Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-01 Thread Jimmy Bradley
If that's what you want to do, it's your right to do so. As far as your advice goes, I'll take your advice, and toss it out the window. Jim On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 06:15, Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best

Re: [newbie] 9.2.1 ?

2004-03-13 Thread jimmy
Can any one please tell me where to find the 9.2 special update CDs? I tried using bit turrent and I never got a decent .img. I would rather download Mandrake 10. and bittorrent didn't work for me either. it didn't download single KB in 10 minutes. it just keeps establishing peer connections

Re: [newbie] bit torrent

2004-03-13 Thread jimmy
bit torrent is a protocol like ftp to transfer file. it used peer to peer connection. So you have to first download and install bit torrent program which will download CD images automatically using the mirror information in the bittorrent file that you got. Read this page to know where to get

Re: [newbie] can Mandrake 9.2 write on ntfs file system?

2004-03-05 Thread jimmy
I moved my data to a temporary folder and reformatted that partition in FAT32 using windows, because Mandrake won't let me write in NTFS even if its mounted in 'rw' mode. And then I changed global mount option for the type of that partition from ntfs to vfat in /ectc/fstab and now I can access it

[newbie] need help installing driver for wireless card, Dlink DWL 520 chipset: rtl8180

2004-03-04 Thread jimmy
Hello, everyone   I am new to this list and also a newbie for linux. I want to get my wireless card working in linux. It is Dlink DWL 520 with reaktek rtl8180 chipset. Somewhat expert users please help me :)   I am writing what I have done till now: I found the driver from realtek site

[newbie] can Mandrake 9.2 write on ntfs file system?

2004-03-04 Thread jimmy
I just installed Mandrake 9.2 but cannot write on my windows partition which is NTFS. So I thought I need to remount it in read-write mode and I did it. But I still cannot write on that partition, though it shows that it is 'rw' when I do mount -l Thank you all.

Re: [newbie] can Mandrake 9.2 write on ntfs file system?

2004-03-04 Thread jimmy
in read only mode. But I don't know why can't I still write on that partition. Do I have to convert it to FAT32? Thank you again. :) -jimmy --- anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jimmy wrote: I just installed Mandrake 9.2 but cannot write on my windows partition which is NTFS. So I thought I

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[newbie] Drake 9 don't do video

2002-10-26 Thread Jimmy Montague
Hi, Everybody: I downloaded the isos and burned them onto 3 CDs. I booted from CD1 and ran the install per directions. It's slick until comes time to configure the video/Xwindows environment. There I hit a stump. I've installed 4 times, now, and still can't get it right. System is: FIC VA503+

[newbie] question

2002-04-01 Thread jimmy keffer
when i open the mixer controls they are blank no controls i have a awe64 sound card any ideas thanks jimmy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] please help

2002-03-31 Thread jimmy keffer
i'm new 2 linux will mandrake 8.1 work with a hp scanjet 3300c and awe-64 isa sound card i want 2 know the best kind of install 2 do i want x but not 2 boot in 2 it on startup what is a good editor 4 text mode other then vi with mandrake thanks 4 your help jimmy Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] MP3 players and linux?

2001-04-23 Thread Jimmy Petrick
, Jimmy - Original Message - From: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 10:28 PM Subject: [newbie] MP3 players and linux? Hello all, I was thinking of purchasing an MP3 player. But since I'd prefer to have to boot to Windows as little as possible, I'd

Re: [newbie] Running Pronto

2001-03-05 Thread Jimmy Petrick
ied to use recomended install but it would not work at all, so i used custom install and it said istallation finished, but bootdisk step and bootloader step both failed. i tried to use cd .img file as a bootdisk but it only starts the install again thanks Jimmy - Original Message - F

Re: [newbie] faulty mandrake 7.2 ?? CD

2001-03-02 Thread Jimmy Petrick
i had the same problem so i downloaded it again, try a different mirror site, now all is well untill i get to the bootloader section of DrakeX, it just keeps telling me bootloader failed do u know anything about this? Im also having trouble making a boot disk. thanks Jimmy - Original Message

[newbie] having troubles using lnx4win installing off a hard drive, please help!

2000-04-09 Thread Jimmy
the dialog. I choose my options and told it I was ready to boot. Well, it went into linux then I get a kernel panic... cannot mount the root device. I told it I wanted the Hard Drive installation btw. Maybe I am not putting the files in the right place or something. What do I do?! Thanks! Jimmy

Re: [newbie] giving up

1999-06-06 Thread Jimmy Garcia
, ultraplex and plexwriter 8x. Is my swap file partition too big? Or do I have to install something else? Thanks everyone! I'm glad that I didn't give up. I really would love to say goodbye to windoze! Jimmy Ok, so I'm assuming you haven't set up net access in Linux either. Download

[newbie] found the problem!!

1999-06-06 Thread Jimmy Garcia
on 13MB of RAM, then it's no wonder why its been so slow!! Jimmy

[newbie] found the problem!!

1999-06-06 Thread Jimmy Garcia
This is what it said when I typed in 'Free' [root@localhost /root]# free total used free shared buffers cachedMem:13604 13324 280 7492 304 6448-/+ buffers/cache:6572 7032Swap 369452 9068 360384

Re: [newbie] giving up

1999-06-06 Thread Jimmy Garcia
Bernhard, Here's what it says when I type in "top" and "M" --- 11:08pm up 13 min, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.46, 0.4044 processes: 40 sleeping, 3 running, 1 zombie, 0 stoppedCPU states: 3.3% user, 1.1%

Re: [newbie] giving up

1999-06-06 Thread Jimmy Garcia
Bernhard, Here's what it says when I type in "top" and "M" --- 11:08pm up 13 min, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.46, 0.4044 processes: 40 sleeping, 3 running, 1 zombie, 0 stoppedCPU states: 3.3% user, 1.1%

[newbie] not giving up!

1999-06-05 Thread Jimmy Garcia
! Jimmy

Re: [newbie] Do cable modems work fine with Mandrake 5.3?

1999-06-03 Thread Jimmy Garcia
, but after my computer (while logging out of Linux) stalled, 'netcfg' wouldn't work anymore when I tried it again. I'm using Mandrake 6.0 and KDE. thanks, Jimmy Yes, Mandrake will work fine with your cable modem account. However, it might be best to tell them that you are a Windows user. Avoid