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| Thread ID: 32267 | 2003-04-14 02:27:00 | Windows and Linux | caffy (2665) | Press F1 |
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| 135626 | 2003-06-14 00:51:00 | Try opening up a terminal window and as root, type the following: # mkdir /mnt/hda1 # chmod 777 /mnt/hda1 # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 Your primary Windows partition should now be mounted as /mnt/hda1 :-) You can also do the same for your other Windows Partition as long as its FAT32, if its NTFS you'll need to download the NTFS support rpm :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 135627 | 2003-06-14 05:11:00 | Right, have been looking around in Mandrake - very different world from Windows I have to say! :P Now - re MSN Messenger, someone mentioned earlier something about using GIAM instead of MSN, ICQ etc. How do i set this up? it asks for a username and password, so i put in what i use in MSN and it says invalid...? Even in where you are setting up an account. Games - do I have to install the games in Mandrake that I have in Windows? There's no way of gettin to those games in Windows from Mandrake is there? I looked into my "home" and there was only two folders, that looked like for Documents and Temporary. Do you have to create more folders, ie for Games, for email, etc etc... Does no one know anything about what i said before, regarding slow text appearing, programs taking a wee while to open etc? Thanks to those ppl who have replied to my previous messages - it helps that there are ppl out there with the patience and time, to help me out!! :) I'm keen in trying new things out, but as you can see, it requires some help from the more knowledgable ppl... cheers, caffy |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 135628 | 2003-06-14 08:04:00 | There's an active thread on the Mandrake newsgroup I mentioned before where several possibilities for slowness are mentioned. makeashorterlink.com (makeashorterlink.com) Was your system slow immediately after installing or did it happen later. Maybe you installed too many services. Check out that link or this one on services in Mandrake. www.mandrakeuser.org (www.mandrakeuser.org) Mandrake/Linux can read NTFS partitions but not write to them and it can read and write FAT32. Graeme |
Graeme (1537) | ||
| 135629 | 2003-06-14 08:06:00 | You'll be after KMess for KDE :-) | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 135630 | 2003-06-14 08:11:00 | I think that it has been slow ever since installing it... Im not complaining - things are working fine, just that the speed (or lack of it) is a little bit annoying, when in Windows you'd click on something and it would open almost immediately. Thanks Graeme, am checking those websites out now. caffy |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 135631 | 2003-06-14 08:14:00 | > Mandrake/Linux can read NTFS partitions but not write > to them and it can read and write FAT32 . > Really? What a bummer coz you have to install the rpm in RedHat and SuSE ;-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 135632 | 2003-06-14 08:28:00 | oops, how did that last bit get to be bold. I don't know. I was thinking of trying italic sometime. Graeme |
Graeme (1537) | ||
| 135633 | 2003-06-14 23:41:00 | >I looked into my "home" and there was only two folders, >that looked like for Documents and Temporary . >Do you have to create more folders, >ie for Games, for email, etc etc . . . Don't worry about that caffy, /home will fill up with stuff as you go . It should be /home/caffy/* , if it's just /home/* you probably haven't created a user, and you may be running as "root" which is all well and good, but as root you can do serious damage, as a user, that is fairly unlikely . . Chris |
Chris (3346) | ||
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