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by halfcircle
Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:36 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Very slow system - is it normal?
Replies: 1
Views: 1353

Very slow system - is it normal?

I recently installed gentoox on my 1.5 box and have found it to be VERY slow. I am using KFCE and have tried KDE, but KDE is MUCH slower again - infact it is unuasble. (20 mins just to open openoffice). As an example of the processing speeds I am getting, I typed emerge mozilla-firefox to get that i...
by halfcircle
Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:12 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Installing flashplayer
Replies: 6
Views: 2960

change link

how do i do that?
by halfcircle
Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:04 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Installing flashplayer
Replies: 6
Views: 2960

Well.... I am using KFCE and the links at the bottom are labelled: Mozilla web browser Mozilla Thunderbird I tried emaerge mozilla and it seemed to emerge ok - it took 3 hours though, but when i click the link I still get the standard error about child processes etc. I also tried: emerge mozilla fir...
by halfcircle
Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:44 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Fine yesterday - bad today
Replies: 8
Views: 4060

power button

quite possibly ;-(
by halfcircle
Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:07 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Installing flashplayer
Replies: 6
Views: 2960

Installing flashplayer

I have downloaded flash player through the konqueror browser and uncompressed it with ark. I then went to the directory i had uncompressed it too and ran the command /flashplayer-installer as per the instructions. Now the red light led on my xbox is flashing... does that mean that it is installing? ...
by halfcircle
Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:03 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Fine yesterday - bad today
Replies: 8
Views: 4060

all ok now..

Thanks for the replies, I made a clean install overnight and now everything is fine.
by halfcircle
Sun Mar 21, 2004 4:46 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Fine yesterday - bad today
Replies: 8
Views: 4060

Fine yesterday - bad today

Installed gentoox on my 1.4 box yesterday and all was fine. (used SSH to do magic and solve the display issue). Turned on today and have lots of errors on boot, mostly saying file/directory not found. The final message says: kernel panic - atempted to kill init! it then just hangs....... I am new to...
by halfcircle
Sat Mar 20, 2004 10:45 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Installation woe
Replies: 2
Views: 1617

Installation woe

I'm having problems installing on my 1.4 box. I realise that I have use the work around to get the display stable but I can't even get that far. Basically, I have FTP'ed all the files to the box and have vreated a link to e:\gentooxx.xbe in evox.ini. When i hit the link to start gentooxx.xbe the ora...