... Hi Kaj, Anne, Mikkel, Snap, et al ... ... I'm the newbie that showed up for the first time about 3 weeks ago, was overwhelmed with your responsiveness, but was way over my head, and felt guilty ... have a confession to make ...
... back in 1999 I bought Mandrake 6.0 ($35), tried putting it on the same machine with my Win2000, WinNT, etc, failed, gave up, put it on the shelf, forgot about it ...then, what with my wonderful experience with Firefox vs IE, etc etc, saw open sourcing in a whole new light, decided to try again, found your newbie list, and, trying harder this time, got it running in the command mode, and you all tought me a whole lot about moving around in that environment, really valuable stuff ... ... but I was flying under false colors ... you are all 10.1 folks, with 10.1 problems and 10.1 solutions ... so I shut up, quit wasting your time, got on Ebay, bought 10.1 for $6.00 (thought, "this is a dumb move") ... 3-4 days later a small envelop arrived with 4 disks, nothing else ... enlarged my Ext2, Swap partitions,etc ... total disaster, on two different machines bombed out immediately on install (thought "you got what you paid for) ... ... had been hearing alot about VMware, how you don't need to partition, etc, lo and behold, VMware has a 5.0 in Beta testing until Apr 29 !!! ... (I'm really really cheap) ... ... to make a 4 day story short, I have 10.1 running with a genaric VM video driver (nVidia card in my machine) at 1024x768, KDE up and running, have installed my beloved Firefox, things are fantastic !!! ... so now maybe I can legitimately ask you guys some questions: (1) ... if I'm going to migrate to Linux from Windows I need to transfer alot of files, there's got to be a better way from what I'm doing, which is sending stuff to my webpage, then accessing/downloading them through Firefox ... any more direct way (haven't figured out how to communicate on my office LAN yet) ... ??? (2) ... operations and webpage downloads are verrrry sloooow with one exception, downloaded Firefox (8.2 meg) in 30 seconds (DSL) ... I suspect its the VMware's fault, but any tricks to speed things up ??? ... again, I'm very appreciative and humbled ... HK -----Original Message----- From: Kaj Haulrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:02 AM To: h k ball Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [newbie] How get from "dos" mode into KDE mode? On Thursday 17 February 2005 03:29, you wrote: > Kaj ... > > ... based on today's wanderings, have concluded > > (1) ... need to connect to the net in CLI mod (how???) > (2) ... download the Nvidia Vanta video card (how ? ... put in > what directory so Xconfigurator can find it ) > (3) ... rerun Xconfigurator > > (4) ... maybe then stuff will work, although ... > (5) ... XFdrake doesn't exist > (6) ... nothing containing "auth" exists > > HK > > ... looked at your web page, photos ... lovely daughter ... > article on healthcare, suits, accountants, etc made me laugh, > we're not far behind you in our deterioration ... Thanks, h k.... Where do you live ? I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do... (1) Why connect from the CLI ? - If you absolutely must then (as root) : "ifconfig eth0". That is if you use ethernet as your interface ? - Otherwise I'd recommend the GUI way for newbies, just : "mcc", then give root password. Go to Network & Internet and make your choices. (2) I don't have Nvidia, but I think you can use it in fb mode (frame buffer) without the Nvidia drivers until you get things sorted out. (3) I don't thing you need to run xconfigurator, only XFdrake. (4,5,6) You'll need to run XFdrake as root. Lastly, a dumb question : Do you have a x server running ? Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8* << File: message.txt >>
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