On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 09:22, Charlie wrote: > On Friday 04 October 2002 06:01 pm, Darwin Gottfried wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 13:48, Charlie wrote: > > [....] > > > > > I installed Dolphin my desktop came with _no_ icons at all at first boot. > > > The "enable desktop icons" button is checked. > > > > I've had this happen, where there aren't any desktop icons 3 times out > > of 11 install tests. I wasn't paying attention at the time, (or better > > put, didn't care to look into it) as I was looking for other critical > > things to see if all was okay. Clearly, it can and does happen. Why? > > I'm not yet sure. > > I'm not sure why either but since everything that I do care about works, I > haven't allowed this minor 'no icons' issue to bother me. :-) > > As with anyone else; I've had installs pull some really strange things out of > the realm of possibility. Or maybe impossibility. Installing Mandrake 9.0 on > a friend's machine yesterday was an excercise in boredom. > > Until she decided to click the network printer button in the summary stage. > _What network printer?_ LOL That's what I get for having to answer nature's > call at a 'crucial' time. > > It's all back to normal now. The expected icons were there for that install. > > Minor inconsistencies from Mandrake as usual. A whole lot better than this > agravating Compaq that doesn't want to "recover" from the original restore > disks. grrrrrr. If it were mine it would be a Linux box already. The owner > wants it to "work the way it's supposed to." Yeah....then why did they buy a > Compaq with Windows on it? ;-) > -- > Charlie > Edmonton,AB,Canada > Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org > Politics makes strange bedfellows, and journalism makes strange politics. > -- Amy Gorin > > Charlie I've got a Northgate I just worked on that is it's twin... 25minutes to install Mandrake... 3 days to restore win2000. Don't we know? Windows is so much easier than Linux. *grin*.
James
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