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[rmayer1]

thanks again for your help.

[rmayer1]

i'm back.
when i loaded software i made a swap and root. i have other partitions but didn't set them up as var, user, home. can i still do this somewhere (?).
i also put icons on kde desktop for floppy, cdrom and harddisk, but the harddisk seems only to be able to show one partition. can i put more harddisk icons on desktop for other partitions.
thanks for help.

[Alex1]

Rock
You suggested this to rmayer1 :-
"I played with woody on a box with an S3 Virge (or something similar) and I had to follow libranet's instructions for adding an xserver from X-3.3.6.
Knoppix uses a lot newer X than stock woody, I've gone away from using official X on my woody based systems, actually I use a whole bunch of backported packages (deb URI's are available at apt-get.org).

If you are interested here is the libranet link:
http://libranet.com/support/view.cgi...item=0138.html "

Is it worth me trying this formy screen problem, but mine is ATI Rage Pro ?

Alex1

[RockMumbles]

Alex1,

What is your problem with your ati rage pro card, big blocky striped cursor or unreadable menu items?

I had an ati rage pro and they weren't supported well at all in X 3.3.6 so don't try the 3.3.6 xservers.

Have you tried the " Option "sw_cursor" " XF86Config-4 option?

The other thing would be to not boot up in the hi-res vga mode, from your lilo prompt try this:

knoppix vga=normal

Which will still startup in X but will have normal 80x25 consoles, you should be able to see all of the boot-up stuff. At least then you could work on your system from a usable console. You could edit your /etc/lilo.conf file and add the vga=normal parameter to the Appends="... ..." line.

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rmayer1,

You can make more device icons by right clicking on your kde desktop.

HTH

rock

[rmayer1]

rock
on my fstab file (third entry above) can i do something with this file to make the other partitions at the bottom to make them visible to editors. right now they aren't.
also on the icons on the desktop, i got the floppy cd and root partition of the hard drive but can't get the vfat or other linux partitions.
is the problem in the fstab?
thanks for helping.

[RockMumbles]

If you haven't changed your fstab it should be OK, although some devices may be read/only.

Right Click Desktop -> Create New -> Hard Disk
In the first tab 'General' pick a new name such as 'Windows' etc. whatever you want, then select the third tab, 'Device' and in the drop-down select the proper device ie: /dev/hda1
Now you will have a KDE mount/access icon on your desktop.

All hd devices and mountpoints listed in your fstab should be available from the drop down window in the device tab of the ' Hard Disk ' desktop icon. Are all of your devices ie:
/dev/hda6 /
/dev/fd0 /floppy
/dev/cdrom /cdrom
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5
listed in the drop down window in the " Device " third tab?

Also make sure all of the mountpoints exist, ie: /mnt/hda1 /mnt/hda3 etc.

rock