I downloaded the isos and burned them onto 3 CDs.
I booted from CD1 and ran the install per directions.
It's slick until comes time to configure the video/Xwindows environment. There I hit a stump. I've installed 4 times, now, and still can't get it right.
System is:
FIC VA503+ mobo
AMD K6-2/350 processor
256 mb Crucial RAM
2 Maxtor 13 gb hdds
1 generic 50x CD-ROM
1 fdd
Creative Ensoniqe sound
ATI 3D Rage Pro vid card with 8 mb RAM
Compaq V50 monitor
IBM model M keyboard (101 key, US English)
Logitech MouseMan PS2
Problem is that during the install, Xconfigurator sees the vid card as an ATI Mach 64 with a Utah chipset. Default config is 16 million 24-bit color, 800x600 res.
If I accept that and run a test, the screen goes black for about 30 seconds and then comes back on. If I then tell it to load X at boot-up, what happens is that the system reboots and looks good until it loads X. Then the screen goes black and stays that way forever.
So I reinstall. Tell Xconfigurator that the vid card is really an ATI Rage Pro 3D. Then, no matter what config I set up (65k colors @ 16-bit, for example) the system returns an error when I test it.
The error is: "You must specify a keyboard in XF86Config try to change some parameters." (sic)
So I boot to the command line as root. Issue a command xf86config. Run through all of THAT. At the end, it tells me it's going to save the configuration, and then it saves. When I tell it "startx", I get
execve failed for /etc/x11/x (errno 2)
giving up
xinit: No such file or directory
After install no. 4, I'm whipped.
Ideas, anyone?
Thanks.
Nick
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