[thechat] Mandrake Linux

[Dean Mah]

What's the grep command look like that you are using?  The form is:

   grep pattern [files]

If you don't include a file list, grep will search STDIN.

I'm guessing your partitions are:

   hda0 - /
   hda6 - swap space

To re-install, try booting from CD again.  It should prompt you to
redo the install.  At least, it used to in Red Hat distributions.

Dean


Kevin Stevens writes:

> Can any of you Linux bods out there give me some indication as to
> why the grep command won't work in the KDE console of Mandrake 8.1?
> It is my understanding that this is used to search for files, but it
> just makes the console hang and I have to close it and open a new
> one.  Also, I think the installation has created a weird partition
> on the computer, I seem to have hda0 and hda6, is this right? When I
> installed it I used the easy mode, but I want to start from scratch
> again and partition the disk myself but I can't work out how to
> re-format the drive. On Windows I would just insert the boot disk
> and format from that, do I need to create a Linux boot disk to do
> the same thing? I have tried to search for these answers on various
> sites like Mandrake, linux.org and linuxnewbies without any success
> so all pointers would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks