Linux Gazette

April 2004 (#101):

     * [1]The Mailbag
     * [2]More 2 Cent Tips!
     * [3]The Answer Gang
     * [4]News Bytes, by Michael Conry
     * [5]Leaning Out of Windows, by Tom Brown
     * [6]Help Dex, by Shane Collinge
     * [7]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [8]Qubism, by Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem
     * [9]The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers, by Ben Okopnik
     * [10]Home Folder Server For Windows Clients, by Avinoam Levkovich
     * [11]Simple Joystick control of a servo motor with RTAI/Linux, by Pramode
       C.E
     * [12]Designing Simple front ends with dialog/Xdialog , by Sunil Thomas
       Thonikuzhiyil
     * [13]The Back Page, by Ben Okopnik

   or read [14]TWDT

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     * [18]installing mandrake 10.0
     * [19]More Cool Answers
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installing mandrake 10.0

   Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:58:16 +0000
   spb ([20]t14497867 from netscape.net)

   Greetings I installedd disks 1 and 2 linux mandrake 10.0 as an upgrade to my
   linux mandrake 9.2, immediately all froze onsgreen . Need an answer- my 9.2
   works ok. thanks.

     Wanted point number 1: clearer requests. -- Heather

     [Thomas] Hi, unfortunately I often have trouble decyphering all that
     information that you poured into such a well thought out e-mail. You
     obviously spent a lot of time thinking about your problem, listing all the
     symptoms, etc. You should give yourself credit for it.

     Here's a tip though:

     [21]http://linuxgazette.net/tag/ask-the-gang.html

     Oh, if you send HTML e-mail to this list again, there's a high chance
     you'll get ignored. Seriously we need more information about what id
     freezing, whether or not you completed your upgrade, whether or not your
     kernel boots....etc.... Otherwise, how can we help you?

   Greetings answer gang, I reply to your mail yesterday. 

     Alas, he still sent text+html email. Wanted point number 2: I can't use
     your webmail's HTML folks. Don't waste the bandwidth (about 3x the space!)
     sending those extra bits. -- Heather

   The computer using today has Microsft ME os, I cannot send any info to you
   from my linux PC, as when I loaded the upgrade mandrake 10.0 on top of my
   Mandrake 9.2-( purchased from Mandrake central USA} when after some time(I
   thought it had installed 10.0) it returned to the welcome desktop screen,
   from there it is completely frozen, the mouse, the arrow keys , tab key and
   function keys, so restart many times( by power off and on only,my only
   option at the moment} I arrive each time to this situation, I cannot get to
   bios settings to change device priority for startup. to use a boot disk or
   floppy. 

     [THomas] Presumably you managed to boot off of a CD just fine. In that
     case, I suggest (no, I urge you) to download knoppix [1] and boot from
     that. If you have not the facilities to burn CDs, then find someone who
     can. Why exactly can't you access your BIOS?

     That's where you come in, dear readers :D -- Heather

   I  purchased Mandrake 10.0 from Linuz.org in USA they sent two cd's by
   airmail without any other info except invoice. 

     [Thomas] Also, as this is Mandrake, I suggest when you next boot into
     Linux, you issue:

     linux 3

     (at the LILO/Grub prompt) so that you're forced into a text-only mode.
     Hoipefully you should be able to report back to us whether you can login
     or not, and whether your keyboard is still locked, etc.

   Please advise a good Linux Tutorial book for home users, I am not IT boffin
   thank you .spbramwell. 

     [Thomas]  The  book I used wqas "Running Linux", Matt Walsh, et al.