Re: help to make something work

[Kent West <kent.west@infotech.acu.edu>]

At 01:37 PM 1/19/1999 -0300, Luis Cabral wrote:
>Hello
>
>I started using linux, and I am enthusiasmed.
>I installed a Debian distribution in a very standard
>PC (Pentium 200, 32 mb, SVGA, 200 Mb on linux partition).
>I installed also xfree86 and KDE.
>
>KDE and packaged applications (man etc) work.
>But I can´t make anything else work! I downloaded Netscape
>4.5, installed it successfully, and when I run
>it, it says: Segmentation Fault.
>I downloaded Wordperfect 8 and, after many tries, I 
>installed it successfully; but xwp says: Floating
>point fault.
>I installed also a CAD called SISCAD-P, and it says
>also: Floating point fault.
>I tried with other softwares (downloaded from the net)
>with similar results.
>
>You see, I wish use linux not for hacking, but as a
>stable desktop environment, and I do not wish spend hours
>editing config files and chmod-ing etc to make it work.
>
>Can anyone help me?
>
>Thank you
>Luis Cabral

200 MB is awfully small to run more than a basic system. Run the df command
and see if your partition is near 100% full (Capacity). That may be a clue.