install it under Linux. I am using ver 6.1.
I want to be able to use both Windows Linux. My Windows OS
was 95.
Thanks,
Jason
Make a boot floppy for
At 09:47 AM 10/30/2000 -0500, someone wrote:
Hi,
/snip
I've tried several times to
log in under root, and use the printer configuration under DrakConfig, but
now I can't get the printer to print out a test page! I was wondering if
that might be because there were jobs in the print queue that
Sorry, wrong list! (I had asked a SuSE question here.)
I think you're asking on the wrong list. Try the "expert" list.
Probably most of the folks reading here do not even understand
the first of your questions! (I speak for myself, of coourse.)
--doug
At 11:48 AM 10/25/2000 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to Linux but I cut my teeth on SVR4 so
At 08:08 10/23/2000 +1000, Rod Baxter wrote:
Running in safe mode will slow your disk access down a lot. Run defrag from
within windows and it will be much quicker. It might even cure your problem.
In safe mode windows is not very smart! If you need to use windows,
consider going to windows ME,
At 10:10 AM 10/16/2000 +0200, someone wrote:
I have a Compaq Presario 5726 (unfortunately), and ReiserFS have proved to
be the ONLY partitioning system that is stable enough, and with enough
errorcorrection - systems to make my machine reliable.
The problem is that i somehow loses information
I'm not sure I understand your question, but what if you use a
Linksys BEFSR41 router as your firewall? Then connect the
various computers to the router. Will that work? (I'm not
into any computer games outside of the occasional solitaire or
Windows Pinball (really well done, I think!)) But
When you set up your Linux OS, it should have found your ethernet
card, and it should have asked you if you have DHCP, which practically
everybody has. You say yes, or whatever the correct answer is, and
the installer will do the rest for you. Perhaps your ethernet card is
not really
I ran Mandrake 7.0 and it automatically found the LinkSys and set it up, and
I was on the net without doing anything. I have since installed SuSE 7.0 on
the same machine with equal ease. (I'm DHCP to an adsl.) How to config it
manually is beyond my capability, since I don't understand the
At 11:28 AM 10/03/2000 -0400, someone wrote:
hard drive light is a big indicator
It's not much of an indicator if your computer is on the floor,
as mine is. I agree, some kind of wait indication would help,
but better optimization would help a whole lot more!
In a message dated 03-Oct-00
At 06:50 PM 10/01/2000 -0700, someone wrote:
Okay,
Of course the best way to for you to do this is with ifconfig. type man
ifconfig for the instructions. But given that you seem to lack an adequate
understanding of IP routing maybe the best thing instead . . .
/snip/
start with the basic host
Find a distro that has the old text installation on it
(RH 5.2, for instance) and run that. When you get to the
option for fdisk, delete any and all existing partitions of
size or type. Don't forget to "save" the results. You
should then see that there is the whole disk available
to partition.
If there is still a manual install on the CD, then use it. When you come
to fdisk, use fdisk to delete all partitions (except your Windows, if you
have that on the same drive) and save the results. Now shut down, and
run your install routine. I had a problem like this with some distro
(I think
Please never send attachments to the list. I just have to go and
find it and erase it. (If I would run it, it might be a virus.)
At 12:32 09/21/2000 +0800, L. H. LOO wrote:
Greetings from a 'lurker'.
I think there is typo in the message below, please cross check with this
from PCWORLD,
What is the GR key? I don't seem to have one on a standard
American keyboard. --doug
At 09:21 09/21/2000 +, Carolina Kohler wrote:
Hi,
Thank you for your help, all of you. But non of the things you told me
helped,
I must have a strange keyboard. :(
I tried all possible combinations and at
Does anybody know how to write umlauts and ess-tsets
in Eudora for windows? The ALT commands always bring
up some kind of window having nothing to do with
fonts. I don't know where else to ask this, so pardon
me please. (If I could get mail to work in Linux,
I wouldn't be using this. Maybe
I don't know what "peanut Linux" is, but most distros have an install
routine that will make your partition and write the ext2 fs on it. If
you have some kind of minimum size Linux (judging by the name) you
could still use RedHat or Mandrake install disk to partition and write
the fs, and then
When I ran RH Linux 5.2, the only one I ever got mail to work on,
I could use the alt + xxx to get special characters, just
like I could do in WordStar so many moons ago. I.e., alt +241
(on the number pad) gives the plus/minus sign. I can't do it
in Eudora, unfortunately. I wish I could. I
LILO itself remains on your Linux fs. It writes a little modification to
the
boot sector of your bootable drive (whichever you tell it that is). The
modification allows you to tell your machine what bootable partition (on
any
drive) to boot up.
When you start the install, the program will ask
LILO itself remains on your Linux fs. It writes a little modification to the
boot sector of your bootable drive (whichever you tell it that is). The
modification allows you to tell your machine what bootable partition (on any
drive) to boot up.
When you start the install, the program will ask
At 21:27 09/08/2000 -0400, you wrote:
That's waht my sisters boyfriend says. He installs cable for @home.
Nevertheless, my cable is ridiculously variable. As high as 150K and as low
as 500k on a daily swing. Like clockwork everynight between 3 and 10pm My
conneciton is as slow as a 56k dialup.
You could still use RPM. From a terminal window:
$ rpm -Uvh foo-2.0-1.i386.rpm
--doug
At 12:47 09/09/2000 -0500, you wrote:
KPackage and rpmDrake aren't in the menus, there's no
configuration-Packagin, and they don't work from the console. Do i have to
re-install Mandrake?
-Original
I hedged an answer yesterday. It will probably work.
But here's the scoop from the horse's mouth:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3
Good luck. --doug
There's a review in (or linked from, I forget which) LWN--Linux
Weekly News--by theDukeofURL about running Abit's Gentus Linux,
ver 3.0, on a KA7-100 board. Apparently the installation went
reasonably smoothly. I'll find out for myself pretty soon--I
just bought one of those boards, and it
I would go to Linux and run fdisk. Bring up the partition list and see
how the "missing" partition is typed. I would guess that for some
reason it is no longer marked as a fat32 partition. If that's the case,
then change the type so that it is, save the change, and reboot.
DO NOT CHANGE
Stop trying to load Linux from Microsoft! If you bought the
Mandrake package, you have a boot disk. Use it! If you bought
the program from Cheap-Bytes, or thereabouts, or if you downloaded
the program from the Internet, there is a boot routine on the CD
or on your download. If you don't
What you are looking at with all those funny symbols is __binary__
code, i.e., what the compiled source looks like. What you want
is the __uncompiled__source__ as the man said in his reply. Then
if you modify the source, you will have to recompile it before
you can run it. Hope this is a
My Italian is not good enough to answer in your language.
The Reiser fs keeps copies of data before writing new data,
so it can be restored to some semblance of usefulness after
a disk crash (due to power loss, etc.) It's supposed to be
a little slower, but if you have to fsck, it's supposed
wine [/path] /filename.ext
i.e., wine /mnt/dev/hda1/aclt/acltwin.exe
would mount and open autocad lite. I have had problems
with the files directory associated, but the program opens.
With more work, or copying the necessary files to a directory
in Linux, things should work better. But that's
Whoever you are: DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS TO THE LIST. NOT EVER!
Of course I erased it. I'm not crazy. I don't need any viruses
or other gadgets. DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS. NEVER!
At 18:34 08/29/2000 +, you wrote:
For anyone who hasn't seen this, it really is quite intersting
My Italian is not very good, but I think that you asked if you
could replace the ext2fs with the Reiser fs under 7.1. Yes, you can.
Or if I read it wrong, you can do it the other way. Tell the diskdrake
what you want. Both options are available, AFAIK. I can't tell you in
Italian, but the
If your disk is VFAT, Linux will think the fs is on partition 4. So you need
to set up your fstab to look for (frinstance) /dev/hdc4.
At 09:40 PM 08/14/2000 -0700, you wrote:
I had to subscribe again in order to get any of the emails again. Any help
with the zip drive would be great. I have a
My first attempt to reply to this (from work) bounced.
I'll try again from home. Since I emailed it to myself,
I will try and clean up the stuf, but no guarantee.
If your disk is VFAT, Linux will think the fs is on partition 4.
So you need to set up your fstab to look for (frinstance)
At 07:47 PM 07/29/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Today I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (Maximum Linux
Disk) on a 3+ gig partition that used to hold a useless
Win98 installation.
/snip/
. One thing that blows me away is how clean
and sharp the display *looks*. The only glitch I have
noticed is
I have done so at times. What happens, is Windows converts some of
the dots in filenames to underlines. Apparently RPM doesn't care.
But you have to tell RPM the name the file actually has on your system.
I.E., if it has underlines rather than dots, then when you invoke RPM,
use the
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