Dapper Dan

I use Core one which, so far, is very impressive. Why not go with that? Then if you like it you can upgrade to the next version? The Core one mirrors are probably pretty quiet now. You shouldn't have any problems downloading the three ISOs.

Try running a sound program as root. If you get sound that way then it is likely a permission problem.

The mirrors are likely to be jammed for a while..

I found this very useful and detailed list of commands. Thought I'd share.. http://www.ss64.com/bash/

I just installed Fedora on my Mom's computer, which with RH 8 was always very sluggish. With Fedora, it's not just faster than her old RH8, but seems even faster than my hot rod RH 9 box! If my impressions of this change, I'll let you know.

I can't help you with the Windows Media Files, but after installing programs, you can find *most* of the executables for them in /usr/bin.

I'm not familiar with Blag. We sure could have used your help with this sooner..

Wahoo!! Congratulations!!

A lot of that can depend on other things besides just your Nvidia card. For instance, even Frozen Bubble will lag occaisionally on my system which runs Half-Life via Winex3 like a champ. I have one box that will run Freedroid OK, but refuses to run Tux Racer. As long as you put "nvidia" where "nv" used to be in your XF86Conbfig , you will be running the downloaded Nvidia drivers which should give you a noticable performance boost to your video card when running games in general.

I upgraded from RH9 to Fedora over the weekend, and was pleased to see many unresolvable issues with RH 9 have been addressed and corrected. I was however disappointed that Galeon was not included in the release, and apt-get demanded it's deletion, otherwise it would recognize it as a broken package. MozillaFirebird, which I installed under RH9 is ok with me, except the fonts, are positively hideous! Through apt-get, I installed Firefox in Fedora, and the fonts now look as good, and maybe better than they did in Galeon. I am very pleased with it.

http://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/iso/ I used RH 9 and now Fedora. Take it from me, Fedora is much an improvement over RH 9.

Are you using Radeon? This sounds like a misconfigure problem with your video card. When you did the install, what did you enter when it asked about screen configuration etc.? As root type: XFdrake [enter] Try various settings in all the catagories. Start off at 640x480 resolution and work your way up. Try both versions of X. Also, and maybe most importantly, make sure you match your video card among all the choices given. You are not alone in having a difficult time with Mdk 9.1 or 9.2 finding screens, but take heart, this problem can be resolved.

Not sure. Try this. Become root and type: startx [enter] Making sure to use all lower case letters. Anything? If not, what does it say?

So you have a black screen with login? Ok, try this. Type in your user name and enter, then password and enter. You should now be logged in. Now you will want to become root. Do that by typing: su [enter] When it asks, enter your password and press enter. The $ sign will now be a # sign. type: kdm [enter] The kdm user login screen should now come up. Try all this and tell me what happens. Good luck!

Three older shots: My very first Linux screenshot. KDE under MDK 8.2. A later screen using IceWM with Mdk 9.0, "back in the day"... My first IceWM theme, with RH 9.0...

Can't say I'm ever comfortable rebooting a machine I've put Linux on next to XP either just because of the bootloader! 8) I guess I just have an especially horrible memory of Lilo from all the times I used to see: lilililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililililil ;( ;( ;( Although admittedly I've never tried Lilo at /boot either...

Quote: On the other hand, you mentioned formatting USB keys with RieserFS. I remember reading something about that. I'll see if I can find it. Really! That would be awesome!

Yes you need the swap since you have 256 ram. 510 mb to 1 gig for your swap should suffice. It's always a good idea to put your home directory on it's own partition in case you have to reinstall, you can save all your files. Everybody has their ideas about where partitions work best. If it were me I'd do something like this... XP -------------------------------------/boot------- / ------swap------/home Also, be sure to use either Ext3 or RieserFS for your file system. Ext2 will take forever to recover if you shut off improperly. I personally prefer RieserFS when it is available. Mdk has the simplest and best partitioning tool out there so it will be very easy for you to figure out.

By the way danleff, on a related note, Morphix just came out with a new base module, (0.4-1d) which is around 51 mb, that is configured to boot at startup. I wish my computer would boot from usb. Maybe it could, but I'm kind of squeamish about up[censored] the bios.

After you install XP to the first part of your drive, and then begin adding Linux, I recommend using Grub as your boot loader over Lilo. I've installed and used both many times, and it has been my experience that Grub gives far less headaches. If you decide on Grub, make a small /boot partition immediately after your XP to install it to.

If Lycoris found it and it worked, it *should* work under Mdk too. When you install Mdk, make sure you install KPPP. Once you have it configured, you should be able to get on the Internet without much trouble.

Quote: How about a usb key device... We've got USB devices working on three machines and they work great. Just click an icon to tell it what to do, and you're done in one second! I just wish there was a way to get a Ext3 or RieserFS file system on them instead of fat32. We use them to backup data on a daily basis, then run kompare to see if the original file and the one on the stick is the same size. Beats the shit out of taking 45 minutes backing up to floppies, which may or may not take the info you put on them.

First, download the Nvidia "drivers" from their site. Here's an excerpt from an earlier post on how to get it going for you. Quote: You'll have to edit your /etc/inittab file. Become root and type "gedit", without the quoteations and press enter. click "open", and in the left hand pane, double click the "../ " 2 times. In the left hand pane, scroll down to /etc and double click it. look for "inittab" in the right pane, and double click it. gedit will then open the inittab file. look for the line.. id:5:initdefault: edit this line and change the "5" to a "3" save, exit and reboot the computer. This time, your "user manager thingie" will not come up for you to enter your name and password because you will now not be in X windows. You will have to enter your username and password at the command line to become root. Then go: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.mun [enter] ..and follow the instructions. After completion, and at the command prompt, type "startx" and press enter. This will start X and will put you back in runlevel 5. log in as usual, and return to gedit as above. Go back to /etc/inittab and change the "3" back to a "5". Also while in gedit, find and open /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, and look for a line under... Section "Device" and where you see "nv", change it to "nvidia" (this time only, with the quotes just as you see them) save this file, exit out of gedit, reboot, and everything should work as before except your new updated Nvidia module willl be installed. If it is installed properly, from here on out all you will have to do is update your drivers which is very easy. Just become root (and if you're online) type: nvidia-installer --update That's it!

If a Linux equivalent is not available, you may have luck running those programs under Winex3 or Crossover wine. Here's a free older version of Winex3 to try out... http://www003.portalis.it/115/winexx.html

Ditto what maurice71 said. Go into /usr/lib and find out the version you have. Mine is mozilla-1.4.1. Flash will not install to the plain mozilla folder.