Re: befuddled

2000-05-27 Thread Michael Skipper
Thanks again! I'll check that HOWTO. University LAN it is (Maryland). We have a Linux Users Group around, but they've mostly scattered for the summer. My appreciation for this list knows no bounds. Mike > >Sorry, I haven't worked with dhcp in Linux yet. There's a mini-HOWTO at >http://metalab.unc

Re: befuddled

2000-05-26 Thread Michael Skipper
Thanks Stan (and all) this seems to be the consensus, and I'll certainly work on it. Is there anything tricky I should know about dhcp--I can get access to an ethernet connection, but not to a specific ip. This would be the fastest surely. I have a supported card (3com) but I could not get connecte

RE: befuddled

2000-05-26 Thread Michael Skipper
Thanks for the quick reply. I'll keep thrashing about. I was actually trying to get my cd recognizable so I could download and burn the rest onto a CD, thence to my 'pad. I tried to modify fstab but I can't get ae to save ... and thus the subject of my original post. Thanks again. > Subject: RE: b

befuddled

2000-05-26 Thread Michael Skipper
I've installed potato (kernel 2.2.15) on my thinkpad from the install floppies, but some things seem wrong. I am a rank amateur which doesn't help, but (for instance) it seems as though I should see some kind of kernel (symlink or otherwise) at /usr/src but this directory is empty (save for . an

RE: Realtime sched and floppy (Was: Re: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob))

2000-05-22 Thread Michael Skipper
>> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Karl M. Hegbloom >> Sent: Sunday, 21 May 2000 12:08 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: Robert Waldner; debian-user@lists.debian.org; Michael Skipper >> S

thinkpad install prob

2000-05-18 Thread Michael Skipper
I formatted this for submission to the bugs list, but it seems such a basic problem that I suspect it stems from my status as an absolute novice with linux--and so I'm posting here. package: boot floppies version: linux 2.0.36 (kernel-image-2.0.36_2.0.36-3) arch: i386 (pentium I) model: IBM Think