Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

1999-05-30 Thread Manny Styles
. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get enough exercise just pushing my luck. - Original Message - From: Jose Alberto Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 1:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow... Rhichard Barth Family escribió

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

1999-05-30 Thread Rhichard Barth Family
You'll have to check what linux did, it might of changed your partitions to more like 150/16/150, this is the default settings for a workstation with what you had left. if it didn't you'll be good with 400/native 50/swap and the heck with extended. Thats a small drive for Windows and Linux.

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

1999-05-29 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: I requested Spanish as a language, but when I log out of KDE I see several "file not found, using Default-English instead" messages. Might this be a problem? No, it just means a couple of programs you're using have not been translated to

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

1999-05-29 Thread Kuraiken
Just installed Mandrake 5.3 a couple of days ago, and I have been configuring it the last couple of days (BTW, thanks Brian for the tip with the mouse)... But it seems that KDE is working sluggishly slow (Slower than MSOffice 97 on a Pentium 100, if you take my meaning) Is my AMDK6

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

1999-05-29 Thread Rhichard Barth Family
You did a "Work Station" install? did you set up your partitions and then did the "Work Station" If you do a "Work Station" install, Linux sets up it's own partitions this usually doesn't work out very well for you... the swap and native partitions end up being to smallCustom is the way

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

1999-05-29 Thread Jose Alberto Abreu
Rhichard Barth Family escribió: You did a "Work Station" install? did you set up your partitions and then did the "Work Station" If you do a "Work Station" install, Linux sets up it's own partitions this usually doesn't work out very well for you... the swap and native partitions end up

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake is strangely slow...

1999-05-28 Thread Rhichard Barth Family
Guillermo Belli wrote: I think the swap is too little. I was running KDE on a Cyrix PR-120 with 16mb of RAM and 100mb swap and it worked fine. Only when I opened some 4 Netscape and two kvirc windows and also kfm the system started to slow down. So try making that swap partition bigger.