Re: Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
At , Heimo Claasen wrote: [...] (It's a drag with Debian, where you get the [typically wrong] result only after the whole installation procedure and after starting X; or rather, after failing to get somewhere then. And in addition, there are real nuisances built-in there: the value to enter for vi

Re: Mandrake 8.1??

2003-03-08 Thread Heimo Claasen
That looks to me as if the GUI (KDE in this case) starts up with the lowest resolution, say 640x480 - does cycling through screen resolutions (with [CTRL]-[ALT]-[+]) give you any other/larger screen dimension ? (The pop-up windows should be significantly smaller then, and be situated all inside the

stopping diald

2003-03-08 Thread James Miller
Newbie question: I've started experimenting with diald, since I'm planning on setting up a small network from which more than one computer will be needing to access the 'net. Diald works fine, in terms of connecting to the provider. My question is about stopping the process. So far, I've been able

mandrake installation

2003-03-08 Thread Dave Pomeroy
My old scsi cdrom will not boot. I'm installing from my windows hard drive. I've made a boot floppy and all goes as it should when I boot, it asks me for the location of the files and I tell it the path to my windows drive where the files for disk 1 are stored. It never asks where disk 2 is