[techtalk] Linux Mandrake 7.0

[Lyta Alexander]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:35:20AM -0500, coldfire wrote:
> richie,
> how about lynx?  open up a terminal emulator (Eterm, xterm, etc) and see
> if 'lynx freshmeat.net' will bring up their page.  narrow it down to see
> if it's a netscape specific problem or what.
actually just typing lynx will work by default it has a startup page
if you want to go to freshmeat.net when you start lynx you will have to
type lynx http://www.freshmeat.net

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> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Puff Devil wrote:
> 
> > Greetings Everyone,
> >      I have reinstalled and reinstalled Mandrake 7.0. 
> > I cannot get the lovely OS to realize that it is on
> > the internet.  I sign on to my Earthlink account and
> > launch Netscape and Netscape says, "umm you aren't on
> > the internet...and instantly returns a DNS server
> > error."  Also I have reinstalled to get my CD-ROM
> > drive to function correctly but absolutly no success. 
> > I dbl-click on the CD-ROM drive on the desktop even as
> > root and it says it has been dismissed (oh and yes
> > there was a CD in the drive).  The cd-rom is a HP
> > CD-Writer 7500, Linux detects is great in Lothar, but
> > when I try to read the cd, it says umm no.  I tryed
> > changing the premissions for the drive and everything
> > that I could think of.  Oh and is there any good ATAPI
> > CD-Writer software for Linux?  There is some that came
> > on the Extras CD of Mandrake, but I can't get the
> > CD-ROM to work.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >    Richie
> > 
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