Well if your in the right part of the install, I *think* its F3 it will bring
you to a shell where all the script is flying by, yes its the authconfig
or something like that which froze on mine, then I just went in and
killed it, and it went on without a hitch, then when I booted the
server up, I installed the authconfig packages manually.
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> What does CTL+ALT+F3 do?
>
> --
> Mark
>
> ** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
>
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Vic wrote:
>
> > I never had too much trouble with the Mandrake,
> > thats why I guess I stuck around.
> >
> > Sure everyone pulls their hair and whacks
> > the keyboard and swears a little bit.
> >
> > I hear alot about troubles with this ver and that one,
> > funny thing, I was able to hack my way around the
> > funky installer on ver 7.0 and I was able to install it
> > by doing a ctrl+alt+F3 I think, I just had to kill a
> > stuck process, looked like a perl script or something,
> > and as soon as I did that, the install continued instead
> > of hanging.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > I recently saw a memory chip on the wall of a computer store. It is a full
> > > 12-inches square and 2-inches thick. The funny thing is--the size of the
> > > memory is actually quite small.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the blast from the past! I was sure we had some old 'heads' on
> > > this list that were contributing answers to us newbies. You know who you
> > > are and you're terrific.
> > >
> > > <Whisper>Now all we have to do is convince the newbies that do not have any
> > > patience; that do not understand Linux; that do not know how to install;
> > > that do not know how to compile or tweek, our Mandrake is a superb product
> > > produced by a band of developers who are visionaries and thinkers. A bad
> > > attitude doesn't win awards or get much help from the list. We are,
> > > afterall, volunteers, not nurse/maids or babysitters.
> > > </Whisper>
> > >
> > > Mandrake, you're getting better and better with every new release.
> > >
> > > Pj
> > >
> > > At 09:45 AM 7/24/00 -0600, you wrote:
> > > >On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:20:52PM -0700, Anton Graham wrote:
> > > >> Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Pj:
> > > >> > From: Using MS-DOS 6.2 (QUE book) 1993
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Pg. 140; pgph 5:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > "Hard disks have changed the most. A number of technology have come and
> > > >> > gone as hard disks have steadily gotten larger and faster. Drives capable
> > > >> > of storing more than two gygabytes(two billion bytes) now cost less than
> > > >> > $2,500.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Who remembers when 10GB cost $10,000?
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >> I remember when a 20 MB drive was top of the line and cost more than
> > > >> the rest of the machine :)
> > > >
> > > >I remember when the first manufacturer of a microcomputer offered a hard
> > > >drive. It was Ohio Scientific, which made a 6502-based multi-user computer
> > > >which did everything in BASIC. The hard drive was an OEMed 74 MB 14" rack
> > > >mounted hard drive. The controller was on two cards, each larger than any
> > > >card you are likely to find today, larger than some modern moterhboards.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >--
> > > >
> > > > -- C^2
> > > >
> > > >No windows were crashed in the making of this email.
> > > >
> > > >Looking for fine software and/or web pages?
> > > >http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
> > > >Attachment Converted: "d:\attach\Re [expert] OT harddrive flas"
> > > >
> >
> >
