-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 December 2003 06:38 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Friday 19 December 2003 23:24, Lance Benton wrote: > > Well, looks like I'm going to give up again.. I hate going back to > >snip< > > my last email showed up as being from [EMAIL PROTECTED], I hadn't properly > > configured my webmail client to show my name, so it defaulted to just my > > email address. Sorry for any confusion that caused. > > > > very frustrated at how long I've been at this with no results, sorry if > > this is all messed up or out of format. > > I'm sorry you're frustrated......but if you want help you will have to ask > for it. > Up to now I couldn't find anything you've asked about your problems > excepting something about a proprietary source RPM you were trying to > build. So be more explicit about what you're trying to do and what's > stopping you to do that. That way we can help. > > Feel free to go back to M$ if it bugs you that you have to learn to handle > another OS because learning is what it's all about in the early stages. If > you're not prepared to do that: Come back when you are. > > You yourself stated an nforce chip is fairly current and there must > thousands of linux users with the same hardware with no trouble at all, so > the probability that you yourself are the source of all the mishaps that > are befalling you, is pretty high. > > Just ask. > BTW- Please turn off the "reply to" in your mail to the list it's > unnecessary PIA, henceforth: UPIA;) > > Good luck, > HarM
I understand the frustration Lance. I was using M$ win 98 up until sept 2003 and have only used it now to play some games. When I installed 9.1 I think I hosed the install 10+ times in the 1st 3 weeks and I almost gave up. Although I realized I wasn't prepared enough, so I googled for any how-to on bash, man pages, specific commands, and any linux how-to .. I lurk this list & cooker mostly, but someone here recommended 2 O'Reilly books, "Linux in a Nutshell" and "Running Linux". I received "Linux in a Nutshell" first, so I started there. It wasn't until I read "Running Linux" where I started hearing myself say, " aah..thats what they meant", this book sheds a lot of light on where it all started and how it works together. I still refer to these references all to often. Linux in a Nutshell has a ton of commands options and switches which has helped me. I highly recommend these. And rpm -rebuild has been separated into its own package: (unless I wrong, but I did a man rpm and didn't see the --rebuild option) rpm-build-4.2-22.1.92mdk I also updated to these, for security , IIRC and you will need the -devel to build from src rpm-4.2-22.1.92mdk rpm-devel-4.2-22.1.92mdk And you will need the kernel source as HarM said. http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/KByName.html here is also a beginning for rpm how-to http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/brpm.html I too, am preparing to get nVidia drivers installed on 9.2, I failed once already, so Ive been googling for anything else I might encounter. Heres 1 site to look into, haven't had time to peruse it as yet : http://www.nvnews.net HTH - -- RickS Linux user #338463 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/46b/c8FpDuUpLEERAiTaAJwN9YICp0hrj9Uh6VlUsDQGP4IKbwCgklYI xzzp185TcQC29pnveQ45qPs= =BUjI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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