Re: [newbie] Toshiba and video woes

2000-10-16 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
Hi Mark, I am a little behind you but maybe I can help. I have a Toshiba Satellite 4090 XDVD notebook with Win2000 and LM 7.0 installed. I also had some problems configuring my video card. My computer has a Trident Cyber 9525 Graphic Adapter which is not available. I chose the closest option (Tr

[newbie] glimpse files???

2000-10-11 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
Hi friends, Bothering again! I am trying to learn about using C++ with KDevelop of Linux Mandrake 7.0. During the installation it tells me that I am missing the glimpse and glimpseindex files. Where can I find them? I installed my system as a normal user but now have run the upgrade to Develope

Re: [newbie] Formating IDE HD

2000-10-09 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
Thanks Doug, At 01:30 PM 28/09/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Find a distro that has the old text installation on it >(RH 5.2, for instance) and run that. When you get to the >option for fdisk, delete any and all existing partitions of >size or type. Don't forget to "save" the results. You >should th

RE: [newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1

2000-10-08 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
in harddrive- Office will ask you for the user dates and in few >seconds it will install all the necessary files). >To run Staroffice as roo you will need also made the second installation >for this superuser. >I hope this help > >Francisco Alcaraz >Murcia (Spain) > >

[newbie] Help: How to share StarOffice 5.1

2000-10-08 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
I would like to share StarOffice 5.1. I am working with Mandrake 7.0 and would like to have StarOffice 5.1 available for root, Myself, and visits users. Before, I was able to install StarOffice from Myself user under the directory home/Myself/Office51/ and could use it with root and Myself but w

[newbie] Formating IDE HD

2000-09-27 Thread Ricardo Zevallos
Hello. I have been trying to install Linux Mandrake in my old computer and now I cannot create a Linux partition. Starting form my 1.2 Gigabyte IDE-HD with Windows NT4 system, I first deleted the ancient NT partition and created a new PRI-DOS partition (using fdisk). When I tried to reformat t