On Sunday 09 December 2001 10:38 am, you wrote:
OK, I am feeling a bit stupid right now! How do I build a source RPM? I
have been trying 'rpm --rebuild package.src.rpm', but I keep getting the
message 'package.src.rpm: no such file or directory'.
The package *does* exist. I installed it, and
On Sunday 09 December 2001 12:05 pm, you wrote:
This machine doesn't have SCSI support, to the best of my knowledge. Why
is Mandrake seeing two RW drives and why is it seeing a SCSI device?
This is a very common question, easily found in the archives.
The linux burning program, cdrecord,
I know this is a super long shot, but does anyone know of any of these? I
found one (Diondine) but it was closed source, cost money and wasn't so great.
Matt
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Saturday 08 December 2001 12:40 pm, you wrote:
i have been wondering, does the winex (or wine for that matter, never even
read up on either) require a windows install or dual boot? or just select
files from windows, or niether. i would love to play diablo and starcraft
and TFC, but i am
On Saturday 08 December 2001 02:58 pm, you wrote:
When I ping the linux from windows I get an ok message (100% ok, 0%
dropped) but when I ping from linux it keeps on pinging forever. Does
this mean that only one of my machines is misconfigured, and if this is
the case, wich one?
That's
On Saturday 08 December 2001 04:48 pm, you wrote:
When I try a cp /home/bill /mnt/windows I continue to get a 'omitting
directory' message and only files in the root of the directory are copied.
Is there a way that I can copy the entire directory and maintain the
directory structure?
by
On Friday 07 December 2001 07:44 pm, you wrote:
Dear All,
Thank you for your answers and help. I was installing my vmware 2.03 on my
LM8.1 and got a complaint about not having the correct module and they
needed to know what file my C ++ header files were in. I did not know the
answer to
On Saturday 08 December 2001 01:27 am, you wrote:
Hi list,
Being new, I'm sure I'm going to have lots of questions and stuff I just
don't like. However this dependency stuff when installing software in Linux
is making me nuts!
Take a number and get in line :)
Why in Linux does
software
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:57 am, you wrote:
Hello again,
Okay, I'm new to the Linux world but want to become dangerous. I am also
new to the world of Networking, but I'm still building my courage in that
field! I have a dual boot system up and running with Win'98 and LM 8.1. On
the
On Thursday 06 December 2001 05:08 am, you wrote:
Hello Matt,
Just noticed your answer to this post, and was wondering if you could
help me sort out a problem.
I've finally got dhcp, samba, bastille and nat(sharing dialup
connection) working on lm80, but just don't understand how to set up
From: Matt Koppelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am a new sysadmin for my ISP.. we have a horrible spam problem here, and
no one has done anything in the past to resolve it.
I have decent linux experience, but i wouldnt exactly call myself a pro..
:) i have been looking into blackmail, but it seems
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 08:04 am, you wrote:
Greeting from Poland Linuxmen !
I'm green. Can anyone tell me where to write my ip, mask, dns numbers to
connect to internet ? Which file, or maybe your example.
If you're in X, load up the mandrake control center. Then
I think my KDE has a memory leak, although I've not been able to find any
info on the possibility at kde.org. When I first turn on the computer, KDE is
using about 80MB, just now it was using 250MB (ouch!). I got those two
numbers from gtop. The memory usage builds up slowly over time.
I just
On Sunday 02 December 2001 09:54 pm, you wrote:
I know I had set this up right on a different CPU, but I can't figure
out what I'm doing wrong. For some reason I can't get my ~dherndon43/
directory to work. I'm getting a:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access
On Monday 03 December 2001 03:08 am, you wrote:
I just shutdown kde and looked at my memory with top, and despite all the
kde processes being gone the memory usage didn't drop by much at all. At
runlevel 3 with X/kde shutdown, and nothing but top being ran by me
directly, I had about 70MB
On Monday 03 December 2001 12:17 pm, you wrote:
Ed Tharp wrote:
this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have
to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a memory leak
(this ain't your win 95 box)
I don't think there is anything inherent in Linux
For what it's worth this problem
is addressed in KDE 2.2.2. It's part of the bug fixes listed at
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog2_2_1to2_2_2.html
Matt
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I just upgraded from kde 2.2.1 to 2.2.2. The install went very smoothly. I
downloaded the mandrake i586 rpms from kde's ftp site. I only had two failed
dependencies which I fixed, and then did rpm -Uvh *.rpm from the directory
they were in (kde was not running at the time) and away it went.
On Friday 30 November 2001 09:52 am, you wrote:
I compiled the .mdk package of xine 0.9.6 to play .asf files. However, it
keeps saying that the audiodriver (null) failed.
Maybe that package did not include any audio driver?
http://skyblade.homeip.net/xine/XINE-0.9.6/i686.RPMs/
This page has
Yikes. I just installed tuxracer --my first attempt at 3D gaming in Linux--
and the framerate is 1 frame per second at best. It's more like watching a
slide show than playing a game.
This seems to be a somewhat common problem? But I haven't found any solutions.
My computer should be able to
Never mind, I figured it out. Installing the nvidia drivers did wonders. I'm
pretty ignorant on 3D acceleration and computer gaming in general.
My gears demo framerate jumped from 250 to 800, so I guess it wasn't running
very well either.
Oh well, time to race! :)
Matt
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 05:27 pm, you wrote:
On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 15:06, Paul Rodríguez wrote:
I had this trouble some time ago as well (can't remember what version of
Bastille, and iptables I was running). I any case, I was advised, that
to get rid of that message, i can get rid
On Thursday 29 November 2001 08:21 am, you wrote:
On your Mandrake disc there are a whole bunch of CD burning apps. Here is
my take on them. It is purely personal others will have other opinions :-
snip
Don't forget the one that started it all, cdrecord. It's command line but I
actually
On Thursday 29 November 2001 06:26 am, you wrote:
if you don't see the nvidia splash screen when X starts, then they aren't
installed right. you can run an /sbin/lsmod and make sure NVdriver is
loaded, if not make sure you edited your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 correctly .
Under modules you need
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:07 am, you wrote:
Well, I'm new to linux here, and finally settled with Mandrake after
trying many different ones. However, I seem to have gotten stuck on my
cable modem configuration. I have att@home and should be using dhcp to
obtain my ip address.
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 07:07 pm, you wrote:
By the way, yesterday I wanted to restart the network
from the internet setup GUI, but it didn't work. I
found no better solution than reboot.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by you losing your connection. But one of
the two methods
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 01:25 pm, you wrote:
I have seen screen shots of people running this on linux and was
wondering where I could find it. Any and all help would be appreciated.
Are you sure it wasn't the Unix version? IE was made available for some
flavors of Unix, but not Linux.
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 11:40 am, you wrote:
Yeah, my big problem is I can't decide! Linux should come with just one
browser! That way I don't have the choice problem.
I'm always curious about different distros. I've only (briefly) tried RedHat
and Caldera. I want to get another computer
On Thursday 29 November 2001 04:01 pm, you wrote:
fistly lilo has set a defualt of 5 seconds to choose the desired os./ Can
this be changedto 30 secs or whatever I want?
the file you want is /etc/lilo.conf
in there is a setting for timeout. You can change that to adjust how long it
waits
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:07 pm, you wrote:
Santa just asked me what I want for Christmas. A Linux reference book,
of course. But which book? Dennis Myers has already recommended
O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell. Any other recommendations?
Stuff along the lines of Linux in a Nutshell or
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:52 am, you wrote:
On 28 Nov 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote:
I was able to get mplayer installed on my machine, from source, but I
wasn't all that impressed. Take a look at xine. Much better overall,
nicer gui, better playback, etc. And much
on 10/26/01 12:13 AM, Franki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All I wish to say is that the reason the US Judge wanted to split M$ into
two or
more companies was to split the OS off from the rest of their offerings.
So that the application M$ would be on even ground with everyone else
writing
on 10/26/01 10:03 AM, michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But that basically turns it into MS providing Windows as a charity to the
industry so other companies can compete on it.
Huh??
That would put MS in the position of providing Windows just so the industry
can keep going.
Why should
on 10/26/01 10:12 AM, Franki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for your comment on it being fine for M$ to use the kernel instead of the
API's then you havent been reading the thread on this, there are heaps of
reasons why that shouldn't be done. security realiability... etc..
It's hardly good
on 10/24/01 7:49 AM, Dan Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 06:10 am, Sridhar wrote:
What version of KDE do you have? KMail has had this feature quite some
time.
How about the ability to insert a signature somewhere other than the end of a
message. That was the
on 10/24/01 5:03 AM, Sevatio at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm just curious if any of you consider a TO: column as being important
for email clients. Why won't some of the email readers (like Kmail
Netscape/Mozilla) include this important TO: column? It would allow me
to quickly spot if its
on 10/24/01 4:25 PM, ivan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I was trying to Install Vmware 3.0 on my PC (dual boot with W2k).Setup
all vmware parameters,when i try to start the virtual m/c the boot
screen stops at LILO 21.5,what could be the problem and how can i
proceed further?
I had a
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 05:26 pm, you wrote:
If I could insert a signature in an arbitrary spot without cutting and
pasting, I'd be a happy emailer.
I'm not at my linux box right now, but I do know kmail has this feature.
It's in one of the menus when writing an email.
MENU
on 10/23/01 1:57 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5. You don't want to ever use Java. In a move against Sun, Java support has
been
discontinued in IE6.
Actually I dont ever want to use Java in a webpage. I hate java applets.
Most people forget or don't realize there's
on 10/23/01 3:44 PM, Dechao Wang at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody know what and where is the program that I can run windows'
applications from linux box?
There's wine, the windows emulator. It takes a windows application and
translates the calls it makes into something X can handle,
on 10/23/01 11:14 AM, Steve Borrett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's wine, the windows emulator. It takes a windows application and
translates the calls it makes into something X can handle, so you can run
the app right in X. www.winehq.com
smug
Just because I am in a pedantic mood,
on 10/23/01 3:02 PM, Robert Pena at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have hardly seen Mac crash but as far as multitasking goes I
get the impression it is slower than Linux and Windows.
What MacOS are you talking about, pre 10 or 10+? As a big time Mac fan I can
assure you Macs using 9 and earlier
on 10/22/01 9:49 AM, Ralph Slooten at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, why in mandrake do users all have a tmp folder in their home
directory? What is the advantage of this, and if none, how can I get rid of
it?
One use is when compiling your own programs. gcc will place temporary object
files
On Monday 22 October 2001 08:02 pm, you wrote:
I know that several distributions (Mandrake, SuSe, and
Debian) come in PPC flavours, but I sometimes wonder
if they will continue to find it worthwhile to develop
for PPC.
There's always MkLinux and LinuxPPC. MkLinux has Apple themselves
On Monday 22 October 2001 05:11 pm, you wrote:
On Monday 22 October 2001 02:50 pm, you wrote:
In reply to Eric Baber's words, written Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:07:10
+0100
Spoken like a true newbie. Linux and Microsoft do not mix.
Could we PLEASE be a little nicer to the poor guy.
They
On Sunday 21 October 2001 12:38 pm, you wrote:
Thanks Dennis. Since I have tiny firewall running, do I have to stop it or
remove it or both so that I don't risk crashing my system or will
InteractiveBastille automatically replace it?
As I understand it, Tiny Firewall and Bastille are just
On Sunday 21 October 2001 10:38 pm, you wrote:
I ran InteractiveBastille and got an error message that Bastille_Tk.pm
could not be found. A search of the entire drive turned up nothing for this
file. What does this file do and how do I create it?
That file drives the gui for setting up
On Saturday 20 October 2001 09:31 am, you wrote:
Eh...
See: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is
very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.)
Heh heh, I liked that line :)
Matt
Want to buy your Pack or
I installed Mosfet's Liquid rendering engine (very cool, makes menus semi
transparent ala macOSX). It works great except one feature was not available
and never being satisfied I decided to experiment a bit.
I launched the kde program kcmshell from a terminal just to see if I could
find out
On Saturday 20 October 2001 08:59 pm, you wrote:
|I installed Mosfet's Liquid rendering engine (very cool, makes
|menus semi
|transparent ala macOSX). It works great except one feature was
|not available
|and never being satisfied I decided to experiment a bit.
Could you please tell me
on 10/18/01 1:06 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter
signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude.
Conversely,
a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same
on 10/17/01 2:59 PM, Miark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about The GIMP? http://gimp.org/
Thanks to all who replied. I looked at the Gimp first, but it's not really
what I'm looking for. It looks like those types of programs died with 2D
games and the demo scenes. Oh well, vmware it is.
on 10/18/01 4:24 PM, Brandon Hutchinson at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Another good relatively new site for KDE themes is:
http://www.kde-look.org
Cool, thanks for the link. That site has got some good stuff. I can't wait
to go home and try out that translucent OSX engine out :)
Matt
On Friday 05 October 2001 03:15 pm, you wrote:
Not sure if it uses ncurses, but Star Trek is really cool. And there's
Snake (well, that's what it's called on cell phones :) ),
Thanks, nibble (the snake game) was what I needed. It dawned on me to stop
searching for linux terminal games and
On Friday 05 October 2001 10:50 pm, you wrote:
Hello,
I just started getting into Linux and I have two
questions:
1) How do I change the screen resolution size?
Right now it is at 640x480 and I would like it at
800x600. How do I do that?
Go to the Mandrake Control Center.
on 10/4/01 12:59 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, it DOES offer us a great example of the dangers of overzealous patent
and
copyright protection, which directly relates to the open source/proprietary
software debates.
Hmmm, their number check page doesn't appear to
Does anyone know of any action games that are done in the console (probably
using ncurses)? I mean games that use text characters to produce all the
graphics, you could run the game without X installed at all.
I keep downloading games that claim to be console games, compiling them,
then
on 10/1/01 10:05 AM, mik at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,
maybe this is more of a question for the expert, but anyways: what's the
deal with gcc-c++?. everytime i try to compile a c++ program i get messages
like c headers not found (while running configure) or strcomp not
defined (while
on 10/1/01 2:08 PM, Peter Rymshaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no make file but there is a file named
INSTALL. But typing make, as you would expect, says
there is none; and, typing INSTALL returns no such
command. It doesn't recognize INSTALL as an
executabe. (There is an asterisk
On Saturday 22 September 2001 14:01, John Clegg wrote:
for some reason I can't quote your message. this is regarding telnet working
at first but not after a reboot.
Go into the mandrake control center, it's likely on your desktop. Then system
services. See if you can find telnetd in there.
On Saturday 22 September 2001 15:16, you wrote:
I'd would like to try out Linux. But I dare not fulfil the installation
procedure on my IBM thinkpad T21, as the Mandrake ver. 8.0 does not
recognise the Thinkpad track-point. I have tried all mouse setting
posibilites of the installation
on 9/21/01 2:41 PM, Joan Tur at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What program do you use to read and write from the news lists? I'm thinking
on reading messages from Fido again... ;)
Do you mean what program do I use to access usenet/newsgroups? I use knode.
It's pretty good. I dunno if it will
On Friday 21 September 2001 17:43, you wrote:
I just got my hands on an Epson DYO dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive. (I
really wanted a 5.25 drive.) ANyway, I have no idea how to hook it up
to my system. It has a PCMCIA drive socket. I thought that was for
laptops. ANybody know how to hook this
on 9/20/01 8:09 AM, Randy Kramer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Energy Consumption:
This is what I've always wondered about. Does leaving a computer on all the
time save or cost more energy than just having it on when needed? Doesn't
starting a computer require a lot of energy?
My energy bill is
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 20:04, you wrote:
Hi,
For the internet, stick with RGB; most browsers don't support displaying
CMYK images (correctly or at all). Also, most browsers support a very
limited colour palette, so even though RGB covers a smaller portion of the
colour spectrum,
on 9/18/01 9:04 AM, Terry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
We use a bunch of windows programs that I was curious as to whether there are
any alternatives to these in the Linux community. The programs I was mostly
interested in alternatives are:
Adobe Photoshop
The gimp, which is
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 23:15, you wrote:
Hi,
NO professional in ANY publishing/graphics field would EVER use RGB
when making films for pre-press/production. RGB (Red Green Black) has
major limits pertaining to decent reproduction of the colour
spectrum.
rgb is red green blue. It has
on 9/17/01 10:20 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but I'd recommend switching to a journaling FS ASAP. You should
have already.
What exactly is a journaling file system? What does it mean that it
journals?
Also, with 8.1 around the corner, what does it take to upgrade? If I were
On Saturday 15 September 2001 13:33, you wrote:
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:02, Jon Doe wrote:
Ok, at one time I had apache up and running and serving pages. For some
reason now I always just get a:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /index.htm on this server.
On Saturday 15 September 2001 13:38, you wrote:
Can anyone recommend a pcmcia network card that works well with Mandrake
8.0?
My D-Link DFE-650 works perfectly under mandrake 8.0. It's about $40. I chose
it off of the pcmcia compatibility list, and I'd assume most cards on that
list will
On Saturday 15 September 2001 17:38, you wrote:
I set up postfix pine on Mandrake 8.0. I can send messages out but I
can't retrieve anything. Does anyone have ideas?
postfix only sends mail. You need to use fetchmail to receive mail.
From a command line try fetchmail.
on 9/13/01 2:44 PM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was saying that all resolutions are supported except
for 24bpp.
I could run 32bpp in both linux and windows as well as
16bpp and all lower settins but Not 24bpp.
Heh heh, I feel pretty stupid. My computer (running the riva
on 9/14/01 8:55 AM, Paul at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most people in Europe that do not have access to ADSL or Cable internet (like
me). Using a phone line already costs money, local phone calls are charged
between $0.60 and $1.00 per hour (as far as I know)
What I mean is that the US is
on 9/14/01 9:58 AM, Randy Kramer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt Greer wrote:
Actually that's not true. Here in Chicago local calls cost by the minute, as
much as 9 cents per minute. This is probably true of New York and LA as
well, but I don't know for sure.
Matt,
Thanks
on 9/13/01 8:15 AM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Denis HAVLIK
Hi, folks
While I do agree that recent airplane flights which missed
their intended
destinations and bumped in WTC
on 9/13/01 12:24 PM, Gary Traffanstedt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have three machines running Mandrake. Two are pc's and one is an iMac. All
three run 32 bit at high resolutions. The iMac is at 1024x768 and the other
two have 19 monitors so I run them at 1280. I have had problems in the
on 9/13/01 1:40 PM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have had/have 2 different Riva 16MB cards.
These cards have never supported 24bpp.
This is by design, not because of the OS being used.
My card supports 24bpp fine in Windows, although it may be 32bpp. Are you
saying that
On Thursday 13 September 2001 20:25, you wrote:
I'm scared to death I'm going to hit Lock
accidentally and then not know how to get back.
Just enter your password.
And yeah, I always accidently hit logout in the K menu. Having the most
destructive element being placed first in a menu is
on 9/13/01 5:48 PM, Paul at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In reply to Mark's words, written Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:44:09 +0100
Looks like your hardware is not happy with more colors. So either you have to
do with 800x600 or the 8bit technicolor experience.
Can't recall everything. If you are not
On Wednesday 12 September 2001 23:17, you wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:09:02 +0200, you wrote:
Considering this is a Linux newbie list and I have managed to delete
over 150 email regarding the US TERROR ATTACK can we please drop the
subject on this list. some of us do have limited email
on 9/11/01 8:23 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey folks,
Eric S. Raymond, the writer of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and co-founder
of
the Open Source Initiative, has written a little article explaining how to ask
questions over Internet fora like mailing lists,
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 10:11, you wrote:
coz everybody assumes if u can get that far u already know enough to answer
ur own q
But if you can get that far you're also smart enough to realize you need
help. If someone follows those guidelines then that shows they're asking
their
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 16:33, you wrote:
My bad! That's weird, I'm using the reply button (rather that reply all)
in Mozilla. Good thing I have nothing to hide eh?
The mailing list has set up a reply-to: header so hitting reply will stick
in the ml's address. If you select to view all
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 22:42, you wrote:
Someone's in for a world of hurt! Right about now, Mass Religious Suicide
is going to start looking pretty good to those idiots. You can bet that the
U.S. is about to give them a major Wedgie. Then guess who'll be dancing
and celebrating on the
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 22:51, you wrote:
we might as well face it...
a drastic action has to be taken..
and they will fight dirty and hide behind childeren, and women, and the old
will we fight thru that?
Bush said anyone harboring the suspects is considered equally as guilty, and
on 9/10/01 12:41 PM, Mr Cripps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's my main question - if I install on F: and the disk is reformatted by
Linux, how will I get Windows to eventually claim it back? Will it be easy,
or am I committed? Will Win still recognise the HD as F:?
When you install
on 9/10/01 1:46 PM, Mr Cripps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Matt - sounds fine to me, although scary. I guess I'm just going to
have to go ahead and install.
Check for what Michael Viron had to say. My instructions were incorrect.
Sometimes we think we know more than we really do :)
I
On Monday 10 September 2001 18:00, Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
whats with the 'message.footer' file attachment?
it's this below...
(Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to
http://www.mandrakestore.com )
right there, that little advert.
or is it just an OE thing
On Monday 10 September 2001 22:32, you wrote:
I am looking for the kernel 2.4.7-3.12mdk.rpm (recommended in
MandrakeUpdate to cure security hole) where can I find it? -Paul
Rodríguez
Did you by chance mean kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.i586.rpm?
If so, it's at www.rpmfind.net
Matt
Want to buy
On Sunday 09 September 2001 20:24, you wrote:
are you using M$ fdisk? or linux fdisk?
Oh, whoops. Forgot about MS fdisk. It's linux fdisk,
whichever is installed with Mandrake 8.0
Matt
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I have a hard drive which was previously used for
Windows that I'd like to convert over to ext2. But
when dealing with mkfs and fdisk, I'm getting a couple
of contradictions.
When I first ran fdisk it reported there was one
partition and a fat32 file system on the disk, which
at the time was
on 9/7/01 8:51 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I've already seen several replies to this, so you can see
each individuals needs vary quite a bit.
For me many graphic design programs don't exist on Linux or aren't on par
with their Windows/Mac counterparts. I primarily use
on 9/6/01 10:27 AM, Jon Doe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't beleive I have never needed this up untill now, but what is the
keyborad equivilent of paste? In windon't it was Ctrl + v
are you in console mode or using a terminal emulator in X? In terminal
emulators, pasting is typically the
on 9/6/01 10:50 AM, Randy Kramer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but in console only the middle button works, and I
usually have to have the (mouse) cursor very close to where I want the
paste to occur.
Are you refering to true console mode where X isn't running at all? I can't
get the mouse to
on 9/6/01 11:17 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 06 September 2001 10:43 am, Matt Greer escribió:
on 9/6/01 10:27 AM, Jon Doe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't beleive I have never needed this up untill now, but what is
the keyborad equivilent of paste? In windon't
on 9/5/01 7:00 AM, Charles Punch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stability gets top priority here too, and I'm just talking about desktop
single user stability. MS doesn't even have enough of that for me.
Sometimes Linux users on this list get accused of bashing MS, when in
fact all they are
on 9/3/01 10:13 PM, Warren Post at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading
it. I know I need to get more RAM, but how much is enough?
Box 1 is a Celeron 366 MHz with 32 MB, box 2 is a K5 100 MHz with 16 MB.
Both will be used for public
on 9/4/01 11:18 AM, Mark Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Warren, I know we are all on a budget but RAM is dirt cheap right now... you
can get a 256MB for about $33 now...
That's true for RAM intended for recent computers. But if a computer uses
SIMMs and such, it's not so cheap. A 128MB
on 8/31/01 1:13 PM, Tim Holmes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well I have no idea why .*rc files are used. But I know they're
basically personal config files.
rc stands for resource configuration.
Matt
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On Thursday 30 August 2001 01:50, you wrote:
Hi
I was setting up network and it asked if my IP address is Manual,
DHCP, or BootP. What is the difference? I know what DHCP is in
Windows terms (dynamically assigned IP address), so that's the same
thing, right?
dhcp isn't a windows thing.
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