Re: [junk] Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-23 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Can we please end this thread. Harm Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2001 04:51, you wrote: ROTFL! Good one! I grew up with Happy as a clam at high tide It's at least cleaner than pigs in poop!. :) Cheez, over here in Holland we grow up with: Happy as a louse on a sore head.

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-22 Thread Julian Opificius
Cheers Brian. I did reboot Win98, and my Redhat shares came back. I rebooted to Mandrake, rebooted Win98, but no luck. I suspect I may have a network configuration error. When I run smbclient on the Mandrake box thus:- smbclient //anoka/distro -U julian I get can't determine network mask for

Re: [junk] Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-22 Thread Harm Bathoorn
On Saturday 22 December 2001 04:51, you wrote: ROTFL! Good one! I grew up with Happy as a clam at high tide It's at least cleaner than pigs in poop!.  :) Cheez, over here in Holland we grow up with: Happy as a louse on a sore head. I prefer the pigs methinks:) Xmas greetings, Harm Bathoorn.

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Julian; You might want to look into getting swat working, and use that to configure samba. It deffinately shortens the configuration time. Samba can be a bear. There has been a lot of mail about it lately, check the archives as well. Ric PS: Glad to hear you got it installed running! Ya

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-21 Thread Julian Opificius
Cheers, Ric, Actually Swat came up with absolutely no sweat. I nearly fell off my chair I was so happy with it (not having been able to find it for RedHat 7.2). Seeing all the options clearly laid out made the job a breeze. I'm up and running with Samba :-) Now, if someone would only code up

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-21 Thread shane
umm, thats a good thing, right? ;) On Friday 21 December 2001 09:20, you spoke unto me thusly: Now, if someone would only code up my hide inaccessible directories option for Samba I'd be as happy as a pig in poop :-) -- It is no measure of your health to be well adjusted to a profoundly

Re: [junk] Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
ROTFL! Good one! I grew up with Happy as a clam at high tide It's at least cleaner than pigs in poop!. :) Ric On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 13:43, Julian Opificius wrote: One of the things I did for grits and shins (or more specifically, for money) in my youth back in England was work on a pig

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-20 Thread Michael Viron
Does anyone know of a list that is newbie friendly? My wife is the only one allowed to beat me up. I'm very reluctant to ask questions here because of the way people have been treated lately. I have learned a lot lurking between the flames, but it has gotten to the point where you are not

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-20 Thread Julian Opificius
Hi Ric, PS: Julian; You're good sport. You'll do OK with this stuff! :) Cheers Ric - you too :-) b.t.w. In the past hour or so I went back and reinstalled Mandrake 8.1. I was a lot more studious of options, and managed to get the installer accept the partitions I'd created in System

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:38 pm, civileme wrote: Does anyone know of a list that is newbie friendly? My wife is the only one allowed to beat me up. I'm very reluctant to ask questions here because of the way people have been treated lately. I have learned a lot lurking between

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Sounds to me like you just need to learn to run the installer. I'm sitting on a system right now that is multi-boot, with Win98, win2k, Linux, and Solaris, managed by System Comander. No problem. The Mandrake installer dropped the boot image on the first partition of the Mandrake installation

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Julian Opificius
Well let's not get too flamin' high and mighty and make judgements about each others' intelligence, shall we? An installer that destroys partitions without adequate warning, ESPECIALLY in easy mode, shows indefensibly bad programming from people who assume to know better. Learning is a

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Ed Tharp
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 18:07, you wrote: Well let's not get too flamin' high and mighty and make judgements about each others' intelligence, shall we? OK I agree, but why then did you do EXACTLY that? An installer that destroys partitions without adequate warning, ESPECIALLY in easy

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Ric
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:07:40 -0600 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well let's not get too flamin' high and mighty and make judgements about each others' intelligence, shall we? I wasn't. I was gettin' all high and mighty about people not RTFM, and then making judgements that

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread civileme
Does anyone know of a list that is newbie friendly? My wife is the only one allowed to beat me up. I'm very reluctant to ask questions here because of the way people have been treated lately. I have learned a lot lurking between the flames, but it has gotten to the point where you are

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:46:00 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Ummm, Can you install windows on a linux machine using the windows installer? Seriously, there are safeguards all over the place, even in recommended mode. You have to say Yes, use the entire disk to get the

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 18:38, you wrote: Last year, this was the place and the flames were on the expert list. This year, I would say try the expert list. I may start a list as well, but I am sure to be branded a Nazi for censoring it, and I would, too, because I believe there are

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Julian Opificius
Dang it, why do I rise to the bait this ol' curmudgeon keeps tossing? ;-) At 06:46 PM 12/19/01 -0500, you wrote: On Wednesday 19 December 2001 18:07, you wrote: Well let's not get too flamin' high and mighty and make judgements about each others' intelligence, shall we? OK I agree, but why

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Ed Tharp
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 20:59, you wrote: Dang it, why do I rise to the bait this ol' curmudgeon keeps tossing? ;-) I recognize the error of me ways, you all are so damn polite I feel guilty... please accept my humble appologize and let this thread die the death it so richly deserved so

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Mark Weaver
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:18:10 -0800 Ric [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:07:40 -0600 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well let's not get too flamin' high and mighty and make judgements about each others' intelligence, shall we?

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 20:18, you wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:07:40 -0600 Julian Opificius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well let's not get too flamin' high and mighty and make judgements about each others' intelligence, shall we? I wasn't. I was gettin' all high and mighty about

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Julian Opificius
Jeez, what's with all this heavy artillery. I didn't say it was junk. I offered the installer wasn't well written. You came at me with guns a'blazin, Ric! I've been in this business a long time, and I don't appreciate judgemental crap about lame options, not R'ing TFM, etc. I actually do have

Re: [newbie] mandrake come from red hat

2001-12-19 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ok Julian, you dragged me out again, and made me bite on another piece of bait... So this is my last-last comment on this thread. Yes, it's well acknowledged that installing Linux can, and will destroy the contents of your hard drive. It's also well documented, so it shouldn't be such a