Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-25 Thread FemmeFatale

hm... well... I usually just tell it to open up all the packages on the 
tree into a tree-like structure.  Have to look for that symbol now.

This raises a new Question though.  I've tried twice now to install from 
my HDD and heres what I do:

Make bootfloppy with the hd.img file form the CD's using RawWrite. 
Floppys fine.

Comp boots off of floppy

Installer asks where the files it wants to use are located, so i point 
it to hdb1/mandrake where resided all the files in their default 
folders I copied from the CD's.  (I had tried yesterday to make it so 
that there was a structure to that directory like so: 
hdb1/mandrake/cd1... /cd2... /cd3.)  In both cases the install gets 
through * I believe * the first CD's worth of files then gives me an 
error about packages having trouble being installed.

Help?  Could they just be corrupt packages  I must re-copy them from 
CD?  Or should I put all the packages into one dir  let it install that 
way?  IE, hdb1/mandrake/* (all files under just the mandrake dir, no 
directories in there).

Any help is appreciated.  Until that point the installer works perfectly 
btw.  No errors or problems.

civileme wrote:
 FemmeFatale wrote:
 
 when i go to install MDK I was looking for Fluxbox on the list of 
 installable items.

 it doesn't show up though.  I found *By accident*, the alien package 
 while browsing hte CD in windows.

 Why don't those kind of packages show up in the installation RPM 
 screens when I go to put Linux on my hard drive?


 

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 Well in one of mandrakesoft's least ergonomic moments, when you install, 
 if you opt for individual package selection and you look at the tree, 
 you see the packages related to the functions you picked.  If you click 
 the little inconspicuous symbol at the bottom of the treeview window, 
 that looks like two cyanotic axolotls chasing each other, then you 
 toggle to the flat list where you have a POSIX sorted list of all the 
 packages you can install with your selected packages checkmarked.
 
 What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! 
 Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, 
 f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell, 
 nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit, and many many other packages that are NEVER 
 loaded by default or by selecting the usual functional packagings of the 
 previous screen.
 
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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-25 Thread daRcmaTTeR

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, FemmeFatale wrote:

 hm... well... I usually just tell it to open up all the packages on the 
 tree into a tree-like structure.  Have to look for that symbol now.
 
 This raises a new Question though.  I've tried twice now to install from 
 my HDD and heres what I do:
 
 Make bootfloppy with the hd.img file form the CD's using RawWrite. 
 Floppys fine.
 
 Comp boots off of floppy
 
 Installer asks where the files it wants to use are located, so i point 
 it to hdb1/mandrake where resided all the files in their default 
 folders I copied from the CD's.  (I had tried yesterday to make it so 
 that there was a structure to that directory like so: 
 hdb1/mandrake/cd1... /cd2... /cd3.)  In both cases the install gets 
 through * I believe * the first CD's worth of files then gives me an 
 error about packages having trouble being installed.
 
 Help?  Could they just be corrupt packages  I must re-copy them from 
 CD?  Or should I put all the packages into one dir  let it install that 
 way?  IE, hdb1/mandrake/* (all files under just the mandrake dir, no 
 directories in there).

Femme,

you will indeed need to have all the files in one parent dir. i.e. 
hdb1/mandrake/cd1/*

give that a try. I have a feeling it will do much better. 

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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-23 Thread darklord

On Saturday 22 June 2002 09:16 pm, you wrote:

 But the full Emacs and XEmacs are. Micro Emacs was a cut down version to
 work on Micro Computers. I had a copy on my Amiga, in the good/bad old
 days.

Ah, the Amiga

  I had an A1000 and other models...

I still miss that under the CPU keyboard well...

 And Shadow of the Beast...

 sigh

PS And Guru Meditation errors! grin

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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-23 Thread Miark

 But the full Emacs and XEmacs are. Micro Emacs was a cut down version to work 
 on Micro Computers. I had a copy on my Amiga, in the good/bad old days.

Emacs' and MicroEmacs'  feature/command commonalities may
have been identical long ago when ME was first developed.
But the key bindings are different in some cases--the cases
most annoying to me :-) And size is still important. I have
several computers that use rather tiny harddrives-- Emacs is
a space-hog compared to MicroEmacs' 190k.

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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread darklord

On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote:

snip

 What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!!
  Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint,
 f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell,
 nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit, and many many other packages that are NEVER
 loaded by default or by selecting the usual functional packagings of the
 previous screen.

 Civileme

Hehehehehe, thats actually just what I intend to do the next time I install a 
newer version. (and yes, I know there are normal people out there who are 
going to tell me I need to get a life but it is fun to mescrolling 
through all those package descriptions and seeing just what all is there. Its 
like when Christmas rolls around!)

Sad little puppy, aren't I? grin

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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Miark

 ...toggle to the flat list where you have a POSIX sorted list of all the 
 packages you can install with your selected packages checkmarked.
 
 What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! 
  Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, 
 f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell, 
 nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit, and many many other packages that are NEVER 
 loaded by default or by selecting the usual functional packagings of the 
 previous screen.

But notice MicroEMACS is still not among those 3000+ progs...? :-)

sigh Nobody loves me. 

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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread s

On Saturday 22 June 2002 12:35 am, civileme wrote:


 Well in one of mandrakesoft's least ergonomic moments, 

I actually like the way they are all put in one list in alphabetical order.  I 
think redhat's and suse's way of doing it is tedious.  :P  Mandrake - the 
lazy man's OS.  :D  j/k

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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale

darklord wrote:
 On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote:
 
 snip
 
What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!!
 Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint,
f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell,
nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit, and many many other packages that are NEVER
loaded by default or by selecting the usual functional packagings of the
previous screen.

Civileme
 
 
 Hehehehehe, thats actually just what I intend to do the next time I install a 
 newer version. (and yes, I know there are normal people out there who are 
 going to tell me I need to get a life but it is fun to mescrolling 
 through all those package descriptions and seeing just what all is there. Its 
 like when Christmas rolls around!)
 
 Sad little puppy, aren't I? grin
 
 

you're pathetic luv ;p

however for interest  b/c I was curious, i did scroll thru all 3k of 
those packages  Found some to put ontoa  Test OS MDK Install. :)


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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Adams

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:32, darklord wrote:
 On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote:

 snip

  What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!!
   Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint,
  f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell,
  nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit, and many many other packages that are NEVER
  loaded by default or by selecting the usual functional packagings of the
  previous screen.
 
  Civileme

 Hehehehehe, thats actually just what I intend to do the next time I install
 a newer version. (and yes, I know there are normal people out there who
 are going to tell me I need to get a life but it is fun to mescrolling
 through all those package descriptions and seeing just what all is there.
 Its like when Christmas rolls around!)

 Sad little puppy, aren't I? grin

So is there anything which tells us which of these packages conflict with 
each other before we try to install too many?

I know that Alsa and another sound system (forgot its name at present) should 
not be run in tandem, but what else is there?

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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Adams

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:39, Miark wrote:
  ...toggle to the flat list where you have a POSIX sorted list of all the
  packages you can install with your selected packages checkmarked.
 
  What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!!
   Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint,
  f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell,
  nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit, and many many other packages that are NEVER
  loaded by default or by selecting the usual functional packagings of the
  previous screen.

 But notice MicroEMACS is still not among those 3000+ progs...? :-)

 sigh Nobody loves me.

 Miark

But the full Emacs and XEmacs are. Micro Emacs was a cut down version to work 
on Micro Computers. I had a copy on my Amiga, in the good/bad old days.

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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread civileme

Michael Adams wrote:

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:32, darklord wrote:

On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote:

snip

What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!!
 Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint,
f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell,
nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit, and many many other packages that are NEVER
loaded by default or by selecting the usual functional packagings of the
previous screen.

Civileme

Hehehehehe, thats actually just what I intend to do the next time I install
a newer version. (and yes, I know there are normal people out there who
are going to tell me I need to get a life but it is fun to mescrolling
through all those package descriptions and seeing just what all is there.
Its like when Christmas rolls around!)

Sad little puppy, aren't I? grin


So is there anything which tells us which of these packages conflict with 
each other before we try to install too many?

I know that Alsa and another sound system (forgot its name at present) should 
not be run in tandem, but what else is there?




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Well, here it is--

The system will NOT let you install conflicting packages unless you go 
in with the command line and use --force

Some packages should not be installed, however.

jabber and company seem to have a nasty memory leak, and the only 
resolution is

urpme jabber  

which rips it out by the rrots and all the packages that depend on it.

If you want the experience of the 3000 packages no need for a fresh 
install, just drop in CD#1 and boot, selecting Expert Upgrade, then 
 skip all the configuration with cancel to leave it as is, and look at 
individual packages, and toggle to the flat list.

Those you already have will have dark yellow check marks.  Newly 
selected ones will have lighter yellow check marks.  Supporting packages 
are selected when required by a package you select, and they won't 
select if there is a conflict with it or any of its supporting packages 
with what you have installed already.  That is what urpmi and its 
hdlists database is there for.

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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread dfox

 I know that Alsa and another sound system (forgot its name at present) should 
 not be run in tandem, but what else is there?

I don't think there's an ad hoc list, but there are certain things
you wouldn't want to try and use together -- like sendmail and postfix;
i's pretty obvious that you can only choose one mta and not try and
install both. But in order to come to that realization, obviously you
would havfe to konw what 'sendmail' and 'postfix' are in the first
place.

Obviously you shouldn't try to install 'everything' as you normally only
need one of each type of software (except for games maybe) :) like one
editor, one mail reading agent, one database thing (mysql or postgres?)
and so forth.

But I think (at least for me) this is something learnt by osmosis, and
not something codified somewhere. I haven't tried a full install in 
Mandrake - I would go for a 'workstation' or a 'server' install and then
select additional packages from the list. And then, I'd notice I'm 
missing something or other, and then go back and install it :). And, I
may have commented about this sometime or other -- inasmuch as I like
many others, come from a DOS / Windows background, and apart from the
standard suite of traditional Unix utilities, many Linux apps have
somewhat wierd looking names which don't immediately convey their 
intended function. 

I used to run Redhat, and I botched my first Mandrake install somewhat, 
because I neglected to start from a clean state with /var - and that's
where Redhat's rpm database was. Silly me :). I thought at first that
the install puked because there were a lot of things that didn't get
installed right, little utilities, things like 'patch' were missing,
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[newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Thread FemmeFatale

when i go to install MDK I was looking for Fluxbox on the list of 
installable items.

it doesn't show up though.  I found *By accident*, the alien package 
while browsing hte CD in windows.

Why don't those kind of packages show up in the installation RPM screens 
when I go to put Linux on my hard drive?
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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Thread Miark

As I recall, Fluxbox is not on the 8.2 CDs. You'll
have to snag it from rpmfind.net.

Miark



FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith:

 when i go to install MDK I was looking for Fluxbox on the list of 
 installable items.
 
 it doesn't show up though.  I found *By accident*, the alien package 
 while browsing hte CD in windows.
 
 Why don't those kind of packages show up in the installation RPM screens 
 when I go to put Linux on my hard drive?
 -- 
 Femme
 
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 We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux.  I've always liked that 
 character from Peanuts.
 
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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Thread FemmeFatale

oh its on the Cd's all right.  Thats where I installed flux from in the 
first place.  Its just not an option when installing MDK on a newly 
formatted partition.

Miark wrote:
 As I recall, Fluxbox is not on the 8.2 CDs. You'll
 have to snag it from rpmfind.net.
 
 Miark
 
 
 
 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith:
 
 
when i go to install MDK I was looking for Fluxbox on the list of 
installable items.

it doesn't show up though.  I found *By accident*, the alien package 
while browsing hte CD in windows.

Why don't those kind of packages show up in the installation RPM screens 
when I go to put Linux on my hard drive?
-- 
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We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux.  I've always liked that 
character from Peanuts.

- Source: Dilbert




 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2000-10-12 Thread Larry Marshall


  When I get to specifying the partitions, I select auto-allocate and
  everything looks okay (does not alter hda) but when I click done I get:
  "Partition table of drive hda(which is my win2k partion) is going to be
  written to disk!" .

I think you're getting confused by the difference between "Drive hda" and
partition hda1, which is probably your win2k partition.  

I'm presuming that your Linux install is working on the same physical drive as
your win2k installation.  If so, each drive has only one partition table so if
you want multiple partitions, and/or are changing them, it's got to write that
table to hda.

  Is this normal or will I lose my win2k if I click okay?  I just don't recall
  seeing this message last time I installed it.

If the situation is as I described, then yes, it's normal.

Cheers --- Larry





Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-25 Thread Paul

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Walter Hanagriff wrote:

it wasnt confusing at all, answers are that my entire HD is dedicated to 
windows, partitioning shouldnt be a problem i think. one of my other 
questions on this list was about that.
i will be getting mandrake 7.1, i havent gotten it yet, am trying to prepare 
for everything before i download and start installing.
about that boot sector at beginning of drive, since 7.1 doesnt need that, 
there isnt any other reason to put a boot partition at front of drive.

Just a notice, perhaps not needed, that with plain repartitioning you will
lose all info on your disk. You will have to resort to some
"intelligent" partitioning program in order to keep all your data.

Backup is the keyword here, make sure you have everything on diskette, 
tape, cd, MO or something before you start. Better safe than sorry.

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Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-25 Thread Fran Parker

You are not just whistling Dixie here!  I lost my
entire mp3 library...cause I had no place to put it
while I repartitioned the drive.  The library was
nearly a gig in size and most of which I encoded
personallyit was a great loss.

Despite that ... I am back up to nearly 500 megs
on my mp3 files ... all my encoding :)

Bambi



Nicholas Avenell wrote:

  -Original Message-
  From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  Sent: 24 June 2000 09:40
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: [newbie] installation question
 
 
  i am reading the installation documentation at mandrake
  homepage to prepare myself, and a part in Installation with
  Drakx it says:
Now you need to specify in DrakX where the various
  partitions on the hard disk(s) will be mounted. In
  Recommended mode, normally you won't have anything to do. If
  you have only a Windows partition it will be
  automatically resized and both the Linux partition and swap
  space will be created and formatted.
 
  I will be using recommended, and i only have one partition
  on this machine so far, with windows on it, but this thing
  says it will resize the partition and create and format
  linux partitions, will windows be deleted, or is this a safe
  partitioning of the disk, because i have heard that even
  with partition magic partitioning can be a little risky.
  and when it says it will automatically resize, do i get to
  say how much size each partition gets? how does it work?

 Before you do anything, even if people tell you that it won't delete
 anything, back up everything you hold dear on that HDD before resizing
 anything. (I know I said this before, but it is fairly important :-)




[newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Walter Hanagriff

i am reading the installation documentation at mandrake 
homepage to prepare myself, and a part in Installation with 
Drakx it says:
  Now you need to specify in DrakX where the various 
partitions on the hard disk(s) will be mounted. In
Recommended mode, normally you won't have anything to do. If 
you have only a Windows partition it will be
automatically resized and both the Linux partition and swap 
space will be created and formatted.

I will be using recommended, and i only have one partition 
on this machine so far, with windows on it, but this thing 
says it will resize the partition and create and format 
linux partitions, will windows be deleted, or is this a safe 
partitioning of the disk, because i have heard that even 
with partition magic partitioning can be a little risky.
and when it says it will automatically resize, do i get to 
say how much size each partition gets? how does it work?

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Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Paul

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Walter Hanagriff wrote:

Hello Walter,

I am not sure if my writing adds to your help or your confusion, but:
Do you have your entire HD dedicated to Windows at the moment? You will
need some space to put Mandrake. I would go for at least 2Gb.
If you have that much free (= unpartitioned!) space available, then you
should be all fine. Otherwise you will have to make some space free for
Mandrake, through either Partition Magic, or the freeware program FIPS
that is supplied on the CD.
In case you have 7.0: if you don't want to boot from a diskette into
Linux, you will have to find a way to make a bit of space (about 10-15
megs) free at the start of the HD, where the /boot partition is. Lilo in
mdk 7.0 cannot boot from a spot beyond cylinder 1024. The one that is
supplied with 7,1 can do this.

Good luck
Paul

i am reading the installation documentation at mandrake 
homepage to prepare myself, and a part in Installation with 
Drakx it says:
  Now you need to specify in DrakX where the various 
partitions on the hard disk(s) will be mounted. In
Recommended mode, normally you won't have anything to do. If 
you have only a Windows partition it will be
automatically resized and both the Linux partition and swap 
space will be created and formatted.

I will be using recommended, and i only have one partition 
on this machine so far, with windows on it, but this thing 
says it will resize the partition and create and format 
linux partitions, will windows be deleted, or is this a safe 
partitioning of the disk, because i have heard that even 
with partition magic partitioning can be a little risky.
and when it says it will automatically resize, do i get to 
say how much size each partition gets? how does it work?

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RE: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Nicholas Avenell



 -Original Message-
 From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: 24 June 2000 09:40
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [newbie] installation question


 i am reading the installation documentation at mandrake
 homepage to prepare myself, and a part in Installation with
 Drakx it says:
   Now you need to specify in DrakX where the various
 partitions on the hard disk(s) will be mounted. In
 Recommended mode, normally you won't have anything to do. If
 you have only a Windows partition it will be
 automatically resized and both the Linux partition and swap
 space will be created and formatted.

 I will be using recommended, and i only have one partition
 on this machine so far, with windows on it, but this thing
 says it will resize the partition and create and format
 linux partitions, will windows be deleted, or is this a safe
 partitioning of the disk, because i have heard that even
 with partition magic partitioning can be a little risky.
 and when it says it will automatically resize, do i get to
 say how much size each partition gets? how does it work?

Before you do anything, even if people tell you that it won't delete
anything, back up everything you hold dear on that HDD before resizing
anything. (I know I said this before, but it is fairly important :-)




Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Walter Hanagriff

it wasnt confusing at all, answers are that my entire HD is dedicated to 
windows, partitioning shouldnt be a problem i think. one of my other 
questions on this list was about that.
i will be getting mandrake 7.1, i havent gotten it yet, am trying to prepare 
for everything before i download and start installing.
about that boot sector at beginning of drive, since 7.1 doesnt need that, 
there isnt any other reason to put a boot partition at front of drive.

  I am not sure if my writing adds to your help or your confusion, but:
  Do you have your entire HD dedicated to Windows at the moment? You will
  need some space to put Mandrake. I would go for at least 2Gb.
  If you have that much free (= unpartitioned!) space available, then you
  should be all fine. Otherwise you will have to make some space free for
  Mandrake, through either Partition Magic, or the freeware program FIPS
  that is supplied on the CD.
  In case you have 7.0: if you don't want to boot from a diskette into
  Linux, you will have to find a way to make a bit of space (about 10-15
  megs) free at the start of the HD, where the /boot partition is. Lilo in
  mdk 7.0 cannot boot from a spot beyond cylinder 1024. The one that is
  supplied with 7,1 can do this.

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[newbie] installation question

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew Shissler

I'm having a problem installing Mandrake Linux on my
PC.  It's a 200MHz Pentinum.  Whenever I run the
install program from the Installation CD from my PC, I
select that I want to install Linux on a Windows
partition.  Then the PC reboots.  From the text
message on the screen it looks like install program is
detecting hardware (i.e. it finds my CDROM).  It even
displays a message like "second stage install".  At
this point it seems like it's querying the VGA card so
it can display DrakX in graphics mode.  Unfortunately,
when it tries to do this, it displays a black screen
with 2 vertical gray lines.  It seems like DrakX has a
problem with my VGA card, which is a Diamond
Multimedia EDGE 3D 2000 series card with 2MB ram and
the STG2000 chipset.  According to the XFree
documentation, this card is supporting by the SVGA
driver.  Moreover, when I run the Mandrake Install CD
on my PC at work, I can get to the DrakX screen, so I
know my CD is good.  So, is there anyone out there who
can help me?  I have search the internet and
Mandrake's site, but to no success.  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[newbie] Installation question

2000-05-22 Thread Ron Greer


If I have just a list of RPMs I want to install, is there any way I can put
that file somewhere and have that be the default loaded RPMs for a base
install?
-=Ron=-




Re: [newbie] Installation question

2000-05-22 Thread Paul

On Mon, 22 May 2000, Ron Greer wrote:


If I have just a list of RPMs I want to install, is there any way I can put
that file somewhere and have that be the default loaded RPMs for a base
install?
   -=Ron=-

Hi Ron,

This sounds a bit two-sided.
A base install sounds like a new setup for Linux (to me).
If you have a bunch of RPM's, you can load them through GnomeRPM,
Kpackage, or rpm -i

Somehow I have the feeling that is not what you need...

Paul

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[newbie] Installation Question When Burning CD-ROM Image Of 7.0

2000-01-26 Thread John F. McClinton

Hello Newbies:
   I burnt all of the files from RPM folder,
whatelse do I need to get a complete copy of 7.0? Is it better to copy all
from 7.0 folder instead?

Thanks In Advance



Re: [newbie] Installation Question When Burning CD-ROM Image Of 7.0

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote:
 Hello Newbies:
I burnt all of the files from RPM folder,
 whatelse do I need to get a complete copy of 7.0? Is it better to copy all
 from 7.0 folder instead?
 
 Thanks In Advance

Get the ISO image. *THAT* will get you a complete copy of
7.0.
John