Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 October 2002 2:07 pm, Jason Drushel did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: First of all, system specs. It's a Dell Inspiron 3200, P2-233 with 32mb RAM, 4gb HD, Neologic or somesuch video card. Any suggestions? either get some

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread Anthony Hopkin
Hi Jason, Welcome - The bad news is that 32 MB is probably too little for what you have in mind using Mdk 9. I had an old Dell with 64 MB - I eventually had to add 128 MB to make a fist of the hardware. Then it went along fine - on mdk 8.2 and now 9.0. (it chokes on Windows 98, NT and XP)

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Drushel
Win98 runs just fine on it. You're the third person to suggest RAM as the problem, so I'm more inclined to believe it now. And I can see that causing the various freezes during installation. But the error messages? How would that account for the securitypolicy and hard drive detection

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread mike
Jason Drushel wrote: Win98 runs just fine on it. You're the third person to suggest RAM as the problem, so I'm more inclined to believe it now. And I can see that causing the various freezes during installation. But the error messages? How would that account for the securitypolicy and

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Drushel
Using the linux expert noauto command at the prompt I'm at about 66% through file copying, which is further than I've ever gotten into the installation. I'm sure now that I've said something about it it'll crap out on me though. If so, I'll give 8.x a try, thanks. With a low ram setup all

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread Todd Flinders
This probably won't help, but check in the laptop's BIOS and make sure that Plug Pray OS is turned off (if applicable). It sounds like it's having difficulty detecting your hardware. Turning this off should help. On Friday 11 October 2002 02:07 pm, Jason Drushel wrote: Hi guys, new to the

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 9.0

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Drushel
You were right the first time, it didn't help. :-p I downloaded 8.2 and went to install it, but half of the installation menu came up (yes, half) before giving me a boot failed message. May be the blanks I'm using, because the CD reads fine in my desktop systems. But still no luck for me in

Re: [newbie] installation problems

2002-02-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:40:33 +0100 Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually a beginner. I've just installed Mandrake linux v.8.1 Everything seems ok but using both KDE or GNOME I get a large dotted square moving together with the cursor. Can anyone help me ? Thank

Re: [newbie] installation problems

2002-02-13 Thread Paul
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:40:33 +0100 Frank wrote: I'm actually a beginner. I've just installed Mandrake linux v.8.1 Everything seems ok but using both KDE or GNOME I get a large dotted square moving together with the cursor. Can anyone help me ? Thank You! Edit

Re: [newbie] installation problems

2002-02-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:40:33 +0100, Frank wrote: I'm actually a beginner. I've just installed Mandrake linux v.8.1 Everything seems ok but using both KDE or GNOME I get a large dotted square moving together with the cursor. Can anyone help me ? Thank You! Francesco Well

Re: [newbie] Installation problems with 8.0

2001-07-20 Thread robert wydler haduch
bob; when i purchased 8.0 from mandrake direct, they included an extra copy of cd 1 and cd 2 with the comment that the boxed cds were not correctly burned. you may want to talk to mandrake about it At 08:13 PM 7/19/2001 +0200, you wrote: I purchased today Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack, but the

Re: [newbie] Installation Problems

2001-07-12 Thread etharp
not a problem... I am sure you will enjoy Mandrake and all the toys. If I might make a suggestion though, to reply to the list as well, since i am only a few reinstalls ahead, and have been known to not know the best way to do something, and have learned much by being corrected on this list.

RE: [newbie] installation problems with L.M. 7.0

2001-03-10 Thread Paul Rodríguez
DO you plan to dual boot this machine or use just for Linux? If you plan to just run linux (which sounds best on this machine), you could try fdisk first, try reformatting the drive. Also, make sure that your system is not using EZ-BIOS to access the hard drive, I've heard Linux does not like

Re: [newbie] Installation problems...

2000-06-30 Thread Mark Weaver
ok...first thing...if you're not already boot CDROM as opposed to using a floppy to boot from to do the install. that seems to work much better. second...try using the text mode for installation. it goes much faster and smoother. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows

Re: [newbie] Installation problems still.....

2000-06-30 Thread David Talbot
Try installing "safely" by that I mean, don't configure any network or printers (skip the bootdisk ect) Anything to get through the installer faster. Handle X configuration after install. (I only give this advice on a very onry system). I'd also suggest saying NO when it asks you if you have any

Re: [newbie] Installation problems...

2000-06-30 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
You are right. Don't do the X test. And SCSI test if you haven't. All goes well. Eric Bouropoulos Andreas wrote: Hello there, I have some trouble installing Mandrake on my system and would like some help. The problem is that, when I boot from a disk (being created by rawrite using

Re: [newbie] Installation problems still.....

2000-06-30 Thread Sthitaprajna
On 30 Jun 00, at 14:45, Andreas B. wrote: CD is bootable...my CD just cannot boot from ANY cdrom. (I tried using a 16x Toshiba and that cannot autoboot either). The controls fo booting from the CD are in the BIOS. When you start your machine and the RAM check is going on, press the DEL key,

Re: [newbie] Installation problems...

2000-06-30 Thread Romanator
I tried installing MDK7.0 and 7.1 from my CD and it installed perfectly. Roman Mark Weaver wrote: ok...first thing...if you're not already boot CDROM as opposed to using a floppy to boot from to do the install. that seems to work much better. second...try using the text mode for

Re: [newbie] Installation problems still.....

2000-06-30 Thread GAPrichard
Depending on the motherboard CMOS (the motherboard BIOS) is often reached by DEL. But on some motherboards it could be F2, F10 or many other possibilities. Depending on the capabilities of the BIOS it may or may not be possible to set the CD ROM to boot. -Gary- In a message dated

Re: [newbie] Installation problems

2000-05-03 Thread poogle
If it came as a cover CD I will be surprised if it is i486 - suggest you go to Mandrake's website and download the version you need On Wed, 03 May 2000, you wrote: Andy, thanks for your help, but the CD I have came with a magazine. It's called MDK 7.02, but how can I verify if it is i486iso?

Re: [newbie] Installation problems

2000-05-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Rodrigodownload the 486 version of the 7.0-2 iso image and install it instead. Alan wrote: Hi people! I'm new here, and, unhappily, I'm in need of some help... I tried to install Mandrake 7.02 in my 486 (yeah, believe, a 486... they still exist...) through different ways. Both

Re: [newbie] Installation problems

2000-05-02 Thread Rodrigo
Andy, thanks for your help, but the CD I have came with a magazine. It's called MDK 7.02, but how can I verify if it is i486iso? Andy wrote: Did you download or make sure it was the i486iso? I get that Soceket error when the resolutions are too high or some configurations arent right

Re: [newbie] Installation problems

2000-05-02 Thread Andy
. - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problems Rodrigodownload the 486 version of the 7.0-2 iso image and install it instead. Alan wrote: Hi people! I'm new here

Re: [newbie] Installation problems

2000-05-02 Thread Andy
is it fun on a 56k. - Original Message - From: Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 7:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problems Andy, thanks for your help, but the CD I have came with a magazine. It's called MDK 7.02, but how can I verify if it

Re: [newbie] Installation problems

2000-05-02 Thread Andy
Oh yeah also im guessing that yours isnt in the iso format. - Original Message - From: Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 7:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation problems Andy, thanks for your help, but the CD I have came with a magazine

Re: [newbie] Installation problems

2000-05-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Rodrigoit is not the i486 iso image. The i486 iso image is only available for download from Mandrake mirror sites. Nobody has commercially burned the i486 iso image onto a CD. The way you can tell if it's 486 is that is that all of the rpms will have 486 as part of their file name. for

Re: [newbie] installation problems = (

2000-04-26 Thread Andy
run "XF86Setup". and "Setup" by simply typing it in without quotes. Then see if it will work.You need to be in root _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html

Re: [newbie] installation problems = (

2000-04-26 Thread flupke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ya - well here is my sad sad story I bought Mandrake 7.0 on Sunday, and I've been working on installing it properly since. I've already ditched a class, and I'm going to not go to school again tonight, just so I can install linux. hm. Bad, bad boy! :-) If

Re: [newbie] installation problems

2000-04-07 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Dean Gentry wrote: I went from susie to mandrake and it was hell. I lost everything and started over. Once i started over everything went fine, but all of may data was lost. Upgrading was impossible for me. Personally, I don't think you will find much of a solution here. And it's all

Re: [newbie] installation problems

2000-04-07 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Dean Gentry wrote: I went from susie to mandrake and it was hell. I lost everything and started over. Once i started over everything went fine, but all of may data was lost. Upgrading was impossible for me. Personally, I don't think you will find much of a solution here. I should note

Re: [newbie] installation problems

2000-04-06 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
kerroppa kerokero wrote: It went fine until it asked for creating a boot disk. I tied to create a boot disk but got an error message everytime I attempt to create one. ARGH again -- I'll just guess, okay? It's because of the position of the planetary alignment, that's why it doesn't work.

Re: [newbie] Installation Problems

2000-04-04 Thread Jon
edward tharp wrote: just a thought... if you only need the webserverwhy run x at all? --Original Message-- From: "Congdon, Christopher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 29, 2000 3:32:19 PM GMT Subject: [newbie] Installation Problems I've been trying

Re: [Re: [newbie] Installation Problems]

2000-03-29 Thread Jim Simpson
FWIW I'm using the ATI Expert98 too and never a problem. But Mandrake 7.0 did not auto-detect it during install. Jim "bryan pryor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm really new to this, but I had a Trident 975 AGP vid card, and try as i might, i could not get it to work. I went out and bought an

Re: [newbie] Installation problems on laptop

2000-03-24 Thread Jon
Here is how I would try it. (doesn't mean it will work, let us know!) If you have windoze on it, skip to copy files I would grab a dos systems disk with fdisk.exe on it and put a dos partition. format it for dos with: format c: /s copy loadlin.exe and txt_boot.img off the cd (leave cd in drive)

Re: [newbie] installation problems- Adaptec SCSI card

2000-03-15 Thread Funk Soul Brother
Im having the same problem.. lemme know if you get some help.. I tried reading the how -tos and i cant figure it out. Someone told me to type a command line in at the lilo boot thing, but it still doesnt work..?? any help would be appreciated!! thanks..:) Paul

Re: [newbie] installation problems- Adaptec SCSI card

2000-03-14 Thread nodyak0
Linux/Mandrake 7.0 said to 'DISABLE' PNP in the CMOS before installing the system. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I thought I knew Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew. On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:18:20 -0500 "Michael Wagg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

RE: [newbie] Installation Problems

1999-09-15 Thread Kaplan, Paul
I had some mouse problems installing RH6 (not MDK). Even though the installer supposedly recognized everything correctly, the solution was to manually configure the mouse and keyboard. Go figure! ** Paul L. Kaplan, Ph.D., M.B.A. Program

Re: [newbie] Installation problems - cd-rom unable to be found

1999-08-16 Thread Andrea Celli
Vishaal Kapoor wrote: I've just purchases the The Complete Linux Operating System 6.0 software package and I am having trouble with installation. I thought maybe someone could help me out. I am having trouble in the installation process after choosing an installation from Local cd-rom