Re: [newbie] Strange boot options

2004-06-04 Per discussione Brian Meadows
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:58:06 +0100, Derek wrote: On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 22:37, brian wrote: snip So most of those I understand, but anyone know what the numeric entries represent? Second question - 9.1 ran just fine on this PC (600 MHz PIII, 512 MB of memory) but once I'd installed 10.0 I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems

2002-10-06 Per discussione Brian Meadows
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)

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems

2002-10-05 Per discussione Brian Meadows
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 FX240S

[newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems

2002-10-04 Per discussione Brian Meadows
Hi all, Baffled by this one, anyone got any ideas? 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 primary slave, and a second 2GB hard drive as the secondary master). Insert the 9.0 disk

[newbie] LILO problem

2001-07-25 Per discussione Brian Meadows
Hi all, Been persuaded by the release of Kylix (Delphi for Linux) to take a look at Linux, but I'm running into a problem with multi-booting Mandrake 8.0 and Windows. The system is a Dell PIII/600, 512 MB RAM, AMI BIOS, with a single H-P CD-RW hanging off the motherboard controller, and all