Re: [newbie] Quick question

2005-02-26 Thread Teilhard Knight
Thanks. To all those who replied to this thread. Sometimes Mandrake amazes me. I never imagined it had support for hyperthreading. I thought that it was going to treat my processor as a single processor as in the recent past. If I just could solve the Internet problem I would migrate to

Re: [newbie] Quick question

2005-02-26 Thread Duncan Anderson
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: nonfb translates into booting without using the frame buffer. Basicly, writing to the screen like DOS does, instead of directly into video memory. (Simplifed explination.) This does not affect the GUI mode, only the command line mode. Using the frame buffer, you can

[newbie] Quick question

2005-02-25 Thread Teilhard Knight
When I boot Mandrake the boot manager gives me a choice between: linux-smp, linux, and linux-nonfb. What is the difference between these? That's it, thanks. Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Quick question

2005-02-25 Thread Dan Gordon
On February 25, 2005 10:25 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: When I boot Mandrake the boot manager gives me a choice between: linux-smp, linux, and linux-nonfb. What is the difference between these? I'm going to guess that you have an Intel hyperthread processor, This is what i have and so some

Re: [newbie] Quick question

2005-02-25 Thread SigmaX
Dan Gordon wrote: On February 25, 2005 10:25 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: When I boot Mandrake the boot manager gives me a choice between: linux-smp, linux, and linux-nonfb. What is the difference between these? I'm going to guess that you have an Intel hyperthread processor, This is what

Re: [newbie] Quick question

2005-02-25 Thread Roland Hughes
I believe the linux-nonfb means no frame buffer loaded in case you are having video problem. Roly On Friday 25 February 2005 07:25 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: When I boot Mandrake the boot manager gives me a choice between: linux-smp, linux, and linux-nonfb. What is the difference between

Re: [newbie] Quick question

2005-02-25 Thread Dan Gordon
On February 26, 2005 12:17 am, Roland Hughes wrote: I believe the linux-nonfb means no frame buffer loaded in case you are having video problem. Roly Sounds logical captain, hope i never need to use it :-) Thanks Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Feb 26 01:05:29 EST 2005 01:05:29 up 9:36, 1

Re: [newbie] Quick question

2005-02-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Teilhard Knight wrote: When I boot Mandrake the boot manager gives me a choice between: linux-smp, linux, and linux-nonfb. What is the difference between these? That's it, thanks. Teilhard smp is for more then one processor, or a P4 with hyper threading turned on. nonfb translates into booting

[newbie] quick question........

2004-09-28 Thread Ian
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Re: [newbie] Quick question

2004-06-25 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia pi 25. czerwca 2004 05:50, Teilhard Knight napisa: Is the so called parallel port LPT1 in the Windows world the parallel port 0 or 1 in Linux? it's lp0... -- Cezary Morga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GG# 169903 Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Quick question

2004-06-25 Thread Teilhard Knight
Is the so called parallel port LPT1 in the Windows world the parallel port 0 or 1 in Linux? Teilhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Quick question

2004-06-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 25 June 2004 05:47, Teilhard Knight wrote: Is the so called parallel port LPT1 in the Windows world the parallel port 0 or 1 in Linux? Teilhard LPT1 in DOS (Windows) = lp0 in UNIX (Linux). Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * *

Re: [newbie] quick question

2003-10-20 Thread Dale Kosan
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 08:13 am, Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the contrib directory but I have

Re: [newbie] quick question

2003-10-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 20 Oct 2003 12:40 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 08:13 am, Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use

Re: [newbie] quick question

2003-10-20 Thread Dale Kosan
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 20 Oct 2003 12:40 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 08:13 am, Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess

[newbie] quick question

2003-10-17 Thread Dale Kosan
I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the contrib directory but I have now idea how or what I am supposed to do. I have found the easy

Re: [newbie] quick question

2003-10-17 Thread Trey Sizemore
Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the contrib directory but I have now idea how or what I am supposed to do. I have

Re: [newbie] quick question

2003-10-17 Thread kosan
Trey Sizemore wrote: Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the contrib directory but I have now idea how or what I am

Re: [newbie] quick question

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 17 October 2003 08:13 am, Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the contrib directory but I have now idea how or

Re: [newbie] quick question

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 17 October 2003 08:48 am, kosan wrote: Trey Sizemore wrote: Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the

Re: [newbie] quick question

2003-10-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 17 Oct 2003 1:13 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the contrib directory but I have now idea how or what

[newbie] Quick Question

2002-12-11 Thread Chris Benedict
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Re: [newbie] Quick Question

2002-12-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:30, Chris Benedict wrote: I was wondering if there was a way to make it so that I got all the emails as a daily package instead of having 149 different emails everyday. Yes. -- Thu Dec 12 16:00:00 EST 2002 4:00pm up 1 day, 8:22, 6 users, load average: 2.45,

Re: [newbie] Quick question...

2001-07-21 Thread john
On Saturday 21 July 2001 12:58 am, s wrote: http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A -s On Friday 20 July 2001 11:01 pm, you wrote: Hey gang, What was that web address for the small program that checks if the NVidia tarball was installed correctly? Thanks, John

Re: [newbie] Quick question...

2001-07-20 Thread s
http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A -s On Friday 20 July 2001 11:01 pm, you wrote: Hey gang, What was that web address for the small program that checks if the NVidia tarball was installed correctly? Thanks, John

Re: [newbie] quick question

2001-01-22 Thread Scott Mills
opher" wrote: That's what I thought. Thanks Aston. -Original Message- From: Po Kwok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] quick question "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: > > Do I need to Fdisk a drive

RE: [newbie] quick question

2001-01-22 Thread Kelly, Christopher
then type: wq Have fun, Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it... -Original Message- From: Scott Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] quick question Hi Christopher

Re: [newbie] quick question

2001-01-22 Thread Scott Mills
PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] quick question Hi Christopher , My Name is Scott , No you do not need to do a Fdisk on your drive . If you have the info on how to edit GRUB could you send it to me , send it to (h

Re: [newbie] quick question

2001-01-11 Thread Jordan
I loaded Mandrake 7.2 recently and partitioning was automated. Just put in the CD and go. If you want to keep existing partitions it's a different story. "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Do I need to Fdisk a drive before installing Linux? I can't remember.

[newbie] quick question about blackbox on mandrake 7.02

2000-05-08 Thread freeman
I finally got a proper install on my low-end mandrake box and I decided, because it is a slower machine, I would use blackbox X session to speed things up. I actually enjoy using it and appreciate the opinions I got on this channel. I do have one quick question though. I went to the

Re: [newbie] quick question on WINE

1999-08-16 Thread Steve Philp
Will wrote: I finally figured out how to access my windows drive, so now how do I go about running some windows apps? I found 2 WINE files, wine.conf and wine.sym. how do I configure it? I looked for docs but I couldn't find any on running and configuring WINE. http://www.winehq.com might

RE: [newbie] quick question on WINE

1999-08-16 Thread Linux James
As far as Wine, you might want to check out TkWineSetup (search for it on www.freshmeat.net). Also, you can find PLENTY (and I mean plenty) of docs on the web site for Wine: www.winehq.com. On 16-Aug-99 Will wrote: I finally figured out how to access my windows drive, so now how do I go about