Hi, Keith,
> Working on the basis that there really aren't any stupid questions, here
> I go again...
I don't agree that there are no stupid questions. Still... I don't see you
asking any :)
>
> From the earlier queries on installing my copy of Caldera Open Linux
> eDesktop 2.4, putting the wh
Hi, Sue,
>
> Hope I'm not intruding. I have just joined the group because I'm looking
> for help/assistance/support/etc.
Welcome! You're not intruding. We're here to help.
>
> I've been a PC user on Microsoft software for 12 years and I'm wanting to
> make the switch to linux on my home pc.
T
Hi, there,
OK, on every distribution I've run with a 2.2 or 2.0 kernel, if the distro
didn't autodetect my zip drive, it was pretty straightforward to add it. I'd
add the line
alias block-major-8 ppa
to my /etc/conf.modules file, add a /mnt/zip directory, add /dev/sda4 to my
/etc/fstab file
On Thursday 17 May 2001 10:58 am, Scott wrote:
> Red Hat seems to favor Gnome.
Yes, but they give you the choice of KDE or Gnome at install. Youcan install
both, but choose either as your default. I chose KDE and had no
I guess Solaris is switching to Gnome this year
> as well. I feel co
On Thursday 17 May 2001 04:48 am, coldfire wrote:
> i was just curious what the window manager of choice is on this list :) ..
Hi,
On a system with decent resources, definitely KDE 2.1.1. Very nice, lots of
features and excellent apps, and yet I can easily make it get out of my way.
On anythi
Hi, Keith,
OK, I know exactly what is happening. What it is asking for is the
registered version (the one that costs money) of Partition Magic. The copy
provided with Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 is very, very limited. It doesn't like
your FAT32 partition. You're trying to shrink your Windows par
Hi, Keith,
>
> And I have still had no luck installing Caldera's OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4.
> Some day, maybe...
>
Please describe the problems you have had with the install specifically.
Perhaps we can help you get it to work. Caldera is usually a good choice for
newbies because of the ease of
>
> I beg to differ. You are running Windows, using Outlook Express, I'm
> not certain that you're any sort of authority on Linux operating
> standards. Linda currently has her box configured in the following
> manner:
>
> Port State Service
> 21/tcp openftp
> 22/tcp o
>
> > Fourth, perhaps you should think a bit harder about what you are doing
> > when you make sexist remarks about the presumed physical appearance and
> > social habits of female scientists on women's forum of all places?
>
> Actually, it struck me as reasonable to assume that someone who
> op
Hi, Linda and everyone else,
> But again, if it is a 'recovery thing' where is the documentation? Why
> wasn't it clearly in the manual?
Which manual? There is no "Linux manual" per se. It depends on how well the
individual distro documents things and writes their manual. It *is* in the
curr
Hi, Molly,
I have two Toshiba Librettos (one older, one newer) and they run Linux just
fine. They are really tiny and weight about 1.8 lbs. The bad news is that
I believe they are out of production. You should still be able to find new
Libretto FF1100V and SS1050 models around. The bad news i
Hi, Molly,
I should add: I had three reasons for stressing the Libretto rather than more
powerful models in my last post:
1. Size: about the same as a paperback book. You can't get any smaller.
2. Linux compatibility: I *know* they work from personal experience.
3. Price: relatively low.
Damian Brazendale wrote:
> I have a new P.C. (Dixons E Machine 866 dvd) running windows M.E. With
> the Pentium lll 866 Mhz processor. The P.C. came pre-installed with
> Microsoft Works and this suite works well with factory set conditions,
> with no other software installed. However when I in
jennyw wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for good HTML (non-WYSIWYG or
> WYSIWYG that supports non-WYSIWYG) for Linux? Pros and cons would be great,
> and also whether they require KDE or Gnome (I run Gnome usually).
Hi, Jen,
For Gnome, I'd really recommend Bluefish. Very,
Hi, everyone,
> OK I found the KDE debian source -
> http://kde.tdyc.com/
> Looks like 2.0 is in Woody.
You would be better off with 2.0.1. It's got some bug fixes in it, as well as
better localization/globalization. There are generic tarballs on ftp.kde.org.
There are also RPMs for Mandrake,
Kath wrote:
> What is a good email client for Linux (KDE in Corel)?
>
> I need one that is basically MS Outlook Express. I haven't been able to
> find one that lets me have mutliple accounts with unique pop and smtp
> servers. Also, Mozilla (M18 .deb) won't check every single email
> account th
Hi, everyone,
> I'd take 7.0 back and pick up 6.2 if it were me and I really
> wanted redhat. I know the guys at work who use redhat couldn't
> get X to work with a couple different vid cards and as a result
> 7.0 isn't running on any computer at work.
I ran into
Hi, Storm,
Edit your /etc/inittab file. Somewhere in there (I don't have Mandrake or I'd
be more specific) you will see the run level set to 3, which is command line.
Change it to 5. Save and reboot.
That's it!
Regards,
Caity
(who also likes KDE/kwm)
Storm wrote:
> Actually, ... I know I ca
Hi, Phil,
Boot up in single-user mode. To do this, at the LILO prompt, type:
linux single
>From there you should be able to fix this "little" problem.
Regards,
Cait
Phil Savoie wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A friend (no, really) has forgotten his RH6.1 root passwd. In Solaris I
> know how to fix th
Hi, everyone,
This probably need to migrate to issues, but...
I think I need to point out that Adobe is one of the companies funding the
lobbying in favor of UCITA. I don't often agree with RMS, but he is 100%
correct when he calls UCITA the greatest threat to Free / Open Source
software today.
> The classic example is KDE and GNOME. SuSE makes use of the /opt
> hierarchy for these. Red Hat puts them in /usr/share. Debian puts
> GNOME in /usr. I don't know about Caldera: perhaps /opt? Does it
> even ship GNOME? This causes Religious Wars.
Nope, Caldera ships with KDE only. However, the
Hi,
Actually, if you are using kppp, you don't need to touch /etc/resolv.conf, but
rather enter the primary (and any secondary) DNS server IP address(es) in the
TCP/IP settings in kppp. In any case, she'll need that info, and all her other
basic configuration info, from the ISP. It's all graphi
Hi, Courtney,
>
> As far as I know, windows (any flavor) wants to be at the beginning of
> your hard drive, because it epects to be able to put certain things in
> certain places that are relative to the first track (if my memory
> isn't being spotty).
NT is the exception. It takes over the MBR,
Hi, Kelly,
>
> The problem is getting the right drivers up front. Windows will, in
> my experience, blithely install the wrong driver, making your system
> about as stable as a two-legged coffee table.
>
> The simple fact is that Windows is not intended to be installed by
> non-experts.
Which op
> You may have driver problems. Win9X and NT are both intended to be
> installed only by OEMs -- and as such, they do a poor job of properly
> configuring vendor-specific hardware. If you have any "nongeneric"
> hardware expect problems.
Yikes! OK, I hate to defend Microsoft at any time, but t
Hi, Subba,
> I am in the process of moving my mail from a OS/2 box. The mail client
> here is PMMail. Each email is stored in a seperate file, like in Maildir.
> I have moved these files to linux, but cannot read them using Mutt to
> convert them to Maildir named files. The PMMail files are name
Hi,
>
> I had an unpleasant experience with kpackage in KDE 1.1.1. I was
> removing unneeded packages after an installation, secure in the
> knowledge (so I thought) that kpackage would warn me if I was
> removing something with a dependancy on it. I soon found this
> not to be the case. Just to
Hi, Walt,
Consider running XF86Setup, which is a nice, easy, graphical way to set up
your xf86config file. When it starts up it will ask if it should use your
current file as the default, and simply answer "no" to start clean. If you
don't have XF86Setup installed, it is on your Red Hat CD-ROM.
Hi, Robert,
>
> There's also glint, a graphical front end to rpm, which I hear is
> pretty good
Glint was only in Red Hat 5.2 and below. It was superceded by GnoRPM in
6.0. In 6.1 you have a choice between GnoRPM and kpackage. I find kpackage
the easiest and most flexible front end to RPM.
Re
Hi, Rebecca,
>
> I just installed RedHat 6.0, didn't examine what it was installing too
> closely just accepted defaults. Is it possible there was no compiler
> installed? (which cc, which gcc both say no gcc in ).
> If so, how can I install it (or do I need to reinstall RedHat?).
> Install di
Hi, Theresa,
> Oh, RH was not pre-installed, it came on a CD as the operating system for the box.
>They said they could not install linux on the system as it was too difficult.
With all due respect, Red Hat is not a terribly difficult installation, particularly
with the graphical install in 6
Hi, Jenn,
> Contact pricewatch and tell them that the box they sold you is
> not as advertised and would they please make good by providing
> you with equipment which IS as advertised.
>
> Over here (Australia), at least, you'd have a very VERY strong
> case to take to Small Claims - and the comp
Hi, Theresa,
> Ok, I changed the mount for c drive to vfat, and it fixed the truncation issue, but
>now c drive is not automatically mounted in my file manager on boot.
You probably have the "noauto" option specified. Remove that from the line for you
Windows partition in your /etc/fstab file
Hi, Theresa,
>
> Thanks for the response, guess I might reconsider this group after I can
afford to
> upgrade?
Not at all. You are welcome here. You asked a bunch of techies about a
particular technology, and we gave you our honest opinion is all that
happened.
Keep after the pricewatch folks.
Hi, Theresa,
> #2. Wanting to give linux a whirl I wanted to purchase a box that would
be linux
>compliant. I went to pricewatch.com and purchased from their linux systems
section
> this box that is very non linux compliant.
That sounds like false advertising to me. Can you return it and find
Hi, Theresa,
> ewww, this really does sound bad, So you're saying I'd be better
> off to slap in an old USR 28800, than i would be to install a driver for
my 56k
> winmodem?
I don't know if I'd go that far. What will happen with your Winmodem is
that when you go online, everything else wil
Hi, Ian,
>
> >If application cost is really the issue, KOffice looks like it will be
quite
>
> But will it run on Win32 and solaris?
I don't know if it does now, but like the rest of KDE, it will run on
Solaris at some point. It will not run on Win32. If your company were
interested in Linux on
Hi,
- Original Message -
From: Ian Hall-Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> Note here that we're talking about what are probably the two most
> abusive applications for unix, resource-wise.
I think this is what most of us dislike about both StarOffice and Netscape.
They both are OK feature-wi
Hi, Karl-Heinz,
>
> Congratulations!
> I didn't think it's possible to use StarOffice with 40 MB of RAM.
Everyone at our last installfest that wasn't cancelled, back in August, saw
it. As I said, loading the program is painfully slow, but actual operation
within the program is tolerable.
I shou
Hi, Karl-Heinz,
>
> My PC here at home has got no more than 104MB RAM and StarOffice runs
> very fine from under Windowmaker or KDE resp..
It runs on my old laptop, a P90 with 40 MB of RAM, with KDE/kwm. It is
quite slow loading or starting an app, but otherwise runs fine.
>
> I do not believe t
Hi, everyone,
Karl-Heinz, very helpfully informed us:
>
> There's another way to get StarOffice: on the website
> mentioned above you may order a CD for USD 10.- plus
> shipping and handling, the total sum should not be too
> much (at least if you don't order from outside USA).
It's also include
Hi,
> StarOffice's Excel importers work better than Corel Quattro Pro's
importers
> even. I checked it out under Windows (since I have a full version of Corel
> WordPerfect Suite for Windows
I must admit that the filters are what impress me most about Star Office.
My main complaint about it is
Hi,
> > I had major problems with the Gnome/Enlightenment/Netscape combos.
> > Switching to KDE fixed 90% of them.
>
> I think that's a bit drastic for a browser problem, really.
It wasn't just a browser problem. Gnome had this lovely tendency to core
dump, crash, lockup, etc... I updated it
Hi, Sha,
I had major problems with the Gnome/Enlightenment/Netscape combos.
Switching to KDE fixed 90% of them.
-Caity
> I'm using Rh 6.0 with Gnome/Enlightenment on an i686
> with 130 megs of RAM. I need multiple browser windows
> open most of the day, and I'm using Navigator 4.7 with
> stron
Hi, Conni,
>
> I'm close... now that I have a working modem set up and ip forwarding and
> all... but I can't seem to shake my addiction to age of empires...
> What's worst is that I'm really bad at it, too... :P
>
> Conni
> there have to be civ-type games for playstation...
Civilization III: C
Hi, Kristen,
> When I decided to clean some house and get rid of 95, and go with NT, and
> then added linux...it screwed up my NT partitions EVERYTIME...and believe
> me..I was not a happy woman at this point.
>
> I have heard that it doesn't work but is there a technical explanation
> that I co
Hi,
>
> I've heard good things about the Caldera dist. Will the install also
> non-destructively re-partition the drive for you?
With some real limitations, yes. It's not a full blown version of Partition
Magic. So... if you have a single Windows partition, and want to shrink it
to add a Linux
Hi,
> Multibooting linux/win95 is actually quite easy these days, as long as you
> install Windows *first*.
As far as this is concerned, '98 and '95 are the same. Also, some
distributions (Caldera for example), give you a Windows based installer for
Linux and set up your partitions and dual bo
Hi, Julia,
>
> I'm multi-booting with Win98 on one drive, RedHat 6.0 on the other.
> Not wanting to play around with LILO (still a newbie), I loaded 98 on
> the drive first, then Linux on the other, and boot into Linux from a
> floppy. I've got backup floppies should something happen to my
> origi
VGA/PGA video and monitor?Hi, Cathy,
The version of XFree86 in your Caldera release is 3.3.1, and that may be too
old to support your card ,if I remember correctly. Get the latest RPMs from
the Caldera site under the updates to OpenLinux 2.3. You want version
3.3.5.
Also, can I ask you a big f
Hi, everyone,
It is really bad netiquette, particularly on a UNIX list, to send messages
in HTML or RTF format. *Please* use plain text. At work, where I have to
use Microsoft software I can read them, but have you ever seen what HTML
looks like in KMail? Most text-based e-mail programs?
Many
> Your lp driver will conflict with the zip driver so you may have to rmmod
> the lp driver and insmod the zip driver
That was true prior to Red Hat 6.0. Since then, they use a driver that
allows parallel port sharing between multiple devices. Since Norma was
using Red Hat (but had recompiled
Hi, Stephan,
> I once heard that you need to activate SCSI emulation in the kernel (I
> didn't see that in dmesg printout) to use the parallel port Zip drive. (I
> have a SCSI Zip drive, so I didn't have to deal with this). Caitlyn, is
> this is accurate or not
The parallel port zip drive *is
Hi, Norma,
OK, you have two parallel ports, and it clearly sees them both. I wonder if
you have the PPA module loaded into your kernel. Do a modprobe on it to
find out. If not, try doing an
insmod ppa
and then see if it works. If so, you can add the statement:
/sbin/insmod.ppa
to one of y
Hi, Norma,
> It is an early model parallel port drive
OK, you need to add the following line to your /etc/conf.modules file:
alias block-major-8 ppa
If you have the ppa driver in your kernel, that should make it work after a
reboot. The physical device will be /dev/sda4, so if you created a
Hi, Norma,
> I couldn't get the zip drive (even though I
> compiled support for that in and I even created the partion where it was
> supposed to be and attempted to mount it).
With the zip drive, it may be as simple as adding a single line to a
configuration file. Is it a parallel, SCSI, or ID
Hi,
> I have a cheap AGP 8MB card in one of the machines at work. It works fine
> with XF86. I have no idea what it is... Wait, yes I do. It's an ATI Virge
> 3D. Nice card. Works beautifully. And it was under $50.
It sounds a lot like my generic AGP card with a Trident 3Dimà ge 975 chipset.
It,
> KDE is released under the GPL, but Qt is not. You can't use KDE
> without Qt. (It's questionable in my mind whether a GPL product
> should rely on a third-party library which is not released under
> the GPL, the LGPL, or an equivalently open license)
I can't disagree with the latter statement
Hi, Ericka,
> I finally got around, last night, to cleaning off my second hard drive in
> preparation of installing linux & I have a few questions before I start.
> One is: Is there any overwhelming reason that I should get the very
> latest version of linux, or would installing an older one be
Hi, Shelly,
>
> since i found this list a couple weeks ago, i've had a few questions
> come to mind... probably silly ones, but i'm a winNT admin - turned -
> linux - newbie (of about 6 months now). =)
Another convert! Join the club :)
I've actually done UNIX (as well as NT) stuff for about f
Hi, Joann,
> Thanks for the tips. I successfully uninstalled the netscape 4.6 rpm with
> kpackage. I could not locate any rpms for 4.7
It's no longer important for you, but they are at the
ftp://updates.redhat.com site in the 6.1 folder. Netscape 4.7 is actually
the first "errata" update to Re
Hi,
>
> This will offer you a choice of where to put the new netscape. You can
> pick the same dir your current netscape is in, and it will copy all the
> files it replaces to filename.old, so it is possible to undo the
> change. Or you can pick a new directory if you would like to be extra
> cau
Hi, Joann,
> I could use some advice here please. I am feeling brave tonight. (reading
> this mailgroup is building my confidence-you are all great!)
>
> I have Linux Mandrake 6.0 and it has Netscape Comm. 4.6
> I want to put on NC 4.7.
> I have downloaded the 70 MB linux netscape file and it is
Hi, Telsa,
> My condolences on the humidity, then :) (It's the one place in the
> US I've visited, and I felt like I was melting. And that was the
> spring
It's one of the best high tech markets in the country, though. Our
unemployment rate in the computer industry is nearly zero. If you have
Hi, Jack,
Reboot, and type in "linux 3" at the LILO prompt. That will boot to the
command line.
To make the change permanent, you need to edit your /etc/inittab file and
change your run level at boot from 5 (GUI) to 3 (command line).
That's all it takes :)
Regards,
Caity
> I am using X on t
Hi, Lisa,
>
> I must disagree with this. GUI's are great if you
> don't care what's going on under the hood. But to
> truly learn linux, you need the command line.
The target audience, which I presume is the mainstream, for the most part
couldn't care less what's going on under the hood. For t
Hi, everyone,
> > For example: ME: "You have to mount the disk before you can read it."
> > HE: "Huh? Mount? What is mount? It's already in the drive!"
> > "Recompile the kernel? I don't want popcorn right now!"
> > "The scheduler? My calendar thingy on my Palm Pilot is good enough for
me!
Hi, Yukiko,
>
> I use a parallel zip drive, and I have no trouble about it.
>
> I think you could config, but,
> Do you use a parallel printer or some other paralleled hard devices?
>
> if so, you have to do:
>
> # rmmod lp
> # insmod ppa
> # mount -t vfat /dev/sda4/zip (or, your setting
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