Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

[Rhichard Barth & Family]

You did a "Work Station" install? did you set up your partitions and then did the "Work Station"???? If you do a "Work Station" install, Linux sets up it's own partitions this usually doesn't work out very well for you... the swap and native partitions end up being to small....Custom is the way to go...this way you can pick and chose your own settings and only install what you need....Then use fdisk or Disk Druid....Being a "Widows user" also I find fdisk is best.
How big is your drive?

Jose Alberto Abreu wrote:

Rhichard Barth & Family escribió:

> 32MB of ram + 40MB swap gives you 72MB of memory.....
> I started KDE with a 486/66 with 16MB and it wasn't that slow....
> Do you have anything in auto start?

Nope, just the standard KDE "workstation" install.

I requested Spanish as a language, but when I log out of KDE I see several "file
not found, using Default-English instead" messages.

Might this be a problem?

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