Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-08 Thread David E. Fox
of the board, but it does have Fresno printed along one edge. FSB is I guess the bus speed to the expansioh slots - supposedly the front side of the CPU. Doesn't make much sense. I guess it's related to the speed that the CPU can interface with the peripherals, memory, etc. If it's in front of

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update

2003-03-08 Thread David E. Fox
As an update - I just disconnected the CD-RW - Still can't boot from the CD-ROM. Now I'm going to set up the CD-ROM as Primary SLAVE and see where that gets me. I have had difficulties - not really linux related but it's the only OS I've run in several years - but likely hardware issues on an

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-07 Thread cervixcouch
On Thursday 06 March 2003 04:50 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 08:29, Hendrik Boom wrote: kwel? Don't you mean kewl? I know many people can't spell cool correctly, but please, at least spell kewl correctly. -- nitpicking hendrik Different ways: kewl, qooul, kwl,

[newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
Hello everyone, I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, andwant to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD) I created a 2 Gb primary Dos partition to install Win95 -

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:55, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hello everyone, I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD) I

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Anders Lind
I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD) Welcome to the wonderful of Linux *smiles* I created a 2 Gb primary Dos

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:55, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hello everyone, I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Marc Oestreicher
If you do not have a owners manual handy you can watch the screen closely during startup. You will probably see something saying press F1 or some other key to change settings. Press and hold that key. That should bring you to the BIOS setup screen. While you are in the bios you may also want

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing - MORE INFO

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
if YES. He also asked if my BIOS sees it. Again, YES. EXCEPT when I've got the Linux CD in the drive I'm very confused. Diane - Original Message - From: Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Shilling
: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies. Unfortunately, I have already placed my Cd-ROM drive at the top of the boot priority list, but some reason I

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:19, Diane Arsenault wrote: Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies. Unfortunately, I have already placed my Cd-ROM drive at the top of the boot priority list, but some reason I can't boot from it regardless. What now? Diane Let me ask you something.

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Lanman
Diane; You need to make a small change in your BIOS so that the CDROM drive is the first to boot. After that, everything will work fine. Check your owner's manual, and look for information which tells you how to enter your BIOS. Once you get into the BIOS, you should be able to change the order

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing - MORE INFO

2003-03-06 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Bad burn? sounds like the burn isnt bootable. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Diane Arsenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Simon Prosser
of Linux! -Jonathan -Original Message- From: Diane Arsenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:19, Diane Arsenault wrote: Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies. Unfortunately, I have already

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
seting AUTO on device 2 tells the bios to autodetect at bootup this solved to problem on my p133 server which wouldnt boot from cdrom - Original Message - From: Simon Prosser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 11:21 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: If you do not have a owners manual handy you can watch the screen closely during startup. You will probably see something saying press F1 or some other key to change settings. Press and hold that key. That should bring you to the

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 5:56 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi Simon - My HDD is Primary master, I have a Cd-ROM drive set as Secondary master, and a CD-RW set as Secondary Slave. Both CD's are on Auto. Diane P.S. I have checked the cables - all is well I've never come across this before -

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot Record??? Just a stab in the dark, mind you! Any help at all is very much appreciated at this point.

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread et
much appreciated at this point. Diane - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:19, Diane

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot Record??? Just a stab in the dark, mind you!

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Diane Arsenault Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Shilling
setting, Jonathan -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - REPLY TO ALL (whew!), DESPERATE MEASURES FOR SURE!

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:14 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think the actual Cd is the problem - I think it's to do with the Master

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Dianne, You may want to try disconnecting the cd-rw drive and leaving only the cd-rom as secondary master, there may be a conflict between the two drives. If that works, check the device

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:29 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: OK, guys, these are two things I haven't tried yet. Dennis suggested I connect my CD-ROM as the Primary SLAVE. Jonathan suggested I try disconnecting the CD-RW. I'm going to try both right now. I will post back to the list with the

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread Brian
] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Dianne, You may want to try disconnecting the cd-rw drive and leaving only the cd-rom as secondary master, there may be a conflict between the two drives. If that works, check the device jumper settings on the two drives and make sure

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
Hi again, No problem - I'm getting replies so fast I can hardly keep up to it myself! Anway, it rebooted during the process of installing the actual program files. No warning at all - she just up and quit - and rebooted. When this happened it did come back to the Press enter to install screen,

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:36 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:29 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: OK, guys, these are two things I haven't tried yet. Dennis suggested I connect my CD-ROM as the Primary SLAVE. Jonathan suggested I try disconnecting the CD-RW. I'm going to try both

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 14:29, Diane Arsenault wrote: OK, guys, these are two things I haven't tried yet. Dennis suggested I connect my CD-ROM as the Primary SLAVE. Jonathan suggested I try disconnecting the CD-RW. I'm going to try both right now. I will post back to the list with the

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
- From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:36 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:29 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: OK, guys, these are two things I

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update

2003-03-06 Thread et
On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:44 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi again, No problem - I'm getting replies so fast I can hardly keep up to it myself! Anway, it rebooted during the process of installing the actual program files. No warning at all - she just up and quit - and rebooted. When this

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Shilling
] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:44 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi again, No problem - I'm getting replies so fast I can hardly keep up to it myself! Anway, it rebooted during the process of installing the actual program files

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - install with onboard video

2003-03-06 Thread et
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:36 pm, et wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:29 pm, Diane Arsenault wrote: OK, guys, these are two things I haven't

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update

2003-03-06 Thread et
not work, since it does (in most casers, excluding some sound and video card workarounds). -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update On Thursday 06 March 2003

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread civileme
On Thursday 06 March 2003 07:55 am, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hello everyone, I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron 1.1 Ghz, 256 Mb SDram, 40 GB HDD)

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
] COMPLETE Newbie I also like to sware away from boxes that HP Pavilions that ship with Windows XP do not come with recovery CDs. Instead, they use a hidden space (partition) on the hard drive to store the recovery information. The use of a hidden partition provides a convenient process

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing - MORE INFO

2003-03-06 Thread civileme
: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 I am totally new to Linux. Just bought a new computer, and want to install both Windows 95 and Mandrake 9.0 on it. Here's what I've done so far: (Computer = HP 7915, Intel Celeron

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

2003-03-06 Thread Mike
On Thursday 06 March 2003 03:26 pm, you wrote: Hi, When I first tried installing XP on this thing, I called the tech support. The guy I spoke to told me that when he installs XP he disconnects everything - right down to modems, video cards, etc - before attempting the install. I figure if

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
- Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 Ummm, first of all, please set your mailer to plain text messages. I had to retrieve yours from

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing - MORE INFO

2003-03-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 07:34, civileme wrote: Diane, I think you have an older computer with a CD that expects 650Mb CD media. Mandrake 9.0 is distributed on 700Mb (80 minute audio) CD media, and older drives often have difficulty booting from though not normally reading, the later media.

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing - MORE INFO

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
- they are set as per my last post with system specs. My internet connection is dial-up, and not very fast at all. Diane - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 07:51, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hello Civileme, Oops - sorry about the HTML - I didn't realize it wasn't set to plain text. OK - info about my computer. It's a HP Pavilion 7915, and I purchased it from a company that sells factory overstocks from HP. It came hardware

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 16:26, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, When I first tried installing XP on this thing, I called the tech support. The guy I spoke to told me that when he installs XP he disconnects everything - right down to modems, video cards, etc - before attempting the install. I

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
back to the CD when it starts back up again). Diane - Original Message - From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie Diane Were you successful installing XP following all

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 16:26, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, When I first tried installing XP on this thing, I called the tech support. The guy I spoke to told me that when he installs XP he disconnects everything - right down to modems, video

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:09:22AM -0800, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Diane Arsenault Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:46:50PM -0500, et wrote: and a good chance to introduce you to a kwel feature in most linux shells. autocomplete. kwel? Don't you mean kewl? I know many people can't spell cool correctly, but please, at least spell kewl correctly. -- nitpicking hendrik Want to

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Graham Watkins
Diane Arsenault wrote: Hello Civileme, Oops - sorry about the HTML - I didn't realize it wasn't set to plain text. - 128 Mb SDRAM PC 100, 2 DIMM sockets. I had 128 Mb added, for a total of 256. (NOTE - when the BIOS fires up it report 255 Mb's, not 256) - 40 Gb 5400 RPM Hard Drive - 48x

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

2003-03-06 Thread et
PROTECTED] To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 16:26, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi, When I first tried installing XP on this thing, I called the tech support. The guy I spoke to told me

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan

2003-03-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 08:29, Hendrik Boom wrote: kwel? Don't you mean kewl? I know many people can't spell cool correctly, but please, at least spell kewl correctly. -- nitpicking hendrik Different ways: kewl, qooul, kwl, cool, kool, kule, cule, k'l ...maybe they are a student... --

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

2003-03-06 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:21:32 -0400 Diane Arsenault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yeah, just as a follow-up. The reason I'm able to install Windows 95 is because I can run the setup file from DOS (I'm booting right now with a Win98 boot disk). And for whatever reason the computer doesn't reboot

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday March 6 2003 12:09 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Hi Simon - My HDD is Primary master, I have a Cd-ROM drive set as Secondary master, and a CD-RW set as Secondary Slave. Both CD's are on Auto. Diane Di, are you sure the drive jumpers are set as such. Many Windoze computers

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Yoel P. Krigsman
] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:19, Diane Arsenault wrote: Thanks to both Lanman and Adolfo for their replies. Unfortunately, I have already placed my Cd-ROM drive at the top of the boot priority list, but some reason I can't boot from

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Diane Arsenault
: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 On Thursday March 6 2003 12:09 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Hi Simon - My HDD is Primary master, I have a Cd-ROM drive set as Secondary master, and a CD-RW set as Secondary Slave. Both CD's are on Auto. Diane Di, are you

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 19:37, Diane Arsenault wrote: Hi Tom, No, I haven' ttried these CD's on anohter system - Good thought. I'll be sure to try that before I pack this thing up and send 'er back! Bravo -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie

2003-03-06 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:21, Diane Arsenault wrote: Oh yeah, just as a follow-up. The reason I'm able to install Windows 95 is because I can run the setup file from DOS (I'm booting right now with a Win98 boot disk). And for whatever reason the computer doesn't reboot itself during that

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie,trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-10 Thread cowinacape
On 2/9/03 20:50, Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, I ordered the disks from cheapbytes and they work fine on my iMac. As I recall, you need a mac boot partition to begin with (I made mine as small as possible) and then you start the install program from your MacOS (8.2 in my

RE: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-09 Thread Richard Babcock
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4 On Saturday 08 February 2003 05:28 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dan, I think

RE: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to installmandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:50, Richard Babcock wrote: Dan, I ordered the disks from cheapbytes and they work fine on my iMac. As I recall, you need a mac boot partition to begin with (I made mine as small as possible) and then you start the install program from your MacOS (8.2 in my case). I

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie,trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-08 Thread cowinacape
On 2/7/03 14:15, cowinacape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/7/03 13:48, Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not too familiar with Mac usage. That said, simply burning should be enough. There shouldn't anything special to be aware of. Hm. Are you sure that you got the right

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:34 am, cowinacape wrote: On 2/7/03 14:15, cowinacape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/7/03 13:48, Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not too familiar with Mac usage. That said, simply burning should be enough. There shouldn't anything

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 08 February 2003 05:28 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dan, I think it will be cheaper for you to order from here http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/index.php?PAGE=2 although it's giving up on burning. All my coasters are excellent for my daughters rifle-practice at 300 meters. Kaj

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie,trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-08 Thread cowinacape
Dan, I think it will be cheaper for you to order from here : http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/index.php?PAGE=2 although it's giving up on burning. All my coasters are excellent for my daughters rifle-practice at 300 meters. Kaj Haulrich. That's just about what I was ready to start

[newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-07 Thread cowinacape
Howdy, I have d'loaded two disk images from the Mandrake site, both are iso's, what exactly do I have to do to to make these iso's into somehtign I can use to boot off of for my mac? I tried doing it through Toast 5.0.2. But have had no luck with that, my machine would not boot from the disks,

Re: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-07 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Fri 2003-02-07 at 00:31:22 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I have d'loaded two disk images from the Mandrake site, both are iso's, what exactly do I have to do to to make these iso's into somehtign I can use to boot off of for my mac? I tried doing it through Toast 5.0.2. But

[newbie] complete newbie so hopefully easy questions

2002-05-02 Thread House
Hi all I bought Linux mandrake 8.1 a couple of months ago and have just recently installed it on my second system and so far like it so much that I think in the near future I may not even keep a windows machine and just run all Linux and Mac. I do have a couple of questions the first one

Re: [newbie] complete newbie so hopefully easy questions

2002-05-02 Thread FemmeFatale
House wrote: I do have a couple of questions the first one which I think is very simple and I am just missing it How do you install tar.gz files. HOUSE Sorry the other Q's I can't answer, but this one even *I* know ;) This is usually is a 2 step installation for Tar's.

Re: [newbie] complete newbie so hopefully easy questions

2002-05-02 Thread Jussi Aalto
I don't have experience on HP printers so I can only redirect you to: http://www.linuxprinting.org If there are special tricks to get your printer working, linuxprinting.org usually knows about them. Cheers, J. -- In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Re: [newbie] complete newbie so hopefully easy questions

2002-05-02 Thread Derek Jennings
There is an update available to drakprint which helps multi function printers. Check out http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKA-2002-004.php?dis=8.2 derek Subject: Re: [newbie] complete newbie so hopefully easy questions Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 18:37:28 +0300 From: Jussi Aalto