On Thursday 07 February 2002 01:46 am, Matthew Carpenter warbled: > Good luck.. I've had to use wget -cmt0 > ftp://ftp.iso.caldera.com/pub/OpenLinux/3.1.1/ or something to that extent. > Even then, it fails for what seems like forever and just keeps trying > until it gets its chance. I'm currently d/ling the Workstation ISO(s?). I > have the Server1 and Server2 and I18n ISO's . This is one big d/l
Lucky for me someone on the list had downloaded the iso's and put them on ftp so as I could grab them, I have cd.1 and cd.1a now. > > The reason is that I am using Mandrake 8.1 after giving the Suse 7.3 > > Distro a flick due to incompatabilityies with my setup. Mandrake is far > > better with my h/w but still a few annoying glitches, the worst is > > vmware. I cannot get it to 'see' the local files and system files, even > > though I have setup as normal with other distros it works but not this > > one. It uses samba but i am unsure whether that is running, ps -aux does > > not show it up. How can I check ? Thing is that networking is enabled > > insofar as I can use nutscape to get to the net. > > ps ax |grep mbd > will should bring up one or more instances of "smbd" and "nmbd" if Samba is > running. This is what I get:: bash-2.05$ ps ax |grep mbd 7848 pts/2 R 0:00 grep mbd Looks like samba is not running eh? > I feel your pain about vmware. I have been trying to get it to work > successfully on kernels configured for 64GB RAM. No go. (COLS) Funnily enough this is the ONLY distro that vmware has refused to network with. Either there is something wrong or its Mandrake -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
