-=> BOB BREED wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 BB> But as far as 'run out of the box' thing forget it!   Mounting and
 BB> unmounting things is pain in the ass and if Windows had you doing that
 BB> the Lx dudes would be laughing their ass off.

 WC>  You can edit a file and mount anything you like on boot or point
 WC>  and click mount it in KDE as root user.

 BB> Point is why should you have to 'edit a file' to mount things?  I
 BB> suppose there's good reasons for it, but it sure is awkward.  I've

You DON'T have to as root. There's a icon in KDE's desktop
for your various devices.
Open the icon and mount it.
On installation you're prompted which partitions and devices
 you want mounted as root user.

 BB> tried some hints from the Knoppix FAQ and some other stuff off the net
 BB> was well re mounting things, but I can't get it to work.

How much RAM do you have?
I just interupted the boot with the ESC key, selected boot
from CD and it loaded right up into RAM.
Around the third or forth time I loaded it I
ran the script to load it to the hard drive.
I've an H.P. Pavilion Pentium 433 from 1998 with 256 meg of RAM,
LG CD-ROM drive and external Practical Peripherals hardware modem.

Have you checked your RAM for faults?
Linux lets you know you've got a problem with RAM a lot faster
than Windows. Linux just crashes with bad RAM but Windows can run
for a while accumulating software problems along the way.
Charles Angelich has a memory test utility linked on his web site.
I ran that rather comprehensive test which appears to be Linux based
and run off a booted diskette.
I'm certain I've no RAM problems here.

 WC> I'm running precisely that in Knoppix, same release of Mozilla
 WC> as in Win 98 and Kmail is so far to me indistinguishable
 WC> from Eudora.
 WC> Mozilla however runs better in Knoppix than in my Windows installation
 WC> in the same machine on the same hard drive.

 BB> I know there are people out there who love the thing, and I really want
 BB> to give it a fair shot, but so far I'm really not happy with the
 BB> distro's I've used.  Maybe Mandrake will end that for me?

No idea as I've not tried it.
Think I'd run that memtest first.
I look for it again and it may even still be on my hard drive
as an executable that creates that diskette.
Knoppix I believe states it needs at least 96 Meg of RAM to
run with 128 more desirable.
Did you create a swap file as well or did it bomb out before that
option appeared?

 
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