Re: [newbie] Just wondering

1999-04-05 Thread jowilker
I wish I knew where the story is located, but Linus was bitten by one, so he chose to use it as a mascot. Kinda, I think thats rite {:o) John Russ Westbrook wrote: Hi All, I am really new to this Linux thing. I actually only became aware of it a couple of months ago and didn't really

Re: [[newbie] Just wondering]

1999-04-05 Thread jowilker
http://www.penguinpower.com for the real story Michael Scottaline wrote: Why the penguin? It's cute and I actually like it, I was just wondering how a penguin got hooked up being associated with Linux. Just curious. Thanks Russ Linus' choice actually. There are a bunch of apocryphal

Re: [newbie] In seek of some installation advice

1999-04-03 Thread jowilker
Rich, Mandrake is Red Hat 5.2. Shut down restart your computer. on its boot up hit the del key. this will allow you to get into the bios in the advance section you will find the boot sequence. It should be listed as A:, C:, by using page up or page down the selection should change to cdrom

Re: [newbie] TELNET!!!

1999-03-27 Thread jowilker
Get a Life Keep the HTML "E. Cook" wrote: Thanks for the help. Sorry bout the HTML posts... (LOL) Erik -- John R. Wilkerson 1442 B-1 New Castle Durham NC 27704 919-471-6731

Re: [newbie] Installing:

1999-03-25 Thread jowilker
I used what you suggested and Mandrake loaded without a hitch. John Tom Berger wrote: On Don, 25 Mär 1999, you wrote: / Am Don, 25 Mär 1999 schrieben Sie: Hi: I changed the BIOS setting so that my system would boot from my CD-ROM E: drive. Did you enter 'E:' or 'CDROM' in your BIOS

Re: [newbie] WinModems

1999-03-24 Thread jowilker
I just read at http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html that a winmodem will not work on Linux John Michael Doyle wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, you wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: G'day All There was a post in one of the mailing list, a few weeks ago, reference Win-modems and how

Re: [newbie] KDE

1999-03-23 Thread jowilker
I have installed 5.3 with both choices for the moniter., the lowest and the highest. The same results. I can't get rid of the Gimp installation, it comes up on the next startup. John Kuraiken wrote: Bob Bonifield wrote: Yes, I have had this problem is settings as well. Your problem

Re: [newbie] Ready to Start:

1999-03-23 Thread jowilker
Guys set your bios to cdrom- c: boot, put the Mandrake cd in. make sure that you know which HD is which. Let fdisk id the two drives and hit the spacebar for the one that you are going to use, use the command to erase the partitions. I then rebooted the machine and when the failure - skip drive

Re: [newbie] KDE

1999-03-23 Thread jowilker
Thanks man, none of that stuff worked. I had to ust the kpm command and kill all gimps on that page. I don't know if I'll ever need that program or not, but now it's gone off the desktop. Kuraiken wrote: jowilker wrote: I have installed 5.3 with both choices for the moniter., the lowest