Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-06 Thread civileme
On Friday 05 January 2001 21:47, you wrote: Thanks for the info civileme. If the problem is that the kernel has been patch to include udma100 and this causes the problem I have been having, is their a fix? I would love to get Mandrake working again. just for info I have the following

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Berry
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: On Thursday 04 January 2001 20:44, you wrote: Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, Something seriously changed from 7.1 to 7.2 and I have not had any solution to my problem. The install of 7.1 went without a hitch and all was well in the Mandrake world

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-05 Thread Paul Stear
Thanks for the info civileme. If the problem is that the kernel has been patch to include udma100 and this causes the problem I have been having, is their a fix? I would love to get Mandrake working again. just for info I have the following configuration:- ide0udma33 IBM6.4GB

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-04 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, Something seriously changed from 7.1 to 7.2 and I have not had any solution to my problem. The install of 7.1 went without a hitch and all was well in the Mandrake world and I was very pleased with the distribution. However, trying an upgrade caused problems, then a complete new

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-04 Thread Holly Henry-Pilkington
Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, Something seriously changed from 7.1 to 7.2 and I have not had any solution to my problem. The install of 7.1 went without a hitch and all was well in the Mandrake world and I was very pleased with the distribution. However, trying an upgrade caused problems,

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-04 Thread civileme
On Thursday 04 January 2001 20:44, you wrote: Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, Something seriously changed from 7.1 to 7.2 and I have not had any solution to my problem. The install of 7.1 went without a hitch and all was well in the Mandrake world and I was very pleased with the

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-03 Thread Al Baker
I've found that LM7.1 to be far less troublesome than 7.2, especially during installation (7.2 always gives me a blank screen/freezes during the X part of the install). Then again, I use gnome and enlightenment --which are packaged better on 7.1 as well imho. MandrakeUpdate works fine, after

Re: [Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**]

2001-01-02 Thread Viktor Lakics
civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Civileme, Thanks for the article, interesting and helpful indeed. At the beginning of the article you mentioned that the installer feels that it has to overwrite the old system. Actually I did not experience anything like that. When I installed a new system

Re: [Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**]

2001-01-02 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 10:23, you wrote: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Civileme, Thanks for the article, interesting and helpful indeed. At the beginning of the article you mentioned that the installer feels that it has to overwrite the old system. If you have a separate,

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-02 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Larry, I feel what you described in here. Maybe Mark's point was not really just have an interesting beta stuff, he wanted to fix stuff in LM7.2. But, I think my point is still valid for a lot of people's upgrades. I think stability and featurefulness needs a different approach. The

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2001.01.02 Larry Marshall wrote: Mandrake. By version 7 of anything things like print services should be stable, period. This is especially true if the features have been stable through the previous few versions and no increased facility is being provided by the change. Well, don't

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-02 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 03:08 am, you wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2001 08:44, you wrote: Hi Mark and all of you suffering from upgrades, In the not too distant past, I belonged to the same group as you. If I saw new packages (usually rpms) of the latest and greatest, I went ahead

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-02 Thread Larry Marshall
LM7.2. But, I think my point is still valid for a lot of people's upgrades. No doubt about it Victor, I maintain a box for playing. My comments were related to the difficulties of getting version 7+ of ANY operating system to do basic things without having to relearn the entire operating

[expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-01 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Mark and all of you suffering from upgrades, In the not too distant past, I belonged to the same group as you. If I saw new packages (usually rpms) of the latest and greatest, I went ahead to installed them, and a lot of times ended up reinstalling everything, sometimes the whole system.

Re: [expert] For all of you with One BIG anoying Pain in the A**

2001-01-01 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 08:44, you wrote: Hi Mark and all of you suffering from upgrades, In the not too distant past, I belonged to the same group as you. If I saw new packages (usually rpms) of the latest and greatest, I went ahead to installed them, and a lot of times ended up