N/M, I just discovered answer to my own question:
rm -r directory_name
Jason Pierce
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On 09|07|2000| at 07|59 PM| Jason Pierce wrote:
RHello, How can you rmdir a directory that isn't empty? Or is there
Ranother command to do this? I have a directory
--
Out of curoiusity, what are all of your's preferred Window Manager? I tend to
switch between KDE and Gnome. I have tried Fvwm, but I am not too competent on
this OS to have full confidence in my command line ability.
Jay
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote:
my laptop says designed foe windows 98, well i run linux on it too i just
have a couple bugs no drivers for modem (its not a win modem windows had no
clue what it was till i got drivers for it) and my sound card (crystal sound
fusion card),
last bug the
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
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On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Anybody have any suggestions for a good Video card. I am running 7.1.
Thanks,
Chris Kelly
Registered Linux user 185775
--
Get a Voodoo3 PCI, it works great for me, plus it is cheap.
Jay
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
http://www.mrsnooky.com
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Jay
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
Didn't Spock say this on one of the Star Trek movies?
--
Mark
** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299
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On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Jason Ashman wrote:
Jason:
While many internal modems are winmodems -- especially the $39.95 blue
light specials -- not all of them are. I have a Zoom 2919 ISA internal
modem that works just fine. (I disabled the PnP feature and jumpered it
to COM4, but I
With the release of the 760 chip from AMD, Athlons will use DDRAM.
Jason Pierce
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On 09|04|2000| at 07|55 PM| Abe wrote:
Ras far as I know there are no athlon motherboards that actually can use
RDRAM.
R From my research I'm pretty sure that RDRAM
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
winmodem???!??!???!
this is supposed to be linux bud
now windows wont allways identify a modem off of a port so this is where you
manually install it using the disket that came with that thing. use add hard
ware and specify what it is
as far as linux
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
any ISP will function under linux except perhaps aol.
all you have to do...is configure your kppp app correctly.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
where is there an isp for linux, and dont send me to whatever.UK
im referring to the states, near chicago, in
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
well i have compuserve in a 3 yr contract (shivers at self stupidity) i was
just trying to figure out if i could get it working on linux, it would make
it easier then downloading with windoze and opening the file with linux
--
Compuserve IS AOL. They have
, if people are writing software to allow AOL to run on a linux
box, someone is/has probably developed some software to allow you to connect with
CompuServe. Search www.freshmeat.net for CompuServe.
Jason Pierce
multiple
PCI UDMA/100 controller cards. Is it possible to use more than one PCI
hard drive controller card?
Thanks, Jason Pierce
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Why not? CompuServe can be made to run on an OS/2 box. If you
look hard enough, there are even software that alow you to connect
to AOL under linux, though I don't remember where. So, if people
are writing software to allow AOL to run on a linux box,
RJust my $0.02 (Florida residents add 6.5% Sales Tax)
R
RRegards,
ROzz.
6.5% ?!?!? Us here in TX are stuck with 8.25%
Jason
Dear Mandrake users,
I am a poor PhD student trying to download Mandrake 7.1. I am using
windows
2000 an IE5.5 and am having difficulties with the ftp server resetting
the
connection (5 minutes seems to be about the maximum I can hope for)
and
downloading the link
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Hello I use Linux4Win with windows 98 and had no problem with the install.
I think you should upgrade to windows 98 and you will have better luck.
--
How dare you recommend somebody upgrade to Windoze 98...you should be tarred,
feathered and quartered. :)
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Hi!
I've recently bought Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and installed it on
my computer.
I used the partition magic (included with the 3- cdrom set)
and because I can't get the peripherals to work, I want to
take Linux OFF the computer that I installed it on and get
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, you wrote:
I am having troubles loading up Linux on my Win 98 machine
because of the size of my Hard drive. I was wondering if by
putting in a new hard drive (slave) my problems would go
away?
Stephen
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Jason, not to be too personal, but if you can't get Linux to run faster,
longer and do all this with less effort in Linux than Windows, you are the
one with the problem, not the O/S you're comparing.
I would recommend a steady diet of intelligent, meaningful
--
My problem has been solved, I figured it our myself. It was obvious! Thanks
anyway.
Jay
"Every man dies, but not every man really lives."
http://www.mrsnooky.com
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Jason...
A problem solved is great, especially if it's figured out for yourself.
But this is a 'newbie' list, so what not share the obvious for those
that might be 'more denser' Like me. So far I've over looked the
obvious on a pretty regular basis
--
Hey Linux users. I am a Microsoft convert, Windows SUCKS!
This is my problem, it probably is simple to fix, but nevertheless it is
bugging me. I downloaded CoffeeCup HTML to edit my webpage with, tar xvzf the
whole nine yards...But, it installed into my /home/"username" file and not into
img for RH) that can do a SMB install? If
not, is there any way to do an NTFS install from a Win98 Box? I have
TomsRtBt, but have seen no ntfs export options on it.
Any help _greatly_ appreciated, Jason Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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want to check the allow(s) and deny(s).
HTH, Jason Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Does the linux port of AIM require X? I saw nothing about requirements for
it on aim.com.
Jason Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 08|13|2000| at 01|13 PM| Wilson wrote:
RI couldn't get GAIM to work for me
Hello everyone...
I know this is probably a long shot, but has anyone here configured
their Mandrake boxes to work with a DirecPC Satellite Dish?
Thanks
,
Jason
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/ windows 98 has the
rest.
The video card is built into the mother board...
Any help you could send this newbies way would much be
appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason
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Dear all,
I re-start my computer today. While I try to login from the KDE login
screen, the screen just flash once and seems the X reset, then bring me
back to the login screen. I try to login as a normal user , or root,
both
same. I can login to the text console but just can't login to my KDE
Hopefully I'll get some good insights on this.
Windows appears to have taken a massive poop on me over the weekend, and
since I really haven't booted into it for quite some time now, I think I'm
going to redo my system linux-only.
Here's the question: I have a total of 10.1G HDD space, on 2
can I install the latest release of enlightment now, or should I wait for a
Mandrake release date
I have the same problem with Boot Magic not being able to recognize or
start Linux, though I haven't figured a fix for this yet. I believe you
can get lilo to run again by booting into linux with your boot disk,
setting up your /etc/lilo.conf, and then running lilo.
stathis gotsis wrote:
i
itializing cdrom message and
kicked out with a cursor prompt. Am I missing something here? I would
think having re-made the partitions and boot disk would have been enough
to clean out the last attempt at installation?
Jason Dryer
ere, though I expect this is the root cause for my other
problems. Any help/suggestions?
Jason
Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Jason Dryer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 10:48 AM
Subject: [newbie] Corrupted boot table
Are you mounting the audio cd
If you are just trying to listen to a standard audio cd you are not supposed
to mount it just run your cd player application and push play
- Original Message -
From: "Mohammed Bhimji" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 28,
Gtk_WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 at /usr/bin/perl-
install/my_gtk.pm line 139.
install exited abnormally
Jason
Jason Ponton
Semiconductor Group, Texas Instruments Inc.
13536 N. Central Expressway MS947, Dallas, TX 75243.
Email : [EMAIL
I am quite new to the Linux platform, but so far i
love it. There is one small problem i have two cd drives one dvd and one
burner. The system always recognizes and mounts properly the standard
drive. The secondary cd burner it never recognizes and i'am a little bit
lost and how to fix this
i found a similar problem with my system and i
found it was the monitor setting. I went and reinstalled Linux and choose
a generic multi-sync monitor in the install wizard. It fixed the
problem.
- Original Message -
From:
Chris
To: linux
list ; tehc support
Sent:
this is my problem. However, where can I get this
file?
More, I think I 've selected the telnet package while install, but
seems the "in.telnetd" 've never been in my machine. I would like to
ask, is Mandrake 6.1 doesn't ship the file with us?
Thank you very much!
Yours,
Jason Miu
you can also do 24 and
32 bits.
jason
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Computer Renaissance - Cincinnati
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ht
I had the same problem when installing on my desktop with a 17GB drive, I
trial and errored until I found that the largest I could go was 8000 MB's
or there abouts I guess with the EXT2 partition.
Jason
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lf
in KDE..
Give it a whirl!
Later,
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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*When God shuts down Windows, he opens Linux.*
I get mine from a windows 98 machine by using winipcfg. You could connect
on someone else's machine if need be. All of the information will be
there after connection. This is of course assuming you've checked the
web page of you ISP for the information.
Jason
What kind of error are you getting with Netscape?
You will need to get your ISP's DNS IP # from your ISP. There is a place to
specify them in the Kppp setup menu.
Good luck,
Jason Elwell
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote:
hi i installed mandrake
its great
the modem works it dials out
How can I get KFM to save a file that I want to download? Everytime I attempt
to D/L a file it asks me which program I would like to use to open the file.
How can I specify a directory to save the file to instead?
Thanks,
Jason Elwell
connector which runs directly to your sound card, check on that.
Jason
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A+ Certified Technician
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
telnet/ftp/http
cr.dyndns.org
Computer Renaissance - Cincinnati
email: [EMAIL
I'm pretty sure what you're talking about is done with CRTL+ALT+Fx keys
now. I know that switches "desktops" of a sort. I'm new to this world,
so I'm not sure what they're called...
~~~
Jason Wojciechowski
Hampshire College
AIM: DoctaWojo
E-mai
Thanks. I've got things running smoothly at 800x600, which'll be good
enough for now. I'll fiddle more later to see if I can do better. Now,
on to network configuration. sigh Hope this works :-)
-j-
~~~
Jason Wojciechowski
Hampshire College
AIM
I know it doesnt work for everyone, but have your used the "sndconfig" utility
yet? The program autodetected/setup my card.
Good Luck,
Jason Elwell
On Wed, 27 Feb 2036, you
wrote: in installed mandrake but my sound card does not seem to work. I
don't really know what
int, I get a message similar
to" Device lp0 is busy/unavailable."
I am out of ideas now. The weird thing is that I was working fine with PBM and
now it wont work with neither!
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks
Jason Elwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for a week, and it doesnt even have
color support!.
Good luck,
Jason Elwell
On Sun, 09 Jan 2000, you
wrote: Is the hardware list on the mandrake
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3a little out of date? I'm
planning a conversion to Linux soon and have seen my Yahama 6416 listed on as
b
I have the same problem with my "el cheapo generic card". It seems that some
windows/boxs are just programmed not to fit. Im using 640x480 at 24 bit color.
I have gotten quite used to using ALT+Left Mouse to move the window around.
Sincerely yours,
Jason Elwell
On Sun, 09 Jan 2000,
can I get to Linux?
I want to re-install Windows to get some work
done. How can
I re-install Windows? It asks for a MS-DOS partition.
How do
I do this?
Please direct to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you,
Jason
remove
Works like a charm !! thank you so much for the help. Next, updating
Netscape..
jason
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote:
My hosts file is fine. I did remove the search servername line in the
resolv.conf and that fixed the ping problem.
I still can't telnet in. Does the standard install
Hello,
Try setting your speed and duplex settings static. i.e. 100Mbs full
duplex instead of Auto detection.
After I did this my 100Mb switch flies!!
jason
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sorry can really help you but I remember reading something about mtu's
on samba which I
Got the error Too Many Mounts
when trying to mount HDA8. HDA5 is the only other HD mount listed, other that
root and swap. Suggestions? I could really use the HD
space.
My hosts file is fine. I did remove the search servername line in the
resolv.conf and that fixed the ping problem.
I still can't telnet in. Does the standard install of Mandrake 6.1 have
both the server and client side
apps for telnet?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject: Re: [newbie]
Sorry about the HTML, I'm a bit too used to windows. I'm a VERY new
Linus user. I'm still working on my first install. Anyway, I've attached my
fstab file, take a look and see what you think. PLease keep in mind that
even for a newbie, I'm a linux idiot.
Thanks, guys.
- Original
, but if I do a ps -ef |grep
telnetd it isn't running.
I can ftp into it just fine?? Any help appreciated.
Also if i 'ping hostname' it won't ping, if i 'ping hosname.xxx.com'
it works.
Where is the DNS stuff at that I need to change for that to work..
Jason Bowne
How/where does one get Quake for linux??
Speaking of sound, how do I change/load drivers from the KDE Iface?
Yup, this guy is really new...
On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Yeah I tried it as root. Any other possibilities? Thanks.
At 11/8/1999 9:52:00 AM you wrote:
On Mon, 08 Nov 1999, you wrote:
Thanks John and
i successfully mounted a share from a 95 machine. i think im using the
wrong fs to view it with becasue any directory that has spaces inbetween
words, linux inserts 040 example: "c:\redhat iso" would be "\redhat\040iso".
which i dont mind, but i cant change directories within
ok this is hwere im at... im running dhcp and im trying to connect to share
from a win95 machine. wheni run smbmount it keeps trying to add the
localhost.. 127.0.0.1, which is drawn from /etc/hosts. but im on dhcp..
can someone provide some help here
how do i change screen resolution in kde!
Thanks. I've really never thought of a seperate boot partition, but that can
make life alot easier. How big should a boot partition be? I'm assuming 100
megs will be enough, but if not could someone let me know.
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, you wrote:
Petey wrote:
I've got a quick question I
What is the easiest way to configure dial up networking
to
connect to an ISP using 6.0. I still haven't
figured out
where the display properties are to change the size of
the screen.
Thanks for your help,
Jason
In some of the messages I have been reading there is mention
of determining which OS to boot with. Mine will only boot
on Linux. There is no choice. I did not partition the
whole
hard drive to Linux. I believe
windows is still there.
Jason
,
Jason
Cunningham
remember the name BOGOmips. bogo as in bogus mabye? different processors
give wildly different results. an amd 233 will give a much different result
when compared to a pentium 233. don't worry about it.
jason
-Original Message-
From: Martin White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent
they computed the score wrong.
They should have an extra point under software. That gives Mandrake the
highest score!
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Pedro Timoteo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 9:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] About Linux
what does your /etc/resolv.conf look like?
also, why use fetchmail? won't kmail or something else work for you?
jason
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 5:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Reverse DNS?
I've
Can anybody point me towards a good explanation of how to use .htaccess
files in apache?
Thanks!
Jason
in console, type "statserial" for each port (cua0,cua1cua2cua3).
these are com 123and 4 in windows. using modemtool from consle will let
you set a link from whatever cua you choose to /dev/modem
so you can select it in Kppp or what ever ppp program you use
also use setserial for changing the i/o
I've had the same problem, and the fdisk /mbr wouldnt work for some reason.
in winNT magazine i found an article that actually gave you assembly code to
type in debug that wiped your mbr
it was pretty cool :)
jason
-Original Message-
From: Lyndon Lininger Sr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
i go gunzip file.gz
then if it ends in tar, i use
tar -xvf file.tar
-Original Message-
From: -=Memphis=- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 7:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Extracting GZ File
How do I extract or decompress a gz file?
For example if
i had a 56k cardinal isa modem that i could never get to respond in kde.
even tho statserial said it had a modem on cua3. now i have put a 336
isa in there and statserial says its on cua2, but the ppp program still
gets no response from the modemthis is the only thing holding me
back from
when that happened to me i needed to type in the root password, and then
type e2fsck /dev/hda1
Jason
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 8:29 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] i hope
runx? you mean startx?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 4:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] one more time!
when i type in "runx" at the promt, a messages says no command found or
something to that
Whenever I login to Linux, every 5 seconds a message pops up sying this:
eth0: transmit timed out, status e426000, CSR12 00050cc, resetting...
What can I do to stop this? What is going wrong? Help! I'm using the Tulip driver for
my ethernet card. I have reinstalled 3 times already and am
I think I may have IP forwarding turned on. But I'm not sure. Whats the
best way to find out/disable it?
Thanks,
Jason
I have used modemtool to set cua0 to use,
I've tried adjusting the volume settings in modem commands from Kppp
I've setserial to configure the ports
all that happens though is the modem will be ready, then try and set the
speaker volume, forever. It won't get past that part...
I've even tried the
I don't know if you care or not, but Quake 3 runs very well on my voodoo 2,
and that is supported quite nicely.
jason
-Original Message-
From: Martin White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 7:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Voodoo3 support
i have been having an exceedingly difficult time configuring my modem it
is a 56K V.90 Cardinal modem
please help me
it is an ISA modem
when i try to dial it will say "modem ready"
and then "setting sound level"
and do nothing else...
it is set up for plug and play (all jumpers off)
but i can easily change that if i need to
Did you say that you had turned off pnp? If you have, then try re-enabling
pnp and using isapnp tools available at
http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ . Follow the directions to
create an isapnp.conf and the you should be able to get your sound working.
-Original Message-
There is no isapnp.conf file to work with. Whenever I run
isapnp it does
nothing except tell me the usage i.e.isapnp configfile
I don't know what the command is to create an isapnp.conf
file is. I am very
new to Linux and it's all kinda greek to me. As far as I know
this is the only
I have. You need to get the newest glibc and gtk? libraries. Read up on it
at X11amp's web site.
The version I have of them is something like 1.2.0...
-Original Message-
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Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 2:11 AM
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or not? When
you find all that out, go to
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.html That shows all supported
hardware for Mandrake. If your stuff checks out, sure you can run it.
Jason Abbott
jason (dot) abbott (at) avlsci (dot) com
-Original Message-
From: Usman Malik [mailto:[EMAIL
Come on, doesn't anyone use Linux to read this mailing list?!
Nope. I'm at work where everything is run on NT. I guess that means I
should probally be "working" right now too :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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it. Any ideas are
appreciated.
Jason Carrick
WebMaster/Tech. Support
ION Systems, Inc.
314-937-9094
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Hello
all -
I'm
happy to have a working Mandrake system on the first try - except I can't get
the video to 800x600. I'm stuck at 640x480 8bits - making the KDE too
small to work with... sometimes i can't see the ok
buttons!
When I
set this up (using Linux - 4 - windows) and tried using
Hello
all -
I'm
happy to have a working Mandrake system on the first try - except I can't get
the video to 800x600. I'm stuck at 640x480 8bits - making the KDE too
small to work with... sometimes i can't see the ok
buttons!
When I
set this up (using Linux - 4 - windows) and tried using
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 17:35:53 -0500
William Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sorry I kinda barged in before with that Diamond Stealth question,
Mandrake does seem quite nice, keep up the good work people...
I should have kept my old video card around tho..G
I enthusiastically agree!
Hello everyone, just ran an install of Mandrake, however, does anyone
have the info necessary for configuring Xwindows for a Diamond Stealth
II G460 video card?
Thanks people...
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