Re: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space

1999-07-15 Per discussione J Mann
-- From: Chun-wah Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:48 PM hi I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB

Re: [newbie] No network connection

1999-07-15 Per discussione J Mann
-- From: FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No network connection Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 1:54 PM I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet

[newbie] Fwd: Re: [SATLUG] more networking help

1999-07-09 Per discussione J Mann
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [SATLUG] more networking help Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:42 -0500 From: J Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 09 Jul 1999, you wrote: Ok people, I got the new cable today and I'm having even more problems. I have 2 machines (192.168.0.1

Re: [newbie] USR Internal Modem

1999-07-09 Per discussione J Mann
On Fri, 09 Jul 1999, you wrote: I have a US Robotics Sportster 56K + Voice internal modem which I cannot get working. It is set up on COM2. It is -not- a Winmodem. I am wondering if anyone has any advice. I have tried addressing it as both cua1 and ttyS1 without any success. Sounds

Re: [newbie] Licq errors

1999-07-08 Per discussione J Mann
Dennis Podein wrote: Hello , I've installed Licq . It went pretty well , but ... When I try to connect - Online , I get this error message : Unable to resolve icq.mirabilis.com : No such file , or directory . Whats up with this ? I have tried to install Kicq , Kxicq , everything else icq

Re: [newbie] icq

1999-07-07 Per discussione J Mann
Yants wrote: Is it possible to run ICQ on Linux using WINE? If so, how..? There are plenty of ICQ clients for Linux. Surf on over to www.freshmeat.net and search for ICQ. -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Lack of security when booting in Linux single

1999-07-06 Per discussione J Mann
Ripcrd6 wrote: I read recently about people on the cable network being able to access other users computers if they had the knowledge of a sysadmin. Likely they were also using Linux to do so. They could see files and everything is a browse mode on other people's PCs. In the same

Re: [newbie] Window managers

1999-07-06 Per discussione J Mann
darkknight wrote: It can be done in two ways, which works best for you depends on how you start Xwindows. If you have Linux set up to boot to Xwindows (init level 5) then you should be seeing a screen with an dialog box for entering your username and password, just below the password box on

Re: [newbie] Graphical Login

1999-07-06 Per discussione J Mann
Whittaker, Kevin wrote: Thanks :) Yeah my tnt2 will handle that rez, looks the best anyways. I couldn't be more pleased with mandrake, it's become a great distro for me to learn on... If anyone is interested, nvidia has posted an x server for all their cards that includes support for the

[newbie] Window managers

1999-07-05 Per discussione J Mann
Hello, I want to use other window managers like AfterStep and Enlightenment. How do I change from KDE? I've looked at all the configuration screens, but where do I tell it I want AfterStep instead of KDE? -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com icq://21081443 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Slower Modem Speed in Linux

1999-07-05 Per discussione J Mann
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote: I have been living with netscape 'cos there are not many browsers on the market with its feature set. I am looking forward to a stable and usable mozilla or any browser (i am a developer and cannot use lynx exclusively cos i need to check graphics and

Re: [newbie] Window managers

1999-07-05 Per discussione J Mann
Axalon wrote: Ok how about, /usr/sbin/desktopcfg. Just kidding, desktopcfg is on your cdrom as Mandrake/RPMS/desktopcfg-1.1.0-2mdk.i586.rpm Well its not on my CDROM. But I did find another one that worked. Once I ran the program, Afterstep launched great. But now how do I get back to

Re: [newbie] Window managers

1999-07-05 Per discussione J Mann
Axalon wrote: Not sure off hand what the util you did use was, but if need be you can always give it "a slap in the face" and manualy edit your (~/.xinitrc || ~/.Xclients) startup files. /usr/X11R6/bin/kde I checked that too, but the program I used (called Start) didn't make a backup of

Re: [newbie] Resolution

1999-07-04 Per discussione J Mann
On Sun, 04 Jul 1999, you wrote: Tech Support, Hello, I just purchased Linux Mandrake "The Complete Operating System" v6.0 and I've had no problems installing at all, except one thing. My monitor or video card are not in the lists, I know the setting and set it up manually, but when I get

Re: [newbie] X screen resolution

1999-07-02 Per discussione J Mann
On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, jsm wrote: In Xwindows with Redhat you can change screen resolution with Ctrl+Alt + or - . It does not work with my Mandrake 6.0 KDE . How can I change resolution ? From my knowledge, when you install RH and Xwindows, and after it probes your video card, if you just

Re: [newbie] anymore updates?

1999-07-01 Per discussione J Mann
I finally got my Linux to use kernel 2.2.5mdk! Oh what a night!! Anyway, I followed the directions on linux-mandrake. Everything went perfect. My questions are: (1) The logo screen (with the penguin logo) isn't in color anymore, plus its not in the right resolution. (2) What other programs do I

Re: [newbie] Updating

1999-06-29 Per discussione J Mann
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, you wrote: Oh, and another question, does anyone know where a lot of the applications went that I installed? Do I need to run them from command line or what? Examples are lICQ, CD-Toast, and some various others... Click the 'App Finder' icon. It will put another menu

Re: [newbie] help with X11amp

1999-06-28 Per discussione J Mann
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, you wrote: By any chance, are you trying to use a Mandrake 6.0 RPM on top of Mandrake 5.3 or something similar? No, I haven't downloaded anything for RH 6.0. My problem went away when I unstalled 1.2.0 and installed 1.2.1. As per the readme file it said to download and

Re: [newbie] files needed!!

1999-06-27 Per discussione J Mann
Can anybody tell me which RPMs on the Mandrake CD contain libglib.so.1? I'm trying to install X11amp alpha 3-2 and I've done it before successfully, but its not working this time. I've downloaded glib-1.2.0 and gtk+-1.2.0 (files needed for x11amp) and tried to install them but both need the

[newbie] Re: need to set a path

1999-06-27 Per discussione J Mann
I just installed FreeAmp 1.2.3 for Linux. Good problem, but I'm having trouble. The problem installs in /usr/local/bin by default and that's where mine is. My question is how do I set a path to /usr/local/bin so I can just type 'freeamp /mp3s/*.mp3' instead of typing '/usr/local/bin/freeamp' to

Re: [newbie] files needed!!

1999-06-27 Per discussione J Mann
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, you wrote: install Mandrake/RPMS/glib10-1.0.6-6mdk.i586.rpm from your cd Found out what I did. I accidentally installed both version 1.0.6 AND 1.2.0 of glib and gtk+. And now I can't uninstall any of them. Jeremy