Re: [newbie] Installation difficulties
Date sent: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 23:26:10 -0800 From: Ratsnake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ratsnake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Installation difficulties OK, after admitting that I was quite proficient at installing Red Hat Linux, and after becoming very disilussioned with Red Hat (i.e., the Linux version of Microsoft), I purchased the Mandrake distribution v. 7.0. Now, my hard disk has already been partitioned into 4 separate compartments, as I was running Windows 98 and Windows NT. However, I wiped my "C" hard disk in order to uninstall NT. Now, after attempting to install the Mandrake Linux, I came to a dead end. Admittedly, my hard disk is still partitoned, in other words, I only wiped the "C" drive. I attempted to install the Mandrake Linux, and after re-booting, nothing happened, and the box automatically went into the Windows 98 O/S. Any ideas, suggestions, etc.? What do I need to do to install the Mandrake Linux O/S? Any help would be accepted. Regards, Bob Hi, may be you should reinstall MDK and when you are configuring the partitions, in the installation, try to delete them and rebuild them paying attention on it, then when the installation prompt you where to save lilo, choose MBR, and I think this may help, I hope so!! Good luck!! Emilio Correa e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tuayuda.com.ar (Informática/Listas de Correo)
RE: [newbie] Installation difficulties
I don't know if this would help... but I'm running Linux, win98, and win2000 on my computer. What I did was designate the first 8 megs of my first hard drive as /boot and then after that I set up the win2000 partion and the win98 partion on that drive. I then installed linux on the beginning of my second hard drive so I could use lilo and not worry about the 1024 thing. I then set the linux /boot partion as the active one. So now when I boot I get a choice between linux and windows and then if I choose windows it sends me to the 2000 boot loader and I get a choice between win2000 and win98. Charles Ulwelling -Original Message- From: Emilio Correa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation difficulties Date sent: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 23:26:10 -0800 From: Ratsnake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ratsnake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Installation difficulties OK, after admitting that I was quite proficient at installing Red Hat Linux, and after becoming very disilussioned with Red Hat (i.e., the Linux version of Microsoft), I purchased the Mandrake distribution v. 7.0. Now, my hard disk has already been partitioned into 4 separate compartments, as I was running Windows 98 and Windows NT. However, I wiped my "C" hard disk in order to uninstall NT. Now, after attempting to install the Mandrake Linux, I came to a dead end. Admittedly, my hard disk is still partitoned, in other words, I only wiped the "C" drive. I attempted to install the Mandrake Linux, and after re-booting, nothing happened, and the box automatically went into the Windows 98 O/S. Any ideas, suggestions, etc.? What do I need to do to install the Mandrake Linux O/S? Any help would be accepted. Regards, Bob Hi, may be you should reinstall MDK and when you are configuring the partitions, in the installation, try to delete them and rebuild them paying attention on it, then when the installation prompt you where to save lilo, choose MBR, and I think this may help, I hope so!! Good luck!! Emilio Correa e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tuayuda.com.ar (Informática/Listas de Correo)
RE: [newbie] Installation difficulties
You don't need to edit lilo.conf. I had this problem last week, and someone pointed out the same error on my part. THANKS! Sorry I can't remember you name. Anyway, you can run the upgrade option on DrakX and fix it that way. Just select /dev/hda for booting and you're ready to rock. ... Now, if I could just get my sound card (built in ESS1888) to not die after 4 seconds of running and MP3 file. -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Installation difficulties RatsnakeBobit sounds like you installed lilo to the /boot partition not the mbr. You need to boot into linux with yout boot floppy that you made during the installation process. Then you need to edit the first line of '/etc/lilo.conf' by removing the number only, for instance change: boot=/dev/hda1 to boot=/dev/hda now open a console as the root user and type: /sbin/lilo after this the system should boot by default into linux or you can choose win98 by typing windows (or maybe dos, whatever label is in lilo.conf) at the lilo 'boot:' prompt. Alan Ratsnake wrote: OK, after admitting that I was quite proficient at installing Red Hat Linux, and after becoming very disilussioned with Red Hat (i.e., the Linux version of Microsoft), I purchased the Mandrake distribution v. 7.0. Now, my hard disk has already been partitioned into 4 separate compartments, as I was running Windows 98 and Windows NT. However, I wiped my "C" hard disk in order to uninstall NT. Now, after attempting to install the Mandrake Linux, I came to a dead end. Admittedly, my hard disk is still partitoned, in other words, I only wiped the "C" drive. I attempted to install the Mandrake Linux, and after re-booting, nothing happened, and the box automatically went into the Windows 98 O/S. Any ideas, suggestions, etc.? What do I need to do to install the Mandrake Linux O/S? Any help would be accepted. Regards, Bob
Re: [newbie] Installation difficulties
RatsnakeBobit sounds like you installed lilo to the /boot partition not the mbr. You need to boot into linux with yout boot floppy that you made during the installation process. Then you need to edit the first line of '/etc/lilo.conf' by removing the number only, for instance change: boot=/dev/hda1 to boot=/dev/hda now open a console as the root user and type: /sbin/lilo after this the system should boot by default into linux or you can choose win98 by typing windows (or maybe dos, whatever label is in lilo.conf) at the lilo 'boot:' prompt. Alan Ratsnake wrote: OK, after admitting that I was quite proficient at installing Red Hat Linux, and after becoming very disilussioned with Red Hat (i.e., the Linux version of Microsoft), I purchased the Mandrake distribution v. 7.0. Now, my hard disk has already been partitioned into 4 separate compartments, as I was running Windows 98 and Windows NT. However, I wiped my "C" hard disk in order to uninstall NT. Now, after attempting to install the Mandrake Linux, I came to a dead end. Admittedly, my hard disk is still partitoned, in other words, I only wiped the "C" drive. I attempted to install the Mandrake Linux, and after re-booting, nothing happened, and the box automatically went into the Windows 98 O/S. Any ideas, suggestions, etc.? What do I need to do to install the Mandrake Linux O/S? Any help would be accepted. Regards, Bob
[newbie] Installation difficulties
OK, after admitting that I was quite proficient at installing Red Hat Linux, and after becoming very disilussioned with Red Hat (i.e., the Linux version of Microsoft), I purchased the Mandrake distribution v. 7.0. Now, my hard disk has already been partitioned into 4 separate compartments, as I was running Windows 98 and Windows NT. However, I wiped my "C" hard disk in order to uninstall NT. Now, after attempting to install the Mandrake Linux, I came to a dead end. Admittedly, my hard disk is still partitoned, in other words, I only wiped the "C" drive. I attempted to install the Mandrake Linux, and after re-booting, nothing happened, and the box automatically went into the Windows 98 O/S. Any ideas, suggestions, etc.? What do I need to do to install the Mandrake Linux O/S? Any help would be accepted. Regards, Bob
