Re: [newbie] Wwhich motherboards?

1999-06-11 Thread Pankil Richards
Steve Winston wrote: I'm a Linux Mandrake user who received a Fry's gift certificate for his birthday. I want a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend particular brands? I am looking for an ATX, 3 DIMM slots, Slot 7, something compatible with the Pentium 233 mmx chip I have now but that will

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and Redhat

1999-03-21 Thread Pankil Richards
Felix Natter wrote: why does it say on the webpage that Redhat 5.3 (I think Redhat is talking about 6.0!) will never be released? Instead of "releasing" a new version everytime a minor enhancement/upgrade is done to their distribution, they may incorporate all those minor change(s) that

Re: [newbie] Netscape

1999-03-19 Thread Pankil Richards
James Reeves wrote: Hello, All I have only been using Linux for a short time, and I have a really stupid question, but here it is. I downloaded Netscape 4.51 (Linux) and ran the ns-install program in the install log it says everything was copied okay, but is there something else that I have to

Re: [newbie] Installation weirdness

1999-03-17 Thread Pankil Richards
Kuraiken wrote: Hello all, I think there's something wrong with the Mandrake install program. No problems for my installation of Mandrake. Went quite smoothly, actually. (or it could have been carried over from RedHat's, I don't know) Nothing wrong with Red Hat either. (Prior to

Re: [newbie] How do I get to my Win drives?

1999-03-14 Thread Pankil Richards
Steve Philp wrote: Well, there are a couple problems here. First, I don't know if you hand-typed the /etc/fstab info into this message, but you really don't want the whole drive listed as the partition. You'll probably need a number after that hda (something like /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2,

[newbie] Updated KDE Apps.

1999-03-12 Thread Pankil Richards
Some of the KDE 1.1 apps listed (at the Mandrake site) as being shipped with Mandrake 5.3 are an older version of what is being shipped in the downloaded KDE 1.1 version. For instance, I have the downloaded version of KDE 1.1 which includes Korganizer at version 1.0. The one listed at the

Re: [newbie] Updated KDE Apps.

1999-03-12 Thread Pankil Richards
Steve Philp wrote: I've installed Mandrake 5.3 (the latest release), and have Korganizer 1.0. Sorry for making you repeat yourself, but did you do the install from the Mandrake CD or did you download Mandrake? On their FTP site the apps are listed as the most current ones, but in a section

[newbie] Pre-purchase info

1999-03-11 Thread Pankil Richards
I'm currently running RH 5.2 w/KDE 1.1 (which I downloaded). I'm thinking of getting the Mandrake dist. since during my (mis)adventures with Linux I sometimes end up hozing the system and have had to do a complete re-install. Since Mandrake seems to integrate a lot of the things I want,

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Problems...

1999-03-11 Thread Pankil Richards
Bob Bonifield wrote: Hey everybody, I have a official sound blaster 16 ISA card in my linux box. I am new to linux and don't exactly know how to get linux to initialize and recognize it. Any help in getting it working would be helpfull. Thankyou in advance...Later, :) Type "sndconfig"