Re: lilo as boot manager possible ?

2000-03-20 Thread matthschulz
I'd strongly suggest to read and understand LILO-Docs before Yuo start, so You know, what You are doing. Matth On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Laurent Martelli wrote: > > "Benjamin" == Benjamin F Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Benjamin> Hi, I have a Win98 and a Linux installed on my notebook

Re: Purchasing a laptop::Anyone fully satisfied with theirs?

2000-03-20 Thread Heather
>> [...] >> It's now the house token Windows box - we don't even try to use its floppy >> bay anymore. (I bought it a Imation pcmcia LS-120. Guess which OS does not >> support this widget... > > Is it feasible to do away with floppies, zip drives, and > the above similar type drives and just u

Re: Purchasing a laptop::Anyone fully satisfied with theirs?

2000-03-20 Thread gbh
> [...] > It's now the house token Windows box - we don't even try to use its floppy > bay anymore. (I bought it a Imation pcmcia LS-120. Guess which OS does not > support this widget... Is it feasible to do away with floppies, zip drives, and the above similar type drives and just use PCMCIA

Re: Sony vaio

2000-03-20 Thread stephan
Tim Ryder wrote: Does anyone have any info on getting the sony cd51 pcmcia cd player to work with debian it installs itself at ide2=0x180,0x386 I am using the sony vaio n505ve I myself am having a bit of trouble getting the CD-ROM to work on a 505VE. The problem I have is hdc lost interrupt (I i

Re: Purchasing a laptop::Anyone fully satisfied with theirs?

2000-03-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Heather wrote: >I have to admit I've seen very few models with built-in ethernet as yet, and >I'm personally dubious how much of an advantage that is -- in cost, some >vendors charge enough premium for the uncommon feature it might have been >cheaper to get a card, and I wonder

Re: Great X on CPQ Armada1110, just special German keys don't work.

2000-03-20 Thread Heather
> Hi Debianers, > > thank all the helps and tips I got from you at this great list, I > successfully setup X on my good old CPQ Armada1110 (P75, 2GB, 24MB RAM) > with German keyboard. There is nothing I can complain about performance > compared to Win98. Really great > ! > > Everything works f

Re: Purchasing a laptop::Anyone fully satisfied with theirs?

2000-03-20 Thread Heather
> It does not have built in Ethernet, and it cost me $3400 last year ($200 of > which was for RAM). Now it would be cheaper. I have to admit I've seen very few models with built-in ethernet as yet, and I'm personally dubious how much of an advantage that is -- in cost, some vendors charge enou

Re: thinkpad , debian doesn t start

2000-03-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:51:50PM +, dom wrote: > Hello, > I installed Debian GNU/Linux on a IBM Thinkpad 600 type 2645 450 from > CD linux central. The machine have 2 Gb linux partition with swap 64Mb > , the same in RAM. The first partition is with WindowsNT 1.8 Gb. I > followed all the step

Re: Realplayer on Thinkpad 390E

2000-03-20 Thread Alexander Zangerl
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:33:44 CST, Bryan Walton writes: > I have a Thinkpad 390E running frozen and am having a problem with >my RealPlayer. Sound works fine on my laptop. I can play CDs, .wav >files, mp3s, etc. However, I can't get sound to work correctly on my >RealPlayer. Basically, the

Great X on CPQ Armada1110, just special German keys don't work.

2000-03-20 Thread Benjamin F. Zhou
Hi Debianers, thank all the helps and tips I got from you at this great list, I successfully setup X on my good old CPQ Armada1110 (P75, 2GB, 24MB RAM) with German keyboard. There is nothing I can complain about performance compared to Win98. Really great ! Everything works fine now, except the

Realplayer on Thinkpad 390E

2000-03-20 Thread Bryan Walton
Greetings all, I have a Thinkpad 390E running frozen and am having a problem with my RealPlayer. Sound works fine on my laptop. I can play CDs, .wav files, mp3s, etc. However, I can't get sound to work correctly on my RealPlayer. Basically, the sound plays about three times faster than

thinkpad , debian doesn t start

2000-03-20 Thread dom
Hello, I installed Debian GNU/Linux on a IBM Thinkpad 600 type 2645 450 from CD linux central. The machine have 2 Gb linux partition with swap 64Mb , the same in RAM. The first partition is with WindowsNT 1.8 Gb. I followed all the steps in instalation , putting CD#2 to start and CD#1 to install ba

Re: Purchasing a laptop::Anyone fully satisfied with theirs?

2000-03-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, esoR ocsirF wrote: >I hope this is not to far off topic. I am purchasing a new laptop for >the Science Journal at my school. I was hoping that I could get some >feed back on fairly recent laptops that are around $3000 and *fully* >functional under debian. I was hoping for somet

Betr.: debian on a 386 ?

2000-03-20 Thread oer . almeida
Hi, YES, you can. But you need >4MB RAM. Try Debian 1.3.1, it's based on libc5 and not so big as glibc (Debian 2.x). I run Debian on a very old IBM L40sx (386SX), but without X. Or you try a small dist... Bye, Antonio Am Sun, 19 March 2000 schrieb "Bionanou": > > I > > I have a Samsung

Installation on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT

2000-03-20 Thread Bill Caskey
After running Red Hat 6.0 for about 8 months on my laptop, I'm trying to convert to Debian. I'm using the CD that accompanies Bill McCarty's book and "Running Linux" for additional help. I've got the system installed but I have two questions that I've been unable to decipher looking through the arc

Re: Purchasing a laptop::Anyone fully satisfied with theirs?

2000-03-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, esoR ocsirF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, I hope this is not to far off topic. I am purchasing a new > laptop for the Science Journal at my school. I was hoping that I could > get some feed back on fairly recent laptops that are around $3000 and > *fully* functional