William Wise wrote:
Hi! Hope someone can help with a couple of questions...
1) How can I determine the amount of free space left on my hard drive?
Typing 'free' (no quotes) will show how much space you started with, how
much used, how much left on all mounted volumes including swap.
2)
Michael wrote:
Hi
I'm having a little problem wiht netscape
I can reseive E-mail, read and post to news-groups, browse the
internet, but I cannot send E-Mail.
I have sendt several mails to this mailing-list as well as the
kde-mailing-list, but they don't seem to get through, so, when I
William Wise wrote:
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Hi! Another Newbie question...
During my RH5.0 install the system never mentioned anything about installing
or configuring PCMCIA support although the
Gary Neff wrote:
Help I read the FAQ on uninstalling ghostscript and downloaded
gs_lib-5.10.0 and gs_x11-5.10-0 both are i386.rpm
and ran this command line
rpm --e whatever ghostscript then ran
rpm -ivh (the two files)
unfortunately the gs_x11-5.10-0.i386.rpm was shown on the FAQ as
Megat Iskandar Hashim B Ismail wrote:
I'm running Redhat 5.0, and XFree86 (version came with Redhat
5.0) using my Matrox Millenium at 1280x1024x16bpp. My problem is
that the font in the Netscape (4.04) URL box is so squashed, it's
bearly readable. Switching to a lower resolution
Vance Bell wrote:
How do I go about changing the format from ignore to vfat or msdos?
From the shell or from an xterm, type:
cd /etc
emacs fstab
Make your changes and save it (ctrl-s) and exit (ctrl-c). Then you cna
mount the drive.
You can also choose to edit from the FS
Megat Iskandar Hashim B Ismail wrote:
I think you misunderstood my original question. I don't have a problem
with the webpage display fonts. That can easily be configured using your
suggestion. My problem lies in just the text box you type the URLs (the
"http://www.etc.etc") in. All
David Dezern wrote:
I would be grateful if someone could explain to me why my sendmail
doesn't run at startup.
When I installed RedHat 5.0, I unchecked the box that would have
set sendmail to run at startup. Now that I have sendmail configured,
I would like to change this.
My
Zoki wrote:
These are the problems:
Netscape's mailer sends the wrong address in the "From" field because of
which I can't mail to this list from Linux.
Instead of sending my address - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it sends something
like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or
Norma Thompson wrote:
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Duh! After I fired off that message about "what is EZppp?", I got the
brilliant idea to look on the list of packages that come with Red Hat 5.0.
Guess
Jim Garvin wrote:
Jim Garvin wrote:
Does anyone know why when I set the time it goes back 4 hours if I reboot?
You didn't happen to apply the fix for BRU did you? I did that (added it
to bashrc) and it kept resetting my clock 5 hours on every boot. Removed
it and it's straight now.
Stuart Harris wrote:
Ok Rpm is used by a few distributions other than redhat soley so its slowly
becoming
the standard.
Could someone tell me WHY its inpractical to include libs with each .rpm
file
I personaly would rather spend an extra 5-10 mins gettin the extra libs
included than
.
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, working solution? At the first sign ALT-W kills it.
Or, am I missing something? Would love to eat my words on this so I can
trash that silly "function" we're forced to live with.
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Dave Price wrote:
from the contrib folder on ftp.redhat.com - or a mirror like sunsite ...
there are rpm for navigator and communicator (no mail client in navigator.
dave
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Jeff Tomich wrote:
Where can I get the latest RPM of Netscape?
thanks,
I was just
Marco Shaw wrote:
I'm using fvwm95 with RedHat 5.0 and can't find how to set my background
to black in the config files.
It's silly, but no .xinitrc files or system.fvwm95rc files seems to have
the proper entry...
The command is 'xsetroot' and there's a man entry for it.
Can't give an
Thanx to all who helped. Tried each and every suggestion. None seemed to
work. Some I'd tried before but, tried them again anyway.
Not sure how but, it now works. I tired everything but, no-go. Tried
rebooting after each change (just in case) and still nada. Some of the
changes would let me
I want to set up graphic login (init 5) and am having a problem.
I can get it to work but, the login defaults to 8bpp and I want 16. I've
looked thru 4 books, not counting Doctor Linux, trying to find info.
I've scanned info in the man pages and docs in the X11 dir. I've rerun
Xconfigurator and
Daniel Goldin wrote:
Running redhat4.2.
I keep getting the error message "no space left on device" when
writing to /etc.
Help anyone?
Is /etc on its own drive?
What does df tell you?
Possibly you have too much installed?
How big is the drive/partition?
How much is installed?
Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO) wrote:
I've recently added a number of new items to my RH5 system.. namely a
WangDat 3200 and a 4x Sony CD-ROM..
I haven't even looked at the WangDat yet so thats not really an issue..
however, the cd-rom is another matter.. I've already got an IDE CD-Rom in
my
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Last night I tried to d/load StarOffice 4.0 for the
third time. I have been doing this late at night
because I am using a modem (ughh!). Last night
I
Db wrote:
Yet...we have the same trouble. However unlikely it may seem, I still
have this gut-feeling it's something with the motherboard. As I afore
mentioned, I have discovered my CPU marked as being an intel-P166, has in
fact been remarked to this...it is indeed a cyrix PR150 or
Jay Daniels wrote:
What about the jumper setting on the modem?
Might/might not work in internal modems. But, same problem with an
external. And, if memory serves me, he mentioned that he can see the TD
light blink while the RD light stops dead. Not something that happens on
an internal
Db wrote:
Firstly, apologies to Pork E...I should've qualified the request for BIOS#
by stating something like "If you have an older board (ie; not a new
fangled thing that won't let prying fingers into it's BIOS :)...',
however, the revelation you're using a laptop, has thrown further
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Hi
I have tried to post this message several times, but it doesn't seem to pop
up at this list, so I'll just try again with another mail program (sorry if
Jay Vassos-Libove wrote:
Unfortunately, http://www.mozilla.org/report.html isn't functioning yet.
Fortunately, the just-released Netscape 4.05 no longer crashes on that
URL. (Unfortunately, there isn't yet a 128-bit encrypting version of
Netscape v4.05 yet).
Where's 4.05? Just looked
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sent a message to the list the other day, but haven't seen any
suggestions...
Has anyone any experience with this type of problem? I've already tried
swapping video cards from an S3 Trio64/DX to a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro.
The lockups still occur. Can it be
Michael J. Yanowitz wrote:
Before I proceed and install a non-rpm, standard tar
package. I would like to know if it is safe and that I
won't corrupt or degrade the RPM database.
What I am concerned about primarily, is if this tar
package contains a file of the same name as that in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This happens regardless of using Metro-X or XF86.
Everything starts up just fine, and things are looking beautiful! Then, it
will dump me out (if I'm lucky) without an error message visible anywhere,
or it will completely freeze the system. This is only happening
Zoki wrote:
Anybody using the Beta 9 version of EzPPP? I installed it recently without
problems and the connection goes well until the moment where I have to
enter the password. My ISP's server returns an error saying: "login wrong".
I tested the same procedure in Windows 3.11 and it works
Zoki wrote:
At 15:58 02/04/1998 +, you wrote:
Zoki wrote:
Anybody using the Beta 9 version of EzPPP? I installed it recently without
problems and the connection goes well until the moment where I have to
enter the password. My ISP's server returns an error saying: "login wrong".
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a shell:
cp new.xinitrc .xinitrc -f
That will overwrite your settings with the new settings. The one that
gets used is called '.xinitrc' so the new one won't be seen until it has
that name.
OK...this is likely a very rudimentary and dumb question but...I
id est wrote:
picked up the "netscape-communicator-4.04-3" rpm from redhat, installed it
here on my 4.2 machine, set CLASSPATH to "/usr/lib/netscape/java/classes",
verified that indeed "java40.jar" does exist in that directory, startup
netscape, go to www.cnn.com, and get an error dialog
Zoki wrote:
I am using the "Afterstep layout" but the bar which shows standard on the
right falls off my screen. This means that I can't see the reboot icon
anymore. I installed Netscape today; the icon falls half off the screen...
My new.xinitrc file shows this on the first line:
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Greetings All,
I am getting a little cramped for space, and I was thinking of moving
my /usr to a new drive. What I had in mind was mounting the
Phil Risby wrote:
Pork E. Pigg wrote:
I did just that (almost) moving /home. I simply copied everything to the
new drive, renamed /home to /home2 and named the new one /home. My
method required a reboot and a mount of the new drive. There may be a
better way but, this one worked great
Linus Åkerlund wrote:
Hello!
I'm having some problems with getting my modem to dial. It's not the most
serious of problems, as I, most of the time, can get it to dial. But quite
often, after I've "hung up", and then want to go online again, the modem
refuses to dial. I use usernet to go
Kirk Bollinger wrote:
No idea on your first 2 queries. For number 3, an Armada should would
just fine. I use an older Armada (1120T) and have no problems running
anything X in 16-bit, except for being limited in memory. The newer
models overcome that shortfall.
1) I'm looking for a tape drive
Here's the picture:
I dialup my ISP (using Ezppp but, happens the same no matter what dialin
method I use). I connect, open Netscape, the connection dies, I redial,
NS pops up, the connection establishes, I try to open something in NS
and it doesn't seem able to connect to the net (I presume
Vadim Israilevich wrote:
Did you get all of the TRANS.TBL thingies? I needed those when
installing from HD or it couldn't find the correct filenames.
I've downloaded whatever was in /i386/... Folder. Did I miss
anything?!
Oops. They're on the CDs and I know they _used_ to be on the ftp
Vadim Israilevich wrote:
Hi, y'all. Wonder if you can set me straight on this one.
Downloaded RedHat5.0 from MIT FTP site. Put it on a FAT partition
under NT box. See the long file names just fine under NT. When I go
to install Linux, the install says there is a problem with RPMS.
Here's one that came upon me suddenly and I can't imagine what I did to
cause it.
First, using RH5.0, mostly stock, with most of the listed erratta
already included with the distribution.
When I boot and get to the login prompt, I type in root and my password.
I get the line about the last
Mario de Mello Bittencourt Neto wrote:
I was using rh 4.2 but decided to upgrade to 5.0.
The instalation was ok except by the fact that I can not make X work
with 800x600 ou 1024x768.
It was working with those resolutions (and 16 bpp) in 4.2 and even tough
I give the same settings
John Higginbotham wrote:
An OS is nothing without applications. Windows apps have the upper hand
when it comes to graphics. I am a diehard photoshop user, and though I have
not had the chance to work with photoshop under linux, I hope to one day
switch over completely to linux. We're an
Larry Lade wrote:
I would also be insterested in hoow well PS works under Linux. I don't
use it but, my girlfriend does. That's THE major stumbling-block to
getting her to test it out.
I don't think you can get Photoshop for Linux (yet) although I know you can
get it to run under Linux
Dave Wreski wrote:
I've installed SO4 on a RH 4.2 box : it works well...
But now I try to install it on a RedHat 5.0 box, the install program
opens error boxes :
http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml
Errr.I personally followed the info there to the letter. Still got
the error
Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote:
When installing RH 5.0 in a Pentium machine,
I got the following error:
error -2 reading header: Success
install exited abnormally
sending termination signal... done
sending kill signals... done
unmounting
Jean-Christophe Praud wrote:
It works !!!
I would have missed some symlinks for the libs.
By following EXACTLY http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml it works
flowlessly...
Thanks to all
Wish I could say the same. I printed the page and checked off each item
as I performed it so I
Aaron Walker wrote:
How would I go about connecting to my ISP w/o opening up netcfg
everytime I want to get online?
Ezppp works great. X-ISP looks good too but, I couldn't get it to work.
At least, not with 4.2 and haven't tried it yet on 5.0.
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Is there a way to permanently set folder permissions on mounted drives?
I can mount them from root and set the permissions to make them
writeable by other users but, after a reboot I lose those and have to
login as root to set them again.
Maybe something can be set in one of the scripts that
mud99 wrote:
hey, you guys, i created a page specifically for linux newbies, with
emphasis on the redhat version.
It still is under construction, but take a look.
And tell everyone you know about it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the URL? An email address won't get it!
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on auto, I get
errors when booting and they don't get mounted anyway. Getting that to
work better is my next project after I get this one solved.
Forgot to mention before that this is with RH5.0 and was having the same
problem (and mucho more) with 4.2 until I dumped it for the upgrade.
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Luis F. Orozco wrote:
Hi, I realize this might be a bit off topic, but it does have to do with
installing linux. :-)
I have just obtained a pentium PC with two hard drives but no CD-ROM drive,
and no floppy drives. (hey, it was free!) I would like to put Linux in
it, but I still can't
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