Re: [expert] hd install

2000-11-02 Thread guran remberg
Michael Powell PhD wrote: Can someone tell me how to do a HD ISO install, I RTFM...but not much Hi This is how I did it. I created a directory iso on a special partition /mn/library and downloaded the files. To boot I used a disk image called hd.img. When the installation program questioned

Re: [expert] verifying burned cd's

2000-10-31 Thread guran remberg
Kelley Terry wrote: How I checkthe files that I burned on a cd against the iso image to verify correctness?? It seems that I am having problems burning cd's and I want to do it right before I install 7.2. Keep in

Re: [expert] Damn! Now only root can print

2000-10-30 Thread guran remberg
Francois Pons wrote: "D.D.Brierton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running Mandrake 7.1, with KDE2 installed from RPMs from Mandrake 7.2beta and Helix GNOME. It might help to run kups, from within a x-terminal, here you can make the final configure. Solved my problem, from mandrake guide.

[expert] rtl8139 - revisited

2000-10-29 Thread guran remberg
Hi My fault, I had my son help me assemble a new computer and asked him to install win98, so I could play some RPG's. He naturally had enabled PNP. I wiped out Win98, reformatted the whole shit and now it is all green. regards guran Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the

[expert] rtl8139

2000-10-21 Thread guran remberg
Hi I know that this should be posted to Cooker, but I left that list, as I felt that I don't have the knowledge to add anything. I have just started a new computer with "Linux-Mandrake Odyssey-rc1-i586 20001020 14:14" and had serious problems with my ethernet card. The card was a Planet 10/100

[expert] Secure docs?

2000-10-18 Thread guran remberg
Hi I am currently running Linux-Mandrake Odyssey-rc1-i586, installed as secure. This means that as a user I am not allowed to open up the /usr directory when I am using Konquerer. But if a click on the doc icon on the desktop then I can reach the user-guide. All I have to do is to use the

[expert] Multiple Distros on One Harddrive

2000-08-03 Thread guran remberg
Hello Sevatio. I am not an expert, but this is how I used my computer. Mine has two harddrives, one Fujitso 10.2 Gb and a 3.8 Gb Seagate. On the Fujitso I have a swap of 250 MB, a boot of 25 MB and two root partitions (i.e. /). On the second drive I have two equal partitions, when mounted they

[expert] Corrupt drive help needed

2000-08-03 Thread guran remberg
Hello nightwriter. I can try to give an indication in what direction you may get an answer to your problem. As I understand your hard drive, it has inodes with written data, but no mount points. First the command find may search every inode on the drive. Second the commando grep may be

[expert] helium - my fault!

2000-06-13 Thread guran remberg
Hello experts I beg you to forgive me for my outbirst in "helium - deeper inhalation". In a moment of insight I thought that my harddrive might be faulty. I lifted everything over to a new drive and checked the originals with gftp. Some of my files were corrupted and a format with check showed

[expert] helium - deeper inhalation

2000-06-12 Thread guran remberg
Hello experts My initial impression of the installation of Mandrake 7.1 was very positive. I was eagerly interested in testing XFREE86 4.0, Netscape 4.73 and some new additions of KDE. I tried to istall the new kernel 2.2.16 and screwed up so I had to reinstall. My Internet connection is

[expert] helium

2000-06-07 Thread guran remberg
guran remberg wrote: Hello experts. I am now running Mandrake 7.1 helium, on an old horse, and I am impressed. Thank you all which have made this possible . Being a 60 years old man on pension, this is a new spring for me. The only problem I had was after the install. The FTP crypto

[expert] keyboard - french way?

2000-05-29 Thread guran remberg
Thanks for the reply - it sure did the trick. regards guran

[expert] keyboard - french way?

2000-05-27 Thread guran remberg
I bow to you experts, please sort this out for me. I have a Mandrake 7.0.2 and it is nice in many ways, but I have got a keyboard problem. You see I live in Sweden, so naturally I use se.latin1. Yesterday I decided to start to learn some bash and could not produce a 'dollar-sign'. According to