I have a 166 MMX with 48 Mb ram and 2.1 Gb Hdd I would like to load linux as well as windows and boot using Lilo. Itried to install 7 times with mandrake 5.2 and the pcquest equivalent both are not working.
In tge case oc pC quest after loading when I reboot it says error loading
OS and also the LILO doesn't work
With mandrake I am unable to create a dos partition. When I Type X
after login X windows starts but doesn;t show any file manager. It has
only a X cursor and a grey screen.
I know there is a setting to do after loading to get that but I am
unable to do the setting I am enclosing it with the mail Please have look
and tell me the commands I have use to get to my goal
The Infamous Gray Screen
Many people encounter the problem of starting X (startx), seeing an
X-shaped mouse-pointer-thingy, a gray screen, and being taken back to text
mode with no
window manager loading and no error messages. If it doesn't take you
back to text mode, try the Ctrl-Alt-[Backspace] combination.
The way I found I could solve this was to create a .xinitrc in my home
directory and putting the line exec afterstep in it. That seemed to work
fine and it loaded
the AfterStep window manager. As you can probably figure out, you'll
have to replace afterstep with whatever window manager you're using. If
I wanted to use
fvwm, I'd put in exec fvwm instead.
Now suppose you want to run multiple window managers; of course, you
can run only one at a time in each X session, but you don't want to type
everything in
again. The solution is to type in the startup lines of each window
manager then comment out all the ones that you don't want to use, leaving
one line uncommented so
that it'll run. Here's how my .xinitrc file looks like:
# exec afterstep
# exec fvwm95-2
if [ -f $HOME/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/.workspace_state ]; then
sh $HOME/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/.workspace_state
&
fi
exec wmaker
That is set to run WindowMaker when I start up, and the commented lines,
the ones with the pound signs (#) at the beginning of the lines, are ignored.
If you leave
everything commented out, it'll give you the gray screen with the X-shaped
mouse, so if that happens, you should know what to look for. :)
