[newbie] tar again

ok I tried to run the command to a tar file mldonkey in particular and I got this error. It makes no sense to me tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors this is the

Re: [newbie] CDROM access

Try Mounting it as root in shell. That should solve the problem. Cheers! Erik At 04:56 PM 7/7/2002, you wrote: I recently installed MDK 8.2. I can read a data CD without problem (see the file list) but when try to access an Audio CD clicking at CD-ROM desktop icon I receive the message: Unable

[newbie-it] DVD e xine

Un caldo saluto a tutta la lista. Ho da poco installato un lettore DVD sul mio desk. Lanciando xine, nelle migliori delle ipotesi riesco solo ad arrivare al menù del DVD. Dopo di chè lo schermo si annerisce o peggio xine 'muore' read_cache: read error (Input/output error) Segmentation fault

Re: [newbie] cannot get modem device ID with cat /proc/pci

For a Conexant winmodem you can find drivers for Red Hat and Mandrake at www.olitec.com ! Good luck ! Walter On Sunday 26 May 2002 02:23 pm, you wrote: Hi, I'm using Mandrake on two computers. On the first, with cat /proc/pci, I got vendor and device ID's of the communications

Re: [newbie] Modem setup under linux mandrake.

On Monday 20 May 2002 09:20, you wrote: On Monday 20 May 2002 08:49, Nashib .J. wrote: Can someone help me to change the modem under Mandrake linux.I got a connexant modem and linux detected a rockwell modem instead. AFAIK, they use the same chipset, so it shouldn't make any difference.

[newbie] console application in terminal

Hi ! I check incoming mail and files with F-prot for Linux, which allows a very selective action. I made a desktop link to the application and added the necessary options. I made it run in a terminal. Mandrake version 8.2 is used... My problem is the terminal disappears (closes ?) as soon

Re: [newbie-it] floppy

tom wrote: Salve a tutti Ho un problema non da pocoil floppy non funziona benee non ho un dik di boot! quindi vorrei rimediare prima che winzow mi faccia partire uno scandisk e mi bruci il GUB In poche parole non riesco ne a scrivere ne ad aprire i floppy in linux, con win mi

Re: [newbie] Start-up making Linux-Windows mix

From what I heard it WINE being repackaged and sold for a price. Kinda of like the pet rocks for those of you who can remember that...lol Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] net config

Hi... I want to configure my mandrake 8... because I want to use them like aproxy server and file share server (samba) I configured my lan card, and when I try it with ping command, work fine... but I can't config ip-masq and samba... can anyone help me...? I want to know how to configure

Re: [newbie] login problem

computer is a windoze specific message, since I never see that. I get to a message saying that the system is stopped after what seem to be all the shutdown messages complete ok. On Friday 27 July 2001 09:05, root wrote: On Friday 27 July 2001 04:43, etharp wrote

Re: [newbie] login problem

On Saturday 28 July 2001 08:40, etharp wrote: have you ever tried to compile a kernel? on this machine? did you have this problem before that? nope. I reformatted my linux partititions and installed 8.0 clean, avoiding expert mode because I'm not an expert. -- Gentlemen, it's in beta.

Re: [newbie] login problem

at the point where otherwise I would enter root and my password and hit go. The original problem when attempting to login via the normal login panel, I sometimes was bounced back to the login panel without getting logged in, and when that happened had to reboot before being successful

[newbie] login problem

running mandrake 8.0 on occasions following what is currently an undectable pattern, I get to the login window where i would enter root or my user name and password, enter the uid and password correctly, the system thinks for awhile and bounces me back to the same login window. I have

Re: [newbie] login problem

On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:34, etharp wrote: what happens if you hit ctrl+alt+f4 (or any other f-key up to f6) and log in? nothing. no reaction at all On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:30, root wrote: running mandrake 8.0 on occasions following what is currently an undectable pattern, I

[newbie] segmentation fault at shut down

when shutting down, not rebooting, I am getting an odd segmentation fault. I don't get it on warm reboot since the problem occurs after the path diverges for reboot vs shut down. I have to power off to get out of it. message sequence in log is: halting system stopping all md devices power

[newbie] Re-routing mail via pine

I wish to apply a mail filter that will take all incoming mail from a specified address and re-route it to a different address. I am using pine to read my mail along with postfix. How do I do this?

Re: [newbie] FW: Xinetd problem?

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Jason Chan wrote: I have xinetd running pop3 on one server (Server A) , and have another server running fetchmail (Server B) and \ would poll Server A 's mail message in 60 seconds interval. At first, both ran no problem, until after several hours Server A would deny

Re: [newbie] Log files redirect to root mail

Try setting up logcheck, it's a pretty standard package and will do much of the same for you. Otherwise, next time you install/update choose MEDIUM security, and this function will deffinately be restored. I remembered in my old Mandrake 7.2 everyday on my root mail account I would receive

[newbie] Tiny Firewall

Hi All: Can anyone tell me where the script, which the Tiny Firewall configuration tool writes, is then stored? I am interested in seeing how the script compares with IPChains and IPTables scripts. Thanks, Dennis in Waco

[newbie] Please respond need help Mandrake 8 nearly inoperable

no spam controls, o sure it works fine as a regular MTA but I did not see any spam bouncing options in webmin and absolutely NOTHING in linuxconf, bad bad bad. I willl just have to run as root forever unless someone has the heart to tell me what the gunk am I supposed to do to get this pooping thing

[newbie] Very Frustrated 8.0 and kde 2.1

Help! I was unsuccessful in obtaining a cd which burned correctly to install 8.0 beta 2 or 3. So I tried upgrading to KDE 2.1 via the Mandrake 7.2 RPM packages off of Sourceforge.net. How do I get it to work? I click on one of the Mandrake 7.2 RPM packages, it downloads then stops the

Re: [newbie] What am I missing?

Le Dimanche 18 Mars 2001 17:52, vous avez crit : I'm getting a little frustrated here. I don't remember going through so much trouble with RedHat as I am now with LM 7.2. To be specific, I can't connect to LOCALHOST, and Apache. Tried to connect to WEBMIN by entering http://localhost:1

[newbie] Anybody know how to get Sane working?

I've just installed MD7.2 and I was hoping to get my scanner working with it. Although Sane is definitely installed, it does not seem to be able to recognise my scanner - a parallel port Plustek OpticPro 9630P. The scanimage command tells me that "No sane devices detected". The documentation on

[newbie] Anybody got Sane working yet?

I've tried to use Sane under MDK 7.2 but with no luck so far. It tells me that no sane devices are detected. I have a Plustek 9630 parallel port scanner and there appears to be a Plustek back end. Is there anything I need to configure to get a result? All advice welcome. Graham Watkins

Re: [newbie] Can't access CD drives - even as root

Jon Doe wrote: For those of you who are interested in this problem, I got the following message from Mandrake today: As root in a shell, type : supermount -i disable reboot then you'll have to mount manually your devices : for instance : mount /dev/cdrom umount /dev/cdrom Concerning

[newbie] Can't access CD drives - even as root

Here's a funny thing! Whenever I try to access either of my CD drives, whether as root or user, I am refused access. Using Konqueror, I get the message: "Unableto enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You do not have access rights to this location." - if root doesn't have access, who does? My

[newbie] Can't access CD drives - even as root

Here's a funny thing! Whenever I try to access either of my CD drives, whether as root or user, I am refused access. Using Konqueror, I get the message: "Unableto enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You do not have access rights to this location." - if root doesn't have access, who does? My

[newbie] Can't Access CD Drives - even as root

Here's a funny thing! Whenever I try to access either of my CD drives, whether as root or user, I am refused access. Using Konqueror, I get the message: "Unableto enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You do not have access rights to this location." - if root doesn't have access, who does? My

?p: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

I have the same proble with my system (PII 350 TNT 16mb 64mbRAM) i have installed all the patches for nvidia and with xfree4.0.2 but when i start X seems to start but my screen is black and i cant see nothing... i have change xf86config about 54435454 times and i steel cant make it work :/ its

[newbie-it] Netscape e ISDN

Problema! Una volta configurata perfettamente la scheda ISDN e attivata la connessione dalla finestra di configurazione di Mandrake (non mi ricordo il nome... forse "drak conf"?), faccio partire Netscape o altri browser e tutti ignorano il fatto che la connessione sia gi attiva, dandomi quindi

[newbie] Re: soundcard

I tried 'sndconfig' as suggested but it just detect the card and said that it is not supported. Does anyone know of a Linux driver for ESS allegro-1 card? Please help thanks

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

Hi Roman, Have a happy new year. I'm going to. I am playing with kde now trying trying to upgrade to 2.0.1 and having a ball. Anthony Daniell (Tony) Romanator wrote: Hey Tony, Have a Happy New Year. Cheers! -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Anthony Daniell wrote: Ok

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

Hello, I don't blame linux for not having drivers or surport for my hard ware. I believe that the company that makes the device should do this not mandrake or any other distro. Like you said M$ put the companies on the spot and they should not be aloud to do this. If only our politations would

[newbie] Library Paths needed during install

I'm installing some software that gives the error "libexpect5.28.so is needed by...". I know that it is looking for Expect v 5.28. I have Expect 5.31 installed. I have even tried creating a symbolic link using the name that the software is looking fordoesn't work. :-( How can I find out

[newbie] cannot send mail with kmail

Hi all, does anybody have any idea why the kmail "send" button stopped functioning. i use mandrake7.0. thanks for any help.

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot

have your system booting W2K perform the following steps: Do everything in Linux as root 1. Boot Linux with your boot disk 2. Mount your floppy drive (its probably already mounted, but just in case it's not the command is #mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 3. Put a DOS formatted

[newbie] vmware

Dear All, I just purchased and downloaded VMware 2.0.3 for my Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I downloaded the rpm file. In the process installation could not proceed because I needed some C compiler files? I do not think I did install anything for programming during installation. What C compiler programs

Re: [newbie] Registered User

That was S funny...mark... Mark Weaver wrote: You send $1 to every person on this list and then we all get together in a quarum and decide upon what number to issue to you. then you point your browser at this site: http://counter.li.org -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

I was looking for a solution to this earlier and came across the following : http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg30698.html http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg30762.html and http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/numlockx/ But, if you are (like me now) using

Re: [newbie] supermountZipdrive

Dear All, I have been able to use my zip drive in 7.2 with no problem however all of a sudden I cannot open it. I get a message that I have no access rights and this is in root or as a user. I went to Drakconf already to change permissions but it has not changed anything. It was working fine

[newbie] 7.2 printing

Dear All, I went to the console and typed xpp and got a sign that no printer was found. My printer is not being recognized. It was working fine in 7. I have read all of the printer help pages and tried all of the setups and none are working. Any ideas? Clue: When I still had 7 I downloaded

[newbie]7.2 gnapster

Dear All, Has anyone tried any of the napster clones with 7.2 yet? I have the gnapster and it seems to get the music fine . Unfortunately Kaiman does not work at all for playing the music. The Xmms player works except the music fades in and out. I do not know if the problem is with KDE2

Re: [newbie] Screen Dies When X Boots Up

root wrote: This is a strange one to me. I just installed Mandrake 7.2 GPL(clean install). When I boot up with LILO and select the default (linux), my monitor goes black when X starts up. The led on the monitor goes amber like it's no longer recieving signals from the video card. BUT, when

[newbie] Screen Dies When X Boots Up

This is a strange one to me. I just installed Mandrake 7.2 GPL(clean install). When I boot up with LILO and select the default (linux), my monitor goes black when X starts up. The led on the monitor goes amber like it's no longer recieving signals from the video card. BUT, when I boot up and

[newbie] Wheel mouse

Hi everybody. I have just a quick question for you all. I have a Logitech MouseMan Optical and I was wondering, how do you make the wheel work on it? Thanks a ton! Joe

Re: [newbie] Advice on Library Versioning in Linux

Thanks to all fro the replies. I''ll try the expert list Regards, Colin Close Doug McGarrett wrote: I think you're asking on the wrong list. Try the "expert" list. Probably most of the folks reading here do not

[newbie] Advice on Library Versioning in Linux

Hi, I'm new to Linux but I cut my teeth on SVR4 so I'm pretty familiar with Unix like systems; but I'm stumped on this one. I'm trying to build a program that uses the mesa3d libs the package (freedraft-0.38) uses the standard GNU configuration tools which are normally very effective. In

[newbie] Email server suggestions

Hello, I am currently running hawkeye to do my web page server and email server stuff. I would like to switch to Apache for the web stuff but an unable to find any info for programs to do pop mail for me. Do any of you have suggestions? Thanks Eric

[newbie] Ulysses-3 iso

anyone got another mirror of ulysses-3 iso's -- If you have to ask you can't afford it.

Re: [newbie] Ulysses-3 iso

shouldnt be listed as root it is not in my preferences Salane Larry Hignight wrote: I'm able to dl them from rpmfind you may want to stop loging in as root. Someone might be tempted to play a joke on you. ;) root wrote: anyone got another mirror of ulysses-3 iso's

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

Larry go into the drakconf click user addition and at the bottom you will see icon and a down arrow. you can select the icon to use with the user...unfortunately I don't know how to change an existing user. Larry Marshall wrote: I stumbled on a "simple" thing today that had me scratching my

[newbie] umm i have no sound!!

Well it appears as if the install worked fine except that my sound card doesn't work. I have no idea what could be wrong with it as this is the first time i have ever worked with linux... please someone i need some help! - Stickus -

Re: [newbie-it] lan con computer windows

Il ven, 01 set 2000, hai scritto: On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 04:40:19PM +0200, root wrote: devo collegare in una piccola lan su piattaforma windows una macchina che monta linux mandrake, come faccio? Cosa intendi per collegare? la macchian windows deve vedere alcune directories windows

Re: [newbie] Linux4Win - never again

I didn't have the same experience, but i thought It was very slow. It also limits the number of packages you can install. I believe it has a 1GB limit. Better off Dual booting. Veikko Mäkinen wrote: I downloaded Mandrake 7.1 yesterday, burned a cd and just (4 hours ago) tried to install

Re: [newbie] X setiathome

Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi, Has anyone successfully installed the X setiathome screen. I have just downloaded the text version as I could not get the X version to work at all. I am using Mandrake 7.1 now. Thanks in advance Hi Andrew. I'm running Seti@Home myself. In order to run

[newbie] Dependency Problem

Re-set due to bounce... Hi. I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the following error: Dependency Problem: /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk Does anyone know where I can get this file? Regards, Ozz.

Re: [newbie] Ipchains - i have a question...

with ipchains i would like to take all incoming traffic on port 21 and send it to a peticular machine on my network. my linux box is mandrake 7.1 and i have 2 nic's in it. PMFirewall is installed and working smoothly, no problems there. anyone know the syntax? i was reading through but its a lot

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough* - some constructive suggestions

Hi guys. I must admit that I am sending much of my e-mail from root. You are correct in that this is generally a Bad Thing. However, I am making so many changes to my system at the moment, many of which have to be done as root, that it is impractical to keep changing. Once I have got

Re: [newbie] modem

Collin Schroeder wrote: hi my name is collin I am having trouble installing my us robotics 56k internal voince fax modem. when I use hardrake and detect isa devices it says that it detects a modem but under kppp I am unable to dial in. I know the modem uses com2 and irq3 under windows but

Re: [newbie] Wrong Kernel Reported

Cindy Bartorillo wrote: I just took a deep breath and updated my kernel from the 2.2.15-4 that came with my brand-new Mandrake 7.1 to the 2.2.16-9 that the Update feature said I needed. As recommended I downloaded the rpm's myself and installed them by hand. Everything seems to have gone

Re: [newbie] Wrong Kernel Reported

Cindy Bartorillo wrote: My lilo.conf reads: image=/boot/vmlinuz which is a link to the new kernel. So I figured I shouldn't have to change anything. Does lilo need to be rerun anyway? I'd really like to understand what goes on here. Yes, lilo does indeed need to be rerun anyway.

[Fwd: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] modem]

Aug 2000 12:42:58 +0100 From: "Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collin Schroeder wrote: hi my name is collin I am having trouble installing my us robotics 56k internal voince fax modem. when I use hardrake

[newbie] Mail Bounces

I don't know about you guys, but my last few posts have been bouncing... Regards, Ozz.

Re: [newbie] *All coughed out*

You are right - I made a typo for hda4 - that should have read hda5. It is hda4 that does not exist on this system. Thank you for pointing out my error. Regards, Ozz. "L. H. LOO" wrote: PMJI, I thought you should have a hda5 partition ? But I could be wrong, since I am such a "sin kek"

Re: [newbie] *All coughed out*

Romanator wrote: I must have spent half a day formatting and repartitioning. Windows 95, Windows 98 require a single DOS partition for M$ Setup to continue. I always make a single FAT partition just in case. For some bizarre reason, if you have multiple paritions with FAT32, Win98 will not

Re: [newbie] Freshmeat?

It's freshmeat.net, NOT .com Regards, Ozz. A V Flinsch wrote: On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, you wrote: Works fine for me. Has anyone else besides me had trouble getting to Freshmeat.com the past few days? I have been having problems on and off for the past week. It seems to depend on

Re: [newbie] Install to a laptop without a CD drive?

Carjam wrote: Yes. It is expensive. It is also free, if you know where to look. Not sure how much it costs for an official copy. Interlink, however, is free. It comes with dos, and it is technically illegial to download or distribute it. But it is not for sale anywere, so your not doing

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con Mandrake 7.1

Ciao, ho installato la 7.1 e ho un paio di problemi. io ho 3 unità CD ( 1 cdrom, 1 DVD-rom e un masterizzatore) utilizzando XCDROAST mi vengono visti o il CDrom o il DVDRom alternativamente ma non insieme, come posso risolvere il problema? Io ho pensato di ricompilare il kernel, cosa che ho fatto

[newbie] slow sound (mp3) playing

Hello ! I have installed Mandrake 7.1 and then started problems with sound (when I had RedHat 6.0 there was none). The main problem is that MP3's are playing about 2 times slower. You hear it like tape in slow-motion. I've been checking almost everything, and couldn't find why is it hapening.

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

Anybody else on this list old enough to remember when the "suits" didn't run things, and games/software were ported to every single platform, just because they could/it was neat? Circa '80's with names like Tandy, Atari, Amiga, etc, etc,... ;-) Oh yes - those were the days! nostalgia

Re: [newbie] Where is the serial number for Boot Magic installation?

Romanator wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Boot Magic but the installation is prompting me for a serial number. Look on the sticker. It came on a CD with: "The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook" I would like to check out this boot loader for my Linux MDK7.1 and WinNT4. Where can I

Re: [newbie] Star Office Install

Tim wrote: Hi all, Just spent FOREVER downloading Star Office 5.2 from the Sun site ("only" 100 MB ... dunno why it took all day. My ISP will blame net-congestion, Sun would blame my ISP ... in any case the file's here). Me too - I'm on a 56k modem ;-( It's a file ending in .bin I can

Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days

You and me both. I've just received a copy of a post I made five days ago (Sunday)! Regards, Ozz. Mark Weaver wrote: I don't know but I wish I did. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Paul Marriott wrote: Looks like it's a general problem.

[newbie] [Fwd: No messages for 2 days]

Re-sent due to bounce(!) You and me both. I've just received a copy of a post I made five days ago (Sunday)! Regards, Ozz. Mark Weaver wrote: I don't know but I wish I did. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Paul Marriott wrote:

[Fwd: [newbie] Star Office Install]

Re-sent due to bounce (!) Tim wrote: Hi all, Just spent FOREVER downloading Star Office 5.2 from the Sun site ("only" 100 MB ... dunno why it took all day. My ISP will blame net-congestion, Sun would blame my ISP ... in any case the file's here). Me too - I'm on a 56k modem ;-(

[newbie] sending mail problems

I am sending this mail out of a different user profile, because my usual profile gives me an error message saying " netscape cannot create a temporary file", does anyone know how to fix this problem? It is only in my normal user profile and I cleared the caches in that profile. Thanks, I know

[newbie] How to configure Linux to use TRN

I have installed TRN and would like to use the program. When I run trn I get: no default: Unknow host. News Server no default unavailable, try againn later. I have not setup NNTP on Linux for my News Server. Could someone tell me where I can set this up to add my news server? Thanks!

Re: [newbie] TNT2 on X4.0..

Positive. The only difference is that I'm running 7.1. Are you running 7.0 or 7.1? Necrotica wrote: The Nvidia drivers work great on my machine. I followed the instructions on the linuxnewbies.org site and they worked flawlessly. Are you sure you followed the instructions correctly?

[newbie] libasound.so.o

Anyone know where I can find the file libasound.so.o. I need it in order to run GLHeretic. Thanks all!

[newbie] Install did not load Linuxconf (desktop icon)

Greetings, group...I have a question about the recent install that I completed... My PC is a TP600, 300MHz, 96MB, 6.4GB, xircom cardbus (tulip_cb) 100+56k, and Linux Mandrake 7.02. Running pretty well, except the icon for the Linuxconf on the desktop is dead...Can't excecute it, nor does it show

[newbie] lilo troubles again (sorry!)

like mine - a 20gig with win2000), I reboot and get the 1's and 0's...i then edit my /etc/lilo.conf file by adding the lba32 line before my win2000 drive entry, saved, restarted, and 1's and 0's again. I have tried installing lilo to the mbr, to the root dir, and to hda1 where my win2000 partition

[newbie] Gnome problem

Just installed Mandrake 7, the second time I booted the machine the Gnome taskbar is missing. Does anyone know how to fix this ? cheers, Scott.

Re: [newbie] VMware 2 run Linux/Win together!

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Drake X wrote: Anyone know anything about VMware? I was looking at their website (vmware.com) recently. They say you can run both Linux and MS Windows on 1 computer at the same time in their own virtual desktops! They have a 30 day Linux trial copy to download. I don't

Re: [newbie] No sound for Desktop!

Paul wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2000, root wrote: I have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a dual boot with Windows 98. The only problem I am having is that I get sound ok for my cds but I cannot get any sounds for my desktop! I am using a sound card that I got with my Packard Bell Platinum 4400. Did

[newbie] No sound for Desktop!

I have installed Mandrake 7.0 as a dual boot with Windows 98. The only problem I am having is that I get sound ok for my cds but I cannot get any sounds for my desktop! I am using a sound card that I got with my Packard Bell Platinum 4400.

[newbie] Lost my kde icons

in advance. Bob Root [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] MODEM WORK AROUND

a driver is finished and all of the bugs are worked out. Evan Holt - Original Message - From: Bob Root Evan, I identified my win as a Lucent(DSP) and from a link on the below site found that there are several manufactures

[newbie] Re: Linux Modem Drivers

are not developed nor supported by Lucent. We are not sure when our driver will be available. Thank you. Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group -- From: Bob Root[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 10:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux Modem Drivers

[newbie] Still unable to invoke modem.

Where would be a good place to begin to determine problem and make the necessary correction to modem set up. I am able to invoke Drakcomp, but do not seem to run the set up properly. System is a Gateway 500p, 4.2gig. purchased 60 days ago. Howtos, man, available, but I must be

[newbie] GATEWAY ONLY INSTALLS WINMODEMS ON THEIR SYSTEMS

Just talked to the tech at Gateway. I have a winmodem.:(. In fact it seems that Gateway only installs winmodems on their systems. As I have to replace current modem can anyone recommend a good one?Thanks

[newbie] MODEM WORK AROUND

Is there a rpm or program that is a work around for the winmodem problem?

Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems

I'm installing LM 7.0 via ftp install and all goes well until the installer tries to retrieve mdkinst_stage2.gz - I always get the error message: "Unable to retrieve the second stage ramdisk: Bad server response". Can someone enlighten me as to what I am

Re: [newbie] MODEM WORK AROUND

Evan, I identified my win as a Lucent(DSP) and from a link on the below site found that there are several manufactures that are writing drivers for Linux. Lucent Tech. is one of them. Suggest not buying another modem until you look into Linmodem.com. - Original Message -

[newbie] templates-cdrom-floppy

I've just installed Mandrake 7.02 (workstation) but I don't have templates, cdrom and floppy icons in my desktop. what should I do to correct this problem? Thanks in advance, Oder.

[newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems

Hi, just installed 7.0 from the CD that comes with the Sams "teach yourself mandrake in 24 hours". The install went pretty well- partitioned my drive, picked up my network card, zip drive (i think!), network config worked first time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine so far

Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

Martin; To mount your internal zip drive; 1st - open a terminal window; 2nd - change to directory "/mnt"; 3rd - make a directory for it (I used "zip"); 4th - now mount it. i.e. cd / cd /mnt md zip cd / mount t- vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip The "sda4" in "/dev" maybe different on your machine.

[newbie] hda/hdb

the partition program, Disk Druid. Bob Root [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] hda/hdb

False Alarm, Setup was successful, now to learn the new language of Linux. - Original Message - From: " Bob Root" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:55 PM Subject: [newbie] hda/hdb Attempting to install Mandrake 7.02 on a Gateway 5

Re: [newbie] Lexmark /CAD frustration

Run a search on "LinuxCad". There are also others out there. I may self have been looking. Just now beginning to attempt my first linux setup. - Original Message - From: "Leanne Leith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 9:23 AM Subject: [newbie]

[newbie] Any problems with Gateway's 500

Getting ready to attempt my first installation, this is going to be fun :). wondering if anyone had any advise with regard the Gateway 500. Machine has 128mgs of RAM, and 4.6 HD. Any assistant is appreciated. Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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