Re: [newbie] Thanks Steve amp; Axalon / HP8100CDR/RW

1999-08-26 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Dear Ed: I have an HP 8200i CD-R/RW drive and I am having problems at boot time with it. Can you tell me what version of Linux-Mandrake you are using? Thanks, Gabriel From: "Ed Santiago" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems

1999-08-26 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Hi there: Thanks for the suggestions. I tried to get the cooker mirror as suggested by Axalon. However, I am unable to do so because I do not have a working version of Linux-Mandrake installed. I cannot boot my machine with the provided boot kernel because I get access errors to both

Re: [newbie] ppa

1999-08-25 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Dear Steve: You are right about # being the beginning of a comment. However, the combination #! indicates that an executable will follow setting up a new shell to work with. For instance, if you run the script from CSH or TCSH all the command have to be CSH based. If you add the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems

1999-08-25 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Dear John: What he's saying is CD drives are more particular about the system trying to access them using DMA/UDMA (another way to access an "IDE" device) than hard drives when they don't support that method of accessing the drive. Thanks for the feeaback. Does this mean that the HP CD-R/RW

[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems

1999-08-24 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Dear all: OK, I am starting to dislike this mailing list and Mandrake 6.0. I sent a question to the list asking for help and what I get back is a flame war. Could somebody please focus on the issue at hand and provide any type of helpful information that will assist me in resolving my

[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems

1999-08-24 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Dear all: OK, I am starting to dislike this mailing list and Mandrake 6.0. I sent a question to the list asking for help and what I get back is a flame war. Could somebody please focus on the issue at hand and provide any type of helpful information that will assist me in resolving my

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems

1999-08-24 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Hi there: Sorry, I'm a busy person I'm sure you can understand. Nothing personal. Just frustrated that my message started a list of messages not related to my question. ;-) I appreciate all the help that I can get. VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem) hdb: lost interrupt

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems

1999-08-24 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Hi Sebastian: Thanks for your input. Actually, I have errors by the time the kernel is trying to mount the filesystems. The only choice I have made so far is to press ENTER to start the installation. Hence, my partitions are still intact. In fact, I can still boot the current

[newbie] Mandrake 6.0 Install Problems

1999-08-23 Thread Gabriel Fernández
Dear all: I am a Slackware user, but I have heard so many good things about Read Hat that I decided to give it a try. So far it has not been a positive experience . . . My machine is configured as follows: Pentium 75MHz 64MB RAM ide0 @ 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1