On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 19:43, Cleve Allison wrote: > Ed, > I think you and I are kharmacally linked somehow. XP has started to do > really weird things to me as well after running fine for quite a while.... > MIGHT be the posibility that I may, possibly have acquired it through > dubious means..........did I say that????
Since you are on the topic, I have a Iomega zipCD. Everytime I burn Office2k and use it from the burner, something goes wrong. However, if I just burn it and then change it to my regular cdrom everything works fine. Really makes me wonder why. Not as far as you know! <G> > Something to think about.....I think a LOT of people are going to find their > XP going belly up in the near future. > I started looking at both sites that John suggested and I'm like a kid in a > candy store!!!! > I think just reading through these manuals will do wonders for my ability > even if I don't commit it all to memory the first time around. > It looks like I'll soon be able to actually compile something! > Thanks for the words of encouragement and hopefully I'll see you at the > meeting, if I don't have to work late. > Cleve. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 7:32 PM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] dual-booting W2K with Mandrake > > > > Cleve, > > > > It sounds like you and I are about at the same place in our Linux > > experience. I too am on the verge of completely dumping Window$ from both > > of my machines and becoming 100% Window$ free, especially after XP > CRASHED > > last evening (Yeah sure, XP doesn't crash. RRRRIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHTTTT! and it > > crashed to the extent that all it would do is hang up after it got well > > into to the boot cycle. Required a TOTAL reinstall.) and I still don't > have > > everything back up and working properly even though I spent over 4 hours > > last night just reloading drivers and software. > > > > To echo what John H said, Rute's Tutorial is GREAT! I downloaded the PDF > > version, printed it all out (NO small task) and am about half way through > > it, with spot reads of some of the latter sections for specific pieces of > > information. I also found The Linux Cookbook to be quite good as well. I > > have PDF files of both of these on a CD if you want a copy. If you want to > > look at either of them in printed form, I can bring them to the meeting on > > Monday nite. It is Monday nite, right John?.....:) > > > > If you are unable to find programs under Linux to replace all of the > > Window$ ones, I suggest you give Wine a try. Again, it is no small task to > > get it working properly and to understand its configuration, but it is > > worth the effort. I have it successfully running on my AMD 500 box under > > Mandrake 9. I downloaded the rpm from Codeweavers, installed it and have > > been running MixMeiser (its a DJ style beat mixing program that I haven't > > been able to find a suitable replace for yet) with about 99.5% success. > > There are a couple of things that don't work quite right but I have been > > able to figure out work arounds for them so it is nothing more than a > minor > > annoyance at this point. I have also successfully run a number of other > > Window$ apps under it, just for grins, including PowerPoint, Paint, > > Notepad, and WordPad to name a few. I initially went to www.winehq.org and > > downloaded the source for the latest release there and attempted a > compile, > > but was unsuccessful and since I didn't completely understand the errors > > that the compiler reported, I just dropped back to the binary from > > Codeweavers. This has been accomplished with very few trips to the shell > > (yeah, I know some you don't want to hear that.....hehehe) and, if I knew > > when I started, what I know now, I could have done it all from the > desktop. > > I am running KD3 3. > > > > > >I can install various distributions, set up email, networking, > printing, > > > >etc......but I'm not really there yet because I don't understand the > file > > > >system, and I don't know what tools are available to me at the terminal > > > >prompt. > > > > > >You may wanna try installing Gentoo for the experience, or especially the > > >Linux From Scratch project. These will give you a good feeling for how > the > > >kernel and filesystem work on a Linux box. > > > > Rute's has a really good section on the Unix file structure and the logic > > behind it. I would also suggest that you work through the tutorials that > > are in it. They are very well done and not "distro specific". You will > get > > a lot of "hands on" experience with the shell and most of the Linux > commands. > > > > Ed Richards > > An oldie but a GNUbie too. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
