dd ok, now ppp problems

2000-09-11 Thread Timothy L. Bolz
I tried dd again and it worked fine. I don't know what happened. Now I'm having problems connecting with ppp. It looks like it handshakes ok but I can't telnet,ping,ssh or anything. I looked in /var/log/ppp.log and everything looks good. I checked the /etc/resolve.conf and it has the right

Wordperfect 8 install problems

2000-09-11 Thread John
Hi, could anyone help me with the install of Wordperfect 8? I have downloaded the whole file from www.cnet.com and have tried to gunzip the file, with no success. I haven't had any luck decompressing the file. Any help would be appreciated. John

Re: Wordperfect 8 install problems

2000-09-11 Thread Franklin Hays
what command did you use? if if is a tarred gunzip file try tar zxvf filename.tgz /frank On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, John wrote: Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 23:14:53 -0700 From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wordperfect 8

Re: dd and binaries

2000-09-11 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 01:46:36PM -0700, Timothy L. Bolz wrote: I have never had the need to make a binary image to a floppy. I'm trying to make a rescue disk. I never took notes at the group on how to use dd. I used this dd if=/cdrom/debian/install/rescue1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 It copied but

Re: I installed realplayer7 need assistance

2000-09-11 Thread Dean Ridgway
on some of the web sites it says I need rnhelper app for realplayer7 in the install it says it could not create rnhelper app just wondering if anyone had the same problem or is a guru on realplay7 I went through the lititure and found nothing.. What is rnhelper supposed to do? I installed

Re: Computer Problems...

2000-09-11 Thread James S. Kaplan
Bring it over here Natewe'll get you going. Call me at 345-5172 to make arrangements. jk At 10:49 PM 9/10/2000, you wrote: ok, here it goes. I brought my computer into one of the thursday meetings about a month ago with windows going crazy and decided to whipe everything and install linux

Re: Thursday's Meeting

2000-09-11 Thread Michael Smith
That was me. No, still hacking away at it. Need to improve my tech level from casual attempts to all-out warfare, no holds barred. Kent Loobey wrote: Did the person that was trying to get the undocumented monitor to work succeed? He was still working on it when I left... At 02:30 PM

Re: Wordperfect 8 install problems

2000-09-11 Thread rocksolidnetworks
John, gzip -d decompresses gzip'd files as such gzip -d blah.gz if you have a file that is tar'd and gzip'd then there are 2 options, untar, and unzip, or untar/unzip. say you have file.tar.gz, sometimes you have to untar, then unzip, sometimes it requires a unzipping while untarring...

Re: Computer Problems...

2000-09-11 Thread Michael Smith
You should have the right kernel (from the 2.4 series) already installed, patched, and ready to go. We got that far. What you need to do is make the node in /dev. I know you use mknod and the device is /dev/ttyS15, but I don't know the major and minor numbers and then link /dev/modem to that

Re: dd ok, now ppp problems

2000-09-11 Thread Ralph Zeller
Tim, I think you have diald running. ddiald creates a slip-IP, which you are seeing when you run ifconfig. Turn off diald if you're not using it. Make sure you have "nameserver 192.168.37.186" in your /etc/resolv.conf Ralph At 11:12 PM 9/10/00 -0700, "Timothy L. Bolz" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wordperfect 8 install problems

2000-09-11 Thread Harald Sundt
I left a copy on a CD with Stan for people in the group to install. The Corel Power Paint RECOGNIZES your distribution, and asks you to confirm it. WordPerfect Suite 2000 doesn't, by the way, if you have Mandrake you want to go to Corel site, the WordPerfect Suite page, and download the

win 98

2000-09-11 Thread Francis Joseph Conry
I was wondering if thurs and win4lin is still happening. I have win 98 for (cough cough) use if it's still needed. I have plans but I could at the very least run by and burn you a copy. Thanks for all your help guys, Francis

Re: Wordperfect 8 install problems

2000-09-11 Thread Bob Crandell
My untar script reads: /bin/tar -xvf $1 My ungtar script reads: /bin/tar -xvf $1 Where the $1 is the file name of the file to be uncompressed. Bob C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/10 11:16p Hi, could anyone help me with the install of Wordperfect 8? I have downloaded the whole file from

Re: win 98

2000-09-11 Thread Seth Cohn
Got Win4Lin from Jim, and will check it out on Thursday I've got win98 and everything else needed. Seth On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Francis Joseph Conry wrote: I was wondering if thurs and win4lin is still happening. I have win 98 for (cough cough) use if it's still needed. I have plans but

Re: Thursday's Meeting

2000-09-11 Thread Kent Loobey
At 09:49 AM 9/11/00 -0700, you wrote: That was me. No, still hacking away at it. Need to improve my tech level from casual attempts to all-out warfare, no holds barred. The reason I asked was because I was looking at the latest "Running Linux" book in Borders a couple of days ago and it