OK, I though only windows did this?

[dean772]

Writting my first documetn in star office 5.2 that came with drake 8.0. Did a save onto the floppy and as soon as hit save the screen freezes, mouse moves, but cannot close window. only way out is the 3 finger salute and relogin. I thought linux did not do this, did it 2 times in a row

[Cuthbert]

You should have killed the process. There is no need to reboot the machine.

[possumpuss]

type 'gtop' at a terminal

it's like windows task manager, you can kill currently running apps from there

[dean772]

ok gtop not found
tried it as me and as root
still hanging also
save as /mnt/floppy then filename is there something wrong with that?

[Fin015]

I'm not sure what StarOffice's issue here is, but as for killing processes, nuthin' beats the good old 'ps -ef' and the kill command. 'ps -ef' lists pretty much everything you could ever want to know about all the running processes, and kill does just what it sounds like, kills a process.

The output of a typical ps -ef (abbreviated) is:

UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 Jul05 ? 00:00:05 init
fin 5798 4933 0 10:23 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -ef

To kill a specific process, just 'kill ####' where #### is the process id (PID). If that doesn't work, see if it's listed with a parent process (PPID) other than 1. If so, try killing that one.

-Fin

[Danger Fan]

linux did not cause that. third party software did. but the good thing is, you can actually get out of it and kill the process. that doesn't happen very often in windows. usually, once it freezes, it's done.

pointless post with no help to you. i'm sorry :p

[ 06 July 2001: Message edited by: Danger Fan ]

[StanLin]

The neat thing to be done is to save to harddisk and then copy it to the floppy. Then the question of bad floppy or unmounted floppy would not arise.

Have a look at fstab, at the prompt do cat /etc/fstab
You should see
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0

[ 06 July 2001: Message edited by: StanLin ]

[dean772]

ok for a real newbie how do i copy to floppy from harddrive?

[dean772]

ok cp onto floppy from HD :D
Now how do I make the fonts look normal?
I installed the windows fonts throug KDE Control Center

[Danger Fan]

cp /mnt/floppy/filename.extension /home/username

replace /mnt/floppy with your floppy drive mount point, filename.extension with your filename, and /home/username where you want the file to go. you could also use mv instead of cp to move instead of copy


danger

[Danger Fan]

dude, your from manchesta, nh. i spend a lot of time in salem, nh. just thought i'd point that out.

[StanLin]

The classical way:
$su
$<enter your root password>
#mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
#cp /home/<your directory>/<your filename> /mnt/floppy

The modern way:
Use the file manager.