Re: [newbie] 3Dfx

2000-05-11 Thread rjpeake
"A.CAnela" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone know how can I install the 3dfx drivers and Glide for Linux in a Mandrake Linux System?? Hi Visit linux.3dfx.com and select the drivers appropriate for your 3dfx videocard. You will need to compile the source RPMS. There is enough

Re: [newbie] AMD Athlon

2000-04-12 Thread rjpeake
Quoting Carl Kehley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi What size is your swapfile and is it activated? Anybody have any ideas on this one? I just built a new system with a K-7 700, 128mb of ram, Seagate ATA66 hdd, and Diamond Stealth III video card. I installed Mandrake 7.02, got the installer to

Re: [newbie] SB PCI 128 Sound Card

2000-03-16 Thread rjpeake
Hi Creative Labs has an OpenSource website http://www.opensource.creative.com. Perhaps you could get source from there. Ron Quoting PC Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you find out, let me know as well. I have had that problem with Mandrake exclusively Ramon E. Tristani From: "Bob"

Re: [[newbie] Favorite references for Redhat/Mandrake]

2000-02-28 Thread rjpeake
Hi I would suggest you look at the latest version of LAME (Linux Administration Made Easy) www.linuxninja.com/linux-admin/ Ron Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: "Lisa J. Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still pretty new to Linux, and have a couple books

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux under Windows 3.1

2000-02-20 Thread rjpeake
Hello To my knowledge, Mandrake 7 is meant ONLY for pentium class PC's. Ron Quoting Bernd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have an old machine and I am trying to install Mandrake 7 on it. But when the installation starts I get a error saying "No coprocessor found and no math emulation present.

Re: [newbie] install problem

2000-02-20 Thread rjpeake
Hi Use the Mandrake 7.0-2 version. Madrake Software has info on the fixed bugs on their website http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3 Ron Quoting copland_99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello; I asked this quiestion before but nobody helped ... :( I seem to be having trouble installing

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-02-20 Thread rjpeake
Hi Madrake Software has fixed the bugs. See http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3 Ron Quoting mohsin aradi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I buy Linux Mandrake 7.0 from btm micro but when I install I receive this message (error loading ramdisk) after that I have to restart the computer

[newbie] re:Installaion problems 9GB disk

2000-02-18 Thread rjpeake
Hello You will need to give up some of your disk space which is now reserved for windows to the Linux operating system. I suggest that you use Partition Magic 4.01 or 5.0 (newer and more expensive than 4.01) to do this job. You will need to defragment your files on the windows partition (the

Re: [newbie] Internet connetions

2000-02-15 Thread rjpeake
Quoting Donald Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I finnally got my modem to work and it connects to my ISP ok. But, After I connect, I can't get my mail nor can I connect to any sites. Any Ideas? DNS addresses correct? Mail client set up correctly? Routing set up correctly? Ron

Re: [newbie] IDE harddrive detection in 7.0 fails

2000-02-03 Thread rjpeake
Hi (1)Linux often has problems with partition sizes greater than 8 gigabytes. It is also fussy about where the LILO is placed (the 1024 cylinders thing). (2) Mandrake Software has admitted that DiskDrake does not yet work as it should. To solve a similar problem I used Partition Magic 4.01,

Re: [newbie] login probs

1999-12-22 Thread rjpeake
Hello I had the same problem which was caused by a faulty installation. Watch closely for error messages during the boot process indicating problems mounting drives. My solution to was to re-partition the hard disk and start over. Regards, Ron Fortunatas Dirgincius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: