linux n00b

You could try borrowing an newer CD-ROM drive and install from it- many old drives cannot read modern media dyes properly. Your specs are OK for an average Linux desktop.

thats probably it, i found a similar post

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/Installatio...ion_t33426.html

the drive is 36x max (no rewriteable ability) so it is probably old

i tried the ubuntu alternate version (its not a live cd, just a text installer) and burned it at 32x and it was installing but it said a few files on the cd were corrupt, I may try to burn it at a slower rate and see what happens

mandriva's cd seems to be a live cd also, i wish they had a cd with a text installer only

i wanted to use mandriva, cuz i've always liked their stuff but at this point i just need a test box with linux on it

I have a really old comp

HP Pavilion 6630

win98

500mhz celeron

192mb ram

10gb

cd-drive

nvidia 420mx 64mb

anyway all I can ever get to install is Win98, I cant upgrade to Win 2000, or any version of Linux and I've yet to figure out why, maybe its a BIOS issue?

ive found other posts online where a person did get 2000 or linux to install so I konw its possible

my cd drive works, as I can install 98 all over again, it seems like its going to work then quits halfway, ive tried several cds, several new burns from new downloads, HDD has no errors, i can use DELPART and FDISK to fix up the HDD however and wipe it clean but its no use

this machine is worthless if all i can do is keep 98 on it

crap i posted this in the wrong forum

I found them:

Hardware Requirements

CPU: All Pentium, Celeron, Athlon, Duron, Sempron processors

RAM: 256MB minimum, 512MB recommended.

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

Graphic Cards: NVIDIA®, ATI™, Intel® i8xx and i9xx.

Sound cards: All Sound Blaster compatible cards and AC97

Anyone remember the requirements of Mandriva 2006?

I cant find old docs that say the requirements for 2006 free edition

I've noticed all the new Linux releases now require 256mb of RAM. I was going to setup a new test machine and it only had 192mb, I coulndt use Mandriva Free 07, Ubuntu or Vector.

I'm guessing this is a new minimum requirements now?

I know that old files are still out there but it would of been nice to try out some new stuff without the higher requirements

You can type " su -c 'nautilus" in terminal - that will open a nautilus window as a root.

Is that what you asking for?

that method sounds the best to me (last thing I want to do is have to install stuff, something always goes wrong when i do)

thanks :)

I read that and was wondering will that work with GNOME?

A situation I've run into is that I login as my regular user, but then need to install some stuff like a webapp and my web-folder is only accessible by root and so I have to move and rename things in the command prompt and that takes longer than i like, so is there a way I can login as root for the GUI temporarily so I can move/rename/delete stuff fast?

Thanks, i got it working now :)

I guess no one can see my signature cuz it says I use Gnome :o but I'll make sure to make sure to let others know im on it from now on

Is there a way in mandriva 2006 that when I pick logout i can get an option to shutdown? Right now when i logout it logs me out then i have to go to options then pick shutdown or restart.

I know in mandriva 2005 had this option, not sure why they took it out :huh:

For GNOME, you'll want to go to Desktop - Preferences - Font (also, you can just run gnome-font properties) and there are a few options for font rendering. You can press Details and get more specific options, but if you're using an LCD I suggest Subpixel Smoothing.

thanks i tested lower fonts in firefox and that does it :)

I havent installed vmware-tools yet, but thats soemthing I'll be doing later on and I'll make another post for it if i have probs

Type on the addy bar

about:config

Then filter for the string

middlemouse.contentLoadURL

and change its value from "true" to "false".

No need to restart Firefox.

thanks man, works now :)

Would you please yake a screen shot and post it so that I could see what you see? While I do not like some of the linux fonts, "blurry" is not exactly what I use to describe what I see in some fonts.

well I bumped up the default font sizes in firefox and that helped a bunch, so I guess that is all i needed to do, I'm using gnome and running under vmware so its kinda a big mess

thanks I got it working now :D

So the first one I have heard as very clean and good for newbies is called CherryPy, another is Quixote is another one which also is different in a sense and is a bit more robust. Webware for python is also very extensible and well there are few things that you might like about this one.

 

Finally if you want a CMS then you have to go with Plone which is build on top of Zope. If you think you are a bit overwelmed, dont worry we all have gone through this. But just like when you are making your mind about a CMS you just have to choose one and then go with it till you want to demand more.

 

Another language that you might try is Ruby which is famous for Ruby on Rails, to get it just instlall ruby and then a package called RubyGems.

Alright, well I'll probably be trying out PhpCake though

I'm guessing most webapps should be ok on php5 and apache 2.x. What i dont understand is that I know Mandriva had mod_python checked off, but the httpd.conf doenst list it in there, i cant find my apache 1.3x install cuz i know that was checked off also, who knows...

Is it just a Gnome thing that it opens new windows when u browse through directories and click on one. I hate this, cuz i end up with tons of windows

I may switch to KDE if that is the case

also which one is more popular? I use Gnome cuz I was told its more like real Unix

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When I installed Mandriva 2006, i picked server and then went in and made sure to pick mysql, php4, python and php5 seemed to be picked, also apache 2.x was selected and i picked apache 1.3x also

I tested php/mysql and it works but its PHP5 and its on Apache 2.x which is ok, but I wanted to know where the Apache 1.3x and PHP4 are setup, and how to access them

Also I put a file called hello.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
print "<html>Hello world! This is Python :)</html>"

I noticed python there isnt a env folder in /usr/bin/ but on top of that im a python n00b so im not even sure where it would be or how to modify my pythong script, i plan to learn some python but need to make sure things are setup, cuz when i goto

http://localhost/hello.py it just tries to download the file :(

Thanks in advance

im not sure if its mandriva in general or if its just firefox, its bad in firefox, but mandriva seems ok but im guess thats because it has bigger fonts, i increased them and the settings in firefox but they are still blurry

(yes i did a search on the forums, didnt find anything )

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when I middle click to close a tab it just does a search from google on like random text on whatever page im on, i did a search here and didnt see anyone else with the same problem :(

mandriva 2006

im on firefox 1.54 now but it did it on the 1.0x also on mandriva 06 and i remember when i had mandrake10 and even mandriva 2005 it was doing the same thing

I installed mandriva le2005 already, so I cant make a bootdisk with the install program, how do I make one after hte fact?