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anyone? I can't decypher that error message and I'm completely clueless about how I could fix this.

mandrake seems to recognize the drive just fine but I still get this when I try to burn an dvd image into a dvd+r, I haven't tried if it works with other types of discs. this is what I get, what can i do about it? System ----------------------- K3b Version: 0.11.6cvs KDE Version: 3.2 BRANCH >= 20040204 QT Version: 3.2.3 growisofs ----------------------- Executing 'builtin_dd if=/home/kari/Documents/FC2-i386-DVD.iso of=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd obs=32k seek=0' :-( Failed to change write speed: 8310->11080 growisofs comand: ----------------------- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd=/home/kari/Documents/FC2-i386-DVD.iso -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -speed=8

oh and one more noob question: do I have to remove mandrake manually before installing fedora or can I use the partition tools to format everything besides my home partition?

thanks for the advice guys. I'll look into this more closely once I get the dvd-iso downloaded.

Just my home partition which is on a separate partition. I'm guessing that keeping it shouldn't be a problem.

I was thinking about giving FC2 a shot sometime soon. I was just wondering that when I install it do I need to repartition my hd or can I just install it on mandrake and keep all the data I already have in my home directory. I've got several gigs of videofiles and stuff I'd rather not burn on dvds to back them up until I put them back on my system.

anyone? how can I get my OS to recognize the cable modem so I could do that trick to limit the upload?

Yes but if you do that you often are not allowed on servers with upload caps. Have a look at this page http://lartc.org/ Here is a relevant section thanks. I'll look into it more closely. this is what I get: could not find device "ppp0". would that be my cable modem? I've got a motorola sb5100e which has no linux drivers. it does work (duh) but I haven't been able to find any specific linux drivers for it.

goddamn I'm going blind. I can cap the ul on dcgui itself. somehow I missed the option when I first went through with the gui.

I have to cap my UL to 20kB/s for p2p-progs. That seems to be the magical limit beyond which my downloads get killed by my uploads. I'm new to linux and I don't have a clue on even where to start with this thing. I need something program specific, meaning that it only affects dcgui and bittorrent or some prog in which I could just select the affected programs like in netlimiter for windows.

Thanks for your help. I finally got it installed and this urpmi seems like a really helpful tool.

I installed Mandrake 10.0 download version a few days back and there's something going wrong in my attempts to install dcqui. Since there's no specific pack for 10.0 I have to compile the source code, right? I've got all the rpms needed libqt3, pthread, libxml, libssl, libbz2 , libxml2-devel, libqt3 and libqt3-devel. When installing libqt3 I get this "Some package requested cannot be installed: libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied qt3-common[== 3.2.3-19.1.100mdk]) do you agree ? ". The other ones install without any complications. After clicking ok on that one I proceeded with the installation according to the instructionshere. After going through the installation I tried to run it but apparently nothing had been installed. the directory I'm supposed run it from is completely empty (/usr/local/bin/dcgui-qt, there's nothing in the bin dir). A lot of data went through the sceen when I was compiling the dclib and dcgui. There were some error notifications but the processes finished just nicely. Can anyone help me out with this? I can copy/paste the stuff I got my screen later if that's neccessary. I've got to go now but I can do the whole thing again once I get back home in a few hours. Thanks in advance.