Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 10 November 2003 08:55 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Monday 10 November 2003 07:27 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > > One thing I know will take a little getting used to is the different > > type of nomenclature used in Linux. > > > > - -- > > Melissa > > Melissa: > The 9.1 Manuals are availa

Re: [newbie] this is strange...TV sounds coming through my computer

2003-11-10 Thread crak600
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 03:46 am, Marc wrote: > Not all that odd at all. A classic case of TVI ( TV interference ) > And there could be a number of causes. Do you have any kind of a > large plastic window cut into your computer like a lot of folks do > for game machines, that could be a factor

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
El lun, 10-11-2003 a las 12:40, Lanman escribió: > Just curious about something. How many of the list members > are using > Linux in the workplace and how? I was hired in a cybercafé last month. My job is to completely migrate it to Linux. (gaming machines included). Not an easy task as you can s

Re: [newbie] this is strange...TV sounds coming through my computer

2003-11-10 Thread Marc
On Monday 10 November 2003 02:07 pm, crak600 wrote: > I'm on cable. occasionally, i'll get an e-mail, or i'll open a web > page or whatever, internet related sounds, and i'll get sounds from > cable TV coming out of my computer speakers. The other day it went > on for maybe 30 seconds until i swi

Re: [newbie] network card

2003-11-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 10 November 2003 08:55 pm, Dooggie wrote: > the card is a built in card > "ifup eth0" -- message: /sbin/ifup: config for eth0 not found. > > - Original Message - > From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:59 PM > Subje

Re: [newbie] network card

2003-11-10 Thread Dooggie
error message: bash: cat/proc/ioports: No file or directory pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci: Cannot find any working access method - Original Message - From: "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newbie list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [new

Re: [newbie] network card

2003-11-10 Thread Dooggie
the card is a built in card "ifup eth0" -- message: /sbin/ifup: config for eth0 not found. - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] network card > On Friday 07 November 2003 09:44

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Melissa Reese wrote: >> While I'm pretty handy with digging around various bits of Windows, >> "removing partitions" is not a procedure I'm familiar with. Can >> anyone offer me a little "step by step" for this? > > > >> Is there some literature I can read up on beforehand t

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-10 Thread song
That's a good thing to know. Good work! On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:15, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Sunday 09 November 2003 08:43 pm, alemao wrote: > > Hi Adolfo, > > > > as I said in the other message, the rescue thing didn´t > > work. After doing the rescue-lilo, I rebooted and none of the > > sys

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-10 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 12:45 am, alemao wrote: > I have two doubts here: > 1) what this command fdisk does? I tried to figure out by XP´s prompt, but > the program doesn´t exist... > 2) what is MBR? > > thanks > > Thigao that was instructions for a win9x system Want to buy your Pack or Servi

Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake and make discs

2003-11-10 Thread Miark
> You need to wait a few more days. They are delaying the release of the iso > images due to the LG problem. The iso's will have the solution already in > the OS and should cause no one any problems. That is just my take on what has > been happening and messages I have seen. I'm still using 9.

Re: [newbie] Video eMac problems

2003-11-10 Thread song
If you like short keys, use: Ctl-x Clt-f Or else, browse in "buffer" (on the toolbar) On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 19:34, Katherine Catalano wrote: > On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 03:46 PM, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > Katherine, to edit configuration files you can open a terminal > > (console), type "s

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 10 November 2003 07:27 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > > One thing I know will take a little getting used to is the different > type of nomenclature used in Linux. > > - -- > Melissa Melissa: The 9.1 Manuals are available online. While they aren't exactly "The Definitive Guide to Absolutely

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
I'm not using it for business, but as a long time IT professional, Linux is at least as easy to maintain as Win2k server. Added to which, the software is a lot cheaper and the support is a lot better. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandr

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 11:33 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 10 November 2003 04:41 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > > Is there some literature I can read up on beforehand that explains how > > I might want to partition the drive? > > Here is a quick tutorial about partitions under Linux. and also:

[newbie] this is strange...TV sounds coming through my computer

2003-11-10 Thread crak600
I'm on cable. occasionally, i'll get an e-mail, or i'll open a web page or whatever, internet related sounds, and i'll get sounds from cable TV coming out of my computer speakers. The other day it went on for maybe 30 seconds until i switched web pages, i thought it was something related to th

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-10 Thread Scott Naylor
> OK so it looks like your urpmi.addmedia commands worked. Only point is that > the definition for your CD sources seems to be screwed up. Possibly because > you changed your CD-ROM to be ide-scsi You can correct that using the > Software Sources GUI in Mandrake control centre. > > 2nd point. If y

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread lduvall
When you go to install Linux, it will ask you which drive and you will have the opportunity to set up the required swap file as well as the Linux file system. The installer routine will format everything as you request. I will leave it to others to tell you WHICH specification to use for determinin

Re: [newbie] Can't make boot floppy - make boot CD with mkrescue

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 10 November 2003 03:01 pm, Sharrea wrote: > Hi All > > For those of you not lurking on Cooker mailing list, Pascal > kindly shared this info and I've tried it on my system and it > works - cdrom boots and system starts - and I'm using a > customised kernel: > > > For those interested, yo

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me, On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 1:41:09 PM PST, I wrote: > While I'm pretty handy with digging around various bits of Windows, > "removing partitions" is not a procedure I'm familiar with. Can > anyone offer me a little "step by step" for thi

[newbie] email reminders

2003-11-10 Thread Charlie
I am looking for a way to send email reminders to myself. These would be to remind me of meetings, etc. I tried Kmail but have been unable to find a way to send delayed email messages. I am currently using Korganizer and Kalarm, but haven't found a way to use them to send email to myself. I need

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Warren Post
My principal business is a restaurant and I've been running Linux Mandrake on our office computer since 8.0. The system is more stable and our data is no longer hostage to Microsoft's proprietary formats. One of the reasons that made me look at alternatives to Windows

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bryan, On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 1:07:54 PM PST, you wrote: > Just remove all the partitions from the 20GB drive. That will leave > the drive completely blank with no drive letters or partition > information saved to the drive. While I'm p

Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?

2003-11-10 Thread Merlin Zener
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:30, Derek Jennings wrote: > [...snip] > In your urpmi.addmedia command use synthesis.hdlist.cz instead of hdlist.cz > hdlist.cz is the file that contains the list of RPMS on the repository, their > dependencies, their descriptions, and a list of the files within them. >

Re: [newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 10 November 2003 04:02 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > Here's my essential question of the moment... > > I'm finished copying over all the files I want to save from the old > drive to the new one, and I'm ready to clear the old drive in > preparation for my Mandrake installation. I've been to

[newbie] Can't make boot floppy - make boot CD with mkrescue

2003-11-10 Thread Sharrea
Hi All For those of you not lurking on Cooker mailing list, Pascal kindly shared this info and I've tried it on my system and it works - cdrom boots and system starts - and I'm using a customised kernel: For those interested, you can make an iso image of a boot disk if you are using LILO wit

[newbie] Pre-newbie here!

2003-11-10 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, This is my first post to this list (I've been lurking for a few days...it sure is a busy list! :-)). After trying to figure out if my assorted bits of hardware can be expected to "play nicely" with a fresh Linux distribution installation, I've

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2003-11-10 Thread Scott Naylor
On Sunday 09 November 2003 8:20 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 11:57 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: > > On Sunday 09 November 2003 4:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:23 am, Scott Naylor wrote: > > > > Just a small question, what would be the easiest way to up

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 10 November 2003 09:50 am, Anders Lind wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:40:18 -0500 > > "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just curious about something. How many of the list members > > are using > > Linux in the workplace and how? > > I think it would be encouraging to see who's doin

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 01:23 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:18:55 +0800 Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: Yeesh, How many times I gotta post this: http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ contains: MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:25

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:59 +0800 Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited downloads from.. So its possible that is only accessable from one of the ISP's... If so, then I apologize for suggesting it.. :-) coul

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 12:00 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:59 +0800 > > Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited > > downloads from.. > > So its possible that is o

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 10 November 2003 02:00 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:59 +0800 > > Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited > > downloads from.. > > So its possible that is only accessable from one of the ISP's... > >

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:59 +0800 Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited > downloads from.. > So its possible that is only accessable from one of the ISP's... > > If so, then I apologize for suggesting it.. :-) could it be th

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:18:55 +0800 Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: Yeesh, How many times I gotta post this: http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ contains: MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:25 652M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk2of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 04

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 10 November 2003 01:23 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:18:55 +0800 > > Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Yeesh, > > > > How many times I gotta post this: > > > > http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ > > contains: > > MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:18:55 +0800 Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Yeesh, > > How many times I gotta post this: > > http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ > contains: > MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:25 652M > MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk2of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 04

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:43:21 -0500 HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image and that would cause a conflict since the image you're using was likely

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 10:39 am, HaywireMac wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:43:21 -0500 > > HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The > > > trees have been updated to get rid of th

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:43:21 -0500 HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The > > trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image > > and that would cause a conflict since the image you're using was > > likely f

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:36:00 -0700 "Charlie M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The > trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image and > that would cause a conflict since the image you're using was likely > from th

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 09 November 2003 08:43 pm, alemao wrote: > Hi Adolfo, > > as I said in the other message, the rescue thing didn´t > work. After doing the rescue-lilo, I rebooted and none of the > systems could boot. > > What´s HTH? Highway to Hell? AC/DC! > > Thanks > > Thiago Here's what worked

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 10 November 2003 09:57 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 01:12, Lanman wrote: > > Gee Stephen; I'm not a "druggo", but I am Canadian, and 9.2 > > is running absolutely fine on my systems. > > The worst thing I've had to do with a 9.2 iunstall is to > > reset the BIOS to defa

Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?

2003-11-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 9:21 am, Warren Post wrote: > PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed > Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no > particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done --

RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Tony S. Sykes
In my corner of the office I have installed Mandrake 9.1 (started at 8.0) with Hylafax and it does a little web hosting (internally) and it also does remote checks on customers servers texting problems to support mobiles. The company has opted for RedHat in the only other area for testing our softw

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 10 November 2003 8:25 am, HaywireMac wrote: > Get a new network.img from your favourite mirror and use that. The trees have been updated to get rid of the .10.mdkBOOT kernel image and that would cause a conflict since the image you're using w

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
I think that you'll find that this is the case in most installations Mike. Usually, once it's set up and configured, Linux will usually bore you to tears in how dependable it is. Unless your clients or employers require additional administration or servers/services, you'll typically find that they

RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread brian
I started out with mandrake in my house but at work I use redhat 9.0 for windows file sharing, dns, all integrated into a server 2003 dfs structure and active directory, I also utilize rsync for a network back up of other things stored on the rh server. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [newbie] Pre-Linux install: Hardware identification tool?

2003-11-10 Thread Warren Post
PC Chips is the top selling mobo where I live, so I've installed Mandrake on more PC Chips boards than anything else. There are no particular problems -- at least not with the ones I've done -- so don't worry and just give it a go. The only thing that didn't come on the Mandrake disks was the driv

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread mike
Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? Lanman Lanman, I use Linux mandrake 9.1 both at home and at work .( writing from there now ) I work at an Information management company that does record storage, Microfi

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Way to go Franki ! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Very cool! Open-Source is all about choice, and FreeBSD is certainly a good choice. I find that a lot of people start with Mandrake because it's one of the easiest distro's to start with, but I also see a lot of users switch to other Open-Source solutions once they have gained some experience and

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things they'

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Anders Lind
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:40:18 -0500 "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious about something. How many of the list members > are using > Linux in the workplace and how? > I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what > with it, and > which distro's, whether they're seeing > an

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Mike; Sorry about my last post. I didn't read your email poroperly before responding. Gotta remember to increase my coffee content before sending emails to people! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/10/2003 at 9:40 AM mike wrote: >Lanman wrote: > >> >> >> I wonder how man

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Mike; New thread started, but I've been using Linux since 1995, so I know how to use it in production environments. I just thought it would be nice to hear from others on the subject. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/10/2003 at 9:40 AM mike wrote: >Lanman wrote: > >> >>

[newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things they're doing with L

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread mike
Lanman wrote: I wonder how many of the list members are using Linux in a professional scenario? I'm going to ask the list. it would be nice to know how many of us are using Linux in the business world, and how it's being used. Lanman Lanman, If you start a new thread I'll tell you ho

[newbie] Network Install Fail, "Signal 11"

2003-11-10 Thread HaywireMac
Hi all, Thought I'd give up waiting for the ISO's to be released and do a network install, but no go. Yes, PNP is turned off in the BIOS, if that matters in this case. Anyway, boots from the floppy fine, choose FTP, then DHCP, identifies the network card correctly, then when it tries to bring

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Now Now Franki ,...be nice! Grin! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/10/2003 at 11:08 PM Franki wrote: >HaywireMac wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:12:49 -0500 >> "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: >> >> >>>Gee Stephen; I'm not a "druggo", but I am Canadian, and 9.2 >>>i

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
On 11/11/2003 at 1:57 AM Stephen Kuhn wrote: >Just been TCB and getting things straight - and also biz is flat out >like a lizard drinking - so that's been another reason to not get online >much unless for work related reasons... > >stephen kuhn - owner That brings up an interesting curiousity. I

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:12:49 -0500 "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: Gee Stephen; I'm not a "druggo", but I am Canadian, and 9.2 is running absolutely fine on my systems. The worst thing I've had to do with a 9.2 iunstall is to reset the BIOS to defaults until the install wa

[newbie] Grey fields in yanc ( set-up tool for nvidia graphic chipset )

2003-11-10 Thread hertas
Dear Friends , I am looking for a easy and fast set -up tool for my nvidia chipsetted , ASUS FX 5600 vga card. I found and installed " yanc " , however when I run this program , the most useful fields ( such as twinview , tv -out etc.) are always grey ( not enabled for selection ). Could anybody

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 01:18, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:58:36 +1100 > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > > > Eh - who in the hell in their right mind would want to run MDK 9.2 > > anyways...must be either a druggo from Canada or a drunk from the > > US... > > Woot! S

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 01:12, Lanman wrote: > Gee Stephen; I'm not a "druggo", but I am Canadian, and 9.2 > is running absolutely fine on my systems. > The worst thing I've had to do with a 9.2 iunstall is to > reset the BIOS to defaults until the install was complete. > Don't know why you're unhap

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Not in the biblical sense, but I've seen his posts, now and then. Maybe I'm being really dense but I don't know what his agnst is all about vis-a-vis Mandrake 9.2. Of course, I don't run any "Bleeding Edge" hardware like USB stuff, or WebCams but still, it seems to work fine on my P4 system ! Grin!

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Margot
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:59, Thinker wrote: Any idea as to how long we will have to wait for the ISO's? Is there another way to download and fully install 9.2 without the ISO's, like a Net_install? -Thanks, -=Thinker Eh - who in the hell in their right mind would want to ru

[newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Thinker
Any idea as to how long we will have to wait for the ISO's? Is there another way to download and fully install 9.2 without the ISO's, like a Net_install? -Thanks, -=Thinker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?

2003-11-10 Thread Merlin Zener
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:20, Derek Jennings wrote: > [...snip] > > Ah yes, the joys of dial up networking :-( > You could try doing the installation from the command line. > Use the command > urpmi --wget --no-clean mplayer mplayer-gui > Thanks again for your help, Derek. I'm not at the stage of

Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?

2003-11-10 Thread Tomas Rett
What is PLF, please ? Tom Dne po 10. listopadu 2003 12:20 Derek Jennings napsal(a): > On Monday 10 Nov 2003 8:51 am, Merlin Zener wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > [...snip] > > > Kpackage does not resolve dependencies. So if you use it you will > > > have to dow

Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?

2003-11-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 8:51 am, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Derek Jennings wrote: > > [...snip] > > Kpackage does not resolve dependencies. So if you use it you will have to > > download and install all the dependencies. An easier way is to get > > mplayer-gui-0.92-0.1plf.i586

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
Phil Newcombe wrote: Thinker wrote: Any idea as to how long we will have to wait for the ISO's? Is there another way to download and fully install 9.2 without the ISO's, like a Net_install? -Thanks, -=Thinker I just installed 9.2 from an ftp mirror after dl'ing the network install floppy i

Re: [newbie] Thought you might enjoy this

2003-11-10 Thread Margot
aronsmith wrote: http://make.your.recipes.free.fr/ Lovely, thanks Aron. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XP and 9.1: dual boot failure

2003-11-10 Thread Sharrea
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:43, alemao wrote: > What´s HTH? Highway to Hell? AC/DC! Hope That Helps HTH ;) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] dependencies - what to do?

2003-11-10 Thread Merlin Zener
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Derek Jennings wrote: > [...snip] > Kpackage does not resolve dependencies. So if you use it you will have to > download and install all the dependencies. An easier way is to get > mplayer-gui-0.92-0.1plf.i586.rpm from PLF. ( http://plf.zarb.org/ ) > I think you are