[newbie] LM 7.1 and KDE 1.90

2000-08-04 Thread dickon1
Hi guys I finally got the LM 7.1 Essential Package. Installed without any hitch and it seems to work well with the hardware that I have. Wanted to try the new KDE 1.90. Got two sources, one of RPMs built for LM and the other are the different tars. Can not install any of those because of

RE: UNCLASSIFIED:-[newbie] Purcahsing a copy of Linux-Mandrake ve rsion 7.0 in Australia.

2000-06-04 Thread dickon1
The only problem with Cheapbytes is the International shipping charge - The two CDs of ML 7.1 beta cost $6.99 and the shipping costs $8.00. Cheaper than 15 hours of downloading the ISO image (we pay by the minute for local calls here) but more than double the price G Found this beta to be

RE: [newbie] Problem updating xemacs

2000-06-02 Thread dickon1
Hi I was surprised to read that installing xemcas caused problems. i used the Mandrake Updates facility and it downloaded the files and installed then automatically. Works just perfect and yes, xemcas is great although i still prefer the non-gui version. Dick

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-06-01 Thread dickon1
Hi guys Paul, Charles and Ron, thanks for your quick response and the helpful suggestions. It is very appreciated here. None worked though nor any disk druid of any other distro. At last i used Red Hat's fdisk which was the only one ready to look at my fucked up partition. When done, i

[newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

2000-05-30 Thread dickon1
Hi guys Apart from some troubles when ML would not recognize my Realtek card (thanks for your help, Paul), installing ML went very smoothly indeed and everything works and behaves just fine. So much so, that i decided to expand the disk space allotted to ML so that i could install some more

[newbie] A helpful site

2000-05-21 Thread dickon1
Hi guys On my quest for finding solutions to all sorts of LM problems, i stumbled upon a very helpful site: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.html Of course you might have known about it all along, but for me it was new and well worth the visit. This is no spam as i do not know the

Re: [newbie] Realtek driver and eth0 in general

2000-05-06 Thread dickon1
Hola Jose Thanks for your help. Sorry that i did not respond earlier, but i was trying to persuade knetstart to work. It does not - under any circumstances. So i am back to the original question - how do i compile/install or whatever the file rtl8139.c ? Yours Dick

Re: [newbie] Realtek driver and eth0 in general

2000-05-06 Thread dickon1
Hi Paul Thanks for your message. i have the same two cards that you have and yes, my system is configured with the rtl8139 drive which was supplied on the CD-ROM. It does not work, though although both cards work perfectly under Windows. Yours, Dick Hi Dick (Hallo Dick) Just dropped in on

[newbie] Realtek driver and eth0 in general

2000-05-04 Thread dickon1
Hi guys Sorry but i am a complete newbie both to Linux and to this newsgroup, so if these questions are too stupid or if they have already been answered before, please bare with me and accept my apologies (but still give me a coherent answer, please) My Mandrake Linux 7.0 works very