Re: [opensuse] suse 10.3 can't get wireless to work

2007-10-06 Thread Joe Zien
Trey Sizemore wrote: On Fri Oct 05, 2007 02:49PM, Joe Zien wrote: I downloaded opensuse-10.3-GM-KDE-i386.iso from the Novell site "download.opensuse.org" and it installed ok on my ThinkPad T60 laptop. When I first tried to install, it could not find and install my wireless card s

[opensuse] suse 10.3 can't get wireless to work

2007-10-05 Thread Joe Zien
I downloaded opensuse-10.3-GM-KDE-i386.iso from the Novell site "download.opensuse.org" and it installed ok on my ThinkPad T60 laptop. When I first tried to install, it could not find and install my wireless card so it could not install upgrades, so I had to install without upgrades. Mepis 6.5

[opensuse] opensuse-10.3-RC1-KDE-live-i386.iso, cann't install

2007-10-02 Thread Joe Zien
I downloaded and ran the above SuSE, but cannot install. 1 - There is an icon on the desktop "Install" and when I click on, get an error "Error-KDE su, su returned with an error" 2 - I guess you need a root password, what is it? 3 - Firefox doesn't work. Offline mode, un-check "work offline"

Re: [opensuse] Questions for Partitioning guru's - Solved

2007-09-11 Thread Joe Zien
Bob S wrote: On Monday 10 September 2007 01:56, Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/09/09 23:40 (GMT-0400) Kenneth Schneider apparently typed: On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 22:21 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 22:37 (GMT-0400) Bob S wrote: Here is output of fdisk -l

[opensuse] presentation to show linux

2007-06-01 Thread Joe Zien
I belong to a computer club that is 98% window$ and want to show the advantages of linux. What I need is a Impress or Powerpoint presentation to introduce users to linux. I tried google but didn't find a good presentation, perhaps someone in this forum has some suggestions. TIA jozien -- To un

Re: [opensuse] hosed my MBR

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Zien
Greg Freemyer wrote: On 4/13/07, Joe Zien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hosed my MBR Sounds like you already restored the boot code and all you need to restore is the partition table. I would use gpart to try that. Be sure to read the man page and save away a copy of your current MBR.

[opensuse] hosed my MBR

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Zien
Hosed my MBR I tried to restore the MBR on my tower with a saved backup MBR with dd if=/dev/hda etc... which I created on my laptop. Dumb Dumb Dumb.I though that they were both win XP on the 1st drive, it should work. Was I stupid to try this. Now I'm in a fine mess. I had 11 partitions on my

Re: [opensuse] I give up!

2007-01-30 Thread Joe Zien
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: steve reilly writes: hi, Im using 10.2 as well, (gnome)and have the option to choose when i click logout then options are "logout", "shutdown", "restart" or suspend"... then after i logout when on the "login" blue screen in the bottom left corner of the