All I can say is that Mandrake 8.2 is a lot more user friendly than 7.2!  I
remember some of the same issues when I used 7.2(briefly).  You might
consider upgrading.

BTW, what make/model drive did you get, where, and for how much?  I am
looking for a large capacity (40-80 GB) to start capturing digital video and
am looking for a good deal.

Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Bradley Miller
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 8:45 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Made the plunge . . . lots of issues though.
>
>
> Last night I broke down and bought a 60gig drive and for the fun of it I
> decided to install Mandrake (7.2 is all I had ISO for) on the drive.  I
> loaded everything up and got it running.  My first problem was
> the sound --
> it's very distorted/loud/etc...   I can playback CD's fine, but that's not
> really being "processed" by the sound card . . . so I must have something
> amiss there.  The other glaring thing was it only showed my /home
> directory
> at 30 gig.  Where's the rest?
>
> Oh, and another small thing . . . HOW DO YOU FREAKIN' COPY TEXT???  I
> pulled my hair out wanting to do simple copy/paste operations
> between a few
> programs that I was playing with.  I wanted to copy text from KDE-Mail and
> insert it into KDE Office and the best I could do was copy the address??
>
> I also tried to install VMWare 3.1 on a trial serial number.  It installed
> just fine but then I couldn't get the CD to unmount so I could stick in my
> Win NT CD.  I even tried to unmount from shell and it would just give me a
> device busy message.   Ugh.   And Wal-Mart is unleashing this . . . . I
> predict a stock plunge if Lindows isn't as friendly as MS stuff.
>
> -- Bradley Miller
>
>