Re: Lucy & the Football

2005-10-16 Thread george5
Even More Progress ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... snippage ... Installing Thunderbird ... >> 2. The second time I opened Thunderbird, it was empty, and the >> Install Wizard wanted all my data all over again. 150 messages >> vanished ... but it had let me do the setup all by myself without >> a

Re: Lucy & the Football

2005-10-16 Thread george5
Progress ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... snippage ... Installing Thunderbird ... > Then a couple of problems surfaced: > > 1. The menu items highlight to white on white. > This is a common bug already posted here before. > You can check for fixes in the list archives. I'll try that; the simple an

Lucy & the Football

2005-10-15 Thread george5
My previous posting regarding mounting the newly installed hard drive was helped quite a lot with the advice I read here ... thank you very much. There's a superb way of finding out all about an unknown drivge, and that's "sudo cfdisk /dev/hdd" whereupon it told me the names of all the drive's par

Progress report on Debian install

2005-10-13 Thread george5
After spinning my wheels as described in an earlier posting which I cannot access easily right this minute, as you will see ... The system is running ! Installed XFree86, gnome, gimp, xsane, and open office, but with professional help tracked down from among the Debian.org vendors list. Very sat

Opening and/or setting up XFree86 in Debian sarge

2005-10-11 Thread george5
For the umpteenth time I'm attempting to set up a Linux-based PC in order to do home office stuff, like write professional- looking reports, image editing and publishing, and webpage development. No games, nothing requiring speed of any kind. I downloaded several ISO files, succeeded in convertin