RE: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread h k ball
... very entertaining, I was taken in totally, because as a month old newbie I went through that phase ... bought some Mandrake 10.1 disks ($6), they worked OK at first, but then degraded ... ended up with: (1) .. an old Mandrake Red Hat 6.0 that works on my desktop .. (2) .. a SUSE 9.2

[newbie] One step forward, two backward ...

2005-03-07 Thread h k Ball
just fine, I wouldn't be in this fix ... HK -Original Message- From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:39 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? h k ball wrote: Kaj

RE: [newbie] Finally, Denmark gets it right

2005-03-05 Thread h k ball
Kaj ... ... that is really really good news, I would be proud too ... don't know how much you are into this EU / New World Order thing, but the EU is very bad ... you all are being crushed by added controls each day, and your freedoms are diminishing accordingly ... not as bad here yet,

RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-03-05 Thread h k ball
March 2005 19:47, h k ball wrote: snip (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more direct way

RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-03-05 Thread h k ball
: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? h k ball wrote: ... Hi Kaj, Anne, Mikkel, Snap, et al ... ... I'm the newbie that showed up for the first time about 3 weeks ago, was overwhelmed with your responsiveness, but was way over my head, and felt guilty ... have a confession to make

RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-03-05 Thread h k ball
mode? On Saturday 05 March 2005 18:55, h k ball wrote: Kaj ... ... haven't given up on 6.0 yet, kind of a challenge ... have it working in partiton in CLI (you taught me that terminology) on my desktop (Intel32, 256mb ram, 700mH, 20 gb hd), now that I have 10.1 running in VMware on my new

RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-03-05 Thread h k ball
PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? h k ball wrote: Mikkel ... could only install 10.1(only paid 6 bucks, not too bad) on VM on my laptop (see my message just now to Kaj for the gory details) ... 1024X768 working just

RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-03-04 Thread h k ball
) ... I suspect its the VMware's fault, but any tricks to speed things up ??? ... again, I'm very appreciative and humbled ... HK -Original Message- From: Kaj Haulrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:02 AM To: h k ball Cc: newbie@linux-mandrake.com

RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-17 Thread h k ball
Anne, Kaj ... ... typed XFdrake in root directory, got program not found ... Kaj, I don't have a GUI yet, that's my main problem .. rebooted, when I got to sign-in, typed mcc then my root password, got type root pasword for maintenace ... one other thing, the other day I got locked up, had

RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-17 Thread h k ball
server is, how do I tell if it's running ? HK -Original Message- From: Kaj Haulrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:02 AM To: h k ball Cc: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? On Thursday 17

[newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?

2005-02-15 Thread h k ball
... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... so far I have: (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition with Partition