Completely lost.

Kupo969 · 10-31-2004, 02:14 PM

Hey, i just installed Suse 9.1 personal and and i downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird and installed it but i cant seem to find it!!1 Can anyone tell me how to find the exe or how to run it or something. Also, how can i get my drivers for my nvidia geforce card? plz help!

Tinkster · 10-31-2004, 02:25 PM

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

First things first: what file did you actually download,
what's it's name, and where did you store it?

As for nvidia:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html

Cheers,
Tink

Kupo969 · 10-31-2004, 02:27 PM

not too sure, not too sure, and deleted the zip file or w/e zips are called here. totally lost! thnx

JustOl'Bob · 10-31-2004, 02:29 PM

I think you'll find it in your /home/(yourname) directory.

JustOl'Bob · 10-31-2004, 02:31 PM

BTW, when you are trying to locate something like this, you can find it by opening a terminal and typing in:
"whereis thunderbird". The system will point you to the directory (or directories) where elements are located.

Tinkster · 10-31-2004, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kupo969
not too sure, not too sure, and deleted the zip file or w/e zips are called here. totally lost! thnx

What to say :)

Doctor, help me, quick!
What's the problem?
I don't know, just fix it!

Cheers,
Tink

Kupo969 · 10-31-2004, 02:45 PM

Terminal didnt quite say and it isnt in hom/(yourname) either, anyother suggestions?

robert644 · 10-31-2004, 02:51 PM

#>updatedb
#>locate Thunderbird

or syntax similar, perhaps try

#>locate thunderbird
or
#>locate thunder

or some such variation. provided your computer uses 'locate' and 'updatedb'

perhaps

the 'find' command will also search your filesystem for data, however i can't recall the sytax it uses. something like

'find -name ./ thunderbird' or some such

Kupo969 · 10-31-2004, 02:56 PM

Ok ok, forget all of that. I had Windows XP Pro and then decided to install this too, 2 OS's on 1 HD. Now i can not go back to windows!!! When i try to load it, it says:

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
chainloader +1

I wanna go back to xp!!can anyone help?!

robert644 · 10-31-2004, 03:04 PM

can you boot your windows xp disk and repair your system that way ?

btmiller · 10-31-2004, 03:12 PM

The chainloader +1 problem is a common issue in distros that ship with 2.6 kernels. The following URL describes how to fix it. It's for Red Hat, but should work for SuSE too.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor.../msg00908.html

Kupo969 · 10-31-2004, 03:27 PM

Ehh, can someone knida translate it for me a bit? Tremendously lost.

Netizen · 10-31-2004, 04:36 PM

Insert XP disk. Choose recovery mode. fixmbr. Reboot, Choose Windows. Life back to normal.