Re: [techtalk] Re: Redhat 6.1 - cdrom behaviour

2000-08-24 Thread Telsa Gwynne
Phil Savoie wrote: > > I was looking today for about 2 hours on how to disable the automount > > "feature" in RH6.1. It appears that every time a CD is loaded the > > filemanager pops up showing the contents of the CD. This is not what I > > would like to see happen. I would like to manually

[techtalk] can linux on x86 mount HFS?

2000-08-24 Thread Ryan Thibodeau
If the OS on your old hard drive is 8.6 or 9, it is likely that it is HFS+ format, so mounting it through your other linux box won't work. However. you could just attach the old drive to another IDE Bus on your iMac , i.e. temporarily disconnect your CD-ROM drive and use that IDE cable (I'm ass

[techtalk] XFree86 Configuration problems

2000-08-24 Thread Michelle Sims
Hi all. I'm beating my head agains the wall here - someone please stop me! Our client has a Mac G4...installed yellow dow linux which aparrently went fine. Have yaboot configured. But startx hung forever, and when it did finally start the colormap was all messed up...and it promptly crashes.

Re: [techtalk] VMWare Question

2000-08-24 Thread Sheryl Weidner
Hello, If you have the occasional need to run Windows applications (like Office apps, Photoshop, etc.) but no hardcore Windows needs (like playing games, using NetBEUI networking, etc.), VMWare may be overkill for you. You may also find that with your system configuration, your resources are sev

[techtalk] want linux free software/open source web tools

2000-08-24 Thread Kathy Hargreaves
Anyone have a list handy of what free software/open source web tools (e.g., Dreamweaver; I already know about GIMP) are out there? Much thanks, Kathy ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] VMWare Question

2000-08-24 Thread Britta Koch
On 24 Aug, Lyric . wrote: > Hi there > > I'm just wondering if anyone out there has any experience with VMWare for > Linux 2.0. > > I'm thinking about purchasing it and installing it at home so I can run > Windows if I need to. I'm using it at work with a Celeron 300 and 256 MB RAM. So I thin

[techtalk] XFree86 Configuration Problems

2000-08-24 Thread Ryan Thibodeau
Hi Michelle, I feel your pain. Every time I upgrade my Linux machine its like a crusade to get the video card to work properly .This is one of the drawbacks of using Linux with cutting edge technology, often the correct drivers simply don't exist yet. However, you might just be able to get th

[techtalk] (another) VMWare Question

2000-08-24 Thread Vinnie
Out of curiousity, has anyone tried using VMWare with a monolithic kernel? (yes, I'm being sick and twisted and altogether vinnie-like here) I really haven't got the first clue how to start, but it strikes me as an interesting challenge...anyone else done it yet? Vinnie (who really doesn't hav

[techtalk] VMWare Question

2000-08-24 Thread Lyric .
Hi there I'm just wondering if anyone out there has any experience with VMWare for Linux 2.0. I'm thinking about purchasing it and installing it at home so I can run Windows if I need to. My system is an Athlon 650 with 128 megs of RAM. Thanks