[newbie] Installation (program) problems

2005-04-10 Thread Elwyn York
Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash:

Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems

2005-04-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Elwyn York wrote: Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash:

Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems

2005-04-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:05:57 +0100 Elwyn York wrote: Don't undestand where I've gone wrong :( use # sh /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh Charles -- But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed so I could coast to the nearest gas station. - Mandrake

[newbie] Installation on sata disks

2005-04-03 Thread Isak Lyberth
Is it possible to install mandrake on a computer using sata disks? Regards Isak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Installation on sata disks

2005-04-03 Thread Paul
Isak Lyberth wrote: Is it possible to install mandrake on a computer using sata disks? Regards Isak Yes. Well I have, had some trouble with the first release candidate of 10.0 (I think it was) - had to install sata_sil module at boot to install - but no problems since then.

Re: [newbie] Installation on sata disks

2005-04-03 Thread Isak Lyberth
how do i go about getting to install a sata module during the installation? i have an intel 82801 SATA controler, its a raid thing. Regards Isak Paul wrote: Isak Lyberth wrote: Is it possible to install mandrake on a computer using sata disks? Regards Isak Yes.

Re: [newbie] Installation on sata disks

2005-04-03 Thread Paul
Isak Lyberth wrote: how do i go about getting to install a sata module during the installation? i have an intel 82801 SATA controler, its a raid thing. Regards Isak Paul wrote: Isak Lyberth wrote: Is it possible to install mandrake on a computer using sata disks? Regards Isak Yes. Well I have,

Re: [newbie] Installation on sata disks

2005-04-03 Thread Isak Lyberth
i used the 10.1 disk and was asked to prvide a driver Regards Isak Paul wrote: Isak Lyberth wrote: how do i go about getting to install a sata module during the installation? i have an intel 82801 SATA controler, its a raid thing. Regards Isak Paul wrote:

[newbie] [Installation] Error on booting from cd - Unable to mount root fs

2005-02-15 Thread James Nunnerley
Hi all, Ive just tried to install Mandrake 10.1, but it keeps coming up with the following: (this is the last three lines of the output) RAMDISK: Compress image found at block 0 Invalid compressed format (err=2) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,3)

Re: [newbie] [Installation] Error on booting from cd - Unable to mount root fs

2005-02-15 Thread riccardo
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:01 pm, James Nunnerley wrote: Can anyone assist with what the problem is likely to be? ___ ~ maybe a module. such as Reiser file system is not loading? best rgds Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] [Installation] Error on booting from cd - Unable to mount root fs

2005-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:52 am, riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:01 pm, James Nunnerley wrote: Can anyone assist with what the problem is likely to be? ___ ~ maybe a module. such as Reiser file system is not loading? best rgds More likely

Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read

2005-02-09 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Well - I have an install - did not get GUI up so obviously have a couple of things to sort out. LILO worked great - so thank you to those who helped. I'll reboot to Mdk and see what I can work out. Printer is perfect! Thanks Rosemary Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 07 February 2005 23:25, you

Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read

2005-02-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 07 February 2005 04:40, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: happens. I rebooted with disc in situ and get the window with the two options press F1' and enter to install Looked at F1 and then pressed enter. It appeared to start installing but then the monitor went

Re: [newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read

2005-02-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 07 February 2005 23:25, you wrote: Sometimes it refuses to boot from CD1, in that case try CD2, it'll prompt you to change disks later on. BTW two things : 1. please don't post in html. Most people here filter html-messages out before they get read. 2. please remove your

[newbie] Installation problem - ?disc not being read

2005-02-06 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hi I am attempting to install Mandrake 10.1 on an AMD Athlon 2000+ running WinXP. I've been to hardware devices list but little detail as it was a 'pre-packaged' system. Display adapter VIA/S3G, legacy audio drivers. I put the first disc in and the options highlight when I hover the cursor.

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-31 Thread Elwyn
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: I see that my post got lost in the discussion, so here goes again... I got the 10.1 official download dvd. Everything burned OK. I boot the comp, I see the splash screen, I press F2, type expert, [enter]. The kernel loads And that's all

[newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Cyber Killer
I see that my post got lost in the discussion, so here goes again... I got the 10.1 official download dvd. Everything burned OK. I boot the comp, I see the splash screen, I press F2, type expert, [enter]. The kernel loads And that's all - I'm left with a blank screen, and nothing else happens.

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB That's a SATA disk, I think? You might like to search the archives for booting from SATA disks Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Cyber Killer
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB That's a SATA disk, I think? You might like to search the archives for booting from SATA disks no, it's not SATA, it's a standard ATA133 hdd -- Cyber

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 17:01, Cyber Killer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB That's a SATA disk, I think? You might like

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Here is a list of my hardware: cpu: P4 1700 ram: 256 MB RAMBUS gfx: Radeon 7200 64 MB snd: SB Live! Player 1024 hdd: Seagate Barracuda 7200 120 GB dvd: LG GDR-8162B cdrw: LG GCE-8524B lan: Realtek RTL8139 + some stuff connected to USB, a

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 17:30, Elwyn wrote: On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: Here is a list of my hardware: Have you tried having unplugged your extra USB things incase there is a problem there?? That's a good point. Setting them

Re: [newbie] installation problem

2005-01-23 Thread Elwyn
On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 16:35, Cyber Killer wrote: + some stuff connected to USB, a scanner, a printer,... http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7320page=3 This chap has written a review on Mandrake 10 and has stated he's had problems with the Hotplug feature... Usb Devices?? Cheers, Elwyn

[newbie] installation problem

2005-01-20 Thread Cyber Killer
I got the 10.1 official download dvd. Everything burned OK. I boot the comp, I see the splash screen, I press F2, type expert, [enter]. The kernel loads And that's all - I'm left with a blank screen, and nothing else happens. I had the same problem with 10.0, but then I thought I just

Re: [newbie] Installation problem: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'

2004-10-17 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Saturday 16 October 2004 10:08 am, Boyi Zeng wrote: Hello, Yesterday I tried to install mandrake linux 10.1 to my notebook. The installation process is smooth. But I got problem at the startup after installation. The error message is like that: checking root partition: fsck.ext3:

Re: [newbie] Installation problem: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'

2004-10-17 Thread Boyi Zeng
Hello, Thanks for your reply. I reinstalled mandrake, and choose LILO as the boot loader, and then it worked. Since I installed Linux from hard disk. there seems to be no method for me to edit the menu.lst or the fstab. Anyway, the problem is solved. Thank you. On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 07:40:32

[newbie] Installation problem: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'

2004-10-16 Thread Boyi Zeng
Hello, Yesterday I tried to install mandrake linux 10.1 to my notebook. The installation process is smooth. But I got problem at the startup after installation. The error message is like that: checking root partition: fsck.ext3: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/' I had windows XP in my notebook

Re: [newbie] installation - Advansys SCSI driver

2004-07-29 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 03:34, paul mccarthy wrote: I'm sure this question has been asked before in various forms for various drivers but I can't find the answer on the site. I have a scsi CD (HP CDwriter) running off an Advansys SCSI card (narrow). I had absolutely no problems with

[newbie] installation - Advansys SCSI driver

2004-07-28 Thread paul mccarthy
I'm sure this question has been asked before in various forms for various drivers but I can't find the answer on the site. I have a scsi CD (HP CDwriter) running off an Advansys SCSI card (narrow). I had absolutely no problems with installing Mandrake linux up through the various beta and RC

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:11:14AM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote: /var/www/html In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the folder where everything else is installed, I.E if when installing apache you do as follows ./configure --prefix=/apache/ your apache will be installed

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:57:05 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:11:14AM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote: /var/www/html In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the folder where everything else is installed, I.E if when installing apache

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Marc Hultquist
On Monday, 26 July 2004 15:57, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:11:14AM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote: /var/www/html In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the folder where everything else is installed, I.E if when installing apache you do as follows

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Tomas Tudja
for my english : Best Regards Tomas Tudja - Original Message - From: Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ??? On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:11:14AM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Marc Hultquist
OTOH, I've had more trouble with lesser problems. I just spent two hours with a network problem. The rj45 wasn't plugged in. Ya I done that as well in the past :-) -- Marc Hultquist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computerkit Systems (Pty) Ltd http://www.cks.co.za (P) +27 11 695 5317 (F) +27 11

[newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-25 Thread Sujit Apte
Gentlemen, I have installed Apache 2 + PHP + mysql with Mandrake linux 10.00. In Apache installation there is a folder called htdocs where we put all data i.e. HTML files, PHP code and other stuff. However I did not see this htdocs folder nor Apache2 installation folder. I tried searching every

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:28:12 -0400 Sujit Apte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen, I have installed Apache 2 + PHP + mysql with Mandrake linux 10.00. In Apache installation there is a folder called htdocs where we put all data i.e. HTML files, PHP code and other stuff. However I did not

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:28:12 -0400 Sujit Apte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen, I have installed Apache 2 + PHP + mysql with Mandrake linux 10.00. In Apache installation there is a folder called htdocs where we put all data i.e. HTML files, PHP code and other stuff. However I did not

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-25 Thread Marc Hultquist
/var/www/html In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the folder where everything else is installed, I.E if when installing apache you do as follows ./configure --prefix=/apache/ your apache will be installed in obviously /apache/ and your htdocs will be in /apache/htdocs/ !

[newbie] Installation/configuration of PCMCIA Fax/Modem Card for ThinkPad X21

2004-07-08 Thread nut megger
Hardware: ThinkPad X21 with UltraBay; newly obtained PCMCIA fax/modem card to use to dial up my ISP. Question: Should the fax/modem card be inserted first and then a new Linux installation performed or should the card be inserted while Linux is running and it will be recognized so that it can be

Re: [newbie] Installation/configuration of PCMCIA Fax/Modem Card for ThinkPad X21

2004-07-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
nut megger wrote: Hardware: ThinkPad X21 with UltraBay; newly obtained PCMCIA fax/modem card to use to dial up my ISP. Question: Should the fax/modem card be inserted first and then a new Linux installation performed or should the card be inserted while Linux is running and it will be recognized

[newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Turner
I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great.

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Marcin Michalak
for some reason, try to burn the cd again. Marcin - Original Message - From: Steve Turner To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Installation Problem I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version

RE: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Ayares, Mark (Mark)
ubject: Re: [newbie] Installation Problem I had the same error with a 32b version. Do you install from CD? If so the cd you use might be bad. I tried to do network install and it worked (well, I had a different error and I still haven't installed the os, but that's different story). If

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Turner
Hardware is all new. - Original Message - From: Ayares, Mark (Mark) To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:32 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem Depending on how old the hardware is, I have had success with older machine

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread et
On Friday 19 March 2004 10:12 am, Steve Turner wrote: I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great. I agree about hitting 'f1', if you get that far, but if

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 10:05, et wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 10:12 am, Steve Turner wrote: I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great. I agree about

[newbie] Installation of 10.0rc1

2004-02-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Sorry this is going to be long. I begin by installing on a spare 30G disk, unplugged main disk and installed WC300. Installation went ok but somehow missed configuration for mouse. The mouse worked fine during install but would not work at all after booting into new system(wouldnt move or react

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 26 December 2003 10:56 pm, Steven Nelson droned on: Hi, tried the command. It stated to enter a valid installation path. Do you know where else the installation path could be? Try the command which mozilla on your machine. If its in your path, it will tell you where it is. If its

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-27 Thread Steven Nelson
Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla. Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:27:40 -0800 On Friday 26 December 2003 10:56 pm, Steven Nelson droned on: Hi, tried the command. It stated to enter a valid installation path. Do

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:56, Steven Nelson wrote: Hi, tried the command. It stated to enter a valid installation path. Do you know where else the installation path could be? Try slocate mozilla (you may have to install slocate). It's probably looking for the plugins directory. Anne --

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-27 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 27 December 2003 1:09 am, Steven Nelson wrote: The installation said, try /usr/lib/mozilla, Mozilla was at /usr/bin/Mozilla. From, Steven Before you work yourself into a lather and start screaming

[newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-26 Thread Steven Nelson
Trying to install Macromedia Flashplayer. During installation it asks for the installation path of Mozilla. Will somebody tell me the installation path of Mozilla in Mandrake 9.2? From,

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:24 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Trying to install Macromedia Flashplayer. During installation it asks for the installation path of Mozilla. Will somebody tell me the installation path of Mozilla in Mandrake 9.2?

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-26 Thread Steven Nelson
, Steven From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla. Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:40:28 -0700 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:24 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Trying

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 02:13, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:44 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: It seems that I haven't properly configured my monitor and/or the X server thing. How can I go back and try this again? Can I just boot up with the first installation CD and

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Melissa Reese wrote: Okay...I did install Mandrake, but I may have missed something crucial with regards to the X server thingy. It seems that I haven't properly configured my monitor and/or the X server thing. How can I go back and try this again? Can I just boot up with the first

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 11:38:43 PM PST, you wrote: Of course you can start all over again, and maybe you ought to, just for experience, but linux offers you many solutions, you can run XFdrake from that root terminal instead,

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Melissa Reese wrote: Hi John, Vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems Bus: PCI Bus Identification: 1039:900:1043:80a7 Location on the Bus: 0:4:0 Description: SiS900 10/100 Ethernet Module: sis900 Media Class: NETWORK_ETHERNET Then, it also detects this: Vendor: USB Ethernet [pegasus] Bus: USB

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 12:58:05 AM PST, you wrote: Cann't help the ethernet cards, no previous experience, nor cable modems. What sort of dialup modem do you have ? Well, here's a peculiar update. I was just over in

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Melissa Reese wrote: Hi John, What sort of dialup modem do you have ? Well, here's a peculiar update. I was just over in Mandrake, and I finally at least got the dial-up working! Good, I was able to receive your message in Kmail, but I couldn't send my reply from there. The error message

[newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I decided to give the installation a go by myself, figuring that if I messed it up, I could just abort and wait until my friend could be here to hold my hand. Here's the story so far (I'm pretty sleepy, so I hope I get this right)... I have two

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 10:34 am, Melissa Reese wrote: Hi, I decided to give the installation a go by myself, figuring that if I messed it up, I could just abort and wait until my friend could be here to hold my hand. Here's the story so far (I'm pretty sleepy, so I hope I get this right)...

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Anne, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 3:22:05 AM PST, you wrote: Select 'Custom disk partitioning' There you should see your two disks. Choose the one you want for install, Thanks Anne. Here's a small update... This time around, I got

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:57 am, Melissa Reese wrote: This time around, I got to the next step of choosing the drive (and many other options for partitioning), and again I stopped...just to be safe. There were two tabs (hda and hdb), and the second tab did look like the 20 GB drive I

Re: [newbie] Installation questions

2003-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
I've changed the subject line, as someone has pointed out to me that the word 'aborted' is causing the thread to be dropped by some mail filters. On Tuesday 18 Nov 2003 11:57 am, Melissa Reese wrote: Hi Anne, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 3:22:05 AM PST, you wrote: Select 'Custom

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Nick Andriash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Anne, Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 4:22:05 AM, you wrote: Choose the one you want for install, and make a partition for /home (so that if you get any data on it you will be able to re-install or upgrade without losing your data). I assume

Fw: Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:36:11 -0700, Nick Andriash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me: Choose the one you want for install, and make a partition for /home (so that if you get any data on it you will be able to re

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bryan, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 4:07:03 AM PST, you wrote: I don't know what kind of computer you have but just a quick guess. Some of the proprietary computers like Compaq, etc. often create a small partition on the beginning of the

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Margot
Nick Andriash wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Anne, Tuesday, November 18, 2003, 4:22:05 AM, you wrote: Choose the one you want for install, and make a partition for /home (so that if you get any data on it you will be able to re-install or upgrade without losing your

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:07:05 -0800, Melissa Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me: The starter guide also suggests possibly changing a setting or two in the BIOS in order to make the installation smoother

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 18 November 2003 1:07 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: Hi Bryan, snip This is a custom built computer, so I'll have to ask the guy who built it if he can explain what the MDK installation was seeing. As long as I can be very sure that I'm only

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Melissa Reese wrote: As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error myself, because if all I mess up is the fresh drive with no essential data on it yet, I can always just start over. However, there's another

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 03:07 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: Hi Bryan, As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error myself, because if all I mess up is the fresh drive with no essential data on it yet, I can

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:51 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Melissa Reese wrote: As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error myself, because if all I mess

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Charlie M. wrote: Tuesday 18 November 2003 12:51 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Melissa Reese wrote: As long as I can be very sure that I'm only messing with my 20 GB drive, I'll be happy to stumble through some more trial and error myself, because if all I mess up is the fresh drive with no

Re: [newbie] Installation aborted - by me

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:44 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: It seems that I haven't properly configured my monitor and/or the X server thing. How can I go back and try this again? Can I just boot up with the first installation CD and start all over again? Yes, but we can probably fix it

Re: [newbie] Installation help with partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Matt Dynice wrote: Hello, I am really new to Linux and I have a couple questions regarding the partitioning section of the install (I read the quick start manual and it didn't help.) First off I am running on Windows 2000 Pro on one hard drive and my second hard drive is what I want to run

[newbie] Installation help with partitioning

2003-11-01 Thread Matt Dynice
Hello, I am really new to Linux and I have a couple questions regarding the partitioning section of the install (I read the quick start manual and it didn't help.) First off I am running on Windows 2000 Pro on one hard drive and my second hard drive is what I want to run Mandrake 9.2 on.

Re: [newbie] Installation help with partitioning

2003-11-01 Thread Johan
PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 12:44 AM Subject: [newbie] Installation help with partitioning Hello, I am really new to Linux and I have a couple questions regarding the partitioning section of the install (I read the quick start manual and it didn't help

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 01:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, I used that link. Many packages gave me the message: The signature of the package xxx is not correct No GPG signature package Do you want to install it anyway? Is there a

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php . Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problem. Hi, I went and installed the LM9.0 back. It worked fine unlike

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 05 September 2003 01:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, I used that link. Many packages gave me the message: The signature of the package xxx is not correct No GPG signature package Do you want to install it anyway? Is there a way to fix this?

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any hints anybody? I want LM9.1 to work on my machine, like win2k does and LM9.0 did. During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate monitors from the generic monitor list and many combinations of

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any hints anybody? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shame, the win2k is working and the LM9.1 on the same machine is not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate

[newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate monitors from the generic monitor list and many combinations of horizontal rate, vertical rate, resolutions and colors for custom monitor

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shame, the win2k is working and the LM9.1 on the same machine is not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During installation of LM9.1, the graphics card was recognized correctly (RIVA TNT2 with 32Megs) but the Futura monitor was not. Many alternate monitors from the generic monitor list and many

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-14 Thread Heather/Femme
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 22:42, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 09 Aug 2003 19:56:16 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you are installing 9.1, there is no expert mode, like there was in 7.0-9.0, but in some sections (like configuring the network) you can chose an expert mode. There

[newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-14 Thread Heather/Femme
I have to install my linux by passing the argument linux vga=normal *Ty Charles :)* to the Kernel to get video. While doing so is fine, i get a normal installation I want the installer to use Expert mode. Can i add another arg to that line to pass to the kernel? if so syntax pls? Ty --

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 17:18, Heather/Femme wrote: I have to install my linux by passing the argument linux vga=normal *Ty Charles :)* to the Kernel to get video. While doing so is fine, i get a normal installation I want the installer to use Expert mode. Can i add another arg to that line

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-14 Thread Heather/Femme
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 19:56, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 17:18, Heather/Femme wrote: I have to install my linux by passing the argument linux vga=normal *Ty Charles :)* to the Kernel to get video. While doing so is fine, i get a normal installation I want the installer to use

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 22:42, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 09 Aug 2003 19:56:16 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you are installing 9.1, there is no expert mode, like there was in 7.0-9.0, but in some sections (like configuring the network) you can chose an expert mode. There

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Huff
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 19:56, ed tharp wrote: if you are installing 9.1, there is no expert mode, like there was in 7.0-9.0, but in some sections (like configuring the network) you can chose an expert mode. FFS... thx Ed. Btw whats the link to that mailing list archive you troll for

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments to installer routine

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday August 10 2003 02:42 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 09 Aug 2003 19:56:16 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you are installing 9.1, there is no expert mode, like there was in 7.0-9.0, but in some sections (like configuring the network) you can chose an expert mode.

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 09 Aug 2003 19:56:16 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you are installing 9.1, there is no expert mode, like there was in 7.0-9.0, but in some sections (like configuring the network) you can chose an expert mode. There is still an expert mode. It is not avaiable from the default

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-14 Thread Heather/Femme
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 23:28, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 07:18, Heather/Femme wrote: I have to install my linux by passing the argument linux vga=normal *Ty Charles :)* to the Kernel to get video. While doing so is fine, i get a normal installation I want the installer to

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 07:18, Heather/Femme wrote: I have to install my linux by passing the argument linux vga=normal *Ty Charles :)* to the Kernel to get video. While doing so is fine, i get a normal installation I want the installer to use Expert mode. Can i add another arg to that line

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-09 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 18:44, Heather/Femme wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 19:56, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 17:18, Heather/Femme wrote: I have to install my linux by passing the argument linux vga=normal *Ty Charles :)* to the Kernel to get video. While doing so is fine, i

[newbie] installation prob.

2003-07-14 Thread Danish Naeem
hi iam trying to install mandrake 9 on my system, after the initialization, it gives me an error message. cannot load kernel module in memory then it quits saying failed in second stage eject etc... system is amd k6-2 500mhz, hd is 40gb, installation is attempted on first partition (5gb), a

[newbie] installation

2003-06-10 Thread Henri Bouchard
I just bought mandrake Power Pack 9.0 I am on windows XP on the main drive and I have a second drive on fat 32. Can I install on main drive with win XP without loosing any XP or do I have to install on second drive that is partitioned allready I tried on the partition 1 of my secnd drive but

Re: [newbie] installation

2003-06-10 Thread Henri Bouchard
] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] installation Henri, You should be fine putting it on the same drive as your Win XP. This is what a lot of people do who dual-boot their machines. I'm curious, what errors or problems did you get when you put it on the second

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