Re: newbie curious

1999-11-05 Thread David Muriel
Steve Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am going to install Debian Gnu-Linux (the version to > come out bundled with an Oreilly text) on a hard drive > that already has win98 on it. The same machine has > linux mandrake 6.0 on a separate hard drive (the > master drive on this computer), and

Re: newbie curious

1999-11-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
aphro wrote: > ... Slink uses a very old(by today's standards) version of X, and > may not support(fully) graphics cards made in the past year (TNT, TNT2, > G200/G400, S3 Savage series etc) i suggest grabbing a binary server before > you upgrade, or just copy the server from mandrake(copy the co

Re: newbie curious

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
no its not safe to assume if it works with mandrake it will work with slink, ESPECIALLY if it comes to graphics cards and sound cards, maybe even network cards. i bought that same book, its great, and the cd is great, i did encounter a problem that the install defaulted to kernel 2.2.12 and did no

newbie curious

1999-11-03 Thread Steve Winston
I am going to install Debian Gnu-Linux (the version to come out bundled with an Oreilly text) on a hard drive that already has win98 on it. The same machine has linux mandrake 6.0 on a separate hard drive (the master drive on this computer), and it works super with linux mandrake. I have some ques