Maillion

Quote: i got debian on my laptop and am trying to figure out whether or not it has a gui ill look into the newer distros the hp i have is a220n so its rather new 2003 modelf i beleive so ill try to get ark i just switched back to xp on my hp to get more distros but on my laptop i have debian Debian has the same GUI as most distributions. I have Debian, running KDE. I have run Gnome, IceWM, and FluxBox on the same machine, with the same distribution. 8)

Quote: LOL! That took me a while to figure out too Mel! The easiest way is to find where someone has done something interesting and click on the edit button which will show how they did it. You can use "quote" which will make text in a white box. Before the text put Code: [quote]Hi, Dapper. Just doing an experiment based upon your post quoted above.[/quote] Just wanted to see if the "code" tag did it without having to put in an extra space... 8) EDIT Hey! It worked! (And it changed the text to light green!) 8)

Quote: Quoting from http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/8/2003/08/3/82545: Quote: For SWAP, how much RAM do you have ? If you have 1 GB of RAM, creating a 2 GB swap partition is a waste of space. I suggest 128MB to 512MB max. If your computer ends up using more than 256 MB of swap, then you need more RAM. Quote: Swap doesn't necessarily have to be double your ram, but you've got the room so I'll leave it at that... I agree with that statement, since my experience shows me what happening to my swap partition during system running. So I think the "twice the system ram" should be for maximum. The thing is, if you are having problems, and you have that much RAM, then something is wrong. I was trying to answer your questions, and the posts you quoted were answering someone else's. 8)

I got this info from the installs and install guides for several distros, but it always said "at least twice the system ram", or words to that effect. I have never seen (yet) a maximum... ;(

Keep in mind that Netscape, the last I heard, was the property of AOL, who was once sued for selling personal info on their customers. I, like many others, loved Netscape back when IE was introduced, but now I fear it, because of AOL's reputation. I now use Mozilla, which is not a derivative of Netscape, but the other way around. 8)

Quote: You're right ,Danleff and the first sentence in the original post on this thread was "Actually ,this post is to all members.". I have RedHat 9.0 up and running. Anaconda won't run on HP551w but runs great on this WalMart eMachine and older HP. Arklinux is the only distro I've tried that installs on the 551w correctly. It installs itself with no problem and findes everything but scanners. Thank everyone for the help. I found RedHats license interesting in that you can distribute the distro freely but requires that you change the the logos and trademark to whatever you want as long as you remove references to RedHat. What is Arklinux like? It is one (of probably many) that I have not heard of yet. ;(

Quote: Let's see if the sys admin sees this. It can be some work, but if it is split up between users and reviewed by someone before faqs are submitted, it could be helpful. We seem to be repeating a lot of information. Not uncommon. I did admin work on a bios site in recent years and it is a lot of work for the sys admin to keep up and adding information. I did not do this myself, but it seems worthwhile. One suggestion is to ask new users to do searches, but many are truely newbies and do not realize that their problems may already reside on the board. Nor, do they always have the knowledge to do searches. I have a number of distros on my systems and it is hard keeping a database of answers and links. If this comes to be, I'll do my best to help. I'm not too shabby at making stuff readable...

Quote: Quote: Let's see if the sys admin sees this. It can be some work, but if it is split up between users and reviewed by someone before faqs are submitted, it could be helpful. We seem to be repeating a lot of information. Not uncommon. I Agree. Quote: One suggestion is to ask new users to do searches I've 'NEVER' seen a new user do a search I have, and often, although there are a few around who may think I am not a "noob", I've only been doing Linux for myself for less than a year, so there is at least one 'newbie' who searches this and a lot of other boards, and Google! 8)

Quote: Swap file is 500 MB give or take a few MB. Processor is Celeron 1.1 GHz. On the same system, Windows 98 runs like lightning. But I can tell from the KDE utility that runs with this version that RAM is running at full capacity, the system is running very slowly, yet the swap use is zero. I can try to open more and more applications, but once RAM is full, nothing else will open, and swap is never used. Linux is very slow to load as well. Well, I've never run into this problem, nor heard it answered, but just guessing, I'd say that the swap partition is not activated. I will do a little research, but in the meantime, I hope someone more knowledgeable stops by. 8)

Quote: I see that malllion got in ahead of me. His comments are right on the money. Sorry, Danleff - long weekend, and all my family and friends are away somwhere. I'm bored. I clicked on any forum that had new messages and I replied to anything that seemed like I could answer reasonably. I didn't realise that this was to You and Dapper until I had hit the 'Submit' button... 8)

The swap is used when there is not enough memory to do what needs to be done, AFAIK. If you have enough memory, you can get by without swap. How big is your swap partition? Generally, it should be at least twice as big as your RAM. (In other words, if you have 256 meg of RAM, your swap should be at least 512 megabytes.) How fast is your system? ;(

As long as you keep the entire gpl data on whatever you give away, you can give out as many copies as you can afford. If you are just trying to help people see how Linux works - to get them to try it out, make copies of 'LiveCDs'. That way, they won't have to make changes to their hard drives. You can start a local user's group for whatever you want, regardless of what the license says. There are restrictions, but these are to keep people who use the source code to make their own software from preventing you from copying and distributing that software. Here is the appropriate part of the GPL: Quote: When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things. To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it. I hope this helps. Good luck in your user group! 8)

Quote: http://www.morphix.org Hey, I just checked it out! I haven't been there for months (been here instead) but it still had my login, and a PM! 8)

Quote: MrRobins3, everytime I installed Mandrake 9, I installed the workstation, development tools, games and Internet Server, and then it asked me for the second and the third CD! By the way, most of important things are on the first CD, there is a menu showing what rpm's are on the second and on the third cd. If you are curious, just mount the second CD and look what is under the rpm directory, and you will probably see nething is interesting for you, that's why the standard installation didn't ask you to insert these CD's. And if you like them, you can go to a terminal window and type rpm package name and they will be installed. Look up rpm in your man pages or on The Linux Documentation Project website first, to figure out how to use it. (I used it on Mandrake 9.0, but I haven't for a long time!) 8)

I suppose that if you really need to access that drive r/w, then you could do what I did - I installed XP and told it not to use ntfs! Of course if XP is already installed, you are probably SOL until Linux developers get a bit further along in that...

Quote: Heres my story. I want to install Linux Mandrake 9.2 onto my computer, currently running XP Home. The hard drive is 37.7 GB, and 80% is free. When I start the installation off of the first CD, i get to the part that you partition your hard drive. I want to split the hard drive in half, basically, but when I try to do so, it says that I need to defrag. After a scan disk, a checkdisk, and a defragging, I try again. Same result. Please defrag. Any ideas? Also, it finally let me partition it, but only let me have a new piece of 300 mb. Windows hides files that don't really need to be hidden. They also call nonsystem files 'System' for some reason. If you copy anything from a CD to the hard drive it comes with a read only attribute. Windows Defrag will not move System, Read Only, or Hidden files! Thus, your partition software is looking at a disk that has only a few bytes 'free' because one or more of those files is down near the end of the drive. I would suggest another defrag utility, if I knew of one, but the only one I know is Norton Speeddisk, which is just as bad, because it puts least used files at the end of the drive... Anybody else know of a good defragger that does not refuse to move hidden files? ;(

Quote: What i did is unzip with winrar. Then copy files over to burn cd then add the image on top of everything when it asked for it. I didnt just add the iso file to the cd. So i did one cd boot style. Copy all files over. Then when it asked for boot imafe i added it The other one was just a date without a image. I burn it at 20X out of 48 im done with mandrake it aint working so i switched to evil entity and the redhat wouldnt download. so with mandrake i made each one for a different image. evilentity i just have two one data no image. And one boot style with the image EvilE provided The ISO is an image of the CD. Using Nero, pull down the Recorder menu item, and select 'Burn Image' . You will get a box that allows you to find your ISOs. (You may have to select the file type in a drop down box.) Don't extract any files from the ISO! Choose the ISO image then click on 'Burn' in the upper right corner of the dialog that pops up. Burn at 8x or slower, and be sure to check the md5 checksums before you begin! 8)

OK, I have used Mandrake and RPM/MDK, and now Debian with apt-get, Synaptic and DEB. I want to install Firefox. I had no prob in Windoze, but I have never used something in tar.gz. It is not source, (I looked inside the file and all the binaries seem to be there. It looks like it has the folders and all.) My guess is that I could extract it like I would with Winzip, but I aven't used Ark before today, and I don't know the options. I'm going to look at the man page for Ark a little later, but does anybody have any suggestions that will help me understand what I will see in the man page? (I'm clueless at this point...) ;(

Quote: Well when i installed it I could no longer get into WinXP. I was getting the error autochk program not found---SKIPPING AUTOCHECK. System would then reboot. Ok, I fixed that and got back into WinXP and eliminated the Linux Partition I had. The thing is the LILO Bootloader is still present. Can i make a new partition using Partition Magic and overright the existing LILO when i reinstall mandrake? I tried to get rid of LILO but i can't get it. I tried the ntfsdos bootdisk and then FDISK /MBR like everyone says but it did not work. Does XP now boot? ;(

A simple suggestion: I know there are a lot of folks out there who prefer Gnome over KDE, but I have had translucent menus and terminal (Konsole) almost as soon as I booted for the first time. I had to go into Konsole and configure it for translucency, but I have had no problems of any sort since i did. Perhaps I am a bit clueless here. Is there some other type of terminal that you are attempting to change other than the one that gives you a command line (bash) screen? ;(

Quote: Hello All, I am currently on the lookout for the three (or more) disk version of mandrake 9.1 if anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great!! Thanks to all! Justin Here you go! ftp://mirror.fis.unb.br/pub/linux/Mandrake-old/iso/ Have fun!

Quote: now what is the version 9.1-CD1.ppc.iso what the heck is ppc?? (im new to this if it is a really dumb question) Thanks Justin The only dumb question is the one that you don't ask! PPC stands for Power PC, a Mac version of whatever distribution you are looking for. In this case, the distibution is vesion 9.1, and this ISO is for CD number one, or in most cases the first install disc. You did not say what distibution you are wanting to set up, so I cannot say how many more ISOs you need. Could we get a little more info? If so, we can answer more questions. 8)

Quote: I setup WindowsXP to dual boot with Mandrake 9.2 with Mandrake being first on the drive. It seemed to load great then I get a login screen which I enter my sn i used during install and a pw as well which i also type in. I am then faced with this: [myscreennamehere@localhost myscreennamehere]$ What am I supposed to do now. I followed an install guide that was in maximumPC and it mentioned nothing of this screen. I used myscreennamehere instead of the actual one i used. Any suggestions? Thanx. When you see this: [myscreennamehere@localhost myscreennamehere]$ type "startx" (without the quotes) and then press enter. You will then see the gui starting up. You have a lot of stuff that you can do at this 'command line', much of which will actually be better than using a gui. If you feel like learning about it, then before you type 'startx', type "info bash" (again, no quotes) and press enter. Have fun! 8)

Quote: i installed mandrake 9.2 on my 3rd harddrive ( after some changes...) and it is configured and every thing is fine but it will not take my password such as if i was to put in the login then i hit enter for the password line my keyboard does not work the enter and control+alt+del but it wont work, did i do something wrong or is it corrupt? 8) ;( ;( Quote: a microsoft wireless usb keyboard and mouse combo It is a M$ keyboard - obviously, they have not provided drivers for it fo Linux. I lloked in the compatability database on this site, and it is not there. You may want to search google for a driver, other than that, you may need to connect a wired keyboard when using Linux. Does your mouse work? ;(

Quote: Between Fedora ISO one kit is source and another is binary. Source is software that has not been compiled yet, and binary is just the opposite 8)