Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-25 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: > hm... well... I usually just tell it to open up all the packages on the > tree into a tree-like structure. Have to look for that symbol now. > > This raises a new Question though. I've tried twice now to install from > my HDD and heres what I do: >

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-25 Thread FemmeFatale
hm... well... I usually just tell it to open up all the packages on the tree into a tree-like structure. Have to look for that symbol now. This raises a new Question though. I've tried twice now to install from my HDD and heres what I do: Make bootfloppy with the hd.img file form the CD's us

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-23 Thread Miark
> But the full Emacs and XEmacs are. Micro Emacs was a cut down version to work > on Micro Computers. I had a copy on my Amiga, in the good/bad old days. Emacs' and MicroEmacs' feature/command commonalities may have been identical long ago when ME was first developed. But the key bindings are d

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-23 Thread darklord
On Saturday 22 June 2002 09:16 pm, you wrote: > But the full Emacs and XEmacs are. Micro Emacs was a cut down version to > work on Micro Computers. I had a copy on my Amiga, in the good/bad old > days. Ah, the Amiga I had an A1000 and other models... I still miss that "under the CPU"

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread dfox
> I know that Alsa and another sound system (forgot its name at present) should > not be run in tandem, but what else is there? I don't think there's an ad hoc list, but there are certain things you wouldn't want to try and use together -- like sendmail and postfix; i's pretty obvious that you c

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread civileme
Michael Adams wrote: >On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:32, darklord wrote: > >>On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: >> >> >> >>>What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! >>> Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, >>>f2c, R-base, amphetamine

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:39, Miark wrote: > > ...toggle to the flat list where you have a POSIX sorted list of all the > > packages you can install with your selected packages checkmarked. > > > > What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! > > Undoubtedly, you will enjoy lea

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:32, darklord wrote: > On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: > > > > > What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! > > Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, > > f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml,

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
darklord wrote: > On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: > > > >>What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! >> Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, >>f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell, >>nasm, n

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread s
On Saturday 22 June 2002 12:35 am, civileme wrote: > > Well in one of mandrakesoft's least ergonomic moments, I actually like the way they are all put in one list in alphabetical order. I think redhat's and suse's way of doing it is tedious. :P Mandrake - the lazy man's OS. :D -s W

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread Miark
> ...toggle to the flat list where you have a POSIX sorted list of all the > packages you can install with your selected packages checkmarked. > > What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! > Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, > f2c

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-22 Thread darklord
On Saturday 22 June 2002 01:35 am, you wrote: > What fun to scroll through 3000+ descriptions and package names!!! > Undoubtedly, you will enjoy learning about Xtart, prozilla, ruby, cint, > f2c, R-base, amphetamine, LISa, mercury, ocaml, happy, hugs, haskell, > nasm, nano, nedit, cooledit, an

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Thread FemmeFatale
oh its on the Cd's all right. Thats where I installed flux from in the first place. Its just not an option when installing MDK on a newly formatted partition. Miark wrote: > As I recall, Fluxbox is not on the 8.2 CDs. You'll > have to snag it from rpmfind.net. > > Miark > > > > FemmeFatal

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2002-06-21 Thread Miark
As I recall, Fluxbox is not on the 8.2 CDs. You'll have to snag it from rpmfind.net. Miark FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > when i go to install MDK I was looking for Fluxbox on the list of > installable items. > > it doesn't show up though. I found *By accident*, the "alien" packa

Re: [newbie] Installation Question

2000-10-12 Thread Larry Marshall
> When I get to specifying the partitions, I select auto-allocate and > everything looks okay (does not alter hda) but when I click done I get: > "Partition table of drive hda(which is my win2k partion) is going to be > written to disk!" . I think you're getting confused by the difference be

Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-25 Thread Fran Parker
You are not just whistling Dixie here! I lost my entire mp3 library...cause I had no place to put it while I repartitioned the drive. The library was nearly a gig in size and most of which I encoded personallyit was a great loss. Despite that ... I am back up to nearly 500 megs on my mp3 fi

Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-25 Thread Paul
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Walter Hanagriff wrote: >it wasnt confusing at all, answers are that my entire HD is dedicated to >windows, partitioning shouldnt be a problem i think. one of my other >questions on this list was about that. >i will be getting mandrake 7.1, i havent gotten it yet, am trying

Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Walter Hanagriff
it wasnt confusing at all, answers are that my entire HD is dedicated to windows, partitioning shouldnt be a problem i think. one of my other questions on this list was about that. i will be getting mandrake 7.1, i havent gotten it yet, am trying to prepare for everything before i download and

RE: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Nicholas Avenell
> -Original Message- > From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 24 June 2000 09:40 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] installation question > > > i am reading the installation documentation at mandrake > homepage to prepare myself, and a part in Installation wit

Re: [newbie] installation question

2000-06-24 Thread Paul
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Walter Hanagriff wrote: Hello Walter, I am not sure if my writing adds to your help or your confusion, but: Do you have your entire HD dedicated to Windows at the moment? You will need some space to put Mandrake. I would go for at least 2Gb. If you have that much free (= unp

Re: [newbie] Installation question

2000-05-22 Thread Paul
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Ron Greer wrote: > >If I have just a list of RPMs I want to install, is there any way I can put >that file somewhere and have that be the default loaded RPMs for a base >install? > -=Ron=- Hi Ron, This sounds a bit two-sided. A base install sounds like a new setup for

Re: [newbie] Installation Question When Burning CD-ROM Image Of 7.0

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: > Hello Newbies: >I burnt all of the files from RPM folder, > whatelse do I need to get a complete copy of 7.0? Is it better to copy all > from 7.0 folder instead? > > Thanks In Advance > Get the ISO image. *THAT* will get you a complete