Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread Warren Post
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 05:29, Nick Andriash wrote: > 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will > be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried about > having enough RAM. I see there are already discussions on GNOME, KDE and > Enlightenment... which

Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread civileme
Nick Andriash wrote: >I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time >now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: > >1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will >be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried

Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 24 June 2002 09:46 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Monday 24 June 2002 12:29, Nick Andriash wrote: > > I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some > > time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: > > > > 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to inst

Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 June 2002 12:29, Nick Andriash wrote: > I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time > now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: No need to be frightened. Its fun Most installs are incident free. If you have an issue just drop us a lin

Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 June 2002 12:29 pm, Nick Andriash wrote: > I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some > time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: > > 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, an

[newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread Nick Andriash
I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried about having enough RAM. I

Re: [newbie] A few questions about LISA..

2002-04-16 Thread shane
On Monday 15 April 2002 22:23, Alfredo Zesati opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > I have already set up LISA to work around my home LAN. I currently have > two PC's running Win2000Pro and Mdk8.1 each. However, LISA doesn't work > with SMB protocols. I was w

[newbie] a few questions to 7.2

2001-02-20 Thread Quaylar
hi all ! i just decided to do a fresh install of LM 7.2, really nice - it found all my hardware already in the installation procedure. so far its pretty cool.. but there are a few things i would like to know : 1) how do i get rid of the graphical boot procedure ?.i would like to have my ol

RE: [newbie] a few questions to 7.2

2001-02-20 Thread Daryl Johnson
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Quaylar > Sent: 20 February 2001 19:03 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] a few questions to 7.2 > 1) how do i get rid of the graphical boot procedure ?.i would

[newbie] A Few Questions

2000-06-19 Thread Don Hensley
1) I have a 500 mhz processor but Linux shows it running at 475, should I worry? 2) I have one of those built in sound cards, with C-Media Electronics chips-ICM18738 which sndconfig found and set up but it seems that the window managers keep crashing the darn thing. The CD player works great but