Re: Help!

Alice E. Peters wrote:

> I'm still not sure about the distro --- or flavor. Someone mentioned Mandrake and that sounds familiar;

That's where my money is, as mentioned below.

Gnome is the system that manages your graphical desktop, icons, menus, 
control panel apps, etc.  It's available on pretty much any distro.

> 
> Steve, what is a "console session?" (See, I really am a newby!) 

A console session lets you type commands.  This is the "hard" part of 
Linux, but it's worth knowing about because the commands you can type 
into a console are mostly the same across a wide range of systems. 
Menus and icons can do a lot, but sometimes there's no substitute for 
getting a command line.

Some equivalent words you want to look for are terminal, term, xterm, or 
aterm.  Your terminal program probably has an icon that looks like a 
monitor with some horizontal text lines on it.

> 
> Russell, is your suggestion to be typed into a browser search, or ???

Any time somebody tells you to type something like this:

$ foo bar

What they mean is "type 'foo bar' at any command line prompt."  The $ 
represents your command line prompt (which is probably a $ but could be 
something else).  In any event, don't type the dollar sign.  :-)

 From Gnome, you can get a command line in a terminal app (see above) or 
you can probably get a command line by hitting Alt-F1 (or maybe 
Alt-Shift-F1) and logging in.  To get back to Gnome, do Alt-F7.

> How do I find a Mandrake box? I think I only see that name when I reboot.

If you see the word "Mandrake" when you boot up, that's what you have. 
If you could confirm that's what you see, that would be helpful.

Getting back to your original question, odds are that the way this will 
work is that when you plug your camera in to the USB port of your 
computer, it will need to be mounted the same way a hard drive would. 
That may happen automatically... once it does, you should be able to 
browse your camera's file storage in Gnome and do whatever you want with 
the pictures you find.

But there may be a couple steps along the way & we'll help you as you 
go.  For now, what happens when you plug in the camera?  Leave it 
plugged in after you answer, we'll probably have you type a few things 
in the console/terminal once you find it.  :-)

HTH,

Dylan