Re: [newbie] Uninstall Linux ?OT

2001-09-09 Thread Peter Watson
the experts list. This one puzzles me however, how can you use a linux utility to remove the partitions that linux resides on. This sounds like the computing equivalent of sawing off the branch that you are sitting on. Any explanations gratefully received. -- Peter Watson Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake: rpm installed error

2001-09-08 Thread Peter Watson
or urpm from the command line work and are really not too difficult. I suggest that you try these alternatives,. Good luck. -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Updating

2001-09-04 Thread Peter Watson
: I have exactly the same problem, I've posted it on this list several times but no-one has responded. If any one out there knows the answer please let us know. Is there a known problem with the software manager. -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall

2001-08-31 Thread Peter Watson
=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: what about lower case lilo -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LILO install Uninstall

2001-08-31 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:46 am, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2001 12:36 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: I forgot to mention that [root@rescue /]# I typed LILO -U gives an error also -ul or -U -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] MandrakeUpdate wont work

2001-08-27 Thread Peter Watson
-mandrake.com Pragma: no-cache Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */* === I assume that this refers to my problem, if anyone can explain what it means I would be grateful. -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] MandrakeUpdate wont work

2001-08-26 Thread Peter Watson
, but then when I hit ok I just reloaded my CD sources and my new source address had disappeared fom the list of sources. Very grateful for any explanations or suggestions on how to get this working -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Kmail URL's

2001-08-26 Thread Peter Watson
; charset=big5; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: works for me too -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please

2001-08-24 Thread Peter Watson
. You could check this in case it helps. -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] GIF software

2001-08-17 Thread Peter Watson
-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: The SAMS TYS GIMP book is on the Mandrake 8.0 Commercial Applications 2 CD if you have a boxed set -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mounting floppies with supermount

2001-08-16 Thread Peter Watson
? regards -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] su-incorrect password

2001-08-15 Thread Peter Watson
; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re: ppp thread

2001-08-15 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 15:08, Tom Brinkman wrote: 'Many d/l agents also display current and average speed. Usually in bytes/sec, ie, 56K is 56,000 bits/sec. I'm getting confused. I thought there were 8 bits in a byte. petew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Floppy CD work fine, then not

2001-08-13 Thread Peter Watson
I don't know if this helps, My CD and floppy behave just as you describe when the drives are empty (ie Input/Output error, you do not have access rights, little padlocks showing) However when I insert media into the drive the locks go away and everything works fine. My fstab lines are:-

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