On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 11:31, Paul Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi. Sorry to but in here, but to add another perspective...
>
> It's not just a question of buying new hardware (something that Linux
> tends to pride itself in not requiring). In some cases, for example,
> there is no new hardware available
TECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Rodriguez
Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 12:10 AM
To: newbie
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems
Can't get a new drive for my laptop, and it's not even that old.
- Paul
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 11:07, shane wrote:
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On Monday 07 October 2002 07:04 am, you wrote:
> Whoa! That's quite a lot to ask for IMHO! By any chance, did anyone
> forget how much those download CD's cost you? Proud and Elite? Who says?
> Isn't that just a tad arrogant? I take pride in my knowledge of Linux as
> well, but an elitist attitude
On Monday 07 October 2002 06:25 am, you wrote:
> Exactly!
>
> At the very least they could redo the ISO's on-line. If you are going to
> the small effort to do so, it probably would be best to leave the the
> smaller-sized ISO set as an 'additional' choice instead of replacing the
> ones that th
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On Monday 07 October 2002 3:25 am, Technoslick did speak unto the huddled
masses, saying:
> I see this is a lack of awareness on Mandrake's part, not their failure
> to so something right. Unless someone(s) make it known to them that
> there are qui
Whoa! That's quite a lot to ask for IMHO! By any chance, did anyone
forget how much those download CD's cost you? Proud and Elite? Who says?
Isn't that just a tad arrogant? I take pride in my knowledge of Linux as
well, but an elitist attitude won't do any good here!
Did you ever consider that wi
Getting and using firmware updates from the mfg. is a great thing, if
your ROM supports them and such a site exists. I haven't checked Acer's
site in a about a year, so maybe they have a newer update for me that
will let my CDRW-6202a burn/read the larger format. Many of us have good
working R
Exactly!
At the very least they could redo the ISO's on-line. If you are going to
the small effort to do so, it probably would be best to leave the the
smaller-sized ISO set as an 'additional' choice instead of replacing the
ones that they have already done the work in creating. With future
On Sunday 06 Oct 2002 11:01 pm, you wrote:
> On Sunday 06 October 2002 11:24 am, Alastair Scott did speak unto the
>
> huddled masses, saying:
> > I have a feeling the next medium type to die off will be the 100MB
> > Zip disk.
>
> someone has those? ;-)
I have a usb LS120 drive. I bought an in
At 11:24 AM 10/6/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> the disks for Dolphin were made on 90 minute
>blanks from a spindle of 50 that I couldn't resist for the price.
We live in the same city... where the hell did you find 90 minute CD's!?
---
Femme
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 18:01, shane wrote:
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> On Sunday 06 October 2002 11:24 am, Alastair Scott did speak unto the
> huddled masses, saying:
>
> > I have a feeling the next medium type to die off will be the 100MB
> > Zip disk.
>
> someone has
On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:57 am, et wrote:
> well, to be honest, I have often found that sitting back and expecting "the
> same" from almost any group works best as far as predicting behavior. as
> long as "the same" is a long record of attempting excellence within the
> realm of "Open Source"
well, to be honest, I have often found that sitting back and expecting "the
same" from almost any group works best as far as predicting behavior. as long
as "the same" is a long record of attempting excellence within the realm of
"Open Source" and/or "GNU", I see no reason to expect any less. I
Your welcome, Brian! I'm glad you found what your problem was. Now, what
do you (and I who also have a CD-RW in my Linux 8.2 machine that won't
read 700 MB CDs properly) and the others with this problem do about it?
It seems that this will be a reoccurring theme until all of us get rid
of our o
On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 23:55:43 -0400, you wrote:
>Your 24X Mitsumi IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive (Mfg. date - circa 1997) is
>designed to read CD-Rs, BUT is limited to a max storage capacity of 630
>MBs in Mode 2 (standard read mode). You may not be able to read the
>Install CD for MDK 9 (~690+ MBs) prop
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:02:42 -0700, you wrote:
>
>On Friday 04 October 2002 7:12 pm, Brian Meadows did speak unto the huddled
>masses, saying:
>
>> I'm trying to upgrade a box currently running Mandrake 8.2
>> (Pentium 133, 64 MB RAM, one 6.4GB hard drive as the primary
>> master, a Mitsumi FX240
Yeah...that, too.
Geez... I got to stop writing these things late at night and at the end
of a long day slaving over a hot computerI'm missing the obvious, now...
T
shane wrote:
> did you install from cd boot before? my older machines (166) simply do not
> boot correctly from cd. ever.
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On Friday 04 October 2002 7:12 pm, Brian Meadows did speak unto the huddled
masses, saying:
> I'm trying to upgrade a box currently running Mandrake 8.2
> (Pentium 133, 64 MB RAM, one 6.4GB hard drive as the primary
> master, a Mitsumi FX240S as the
Your 24X Mitsumi IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive (Mfg. date - circa 1997) is
designed to read CD-Rs, BUT is limited to a max storage capacity of 630
MBs in Mode 2 (standard read mode). You may not be able to read the
Install CD for MDK 9 (~690+ MBs) properly or at all.
Is this burn of MDK 9 from the very
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