Can anyone tell me the successful way install mandrake on a macintosh?
I can't do this to save my life and I can't tell what my problem is.
It seems my issue is with the install display which I don't have the
first clue how to fix. Even if I do the install via text-installer,
when I go to boot
On Monday 12 July 2004 02:57 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:
On July 12, 2004 11:48, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Monday 12 July 2004 12:40 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
ok, this is getting a bit off topic, but...
how do i make it bootable with the cdrom boot image? i found the
raw tree for
I want to install Mandrake 10 in a computer that doesn´t have internet
conection
Can I download the upgrades and then upgrade Mandrake 10 from a CD?
Thanks
Ary Kaplan Nakamura
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On July 12, 2004 03:57, Ary Kaplan Nakamura wrote:
I want to install Mandrake 10 in a computer that doesn´t have internet
conection
Can I download the upgrades and then upgrade Mandrake 10 from a CD?
Thanks
Ary Kaplan Nakamura
Two ways; copy
Dnia pon 12. lipca 2004 23:57, Ary Kaplan Nakamura napisa:
I want to install Mandrake 10 in a computer that doesnt have internet
conection
Can I download the upgrades and then upgrade Mandrake 10 from a CD?
Thanks
Ary Kaplan Nakamura
Yes...
--
Cezary Thereidos Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GG#
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:54:01 -0700
Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Me, too. If I want to urpmi something from the install disks I don't
have to shove them in the drive. Sweet.
I wasn't aware one could install from just the images located somewhere
on the drive, and I imagine that the
Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs from the ISO
images (which I have downloaded). I presently have Windows 98 and Fedora
Core 2 on my system
Thanks
Preston
---
Betti Ann Preston Smith, Head of St Margaret's Bay, NS,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1962 MGA 1600 MK II, 1980 MGB
On Saturday 19 June 2004 06:57, Betti Ann Preston Smith wrote:
Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs from
the ISO
images (which I have downloaded). I presently have Windows 98 and
Fedora
Core 2 on my system
Thanks
Preston
---
Betti Ann Preston Smith, Head
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 21:57, Betti Ann Preston Smith wrote:
Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs from the ISO
images (which I have downloaded). I presently have Windows 98 and Fedora
Core 2 on my system
Thanks
Preston
You can do various flavors of network
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 07:57, Betti Ann Preston Smith wrote:
Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs from the ISO
images (which I have downloaded). I presently have Windows 98 and Fedora
Core 2 on my system
Thanks
Preston
Take a look at install.html in the iso file
Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs
from the ISO images (which I have downloaded). I presently have
Windows 98 and Fedora Core 2 on my system
I never tried it, but here was a previous post:
Well, you can also install mandrake from
On Saturday 19 June 2004 09:37 am, Eric Huff wrote:
| Is there a way to install mandrake 10 without creating the CDs
| from the ISO images (which I have downloaded). I presently have
| Windows 98 and Fedora Core 2 on my system
|
| I never tried it, but here was a previous post:
|
|
hello!
trying to install mandrake 9.2 over xp pro. but on a laptop (compaq armada 7800, 300
mhz/190 mb/3Gb) without a disk or a cd drive. don'nt have access to bios, probably
it's deleted. im thinking that mayby i can change the boot.ini or autoexec.bat etc
files. i do have an usb box with a
- Original Message -
From: Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help
On Sunday 25 January 2004 08:31 pm, Josh Peters wrote:
Ok, here's what I have so far.
I installed mandrake 9.2 (my original cd
PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:29:30 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help
On Sunday 25 January 2004 09:00 pm, Josh Peters wrote:
Oh yeah, I still have the exact same error.
Sorry, you're farther along than I thought (ignore
On Monday 26 January 2004 06:43 pm, Rude Boy wrote:
Hi Erylon,
You seem like you know pretty much XFree86.
I was hoping that you might help me. I just install MDK 9.2 download
edition. Every thing went ok. I change some setting in Gnome Desktop GUI.
One day, I tried to boot - like everynight
On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:07 pm, Josh Peters wrote:
Hi Everyone.
I'm installing mandrake 9.2 on an ibm pentium 2, 450, 256 ram.
It wouldn't boot from the cd, so I made a floppy. I got a little further,
this error message:
syslinux 1.67 mandrake linux boot failed
I've tried using both
PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Help
On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:07 pm, Josh Peters wrote:
Hi Everyone.
I'm installing mandrake 9.2 on an ibm pentium 2, 450, 256 ram.
It wouldn't boot from the cd, so I made a floppy. I got a little further,
this error message
Hi Everyone.
I'm installing mandrake 9.2 on an ibm pentium 2, 450, 256 ram.
It wouldn't boot from the cd, so I made a floppy. I got a little further,
this error message:
syslinux 1.67 mandrake linux boot failed
I've tried using both disk 1 and 2 to boot from.
Anyone have any other tips?
BTW, I am
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 6:46 am, vikrant joshi wrote:
Hi ,
I am an absolute newbie to LInux. I want to install Mandrake9.1 on my
windows 98 machine. How do I go about it ? This may sound a very very basic
question . But if somebody can give me a step by step approach that will be
great.
I am interested in learning mandrake linux.
The computer I would install to already has WinXP Pro on the first hdd, and has
FreeBSD 4.6 on the second hdd. Thatsecond drive has about 25GB of
unpartioned space I can put mandrake on.
When I install mandrake, will it have it's own boot
manager
Yes, it's called LILO (LInuxLOader) and is very OS flexible.
Cheers
Jason
Eric Greene wrote:
I am interested in learning mandrake linux. The computer I would
install to already has WinXP Pro on the first hdd, and has FreeBSD 4.6
on the second hdd. That second drive has about 25GB of
] Installing Mandrake
Hi JB,
Welcome to mandrake.
You did the correct think by asking.
The answer to your question depends upon how much space you have
available on your hard drives and to what use you want to make of
Mandrake.
Whilst you could of simply adopted / base as a mount point
JB,
OK then should be quite simple, and as a newbie you don't want to be
remaking everything and reinstalling everything including the windblows
OS's . So basically it's the size of the last partition on the second
drive that you have to play with, and it's only large enough to do an
ordinary
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
October 16, 2003 12:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
JB,
OK then should be quite simple, and as a newbie you don't want to be
remaking everything and reinstalling everything including the windblows
OS's . So basically it's the size of the last
I had this problem with my toshiba satellite, the problem arises from the bios
configuration, because the pcmcia was configured as automatic configuration,
I changed this and the computer start linux without any problem (7.2). Later
I have installed 8.0, 8.2 and now 9.0 and is runing actually
Today I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop.
Or I tried to, anyway.
I simply used the standard install CD's (downloaded
from the Mandrake site). They booted just fine, and
the install ran without a hitch.
I did get one message telling me that some of my
hardware required proprietary
On Saturday 08 February 2003 15:43, Bruce Zink wrote:
Today I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop.
Or I tried to, anyway.
I simply used the standard install CD's (downloaded
from the Mandrake site). They booted just fine, and
the install ran without a hitch.
I did get one message
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 17:43, Bruce Zink wrote:
Today I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop.
Or I tried to, anyway.
I simply used the standard install CD's (downloaded
from the Mandrake site). They booted just fine, and
the install ran without a hitch.
I did get one message
On Monday 13 Jan 2003 7:58 am, Jerry Barton wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:51:07 +1100
Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
At some stage I am intending on upgrading my machine to Mandrake 9
(groing from Mandrake 8.2). Rather than just do an upgrade I am planning
on just installing
Hi,
At some stage I am intending on upgrading my
machine to Mandrake 9 (groing from Mandrake 8.2). Rather than just do an upgrade
I am planning on just installing Mandrake 9.0 (i.e. re-do everything). However I
am wondering what I should back up to cd before I do it. I have backed up my
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:51:07 +1100
Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
At some stage I am intending on upgrading my machine to Mandrake 9 (groing from
Mandrake 8.2). Rather than just do an upgrade I am planning on just installing
Mandrake 9.0 (i.e. re-do everything). However I am wondering
Hi,
My computer currently only has windows, but I am trying to installing
Mandrake 8.1 on it. When I try and install it fails to detect my hard
drive. I believe this is because it is connected to a Highpoint Rocket
133 card. I have the linux drivers for this card but was not sure how to
get the
shane wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 06:42 am, Brian Parish did speak unto the huddled
masses, saying:
Sorry, 8.x is not going to run on a 486 no matter how much RAM you have
- it's compiled for Pentium. Maybe try 7.2?
7.2 is pent as well if i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mandrake 8.1 is supposed to be installable with 32Mb RAM,
in text mode.
I have a 486, and upgraded its memory to 32Mb specifically
so I could install Mandrake. (The computer can't handle
more than 32Mb.)
You'll need a version compiled for the i486. The last
Mandrake 8.1 is supposed to be installable with 32Mb RAM, in text mode.
I have a 486, and upgraded its memory to 32Mb specifically so I could
install Mandrake. (The computer can't handle more than 32Mb.)
I boot from the floppy and install from the CD-ROM. It recognizes the
non-standard Sony
Mandrake 8.1 is compiled for a Pentium class machine. It aint gonna run on a
486.
derek
On Monday 10 June 2002 12:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mandrake 8.1 is supposed to be installable with 32Mb RAM, in text mode.
I have a 486, and upgraded its memory to 32Mb specifically so I could
Derek Jennings wrote:
Mandrake 8.1 is compiled for a Pentium class machine. It aint gonna run on a
486.
There are versions for i386 (and therefore 486's), though I don't know
if 8.2 is among them. Certainly earlier releases of Mandrake are
available. On this subject, while I appreciate the
Hi Ka Wai TAM
I think you are out on a challange / maybe getting over your head on
this installation.
The machine (you have in mind) would not performe very well for MDK
8.x - Why don't you get the MDK 7.x - If you have a reconable or
normal netcard it will be detected.
Even if you would
CDROM is known to be good isn't it?
-Original Message-
From: gerry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1
On a machine on which I have
On a machine on which I have been able to install Suse 6.4 and Mandrake
7.1 I get the following problem when trying to install Mandrake 8.1:
Mounting /dev/ram3 on /tmp/stage2 as type ext2
Mount failed: invalid argument
Or
(4) VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ram disk (1,3).
Any
Greetings all,
I am attempting to get Mandrake up and running on a Sparc 5. I got it
installed (I think), but can't seem to boot into it. I get the following
message on boot:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable
Anyone have any idea? Or a solution?
Thanks,
Jason
Want
Hi,
I'm attempting to install ML 8.0RC1-1ppc to an Apple B/W G3 minitower. This
system has two scsi hard drives, where one is the original drive from apple
(IBM 9.1Gb Deskstar scsi-2) and the other I added (IBM 18.2Gb Ultrastar
scsi-2).
I'm booting the Mandrake installer from a CD... and all
Hello! I recently tried to install Mandrake 7.2 on my
computer that has windows 2000 on it also. Before
anything, I want to describe the setup I have.
I have 2 hardrives. The primary drive has windows
2000 on it and the second drive is for Mandrake.
Anyway, I installed Mandrake on the second
: Monday, January 08, 2001 8:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2 from ISO image
Hello,
I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 . I have downloaded the file
mandrake72-inst.iso and burned it onto a cd. I have also crated a floppy
boot disc to start the installation.
When I
Hi *!*@*,
I'm trying to install 7.2 on my machine.
I got an 800MHz Thunderbird on an ABit KT7-RAID. I have disaibled all
IDE controllers on the board. There is an IBM DDRS 9 GB SCSI drive and
a Pioneer DVD-304 drive connected to my Advance Peripherals 2941 U2W
SCSI Controller. After a lot of
Martin Sprenger wrote:
Hi *!*@*,
I'm trying to install 7.2 on my machine.
I got an 800MHz Thunderbird on an ABit KT7-RAID. I have disaibled all
IDE controllers on the board. There is an IBM DDRS 9 GB SCSI drive and
a Pioneer DVD-304 drive connected to my Advance Peripherals 2941 U2W
Mr. Sprenger
That has happened to me but not with the Mandrake install cd but with my
bootcd I made (yeah...I wasted one ;-)...literally it didn't work). Hmm...I
don't know how to fix it or I probably wouldn't have thrown my cd I made
away.
Mr. Smith
Hi *!*@*,
I'm trying to install 7.2 on
SM What vga card do you have?
At the moment I have my brothers Geforce 2 GTS installed. I also have
a ELSA Erazor II (Riva TNT). I'll try again with the other card in a
few days. I don't think it's the VGA card. I think I can install fine
when I enable my onboard IDE controller. I don't want to
hey, That GeForce2 GTS isn't a 3d prophet2 is it? The kt7 and 3d
prophets don't play nice together in any OS. Learned that one the hard
way ;-)
Abe
Martin Sprenger wrote:
SM What vga card do you have?
At the moment I have my brothers Geforce 2 GTS installed. I also have
a ELSA Erazor
Hi there!
I have a problem with my new Linux-system.
It's an old computer with the following components:
AMD K6-2 300MHz, 64MB SDRAM(66), Gigabyte 586s2 (SIS5582 Chipset), ATI@work,
and an old SB16!
I installed the system (by automatic install) and everything seemed to work.
The first thing I
Mark Lee
-Original Message-
From: Thorsten Schramm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 9:21 AM
To: Mandrake-Linux Newsgroup
Subject: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 7.2
Hi there!
I have a problem with my new Linux-system.
It's an old computer with the following components
Hi,
i want to install Mandrake using ftp. Because i want to install it in
several boxs and the cd-rom drives are in no so good shape i want to fetch
the packages from a local ftp, what should i do?
Thanks
Lefteris Sidirourgos
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. Sorry for my english :)
Hello Gurus,
I have successfully installed the OS onto one machine here at work. I am now
trying to do the same for a second machine.
After booting from floppy I press Return to start booting the install, it gets
as far as a blue Message box that says Initializing CDROM then I get ...
in
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:06:45 +, you wrote:
Hello Gurus,
I have successfully installed the OS onto one machine here at work. I am now
trying to do the same for a second machine.
After booting from floppy I press Return to start booting the install, it gets
as far as a blue Message box
Hi, I've gota notebook (IBM TP 380E) without
a cdrom but a 100 Mbit PCMCIA network card and a floppy, I want to install Linux
Mandrake over a ftp server (in my local network)
I created two bootdisks (installer and pcmcia
module disk)
but in the installation procedure when asking me for a
Hey!
Installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem...
Using the startdisk from the cd I can't configure the X-Server. I can't skip
this point and so the only thing I can do is reset the computer. But then I
can't start the computer. So ... I can't install Mandrake 6.1.
I don't know where I can find
Can u be a bit more specific?
--- Helmut Halfmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey!
Installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem...
Using the startdisk from the cd I can't configure
the X-Server. I can't skip
this point and so the only thing I can do is reset
the computer. But then I
can't
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Can u be a bit more specific?
I try so ;-)
I'm using a Pentium Pro 200, 48 MB Ram, Adaptec 2920, 4,3 GB IBM HD, ATI Mach
64 2MB... thats my hardware.
I start with a startdisk and choose "expert".
Then I can pass every part of the configuartion without a
Does DiskDruid show you that there are some extra DOS partitions there?
Left over from installing Win98? Maybe that is the problem. You may
have to delete them (but not the one where your win98 resides).
--- phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having trouble installing this. When I try to
create
No, there is only one for win98 FAT, but it is set for the full 4 megs space.
Could this be the problem? Do I have to reduce the amount of space alloted to
win98?
Phil
Steve Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does DiskDruid show you that there are some extra DOS partitions there?
Left over from
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, you wrote:
No, there is only one for win98 FAT, but it is set for the full 4 megs space.
Could this be the problem? Do I have to reduce the amount of space alloted to
win98?
Phil
Here Phil, the easiest way would be to get a program called Partition Magic
4.0. By the
I'll do it thanks for the tip.
Phil
Jeremy Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, you wrote:
No, there is only one for win98 FAT, but it is set for the full 4 megs
space.
Could this be the problem? Do I have to reduce the amount of space alloted
to
win98?
Phil
Here Phil, the
Hi
Today I downloaded Mandrake Linux and burn the ISO to the CD. Right now
i trying to install
Linux in a computer with no CD.
I downloaded the entire CD (via Windows network) to a subdirectory in
the hard disk c:\cdrom.
I began installing using Mandrake for Windows which
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, you wrote:
I began installing using Mandrake for Windows which install very easy.
After the reboot the
install continues but then it needs the files to continue, but after
trying both obtions I cannot
continue.
Can anyone help me.
TIA
Ok, just recieved my Mandrake 6.0 CD from LinuxMall and read the README.
Can I or can I not install Mandrake 6.0 on my 486 off this CD? The
prerequisite info on the LinuMall site says yes but the CD README says you
can only install it on Pentium class computers and a download/cheap CD
will be
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, John H. Soper wrote:
Ok, just recieved my Mandrake 6.0 CD from LinuxMall and read the README.
Can I or can I not install Mandrake 6.0 on my 486 off this CD?
No.
I searched all over the Mandrake site and there is no mention of a 486 CPU
specific download or CD.
That's
I am hoping that someone will be able to help me with some tech support on upgrading
to kernel 2.2.7 and mandrake 6.
I was logged in and installing the new rpms that are out at rufus.w3.org and hit a
glitch in KDE. I was thrown back to the login screen and when I tried to restart KDE,
I
michael.thorp [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said:
The exact error message is as follows:
Authentication failed
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error
This
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Birchall, Richard
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 8:46 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Installing Mandrake Upgrades
michael.thorp [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said:
The exact error message
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Bernardo Rodrigues wrote:
However there seems to be a small problem wit the task bar, it slides
all the time ( form left to right and viceversa), I had some fun with
it but now it is a bit annoying. How do I fix this?
Hmmm... I've never had such a problem, but I
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/01/99 04:48PM
On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:07:14 +0200, you wrote:
First it sounds like you are selecting and setting up for the lowest
resolution and screen size. In xf86config at the selection where it
asks you if you want the default resolution or to select your
Hi Mauro,
You're a star. I've tried all the suggestions that you've sent to me
and all of them work just fine.
I can get many colors and no longer have the darkish background. Also
no problems with the refresh rate and the resolution. I went as far as
1280x1024 and no complains whatsoever. KDE
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:22:08 +0200, you wrote:
Hi All,
Thanks for the help with the installation of Mandrake 5.3. The
installation went smooth and nicely, the only trouble at the moment is
to configure the Xwindows. I am having a 15" Tatung monitor with max
res 1024*768 and a refresh rate in
Hi
I an a Linux noobie -
I have Mandrake 5.3 installed as well as Windoze 95 =
why dont you make the current Primary master your slave(ie:change the
jumper settings on both HDD's ) and the current Secondary Master to the
primary master
i know from repeated installs of win95 that it prefers to
75 matches
Mail list logo
