Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread RRPotratz
Alvin Smith wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:31 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: On your machine the primary holdup to a system such as this would be memory--the likes of which cost about a $1/stick at our local "re-compute" store. I got hold of 128MB RAM from a friend. Now there is a

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread RRPotratz
Matt Price wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:07:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:56 -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, I had a bit of a wake up call this week when I tried out Ubuntu. I Have you tried Gnoppix? er, no, is it much differentfrom the Ubuntu l

Re: Newbie's question about hard disk partition

2004-11-22 Thread RRPotratz
This CAN be confusing. Technically, the only partitions you NEED are / and swap. Even then you may not need swap if you've got a ton of RAM. That being said, still make a swap partition. When I try out a distro, I generally add a /home partition as well so that if I install another distro, o

Re: dual-OS system

2004-11-18 Thread RRPotratz
David Baron wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As mentioned in my previous mail, I'll run a dual-OS system. Since l have only one drive, I'll divide it into two partitions, one for Win XP and one for Debian. I think this is a good way to start off. When one fai

Re: how to see a .pps file with linux ?

2004-10-20 Thread RRPotratz
Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I'v received a message with a .pps file as attached document. Is there a viewer (in linux) to see such file ? tia A cursory google search says openoffice.org Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Software

2004-09-30 Thread RRPotratz
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Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread RRPotratz
loader off the mbr. This one definitely has me scratching my head . . . RRPotratz wrote: The strange one about this is that to restore the mbr in xp you are supposed to boot from the xp intallation cd, select recovery console and then run fix mbr and fix boot (might be fixmbr and fixboot, with n

Re: ressurecting a failed attempt to upgrade to sarge, w/out tossing /home

2004-09-08 Thread RRPotratz
This is good advice! Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:23:56AM -0400, matthew bradley wrote: -Original Message- From: RRPotratz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:18 AM To: matthew bradley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ressurecting a

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread RRPotratz
Moroney wrote: Partition 1: 35g - Windows XP (ick - for my wife & kids) Partition 2: 1g - / Partition 3: 1g - Swap Partition 4: 500m - /tmp Partition 5: 5g - /var Partition 6: 75g - /usr Partition 7: 20g - /home RRPotratz wrote: Patrick Moroney wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Sarge st

Re: ressurecting a failed attempt to upgrade to sarge, w/out tossing /home

2004-09-08 Thread RRPotratz
matthew bradley wrote: -Original Message- From: RRPotratz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:18 AM To: matthew bradley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ressurecting a failed attempt to upgrade to sarge, w/out tossing /home You didn't say for

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread RRPotratz
Patrick Moroney wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating system on a 200 gig drive and not having a lot of success. The installation goes fine; I install Lilo in the MBR, the system goes for a reboot and then I get the following errors upon reboot: request_module[

Re: ressurecting a failed attempt to upgrade to sarge, w/out tossing /home

2004-09-08 Thread RRPotratz
matthew bradley wrote: Hi All, I'm in a slightly frustrating situation due, primarily, to two things: my relative amateur use of Linux, and this particular problem happening on a Debian Linux box that I didn't originally setup. I'm particularly new to Debian, and new to having to handle many things

2nd Linux installation

1999-11-19 Thread RRPotratz
I'm a relative newbie to linux with a working Red Hat 6.0 system, but I would like to migrate to Debian. To do so I would like to install to a second hd, and keep my Red Hat until I've felt out Debian, but I have a few questions. One of the things I use the linux box for is an FTP server for my L