On Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:33:57 UTC+1, Bobbie Sellers  wrote:   
   > On 11/30/2014 05:00 AM, wrote:   
   > > On Thursday, 27 November 2014 09:59:54 UTC+1, Herman Viaene  wrote:   
   > >>  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.   
   > >   
   > `That is one of the problems of running from an old distribution and one    
   > that is not well maintained at that.  I suggest you try PC Linux OS   
   > which has similar features or else Mageia 4.1.  I stuck with Mandriva    
   > 2010 until last year myself.  Either of those distribution are better   
   > in current versions than in Mandriva 2010.1.  They are the ways that   
   > a lot of the old team from Mandriva have chosen to move forward since   
   > Mandriva is essentially dead to consumers like you and me.   
   > There is Open Mandriva as well but I think Mageia is better.   
   > 	Also get your data files backed up so that you can re-import 	   
   > them after a fresh install of both home and root.   
   > Renaming the folders mentioned might help.   
   > 	Some of your problems are based in the old home directory with   
   > your bad settings.   
   >    
   > 	You should be using Thunderbird for the e-mail and newsgroups.   
   > 	Firefox by the way is up to 31.2.0 on security fixes alone and so is    
   > Thunderbird.  Your version is mor like 10.   
   >    
   > 	bliss   
      
   One of reasons why I still use the Mandriva 2010 with my old home directory is   
   that I configured the looks to fit my needs. So I used to use black styled   
   theme with white color of text/font. I use Mandriva just for very basic jobs   
   like backing up    
   partitions and possible recovering of them. The solution would be to format   
   the /home partition but in that case I would loose my configuration. I am   
   still not ready to test new Distribution when I just want to backup partition.   
   It seems to me most    
   simple in Mandriva which I already know how to use it. Probably I will format   
   the home and reinstall Mandriva. I just don't like the idea that when I would   
   do it I would lost my black theme.   
      
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