[newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Toshiba laptop

2003-02-08 Thread Bruce Zink
Today I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. Or I tried to, anyway. I simply used the standard install CD's (downloaded from the Mandrake site). They booted just fine, and the install ran without a hitch. I did get one message telling me that some of my hardware required proprietary

[newbie] More X troubles

2002-07-01 Thread Bruce Zink
Hello; After a completely new install of Mandrake 8.2 I'm having trouble starting X. It will start, but after a *long* time - 10, 15 minutes. It gives the error message: Local host name lookup failure. Creating new .Xauthority : /home/usr/.Xauthority Any notion of what

[newbie] Localhost lookup failure

2002-07-01 Thread Bruce Zink
Upon running startx after a fresh install of Mandrake 8.2, I received the error Local host name lookup failure Creating .Xauthrity: /home/usr/.Xauthority In addition to this, X takes a *really* long time to come up - like 10 or 15 minutes. Does anyone know how to fix this error? I tried

Re: [newbie] Where are the old versions?

2002-04-06 Thread Bruce Zink
--- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Zink wrote: Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? What sort of machine

[newbie] Where are the old versions?

2002-04-05 Thread Bruce Zink
Hey; I'm having trouble getting 8.2 to install on my machine. I'd like to try 8.0 or 8.1, but the Mandrake download site only points to 8.2, 7.1, and 8.0 for PPC. Where do I find the others? = - No, I'm a good man. I'm just not a very good wizard.

[newbie] Clearly missing something

2002-04-05 Thread Bruce Zink
I recently acquired the source code for an Intel NIC card driver (from an Intel web site). The documentation tells me to use make install to compile/install the driver. Unfortunately, that command gives me the message bash: make not found or something like that. Likewise, man make