Melanie,
It would be a real good idea if you were to disable Aurora and use
something like LILO until you get all the kinks worked out. Laptops are a
very tricky little buggers. Compaq laptops living near the top of a list
of problematic installations. The best thing you can do is keep things as
simple as possible till you get all the necessities nailed down.
--
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
* REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496
*/
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On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 Melanie Vida had this to say!
> Dear All,
>
>
> I'm new to using unix for pc's. In fact, I've typically used UNIX
> on solaris. I love unixs' flexibility, and I learn something new everyday,
> so I try to install LINUX, Mandrake on my laptop.
>
> I've tried many times to install linux on my compaq presario laptop model
> 1237. the most success i've had is very limited. now, I'm stuck at aurora
> in the boot process. please point me to any useful advise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> melanie
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Anthony wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > 1. is it possible to combine kmail into konquerer
> > >
> > > As in use Kmail to send email from Konquerer? Mine is set up like that from
> > > installation.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 2. what is magellan
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure that it is the next generation of Kmail, and is supposed to
> > > be like Outlook for Linux. Basically it's a really good mail client that is
> > > still in extreme beta, if it is even still being worked on.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Anthony
> > > http://binaryfusion.net
> > > Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
> > >
> >
> >
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