Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-12 Thread kapil pendse
Hello A G! > If you still have the Xandros CD, can > you please lend it to me? If you want, I can lend you > my Mandrake 10.0 Sure you can take my Xandros CD. I anyway don't use it! But let me remind you, the cd which I have came as an image, on PCQ DVD Aug. 2004. I have burned the CD from that

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-11 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
> > > > Hmm..I read that review too. There were a lot of things that I didn't > > agree with. For eg. it says that Mandrake doesn't mount Windoze > > partitions during install. I have used Mandrake for quite some time > > now and never have I seen it not mounting Windoze partitions. > I guess that

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-11 Thread Andy
Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:19 +0530, Dr R Bhonsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello A G, Read review in Aug Digit 03 that Lycoris has very bad hardware compatibility but is very much like Windows in the looks dept. Hmm..I read that review too. There were a lot of things that

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-07 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:23:19 +0530, Dr R Bhonsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello A G, > Read review in Aug Digit 03 that Lycoris has very bad hardware > compatibility but is very much like Windows in the looks dept. Hmm..I read that review too. There were a lot of things that I didn't agree wit

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-07 Thread kapil pendse
> 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.) You might also want to try Xandros Linux. I've tried it's limited version, which I got with PCQ magazine. Instal

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-07 Thread Shantanoo
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:53:01 +0530, Pankaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > This is one of the problems which i faced in the PLUG. > I agree with Mr Dhanvi .INstead of helping newbies or other people > irresponsible luggers try to teach them the ettiquettes. Really Nice Quote: An age is called D

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-07 Thread Dr R Bhonsle
Hello A G, Read review in Aug Digit 03 that Lycoris has very bad hardware compatibility but is very much like Windows in the looks dept. If you are interested I can lend my SuSE 9.1 CD's to you. This distro will work on your pc as I have same chipset mobo but with lesser RAM& it is working fine. Wi

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-06 Thread Pankaj
Hi, This is one of the problems which i faced in the PLUG. I agree with Mr Dhanvi .INstead of helping newbies or other people irresponsible luggers try to teach them the ettiquettes. My previous mail was a request to try something on their system so that i can know whether it is a bug or not.If it

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-06 Thread Shantanoo
http://www.lemis.com/questions.html [http://www.lemis.com/questions.html#submit, http://www.lemis.com/questions.html#answer] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Very nice links for all :). Regards, Shantanoo -- __

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-06 Thread Devendra Laulkar
Hey, I would like to try Lycoris Linux. we have 2-3 machines for crash testing in our lab anyways. -Devendra. -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-06 Thread Mr. Dhanvi Kapila
guys you are here to help.. if u cant / dont have something to say that would help eliminate problem please dont respond to the mail. dont litter the thread with comments nobody cares about especially the person havin the problem.. this has been a consistent problem with this group and has forced

Re: [PLUG] Lycoris Mess-up.

2004-10-06 Thread A G
--- Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 i

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 wan

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

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