On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, John Cox wrote: > I just installed Fedora a couple of days ago (NEWBIE) and today when I > tried to install KDE and a few other things Using the GNOME desktop > software installer, .... > I did the original install with this drive so I'm confused....well, > being a newbie I feel confused anyway but can somebody help me with this? Try it again but when you insert or change CDROMS watch the drive LED and give the system time to detect and mount it. It should blink a number of times, get sort of busy then quiet down. For me this commonly takes 10-30 seconds; then click. If I get in a rush I can click OK as quick as the drive begins to close. Some times this causes an error that does not seem to clear. Perhaps I queue too many retries and confuse the application. Also clean up the desktop so that tiny dialog boxes do not get hidden under another window. I have found 'click to retry' boxes days later ;-). It is useful to slide windows about and check for these little guys some times. Some applications are terrible in how they manage them. I would iconify a window for a slow process activity and when uniconified the message box would be displayed under the big window (hidden). -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48 -a*t- yahoo-dot-com
