jagwah

Just wondering if Mandriva would be making use of the RAM that I have installed. I noticed a couple of kernels that said something like they were for machines with up to 1gig of RAM and another up to 4gig of RAM respectively. I have 2gig of RAM on both my machines, and am just wondering if I have to have a specific kernel for Mandriva to make use of it? I have the standard kernel that ships with the Mandriva 2006 DVD (free) 2.6.12-12mdksmp Also, in MCC/Boot/Set up how the system boots, under advanced it says "Precise RAM size if needed (found 896 MB) what does that mean, is it saying than Madriva has found/thinks that I have only 896 MB of RAM? :unsure:

Ahh, that gives me some reassurance, I was going to go ahead and try it anyway, but I wasn't to confident. I'm fairly certain that I didn't/wouldn't have done that. hmmm, can't find any key icon. I have logged out and back in several times yesterday, but the prompt never returned. I'm not to concerned at the moment, as I am going to do a few things after I install the kernel-source, just so as I have a better idea how to do them, then I'm going to reinstall. I tested the md5 of the DVD image I downloaded just to be sure, and it 's OK, should the DVD have the relevant kernel-source on it? also, when you have the DVD in the drive, and you open it, I would have thought you would be able to see the files, however all I get is a blank folder, I checked show hidden files, but still blank, and if I navigate to the DVD via the CLI, and 'ls' to show the contents, nothing is displayed?. It seemed to install fine though, quick and no problems. Thanks again to all for your help

hmmm, I don't think so, I had to use it originally, then all of a sudden I was never asked for it again, I would just type in su, hit enter and I would be root. However I tried changing the password with the passwd command you suggested, it said the change was successful, however nothing changed, I still don't need to enter it after the su command :( I think I used to be asked for the password when I clicked on the the System config tool (something annyway) that doesn't happen anymore either. The way you describe seems to be exactly the same, or achieves the same as the link thing, although with the link thing way I don't have to type anything in the console, just click an icon on the desktop. But I'm pretty well right now with that stuff, both via CLI and GUI, at least to do what I need at the moment. I do need the kernel source installed for things, and I don't know where to get it, my version is 2.6.12-12mdksmp, I can't find that, I can find 2.6.12-12mdk, but don't know if I should use it as it doesn't have the smp bit on the end. I can't seem to get anything of the DVD, It says "Unable to add medium, errors reported: ...copying failed Unable to build synthesis file for medium "DVD". Your hdlist file may be corrupted." Going to check the md5 of the iso image I downloaded, if I can work out how that's done, if it turns out ok, then I'll reinstall everything and try again, if it turns out it is bad, I'll download it again, but it will have to wait 'till Monday as I'm out of blank DVD's. Thanks to both of you for your replies

Hello /waves to everyone I'm having a bit of trouble (well, a lot of trouble actually, but one thing at a time), it seems that when I enter the su command in the console dodad thing, it no longer asks me for the root password, it just puts me straight in. What might I have done to cause this? Yesterday I couldn't for the life of me work out how to copy a file from my home dir, to usr/local dir via the GUI, and anyway, I followed some instruction which allowed me to run Konqueror as root, buy making a link to application thing. Don't know if that would have anything to do with it?. Can't think of anything else I might have done, come to think of it, I can't think of much at all, my mind is swimming, I have gone form being able to do anything I wanted to do in Win XP, to not even being able to copy a file in linux :sad: I can now copy files etc via the CLI, but I would dearly like to know how I can do this via the GUI, what do I do when I am denied access? I can get around it by the "run Konqueror as root, buy making a link to application thing" I mentioned above, but am unsure that it is the best way to do it. Also, I can't seem to be able to get/find/install the kernel source, I have set up some sources via easyurpmi, main contrib etc, updated the sources, tried the installation DVD, but I can't seem to get anywhere, help :) 2.6.12-12mdksmp This is my 3rd try at linux, first was back when Mandriva was called Mandrake, I think Mandrake 9, then again at Mandrake10, and now with Mandriva 2006. The funny thing is I got further on my first attempt, guess I shouldn't have quit back then, but ... Anything I learned back then is long gone from my memory. I have done things a little different this time, as I would dearly love to eventually use linux for everything, and say farewell to windows. I have 2 PC's both XP pro, I am leaving 1 alone, and this one I have removed the hard drives with XP etc, and replaced them with a couple of old hard drives I had, and am messing with linux on them, so when I get frustrated, instead of uninstalling linux and being back to square one again, I'll just swap the drives, change a few bios settings, and I'll have it back to XP and visa versa in a couple of minutes. Anyway, enough rambling, so to recap my problems 1. su command - no longer needing to input password 2. Being able to copy files etc via the GUI - What do I do when I get access denied 3. Kernel Source - I can't seem to find it, let alone install it. My version is 2.6.12-12mdksmp Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am trying ... , some would say very trying