On Sat, 29 April 2000, "Carl B. Constantine" wrote:
> On 4/29/2000 3:43, Robert Trettel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have looking around on my new install and have some thing very
> > interesting. Some folders have what looks like a * lit bomb* and states
> > too many files is this a problem?
>
> I've never see that. Is it in KDE or Gnome? The only lit bomb I know of is
> for core files (Basically an application crashed and left the file for debug
> purposes).
>
> > Also would like to know if there is a way to view how much space each
> > partition is using?
>
> The command you want is df -k
>
> > BTW can someone tell me how to be able to download software for use by
> > my system, then be able to install?
>
> Assuming you are connected to the Internet (ie: you can use Netscape from a
> regular user ID--it won't work from root) then use the Storm Package Manager
> to connect to Storm's ftp site and add/download software from there.
This lit bomb is in kde, just click on the bomb and file manger will open up at that
point. There are just too many files in that section for the menu to handle that's
all.
Here's a couple of sites that have a very important learning curve for Newbies, I hope
they help you, Robert.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/
the guides and howto's are very helpful
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/
the nhf's are very good also as is the discussion groups
and of course this mailing list!!!!
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