On Wednesday 19 November 2003 02:13, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:44 pm, Melissa Reese wrote:
It seems that I haven't properly configured my monitor and/or the X
server thing. How can I go back and try this again? Can I just boot
up with the first installation CD and
Melissa Reese wrote:
Okay...I did install Mandrake, but I may have missed something crucial
with regards to the X server thingy.
It seems that I haven't properly configured my monitor and/or the X
server thing. How can I go back and try this again? Can I just boot
up with the first
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Hi John,
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 11:38:43 PM PST, you wrote:
Of course you can start all over again, and maybe you ought to, just
for experience, but linux offers you many solutions, you can run
XFdrake from that root terminal instead,
Melissa Reese wrote:
Hi John,
Vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems
Bus: PCI
Bus Identification: 1039:900:1043:80a7
Location on the Bus: 0:4:0
Description: SiS900 10/100 Ethernet
Module: sis900
Media Class: NETWORK_ETHERNET
Then, it also detects this:
Vendor: USB Ethernet [pegasus]
Bus: USB
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Hi John,
On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 12:58:05 AM PST, you wrote:
Cann't help the ethernet cards, no previous experience, nor cable
modems.
What sort of dialup modem do you have ?
Well, here's a peculiar update. I was just over in
Melissa Reese wrote:
Hi John,
What sort of dialup modem do you have ?
Well, here's a peculiar update. I was just over in Mandrake, and I
finally at least got the dial-up working!
Good,
I was able to receive your message in Kmail, but I couldn't send my
reply from there. The error message
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 10:34 am, Melissa Reese wrote:
Hi,
I decided to give the installation a go by myself, figuring that if
I messed it up, I could just abort and wait until my friend could
be here to hold my hand. Here's the story so far (I'm pretty
sleepy, so I hope I get this right)...
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Hi Anne,
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 3:22:05 AM PST, you wrote:
Select 'Custom disk partitioning'
There you should see your two disks. Choose the one you want for
install,
Thanks Anne. Here's a small update...
This time around, I got
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:57 am, Melissa Reese wrote:
This time around, I got to the next step of choosing the drive (and
many other options for partitioning), and again I stopped...just to be
safe. There were two tabs (hda and hdb), and the second tab did
look like the 20 GB drive I
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Hello Anne,
Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 4:22:05 AM, you wrote:
Choose the one you want for install, and make a partition for /home
(so that if you get any data on it you will be able to re-install or
upgrade without losing your data). I assume
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:36:11 -0700, Nick Andriash [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote about Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me:
Choose the one you want for install, and make a partition for /home
(so that if you get any data on it you will be able to re
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Hi Bryan,
On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 4:07:03 AM PST, you wrote:
I don't know what kind of computer you have but just a quick guess.
Some of the proprietary computers like Compaq, etc. often create a
small partition on the beginning of the
Nick Andriash wrote:
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Hello Anne,
Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 4:22:05 AM, you wrote:
Choose the one you want for install, and make a partition for /home
(so that if you get any data on it you will be able to re-install or
upgrade without losing your
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:07:05 -0800, Melissa Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me:
The starter guide also suggests possibly changing a setting or two in
the BIOS in order to make the installation smoother
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Tuesday 18 November 2003 1:07 pm, Melissa Reese wrote:
Hi Bryan,
snip
This is a custom built computer, so I'll have to ask the guy who built
it if he can explain what the MDK installation was seeing.
As long as I can be very sure that I'm only
Melissa Reese wrote:
As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB
drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error
myself, because if all I mess up is the fresh drive with no essential
data on it yet, I can always just start over. However, there's another
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 03:07 pm, Melissa Reese wrote:
Hi Bryan,
As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB
drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error
myself, because if all I mess up is the fresh drive with no essential
data on it yet, I can
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Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:51 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Melissa Reese wrote:
As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB
drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error
myself, because if all I mess
Charlie M. wrote:
Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:51 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Melissa Reese wrote:
As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB
drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error
myself, because if all I mess up is the fresh drive with no
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:44 pm, Melissa Reese wrote:
It seems that I haven't properly configured my monitor and/or the X
server thing. How can I go back and try this again? Can I just boot
up with the first installation CD and start all over again?
Yes, but we can probably fix it
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