Re: [ilugd] (Off Topic) : For those who love Ghazals and Jagjit Singh !!!

2004-06-03 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't post Offtopic messages. NO, we dont want to know if a really cool MP3 site with whole GNR collections is out there, or if the taste of Coke's changed again! Try being as close to Linux, GNU, Free Software and/or Open Source as you

Re: [ilugd] disk partitioning

2004-05-14 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Mohan Cheema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have query is there any utility to partition a disk from command line i.e. giving all option on commandline for partition type, partition size and soon. Googlising the didn't help much. I don't know how you googled for the information,

Re: [ilugd] apt-get stuck in between

2004-05-09 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- R.Vijayaraghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did 'apt-get update' and it showed that 550 packages were to be upgraded (=308 MB). Great, did 'apt-get upgrade' and went off to sleep. When I woke up after 3 hours, 87% was over and then it got stuck, the reason being that my internet

Re: [ilugd] Re: Visual Basic Access Alternate under Linux

2004-04-26 Thread Narsingh Sahu
There are at least two projects on Sourceforge - 1. VB4Linux - It has not come up with any release so far. 2. Gambas - This is working project. It is not a VB-clone exactly, but uses Visual Basic as the underlying language and hence the learning curve should not be much. It has presently

Re: [ilugd] Gnome2.6

2004-04-19 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Pankaj Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody tell me,How to install GNOME2.6 in Fedora core 1 without using the GARNOME ? Check out the Gnome site. It tells you the order in which the individual packages are to be installed as also the prerequisites. -- narsingh

Re: [ilugd] Re:MIlitary Grade Software

2004-03-19 Thread Narsingh Sahu
I have been reading on some of the posts on Military Grade software, and also the other thread on the question whether Linux is Military grade. Almost every one has brought out some definition of the term military grade. I find them all to be true only partially. I won't go into details of what

Re: [ilugd] Few Very Basic Linux Questions

2004-02-23 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Amit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Few Basic Questions : 1. how to undelete file/folders from command line? 2. is there anything like defragmentation in windows, i.e. to defragment linux disks hda, hdb...etc. 3. how to run scandisk in linux, i.e. to find/mark bad sectors if

Re: [ilugd] assembling a linux box

2004-01-09 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- ananda rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear all i am a newbie. i am also assembling a pc. i want this pc to house all hardware components that will run without any hitch in linux (RH9). will be very glad and much obliged if any of you can provide me info. i have a DishnetDSL connection

Re: [ilugd] Knoppix not working

2003-12-23 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Ankur Tyagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have bought the knoppix CD from the ILUGD.My problem is this that when I boot form the CD,while processing it asks for the modes ( 1 of 8). After giving the mode my computer screens shuts off and the LED under the monitor starts

Re: [ilugd] Problem saving configuration!

2003-12-14 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Basanta Pradhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Anuj, I was also having same problem. That's why I have installed Redhat 8.0 in my PC. One thing I want to say is that I am a daily readers of Linux For You. I am having several CD's with me. But I can suggest that Using Redhat 8.0 in

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-19 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact I was also under this impression but in actuality it turned out that using IceWM or KDE made only slight difference in memory used but hardly noticeable slowdown. IAC for such server a beefy memory (about 128MB per client is good idea)

Re: [ilugd] Writing to windows partion as user

2003-11-19 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Rajesh K. Jha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Red hat 9 with dual boot-windows98 on my hda1.I am unable to write to hda1 while using linux as user, though as root I can write and read from the windows part of the partition.What could be the way out,how can I write to the windows

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-18 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:20, supreet wrote: Regarding 486 running linux. I worked on 486 from 1996-1998 with linux/X-windows. This thing works. Following Config I used to run: Intel 486-dx2 66Mhz 8 Mb Ram Realtek vga card with

Re: [ilugd] Help on LiFY CD!

2003-11-16 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:36, Anuj Sharma wrote: hi guyz, i have been trying to load the os on this months LiFY CD - Bhavya OS. The darn this keeps getting stuck. Has anyone tried that faced/overcome this issue? If more details of the error

Re: [ilugd] linux on p1

2003-11-11 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear all, what's the best approach, with distro and release, to install linux on a pentium 1, 100mhz, 32mb ram, 4gb hard disk, such that the non-techie user gets his: 1) gui OS. 2) office suite (wordprocess, spreadsheet, presentation) 3)

Re: [ilugd] illugd nov16 meet

2003-11-10 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI! Everyone I posted the earlier mail saying i am a kumbkaran, but seriously i want to attend this meeting (and all future ones also), but t he problem is i don't recognize any member by face, can i rely on the picture available on the ilugd

Re: [ilugd] About RedHat Linux and Novell

2003-11-06 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Varun Varma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been a lot of rumours lately about how free Linux is coming to an end. My 2 cents worth... RedHat discontinuing RHL: I think that RedHat, knowingly or not, handled their PR very badly with this one. Initially I also had doubts

Re: [ilugd] SCO claim on GPL ..

2003-11-05 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.itweek.co.uk/News/1143267 This article claims that: ... According to SCO, the GPL cannot be enforced because it permits licensees to make an unlimited number of copies of the software being licensed. ... I never heard

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIG] [Fwd: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning]

2003-11-04 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I havent followed Debian till now. Does it still find a GUI step wise installation uncool? I have always wondered why Debian had to have a freebsd kinda installation process? A menu of things to do is so much confusing for lesser

Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D: Query

2003-11-03 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Arvind Sinha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try linux lowres at the boot promt. shuld work. arvind Or try vga=normal at boot prompt. You also could have it in your lilo.conf file. -- narsingh Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find

Re: [ilugd] Linux CD-Roms

2003-10-12 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Sukrit K Mehra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, Does anyone have some newish distro (with Xfree 4.3 and beyond). Any distro will do ... RedHat, Mandrake and the likes. Would prefer if someone has updated CDs of the Debian unstable tree (First three-four should be enough) Or Slack (9.x

Re: [ilugd] apt-get warning

2003-10-09 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Yashpal Nagar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mistake i did ctrl-c or ctrl-z while apt-get running..., Its fine now. Can someone tell me how i can search for a string in apt-cache for a package name. Problem is many times we don't have the know correct package-names. apt-cache search

Re: [ilugd] Partitions

2003-10-05 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- shah tushar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Partition Magic(Commercial), Gnu Parted(Fsf) There are others: 1. Ranish Partition Manager (www.ranish.com/part/) 2. FIPS (www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips)- included in most Linux distributions 3. Partition Resizer (www.zeleps.com) 4. QTParted

Re: [ilugd] Solaris 8 installation

2003-10-05 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Shree-Lipi for Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how to install Solaris 8 on Intel machines? Try this guide: http://my.execpc.com/~keithp/bdlogsol.htm -- narsingh Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your

Re: [ilugd] Re: apt-get

2003-10-02 Thread Narsingh Sahu
Arjun Asthana wrote: | Thanks! It solved the problem. But I am unable to get/install anything using | apt-get. Maybe because of missing pkglist.os. Can someone send me this file | (on RHL7.2)? You have to provide a /etc/apt/sources.list file, which contains the apt repositories. There

Re: [ilugd] Python Resources

2003-09-05 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting Python resources and links: http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Another good site containing free/open documentation is www.andamooka.org. It has not only books on Python but others too. -- narsingh

Re: [ilugd] delete files log

2003-09-03 Thread Narsingh Sahu
Normally there is no undelete command under Linux. But I came across a utility which claims to be able to do so. I haven't tried it. You may like to try.Check the freeware at - http://www.r-tt.com/RLinux.shtml -- narsingh --- Alok Sinha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the file deleted is not a

Re: [ilugd] Chat Software for my linux server

2003-08-29 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- amit sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, does anyone know any chat software for my red hat linux 8.0 server. i want that software should able to enable me to have a conference chat (like yahoo and msn) Start with Jabber as chat server. There are many client software which you can

Re: [ilugd] LRP dead?

2003-08-28 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Shuvam Misra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheesh! I must have missed the news earlier. But I just found out that the LRP(Linux Router project) is dead. [...] Stale News. Was discussed at LIG in June with same thread name. The author didn't release the source

Re: [ilugd] Please help me

2003-08-20 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ELX is proprietary AFAIK. 'Nuff said. Then so are RedHat, SuSE and a score of others. ELX is perhaps the only Indian distribution of note. -- narsingh Yahoo! India Promos:

Re: [ilugd] Problem opening modem by kppp

2003-08-18 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Nishikant Kapoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check for /dev/modem permissions. Make sure 'user' has read access to it. Otherwise, try kppp as 'root' Regards, Nishi MALKIAT BENIPAL wrote: Hi, try to make a new dial up connection in kppp and then try this out. Hope this works. No

Re: [ilugd] Problem opening modem by kppp

2003-08-18 Thread Narsingh Sahu
Sorry Rishi, You were right. I changed the permissions for kppp and it worked. But what stil foxes me is how a power outage can result in change of permission of a file in operation. Thanks, -- narsingh Nishikant Kapoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check for /dev/modem permissions. Make sure

Re: [ilugd] Problem opening modem by kppp

2003-08-18 Thread Narsingh Sahu
No LL, You are widely off the mark. I sent the message from my office Linux box. Incidentally I have got Knoppix installed onto my harddisk both at home and office. I came to like Debian after using all sorts of Distro (RH, Mandrake, SuSE - you name it). And since I could not lay my hands on a

Re: [ilugd] (no subject)

2003-07-31 Thread Narsingh Sahu
Since you yourself are pretty unsure about Unix/Linux and what you want to do with it( you mentioned certificates), I would suggest you pick up a Linux book from any book store ( a casual browsing should tell you whether the book suits your requirement). Such books normally come with some Linux

Re: [ilugd] Rescuing linux partition from a lilo overwrite

2003-07-31 Thread Narsingh Sahu
Use Knoppix as recovery CD. Or download a bootdisk/ recovery disk from the Net. -- narsingh --- Sohel Shaheen Mallik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, please anyone advise me what to do about a specific problem. I had linux 7.1 installed in a 20 GB HDD with win98 and win2000 prof as

Re: [ilugd] RHL Mandrake/ELX?

2003-06-11 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Arjun Asthana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, Can I upgrade from RHL 7.2 to Mandrake 9.1/ELX 2.0? RHL 7.2 is very old and I have a lot of important data on it, so, I cannot afford to test it out. Upgrade is a term you use for shifting to a newer release of the same

Re: [ilugd] FW: need help

2003-06-04 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Kapoor, Nishikant X [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message from tanuj: i got linux from a magazine called LINUXFORYOUin Delhi.It has the LiFY(KNOPPIX 3.2)and i