[newbie] Helix Gnome install on Mdk 7.2
Hello, Does anyone have Helix Gnome installed on Mandrke 7.2 ? If so in your opinion is it better than the standard install of Gnome? Would appreciate any comments and insights. Thanks, dkunz
[newbie] LM 7.2 swap file size vs ram?
Hello, Installed 7.2 today. After install going into Netscape or Koffice seems to take a very long time. Can hear the hd churning like it is trying to load program eventually it does. Machine is a 533 w/64 mb ram 15gig hd. partions are swap hda5 137mb.62.8 free roothda63.85 gig2.36 gig free home hda73.63 gig 3.44 gig free I have ordered more ram will put that in tomorrow. Is the swap partion about the right size? Another thing I noticed when running Kdiskfree it shows /proc/bus/usb with 0% free. Is this normal? Any suggestions are appreciated. thanks, dkunz
[newbie] New install on second hd -- advice please.
Hello, I am trying to install MDK 6.0 on second hard drive. It is a Western Digital 6.4 Gig hd. The first hard drive is a Maxtor 4.2 Gig. Does part of MDK 6.0 have to be on first drive? I have Partion Magic 4.01 so moving partions around is easy enough, it also comes with BootMagic. I could use BootMagic or LILO as OS loader. Currently have 1st drive partioned c: and d: with Win98. I have second drive as one partion as yet I will make at least these partions / , /home , and /swap. Any others I should make? Which partion set as active? Primary or logical? If there is a How to could someone point me the way? Any advice greatly appreciated. TIA dkunz
Re: [newbie] Upgrading the Kernel
Dan Voeks wrote: Hi, I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0. I have two hard drives. hda has one partition - a dos/win95 partition. hdb has 3 partitions: hdb1 = /boot, hdb2 = swap, hdb3 = / When using linux, I boot from a floppy (the floppy I created during the mandrake install). Here's my problem: I was running into the "busy partition" message at shutdown time, which is documented on the Linux-Mandrake updates page. The fix is listed as follows: Solution: upgrade to initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm and to kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm. An updated initscripts package is also available: rpm -Uvh initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm Note: if you run in level 5, don't forget to set it again in /etc/inittab [just replace id:3:initdefault: by id:5:initdefault:] after initscripts upgrading! So, I downloaded the 2 rpms from the ftp site (actually I downloaded initscripts-4.16-31mdk.i586.rpm, but that shouldn't make any difference, I'm assuming, since it was the only initscripts rpm there). I entered in the two rpm command lines exactly as above. I modified my /etc/lilo.conf file to reflect the new kernel name. I modified /etc/inittab as suggested above. I then rebooted. But, to my shock and horror, when I rebooted, the kernel was still listed as version 2.2.9-19mdk. It hadn't upgraded! Then I thought that I probably had only changed the copy of the kernel on my hard drive, and since I boot off a floppy that I should just copy the new kernel to the floppy and change the lilo.conf file on the floppy. I did that and rebooted...but the kernel STILL hadn't changed. What am I doing wrong? How can I upgrade my kernel, and make a bootdisk to boot the kernel properly? Thanks in advance! Dan `` Dan Voeks DoIT Help Desk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` Dan, After changing lilo.conf ,you need to re-run /sbin/lilo. That should tell it about new kernel. DKunz
[newbie] after upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0 any major upadtes I need?
Hello, Just ran upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0. Are there any major updates that I should look for? This version has Netscape Ver. 4.60. Thanks for any info. Dale K.
[newbie] install or update 6.0 ?
Hello, I currently am running a dual boot pc with win98 and Mandrake 5.3. Using Lilo as boot manager. 5.3 is running ok but would like to move up to 6.0. What's the best method to install? Wipe linux partitions and start fresh or run install and upgrade. Any help appreciated. Dale
