[newbie] Linux mandrake 6.0
hey, ive successfully installed and configured the OS, but how the hell do i get to the GUI interface from the b w prompt shell? im pretty new at linux - what syntax do i need to know? thanx, paul
Re: [newbie] Linux mandrake 6.0
type 'startx' from the prompt (without quotes) Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, ive successfully installed and configured the OS, but how the hell do i get to the GUI interface from the b w prompt shell? im pretty new at linux - what syntax do i need to know? thanx, paul -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 6.0 Question
When you installed 60-2.iso (yes, I'm a newbie), was this an upgrade? I too, purchased the 6.0 version and installed and have had sound problems. What would I look for and download as an upgrade? Beo on my 9th installation but got the second piton in the learning cliff. :) On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Martin, Darin W. wrote: I have a dual P-Pro running Mandrake.. I downloaded the manrake60-2.iso the night after it was posted. It automatically detected that I was running an SMP system and installed the SMP kernel. Every piece of hardware in my system has worked flawlessly since this install. I have an Intel Ether Express Pro 100, Adaptec 2940 UW with two 7200 RPM Quantum drives, a 4 gig Seagate IDE, Mitsumi CD-Rom and CD-RW, I also have a CS4232 sound card. Mandrake has been a pleasant switch for me. I've tried Redhat, and SuSE installs before. And, while I was able to get them working properly, it took a lot of work. Especially with SuSE 6.0. Plus, SuSE had a nasty habit of crashing when trying to access Vfat partitions. Mandrake has been the easiest Linux install I have ever done. The only thing I would recommend is that when you do the install, make sure you install all of the development libraries. That way, if you need to compile something, you can. Darin Martin Sr. Systems Engineer LEXIS-NEXIS -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Linux Mandrake 6.0 Question Hey, all just picked up my copy of Mandrake 6.0 from the computer store (figured I might as well, since no one is going to burn me a copy of the ISO image G) My machine will be a Dual-PPro 200 with 192 Megs of ram and about 10.7 Gigs of drivespace. I haven't picked up a video card yet, but that's the next purchase, along with a "generic" PCI ethernet card. Question is, what should I look out for with regards to installation headaches on this system? I understand Mandrake has a 6.1 version out now (not available in the local stores, apparently.) This is really going to be a "training" machine for me to teach myself Linux Admin skills. Anything I should watch out for with this? Thanks... John ---Beo d'Wulfie 'We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there.'
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 6.0 Question
Martin...Hi...I have a pentium 233mhz...currently running windows 98...I would like to install mandrake...in reading your email..it appears as though you have considerable experience with install...and i would like to know if you would mind assisting me with an install? thanks Shane - Original Message - From: Martin, Darin W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 8:41 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 6.0 Question I have a dual P-Pro running Mandrake.. I downloaded the manrake60-2.iso the night after it was posted. It automatically detected that I was running an SMP system and installed the SMP kernel. Every piece of hardware in my system has worked flawlessly since this install. I have an Intel Ether Express Pro 100, Adaptec 2940 UW with two 7200 RPM Quantum drives, a 4 gig Seagate IDE, Mitsumi CD-Rom and CD-RW, I also have a CS4232 sound card. Mandrake has been a pleasant switch for me. I've tried Redhat, and SuSE installs before. And, while I was able to get them working properly, it took a lot of work. Especially with SuSE 6.0. Plus, SuSE had a nasty habit of crashing when trying to access Vfat partitions. Mandrake has been the easiest Linux install I have ever done. The only thing I would recommend is that when you do the install, make sure you install all of the development libraries. That way, if you need to compile something, you can. Darin Martin Sr. Systems Engineer LEXIS-NEXIS -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 6.0 Question Hey, all just picked up my copy of Mandrake 6.0 from the computer store (figured I might as well, since no one is going to burn me a copy of the ISO image G) My machine will be a Dual-PPro 200 with 192 Megs of ram and about 10.7 Gigs of drivespace. I haven't picked up a video card yet, but that's the next purchase, along with a "generic" PCI ethernet card. Question is, what should I look out for with regards to installation headaches on this system? I understand Mandrake has a 6.1 version out now (not available in the local stores, apparently.) This is really going to be a "training" machine for me to teach myself Linux Admin skills. Anything I should watch out for with this? Thanks... John
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 6.0 Question
Thanks 'Preciate it. I've been building this system out of parts for the last few months, when I could afford some more parts. This mboard has Sound Blaster sound built-in, and I'm going to be using an Advansys SCSI card as well as two 850 meg IDE drives. :-) Should make for an interesting system. 'Preciate all the help and suggestions. I'll do as you suggest and install all the dev libs and such. FWIW, on RedHat at work, I did a custom install, installing everything except the foreign language "how-to" files. :-) John - Original Message - From: Martin, Darin W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 11:41 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 6.0 Question I have a dual P-Pro running Mandrake.. I downloaded the manrake60-2.iso the night after it was posted. It automatically detected that I was running an SMP system and installed the SMP kernel. Every piece of hardware in my system has worked flawlessly since this install. I have an Intel Ether Express Pro 100, Adaptec 2940 UW with two 7200 RPM Quantum drives, a 4 gig Seagate IDE, Mitsumi CD-Rom and CD-RW, I also have a CS4232 sound card. Mandrake has been a pleasant switch for me. I've tried Redhat, and SuSE installs before. And, while I was able to get them working properly, it took a lot of work. Especially with SuSE 6.0. Plus, SuSE had a nasty habit of crashing when trying to access Vfat partitions. Mandrake has been the easiest Linux install I have ever done. The only thing I would recommend is that when you do the install, make sure you install all of the development libraries. That way, if you need to compile something, you can. Darin Martin Sr. Systems Engineer LEXIS-NEXIS -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 6.0 Question Hey, all just picked up my copy of Mandrake 6.0 from the computer store (figured I might as well, since no one is going to burn me a copy of the ISO image G) My machine will be a Dual-PPro 200 with 192 Megs of ram and about 10.7 Gigs of drivespace. I haven't picked up a video card yet, but that's the next purchase, along with a "generic" PCI ethernet card. Question is, what should I look out for with regards to installation headaches on this system? I understand Mandrake has a 6.1 version out now (not available in the local stores, apparently.) This is really going to be a "training" machine for me to teach myself Linux Admin skills. Anything I should watch out for with this? Thanks... John
Re: [newbie] Linux (Mandrake 6.0) hangs on reboot after installation.(Not LI...
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im not sure what it might be, but i think that it is probley the fact that u have a 486 proccesor, there not supported the LM 6.0 Yet
Re: [newbie] Linux (Mandrake 6.0) hangs on reboot after installation. (Not LILO)
I believe that Mandrake 6.0 is optimized for Pentium class computers . I also read that Mandrake is working on a version for 486's , but do not have one yet . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 10:16 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux (Mandrake 6.0) hangs on reboot after installation. (Not LILO) I recently bought a copy of Mandrake 6.0 to install on my computer: AMD 486-66 DX 32 MB. Ram Future Domain 1660 SCSI Adaptor 1.2 gig SCSI drive (ID 0) 516 mb SCSI drive (ID 6) Partitions: most of drive 0 is windows. The remainder: /swap -Linux Swap, 64 MB /boot -Linux Native, 16 MB /home- 60 mb -Linix Native Drive 1: / - Linux Native, 515 mb ATATPI CD Rom (Mitsumi FS600) Video card is an S3 801/805 with S3 Gendac. Some sort of network card (the machine isn't connected to anything) Cardinal 144I modem (not used) Logitech Mouseman+ compatable 3 button wheel mouse (Serial) Aztech Sound Galaxy 16 bit sound card. I am trying to use Mandrake 6.0, May 22 build. Here is my problem: I started by attempting to use the boot disk supplied with the distribution. It got to the point where it said 'beginning install...', (I think that it was three dots), and froze. I switched to a different virtual console and got the message hda lost interrupt, or something similar. I eventually figured out that I needed a better boot disk and downloaded one from the linux-mandrake.com site. This allowed me to run the installation program. I installed linux on my hard drives three times, using different combinations of partitions on different disks, and each time got the same error. LILO pops up, I pick linux, it uncompresses the images (?), and gets as far as detecting my ATAPI CD-ROM drive, but then it hangs (I've left it there for over an hour with no improvement). I can't hear any drive activity, so it doesn't appear to be doing anything (endless loop?). The message is something like: hda IDE ATAPI CD ROM FS600S... Since I have tried installing the product three times already, I have no idea what else to do. Could it be that it is not installing the correct boot image? Is this a problem with the kernel? Is this problem similar to the one with the bad boot disk? I don't believe that this is a LILO problem, as I have successfully used LILO in the past (I ran Red Hat 4 a with LILO). How do I fix it? Is it possible to get updated media, as my only net access is on a 486-25sx running AOL on a 28.8 modem, and there is no way to move large files from one PC to the other. Thank you very much, Gregory R. Bronner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
