Re: [newbie] Boot problem

1999-08-26 Thread Gregory S. Hackman
I think one gigabyte (i.e. 2 raised to the 30th power) would be 1.074 billion bytes. So if an HD manufacturer did a dishonest thing and reported his disk's capacity as billions of bytes rather than gigabytes base 2, he would be over by about 7%, which is pretty close to what you're seeing (7% of

[newbie] Xwin-32/Rlogin problems

1999-08-26 Thread Gregory S. Hackman
I'm trying to use Xwin-32 and connect to my Linux machine by rlogin. I have some experience doing this on OSF machines, there really isn't a lot to it. After I uncommented the appropriate lines in inetd.conf so the rlogin and rexec demons would actually get going, I was at a stage where I could

[newbie] HP1600C printer

1999-08-25 Thread Gregory S. Hackman
Wow, I was really impressed by how quick I got an answer back on the memory problem! Thanks John Connell. In the mean time I have another newbie-question. I have an HP1600C. That's not one of the printers that you can choose from when you're setting up your printer. Does anyone have any experi

[newbie] memory not all used

1999-08-25 Thread Gregory S. Hackman
Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 and it only uses 64 Mb of the 256 Mb installed. The PC is a PIII (Gateway) with two 2940 SCSI cards. I'm using whatever kernel comes with Mandrake 6.0, I don't know how to figure out which one that is. Is there an easy solution to this or am I doomed? I i

[newbie] Memory not found

1999-08-25 Thread Gregory S. Hackman
Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram. When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have something like 64 Mb. The appropriate KDE utility tells me the same thing. Is there some bug in the 2.2whatever kernel that it can't use the oth