[techtalk] Easy question, but necessary one(:

2001-03-26 Thread wirren
How do you create a boot disk? I tried to install Mandrake on my 2nd hd last night and messed up the boot blocks(: My friend showed me how to get my comp up and running again from the windows 98 cd... but I'd feel better having a boot disk around anyways, just in case... Melanie (p.s. could yo

[techtalk] Re: Oddness

2001-03-26 Thread wirren
> It's so nice to have sysadmin friends. It's like having a doctor in > the family. That's true... but I end up owing him a LOT of beer!(: Melanie ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ _

[techtalk] Re: N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-26 Thread wirren
>Being a liberal arts major also helps to foster skills which are so >useful in other ways for real life, like how to do research or how to >write a decent looking sentence. I think when you work in a web >related field all of those skills some to good use! This is true... and it is very go

Re: [techtalk] Easy question, but necessary one(:

2001-03-26 Thread paul . hardacre
>How do you create a boot disk? I tried to install Mandrake on my 2nd hd last >night and messed up the boot blocks(: My friend showed me how to get my comp >up and running again from the windows 98 cd... but I'd feel better having a >boot disk around anyways, just in case... Do you mean a Wind

Re: [techtalk] Easy question, but necessary one(:

2001-03-26 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Monday 26 March 2001 08:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you create a boot disk? I tried to install Mandrake on my 2nd hd > last night and messed up the boot blocks(: My friend showed me how to get > my comp up and running again from the windows 98 cd... but I'd feel better > having a b

Re: [techtalk] natural language vs. programming language

2001-03-26 Thread TiMoNeiRa
Thanks Andrew, This is very helpful :) r ;o) At 14:24 25/03/01 -0500, Andrew Plumb wrote: >Hi Roberta, > >On a somewhat related note, I highly recommend picking up a copy of the >O'Reilly "lex & yacc" book. Given your background in both >linguistics/translation and programming I think you'll

Re: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.

2001-03-26 Thread Maria G Martinez
According to what I have read, the Debian Superrescue CD has native PPA (apparently the name for the zip driver??) support for the zip disk (or something like that). I have booted my puter at home with tomsrtbt before... I have never run an OS from a CD. Now that you put things in perspective to

Re: [techtalk] Easy question, but necessary one(:

2001-03-26 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> How do you create a boot disk? I tried to install Mandrake on my 2nd hd last > night and messed up the boot blocks(: My friend showed me how to get my comp > up and running again from the windows 98 cd... but I'd feel better having a > boot disk around anyways, just in case... I think someone a