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Can that be reduced to avatar size without making it illegible? Counterspy

Try a Google Advanced Search with 100 items on the keywork el torito (may be one word) for instructions on how to create a bootable CD. In line with qeldroma's suggestion, read the Tutorial on Install disk 1 in Windows for alternative methods of installation including hard drive as well as network installs. Counterspy

For a wild stab in the dark, if you intend to install Mandrake on your second drive, reformat it to Fat32 and see if that makes a difference. Counterspy

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-963953.html?tag=fd_top http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/30/1858...1.shtml?tid=147 http://clic.mandrakesoft.com/download.html Counterspy

Check out your video card on the Mandrake Hardware List here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 . I wonder if you have enough memory on that card. If it is not on the list, there is another Linux Hardware List you can check. Find it here: http://lhd.zdnet.com/ . You may need a new video card to run the graphics required by the various window managers. If you do reach that conclusion, Nvidia has made drivers available and seems to be the preferred product. ATI cards are also supported but double check before you consider these. Counterspy

Some download sites choke on M$ download managers, particularly those with resume features. I abandoned the use of CuteFTP when it went spyware so I can't specifically speak to that, but I would try direct download from a different site as a start. Others choke on firewalls such as @Guard (Norton Internet Security) and Zonealarm. As far as laying out a lot of money is concerned, there are several commercial sources of burned cd's such as Cheapbytes and Linux Central in the USA . Counterspy

I can sympathize with your complaint but they were separated after people complained that it was not working properly as a combined program. Submit your complaint here: http://www.mandrakeforum.com . Counterspy

Thanks for posting those results. They seem to me to apply as much to the individual user as well as businesses. We all need answers to those questions when we try to sell it to committed Windows users or those who have never used anything else. Counterspy

Have a look at the manuals for Mandrake 9.0 in the Main Menu Documentation section and see if there is an answer there. Counterspy

What if anything is installed on any of your serial ports? From your description, it does not look like anything but either way we need the answer to that question. Counterspy

The only place I see potential problems is the raid controller when enabled and device recognition when it is enabled as only an IDE extender. Counterpsy

Look for a file called bootsplash. It is a selectable install in expert mode. I chose not to install it. Counterspy

I would add to the Google recommendation to always use Google Advanced where you can be more precise with the search terms and get 100 item pages instead of 10. That makes for much faster searching. Counterspy.

Linux does not seem to have caught up totally with USB yet, so I too would go parallel. Counterspy

No one has mentioned your zip drive problem, but aside from making sure there is a disk in the drive, you may have run into the defective supermount in 9.0. Remove it from the command line with supermount -i disable. You will need to mount devices from the command line or if you are up to it, you can configure autofs. There is a tutorial called "Mark's Autofs Tutorial Revisited" in Linux Gazette #42 or "How to set up Linux Autofs" at http://freespace.sourceforge.net/guidot/ho...owto/autofs.htm . As far as the core dump is concerned, if you really want to look at it, it is in the root's home directory. More power to you if you can figure out how it will help you solve the problem(s). Counterspy.

One of the recommendations I remember seeing in a variety of places is not only to make the speed the same but not not mix chips of different memory capacities. In other words don't mix 128 with 64. For some it may work, for others it may not. Counterspy

Isn't that the case whenever you try to demo anything in front of an audience. The lesson: Always rehearse. Particularly with slideshows. One will always be upside down. Counterspy

I have no problem with not running harddrake but as Geldroma says, there are those that interact with each other such as devfs and xinetd, and it would seem that more interaction is occuring with each successive release. I picked the number of 64 Mb with a new user in mind who does not want a performance hit and is not yet familiar enough with Mandrake Linux to be shutting things down without some knowledge of the effects. After one has spent some time with the Mandrake manuals on the desktop and the How-To's there as well, then you can take on the issue of tuning your machine for maximum performance. The best solution is to run Gkrellm and watch your CPU performance. I have not disabled as much as I could and my CPU usage is 1-2% of 384 Mb and none of my doubled swap at idle. Running Mozilla now occasionaly hits 20% and and at no time has the swap been used. I'm on dialup with no firewall. OTOH, Lbreakout2 uses all of the memory and some of the swap. So in the final anlysis, what you delete in boot depends on what you are doing with the machine. Counterspy

The only people who need to worry about disabling services at bootup are those with minimal memory to run Mandrake. Let's say 64 Mb or less. Counterspy

Mandrake makes the compilation and some of the packages. They are usually packaged with the PowerPack as a CD or downloaded either as an ISO or as individual packages people select from the list. You can find it on most mirrors. You can burn a CD if you decide you want this. In the PowerPack, the sources are also supplied as a separate CD. Look over the list and see if you want anything you see there and if there is enough, it may be easier to burn the iso. Counterspy

I decided that emacs would be the one I would try to learn so I downloaded the docs from the Gnu site. The result was a manual in HTML that was two inches thick. When poeple say it is an operating system, not just and editor, they weren't kidding. My progress with it has been very slow since the one thing it isn't is intuitive. Counterspy

Try checking out the permission section from the docs link at the top of the page under Old Docs. Also check the Mandrake docs from the main menu on your desktop in one of the manuals. Then see of you can determine the permission of that module. If not. come back with the details. Counterspy

If it would help us to understand the problem, you can post it in detail in German and it will be translated into English and the replies back to you in German. See the section Translate your post here and read itti's how-to. Counterspy

Probably one of the 136 bugs to be sorted out. I end up with a partially crippled gkrellm from either Mandrake or Texstar. I can't configure it at all and some themes crash it. Counterspy

Check out the Mandrake newsgroup also. It's alt.os.linux.mandrake. There are linux groups under the comp. heirarchy as well, that end to deal with Linux in general and a couple more in the alt heirarchy. The Mandrake newsgroup tends to have between 300 and 500 posts daily including vicious flame wars from intuders at alt.windows.xp, mainly from a demented idiot called Kadaitcha Man and friends. Counterspy