[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #169 - 13 msgs

2000-08-21 Thread Lyric .
Jen:- The best place i have found so far to download Linux ISOs is definitely Tucows. ftp.linux.tucows.com >From there i just downlaod Mandrake 7.1, SuSE 6.4 and Debian 2.2 Potato. Take a look, you migth find something you want to try out. Thanks A >From: "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To:

[techtalk] VMWare Question

2000-08-24 Thread Lyric .
Hi there I'm just wondering if anyone out there has any experience with VMWare for Linux 2.0. I'm thinking about purchasing it and installing it at home so I can run Windows if I need to. My system is an Athlon 650 with 128 megs of RAM. Thanks

[techtalk] building a new linux mahine

2000-09-01 Thread Lyric .
Hey everybody, I'm relatively new to Linux, ut I've found I've been able to pick up what I need fairly quickly. My problem today is that I plan to buy parts and build a new machine strictly for Linux. I just want to make sure that everything will work by asking whther or not any of you have

[techtalk] RE: Harddrive problems with Lilo

2000-09-08 Thread Lyric .
I know that the best and easiest way to do what you desire is to wipe everything out, and install Linux first, being sure to et aside the drive(s) that you want for NT with either no partition on them at all, or blank partitions. (Some linux distros have installers that freak when there is

[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #197 - 7 msgs

2000-09-15 Thread Lyric .
I've been loking into doing the same, I would highly recommend that oyu check out the book Linux Clusters by O'Reilly and asociates. Tht book has thus far answered every question i had, and it comes with a CD which includes a multitude of clustering software. It goes into depth on Beowulf L

[techtalk] problems with new X

2000-09-17 Thread Lyric .
Hi all, I'm having some problems with the new XFree86 4.0.1 that I just installed. The install went off without a single hitch and produced no errors whatsoever, but unfortunately I have another problem. Whenever I start X it produces no error messages, but starts up with a white screen and

[techtalk] Re: legal signature

2000-11-06 Thread Lyric .
I have to agree, I do technical support for a small softwre company in Ontario and I keep seeing these huge long "this doesn't apply to a dmna thing here but I'm too lazy to delete it from the bottom of my mesage" signature files. That has to be one of my biggest annoyances when doing email s