[newbie] Has anyone installed SATA Drive on FAST TRAK 378 controller on Mand 10!!!

2004-03-05 Thread DC A
Hi! Has anyone installed a single SATA hard drive(without raid) using Promise Tech's PDC 20376 FAST TRAK 378 controller on Mandrake 10 'cause Mandrake 9.2 doesn't support? Please let me know. If it works then I'll move to Mandrake 10. Thanks. ---AB

[newbie] Need help installing SATA drive!!!(Please help)

2004-03-05 Thread DC A
Hi! It's me again. I've got a problem and I'm really desperate. I've MSI K6T mobo with athlon 64 3400+ processor. I've installed Maxtor's Diamond plus 9 hard drive on WinXP. When I checked in Computer properties it says WinXp Promise SATA 378 IDE controller. And the hard drive works fine on

[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 doesn't recognize Maxtor's Diamond plus 9 SATA hard drive!!!!!

2004-03-04 Thread DC A
Hello everyone! I've recently downloaded mandrake 9.2 and trying to install it to my amd 64 3400+ system. My problem is with serial hard drive. It doesn't recognize my Maxtor's Diamond plus 9 SATA 120GB hard drive. It uses Promise's SATA 378 ide controller. And maxtor doesn't provide any linux

[newbie] Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root ??

2001-01-23 Thread DC Trader
I installed Linux for windows. And Everything went perfect until I went to boot up for the first time. I get this error: Request_module [block-major-71] root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 07:07 I

Re: [newbie] Dead Simple One

2000-04-15 Thread DC Mahoney
On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 03:30:25PM +0100, andy barnes wrote: What is the quickest, easiest and safest route to get into root when you are logged on as a user, and is it possible to do so without cutting your ISP connection? "su -", and enter the root password when prompted. Shouldn't bohter

Re: [newbie] Netscape email dates dwindling

2000-04-12 Thread DC Mahoney
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 10:10:02PM -0700, Todd Wells wrote: aha! so it's "by design" -- here I thought I was just losing my mind or something :-) Nope, just a slightly non-obvious coding decision. I don't know that it's documented anywhere either, so don't feel bad about missing it.

[newbie] Changing X resolution

2000-04-01 Thread DC Mahoney
OK, I'm confused. I just replaced my 3DImage 975 video card with a Voodoo3. Kudzu detected the change, removed the 975, and installed the Voodoo. WHen I selected "Configure" I was prompted to insert the install disk and press "enter". I did so, and went immediately to the xdm screen - the

[newbie] Installation problem - _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect error

2000-03-26 Thread DC Mahoney
I'm trying to install McMillan's Mandrake 7.0 on a Pentium box. This box will be a dual-boot machine with Win95 if all goes well. Win95 is already installed in a small partition, and I used the PartitionMagic tool to create a big partition for Linux. When I boot off either the CD or the

Re: [newbie] tar

2000-03-26 Thread DC Mahoney
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:50:33PM -0500, _-+Richard Kim=-_ wrote: how do i untar a file tar ?v?f filename.tar.gz I forgot the command can anyone tell me? Try "tar xvfz filename.tar.gz" X = extract v = do it verbosely so I can see what's happening f = I'm going to give you the name of the