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don't know or it will help, but try the speed up firefox tricks in the respective forum. I think iit's too slow, I'll look in the about:config, for time out times, I'll post f I have found something

windows ME is the worst OS ever, it crashes random, it does nothing what you want too, So I assure you, you will be happy with mandrake :)

now, I don't even know how to start, just hope there will be once a driver for it :)

damn, it looks hard :( :P not that I expected it was easy, but I still have to learn the languages & stuff, so it's a 10 year project :P :)

Maybe a very general question, but how do you actually write drivers for hardware??? Example, I wanna make a driver for my USB scanner, where do I have to start? it's very general, and maybe difficult to answer question, but I'd liked to know :)

Is there any other file management tool for KDE except Konqueror?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

nautilus? but I don't like it :) Konqueror is pretty good :)

no, I want a game that's original, yes you say it has a story, like the good old days, but like doom you have a dozen of games in the genre, I expected the game would scare me, and I would maybe like it that way, but it's all so predictable.

But I guess there aren't gonna be very original games in the future, hl², will also be shooter, only game I'm waiting for is s.t.a.l.k.e.r :)

for what its worth, doom³ is a stupid game, after 30 minutes of playing, I wasn't scared, it just felt like another shooter, like Far cry or something, it really disappointed my, I hope that hl² will be better

only thing I get is :

IOATA controller device is blocking bus ...

hmm, maybe this is a solution: don't know anything better, but I think you have format your HD, not the partition, so reinstall windows again, after installation, put in the externel HD, and install mandrake on the second drive!!!.

If you have only formatted the partition, put in the external drive, make backup's of your windows installation, format the first HD, install windows XP, put back your backup's, and then install mandrake on the 2nd drive

hi, welcome aboard :) ,

Why do you want to run KDe from icewm? But If you can't choose anything then Icewm, you probarly haven't installed it correctly, so I also advise to reinstall mandrake and make sure you install KDe or Gnome

well, tried gnome with gdesklets(gives error with kde) :like it actually, just needs a new theme

its a computer, it won't blow up, or never boot again with just formatting, so try!

of course we can :), first you go to www.nvidia.com, there you go to section Download drivers, and there you see Linux & Freebsd drivers, there you can download the drivers for your architecture, I suppose you pick the first one Linux Display Driver IA32 1.0-6111, or you can download them here:

Nvidea IA32

After downloading, you go to terminal, as root, and you type init 3(make sure everything important is saved). this will shutdown the x server, and will give you a console, you log in as root again, navigate to your download folder, and type:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run

this will start the installation, just follow instructions, if everything went well, you can launch your x server with "startx"

:)

well I'm gonna give it a try too :) :P

hmm, which steps did you bypassed?

well, tools, try diskdrake, run as root ;)

so you can ping with your linux to windows? but not vice versa? maybe you need to configure samba?(don't know much about networking, still learning alot :P )

so the eth0 works, but you're sure you can't ping anything in your LAN? and the internet gateway computer works? and don't know for sure, but does he needs samba, to have a linux computer to communicate with windows?

and about the package missing, sure the cd's were burned ok?

what message do you get if you do "ifconfig eth0"

yea that's true, like bzflag too, although It's been quite some time since I played it :)

well I advise to use, filezilla, and I don't think you can download a directory :), but I think for now the important thing is to download the three iso's

and welcome aboard ;)

Well I was bored(gentoo is installing ;) ). So I was wondering if there was already a semi-Auto installation script for Gentoo, so I started to make one, as it is my first script, and probarly far from finished, there wil be some bugs in it :) .

Just wondering what you all think of it

#!bin/bash

#Gentoo Installation Script(x86)(2004.2)

#Installs from Mandrake on Partitions

#Made by Echylo

#Contact: driesdesmet@linux.be or dries.de.smet@skynet.be

 

 

#Checks if user is root

if [ `id -u` != "0" ]; then

echo "Gentoo Installation Script 2004.2"

echo "Sorry, you are not root."

echo "Please restart script as root."

fi

 

#When user is , it gives information about the script

echo

echo "This script installs Gentoo from Mandrake"

echo "So no Live cd required"

echo "Created by Echylo"

echo "This is for x86 machines only."

echo "Working internet connection required"

echo "To continue press a key..."

read key

 

#Gives user opportunity to check its partitions

echo "The script will launch DiskDrake, for you to set partitions..."

echo "If set, just close Diskdrake"

echo "Press any key to continue"

read key

echo "Launching DiskDrake..."

diskdrake

 

echo "I suppose that you have set partitions, and you are ready to continue"

echo "Press a key to continue"

read key

 

#Asks for boot, swap and home partition

 

echo "What is the boot partition of your gentoo installation?"

echo "Example : /dev/hdb1"

read BOOTPART

echo "What is the Swap partition?"

read SWAP

echo "What is your Gentoo(home) partition?"

read GENTOOHOME

 

#Activates Swap partition, mounts boot & home partition

mkswap $SWAP

swapon $SWAP

 

mkdir /mnt/gentoo

mount $BOOTPART /mnt/gentoo

mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot

mount $GENTOOHOME /mnt/gentoo/boot

 

#Downloading stage file

cd /mnt/gentoo

 

echo "Downloading Stage file..."

echo "Choose your location...(1-4)"

echo "1-  America"

echo "2 - Europe"

echo "3 - Australia"

echo "4 - Asia"

echo

echo "Pick number:"

read LOC

 

if [ $LOC -eq 1 ]

then

echo "Downloading Stage 1 file..."

wget ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/release...-2004.2.tar.bz2

 

elif [ $LOC -eq 2 ]

then

echo "Downloading Stage 1 file..."

wget ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gen...-2004.2.tar.bz2

 

elif [ $LOC -eq 3 ]

then

echo "Downloading Stage 1 file..."

wget ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/release...-2004.2.tar.bz2

 

elif [ $LOC -eq 4 ]

then

echo "Downloading Stage 1 file..."

wget ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO/releas...-2004.2.tar.bz2

else

echo "You have to pick a number between (1-4)!"

echo "Downloading Stage 1 file from default..."

wget ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/release...-2004.2.tar.bz2

fi

 

 

#Unpacks Stage1 tar file

clear

echo

echo "Stage 1 file Downloaded"

echo "Unpacking Stage 1 file..."

 

tar -xjpf stage1-x86-2004.2.tar.bz2

 

echo "Unpacked"

echo

 

#Copies DNS information

echo "Copying DNS information"

cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf

 

#Mounts Proc filesystem

echo "Mounting proc filesystem"

mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc

 

#Chroots into new Enviroment"

echo "Chrooting into Enviroment"

 

chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

env-update

source /etc/profile

 

#Updates Portage Tree"

echo "Updating Portage tree"

emerge sync

cd /usr/portage

 

#Stage 1 -> Stage 2

 

echo "Stage 1 => Stage 2 "

echo "Press key to continue"

read key

echo "BootStraping..."

scripts/bootstrap.sh

 

echo "Arrived in Stage 2"

 

#Emerging system

 

echo "Emerging system"

 

emerge system

 

#script finished until here :)

well, why don't we start with you giving us the details of the modem :)

and(love to say it ;) ) Welcome aboard

try to redownload it , btw I had the same problem, but after installing update it gave me a segmentation fault :s

how fast is your cd drive?

edit: better, what are the specs of your laptop?

edit2:oh my:P you have already tried a text based install ?