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Green newbie in need of HELP!!

sabbathpriest
Respectful Greetings Linux community: Sick of Microsoft I've decided to give Fedora Core 4 a try. I've purchased a Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux 4 Bible by Chris Negus with the bootable DVD and CDs, I've installed a second Hard Drive on my computer and I've tried to install Fedora on it, but so far no success ...
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Problem in Booting FC4

frightenedbylinux
Hi, New here as well as to Linux. Trying to get FC4 working for last 72hours, without much luck. I have Dell 2350 (preinstalled with WinXP), with Nvdia graphics card and 1905 LCD monitor (connected using DVI).
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Mandrake Linux 10.1 GUI Problem

zhenlilu2003
Hello, just got Mandrake 10. 1 Powerpack and tried to install it on my pc. My pc specs are: Asus P5GD1 motherboard 1GB Kinston pc3200 RAM (dual channel) P4 530J 3. 0Ghz socket 775 CPU MSI NX6600GT-128E video card WD 160GB SATA HD when it came to configuring the X during the installtion, I got confused.
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shutting down mandrakelinux- how?

jamesy
Well, I just got linux installed on my pc. Im running windows xp pro sp2 and mandriva linux 10. 1. Im just wondering how you acually turn the computer off. In windows you click on start menu then go to turn off computer and it turns off.
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knoppix under vmware

Quaso
Hello. I have a problem. When I run knoppix under vmware, there are no hdd mounted. What can I do? In vmware I have created a partition (3 GB) and run knoppix. Everything works fine but when booting starts it writes: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:07.
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Mandriva Linuz 2005 Ltd Edition SOS

Ian Cass
I am a complete novice in the world of Linux, so I am just after a bit of help installing getting the Linux o/s to work. On the installation of the three Cds the second one was causing problems and In was getting error messages which seem/may have caused me problems.
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Problem with dual boot

jjmaa
I installed unbutu on a second drive and now win xp says the drive needs to be formatted. Also when I run unbutu it doen't recognize my c drive which means I can't import or find any files on that drive.
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debian installation

jarves
can somebody help me. maybe some one could suggest to me a good site or ebook on debian installation. and also can someone help me on bootin debian coz everytime i boot is that is always use a floppy to boot.
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UBUNTU to the RESCUE

Mel
You just finished installing that brand new distro. It's time to check those other OS's,see if they load OK. You hit reboot amd run for the coffee pot. You hurry back to choose an OS and. . . . . . ???HEY???? What happened to SUSE ? Where's Gentoo ? Slackware's gone too ! Don't despair , it's time for UBUNTU to the ...
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Will my new computer run linux?

those
Im thinking about making the switch to linux when I buy a new computer in the next few weeks and was wondering if it will be compatible. Its going to be a - AMD64 3800+ - 2gb 400mhz DDR ram - LG 16x Double layer and Dual format DVD burner - Nvidia 6600gt 128mb AGP Video Card - Seagate 200GB 7200rpm S-ATA150 Hard Dr ...
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Internet History

Justbill
Hi all, I need to find out if there is a way to check where my kid has been going on the internet. He has figured out how to delete his history , by clicking on Go>History, then the drop down box opens, and he highlights and deletes his trail! Is there a way I can check on this elsewhere in the system? Maybe in ...
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qn about partitioning

iamroot
I've got a friend who wants to install GNU/Linux but his hard disk is entirely occupied by 1 NTFS partition, as it is with all default Windows installations. How can I extract space from his NTFS partition and format it in ext3 for GNU/Linux.
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More newbie questions!

ad-rs1600i
Apologies for those regular members who are for ever answering the 'same old questions' from newbies but. . . . ! I'm a techcie by trade with Windows etc so know a bit, but fancied a go with Linux as I am bored silly with Windows after using various incarnation of it over the last 10 years.
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I'm a real newbeeeeee!

deesmygal
I'm very new to this, I would like to figure out how to get Mandrake 10. 1 installed. I downloaded it and I think I made the disk correctly. I used Roxio's disk creator and burned a disk from an image file.
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