already giving up on linux Jon? I am a newbie since a month as well... you can run linux even with small knowledge especially mandrake 7.0 but DUH you must read some documentation ! You think we are gifted and just knew everything ?? I'd wish ! get yourself a nice linux book and get starting and you'll see it ain't that hard!!! good luck Robert -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Jon Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: Sunday, March 19, 2000 8:27 PM Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: [newbie] It's getting really frustrating (was 'error notenough space in partition /') Denis Are you saying, "You get what you pay for?" i.e. A free car isn't worth owning? All joking aside, You guys put some good dox right on the ISO image. LAG Linux Administrator's Guide NAG Network Administrator's Guide LAME Linux Administration Made Easy Denis Havlik wrote: > On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, kiriakos wrote: > > :~>Well thank you all guys, but 7.0-2 didn't do it for me. I did as Alan > :~>suggested , that is I made a floppy from a cdrom.img of 7.0-2 version > :~>and I still got the error message that I need 1180 megs and the / > :~>filesystem is not sufficient. I managed to install the packages by > :~>reducing the package size slider to like 1001 Megabytes, thinking I > :~>could add more later if I needed to, and it seemed to work. > > no problem anymore, I see. > > :~> > :~>Ok, packages installed and everything, installation says succesfully > :~>completed. When the system reboots, I CAN'T LOGIN as root!!!. But I CAN > :~>login as a regular user. > > Good. This is a security measure - if you do not like it, change the > security level. Or first log-in as user, then "su" to root. > > :~>If it means anything, I've set the security level to paranoid, upon > :~>installation. Do I have to type something extra? And what about LILO, it > :~>asked for a password too, which I provided, and upon boot it just works > :~>without asking a pass or anything. Could these two passwords (root and > :~>LILO) be related in some way? > > Paranoid+newbie == a lot of trouble. > > :~>I'm thinking I'm not smart enough for Linux and maybe I should drop it. > :~>I'm sorry for asking all those questions, but I have no manuals at hand > :~>to look into for more info. If someone could point out a complete > :~>comprehensive Linux manual/resource/tutorial online, I would appreciate > :~>it. I will try looking at the Mandrake web site for more info too. > > Aha, schurke!!!!!! You did not BUY our beautifull package with nice books, > stickers and all that jazz, as well as the install suppoert. ccc. Instead, > you just just burned the ISO image, did not bother reading the online > documentation and go around telling people 7.0 is no-good. ccc. Naughty > naughty boy you are... > > ;->> > > cu > Denis > -- > ----------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Denis Havlik <http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik> > Mandrakesoft ||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Quality Assurance (@ @) (private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------
