Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 04:30, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 09:53 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > > I have a cable connection (currently a Linksys cable modem connected > > via USB), and I also have a dial-up modem that I use as a backup *only > > if* the cable is out for some r

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 09:16 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Melissa, > > On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 2:51:24 PM PST, you wrote: > > More stuff happens, but still no success. Here's what I'm getting > > now (starting with my typing "start

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 7:23:30 PM PST, you wrote: > Do you have an ethernet card in your machine anyway. It sounds like > drakconnect is detecting your winmodem, (yuck) and an ehternet card, > but missing the cable modem on usb.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 09:53 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > I have a cable connection (currently a Linksys cable modem connected > via USB), and I also have a dial-up modem that I use as a backup *only > if* the cable is out for some reason (doesn't happen often, but it > does go down now and agai

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 10:16 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > I have a cable connection. I'm currently using a Linksys external > cable modem, which is connected to my computer via USB. > > I also have a dialup modem, which I only use on those very rare > occasions when the cable is down. > > Durin

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Melissa, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 2:51:24 PM PST, you wrote: > More stuff happens, but still no success. Here's what I'm getting > now (starting with my typing "startx" and pressing "Enter"): Strike that. I've now got the KDE desktop co

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bryan, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 2:26:44 PM PST, you wrote: > try "startx" to see if the GUI works. More stuff happens, but still no success. Here's what I'm getting now (starting with my typing "startx" and pressing "Enter"): [EMAIL PRO

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 6:14:13 PM PST, you wrote: > Melissa, you didn't say what kind of Internet connection you have, > DSL, cable, dial-up? I have a cable connection (currently a Linksys cable modem connected via USB), and I al

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 08:35 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Melissa, first off the install seems to insist on setting shorewall on at > first boot. So go to a console and type su and then give the root password > and at the next prompt type "mcc" w/o the quotes. Then when the control > center pop

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 07:13 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi HaywireMac, > > On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 3:41:26 PM PST, you wrote: > > Looks like you have it set not to start X on boot. No problemo. If > > you want to start KDE, the most

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi HaywireMac, On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 3:41:26 PM PST, you wrote: > Looks like you have it set not to start X on boot. No problemo. If > you want to start KDE, the most common desktop for beginners, you > can just type "kde" and hit enter (

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:16:00 -0800, Melissa Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of): Hello Melissa, >In spite of my worries, curiosity (and your encouragement!) has caused >me to install Mandrake.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 05:16 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > In spite of my worries, curiosity (and your encouragement!) has caused > me to install Mandrake. Everything seems to have gone well. I have > no problem choosing either Linux o

Re: [newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 05:16 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > Hi, > > In spite of my worries, curiosity (and your encouragement!) has caused > me to install Mandrake. Everything seems to have gone well. I have > no problem choosing either Linux or Windows at startup. However... > > When I choose

[newbie] Mandrake installed! (sort of)

2003-11-18 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, In spite of my worries, curiosity (and your encouragement!) has caused me to install Mandrake. Everything seems to have gone well. I have no problem choosing either Linux or Windows at startup. However... When I choose Linux, all goes relative