ffs =/

[enekron]

Geez, this Linux thang is doing me head right in :)

Well, I couldn't figure out resizing partitions, so I made another one, but then it couldn't find the kernel anymore! Oh, damn, reinstall...

Now I have more problems. In some programs, the font size has gone huge. This is most noticably in XChat and the prompts which ask you for the root password. It wasn't that big before and I can't change it back. I feel a re-install coming here :)

Secondly how do you fiddle the permissions? I'm making a symbolic link thingy, but when I run it I just get Permission Denied even as root, and I can't modify the permissions in KDE as root either :|

GAAAAAAH!

[aef]

Originally posted by enekron
Geez, this Linux thang is doing me head right in :)


Don't worry - some people take time to adjust - but you'll turn into a geek eventually.


Well, I couldn't figure out resizing partitions, so I made another one, but then it couldn't find the kernel anymore! Oh, damn, reinstall...


Can't say much about this without more details, but you'll get the hang of it.


Now I have more problems. In some programs, the font size has gone huge. This is most noticably in XChat and the prompts which ask you for the root password. It wasn't that big before and I can't change it back. I feel a re-install coming here :)


Strange. Have you been messing around with your fonts?


Secondly how do you fiddle the permissions? I'm making a symbolic link thingy, but when I run it I just get Permission Denied even as root, and I can't modify the permissions in KDE as root either :|


Right - you don't set the permissions of the link, you set the permissions of the file it points to. You can't execute something (even as root) unless it has (at least one) execute permissions set (this is for fairly sensible reasons), so you want to do chmod a+x filename to allow everyone to run it. If it's a script, you'll also need read permission.


GAAAAAAH!


Don't worry - you're just going cold-turkey on Windows :)

AEF

[enekron]

I resized the Win partition and made a new Linux Native one but that caused the hdb5&7's to be renamed to hdb6&8's, and I didn't know how to fix that.

I changed the 75dpi to 100dpi fonts using the fix on mandrakeuser 'cause they were really crap fonts in KDE.

[aef]

Originally posted by enekron
I resized the Win partition and made a new Linux Native one but that caused the hdb5&7's to be renamed to hdb6&8's, and I didn't know how to fix that.


You want to unmount any affected file systems that are mounted, edit /etc/fstab to correct the partition/device names, and then do mount -a

AEF