RE: PDF viewer problems

1998-11-23 Thread Ishaaq K Chandy
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Haines Brown wrote: I apologize for responding to your question with another, but where did you get the Acrobat reader for Linux? Hi Haines, No apologies necessary! However I must say that since I am having problems, there's obviouly something I'm doing wrong, so maybe it

Re: Leave it to me to ask something stupid...

1998-11-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Using recycled bits, Ronald V. Vazquez said: % Hello list: % I was wondering if there is a place "best suited" to install % applications on my system. I downloaded Star Office and I was wondering % if I should just make a new directory /staroffice where to install the /usr/local or /opt would

Re: Pine and .fetchmailrc

1998-11-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Using recycled bits, John said: % now the problem is that when i type .fetchmailrc -a i get all my mail % from Slackware's mail program. I have pine all set up but for some % reason it won't come through it. could someone tell me what I'm doing % wrong here or send me their .fetchmailrc file off

Patching

1998-11-23 Thread Joaquin
I have upgrade kernel 2.0.34 to 2.0.35 with source code. Now I want to pach kernel 2.0.35 to 2.0.36. I was reading README in /usr/src/linux and I have done: cd /usr/src gzip -cd patchXX.gz | patch -p0 and then it asks me "File patch:" and I don't know what to write. May you

RE: Upgrade Kernel

1998-11-23 Thread Kenneth Stephen
Joaquin, In all probablilty, your original kernel numbers are correct. There are no kernel versions of 2.0.40 and 2.0.50. The latest stable kernel is 2.0.36. Kenneth There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck. On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Joaquin wrote:

Re: Having troubles yet

1998-11-23 Thread Richard Adams
According to Joaquin: While burning my CPU. Hi to all: I have read README from /usr/src/linux but I couldn't install the new kernel. I'd need to check up this file (README), maybe I have somethig wrong. It says: "INSTALLING the kernel: -If you install the full

RE: PDF viewer problems

1998-11-23 Thread LENGARD Pascal OCISI
i think that 'acrobat reader' is available for linux for free on acrobat site ... -Message d'origine- De: Ishaaq K Chandy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: lundi 23 novembre 1998 07:19 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: RE: PDF viewer problems On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Haines Brown wrote: I

Re: Patching

1998-11-23 Thread Jerome Gasperi
I was reading README in /usr/src/linux and I have done: cd /usr/src gzip -cd patchXX.gz | patch -p0 and then it asks me "File patch:" and I don't know what to write. Perhaps you should decompress patchXX.gz in /usr/src/linux and then: patch -p1 patchXX It should work Jerome

Re: Patching

1998-11-23 Thread Richard Adams
According to Joaquin: While burning my CPU. I have upgrade kernel 2.0.34 to 2.0.35 with source code. Now I want to pach kernel 2.0.35 to 2.0.36. I was reading README in /usr/src/linux and I have done: cd /usr/src gzip -cd patchXX.gz | patch -p0 and then it asks me "File

Re: Patching

1998-11-23 Thread Richard Adams
According to Jerome Gasperi: While burning my CPU. I was reading README in /usr/src/linux and I have done: cd /usr/src gzip -cd patchXX.gz | patch -p0 and then it asks me "File patch:" and I don't know what to write. Perhaps you should decompress patchXX.gz in /usr/src/linux and

Re: Upgrade Kernel

1998-11-23 Thread Richard Adams
According to Adrian Bolzan: While burning my CPU. At 15:00 22/11/98 -0300, Joaquin wrote: Hi to all: I want to upgrade kernel's RedHat 5.1. I have 2.0.34 and I have downloaded linux-2.0.35.tar.gz. The matter is I don't now how I have to install it. Firstly, the 2.0.36

MSS/WSS

1998-11-23 Thread root
Hi. I have a Compaq Deskpro XL with integrated sound. BIOS says the card is on 530, DMA 3, doesn't say anything about IRQ. OK, windoze 95 works just fine with sound, and says it's on 530/DMA 3/IRQ 9; i compiled my kernel with these values (i checked MSS/WSS ) and it says at boot that soundcard

X-Installation

1998-11-23 Thread New-Bie
I just downloades the latest X distribution and installed it on my machine a Compac Presario 64 M RAM. However when I try to run X I get the following error: start Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions You should be using Xwrapper to start the server

Crusade against evil... ;-)

1998-11-23 Thread Doin' the bull dance, feelin' the flow...
I will, in 2 days, be attempting to help a friend install linux (RedHat 5.1) onto her machine... She has, and needs to keep, Win95. She's going to create a 1 gig partition for Linux...both swap and the linux native. Now, I have never partitioned a HD that already has an OS on it. Since my

Re: Crusade against evil... ;-)

1998-11-23 Thread Øystein Folkvord
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Doin' the bull dance, feelin' the flow... wrote: [..snip ] |What are the steps I should take to partition the drive? I would assume |that we will have to use Linux fdisk... What's the best way to do that? |Create a boot disk for linux and a root disk and put fdisk on