Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-18 Thread L.V.Gandhi
RPMs which needed dependencies might not have been installed in SUSE. As regards sane, older sane were one application. Nowadays it comes with two sane-backends and sane front ends. Those who want t use xsane, front end is not necessary. This is once again application specific. On Tuesday 18 D

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Whether it is SUSE or RH or Mandrake, When you remove an RPM, dependencies checking is a must. Otherwise some other programs may not work. It is not specific to a distro. Some rpms may not have dependencies. Remove the same rpm in any distro and see. On Monday 17 December 2001 22:13, David Mc

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have installed Mandrake 8.1 in a few machines. I am using extended operating system loader(XOSL) which is free and also comes with ranish partition manager t partition your HDDs. I have installed lilo(linux boot loader) in the corresponding linux partition. I have winme, RH7.1, Caldera Openl

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread Julian Opificius
Will do Randy, thanks. I don't remember if I was in Expert when I did the install - though I'm not an expert, I'm certainly gutsy enough to have done so ;-> One thing I distinctly remember is that there was no FUNCTIONAL "Cancel" button on most of the dialogs, which I saw as sloppiness, and it p

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat?

2001-12-17 Thread Randy Kramer
Julian, I can't help you with the boot manager problem, but I do recommend you use "exper" mode if you install Mandrake again. Initially, I worried about whether I was expert enough to use it, but it really gives you a lot of flexibility that is not present in the other modes. One example is co