[newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-13 Thread S Wieland
I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my mandrake 9.1, dell dimension 8100 to put into my new computer, and put an old cdrom from a OLD 233 pentium II into the dell/linux box. I didnt do any remove hardware thingy in linux nor was the box ON when i did it. At first

[newbie] Suggestions on Mandrake books

2003-10-28 Thread S. Wieland
I think its best for me to get a book to help me with learning mandrake 9.1/linux in general. MI'm ccompletely new to linux and would say I'm an intermediate - advanced windows user. I'm bad with technical jargon like math books, so a nice easy guide would help me the best. Any suggestions? How

Re: [newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread S. Wieland
if your a club member you can download it on their website... but its not organized like 9.1 so i couldn't figure out how -boardrider Eko Budiharto wrote: hi list, I have been using MDK 9.1. I know there is MDK 9.2, where I can download it? ***

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread S. Wieland
then after it all loads do i want to file save as? or do i want to right click the run file and do a save link target (this comes up as .run.html)? Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:16 pm, S. Wieland wrote: I first installed mandrake 9.1 on monday 10-20-03 and everything went s

Re: [newbie] How do I install an updated driver?

2003-10-22 Thread S. Wieland
Im just guessing but I believe you have to extract the file onto the floppy then it should work from there (maybe) :-/ tar.gz is = to a rar or zip file Marco Hoefman wrote: Hello everybody, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.1 on a second partition and the dual boot programm LILO works great