RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
Kaj ... ... haven't given up on 6.0 yet, kind of a challenge ... have it working in partiton in CLI (you taught me that terminology) on my desktop (Intel32, 256mb ram, 700mH, 20 gb hd), now that I have 10.1 running in VMware on my new (AMD64, 500mb ram, 2.0mH, 60gb hd) laptop, with KDE running and Foxfire installed, my learning curve has accelaerated a bit, got more ideas for things to try on 6.0 to get KDE going ... mainly grinding through the 1000 different possible configuration combinations using that old Xconfigurator ... ... 10.1 bombed out on my desktop in the first 30 seconds of the boot-up install, didn't like my disk drive partitions (old machine, badly chopped up with 6-7 partitons, been re-partitioned alot) .. ... my new laptop refuses to be partitioned by either my Partition Magic, or by 10.1 when I tried to install it from bootup, that's why I had to go the VMware route (very sluggish, but totally functional) .. ... so, think I can go back and squeeze in a small Fat32 partition on my desktop, along the lines of your suggestion, but cannot for 10.1 on my laptop .. .. one thought - I'm on the internet in Linux through my wireless local LAN network just fine, could Windows send stuff to Linux over that LAN network ? HK -Original Message- From: Kaj Haulrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 6:31 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? On Friday 04 March 2005 19:47, h k ball wrote: snip (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more direct way (haven't figured out how to communicate on my office LAN yet) /snip Welcome back, h k... I didn't realize you were running 6.0, but it induces that nostalgic feeling in me. If, by any chance, you are dual-booting Linux and another OS, an easy way to transfer files is to create an extra FAT32 partition in the middle to share files. Most OS's can read and write to FAT32. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* File: message.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
Mikkel ... could only install 10.1(only paid 6 bucks, not too bad) on VM on my laptop (see my message just now to Kaj for the gory details) ... 1024X768 working just fine without an nVidia card ... ... have been trying to figure out the smb4k alternative you suggested, read the manual, googled around, still no clue ... ... what is an example of a line of code I might try ? (as root, I know that much) HK -Original Message- From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 2:32 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? h k ball wrote: ... Hi Kaj, Anne, Mikkel, Snap, et al ... ... I'm the newbie that showed up for the first time about 3 weeks ago, was overwhelmed with your responsiveness, but was way over my head, and felt guilty ... have a confession to make ... ... back in 1999 I bought Mandrake 6.0 ($35), tried putting it on the same machine with my Win2000, WinNT, etc, failed, gave up, put it on the shelf, forgot about it ...then, what with my wonderful experience with Firefox vs IE, etc etc, saw open sourcing in a whole new light, decided to try again, found your newbie list, and, trying harder this time, got it running in the command mode, and you all tought me a whole lot about moving around in that environment, really valuable stuff ... ... but I was flying under false colors ... you are all 10.1 folks, with 10.1 problems and 10.1 solutions ... so I shut up, quit wasting your time, got on Ebay, bought 10.1 for $6.00 (thought, this is a dumb move) ... 3-4 days later a small envelop arrived with 4 disks, nothing else ... enlarged my Ext2, Swap partitions,etc ... total disaster, on two different machines bombed out immediately on install (thought you got what you paid for) ... ... had been hearing alot about VMware, how you don't need to partition, etc, lo and behold, VMware has a 5.0 in Beta testing until Apr 29 !!! ... (I'm really really cheap) ... ... to make a 4 day story short, I have 10.1 running with a genaric VM video driver (nVidia card in my machine) at 1024x768, KDE up and running, have installed my beloved Firefox, things are fantastic !!! ... so now maybe I can legitimately ask you guys some questions: (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more direct way (haven't figured out how to communicate on my office LAN yet) ... ??? (2) ... operations and webpage downloads are vey slw with one exception, downloaded Firefox (8.2 meg) in 30 seconds (DSL) ... I suspect its the VMware's fault, but any tricks to speed things up ??? ... again, I'm very appreciative and humbled ... HK I wish you would have told us you were running 6.0 - we could have pointed you to where you could download the CD images for 10.1 for free, or purchesed them fairly cheap. (You can download the first 3 CD's from the Internet.) Now, as far as transfering files between Windows and Linux, it depends on how you are running Linux. If you are running it in a VMware window, then you may want to create a share on the windows machine, and use smb4k to map the share on Linux. You can alsu use the mount command from the command line interface, but smb4k is probably going to work better for you at this point. If you are dual booting Windows and Linux on a machine, you can mount the windows partition directly in Linux. In fact, the installer usualy will set this up for you. Diskdrake will also do it for you. If you are using the NT file system, then it will be mounted read only - you can transfere files to Linux, but there are some problems writing to NT file systems. (Has this changed?) There are no problems reading/writing FAT file systems. Depending on the nVidia card you have, 10.1 may work with it out of the box, or you may have to install extra drivers. There have been a lot of messages about this. I don't have personal experence with the cards that require this. As far as your install problems directly to the hardware, instead of installing in VMware, we should be able to work around them. The bit thing is to describe the hardware, and be willing to try a couple of options during install. Most people don't need to do this, but some hardware requires more effort then others... I usualy have less trouble installing Linux then I do Windows, unless I have one of the restore CDs for the machine that basicly restores a working image to the hard drive. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! File: message.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Saturday 05 March 2005 18:55, h k ball wrote: Kaj ... ... haven't given up on 6.0 yet, kind of a challenge ... have it working in partiton in CLI (you taught me that terminology) on my desktop (Intel32, 256mb ram, 700mH, 20 gb hd), now that I have 10.1 running in VMware on my new (AMD64, 500mb ram, 2.0mH, 60gb hd) laptop, with KDE running and Foxfire installed, my learning curve has accelaerated a bit, got more ideas for things to try on 6.0 to get KDE going ... mainly grinding through the 1000 different possible configuration combinations using that old Xconfigurator ... ... 10.1 bombed out on my desktop in the first 30 seconds of the boot-up install, didn't like my disk drive partitions (old machine, badly chopped up with 6-7 partitons, been re-partitioned alot) .. ... my new laptop refuses to be partitioned by either my Partition Magic, or by 10.1 when I tried to install it from bootup, that's why I had to go the VMware route (very sluggish, but totally functional) .. ... so, think I can go back and squeeze in a small Fat32 partition on my desktop, along the lines of your suggestion, but cannot for 10.1 on my laptop .. .. one thought - I'm on the internet in Linux through my wireless local LAN network just fine, could Windows send stuff to Linux over that LAN network ? h k, you can let Linux (10.1) read the Windows NT file system but not (safely) write to it. If it's FAT32, no problems whatsoever. But Windows cannot write to Linux (I think it can't even see other filesystems than NT and FAT - but I'm not sure, have never used Windows). Another solution : If you have the dough, by an external USB hard disk with at least one FAT32 partition. Should be accessible from either OS. Glad you got the other things sorted out. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
h k ball wrote: Mikkel ... could only install 10.1(only paid 6 bucks, not too bad) on VM on my laptop (see my message just now to Kaj for the gory details) ... 1024X768 working just fine without an nVidia card ... ... have been trying to figure out the smb4k alternative you suggested, read the manual, googled around, still no clue ... ... what is an example of a line of code I might try ? (as root, I know that much) HK On your laptop, the first step is to enable file sharing in XP. Then you have to deside how much of your XP drive you want to share. You may want to create just one directory for moving files between the two systems. You may also have to make some adjustments on the firewall in XP to let Linux connect from inside VMware. I think this is still covered in the VMware documentation. In any case, it is the same as setting up XP to share a directory with other machines in the local network. It also helps if you use the same workgroup name in XT and smb4k. As a test, you should be able to see the directory you have set up from your desktop system when both it, and the laptop are on the same network. If the two machines running Windows can not share files, then Linux running in VMware is probably going to have problems as well. A second way would be to configure Samba under Linux, and have it share out a directory. You would have to use XP to transfere files between this directory and the XP file system. One quick way to set up a directory for sharing is to double-click on the hard drive icon on the desktop, navigate to the directory you would like to share. Right click on it, pick Properties, and then Local Net Shating. You will probably have to enter the root password, and enable this. It may also ask to install some packages. Let it. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
h k ball wrote: Kaj ... ... haven't given up on 6.0 yet, kind of a challenge ... have it working in partiton in CLI (you taught me that terminology) on my desktop (Intel32, 256mb ram, 700mH, 20 gb hd), now that I have 10.1 running in VMware on my new (AMD64, 500mb ram, 2.0mH, 60gb hd) laptop, with KDE running and Foxfire installed, my learning curve has accelaerated a bit, got more ideas for things to try on 6.0 to get KDE going ... mainly grinding through the 1000 different possible configuration combinations using that old Xconfigurator ... ... 10.1 bombed out on my desktop in the first 30 seconds of the boot-up install, didn't like my disk drive partitions (old machine, badly chopped up with 6-7 partitons, been re-partitioned alot) .. ... my new laptop refuses to be partitioned by either my Partition Magic, or by 10.1 when I tried to install it from bootup, that's why I had to go the VMware route (very sluggish, but totally functional) .. ... so, think I can go back and squeeze in a small Fat32 partition on my desktop, along the lines of your suggestion, but cannot for 10.1 on my laptop .. .. one thought - I'm on the internet in Linux through my wireless local LAN network just fine, could Windows send stuff to Linux over that LAN network ? HK I can understand the installer having a problem with this drive. You might be able to do something in the expert mode, but you might also delete some of your data... I would be tempted to back things up, wipe the drive, and start over. Create one partition for Windows, and leave the rest for the installer to play with. Another option would be to add a second drive for Linux. Let Windows keep the first drive, and have the installer install to the second hard drive. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
Kaj ... ... if Linux can read Windows files, that's all I need, will give it a try .. HK -Original Message- From: Kaj Haulrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:08 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? On Saturday 05 March 2005 18:55, h k ball wrote: Kaj ... ... haven't given up on 6.0 yet, kind of a challenge ... have it working in partiton in CLI (you taught me that terminology) on my desktop (Intel32, 256mb ram, 700mH, 20 gb hd), now that I have 10.1 running in VMware on my new (AMD64, 500mb ram, 2.0mH, 60gb hd) laptop, with KDE running and Foxfire installed, my learning curve has accelaerated a bit, got more ideas for things to try on 6.0 to get KDE going ... mainly grinding through the 1000 different possible configuration combinations using that old Xconfigurator ... ... 10.1 bombed out on my desktop in the first 30 seconds of the boot-up install, didn't like my disk drive partitions (old machine, badly chopped up with 6-7 partitons, been re-partitioned alot) .. ... my new laptop refuses to be partitioned by either my Partition Magic, or by 10.1 when I tried to install it from bootup, that's why I had to go the VMware route (very sluggish, but totally functional) .. ... so, think I can go back and squeeze in a small Fat32 partition on my desktop, along the lines of your suggestion, but cannot for 10.1 on my laptop .. .. one thought - I'm on the internet in Linux through my wireless local LAN network just fine, could Windows send stuff to Linux over that LAN network ? h k, you can let Linux (10.1) read the Windows NT file system but not (safely) write to it. If it's FAT32, no problems whatsoever. But Windows cannot write to Linux (I think it can't even see other filesystems than NT and FAT - but I'm not sure, have never used Windows). Another solution : If you have the dough, by an external USB hard disk with at least one FAT32 partition. Should be accessible from either OS. Glad you got the other things sorted out. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* File: message.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
Mikkel ... ... have a wireless network system in my office, my computers all have their C:, D:, etc files shared, send stuff back and forth all the time .. for purposes of discussion, my too main players are: My Desktop - Workgroup: HKwork, Computer name: Faster (has MD 6.0 working in CLI mode, regular bootup on separate partition) My Laptop:- Workgroup: Workgroup, Computer name: Best (has MD 10.1 working in KDE in Virtual Machine) so, on the MD 6.0 on the desktop, Linux is .HKwork.Faster . and, on the MD 10.1 on my laptop Linux is .Workgroup.Best ... so the sharing stuff has been in place for some time, my question is what line of code do I use employing smb4k to see Windows platforms ? (something) smb4k (something) ( HKwork/Faster/C something) HK -Original Message- From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:30 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? h k ball wrote: Mikkel ... could only install 10.1(only paid 6 bucks, not too bad) on VM on my laptop (see my message just now to Kaj for the gory details) ... 1024X768 working just fine without an nVidia card ... ... have been trying to figure out the smb4k alternative you suggested, read the manual, googled around, still no clue ... ... what is an example of a line of code I might try ? (as root, I know that much) HK On your laptop, the first step is to enable file sharing in XP. Then you have to deside how much of your XP drive you want to share. You may want to create just one directory for moving files between the two systems. You may also have to make some adjustments on the firewall in XP to let Linux connect from inside VMware. I think this is still covered in the VMware documentation. In any case, it is the same as setting up XP to share a directory with other machines in the local network. It also helps if you use the same workgroup name in XT and smb4k. As a test, you should be able to see the directory you have set up from your desktop system when both it, and the laptop are on the same network. If the two machines running Windows can not share files, then Linux running in VMware is probably going to have problems as well. A second way would be to configure Samba under Linux, and have it share out a directory. You would have to use XP to transfere files between this directory and the XP file system. One quick way to set up a directory for sharing is to double-click on the hard drive icon on the desktop, navigate to the directory you would like to share. Right click on it, pick Properties, and then Local Net Shating. You will probably have to enter the root password, and enable this. It may also ask to install some packages. Let it. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! File: message.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
h k ball wrote: Mikkel ... ... have a wireless network system in my office, my computers all have their C:, D:, etc files shared, send stuff back and forth all the time .. for purposes of discussion, my too main players are: My Desktop - Workgroup: HKwork, Computer name: Faster (has MD 6.0 working in CLI mode, regular bootup on separate partition) My Laptop:- Workgroup: Workgroup, Computer name: Best (has MD 10.1 working in KDE in Virtual Machine) so, on the MD 6.0 on the desktop, Linux is .HKwork.Faster . and, on the MD 10.1 on my laptop Linux is .Workgroup.Best ... so the sharing stuff has been in place for some time, my question is what line of code do I use employing smb4k to see Windows platforms ? (something) smb4k (something) ( HKwork/Faster/C something) HK Oh. I didn't understand what you were asking. You do not use smb4k from the command line. It is a GUI that will let you see the shares on the network, and mount them. If you want to mount a share from the command line, then try this as root: mkdir /mnt/samba mount -t smbfs //faster/share name /mnt/samba Replave share name with the Windows share name. You can get a list of shares by running smbclient -L faster. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
... Hi Kaj, Anne, Mikkel, Snap, et al ... ... I'm the newbie that showed up for the first time about 3 weeks ago, was overwhelmed with your responsiveness, but was way over my head, and felt guilty ... have a confession to make ... ... back in 1999 I bought Mandrake 6.0 ($35), tried putting it on the same machine with my Win2000, WinNT, etc, failed, gave up, put it on the shelf, forgot about it ...then, what with my wonderful experience with Firefox vs IE, etc etc, saw open sourcing in a whole new light, decided to try again, found your newbie list, and, trying harder this time, got it running in the command mode, and you all tought me a whole lot about moving around in that environment, really valuable stuff ... ... but I was flying under false colors ... you are all 10.1 folks, with 10.1 problems and 10.1 solutions ... so I shut up, quit wasting your time, got on Ebay, bought 10.1 for $6.00 (thought, this is a dumb move) ... 3-4 days later a small envelop arrived with 4 disks, nothing else ... enlarged my Ext2, Swap partitions,etc ... total disaster, on two different machines bombed out immediately on install (thought you got what you paid for) ... ... had been hearing alot about VMware, how you don't need to partition, etc, lo and behold, VMware has a 5.0 in Beta testing until Apr 29 !!! ... (I'm really really cheap) ... ... to make a 4 day story short, I have 10.1 running with a genaric VM video driver (nVidia card in my machine) at 1024x768, KDE up and running, have installed my beloved Firefox, things are fantastic !!! ... so now maybe I can legitimately ask you guys some questions: (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more direct way (haven't figured out how to communicate on my office LAN yet) ... ??? (2) ... operations and webpage downloads are vey slw with one exception, downloaded Firefox (8.2 meg) in 30 seconds (DSL) ... I suspect its the VMware's fault, but any tricks to speed things up ??? ... again, I'm very appreciative and humbled ... HK -Original Message- From: Kaj Haulrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:02 AM To: h k ball Cc: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? On Thursday 17 February 2005 03:29, you wrote: Kaj ... ... based on today's wanderings, have concluded (1) ... need to connect to the net in CLI mod (how???) (2) ... download the Nvidia Vanta video card (how ? ... put in what directory so Xconfigurator can find it ) (3) ... rerun Xconfigurator (4) ... maybe then stuff will work, although ... (5) ... XFdrake doesn't exist (6) ... nothing containing auth exists HK ... looked at your web page, photos ... lovely daughter ... article on healthcare, suits, accountants, etc made me laugh, we're not far behind you in our deterioration ... Thanks, h k Where do you live ? I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do... (1) Why connect from the CLI ? - If you absolutely must then (as root) : ifconfig eth0. That is if you use ethernet as your interface ? - Otherwise I'd recommend the GUI way for newbies, just : mcc, then give root password. Go to Network Internet and make your choices. (2) I don't have Nvidia, but I think you can use it in fb mode (frame buffer) without the Nvidia drivers until you get things sorted out. (3) I don't thing you need to run xconfigurator, only XFdrake. (4,5,6) You'll need to run XFdrake as root. Lastly, a dumb question : Do you have a x server running ? Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* File: message.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
h k ball wrote: ... Hi Kaj, Anne, Mikkel, Snap, et al ... ... I'm the newbie that showed up for the first time about 3 weeks ago, was overwhelmed with your responsiveness, but was way over my head, and felt guilty ... have a confession to make ... ... back in 1999 I bought Mandrake 6.0 ($35), tried putting it on the same machine with my Win2000, WinNT, etc, failed, gave up, put it on the shelf, forgot about it ...then, what with my wonderful experience with Firefox vs IE, etc etc, saw open sourcing in a whole new light, decided to try again, found your newbie list, and, trying harder this time, got it running in the command mode, and you all tought me a whole lot about moving around in that environment, really valuable stuff ... ... but I was flying under false colors ... you are all 10.1 folks, with 10.1 problems and 10.1 solutions ... so I shut up, quit wasting your time, got on Ebay, bought 10.1 for $6.00 (thought, this is a dumb move) ... 3-4 days later a small envelop arrived with 4 disks, nothing else ... enlarged my Ext2, Swap partitions,etc ... total disaster, on two different machines bombed out immediately on install (thought you got what you paid for) ... ... had been hearing alot about VMware, how you don't need to partition, etc, lo and behold, VMware has a 5.0 in Beta testing until Apr 29 !!! ... (I'm really really cheap) ... ... to make a 4 day story short, I have 10.1 running with a genaric VM video driver (nVidia card in my machine) at 1024x768, KDE up and running, have installed my beloved Firefox, things are fantastic !!! ... so now maybe I can legitimately ask you guys some questions: (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more direct way (haven't figured out how to communicate on my office LAN yet) ... ??? (2) ... operations and webpage downloads are vey slw with one exception, downloaded Firefox (8.2 meg) in 30 seconds (DSL) ... I suspect its the VMware's fault, but any tricks to speed things up ??? ... again, I'm very appreciative and humbled ... HK I wish you would have told us you were running 6.0 - we could have pointed you to where you could download the CD images for 10.1 for free, or purchesed them fairly cheap. (You can download the first 3 CD's from the Internet.) Now, as far as transfering files between Windows and Linux, it depends on how you are running Linux. If you are running it in a VMware window, then you may want to create a share on the windows machine, and use smb4k to map the share on Linux. You can alsu use the mount command from the command line interface, but smb4k is probably going to work better for you at this point. If you are dual booting Windows and Linux on a machine, you can mount the windows partition directly in Linux. In fact, the installer usualy will set this up for you. Diskdrake will also do it for you. If you are using the NT file system, then it will be mounted read only - you can transfere files to Linux, but there are some problems writing to NT file systems. (Has this changed?) There are no problems reading/writing FAT file systems. Depending on the nVidia card you have, 10.1 may work with it out of the box, or you may have to install extra drivers. There have been a lot of messages about this. I don't have personal experence with the cards that require this. As far as your install problems directly to the hardware, instead of installing in VMware, we should be able to work around them. The bit thing is to describe the hardware, and be willing to try a couple of options during install. Most people don't need to do this, but some hardware requires more effort then others... I usualy have less trouble installing Linux then I do Windows, unless I have one of the restore CDs for the machine that basicly restores a working image to the hard drive. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Friday 04 March 2005 19:47, h k ball wrote: snip (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more direct way (haven't figured out how to communicate on my office LAN yet) /snip Welcome back, h k... I didn't realize you were running 6.0, but it induces that nostalgic feeling in me. If, by any chance, you are dual-booting Linux and another OS, an easy way to transfer files is to create an extra FAT32 partition in the middle to share files. Most OS's can read and write to FAT32. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 Feb 2005 02:33, h k ball wrote: Yankl, Anne ... ... tried XFdrake, not there ... tried whereis X, find X, no XF's ... Did you do this as root? If you didn't it would report 'not found', as it is invisible to a user. To become root simply type su then give the root password. Try XFdrake again, and when you have finished, whether successful or not, type exit to get back to being a normal user. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCFGvKkFAvMr/nNX8RAuuDAJsFVSEVtLLAxnKKmzquPxESnZza3QCgjk5L XhSt7+ze0tx0teFPBONXduU= =pExS -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Thursday 17 February 2005 03:29, you wrote: Kaj ... ... based on today's wanderings, have concluded (1) ... need to connect to the net in CLI mod (how???) (2) ... download the Nvidia Vanta video card (how ? ... put in what directory so Xconfigurator can find it ) (3) ... rerun Xconfigurator (4) ... maybe then stuff will work, although ... (5) ... XFdrake doesn't exist (6) ... nothing containing auth exists HK ... looked at your web page, photos ... lovely daughter ... article on healthcare, suits, accountants, etc made me laugh, we're not far behind you in our deterioration ... Thanks, h k Where do you live ? I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do... (1) Why connect from the CLI ? - If you absolutely must then (as root) : ifconfig eth0. That is if you use ethernet as your interface ? - Otherwise I'd recommend the GUI way for newbies, just : mcc, then give root password. Go to Network Internet and make your choices. (2) I don't have Nvidia, but I think you can use it in fb mode (frame buffer) without the Nvidia drivers until you get things sorted out. (3) I don't thing you need to run xconfigurator, only XFdrake. (4,5,6) You'll need to run XFdrake as root. Lastly, a dumb question : Do you have a x server running ? Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 Feb 2005 11:01, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Thanks, h k Where do you live ? I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do... (1) Why connect from the CLI ? - If you absolutely must then (as root) : ifconfig eth0. That is if you use ethernet as your interface ? - Otherwise I'd recommend the GUI way for newbies, just : mcc, then give root password. Go to Network Internet and make your choices. (2) I don't have Nvidia, but I think you can use it in fb mode (frame buffer) without the Nvidia drivers until you get things sorted out. (3) I don't thing you need to run xconfigurator, only XFdrake. (4,5,6) You'll need to run XFdrake as root. Lastly, a dumb question : Do you have a x server running ? Kaj, he hasn't managed to boot into X at all - that's where this all started. My theory was that there was a problem with graphics drivers and/or monitor and that he should run the drakes from the cli to get them set up right, but he hasn't managed to do that, either. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCFH+QkFAvMr/nNX8RAgOGAJoCGWv3mKuBLFbGF6wL9G4hND6y2wCdGeWx Hb2A6KG+Dloo8944miaRrWE= =E5Bx -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
Anne, Kaj ... ... typed XFdrake in root directory, got program not found ... Kaj, I don't have a GUI yet, that's my main problem .. rebooted, when I got to sign-in, typed mcc then my root password, got type root pasword for maintenace ... one other thing, the other day I got locked up, had to bale out without logoff or exit ... since then, during boot-up, have gotten this (dev/hda5 is my root directory): dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced dev/hda5 unattached inode 108633 dev/hda5 unexpected inconsistancy, run fsck manually give root password for maintenance... ... maybe need to start over, re-install Mandrake ??? HK -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:27 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 Feb 2005 11:01, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Thanks, h k Where do you live ? I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do... (1) Why connect from the CLI ? - If you absolutely must then (as root) : ifconfig eth0. That is if you use ethernet as your interface ? - Otherwise I'd recommend the GUI way for newbies, just : mcc, then give root password. Go to Network Internet and make your choices. (2) I don't have Nvidia, but I think you can use it in fb mode (frame buffer) without the Nvidia drivers until you get things sorted out. (3) I don't thing you need to run xconfigurator, only XFdrake. (4,5,6) You'll need to run XFdrake as root. Lastly, a dumb question : Do you have a x server running ? Kaj, he hasn't managed to boot into X at all - that's where this all started. My theory was that there was a problem with graphics drivers and/or monitor and that he should run the drakes from the cli to get them set up right, but he hasn't managed to do that, either. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCFH+QkFAvMr/nNX8RAgOGAJoCGWv3mKuBLFbGF6wL9G4hND6y2wCdGeWx Hb2A6KG+Dloo8944miaRrWE= =E5Bx -END PGP SIGNATURE- File: message.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
Kaj ... ... I'm in Atlanta, the bean counters are destroying us all on every front ... (1) ... I'd love to, but no GUI (2) .. how do I get in fb (frame buffer) mode ? (3) .. XFdrake would be lovely if I could find it ... tried whereis XF, find XF ... nothing .. (lastly) .. I don't know what x server is, how do I tell if it's running ? HK -Original Message- From: Kaj Haulrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:02 AM To: h k ball Cc: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject:Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? On Thursday 17 February 2005 03:29, you wrote: Kaj ... ... based on today's wanderings, have concluded (1) ... need to connect to the net in CLI mod (how???) (2) ... download the Nvidia Vanta video card (how ? ... put in what directory so Xconfigurator can find it ) (3) ... rerun Xconfigurator (4) ... maybe then stuff will work, although ... (5) ... XFdrake doesn't exist (6) ... nothing containing auth exists HK ... looked at your web page, photos ... lovely daughter ... article on healthcare, suits, accountants, etc made me laugh, we're not far behind you in our deterioration ... Thanks, h k Where do you live ? I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do... (1) Why connect from the CLI ? - If you absolutely must then (as root) : ifconfig eth0. That is if you use ethernet as your interface ? - Otherwise I'd recommend the GUI way for newbies, just : mcc, then give root password. Go to Network Internet and make your choices. (2) I don't have Nvidia, but I think you can use it in fb mode (frame buffer) without the Nvidia drivers until you get things sorted out. (3) I don't thing you need to run xconfigurator, only XFdrake. (4,5,6) You'll need to run XFdrake as root. Lastly, a dumb question : Do you have a x server running ? Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* File: message.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
h k ball wrote: Anne, Kaj ... ... typed XFdrake in root directory, got program not found ... Kaj, I don't have a GUI yet, that's my main problem .. rebooted, when I got to sign-in, typed mcc then my root password, got type root pasword for maintenace ... one other thing, the other day I got locked up, had to bale out without logoff or exit ... since then, during boot-up, have gotten this (dev/hda5 is my root directory): dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced dev/hda5 unattached inode 108633 dev/hda5 unexpected inconsistancy, run fsck manually give root password for maintenance... ... maybe need to start over, re-install Mandrake ??? HK It is asking for the root password, so it can put you in the maintence mode. If you enter the correct password, and then run fsck -a /dev/hda5 to fix the problem. (I normaly don't advice using -a, but in this case, it is probably the best option.) Once you have that fixed, you can reboot, log in as root, and run XFdrake to configure X. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
Mikkel, Anne, Kaj ... ... did as you said, Mikkel, then said y to all fix questions, rebooted cleanly just fine, right into my user ... then did su entered my root password, logged into root, typed XFdrake, got bash: XFdrake: command not found HK -Original Message- From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 17, 2005 1:48 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? h k ball wrote: Anne, Kaj ... ... typed XFdrake in root directory, got program not found ... Kaj, I don't have a GUI yet, that's my main problem .. rebooted, when I got to sign-in, typed mcc then my root password, got type root pasword for maintenace ... one other thing, the other day I got locked up, had to bale out without logoff or exit ... since then, during boot-up, have gotten this (dev/hda5 is my root directory): dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced dev/hda5 unattached inode 108633 dev/hda5 unexpected inconsistancy, run fsck manually give root password for maintenance... ... maybe need to start over, re-install Mandrake ??? HK It is asking for the root password, so it can put you in the maintence mode. If you enter the correct password, and then run fsck -a /dev/hda5 to fix the problem. (I normaly don't advice using -a, but in this case, it is probably the best option.) Once you have that fixed, you can reboot, log in as root, and run XFdrake to configure X. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
you'll need to install drakxtools-newt to get XFdrake on your system, use urpmi (as root) to ensure you get all its dependencies bascule On Thursday 17 Feb 2005 19:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: typed XFdrake, got bash: XFdrake: command not found -- And the child had a permanently runny nose and ought to be provided with a handkerchief or, failing that, a cork. (Lords and Ladies) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 Feb 2005 21:36, bascule wrote: you'll need to install drakxtools-newt to get XFdrake on your system, use urpmi (as root) to ensure you get all its dependencies That is su (root password) urpmi drakxtools-newt Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCFRc2kFAvMr/nNX8RApdiAJ9QRh+r1icG2vsMrBBVdMCltYVV/wCfZWvW oze/PMlpOuEAJAeXbcCGqXk= =wJTu -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Thursday 17 February 2005 19:33, h k ball wrote: Kaj ... ... I'm in Atlanta, the bean counters are destroying us all on every front ... (1) ... I'd love to, but no GUI (2) .. how do I get in fb (frame buffer) mode ? (3) .. XFdrake would be lovely if I could find it ... tried whereis XF, find XF ... nothing .. (lastly) .. I don't know what x server is, how do I tell if it's running ? ...h k maybe we should send some of our bean counters over, you know the bigger predator kills the smaller...OTOH I've read somewhere (Tom Clancy, perhaps ?) that within the American Police killing a lawyer isn't considered a crime at all... just an idea. The frame buffer question is a little hairy, depends on your graphics card, but take a look here : http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/BootPrompt-HOWTO-5.html In order to display a graphical interface Linux uses a X server. That's because Linux was designed as a networked system in the first place. You,ll definitely want one. Mandrake comes with a server from Xorg nowadays (earlier it was XFree86). It's on your CD's. At your command prompt (as root) try : urpmi xorg-x11 h k - Some recommendations : I think you'll need a few applications until you can get to the GUI. Just urpmi the following : slocate (a file database). After install, just (as root) run updatedb. Then, to find a file, type : locate filename. mc (Midnight Commander). A Norton-like file manager and editor. To display your system, type :mc. To edit a file, type :mcedit filename. When you have a GUI, you'll need the drakes. Those are graphical configuration tools. Their names are descriptive, like userdrake, menudrake, keyboarddrake etc.. You can install them by (as root) : urpmi --fuzzy drake and then select the ones you want. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:33, h k ball wrote: Kaj ... ... I'm in Atlanta, the bean counters are destroying us all on every front You may be a Redneck if your Linux system boot in CLI. What part of Atlanta. I may be can call you since I am in Marietta. E-mail me off line. -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 07:07 pm, h k ball wrote: have not been able to get out of the dos mode and into the windows mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ?? __ ~ maybe, log-on as User [ your personal user name ] [ not as root ] then, as User, execute command :- startx best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
h k ball wrote: ... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... so far I have: (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition with Partition Magic ... (2) Using the Mandrake installation disks, got to Congratulations installation is complete! ... installed about 400 meg of files, including KDE, GNOME and associated graphics stuff ... (3) have successfully logged on into what I call the dos-like mode, been able to use ls /bin -al |less, |more linuxconf man man cd, su, exit Xconfigurator (struggle picking a comparable video card, finally found one) (4) can reboot back and forth between Windows 2000, XP and Linux on same machine with no problem, everything still works just fine ... (5) have not been able to get out of the dos mode and into the windows mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ?? (6) 700 mHz, 256meg ram, 20 gig hd, Nvidia Vanta video card, Intel ... hk ball Someone else can help you with the proper configuration of the Nvidia card - from all the messages I have seen, it is interesting to configure, but I have not had that pleasure yet. You can test your X setup by logging in as a user from the CLI (dos) mode, and typing startx. This will put you in the GUI mode. I would hold off changing to having Linux start in the GUI mode until after you have X working the way you want it. When you boot in the CLI mode, you can try different X configurations without rebooting. (Unless you manage a configuration that blacks out the screen...) Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 19:07, h k ball wrote: ... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place Hi, hk, and welcome! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... --- - so far I have: (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition with Partition Magic ... (2) Using the Mandrake installation disks, got to Congratulations installation is complete! ... installed about 400 meg of files, including KDE, GNOME and associated graphics stuff ... (3) have successfully logged on into what I call the dos-like mode, been able to use ls /bin -al |less, |more linuxconf man man cd, su, exit Xconfigurator (struggle picking a comparable video card, finally found one) (4) can reboot back and forth between Windows 2000, XP and Linux on same machine with no problem, everything still works just fine ... (5) have not been able to get out of the dos mode and into the windows mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ?? The most common cause is video driver problems. Try running XFDrake to see if that helps. (6) 700 mHz, 256meg ram, 20 gig hd, Nvidia Vanta video card, Intel ... Without the proprietary NVidia drivers you will not get hardware acceleration, but looking at the rest of your spec you are probably not wanting to play the latest games g so it probably doesn't matter. Let us know what happens when you type XFDrake hk ball --- --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 14, 2005 6:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Welcome on list newbie Welcome to the newbie List. You have just subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read this e-mail, and keep it for a future reference. This indicates that you have 'hi-jacked' a thread. To better understand why this (and several other things) is a problem, read http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Let us know how you get on. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEk45kFAvMr/nNX8RAs30AJ9Zb29zu4viTB5NU4ViDapR7+r8KgCdGNmz RGTDiNJnU6X9mZTQ5/XSVEk= =3ucp -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 20:07, h k ball wrote: ... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... - --- so far I have: (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition with Partition Magic ... (2) Using the Mandrake installation disks, got to Congratulations installation is complete! ... installed about 400 meg of files, including KDE, GNOME and associated graphics stuff ... (3) have successfully logged on into what I call the dos-like mode, been able to use ls /bin -al |less, |more linuxconf man man cd, su, exit Xconfigurator (struggle picking a comparable video card, finally found one) (4) can reboot back and forth between Windows 2000, XP and Linux on same machine with no problem, everything still works just fine ... (5) have not been able to get out of the dos mode and into the windows mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ?? (6) 700 mHz, 256meg ram, 20 gig hd, Nvidia Vanta video card, Intel ... hk ball Congratulations and welcome. You did fine. DOS mode is what we call the CLI, the shell, the konsole, the terminal etc.. CLI=Command Line Interface. From here you can do everything (well, almost). For example get to the GUI (Graphical User Interface), like KDE, Gnome or whatever. Just type :startx (without the quotes). If you prefer to boot directly into the GUI, just (as root) edit the file /etc/inittab and change id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: That's all. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
Hi Anne ... ... nice to be here, I'm really really green, nothing but MS windows experience ... ... no don't need any game stuff ... ... typed XFDrake, got command not found ... ... nosing around, found the following KDE files in /usr/bin (number is filoe size): kde* 24bytes kdecode* 31512 kdehelp* 194640 kdesetup* 1121 kdesu* 27288 kdf* 109516 kdm* 136956 kdmconfig* 122740 kdvi* 203452 kedit* 135060 ... checking the install.log file in /tmp, I find installing ... kdeadmin kdegames kdegraphics kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdesu kdetoys kdeutils kdf kdpms ... on the hi-jacked thing below, no, I didn't do a return on that message (did that last night, didn't work) ... did a return from one of the newbie messages, that did work ... I just included that as info ... HK -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 15, 2005 2:32 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 19:07, h k ball wrote: ... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place Hi, hk, and welcome! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... --- - so far I have: (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition with Partition Magic ... (2) Using the Mandrake installation disks, got to Congratulations installation is complete! ... installed about 400 meg of files, including KDE, GNOME and associated graphics stuff ... (3) have successfully logged on into what I call the dos-like mode, been able to use ls /bin -al |less, |more linuxconf man man cd, su, exit Xconfigurator (struggle picking a comparable video card, finally found one) (4) can reboot back and forth between Windows 2000, XP and Linux on same machine with no problem, everything still works just fine ... (5) have not been able to get out of the dos mode and into the windows mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ?? The most common cause is video driver problems. Try running XFDrake to see if that helps. (6) 700 mHz, 256meg ram, 20 gig hd, Nvidia Vanta video card, Intel ... Without the proprietary NVidia drivers you will not get hardware acceleration, but looking at the rest of your spec you are probably not wanting to play the latest games g so it probably doesn't matter. Let us know what happens when you type XFDrake hk ball --- --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 14, 2005 6:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Welcome on list newbie Welcome to the newbie List. You have just subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read this e-mail, and keep it for a future reference. This indicates that you have 'hi-jacked' a thread. To better understand why this (and several other things) is a problem, read http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Let us know how you get on. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEk45kFAvMr/nNX8RAs30AJ9Zb29zu4viTB5NU4ViDapR7+r8KgCdGNmz RGTDiNJnU6X9mZTQ5/XSVEk= =3ucp -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
Hi Kaj ... ... typed startx (no quotes), got xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority ... then ... fatal server error: . ... etc etc, a bunch of other error messages ... tried again from /root, same result .. ... on your booting directly approach, I don't know yet how to read a file, much less edit it ... ... am about as newbie as you can get, nothing but windows experience ... HK -Original Message- From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 15, 2005 2:53 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? On Tuesday 15 February 2005 20:07, h k ball wrote: ... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... - --- so far I have: (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition with Partition Magic ... (2) Using the Mandrake installation disks, got to Congratulations installation is complete! ... installed about 400 meg of files, including KDE, GNOME and associated graphics stuff ... (3) have successfully logged on into what I call the dos-like mode, been able to use ls /bin -al |less, |more linuxconf man man cd, su, exit Xconfigurator (struggle picking a comparable video card, finally found one) (4) can reboot back and forth between Windows 2000, XP and Linux on same machine with no problem, everything still works just fine ... (5) have not been able to get out of the dos mode and into the windows mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ?? (6) 700 mHz, 256meg ram, 20 gig hd, Nvidia Vanta video card, Intel ... hk ball Congratulations and welcome. You did fine. DOS mode is what we call the CLI, the shell, the konsole, the terminal etc.. CLI=Command Line Interface. From here you can do everything (well, almost). For example get to the GUI (Graphical User Interface), like KDE, Gnome or whatever. Just type :startx (without the quotes). If you prefer to boot directly into the GUI, just (as root) edit the file /etc/inittab and change id:3:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: That's all. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority ___- ~ try deleting that .Xauthority file best not to use KDE to log on to Internet Log on to internet only as User. Have you yet set up X-windows using XF86 , X-org or what setup system Mandrake recommends ? best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode?
Hello Ricardo ... ... how do I delete a file ? (I am very newbie) ... ... how log on to internet as User ? ... no, have not set up anything, don't no how ... have only logged in and nosed around a bit using ls, cd, etc HK -Original Message- From: riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 15, 2005 3:56 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] How get from dos mode into KDE mode? On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority ___- ~ try deleting that .Xauthority file best not to use KDE to log on to Internet Log on to internet only as User. Have you yet set up X-windows using XF86 , X-org or what setup system Mandrake recommends ? best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
