ah.. to be 15... :-) and its not possible to be a total failure at that
age - nor at any age !
I think you're doing fine - just calm down, chill and take a deeeep breath
and you'll be able to tackle your display problem. You haven't had fun yet
until you get the huge white cursor that takes up 3/4 of your screen :-D
cheers,
philomena
p.s. I have a stuffed penguin too - given to me by a friend who conned it
out of the linuxmall people at the linux expo in nyc last Feb
At 05:12 AM 9/21/2000 +1200, you wrote:
> > But I'm just wondering because, without getting into a flame war, I'm
> > surprised how bad the installation of Mandrake is.
>
>i'm a 15 year old with no experience whatsoever with anything but
>windows (unless you count the array of prehistoric apples i played with
>at school as a child) , and i managed to install linux on my second try,
>with only a cursory glance through the documentation... i have no doubt
>that it would have been on my first try, had partitionmagic not read the
>free space on one of my existing partitions as a separate partition...
>that threw me into vast amounts of confusion for about half an hour, and
>i dithered with diskdruid for another half hour, before trying fdisk and
>finding it much easier.
>
>i confess i impulse-bought mandrake a few weeks ago... the macmillan 6.5
>distro; the only linux i've ever seen offered for sale in my little
>corner of new zealand. i saw it and simply had to have it, being a
>wannabe geek. since then i've realised just how out-dated it is, but i
>suppose i'll have to make do until i figure out how to update it...
>which will probably take quite some time, as i haven't gotten much
>beyond setting up kppd (although not correctly; i messed up the dns
>settings, or whatever they're called -- i never seem to know the right
>terms for things).
>
>this lack of progress can generally be attributed to the fact that when
>i was installing x-windows, it refused to accept settings other than
>400x600 in 8-bit colour, and with a desktop like that, i can't even see
>whole popup windows. i resolved to do something about it, but haven't
>actually *done* that something yet, because the thought of exposing
>myself to those settings again is enough to make me turn a pale shade of
>green and flee the room... that and i've been busy writing a book, doing
>early spring-cleaning, planning a trip to america and suffering from
>influenza. but as soon as i have time, i *swear* i'm going to learn
>linux. then, *maybe*, i'll upgrade myself from wannabe geek, to
>geek-in-training...
>
>the duchess.
>
>p.s. i have the wardrobe, though! six t-shirts from thinkgeek.com! and i
>have a stuffed penguin! and i devour slashdot upon a daily basis... oh,
>god, *please* tell me i'm not a total failure and i have the makings of
>a "real" linux user...!!
