Re: [newbie] boot partition too big?

1999-04-17 Thread Irsan S. P. Siregar
Sorry for the confusion. IMO, It's better to use LBA mode. With LBA mode, the 1024 cylinder won't be a problem. Usually, in most BIOS, PgUp and PgDown will change mode (use cursor keys to highlight it). You probably need to reinstalled all your program (redo the partition). So, make a deal first

Re: [newbie] boot partition too big?

1999-04-17 Thread Irsan S. P. Siregar
At 21:35 16/04/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |- snip for brevity - |help, I am very new to this. I used fips to repartition my drive, booted up |the installation, |but when i get to disk druid i can't seem to set my root partition. |saysboot partition |too big. I can set any ot

[newbie] Page for Newbie

1999-04-05 Thread Irsan S. P. Siregar
Hello, Some of you may already knew. But for you who didn't, here's (IMO) a great page for newbie: http://howto.linuxberg.com/LinuxGuide/index.html Helps me a lot. Irsan SPS

Re: [newbie] Making KDE run faster

1999-04-01 Thread Irsan S. P. Siregar
At 14:05 31/03/99 +0200, you wrote: |- snip for brevity - |On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Irsan S. P. Siregar wrote: | |> I just installing (and start using) Mandrake 5.3. However, I feel |> that KDE access my HD a lot, and it's slow (compared to Windoze 95). |> Is it normal, or is

[newbie] pico as background proc

1999-04-01 Thread Irsan S. P. Siregar
Hello, How do you put a full screen program to run in the background? With my shell account (FreeBSD w/ csh), I usually use Ctrl-Z, and type bg 1 to put a background FTP session (telephone cost a lot down here). How do you achieve the same thing with full screen program like pico? pico said Ctrl

Re: [newbie] Really New

1999-03-31 Thread Irsan S. P. Siregar
Welcome to the family :) I too just installed Mandrake two days ago. This is my first Linux experience. AAMOF, I just figure out how to install downloaded application today. We do had to browse through the manual before we install it (it's in the CD). Isn't it great? An OS that require us to read

RE: [newbie] Making KDE run faster

1999-03-31 Thread Irsan S. P. Siregar
Hi Kevin, I tried running free -m, and had this result (without KDE): totalusedfreesharedbufferscached Mem:30 13 16 6 1 9 -/+ buffers/cache: 3 26 Swap: 125 0