Im sorry for asking theses questions but im wanting to see if i get this to work correctly and if im doing this right. when i go to http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp and click on graphics drivers>GeForce and TNT2 Theirs bunch of Linux options that i can choose from. Linux IA32 Linux AMD64 Linux IA64 FreeBSD I cannot decide which one is correct for me. -- Brittany Operating system used by Fedora Core 1.90 Test 1 Linux (Red hat) Website: http://www.redhat.com/ Downloads http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/ On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:45 -0600, Dennis Calhoun wrote:

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 07:24:45 -0500, you wrote: I'm no expert at Linux either, so I certainly understand your hesitation and questions. This is what the vast majority of PCs will use, Intel Architecture 32 bit Central Processing Unit This is for the new AMD 64 bit processors only This is for Intel Architecture 64 bit processors I haven't even looked to see what this is for. Maybe someone else will tell us. Most likely it will be the IA32, unless you have a 64 bit CPU. -- Dennis C.

Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote: I think you meant OpenBSD and NetBSD, perhaps??? No blame, just a correction... :) -- Keven Ring | They called it Paradise Lead Software Systems Engineer | I don't know why... The MITRE Corporation | When you call someplace Paradise (703)883-7026 | Kiss it goodbye....

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:10:42 -0300 Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster(a)margo.bijoux.nom.br&gt; wrote: we'll forgive you (i have clients using both openbsd and various flavors of linux, myself, and so run both on my own network.) what follows veers between ontopic and offtopic, some of what follows may help illuminate some of the underlying issues in the SCO lawsuit family, insofar as the settlement between AT&T's USL and the UCB CSRG is alluded to. technically, Unix is a trademark belonging to an industry association, and neither the modern *BSD family nor Linux are authorized to use that trademark, so you should probably avoid calling them Unix systems. the BSD family predates Linux by some years; they derive from the development work at the UCB Computer Systems Research Group, which was responsible for the very important 4.x BSD series of Unix releases beginning in the early 80s. i remember installing 4.1BSD on the RPI Computer Science Department VAX 11/780 back in 1982... one of the important descendents of this Unix line is the original SunOS, which forked from BSD Unix tree shortly before 4.2BSD was cut. the last development in this series was SunOS 4.x. Solaris 2 (Solaris 2.8->Solaris 8, Solaris 2.9->Solaris 9), a somewhat complex merger of Sys V with SunOS, replaced SunOS 4.x (aka "Solaris 1"). as the CSRG's unix effort wound down, one of the last things they did was prepare an x86 release with no proprietary AT&T code (previous versions derived from v7 (32v) AT&T releases of Unix, and a license from AT&T was a prerequisite if you wanted to use one of the BSD's which derived from AT&T code.) 4.4Lite was about to be released when AT&T's Unix Systems Lab hit UCB with a lawsuit intended to prevent release of 4.4Lite. the lawsuit was eventually settled out of court, but not before AT&T tooks some serious licks. the result was that 4.4Lite needed only minor modifications to make it to release, but it was also delayed a year. some argue that this one year delay is the reason why Linux is the best known open source system of its type today, rather than one of the *BSDs. today, there are three main flavors of *BSD, and a number of minor ones. the main ones are the original NetBSD, and the two NetBSD spinoofs FreeBSD and OpenBSD. NetBSD focuses on stability across a wide variety of architectures. FreeBSD focuses on the x86 platform with lots of software ports. OpenBSD runs on a smaller set of architecture than NetBSD, and focuses on security as well as stability. there is considerable cross polination; useful code advances in one of the *BSDs often move sideways into the others fairly quickly. there is one other notable BSD derivative, Mac OS X. the derivation is somewhat involved; Next built an OS, NextStep, which used a Mach micro-kernel with a significant amount of FreeBSD code. Mac bought Next Computers and inherited NextStep, and chose to use it as the basis for OS X. richard -- Richard Welty rwelty(a)averillpark.net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:24, Brittany wrote: It depends on your CPU, what CPU do you have? Maddy

Your not root actually, hence the "sambie@", do this on the terminal: su - Then enter the root password and do it again. On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:19, Brittany wrote: -- Adam Voigt adam(a)kotisprop.com

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:28, Brittany wrote: You need to kill X to do this.. Close all your applications log off X.. Then press ctrl+alt+f1 , login as root and type init 3 then run the installer again and then do a init 5 You`ll be back to X... -- Pedro Macedo

You might try running (as root) /sbin/telinit 3 To get out of X, and then log in as root and try running the install again. Use /sbin/telinit 5 to return to X afterwards. Brittany wrote: -- Mitch Wiedemann mc² Computer Consulting mc2(a)lightlink.com http://www.lightlink.com/mc2