Mandrake Linux documentation

Mandrake Linux 8.1

Installation and User Guide

MandrakeSoft

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 2001

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/


Table of Contents
Preface
1. Legal Notice
2. About Mandrake Linux
3. Authors and translators
4. Tools used in the making of this manual
5. Note From the Editor
6. Conventions Used in this Book
1. Introduction to the Installation Guide
1.1. Welcome!
I. Installation guide
2. WARNING - README
3. Before setup
4. Disks and partitions
5. Installation with DrakX
6. Connecting for the First TIme with Mandrake Linux
7. Introduction to the User Guide
II. A new world
8. Linux for Beginners
9. The Desktop According to KDE
10. Using GNOME
11. Everyday Applications
12. Configuring Internet Connections
III. Build your world
13. Securing Your Machine
14. Mandrake Control Center
15. Package Management
A. Where to Get Documentation
A.1. The Documentation Included In Mandrake Linux
A.2. Internet
A.3. General Guidelines for Solving a Problem under Mandrake Linux
B. The GNU General Public License
B.1. Preamble
B.2. Terms and conditions for copying,  distribution  and  modification
C. GNU Free Documentation License
C.1. GNU Free Documentation License
C.2. How to use this License for your documents
Glossary
List of Tables
9-1. The KDE Desktop's Icons
9-2. The KDE Tool Bar
11-1. Konqueror's Icons
14-1. A fast review of Mandrake graphical tools
List of Figures
3-1. The dosutils directory
3-2. The rawwrite program
3-3. An example of using rawwrite
3-4. The Windows Device Manager
3-5. Directory structure for ISA Bus
3-6. Keyboard resources
4-1. First example of partition naming under GNU/Linux
4-2. Second example of partition naming under GNU/Linux
5-1. Very First Installation Welcome Screen
5-2. Available Installation Options
8-1. The Login Window
8-2. The Pull-Down Session Type List
8-3. First Time KDE
8-4. First Time GNOME
8-5. KDE Log Out Confirmation
8-6. Logging Out Using the Pop-up Menu under KDE
8-7. KDE's Log Out Icon.
8-8. GNOME's Log Out Menu
8-9. GNOME's Log Out Icon
8-10. The KDE Desktop
8-11. The GNOME Desktop
8-12. Access to Mandrake Control Center
8-13. KDE and GNOME Retractable Tool Bar
8-14. KDE and GNOME File Managers
8-15. Buttons for Virtual Desktops
8-16. Moving a Window to Another Desktop
8-17. Maximizing Windows for KDE and GNOME
8-18. Minimizing Windows for KDE and GNOME
8-19. The Task Bar Under KDE and GNOME
8-20. Closing a Window for KDE and GNOME
8-21. Software Menu for KDE and GNOME
9-1. The KDE Desktop
9-2. KDE's Internal Help Window
9-3. Configuring Virtual Desktops Under KDE
9-4. Creation Menu Under KDE
9-5. Creating an Application Icon Under KDE
9-6. Program to Create an Application Icon Under KDE
9-7. Creating an Icon for a Web Site Under KDE
9-8. Choosing an Icon Under KDE
9-9. KDE's Default Style
9-10. The Marble Style for KDE
9-11. Text aside Icons Under KDE
9-12. Text Under Icons in KDE
9-13. Configuring the Background
9-14. Configuring the Wallpaper for the Background
9-15. Background Advanced Effects
9-16. Example of Advanced Effects
10-1. Help Center under GNOME
10-2. GNOME Panel
10-3. GNOME Control Center
10-4. Getting Around the GNOME Menu
10-5. Run your Favorite Applications
10-6. Add Applets to your Panel
10-7. A Vast Array of Applications to Choose From
10-8. Multimedia: XMMS, GIMP, etc.
11-1. The StarOffice Desktop
11-2. Writing Documents
11-3. Linking to StarOffice
11-4. Linking Properties
11-5. Finding and Replacing Words
11-6. Address Book
11-7. Nonprinting Characters
11-8. Find your Files with StarOffice Explorer
11-9. Create Tables for your Documents
11-10. Spellchecking Documents
11-11. StarOffice Options
11-12. Splitting your Windows
11-13. Konqueror: the File Manager under KDE
11-14. Selecting with your Mouse in Konqueror
11-15. Selecting Many Files in Konqueror
11-16. Creating a New Directory
11-17. Opening a Text File
11-18. Choosing the Destination Folder
11-19. Drag'n'Drop with Konqueror
11-20. Three Methods to Remove Files
11-21. The Trash Icon, Empty or Full
11-22. Finding Files with Konqueror
11-23. Konqueror's Window Menu
11-24. MultiColumn View under Konqueror
11-25. Tree View under Konqueror
11-26. Detailed List View under Konqueror
11-27. Text View under Konqueror
11-28. Preview of a File's Contents with Konqueror
11-29. Viewing Hidden Files with Konqueror
11-30. Acting Upon Displays with Konqueror
11-31. Splitting the Konqueror Window
11-32. Nautilus's Main Window
11-33. Nautilus' History Window
11-34. Nautilus News
11-35. Adding News Web Sites
11-36. Editing News Web Sites
11-37. Nautilus Preferences
11-38. Changing Default Smooth Fonts
11-39. GNOME Theme for Nautilus
11-40. Browsing the Web with Nautilus
11-41. Your Identity
11-42. Configuring your Mail Server(s)
11-43. Configuring your Newsgroups Server(s)
11-44. Short-Cutting your Way through E-mails
11-45. Make your Messages Look Good!
11-46. Send all those E-mails... Intelligently
11-47. Respect your Recipient
11-48. Proof of Delivery
11-49. Save up on Disk Space
11-50. Netscape E-mail Client
11-51. Netscape New Message
11-52. Netscape Preferences
11-53. Netscape Filters
11-54. Manage your Messages through this Menu
11-55. An All-in-One Menu
11-56. Xmms Main Window with Equalizer and Playlist
11-57. THE Image Manipulator
11-58. GIMP Layers
12-1. Connecting to the Internet
12-2. Choosing the Internet Connections to configure
12-3. Configuring the Internet Connection
12-4. Always bring up the connection at boot time?
12-5. Try the Internet Connection
13-1. Introduction to the BastilleChooser wizard
13-2. Choosing a Security Level
13-3. Is your machine acting as a server?
13-4. Choosing allowed services
13-5. A typical InteractiveBastille screen
14-1. The Control Center icon
14-2. The Control Center main window
14-3. Choosing the boot mode
14-4. Choosing the steps to replay or not
14-5. Choosing a new video resolution
14-6. Test the new video mode?
14-7. The X information window
14-8. harddrake main window
14-9. harddrake - selected device
14-10. harddrake - unknown device
14-11. harddrake - probing options window
14-12. harddrake - Sound-Wizard
14-13. Choosing a different mouse
14-14. Modifying an existing printer
14-15. The printer connection type
14-16. Choose a name for your printer
14-17. Choose the printer model
14-18. Configure the printer's options
14-19. Test the printer
14-20. Choosing a different keyboard layout
14-21. The DiskDrake main window
14-22. The /home partition before resizing
14-23. Choosing a new size
14-24. Defining the new partition
14-25. The new partition table
14-26. Confirm the writing of partition table
14-27. Choosing the security level of your system
14-28. A sample firewall wizard screen
14-29. Accept the options and activate the firewall
14-30. Launch menudrake in System or User mode
14-31. The menudrake main window
14-32. Adding a new menu entry with menudrake
14-33. Choosing the services available at system startup
14-34. The drakfont main window
14-35. The users list in userdrake
14-36. Adding a new user in the system
14-37. Affect users to a group
14-38. The userdrake parameters window
14-39. The userdrake user view parameters
14-40. Groups are different for two users
14-41. Date and time changing
14-42. Browsing and searching through system logs
14-43. Accessing the command line interface
15-1. First RpmDrake's message
15-2. RpmDrake's Main Window
15-3. A package's file list
15-4. RpmInst replacing RpmDrake
15-5. Install in progress under RpmInst
15-6. Uninstalling packages
15-7. Adding a source in RpmDrake
15-8. Updates types in MandrakeUpdate
1. ASCII-Table
2. ISO-8859-1 Table
3. ISO-8859-15 Table

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