Re: Problemi con CD audio - Era:Re: [newbie-it] Da cd audio a MP3

2002-02-01 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Arwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Scrive Simone: (Thursday, January 31, 2002, ore 12:32:58 PM, a proposito di [newbie-it] Da cd audio a MP3) Prendo spunto da questa mail per aggiungere un paio di richieste. S Ho finalmente provato ad ascoltare gli MP3, S funziona! xmms è

[newbie-it] kernel mandrake 8.1

2002-02-01 Thread Fabio Manunza
Probabilmente questa domanda era già stata fatta, ma tra le mie vecchie non la trovo; scuse eventuali per la ripetizione... Come posso ricompilare il kernel 2.4.8-26mdk? La directory /usr/src/linux non esiste. C'è una strada alternativa? Guardando il Software Manager, tutto quello che riguarda il

[newbie-it] Smart Link HAMR5600 AMR

2002-02-01 Thread GregorSamsa
Ho trovato i driver ( http://www.modem-help.freeserve.co.uk/help/links.html#sl ) ma non riesco assolutamente a far funzionare il modem nonostante le istruzioni (che sono per SuSE). Qualcuno mi da una mano? La mia distro è MDK 8.1 Senza modem devo stampare tutti i docs che mi servono per

[newbie-it] MandrakeOnLine

2002-02-01 Thread Giorgio Carrara
salve a tutti ho dovuto reinstallare Mandrake8.1 ex novo ed ora non riesco più a collegarmi con Mandrakeonline che mi aggiorna i mirrors dai quali trarre gli aggiornamenti. e' anche vero che non riesco a collegarmi a MandrakeExpert, mandrakesoft ed in genere con tutti i siti di mandrake.

[newbie-it] configurazioe di un USB ISDN TA

2002-02-01 Thread Fabrizio Imperio
Ciao a tutti sono un nuovo utente di Linux utilizzo la distribuzione MANDRAKE 8.1 e sono alle prese con la configurazione del mio "modem" USB ISDN TA (suppongo della Trust technology) Sto passando le notti davantigli HOWTO ma ho trovato poco riguardo agli USB ISDN TA Ho gia' controllato il

[newbie-it] non vede il modem...winmodem??

2002-02-01 Thread A3nImA
Ciao a tutti Tenendo presente che non ho molta famigliarità con i comandi di linux chiedo aiuto a voi! Alloraho installato MNDRK8.1 e ad installazione finita mi sono accorto che il modem non era riconosciuto,credo sia stato messo in other devices (credo sia lui) Icasi sono 2 ! o ho un

[newbie-it] Informazione su LISa

2002-02-01 Thread Natalo
Ciao a tutti Il mio problema e' il seguente: Sono riuscito in casa mia a creare una piccola rete lan tra il pc ed il portatile!!! Su entrambi ho installato la mandrake 8.0 con la viva intenzione di metterli in rete come gia' ho fatto con il simpaticissimo Windows!!! Per ora su linux, ho la

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione di leafnode, pacchetto rpm

2002-02-01 Thread Simone
- Original Message - From: Simone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NEWBIE-MANDRAKE.IT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:47 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Installazione di leafnode, pacchetto rpm Non capisco cosa sbaglio, ho provato ad installare leafnode, digitato rpm -ivh

Re: [newbie-it] non vede il modem...winmodem??

2002-02-01 Thread Simone
- Original Message - From: A3nImA To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:37 PM Subject: [newbie-it] non vede il modem...winmodem?? Ciao a tutti Tenendo presente che non ho molta famigliarità con i comandi di linux chiedo aiuto a voi! Alloraho installato MNDRK8.1

Re: [newbie-it] non vede il modem...winmodem??

2002-02-01 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 23:44, venerdì 1 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: - Original Message - From: A3nImA To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:37 PM Subject: [newbie-it] non vede il modem...winmodem?? Ciao a tutti Tenendo presente che non ho molta famigliarità con i comandi

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione di leafnode, pacchetto rpm

2002-02-01 Thread d9widgi
On 1 Feb 2002, at 18:47, Simone wrote: Non capisco cosa sbaglio, ho provato ad installare leafnode, ed il messaggio d'errore è stato: error: failed dependencies: inn conflicts with leafnode-1.9.18-4mdk devi disinstallare inn rpm -e inn (classico) urpme inn (mdk style) Ciao

Re: [newbie-it] non vede il modem...winmodem??

2002-02-01 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 20:37, venerdì 1 febbraio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] non vede il modem...winmodem??, A3nImA ha scritto: come si fa' per sapere se è un winmodem? se il modem è esterno non ci sono problemi se è interno, quasi sicuramente è un softmodem e

Re: Problemi con CD audio - Era:Re: [newbie-it] Da cd audio a MP3

2002-02-01 Thread Corrado
Il gio, 2002-01-31 alle 22:43, Arwan ha scritto: Io invece vorrei mettere dei brani mp3 su un Cd audio (in modo da ascoltarlo sullo stereo). Sono riuscita a masterizzare il mio primo Cd di dati, ma con gli audio nisba. Provato con gnome-toaster? Oppure con un programma per la sola creazione

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often]

2002-02-01 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
How come many of you have server up times of many days and even months? I find that after approx. 2-3 days I need to reboot my MDK 8 box else the modem will not respond when I use kppp and the Software Manager only partially displays. I have 64 Mb of RAM and a separate 32 Mb video card. What's

RE: [newbie] C-compiler

2002-02-01 Thread Robert Todd
The one that ships with Linux, GCC. =) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of ege7 Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] C-compiler Hi! What is the best c-compiler? Regards! Want to buy

[newbie] xmgrace under mandrake 8.0

2002-02-01 Thread Frederic Rooms
Hi, Does anyone have the xmgrace 5.1.4 package for mandrake 8.0 ? I could only find the version for the 8.1 which requires the glibc 2.2.3 (on Mandrake 8.0 the 2.2.2 version is installed). I don't want to install the new glibc version because I fear problems. Thank you fred Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Network Resources

2002-02-01 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On 31 Jan 2002 10:14:25 -0600 Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 07:57, Paul Kraus wrote: How do I access network resources in a windows workgroup? How do I share a folder? Paul, To integrate Linux networking with Windows, you need the

[newbie] Startup sound in KDE?

2002-02-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Hi Mick If you like KDE startup sound, try this : In /etc/lilo.conf edit (as root) the append-line as follows : devfs=nomount (remember to run lilo when done). That little no fixed it for me. Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Evolution

2002-02-01 Thread brockie
Can someone please let me know where I can download a copy of Evolution 1.0 from Thanks :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Evolution

2002-02-01 Thread brockie
Can someone please let me know where I can download a copy of Evolution 1.0 from Thanks :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Having trouble accessing USB Zip drive

2002-02-01 Thread brockie
Can someone please let me know how I access USB Zip drives using linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) wrote: Here is my entire FSTAB: /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=850,nodev 0 0

Re: [newbie] Ogle GUI

2002-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Jim Dawson wrote: Yes, I linked /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd. I never can remember which order to place the arguments in... Me either - thats why I wanted to make sure! grin I *Did* see the Animated version of Lord of the Rings on DVD recently, but I assume you were refering to the live action

Re: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Mel Roman wrote: I don't have to reboot after adding that, or execute any special commands to get Linux to re-read fstab, do I? I DIDN'T! I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always assumed that fstab was read once when Linux boots, and didn't look at it thereafter.

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2002-02-01 Thread Kenn Yahoo
http://www.ximian.com/products/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 7:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Evolution | Can someone please let me know where I can download a copy of Evolution | 1.0 from | | Thanks :) | |

[newbie] java 1.4.0

2002-02-01 Thread Eric McClure
Java 1.4.0 final or release candidate as they call it is out. Just a note for anyone who's interested. take care, eric l. mcclure Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] traceroute

2002-02-01 Thread Cyril Vassilchenko
Just type tracerour host... If /usr/sbin is excluded from your profile, type /usr/sbin/traceroute host - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] traceroute On Thursday 31 January 2002 4:18 pm,

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2002-02-01 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Viernes 01 Febrero 2002 10:52, escribió: http://www.ximian.com/products/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 7:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Evolution | Can someone please let me know where I can download a copy of

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2002-02-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 21:22:37 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please let me know where I can download a copy of Evolution 1.0 from Any cooker mirror: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan My girlfriend always laughs during sex -

Re: [newbie] Having trouble accessing USB Zip drive

2002-02-01 Thread Michael Scottaline
I just plug it in and it is automagically detected, a mount point is automagically created and believe it or not /etc/fstab is automagically edited to reflect the new device. Mike On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 08:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please let me know how I access USB Zip drives

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often]

2002-02-01 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Friday 01 February 2002 10:58, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: How come many of you have server up times of many days and even months? I find that after approx. 2-3 days I need to reboot my MDK 8 box else the modem will not respond when I use kppp and the Software Manager only partially

[newbie] glibc change

2002-02-01 Thread Frederic Rooms
Hi everyone, What's the safier way to install the more recent glibc libraries ? I just want to know how to upgrade from the glibc of MDK8.0 to those from MDK8.1. I have already try to upgrade my system with the CD's but I lost my system. So I won't try again Thanks a lot, Fred Want to

Re: [newbie] Word processing on IBM Aptiva 2168.

2002-02-01 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Thursday 31 January 2002 23:30, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Brian Durant wrote: snip 2) We have a multilingual family. We need spell checking in Danish, French, German and Spanish. I might be interested in seeing Russian spell checking as well, though I don't use my Russian much

[newbie] probs after kdeutils update

2002-02-01 Thread da an
i'm a newbie, so u have been warned!!! i think i have done something really stupid with my mandrake 8.1 i saw the other day that karchive didn't work and i wanted to get 'a new version'. i searched the internet and saw that this karchive tool is to be found in the package kdeutils. therefore

[newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-01 Thread Johnson, David
How do people get their current uptime info into their e-mail signature? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0: can't install rpm files

2002-02-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Monday 28 January 2002 03:17, you wrote: From your description it sounds like something has become knackered in the Mandrake 7.0 configuration. You should not be encountering architecture issues. If you're inclined, the first thing I would try is backing up all pertinent data on the

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-01 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Negative. /etc/fstab is read by mount everytime it needs to mount something. Additions are no problem. Edits may necessitate unmounting and remounting that device (say if you changed the mount point from /mnt/zip to /mnt/zipdrive for example). -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall

Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP

2002-02-01 Thread Andre Dubuc
Hi Todd, Just received your message today (Feb 1st!). In the meantime, I dumped the LM8.0 versions of Apache/PHP and tried source. Not much better. Anyway, I re-installed LM8.0 versions and, yes, in commonhttpd.conf there are those lines which I uncommented. Now, either as user or root, with

RE: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-01 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Combination of a pipe, backticks and an email reader which lets you run a program or script to determine the contents of the sig. Which email reader do you use? -Original Message- From: Johnson, David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:12 PM To: '[EMAIL

[newbie] Installed Applications

2002-02-01 Thread JSheble
There appear to be literally thousands of applications that get installed when you install Mandrake 8.1. I chose the expert level install, and thought I was being real good about choosing which packages to install and which one not to install. But now I'm not so sure... it appears I missed

Re: [newbie] glibc change

2002-02-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Friday 01 February 2002 12:08, you wrote: Glibc is the core of the Linux operating system. When you tinker with that, you are basically tinkering with just about everything in the system. I won't say that it can't be done, mainly because I've done it...with previous distros. But I will

[newbie] Getting many crashes on pixie.com

2002-02-01 Thread marvin
I`m still on an older version konqueror 2.2.1 but...is this a problem for people on later versions. http://www.pixie.com I usually get a crash with no backtrace symbols. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] USB ISDN TA configuration

2002-02-01 Thread Fabrizio Imperio
Hi to all of you I am a new user of Linux and I am busy in the configuration of my USB ISDN TA (Trust Thecnology I suppose). I use the distribution MANDRAKE 8.1 I have read many HOWTO about the modem configuration but few speaks about the USB ISDN TA. I have given a look to the threads in

Re: [newbie] Getting many crashes on pixie.com

2002-02-01 Thread bascule
konqueror 2.2.2 on kde2.2.2 had to restart kde from console via ctrl-alt-f1 what is that site? bascule On Friday 01 February 2002 6:45 pm, you wrote: I`m still on an older version konqueror 2.2.1 but...is this a problem for people on later versions. http://www.pixie.com I usually get a

Re: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-01 Thread Oliver L.Plaine Jr
On Friday 01 February 2002 12:12,(Johnson, David, typed: How do people get their current uptime info into their e-mail signature? --- Friday 01 February 2002 -- 13:49 68degF cloudy Here is a piece of a message I ripped from Tom to do mine with David...

RE: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-01 Thread Johnson, David
I'm using Evolution right now. -Original Message- From: FLYNN, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig Combination of a pipe, backticks and an email reader which lets you run a program

[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Word processing on IBM Aptiva 2168.]

2002-02-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Word processing on IBM Aptiva 2168. Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 21:28:13 +0100 From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michel Clasquin

Re: [newbie] Uptime in e-mail sig

2002-02-01 Thread Spencer Collyer
On Friday 01 February 2002 17:12, you wrote: How do people get their current uptime info into their e-mail signature? Set up a script to be run as your sigfile, then include something like the following (taken from my sigfile): echo $( uptime ) HTH S -- Eagles may soar, but weasels

[newbie] OT mandrake-hp

2002-02-01 Thread shane
ok, is this just a wild zdnet rumor is is mandrake really going to be supported on HP desktops? http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,5102495,00.html -- The only people who like Microsoft are those who don't understand. When people understand what Microsoft is up to,

Re: [newbie] OT mandrake-hp

2002-02-01 Thread Pena Family
Yes, HP is going to support Linux-Mandrake on both desktop and laptop. Including paid support for users. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?

2002-02-01 Thread shane
On Friday 01 February 2002 23:49, you spoke unto me thusly: Hi All, Does anyone know if Star Office comes in RPM format ? i doubt it, but ya never know if not, then would someone please tell me ( in steps) how to install it ? well the simple way is to download it, open it with archiver

Re: [newbie] Having trouble accessing USB Zip drive

2002-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Michael Scottaline wrote: I just plug it in and it is automagically detected, a mount point is automagically created and believe it or not /etc/fstab is automagically edited to reflect the new device. Mike Just out of curiosity, and to be clear...that is under 8.1 *with* devfs enabled,

[newbie] Help with TV out...

2002-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I've got an Nvidia Geforce 2 Titanium with 64 megs of Ram, running under Mandrake v8.1 and I'm wondering if I can use the TV-out port on the back of this video card. I did a search of nvidia and tv out in the mailing list archives but came out empty handed. I also did a search on Google, and

[newbie] Another web site crash with konqueror

2002-02-01 Thread marvin
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.html enter a state and city Press the back arrow to go back to the previous page. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Having trouble accessing USB Zip drive

2002-02-01 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 22:38:40 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: Michael Scottaline wrote: I just plug it in and it is automagically detected, a mount point is automagically created and believe it or not /etc/fstab is automagically edited to reflect the new

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2002-02-01 Thread Vincent A. Primavera
Hello, If you are using 8.1, I suggest that you install Red Carpet from the same site first and use that to install. I was having a rough time installing/upgrading Evolution but now that Red Carpet supports 8.1 it makes the installation a breeze since it handles all of the dependencies

Re: [newbie] know a utility tha lets you send fax via the internet ?

2002-02-01 Thread nagaraj.b
http://www.freefax.com/ff_snd.html - Original Message - From: Hanan Z. AL-Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:51 PM Subject: [newbie] know a utility tha lets you send fax via the internet ? I need a utility ( like the ones that come wit

[newbie]

2002-02-01 Thread marvin
KDE seems to take a lot of memory. I have a 128MB machine, it`s a pure workstation with no servers. Mandrake 8.1, KDE 2.2.1. I have :- kmail 1.3.1 in desktop 1 konqueror 2.2.1 in desktop 2 terminal/shell in desktop 4 Once it`s booted up and I use top, I see 120MB in use and 4.6MB swap used.

Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?

2002-02-01 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 02 February 2002 09:49, Hanan Z. AL-Shargi wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know if Star Office comes in RPM format ? if not, then would someone please tell me ( in steps) how to install it ? I'm a newbie ( as I'm still posting here in this list :-) ) and have never installed any thing

Re: [newbie]

2002-02-01 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 02 February 2002 02:16, marvin wrote: KDE seems to take a lot of memory. I have a 128MB machine, it`s a pure workstation with no servers. Mandrake 8.1, KDE 2.2.1. I have :- Once it`s booted up and I use top, I see 120MB in use and 4.6MB swap used. Yes, I know ram is cheap

Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?

2002-02-01 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 02 February 2002 06:48, Michel Clasquin wrote: 4. untar and gunzip the file (use the winzip-like kab application if you like, otherwise just use tar -xvzf install641_linux_intel.tar.gz ENTER from the command line, without the quotes of course) oops there were quotes in there

Re: [newbie]

2002-02-01 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 01 February 2002 18:16, you wrote: KDE seems to take a lot of memory. I have a 128MB machine, it`s a pure workstation with no servers. Mandrake 8.1, KDE 2.2.1. I have :- kmail 1.3.1 in desktop 1 konqueror 2.2.1 in desktop 2 terminal/shell in desktop 4 Once it`s booted up and

[newbie] Is mail to the list for some, or all, people moderated ?

2002-02-01 Thread marvin
I`m curious as my posts take can take up to Four hours to appear. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Harddrack

2002-02-01 Thread Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos
I am with problems to use hardrack. Always that I go to use it the computer stops T+ = Carlos Alberto L. dos Santos (TOCA) Eng. de Computação - Puc-Campinas(SP) - Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] /opt and /initrd directories

2002-02-01 Thread shanon loveridge
Hello all, I am currently going through my file system in order to learn more about linux and I have come across these two directories that are empty. /opt /initrd I was wondering if someone could tell me what they are for and if it will break anything if I remove them. Thanks Shanon

[newbie] Install Problems Compaq 700T

2002-02-01 Thread Plexishex
Recently, went out and brought 8.1. This is my first jump into linux, so I installed next to WinXP. Install goes fine, but after i tell linux to boot in LILO the computer just restarts. All options led to the same effect. WinXP was unbootable, so I wiped the drive clean, still the same

Re: [newbie] Install Problems Compaq 700T

2002-02-01 Thread nagaraj.b
to restore winxp for time being start the comp with windows startup disk and in command prompt type c:\fdisk /mbr after restarting it will boot windows ... then try installing linux with the installation guide Recently, went out and brought 8.1. This is my first jump into

[newbie] solution to ebda too large error?

2002-02-01 Thread Scott Anderson
I'm dual booting Mandrake 8.1 and Windows XP. When I installed Mandrake, I let it write LILO to the MBR, and it worked great. I could boot into either one without any problems. Then, I installed some security patches using the software updater thing, and suddenly I can't get into Linux

Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?

2002-02-01 Thread Hanan Z. AL-Shargi
Thank you Michel, I downloaded star office in binary format from Sun's website, and as you said installing it was as easy as clicking on a .exe But since this was brought up, would any of the list gurus please kindly post a short list clearifying how do u know how to install the diffirent

Re: [newbie] Install Problems Compaq 700T

2002-02-01 Thread Plexishex
Yup, thats where I am now =D. Though Compaq never did send me just a windows cd, I got a 3 cd compaq install, so anything normal window fixes hadn't worked. Found and XP bootdisk image on the web, and went from there. Very strangely the first 2 times I had done fdisk /mbr, the computer

Re: [newbie] /opt and /initrd directories

2002-02-01 Thread Ashley Reynolds
Hi Shanon, Here is the definition of the /opt directory, straight from the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.2: /opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages. If you are interested in learning about the Linux filesystem, the FHS document is a worthwhile read. You

Re: [newbie] Install Problems Compaq 700T

2002-02-01 Thread nagaraj.b
booting linux in windows style http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95-98-ME-4.html 4.1 Step One: Edit (or create) config.sys on the root of Drive C. The contents should be similar to the following: --- [menu]