Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-18 Thread Richard Neal
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 12:57, Chris Deigan wrote: > And Richard, could you please explain what the big 'C' like ASCII art in > your sig is supposed to be? ;-) lets ask Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] logan1]$ wtf 8 pac-man PAC-MAN Classic arcade game let loose on the public in 1980 by the Japanese company

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-18 Thread Chris Deigan
Richard Neal wrote: >oops quick note before you login as your old user after the update do >the following after you have removed all the .filenames > >cd /home >chown -R user_name user_name/# were user_name is "your" user name >accounts name. > >this should fix any permissions problems if the

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-18 Thread Richard Neal
oops quick note before you login as your old user after the update do the following after you have removed all the .filenames cd /home chown -R user_name  user_name/    # were user_name is "your" user name accounts name. this should fix any permissions problems if the UID numbers change. On

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-18 Thread Richard Neal
Hai On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:38, Ron Daniel wrote: > Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this email cause I > just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have told me about the descent > (downgrade) on the other side. > Well Ive been running Mandrake since 7.0 ( hey wheres my sound !!?

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-18 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 06:38, Ron Daniel wrote: > Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this email cause I > just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have told me about the descent > (downgrade) on the other side. The first three times I tried to install Debian (Redhat and SuSE before)

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-17 Thread James Gregory
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:38, Ron Daniel wrote: > Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this email cause I > just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have told me about the descent > (downgrade) on the other side. > > How in the world is this FOSS stuff going to make critical mass in the

RE: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 downgrade

2003-07-17 Thread Jon Biddell
-=> Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this -=> email cause I just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have -=> told me about the descent -=> (downgrade) on the other side. Did you specify an UPGRADE rather than an INSTALL when you started (silly question, I know, but) ? -=>