[newbie] RE:

1999-08-13 Thread Bill Traynor 

Joel,

What is the Make and Model of your monitor?

 -Original Message-
 From: Joel Doucet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 7:07 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: 
 
 
 hello,
 I keep trying to contact someone from linuxmandrake but 
 nobody wants to
 responce to my e-mails, i hope a human can read this message 
 and tell me
 what to do. I just purshased "The Complete Linux operating system"
 and i am having trouble with it. When i configure X windows,i have to
 select my monitor, and since my monitor isn`t in the list i 
 chose custom,
 and with redhat 5.1, everything worked fine but when it says 
 it will run
 the x server, it doesn`t work, i don`t know if its my monitor 
 of my video
 card but it says there is a problem with the configuration 
 and it gives me
 the option of quiting of changing my configuration, did i 
 just get ripped
 of or can i do something about it?

RE: [newbie] Trial (installation) by fire!

1999-07-19 Thread Bill Traynor 

Thanks, but I did read the warning.  However, I also read on various
newsgroups that several people had the 'Pentium enhanced' version running on
486's.  So I thought I'd give it a try.

-Original Message-
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:59 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [newbie] Trial (installation) by fire!


On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Bill Traynor wrote:

  Here's what I have:
  old 486DX2/66 with 20MB RAM, AMI BIOS circa 08/08/1994
 
  Having just purchased the hard drive, I installed it, inserted a Linux
  Mandrake 6 boot disk and rebooted.

You should have read the hardware requirements before trying to install
it.
The normal version of Mandrake 6 will run only on Pentium or higher
processors.

A special version for 386/486 processors is already built, but it's not
yet available anywhere.

LLaP
bero