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cannot access http://www.happy-monkey.net and cannot see where you went wrong maybe add conv=notrunc to dd also try a 2d floppy just in case also try a known ok boot floppy (my floppy drive died once) you may need to post on the troubleshooting forum at sourceforge

oops sorry, no pc here, so always from top of my head should have say type real then press tab for autocompletion will teach me :( :)

I am neither good, not patient at giving GUI details plus have no linux machine in front of me Am sorry, get some imagination and explore the menus in konqueror menu edit/option taylor/ tools? do not know the name by heart. Time to do some exploring by yourself, you will learn on the way path + executable is needed you can try to compare syntax with existing firefox 1.5 icone Not sure what you are doing wrong, sorry

Solved, but wanted to add some links to relevant optimisation, system tuning, system performance... The reference I suppose http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ Not updated recently but he knows what he is talking about! http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html About the topic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memor...perating_system Disapointing http://www.performancewiki.com/linux-tuning.html#Kernel Listing lots of things but one need to come to own conclusions http://webrink.blogspot.com/2006/01/perfor...ux-servers.html the original ideas of tweaking I learned from a rather old file http://tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimi...dition-v1.3.pdf this was for Red Hat Linux 6.2

link to prebuilt image so people know what you mean? exact way you made the floppy? did you checksum?

go to konqueror / option settings / type of file txt then subtype html then it will list firefox and co being able to be launched for html in there change the path so the firefox in question is the one in the new path where 2.0.3 is also you can add a link, or icone on the taskbar to the 2.0.3 version I know it is frustrating, but there is a learning curve as well try from a terminal / command line just type realplayer rtsp://someadreess (this is case sensitive) or whatever file you are trying to visualize

That's what Ulteo is trying to tackle, is it not?

look with command top if anything is strange I assumed uname would have told us if it was a 64bits I do not have a 64 so I am not 100% sure you are running the 32 bits OS try as root cat /etc/issue wherever the issue file is!

as root (type su then enter) then type uname -a paste the result in post

Ian, thanks ever so much, you are bang on, this was the one swappiness The other one that was described in that paper were possibly one of these (a dirty trick!) vm.nr_pdflush_threads = 2 vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 2999 vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 499 vm.dirty_ratio = 40 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 10 Maybe there was /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure as well but it is not there on my PC I stumbled on "System Tuning Info for Linux Servers" http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html Can do a lot of reading by cross-referencing keywords now :-)

What PC/config do you have? When is it slow? How slow? when doing what? music or video?

I once read (I cannot find the link anymore) that there were only 3 or 4 parameters "in the kernel configuration?/ kernel parameters", excluding scheduling, worth tinkering with to improve linux performance. I think they were mostly to do with how long "the RAM cache"? keeps information, or cycle it, before dumping it to the HD swap. And there were 2 more things of the like, to do with memory allocation or time things are allowed to stay in memory AFAI can remember. These were maybe in sysctl; I remember that the article was talking about editing a file in /etc (and I think it was a redhat example) Does anybody know what I may be talking about above? Thanks. Only a human brain can answer my vague question... As a home user hobbyist I have no particular goals or target, nor good benchmarking at hand (a sarcheck like software for home user would be nice though). I just want to know where these parameters are, what they are, by curiosity. I read http://www.linuxforums.org/desktop/linux_p...nce_tuning.html I have used hdparm, bonnie, nice, removed services etc. I suppose I could include kolivas kernel patches or urpmiload a mutimedia kernel. This is not the question really. Qemu tells me to increase the "interupt frequency" to 1024 instead of 64 (when I recompiled the kernel I thought I removed a lot of modules and set this up to 1024 Hz? apparently not). Having used vector linux, I really do get the feeling that there is room for tweaking... So it makes me curious

another tip, you can use wvdial rather than kppp as the "dialing / configuration" package: it is better at giving feedback

If anybody knows the link of the last rant, maybe worth posting here. Then the unlucky starter of the thread can post in mandriva forum a link to this rant

he said sterling must not be too far! Nop sorry, 3 weeks for a box to cross the channel this is real snail mail Granted the post in the UK is not always good... All assuming it was the UK

You can resize partition etc. make your life simple and just get another HD or better move the 20 G HD into your 120 Gb PC and have a dual boot or whatever

This is plain wrong. On that basis as well you could ask for a refund for poor customer services (UNless you live on a vary far island) Fire konqueror and do a search on the dvd/cd for the lindvd rpm I suppose search for *dvd*.rpm

I found your post usefull. It allows one to keep-up with cooker / development whilst not running cooker, or not being part of any mailist.

worth knowing because the executable does not have the same name, so anything that uses cdrecord and is not "updated" will not work unless one add a soft link to wobin or whatever it is called (case for example of mondo) so yes a small fork, just worth publicising the potential problem during transition time (especially with home brewed compilation + install)

See www.sabayonlinux.org which is Gentoo based. The preferred way to get the iso is Bittorrent: www.linuxtracker.org. A good way to learn Gentoo IMHO. What do you they say there?

try the 2007.1 RC if you are advanturous >>it hung up about halfway through the boot <alt><ctrl>F1 or F2 or F3> might get you nearer to error messages or where the boot stops You need to decide if you want to fight a 2007 or 2006 battle I would be inclined to fight the 2007 Maybe try 2007 free rather than powerpack, it is far fetched but that would account for testing that the cdrom is not faulty and that really it is a 2007.0 "bug" if 2006 install proceeds ok Do you see any boot up screen options apart from booting linux?

not following cooker but looking at mondo I learned that mandy 2007.1 was going to use cdrkit rather than cdrecord. A major difference worth knowing IMHO and not in the log of the official annoucement (might be clearer somewhere else mind you)

just curious or not understanding prefer? As opposed to what? http://www.mandrivauser.de/smarturpmi/ looks the same to me as easyurpmi (I am curious is there a major difference that one should knowa about?) prefer as opposed to entering the urpmi.add lines by hand? prefer as opposed to tar.gz?

on a similar topic, I believe nowadays there are linux utilities to flash CD writer "bios" / firmware

Jahshaka is another possibility Here is what I read on another forum, so worth a try but with not too high expectations <<I've used Jahshaka and you're right. It does "look" interesting. Unfortunately, it doesn't deliver. That's not to say that its concepts are not solid. If it did what it was supposed to do, it would be THE video editing app, not just for Linux but across all OSes. However, there are a number of areas where it just doesn't work as advertised. Check through the forums and you will find a large number of posts from people who aren't the usual bitchers and moaners but are legitimately concerned about the multiple failures of a product with so much promise.>>