Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 08:05 AM 6/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Monday June 16 2003 05:21 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 07:41 AM 6/16/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > > > > > If you're really d/l'g Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso it > > isn't a rar archive and winrar won't extract it. It just needs > > to be burnt to a cd

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 16 June 2003 11:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16 Jun 2003 at 21:09, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Think we should tell crak600 that the appropriate screws to retain a > > Philips CD drive would have Phillips heads? Therefore, he'll need what > > some electrical engineers refer to as "

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 16 2003 05:21 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 07:41 AM 6/16/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > > > > > If you're really d/l'g Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso it > > isn't a rar archive and winrar won't extract it. It just needs > > to be burnt to a cd as an image, not a data file. .iso are

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-17 Thread g
eric huff wrote: < http://www.samsungodd.com/eng/LiveUpdate/FWvercheck/FWvercheck.asp thanks for passing link. will pull later. i have been using norton to find most of what i have needed to know of ms os's. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, s

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-17 Thread g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Jun 2003 at 21:09, Carroll Grigsby wrote: < Think we should tell crak600 that the appropriate screws to retain a i'm relatively young (almost 26)but my dad has been an electrical did he tell you; how to reverse a circuit breaker? remove, re insert backwards.

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 16 June 2003 12:12 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > Have you tried Belarc Advisor to get you drive model? It installs in a > few seconds, runs (creating a local html file) and displays in your > default browser a pretty extensive summary of you computers hardware as > well as software in

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 16 June 2003 10:21 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > will physically take computer apart in a little bit here and get > > the model number of the CD drive. > > > > and will physically take it apart by removing the appropriate > > screws,

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i told it to download NOT as an .rar file and it still downloaded that way anyway. it's a little stack of books, not a wavy flag on a single page. ok. do files have a '.iso' or '.rar' extension? if '.rar', did you try changing extent to '.iso' and try a burn? will p

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: I have a niggling feeling that I have read something about Phillips drives, but for the life in me I can't remember what or where. phillips drives had some problems a while back, somewhere around 24x time, iirc. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree,

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:17:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body > On 16 Jun 2003 at 13:25, g wrote: > > > > > > > JoeHill wrote: > > > > > IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little > > > stack of books icon), I think that is the c

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > will physically take computer apart in a little bit here and get > the model number of the CD drive. > > and will physically take it apart by removing the appropriate > screws, not by getting a hammer :P LOL - you'll get there. Stick wit

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 1:23 pm, g wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > The best bet is to follow g's line of questioning, to help him > > find out whether he actually has the capability at this moment. > > maybe. i am going on experience of what i have run across here in > u.s. of a., a whole lot of cdrw

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread crak600
On 16 Jun 2003 at 13:25, g wrote: > > > JoeHill wrote: > > > IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little > > stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really > > a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what > > it *thinks* it is...

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread g
JoeHill wrote: IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what it *thinks* it is... ms windows is 'stupid'. yet, in w98se, a '.iso' file shows

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: The best bet is to follow g's line of questioning, to help him find out whether he actually has the capability at this moment. maybe. i am going on experience of what i have run across here in u.s. of a., a whole lot of cdrw drive dumping, to make way for a lot of 4x dvd driv

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 16 2003 01:44 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows > program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative > but I bet there is one. unrar-3.20-0.beta2.1plf rpm. I use it everyday usin FileRoller as the GUI fr

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 7:44 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > Hi > > Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows > program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative > but I bet there is one. > > If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and > inst

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: win98se are you updated? w98se oem, w/o updates may not have correct support .dll's etc, for cd burner and nti 2k+ may not fully support a non updated w98se. sofware houses think every body updates. 4 - what is model of cd burner? _this_is_a_must_know_ to find out if bu

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and install it to extract the image. Don't wor

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-15 Thread crak600
Yeah, i've been frustrated. i've got one computer (the PC) that for some reason i can't get linux to load on, and my laptop is DOA for an unknown reason (has something to do with an accidental drop a while back, but it worked afterwards). I've been extremely frustrated with both all day, as i

RE: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-15 Thread walt
[ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 7:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm resisting buying a copy of the software as well, as i don't feel i should have to pay even 2 cents for an operating syste

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-15 Thread g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, someone needs to explain to me WTF i'm supposed to do here, i have been following this thread thru your various 'subject:' lines and can well imagine state of mind you may be in. if you would, please answer a couple of questions; 1 - where are you trying to download