If you bought an official dist it came with nice pretty docs. READ THEM.
This list has the worst case of newbie laziness.
RTFM... An acronym to live by.
After you've done this, if your still stuck then ask your question. But please
try first. If your having trouble finding info ask where to find it, just ask
question that help you help your self.
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> OK folks:
>
> I've heard the stories of the greatness of Linux so I bought it. It's
> completely Greek to me.
>
> It's so Greek I don't know where to begin with the installation. I have
> 2 hard drives: 1) my primary C drive which has Windows 98 on it and not
> enough room to partition it and install Linux as well and 2) a new HD I
> bought yesterday just for my new happy Linux system.
>
> I am getting the impression I have to install Linux on my primary drive.
> Is this true? Can I just install it on my new 17.6 Gig hard drive which
> I have already partitioned into 2 equal sizes? If I can install on my
> new drive can I skip using the fips crap and just do a normal install?
> Then how do I set up the boot manager to ask me which OS I'd like to use
> at startup?
>
> Sorry for all the questions but that's what we're here for right?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Toby Sheets
> New Linux Fan and hoping to get in on the IPO tomorrow!!!
>
>
>
> Ian W Douglas wrote:
> >
> > Hey everyone.
> >
> > I have Mandrake 6.0 installed at my church and it's giving us some grief
> > for outgoing Email.
> >
> > Which files do I have to set to allow relaying from office systems which
> > are connected on an internal 192.168.* network?
> >
> > For whatever reason, I can send mail through the church's server from my
> > house but not from an internal office system.
> >
> > Can anyone help me out?
> >
> > I currently have /etc/mail/ip_allow filled with the IP addresses of the
> > office systems yet none of them can send mail. So I started putting their
> > system names in /etc/name_allow but that doesn't work either.
> >
> > Thanks for any info,
> > ---
> > Ian W. Douglas, Wild Web Services
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ICQ UIN: 506679
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