[techtalk] Linux Mandrake 7.0

coldfire rolick571 at duq.edu
Thu Feb 15 15:46:00 EST 2001


usually, any text contained within `'s indicate that it is to be typed
exactly that way.  thus, at the command line, `lynx freshmeat.net` would
denote that this be typed:

lynx freshmeat.net

therefore bypassing lynx's default startup page :)

coldie

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Lyta Alexander wrote:

> 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
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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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