ok i am installing mandrake 8.1 iso on a clean,
brand new machine. its an athlon 1.3 - i am having a few problems with
it..
the machine has connectivity on my network, but
keeps popping up this message at the prompt. "Probable Hardware Bug: clock
timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a motherboard.
---
Yes, Linux has
identified a real problem with your motherboard.
The Clock Timer
chip doesn't work properly on your motherboard (and on almost all motherboards
equipped with Windbond clock chips, such as most VIA, and ALiMagik based
boards).
This results in
erroneous interrupt driven clock timer pulses. This upsets timing events and
time dependant functions.
Linux (thankfully)
tries to deal with this. Windows cannot (heh, heh).
There is not much
you can do about this other than turning off the logs for
this...
---
heres my second problem.. i have installe dlinux
about 10 times on this thing.. every time i install, things that SHOULD be
there are not.. like plain ol 'ftp' or 'drakxservices' - i cant find any of
these on the computer. i KNOW i specified ftp to install from the beginning,
and i also have done reccomended and expert installs.
---
The installer is a
bit confusing. When you say plain ol "ftp" are you referring to the client or
the server software?
If the latter,
there is more than one FTP server package available in the distro. I.E Pro-FTP
and WU-FTP, etc.
Try rpm -qa | grep
ftp to see what actually was installed.
Note: the
installer seems to miss about 50% of the available packages on the
CDs.
Go into the
software manager to find the rest. I ended up copying all 3 CD's to the hard
drive and point the manager to the directories to avoid the constant swapping
of CD's needed to install a lot of the packages and
dependancies.
---
i have installed mandrake linux numerous times
problem-free, but not 8.1 as of yet.. anyone have any ideas? or should i take
the damn server back? :)
---
8.1 is pretty good
and very stable, but does many things differently. This may add to your
frustrations.
-JMS
