RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Thread Franki
]]On Behalf Of Damian G Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO I timed OO and it opened in 20 secs. Using 900mhz Duron and a 40gig 7200rpm uhm we were talking about old ( i.e. Pentium 233 ) machines.. :o) Maxtor hd

RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO Sorry, missed that part of the thread. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Damian G Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing

RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO I found it here: Looks like 7.0 anyhoo, ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/ HTH, Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Gilbert Sent: Tuesday

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Thread Alastair Scott
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:15, Damian G wrote: As i stated in an earlier post, i still have not attempted to load OpenOffice in my 233mhz/32MB Ram machine. however Word97 runs very acceptably on it. There are a couple of preloading applications around for OOo:

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 6:25 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:15, Damian G wrote: As i stated in an earlier post, i still have not attempted to load OpenOffice in my 233mhz/32MB Ram machine. however Word97 runs very acceptably on it. There are a couple of preloading

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Thread et
I wonder if you have compared how fast OO opens in linux the second time? On Wednesday 18 September 2002 12:15 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:05:06 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: your forgetting that M$ office preloads libs when you start your PC, just like IE so it

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Thread Damian G
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 9:15 am, Damian G did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: PS: This is a note for anyone reading this post: I really don't feel like starting a OO vs. MSO war. I think i provided enough info for anybody to try this test for themselves, so i

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-18 Thread Damian G
I wonder if you have compared how fast OO opens in linux the second time? hm.. actually, i haven't... you are right, it does start faster.. but still i think there's no comparison.. the difference is not that great. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:19, Damian G wrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:01:36 -0400 Richard Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:45:56 -0300, Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:02:41 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
THANKS EVERYBODY who responded to this question, BUT... I still have some significant problems... (1) WHERE can I obtain Mandrake 7.0 ??? The site appears to have 8.1 only. (2) HOW can I install it from a 3.5 floppy? This is my only choice. Please HELP! Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Gilbert wrote: THANKS EVERYBODY who responded to this question, BUT... I still have some significant problems... (1) WHERE can I obtain Mandrake 7.0 ??? The site appears to have 8.1 only. (2) HOW can I install it from a 3.5 floppy? This is my only choice. Please HELP! I still

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 September 2002 8:36 am, Richard Gilbert did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: (1) WHERE can I obtain Mandrake 7.0 ??? The site appears to have 8.1 only.

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
Shane, Now I am back to where I started -- this is what I downloaded, and it is 8.1 Please advise Richard - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
Yes, I have done this -- they are all 8.1 in this section. I'm about to give up. - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 September 2002 10:09 am, Richard Gilbert did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Yes, I have done this -- they are all 8.1 in this section. I'm about to give up. i am concerned then, cause i have it open now, and it has no 8.1,

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 September 2002 10:09 am, Richard Gilbert did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Yes, I have done this -- they are all 8.1 in this section. I'm

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 10:36 am, Richard Gilbert wrote: THANKS EVERYBODY who responded to this question, BUT... I still have some significant problems... (1) WHERE can I obtain Mandrake 7.0 ??? The site appears to have 8.1 only. (2) HOW can I install it from a 3.5 floppy? This is my

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
I can not view the cd, but my BIOS does not allow me to boot from a cd! Can I create floppies? - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Bill Spatz
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 15:50, Richard Gilbert wrote: I can not view the cd, but my BIOS does not allow me to boot from a cd! Can I create floppies? How did you burn the ISO if your machine can't see the CD? You have another machine? If so, take the CD to the machine you burned with

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
the CD to start the install process that way? Right? If I repeated what has already been said, sorry. Paul - Original Message - From: Richard Gilbert Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO I can not view the cd, but my BIOS does

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Richard Gilbert
Bill, I am stuck at the following: D:\IMAGES/dosutils/rawrite I get: d:\dosutils\rawrite.ext is not a valid Win32 application. - Original Message - From: Bill Spatz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 09:27 pm, Damian G wrote: What about openoffice with the above setup? If that also runs reasonably good, then for office users can get benefit from your experience. will try it soon. however i do not expect OO's startup time to be under a minute. given the

Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO

2002-09-17 Thread Damian G
I timed OO and it opened in 20 secs. Using 900mhz Duron and a 40gig 7200rpm uhm we were talking about old ( i.e. Pentium 233 ) machines.. :o) Maxtor hd. Not super fast but not any worse than MSword. Oh, this is on 9.0rc1. ML 9.0 seems to be faster than 8.2 anyhoo, just an