[Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space

[Dr Chris Owens]

Julian

    You have cracked it and many thanks :-)).

    Display configured without
difficulty from the root cmd line using 'XFdrake'. Am virtually 100% sure
there is a problem in the Mandrake 10.0 Community Edition since the
Graphical Post-Install Configuration Screen never did lead to a sensible
display even with settings subsequently found to be valid with XFdrake. Also
the best (though not perfect) display is achieved not using the choices made
by Mandrake - ie Savage Generic , sw-cursor (not Savage generic or Savage
MX) with 4MB (not 8MB) and 24 bpp colour. Also the Configuration Test Screen
hangs when loading the text directed version  and neither graphical nor text
directed installations de-mount cleanly when complete at least according to
the log when starting up next time.

    So thanks again to everyone for your help, I am up an running and very
impressed with what I find -  in lots of ways - quite excellent!!

Chris O
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space


> On Monday 27 Sep 2004 15:10, Dr Chris Owens wrote:
> > Julian
> >
> >     Hope the trip in Cornwall was good, am imprssed with the local
library
> > service and thanks for your reply.
> > Have tried most variations on X F and Drak at thr root command line but
> > with no luck, sorry. Have also tried startx similarly without success
and
> > have sent Mark the error message that was returned.
> >
> >     See you soon and thanks again
>
> Worked it out :- its 'XFdrake' as root. that will get you the display
cahnger
> in Mandrake on the cmd line.
>
> Julian
> >
> > Chris
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
> > To: "County of Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
> > <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 12:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space
> >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > Sorry i cant help much now, on internet down in Cornwall courtesy on
> > > local library - via laptop and wireless lan, !!
> > >
> > > What you need to do is something like XFDrak(e) at the cmd line, I
might
> > > be wrong on this. To get a cmd prompt, you could try alt and function
> > > key 1 together to get another shell (cmd line).
> > >
> > > I cant test this out as I'm only a a Windowze pc at the mo, hope
someone
> > > else can help further ..
> > >
> > > I'm pleased that we managed to get you so much closer to a working
Linux
> > > box. Just a bit further to go ...
> > >
> > > Julian
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:00:10 +0100, "Dr Chris Owens"
> > >
> > > <cowens at clara.co.uk> said:
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