[newbie] Grub timeout!!!

2001-03-08 Thread Thomas Webster
resending as the first time it seemed to dissapear into a black hole! I run a dual boot win98 Mandrake 7.2 system. I used to run a Randish Boot manager on my MBR to boot between different OS's. I installed Mandrake 7.2 putting GRUB on my root partition. However once I realised that now my

[newbie] Grub timeout!!!!

2001-03-08 Thread Thomas Webster
resending as the first time mail seemed to dissapear into a black hole! I run a dual boot win98 Mandrake 7.2 system. I used to run a Randish Boot manager on my MBR to boot between different OS's. I installed Mandrake 7.2 putting GRUB on my root partition. However once I realised that now my

[newbie] Grub timeout!!

2001-03-07 Thread Thomas Webster
I run a dual boot win98 Mandrake 7.2 system. I used to run a Randish Boot manager on my MBR to boot between different OS's. I installed Mandrake 7.2 putting GRUB on my root partition. However once I realised that now my root mandrake partition was now /hda6 and hence not bootable by Randish

Re: [newbie] KB/s....kb/sec can somome explain please

2001-01-28 Thread Thomas Webster
ROFL! I just downloaded the ISO files for L-M at an average download speed of less than 2.0 KB/s so, brother, I think I understand slow connections. It took 5.5 days to get all the data in the two ISO files and another day to figure out how to commit them to a CD. Now.. what the heck do I

Re: [newbie] KB/s....kb/sec can somome explain please

2001-01-28 Thread Thomas Webster
DEAR Tom; wicked, evil grin You're a dirty rotten scoundrel and a BRAGGART besides! :) Dave (who wants to crawl inside a cave.. he feels so dull and behind about this s***) I thought I'd point out that my high bandwidth is one of the few benifits of being a student at a University hooked