I've been running Mandrake 10.0 for a week now and it has been a great experience.
Though the search/find option never seems to work for me, and it most cases using it ends up in a crash. I've used the command ´updatedb' as normal user or root and experiemented with the ´use index file' option but all no effect.

It isnt such a big deal, last few days i have re-installed a few times but a clean install doesnt take away the problem.

Right now however i really need to use it.
I installed wine with the Mandrake 10.0 RPMS located on the 2nd CD.
However i didn´t configure anything, and went straight to mounting a CD and installing counter-strike. The installation went fine and to play it i just mounted the CD and ran the game.
But i can't find the directory that wine installed counter-strike in. I´ve searched everywhere for it. The standard wine config file uses /mnt/windows as windows drive, however that is actualy my windows XP installation.
When i use ´whereis' wine it gives me a number of directories, i've checked them all but non have a windows dir, or drive_c that is normaly used by wine.
Space in my home dir is limited and i want to remove the game, just can't find it anywhere.
Everything was installed in c:\sierra.
/mnt/windows doesn´t have a sierra dir so i don't think its installed there.
If i could use the find file option in KDE i could try and located windows, drive_c or maybe the sierra dir and remove it, because its taking put like 1gb of space hehe.

If anyone has any ideas on how to fix my problem i would gladly appriciate help!
Thx in advance,

Daan

I have the same problem with the find feature. But also how do i configure wine to run i cant seem to figure out the command?

wine [application name] without the [ ] of course.

when u download the wine rpms u can also download a proggy called winesetuptk, its a GUI config program, everything is available on sourceforge.net

oh ok i just installed it via the second install disk for mandrake. Thanks

Also it seems like mandrake 10 is causing quite a few problems like the find file problems.

This may help

start a console and type in if it says that the database needs to be built start a root console and type in you may want to navagate to where the database is, i am not sure. It take a while but once it finishes go back to a normal console and type in From what i can tell it will not search a windows drive but the rest of the drive can be searched. Hope this helps. Let me know if it does.

that worked

Found all the lost files, thx for the tip!
Is there a way to load the updatedb command in the kernel? Or to enable it everytime file system gets mounted at startup? that would be handy and i wouldnt mind the extra startup time, mdk is running really fast on my 2.4ghz laptop

I actually don't know i read your post then i read a few more and found out about slocate and then tried it and reposted. I actually don't know but that is not a bad idea sense the find feature does not work. Mabye someone else knows?

you'll want to put it in your .bash_profile for root

as for the slocate command, very useful
you could've also used this:
a whole bunch of information will scroll by without the & at the end, this tells it to do it in the background
to check its status, type
hope this helps!

Consider using:

find / -name [filename] 2 < /dev/null

in an xterm or similar.

man find