Re: [newbie] install help

2001-12-05 Thread Mark D'voo
when your compiling, do a ./configure --help there should be an option similar to --include-X-libs= pass a : ./configure --include-X-lib=/usr/X11R6/libs then do the typical: make make install mark On Wednesday 05 December 2001 17:00, you wrote: > I am having problem installing a piece of softwar

Re: [newbie] install help

2001-12-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 06:00 am, Abhijit Ray wrote: > I am having problem installing a piece of software (SUIF compiler > htp://suif.stanford.edu/suif) > > the error I am geting while running the install script is > > cannot find file X11/Xlib.h > > I already have X win installed I guess ..

[newbie] install help

2001-12-05 Thread Abhijit Ray
I am having problem installing a piece of software (SUIF compiler htp://suif.stanford.edu/suif) the error I am geting while running the install script is cannot find file X11/Xlib.h I already have X win installed I guess .. should I have installed something else before I have mandrake 8.0 t

Re: [newbie] Install help

2001-06-12 Thread Michael D. Viron
>A fresh install takes me less than 45 mins on my AMD k6II 450, with 256mb >ram. I understand that upgrades take hours (never done one) so it appears >that you did an upgrade rather than a clean install. Are you sure you did an >install and not an upgrade, did you format the partitions /root /u

[newbie] Install help

2001-06-11 Thread Michael
I have been running 7.1 for sometime now. It has been great and has worked beautifully. I installed 7.2 on another machine and it has worked great, but when I backed up my files and did a fresh install of 7.2 over 7.1, that's where everything went to hell. It took over three hours per attempt.

Re: [newbie] Install help

2000-07-23 Thread Jeffrey Morse
Kandace Little wrote: I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD. model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to install on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I rebooted was zero's and one's filling up the screen. I tried t

Re: [newbie] Install help

2000-07-23 Thread Paul
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Kandace Little wrote: >I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD. >model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to >install >on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I rebooted >was >zero's and one's filli

Re: [newbie] Install help

2000-07-22 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Do you know if Compaq is still putting part of the BIOS on the MBR portion of the harddrive? Is your Windows still working? Seve >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<&l

[newbie] Install help

2000-07-22 Thread Kandace Little
I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD. model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to install on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I rebooted was zero's and one's filling up the screen. I tried to boot off of the disk

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > Johnok, if I agree that I'll look at it again when KDE 2 comes out > > will you get off the soapbox? (-: But I honestly believe we'll still > > disagree, even then, because we differ even in the orientation of our > > smileys (yours

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Johnok, if I agree that I'll look at it again when KDE 2 comes out > will you get off the soapbox? (-: But I honestly believe we'll still > disagree, even then, because we differ even in the orientation of our > smileys (yours are upside down). (-: > My fri

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > > > Johnthanks, yeah, I might. That is, I might if/when it supports > > html (-: > > > Your loss, my friend. :-) It will allow you to READ HTML OK, but > trying to reply to messages is a real pain and the incoming > word-wrap do

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > Johnthanks, yeah, I might. That is, I might if/when it supports > html (-: > Your loss, my friend. :-) It will allow you to READ HTML OK, but trying to reply to messages is a real pain and the incoming word-wrap doesn't always work well, either. :-) H

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > I'm using KMail 1.0.24 which comes with the KDE 1.1.1 RPMs > > for RedHat 6.0. It doesn't handle "special" stuff. Netscape > > does handle HTML and other "non-standard" stuff OK, but it > > doesn't support (directly, at least) multiple email > > addresses, AFAIK

RE: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread Karnos, John G
and see if that makes any difference. -Original Message- From: Mike Litman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 2:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Install Help Linux does support ps/2 just fine. As far as your install goes, why is your CD-ROM the m

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > Johnthat's not true, I've been running a dual scsi drive, dual os > > system with win98 and mdk (5.2, 5.3, 6.0 & finally 6.1) since February > > and the only ide device I have is a ls-120 superdisk. I've never used > > anything but

RE: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread Mike Litman
IDE or SCSI drive, but make sure lilo gets installed on the ide drive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Karnos, John G Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 10:55 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Install Help I have skip

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Johnthat's not true, I've been running a dual scsi drive, dual os > system with win98 and mdk (5.2, 5.3, 6.0 & finally 6.1) since February > and the only ide device I have is a ls-120 superdisk. I've never used > anything but the kernal that comes with the di

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Aldrich wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > > Can Linux-Mandrake 6.0 be installed onto SCSI drives? I continually get an > Fdisk error message "An error occured reading the partition table for the > block dvice /tmp/sdc. The error was: device not configured". I have 6GB of > an

RE: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > Thanks for the help. I really do appreciate it. I'm very anxious to get > this up and running. By the way, I'm getting the impression that LINUX > doesn't support PS2 devices. Is that a correct statement? > If you mean MCA stuff, you're partly correct. The

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Can Linux-Mandrake 6.0 be installed onto SCSI drives? I continually get an Fdisk error message "An error occured reading the partition table for the block dvice /tmp/sdc. The error was: device not configured". I have 6GB of an 18GB drive free and ready to use

RE: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-08 Thread Karnos, John G
rect statement? Thanks again, Alan. -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install Help > "Karnos, John G" wrote: > > Can Linux-Mandrake 6.0 be installed onto SC

Re: [newbie] Install Help

1999-10-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
> "Karnos, John G" wrote: > > Can Linux-Mandrake 6.0 be installed onto SCSI drives? I continually > get an Fdisk error message "An error occured reading the partition > table for the block dvice /tmp/sdc. The error was: device not > configured". I have 6GB of an 18GB drive free and ready to us

[newbie] Install Help

1999-10-07 Thread Karnos, John G
Can Linux-Mandrake 6.0 be installed onto SCSI drives?  I continually get an Fdisk error message "An error occured reading the partition table for the block dvice /tmp/sdc.  The error was: device not configured".  I have 6GB of an 18GB drive free and ready to use for Linux, IF I can ever get