Re: [newbie] LILO and Windows2000

2000-05-23 Thread Anthony Chuchman
The answer to your question is: Yes, just as long as you don't delete your DOS partitions. As a good rule of thumb, if you have a drive you want to dedicate to Linux, remove it from DOS using FDISK, so when you're in the install program to select your partitions, the big blank space will help

[newbie] Network / Sound Installaion Issues

2000-05-22 Thread Anthony Chuchman
I'm pretty new to Linux, but not computers so please bear with me. I began an install of Mandrake-Linux 7.0 this weekend, and I will agree that DarkX is a very simplified install client. The only thing is that I had two issues (actually more, but I solved those last night around 2 am), they are

Re: [newbie] Problem with X configuration

2000-05-22 Thread Anthony Chuchman
Dan, I was having the same problem with my Matrox Card. It was listed in the device list, but would not work. I scrapped the v7.0 install (completely scraped) and reinstalled. After a 2nd try everything worked fine. Other than that, I have no ideas. Anthony - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Post Server Installation Commands?

2000-05-22 Thread Anthony Chuchman
It sounds like you may need to log into the server from a client. I don't know much about Linux server systems, but from working with a few others out there, I've noticed that the server is pretty much unusable as a regular workstation. I could be wrong, so don't quote me, but I'd suggest to