RE: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-05 Thread Aditya_Godbole
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Viraj Paripatyadar > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 12:14 PM > To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up. > > BTW, if anyone wants to try out Turbolinux 10

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-05 Thread Viraj Paripatyadar
--- Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my (loong back) experience, CDs by PCQuest etc > are customized enough and I > would not recommend them for vanilla experinece. > > Another option is you can pay PLUG minimum price and > get your own CD set which > is guaranteed to be as

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-05 Thread Andy
Shridhar Daithankar wrote: In my (loong back) experience, CDs by PCQuest etc are customized enough and I would not recommend them for vanilla experinece. How long before moving to Slackware? I still have those two PC Quest CD's which I think were a real treat. First was the Slackware 4.0 and then

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-05 Thread Andy
A G wrote: I am a re-newbie to Linux. A couple of weeks ago I got "re-newbie"... Meaning once a guru but now again a newbie? he he :-)) Before I comment anything, _Rule of thumb 1_ *Never ever* press the panic button whenever in trouble. Now be it as simple as a messed up Linux install ;-) _Rule of

[PLUG] Linux does not detect SATA Hdd pls suggest work around

2004-10-05 Thread sudhanshu kulkarni
hello, linux 9.0 does not detect SATA HDD. Please anyone could give reason for this ? And also work around for this 1 option I tried was seting BIOS to legacy mode from enhanced but eventually the HDD was not detected . being a SATA HDD it requires enhanced mode only . motherboard in

[PLUG] Articles on GNU philosophy

2004-10-05 Thread Devendra Laulkar
Hi all, I would like to know if anybody has a collection of articles, art, videos, etc on GNU/OSS movement. Not just written by RMS but by anybody. If anybody has such a collection, then please contact me onlist/offlist. Does Plug have such a CD? If nobody has such a collection, then I

RE: [PLUG] Minimum size required for ReiserFS partition

2004-10-05 Thread sudhanshu kulkarni
Hello Everybody, I was trying to install red hat linux on Seagate SATA HDD. It has some partitions fro Windows and some is left unallocated. I was planning to format unallocated part while installation. But while installing the hard drive was not detected. Do not know why this happens ? Could anyon

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-05 Thread Viraj Paripatyadar
Hi A, well, though I can't tell u much about Lycoris or why it messed up with ur system, I can say something about ur other question(&maybe a little about that first one, too :-) ). First, as I found out, the only way to get comfortable with linux is to keep using it, no matter what happens. That

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 05 Oct 2004 6:41 pm, Viraj Paripatyadar wrote: > Next, there are quite a few Desktop versions of all > the major players in the market right now(of course > not free), ranging from 800/- to a little over 4000/- > in price. A better way to judge would be to keep in > touch with the issues

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-05 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 04:35:47 +0100 (BST), A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a re-newbie to Linux. A couple of weeks ago I got Get Mandrake 10.0 you'll love it, Fedora Core 2 also screws up Windoze partitions... -- "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie."

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-05 Thread Shantanoo
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 04:35:47 +0100 (BST), A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > > Can anyone tell me what could hv gone wrong? My C: is > 10 GB, D is 10, E is 15 GB and F is the remaining of > the total of 40 GB. > Is its because lycoris cant recognise large > partitions. I remember in year

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-05 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:05 am, A G wrote: > Can anyone tell me which linux works fine as a good > desktop? It should atleast be as easy to use as > win98se. (Btw, before this linux mess-up, my win98se > worked fine for 5 years.) > Mandrake 10.0 or SuSe 9.1 would get my vote. I guess Fedora i

[PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-05 Thread A G
Hi All, I am a re-newbie to Linux. A couple of weeks ago I got my hands on Lycoris linux. When I tried to install lycoris, it screwed my hdd big time. It never booted - which it should have, it never gave me the dual boot option - which it should have. I could boot from my dos floppy and access C:

[PLUG] Re: Conexant HSF Internal modem drivers

2004-10-05 Thread rada and gus
> I want Conexant HSF Internal modem drivers for SuSE 9.1 and for Fedora > Core1. This is the site for the hsf driver. http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full You have to make sure whether it is an hsf versus hcf modem. There is a tool from their website which will help determine that. The