Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-07-01 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Civileme (and everyone), I would love to know what dmesg says... That CD problem is NOT a common report, and they have a lot of trouble fixing what they cannot duplicate. I beg to differ - I had posted the problem here a couple weeks ago, and this was followed by two other people reporting

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-07-01 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 29-Jun-00 by Bob Puff@NLE: I was getting a ton of "conf.modules is more recent than ..." messages. I found someone's suggestion of simply changing the date/time on the referenced file, and it went away. But why was this check done? It filled my logs with TONS of these messages.

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-30 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
OH!! My bad - you're the one corresponding with Civilme on UDMA66, yes? Me thinks you're in good hands, Mike I am sorry...I should havce changed the subject line...I was responding to someone with a laptopbut I am getting desperate here...LOL Jim Hey Jim, I'm not an 'expert', but

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-29 Thread Jim P.
I am sorry...I should havce changed the subject line...I was responding to someone with a laptopbut I am getting desperate here...LOL Jim Hey Jim, I'm not an 'expert', but I just read your message and it seems that you're not real happy. It sounds like somebody dropped the ball as far

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-29 Thread Don
My experience with loading Linux on my IBM Thinkpad went ok except for getting the sound card (YamahaOPL3) to work properly. I tries Slackware7, All RedHat versions and Mandrake 6.0, 6.5, and 7.0. None of these worked with my sound card because there was always a conflict and would lock up the

[expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
I've reported this to "bugs" but don't expect any response from there... I successfully installed 7.1 on my desktop with some issues; but none like trying to install 7.1 on my Tecra500CDT where the install process proceeds quite nicely through the first CD... Then... the prompt to change CDs...

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-28 Thread Civileme
Pierre Fortin wrote: I've reported this to "bugs" but don't expect any response from there... I successfully installed 7.1 on my desktop with some issues; but none like trying to install 7.1 on my Tecra500CDT where the install process proceeds quite nicely through the first CD... Then...

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
I was getting ready to re-install 6.1; but I'll give this a try... the gotcha is that I have to babysit this install; at least I can enlist the help of my stapler again... sigh The down side of what I've done so far is that every attempt was not given an OK or Cancel, so the system was not

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-28 Thread Civileme
"Jim P." wrote: CDROMS are a big problem for 7.1. I have been dealing with a simular issue for a month...still no help...I have been begging mdk support and all the lists for help, and ya know what...most of the time no one even respondsI have found red hat 6.2 to be a viable option

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Civileme wrote: Do the first CD in GRAPHICAL install and when it calls for the second, click OK The installation will complete without installing anything from the second CD. "OK" just gives the same dialog; only Cancel is valid here. The install proceeds; but suffers from a MAJOR flaw

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-28 Thread Civileme
Pierre Fortin wrote: Civileme wrote: Do the first CD in GRAPHICAL install and when it calls for the second, click OK The installation will complete without installing anything from the second CD. "OK" just gives the same dialog; only Cancel is valid here. The install proceeds; but

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Civileme wrote: Actually, nw that you have that much of the install, login as root and use Kpackage to draw the rest from the ext disk. I would love to know what dmesg says... That CD problem is NOT a common report, and they have a lot of trouble fixing what they cannot duplicate. The