[newbie] Mandrake on a low-end machine...

2002-09-30 Thread Linux Maniac
Hi All! My girlfriend is starting to write her thesis, and I don't want her to loose any data because of winblows. Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. I want to install Mandrake 9.0 with blackbox or icewm, but I also need a good word processor. My personal favorite is

[newbie] Install 9.0 from hdd?

2002-09-26 Thread Linux Maniac
Hi! I'm just dl-ing 9.0 :-) I wonder if there is some way to do this: I have a seperate unused partition. I format it to ext3 and copy the contents of the iso's on it + mount it like /mnt/install/mandrake9cd1 etc... Is there some way to create a boot floppy which then would install from

[newbie] Mandrake 9.0 wishlist :-)

2002-06-13 Thread Linux Maniac
I wonder what you'd like to implemented in the 9.0 release. My wishlist is in short: - a script for installing the nvidia drivers OR a deal with nvidia to provide them preinstalled in MDK 9.0 - Hungarian spell checkers - Opera 6.x - Mldonkey - Latest gtk-gnutella - Themable graphical boot -

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 wishlist sidetrack

2002-06-13 Thread Linux Maniac
, 13 Jun 2002, Linux Maniac wrote: I wonder what you'd like to implemented in the 9.0 release. My wishlist is in short: - a script for installing the nvidia drivers OR a deal with nvidia to provide them preinstalled in MDK 9.0 - Hungarian spell checkers - Opera 6.x - Mldonkey

[newbie] Bootsplash

2002-06-07 Thread Linux Maniac
Hi! I tried changing the bootsplah screen by installing the bootsplash themes package and running the scripts as root in /usr/local/bootsplash The problem is that no matter what I did, the theme wasn't changed whenever I restarted... What's up whit this? BAT -- P.S. It would be really cool

[newbie] kde icon with console and root

2002-04-18 Thread Linux Maniac
Hi! How can I make a desktop icon in KDE that will start a console with root rights and also a program in the console? BAT Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] KDE3 sound server problem

2002-04-05 Thread Linux Maniac
Hi! I installed kde3 from rpm. When it boots, it says that it can't start the sound server (I guess arts). I think oss works fine as mplayer and xmms works fine. What can be done? BAT -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com