Hi Mike,
Monday, July 8, 2002, 8:49:14 PM, you wrote:
MS I recently had to do this myself in order to cleanly reinstall Linux. After
MS several frustrating attempts to use DOS's FDISD, I went to www.fdisk.com to
MS download their freebie version which works with MD as well as MS.
My original
Hi Jose,
Saturday, July 6, 2002, 11:22:45 PM, you wrote:
JV It's easy... with a win boot disk do fdisk /mbr that will erase lilo if
JV it is on master boot record, then go into windows and with partition
JV magic erase the linux partitions... that's the way I'm use to do...
JV If something
Hi Marc,
Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 1:45:41 PM, you wrote:
M It seemed to me that they have little to choose from but Linux and
M Mac but mac machines seem overpriced and not very avalable. That
M leaves very little in the way of options except linux.
Consider how you're doing the analysis of
Hi Derek, and others
Well, at the final hour just as I was about to kick Mandrake into the
'can't be bothered trash can' I tried the 'hid' thing that Derek
pointed me to and it worked ... this was the third time I'd tried mind
you!
So, spent a bit of time in the company of Mandrake and got to
Hi et,
Saturday, May 18, 2002, 9:28:07 PM, you wrote:
e hey if you want to send me that bad HD I would be more than pleased to have
e it. my guess is that you did not install some network service that was not
e only installed previously but was mis-configured, and since you did not
e install
Hi shane,
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:19:06 PM, you wrote:
s On Tuesday 14 May 2002 13:53, FemmeFatale opened a general hailing frequency
s and transmitted to all open stations:
We're going to start calling you Captain Obvious if you keep this up
Shane :)
Or at the least, I will.
s going
Hi Damian,
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:13:55 PM, you wrote:
DG On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:21:59 -0700
DG Mike Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Viron wrote:
Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel .
Next, remove execute permission from other on su.
I have to say I find this
Hi Gerald,
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:17:34 PM, you wrote:
GW On Tuesday 14 May 2002 04:53 pm, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote:
It is not running and there is no /var/run/xinetd.pid. I installed the OS
just a couple weeks ago, could something simply not have been installed?
GW what happens if you
Hi folks,
DC I will try to 'startx' and tell you what happens.
Ok ... all went as usual to the command line. Took 8 minutes for the
blue progress bar to reach end and shift to user/password screen. That
is way too slow and why I'm considering faulty HD.
Anyway, entered startx and got a load
Hi,
Monday, May 13, 2002, 11:56:46 PM, you wrote:
DO Ohh So... The latest Linux Format DVD has Mandrake 8.2 on it? Does it
DO have anything else? Or just Mandrake? And is it a bootable DVD, or does it
DO just have ISOs on it? This would be handier than the 3 CDs...
Installs straight from
Hi Tim, Femme and Derek
Sunday, May 12, 2002, 2:43:07 AM, you wrote:
TH We need a little more information Dave.
Thanks for the useful responses. To assist further I have posted much
more detail, including what happens before things ... er, stop
happening!
Hope you can help as I haven't got
Hi Ed,
Dave, when you get the text screen don't do anything, wait a minute and it
should continue to boot to the graphical login screen.
That text screen is not the last thing to pop up. Give it a minute and see
what happens. HTH
Ok ... gave several minutes, made a cup of tea, gave a few
Hi,
Sunday, May 12, 2002, 10:52:35 PM, you wrote:
d I'm not being insulting here (I've not been following this thread - sorry!)
d but are you fairly new to Linux? If so, just keep posting/asking questions,
d we'll help you all we can! ;-)
Short answer ... yes, a newbie in nappies. Windows
Hi Linux fans,
Saturday, May 11, 2002, 7:40:30 PM, you wrote:
This is a classic newbuie question, but I'll ask it anyway in hope of
a simple answer and Mandrake 8.2 id driving me nuts.
OK, I've finally installed, after wrestling with a faulty bootable DVD
and I get to a screen that asks for my
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