Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-06 Thread civileme
On Friday 05 January 2001 21:47, you wrote: > Thanks for the info civileme. > > If the problem is that the kernel has been patch to include udma100 and > this causes the problem I have been having, is their a fix? I would > love to get Mandrake working again. > just for info I have the followi

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-05 Thread Paul Stear
Thanks for the info civileme. If the problem is that the kernel has been patch to include udma100 and this causes the problem I have been having, is their a fix? I would love to get Mandrake working again. just for info I have the following configuration:- ide0udma33 IBM6.4GBM

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Berry
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2001 20:44, you wrote: > > Paul Stear wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Something seriously changed from 7.1 to 7.2 and I have not had any > > > solution to my problem. > > > The install of 7.1 went without a hitch and all was well in the Mand

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-04 Thread civileme
On Thursday 04 January 2001 20:44, you wrote: > Paul Stear wrote: > > Hi all, > > Something seriously changed from 7.1 to 7.2 and I have not had any > > solution to my problem. > > The install of 7.1 went without a hitch and all was well in the Mandrake > > world and I was very pleased with the di

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-04 Thread Holly Henry-Pilkington
Paul Stear wrote: > > Hi all, > Something seriously changed from 7.1 to 7.2 and I have not had any solution > to my problem. > The install of 7.1 went without a hitch and all was well in the Mandrake > world and I was very pleased with the distribution. However, trying an > upgrade caused proble

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-04 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, Something seriously changed from 7.1 to 7.2 and I have not had any solution to my problem. The install of 7.1 went without a hitch and all was well in the Mandrake world and I was very pleased with the distribution. However, trying an upgrade caused problems, then a complete new instal

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-03 Thread Al Baker
I've found that LM7.1 to be far less troublesome than 7.2, especially during installation (7.2 always gives me a blank screen/freezes during the X part of the install). Then again, I use gnome and enlightenment --which are packaged better on 7.1 as well imho. MandrakeUpdate works fine, after fin

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-02 Thread Larry Marshall
> LM7.2. But, I think my point is still valid for a lot of people's > upgrades. No doubt about it Victor, I maintain a box for playing. My comments were related to the difficulties of getting version 7+ of ANY operating system to do basic things without having to relearn the entire operating sy

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-02 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 03:08 am, you wrote: > On Tuesday 02 January 2001 08:44, you wrote: > > Hi Mark and all of you suffering from upgrades, > > > > In the not too distant past, I belonged to the same group as you. If > > I saw new packages (usually rpms) of the latest and greatest, I > > w

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.02 Larry Marshall wrote: > Mandrake. By version 7 of anything things like print services should > be stable, period. This is especially true if the features have been > stable through the previous few versions and no increased facility is > being provided by the change. Well, don't

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-02 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Larry, I feel what you described in here. Maybe Mark's point was not really just have an interesting beta stuff, he wanted to fix stuff in LM7.2. But, I think my point is still valid for a lot of people's upgrades. I think stability and featurefulness needs a different approach. The legendar

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-02 Thread Larry Marshall
> > Then I got tired of it and started to build a new system, what is > > becoming better and better and still keeps every changes I made in > > the configuration files, upgrades etc. I am still going for the > > greatest and latest to try. But I have now two identical system, and Good advice Vi

Re: [Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"]

2001-01-02 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 10:23, you wrote: > civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Civileme, > > Thanks for the article, interesting and helpful indeed. At the beginning of > the article you mentioned that the installer feels that it has to overwrite > the old system. If you have a separa

Re: [Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"]

2001-01-02 Thread Viktor Lakics
civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Civileme, Thanks for the article, interesting and helpful indeed. At the beginning of the article you mentioned that the installer feels that it has to overwrite the old system. Actually I did not experience anything like that. When I installed a new system

Re: [expert] For all of you with "One BIG anoying Pain in the A**"

2001-01-01 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 08:44, you wrote: > Hi Mark and all of you suffering from upgrades, > > In the not too distant past, I belonged to the same group as you. If > I saw new packages (usually rpms) of the latest and greatest, I > went ahead to installed them, and a lot of times ended up rei