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can someone give me a partition program for mandrake or other distros? i have like 6 gigs free that isnt even used by either Xp or mandrake its just free, nothing is on it i messed up my partitions while installing mandrake i created one too many free space i tried to use partition magic but somethings wrong i cant even start the damn thing can someone suggest some programs? thanks

i installed the newest version of this text editor but i m not able to open it i tried compiling it myself and also downloading the rpm but both wont let me open it after installation, i went to run and typed in vim and nothing appeared then i went into console and also typed in vim and it brings up this screen in console but i am not able to type any commands on it does anyone no what is the problem? if you guys need a screen of this, i can provide it thanks for helping [moved from Software by spinynorman]

what do u mean go into mcc i m in mcc where do i go to find the cdrom? hardware? or mounts? can u give me a bit more details? maybe the path name for the cds are wrong? is there a way i can change the path names?

when i try to install some softwares, like always it asks me for the installation cds i pop the cd that it wants and pressed ok but it doesnt work i still says i have to insert that cd i tried to check the mount by going to /mnt/cdrom and see if there was anything inside there there was nutin inside the folder i thought maybe it was the cd then so i tried another cd which is a music cd but that also was not detected so i thought maybe the mount is bad? so i tried to mount it myself by doing a mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom this time i checked that the data is indeed in the folder /mnt/cdrom but it still asks me for the cd when i click ok does anyone no what is wrong? i have just started to use mandrake not too long ago and i m still not familar with it i used to use mandrake 10 and i never had this problem but now i m using 10.1 and this happens can someone help me out? thanks

when i try to install some softwares, like always it asks me for the installation cds i pop the cd that it wants and pressed ok but it doesnt work i still says i have to insert that cd i tried to check the mount by going to /mnt/cdrom and see if there was anything inside there there was nutin inside the folder i thought maybe it was the cd then so i tried another cd which is a music cd but that also was not detected so i thought maybe the mount is bad? so i tried to mount it myself by doing a mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom this time i checked that the data is indeed in the folder /mnt/cdrom but it still asks me for the cd when i click ok does anyone no what is wrong? i have just started to use mandrake not too long ago and i m still not familar with it i used to use mandrake 10 and i never had this problem but now i m using 10.1 and this happens can someone help me out? thanks [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

What is the difference between the two versions of mandrake distro?

each time install something, it askes me for one of the mandrake installation cds is there a way that i dont have to use the cds everytime i want to install some software? thanks

what exactly is gnome i hear people talking about it left and right is it another platform like kde, console etc? can someone explain what it is? thanks

hehe thanks guys i m still new learning about linux mandrake is my first linux distro/version yea i know how to find where they are installed thanks for the advice Marked the thread Solved - Artificial Intelligence

i m new to linux when i install an rpm where does it go? does it install to a default folder? how can i change the installation folder? thanks

hehe for me kopete is the default for some reason and i installed gaim but dont no which dir it went to so i ll find out where it is thanks

i m a new user when i try to install aim, mandrake asks for the 4th cd this is the message "Please insert the medium named "Installation CD 4 (x86) " on device [/dev/hdc] " can anyone help? i thought there were only 3 cds in the installation?