Re: Can't surf the web

2000-01-26 Thread Richard Adams
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Chris Job wrote about, Can't surf the web: hanks guys!! I got my email working again!! If only I could figure out web I can not surf the web I'll be okay When I enter a URL I comes back with the message: no response server could be down. Try later. Any idea on

RE: partition problem again

2000-01-26 Thread Chris Bennett
Hmm Maybe you are having problems because of the size of the disk? the kernel needs to be in the first 1024 cylinders I usually make a 20 meg partition as the first partion of my drive for /boot just to be safe Take a read of the Large Disk HOWTO -Original Message- From: Ray Olszewski

RE: Can't surf the web

2000-01-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:10 PM 1/25/00 -0500, Chris Job wrote: Thanks Ray You were on the mark with your info. I called my ISP and asked what I would need to surf the web. He said that two (primary and secondary) IP addresses he gave me (I added these to my /etc/resolv.conf) was all I needed. That as much as he

RE: Can't surf the web

2000-01-26 Thread Chris Job
Thanks again!! I think I understand what to do I've learned so much and made lots of notes so I don't have to ask the same questions next time around. This list is awesome!! Chris -Original Message- From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 3:09

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2000-01-26 Thread Glen

Re: Any free mail packages

2000-01-26 Thread Charles Farinella
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am just two days into linux. I have redhat 5.2 running. I want to know if there are any free email utilities for linux with a gui like for e.g. PostOffice on Solaris. I am unfamiliar with PostOffice, but GUI mailers for Linux

RE: can't surf the web or get my email

2000-01-26 Thread Chris Job
Thanks you listers (espically ADAM and RAY)!! I got my email working again!! If only I could figure out web I can not surf the web I'll be okay When I enter a URL I cmes back with the message: no response server could be down. Try later. Any idea on how I should proceed? I'm using RH 5.2

Modem question.

2000-01-26 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
I had realised earlier with the help of people on this list that the modem that came with my machine was one of the many "WinModems". So, I had to continue using Windo$e.. till maybe now.. I have obtained a US Robotics External modem from a friend. But it says on the modem that its for

Re: Modem question.

2000-01-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
It is *probably* not a problem that the modem says it is for Macintosh. But it might be -- I've seen many an odd modem in my day, and I recall one external modem that got its **power** from a Macintosh ADB port. You won't get that working on an Intel box. It's also possible that some of the

RE: ctrl - alt - F2

2000-01-26 Thread Mike Miller
Thanks to those of you that replied. I tried to reproduce the problem and failed. The system switched between X and various consoles and back to X with no problems. Last night it locked up so completely that not even the caps lock led on the keyboard would respond to the caps lock key. I'll

About modems and jumpers

2000-01-26 Thread OHPC
Lawson wrote: ... I don't think they make modems that can be configured by hand with jumpers anymore, so you may have to get to know isapnptools better than you'd like. ... Lawson Well, I also believed that, but to my surprise I bought a 3Com/US Robotics V.90 ISA Modem (Voice Internal, blah

Linux Partitioning

2000-01-26 Thread Daniel
Hi, I am new to linux. I am wanting to know how I should split up my hard drive as far as / , /boot , /usr ,etc. Overall my laptop has a 2gig drive but i am wanting to keep windoz (for windoz apps) on half. I have already used partition magic to create a linux native partition of 1 gig. I have

WinZip Split Files

2000-01-26 Thread Clive Crous
Hello, With my slow and often cut off telephone system I have a problem downloading large files for Linux. For Windows I go to a webcafe with a fast and stable line. I download and than using WinzZp, slicing and saving the files to floppies and re-assemble them back home into one file. Question

Creative SoundBlaster Live!

2000-01-26 Thread Razvan Sandu
Hello all! Does anyone knows if there is a way to use my new SoundBlaster Live! under RedHat 6.1? I've recently bought a bulk version of this card, PCI, and sndconfig says it isn't supported. Despite that, can I emulate an older type of Creative card? What should I write in /etc/conf.modules?

RE: WinZip Split Files

2000-01-26 Thread Vinoth Babu G
Hi, You can use the gozilla for this purpose. The latest version has the option of downloading the linux files from the net. In this you can download the files and even if ur telephone system goes down , the next time when u download the file , it starts downloading from where it stopped and

Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live!

2000-01-26 Thread Richard Adams
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Razvan Sandu wrote about, Creative SoundBlaster Live!: Hello all! Does anyone knows if there is a way to use my new SoundBlaster Live! under RedHat 6.1? I've recently bought a bulk version of this card, PCI, and sndconfig says it isn't supported. Despite that, can I

Re: Linux Partitioning

2000-01-26 Thread Richard Adams
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote about, Linux Partitioning: Hi, I am new to linux. I am wanting to know how I should split up my hard drive as far as / , /boot , /usr ,etc. Overall my laptop has a 2gig drive but i am wanting to keep windoz (for windoz apps) on half. I have already used

Linux Partitioning

2000-01-26 Thread Dan
Hi, I am new to linux. I am wanting to know how I should split up my hard drive as far as / , /boot , /usr ,etc. Overall my laptop has a 2gig drive but i am wanting to keep windoz (for windoz apps) on half. I have already used partition magic to create a linux native partition of 1 gig. I have

Re: Linux Partitioning

2000-01-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
There are many reasons to break up a Linux install into several partitions. For a one-user system with what is, these days, a small hard disk, they aren't all that compelling. In your situation I would use a single partition for the entire filesystem, as you have set it up. Two qualifications to

Boot Hangs......

2000-01-26 Thread John Starkey
On rebooting my 2 Linux boxes I get hangs on each of them. My girlfriends box, which I am in the process of converting from Windows 98, hangs at "Starting Random Number Generator". And my box, from which I just pulled my modem card to install in hers, hangs at "Starting System Log". I have to do

RE: WinZip Split Files

2000-01-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
John -- After looking at the site http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/, I find myself very uncomfortable with your recommendation. I read your posting (quoted at the end of this message in full) as endorsing the use of this ATT software in violation of its license. You wrote: ... you can

Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live!

2000-01-26 Thread Marc Mutz
Razvan Sandu wrote: Hello all! Does anyone knows if there is a way to use my new SoundBlaster Live! under RedHat 6.1? I've recently bought a bulk version of this card, PCI, and sndconfig says it isn't supported. Despite that, can I emulate an older type of Creative card? What should I

Re: Boot Hangs......

2000-01-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
First the easy one: your logging problem is probably a name resolution problem. You don't tell us which Linux distribution/version you are using, so the fix is largely guesswork. One possibility: make sure the file /etc/nsswitch.conf exists, and that it includes this line: "hosts: files dns".

RE: WinZip Split Files

2000-01-26 Thread Baskette, John
I understand your discomfort. Unfortunately for me, you also happen to be right. Oh well John Baskette ex. 4385 -- From: Ray Olszewski[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:02 AM To: Baskette, John Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Printing Problem

2000-01-26 Thread Jason Crider
I'm having a problem with banner pages coming out after you send a job to print. If I open up the printtool utility and make sure that two of the printers have the exact same setting one of them will still send a page out with the username and some other garbage on it. Is there somewhere else I

Re: Network question?

2000-01-26 Thread James (Jim) Hatridge
Hi Ray et al, On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote: "ping", not "bing". (And "netscape", not "netscrape" ... though I rather like that one.) Oops, missed ping, but meant netscrape G. If you post about this again, please mention which Linux distribution and version you are using.

configure sound?

2000-01-26 Thread Sean Steele
I have an onboard soundcard -- Crystal CS4280 Sound Blaster Pro (eMachines 366i) -- that I'd like to configure for sound w/o recompiling the kernel. Has anybody done this before? Are there PnP configuration issues? Sean Steele -- // FeO2 thinking tech since 1999 // http://www.feo2.org -+-

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2000-01-26 Thread Andrew J. Viterbi
Hi all, Q: 1. How to enable IP forwarding in linux? 2. How to run xterm from remote host? I always get err msgs: hostname:disp refuses etc. Though i have verified with the option: xterm -display myhost:0.0 Thanks in advance.

Re: Network question?

2000-01-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
You got a detail wrong. In the Masq'ing stuff, you entered the network as MSQ_NETWORKS="192.168.0.0/24" ^ But the actual network is 192.168.17.0/24 ^^ So your LAN (probably) isn't being Masq'd peoperly. Try fixing that. (BTW, my

RE: Creative SoundBlaster Live!

2000-01-26 Thread hooper
I got mine working by reading the article at www.linuxnewbie.org. It's about a page long, and the procedure takes about 15 minutes. I would suggest skipping the 'make install' step and follow the article to completion. My card didn't work after 'make install'. I had to go back and finish the

RE: Creative SoundBlaster Live!

2000-01-26 Thread John Marr
Razvan: Get the latest emu10k driver from http://www.opensource.creative.com Compile this, and you should have no problems -Original Message- From: Richard Adams [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 9:57 AM To: Razvan Sandu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About modems and jumpers

2000-01-26 Thread Yggsdrasil
OHPC wrote: Lawson wrote: ... I don't think they make modems that can be configured by hand with jumpers anymore, so you may have to get to know isapnptools better than you'd like. ... Lawson Well, I also believed that, but to my surprise I bought a 3Com/US Robotics V.90 ISA Modem

Re: Linux Partitioning

2000-01-26 Thread Greg Olszewski
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:20:41AM -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote: There are many reasons to break up a Linux install into several partitions. For a one-user system with what is, these days, a small hard disk, they aren't all that compelling. In your situation I would use a single partition for

Re: Boot Hangs......

2000-01-26 Thread Richard Adams
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, John Starkey wrote about, Boot Hangs..: On rebooting my 2 Linux boxes I get hangs on each of them. My girlfriends box, which I am in the process of converting from Windows 98, hangs at "Starting Random Number Generator". And my box, from which I just pulled my

WEB SERVER

2000-01-26 Thread ALMAZ72
Hello Everybody, Fortunately I hope I don have problem with connecting to Internet with my modem anymore! Thanks to all of you who helped me in that situation! I have installed Linux Red Hat 6.1 ! Is anyone here who have Red hat Linux and running WEB-SERVER? Will you be so kind to explain me

Re: Netscape Fonts

2000-01-26 Thread Charles Cloghesy
Actually I should have said more... I am running Mandrake 6.0 w/kernel 2.2.13 and KDE 1.1.1 using netscape 4.7 While on the web with KDE's KFM browser, all fonts seem to be working fine... so... also I checked my XF86Config file and saw that it's not thru the standard font server where I can

Re: ip_forward and remote X questions (was: no subject)

2000-01-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:29 PM 1/24/00 +0700, Andrew J. Viterbi wrote: 1. How to enable IP forwarding in linux? cat "1" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward This assumes the kernel was compiled with IP forwarding built in. In my experience, all stock modern (2.0.x and 2.2.x) kernels come this way. 2. How to run xterm

Re: WEB SERVER

2000-01-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
I didn't see any other responses to this. So even though I'm not a Red Hat user, let me at least go over the basics. The Web server you probably want to run is called Apache, and there should be an RPM package for it. It will install apache -- the executable itself (httpd), a default

Re: WEB SERVER

2000-01-26 Thread ALMAZ72
Hello Ray, Thank you very much for your reply! In a message dated 1/26/00 9:44:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't see any other responses to this. So even though I'm not a Red Hat user, let me at least go over the basics. The Web server you probably want

Problems with Java

2000-01-26 Thread Sebastián Ferraro
Hello, I'm trying to use java under Linux for the first time. I have: JDK 1.1.8 IBM build l118-19991221 (JIT enabled: jitc) RedHat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.13 I try to run BurnIt (a java front-end to a CD-burner): cd /usr/local/BurnIT /usr/bin/java -classpath . BurnIT And I get the

Re: WEB SERVER

2000-01-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
I'm skipping most of what you sent in reply to focus on the few new items. At 11:05 PM 1/26/00 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [in part] With httpd running, connect to URL http://localhost/ and you should see a default "home page" placeholder that gets installed with Apache. It

Re: Linux Partitioning

2000-01-26 Thread root
Greg Olszewski wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:20:41AM -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote: Thanks for the info. I have two more questions. I was able to install caldera with no problems, i was even able to get kppp to work with a little configuration. My first qustion is: how can I tell how

hdb partition sizes

2000-01-26 Thread Liz Dunbar
I added a (gift) 20GB 2nd disk because the first (1.xx GB, as I recall - it's been snowing) is 83% full and filling with rapidly growing website and mail use. My totally untutored idea was to move the website to the larger disk, leaving mail on the first, and keep encouraging the website to grow