At 09:27 AM 4/10/02, Derek Broughton wrote:
Nick wrote:
Hi Derek
I remember hearing about Corel, I never knew Debian was to be its successor,
almost makes me wish I started learning Linux earlier.
Debian isn't a successor to Corel. Corel, like a number of other
distributions was a commercial
At 09:33 AM 4/10/02, Derek Broughton wrote:
Nick wrote:
Thanks Nate I will do just that. As for my testimonial I only say it how I
see it. I feel confident in using Debian and where I don't understand
something there is an copious amount of documentation which is easy to find
at www.debian.org a
At 09:30 PM 4/9/02, Nick wrote:
Hi Derek
I remember hearing about Corel, I never knew Debian was to be its successor,
almost makes me wish I started learning Linux earlier.
Debian predates the Corel Distro by years. Corel thought that they would make
the Debian install process easier for the us
At 05:40 PM 4/9/02, Derek Broughton wrote:
Kemal R Seitveliyev wrote:
Well, it actually does not run very fast on my computer. Windows 2000 runs
at acceptable speeds.. Linux sort of
slows down substantially with every extra program started... I have
That sounds like you don't have a swap parti
At 09:27 AM 4/10/02, Derek Broughton wrote:
>Nick wrote:
>>Hi Derek
>>I remember hearing about Corel, I never knew Debian was to be its successor,
>>almost makes me wish I started learning Linux earlier.
>
>Debian isn't a successor to Corel. Corel, like a number of other
>distributions was a com
At 09:33 AM 4/10/02, Derek Broughton wrote:
>Nick wrote:
>>Thanks Nate I will do just that. As for my testimonial I only say it how I
>>see it. I feel confident in using Debian and where I don't understand
>>something there is an copious amount of documentation which is easy to find
>>at www.debia
At 09:30 PM 4/9/02, Nick wrote:
>Hi Derek
>I remember hearing about Corel, I never knew Debian was to be its successor,
>almost makes me wish I started learning Linux earlier.
Debian predates the Corel Distro by years. Corel thought that they would make
the Debian install process easier for the u
At 05:40 PM 4/9/02, Derek Broughton wrote:
>Kemal R Seitveliyev wrote:
>>Well, it actually does not run very fast on my computer. Windows 2000 runs
>>at acceptable speeds.. Linux sort of
>>slows down substantially with every extra program started... I have
>
>That sounds like you don't have a swap
At 08:05 AM 4/9/02, Nick wrote:
Michael
Why do you think I am making the transition to Debian Linux, I have had
enough of WINDOWS! I want to stop using Windows because the multitude of
Viruses seem to be tailor made for "Windows"! Even the best Security
software doesn't stop viruses from infiltra
At 06:26 AM 4/9/02, Michal Melewski wrote:
> Basically Nick this isn't windows. It will run on what every you want
it to.
> I'm not sure if it will run on a 286 or a 8086, but I'm pretty sure no one
> has
> those sitting around anywhere (well I do, but they're not being used).
I'm sure it won't
At 05:56 AM 4/9/02, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 12:50, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> Basically, if you have a 386 PC with 300 MB of hard disk
> space and 16 MB of memory or anything higher, then you'll be fine.
Just one clarification: Such a machine will definately not run fast, an
At 08:05 AM 4/9/02, Nick wrote:
>Michael
>Why do you think I am making the transition to Debian Linux, I have had
>enough of WINDOWS! I want to stop using Windows because the multitude of
>Viruses seem to be tailor made for "Windows"! Even the best Security
>software doesn't stop viruses from infi
At 06:26 AM 4/9/02, Michal Melewski wrote:
> > Basically Nick this isn't windows. It will run on what every you want
> it to.
> > I'm not sure if it will run on a 286 or a 8086, but I'm pretty sure no one
> > has
> > those sitting around anywhere (well I do, but they're not being used).
>I'm sure
At 05:56 AM 4/9/02, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
>On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 12:50, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> > Basically, if you have a 386 PC with 300 MB of hard disk
> > space and 16 MB of memory or anything higher, then you'll be fine.
>
>Just one clarification: Such a machine will definately not run fa
At 10:01 AM 4/4/02, you wrote:
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Shane T Williams wrote:
>
> mount : you must specify the filesystem type.
I had the same some time ago, after recompiling the kernel. Does it do it
as well if you mount it as root? I had the same problem with all the
users, but not with root, and
At 09:19 AM 4/4/02, Shane T Williams wrote:
I have just installed Debian
I'm new at this, I need to mount my A drive
I have gone into /mnt
used the command # mount /dev/fd0
but it times out I/O error, dev 02.00 (floppy), sector 0
FAT bread failed
mount : you must specify the filesystem type.
At 10:01 AM 4/4/02, you wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Shane T Williams wrote:
> >
> > mount : you must specify the filesystem type.
>I had the same some time ago, after recompiling the kernel. Does it do it
>as well if you mount it as root? I had the same problem with all the
>users, but not with ro
At 09:19 AM 4/4/02, Shane T Williams wrote:
>I have just installed Debian
>I'm new at this, I need to mount my A drive
>
>I have gone into /mnt
>used the command # mount /dev/fd0
>
>but it times out I/O error, dev 02.00 (floppy), sector 0
>FAT bread failed
>
>mount : you must specify the filesyste
At 01:37 PM 3/21/02, Olivier K wrote:
Hello Al Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ;
On 21.03 (18:01), you wrote:
> > I installed Debian 3.0 in my new laptop last night and everything
> > seems to be working almost fine. (I have not tried X however). The
> > only things which I don't like is that the cons
At 01:37 PM 3/21/02, Olivier K wrote:
>Hello Al Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ;
>On 21.03 (18:01), you wrote:
>
> > > I installed Debian 3.0 in my new laptop last night and everything
> > > seems to be working almost fine. (I have not tried X however). The
> > > only things which I don't like is that
At 03:37 PM 1/6/02, Stig Brautaset wrote:
* Carlos M.L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> i need hell witch music board, is a maestro 3, in a DELL INSPIRON 8100
Ye gods, that's the first time I have seen anyone DEMANDING hell with
the installation.. Newbies nowadays ;-)
AFAIK, it should `just w
At 03:37 PM 1/6/02, Stig Brautaset wrote:
>* Carlos M.L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> > i need hell witch music board, is a maestro 3, in a DELL INSPIRON 8100
>
>Ye gods, that's the first time I have seen anyone DEMANDING hell with
>the installation.. Newbies nowadays ;-)
>
>AFAIK, it should
It's a brand new model. I was looking to see if I was going to be the first
brave soul, or if someone else had beat me to it. I was curious if anyone
else had bought one, and played with it. Looks like I'm going to be the
first. Oh the joy. It's not that I mind being the first, but I was hoping
to
It's a brand new model. I was looking to see if I was going to be the first
brave soul, or if someone else had beat me to it. I was curious if anyone
else had bought one, and played with it. Looks like I'm going to be the
first. Oh the joy. It's not that I mind being the first, but I was hoping
to
Before I asked, I looked at the Archives. I've also checked the Laptop
HOWTOs at linux.org, and I've looked at the Linux laptop resource page
(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/), neither of them has
anything on the model I have. After looking for the information on my own,
I am g
Before I asked, I looked at the Archives. I've also checked the Laptop
HOWTOs at linux.org, and I've looked at the Linux laptop resource page
(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/), neither of them has
anything on the model I have. After looking for the information on my own,
I am
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