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It will work fine with your amd athlon.

I have usually backed up the whole .evolution directory. Recently did that when I got a new machine. I back up to another computer via LAN. I've never had a problem with this. For what it's worth I also have my .evolution directory in /home as a link to another partition separate from /home (makes it easier to mess with distros).

you need to add the following in your /etc/apt/sources.list file deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/ debian-marillat/ sarge main. I'm not sure which version Kanotix uses so you may need to replace "sarge" with etch or sid. Christian Marillat's repos are the equivalent to plf. In your apt sources you should also make sure you have contrib and non-free. Why don't you post your apt sources.list file here.

The command you want is smbpasswd. Check man smbpasswd for all the options.

Tryb to use the Mdk rescue (F1, boot rescue choose restore Windows bootloader).

Assuming you checked the md5sums of the downloaded isos I would assume you have a bad burn. Make sure when you burn not to burn at any sped over 4x.

I did use md5sum *.iso; guess that explains it. Thanks.

Just add lines in /etc/fstab

Debian Sid is very bleeding edge. For all the Debian is too dated folks, Debian testing (Etch) is very stable and has the 2.6.15 kernel, KDE 3.5.1 and Gnome 2.12.

My son needs an external usb 2 hard drive, about 160GB. Any dogs to avoid? Thoughts about Seagate? Thanks.

Thanks, Arctic!! The mem= did it, both mem=128 and mem=256. I now have a Fedora Core 5 system running. Now if I can only learn yum and the various repositories. My first task is to find ms tt fonts. I have a msfonts rpm that I've used with Mandriva. Will that work with Fedora? It's a noarch rpm and I'm on a x86_64 system now. Then there is the whole codecs thing. I've set up livna in yum and will have to find other repos.

I've been trying to get FC5 to install (x86_64) to try it out, especially the 64 bit version on my new system (P4 630 processor, Intel 945 mobo, SAT II HD, NEC 3550 DVD burner). As noted in another post the checksums didn't match with the supposed sums, but the media check at install did. My installation hangs with the error "error transferring install image to hard drive." Thinks I may not have enough hd space (have 9GB for /). I checked around the Fedora forums and Google, but found nothing that helps. Tried selinux=0, allowcddma (suggestions found), but all to no avail. If any of you Fedora fans have an idea I'd appreciate it. I'll also try on the Fedora forums. Thanks in advance.

Lucky you! My DVD checked out fine also, but installation hung. I got a message about an error installing install image to hd, thinks I may not have enough space on the hd! My / is 7.4GB! That should be plenty, or at least has been for other distros. I have / and /home (1GB). Maybe the installation is a hd hog. I've got the space so I make / bigger and see what happens.

I checked on the fedora forum, nothing there that I could find. I tried another mirror and got the same sum as the other site. I'm going to burn the DVD and see what happens. It could be that not many people have downloaded the x86_64 dvd's and bothered to check the sums. At least if it doesn't install I won't complain.

I decided to try fc5 and downloaded the x86_64 dvd iso and checked the md5sum: not correct. I downloaded again and checked. I got the same sum as before, but not the one listed on the Fedora site or in the SHA1SUM file. Am I missing something here? I downloaded from kernel.org. The files are dated 3/15 (both dvd iso and sums). I'm loathe to burn a bad dvd, but am intrigued that both downloads came up with the same sum. Any thoughts, suggestions would be welcomed.

cybrjackle, that was a great post! thanks.

As a rule don't burn at over 4x, over 4x you will probably get bad burns.

Which distros have you tried? There may be some issues with older kernels.

OO Math should be checked out, that's what it's there for.

The xorg shipped with 2006 is probably the problem. It is a mess with known nvidia and ati driver problems. Using Vesa or console update your system. You will get a new xorg and should be able to use the xorg ati drivers.

user name for swat is root and password is root password, same deal if you configure cups from localhost:631. this is another aspect of linux security: not any old user can do administartive work on your system.

Do you have some sort of password protection on the drive? I ran into some problems with one recently because of that. Another screwy thing when I put mine in is that what is seen when I open the "devices" icon it shows only the system junk, not my files. If I browse to where I have mounted it all is as clear as day.

Have you tried setting up Samba? You can do a simple set up in MCC or else use Swat (make sure it's installed) and entering localhost:901 in a browser url. You have to use Samba to communicate between Windows and Linux.

My guess is you have the nasty xorg problem of 2006 when issued (since fixed in updates). As Ian said write down urpmi sources, particularly updates. When you boot into the console as root set up urpmi (urpmi.addmedia update... as noted in easy urpmi). Then all you have to do is urpmi --auto-select. Then try startx.

I'm not clear what you mean by D drive, a Windows term. If by it you mean a Linux partition on your hd it is probably already formatted as a linux partition. You can simply install the new Mandriva there. You may want to break it into more than one partition, say / and /home. When you install your bootlloader just make sure to put it on the mbr.