Re: [newbie] URGENT HELP NEEDED

2000-04-03 Thread steve harris
MacMillan quickly and promptly refunded my purchase price. Original Message Follows From: John N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] URGENT HELP NEEDED Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 21:10:58 -0700 I installed, from scratch, Mandrake 7. I

Re: [newbie] URGENT HELP NEEDED

2000-04-03 Thread Jon
John N wrote: > I installed, from scratch, Mandrake 7. > > It took 2.75 HOURS - usually takes 35 minutes. > > The system is now glacially s-l-o-w with far too much hard drive activity. > > It is also reporting a 2.2GB hard drive as about 5GB !! > > Have I activated any compression system, like

[newbie] URGENT HELP NEEDED

2000-04-02 Thread John N
I installed, from scratch, Mandrake 7. It took 2.75 HOURS - usually takes 35 minutes. The system is now glacially s-l-o-w with far too much hard drive activity. It is also reporting a 2.2GB hard drive as about 5GB !! Have I activated any compression system, like the DOS DoubleDisk, by mistak

Re: [newbie] Urgent help needed!!! 7.0 version confusion

2000-02-17 Thread Wendell E. Gragg
extra apps that come with the power pack. If those are what you want, you might consider returning it and waiting. Wendell - Original Message - From: "William Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 12:13 PM Subject: [newb

[newbie] Urgent help needed!!! 7.0 version confusion

2000-02-17 Thread William Chang
Hi: I just bought a "Mandrake v7.0 Complete" from Best Buy. 1) Is it the real v7.0 or it is actually v6.1? It did mentioned 2.2.14 kernel on the box. 2) What is the difference between this one and the one that Mandrake is going to release "Mandrake 7.0 Powerpack"? 3) I know the old v7.0 I