Wow! It worked!
After getting this piece of critical advice from you Civileme, the installer worked just fine! It is true that in under 30 minutes you can install a working system. Really great points: * Mandrake Linux found with no fuss at all my sort of non-standard USB ethernet connection. Internet connectivity, which is usually a hassle, was no trouble at all. * Even my Japanese keyboard's mapping (usually another hassle) was fine right from the start. * Same with the network time synchronization. So I have to say after using it for 10 minutes I am pleased. The KDE initialization dialog has a problem though. Apparently Mandrake Linux would like to collect info from people, but the keyboard does not seem to work in any of those initialization forms. I just had to cancel out of them. After that the keyboard worked. I don't know why it doesn't work on the older Mint machine (other email I posted). Thanks again everybody for all your suggestions and help! Doug Lerner, Tokyo p.s. Now on to figure out how to use Japanese on the system... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monday, December 24, 2001): >On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 04:35, Doug Lerner wrote: >> The spec sheet for the HP Pavilion 2000 says the video is an "integrated >> graphic controller", so I guess that is something on board. >> >> When does the "initializing ram disk" process take place? >> >> Unfortunately a different CD reader is not an option. I don't think it >> will boot, for example, from an external USB CD-RW. >> >> doug >> >> > >OK > >I have seen something like this before with the eboxit. ZTry this: > >F1 at splash screen > >linux mem=53M > >at the input prompt, or if you have 128M of memory then > >linux mem=117M > >It appears that this has shared video memory and ther BIOS may be handing >the linux kernel a bad memory map so that the screen writing is >overwriting the kernel stack. > >Civileme > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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