RE: Email and printing (loading linux from NT bootloader)

2003-01-16 Thread John BouAntoun
WARNING: this is not for the faint hearted, especially if you don't know what the c:\boot.ini file does in windows Scraped from all those MINI BootLoader + Linux Howtos Step 1) install grub or lilo on the bootsector of the linux partition (not the MBR of the machine) Step 2) startup linux using

Linux Software Pointers

2003-01-22 Thread John BouAntoun
Hi guys, I'm still trying to push Linux acceptance in my office, and have been able to sell my boss on the idea of a free messaging server running inside the copmany VPN. This server is for use by the IT team when we are working from home, or even in different parts of the office. I'm thinking

RE: Psyche-list digest, Vol 1 #263 - 13 msgs

2002-10-21 Thread John BouAntoun
Tony Nugent wrote: >On Mon Oct 21 2002 at 13:26, Alan Peery wrote: > >> John BouAntoun wrote: >> >> >One other point, can anyone point me to a quick HOWTO on how to >> >setp up a client for a windows-served VPN. Most of the docs I've >> >found m

Zip 100MB Parallel Disk Drive

2002-10-22 Thread John BouAntoun
Title: Zip 100MB Parallel Disk Drive Can anyone please point me in the right direction to where I can find info on how to install my IOMEGA Zip 100MB Parallel Port Drive. My Google searches seem to have been fruitless. Is there anything I need to do specific to psyche to get this to work? A

xmms segfaults on startup (clean Install, up2date is up to date)

2002-10-22 Thread John BouAntoun
Title: xmms segfaults on startup (clean Install, up2date is up to date) Hi guys, Just ran into a slight problem. Decided to do yet another clean install of the RH8.0 on my system. All went well. Updated all the packages tht up2date wanted to update (I kept the rpms on another disk). Anyw

RE: xmms segfaults on startup (clean Install, up2date is up to date)

2002-10-22 Thread John BouAntoun
Title: RE: xmms segfaults on startup (clean Install, up2date is up to date) Problem solved. I checked it in redhat's bugzilla. It would appear that you need to have arts installed to run xmms. It's a bug in the code, since arts isn't a dependency of xmms. I should have looked up bugizlla.re

RE: running java program at startup

2002-11-11 Thread John BouAntoun
Could it be that you need to specify that the file is a jar with the -jar option like this: java -jar file.jar Being Included Message: --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:59:28 -0800 From: Stephen Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Oracle Corporation To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

The final word on evolution 1.2 rpm for 8.0

2002-11-18 Thread John BouAntoun
one folder - Stop all evolution related processes - install all the rpms in the folder (that you downloaded) at once. Hope that helps guys, John BouAntoun -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Howto Add an internal SCSI CDBurner

2002-11-18 Thread John BouAntoun
Hi guys, Quick question that somebody on this list can hopefully point me in the right direction to solve. My old PII machine crashed on the weekend, I was keeping it around cause it had my old 8 speed SCSI CD Burner in it (it was running win98). Anyway I pulled the SCSI card and burner out of

RE: Re: Howto Add an internal SCSI CDBurner

2002-11-21 Thread John BouAntoun
x Works for network Subject: Re: Howto Add an internal SCSI CDBurner Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:05:28 +1000 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue Nov 19 2002 at 09:57, "John BouAntoun" wrote: > Hi guys, (can you please wrap your lines to make it readable? thanx) > Anyway I pulled t

FW: Hardware Browser crashes

2003-01-08 Thread John BouAntoun
I have Redhat 8.0 running on my Athlon 1.4GHZ processor. I'm using an Asus motherboard, with 512MB PC133 RAM, 30GB HDD, netcom network card, and a geforce 2 GTS 32DDR video card. Every time I run the redhat Hardware Browser it crashes. I get the beginning of the main program window, and then

Hardware Browser crashes

2003-01-09 Thread John BouAntoun
Title: Hardware Browser crashes Firstly sorry for the html formatted message, i'm sending this through OWA on the office email account. Here is the output when running /usr/bin/hwbrowser at a terminal: /usr/bin/hwbrowser (DeviceList.py:1053): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path

Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread John BouAntoun
Hi guys, I have a bit of an issue. I installed RH 8.0 in 4 GB of HDD space in the following format: - 1GB Swap partition - 3GB ext3 partition mounted at / A very simple partitioning approach. My problem is that I am running out of spave on my / partition. I have resized my windows partition

Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread John BouAntoun
Thanks for suggestions guys, much appreciated. I've heard a bit about LVM, but have no real idea how it works/what it does. Can anyone provide a bit of insight (before I go and read up the web site) about it, and how it could help me. Thanks again -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

More ext3 partition resizing issues

2003-01-14 Thread John BouAntoun
Hi Guys, So I got hold of Partition Magic 8 (which apparently can resize ext3 partitions) from the office. Booted into my windows system and resized (and moved) the ext3 partition. Now I can't seem to get GRUB to load. Any help here would be appreciated. System Setup Info: - Win2K on hda1, Ext

RE: More ext3 partition resizing issues (SOLUTION)

2003-01-15 Thread John BouAntoun
Okay guys here comes the solution. It was really relatively trivial. I decided to reinstall grub on my linux partition, so all I had to do was boot into 'linux rescue' off the cd, then 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' (just to be safe) and then simply run grub stage2 natively like so: #> grub grub#> setu

Where is my terminal text editor?

2002-10-13 Thread John BouAntoun
Hi Guys, Installed RH8.0 on weakend. Very slick, very impressive. I noticed that it defaulted to startup to GDM. I din't mind this because I always type startx when I log in anyway. But one thing I did notice was that I couldn't find a terminal editor anywhere no pico, joe, jedit or anything.