On Monday 07 October 2002 01:43 pm, Julie wrote: > I recently recieved a free 133mhz machine for free from a friend and I > decided to install the Mandrake 8.0 I had bought some time ago. > Unfortunately I didn't check out the system fully before trying to install, > and after I finished and rebooted, it loaded and the log in screen came up > completely stuffed. I could barely see a portion of the screen and couldn't > click on anything so was unable to log in. It looked fine during setup, but > looked as if it were only in 16 colors. I've tried reinstalling three times > with the same result. Can I possibly boot up from the floppy somehow and > format the drive so I can load Windoze on temporarily just to make sure > there are no hardware problems? I've tried booting from a Windoze98 startup > disk but it's a no go. > > Thanks in advance, > Julie
Julie: A 133 mhz machine is a bit on the low end. Tell us some more about the system, please -- in particular, CPU, RAM, HD and video. In particular, if there's less than 64 mb RAM, it's pretty much a no-go with a graphical interface. -- cmg
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