[newbie] Sorry About the Virus:

My virus software did not catch it. Sorry about the trouble I hope no one was infected. Thanks to all who let me know. David

[newbie] Setting Up KDE:

Hi All: I'm trying to set up KDE on my system. When I run startx KDE starts ok but when it comes up the fonts are too large -- everything is too large. I'm using a Diamond Multimedia Systems Video card. It is a Viper V330 Turbo, the controller is nVidia Riva 128 DAC: 230mnz with 4mb of ram. D

[newbie] Setting Up KDE:

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Re: [newbie] What to do with Linux...

Hi Kuraiken: I guess what I mean by that is where is the best place for me to start to learn. Two things I know that I want to do are to add LILO to my mbr so I can dual boot win and Linux and set up to run in KDE. I would like anyone thoughts on this is it better to learn the system first and

Re: [newbie] Really New

>That's not really what he means at all. Since you've got a safe clean >hard >disk just try selecting the workstation install and let the system do as >much for you as possible. This puts you in the place of having >something to >toy with rather than just readings a bunch of man pages. Hi All:

Re: [newbie] Really New

Hi Russ: I too was new to this a week ago and I know how you feel. Most of these guys are way ahead of us but I have ask some dumb questions and they have helped. I can tell you that I also have 5.3. I just was able to install it last night after numerous tries. I will tell you what I have fo

[newbie] Installation:

Hi: I followed Michael and John's instructions to install 5.3. And it went ok it did install the software to my D drive which is where I wanted it. ( One thing that I did not understand was how it picked the drive it never ask me where I wanted it? ) After the install it rebooted using LILO and

[newbie] Finding information:

Hi: Are the sites that keep information about different components. Such as I have a Diamond Viper V330 Video card and I need to know the chipset and I have a AOC Spectrum 7 GLR monitor and I need to find the rates for it. Thanks

[newbie] ? installing 5.3:

Hi Could someone come over to my house and install Mandrake for me PLEASE? My situation is that I have two disk drives one for win 98 and one for linux--3.2G on disk D: is set at 1098 fat 32, I have partitions as follows swap 127mb / 100mb /opt 100mb /usr 900mb /home 500mb I set my bios to boot

[newbie] Partitions?

Hi I'm somewhat confused about how to write or name the partitions that I will set up during install. Here is the way that I think they should be written. Let me know if I'm wrong. I also have a 3.2G IDE drive to install Linux to I have listed the MB value that I think I should set these to. swap

[newbie] Before I Start:

Hi:   Right now I'm running win95.  Within the next week or so I plan to upgrade to win98.  I have also ordered a disk with mandrake-5.3.  What I would like to do is to set these up so I can dual boot into win98 or linux.   My question is where can I go or how can I get all the information