Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Per
Hi Tony, I suppose a quick look at the system requirements could be helpful, you may have trouble booting really old hardware (stuff from the previous century). But, with a pretty standard pc you should just be able to boot. Regarding the external HD it can be accessed when running the live cd

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Tony
Dear Per, I downloaded the latest PskMail Live CD and bruned it with an ISO utility. The burn was successful and the program was working fine on my desktop. When I loaded the CD on my Laptop, the installation stopped at Starting HAL daemon. I waited a few minutes, but it would not continue

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Roberto IS0GRB
Hi Tony, i had also this problem. I have solved rebooting the pc and the same issue is disappeared. I don't know what was the problem. At this url http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/hal/ i see: How is HAL used in Fedora Core 3? : In Fedora Core 3, HAL is used for discovering

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Tony
Roberto, I did try re-booting a few times, but the problem is still there. I guess there might be a way around this, but not sure how it's done. Thanks Roberto... 73, Tony - K2MO - Original Message - From: Roberto IS0GRB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent:

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Per
Strange, I didn't see your question here. Some bug on yahoo perhaps (?). Ok on the problems, to get the obvious out of the way first: did you check the md5sums when you burned it? Almost all problems in the past have been caused by a faulty download. I can search for what to do about HAL in the

[digitalradio] Introduction

2007-09-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Good Morning Everyone: My name is Tim Holmes, W8TAH, Amateur Extra Class operator -- I have been messing around with digital as long as ive been on HF and i really enjoy it -- finding a group to play with is cool. I do psk, rtty, sstv, and im always willing to learn new or different things.

Re: [digitalradio] Introduction

2007-09-06 Thread Andrew O'Brien
Hi Tim, welcome to the group..we've been here seven years! I'm just down I-90 from you, about 2 hours away. Andy K3UK On 9/6/07, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning Everyone: My name is Tim Holmes, W8TAH, Amateur Extra Class operator -- I have been messing around with

[digitalradio] Re: DX tool for Google Earth

2007-09-06 Thread Jerry W
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Jerry W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neat tool for DXer's using Google Earth: http://www.dxers.info/google/earth/ Read all the info to place the spots in Google Earth Jerry - K0HZI DXers site Seems that the dxers site is down and Google Earth displays

Re: [digitalradio] Re: DX tool for Google Earth

2007-09-06 Thread AA0OI
Jerry: its a dead link for now.. they are rebuilding the site. Garrett / AA0OI - Original Message From: Jerry W [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2007 10:00:07 AM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: DX tool for Google Earth --- In digitalradio@

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Tony
Per, I let the PC sit for 45 minutes while loading the live CD. It stopped at the same line Starting Hal. The CD and HD were dormant for 45 minutes. Any suggestions? Tony K2MO - Original Message - From: Per [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday,

Re: [digitalradio] PSKMail Help

2007-09-06 Thread Per
Ok, I have a few: 1: Check the md5sums (is your download ok), when you open the iso in your cd burner you should be able to calculate an md5sum, it should be what it says on the download page (a5119b1cd1ee77d4ade1474af788c5ea for the latest). 2. If the first suggestion is ok then try to remove