[newbie] Installing LM 8.2 on a laptop

2002-04-15 Thread Andy Weller
Hello, I am trying to install/update (from LM 8.0) LM 8.2 on my laptop; but it gets as far as configuring for PCMCIA and seems to stall and go no further! I don't have any PCMCIA cards installed! I can't find anyway round this and want 8.2 on my laptop to keep it identical to my desktop PC.

Re: [newbie] Installing 8.2 on a laptop

2002-04-10 Thread Andy Weller
Hi, I am trying to install/update (from LM 8.0) LM 8.2 on my laptop; but it gets as far as checking for PCMCIA and seems to stall and go no further! I don't have any PCMCIA cards installed! That happened to me and I solved that setting PnP OS to NO in bios. Try that ;) No joy. I don't see

[newbie] my clock is all wrong...

2001-08-06 Thread Andy Weller
Dear all, Ever since I have had Mandrake 8.0 on my machine my clock has been wrong. I have changed its settings many a times, but it is still losing/gaining (don't know!) time... Any clues/ideas? Thanks, Andy

[newbie] WinDOS NT install UK government

2001-07-18 Thread Andy Weller
Dear all, Thanks one and all who helped me solve my dual boot (NT/Linux) problems. NT sucks and had to use the start sectors of my HD - the WinDOS partition I had created (during Linux install) was at the end... therefore, I had to blow the whole lot and start again!!! What a nightmare I had

[newbie] Windoze install

2001-07-12 Thread Andy Weller
Dear all, I need to install Windoze NT4 on my Linux (Mandrake 8.0) box :( I already have a partition of 4Gb set aside for Windoze. What's the best way to go about this - shall I boot into my Windoze partition and install it there? Or, can I go into Linux and install Windoze on the partition

[newbie] 56K MDC modem not working...

2000-09-27 Thread weller
The laptop is a Chicony MP-995 machine. What I can get from the manual is: Intel BGA-1 on board uPGA-1 socket for Celeron Intel 440MX Any guesses / answers? Should I have configured it whilst installation - or does this not matter? Many thanks in advance, Andy -- Andy Weller email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] DVD support

2000-01-20 Thread Tomer Weller
with regular ISO cd's it will work fine, with DVD movies - long story. - Original Message - From: "josh crutchley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 11:10 PM Subject: [newbie] DVD support Does linux 7.0 support DVD roms? I have a very new