Cannonfodder

I thought mysql.sock isn't created until after mysql is running?

It's also alot easier to backup/restore small partitions vs one huge partition.. Another thing to remember with 120 gig, you can can grow into it. Develop your basic partitions that you must have but don't try to use all your space unless you need it.. You can always add a new partition.. now down the road you want to try out gentoo linux, you have the empty partition space available and don't have to move/resize what not.. Finally, do you understand what extended partitions are?

Check this out.. They mention your fix, but state there is permissions issues. http://lists.dajoba.com/p/mysqltool/2002-S...ber/000261.html Also, if you search google groups (usenet), there is a ton of references to the problem. I did a search with mysql.sock "local MySQL server through socket" Let us know how you make out..

To be more accurate, my first partition is a primary and the rest are all extended. This avoids the 4 pimary partition limitation. Basically you can make as many partitions as you want too. Really the only advantage in your case would be if you want to reserve as many primary partitions for the future. This would probably be more important if you were doing dual-booting such as a mandrake gentoo win2k extended all on one drive.. On the other hand, I don't know if there is any disadvantage to trying to stick to as many extended partitions as possible, do you?

You can try these screensavers.. They worked really really bad until I installed the NVIDIA drivers.. http://manu.agat.net/ReallySlickLinux/

I may be reaching off a ledge here, but are those all devices and proc (virtual) files? Maybe its related to your /etc/fstab file?

All my partitions for linux are reiserfs including boot. Just remember to use expert install and mark as many partitions as possible as extended.

Here's a backward way of doing this that I just thought of.. write a script to 1. copy file to a hold file 2. run opera (let it modify whatnot) 3. copy hold file back to file 4. delete hold You could probably expand it a bit so that if hold is there when you start, you replace the file first and then do steps 1-4. When you want to run opera, you call the script.. would that do what you want?

If I type in xfishtank -help, I get an invalid option too. If I type in xfishtank --help (2 dashes), it gives me the help. If I type in xfishtank I get a flicker flash. But when I check my desktop, I have the fish.. So you do have xfishtank installed.

Seems to me you already have xfishtank just as I did. If you type in xfishtank and get a flash (attempted to run), then you have it. Try opening a console and type xfishtank --help. If you get help , then yoiu have it. As far as not working, I wonder if that might be because you do not have your video drivers installed and are using the default vga drivers installed by mandrake? On my system, I installed the NVIDIA drivers and many visual apps that didn't work started to work or sped up.

Sometimes the install has a problem with a hard drive due to dma. You can disable dma in the bios or do this prior to installing Hit F1 and type linux ide=nodma You can always turn it back on later.

I tried it with the -p option for putting my own background in place. In this case, a very nice picture of clouds... nice contrast! I wish the fish were a better quality, but he does provide a number of ways to get yoru own imported..

it was already installed on my system, kinda goofy :)

You may also have to recompile your kernel to enable the file system UDF (I think). I'm not sure what the default is though. I updated my kernel from source yesterday and noticed that option..

tar xzf file.tar.gz then read the README file with less README hit q to quit less

duir66 is in danger of being modded for l337 PORNOGRAPHY

Ok, problem solved, my USB mouse is now working.. I ended up recompiling the kernel with "USB HIDBP Mouse support" turned off this time. Go the hint from this link.. http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/usbmouse.txt Thanks to myself for figuring out my own problem *goofy grin*

it's all over google

Some more info on this. After my initial reboot, the symbolic link /dev/usbmouse does exist. It's suppose to point to the /dev/input/mice device. That, however, doesn't exist..

I would make sure you install both KDE and Gnome. I personally like Gnome and a console the most. The big slowdown can be from running too many servers. E..g you have apache and sql running plus 10 other minor processes that take up space.

Now that I've upgraded my kernel to 2.4.19-24 I too have lost my logitech USB mouse. After starting up, I have to run mousedrake and then restart the X server whereas I then have mouse services. On reboot, an error message about not finding /dev/usbmouse appears when it is trying to start mouse services. Running mousedrake just fixes it until I reboot. I rebuilt my kernel from source and made sure my USB options were included. Any ideas?

The only way I can think of is to be part of a group that permits changes to those files/folders you want to chown. Maybe you need to create a new group and add apache, yourself, root, or whatever you need to that group. Then chown the files to the group...

I say cheh-mod as in eh? Must be cuz I live so close to Canada :roll:

Check out the discussion in this link.. Look for the info on suppressing error messages using @fopen(). I"m not saying this is your answer, but I might be barking up the right tree :) http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

What happens when you use urpmi whatever where whatever is the name of what you are trying to install? e.g. urpmi mozilla