Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.

1999-03-29 Thread Shanta McBain
Will Lowe wrote: yes i have only windows 98 installed on my computer. I was wondering if there was any way that i could convert FAT 32 back into FAT16 without reinstalling windows. I don't think so. Why would you want to? Will

Colour Map Problem

1999-03-27 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi After much fooling around I have Communicator running but The problem now is the Colour map. Netscape requires true colour I can only seem to get 4 bit susdo colour. How can I get 8 bit or higher colour. In this mode Netscape goes black and White not to useful. Real hard on the eyes too as

Re: downloading

1999-03-24 Thread Shanta McBain
Bob Nielsen wrote: bind is not required. /etc/resolv.conf should contain the ip addresses of This may be true but there is no instructions for the newbie to do that. I had to get bind working before my system would log onto my provider. The bind setup takes care of it for you.

Re: Funny netscape problem (How to debug and solve)

1999-03-20 Thread Shanta McBain
Daniel Mashao wrote: I have a funny nestcape problem on my home machine. i installed netscape as root and have two accounts (one me and the other my wife's). As me (daniel) I can run netscape without problem, but I cannot run netscape as root nor can my wife run it as all. The Netscape

Re: downloading

1999-03-20 Thread Shanta McBain
John Dont give up its worth the effort. Definitely worth the effort. If you don't have a CD this is the root that I hacked out to get a reasonable smooth install. Download the floppy disk install. Download wvdial. The dialer to make getting on line easy. Download Bind. The local DNS

Re: what's the best html wordprocessor?

1999-03-19 Thread Shanta McBain
Steve Lamb wrote: Then you've been using the wrong tools. Macromedia's Dreamweaver (yeah, I know, Windows, but hear me out) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor that doesn't You are right Dreamweaver, Coldfusion (the one I use for HTML and Perl) are great products. I play with the page in

Re: what's the best html wordprocessor?

1999-03-19 Thread Shanta McBain
Paul I don't intend to debate the pros and cons of editors v/ wysiwyg. There are pros and con's here wysiyg get one into more trouble than it can be worth. processor (i.e., wp8) but save in as clean an html format as possible. I personal don't like WP HTML it put hard spaces into your

Re: Sound Card problems

1999-03-19 Thread Shanta McBain
Craig T. Hancock wrote: Use OSS to detect your sound caerd it is much eaiser Got things working with this method. Product was easy to install even with out the .deb that I found in Dselect later. BUT I am now into a scenario of a time limet on the software. I guess I can get the info about

Re: Netscape problems

1999-03-19 Thread Shanta McBain
Jens I found the Netscape the version needed did yet another reinstall and now I do have a Netscape static that works, Communicator is Still out to lunch. but we are progressing. Thanks for the time and info. Shanta

Sound Card problems

1999-03-17 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I am trying to setup my sound card. What is the kernel setup here? I download the latest Debian updates with Dselect on a weekly basis so I have the current release. Shanta McBain

Netscape problems

1999-03-17 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I used dselect to install all the communicator programs and it will not load. I had this problem with the dynamic version in an old installation but the static version seemed to work . In the latest builds there dose not seem to be these two versions. How can I get this product on line?

PCI Modems and Trident cards

1999-03-17 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I have a PCI modem which I cant seem to get Linux to see. There also dose not seem to be a Trident 975 driver for X windows. Do I have to run the PCI module, which I installed with dselect of the Debian website? Will this program detect the modem? Shanta

OpenLinux lite and Debian?

1998-06-17 Thread Shanta McBain
hi I just got a book The Complete Reference Linux second edition and it contains a cd. OpenLinux Lite is this disk compatible with the debian core that I have installed? Do I have to install the OpenLinux to take advantage of the programs on the CD? Thanks Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Shanta McBain
After trying everything that fdisk had to offer I used cfdisk and it did what it was supped to do. Where fdisk fell sort of the mark cfdisk didn't. I am up and running again. Installing with out a cd is a major headache. I have to down load with the windows machine, transfer the file to a disk

Install problem

1998-06-14 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi all Here is the problem I have been trying to install Debian from a set of floppies. Things go well until disk 5 is done and it try's to decompress the final file for install. It gives and error that it cant install the file and goes to the next step. I then reboot the system. It will go

Linux install problem

1998-06-14 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical partitions exist. likely the

Re: How do you connect one computer to another

1998-06-04 Thread Shanta McBain
Sorry, but what is a tcp/ip drive? Maybe you could explain what you want to do. If you want to access your linuxbox via the network neighborhood, you can use samba for this. This will also allow access the other way round. Sorry for not knowing the terms of reference for Linux I came from the

deselect not finding vmlinuz.old

1998-06-04 Thread Shanta McBain
hi Deselect will exit on error that it cannot find the file vmlinuz.old in the base dir. The file shows on a ls. you can mv to a new name. and back but you cant cp it or open it with ae. This effectively stops me from installing most of the packages. what is wrong here and how can I correct it?

How do you connect one computer to another

1998-06-03 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I have a linux running on a 386 connected to a Win95 system via ether net ne2000. If I attempt a dns search from linux will launch the proxy dialer on the Win95 system. How to I get access to the Win95 tcp/ip drives from the linux box and vise versa? Thanks Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Networking with Novell and Win95

1998-05-26 Thread Shanta McBain
Hi I am in the process of setting up a Dabian Linux system. The root that I use to update the Dabian files is, download on Win95 to Novell server, boot Linux machine to Novell client move files to dos partition. reboot to Linux and use dselect. I have the Novell 2000 card activated now I would