hehehehehe
you are sooo doomed.
I also picked up linux in a whim. My roommate had a copy of mandrake
5.2 that sat on a shelf for months on end. One day I bought a new hard
drive and I decided to put linux on it. I got it installed on the first
try too but I couldn't get my modem working so I didn't use it very
often. Then I got DSL and downloaded mandrake 7.02 about nine months
ago. Since then I only use windows to play Half-Life & CS.
My advice is to tackle the things in your install that don't work the
way you want em to one at a time. In a very short time you will find
yourself answering questions on this list as often as you ask them.
Abe
the Duchess of the Antipodes 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...!!
