Re:[newbie] Can't install on Dell (Kaj)

2002-03-15 Thread Edvard Wikström
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

Re: [newbie] Can´t install on Dell XPS 180n

2002-03-01 Thread Edvard Wikström
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

RE:Re: [newbie] Can´t install on Dell XPS 180n

2002-02-28 Thread Edvard Wikström
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,

[newbie] Can´t install on Dell XPS 180n

2002-02-27 Thread Edvard Wikström
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

[newbie]

2001-12-22 Thread Edvard Wikström
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,