Selecting Mouse Type

1998-05-20 Thread Richard Layton
A friend of mine's mouse doesn't work properly in XFree86. No matter which direction he moves his mouse, the cursor always makes its way to the top left corner and gets stuck there. I beleive that he has selected the wrong mouse. Now how do you select the right one? -- -kLicK ICQ UIN# 2101942

Selecting Mouse Type

1998-05-19 Thread Richard Layton
A friend of mine's mouse doesn't work properly in XFree86. No matter which direction he moves his mouse, the cursor always makes its way to the top left corner and gets stuck there. I beleive that he has selected the wrong mouse. Now how do you select the right one? -- -kLicK ICQ UIN# 2101942

/ patition full

1998-05-07 Thread Richard Layton
I have gone off and did a bad thing. Instead of making separate partions for /usr /home /local etc. I have just made one big / partition and now it is full. To my understanding it is impossibe to resize a ext2 partitionI want to install StarOffice but I do not have enough room. So my ques

Re: Resizing the Linux ext2 partition

1998-04-27 Thread Richard Layton
The three most dreaded words to anyone ::shudder:: . Ok, someone mine as well tell me how to do this : ( Times like this make me wish I had a Zip drive. Well with Linux maybe not : ) > Or you could backup, reformat, and restore... :) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MA

Re: Resizing the Linux ext2 partition

1998-04-27 Thread Richard Layton
I haved tried Partition Magic before. Partiton Magic could only view the ext2 file system. It COULD NOT resize it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it might be that I have an older version. John Waalkes wrote: > My weapon of choice is Partition Magic for something like that. No need > to backup (

Resizing the Linux ext2 partition

1998-04-26 Thread Richard Layton
I'm running out of space in my linux ext2 partition. I need to take about 300MB or HD space from my msdos partion and add it to my / partition. This MUST be possible. Can anyone tell me how I would go about doing this? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHI

StarOffice Installation troubles

1998-04-16 Thread Richard Layton
I am having some trouble installing StarOffice, when I run the setup up program I immediately get the error: line 1: syntax error at token 'l' expected declarator; i.e. File ... After I click ok I get the error message "script error" and then it quits. What am I doing wrong here? Do I need to