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This sounds like a case of "Uh-Oh" to me. How many partitions do you have now? As root, a simple fdisk -l /dev/devicename with devicename the name your disk (usually hda) should give you the answer.

No, the Bitkeeper to CVS gateway was hacked, see http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/06/058249 .

Quote: i know i set X to start when i was installing, and the startx command didn't work. and i've read where changing the "runlevel" will fix it, but how does one go about doing that? As long as startx doesn't work, don't bother changing the runlevel. What happens if you startx? Do you get any error messages, and if so, what are they?

I'm on mdk 9.0, but my guess is that thing will be the same in 9.1. So: launch Mandrake Control Center -> Network & Internet -> Connection. There you can launch a wizard to specify your internet connection.

>... and I just know 3 commands in the text mode: ls, man and help. Well, if you know man, what else do you need ;-) But seriously, what is it that doesn't work? Did you get to specify your video card during the installation procedure? Try the startx command. If that does the trick, then your only problem is probably that you have to change the default runlevel in the file /etc/inittab. If not, then see if you get any error messages, and post them here. Support for this chipset should be in recent versions of X, so I suspect that would not be the problem. undefined

Deehh....you DID read my reply to your original post, did you?

It means that the file /usr/x11r6/lib/libgl.so.1.2 is already present in the XFree86-libs package, and that the ATI drivers will overwrite it. Since this is probably what you want, back up the original file, and use the --force flag to the rpm command to install the ati rpm. >p.s. how do i install amsn if its .tar ? Wild guess: tar xvf xxx.tar; ./configure; make; make install

Very strange. You could try to redirect the output of ls to a file, and compare the outputs with diff. Maybe you'll see where the difference lies...

Hmmm...lemme see: Slackware 3.something, slackware 3.something++, slackware 4. I still cannot believe how easy it was to administer those systems, seems like all these years of development have only made using Linux harder :-) Then redhat 6.1, 6.2. Pretty decent distributions at the time, but really outdated by now. Mandrake 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0 (currently on my desktop), and now 9.1 on my laptop. In my experience mdk has the easiest install procedure of all distros. Then again, also mandrake has it's quirks, I've had trouble several times setting up my home network. LFS. Pretty cool project. If you ever want to learn linux, you have to try it yourself at least once. No fancy portage tool, just downloading a source package and start compiling. Slackware 9.0. Continues the slackware tradition of a trustworthy, no-nonsense distribution that just works. Installed it on my 486 with 512MB hard disk, which is pretty impressive for such a modern distro. Havent tried to run kde 3 on it though ;-) Gentoo 1.4rc4 (? dunno about the version number) Pretty nice, works ok, but installing a packages takes a hell of a lot of time (as you can imagine). A bit overhyped, I think, the speed gained by optimization for your particular platform is not that big. Is that all? <me starts thinking> No! Small Linux. Nice little distro, that fits on a couple of floppies. Ok, that's really all I've tried so far.

No.

Stupid question, maybe, but is something writing to that directory?

You have to be more exact, or else we won't have a f**ing clue what is happening on your system. Okay, small steps now: > but i was trying to set my audio card How? Tell us exactly what you did. > which is an onboard via 8223 (AC'97) Ought to work, I think. > and it says who says? > that My sound wont work and i should run artswapper or sumthing Post the exact error message. > also how do i view whats in my cdrom drives? I would appreciate all the help... thx ls -alFh /mnt/cdrom/

Do you have the ssh deamon running? Check (as root) service sshd status If not, you can start it manually with service sshd start Or you can use the service editor in the Mandrake Control Center.

>Please enter the directory (iso or image file) containing >the Mandrake Linux Distribution. Huh? When do you get this question? Anyway, try /mnt/cdrom . No guarantees that this will work, though.

You want to get the Linux IA32 drivers. IA32 stands for 32-bite Intel Architecture, i.e. what is commonly referred to as a PC. AMD64 is the new 64-bit architecture by AMD, IA64 is the 64bit Itanium architecture by Intel, FreeBSD is a different operating system altogether.