Re: [newbie] Install CDRW on M 8.1 ?

No specific drivers are necessary. If it is an IDE drive you will have to enable SCSI emulation if you want to use its burning capabilities. The documentation that comes w/XCDROAST is excellent. Being more of a SuSE user I don't know whether or not KUDZU would set up the proper settings. Just

Re: [newbie] Computer name

/etc/HOSTNAME On Mon, 01 May 2000, you wrote: If I remember correctly there is a place in the linuxconf for changing the localhost name. Bambi Robert Trettel wrote: Hi, Ok here is a good question. How do I change the name of my host ( now called localhost )?? Also, my

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Greetings, In tryinf to get SAMBA up and running on MDK 7.0 I have run into the following situation. When I try to get it going with"/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start" I get the following error: [root@linux /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb: [: =: unary operator

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disregard On Tue, 02 May 2000, you wrote: Greetings, In tryinf to get SAMBA up and running on MDK 7.0 I have run into the following situation. When I try to get it going with"/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start" I get the following error: [root@linux /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb

[newbie] SAMBA Howto

Greetings, The attached is an acrobat file of a SAMBA HOWTO written by a linux user from Canada. Unfortunatley his web site is no longer available. This HOWTO helped me greatley in getting SAMBA up and running. I hope it is as helpfulto y'all as it was to me. Jim samba-howto.pdf

Re: [newbie] Is digest available?

Zoltan Siposs wrote: Hi All! Is there available to get newbie-letters in a digest? If can, please tell how to order it... Bye, Zolix To sign up for the digest you can select it as an option on the Linux-Mandrake support page. The same spot you subscribed to this list.

RE: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1

Jeepers, I came here for info ang get a friggin' soap opera to boot. What a discusion group!!! At 10:12 AM 4/20/00 -02-30, you wrote: I certainly do not think I am sharper, better, smarter, less destructive than anyone else. That's what I was trying to tell you if you care to listen.

Re: [newbie] Supermount

Thanks! At 09:29 AM 4/19/00 -0700, you wrote: Jimin a console, as root, type: supermount disable Alan Jim Adams wrote: How do I safely remove supermount from fstab?

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Test

[newbie] Scripting

I followefd the instructions from the Mandrake Users web page for setting up an rc.masq script that is triggered from rc.local at boot time. The rc.masq looks like this: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.masq ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.masq fi This is what was added to the rc.local file after the last "fi"