Re: [newbie] 4 days without install. SUCCESS!

1999-09-26 Thread Bob Jackson
Regional Webmaster wrote: I have finally installed 6.0 onto my laptop. Killed the mouse by pulling the computer to tiny little bits, and then putting it back together agian, and like all good mechanics was left with a few too many screws and wires at the end of it.. I presumed this to be

Re: [newbie] 4 days without install.

1999-09-25 Thread Bob Jackson
Aaron Sinclair wrote: My fourth day of attempting 6.0 installation leaves me speachless. No i am not an imbecile, yes I have half a brain.. Most of my time has been spent browsing HOWTO's FAQ's Man and LINUX Books, Unix Books, you name it and I have looked. Eerrr - have you tried

Re: [newbie] 4 days without install.

1999-09-25 Thread David P. Greenberg
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Bob Jackson wrote: Aaron Sinclair wrote: Eerrr - have you tried just disconnecting the mouse and going ahead with the install. Maybe we can beat the mouse thingy to death once you get Mandrake installed. Bob J. --Good Point. My CDrom wouldn't work for the

Re: [newbie] 4 days without install. SUCCESS!

1999-09-25 Thread Regional Webmaster
I have finally installed 6.0 onto my laptop. Killed the mouse by pulling the computer to tiny little bits, and then putting it back together agian, and like all good mechanics was left with a few too many screws and wires at the end of it.. I presumed this to be the mouse.. So it installed fine,

[newbie] 4 days without install.

1999-09-24 Thread Aaron Sinclair
My fourth day of attempting 6.0 installation leaves me speachless. No i am not an imbecile, yes I have half a brain.. Most of my time has been spent browsing HOWTO's FAQ's Man and LINUX Books, Unix Books, you name it and I have looked. The system is HP OmniBook 2000 CT

Re: [newbie] 4 days without install.

1999-09-24 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Aaron Sinclair wrote: Ok then I concede... I will not install 6.0 ... "What a piece of crap software" Please replace "software" with "hardware" here. A mouse claiming to be PS/2 compliant is a big hardware bug if it doesn't speak the same protocol all other

Re: [newbie] 4 days without install.

1999-09-24 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
enter 'expert noprobe' at the boot prompt should skip the mouse autoprobe. On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Aaron Sinclair wrote: My fourth day of attempting 6.0 installation leaves me speachless. No i am not an imbecile, yes I have half a brain.. Most of my time has been spent browsing HOWTO's FAQ's

Re: [newbie] 4 days without install.

1999-09-24 Thread Regional Webmaster
error is: checking command line arguments expert mode enabled, unknown option 'noprobe'! enter 'expert noprobe' at the boot prompt should skip the mouse autoprobe. The problem arises during install, after the packages have been copied from the CD, Mouseconfig 3.9 attempts to