[newbie] scrolling screen

I just installed v10 and have found the "scrolling screen" Where do I turn that feature off, I HATE IT! thanks, normna -- Norman LeCouvie Norman LeCouvie Executive Director - Government Sector International Americas Sun Microsystems Inc. 613-787-5229 www.sun.com

[newbie] scrolling screen

I just installed v10 and have found the "scrolling screen" Where do I turn that feature off, I HATE IT! thanks, norman -- Norman LeCouvie Norman LeCouvie Executive Director - Government Sector International Americas Sun Microsystems Inc. 613-787-5229 www.sun.com

Re: [newbie] scrolling screen

tried that, could not find it there, it is S annoying, thanks anyways norman Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 08:38, Norman LeCouvie wrote: I just installed v10 and have found the "scrolling screen" Where do I turn that feature off, I HATE IT! thank

[newbie] 8.0 to 9.0 upgrade

I would like to update a Squid Server which has Mandrake Linux 8.0 and with Squid-2.3.STABLE4-5mdk on it. I have also been asked to put updated versions of php and apache on the machine. As this is being used by a school and it is some 50 miles from my home I feel I need to be sure I do have

Re: [newbie] ECS K7S5A mobo

Sevatio wrote: Have any of you used the ECS K7S5A mobo with Mandrake? Are there any known problems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have one with a 900MHz

[newbie] LM8.0 crash recovery

Dear all, I have a linux Mandrake 8.0 box which crashed yesterday when I tried to mount the iso image of for cd1 LM9.0 to a dir in / as root. An initial hardware reboot seemed to work ok, however at some stage it failed and the screen went black. Since then I cannot boot without using the

[newbie] partition

Hi, I'm trying to setup my Linux box using RAID. Is it possible to setup Linux RAID then xfs? Does software RAID means no xfs? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] /root

In 8.2 I can creat a /root partition on its own, but in 9.0 I can longer do that. When I try, I get a prompt telling me that /root should be with the root partition. Does anyone know if this is be design or bug? Can I still create /root on its own? Thanks. Norman Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] how to get write permission to a mounted folder?

fifner the dragon wrote: Hi, I made a shared folder (called J) on my other box(windoze). I can access it from /mnt/J using Samba. To read and copy from it is no problem. If I log in as root I can write to it. How can I write to it without logging in as root? Cheers, Fifner

Re: [newbie] LM 9 scsi problem

Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: I installed Mandrake 9 yesterday, no apparent problems. I tried using my HP 5p SCSI scanner today and xsane can't see it. If I do cat /proc/scsi/scsi both my SCSI devices are recognized. I have a CD burner set up as IDE-SCSI that had been working fine along with the

[newbie] mozilla plugin

the filename is. Would someone please help me in this regard? Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mozilla plugin

/j2re1.4.0_02/plugin/i386/ns610. I tried copying this file to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. But when I try to view the java page, mozilla crashes. Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] disk quota?

Hi, I enable Use Quotas on /home in webmin/system/Disk and Network Filesystems to Users and Group. But webmin/system/Disk Quota still cannot be enable or started? Would someone please give me some help? Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] password

locked resource passwd: Critical error - immediate abort Would someone please tell me how can I solve this? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] stock imap

Hi, Would someone please tell me if the stock imap server is any good. Does it support postfix? Or do I need cyrus? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Can I switch my IDE controllers?

Isaac Curtis wrote: Right now I've got my HP 9100 CD-RW plugged into Primary Master, Windows IBM Deskstar 30 Gig on Secondary Master with this Linux HD, a Maxtor 20, on Secondary Slave. I did this because I originally wasn't able to get either the IBM HD or the CD drive (I can't remember

Re: [newbie] expired password

How do I get that if I am using GRUB? I don't see the linux single on the menu. Norman - Original Message - From: _nast-mdk81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:10 AM Subject: Re

Re: [newbie] expired password

Please excuse my previous post. I did managed change the passwords. Thanks. Regards, Norman - Original Message - From: Norman Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] expired password How do I get

[newbie] expired password

Hi, My root password has expired. Is there any way that I can login to the system and change the password? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ISDN Card Mandrake 8.2

When you say : But the connection works what makes you think it is working? When i then click on the connect button it says it is connecting again, and comes with the same message (failed) and,,, yes the web browsers are not working.. This means it is not working ( or at least not

Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000

dfox wrote: I assume /dev/nst0 is used if you just want to append extra Well, it's used in conjunction with 'mt' to position the tape to the proper point. One can have index marks (they work like the ones on VCRs) so if I am at beginning of tape and want to fast forward to right after

Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000

Well guys I understand a lot more about tape drives now than I did 3 days ago. A pity more of the people who think MS means computing don't see how much more there is to it than re-installing screwed up DLL's, VXD's etc. I feel sure the great slew of ideas from just this one thread would open

Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000

software. Plus, Arkeia would need X, which translates to a pretty big system build before you could restore a tape. Tar can fit on a rescue diskette. Thanks, tar cvf /dev/st0 /home/norman did a backup of my home directory. I thought I would need some software to rewind the tape not realising

[newbie] HP Surestore 5000

Hi all, I have been given one of these drives. I have 3 different tapes with it. One tape is DDS another is DDS2 and the third is DDS3. It is connected to my Advansys SCSI Card which also has a Scanner attached. A scan of the scsi buses gives : scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0

[newbie] assign alias ip

Hi, I can't seem to be able to add additional ip alias to my eth0. Would someone please give me the right command for it? I tried, ifconfig eth0 add x.x.x.x netmask y.y.y.y but after /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart nothing happens. Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] system hang

LM 8.2 sometimes hang without any signs. The hard disk stop responding, keyboards dies, but the mouse can still move. I need to give my machine a power cycle. Which logs do I go through to obtain more information on the cause? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] How To Determine Webserver?

Go to www.netcraft.net - Original Message - From: Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: [newbie] How To Determine Webserver? How do you determine what server a particular website is using?

[newbie] pop before smtp

to this? Or is there an another email client I can use with support this feature? Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] USB printer

to this? Or is there an another email client I can use with support this feature? Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] USB printer

Hi, Sorry I posted the wrong question on my last thread. LM 8.2 detects my HP2200D USB printer during installation. But I cannot send print jobs to the printer, not even the test page. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this. I tried LPR, CUPS. But nothing went through. Thanks, Norman

Re: [newbie] pop before smtp

Just tried it. It does not work. I still get RCPT 550 error: No relay. Norman - Original Message - From: drwhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] pop before smtp On Sunday 28 April 2002 08:53 am, you wrote

[newbie] segmentation fault

fine. Does anyone know why? I don't think there's anything wrong with the hardware, as this machine works with 8.0 and 8.1. Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] dual boot with XP

Hi, I am trying to dual boot Linux Mandrake 8.2 with XP. XP runs on the primary disk, and LM 8.2 runs on the secondary disk. They are both on the IDE slot 1. I put LILO on hdb. Would someone please tell me how I can edit boot.ini to make it boot for both OS? Regards, Norman Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problems

Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble getting LM 8.1 to connect to the internet through my home LAN. My setup is as follows: - Machine sharing the internet connection: Win98 (running Wingate), ip 192.168.0.2 - Client: LM 8.1, setup through Mandrake Control Center with ip

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

Barran, Richard wrote: Morning all, I've received a very interesting Mandrake Community Newsletter this morning. I'm including here the two most relevant paragraphs: Even though all of us here at MandrakeSoft are excited about the upcoming release, we've also been distracted by

Re: [newbie] fonts too small

Damian Gatabria wrote: hi! does anyone know how to make fonts bigger for browsers? i'm finding more and more websites difficult to read ( my screen resolution is not that high ) and i can't find an option on any of them to enlarge the text Only on Konqueror, but it only makes buttons

[newbie] Quanta cannot start in Mandrake

/libkdecore.so.3 #3 0x40af8847 in _IO_2_1_stderr_ () from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 Appreciate anyone can give some help. TIA. Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] noarch?

Hi, I am trying to download some source codes for compilation. But it comes in two flavors, one is regular and the other is noarch. What does noarch stands for? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] block error and e2fsck

some advise on how to continue. Many thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] StarOffice Base

to do next. It seemed to be installing and yet I cannot see what I can launch so I can proceed to use it. Can anyone help please? Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Same install many PC's

that sort of question to be asked. Does anyone have any idea how I could go about this? Thanks. Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want

[newbie] user X resolution

from his PC using Exceed 6.1 only uses 800x600 on his PC. Now the screen picture he gets is all squashed somehow. What do I as an administrator do so that he can log on and have a nice 800x600 display resolution. Thanks in advance. Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Still LM8.0 Box crash/hang up ?

or do I have to stick with my extra PCI network card? If I have to get another card would not be the end of the world. Anyway, many thanks again to Civileme and Paul. Norman :-)

[newbie] XFree 4.1 from Cooker Installation

? Thanks. Norman

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Freezes

anymore? Norman

[newbie] LM8.0 Freezes

what is happening, which logfiles do I need to look at and what should I look out for? Please help, Cheers, Norman

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 and Promise FastTrack RAID 1

for your help. Norman civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/01 12:24am On Wednesday 20 June 2001 11:45, Norman Teferle wrote: I have posted a message with respect to my Mandrake 8.0 box with a Promise FastTrack Ultra ATA-100 RAID 0 - 1 controller a couple of days ago with no response. Scrolling

RE: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS

Tuan, many thanks. After spending 1.5 days trying to get my printer working from my Mandrake box I finally managed within one hour using CUPS. Cheers, Norman Tuan Duc Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/01 03:12am Well, The best way to setup is using CUPS. First, I assumed you installed CUPS

[newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS

address. From all the websites and howto's I see there are many different options for me CUPS, LPRng and so on. Can someone comment on my options please, eg. what is easy to set up? Thanks, Norman

[newbie] Promise Fasttrack100 Raid Card and LM8

comments welcome. Thanks Norman

[newbie] LM8-command not found

also resulted in an error message (command not found) Could anyone comment please? Cheers, Norman

[newbie] LM8-comand not found

Dear all, I have installed LM8 in a new PC and everything seems fine. However when trying to run perl or any other sh-scripts in my user environment in a terminal I get the message comand not found although chmod +x was set. Can someone help please. Thanks in advance. Norman

[newbie] inetd

Does anyone know if inetd has been removed from the Mandrake 8.0 distribution CDs? I can't find it except xinetd. Where can I find it? Regards, Norman

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't recognize PS/2 mouse

Did you upgrade your BIOS? And try setting PNP BIOS to no PNP. - Original Message - From: A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't recognize PS/2 mouse You also won't find a working

[newbie] Re: [newbe] Linux for Windows Installation Help

Hi Michael, Thank you for your comments. In the end I created a couple of linux partitions with fips2.0. That worked great. I also decided not to install lnx4win, but the full MDK7.0 version. Thanks a lot Norman "Michael N. Proffitt" wrote: I don't believe you want to allow

Re: [newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help

Thanks to Paul and Alan. I have managed to create a boot disk with rawrite. I can now also boot from the cdrom and get into the DrakX installation program were I encounter my next dilemma. What to do in the Setup Filesystems menu? Do I say OK when DrakX needs to resize my Windows partition? or

[newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help

installing DrakX. The computer then just hangs up in the boot process giving following message: VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 Has anyone encountered the same problem? Thanks, Norman

Re: [newbie]

mkdir /dosfs mount /dev/hd1 (if 1 is correct) -t mstos /dosfs Norman On 25 Feb 2000, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi, I have a drive that is formatted (fat16) that I use for downloading files to and then bring home to load on my linux-Mandrake 7.0-2 box (I have a real internet connection at work