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I've used Linux for about 5 years. I will be Winblow$ free for 2 years this October.

Make sure you turn the volume up for the CD in both aumix and kmix. It's a seperate control from the speaker volume.

With mozilla1.4 you have to use the gcc 3.2 plugin. the correct path is /usr/java/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Possibly a supermount annoyance? It still seems buggy in 9.1 and I never use it. Try disabling supermount.

install the mplayer plugin, too. :wink:

Disable your pagefile. Reboot. Defrag. Use Partition Magic to resize the XP partition, leaving enough unallocated space for Mandrake. Re-enable the page file. Install Mandrake. The reason I say Partition Magic is that I know it will do it. Other third party partitioners may work, as well. /germ

fdisk -l

It keeps the setting. :wink:

:D I got the increase after adding idebus=100 to lilo. I had it set in BIOS, but my HDD kept dropping back to udma3 until I edited lilo. Now it hangs at udma5.

OK, I'm amazed. I'm using this string: -d1 -X69 -u1 -c3 -m16 -A1 -a32 -B255 -M254 Added "idebus=100" to append in lilo.conf and here's what I got: [root@grendel root]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 956 MB in 2.00 seconds = 478.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.02 seconds = 35.10 MB/sec I thought that can't be right so tried again and got: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1020 MB in 2.00 seconds = 510.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.02 seconds = 35.10 MB/sec /germ

save the file to a directory and use RPM in a terminal to re-install it. rpm -Fvh <package name> You can combine options. -F will freshen the install. -v will tell you what's going on -h will show a hash mark progress bar /germ

You can't set a delay with the halt command. You can use shutdown with a delay. shutdown -h -t5 That will shut your machine down in 5 seconds. The -t option must be in seconds. /germ

/etc/rc.d/harddisks is the default file you get when installing hdparm. Then copy it as harddiskhda, etc. to tweak individual disks. You can add hdparm settings to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

Browsers: Konqueror, Mozilla, Firebird, Opera, Galeon Email: Kmail, Mozilla Mail, Sylpheed, Evolution, Thunderbird and more..........

Open a terminal, you can use konsole if you're in KDE. Type su Hit "Enter" Type root's password Hit "Enter" You are now root. Type xcdroast Hit "Enter" xcdroast will start and you can go through the setup. Be sure to add users so you don't have to be root just to burn a CD. Exit xcdroast. Exit the terminal. Start xcdroast and you should be good to go. /germ

You should not do that. You should say "no" to fsck and let the journal recover your file system. Running ext3 and letting fsck repair a mounted file system will more than likely hose it. I've heard more than one horror story...... /germ

SaveMyModem is a good one. http://savemymodem.sourceforge.net/

Your lilo.conf looks like it should work. Did you try re-installing lilo as Ixthusdan suggested? You also might try changing this: other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda to this: other=/dev/hda1 optional label="windows" Although that should not keep Linux from booting. It really sounds like your bootloader is not installed properly.

bjc ,go to http://rpmfind.net and do a search for glibc-2.2.4 I'm using glibc-2.3.1-10mdk with no probs. I have Mozilla-Firebird 0.6.1 and Mozilla 1.4 and really can't see any speed difference. I use moz more often then not. Thunderbird is shaping up very nicely. I've been using it for about 3 weeks.

guarddog I've never been a network geek and guarddog has been the easiest to use GUI for me. :wink: firestarter would be my second choice. I tried shorewall when I first installed 9.1 and I think it absolutely sucks. My box was either wide open or couldn't access the internet at all.

Did you make a boot disk during installation? If not, boot the first install CD and when you get to the splash screen hit F1 and you will will get a boot prompt. boot: root=/dev/hda? Then hit "Enter" That's assuming you only have one HDD and Mandrake is installed to a partition on it. Replace the ? with the partition number. When you get Mandrake booted, post the contents of /etc/lilo.conf That's where your boot loader configuration lives. /germ

Maxtor has a utility called amset. You can d/l it at maxtor.com There are 3 settings that Maxtor HDDs support for acoustical management. quiet, fast, and off. hdparm says: Recommended acoustic management value: 192, current value: 0

[root@grendel germ]# hdparm -c3 -A1 -m16 -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 3 setting multcount to 16 setting using_dma to 1 (on) setting drive read-lookahead to 1 (on) multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) using_dma = 1 (on) [root@grendel germ]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.51 seconds =250.98 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.88 seconds = 34.04 MB/sec so far, this is the best I've done. setting readahead to 32 actually slowed it down. :shock: [/code]

Mine is different each time......... Today it's: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.57 seconds =224.56 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.87 seconds = 34.22 MB/sec bvc, I'm going to try the readahead=32 :wink: I turned acoustic management off, supposedly that gives the fastest file read/write according to Maxtor.

5T030H3 Maxtor: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.54 seconds =237.04 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.85 seconds = 34.59 MB/sec /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 3736/255/63, sectors = 60030432, start = 0