disco_lad

ok thanks for the help one question are there torrent downloaders the I should stay away from?

When a torrent file is finish downloading, does it check the sum like MD5? Is there a good torrent downloading software for linux?

ok I'm just going to do my linux education and try to work it out from there but thanks every one for the help

well for the newer computer has a 2.4 pentium 4 with 512MB RAM, and it's not for games as I said before so my radion 9000 pro 128 MB ram Card doesn't matter. I though when you have 1.5X for swap for ram it's only for windows because it's such a resource hog. I doubt since I am using it for person server (ei. learning purpose) it would not matter that it is not a big swap file since I have 512 MB RAM. When I was in the install process there was only auto or custom size to create the file structure. How do I change the other stuff that you mention and what are they for? I have training video's for Linux and SQL. For linux do you think I should try to watch them eventhough I do not have linux running properly or should I get linux running on my other computer then try as I learn? As for SQL I installed them on my present computer. I don't seem to beable to acess them. Could it be because it's the basic's on mandrake and the video has a full version of SQL? Or I just am too new to linux know where to look for it on the hard drive?

I think I might have a hardware problem because I installed on another computer with the same hard drive, and it works to a degree with a 1.6GB HD. So I don't know what problem I could have since I had Windows Me running no problem. Right now I am playing with SuSE 9.0 Live. I notice that I really need lots of hard drive space since KDE and Gnome takes lots of HD space. when linux creates it's file structure does it have to be cut into 3 partitions, hda #, swap, hda #(I forget what number), in the size that it defaulted to? When I let linux configure it self I get 650~700 mb on my 1.6 hard drive, can I adjust it so I can get more for OpenOffice? I am trying to fit every thing I need for seting up a server and web page design stuff. (I'm cheating with OpenOffice because I am being lazy). Do you think it's possible?

ever since I created a proper file system with the mandrake CD my SuSE Live 9.0 CD started to work. It runs extreamly slow because I have no choice in but to run KDE. I wonder if my copy of the CD is bad again?

After many days away from the computer I remade the linux CD and verified that they were good downloads. I started to burn the CD and set the burning speed to the lowest possible speed 8X. I started the computer up and began to load the CD past what I was able to do. So yes my CD was crap now I am wondering why is it frezzing up now.Could it be the same problem? after mandrake ask what CD's to install it frezzes up Saying looking for advailable packages. I left the computer running over night since I didn't know how long would it take and well it's still stuck at the screen. could it be my crapy buring again or hardware problem???

unfortunatly I can not burn any slower due to my burning software 4X is the slowest I can go. I was smart about burning my linux CD at least as for checking the md5 sums I didn't really understand.

well from what I learded is that if in the event that I had to check the file before I burned, I did not do. That I never understood what this was so I am going to do some testing to tell you people what the out come is. Either 1 I am going to have to use my other computer or I am going to have to redownload and burn the copy's again to find out my problem.

Damn I have to say trying to use linux has really made me have to know my computer stuff. Trying to out geek the geeks. Unfortunatly I am knormaly so tired that I can't think well enough to make sure I am doing things proberly. To comunicate to linux users can be dificult due to the way little things are done but I must say over all it's really made me learn things that I don't ever think I could in the class room. Which I really need to do because I am starting a busness with someone. Some of it is online web hosting. He really want's to have our own server so to cut over head I though linux was the way. Can anyone give me tips before I install mandrake are there things I should know about doing this?

I want to make sure if I got this right. when you do a check md5 sum you are checking your ISO download. NOT the burned CD or DVD right? I have 48X burner but for improtant things like this I burn a 8X so I doubt I did a bad job at burning.

I considered that but I don't know how to do that?

ok thank you I have a very paticular use for linux and does not need much space for the use.

I am trying to be a new user. I was wondering what is the minimum hard drive size I can have to install and run Mandrake? I have a 1.6 hardrive and was wondering if I don't have enough space that I could find a linux that can run in a GUI interface. I am the same person who has been writing about Pentium I topic in the Instalation section. [moved from Hardware by arctic]

if no one can help me on this. how safe and what do I have to worrie about when I dual boot with 2 hard drive with my old Maxtor? Remember I never really used linux before so I don't understand how linux would show me what hard drive is what and I don't want to lose my windows yet