Hi all, Well, thanks to the help from a fellow slug list attendee, I managed to get Mandrake up on my system. Thanks to everyone who gave advise over the past couple of weeks. I'm sure I'll be annoying you all for a while.
Apologies if this is in HTML. I think it might NOT be, but I'm using Evolution, and right now I'm lucky to even be using Linux. Little steps I guess. If this IS in HTML, any quick (polite) tutorial on how to fix the problem would be appreciated. Questions: Firstly, there is a very WEIRD fault that has occurred after the install. Basically, some of the punctuation keys (like ' for example) will NOT type on the first go. If I type a ', I have to hit it twice. If I hit it once (as I am a touch typist, this comes naturally) and then type the next letter (so if I was typing "it's" - the next letter being an 's') the next letter is blanked. It is as if it is going to ignore the NEXT letter AFTER the punctuation unless it is the same AS the punctuation. Very weird. Anyone have anything like this happen? It COULD be the keyboard, but due to the nature of the fault, I am CONVINCED it is not a 'fault' with the keyboard, it may just not be liking Linux. It doesn't happen in windoze. Secondly, what is a good recommended 'dummies' guide to Linux? What is the best book to teach you everything from the ground up, like how to mount a drive, or how to navigate in command line etc etc. Um, that's about it for TODAY, but I'm sure more will be coming. Ian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
