[Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space

Julian Robbins joolsr at fastmail.fm
Mon Sep 27 20:27:14 BST 2004


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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