Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-25 Thread FemmeFatale
hm... well... I usually just tell it to open up all the packages on the tree into a tree-like structure. Have to look for that symbol now. This raises a new Question though. I've tried twice now to install from my HDD and heres what I do: Make bootfloppy with the hd.img file form the CD's

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-25 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: hm... well... I usually just tell it to open up all the packages on the tree into a tree-like structure. Have to look for that symbol now. This raises a new Question though. I've tried twice now to install from my HDD and heres what I do: Make

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-23 Thread darklord
On Saturday 22 June 2002 09:16 pm, you wrote: But the full Emacs and XEmacs are. Micro Emacs was a cut down version to work on Micro Computers. I had a copy on my Amiga, in the good/bad old days. Ah, the Amiga I had an A1000 and other models... I still miss that under the CPU

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-23 Thread Miark
But the full Emacs and XEmacs are. Micro Emacs was a cut down version to work on Micro Computers. I had a copy on my Amiga, in the good/bad old days. Emacs' and MicroEmacs' feature/command commonalities may have been identical long ago when ME was first developed. But the key bindings are

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread darklord
On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: snip What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell, nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit,

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Miark
...toggle to the flat list where you have a POSIX sorted list of all the packages you can install with your selected packages checkmarked. What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, f2c,

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread s
On Saturday 22 June 2002 12:35 am, civileme wrote: Well in one of mandrakesoft's least ergonomic moments, I actually like the way they are all put in one list in alphabetical order. I think redhat's and suse's way of doing it is tedious. :P Mandrake - the lazy man's OS. :D j/k -s

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
darklord wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: snip What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell, nasm, nano,

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:32, darklord wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: snip What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml,

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:39, Miark wrote: ...toggle to the flat list where you have a POSIX sorted list of all the packages you can install with your selected packages checkmarked. What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread civileme
Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:32, darklord wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: snip What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa,

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread dfox
I know that Alsa and another sound system (forgot its name at present) should not be run in tandem, but what else is there? I don't think there's an ad hoc list, but there are certain things you wouldn't want to try and use together -- like sendmail and postfix; i's pretty obvious that you

[newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Thread FemmeFatale
when i go to install MDK I was looking for Fluxbox on the list of installable items. it doesn't show up though. I found *By accident*, the alien package while browsing hte CD in windows. Why don't those kind of packages show up in the installation RPM screens when I go to put Linux on my

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Thread Miark
As I recall, Fluxbox is not on the 8.2 CDs. You'll have to snag it from rpmfind.net. Miark FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: when i go to install MDK I was looking for Fluxbox on the list of installable items. it doesn't show up though. I found *By accident*, the alien package

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Thread FemmeFatale
oh its on the Cd's all right. Thats where I installed flux from in the first place. Its just not an option when installing MDK on a newly formatted partition. Miark wrote: As I recall, Fluxbox is not on the 8.2 CDs. You'll have to snag it from rpmfind.net. Miark FemmeFatale

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2000-10-12 Thread Larry Marshall
When I get to specifying the partitions, I select auto-allocate and everything looks okay (does not alter hda) but when I click done I get: "Partition table of drive hda(which is my win2k partion) is going to be written to disk!" . I think you're getting confused by the difference

Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-25 Thread Paul
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Walter Hanagriff wrote: it wasnt confusing at all, answers are that my entire HD is dedicated to windows, partitioning shouldnt be a problem i think. one of my other questions on this list was about that. i will be getting mandrake 7.1, i havent gotten it yet, am trying to

Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-25 Thread Fran Parker
files ... all my encoding :) Bambi Nicholas Avenell wrote: -Original Message- From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 June 2000 09:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installation question i am reading the installation documentation at mandrake

[newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Walter Hanagriff
i am reading the installation documentation at mandrake homepage to prepare myself, and a part in Installation with Drakx it says: Now you need to specify in DrakX where the various partitions on the hard disk(s) will be mounted. In Recommended mode, normally you won't have anything to do.

Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Paul
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Walter Hanagriff wrote: Hello Walter, I am not sure if my writing adds to your help or your confusion, but: Do you have your entire HD dedicated to Windows at the moment? You will need some space to put Mandrake. I would go for at least 2Gb. If you have that much free (=

RE: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Nicholas Avenell
-Original Message- From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 June 2000 09:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installation question i am reading the installation documentation at mandrake homepage to prepare myself, and a part in Installation with Drakx

Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Walter Hanagriff
it wasnt confusing at all, answers are that my entire HD is dedicated to windows, partitioning shouldnt be a problem i think. one of my other questions on this list was about that. i will be getting mandrake 7.1, i havent gotten it yet, am trying to prepare for everything before i download and

[newbie] installation question

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew Shissler
I'm having a problem installing Mandrake Linux on my PC. It's a 200MHz Pentinum. Whenever I run the install program from the Installation CD from my PC, I select that I want to install Linux on a Windows partition. Then the PC reboots. From the text message on the screen it looks like install

[newbie] Installation question

2000-05-22 Thread Ron Greer
If I have just a list of RPMs I want to install, is there any way I can put that file somewhere and have that be the default loaded RPMs for a base install? -=Ron=-

Re: [newbie] Installation question

2000-05-22 Thread Paul
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Ron Greer wrote: If I have just a list of RPMs I want to install, is there any way I can put that file somewhere and have that be the default loaded RPMs for a base install? -=Ron=- Hi Ron, This sounds a bit two-sided. A base install sounds like a new setup for

[newbie] Installation Question When Burning CD-ROM Image Of 7.0

2000-01-26 Thread John F. McClinton
Hello Newbies: I burnt all of the files from RPM folder, whatelse do I need to get a complete copy of 7.0? Is it better to copy all from 7.0 folder instead? Thanks In Advance

Re: [newbie] Installation Question When Burning CD-ROM Image Of 7.0

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello Newbies: I burnt all of the files from RPM folder, whatelse do I need to get a complete copy of 7.0? Is it better to copy all from 7.0 folder instead? Thanks In Advance Get the ISO image. *THAT* will get you a complete copy