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Posted by fraggard on Sun Nov 21st at 3:05am 2004

AHA! It also has other characters: / : ? . etc. And an accented "a" from Forceflow. For some reason.



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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Nov 21st at 8:50pm 2004

? quoting fraggard
AHA! It also has other characters: / : ? . etc. And an accented "a" from Forceflow. For some reason.

He was trying his luck at French.

I'll give a try to Debian maybe. Since to reformat my drive, I have to take out the hard drive tray from the laptop, unscrew it out, get my 2.5 to 3.5 converter, and plug it into my desktop since the laptop has no floppy drive. Only CD.

What would be the difference between Debian and Mandrake?

[addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Sun Nov 21st at 9:00pm 2004

Debian will be harder to use and install from the offset, but is less cluttered and chock full of useless RPM's and never used Windows manager like Mandrake.

If you're prepared for confusion and bafflement getting Debian installed, everything else about it is pretty simple. Make sure you have a net connected PC before attempting anything




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Posted by $loth on Sun Nov 21st at 9:23pm 2004

ohhhhhhhhhh, i'll be getting a new HD at the beggining of next month, then I can finnaly install mandrake! [*cough* 10 cough*]. Is mandrake easily updatable? [addsig]



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Wed Nov 24th at 12:49am 2004

thanx to you all that have helped I have finaly got Fedora Core 3 Installed and running fine



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Posted by Gwil on Wed Nov 24th at 12:50am 2004

Spinkee up your desktop and show us a screenshot.

For your window maker/manager I recommend Enlightenment - tis ultra sexy. Monqui can vouch for it as well, from ease of install to compatibility, eh Monq?

Bwahahah


[addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Wed Nov 24th at 4:05am 2004

Think I figured why it was so slow executing stuff. I didnt have a Linux swap.

Right now, Im re-installing Mandrake but version 10.0 this time.

Here's my partition setup:

Mount point: /
Device: hda1
Type: Linux native
Size: 11GB (41%)
Not formatted

Mount point: swap
Device: hda5
Type: Linux swap
Size: 792MB (2%)
Not formatted

Mount point: /mnt/Windows
Device: hda6
DOS drive letter: C (just a guess)
Type: FAT32
Size: 15GB (55%)
Not formatted

[addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Wed Nov 24th at 5:15am 2004

? quoting Wild Card
Think I figured why it was so slow executing stuff. I didnt have a Linux swap.

Right now, Im re-installing Mandrake but version 10.0 this time.

Here's my partition setup:

Mount point: /
Device: hda1
Type: Linux native
Size: 11GB (41%)
Not formatted

Mount point: swap
Device: hda5
Type: Linux swap
Size: 792MB (2%)
Not formatted

Mount point: /mnt/Windows
Device: hda6
DOS drive letter: C (just a guess)
Type: FAT32
Size: 15GB (55%)
Not formatted


That's why I asked you what your partitions were!

I can't believe you didn't create a swap partition, the main source for VMM space.

By the way, I hope you also have, root, user, and home partitions set up for Linux, otherwise you're going to be in a bit of a rut ... again. [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Wed Nov 24th at 12:50pm 2004

Well, umm this is what I created... did I forget something? [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Wed Nov 24th at 1:12pm 2004

Im trying to set up my wireless card, this time around, Mandrake did detect the card, so Im running the Network & Internet Configuration.

So here is what I did:

Page 1: Wireless connection

Page 2: eth0: Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adapter

Page 3: Automatic IP (BOOTP/DHCP)

Page 4: checked "Assign host name from DHCP address"
DHCP host name: Family network
checked "Track network card id (useful for laptops)"
unchecked "Network Hotplugging"
checked "Start at boot"

Page 5:Operating Mode: Managed
Network name (ESSID): any
Encryption key: (left blank)

Page 6:RTS/CTS: ??
Fragmentation: ??

Page 7: Host name (optional): ??

Page 8: Zeroconf Host name: ??

Page 9:

I dont know what to do starting on Page 6, and Im not sure if I configured it proprelly so far either. Its going to be connected onto my wireless router at home, a D-Link 802.11g router (DI-524).

Thanks for any help.

[addsig]



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Posted by Monqui on Sun Nov 28th at 1:07am 2004

Beh, gwil. Enlightenment would be sweet if I could get my mouse and keyboard working together at the same time. Other than that, it is quite teh sexeh.

I'm still working out the whole "keyboard not wanting to work in X but only sometimes since my computer hates me" bit.

If anyone has any ideas, heres the problem:

I initially installed just the debian base system, with no extra jazz. Then, I installed X, and went through the bog-standard setup screenies and everything seemed spiffy. Installed Enlightenment next, and loaded it up- only to not have a keyboard. Spaztastic. I then installed KDE over the top of it to see if it would even register in there- it did. I was moderately happy. But, KDE does that lame thing where it boots into X, more specifically into KDE's crappy little graphical login thing. Whenever that comes up, my keyboard doesn't work. If I click on "Console Login," I can type in a username and pass, and do a startx through that. When I do that, I have a keyboard.

Any ideas? [addsig]




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