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07-17-2003, 06:13 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: UK .
Distribution: *buntu (usually Kubuntu)
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Mandrakes site has an A to Z of mandrake linux - not sure if you have to be a club member though?
regards
John
p.s. most of the available books are "non-specific" - though if you check out amazon, then you will find stuff on say, redhat, or debian and so on
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07-18-2003, 12:54 PM
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: England
Distribution: Used to use Mandrake/Mandriva
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FYI I and a few others here on this board have had the dreaded
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Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
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07-18-2003, 04:52 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
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I've tried reinstalling twice with no luck. I think I may try one more time and then try Red Hat (again). And then maybe (and I pray that I don't have to) buy XP or 2000. I wish it could just install correctly!  |
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07-18-2003, 04:55 PM
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: England
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Did you download the cds? If so did you checksum them for errors in downloading and in burning?
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07-18-2003, 05:45 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
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Yes, I downloaded the cds & no, unfortunately I didn't test them. How do I go about doing that? I have got an error about it not being able to install the games part of KDE but that's all.
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07-18-2003, 08:55 PM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Sparta, NC USA
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
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Load linux mediacheck rather than the install program.
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