Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 withou internet conection

2004-07-12 Thread Thereidos
Dnia pon 12. lipca 2004 23:57, Ary Kaplan Nakamura napisał: > I want to install Mandrake 10 in a computer that doesn´t have internet > conection > Can I download the upgrades and then upgrade Mandrake 10 from a CD? > Thanks > > Ary Kaplan Nakamura Yes... -- Cezary "Thereidos" Morga <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 withou internet conection

2004-07-12 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 12, 2004 03:57, Ary Kaplan Nakamura wrote: > I want to install Mandrake 10 in a computer that doesn´t have internet > conection > Can I download the upgrades and then upgrade Mandrake 10 from a CD? > Thanks > > Ary Kaplan Nakamura Two ways; co

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs

2004-06-21 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:54:01 -0700 Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Me, too. If I want to urpmi something from the install disks I don't > have to shove them in the drive. Sweet. I wasn't aware one could install from just the images located somewhere on the drive, and I imagine that the

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs

2004-06-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 19 June 2004 09:37 am, Eric Huff wrote: | > Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs | > from the ISO images (which I have downloaded). I presently have | > Windows 98 and Fedora Core 2 on my system | | I never tried it, but here was a previous post: | | -

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs

2004-06-19 Thread Eric Huff
> Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs > from the ISO images (which I have downloaded). I presently have > Windows 98 and Fedora Core 2 on my system I never tried it, but here was a previous post: Well, you can also install mandrake from

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs

2004-06-19 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 07:57, Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote: > Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs from the ISO > images (which I have downloaded). I presently have Windows 98 and Fedora > Core 2 on my system > > Thanks > Preston Take a look at "install.html" in the

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs

2004-06-19 Thread Brian Parish
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 21:57, Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote: > Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs from the ISO > images (which I have downloaded). I presently have Windows 98 and Fedora > Core 2 on my system > > Thanks > Preston > You can do various flavors of netw

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs

2004-06-19 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 19 June 2004 06:57, Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote: > Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs from the ISO > images (which I have downloaded). I presently have Windows 98 and Fedora > Core 2 on my system > > Thanks > Preston > > --- > Betti Ann & Preston S

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help

2004-01-26 Thread Erylon Hines
On Monday 26 January 2004 06:43 pm, Rude Boy wrote: > Hi Erylon, > You seem like you know pretty much XFree86. > I was hoping that you might help me. I just install MDK 9.2 download > edition. Every thing went ok. I change some setting in Gnome Desktop GUI. > One day, I tried to boot - like everyni

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help

2004-01-26 Thread Josh Peters
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:29:30 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help > > On Sunday 25 January 2004 09:00 pm, Josh Peters wrote: >> Oh yeah, I still have the exact same error. >>

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help

2004-01-26 Thread Rude Boy
ied to do '$ xf86config'? TIA. Song - Original Message - From: "Erylon Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 1:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help > On Sunday 25 January 2004 08:31 pm, Josh Peters wrot

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help

2004-01-25 Thread Josh Peters
4 Jan 2004 23:03:11 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help > > On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:07 pm, Josh Peters wrote: >> Hi Everyone. >> I'm installing mandrake 9.2 on an ibm pentium 2, 450, 256 ram. >> It wouldn't

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help

2004-01-25 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:07 pm, Josh Peters wrote: > Hi Everyone. > I'm installing mandrake 9.2 on an ibm pentium 2, 450, 256 ram. > It wouldn't boot from the cd, so I made a floppy. I got a little further, > this error message: > syslinux 1.67 mandrake linux boot failed > I've tried using b

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.1

2004-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 6:46 am, vikrant joshi wrote: > Hi , > I am an absolute newbie to LInux. I want to install Mandrake9.1 on my > windows 98 machine. How do I go about it ? This may sound a very very basic > question . But if somebody can give me a step by step approach that will be > great. > >

Re: [newbie] installing mandrake

2003-12-02 Thread Jason Greenwood
Yes, it's called LILO (LInuxLOader) and is very OS flexible. Cheers Jason Eric Greene wrote: I am interested in learning mandrake linux. The computer I would install to already has WinXP Pro on the first hdd, and has FreeBSD 4.6 on the second hdd. That second drive has about 25GB of unparti

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake

2003-10-16 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 16, 2003 12:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > JB, > > OK then should be quite simple, and as a newbie you don't want to be > remaking everything and reinstalling everything including the windblows > OS's . So basically it's the size of the las

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake

2003-10-16 Thread John Richard Smith
JB, OK then should be quite simple, and as a newbie you don't want to be remaking everything and reinstalling everything including the windblows OS's . So basically it's the size of the last partition on the second drive that you have to play with, and it's only large enough to do an ordinary

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake

2003-10-16 Thread J.B.
) is 4.03GB and it is empty.that is where I would like to install Mandrake. Thanks for the help === - Original Message - From: "John Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:04 A

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Toshiba laptop

2003-02-10 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
I had this problem with my toshiba satellite, the problem arises from the bios configuration, because the pcmcia was configured as automatic configuration, I changed this and the computer start linux without any problem (7.2). Later I have installed 8.0, 8.2 and now 9.0 and is runing actually ve

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Toshiba laptop

2003-02-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 17:43, Bruce Zink wrote: > Today I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. > Or I tried to, anyway. > > I simply used the standard install CD's (downloaded > from the Mandrake site). They booted just fine, and > the install ran without a hitch. > > I did get one me

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Toshiba laptop

2003-02-08 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Saturday 08 February 2003 15:43, Bruce Zink wrote: > Today I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. > Or I tried to, anyway. > > I simply used the standard install CD's (downloaded > from the Mandrake site). They booted just fine, and > the install ran without a hitch. > > I did get one me

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.0 - what should I back up first

2003-01-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 13 Jan 2003 7:58 am, Jerry Barton wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:51:07 +1100 > > "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > At some stage I am intending on upgrading my machine to Mandrake 9 > > (groing from Mandrake 8.2). Rather than just do an upgrade I am planning > > on just in

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.0 - what should I back up first

2003-01-13 Thread Jerry Barton
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:51:07 +1100 "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > At some stage I am intending on upgrading my machine to Mandrake 9 (groing from >Mandrake 8.2). Rather than just do an upgrade I am planning on just installing >Mandrake 9.0 (i.e. re-do everything). However I am wonde

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1 on 486 with 32Mb RAM

2002-06-12 Thread civileme
shane wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Tuesday 11 June 2002 06:42 am, Brian Parish did speak unto the huddled >masses, saying: > >>Sorry, 8.x is not going to run on a 486 no matter how much RAM you have >>- it's compiled for Pentium. Maybe try 7.2? >> > >7.2 is pent

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1 on 486 with 32Mb RAM

2002-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mandrake 8.1 is supposed to be installable with 32Mb RAM, > in text mode. > > I have a 486, and upgraded its memory to 32Mb specifically > so I could install Mandrake.  (The computer can't handle > more than 32Mb.) You'll need a version compiled for the i486. The last

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1 on 486 with 32Mb RAM

2002-06-10 Thread Dion Jensen
Hi Ka Wai TAM I think you are out on a challange / maybe getting over your head on this installation. The machine (you have in mind) would not performe very well for MDK 8.x - Why don't you get the MDK 7.x - If you have a reconable "or normal netcard" it will be detected. Even if you would

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1 on 486 with 32Mb RAM

2002-06-10 Thread robin
Derek Jennings wrote: >Mandrake 8.1 is compiled for a Pentium class machine. It aint gonna run on a >486. > There are versions for i386 (and therefore 486's), though I don't know if 8.2 is among them. Certainly earlier releases of Mandrake are available. On this subject, while I appreciate t

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1 on 486 with 32Mb RAM

2002-06-10 Thread Derek Jennings
Mandrake 8.1 is compiled for a Pentium class machine. It aint gonna run on a 486. derek On Monday 10 June 2002 12:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mandrake 8.1 is supposed to be installable with 32Mb RAM, in text mode. > > I have a 486, and upgraded its memory to 32Mb specifically so I could

RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1

2002-01-20 Thread FLYNN, Steve
How much RAM do you have in this machine and is it known to be good? The only thing I can think of preventing Linux from creating and mounting a ram disk is either lack of free ram (try installing via a text install, rather than graphical) or bad ram (only option is to buy some decent ram). You C

RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2 from ISO image

2001-01-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: Andrew Iovannisci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2 from ISO image I kind of figured that's what was happening. I'm using Nero b

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2 from ISO image

2001-01-09 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 09 January 2001 02:25, you wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 . I have downloaded the file > mandrake72-inst.iso and burned it onto a cd. I have also crated a floppy > boot disc to start the installation. > When I restart my computer, Linux loads from the floppy,

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2 from ISO image

2001-01-08 Thread bascule
as error messages goes this is amongst the more helpful types:-) did you check the md5sum of the iso file before burning? did you verify the cd after burning at whatc point in the install does the error message appear? - straight away, when you specify the cd drive? if you press alt f3 or alt f4

RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2 from ISO image

2001-01-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
Sounds like you made a mirror of the image file rather than a CD from image file. What program did you use to burn the CD? Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Iovannisci Sent: Monday

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread abram
hey, That GeForce2 GTS isn't a 3d prophet2 is it? The kt7 and 3d prophets don't play nice together in any OS. Learned that one the hard way ;-) Abe Martin Sprenger wrote: > > SM> What vga card do you have? > > At the moment I have my brothers Geforce 2 GTS installed. I also have > a ELSA E

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread Mr. Smith
Mr. Sprenger That has happened to me but not with the Mandrake install cd but with my bootcd I made (yeah...I wasted one ;-)...literally it didn't work). Hmm...I don't know how to fix it or I probably wouldn't have thrown my cd I made away. Mr. Smith > Hi *!*@*, > > I'm trying to install 7.2

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-23 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Martin Sprenger wrote: > > Hi *!*@*, > > I'm trying to install 7.2 on my machine. > I got an 800MHz Thunderbird on an ABit KT7-RAID. I have disaibled all > IDE controllers on the board. There is an IBM DDRS 9 GB SCSI drive and > a Pioneer DVD-304 drive connected to my Advance Peripherals 2941 U2

RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-12 Thread Mark Lee
"I don't want to get off on a rant here but ..." I really have an issue with some of the board manufacturers that put on-board video on their MBs. Yes, it keeps the costs down but it's a pain when you come to add another (better) card. Thorsten, I feel your pain. I had a similar issue with an SiS

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.0 errors

2000-04-14 Thread Dennis
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:06:45 +, you wrote: > > >Hello Gurus, > >I have successfully installed the OS onto one machine here at work. I am now >trying to do the same for a second machine. > >After booting from floppy I press Return to start booting the install, it gets >as far as a blue Message

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 6.1

1999-10-05 Thread Helmut Halfmann
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Can u be a bit more specific? I try so ;-) I'm using a Pentium Pro 200, 48 MB Ram, Adaptec 2920, 4,3 GB IBM HD, ATI Mach 64 2MB... thats my hardware. I start with a startdisk and choose "expert". Then I can pass every part of the configuartion without a problem

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 6.1

1999-10-05 Thread lalala lalala
Can u be a bit more specific? --- Helmut Halfmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey! > Installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem... > Using the startdisk from the cd I can't configure > the X-Server. I can't skip > this point and so the only thing I can do is reset > the computer. But then I > ca

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] installing Mandrake?]]

1999-07-10 Thread phil
I'll do it thanks for the tip. Phil Jeremy Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, you wrote: > No, there is only one for win98 FAT, but it is set for the full 4 megs space. > Could this be the problem? Do I have to reduce the amount of space alloted to > win98? > > Phil Here Phil

Re: [Re: [newbie] installing Mandrake?]

1999-07-10 Thread Jeremy Mann
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, you wrote: > No, there is only one for win98 FAT, but it is set for the full 4 megs space. > Could this be the problem? Do I have to reduce the amount of space alloted to > win98? > > Phil Here Phil, the easiest way would be to get a program called Partition Magic 4.0. By th

Re: [Re: [newbie] installing Mandrake?]

1999-07-10 Thread phil
No, there is only one for win98 FAT, but it is set for the full 4 megs space. Could this be the problem? Do I have to reduce the amount of space alloted to win98? Phil Steve Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does DiskDruid show you that there are some extra DOS partitions there? Left over from

Re: [newbie] installing Mandrake?

1999-07-10 Thread Axalon
De-increment the number by 1meg at a time untill it does not error anymore On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Steve Winston wrote: > Does DiskDruid show you that there are some extra DOS partitions there? > Left over from installing Win98? Maybe that is the problem. You may > have to delete them (but not th

Re: [newbie] installing Mandrake?

1999-07-10 Thread Steve Winston
Does DiskDruid show you that there are some extra DOS partitions there? Left over from installing Win98? Maybe that is the problem. You may have to delete them (but not the one where your win98 resides). --- phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble installing this. When I try to > cre

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake using Mandrake for Windows

1999-06-28 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, you wrote: > I began installing using Mandrake for Windows which install very easy. > After the reboot the > install continues but then it needs the files to continue, but after > trying both obtions I cannot > continue. > > Can anyone help me. > TIA >

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 6.0 on a 486

1999-06-20 Thread Anonymous
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, John H. Soper wrote: > Ok, just recieved my Mandrake 6.0 CD from LinuxMall and read the README. > Can I or can I not install Mandrake 6.0 on my 486 off this CD? No. > I searched all over the Mandrake site and there is no mention of a 486 CPU > specific download or CD. That

RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Upgrades

1999-05-13 Thread Owen Evans
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Birchall, Richard > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 8:46 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Upgrades > > > michael.thorp [[E

RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Upgrades

1999-05-13 Thread Birchall, Richard
michael.thorp [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: >The exact error message is as follows: > >Authentication failed >_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 >giving up. >xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server >xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 5.3

1999-03-04 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Bernardo Rodrigues wrote: > However there seems to be a small problem wit the task bar, it slides > all the time ( form left to right and viceversa), I had some fun with > it but now it is a bit annoying. How do I fix this? Hmmm... I've never had such a problem, but

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 5.3

1999-03-03 Thread Bernardo Rodrigues
>>> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/01/99 04:48PM >>> On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:07:14 +0200, you wrote: >First it sounds like you are selecting and setting up for the lowest >resolution and screen size. In xf86config at the selection where it >asks you if you want the default resolution or to selec

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 5.3

1999-03-03 Thread Bernardo Rodrigues
Hi Mauro, You're a star. I've tried all the suggestions that you've sent to me and all of them work just fine. I can get many colors and no longer have the darkish background. Also no problems with the refresh rate and the resolution. I went as far as 1280x1024 and no complains whatsoever. KDE

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 5.3

1999-03-01 Thread James
On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:07:14 +0200, you wrote: >Hi James, > >You are right I was having an IRQ conflict. I was selecting an IMPS/2 >instead of a general PS/2 mouse. Glad you got that part solved. >However, after I've changed that to a PS/2 all I get is a kind of huge >cursor instead of an X

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 5.3

1999-03-01 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Bernardo Rodrigues wrote: > My video card is a SiS 6326 pro AGP. I used to have a SiS card. Usually SiS cards need the following line in /etc/X11/XF68config (in the "Device" section): option "no_bitblt" An extract from my XF86config follows: Sect

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 5.3

1999-03-01 Thread Bernardo Rodrigues
Hi James, You are right I was having an IRQ conflict. I was selecting an IMPS/2 instead of a general PS/2 mouse. However, after I've changed that to a PS/2 all I get is a kind of huge cursor instead of an X or a mouse pointer. What could be wrong here? Also, I've selected the SiS 3D Pro AGP ca

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 5.3

1999-02-27 Thread James
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:22:08 +0200, you wrote: >Hi All, > >Thanks for the help with the installation of Mandrake 5.3. The >installation went smooth and nicely, the only trouble at the moment is >to configure the Xwindows. I am having a 15" Tatung monitor with max >res 1024*768 and a refresh rate

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 5.3

1999-02-27 Thread Bernardo Rodrigues
Hi All, Thanks for the help with the installation of Mandrake 5.3. The installation went smooth and nicely, the only trouble at the moment is to configure the Xwindows. I am having a 15" Tatung monitor with max res 1024*768 and a refresh rate in the range of 50-70 Hz and a max 24 bit of color d

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 5.3

1999-02-17 Thread Andrew Rothwell
Hi I an a Linux noobie - I have Mandrake 5.3 installed as well as Windoze 95 = why dont you make the current Primary master your slave(ie:change the jumper settings on both HDD's ) and the current Secondary Master to the primary master i know from repeated installs of win95 that it prefers to be