please help part 2

[metaaltebbes]

as i am unable to send techiemoe a private message:1:as far as i know it's an onboard soundcard,but linux is telling me it's from nvidia 2:I'm using a cable
connexxion (lan)motorola modem3:videocard's from nvidia geforce 7500 le 4:linux tells me i have 164G of 168G total harddisk space free.

[Freston]

It's a bit tricky to open two treads on the same subject, wetter or not you tried to contact people through private message.

First things first. What distro are you using? Have you any experience and/or reference material on Linux? Is the machine you installed Linux on your main computer?

As far as your info:

1:as far as i know it's an onboard soundcard,but linux is telling me it's from nvidia

That may not contradict each other. Good fortune wants it that nvidia are very well supported under Linux. Might need a little configuration, hence my asking about your distro.

2:I'm using a cable connexxion (lan)motorola modem
3:videocard's from nvidia geforce 7500 le

I don't expect to much trouble from that. Further, same as #1

4:linux tells me i have 164G of 168G total harddisk space free.

Where you hoping to find a lot of files on your system? As it seems, 4GB is used, and that is about the space you'd expect a normal mainstream distro to occupy. Seems the rest is empty.

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I'm wondering wetter or not to start about partitioning.