Re: [newbie] Too much ram consumption in mandriva 2007. is there a way to reduce that?

2006-12-30 Thread Miark
CK i havent tried mounting my ntfs hdd yet..ill get to that CK in a few minutes, but ill see if it will allow me to CK read/write to the hdd. DON'T WRITE TO THE ntfs HD! It is NOT reliable in linux. If you insist, make sure you have a complete backup of everything! Writing to NTFS is fine

[newbie] Few more questions about installation packages (was RPM installation excludes docs).

2006-12-30 Thread Michael
Thanks a lot Rick for your assistance Actually, I figured out the solution few hours after I sent this message. There was a statement excludedocs=yes (or something similar) in /etc/rpm/macros. Indeed, /etc/rpm/rpmrc is not used with Mandriva, but /etc/rpm/macros is used instead probably with

Re: [newbie] Few more questions about installation packages (was RPM installation excludes docs).

2006-12-30 Thread RickS
Michael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks a lot Rick for your assistance Your welcome =) Actually, I figured out the solution few hours after I sent this message. There was a statement excludedocs=yes (or something similar) in /etc/rpm/macros. Indeed, /etc/rpm/rpmrc is not used with