Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-06 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I have _NO_ experience with Windows ME - (only DOS, W95 and W98) BUT Surely you are able by some means to build an MSDOS boot floppy with suitable CDROM drivers on it to enable you to get to a point where you Why should you need it? Unless it's a really old

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-06 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I have _NO_ experience with Windows ME - (only DOS, W95 and W98) BUT Surely you are able by some means to build an MSDOS boot floppy with suitable CDROM drivers on it to enable you to get to a point where you Why should you need it? Unless it's a really old

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-06 Thread Larry Marshall
I'm from that old school which says go back to the lowest common denominator hence the suggestion. Didn't mean to suggest that your suggestion wouldn't work. But the flurry of "I've lost data", "Can't find my partition", and "why can't I get this installed" msgs have me wondering. I'll be

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-06 Thread Mwinold
why must every one make things so freaking complicated start your comp getinto bios you know where it says hit del to enter setup, or in my case F2, go to the boot menu and move your cdrom drive to the very top, save put cd in drive and reboot your done install it!!

RE: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-04 Thread Rathgeb, Mathew MP STAC
Subject: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me Is there a way around the idiotic no MS-DOS program installed to demoralize users on Windows Me, aside from uninstalling? I just bought this thing, mainly because I wasn't that impressed with Red Hat. However, I can not install due

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-04 Thread John Rye
"Rathgeb, Mathew MP STAC" wrote: Subject: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me Is there a way around the idiotic no MS-DOS program installed to demoralize users on Windows Me, aside from uninstalling? I just bought this thing, mainly because I wasn't that impressed with

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-04 Thread Dan LaBine
"John Mariotti, a.k.a Vercingitorix, a.k.a [ChaOz]-Enigma" wrote: Is there a way around the idiotic no MS-DOS program installed to demoralize users on Windows Me, aside from uninstalling? I just bought this thing, mainly because I wasn't that impressed with Red Hat. However, I can not

RE: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-03 Thread Robert Griffiths
From: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 11:42:15 -0700 I've got U.S. Robotics external, it works great, most externals work, but most inter

RE: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Mike, He is trying to install Mandrake on a seperate partition apart from Windows. He was attempting to start the install either from inside Windows, or from a CDROM setup disk. Not sure which one, but at any rate Windows ME was kickin up a fuss. I'm really not at all surprised really. All he's

RE: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-03 Thread John Mariotti, a.k.a Vercingitorix, a.k.a [ChaOz]-Enigma
-\ ---\ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 4:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me Mike, He is trying to install Mandrake on a seperate partition apart from

RE: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-03 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
I kind of figured that was the case. I'm in the process of installing 7.2beta and just before rebooting the system, I got a message that it couldn't be installed on this version of Windows (2000), so that makes sense. Not knowing the level of experience that the writer has had, I just wanted to