Re: [newbie] install problems 13.0gig

1999-07-17 Thread Rhichard Barth & Family
  Axalon wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Rhichard Barth & Family wrote: > Hey Axalon ! > Boy I'm always glad to get responses from you...(not that I'm mind the rest) > So your saying: > / boot = 20 meg > /   = a lot of harddrive  then swap? > swap >

Re: [newbie] install problems 13.0gig

1999-07-17 Thread Rhichard Barth & Family
ey can't "surf") Your friend Rhichard, Axalon wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Rhichard Barth & Family wrote: > > > > > > > Hello again "newbie Group" > > Well I've got a new one, I just got a 13.0 gig WD hard drive for free, I would &

Re: [newbie] install problems 13.0gig

1999-07-17 Thread Rhichard Barth & Family
  Hello again "newbie Group" Well I've got a new one, I just got a 13.0 gig WD hard drive for free, I would like to use it all for Linux. I found that VMware uses it's own partition inside the Linux partition, better(or it's easier) than to use a second hard drive(Raw partition) The only thing is

Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed

1999-07-11 Thread Rhichard Barth & Family
got to be one of the greatest sites there is. I owe you guys. I'll be back! Rhich "The Phoneless Guy" Icq 8150164 > > - Original Message - > From: Rhichard Barth & Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday

Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed

1999-07-11 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
  John Aldrich wrote: Are you editing the file as "root"? If not, that's a "system file" and only "root" can edit it. - Original Message - From: Rhichard Barth & Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, J

Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed

1999-07-10 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
  Axalon wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Flight16 wrote: > For anybody else having the problem I was of a huge error crashing their system > whenever the shutdown script tried to halt, it is because of the power off command, > like Axalon said, but the specific problem comes from the -p parameter tha

Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed

1999-07-10 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
Axalon wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Flight16 wrote: > > > For anybody else having the problem I was of a huge error crashing their system > > whenever the shutdown script tried to halt, it is because of the power off command, > > like Axalon said, but the specific problem comes from the -p par

Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed

1999-07-10 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
  Flight16 wrote: For anybody else having the problem I was of a huge error crashing their system whenever the shutdown script tried to halt, it is because of the power off command, like Axalon said, but the specific problem comes from the -p parameter that tries to power down your pc.  This comm

Re: [newbie] M6 is trash

1999-06-07 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
  What happened to the "Guy" with the Jaz drive? I have had great success with both Jaz and LS120's with 5.3. I don't have a Jaz right now for 6.0 but no problems getting a LS120 up and running... If you would like my help I'm here.(I was away for the weekend) and am now just starting to read

Re: [newbie] Swap partition size

1999-06-07 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
  Linda and Mike wrote: Hi, I am going to be reinstalling again, but since our last install, we updated our system with a new motherboard, chipset to 450/100MHZ, and doubled our RAM from 128 to 256.  Can we make one swap partition size of 256 or do we have to make 2 partitions of 128MG each? Lind

Re: [newbie] ATI Rage Fury

1999-06-04 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
I am currently using a ATI rage pro AGP w/8MB if this helps, The only thing I found out was I didn't probe and selected 8MB. So far so good Linux Mandrake 5.3 Festin. Just started to upgrade to RH6.0 and am downloading 1.1.1 as I speak It seems as if RH6.0 supports more top end graphic cards(

Re: [newbie] A Real Stupid Question About 6.0 Xwindows

1999-06-03 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
You can configure Linux to allow X-Windows to run automatically at boot time, without the "startx" command. In this case, you'll have to login through the KDM prompt (I believe this is what your looking for) In order to do this, just edit the /ect/inittab file and replace the line id:3:initdefaul

Re: [newbie] desktop choice

1999-06-03 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
You can configure Linux to allow X-Windows to run automatically at boot time, without the "startx" command. In this case, you will have to login through the KDM prompt. In order to do this, just edit the /ect/initab file and replace the line id:3:initdefault: with the line id:5:initdefault: This

Re: [newbie] no printer detected

1999-05-31 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
Yes !! thats what I ment too..I'm using the 550 driverswith HP890cxi and so far it's working. Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sat, 29 May 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: > Upon booting into 2.2.9 with the boot option > 'append = "parport=0x378,5"' in lilo.conf, no printer is detected by

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

1999-05-30 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
ndows and Linux. Linux & KDE would use up 600MB easy with a full install Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: Rhichard Barth & Family escribió: > You did a "Work Station" install? did you set up your partitions and > then did the "Work Station" If you do a "Work Stat

Re: [newbie] no printer detected

1999-05-30 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
Is the lp enabled? I found when I installed my 890cxi after going from 5.3 to 6.0 the port became disabled and It locked my printer dr. Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I'm having problems installing a printer, HP DeskJet 870 Cxi.  I'm running Mandrake 5.3.  I had the printer working under kernel 2.2.6 wher

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

1999-05-29 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
d up being to smallCustom is the way to go...this way you can pick and chose your own settings and only install what you needThen use fdisk or Disk DruidBeing a "Widows user" also I find fdisk is best. How big is your drive? Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: Rhichard Barth & Family

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

1999-05-28 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
Guillermo Belli wrote: > I think the swap is too little. I was running KDE on a Cyrix PR-120 with 16mb > of RAM and 100mb swap and it worked fine. Only when I opened some 4 Netscape > and two kvirc windows and also kfm the system started to slow down. So try > making that swap partition bigger.

Re: [newbie] Upgraing from rh6.0 to mandrak 6.0

1999-05-28 Thread Rhichard Barth &amp; Family
  "SunLord, William Schweder" wrote: Will i encounter any version conflicts or any other problems if i upgrade my rh 60.0 to mandrake 6.0? I am currently upgrading from RH5.2 to Mandrake 6.0 so far so good... I haven't had any hang-ups so farkppp was a little tricky   Rhich 8150164