I have the following hardware:
P75 16meg RAM, S3 virge graphics card, IBM PS1 monitor, no cdrom.
I am attempting to install mandrake 7.02 via local ftp.
Upon installation it gets to the stage where the graphics/monitor tests take
place. Essentially, it detects the graphics card correctly then moves on to
the monitor tests....at this stage it repeatedly fails over and over again..
no matter what settings i choose. So if i choose to skip this part and
complete the installation...after the installation it then reboots.
After rebooting i cannot then login as root even though i know the password
to be correct (no caps or tabs included when i entered the password). I can
successfully login as the other user ..but not root.
I've also tried booting in single user mode and issuing a 'passwd root' but
this also has no effect.
So i have no access to Xwindows...nor can i login as root.
The monitor is extremely old (circa 93) but it runs windoze 95/98 !!
I think these are some of its specs ( i digged around the IBM site for
these):
640 x 350 (70Hz)
640 x 480 (60Hz)
720 x 400 (70Hz)
please help!!!
