I installed Mandrake 8 on my computer that I recently put together from scratch. I chose to install the text-based LILO. When it booted up, it got to the "LI" and it hung right there. I downloaded Mandrake 8.1. During the install this time, it said "Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occurred: Syntax error near line 6 in file/etc/lilo.conf" So when it went back to installing the bootloader again in the install, I chose to install GRUB. GRUB worked fine. So I thought, I'll see if I can install LILO now that GRUB works. I went to Mandrake Control Center and installed LILO. Lilo did the same thing again and stopped at the LI. So, I booted from the floppy, and installed GRUB again from the Mandrake Control Center. Now GRUB doesn't work. It hangs after displaying "GRUB GRUB" on startup. I can boot fine from the floppy though. Is there another way to re-install the bootloader? Is there a way to install Mandrake without changing my current configuration?
I have some more general questions: How do I adjust the volume in Mandrake Linux? I'm running KDE. The startup sound always blasts out of my speakers when I login. Is there a "Task Manager" in Linux, like there is in Windows2000? I typed "top" but there are too many processes to display in the window. How do I see all the processes? When it crashes, what do I do? Hit the reset button? It crashed, and I didn't know what to press. Is Kmovie buggier than hell? It won't play most of my music videos, and if I choose to open another movie file when I'm playing something, it crashes. Is there a better movie player for Linux? Why can I only use traceroute when I'm logged in as root? How do I allow normal users to use traceroute? When I click on the "Home" icon in my home directory, it goes to "/mnt/cdrom2" for some reason. When in Konquerer, and I click the Home icon, it goes to my home directory though. How do I make it so when I click the desktop icon, it goes to "/home/ddeham"? Finally, I know this is asking a lot, but is there any way I can watch TV with my ATI All In Wonder Radeon card in Linux? Answers to any of these questions would be appreciated. Thanks, Daniel
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