Advanced Uses

Table of Contents

11. Introduction to the Mandrake Control Center
What's in DrakConf
12. Configuration: Boot Section
DrakFloppy: Creating a Boot Disk
Using DrakFloppy
DrakBoot: Changing your Boot-Up Configuration
Configuring the Bootloader
Splash Screen Selection
Configuring the Login Mode
DrakAutoInst: Creating a Boot Disk for a (Semi-) Automated Installation
13. Configuration: Hardware Section
HardDrake: Configuring your Hardware
Introduction
Problems/Troubleshooting
Other Information
Controlling the Graphical Configuration
Configure your monitor
Change your screen resolution
XFDrake: Full-Configuration Video Tool
KeyboardDrake: Changing your Keyboard Layout
MouseDrake: Changing Your Mouse
PrinterDrake: Configuring Printers
The Printer Configuration Wizard
Reconfiguring an Existing Printer
Expert Mode
14. Configuration: Mount Points Section
DiskDrake: Managing your Hard Drive Partitions
The Interface
From Theory to Practice: Resizing an Old Partition And Creating a New One
A Note About The Expert Mode: Save The Partition Table
Managing Removable Devices
Importing Remote SMB Directories
Importing Remote NFS Directories
Partition Sharing: Allow Users to Share Directories
15. Configuration: Network & Internet Section
DrakConnect: Configuring Internet Connections
DrakGw: Configuring Your Machine as a Gateway
16. Configuration: Security Section
DrakSec: Securing your Machine
Setting your Security Level
Custom Security Level
DrakFirewall: Securing your Internet Access
17. Configuration: System Section
MenuDrake: Customizing Your Menus
Add a New Menu Entry
Advanced Features
DrakXServices: Configuring Start-Up Services
DrakFont: Managing The Fonts Available on Your System
Set Date and Time
LogDrake: Searching Through The Log Files
Access to The Console
UserDrake: Managing Users on Your System
The Interface
Adding a New User
Advanced Settings
LDAP support
DrakBackup: Back up your System and Personal Files
18. RpmDrake: Package Management
Install Software
Searching packages
Mandrake choices
All packages, alphabetical
All packages, by group
All packages, by size
All packages, by selection state
All packages, by source repository
All packages, by update availability
Remove Software
Mandrake Update
The Software Sources Manager
19. Server Configuration Wizards
Foreword
Server Wizard
DHCP Server
Domain Name Server
Adding a DNS Entry
Postfix server configuration
Samba Server Configuration
Web Server Configuration
FTP server configuration
News Server configuration
Proxy Server Configuration
Time Configuration
20. Troubleshooting
Introduction
A Boot Disk
Creating A Boot Floppy With Drakfloppy
Testing the boot disk
Backup
Why Backup?
Preparing your System
What to Backup?
Where to Backup?
Backup Media
When to Back Up?
Backup Example Using tar
Restore
Restore Example Using tar
Making a Recovery CD-ROM
My System Freezes at Boot Time
System Hanging During Boot
File System Check on Boot Fails
Bootloader and File-System Issues
Bootloader Reinstall
Repairing a Damaged Super-Block
Backing Up and Restoring the MBR
Recovering Deleted Files
Runlevels
Brief Description of What Runlevels Are
What Can Runlevels do For me?
Recovering From a System Freeze
Killing Misbehaved Apps
From The Console
Using Graphical Monitoring Tools
Configuring X From the Console
Miscellaneous
Mandrake's Specific Troubleshooting Tools
Final Thoughts