On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:17:54 GMT, Jennie St John <tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>
>
> "Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message

<snip>

>
> i understand that it may be faster on the plip and infact it is( i read the
> benchmarks it is 100%) but this is my friends comp and i am worried that if
> i dont do it the knop way i amy bang up there stuff which is what i am more
> worried about if it was mine i would go about it the plip way for sure is
> it possible touse an xp machine for the source ? help me out man the howtos
> are dated to an extent and i will try anything

Not going to hurt friend's box.
You could use tomsrtb on the XP machine. I'm sure XP supports PLIP, but
couldn't tell you how to access it. Ask the little puppy. (then kick it).
I'm sure they have a different name for it.

Being as tomsrtbt is the best repair/rescue disk ever, and I can't imagine
running Linux without it, you could start by getting that done.
Is easy.

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"Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:17:54 GMT, Jennie St John
<tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > "Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > i understand that it may be faster on the plip and infact it is( i read
the
> > benchmarks it is 100%) but this is my friends comp and i am worried that
if
> > i dont do it the knop way i amy bang up there stuff which is what i am
more
> > worried about if it was mine i would go about it the plip way for sure
is
> > it possible touse an xp machine for the source ? help me out man the
howtos
> > are dated to an extent and i will try anything
>
> Not going to hurt friend's box.
> You could use tomsrtb on the XP machine. I'm sure XP supports PLIP, but
> couldn't tell you how to access it. Ask the little puppy. (then kick it).
> I'm sure they have a different name for it.
>
> Being as tomsrtbt is the best repair/rescue disk ever, and I can't imagine
> running Linux without it, you could start by getting that done.
> Is easy.
>


alright time to kick some puppies ill give all yall the story when i
complete my mission
thanks for help
> --
> Alan C
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"Jennie St John" <tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
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> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:17:54 GMT, Jennie St John
> <tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > >
> > > i understand that it may be faster on the plip and infact it is( i
read
> the
> > > benchmarks it is 100%) but this is my friends comp and i am worried
that
> if
> > > i dont do it the knop way i amy bang up there stuff which is what i am
> more
> > > worried about if it was mine i would go about it the plip way for sure
> is
> > > it possible touse an xp machine for the source ? help me out man the
> howtos
> > > are dated to an extent and i will try anything
> >
> > Not going to hurt friend's box.
> > You could use tomsrtb on the XP machine. I'm sure XP supports PLIP, but
> > couldn't tell you how to access it. Ask the little puppy. (then kick
it).
> > I'm sure they have a different name for it.
> >
> > Being as tomsrtbt is the best repair/rescue disk ever, and I can't
imagine
> > running Linux without it, you could start by getting that done.
> > Is easy.
> >
>
>
> alright time to kick some puppies ill give all yall the story when i
> complete my mission
> thanks for help
> > --
> > Alan C
> > Post validation at http://tinyurl.com/rv0y
>
>i did it slack 4.0 is on the lappy attention we have lift off and x and
everything else for that matter. i installed from msdos partition worked
prety good but i was due to the fact i could not make the floppies work from
windows xp. note: Knoppix fared no beter either, so anyone that read that
post, dont waste yourtime jsut get your hands on a copy of dos and install
that way blah blah blah

/w00t

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:19:51 GMT, Jennie St John <tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> alright time to kick some puppies ill give all yall the story when i
>> complete my mission
>> thanks for help
>> > --
>> > Alan C
>> > Post validation at http://tinyurl.com/rv0y
>>
>>i did it slack 4.0 is on the lappy attention we have lift off and x and
> everything else for that matter. i installed from msdos partition worked
> prety good but i was due to the fact i could not make the floppies work from
> windows xp. note: Knoppix fared no beter either, so anyone that read that
> post, dont waste yourtime jsut get your hands on a copy of dos and install
> that way blah blah blah
>
> /w00t
>
>

Good work, although I seem to have missed something along the way.

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"Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:19:51 GMT, Jennie St John
<tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> alright time to kick some puppies ill give all yall the story when i
> >> complete my mission
> >> thanks for help
> >> > --
> >> > Alan C
> >> > Post validation at http://tinyurl.com/rv0y
> >>
> >>i did it slack 4.0 is on the lappy attention we have lift off and x and
> > everything else for that matter. i installed from msdos partition worked
> > prety good but i was due to the fact i could not make the floppies work
from
> > windows xp. note: Knoppix fared no beter either, so anyone that read
that
> > post, dont waste yourtime jsut get your hands on a copy of dos and
install
> > that way blah blah blah
> >
> > /w00t
> >
> >
>
> Good work, although I seem to have missed something along the way.
>
> --
> Alan C
> Post validation at http://tinyurl.com/rv0y
what dont you understand? just so i can clarify.

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:21:04 GMT, Jennie St John <tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> "Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:19:51 GMT, Jennie St John
>>
>> Good work, although I seem to have missed something along the way.
>>
>> --
>> Alan C

> what dont you understand? just so i can clarify.
>
>

You could start with describing what you did. Clarifications would be the
next step :-)

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"Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:21:04 GMT, Jennie St John
<tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > "Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
> > news:jOenb.4291$RQ1.1504@newsread3.news.pas.earthl ink.net...
> >> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:19:51 GMT, Jennie St John
> >>
> >> Good work, although I seem to have missed something along the way.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alan C
>
> > what dont you understand? just so i can clarify.
> >
> >
>
> You could start with describing what you did. Clarifications would be the
> next step :-)
>

> --
> Alan C

ahh i see. ok, basically, i used some old dos disks fdisk the hdd so that
msdos had a little enough partition to be useable. installed it into 150
megs(not that it needed the room but it was for holding the packages)moved
packages onto msdos partition. booted slack used the "install from another
partition" option on the source tab et cetera et cetera. that went better
than i thought. i am only struggling with x at the moment but there is
really no point except i want to use blackbox for messing around. cant
figure the xserver out so that will be my next struggle. i think i fought
with 100 floppies , too. patience patience patience any help on the xserver
would be nice but i know"RTFM"

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On 2003-10-28, Jennie St John <tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:

> cant
> figure the xserver out so that will be my next struggle. i think i fought
> with 100 floppies , too. patience patience patience any help on the xserver
> would be nice but i know"RTFM"
>

What are you trying to accomplish with the xserver? Are you just trying
to set X and get it configured? If so, try typing "X -configure" (no
quotes) on the command line. X will have a basic configuration.

HTH.

Morgan


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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:58:19 GMT, Jennie St John <tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> "Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:21:04 GMT, Jennie St John
><tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message
>> > news:jOenb.4291$RQ1.1504@newsread3.news.pas.earthl ink.net...
>> >> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:19:51 GMT, Jennie St John
>> >>
>> >> Good work, although I seem to have missed something along the way.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Alan C
>>
>> > what dont you understand? just so i can clarify.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> You could start with describing what you did. Clarifications would be the
>> next step :-)
>>
>
>> --
>> Alan C
>
> ahh i see. ok, basically, i used some old dos disks fdisk the hdd so that
> msdos had a little enough partition to be useable. installed it into 150
> megs(not that it needed the room but it was for holding the packages)moved
> packages onto msdos partition. booted slack used the "install from another
> partition" option on the source tab et cetera et cetera. that went better
> than i thought. i am only struggling with x at the moment but there is
> really no point except i want to use blackbox for messing around. cant
> figure the xserver out so that will be my next struggle. i think i fought
> with 100 floppies , too. patience patience patience any help on the xserver
> would be nice but i know"RTFM"
>
>

Gottya. Grassyass

The main thing with the xserver is choosing the right one, I believe.

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> than i thought. i am only struggling with x at the moment but there is
> really no point except i want to use blackbox for messing around. cant

You might want to try openbox (2.x that is), it's based on blackbox.

> figure the xserver out so that will be my next struggle. i think i fought
> with 100 floppies , too. patience patience patience any help on the xserver
> would be nice but i know"RTFM"
>
The RTFM part is,
1)you need to find out the exact Hozrizontal and Vertical
refresh-rate-ranges of your monitor.
2)you need to find out which driver your videocard uses.

If you have the manual from your monitor it should help with 1, google
will help with both.

Once you have accumulated that information, run `xf86config`

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