begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:54:54PM -0700: > My friend's PC insisted on root password for maintenance when booting up > (or press a key to continue). Fortunately, my friend sometimes pays > attention to warnings. > > I supplied root password. > mount worked. > df did not. > man fsck did not work.
Probably 'cuz your manpages are in /usr/man, and /usr wasn't mounted. > fsck did not give me a list of options. It just took off running. > > I manually hit Enter (to answer "yes") to a *lot* of things. It only > found problems on the partition containing /usr (which is one slice of > the only HDD in the system). There are several directories and *many* > files now in /usr/lost+found. Whee! [snip] > She uses it mainly for internet and printing. And it is running > noticeably slower with fc7 than it was with fc4. I think (like mine) it The same thing happened with my Alphas -- the upgrades from rh4 to rh7 resulted in increasingly unusable performance, and the "old versions" were not supported. Eventually, I ended up with a choice: self-support (time consuming), stick with the old (security nightmare), or go with the new (paperweights). This is the point when I bailed on RedHat, and started referring to 'em as the "Microsoft of the Linux community": You're on a hardware upgrade path, get used to it. > is hitting swap. What are the names of the window managers that take > very little overhead? TWM and AmiWM come to mind, but they're also very basic. I think ctwm, fvwm, and fvwm2 are all comparitively lightweight. I don't know how lightweight WindowMaker is. Gnome/KDE are probably the first big things you can do in the GUI to reduce your memory footprint. > I'm probably going to get a newer PC for myself. But she doesn't care > about the PC much beyond surfing the internet and probably won't want to > spend the money. She probably won't hesitate to spend it if I make the > case for it. But for her needs, just reducing the overhead will > probably suffice. So if you put it in kiosk mode, she'd be fine? :) -- As I recall, fvmw2 was quite configurable, if needing a lot of noodling. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
