Re:[newbie] Can't install on Dell (Kaj)
Hello Kaj, I´m in the middle of a exam-period so I haven´t been enable to read all my mails, I have too much to do. That means that I haven´t touched my new machine either. I just want to thank you for the help. I´m going to follow your advice, I will post my question to the expert list and hope for the best. /Edvard _s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Anmäl ditt intresse för Spray ADSL bredband! http://www.spray.se/adsl/intresse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can´t install on Dell XPS 180n
I have been using Linux for about 6 months, so I have some knowledge about how things work. Although I do not consider myself as an expert user. The answer is yes, I did the floppy using rawrite.exe. I know that both the CD:s (1 and 2) and the floppy work because I did an install last week on an Athlon box that I have, without any problems. Ok, some info about this machine: -Dell XPS 180n, a Pentium Pro machine at 180Mhz with 98 MB RAM. -Matrox Mystique 220 4 MB RAMDAC -Creative SB32 -HD(1) IDE IBM-DAQA-33240 (Master) -HD (2) IDE WDC-AC31600H That makes a total diskspace of about 4.5 GB. Both harddrives are clean, nothing on them. I had win98 working great, but decided to remove it, making space for Mandrake. The filesystem on both are FAT32 right now after format. I flashed the motherboard with the latest driver, while I had win98 and it worked great. No problems there. My idea is to make this a Linux box only, so all the space is going to Linux. I have been removing hardware to see if the install would kick in, but no result there. I got no clue about what is wrong. Some help is needed. /Edvard (Kaj, I don´t mind that you posted it to the list. I thought I already had?) _s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Anmäl ditt intresse för Spray ADSL bredband! http://www.spray.se/adsl/intresse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
RE:Re: [newbie] Can´t install on Dell XPS 180n
Hejsan Kaj! Now the problem I have is that I get nothing but a black screen. No promt no nothing. Just when I boot the machine and pass the HD detection, the machine starts reading the floppy, but I do not get the Mandrake screen or a prompt. I just lose the monitor, the monitor gets ofline, it gets no signal from the computer. I tried anyway and typed linux -fb and hoped for the best, but no luck. I get the feeling that it doesn´t got the driver for my graphic-card or monitor. I even tried the other.img for older drivers but it didn´t work. By the way its not a CD-RW. Other ideas?? /Edvard _s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Anmäl ditt intresse för Spray ADSL bredband! http://www.spray.se/adsl/intresse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] Can´t install on Dell XPS 180n
Hi! I just bought an old Dell XPS 180n with 98 MB Ram. It works great with win98. I tried to install Mandrake 8.1 with a floppy disk contaning the cdrom.img. It loads the floppy but then I see that my monitor loses the connection with the computer (that is it turn black and gets ofline) and the cdrom doesn´t spin either. I know the CD and the floppy disk are ok, they worked great with my new computer. Does anyone got any suggestion about what could be wrong? I appreciate any help, /Edvard _s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Anmäl ditt intresse för Spray ADSL bredband! http://www.spray.se/adsl/intresse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Hi, I have a mandrake 8.0 with the 2.4.3-20mdk kernel. Today while I was just browsing the web with mozilla my system got very slow. I did a top to see the memory and the swap was working hard while I had almost 20 Mb free of 256 MB. How could that be? I had only 4 apps running, xmms, aumix, licq and some mozilla windows. I started to kill apps and noticed how the system improved very well (no swap needed). I have this feeling it was mozilla that caused the problem but Im not sure. Any ideas of what may have been the problem, does somebody recognise this? thanks, Edvard _s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Spray Jul 2001 är här! Roligaste julen på webben. http://www.spray.se/jul/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
