Thanks, that helped a whole lot. I didn't realize how big 7.2 really was.
I got 80% of expert/workstation on about 2.4 gigs. That should be ok until
I finally delete windows off of the 10gig hd and go linux only. Thanks
again, Dennis M.
bascule wrote:
> dennis, /usr needs to be quite big, try a 1gig /, a 2gig /usr and 1gig
> /home,
> have you set dns correctly for netscape to work, do this in
> drakconf>networking
> maybe it was just a typo in your post but a modem would be on ttyS0 not
> ttys0, ttyS0 is com1 in dos terms
>
> bascule
>
> Dennis Myers wrote:
> >
> > I have found the gui for 7.2 but as stated before I have no icons and
> > several functions don't. Like Networking in DrakConf, and my modem
> > will dial in and connect to my ISP but netscape doesn't connect. On
> > the dual boot machine I have an external modem set on ttys0 and 7.2
> > can't find it. the dual boot box also has the same problems as above
> > as well as telling me that I have room for only 39% of the files I
> > chose to install. That was on a 4gig hd with 2 gig reserved for /home.
> > Should I have made /usr the larger partition? Lots of questions, I
> > know, but if anyone can help on one at a time or all I would
> > appreciate it. Just a note, I am using Netscape 6 for this e-mail and
> > it is definitly slower than 4.75, also I have had a look at
> > enlightenment and it is COOOL! TIA for any help out there,
> >
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> > Dennis M. a registered Linux user #180842
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