Part V. Advanced Uses
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Advanced Uses
Table of Contents
12. Introduction to the Mandrakelinux Control Center
1. MCC's Components
2. Managing Configuration Profiles
2.1. Profiles Handling
3. The Drakbug Reporting Tool
13. Package Management through Rpmdrake
1. Install Software
1.1. Selecting Packages to Install
1.2. Searching Packages
1.3. Updating Media
2. Remove Software
3. Mandrakelinux Update
4. The Software Media Manager
5. Package Management through the Command Line
5.1. Installing and Removing Packages
5.2. Media Management
5.3. Tricks and Recipes
14. Hardware Setup
1. Configuring your Hardware
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Problems/Troubleshooting
1.3. Other Information
2. Controlling the Graphical Configuration
2.1. Changing the Monitor
2.2. Changing Resolution
2.3. Controlling All Video Parameters
3. Changing your Keyboard Layout
4. Changing your Mouse
5. Configuring Printers with PrinterDrake
5.1. Initial Configuration
5.2. The Printer Management Interface
5.3. CUPS General Configuration
5.4. The Printer Configuration Wizard
5.5. Reconfiguring an Existing Printer
5.6. Expert Mode
6. Installing and Using Scanners
6.1. Configuring your Scanner
6.2. Using Image Acquisition Software
6.3. Advanced Configuration
6.4. Other Scanner Interface Software
7. Setting up your UPS
15. Setting up your Network and Accessing the Web
1. Network and Internet Connection Management
1.1. New Connection
1.2. Internet Access
1.3. Managing Connections
1.4. Monitoring Connections
1.5. Removing a Connection
1.6. Proxy Settings
2. Internet Connection Sharing
16. Personalizing your System
1. Customizing your Menus with MenuDrake
1.1. Adding a New Menu Entry
1.2. Advanced Features
2. Configuring Start-Up Services
3. Managing Available Fonts on your System with DrakFont
4. Setting your Machine's Date and Time
5. Monitoring System Activity and Status
5.1. Browsing System Logs
6. Managing Users and Groups
6.1. The Interface
6.2. Adding a New User
7. Backing Up and Restoring your Files
7.1. A Practical Example Using the Wizard
7.2. Restoring Backups
7.3. Automating Periodic Backups
7.4. Other Drakbackup Options
17. Parameterizing your Mount Points
1. Managing your Hard Drive Partitions with DiskDrake
1.1. The Interface
1.2. DiskDrake's action buttons
1.3. Resizing an Old Partition and Creating a New One
2. Managing Removable Devices
3. Importing Remote SMB Directories
4. Importing Remote NFS Directories
5. Allowing Users to Share Folders
6. Setting up WebDAV Mount Points
18. Securing your Linux Box
1. Securing your Machine through DrakSec
1.1. Setting your Security Level
1.2. Customizing a Security Level
2. Controlling File Permissions with DrakPerm
3. Securing your Internet Access via DrakFirewall
19. Boot Device Configuration
1. Configuring the Login Mode
2. Changing your Boot-Up Configuration
2.1. Configuring the Bootloader
2.2. Managing Boot Entries
3. Customizing your Boot Theme
20. Mandrakeonline Services
1. Initial Configuration
2. The Web Management Interface
2.1. Subscribing New Machines
2.2. Hosts Management
2.3. Scheduling Updates
3. Mandrakeonline Applet
21. Troubleshooting
1. Introduction
2. A Boot Disk
2.1. Creating a Boot Floppy from the Console
2.2. Testing the Boot Disk
3. Backup
3.1. Why Backup?
3.2. Preparing your System
3.3. What to Backup?
3.4. Where to Back Up?
3.5. When to Back Up?
3.6. Backup Example Using tar
4. Restore
4.1. Restore Example Using tar
4.2. Making a Recovery CD-ROM
5. Problems Arising at Boot Time
5.1. System Hanging during Boot
5.2. File-System Check on Boot Fails
5.3. X Doesn't Start
6. Bootloader Issues
6.1. Bootloader Reinstall
6.2. Backing Up and Restoring the MBR
7. File System Issues
7.1. Repairing a Damaged Super-Block
7.2. Recovering Deleted Files
8. Recovering from a System Freeze
9. Killing Misbehaving Apps
9.1. From the Console
9.2. Using Graphical Monitoring Tools
10. Miscellaneous
11. Mandrakelinux's Specific Troubleshooting Tools
12. General Guidelines for Solving a Problem under Mandrakelinux
12.1. Search the Internet
12.2. Mailing Lists and Newsgroups Archives
12.3. Directly Contacting the Person in Charge
12.4. Mandrakesoft Business Services
13. Final Thoughts