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Opps.. I missed that part! I would do a reinstall, after your sure that 2000 boots OK. Sounds like your cd, for some reason, defaults to autoinstall. I'm used to doing the expert install, which allows you to specify how much hard disk space to use, how to partition the hard drive (I single...

Hi; Hey, this isn't a thinkpad, is it? No floppy? As soon as you get the welcome screen, press F1 (more options). You then will come to a text screen. I have to think now, since it's been a while. At the text prompt, type in the linux single command. On most distro's (boy, I miss...

I hope you made a boot disk, as recommended in the install. If so, PostCode probably can guide you through how to recover. Does the system just stall at the panic message? I'm trying to remember what the good Linux gurus told me. You should be able to boot with the Mandrake boot disk under a...

Hi; I started out with KDE and K-mail with Mandrake 8, and liked both. While some feel that KDE is for beginners, it has a good number of features that should keep you happy for a while. Gnome seems much more of a hog to be. While it looks good, it took me a little time to get used to it. If...

Hey; If I could get DSL in this great capital of NY. :confused:

Yep, I e-mailed IBM. We will see what response I get. I told them that I needed the recovery and OS CD's. I bet I know the response! Since the recovery is resident on a hidden partition on the HD, it does me no good. No floppy on this system either! Talk about a bad day! Then I read that if...

Hey! So much for XP. Turned on the thing and a blue screen of death "system has stopped to prevent possible damage to the computer." No recovery CD or OS CD included.

Hi; Yeh, one used to be mine until the better half took it over. The other one, thanks to you, DaMasta and Diffie, who got me through my growing pains. Ok, XP, I'm going to take you on! Let's see... shrink the XP partition, 1 for the recovery files, 1 small one for the boot partition...

Second that motion. I have 2 stable systems with ME, one with Redhat. We must have done something right!

Hi; Come on folks, I'm trying to straddle the middle road here! Maybe I'll just take the plunge...the weekend is here!:smash:

Hi; Talk about incredible luck! It's been confirmed... I am getting an IBM Thinkpad R30 for my personal use! 1gig processor, 15 gig HD and 128 memory. I don't ask questions! Just as my ol' CTX seems to be craping out! The screen is fading out, comes back, then goes again. Only...

Hi; Hmm....Some more to think about! Thanks guys!

Hi; Interesting that you mention trying out Debian on your old system. I downloaded and installed Debian base to fool around with it on my old faithful laptop. Can't get the PCMCIA stuff to work, so that I can use apt-get, but the commands feel very comfortable to me. I especially like...

Hi; OK, I'll toss myself in. I have Redhat 7.1 installed with the 2.4.16 kernel XFS patch. In my quest for knowledge and the best system that I can have, can I go with 7.2 or Debian without too much of a hassle? I know that 7.2 has ext3 built in, but can I retain my XFS filesystem with either...

Yep, the virus just hit my wife's worksite today. I guess my IT dept. will be borrowing me again to help upgrade their DAT files.

Your alright PostCode! Trying the build this Debian on little Lin has been a challenge! Too many dependencies (oops, there's that dependency thing again). Does this qualify as building from scratch? oh ohh.. the screen is fading out from time to time...does this mean???? That IBM Thinkpad is...

Not a bad idea dnar. Give back a little from all that I have learned? Sure! By the way, what's a good backup utility for my RedHat system? Dnar, I followed your above link and looked at Mondo. Either cdrw/cdr or zip compatible?

Yep, my wife got ot today on her system, but she was smart enough not to open it. And to think, she won't let me put RedHat on her machine!

My Laptop with Debian base installed had to be enrolled in LinuxDiscussions annonymous! I guess it's a co-dependency problem.

Hi; Oh my God! No DSL here and the cable company has to install my card? Your making me nervous!