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Seems a little strange, Coverup, because CD writing is also a file system to the extent that the burner also reads CDs. However, I learnt long ago that computers and rationality are seldom related to each other. As I said, I did try the Rt-click-on-desktop method: but maybe the option I chose after that was not the one you advise.

As for the double-click / single-click matter, are you answering someone else's question? I didn't ask it. Yes, there certainly is an option, and I have seen it with mine own enfeebled eyes -- and, like you, I cannot remember where it is. Possibly Look & Feel.

My system has two floppy drives and one CD writer. When I installed 10.0 Official, icons were created on the desktop for the floppy drives but none was created for the CD writer. All three are present in /mnt. I doubt that I can put it more clearly than that.

While there are icons on the desktop for both of my floppy drives, there is none for my CD writer. I have so far been unable to make one by right-clicking on the desktop as I have done for several programs. I am on 10.0 Official and can see the drive under /mnt.

My Samsung laser printer stopped printing. I got the same reports you describe. I could not remove it except, finally, by going into the Control Centre. Having removed it, I reinstalled it.

Right now I'm downloading the ISO of the fourth CD. That should ease many frustrations, though on a dial-up connection it's a slow business.

No, I don't have an nvidia but I should have thought of going non-GUI. Thanks.

Thanks. Will do. It seems to some degree like Debian's apt-get. If it checks for errors, wonderful.

I can't recall what I did during install, Devries. Maybe I thought "development" was for software writers and didn't tick it. But here are my adventures so far.

1. Ran gcc3.3-3.3.4-1mdk.i586.rpm -- response

>> libgcc >= 3.3.4-1mdk needed

>> gcc3.3-cpp-3.3.4-1mdk needed

2. Ran gcc3.3-cpp-3.3.4-1mdk.i586.rpm

>> no trouble

3. Ran libgcc1-3.4.1-3mdk.i586.rpm -- response

>> file /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 from install of libgcc1-3.4.1-3mdk conflicts with file from package libgcc1-3.3.3-6mdk

One option seems to be that a file is to be removed, and the other is that I must download yet another version of libgcc.

Certain tar.gz packages complain, when I do a ./configure on them, that there is no acceptable C compiler in the path.

I haven't actually done much with urpmi, having only just become aware of it. No sources set up, though I do have a note of urpmi.org/easyurpmi. No idea if the thing is on the CDs. I'm a bit mixed up about the CDs: I got three but I've seen mention of there being four.

Albert E. Neumann was my hero in the 1960s and he was no frog.

I'm sure I'd scribbled it on a scrap of paper, but then there's this puppy who runs my life for me...

Will try it again, with puppy locked out of room.

I have 10.0 Official, which came on three CDs. It didn't have GCC or DPKG, and I got an error message when I gave an URPMI command.

When I tried to install software I couldn't because there was no C compiler. When I tried to install gcc it complained that there was no gcc3.3-cpp. Now it's moaning about libgcc 3.3.4-1mdk, apparently a tiny file but one which I cannot find anywhere. Will appreciate being shown pug marks.

I'm posting this here because I couldn't find a sub-forum on ophthalmology.

When I shut down Mandrake 10.0 a screen comes up with vertical green lines. Not only are they obscene, they induce vertigo and nausea. Is there any way I can get something pleasant instead, maybe a picture of a hungry hyaena or a Tasmanian Devil?

Thanks, Kilimanjaro. Minutes after I posted my cry for help, I found on the Net that a fellow called KPPP deals with these things. I put a link to him on the desktop and configured both connections. Now I can choose which I want. It was childishly simple and I have no idea why Mandrake does not even mention this, leave alone put it in its set-up as Linspire does.

I have just installed 10.0 Official, download version. I have a GCC external modem which is recognised. I am, however, unable to set up connections to my two ISPs. If I set up a connection to A, it works, but if I then add one to B, it is made as a copy of the first and over-writes it. I need two ISPs as neither is particularly reliable; and changing the set-up each time is a chore. I have not had this difficulty in Windows or in Linspire.