On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 02:52:33PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
ATI refuses to support Linux
Not so.
From http://mirror.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html :
Linux Drivers for ATI products
ATI actively assists qualified 3rd party Linux developers writing
software for the majority of ATI
Paul E Condon wrote:
I joined this thread late. Now I have a better idea of what you need.
You want to preserve Windows on the old smaller drive. To do this remove the
old drive while you work at gettind Debian up and running on new drive.
Pretend everything is going to work, it probably
I am about to install Linux for the first time in the next week or two,
as soon as I finish backing up my old hard drive.
I received a WD 160 GB hard drive as a gift earlier this year, but have
not found a chance to install it until now. I assumed I could just plug
it in, but when I began
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 05:27:27PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
I am about to install Linux for the first time in the next week or two,
as soon as I finish backing up my old hard drive.
I received a WD 160 GB hard drive as a gift earlier this year, but have
not found a chance to install it
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
Linux autodetects nearly anything. Non-hardware things like PPPoE (IIRC
this is used by DSL) can be trickier. Also, there are Linux-hostile
hardware vendors out there; be very careful near wireless LAN cards,
modems, and 3D-accelerated graphics cards. (ATI refuses to
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 07:03:26PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
I am glad to hear about the autodetect, but I am a bit worried about
autodetection of my NIC (HP EN1207D-TX) and my video (NVidia Vanta on
motherboard).
I have a SpeedStream 5100b, which has a built-in router, for DSL.
That
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
If you have a local network (if you have a router you have a local
network) than you don't need to worry about DSL. If you have a working
router and a working NIC you have working internet.
It's not a real router, and I do not have a LAN. It's a router
built-in to
David Witbrodt wrote:
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
If you have a local network (if you have a router you have a local
network) than you don't need to worry about DSL. If you have a working
router and a working NIC you have working internet.
It's not a real router, and I do not have a LAN. It's a
Roberto Sanchez wrote:
I just moved to an area w/ SBC DSL service. I had it set up
a couple of weeks ago. The SpeedStream modem works no problem
with Linux. Plug it into your NIC, get your IP address through
DHCP and browse to http://192.168.0.1 to set up your connection
and what not.
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:32:38PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
DHCP means that you don't need to enter your IP address. Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol makes things MUCH easier. Even a total newbie
should know how to turn the computer off when the install doesn't work :)
Yes, this
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
My understanding of DHCP is that it is a networking protocol supported
by some specific Linux package(s). As a newbie, I know about power
buttons, but not technical alterations to configuration files in the
event that the installer cannot figure out what to do.
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 09:46:15PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
Looking in the 2.6 tree, there are drivers supporting the Highpoint 343,
345, 366, 370, 370A, and 372.
Now that is helpful information! (May I ask how and where you found
this, so I will bother other folks less in the
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
I received a WD 160 GB hard drive as a gift earlier this year, but have
not found a chance to install it until now. I assumed I could just plug
it in, but when I began reading about it I realized that my old PC
(circa 2000) cannot handle IDE drives larger than 137
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:32:38PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
If you have a local network (if you have a router you have a local
network) than you don't need to worry about DSL. If you have a working
router and a working NIC you have working internet.
It's
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
Looking in the 2.6 tree, there are drivers supporting the Highpoint 343,
345, 366, 370, 370A, and 372.
Now that is helpful information! (May I ask how and where you found
this, so I will bother other folks less in the future? The sooner I can
become
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:57:23PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
You make this sound pretty bad. I wonder if the HILUX CD is as bad as
this. It's a lot smaller, and has a lot of updated (backported)
packages for a minimal installation, which can then be finished by
downloading
Paul E Condon wrote:
I just Googled '5100b modem' and found:
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101306.asp
Reading these instructions, it seems to me that 5100b is a wanabe router,
and that it seems to have all the functionality that you actually need.
You can configure it by
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:57:23PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
I would still like to know how you looked up the info on which drivers
were supported. Is that info from the net, or from your system? Which
kernel does it refer to?
It refers to kernel 2.6.0
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 11:25:36PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:
I just Googled '5100b modem' and found:
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101306.asp
Reading these instructions, it seems to me that 5100b is a wanabe router,
and that it seems to have all
Kent West wrote:
Tony Anderson wrote:
I'm still having trouble getting my SIS 7018 onboard sound to work,
i've tried googling which suggested adduser 'myaccount' audio then
running modconf and selecting the i810 option. On selecting the i810
all i get is installation failed. Any suggestions ?
Paul Johnson wrote:
Tony Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm new to Linux and keen to experience the stability of Debian
particularly.
Welcome to the brave GNU world, my friend!
I had a limited amount of experience of Red Hat 7 a couple
of years back and have recently installed Lindows
Tony Anderson wrote:
I'm still having trouble getting my SIS 7018 onboard sound to work,
i've tried googling which suggested adduser 'myaccount' audio then
running modconf and selecting the i810 option. On selecting the i810
all i get is installation failed. Any suggestions ?
You'll need to
Hi all,
I'm new to Linux and keen to experience the stability of Debian
particularly. I had a limited amount of experience of Red Hat 7 a couple
of years back and have recently installed Lindows 4.5 which I beleive Is
based on Debian but appears to be quite restrictive.
On my first attempt to
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:35:47 +
Tony Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On my first attempt to install 3.0 r2 'WOODY' from CD, i couldn't get
past installing the base kernel. I had a more joy second time round and
got as far as getting KDE to load through X. Unfortunately it appears as
Tony Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm new to Linux and keen to experience the stability of Debian
particularly.
Welcome to the brave GNU world, my friend!
I had a limited amount of experience of Red Hat 7 a couple
of years back and have recently installed Lindows 4.5 which I beleive
I am about to install linux for the first time, and am having a few
problems: what are the symbolic links for? what do they do? They are not
being downloaded to my computer when I download the packages. Do I need
them? Also, the file sizes specified for the packages are relatively
small - 3 Kb, 4
Symbolic links are, you would never guess it: links, for example you can
make a a symbolic link by: `ln -s /var/www/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin` (if
you now cd to /var/www/cgi-bin you find yourself in /usr/lib/cgi-bin).
That about devel being 150MB is that devel is not just one package, but a
Quoting David Pilz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I am about to install linux for the first time, and am having a few
problems: what are the symbolic links for? what do they do? They are not
being downloaded to my computer when I download the packages. Do I need
them? Also, the file sizes specified for
first of all, specify what you are doing to install it, exactly. it sounds
like you are trying to ftp the distribution package-by-package from a
distro site to install this is NOT the way to do it, there is a 99.9%
chance it will get screwed up somewhere. i did it on my first install and
spent 3
David Pilz wrote:
I am about to install linux for the first time, and am having a few
problems: what are the symbolic links for? what do they do? They are not
being downloaded to my computer when I download the packages. Do I need
them?
If you're coming from the world of Win9x/NT, a
After choosing Install the Base System from the menu, the screen reads,
The base system is being extracted from
/instmnt/stable/disks-i386/current/base1_1.3tgz ...
It might be easier to download then by ftp, and store them on floppies.
That's what I did ;)
Matthew
--
Elen sila lumenn'
Hi. I'm brand new to linux and am running into a problem with my first install.
After choosing Install the Base System from the menu, the screen reads,
The base system is being extracted from
/instmnt/stable/disks-i386/current/base1_1.3tgz ...
and it just hangs there. I've tried three
Everything seemed to go smoothly, until I rebooted.PC hangs when the
hard drive is first accessed. The letters
LI appear on the screen, with a blinking cursor after the I. If I boot
from the Custom Floppy and not the Rescue/Setup floppy, I get the $
prompt.
I am a new Debian user
In your email to me, STEVENS, TIM S., you wrote:
Everything seemed to go smoothly, until I rebooted.PC hangs when the
hard drive is first accessed. The letters
LI appear on the screen, with a blinking cursor after the I. If I boot
from the Custom Floppy and not the Rescue/Setup
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