[newbie] 7.2, 8.0 won't detect my 3c450 NIC

2002-01-09 Thread dic98
I'm running a Pentium II 166 MHz with 128 MB RAM and a 3c450 ethernet card. I have used this computer before with LM 7.2 and everything worked like a charm. Now after a recent reformat/reinstall (tried to upgrade to 8) it won't detect the NIC. Everything else works just fine, but no luck with

Re: [newbie] 7.2 ISO's

2001-12-25 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Hi, I still have them here if you still need them - but I don't have a server where you can download them, what snailmail address do you have ? On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:11, you wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking for an old copy of the 7.2 ISO's. I've tried repeatedly to install 8.0 and 8.1

Re: [newbie] 7.2 ISO's

2001-12-25 Thread Nelson Bartley
Thanks, that's just what I needed :) On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 00:28, Grant Fraser wrote: http://linux.unige.ch/install/mandrake/7.2/iso/ http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/7.2/iso/i586/8.1/ On Monday 24 December 2001 20:11, you wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking for an old copy of

[newbie] 7.2 ISO's

2001-12-24 Thread Nelson Bartley
Hi Guys, I'm looking for an old copy of the 7.2 ISO's. I've tried repeatedly to install 8.0 and 8.1 on my antique beast(133/64MB), however it will only install w/ the 2.2 kernel (it WILL NOT boot the 2.4 worth crap). Now I can get it to install and boot 2.2 but as most of the packages have been

[newbie] 7.2 glibc compatibility?

2001-11-19 Thread Justin Kao
Hi, In Mandrake 8.0 there was an rpm that allowed programs compiled for 7.2 libraries to run on 8.0. Is it still around in Mandrake 8.1? I tried to search for it in rpmdrake but I couldn't find it. (I am trying to get Matlab 5 working on 8.1... if anyone has done this, please email me!)

[newbie] 7.2 iso's

2001-06-18 Thread dkosan
Anyone have a ftp server that I could snatch the 2 iso's for 7.2? I am looking for the newest ones besides the first run that had problems.Please let me know via the list or direct e-mail, thanks in advance. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is

Re: [newbie] 7.2 iso's

2001-06-18 Thread Carlos Berardi
i don't know if these are the latest ftp://linux.mty.itesm.mx/pub/mirrors/mandrake they are at my local university at Mexico

Re: [newbie] 7.2 iso's

2001-06-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Why not use 8.0? 7.2 is quite old now, having been released around October last year. All 7.2 final (i.e. not beta) isos are the same -- they were created for the 7.2 release. You are supposed to install these and use MandrakeUpdate to update the installation to the newest packages. On Tue,

Re: [newbie] 7.2 complete does not give lnx4win option

2001-06-06 Thread Jody Clements
CICVET, Have you tried loading the disk while you are running windows? This should bring up a window allowing you to install lin4win. That is how I did it. Hope this helps. J On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:35:11 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the manual shows a screen with options such

[newbie] 7.2 complete does not give lnx4win option

2001-06-05 Thread CICVET
the manual shows a screen with options such as "recommended" mode. the opening screen states that by typing "lnx4win" at the prompt, that it will happen. it doesn't. i am given the choice of "erase disk" (which would wipe out my w98) or "expert mode" (which i'm not). until i buy another box, i

[newbie] 7.2 install question

2001-04-23 Thread Jeffery Chapman
I've created a partition and swap file space on my secondary harddrive. I used Partition Magic to create the partitions. The harddisk now looks like this: |--- windows ---||--- linux part ---||--- linux swap ---| | /dev/hdb1 || /dev/hdb2|| /dev/hdb3| Questions: 1) Am I

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install question

2001-04-23 Thread Lin
the addresses should be ok, the Mandrake installation program have partition utilities you will probably be asked to use. The major part is to resize windows without lossing any data. Then I would use the free space to install linux with the given installer. I don't remember the 7.2

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install question

2001-04-23 Thread Todd Flinders
I haven't had a chance to try 8.0 yet, but with an expert install in 7.2 you will be allowed to choose if you want Lilo, Grub, or none. Also you will be able to choose how your hard drive is partitioned or (if you already have partitions), which partitions to use for linux. So long as you have

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install problem - Cdrom X-server

2001-04-23 Thread Todd Flinders
If you're unsure about what X you're running, you can bring up a terminal a type: X -version It will tell you what version you are running. If you are not happy with that version, you can easily install the other version by typing the following in a terminal: XFdrake -expert Just answer the

[newbie] 7.2 install problem - Cdrom X-server

2001-04-21 Thread John Rye
I finally took the plunge and installed 7.2. Installation was uneventful other than the soundcard not being found. that was fixed without hassle. However. there are two problems .. Problem A) Cdrom is inaccessible despite running through the Cdburner tutorial pages. Error message as user

[newbie] 7.2 install problems

2001-03-30 Thread Paul Becker
Hi, I did a fresh install of 7.2 on my machine (P233, 64M, AT3D voodoo card) and I had a strange problem... When the graphical login screen comes up, the mouse cursor is a black square. if I touch the mouse at all, the monitor goes to standby then comes back to a fresh login screen. If I

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install problems

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paul Becker wrote: Hi, I did a fresh install of 7.2 on my machine (P233, 64M, AT3D voodoo card) and I had a strange problem... When the graphical login screen comes up, the mouse cursor is a black square. if I touch the mouse at all, the monitor goes to standby then comes back to a

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install problems

2001-03-30 Thread Paul Becker
nt: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 install problems Paul Becker wrote: Hi, I did a fresh install of 7.2 on my machine (P233, 64M, AT3D voodoo card) and I had a strange problem... When the graphical login screen comes up, the mouse cursor is a black square.

[newbie] 7.2 install freezes at PCMCIA on Dell Inspiron 8000

2001-02-07 Thread Prasad V. S. Alavilli
I am installing 7.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8000 notebook but everything freezes very quickly once it gets to detecting/configuring PCMCIA cards. The screen says something about SCSI detection and that I would get options if nothing is auto-detected, but it never returns. Machine: P-III, ATI Rage

RE: [newbie] 7.2 install freezes at PCMCIA on Dell Inspiron 8000

2001-02-07 Thread falcaraz
Original - Remitente: "Prasad V. S. Alavilli" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Mircoles, Febrero 7, 2001 10:44 pm Asunto: [newbie] 7.2 install freezes at PCMCIA on Dell Inspiron 8000 I am installing 7.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8000 notebook but everything freezes very quickly once it gets to

[newbie] 7.2 Installation

2001-01-30 Thread John Arkoulis
Hi there. I have in my box both Win and Mandrake 7.1 at the same H/D. I want to install 7.2 and according to a lot of messages it is better to do a fresh install rather than upgrading. How do I go about this?? I start the installation of 7.2 select new install and when I get to the partition side

RE: [newbie] 7.2 rpm

2001-01-28 Thread dalpe
just updated rpm drake now when i do a scan it tells me nfs files are not set correctly can any one help please keith

[newbie] 7.2 Installation - System hangs after reboot

2001-01-22 Thread KishoreKolli
Hi All, I have gone thru the 7.2 install GUI (booted from the floppy) from the iso images available on the web. No problems with the install. When the pc reboots, it comes back up and displays "stage1" and hangs. I don't know what to do to correct it. I have gone thru the install couple of

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Installation - System hangs after reboot

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Schroeder
ROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:46 AM Subject: [newbie] 7.2 Installation - System hangs after reboot Hi All, I have gone thru the 7.2 install GUI (booted from the floppy) from the iso images available on the web. No problems with the install. When the pc re

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Installation - System hangs after reboot

2001-01-22 Thread civileme
On Monday 22 January 2001 17:46, you wrote: Hi All, I have gone thru the 7.2 install GUI (booted from the floppy) from the iso images available on the web. No problems with the install. When the pc reboots, it comes back up and displays "stage1" and hangs. I don't know what to do to

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Install Woes

2001-01-06 Thread civileme
On Friday 05 January 2001 16:08, you wrote: I am trying to install 7.2 and after it loads the second stage install it gives me an error message: an error occured insmod'ing module ide-cd failed Any idea how to fix this? TIA Steve I think you are using a hd.img file from cooker or other

RE: [newbie] 7.2 Install Woes

2001-01-06 Thread Steve Gulick
on the ATA100 ports. Thanks for all you help! Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 4:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 Install Woes On Friday 05 January 2001 16:08, you wrote: I am

[newbie] 7.2 Install Woes

2001-01-05 Thread Steve Gulick
I am trying to install 7.2 and after it loads the second stage install it gives me an error message: an error occured insmod'ing module ide-cd failed Any idea how to fix this? TIA Steve

RE: [newbie] 7.2 Install Woes

2001-01-05 Thread Steve Gulick
Nevermind fixed it with the updated boot disk Sorry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Gulick Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:08 AM To: newbie@mandrake Subject: [newbie] 7.2 Install Woes I am trying to install 7.2 and after

Re: [newbie] 7.2 crash

2000-12-22 Thread Stefaans Mostert
marcia wrote: Dear All, I purchased vmware not too long ago and finally got the nerve up to begin installing it. After I opened the rpm of vmware 2.00 everything on my screen froze. I waited and waited then finally tried control-alt-backspace, control-alt-delete, and control-alt-esc.

Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Thread Traci Collins
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: Don't be so quick to blame instabilities on 7.2. I've put it on over 20 different systems without a hiccup on any of them. All have been running without a reboot since installation. Remember: if it really were as problematic as you say, we would all be

RE: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues . "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: Don't be so quick to blame instabilities on 7.2. I've put it on over 20 different systems without a hiccup on any of them. All have been running without a reboot since installation. Remember: if it r

Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Thread s
I have some cheap wheel mouse: Genius Netscroll. It works perfectly. First I selected MS IW in the config (though the last tiime I was looking around, standard mouse was highlighted), and I put: exec /usr/bin/imwheel -k in my /etc/rc.local file. Running 7.2 with the 2.2.17 kernel and KDE

Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Thread Romanator
It's quite strange. Although, I select Intellimouse for my mouse, it keeps going back to standard. This has been going on for several releases. It performs like the Intellimouse. However, the graphical shows standard. I guess it must be a default setting? Roman Registered Linux user: #197855

Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Thread Joseph Red
I recently purchased one of the Logitech optical mice, ended up returning it. It went crazy on my machine (using the USB-PS2 adapter). I had the same behavior in MDK win9x. On other PCs it worked flawlessly. My regular PS2 Intellimouse w/ ball works great. The best I could figure is my

RE: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Thread Kelly, Christopher
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues . I recently purchased one of the Logitech optical mice, ended up returning it. It went crazy on my machine (using the USB-PS2 adapter). I had the same behavior

RE: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
than anything else. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Romanator Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 6:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues . It's quite strange. Although, I select Intellimouse for my

[newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-18 Thread misha misha
i am this |--| close to reformatting the drive and installing a better distro than mandrake . the mouse is hyperactive , in ( not only movement ) but in clicking , activating all sorts of menus , sliding in and out the taskbar , tehn crashing the whole thing . nothing left to do but hard

[newbie] 7.2 -- XFree -- is my monitor going to blow up?

2000-12-12 Thread Adrian Smith
hi Paul -- thanks for responding. i checked my config file and it contains ViewPort 0 0 already. does this mean i should try changing those settings? or would my problem be something else? thanks yet again=) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adrian

Re: [newbie] 7.2 -- XFree -- is my monitor going to blow up?

2000-12-11 Thread Adrian Smith
hi Paul -- thanks for responding. i checked my config file and it contains ViewPort 0 0 already. does this mean i should try changing those settings? or would my problem be something else? thanks yet again=) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul

[newbie] 7.2 -- XFree -- is my monitor going to blow up?

2000-12-07 Thread Adrian Smith
greetings all. just installed 7.2 yesterday. the jury is still out but it mostly seems to be working. my printer works at last tho, happy 'bout that. but the question -- i don't quite know if i can describe this so you will understand, but i will try. =) the very left edge of my

[newbie] 7.2 System sound silence

2000-12-07 Thread Mike Cochrane (MC)
I'm still searching for a fix to the system sound mystery. The silence is deafening. Anybody got ideas! After installation of Mandrake 7.2 (I come from the RedHat world) and KDE2.0pre I find everything ticking along fine except "system" sound. All other sound functions work fine -- within KDE

Re: [newbie] 7.2 -- XFree -- is my monitor going to blow up?

2000-12-07 Thread Cody Powell
Try starting x like this: startx myxlog and then once x starts, just open up that myxlog that you created and on the top line it should say which version started on that command Cody Adrian Smith wrote: greetings all. just installed 7.2 yesterday. the jury is still out but it

Re: [newbie] 7.2 System sound silence

2000-12-07 Thread Barry Premeaux
Mike, I've looked over what you have done and compared it with my settings and there is nothing that really stands out as different. I am running a SB-128 card which 7.2 detected during install. It used the ensoniq 1371 driver. I went through and picked the .wav's I wanted, clicked on Apply

Re: [newbie] 7.2 and no Xserver (solved, sort of)

2000-12-05 Thread Dennis Myers
I don't know if you saw the earlier post, but, I finally determined that the problem had to be in the software. So I went into RPMDrake and tried reloading the KDE packages. Sure enough kdebase, kdeutils, kdeadmin and a couple of others were corrupted or had the wrong gnuphp or something like

[newbie] 7.2 Install Problem w/ Floppy Lilo

2000-12-02 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Hi there, I'm having trouble with installing Mandrake7.2 into a K6/2 500Mhz box. The installation step of creating a boot floppy isn't capable of activating my floppy drive. Then the following step of installing Lilo/Grub has a 'HASH' error. Proceeding beyond this results in not having a

Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff

2000-11-27 Thread Joseph
Paul wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, eryl wrote: I've installed 7.2 on two different boxes, now (developmental), and both installs took 3 HOURS! These boxes are probably minimum, P200mmx with 64M of ram and scsi 9 gig drives with 50x ATAPI cdroms. Three hours seems out of line for an

[newbie] 7.2 install problem, 'hlt' command???

2000-11-26 Thread Mark Bettez
Every time I try to install 7.2 on my machine it gets to the "checking 'hlt' instruction..." line and freezes. I have tried using a boot disk and booting from the cdrom. I have tried changing settings in the bios and made sure apm was off.I have triedall the install methods. Anyone have

Re: [newbie] 7.2 says i've got a PIII ?!

2000-11-26 Thread Mathias De Belder
Last question. Do i have to compile the kernel for 586 or 686 then? I assume 686, isn't it? ;-) If I recall correctly, Mandrake supplies a patched kernel of the plain vanilla 2.2.17 kernel. It is optimised for i586 architectures, which means that any CPU ranging from a P60 to a P233MMX will

Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff

2000-11-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bob Ackerman wrote: [snip] I do have a question. Grub installed on my 1st hard drive, which is Windows 98 (which I need to for work) but I had to recently re-install windows to fix a problem (one of many problems with windows) but it cleared my Grub. I got lilo to install but I want grub

Re: [newbie] 7.2 and several problems

2000-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 24 November 2000 01:10 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: boot box also has the same problems as above as well as telling me that I have room for only 39% of the files I chose to install. That was on a 4gig hd with 2 gig reserved for /home. Should I have made /usr the larger partition?

Re: [newbie] 7.2 says i've got a PIII ?!

2000-11-25 Thread Joan Tur
Mathias De Belder escribió: Under my laptop, owning a Celeron 500 mhz, Mandrake 7.2 says it's got a PIII Copermine... what's wrong?? 8-? Your Celeron 500 is probably a CeleronII. This is the successor of the CeleronA and it's based on the .18µ Coppermine core of the PIII. Only the cache

Re: [newbie] 7.2 says i've got a PIII ?!

2000-11-25 Thread Mathias De Belder
Under my laptop, owning a Celeron 500 mhz, Mandrake 7.2 says it's got a PIII Copermine... what's wrong?? 8-? Your Celeron 500 is probably a CeleronII. This is the successor of the CeleronA and it's based on the .18=B5 Coppermine core of the PIII. Only the cache and the L2

Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff

2000-11-25 Thread Gary A. Garibaldi
24 November 2000 23:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4x lmfao and you wonder why it took so long takes about 22 mins on my machine for full install ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 installs and "stuff" ** Original Sender: eryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Original Date: Fri, 24 N

[newbie] 7.2 install

2000-11-25 Thread Geoff Thomas
I upgrade from 7.1 ( which was working well and fast) to 7.2 using 2 iso images I downloaded. The install seemed to go well. When I rebooted, my machine acted like it was running in slow motion. Opening a terminal window took almost 2 minutes. Opening my browser took forever. The machine did

Re: [newbie] 7.2 says i've got a PIII ?!

2000-11-25 Thread Joan Tur
Mathias De Belder escribió: Good to know... that program answers me i'm forbidden to run it -running it as root, of course- 8-? I'm surprised it won't let you see that file. As a user, just type : 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' and it should give you the details of your CPU. Ejem... i forgot to

Re: [newbie] 7.2 says i've got a PIII ?!

2000-11-24 Thread Mathias De Belder
Under my laptop, owning a Celeron 500 mhz, Mandrake 7.2 says it's got a PIII Copermine... what's wrong?? 8-? Your Celeron 500 is probably a CeleronII. This is the successor of the CeleronA and it's based on the .18µ Coppermine core of the PIII. Only the cache and the L2 associativity have

[newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff

2000-11-24 Thread eryl
I've installed 7.2 on two different boxes, now (developmental), and both installs took 3 HOURS! These boxes are probably minimum, P200mmx with 64M of ram and scsi 9 gig drives with 50x ATAPI cdroms. Three hours seems out of line for an install on a clean, formatted HD--at least to me. The

RE: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff

2000-11-24 Thread eschbach
4x lmfao and you wonder why it took so long takes about 22 mins on my machine for full install ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 installs and "stuff" ** Original Sender: eryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Original Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:59:16 -0600 ** Original Message follows..

Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff

2000-11-24 Thread eryl
On Friday 24 November 2000 23:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4x lmfao and you wonder why it took so long takes about 22 mins on my machine for full install ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 installs and "stuff" ** Original Sender: eryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Original Date: F

Re: [newbie] 7.2 and several problems

2000-11-23 Thread Dennis Myers
Thanks, that helped a whole lot. I didn't realize how big 7.2 really was. I got 80% of expert/workstation on about 2.4 gigs. That should be ok until I finally delete windows off of the 10gig hd and go linux only. Thanks again, Dennis M. bascule wrote: dennis, /usr needs to be quite big, try

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition

2000-11-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:54:13 -0800, Alan S wrote: OllyI can think offhand of two basic approaches. One would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as root and use fdisk to delete partition 4 and then log out and reboot with the installation CD and let it do the partitioning

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition(Correction)

2000-11-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:11:34 -0600, I wrote: In summery, I will say I am not happy with the fact that I have no separate Var and home, and all the other things I like to do with partitions...I sadly miss the Fdisk option of Helios 6.1 and doubt that I will be able to live without a

Re: [newbie] 7.2 and no Xserver (solved, sort of)

2000-11-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 10:16 am, Dennis Myers wrote: However, I don't have any icons for things like KPPP and the Update etc. Can't find the KPPP configure and don't see my floppy or cdrw or cd. Any body know what Man pages I should start with to get things looking more normal?

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition(Correction)

2000-11-22 Thread skidley
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:11:34 -0600, I wrote: In summery, I will say I am not happy with the fact that I have no separate Var and home, and all the other things I like to do with partitions...I sadly miss the Fdisk option of Helios

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:54:13 -0800, Alan S wrote: OllyI can think offhand of two basic approaches. One would be to boot up on your other Linux system, login as root and use fdisk to delete partition 4 and then log out and reboot with the installation CD

Re: [newbie] 7.2 lack of xserver

2000-11-21 Thread patrick
Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I burned a new Install CD for 7.2. This time I got a complete copy based on the total bytes transfered. Funny thing, this time around Aurora doesn't come up by default and on boot up I get no Xserver. I am totally unimpressed since this is the same machine that

[newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition

2000-11-21 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:45:50 I am sitting here in trouble with my penguin, While preforming a MDK 7.2 expert installation (Hey,..no smirking) 8-) I cannot make anything go into the Linux extended partition with this installer? I have a 2g dos on hda primary 1...and another on

Re: [newbie] 7.2 lack of xserver

2000-11-21 Thread Dennis Myers
It's possible, but has anyone solved this one? I get a blue screen and we go no further. patrick wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I burned a new Install CD for 7.2. This time I got a complete copy based on the total bytes transfered. Funny thing, this time around Aurora doesn't come

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install Malfunction on partition

2000-11-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:45:50 I am sitting here in trouble with my penguin, While preforming a MDK 7.2 expert installation (Hey,..no smirking) 8-) I cannot make anything go into the Linux extended partition with this installer? I have a 2g dos on hda

[newbie] 7.2 and no Xserver (solved, sort of)

2000-11-21 Thread Dennis Myers
Well, Well, Well, I found that if I tried Xconfigurator the test screen looks every bit as good as when I did the initial install. Only this time having tried every thing else, I chose to click on yes when it asked if I wanted to boot to the xserver and cancelled the one user logon type thingee.

[newbie] 7.2 lack of xserver

2000-11-20 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I burned a new Install CD for 7.2. This time I got a complete copy based on the total bytes transfered. Funny thing, this time around Aurora doesn't come up by default and on boot up I get no Xserver. I am totally unimpressed since this is the same machine that 7.0 and 7.1 loaded on

[newbie] (...) 7.2 nightmare setup (partitions)

2000-11-19 Thread Krulo
my problem is this: after I boot with the disk7 to the 7.2 instalatio I get this really cool screen with the options F1 or Enter. After choosing "Enter" he detects the cdrom, initializes it and enters the setup process (another cool screen). he asks the language, the expert/costum thing and

Re: [newbie] (...) 7.2 nightmare setup (partitions)

2000-11-19 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Krulo wrote: my problem is this: after I boot with the disk7 to the 7.2 instalatio I get this really cool screen with the options F1 or Enter. After choosing "Enter" he detects the cdrom, initializes it and enters the setup process (another cool screen). he asks the

RE: [newbie] 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread falcaraz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Sábado, Noviembre 18, 2000 11:12 pm Asunto: [newbie] 7.2 I'm running 7.1 and want to upgrade to 7.2 I downloaded the iso images files 7.2 inst.iso and 7.2 ext.iso. I can't install the program from these files and can't find any info on this. Any help? Thanks GT

[newbie] 7.2 install

2000-11-18 Thread KompuKit
well, I bought compusa's version 7.2 complete I couldn't do an update...but did an install... I saved my home partition...but I'm having trouble trying to install new apps...how do you do it...? -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit=

Re: [newbie]7.2 gnapster

2000-11-18 Thread Joseph Markham
I've installed LM7.2 and gnapster works fine - I'm playing some mp3s I've downloaded just now. Soundcard is SB Live! Regards Joseph eric wrote: skidley wrote: On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, root wrote: Dear All, Has anyone tried any of the napster clones with 7.2 yet? I have the

[newbie] 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Geoff Thomas
I'm running 7.1 and want to upgrade to 7.2 I downloaded the iso images files 7.2 inst.iso and 7.2 ext.iso. I can't install the program from these files and can't find any info on this. Any help? Thanks GT

[newbie] 7.2 printing

2000-11-17 Thread root
Dear All, I went to the console and typed xpp and got a sign that no printer was found. My printer is not being recognized. It was working fine in 7. I have read all of the printer help pages and tried all of the setups and none are working. Any ideas? Clue: When I still had 7 I downloaded

[newbie]7.2 gnapster

2000-11-17 Thread root
Dear All, Has anyone tried any of the napster clones with 7.2 yet? I have the gnapster and it seems to get the music fine . Unfortunately Kaiman does not work at all for playing the music. The Xmms player works except the music fades in and out. I do not know if the problem is with KDE2

Re: [newbie]7.2 gnapster

2000-11-17 Thread skidley
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, root wrote: Dear All, Has anyone tried any of the napster clones with 7.2 yet? I have the gnapster and it seems to get the music fine . Unfortunately Kaiman does not work at all for playing the music. The Xmms player works except the music fades in and out. I do not

Re: [newbie]7.2 gnapster

2000-11-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 17 November 2000 01:50 pm, root wrote: Dear All, Has anyone tried any of the napster clones with 7.2 yet? I have the gnapster and it seems to get the music fine . I use Knapster, works great Unfortunately Kaiman does not work at all for playing the music. Kaiman seems

Re: [newbie]7.2 gnapster

2000-11-17 Thread eric
skidley wrote: On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, root wrote: Dear All, Has anyone tried any of the napster clones with 7.2 yet? I have the gnapster and it seems to get the music fine . Unfortunately Kaiman does not work at all for playing the music. The Xmms player works except the music fades

[newbie] 7.2 - hardware problem?

2000-11-17 Thread Robert
Hi, I have had nothing but problems trying to get this program installed and running. Do I not have enough hard disk space? Does anything else about this configuration look questionable? Dell Optiplex DGX 5166 Pentium (r) 166MHz 64MB RAM EISA BUS SCSI HD ST31230N 1010MB and NEC CD-ROM 502

Re: [newbie] 7.2 - hardware problem?

2000-11-17 Thread Bob Currey
of. The Adaptec was one I didn't try, even though I have one, because of the warning. good luck, BobC - Original Message - From: "Robert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 8:29 PM Subject: [newbie] 7.2 - hardware problem? Hi, I have had nothing bu

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install help

2000-11-16 Thread civileme
KompuKit wrote: I currently have 7.02I'm downloading the iso then burning it... which method should I do? UPGRADE or INSTALL I've got majordomo lists...which have members You really need to do an install. If you have the lists and members in your /home directory

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Hearts

2000-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 06:48 pm, root wrote: Dear All, I lost a very nice Hearts game when my Mandrake 7 crashed. I found the game on the internet today with my newly installed 7.2. It was from the same place that I downloaded before. When we opened the game the cards had no faces. I

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Hearts

2000-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 16 November 2000 10:56 am, Marcia wrote: Dear Tom All, Is there another good Hearts game that will work well in KDE2? As far as I know the ones I found were the only ones and are not working well with my KDE2 in 7.2. That is the cards have no faces! This same Hearts game worked

[newbie] 7.2 says i've got a PIII ?!

2000-11-16 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! Under my laptop, owning a Celeron 500 mhz, Mandrake 7.2 says it's got a PIII Copermine... what's wrong?? 8-? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783

Re: [newbie] 7.2 HeartsPrinting

2000-11-16 Thread Marcia
Dear Tom, Paul, All, Thank you for your suggestions. I will study that printing page from Mandrakeuser.org. I do have a question here: Is it unusual to not have the printing set up correctly during installation with 7.2? My printing setup was automatic with the installation in 7. Otherwise

Re: [newbie] 7.2 HeartsPrinting

2000-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 16 November 2000 02:45 pm, Marcia wrote: As far as the questions for the Hearts game. I am not sure what X version would be used in 7.2. How can I check for sure? What config file would that be in 7.2? Is there a way to check on versions through the console? type 'X

RE: [newbie] 7.2 install help

2000-11-15 Thread skidley
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Romanator wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:59 PM To: Linux-Mandrake Subject: [newbie] 7.2 install help I currently have 7.02I'm downloading the iso

Re: [newbie] 7.2 and Voodoo5 and quake3

2000-11-15 Thread abe
civileme wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2000 21:54, you wrote: So, 7.2 betas 1 through 3 autodetected my Voodoo5 and configured it for 3d acceleration without any intervention on my part. I just installed 7.2 full and while it did detect my V5 I cannot get hard ware acceleration to

[newbie] 7.2

2000-11-15 Thread Marcia L Waller
Dear All, I am pleased with 7.2 as I mentioned before. I am getting things corrected and working in a few hours rather than months.:) Is StarOffice supplied with this distro? Where is Ktail? Unfortunately I lost my Hearts game in my 7 crash the other night as well as my napster clone. By the

Re: [newbie]7.2 internet-pump

2000-11-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia L Waller wrote: [snip] I just need to get a zip drive icon on my desktop. I am not sure how to do this. Anyone know? Thank you. Marcia [snip] Marciafirst, as root, create a mount point in your /mnt directory. For instance, in a console, type: mkdir /mnt/zip Then determine the

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-11-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 04:10 pm, Marcia L Waller wrote: I do not remember where to get the Hearts and napster now. I believe I was using gnome napster which worked well for me. gnapster and knapster rpm's are in the /contrib/RPMS dir on Mandrake mirrors. Never got around to tryin

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-11-15 Thread Anthony
Dear All, I am pleased with 7.2 as I mentioned before. I am getting things corrected and working in a few hours rather than months.:) Is StarOffice supplied with this distro? It's supplied in the boxed distro you buy at the store. Where is Ktail?

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-11-15 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 17:10, you wrote: Dear All, I am pleased with 7.2 as I mentioned before. I am getting things corrected and working in a few hours rather than months.:) Is StarOffice supplied with this distro? Where is Ktail? Unfortunately I lost my Hearts game in my 7 crash

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install help

2000-11-15 Thread Grant
install. i have heard that upgrade can take forever. and besides the new kde 2.0 and koffice and all u just dont need much more. im starting to break down. soon i will buy the 7.2 at the store. someone stop me please Why? Don't you have a cd burner? You get a more complete version from the

Re: [newbie] 7.2 install help

2000-11-15 Thread KompuKit
: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:59 PM To: Linux-Mandrake Subject: [newbie] 7.2 install help I currently have 7.02I'm downloading the iso then burning it... which method should I do? UPGRADE or INSTALL I've got majordomo lists...which have members I

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