[techtalk] Testing mailfilters...sorry ;-)

1999-10-31 Thread Tina Johnsson
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Re: [techtalk] Testing mailfilters...It worked fine...sorry again ;-)

1999-10-31 Thread Tina Johnsson
Tina Johnsson wrote: > > ... > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org It worked fine:))) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] linux dual-boot install

1999-10-31 Thread jenn
Steve Kudlak wrote: > > I guess I say I am learning to Redhat, as I have heard more good about it. I have > 4.2BSD on a CD but almost no support for it as far as I can tell. Debaian is >supposedly > bare bones. I would like to get something up that worked, dual booted, and maybe >needed > tweak

[techtalk] Cursor decided to stay an X

1999-10-31 Thread jenn
Problem: my mouse pointer remains the X shape from startup, rather than becoming the arrowhead. System: Gnome and Enlightenment over Debian (potato) First occurance: latest reboot, this afternoon. (I went into That Operating System to play Theme Hospital. Rebooted into Linux, and didn't get my

[techtalk] Two problems in RH6.1

1999-10-31 Thread Kelli Sheppard
First problem.. X is having the hardest time! It takes 5 minutes to load and freezes when i close it.. I've tried shutting X down from windowmaker, gnore and ctrl-alt-backspace. The ONLY way i can do it w/o crashing my entire machine is Alt-F1 and doing a ctrl-c. I've checked my monitor settings

Re: [techtalk] linux dual-boot install

1999-10-31 Thread Stephan Boettcher
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:08:11 + > Well, I wouldn't say Debian is bare-bones! But there do seem to be more people > here running RedHat than Debian, so if you're after distro specific help it > might be a better bet. You won't need as much distro specific help wi

Re: [techtalk] partitions etc

1999-10-31 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Oct 30, Laurel Fan conjectured: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Oct-99 [techtalk] partitions etc by > Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > > Is it possible to format a partition of an existing drive? > > Yes. The mkfs command takes the device name or mount point of a > partition as an argument, for exa

Re: [techtalk] Cursor decided to stay an X

1999-10-31 Thread Ingrid Schupbach
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Problem: my mouse pointer remains the X shape from startup, rather than > becoming the arrowhead. > > System: Gnome and Enlightenment over Debian (potato) > > First occurance: latest reboot, this afternoon. (I went into That Operating > System to

Re: [techtalk] linux dual-boot install

1999-10-31 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
> You won't need as much distro specific help with Debian as with > RedHat. Debian left more bits and pieces intact, whereas RedHat > applied lots of patches to critical systems, like the kernel, ppp... OTOH, if you're coming from a Windows, Mac, OS/2, or other graphical background, Red Hat come

Re: [techtalk] partitions etc

1999-10-31 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, Conni, > > mkfs -t ext2 /mnt/dosc > > That will format /mnt/dosc as ext2 (linux native?), right? That's what I > want to do. Yes! > Does it matter what order the partitions are in? I mean, > what cylinders etc they start on. The /boot partition does have all the usual restrictions that

Re: [techtalk] partitions etc

1999-10-31 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 31-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] partitions etc by Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > That will format /mnt/dosc as ext2 (linux native?), right? That's what I > want to do. Yep. Oh, one thing I just realized... you may have to change your /etc/fstab entry for that partition after you

[techtalk] System sounds in KDE 1.1.2 under Red Hat 6.0 -- issue resolved

1999-10-31 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, everyone, I thought I should share the solution to my little problem, since I may have discouraged some of y'all from downloading KDE 1.1.2 and using it with Red Hat 6.0. To remind you of what happened: I downloaded all the revised KDE and QT RPMs from the Red Hat 6.1 directory on the RH FT

Re: [techtalk] Cursor decided to stay an X

1999-10-31 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 31-Oct-99 [techtalk] Cursor decided t.. by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Problem: my mouse pointer remains the X shape from startup, rather than > becoming the arrowhead. > > System: Gnome and Enlightenment over Debian (potato) If its Gnome and Enlightenment from potato, have yo

Re: [techtalk] Cursor decided to stay an X

1999-10-31 Thread jenn
Ingrid Schupbach wrote: > > I had this problem, too. My theory is that it's related to Enlightenment. > I used to get this problem until I changed two things: a) I upgraded to > the new version of Enlightenment and b) I changed my theme (I was using > something called Ice* (IceK?)). When I had