Maillion

I can't help you at all with your DVD ROM, but I can let you know that eth0 is your ethernet card (there are other names, like eth1, but mine is also eth0). If your ISP requires special software, it may not support Linux, most often because the software has to run on the machine, and they more often than not use M$. However, if you connect a router between your DSL modem in some way, (hopfully another member here will know more about this than myself) you can probably use Linux - you may have to have the software running on one - neither the modem nor the DSL service cares what operating system is being used, but the software itself may not run on Linux. My son-in-law had DSL, and at one time, he had two computers connected like I mentioned above. When he built a new computer, he connected it to the DSL, without installing the special software. Nothing changed, except that he decided to use the DSL supplier as his ISP instead of a separate one. 8)

Thanks, Dapper. I used Morphix KDE instead, but what you said reminded me of something that may work. 8)

Dapper - I like IceWM too. I just installed Debian by using the Morphix LiveCD, and I used apt-get to 1. Update 2. upgrade 3. dist-update (or whatever the actual commands were). I haven't been able to find the command in Mandrake KDE that allowed me to switch to IceWM. Do you know how I could do it in Debian? ;(

Did you check to see if the plug-in you downloaded is the one made for your version of mozilla? (Backward compatability is possible, but forward compatability is not... ;(

Quote: This is nuts! Now it works in Galeon and didn't before!! Oh, good! there are some things that happen to me on computers that just don't make any sense! Now I know I'm not alone... ;(

You probably used a small install choice. Disc 2 is a lot of 'extra' stuff, and disc 2 is 'international' stuff. Hang on to them in case you want more stuff... 8)

Yeah, Danleff is right, I used 3 gigs for Mandrake 9.0 a few months ago. 8)

Mozilla 1.6 opened them perfectly. They are great! I saved all but the ones that were for distros that I don't use. Thanks, Outstream! 8)

Quote: This are a really great sites guys...I know some of this commands but of course I can never remember what all of them do... Welcome to the club! (Me either...) :x

Both sites have about the same content. I would be a bit more trusting of the O'Reilly one, because O'Reilly is a commercial publisher, and thus will update more often, just to keep their trust... Either one will supply the commands. There are command info available on documentation that is usually installed along with your distro. It may give you the newest info available than is on these sites, regardless. It doesn't give a full list, at least in the distros I've used (at least I haven't found such a list yet) so you could go to one of these sites, and find the correct name for a particular command, then check your documentation to make sure you are getting the latest updated info... 8)

Well, you'd probably need to change the data for that partition in either fstab or mtab, maybe both. The line on each partition will say rw for read/write. It would need to be changed to ro for read only. Here is the fstab man page online: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?fstab+4 One part of page 2: Quote: The mnt_opts field contains a list of comma-separated option words. Some mnt_opts are valid for all filesystem types, while others apply to a specific type only. Options valid on all filesystems (the default is rw) are: rw Read/write. ro Read-only. noauto Ignore this entry during a mount -a command, to allow the definition of fstab entries for commonly-used filesystems that should not be automatically mounted. grpid Causes a file created within the filesystem to have the group ID of its parent directory, not the creating process's group ID. nosuid Setuid execution not allowed for non-superusers. This option has no effect for the superuser. nodev Access to character and block special files is disallowed. I hope it helps. 8) (Just to satisfy my curiosity, why do you want your Windows partitions in read-only?)

fezblog, Well, I'm lost now! I hope you find the correct answer. good luck. 8)

Quote: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat auto,umask=0 0 0 'vfat - no such mount point'. I'm puzzled that fedora seems to think 'vfat' in the line is a directory when I assume by its position it is meant to recognise it as a filesystem instruction This could be because there is not enough white space between the mount point and the file system name. Quote: I considered installing Mandrake, but as it now costs to post on their official support forums, There are Mandrake users who created their own forums when the fee was required. Here is one: http://mandrakeusers.org/ There are a number of forums similar to this one that cover many distros. I go to http://linuxiso.org/forums/ as well as this one. I have seen many others. You do not need to pay for asking questions from Linux users... 8)

OK, I had some problems: My bootloader failed, and nothing that I tried to install seems to be able to replace the bad bootloader. I have deleted everything and will soon reinstall Windows on a fresh ten gig hard drive (Maxtor ATA). I will then divide my 40 gig hard drive (Maxtor ATA) into two partitions, one at ten gigs, the other with all the remaining space. I will install Linux on the ten gig partition, and put the bootloader on this partition so that it will set a new bootloader. The remaining space will be a Windows fat32 partition so that I can use both OS's to access the data I store there. I want to learn Linux, so I don't really need all the problems I have had in the past year or so. (Most have been due to installations.) Will you guys help me out? 8) I don't want to compile anything right now – maybe a year or two down the road, but not now. x) I need a fullly functional installation program. 8) I need at least graphic based programs, development programs, game programs, audio programs, CD programs, internet access programs, and lots of documentation. 8) I also need some gui window managers (as many as possible so that I can check them out). 8) What distro will have as much of the above? (It has to install correctly and create a dual boot system.) ;( Thanks loads! Maillion

I tried all kinds of things and I finally got something that works! 8) I used a Morphix LiveCD, installed it to hard disk and did an apt-get update then upgrade. As far as I can tell, I now have Debian! Is there any way fairly simple to change the login screen to replace the Morphix one to a Debian screen? I can't find the way in the KDE menu to put the display of the four desktops on the panel. I need to find the posts that tell how to set up my fstab and/or mtab so that I can access my fat32 disk. I'm working on it! (I need to get back to learning Vi...) :x

In my opinion, 9.0 is the best so far. 9.2 is ok, according to those I have heard mention it. 9.1 seems to be the worst. 8)

This one is OK: http://www.distrowatch.com/ 8)

Thanks Dapper! The site is bookmarked now, and I will soon start back on scripting... (I've been looking for such a list for a while.) 8)

Danleff - I love your sig! It has been a while since I saw that show... 8)

I checked out the board online: Chipset North bridge:VIA KT-133A South bridge:VIA VT82C686B Bus Type 5 PCI + 1 AMR+ 1 AGP+ 1 ISA CPU Support Socket A AMD Athlon , AthlonXP and Duron Processors AMD AthlonXP 1500+/1600+/1700+/1800+/1900+ AMD Athlon 650/700/750/800/850/900/950/1000/1000-266/1100/1133-266/1400/1400-266 AMD Duron 600/650/700/750/800/850/900/950/1000/1100/1200/1300 System Memory Three 168 pin 3.3V PC133 DIMM sockets Supports up to 1.5G SDRAM Supports 66/100/133 MHz Synchronous DRAM and VCM SDRAM And 66MHz EDO DRAM USB 1.1 specification compliant Bus Speed 200/266MHz FSB BIOS 2 Mbit Flash ROM Licensed advanced AWARD BIOS Supports Plug and Play Supports ACPI and OS directed power management In other words it has everything you need as far as I can tell, and nowhere did I find anything that would make it anti-linux... 8)

You can also read an introduction to Linux from the Linux Documentation Project. The Guide is here: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html There are a lot of other Guides, Howto's, Man pages, and other stuff at the main site: http://www.tldp.org/ (There is also a FAQ there that will fit in pretty well with the Intro Guide.) This may help... 8)

Quote: How do I get it to load windows by default or how do I get it to ask me what OS I want to run? I tried loading in my recovery disks..that didn't help..still got linux on there. You can go into your LiLo configuration program and set it to create a menu with Windows and Linux. (You apparently missed that part during the install. Don't feel bad. I did the same thing more than once, in several distros...) Hopefully you will decide to keep Linux for a while, and you can come back here to ask for help - between us and your unix course you will be able to learn much more than some of the other students in your class... 8)

Quote: Quote: To get rid of mandrake and lilo. insert your mandrake install disk and re-partition your linux partions, and format them to fats32. Then reboot. But what do you mean with re-partition?? If you install a dual boot system using a single hard drive, you must create a separate partition for Windows and Linux. This usually happens during Linux install. The install program will make the disk into two sections one for Windows and the other for Linux (the install program will also make the Linux section into several partitions) once they are made, the install program puts everything in the Linux partitions. If you use two separate hard drives, the one you have selected for Linux will get several partitions during the install. M$ cannot read Linux file systems. If you want the Linux partitions back for Windows, you must change the file systems on the Linux section or drive back to a file system that Windows can read - this is what he meant when he said "re-partition"... 8)

The web site for the Epiphany browser says that the version for Mandrake 9.1 is no longer maintained. What is the rpm you have? (The one on the Epiphany web site for Mandrake 9.1 is: epiphany-1.0.1-2.norlug.i586.rpm With an rpm, you should have all the stuff you need... 8)

Chrispope, there are dozens of posts on this forum about how to get a winmodem to work with Linux. You will be considered a 'guru' if you post how you did it! 8)