[newbie] Major problem with 8.2- crashing on internet connection

2002-03-24 Thread Peter Nguyen
My problem is that having just installed Mdk 8.2 whenever I connect to the internet the computer either freezes or reboots. I can connect to my ISP fine but whenever I try to access a website almost as soon as it starts to retrieve information my system freezes. This happens regardless of

Re: [newbie] Major problem with 8.2- crashing on internet connection

2002-03-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Try a fresh install, keeping /home if you must :) Works better it seems. Femme Peter Nguyen wrote: My problem is that having just installed Mdk 8.2 whenever I connect to the internet the computer either freezes or reboots. I can connect to my ISP fine but whenever I try to access a

[newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Eric Budinger
Hi All, I hope someone might be able to help me. I had a power loss at the house today and after the linux box rebooted it wouldnt boot into KDE. IT booted into a login prompt. I was able to login as root or my user name. When I Rebooted the machine in booted into screen and asked me

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread bascule
do an 'upgrade' from your cd, this will not format any partitions and should leave your /home alone bascule On Monday 31 December 2001 10:56 am, you wrote: Hi All, I hope someone might be able to help me. I had a power loss at the house today and after the linux box rebooted it wouldn't

RE: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Eric Budinger
: [newbie] Major problem do an 'upgrade' from your cd, this will not format any partitions and should leave your /home alone bascule On Monday 31 December 2001 10:56 am, you wrote: Hi All, I hope someone might be able to help me. I had a power loss at the house today and after the linux

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Mohammed Arafa 2 Mailing Lists
- From: Eric Budinger To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 12:56 PM Subject: [newbie] Major problem Hi All, I hope someone might be able to help me. I had a power loss at the house today and after the linux box rebooted it wouldn’t boot into KDE

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread bascule
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of bascule Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 6:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major problem do an 'upgrade' from your cd, this will not format any partitions and should leave your /home alone bascule Want to buy your Pack

RE: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Eric Budinger
]] On Behalf Of bascule Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major problem On Monday 31 December 2001 12:21 pm, you wrote: odd, since you must have installed in the first place? what is your partition scheme, can you tar up your home directory and put

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread lee
]] On Behalf Of bascule Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 6:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major problem do an 'upgrade' from your cd, this will not format any partitions and should leave your /home alone bascule On Monday 31 December 2001 10:56 am, you wrote: Hi All, I

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Mohammed Arafa 2 Mailing Lists
i dont really like upgrades coz it takes 16 hours or so as opposed to 1 to 2 hours of an install ..but its up to u of course - Original Message - From: lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Major problem When you do

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread bascule
be rambling on? Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of bascule Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major problem On Monday 31 December 2001 12:21 pm, you wrote: odd, since you must have

Fw: Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:13:53 -0500 From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major problem On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 17:49:47 -0500 lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you do the upgrade,make sure you're not installing any new

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Pen Gwynne
I hope someone might be able to help me. I had a power loss at the house today and after the linux box rebooted it wouldn't boot into KDE.. I may have had a similar problem recently. I was running Mandrake 8.1b3 on this box at the time of a power flicker. About a 1 second loss of

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:15:43 + bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: can you type 'linux single' at the lilo prompt? this ought to boot into single user mode, it's unusual in my experience for a single power cut to trash a system to such a degree, i guess

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Pen Gwynne
Civileme, Yep, reiser will help prevent the error. So also will XFS and ext3. . . . It is a good idea to make /home a separate partition... Thanks for the words of advice. I have another partitiona that I can play with and I might just try one of the other file systems. I have always kept

Re: [newbie] Major problem

2001-12-31 Thread Paul
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:47:55 +, bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 December 2001 12:21 pm, you wrote: odd, since you must have installed in the first place? what is your partition scheme, can you tar up your home directory and put it somewhere else (a windrive?) and do a format

Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still

2000-04-19 Thread Mike Corbeil
of a moral one. They should encourage students to use Linux, because schooling is already expensive enough without needing to purchase expensive OSs, like Windows 2000. mike From: Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major Problem

Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still

2000-04-19 Thread J D
happens From: Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major Problemstill Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:29:44 -0400 J D wrote: yeah, you're right. i'm gonna e-mail an expert list about this. the only problem is that i'm so short

[newbie] Major Problem----still

2000-04-18 Thread J D
okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got bored and tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help!

Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still

2000-04-18 Thread BILL
J D wrote: okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got bored and tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help!

Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still

2000-04-18 Thread Mike Corbeil
BILL wrote: J D wrote: okay, i've tried several things to fix my major problem. nothing has worked. so how do i format my linux partition? last night i got bored and tried rm -rf / as i read to never do this unless i wanted to reinstall linux. but it didn't work. help! I

Re: [newbie] Major Problem----still

2000-04-18 Thread J D
the frustrating blue screen of death every time you go to compile code you just wrote. too bad i can't submit my programming homework in unix. damn this university's use of windows! From: Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Major

Re: [newbie] MAJOR PROBLEM!!!!

2000-04-17 Thread Gunther C. Hebein
You should enter the password of the Systemadministrator (=root). Then you will enter a Terminal, where you should start manually a Filesystemcheck.Enter "fsck /dev/hda1". After the prog. finishedpress Ctrl-D and wait what happens. begin:vcard n:Hebein;Gunther fn:Gunther C. Hebein

Re: [newbie] MAJOR PROBLEM!!!!

2000-04-17 Thread Mike Corbeil
J D wrote: i don't know what i did, but here's the problem: when i try to boot, it starts off normally, but when it checks the root filesystem, it fails. this is what it says after: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid

Re: [newbie] MAJOR PROBLEM!!!!

2000-04-17 Thread J D
] Subject: Re: [newbie] MAJOR PROBLEM Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 07:55:05 -0400 J D wrote: i don't know what i did, but here's the problem: when i try to boot, it starts off normally, but when it checks the root filesystem, it fails. this is what it says after: The superblock could

Re: [newbie] MAJOR PROBLEM!!!!

2000-04-17 Thread Mike Corbeil
, of the LDP, at http://www.linuxdoc.org mike From: Mike Corbeil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MAJOR PROBLEM Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 07:55:05 -0400 J D wrote: i don't know what i did, but here's the problem: when i try to boot

[newbie] MAJOR PROBLEM!!!!

2000-04-16 Thread J D
i don't know what i did, but here's the problem: when i try to boot, it starts off normally, but when it checks the root filesystem, it fails. this is what it says after: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really