On Thursday, 27 November 2014 09:59:54 UTC+1, Herman Viaene  wrote:   
   > tvorba.webu.havirov.karvina@gmail.com wrote:   
   >    
   > > Hello.   
   > > 4 years ago I learned to use Mandriva 2010, and I used to use it for   
   > > backing up system partitions and similar things. I installed KDE and did   
   > > some settings on my account to have good looking environment. Today I had   
   > > to reinstalled it because it crashed. I did not formated the Home   
   > > partition, but connected to the old settings.    
   >    
   > Are you sure you let the installer format the root partition?   
   >    
   > What I would do is:   
   >    
   > Forget about Mandriva 2010, it's way too old. If you have access to the    
   > internet on another computer, download Mageia4, it is a descendant of    
   > Mandriva, but it evolves better than the current OpenMandriva. And it looks    
   > and handles the same.   
   >    
   > Or, if you want to stick to Mandriva 2010, install it again, make sure the    
   > root partition is formatted in the process.   
   > Now, if you still get stuck at the command line after that, you can login as    
   > root, and give the command MCC, that will allow you to control your display    
   > settings, and use startx to start KDE. If that works OK, logout root, login    
   > with your normal user and start KDE again.   
   > If you still have issues with KDE, log out, and login again with the user at    
   > the command line and check with the command "ls -als" which folders exist    
   > .kde and or .kde4 . Rename these with "mv .kde .kde.old" and or "mv .kde4    
   > .kde4.old" and then startx again. That will give you a clean KDE.   
   >    
   > Herman Viaene   
      
   Hello,    
   Thanks for your reply. I have reinstalled the Mandriva 2010 and formated the   
   root partition so now it successfully booted, however I still have the problem   
   with the characters in any aplication like Firefox so I can hardly do   
   anything. It would be very    
   nice if you could gimme some advice how to correct this problem. I probably   
   increased DPI years ago. All characters in menu and main bar at bottom are all   
   right.   
      
   I could not answer in google groups because my firefox version is very old FF   
   1.0 or something like that. I need to find out if curl works and if I can   
   import sources to install Midnight Commander. And were to find the Firefox   
   package. But I cannot do    
   anything now till the characters are too big so I cannot use the MCC very   
   well. I cannot even install programs at MCC.   
      
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