If your computer is connected to the internet by some means external to itself... You could use the "network.img" disk (which you can download) to install from the internet...
But this is going to take a long time. I'd spring for the CD's or download and burn your own. BTW: Your CD is probably not working because of an erroneous /dev/cdrom link... Type "dmesg | more" and look to see what Linux sees your CD as. Then you'll need to fix the /dev/cdrom link to point to the right device. -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Johnson, David |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 7:02 PM |To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' |Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers | | |Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm running 8.0 | |Which brings up another question. Since installing 8.0, |something has gone wrong with my computer such that I now |cannot use the CD-ROM! I have tried a new unit. I have tried |moving the CD-ROM from the secondary IDE channel to the |primary. I have tried making it the master, slave, etc., |nothing works. | |Anyway, I'm not trying to solve my CD-ROM issue any more as I |think it's more of a motherboard issue or something, but I |would still love to upgrade to LM8.1. | |How can I do this? I know there's a way to do an FTP |installation. Can you tell me how to initiate this? | |Thanks for the advice! | |-----Original Message----- |From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:45 PM |To: 'Johnson, David' |Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers | | |It sounds like you did not perform a full installation. | |8.1 normally asks you about configuring the system the first |time X is run. | |Removing .drakfw starts this process over again. | |You may want to go back and install as many RPM's as you can. | |Did you reformat and re-install? Or did you attempt an upgrade? ;( | |-JMS | | ||-----Original Message----- ||From: Johnson, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ||Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:52 PM ||To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ||Subject: RE: [newbie] Changing window managers || || ||I start up in text mode, so idea 1 is out. As for methods 2 ||and 3, I don't have either of those files (.drakfw and ||.xinitrc) on my system that I can find. || ||Is there another way? || | |
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