Re: [techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

2000-04-16 Thread Darren
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The Cat In The Hat wrote: >> >> The CD-Rom is the secondary slave because of where it is on the cable. You want >your new hard drive to be the primary slave in the system. You do not want to move >you CD-Rom to the Primary slave position. The pos

Re: [techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

2000-04-17 Thread Darren
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Kathleen Russell, fone.net tech support wrote: >And I shouldn't have any LILO issues if they are each a master, correct? When I tried to dual boot on my old machine, I had the linux HD on the secondary chain, and LILO protested quite vociferously. Note that even if for some

Re: [techtalk] converting netscape(win)mail to netscape(linux)mail

2000-05-02 Thread Darren
(Accidentally deleted the original message) I don't know if this helps or is even related to the specific problem, but: When I switched from Eudora to Pine, I had to convert all of the files from DOS text to Unix text -- the specific problem was something with the carriage returns. Since Eudora

Re: [grrltalk] RE: [techtalk] heads-up: M$ (e-mail) virus makingrounds.

2000-05-04 Thread Darren
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Stephanie Alarcon wrote: >This is possibly a stupid question, but >http://www.drsolomons.com/home/vbslove.htm talks about this: > >-- >This worm also has another trick up it's sleeve in that it tries to >download >and install an executab

[techtalk] Starting programs at boot -- various questions

2000-05-11 Thread Darren
Hi all, Two questions: 1. I recently installed a true type font server, xfstt, primarily because I miss Verdana, et al, when web browsing. I'd like this to start at boot; what's the best way of doing this? 2. I have a script in my /etc/rc3.d directory to start pppd automatically at boot (there'

[techtalk] CDs won't play

2001-01-01 Thread Darren
gh I will sometimes get the regular screen (this is happening now, for some reason). I haven't been able to find any web pages where this specific problem is mentioned, so if anybody can help me out, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! Darren -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

[techtalk] /usr/local/include

2001-01-23 Thread Darren
I upgraded from RH 6.1 to 7.0, and one of the (many) things that's been changed as a result was that my backspace key no longer acted like a backspace key. In the course of trying to fix it, I was trying to compile the one-line of C code on this page: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/BackspaceD

Re: [techtalk] /usr/local/include

2001-01-24 Thread Darren
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Marie Fischer wrote: >imho the std location for c headers (*.h) _is_ /usr/include. to my >still-not-quite-awake mind it looks like your gcc is looking for headers >in the wrong place (/usr/local/include) and for some reason not in >/usr/include. btw, the program compiled on m

[techtalk] Partitioning with fdisk

1999-11-08 Thread Darren Osadchuk
e primary drive. Ideally, I'd like to be able to fix this without having to re-partition and re-install Linux, but since I haven't yet done much in the way of configuring, etc., that's not a huge issue for me. It would also be a plus if I didn't have to purchase Par

Re: [techtalk] Partitioning with fdisk

1999-11-08 Thread Darren Osadchuk
change? I would prefer it if Linux could read the partition, since I was thinking of using that as a shared space for things like mp3s, etc. that I'd like to be able to access from both OSs. >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/08/99 11:24AM >>> Darren Osadchuk wrote: > &

ipchains

2000-03-17 Thread Darren Osadchuk
tible with this kernel So, to put it bluntly: help! What's going on here -- what am I missing/doing wrong? (This is basically the last thing I need to do before I can comfortably switch to Linux as my primary O/S, so I'm a little anxious to get this set up! :) Thanks, Darren

Re: ipchains

2000-03-18 Thread Darren Osadchuk
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hey Darren, > Unfortunately, you did not succesfully compile firewalling into your >kernel. What sys are you using? Perhaps with a little more info we can >give a lot of help. Please post kernel, distro, etc... Here's all the messy

[techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread Darren Osadchuk
rt Gnome, after I type 'startx', the system sits for a little bit, then I get an error message that reads: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/darren/.Xauthority Then X will start, but all I get is a grey screen with the 'X' shaped pointer, and nothing else. It'

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-25 Thread Darren Osadchuk
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jeff wrote: >On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 12:39:11PM -0600, Darren Osadchuk wrote: >> >> Which is what they are: >> >> drwxr-xr-x 27 501 users 4096 Mar 25 01:09 darren > >I've seen this before. You don't 'own

Re: [techtalk] Bunch of odd messages

2000-03-26 Thread Darren Osadchuk
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote: [snip] >> (I wonder what I did last night that caused the problem; I didn't change >> ownership of anything...) > >Um, you ran Gnome ? It's buggy. Well, I'm new enough at this to not be wedded to any one particular environment. I'm downloading the KDE pack