Re: [newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD

2001-09-13 Per discussione George Petri
On Wednesday 12 September 2001 23:08, Mr S Ganesan wrote: dear sir, Could u kindly give me the site from where i can download MK linux 8.1? I don't believe that 8.1 is out yet. When the *final* release is out, go to www.linux-mandrake.com or www.mandrakesoft.com. It is very big (2x650mb) if

Re: [newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD

2001-09-12 Per discussione George Petri
On Monday 10 September 2001 00:07, George Petri complained about Mandrake 8.0 expert-mode graphical installation not even prompting for the 2nd CD :). btw, I made a pure reiserfs 600 mb / partition and a 64 mb swap. I was looking at /root/ddebug.log and found this: * step `miscellaneous

Re: [newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD

2001-09-09 Per discussione George Petri
On Sunday 09 September 2001 22:59, you wrote: It depnds on the packages you choose. Likely you didn't choose anything that was on the second disk. I wanted to install DosEMU and TiMidity and Penguin Command (2nd CD) but they weren't even one of the choices. I've installed and re-installed

Re: [newbie] How to change default login group

2001-09-08 Per discussione George Petri
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:03, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:59, George Petri wrote: I know this is a very, very trivial question but for some reason I can't find the manual for it: How do I change the default login group for a user? I've looked in /etd

[newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD

2001-09-08 Per discussione George Petri
A friend of mine burnt me a copy of the 2-cd version of mandrake 8. I did a full install (expert mode, medium security) and it *never* asked me to put in the 2nd cd (mandrake 7.2 does). Do I have to manually install everything on the 2nd cd (rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2/*.rpm) or did I

Re: What is a Gateway? - WAS Re: [newbie] Internet Problems and [expert] wuftp server is unresponsive

2001-09-08 Per discussione George Petri
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:53, etharp wrote: that gateway is for the computer you are on, so the gateway would be the IP your ISP assigns via dhcp, the gateway to the client computers (the rest of your home network that is connecting to the Internet) would be the linux box eth0 IP.

[newbie] How to change default login group

2001-09-04 Per discussione George Petri
I know this is a very, very trivial question but for some reason I can't find the manual for it: How do I change the default login group for a user? I've looked in /etd/passwd and man -a passwd but have found nothing relevant. Currently, if I log in my group name is the same as my user name.

[newbie] Asking too many questions!!!

2001-08-24 Per discussione George Petri
Sorry everyone but I queued a lot of messages in my outbox than my drafts so a few too many messages got sent to this list. Sorry! George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] tuxracer getting bad framerates

2001-08-24 Per discussione George Petri
Just a guess but have you tried running X in 16bit? Is X running in the same video mode as Tuxracer (640x480???)? Hope it helps, george On Saturday 25 August 2001 13:31, Jeremy Davidson wrote: I finally got Tuxracer to work -- had to tell RPMDrake (Software Manager?) to install the mesa

Re: [newbie] user X resolution

2001-08-24 Per discussione George Petri
On Friday 24 August 2001 03:43, Norman Teferle wrote: Hi there, I have got a Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack installation and would need some admin help please. How can I set up the screen resolution for a specific user. The PC Monitor where Mandrake is installed uses 1024x768 and all users so far

Re: [newbie] Query: How to enable chooser in GDM, KDM, XDM under 8.0?

2001-08-24 Per discussione George Petri
I have been having significant problems with the chooser as well but AFAIK: Setting * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser In /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess seems to have no effect in XDM. Keep the Xaccess file like it is -- with that line -- i.e. the default settings

Re: [newbie] Strange Disk Access Messages

2001-08-13 Per discussione George Petri
On Sunday 29 July 2001 01:29, etharp wrote: I don't think so On Saturday 28 July 2001 11:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I was accessing (find command) my E: a while ago (hdb6), and I got this: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hdb:

Re: [newbie] Who is nobody?

2001-08-13 Per discussione George Petri
From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Who is nobody? Actually, you need to check /etc/shadow for the passwords. However, you will find that most of the ones you are talking about have an * in the password

[newbie] Internet Problems

2001-07-20 Per discussione George Petri
Hi! I recently set up a network and fooled around with my networking config files and now DNS lookups don't appear to work :(, which explains why I have been recently using Outlook Express to send emails... Basically, I can connect to the Internet with no problems but once I'm online, I

Re: [newbie] Internet Problems

2001-07-20 Per discussione George Petri
- Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems -- /etc/resolv.conf (note: I use an isp

Fw: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems

2001-07-20 Per discussione George Petri
oops, forget to send to list! - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems Check out your resolv.conf You should have before you connect

Re: [newbie] Internet Problems

2001-07-20 Per discussione George Petri
I'm using Windows 98, the DNS server is there but the Default Gateway section is blank! Why is this? Thanks again, George - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet

Re: [newbie] mouse in X

2001-07-10 Per discussione George Petri
On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:40, Willy Sutrisno wrote: Have you tried mousedrake? I didnt install it, and may i know whats the use of that prog. oh ya, by the way. if I shutdown the x server and press the startx command again, my mouse will work fine. only when I load X at the first time after

Re: [newbie] Help~! Help~!

2001-07-10 Per discussione George Petri
On Saturday 23 June 2001 01:31, Wing Min Ho wrote: Help Me! 1. when i 1st time install Linux Mandrake 7.1, i got no problem. But i dont know how to uninstall it. There are several ways to do this -- here's one: You need a partition tool such as DOS' fdisk or Partition Magic or even Linux's

[newbie] KDM won't start anything other than KDE

2001-07-07 Per discussione George Petri
Hi! Recently, I upgraded my Mandrake 7.2 system (running XFree 3.3.6, with nvidia 128 zx chipset) to XFree 4.0.3. When the computer booted up into KDM, I got my usual choices (i.e./e.g. KDE, Gnome, IceWM, fvwm etc. etc.). But now, no matter which one I select, it boots into KDE...(with the

[newbie] What does Load Average mean?

2001-07-04 Per discussione George Petri
Hi! I continually see something called a Load Average as a statistic for servers, ftp sites...and even my machine :) But what does it mean? The output from uptime tells me this: 11:50pm up 2:48, 2 users, load average: 0.49, 0.55, 0.51 So is this saying that my system is being loaded

Re: [newbie] What does Load Average mean?

2001-07-04 Per discussione George Petri
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 10:33, Paul wrote: As ffar as I know it is the average number of jobs in the run queue over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes. The numbers displayed are an indication of how many processes were competing for CPU time at any given time averaged over N minutes. Paul So

[newbie] What is the MFT?

2001-07-04 Per discussione George Petri
Hello everybody! Sometimes when I type mount, I get this: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 973M 874M 50M 95% / /dev/hdb81020M 358M 662M 35% /home /dev/hda8 806M 575M 231M 71% /mnt/d /dev/hdb6 15G

Re: [newbie] Groups within Groups

2001-06-30 Per discussione George Petri
to do with the groups??? HTH, Thomas Adam - Original Message - From: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: n6tadam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Groups within Groups Hello again! I'm sorry but I don't know what you mean by assign

[newbie] Groups within Groups

2001-06-27 Per discussione George Petri
Is this possible? Thanks, George

Re: [newbie] Groups within Groups

2001-06-27 Per discussione George Petri
group, not that I'm aware of. If you mean, can a user be part of more than one group, then yes they can be. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:52 PM 06/27/2001 +, George Petri

[newbie] What is nsmail?

2001-06-27 Per discussione George Petri
Hi! I've just noticed a new folder in my home directory, called nsmail. What made it? What is it for? And do I need it :)? Thanks, George

[newbie] How to use the joystick

2001-06-23 Per discussione George Petri
Hi! I know this may sound trivial but: How do I enable the joystick? I have an integrated ES1373 sound chip on my motherboard and I plug a cheap analog Radioshack joystick into the sound port. I am using OSS in Mandrake 7.2 (2.2-17 kernel), at the moment. Thanks, George Petri

Re: [newbie] Windows Shutdown Problem in Linux?

2001-06-11 Per discussione George Petri
root4 Mar 30 16:03 reboot - halt* Thanks, George Petri Nope, more likely it is your chipset. Some KT133 and KT133A chipsets have a problem about halting/rebooting, especially on FIC AZ11 motherboards, limited to specific runs. There may be others as well that we don't know

Re: [newbie] Who turned out the lights?

2001-06-06 Per discussione George Petri
manufacturer but still within the limits of my monitor (VX700). Thanks, George Petri

[newbie] Who turned out the lights?

2001-06-04 Per discussione George Petri
time I boot into Linux. But why does this happen in the first place and how do I fix it, permanently? Thanks, George Petri

RE: [newbie] Sound Card Probe Problems

2001-05-25 Per discussione George Petri
On Fri, 25 May 2001 19:12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some odd reason while installing linux it did NOT probe for a sound card and if it did it didn't find it it's a Sound Blaster Pro. And for some reason i can't find a place in linux to setup my sound card. Were is the conf for sound