[Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Chris,

Dr Chris Owens wrote:
>     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!!

Excellent and completed through email as well, I'm sure this Internet 
thingy will catch on... ;-)

Good to see you're up and running and I hope you enjoy the joys of Linux 
now that you've passed through what is possibly it's darkest side.

All Best
Mark


> 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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