On Friday 03 November 2000 07:34 am, Larry Marshall wrote:
> > I've heard as little as 350mb, but a full install is more
> > like 3 gigs. As with many other distro's, Mandrake is in the
> > process of 'Big Move', ie, locations are being changed to comply
> > with LSB (http://www.linuxbase.org/). Most of this occurs from
> > 7.1 to 7.2,
>
> This is really good news Tom. Does this include following FHS for
> third party apps? Speaking of which, do you know how it's
> determined whether an app is considered "a distro app" (and thus
> should be put in /usr/bin) or an external app (and put in /opt)?
> This seems like an odd distinction and certainly not something
> that's clearly orthogonal.
I dunno ;) I just know that the developers on cooker have been
using the term BM (Big Move), and referring to FHS, all the way thru
the development process of 7.2 I didn't really pay close attention,
so I can't say just exactly what this involves. I can say that
while an /opt dir was created, it's empty
>
> > specially to KDE, they'd all be obsolete in 7.2/KDE2. I wouldn't
> > even try it, do a clean install of 7.2.
>
> Are merrily chugging along with 7.2? I still can't boot through
> the start up without having to use a floppy. The graphics go nuts
> and I can't figure out why booting from a floppy prevents this
> from happening.
>
> Cheers --- Larry
Can't say, I've never had any boot problems, other than to turn
off unneeded services, since I switched to Mandrake 6.0 from Slack
and RedHat. You might try fiddlin with your Xconfig and resolution
in DrakConf. I had a minor glitch after I installed 7.2b3. Altho
3dfx cards (Voodoo3) don't do 32bpp, just for grins, I chose 32
during install and it tested fine. After runnin for a while my
monitor was blinking occaisionally, so I used DrakConf/resolutions
to set it to 24. It's fine now.
Another thing i've always done is to ignore the usual getting
monitor specs/model # and tryin to match them. I always just choose
something like 'SVGA that'll do 1024x768 @ 70'. IOW's, I choose
resolution and refresh I intend to run (17"), rather than the max my
monitor's capable of. Never had any problems doing this.
I also believe choosing a refresh over 72 is pointless. Human
vision can't discern faster rates, and I think that's just where a
lot of people have video problems, ie, too high a refresh and tryin
to run their monitor at max specs. Monitors weaken with age, and
many manufacturers overstate their specs to begin with.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
