Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Margot
Aaron West wrote: Hey gang, I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The current hard drive I use with

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Franki
Margot wrote: Aaron West wrote: Hey gang, I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The current hard drive

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:13 am, Aaron West wrote: I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The current

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:47 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Anything but Western Digital. Well documented problems with shortcuts for crc error checking. The problems don't show up in Windows, but Linux can stress the drive more causing the problems to come out. Lot's of people, including me, have

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 05 October 2003 05:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:47 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Anything but Western Digital. Well documented problems with shortcuts for crc error checking. The problems don't show up in Windows, but Linux can stress the drive more causing the

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday October 5 2003 04:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: If the existing drive is WD, don't panic. I understand that more modern WD drives don't have the problem, and while I wouldn't buy one, just in case, I would happily try out an existing one. Back up any existing data before you start, and

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 2:05 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2003 05:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:47 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Anything but Western Digital. Well documented problems with shortcuts for crc error checking. The problems don't show up in

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 2:16 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday October 5 2003 04:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: If the existing drive is WD, don't panic. I understand that more modern WD drives don't have the problem, and while I wouldn't buy one, just in case, I would happily try out an existing

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday October 5 2003 09:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: It's the new drives that do have the CRC checking shortcuts. Prior to August 1998, WD's did proper CRC checks, were some of the best drives. Now you've really confused me, Tom. I posted Civileme explanation to another list and they

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:14 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday October 5 2003 09:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: It's the new drives that do have the CRC checking shortcuts. Prior to August 1998, WD's did proper CRC checks, were some of the best drives. Now you've really confused me, Tom.

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Aaron West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New to the list Thanks for everyones comments and suggestions. I'm still doing some more research on whether my system can support the ATA-133 interface, but I should be ordering a drive soon. Last

[newbie] New to the list

2003-10-04 Thread Aaron West
Hey gang, I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The current hard drive I use with Windows is a bit small

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:13 am, Aaron West wrote: Hey gang, I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system.

[newbie] New to the list.

2002-10-03 Thread l.biagiotti
Hi all, my name is Lorenzo, I live in Italy. I just subscribed to your mailing list because: 1) Being a long time Mac-user I discovered that Linux wouldn't need an $2000+ system in order to run flawlessly. So I got me a pc. 2) Amongst all the distros I have had the occasion to try in my

RE: [newbie] New to the list.

2002-10-03 Thread Franki
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of l.biagiotti Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] New to the list. Hi all, my name is Lorenzo, I live in Italy. I just subscribed to your mailing list because: 1) Being a long time Mac-user I

Re: [newbie] New to the list.

2002-10-03 Thread John Richard Smith
l.biagiotti wrote: Hi all, my name is Lorenzo, I live in Italy. I just subscribed to your mailing list because: 1) Being a long time Mac-user I discovered that Linux wouldn't need an $2000+ system in order to run flawlessly. So I got me a pc. 2) Amongst all the distros I have had the occasion

RE: [newbie] New to the list.

2002-10-03 Thread Schepens, Ronny
Don't now why, but I had the same problem with a Phillips Brilliance 15A monitor - only with that monitor type ! Ronny -Original Message- From: l.biagiotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 3 oktober 2002 13:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New to the list

Re: [newbie] New to the list.

2002-10-03 Thread l.biagiotti
to the video card but rather some strange driver-related (?) problem ... or isn't it? Lorenzo - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:09 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] New to the list. Well, this may or may not help... you

Re: [newbie] New to the list.

2002-10-03 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:11:25 +0200 l.biagiotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the ad Franki, but unfortunately the first thing I tried was the test you're suggesting so: 800x600 - 256 does not work (or does weird things), while changing some settings in the server options (under expert

Re: [newbie] New to the list.

2002-10-03 Thread Robin Turner
Damian G wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:11:25 +0200 l.biagiotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the ad Franki, but unfortunately the first thing I tried was the test you're suggesting so: 800x600 - 256 does not work (or does weird things), while changing some settings in the server options

Re: [newbie] new to the list

2000-02-09 Thread Audrey Beck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/8/00 4:28:36 PM Central Standard Time, SpartanTJedi6746 writes: hi, i'm new to the list and Linux and I have a AMD K62 350 and I have two hardrives and i'm running windows 98 and Linux. I want to mount my other harddrive so linux can read

[newbie] new to the list

2000-02-08 Thread SpartanTJedi6746
hi, i'm new to the list and Linux and I have a AMD K62 350 and I have two hardrives and i'm running windows 98 and Linux. I want to mount my other harddrive so linux can read it how do you do it? I'm having trouble setting up my sound blaster 16 sound card, one more thing how do you set up

[newbie] new to the list

2000-02-08 Thread SpartanTJedi6746
In a message dated 2/8/00 4:28:36 PM Central Standard Time, SpartanTJedi6746 writes: hi, i'm new to the list and Linux and I have a AMD K62 350 and I have two hardrives and i'm running windows 98 and Linux. I want to mount my other harddrive so linux can read it how do you do it? I'm