Re: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake

2000-09-07 Per discussione R J Booysen
type smbmount as read the last line. it tells you how to use mount to mount samba drives - Original Message - From: "Izak Fourie / IIS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 7:25 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake Look at the man page

[newbie] exe files in linux

2000-09-07 Per discussione Paul R
Is there a way to run ".exe" files in linux? -Paul R _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

[newbie] Rpm designations

2000-09-07 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: Rpm designations Can somebody explain the difference in .i386 and .i586 designation in rpms Sometimes you have a choice and I'm not sure but I think that this is referring to processor class. I have a AMD K-6 II 400 and I think the .i586 is ok for that processor? Somebody educate me

[newbie] Dual Processor Support

2000-09-02 Per discussione Donnie R. Shelton
that that was not the problem, but needless to say.. I don't even know where to start. So far I really like Mandrake, but I have to have the dual support. Anyone even know where I can start?? thanks!! Donnie R. Shelton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] ESS Audio still not working

2000-08-31 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Ooops! earlier message is right, it's "sndconfig" not soundconfig. Sorry, I got verbose there and let my fingers take over from my brain. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julio C. GutierrezSent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 2:14 PMTo:

RE: [newbie] cannot connet to internet

2000-08-31 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] cannot connet to internet Hi, from the KDE desktop click on the internet link to bring up Kppp box. Click on setup and then in the little window it should show what you named your internet connection. Like Earthlink or what ever. If nothing shows click add if something is

RE: [newbie] error on boot-up

2000-08-28 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] error on boot-up Try one last thing, at the prompt, type just linux or just failsafe and hit return. That about uses up my help knowledge on this subject J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marcia Waller Sent:

RE: [newbie] Detecting Zip drive Modem

2000-08-24 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Detecting Zip drive Modem Go to the linux-mandrake homepage and click on tutorials, there is some very good help on setting up a modem in Kppp. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, August 24,

Re: [newbie] System failure

2000-08-18 Per discussione R J Booysen
Run fsck. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 1:14 AM Subject: [newbie] System failure Hi to all Last night, during my Linux session, we had a power shortage in our town. And today, when I tried to reboot, I had these

Re: [newbie] newbie-saving into floppy

2000-08-18 Per discussione R J Booysen
Try unmounting it in command prompt mode then remounting it. - Original Message - From: "Marcia Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 7:12 AM Subject: [newbie] newbie-saving into floppy Dear all, Usually I have no problem with opening my floppy

Re: [newbie] Win Modems Again!

2000-08-18 Per discussione R J Booysen
Will Linux pick up the modem automatically on startup? - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 7:52 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win Modems Again! On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, R J Booysen wrote

Re: [newbie] I REALLY NEED MY MONITOR TO WORK!!

2000-08-18 Per discussione R J Booysen
Try taking the refresh rate down - Original Message - From: Chris Courtade To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:50 AM Subject: [newbie] I REALLY NEED MY MONITOR TO WORK!! Hey, how's it going. So I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.1

[newbie] Win Modems Again!

2000-08-17 Per discussione R J Booysen
I suppose people cringe when they hear about problems with win modems, but I need help desperatley. I want to convert fully over to Linux, but I need my modem up and running first. Whenever I try and connect I get a modem busy signal. Even when I change the device from the /dev/modem to

RE: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-16 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive There was an excellent help a while back on this list. Look in the archives and search under zip and you should find the answers I used to set up my zip drive. I would give you the data now but am at work on a win machine and don't have the access. Just

RE: [newbie] Second hard drive

2000-08-16 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Second hard drive Two replies and both are right. I set it up on the secondary (ide1) so it is hdd as the secondary slave. Sorry for giving out the wrong info when asking for help. Only serves to confuse the issue. I am going to download diskdrake and try that for

RE: [newbie] Problems w/Netscape 4.73 Mandrake Updater

2000-08-14 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Problems w/Netscape 4.73 Mandrake Updater http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/NByName.html you will find the 4.74 here. I d/l'd it and it has the strong encryption too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Cindy Bartorillo

Re: [newbie] Differences of versions of a distro release distro families

2000-08-03 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Given that there are different major groupings of linux distributions (Red Hat, Debian, ), and that different release versions are not directly comparible (like RH 6.1 vs. LM 7.0 which I understand to be basically comparible--using the same kernel revision, similar versions of major

Re: [newbie] Differences of versions of a distro release distro families

2000-08-02 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Given that there are different major groupings of linux distributions (Red Hat, Debian, ), and that different release versions are not directly comparible (like RH 6.1 vs. LM 7.0 which I understand to be basically comparible--using the same kernel revision, similar versions of major

[expert] Alert about how domain names are changing

2000-07-25 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Brian Livingston's column in InfoWorld has a rather frightening revelation about ICANN, the body which ultimately controls many internet domain names, is making changes to how they do business. For the details see http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/07/24/000724oplivingston.xml He gives

Re: [newbie] Kingston nic card question

2000-07-22 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
looking for the Kingston KNE110TX nic, and I did not see it, I read on RedHat or something that it simply takes a tulip driver, I have had both the KNE100TX and the KNE110TX work with Mandrake. I never had to do anything beyond the ordinary install, but some people have had trouble. Michael

Re: [newbie] Windows v Linux/ HTML v text

2000-07-22 Per discussione Hameed R Meslab
Frank Nazario wrote: DITTO ! im with u in this too. lets just go linux not windows bashing Mike Tracy Holt wrote: You're a tad late on that, this thread has pretty much ended in the last day or so - except for the few stragglers out there ;-) Mike Am

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Netscape/password

2000-07-14 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Netscape/password Good question, on my machine it is the ISP password, that's where Netscape goes to get mail. In thinking about it I would say that the password should be what is required to connect to the POP3 or IMAP. So, it may be either the ISP or the mail

[newbie]un-suscribe

2000-07-07 Per discussione Eduardo R. Santilln
Please, un-subcribe me from the list.Thanks

[newbie] Obtaining accented characters

2000-06-30 Per discussione D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Yes, yes, I know this has to be easy. In fact, I've been several places in the past couple of days that _say_ that it's easy. But nothing tells me how to do it. Running vanilla Mandrake 7.0, trying to compose a document inside KLyX, how do I obtain an

[newbie] trying to HD-install 7.1

2000-06-24 Per discussione James R. Canning
Hi, I apologize if this has been asked before (I'm sure it has-) but: I downloaded the entire mandrake 7.1 directory via cuteFTP, from the tucows site. I saved in to a W98 HD and tried to do a HD install from it, after making the HD-boot floppy. Every single time, it quits after the package

[newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition to Linux - how to fix

2000-06-23 Per discussione M. R. N. Weston
This email is a warning and solution that I hope will help someone out there. Also included (of course) is my fix! Symptom: After installing Linux Mandrake 7.1, Windows can't read any FAT drives in the extended partition. Further description: Computer that I was installing on had a 13G drive

Re: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition toLinux - how to fix

2000-06-23 Per discussione M. R. N. Weston
Here's an even BETTER solution. Don't install Linux on anything other than it own partition. That includes Extended DOS partitions. If you have to use Partition magic to resize your DOS primary partition and create another primary parition which is where your Linux installation will go. I

Re: [newbie] $6.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version)

2000-06-21 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Hey! Let's get real here. He's a guy offering to do a few friends a favor, not a vendor going into the CD business. A dozen people take him up on the offer and we all get a warm fuzzy about how tight the Linux community is. 1200 people take him up on the offer and it will go away. :A quick look

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Install problems ThinkPad 760EL

2000-06-18 Per discussione R. D. McCallion
Hi all, Just wanted to send a quick thank you to everyone that helped out, and to finish the thread for the benefit of those searching the archives. As with most problems the solution was simple enough, it was simply a matter of running a different install batch file:

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Install problems ThinkPad 760EL

2000-06-17 Per discussione R. D. McCallion
Hi all, I've been trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my ThinkPad 760EL. The CD and floppy drives are swappable and can not both be installed at the same time. As a result I am unable to perform the standard CD install using a boot floppy. I have tried several other methods, without any

Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE 100tx problems w/ mdk7

2000-06-17 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
re-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias sound alsa alias eth0 tulip -- Michael R. Batchelor - Industrial Informatics Instrumentation, Inc. Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside.

[newbie] Installation problems on ThinkPad 760EL

2000-06-16 Per discussione R. D. McCallion
Hi, I'm having problems installing Linux-Mandrake 7.0 on my IBM ThinkPad 760EL. The BIOS does not support booting from the CDROM and since it is not possible to have the CDROM and floppy drive installed simultaneously, I can not perform the standard floppy boot CD install. I have attempted

Re: [newbie] SAMBA

2000-06-15 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Check out the man pages for smbmount and smbmnt. This pair should do what you want. I have, for some time, been trying to figure out how to use my Linux box to access files and printers on my NT and Warp Server networks. The obvious answer is SAMBA.

RE: [newbie] XFree86 Setup Question

2000-06-14 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] XFree86 Setup Question Try setting on the AOpen P128 card, I believe that is the right designation in the list. That is the card I have at home and Mandrake listed it although it did not find it on the install. When I picked it from the list and use a 16bit color and

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Install problems ThinkPad 760EL

2000-06-14 Per discussione R. D. McCallion
Hi all, I've been trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 on my ThinkPad 760EL. The CD and floppy drives are swappable and can not both be installed at the same time. As a result I am unable to perform the standard CD install using a boot floppy. I have tried several other methods, without any

RE: [newbie] What happerned to setup

2000-06-13 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] What happerned to setup I believe it is XF86Setup try that and see if you get where you want to go today. Heh! -Original Message- From: Jaguar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:15 AM To: Linux Newbie Subject: [newbie] What happerned to

RE: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0

2000-06-12 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] How do I install a PCMCIA card on Mandrake Linux 7.0 You can get some pretty detailed information on a generic device if it has an FCC code on it. This indicates that it was certified for use in the USA and by going to: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/help.html You can find

[newbie] Useful Mailing List (was: Worthless email list)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Al R
- Original Message - From: Ot Ratsaphong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Worthless email list Hi folks, I've just joined the list and have been lurking for the last week just to get a feel for the list. I

[newbie] Problems with XMMS

2000-05-30 Per discussione Neil R Porter
Dear all Not a life threatening problem I admit, however when playing mp3s in the background things seem to go a little smoother somehow. When playing a list of mp3s using XMMS (nice winamp clone!) everytime (between tracks) I get the error 'Couldn't open audio' please check that: 1) You have

Re: [newbie] Help!!

2000-05-30 Per discussione Neil R Porter
to get rid of lilo off your master boot record you can boot up with your win98 floppy and type fdisk /mbr that will make it win98 only hope this helps (¯`·._.·'¯`·- poo -·'¯`·._.·'¯) - Original Message - From: Edison Gica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] please help

2000-05-30 Per discussione Neil R Porter
yes yes yes yes .. i think it's happening to all of us! (ps I wrote this approx 7hours ago lol) (¯`·._.·'¯`·- poo -·'¯`·._.·'¯) - Original Message - From: KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] please help it still

Re: [newbie] Conection?

2000-05-27 Per discussione Neil R Porter
I had this problem too. You need to define your nameservers probably. Add 'usepeerdns' into the file /etc/ppp/options then connect as usual You can now replace /etc/resolv.conf by /etc/ppp/resolv.conf and that should set you up. Hope this helps Neil On Sat, 27 May 2000, you wrote: hi, it

RE: [newbie] Fire Wall

2000-05-15 Per discussione Y u r i
this gentile person thinks it's going to be impossible, especially if a perpetrator is inside your circle on a Mac :-) there is always a chance of unthinkable... (when my cable installer came in, all he saw was some silly W98 box, I borrowed from a friend. what was there later is another

RE: [newbie] Encarta

2000-05-15 Per discussione Y u r i
www.britannica.com may be a good replacement? unless you need multimedia stuff, it's far superior IMHO -Original Message- Small, maybe unrelated insight, I'd really give some thought to not as "root" most of the time. I'm another newbie giving thought to going Linux only. My new

RE: [newbie] Resizing partitions with Partition Magic

2000-05-15 Per discussione Y u r i
-Original Message- Will Partition Magic be able to decrease the size of D: to 2 Gb, and with the remaining 2.5Gb make a Linux partition *without losing any data from either C: or D:*? Thanks, -- Koly yes, select the partition and use

[newbie] Mob Use of Linux Increasing!

2000-05-12 Per discussione Y u r i
Mob Use of Linux Increasing by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier IDC released a report today that shows that Mob use of Linux has passed Windows NT by a 2:1 ratio. Bennie "Root" Calzone confirms that the IDC report does reflect his experience.

[newbie] Next Virus Generation

2000-05-12 Per discussione Y u r i
Next viruses will be silent killers "Love" bug is child's play. Developers demonstrate a cross platform virus that disappears before it can be stopped. http://developer.earthweb.com/news/news1.html __ message envoye

Re: [newbie] watch what you say on this list

2000-05-09 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
This "filtering" isn't done by Mandrake, but by someone's site who is subscribed to the list. I've gotten a couple back from the same site myself, related to some oddball word they considered "forbidden". Just blow them off as paranoid. They're free to run their site any way they feel. I think

Re: [newbie] WolfRyder and his censoring

2000-05-09 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
any time you type in the word you use to sign up for this message group or to sign off. You get filtered, so we cannot tell someone how to get out of here nor discuss any of the useful subjects like filtering. We're talking about two different filtering mechanisms here. The mandrake filter

Re: [newbie] COM3

2000-05-08 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Does anyone know what IRQ is usually assigned to COM3? Thanks Com1 and Com3 are traditionally IRQ4. Com2 and Com4 are traditionally IRQ3. (Don't ask me why the 3's didn't go together and the 4's didn't go together. I've always thought that was stupid.)

Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.0

2000-05-08 Per discussione y u r i
Hello joey, Tuesday, May 09, 2000, 3:56:43 PM, you wrote: j anyone here want to send me a copy of the linux-mandrake 7.0:-) looks like you could get it at cheapbytes for ~$5.00 WITH SHIPPING CHARGES. Or go to your local newsstand and steal "Maximum Linux" mag ;-) It's bundled with

[newbie] Newbie Question

2000-05-05 Per discussione Craig R Bathurst
I just installed ver. 6.0 on my computer. It will be a duel boot suation with Windows 98 as the default OS. Linux is VERY NEW to me. It's like working in MS DOS again. Can anyone recommend a good book (like Dummies Guide to Linux) that will will explain step by step how to work with linux? Is

[newbie] User name Password

2000-05-02 Per discussione Craig R Bathurst
I installed mandrake 6.0 and I forgot my user name password. Is there a way to find the above or do I have to reinstall the OS? Craig "Those who do not learn from History, are doomed to repeat it". Author unknown

Re: [newbie] lost+found folder

2000-05-01 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
If your system dosn't get shutdown properly and some errors occur on the harddrive, linux puts the files there which have been damaged. To understand the lost+found folder you need to understand a little of how Unix handles the filesystems. (OK, GNU/Linux, but that's hairsplitting for the

Re: [newbie] 7.02 ISO image question

2000-04-20 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
I downloaded the 7.02 ISO file to disk. I then tried copying the file to a CD. The CD recording software (called just!Data) on my PC seems to have just copied the .iso file onto the CD - there is no directory structure or anything. Should the recording software have taken care of that, or I am

Re: [[newbie] cable modem]

2000-04-19 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
use "ipconfig /all" Well that would work in win98, but I'm running win2k pro. and winipcfg doesn't work..

Re: [newbie] running windows in linux

2000-04-18 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
What you want to find is an Xterminal application for Win32 like micro xterm or something (or like the aforementioned Exceed). Using one of these applications to log into a Unix machine running an X server, you One minor nit. In the X world, the "server" is the program which performs the

Re: [newbie] Shutdown/Restart

2000-04-16 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
For a newbie: What is the most correct way to shutdown and restart linux? The easiest way is to login, or become, root and issue the shutdown command. The su command will give you root access. $ shutdown -h now will bring the system down. $ shutdown -r now will reboot the system. Some

Re: [newbie] i386 vs. i586

2000-04-16 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Would you mind translating this into english? Dreja Julag wrote: If you do beowulf, you usually need i386, right? cheap hardware -- fast performance Beowulf is an ancient English language epic... no wait, wrong list. Beowulf is a Linux clustering technology. My observation was that it's

Re: [newbie] lots of crashes???

2000-04-15 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
rant on [...] until the Linux community gets this web browser "crap" resolved, to me, Linux ain't worth the CD it is shipped on. [...] rant off I hate to say it (again), but this is absolutely correct. To gain widespread acceptance any Linux distribution *MUST* have a good browser, a good

Re: [newbie] Qmail and Mandrake 7

2000-04-09 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Has anyone installed qmail on Mandrake 7? If so, do you know of any how-tos or whatever? I'd like to intall from rpm if possible. It's not possible. The qmail license requires distribution in source code format only. No precompiled binaries are allowed. (Unless it changed recently.) If you

[newbie] Permissions - sound

2000-04-04 Per discussione Jon R. Fox
How do I give trusted users (like me as not_root) the ability to run esdplay on *.wav files and so I can hear cute widget sounds in Gnome? Or perhaps: whats the BEST way to do this? I am running Mandrake 7.0 (Air) with an SBLive! card. This worked in RedHat 6.1, and I can run *.wav's as root.

[newbie] fax permissions

2000-04-04 Per discussione Jon R. Fox
Whats the BEST way to give trusted users (me) access to /dev/modem so that they can use "fax send num file"? Right now I always need to su root to do this. Thanks

[newbie] Question about monitor sizes

2000-03-24 Per discussione R Chishty
Dear Sir/madam I have installed Linux successfully. It has recognised that I have a Riva128 but when Xwindows is run, it displays at 640 x 480 and I want it at 1024 x 768. What do I have to do? Regards Ruzy __ Get Your Private, Free Email

[newbie] IOmega Zip Disks

2000-03-19 Per discussione Herman R. Willett
, and can read them ok, however slowly. But the zip drives just do not seem to work. HELP!!! Herman R. Willett

Re: [Re: [newbie] Gross email bad manners]

2000-03-19 Per discussione Herman R. Willett
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote: This is interesting. I connect at 50K without fail, but my neighbor, using the same cable just another pair, only connects at 28.8. Futhormore, my home is wired with 4 pair Cat5 cable from the demark. If I use the other line (bl/wh) that has my house phones on

[newbie] 10/100 ISA cards?

2000-03-07 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Does anyone know of a *REASONABLY* priced 10/100 ISA Ethernet card? I can find Intel and 3COM cards for about $150, but that's outrageous when I can get a cheap switch for almost the same price. Thanks, Michael

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM Audio

2000-02-28 Per discussione Jason R. Lucier
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,

[newbie] Real Player

2000-02-21 Per discussione Craig R Jameson
Hi You may have seen my earlier mail concerning finding RealPlayer, well I found it eventually(it is not realplayer 7 or G2 or whatever it is the older realplayer 3). Anyway I downloaded it to /home/craig/tmp and tried to install it using kpackage but it says that libg++.so.2.7.2 is unsatisfied

[newbie] 2 cd drives linux only finds one???

2000-02-12 Per discussione Jason R. Lucier
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

Re: [newbie] problems

2000-02-08 Per discussione e/r patnode-sturtevant
Kyle Filipski wrote: How do I get the 7.0 CD? How much is it...is it cheaper for those of us that have 6.1? Got mine (7.0) from cheapbytes.com and it cost 1.99 for the disk plus 5.00 shipping plus 15 cents california tax. $7.14. Guess they make their profit in shipping as it only cost them

[newbie] checking /dev/hda3 on boot

2000-02-06 Per discussione e/r patnode-sturtevant
A few days ago I installed Mandrake 7.0 from a cdrom disk purchased at Cheapbytes.com. All seemed to go smoothly but a couple of problems have developed. First: When I bootup I always get the message: "/dev/hda3 not cleanly unmounted, check forced" and then it goes through the process. I have

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake

2000-02-06 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
So I can install linux along with windows without destroying my data on the FAT32 partitions? Yes, this does work. I've tried it once with 7.0 successfully. I allowed DiskDrake to resize an 8 GB partition down to 2 GB. I don't know if I'd try it without a good backup, though. MB

Re: [newbie] help! kde is confusing!!

2000-02-03 Per discussione Jason R. Lucier
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:

[newbie] xdm login blanking

2000-01-29 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Anyone know how to get xdm to blank the login prompt like a screen saver?

[newbie] 7.0 and i810

2000-01-25 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
I noticed that 7.0 has xfree86 3.3.6, which has support for Intel i810. The xfree86 site claims that i810 support is disabled by default because it requires a special kernel module. Is that module supplied in the 2.2.14 kernel in 7.0 and is i810 support enabled out of the box or not? Does anyone

RE: [newbie] Problem installing Air on a machine.

2000-01-25 Per discussione Burger, Matthew R
Message - From: Dennis Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 10:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem installing Air on a machine. - Original Message - From: "Burger, Matthew R" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: T

[newbie] Problem installing Air on a machine.

2000-01-24 Per discussione Burger, Matthew R
I installed Air at work on a machine, no problems. My home (test) machine is another story. Auto detect finds my video card just fine, but when it asks for a monitor type and I specify the correct one no dice. The correct monitor is listed in the list, but still won't work. The

RE: [newbie] Problem installing Air on a machine.

2000-01-24 Per discussione Burger, Matthew R
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem installing Air on a machine. I have had trouble with generic Trident cards. I went to S3 generic cards and havent' looked back sincegrin! Lylr -Original Message- From: Burger, Matthew R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000

RE: [newbie] Problem installing Air on a machine.

2000-01-24 Per discussione Burger, Matthew R
e in Xconfigurator when a listed monitor doesn't work (my Princeton E072 just went to a black screen that I couldn't exit from) or a monitor isn't listed (it's worked in both cases for me). It's the IBM 8507, try it ;-) Alan "Burger, Matthew R" wrote: I installed Air at work

Re: [newbie] A problem with Telnet

2000-01-05 Per discussione R Marty
At 08:07 AM 1/5/00 , you wrote: Hi Everyone: I´d make a Typical installation of Linux Mandrake 6.0 on my Pc but when I try to make a Telnet from another machine, or from the same I receive the next message. "Connection closed by foreign host" If I make the Complete installation it doesn´t

[newbie] KDE out

2000-01-05 Per discussione R Marty
I have lost all the icons, and I can't launch any applications in the tools menu (ie. Telnet, ...) Have you an idee to solve that ? I lost all these things in the root profile, but the others are ok. Thanks for your help Robert __ Do You

[newbie] problem with KFM

2000-01-05 Per discussione R Marty
In another Linux computer, each time i reboot, kfm says: "trying to open file:/root/Desktop/Autostart/core" But it can't find it ... (the file doesn't exist) Have you an idea ? Robert __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo!

[newbie] connection to slow

2000-01-03 Per discussione R Marty
I have a computer on win 98, and another with linux/mandrake 6.1 From the Win 98, when I use telnet, I obtain an aswerd after 1 min And when I use ftp, I obtain "connection closed by remote host" Nevertheless, when I use telnet/ftp from linux (ie telnet 127.0.0.1), I have no problem Can

[newbie] Remove

1999-12-22 Per discussione John R. Ehrhart, Jr.
newbie remove

Re: [newbie] Startup issues.

1999-12-21 Per discussione John R. Ehrhart, Jr.
Monitor "vivitron" Hidong, I noticed that you have a vivitron monitor. Is it a vivitron 15 by any chance, and if so, where did you get the specs for it? Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Want To Lose Weight For The Holidays-New Pill Can Do It -gpav

1999-12-18 Per discussione John R. Ehrhart, Jr.
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote: YES! You can lose weight with FAT ABSORB and still eat what you want! Must be a new product. It seems to absorb your vfat drives. Look at some of Fat Absorb's benefits! · Has no stimulants of any kind. Translation: Means it has no caffine either. It

[newbie] xterm!!!!

1999-12-18 Per discussione John R. Ehrhart, Jr.
I don't know when/why this started, but now whenever I try to open an xterm I get this error "no available ptys," and when I try rxvt I get "can't open slave tty (null)." I'm assuming these are the same problem, just different variations of the error message. Any ideas? The only advice I got

[newbie] OT Richard Stallman -- Boycott Amazon! (http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13652.html)

1999-12-15 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13652.html Richard Stallman -- Boycott Amazon!.url

Re: [newbie] OTWAY OT WinNT Explorer won't refresh the diskette

1999-12-09 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Recently I installed a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller and also a Quantum Fireball Plus KA 18.1 GB hard drive (connected to the Promise Ultra66). A couple weeks later, I installed an HP CD Writer Plus 9100i. After installing this hardware, my Windows NT Explorer no longer refreshes the diskette

A place for LinModems? [Long-OT] (was: Re: [newbie] modem configuration problem)

1999-11-26 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Of course, some company had to go and break that rule... That's right, there are now LinModems as well. Do yourself a favor and avoid them. There are better things for a CPU to be doing than the work of a $.50 part on a modem. I'm not so sure this a good long term strategy. I agree that using

Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic

1999-11-23 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Take a hint. The filter is there for a reason. If you've got a complaint about it, take it up with HR. IS doesn't make the rules, it follows them. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Confirmation from a third party that the poor IS guy in the trenches is the decision maker. It amazes me how

Re: [newbie] Mail

1999-11-23 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
O.K. now the next step in the process. As most of you know, I have been setting up a network here at work using linux as my server. Samba to let the window box's talk to the server. No I would like to add internal e-mail When you go about setting things up you need to decide if you want *ONLY*

Re: [newbie] Definitely Off Topic

1999-11-23 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Confirmation from a third party that the poor IS guy in the trenches is the decision maker. It amazes me how insert ^^NOT^^ many people are willing to shoot the messenger. I'm not going to say that there aren't some first class butt heads

Re: [newbie] A little OT- Memory

1999-11-21 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
If anyone has suggestions for places to find the best prices on memory upgrades that I can use for my PIII 450 linux box I would appreciate it. I am going to be using it as a server and need at least PC100 128 meg chips (though I would like to buy 256 if I could find an affordable source). I

Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)

1999-11-20 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even. I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The

Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)

1999-11-20 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even. I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The

Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)

1999-11-20 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even. I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The

Re: [newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)

1999-11-20 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
But the "2" in "2001" is not. here is a good one...are zeros od or even? According to a report on NPR last night, they were assumed to be even. I think if you talk to a "real mathematician" (which leaves me out) zero isn't odd or even, just as the negative numbers aren't odd or even. The

Browser (was Re: [newbie] Opera for Linux)

1999-11-14 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
it will be the one who can make a profit. MB P.S. If you *REALLY* give a damn about Linux on the desktop, stop giving the poor newbies such a hard time about the HTML tags in their email. Get over it, that's where the world is headed. [Remove flame suit. Claim you were drugged and forced to say it

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