Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-24 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2002 02:19, you wrote: Hello George , your on the right track. You see the above creates the correct files and their text entries , after exiting VI , I cat the files and the new enties are there, but rebooting simply removes them, they

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-23 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:01, you wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Hello George, Thanks, I am afraid there is no /etc/lilo.conf, drakeX failed to create one. So, just to prove a point to myself I did LM8.1 re-install all over again, but this time I insisted drakX install

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-20 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: Hello George, Thanks, I am afraid there is no /etc/lilo.conf, drakeX failed to create one. So, just to prove a point to myself I did LM8.1 re-install all over again, but this time I insisted drakX install Lilo instead of Grub. The result is absolutely identicle.

Fwd: Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Very many thanks for your reply, (forgive me, I'm confused , your name ? ) Sorry to be a nuisance, you see there are two ways to look upon problems, You can wish they were not there , and do nothing, or say to yourself, well , this is my chance to learn something. In this case it's the

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-19 Thread g
greets john, please excuse delays, i am in and out a lot, both day and night. so i am not avoiding you, just that other things do get priority. John Richard Smith wrote: Very many thanks for your reply, (forgive me, I'm confused , your name ? ) g = george Sorry to be a nuisance, no one