Made the plunge . . . lots of issues though.

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradley Miller 
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:45 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Made the plunge . . . lots of issues though.
> 
> 
> Last night I broke down and bought a 60gig drive and for the 
> fun of it I
> decided to install Mandrake (7.2 is all I had ISO for) on the 
> drive.  I
> loaded everything up and got it running.  My first problem 
> was the sound --
> it's very distorted/loud/etc...   I can playback CD's fine, 
> but that's not
> really being "processed" by the sound card . . . so I must 
what kind of sound card?

> have something
> amiss there.  The other glaring thing was it only showed my 
> /home directory
> at 30 gig.  Where's the rest?
Well where are you seeing /home only from. Many Linux file managers will
drop you into your home directory by default. I you open up a console
and still
can't get to / then there is a problem. Konqueror has an up arrow for
navigation.
Clicking on that should eventually get you to the root directory.

> 
> Oh, and another small thing . . . HOW DO YOU FREAKIN' COPY TEXT???  I
> pulled my hair out wanting to do simple copy/paste operations 
> between a few
> programs that I was playing with.  I wanted to copy text from 
> KDE-Mail and
> insert it into KDE Office and the best I could do was copy 
> the address??  
Easy select the text you want to copy. Go to application you want to
copy to.
Right click to paste the text. Caveat: Netscape doesn't place nice with
other applications (sigh).

> 
> I also tried to install VMWare 3.1 on a trial serial number.  
> It installed
> just fine but then I couldn't get the CD to unmount so I 
> could stick in my
> Win NT CD.  I even tried to unmount from shell and it would 
> just give me a
> device busy message.   Ugh. 
You can't unmount a file system if you are still using it. This means
you cannot have an application (like konqueror) in a directory of that 
filesystem. You also cannot unmount it if an application has a file open

on that filesystem.

I think Mandrake has a Linux intro. You might want to read it. It will
be
very helpful in reducing your stress factor. ;')

HTH,
Brian