This begs a BIG question. If, from your previous experience, you're aware
of problems Linux has with your particular video card why are you
surprised that Mandrake has the same, or similar problems during
installation? Why not just change video cards to accomodate Linux since
you obviously like the OS, and clearly Winblows couldn't care less?
I'd say that would take care of the problem and you would be free to keep
on trying all the different flavors and versions of Linux that are
populating the computer world and keeping you occupied with hours of fun.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 1299563
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> Hello All
>
> Having tried various flavours of Linux (RH 5.2 - 6.1, SuSE 6.0 - 6.3)
> I thought I'd try Mandrake. Followed my usual practice of clearing
> some space(3.5G) on my 2nd drive using Partition Magic 3.0 and
> running the installation CD. Everything seemed to go fine, quite
> impressed in fact, then, as has happened with all the other distros,
> graphics card gets probed and bye bye install. Never mind, been
> there before, start clean and try again with text installer.
>
> Problem.
>
> PM 3.0 now tells me it doesn't recognise the 2nd drive's signature
> (or words to that effect) so it's not going to play anymore. Win 95,
> astonishingly, seems quite happy with it! It can see it's 1.3G FAT32
> partition and doesn't seem concerned about anything else.
> Just to see if the Mandrake installer could figure out what it had
> done, tried it again only to be told my drive was corrupt and it was
> giving up! (Once again words to that effect - this happened a few
> weeks ago). Fdisk(DOS) and FIPS indicate some problems with
> overlapping partition boundaries or something.
>
> H/W setup:-
> Gateway 2000 P5 200MMX 64M
> Virge/VX 4M
> Ensonic Soundscape VIVO 90
> Fujitsu 6.4G, Maxtor 4.8G
> 2 brand X CDR.
> TV card, modem, scanner etc.
>
> There are obviously a number of possible solutions to the problem
> which, being a byte botherer of too many years experience, I could
> probably work out, but the question is:-
>
> WHY DID IT HAPPEN?
>
> Any clues anyone?
> (Is this a known problem?)
>
> Bye for now
>
> Graham
>
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