polemicz

You have to install the whole 64 bit system (apps, libraries, etc), not just a kernel.

Welcome to the board. A couple of things: 1) 12x is generally too high, I generally go no higher than 4x, also make sure you have checked the md5sums, 2) for a general desktop three partitions are most reasonable - /, /home, and swap. It is good to have /home on its own partition so your data and settings are kept separate from everything else. How big / is will depend on what you will want to install, for my simple desktop needs 5GB is sufficient. Good luck.

It's up now.

If you're using 2005 there may be no update in the repositories for Amarok. The versions of packages don't change once a distro version is out. Consider using 2006 to get a newer Amarok or check MDE to see if they have a newer version.

The -R option will do the change recursively through all subdirectories.

I don't know how diskdruid works, but mount points are controlled by /etc/fstab. So regardless of what the Fedora partitioning scheme sets up if there is no line in fstab there is no mount. If it sets up a directory for the mount pt it creates you can remove that directory.

During the installation you should select custom disk partitioning (or whatever that option is called). You will then see a layout of all your partitions. You can then delete, resize, etc. If you set up a big NTFS partition with Partition Magic and opted to install Linux on the free space you will be stuck. You should make note of what the installation partition manager says you have and report back if you remain stuck.

I used to use iscan, but have settled on xsane. The newer xsane (not in 2006) has a direct save to pdf that I often use for saving documents. I used to have to save to ps then create the pdf.

sane/xsane will do all you need. I use it to scan negatives, slides, as well as flatbed.

It doesn't matter.

I use an Epson 1660 for scanning slides and negatives (generally at 2400 or more dpi) and it works very well. There are newer models and you can go to higher resolutions ( I can go up to 4800), but a slide at 2400 in PNG will be about 10MB and PNM nearly 20MB. JPG's are obviously much smaller. The scanner is well within your price range and should do all you want.

It will work with the P4 64 bit processors. They are both x86_64.

I don't know about the 7676 driver, but some older cards, such as yours, can't use the newer drivers. Try 7174. Check about he legacy drivers.

Re: Debian cd's. I have a high spped connection so I've always used the net install for Debian, 1 100-150 MB cd. Everything else from the net.

Or just the halt command.

I should add that with Debian you can download the net install iso and boot that and get the rest of your packages from the net.

What else did you do when you put in the new card and reinstalled the drivers. As far as I know X should have no affect on sound. Perhaps something with the kernel? What sound card? More info would help.

You may want to grab a copy of "Linux in a Nutshell." You will find a lot of useful information as well as a list of most commands and their uses.

Another nice thing about 1.5 from Firefox is that the automatic updates work through the browser!

I'm pretty much a KDE user and have been from my first Linux days (Mandrake 8.0). From time to time I've tried Gnome, but have never had a reason to change from KDE. I simply know how to go about using KDE and setting things up, with Gnome it's always having to figure things out, but that's a habit issue. The biggest reason I have for staying with KDE is Konqueror (I could never get to like Nautilus).

As a hunch, can you run xsane as root? It may be a permissions issue.

you should do a fresh install of 2006. too too many diffrences between 9.2 and 2006. if you didn't put /home on a separate partition you will need to save it first. if on its own partition no problem.

Kat removal will definitely speed things up.

you can get it from the macromedia site, easy instructions to install are there.

/usr, etc are not on your home directory. The Linux file system is a tree structure starting with /. Software is generally installed in /usr, configuration files in /etc. /home and its subdirectories is for your personal stuff, not system stuff. A major mind switch a person needs to do when coming from Windows is to understand the file structure and permissions. When I first started with Linux I read "Running Linux," an O'Reilly book that I think is quite good, especially in understanding the basic structure of Linux. Hope this is helpful.