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Okay I just successfully installed Madriva 2010 on my laptop using VirtualBox. Now that I have installed it and used it. I want to make it the ONLY operating system on my computer. How do I make it so that Windows Vista is no longer on my computer and Mandriva is my only operating system. I dont want to use virtualbox, I just want mandriva as my OS. Any help would be great thanks

I decided to try out fdc6 last night but in the instalation process I formated my entire hard drive (removed windows xp completely).

Now that I have decided that fdc6 is definetely not for me I dont know how to reformat the hard drive again and get my windows xp back…

when I try and boot from the windows xp cd it does not work, the disc spins and the screen goes black…

pleeease can someone help me, I will never complain about microsoft ever again

just a note to all the linux fans…the biggest problem I had with fc6 was that the mouse cursor would go to the left every time I opened up any application and it would stay there, this seems to be a common problem as I have found it reported on red hat bugzila

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/sho…

seems to me if an operating system had this kind of bug and the community is not able to fix it then this operating system is worthless…how are you supposed to do anything without a mouse.

I’m having some trouble trying to install debian in my compaq notebook. I wouldn’t hesitate in trying other distributions if they worked well, do you know any that matches my criteria?
- I would like to have a superuser account (I really dislike the user management in ubuntu)
- I would like to be able to install software with a package manager, yum, aptitude, and this kind of stuff is ok. As far as there is plenty of software, I would’t like not to be able to install something because it is not in the repositories, using tar.gz is not an option for me for several reasons.
- Gnome should not be forced. The hdd is small, so I prefer not to install xfce with gnome, just xfce without gnome, with debian and xubuntu it is possible, with fedora I think that no, dunno with gentoo.
- It should be at least slightly user friendly (I can’t spend a week to have it running), LFS is not an option, I don’t even know if gentoo is.
- It should work in my hardware, otherwise I would already be using debian :@

Thank you very much.

I really want to do some work with X11R7.5, but my distribution (openSUSE 11.2) only offers 6.5 right now.

I’m thinking about compiling X.org myself so that I can play around with the Git version, but I’m concerned that if something goes wrong I risk messing up my installation beyond simple repair.

Should I risk it, or should I set up a separate partition for testing X?

hey can anyone help me…
1.i had installed Ubuntu linux on my system but the problem is that its resolution is 640 X 480 .. which sucks big time and the problem is tat it is the only available resolution in the system settings.. though in windows i m able to go upto 1280 X 1024 .. i have a samsung LCD display monitor.. can anyone tell me how to increase the resolution in ubuntu as this is the only reason due to which i do not use ubuntu linux.
2. i want to know how to format ubuntu linux from my harddrive

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