RE: How to Uninstall Linux 8.0?

2002-10-23 Thread Anthony Abby
well then boot your system with a win 9x boot disk and perform a fdisk /mbr On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 22:02, Anthony Colon wrote: > Am i really that dumb? I DON't think so... Don't you think I tried that? > Man relax... it's a FORUM>. I think I figured it out > anywayStupid people like you

Re: up2date question

2002-11-14 Thread Anthony Abby
>I have build some custom RPMs from RH source packages (like postfix and >imap) and I label them by changed the revision number to my initials. So >I have postfix-1.1.7-jdg, or imap-2001a-jdg. (For those diligent readers >who notice the version numbers, I'm actually doing this on Valhalla, but

Re: RPM uninstall help

2002-11-18 Thread Anthony Abby
if you run 'rpm -q mplayer' does it return anything at all, or just 'this package is not installed'?. >Greetings, >Perhaps you can help me with a quandry I'm in. I'm trying to intall the >latest mplayer packages (mplayer-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm and it's companion >files mplayer-common, mplayer-gui

Re: Service command

2002-11-22 Thread Anthony Abby
You're probably getting that because you're a normal user. su first. Anthony On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 10:26, Brian York wrote: > Does anyone else get an 'command not found' error when you use the 'service' > command. How can this be fixed? > > Thanks > Brian -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAI

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructivecriticism

2002-11-23 Thread Anthony Abby
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 11:21, Joe Klemmer wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 02:11, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > I'm off shopping for Mandrake 9.0 tommorrow. > > Good luck. You might want to look at SuSE as well. I switched to Mandrake 9 about a month ago and have been nothing but happy. It's

Re: Distros are all good (was: Re: A few things who still suck inRedHat 8 aka constructive criticism)

2002-11-23 Thread Anthony Abby
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 14:14, Joe Klemmer wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 11:34, Anthony Abby wrote: > > > > > I'm off shopping for Mandrake 9.0 tommorrow. > > > > > > Good luck. You might want to look at SuSE as well. > > > > I switched

Re: (again) how to disable automount when CD inserted?

2002-11-25 Thread Anthony Abby
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 01:47, Randall J. Parr wrote: > I know I've seen it go by but I can't find it. > > How can I disable the automatic mounting of a CD when it is inserted? > > Preferably, for all (ie default) users? > > Could some one point me in the right direction? in Mandrake it's supe

Re: Calling all KDE fans!!

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Abby
Don't the overwhelming majority of Linux/Unix users use KDE? On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:36, Chris Lee wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > It is offical; according to a survey in Linux Journal KDE is prefered over GNOME. > > Well explain how to do the following which ios easy i

Re: Calling all KDE fans!!

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Abby
> I'll bite: since Red Hat has a market share of about 60-75% of the Linux > installations in use and the default desktop is Gnome the logical conclusion > is that a _lot_ of users use Gnome. Not everyone is a desktop fanatic... Redhat may be the biggest Linux distro in the UNITED STATES, but as

Re: Calling all KDE fans!!

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Abby
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 11:09, Dan Clowater wrote: > I hear that - and this is off topic from the thread - but I really don't > see the benefit of kde 3.x over gnome2.x??? I like that how you can > configure the gnome desktop a lot more than KDE. Mind you before gnome > 2.x came along I was a big kd

Re: Calling all KDE fans!!

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Abby
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 13:18, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:14:07AM -0500, Anthony Abby wrote: > > > Don't the overwhelming majority of Linux/Unix users use KDE? > > Whats KDE? > K Desktop Environment (KDE -- http://www.kde.org). Redhat isn

Re: Calling all KDE fans!!

2002-11-29 Thread Anthony Abby
> > Don't the overwhelming majority of Linux/Unix users use KDE? > > No. I think it's possibly that if you were able to get a true > count KDE would be the one used most but it would be far from a majority, > let alone an "overwhelming majority". Well opinions can vary but I have seen pub

Re: Login

2002-12-06 Thread Anthony Abby
I use KDE myself and in KDE there is an Autostart directory... /home/dirname/.kde/Autostart/ Is there anything like that in Gnome? Anthony On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 23:53, Joshua Melbourne White wrote: > After I login to gnome or blackbox, is there a way to have programs to > automatically load for

Re: How to remove old kernels

2002-12-08 Thread Anthony Abby
> > Kindly advise how to remove the old kernel safely without causing an > impact to RH8.0 box > > I expect to remove them one by one; > > First - removing the old kernel - RH7.3 > Then - removing new kernel - RH8.0 > just rpm -e kernelname.rpm Anthony -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAI

Re: GNOME vs. KDE

2002-10-06 Thread Anthony Abby
What you see is neither Gnome nor KDE in RH 8! Kind of comical actually... if you choose KDE as your default GUI, it still lists all your KDE apps under EXTRAS.. like.. huh??? I think I'm going to reinstall RH 7.3 and just upgrade the kernal. Think Redhat did all a huge disservice with RH 8.

Re: GNOME vs. KDE

2002-10-07 Thread Anthony Abby
>At least in KDE there is still a menu editor that you can use to change it to >the way _you_ want it. Right click on the RedHat and select Menu Editor. >Move the stuff wherever you want it (as root). True, but if one thinks of what you have to do just to restore a true KDE to RH, it's just

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Anthony Abby
No, I think you're pretty much right on, but why switch distros? Why not just retrograde back to 7.3, upgrade the kernel to the latest stable, and run up2date? I love KDE so I had a hige problem with what RH did in 8 and thought it was going to be too much work to restore a true KDE enviro

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Anthony Abby
>Same for me. However you can't stay at 7.3 forever with all the changes >with gcc going on. >So a bit of enlightment from RH's side about where the distro is heading >would ease my >headache. I believe that RH should generate a new sub-Personal distro >from the current >8.0 tree and call it mig

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Anthony Abby
>Unfortunately, even Mandrake's starting to slack off a bit in the "customer >relations' department. Yeah, I see where you're coming from believe me, 8.0 >is NOT all it's cracked up to be, hell, half the stuff that's supposed to go >into menus doesn't any more, so I have to search where it was s

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Anthony Abby
>Our intent is to appropriately compromise between different kinds of >users. > >Havoc But that's the rub of it isn't it. Many people question the appropriateness of changing KDE, or Gnome for that matter. It's probably a philosophical debate, in which case people have formulated opinions and