on 9/10/01 1:46 PM, Mr Cripps at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Thanks Matt - sounds fine to me, although scary. I guess I'm just going to
> have to go ahead and install.

Check for what Michael Viron had to say. My instructions were incorrect.
Sometimes we think we know more than we really do :)

> I did try and install on a smaller machine (as a pre-test) that I managed to
> salvage from work - 500m hard drive, AMD200 processor, 49MB ram, - which was
> going to be a dedicated LINUX machine
> However, KDE installed fine, but was terribly slow (unworkable).

KDE needs a pretty peppy machine to run well.

> installing Gnome, as I'd heard that it was a lot less needy of resources,
> but I've always got an error. There was an error with the file''. - could
> this be a problem with the CD that I bought?

I'm not sure about the error. But if you're interested in a window manager
that doesn't use too many resources, try iceWM or blackbox. Both are quite
basic. IceWM has somewhat of a resemblance to windows/KDE, while blackbox is
super simple.

IMO, neither iceWM or blackbox serve well as environments you'd use
constantly in linux. On my laptop I run in console mode most of the time and
head over to iceWM just when I need to run netscape or something.

Matt


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