RE:[expert] Wooow

2000-06-15 Thread ron peake
Hi I just updated from Mandrake 7,02 to 7,1 with no problems at all on 2 year old hardware. It took less than 1 hour and I like the bubbles. What would champagne be without the bubbles? In my opinion, an excellent distribution which sets a target for the others to aim at and moves Linux

RE: [expert] Wooow

2000-06-15 Thread ron peake
Hi I just updated from Mandrake 7,02 to 7,1 with no problems at all on 2 year old hardware. It took less than 1 hour and I like the bubbles. What would champagne be without the bubbles? In my opinion, an excellent distribution which sets a target for the others to aim at and moves Linux one step

Re: [expert] 128Meg memory problems

2000-05-02 Thread ron peake
Hi Some motherboards use 'normal' RAM for their videochipset operation. The amount reserved for video use can often be from 4-8 megabytes. Suggest you try append="mem=120M" then run /sbin/lilo Ron Dan Westlake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I know you mentioned that you tried various append="me

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.

2000-03-22 Thread ron peake
Dan In my opinion you have made your arguments well and almost everyone can agree with you on at least some, if not all, of your points. Having worked in R&D for almost 30 years I can understand the technician's quest for perfection. But the sad truth is, it is not obtainable, or at least not at

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 Install Problems

2000-03-20 Thread ron peake
Hello Sean This problem has been experienced by others installing 7.0-2 in addition to yourself. The most common solution seems to have been swapping the cdrom drive for another for install purposes. Hope that this is a possibility for you and that someone else has a better suggestion. Ron Sea

RE: [expert] Mandrake & Netware

2000-03-17 Thread ron peake
Hello We connect to Netware from Linux at my work but there is no support for NDS ie it is via the bindery. I have been told this week however that software is being developed which will allow Linux to connect via NDS. I hope that it is true. Ron "Bois, Mathieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >

Re: [expert] LAN/Internet

2000-03-03 Thread ron peake
Hi Check your netmask first the 255.255.255.0 type number. Ron Forness Johan HÃ¥kan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello all ... > > I have a problem getting my box to send packets OUT of the NIC (Network > Interface Card). > I can ping 127.0.0.1 (localhost) but not any other IP's on the network

Re: [expert] A peculier problem!

2000-02-10 Thread ron peake
Hi It is a known bug in mandrake 6.1. The bug is absent in mandrake 7.0 which is no consolation I know. Ron David Comeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have just come across a peculier problem. As root (setup and configuration > tasks), I used kppp to login to my ISP. Never have I ever had a

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-03 Thread ron peake
Hello This discussion is a little amazing to me because every day in my work I use LILO to choose whether to boot NT 4 Service Pack 5 or RedHat Linux 6.1. LILO works fine. Regards, Ron Jaime Batiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Dear Jean-Louis, > > I'm not familiar with Windows NT's boot.ini