Re: [newbie] Some questions with Mandrake 9. 2 and ASUS A7N8X-deluxe

2003-11-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 9:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody , I have some questions and any help is appreciated. I have installed Mandrake 9.2 on my Asus A7N8X - Deluxe mainboarded ,athlon 2500 system with ASUS FX 9560 - video suite graphic card. now the questionas are 1) I

[newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0

2002-10-30 Thread DaveA
Hi all, Just about to start reloading one of my PC’s which needs to have Win98SE (for the Munchkins games), Win2000Pro (My study - yawn!) and ML 9.0 (FUN!!!) Before I start, a few questions ☺ …. 1. Do I have to load Windoze first? 2. If I do have to, will I need to use the advanced install

Re: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0

2002-10-30 Thread robin
DaveA wrote: Hi all, Just about to start reloading one of my PC’s which needs to have Win98SE (for the Munchkins games), Win2000Pro (My study - yawn!) and ML 9.0 (FUN!!!) Before I start, a few questions ☺ …. 1. Do I have to load Windoze first? Generally a good idea. You can do it the

RE: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0

2002-10-30 Thread Kesav Tadimeti
HI, I was of the impression that Windows 98 needs to be loaded first before linux or Win2000 since it completely formats the *WHOLE* hard disk. Am I wrong? Thannks... Tadimeti Kesav KEANE INDIA Ltd. E9 - E12, SDF NEPZ NOIDA - 201 305 U.P, INDIA Telefon: +91-120-456 8210 (211) e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0

2002-10-30 Thread DaveA
it a coupla' times now and can't remember - Yes, I AM blonde) TIA, DaveA -Original Message- From: aaron [mailto:aamehl;bezeqint.net] Sent: Wednesday, 30 October 2002 9:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0 DaveA wrote: Hi

Re: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0

2002-10-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Kesav Tadimeti wrote: HI, I was of the impression that Windows 98 needs to be loaded first before linux or Win2000 since it completely formats the *WHOLE* hard disk. Am I wrong? Best to install W98 first, thenW2k, then linux, all in seperate partitions, if you have W98 installed somewhere

RE: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0

2002-10-30 Thread Lanman
Having done hundreds of dual/triple boot installs, I've always found that the most reliable way of doing the installs, was to start with Mandrake. Simply setup the partitions like I've indicated below, but remember NOT to format or mount any of the Windows partitions. Keep in mind that the whole

Re: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0

2002-10-30 Thread Technoslick
Excellent! Next one I do, I am going to do it this way -- MDK, first. Thanks, T - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:59 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Some questions regarding a new load of ML 9.0 Having done hundreds

Re: [newbie] Some questions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 12:33 am, you wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:43:31 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Am I to understand that KDE 2.1.1 is simply slow? Just out of curiosity I fired up GNOME 1.4, and it ran MUCH faster. I've heard that KDE 2.2.1 fixes a lot

Re: [newbie] Some questions...

2001-10-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:43:31 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Am I to understand that KDE 2.1.1 is simply slow? Just out of curiosity I fired up GNOME 1.4, and it ran MUCH faster. I've heard that KDE 2.2.1 fixes a lot of the slowness of 2.1.1. Is this true? KDE 2.2.1 is

[newbie] Some questions...

2001-10-22 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
1. Am I to understand that KDE 2.1.1 is simply slow? Just out of curiosity I fired up GNOME 1.4, and it ran MUCH faster. I've heard that KDE 2.2.1 fixes a lot of the slowness of 2.1.1. Is this true? 2. RPMDrake seems jacked to me. I'm trying to remove Netscape 4.x from my system and it won't

[newbie] Some questions regarding 7.2

2000-10-03 Thread George Labuschagne
Hi I have some questions regarding LM7.2 1. When is it coming out? 2. Will it have native support for the Geforce2 chipset?, This is my main reason for not using LM7.1 at the moment due to the fact that I have never used any linux before. I read some posts with people having problems with the

[newbie] Some questions!!!

1999-12-10 Thread saurabh
hi, I am using kde 1.1.1 and was tryingout different applications, out of which was a gnome applet. Somehow my menus got messed up, i do not see any 'k'apps on the menus, is there a way to fix this or to bring multiple k applications to the menu.

Re: [newbie] some questions regarding booting and win partitions

1999-08-16 Thread Sean Armstrong
I named my FAT partition as /mnt/Dos. You might have to repartion all but your windows drive and reinstall linux. I use this /mnt/Dos partition as my go between with linux and Windoze98. SA From: Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] some

[newbie] some questions regarding booting and win partitions

1999-08-14 Thread Will
all I wanted to do was access my windows partition from linux and I've created tons of errors. I was reading up on it and someone it said that there is no support for FAT32 in linux, only FAT. this was ok, I'd just set up a 2gig FAT partition to be an intermediate partition, right? I created the

Re: [newbie] some questions regarding booting and win partitions

1999-08-14 Thread Brett
Will, 1) To get into gnome, on the menu, system utilities desktop switching tools 2) To access your windows drive.. mkdir /mnt/hdax mount -t msdos /dev/hdax /mnt/hdax then just cd to /mnt/hdax replacing x with your drive number. Will wrote: all I wanted to do was access my