RE: Newbie: Connection progress and ftp probs

1998-05-01 Thread Gerald Carl Wieder
Thanks, Jack. Seeing what was going on was most important of all. Found out I had a chat problem...Found a couple of other info sources on the WWW...should be able to puzzle it out now. > -Original Message- > From: Jack Byers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 1998 1

Newbie: Connection progress and ftp probs

1998-04-30 Thread Gerald Carl Wieder
Hi all, Well I've finally gotten RH5 and XFree86 running not too badly on my machine. I've also configured (I think) the PPP networking setup for my local provider. However, after dialup, I'm not able to see if a connection is actually made, or what sort of progress my dialup attempt is making.

RE: Linux Is Windows NT's Biggest Threat (http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/database/

1998-04-28 Thread Gerald Carl Wieder
> -Original Message- > From: Simon Liddington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 27, 1998 12:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux Is Windows NT's Biggest Threat > This could bring new meaning to the term "crash team" in hospitals (UK > ones at least) - not only

RE: Linux in 24 hours....Hour 2

1998-04-25 Thread Gerald Carl Wieder
I was through exactly the same thing about 3 hours ago (first time Linux user here). I couldn't log in under "root" until I'd removed the installation CD from the drive. Go figger... Now I'm trying to get X going. Cheers. > -Original Message- > From: Regina Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: Newbie problem: "Boot failure" when installing RH5

1998-04-25 Thread Gerald Carl Wieder
Got RH5 installed. The key was creating the boot.img disk from DOS. As you suggested, NT4 somehow screws up the rawrite process. Thanks again. > Apologies for the RTF and thanks for the tips from all. I'll give some of > it a try, and let y'all know how it goes. Thanks again. -- PLEASE

RE: Newbie problem: "Boot failure" when installing RH5

1998-04-24 Thread Gerald Carl Wieder
Apologies for the RTF and thanks for the tips from all. I'll give some of it a try, and let y'all know how it goes. Thanks again. > -Original Message- > From: Trenton D. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 24, 1998 2:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Newbie

Newbie problem: "Boot failure" when installing RH5

1998-04-24 Thread Gerald Carl Wieder
Hi, I'm new to the list, and the world of Unix/Linux in general. I picked up Macmillan's package for Linux 5 at the local Best Buy, and attempted an install for the first time. I created the boot.img and supp.img disks as instucted and and got an error message: "Boot failure: change disks and