On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Well, I've got pentium pro(200Mhz) CPU,
> 32M ram, ATI VT2 card, WD caviar 6G Hard drive,
> And that's it,
> I'm using kernel version 2.2.14-15.
> I tried installing mandrake from the same CD on another computer,
> and X didn't work also. The mandrake CD I'm using is distributed by
> linuxnet.co.il. maybe they did somethig wrong?
Hard to tell from here ;) You left out the most important and
fundamental part of your system, what motherboard and bios ?? If
you don't see this info any other place, there should be a string
displayed during system boot (during the memory count) on the lower
left hand part of the screen. That string will identify your mobo
and bios (it's an FCC requirement). Hit <Pause> so you'll have time
to copy down the bios string, <Enter> to re-start. Then go here:
http://www.ping.be/bios/numbers.shtml
Hopefully it's either an Award or AMI bios. Also, is this a
ready made system (eg, Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc) ? A few more
particulars about your video card and monitor would be helpful also
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: שבת 12 אוגוסט 2000 13:26
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Nothing works on mandrake.
>
>
> >On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >> untill yesterday, I was using RedHat 6.1,
> >> and everything worked great.
> >> Yesterday I formatted everything, and installed mandraked 7.0,
> >> and it loks like a big mistake, nothing works good,
> >> first of all, I couldn't install Xserver,
> >> I can't login as root, I need to login as a normal user and then to
> su(This can probably be changed),
> >> and I can't install mysql++(At least not the source distribution).
> >> The mysql++ worked on the same computer for RedHat,
> >> I even installed from the same tar file.
> >> Can anyone help me?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Amir Hardon.
> >
> > Amir, generally, when your system has little or no problems
> >with a distro like RedHat, but does with Mandrake, it's not good
> >news. Most common reason is that RH is not optimized for i586/686
> >and Mandrake is. Your hardware most likely isn't up to snuff to
> >handle i586/686 timings in the code, or you've got some
> >misconfigurations (eg, bios), or both.
> >
> > You'll prob'ly havt'a go back to a i386 distro like RH. If
> >you really wanna stick with Mandrake, a 7.1 version optimized for
> >i386/486 will be available shortly. You could also try recompiling
> >the Mandrake kernel (from source) for i386. The source rpm's are on
> >the CD. The first option in 'make (X)config' is i386... i586
> >optimizations. If that helps, you'll prob'ly need to hunt down
> >other problems (like mysql) and recompile them, or get
> >....i386.rpm's to replace the Mandrake i586 ones. I'd think it
> >would just be easier to stick with an i386 distro tho, 'specially
> >if your problems are hardware/configuration related.
> >
> > How 'bout posting your hardware specs? we might be able to help
> >--
> >~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
