Effing newbie here...

[flap]

quote:it's best to make a /boot that's around 300mb or so.

What do you do with 300mb on a boot partition? That's about 10-20x as much as you need.

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by flap:


What do you do with 300mb on a boot partition? That's about 10-20x as much as you need.

When hardddrive's are so large now, it won't hurt. I'm always adding new distros and stuff, good to have more space.

[flap]

But all you put in there is kernel images. I've heard of 30mb boot partitions, but 300 is excessive. I wouldn't be quick to recommend that strategy to anyone else.

[solo]

quote:Originally posted by ErwinJ:

Man, this whole Linux thing is a tad on the overwhelming side!!! Thousands and thousands of modules, libs and executables to install (or not). This *is* going to take some time. BTW, is it just me, or are the filenames not exactly intuitive?

You should only have to download the modem driver, maybe compile it, and install it. No "thousands of modules, libs and executables". 1 module. Unless winmodem support is really wierd. I don't use them.

   

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I still have a question though: The gfx-card (Geforce2) installed not quite properly. As soon as I start an OpenGL application the rendering seems to go totally software. I've been looking around and as far as I can tell OpenGL is installed. So how do I tell Linux to use that lib for OGL-applications?

I can help you with this one. I have a geforce 2 mx. The drivers that come with linux for nVidia cards isn't accelerated (hardware), because nVidia didn't want to release the specs to write a driver for it. They instead wrote their own and kept it closed source.
Download this file:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Quadro_Certified/1.0-4365/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4365.run

Save it to your home directory.

Now, because the driver installer insists you have to close the Linux graphics system (Xfree86, its called) theres a few steps:

1. press ctrl+alt+f1
2. log in as 'root' with your system admin pass.
3. type:
telinit 3
when the messages stop, press enter. youll see your back at the prompt.
3. type:
sh NVIDIA<tab>
it should fill in the file name. now press enter.
4. follow the instructions.
5. when its done type:
telinit 5 && exit
this will restart the graphics system and log you out of the text terminal.
if you see it flash purple once or twice and show the nvidia logo, it installed right.
6. log back in and presto! should have ultra cool performance on opengl apps       .

 

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Anyway, thanks everyone for their input. Y'all have been a great help.

welcome. however, the nvidia question has been answered before. please search the forums for previous posts before asking next time. I hope you have a good experience with linux!

[ July 18, 2003: Message edited by: Fury: Freedom Fighter ]

[ July 18, 2003: Message edited by: Fury: Freedom Fighter ]

[ErwinJ]

quote:You should only have to download the modem driver, maybe compile it, and install it. No "thousands of modules, libs and executables". 1 module. Unless winmodem support is really wierd. I don't use them.

No, I was talking about the whole package, not just the winmodems. Been trying to get to grips what type of stuff is on the CDs I got. A man *can* have too much choice    

Anyways, thanks for taking the time to write out the step by step procedure for this noob. It's been instructive (in more ways then one, even). Now let's see if I can get it to work.

 

quote: please search the forums for previous posts before asking next time.

I did, but didn't find either the link you've provided or the install procedure. Thanks again for taking the time.