You never said how much RAM you have. If you have just 32MB of memory,
in my humble opinion, that is too little for KDE/Netscape.
Jimmy Garcia wrote:
> I've spent a week, unsuccessfully, trying to get Linux-Mandrake 6.0 to
> work properly. After getting through the install procedure, which went
> by with no real difficulty, I started Linux and was amazed at how slow
> it was. It kept accessing my hard drive for almost every little thing
> I did. I gave it a 3 Gig ext2 partition and a 200MB swap file
> partition from my 10Gig IBM 7200RPM ide hard drive. All my hardware
> is supposed to be compatible with it (except for my SB Live). It took
> like 3 minutes for Netscape to load, it took 3 minutes for a desktop
> theme to apply, and there was obviously something wrong with it. I
> tried to shut it down, but then it hung while "preparing a new
> session." When I rebooted, there were errors on my hard drive and I
> had to 'run fsck manually'. I did, and when I started it again, some
> programs wouldn't work like, Netcfg. Some Icons turned black in KDE
> and I couldn't even click on them. I had the same shutdown problem
> and decided to re-install it.The same things happened to me. I was
> told that I have to upgrade some kernal or something. But, I can't
> even load Linux without having to go through that lengthy fsck
> procedure at startup. I guess I just stick to windows :( For those
> Linux experts out there, someone should come up with a site or book
> that'll help people migrate from Windows to Linux.Just a
> suggestion. Thanks everyone! James Garcia
