I am dying to give Linux a go, so I am trying to install Woody on my 166MHz, 16MB RAM, 2GB HD laptop. And as I stink at learning prompt commands, I need some kind of graphical user interface Otherwise I will stick with WIN 98SE which runs just fine on it. My laptop is off, off, off brand
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> I am dying to give Linux a go, so I am trying to install Woody on my 166MHz,
> 16MB RAM, 2GB HD laptop. And as I stink at learning prompt commands, I need
> some kind of graphical user interface Otherwise I will stick with WIN
> 98SE which runs just fine on it. My laptop is off, off, of
> > I am dying to give Linux a go, so I am trying to install Woody on my
166MHz, 16MB RAM, 2GB HD laptop.
The vitally important piece of information you left out is the graphics
card. XFree86 configuration is highly dependent on it.
However, you should realize that on a 16MB system you're highly
Can't find a driver that works for my built in ethernet port. The device id
is 8086:1059.
None of the obvious drivers work (eepro100,eexpress,eepro,etc). Any ideas?
Please CC me, as I am on the road for the next 2 weeks. Thanks.
Charles Lewis
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This one time, at band camp, Charles Lewis said:
> Can't find a driver that works for my built in ethernet port. The device id
> is 8086:1059.
> None of the obvious drivers work (eepro100,eexpress,eepro,etc). Any ideas?
> Please CC me, as I am on the road for the next 2 weeks. Thanks.
Try cat /proc
Thanks for the advice on the usb floppy. Now that
it's working, let me ask, it is necessary to unmount
and mount each time I insert a new floppy disk, or
is there some way to simplify the process? In the
past I would use mtools, but with the usb setup
that gives the following:
~$ mdir /floppy
C
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:00:56AM -0400, Michael wrote:
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> I am dying to give Linux a go, so I am trying to install Woody on my 166MHz,
> 16MB RAM, 2GB HD laptop. And as I stink at learning prompt commands, I need
> some kind of graphical user interface Otherwise I will stick
Well, Looks Like I have bigger problems now... I tried installing Woody and it fails when trying to load the packages I selected. I picked only the X system and laptop options on a second try... no good... guess I will have to go back to potato, huh? Why do people rave on about Linux wh
My graphics card is: Neomagic 2093 VGA... But nowhere did I see anything about it in the setup. Or any options for LCD panel display or ALPS TouchPad Drivers. SO I am basically lost... LOL! I am thinking of getting a 64MB SODIMM to put me up to 80MB... that might help a bit, huh? It looks like it
Hi Steve,
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:42:02PM -0700, steve thompson wrote:
> ~$ mdir /floppy
> Can't open /dev/fd0: Permission denied
> Cannot initialize 'A:'
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> I'm using Hotplug now which seems to work well.
> usbmgr worked but leaves some modules still to be
> loaded.
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> /dev/sda
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 22:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Could you please help me to find the recovery disk for Toshiba Satellite
> Pro-470 CDT?
You might try to contact Toshiba.
> I am tired to be asking around for help just because the display for this
> laptop quit to work. All I see is that
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:04:09PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> My graphics card is: Neomagic 2093 VGA... But nowhere did I see
> anything about it in the setup. Or any options for LCD panel display
> or ALPS TouchPad Drivers. SO I am basically lost... LOL! I am thinking
> of getting a 64MB SODIMM to p
I am installing woody on a dell inspiron 8100. I am having a problem with
installing the eth card module 3c59x. It always fails to load, yet with the
potato release it installs fine. does anyone else have this problem? and
how did they get their card working? I am unable to get any package l
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This one time, at band camp, Charles Lewis said:
> > Can't find a driver that works for my built in ethernet port. The device id
> > is 8086:1059.
> > None of the obvious drivers work (eepro100,eexpress,eepro,etc). Any ideas?
> > Please CC me, as I am on
Hi
i have a dell inspiron 7500 running a woody with a
2.4.18 kernel
i have a built in modem : Lucent Win
Modem
i would like to get it work under debian .. is that
possible ? any idea on howto ?
thks
>Hi i have a dell inspiron 7500 running a woody with a 2.4.18
>kernel i have a built in modem : Lucent Win Modem i would like to get it
>work under debian .. is that possible ? any idea on howto ? thks
The fact that it is Lucent is hopeful (mine works), but not all of them are
sup
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 03:02:22 +0200
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> i have a dell inspiron 7500 running a woody with a 2.4.18 kernel
> i have a built in modem : Lucent Win Modem
> i would like to get it work under debian .. is that possible ? any
> idea on howto ?
>
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