ahmad

Mandriva 2006 yes.. i'm doing it now.... will it be enough to make it ok?

after installing mandriva.. i still have the speed problem.. it's tooo slow... it takes 15 sec to load firfox... 30 sec to openMCC ..!! i'v tried : urpme kat it's a bit faster now... but still way slower than windows... :huh: i even removed some services still verry slow... better than befor... but still i find it very hard to use it for every day's life.... aren't there any extra application to stop? or services?! thanks

ya... i tried it.. nothing wrong with the Configrations ...!!! i guess i have a bigger problem... my CD @ strage Media... always show the same files.. regardless of the CD's i put on it...! i'm sure there is nothing wrong with the drive.. it works with Windows... but here... it's the same with any CD!!!!!and no CD titles appear.... PS: why we are at Art section>?!?! why we are at Art

ok... here is what i did.... 1- i've installed mandriva 2006 @ new 120GB HD and i allowed the installer to make Automatic partitioning.. 2- i have mandriva runiing smothely... and i ADOR :D IT! 3- i have my old HD that contains the late great XP... it's working fine (for windows!) ... and it has 3 ntfs and fat partitions.... 4- i tried to connect BOTH hard disks.. but it always boot as XP 5- to boot Linux i've tu UNPLUG the Windows HD 6- i tried MCC and i've choosed to boot linux with GRUB ... 7- i connect both again.. still it picks windows .. and No Grub Menue... 8-i've tried both Master And Slave for both.... always XP how to connect both? to be able to choes from GRUB .. and see windows Partitions at my Mandriva Storg Media?! thanks.... [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

suddenly... the CD doesn't mount on dskTop... only at Storage Midea.... any reason? [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

RESOLVED...... but .. i still can't ADD my language... now system is reading it perfectly... but i need to add it to writ with it... i have only 2 olangueges to add.. both are Eng! how to expend this list? cause i need 2 more langs? thanks

thanks alot... i'll stay here for a while... i had enough with fedora.... thanks again for your kind and great help....

idid sir.... it contains only the old firefox (1.0.6) and old thunderbird (1.0.6).... it suppose to be updatet with the final releaces right? something went wrong i guess.... and the same happened with urmpi... i seee..... is it doesn work only for Muzilla products?!? or there are some extra applications i can use this way do download? i not into downloading firefox that much... i treing to learn how to install/update using Mandriva is it really the easiest Linux around... or itś a little hard for a newcommer?

here is my exact steps on Konsole: su: pass: urpmi muzilla-thunderbird http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/Man...060mdk.i586.rpm 5% of 11.2M completed, ETA = 0:11:23, spee^[d = 11612 99% of 11.2M complinstalling mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Preparing... ############################################# 1/1: mozilla-thunderbird ############################################# [root@**************************** ahmad]# Display all 2680 possibilities? (y or n) and thatś all!! now i still have the same old thuderbird... not the new one... nd i don know how to add a new software.. back to 0 point... any help? :mellow:

i did it with compressed Data.... i think itś done by now... itś not doing any thing for 5 mnts... i opened a new Konsole Window... and i typed su Password urpmi mozella thundebird it WORKING!!!! thanks guys.... Downloading.... but .. why cant i find it at MCC? i only find Old thunderbird... how to use the Easy MCC to download and Automaticly install a new applications?! thanks again!

thanks sir... i did as you suggested.... i went to Easy urpmi config for Mandriva Linux.. i copied the code into my trminal... itś downloading stuff for 30 mnts now...! and i don know what it is? itś a confegration for urpmi to make it ready to install application?! then what if i type urpmi firefox? whatĺl happen? and what about program ie already downloaded to my desktop? can i use MCC to install it? or urpmi? why to make urpmi Download a new programs while i already have the package on my compter? and at MCC there is the 4th Icon which is:Select from where the backage were downloaded.. it gives me the opertunety to chose places to get my applications from... can i use this? by adding a new source?! thanks alot

Mandriva 2006: how to add a new Language support... and make a keybord short cut for switching Languages?!

hi,,,, i new with Linux... i tried Fedora C5 but i found it too hard for me to setup any thing... now i trieng Mandriva 2006.. i like it... but as far as i have no idea (yet) about how to install programs... so i looking for a way to Download and Install thunderbird Automaticly ... without doing all the hard work... in Fedora... i used yum to install... i read here i can use urpmi... is it true? how? or is there any Automatic way to install the package without doing much Konsole work?! :unsure: thanks...

guys... i'm really SLOW in this Linux world... can any one tell me wht to do step by step after booting Mandriva CD... cause i really get lost with all these / ./. slashes i see in Linux... sorry again... and my promiss to improve and help you saving ppl is still on! :)

i'm confused now... should i do it with the mandriva CD or open Boot mandriva and then run Grub .. then do it?!?

is it safe? it wont ormat anything?

what is Grub... and how can i use it... i read some stuff online.. about running mandriva CD .. and creating boatloader on c: where is windows exest.... but i'm not sure how to do it in the write way

hi... I've a 10 GB partition contains windows XP...and 3 other partitions on my 120g HDD, and at the same time I have mandriva on another 120 HDD which is plugged as slave.... I wont to see the selection menue at boot..... but the problem is it always boot windows automatically.. and I can't even access my Mandriva HDD from windows.... so.. how can I do it? knowing that I'm really new... dreaming to get red of windows forever.... but still need it for suspended work.... so.. take it easy with me... I'm not familiar with Konsole .. I don't know what matchpoint is.... or even boot loader!!! sorry... but I promises I'll improve!

Thanks... But to install a new bootloader @ windows partn... is it safe? it will not harm my windows in anyway.. right? and is it normal that Windows can't access any partn @ Linux harddisk? thanks again

@ desktop... Does it make any defernce?! thanks... but a few words in your reply i didn't understand the meaning of them... let me underline them: Firefox 1.5.0.3 is here, and AFAIK working well: http://www.mandrivaclub.nl/sources/official/2006/i586/ Just set the above site as a repo first: urpmi.addmedia mcnl http://www.mandrivaclub.nl/sources/official/2006/i586/ with hdlist.cz and then simply urpmi mozilla-firefox !!! i hope this is not tooo desapointing... but i'm dangerusly new! do you think linux isn't made for my kind of people?!

hi... i have Mandriva installed on a harddrive that contains 2 partn and Windows XP on hard drive contains 3 prartns .. now i connect both harddisks to my computer... 1st (mandriva) as Slave.. ant the 2nd (XP) as master... .. the thing is .. it always boot using XP .. and never allow me to choes linux... and even after booting on XP .. i can't see the other harddrive via XP...! is ir possible to pick wich one to use during startup? thanks

i tried it.. it gave me this error message: Service '/home/ahmad/Desktop/Link to Application file:%2f%2f%2fhome%2fahmad%2fDesktop%2ffirefox%2ffirefox.desktop' is malformatted i tried to link it to the Folder that containes all Firefox's files... Or to the File named Firefox which holds a Konsole icon... but same messages with both!

The situation now is: 1- i've reemoved Kat using Konsole succsesfully... 2 - the Konsole kept downlaoding and writing stuff.. but i think it's done with Easy-Urpm but i don't know how to Make sure of that... System speed increased i have to admit... not it takes me 17 sec to open Firefox it's a way faster.. but still slow comparing to Xp is it all? or should i restart? should i use KDE 3.5?

the ususal Question...! i downloaded Firefox 1.5 and i extracted it into a new folder.... now i don't know what to do... knowing i'm not familier with using Konsole... that's why many replies i found... but i didn't understand... may any one help me... ?

thnks again... now the updats are downloading @ the Konsole... it'll take some time... after it's done... do i need to do addetional thing to install it .. or that's it? can i use cat /etc/fstab while the Konsole is doing something else like downloading?!