Re: [newbie] Basic question re startup scripts

2001-01-20 Thread Neville Cobb
"Henryk M. Kowalski" wrote: > > Forgive the "less than newbie" nature of this question. I'm sure there's > written info on this out there already, but I can't find it... > > In Linux Mandrake, (specifically 6.x, 7.0 and 7.2): what is the basic order of > startup scripts that are executed when t

Re: [newbie] Basic question re startup scripts

2001-01-20 Thread =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
Hello Henryk, I don't the answer either. But looking at the "From Power Up To Bash Prompt" HOWTO would be helpful. Its WWW address is http://www.netspace.net.au/~gok/power2bash/ Let me know if this was useful for your porpouses. Greetings from Mexico. F

Re: [newbie] Basic question re startup scripts

2001-01-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 20 January 2001 08:33 am, Henryk M. Kowalski wrote: > Forgive the "less than newbie" nature of this question. I'm sure > there's written info on this out there already, but I can't find > it... > > In Linux Mandrake, (specifically 6.x, 7.0 and 7.2): what is the basic > order of startu

Re: [newbie] basic question : NOW loadup speed

2000-12-31 Thread john rigby
Ha folks, I have found the same problem. M72 is far slower than Wdoze to load. Far slower in operation too. John - Original Message - From: "Revenant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 7:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] basic

Re: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-30 Thread Erylon Hines
David and Alicia wrote: > > Dear all, > > Can i install mandrake on my (shame) p200mmx 3.3gig machine? > > will it run apps faster than windoze bloatware? > > David and Alicia Sure (I'm typing this on a P200)--it'll work fine. Use at least 64M of Ram. As far as being faster than Windows, yo

RE: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-30 Thread Herman Christiani
> David and Alicia > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Herman Christiani > Sent: 29 December 2000 10:14 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] basic question > > > Hi, > Yes, you can a

Re: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-30 Thread Herman Christiani
Hi, Depends probably a lot on the machine in question, you need to have plenty of ram for the KDE desktop, but on my machine: AMD K6-2 500, 192mb ram, 18 gb HDD, there is simply no comparisation even KDE is coming up twice as fast as win98se, I'm clearing windows now off my machine. Cheers, Herm

RE: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-30 Thread David and Alicia
Dear all, I have a 200mmx with 48meg ram with two disks. C is 3.2 gig with wondoze installed E is only 540meg but is empty. How best should I chop up C to give me appropriate partition room for the mandrake install? Or should i skip this and use 'PhatLinux' instead? David and Alicia

RE: [RE: [newbie] basic question]

2000-12-29 Thread David and Alicia
ok done David and Alicia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Louis F. Brooks Sent: 29 December 2000 15:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RE: [newbie] basic question] Please turn off you request for email reciept ... it is annoying

Re: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread Penndragon
Hi Revenant I've noticed KDE to be the slowest of the windowing systems I've tried so far :( Gnome seems reasonably fast, and enlightenment also. Though I suspect something like Gnome will be more comfortable for those used to windows. James > Define "faster than windows". Using KDE I've noti

Re: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread Penndragon
Hi David and Alicia > Dear all, > > Can i install mandrake on my (shame) p200mmx 3.3gig machine? > > will it run apps faster than windoze bloatware? > > David and Alicia > I don't see why you can't. I have both Win95 and Mandrake Linux 7.2 on the one HD dual booting. I'm new to Linux myself and

RE: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread L. H. LOO
May be this is what you are looking for : ftp://ftp.linux.yucows.com/pub/distributions/mini. Regards. At 29-12-2000 +, you wrote: >Sorry Herman, our machine has 48meg, will linux run ok?.which is the > program manager and what size should i make my linux partition? > >David and Alicia

RE: [RE: [newbie] basic question]

2000-12-29 Thread David and Alicia
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Scottaline Sent: 29 December 2000 13:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RE: [newbie] basic question] "David and Alicia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry Herman, our machine has 48meg, will linux run o

RE: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread Meph Istopheles
n ok? > ...which is the program manager and what size > should i make my linux partition? > David and Alicia > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Herman Christiani > Sent: 29 December 2000 10:14 > To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [[newbie] basic question]

2000-12-29 Thread Michael Scottaline
"David and Alicia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Can i install mandrake on my (shame) p200mmx 3.3gig machine? > > will it run apps faster than windoze bloatware? > > David and Alicia Yes, and yes! If you intend to run KDE or Gnome, you might want to have 64M o

RE: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG
No shame in that! I just installed LM7.2 on my P-75, 40MB RAM, 700MB HD laptop! Ran the default install routine, and it pared it down (cut options) to fit my drive. I think you should have room for a pretty good install. Heck, I got 4 window managers on my tiny drive! Will it run apps faster

Re: [RE: [newbie] basic question]

2000-12-29 Thread Michael Scottaline
"David and Alicia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry Herman, our machine has 48meg, will linux run ok?.which is the > program manager and what size should i make my linux partition? > > David and Alicia I assume you intend to dual boot, thus the question about s

Re: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread civileme
On Friday 29 December 2000 11:00, you wrote: > Dear all, > > Can i install mandrake on my (shame) p200mmx 3.3gig machine? > > will it run apps faster than windoze bloatware? > > David and Alicia Yes, if you have 32Mb or more RAM, the more the better. Civileme