[SOLVED] Installing XFCE on Mandriva and other notes

[mucus]

Hi!
I just installed my brand new Linux/Mandriva OS last night, a great disdain of my wife....but that's another story.

The computer installed on is very slow and I want to use XFCE.
How do i go about this?

On Another Note-
Do I have to leave that boot disc in the CD drive?
After I use it the first time is it installed? or do I have to use that disc everytime?
Does the disc have to stay in the whole time linux is running? or can i take that out and put other discs in?

That's it for now!

Thanks!
Mucus

BTW
I'm brand new, I use mandriva and my name is Mike.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

If you have installed Mandriva then there is no need to keep installation disk in drive.

The computer installed on is very slow and I want to use XFCE.
How do i go about this?

Post your machine's specs here.

[mucus]

hmmm...
well i'm not sure!
it's just a scarpped together pc.
it was on windows me....
- - - - -
that disc doesn't need to be in AT ALL?

(i feel so dumb, starting all over again on this new os)

[devils casper]

Open Terminal/Konsole ( look for it in Menu ), and execute this

free
su -
lspci | grep -i vga
cat /proc/cpuinfo

Post output here.

[mucus]

ok here's where i'm at...

i got the "live install" to run
told it to wipe out whatever was there before
got all kinds of "nonreproducable" errors
after a while, mandriva finally did the whole install thing and i got a message like "unable to boot to hard drive"

what the crap?
why is this not working?


btw i think that computer is a 586... for what that's worth

[devils casper]

I need a little more info. How much RAM do you have and which Graphics card are you using?

[mucus]

who knows
this computer is scrapped, any one want a now working shell of a comuter?

i'm going to ge ta new laptop, and i may want to partion it and install mandriva, in which case i'll DEFFINATELY need help!