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Yes i know all that you said this time.
That's great because usually I don't know what I said!
is there any old version of KDE i could downgrade to?
You could "downgrade" to a version of Debian....
Gnome is another big Desktop Environment (window manager plus tons of stuff) like KDE. I don't think it'll help.
-- Ed
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I checked out ICEWM, its more of my Win98 style and i really liked it..... Not thinking of going gack to KDE now. Also Fluxbox was the one that came on DSL, and i have used it, so i've found my comfort zone now.
I get an libcdda is trunacted erorr at boot, what is that about.
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Knoppix (or any Linux) needs a dedicated swap partition - it looks for an entry in the drive's partition table with an ID of 82.
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So yes, Linux swap can be moved to hda. No, it can't be inside a Windows or DOS partition like your hda1.
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actually it CAN be inside a windows or dos partition (fat 12, 16, 32, slightly risky with NTFS).
if you know how to set it up you can use an "image", not unlike the iso you downloaded to make the CD.
just make that image on a mounted partition.
here i have made a less than elaborate Quickie howto.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swapfile bs=1024 count=262144
mkswap /path/to/swapfile
sync
now just type the comand
Code:
swapon /path/to/swapfile
to "activate" the swapfile.
You can test if you have more "memory" with the comand free
if you have a HDDinstall you can get this done each time you boot without typing any comand/s (you only need to create the file once)
how? you just put it in /etc/fstab (just example below)
/path/to/swapfile none swap pri=5,defaults 0 0
hope it helped without confusing.
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Thanks OErjan, but i dont want the Knoppix Cd like install, i want the hdd install, and i think i may move to the debian kinda install cause i'm having problems as knoppix hdd install with multi users does not let me log in as root........
I'll also be trying out a couple of WM's i saw on the net.
Are there any good linux software download sites? I checked goofgle, but nothing good. linuxdownloads.org seems to be having articles, which contain links to downloads, nothing like what i want......
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According to http://www.debian.org:
Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with more than 8710 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
Pick mirrors from these lists:
and then edit your /etc/apt/sources.list - you'll probably only need these lines (but change them to a mirror closer to you, except for security updates):
Then you can use the apt tools for easy software maintenance. See $ man sources.list and $ man apt-get for starters.
By the way, security updates are only provided for the stable release and are only available from that one site (not from any mirrors).
-- Ed
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Will check em out.
I got my modem drivers as tar.gz file and also extracted them to a folder. Now how do i install em? just run "make install" i suppose............
I got everything running nicely now, except everything is in German (3.8 CeBit edition......) unless i specify lang=us at boot, even if KDE has Us as language....... If i edit lilo.conf to make lang=us is that enough? or do i have to run lilo to make the changes?
Acutally i suppose i should go to some other place for lilo cofiguration now.... unless you dont mind helping a dumb guy.
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Read the source, Luke! Look in that directory for READMEs, configuration scripts, etc.
do i have to run lilo to make the changes?
Yes indeedy - LILO (but not GrUB) requires a separate step to write the changes to MBR or the sector record or wherever they're going. And it ain't dumb to ask!
-- Ed
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