Part 5. Configuring and Tweaking Your Box
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Part 5. Configuring and Tweaking Your Box
Table of Contents
12. Introduction to the Mandriva Linux Control Center
1. MCC's Components
2. Managing Configuration Profiles
2.1. Profile Handling
3. The Drakbug Reporting Tool
13. Package Management through Rpmdrake
1. Install Software
1.1. Selecting Packages to Install
1.2. Searching Packages
2. Remove Software
3. Mandriva Linux Update
4. The Software Media Manager
14. Hardware Setup
1. Configuring your Hardware
1.1. Hardware Detection and Configuration
1.2. Problems/Troubleshooting
2. Controlling the Graphical Configuration
2.1. Changing the Monitor
2.2. Changing Resolution
2.3. Controlling All Video Parameters
3. Changing your Keyboard Layout
4. Changing your Mouse
5. Configuring Printers with PrinterDrake
5.1. Initial Configuration
5.2. The Printer Management Interface
5.3. Print Server General Configuration
5.4. The Printer Configuration Wizard
5.5. Reconfiguring an Existing Printer
5.6. Expert Mode
6. Installing and Using Scanners
6.1. Configuring your Scanner
6.2. Using Image Acquisition Software
6.3. Advanced Configuration
6.4. Other Scanner Interface Software
7. Setting up your UPS
15. Setting up your Network and Accessing the Web
1. Network and Internet Connection Management
1.1. Set Up a New Network Interface
1.2. Internet Settings
1.3. Reconfigure Interfaces
1.4. Monitoring Connections
1.5. Removing a Connection
1.6. Proxy Settings
1.7. Wireless Connection Management
2. Internet Connection Sharing
2.1. The Gateway Connection Wizard
2.2. Configuring the Clients
16. Personalizing your System
1. Customizing your Menus with MenuDrake
1.1. Adding a New Menu Entry
1.2. Advanced Features
2. Configuring Start-Up Services
3. Managing Available Fonts on your System with DrakFont
4. Setting your Machine's Date and Time
5. Monitoring System Activity and Status
5.1. Browsing System Logs
6. Managing Users and Groups
6.1. The Interface
6.2. Adding a New User
7. Backing Up and Restoring your Files
7.1. A Practical Example Using the Wizard
7.2. Restoring Backups
7.3. Automating Periodic Backups
7.4. Advanced Backup Wizard Configuration
17. Mount Points and Remote Directories
1. Managing your Hard Drive Partitions with DiskDrake
1.1. The Interface
1.2. DiskDrake's action buttons
1.3. Resizing an Old Partition and Creating a New One
2. Managing Removable Devices
3. Importing Remote SMB Directories
4. Importing Remote NFS Directories
5. Allowing Users to Share Folders
6. Setting up WebDAV Mount Points
18. Securing your Linux Box
1. Securing your Machine through DrakSec
1.1. Setting your Security Level
1.2. Customizing a Security Level
2. Controlling File Permissions with DrakPerm
3. Securing your Internet Access via DrakFirewall
19. Boot Device Configuration
1. Configuring the Login Mode
2. Changing your Boot-up Configuration
2.1. Configuring the Bootloader
2.2. Managing Boot Entries
3. Customizing your Boot Theme
20. Mandriva Online Services
1. Initial Configuration
2. The Web Management Interface
2.1. Subscribing New Machines
2.2. Host Management
2.3. Scheduling Updates
3. Mandriva Online Applet
21. Troubleshooting
1. Introduction
2. A Boot Disk
2.1. Using the Mandriva Linux CD Rescue Mode
3. Backup
3.1. Why Backup?
3.2. Preparing your System
3.3. What to Backup?
3.4. Where to Back Up?
3.5. When to Back Up?
3.6. Backup Example Using tar
4. Restore
4.1. Restore Example Using tar
4.2. Making a Recovery CD-ROM
5. Problems Arising at Boot Time
5.1. System Hanging During Boot
5.2. Filesystem Check on Boot Fails
5.3. X Doesn't Start
6. Bootloader Issues
6.1. Bootloader Reinstall
6.2. Backing Up and Restoring the MBR
7. Filesystem Issues
7.1. Repairing a Damaged Superblock
7.2. Recovering Deleted Files
8. Recovering from a System Freeze
9. Killing Misbehaving Apps
9.1. From the Console
9.2. Using Graphical Monitoring Tools
10. Miscellaneous
10.1. Legacy-Free Systems
10.2. nVidia and ATI 3D Graphics Cards
10.3. Winmodems
10.4. My Computer is “
slow
”
11. Mandriva Linux's Specific Troubleshooting Tools
12. General Guidelines for Solving a Problem under Mandriva Linux
12.1. Search the Internet
12.2. Mailing Lists and Newsgroups Archives
12.3. Directly Contacting the Person in Charge
12.4. Mandriva Business Services
13. Final Thoughts