Re: [expert] Modem question

2001-09-24 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:09, you wrote: George Jones (IT) wrote:  Does it absolutely have to be PCI? External modems work far better. George, Do you have some experience that says external modems work better?  For what reason? In my experience, internal modems work very well (as long as

Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux

2001-09-23 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:35, you wrote: Where do I find it? ISO :) preferred! Tnx Alan I think you'll find that the old mklinux will install run on your 8100 hth Alan, there are also a few others which you might try (although I can't recall 100% on the nubus compatability): The one which

Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux

2001-09-23 Thread John Haywood
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:56, you wrote: And, by a quick search on their homepage on 'nubus',  a link to a post on their support lists http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/yellowdog-general/February01/0216.html Alan, normally, you are correct, but if you follow the post above (or just do your own

Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux

2001-09-22 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 06:39, you wrote: RE: [expert] Mac-on-Linux From: Alan N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not all mac's. I aquired an 8100 from work.. Nice machine at the time (1995). This uses the nu-bus technology. I have found NO linux of anytype that will run on this

[expert] Installation on a DEC Alpha 4000

2001-09-20 Thread John Haywood
(If this doesn't classify as 'expert', then I dunno) I'm trying to install the Alpha version onto a DEC Alphastation 4000 (twin processor, 512-meg RAM, 3 x SCSI cards, Storageworks array, 2 x NICs), using the floppy images (this box doesn't boot from a CD-ROM), but each time it halts

Re: [expert] Fundamental problem with Linux on the mass markey desktop?

2001-09-08 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:43, you wrote: Just recently, I upgraded from KDE 2.1.1 to 2.2.  *Definitely* not something that non-geeks would ever contemplate or be able to do.  Noone could contemplate it on a dial-up line. poohba!!! Not only have I upgraded to KDE 2.2 via modem, but have also

[expert] Beta 2 id error

2001-09-01 Thread John Haywood
After upgrding to beta 2, everytime I pull up a console, I get the following error: id: cannot find name for group ID 501 I've checked, and this is actually a user id - the user in question can still log on fine, but it annoying... ...any ideas how to fix it? cheers Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] SU File size limit exceeded

2001-08-31 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:43, you wrote: Everytime I try to su in a terminal-window I get the following: File size limit exceeded now this only happens in X, on the console it is no problem. What did I do wrong? (It used to work, but I can't find what I changed), If it is a rtfm,

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