Re: The Big Change.

2001-03-02 Thread Geoff Bagley
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes > >On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Geoff Bagley wrote: >> >> I now have a dual boot system, with two separate 6.4Gb hard drives. >> Hi Lawson, thank you for your reply. >Whyn't you just put the linux machine online and eliminate the >middleman? So yo

Re: The Big Change.

2001-03-02 Thread Geoff Bagley
as a win-modem >that won't work from linux. > I am pleased to report that I have an external US Robotics modem. >- > I aim to make The Big Change by easy stages ! Cheers. -- Geoff Bagley - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the bo

Re: The Big Change.

2001-03-02 Thread Mike Miller
I have done something similar, downloading Red Hat RPM files with Win95 and then installing them under Red Hat 6.1. I didn't have any problems. As to why do it that way, maybe he still has a win-modem that won't work from linux. On 2 Mar 01, at 10:08, Geoff Bagley wrote: > > I now have a du

The Big Change.

2001-03-02 Thread Geoff Bagley
I now have a dual boot system, with two separate 6.4Gb hard drives. One /dev/hda has Windows 98 and internet access, the other /dev/hdb is up and running with SuSE Linux 7.0. (KDE is excellent). I find that using Linux/KDE I can access the other half of the machine, so that I am able to get fi