Thanks, it sounds promising. If i install win2k as the guest OS on vmware
which is in turn installed on linux, is there a way to copy the whole win2k
installation into vmware, or do i need to re-install everything again?
I reinstalled everything, which I didn't mind as I have it running
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:53:34PM +1100, Russell wrote:
Rohan Nicholls wrote:
* Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030125 00:17]:
You are right there, and there is plex86, but I have not explored that
fully yet, but intend to.
I gave it a shot. Overall it's still quite slow, and doesn't
* Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030125 00:17]:
on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Rohan Nicholls wrote:
I have to say that I took over my windows partition, and now run
win2k in an emulator for the times I need to for work, and it runs as
Rohan Nicholls wrote:
* Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030125 00:17]:
on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Rohan Nicholls wrote:
I have to say that I took over my windows partition, and now run
win2k in an emulator for the times I need to for
on Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:59:24AM +0100, Rohan Nicholls ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
* Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030125 00:17]:
on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Rohan Nicholls wrote:
I have to say that I took over my windows
Russell said:
Thanks, it sounds promising. If i install win2k as the guest OS on vmware
which is in turn installed on linux, is there a way to copy the whole
win2k installation into vmware, or do i need to re-install everything
again?
you should reinstall everything again. VMWare has the
on Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:53:34PM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Rohan Nicholls wrote:
...
This I have not tried, the company I work for, has the Office and Win2k
licenses so I have just used VMware and installed them. It is a very
sweet system, and allows me to deal with
on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:12:31PM -0800, nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Russell said:
Thanks, it sounds promising. If i install win2k as the guest OS on vmware
which is in turn installed on linux, is there a way to copy the whole
win2k installation into vmware, or do i need to
* John Peg Pickard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030121 05:06]:
In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And then
I
will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a LinkSys Print
server,
and possibly a US Robotics broadband router (if I can use the back up dial
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:26:37PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:51:46AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Should it be? I can understand a desire to ease
#include hallo.h
* Karsten M. Self [Thu, Jan 23 2003, 03:05:20AM]:
over the last year or so the lack of home windows use has atrophied
those skills somewhat, epecially with XP stuff.
Heh.
I'm still embarassed by my ability to troubleshoot legacy MS Windows
issues based on my GNU/Linux
#include hallo.h
* Hal Vaughan [Tue, Jan 21 2003, 11:39:12AM]:
comments. You're right. Truth is truth, even if it may hurt. I guess I hit
a vein of truth and hurts. Maybe you haven't noticed, but you accuse this
person of only whinning, while your response is nothing more than excuses of
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 11:14 am, you wrote:
#include hallo.h
* Hal Vaughan [Tue, Jan 21 2003, 11:39:12AM]:
comments. You're right. Truth is truth, even if it may hurt. I guess I
hit a vein of truth and hurts. Maybe you haven't noticed, but you accuse
this person of only
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:33 am, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:52:40AM -0500, Hal Vaughan
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:31 am, Kent West wrote:
John Peg Pickard wrote:
I would STRONGLY recommend trying Mandrake. While I have not had
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:40, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new to Linux,
but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, or are they just
at the user (or just above) level?
I did my first ever install of a Linux distro 13
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 13:00, Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:40, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new
to Linux,
but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, or are
they just
at the user (or just above)
Hal Vaughan wrote:
snip
I also find that seem to be contradicting yourself here. Your point before
was that this was way above the original poster's head. Now you're saying
any literate computer user can install Debian.
And, remember, your original response was to tell him to go away. It
Alex Malinovich wrote:
Other than that, I was an absolute newbie. I thought mounting was what
you did with a horse
And when I was a newbie I thought it was . . . oh, uh, never mind. . . .
(I gotta learn some social skills . . . .)
curt, uh, I mean, Kent
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new to Linux,
but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, or are they just
at the user (or just above) level?
Back when I started with Debian (Dec. 2,
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 13:45, Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:40, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new to Linux,
but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, or are they just
at the user (or just above)
snip
I also tried installing Mandrake about a month ago to see what it was
like and found one of the best installers I've ever seen. I now carry
the 1st Mandrake install CD around with my laptop anytime I need an
emergency boot disk for someone. (Primarily because of the partitioning
tool.)
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
[ snip ]
I think so many Debian-ites have not needed to install for such a long
time that they've forgotten what it is like. Perhaps that's why the
installer is
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
[ snip ]
I think so many Debian-ites have not needed to install for such a long
time that they've forgotten what it is
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:51:46AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Should it be? I can understand a desire to ease the installation
process. However, I for one feel it is tremendously benificial for
a
Brian Nelson writes:
These days, I think the installer is minimalistic because it has to be
ported to so many arches (11 for woody). It's significantly more
difficult to write a fancy installer that also works on all the arches
Debian supports.
That's one reason. Another is Debian's
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
My point was how Mandrake is focused on making everything as easy as
possible to install and use -- so it's possible for the average
Joe to
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:46:47PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
[ snip ]
I think so many Debian-ites have not
on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:56:22PM +1100, John Griffiths ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I strongly suspect that at least some of the confusion is the result
of the environment. Legacy MS Windows *doesn't* let you know what's
going on, it *does* change arbitrarially between versions, and often
a
#include hallo.h
* Hal Vaughan [Tue, Jan 21 2003, 01:52:40AM]:
Linux, being an OS by geeks for geeks, up until just recently, needs a
geek to get it set up properly. Mandrake and others have made vast
improvements, but it's not automatic. If you expect it to be, you'll be
disappointed.
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:33:22 -0800 (PST)
nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't believe your a good candidate for using debian on the
desktop. Perhaps SuSE, Mandrake or Xandros, despite being more
propritary(sp), they are a step in the right direction(towards more
openness) compared to most
On Monday 20 January 2003 10:54 pm, John Peg Pickard wrote:
In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And
then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a LinkSys
Print server, and possibly a US Robotics broadband router (if I can use the
back
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 02:46 am, Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include hallo.h
* Hal Vaughan [Tue, Jan 21 2003, 01:52:40AM]:
Linux, being an OS by geeks for geeks, up until just recently, needs a
geek to get it set up properly. Mandrake and others have made vast
improvements, but it's not
on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:52:40AM -0500, Hal Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:31 am, Kent West wrote:
John Peg Pickard wrote:
I would STRONGLY recommend trying Mandrake. While I have not had any
problems with Mandrake 9.0, I have heard of some people who
In early '99 I tried Slackware Linux. After a lot
of reading and research tofind out the specs for the computer's hardware,
the install went well exceptfor two things.
When I got my 8 bit ISA modem I needed an interrupt
less than 8. I had plansfor both serial ports so I set the modem's
Hello John,
Although Debian is my favorite distribution for several years, and although
for me installation of debian is only a snap (me only), I would still
recommend going with another distribution to start with. here is my
recommendations:
1. have at least one day or one weekend devoted to
John Peg Pickard wrote:
In early '99 . . .
So problem #1 was LINUX wasn't smart enough to find a sound card if
it wasn't
on interrupt 5 (unless the user was smart enough to edit and recompile
the sound
module).
Problem #2 was stair stepping when I printed. After some e-mail
John Peg Pickard said:
In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And
then I will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a
I don't believe your a good candidate for using debian on the desktop.
Perhaps SuSE, Mandrake or Xandros, despite being more
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:31 am, Kent West wrote:
John Peg Pickard wrote:
As I didn't have time to keep playing with LINUX, I gave up.
Linux, being an OS by geeks for geeks, up until just recently, needs a
geek to get it set up properly. Mandrake and others have made vast
improvements,
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