Linux

[MattK]

OK, its 12:09am and my PC is giving me grief so I decide to wipe it and install Mandrake 9.1 on it.

I am in the middle of installing it now and its already given me some errors about my Hard Drive.... is there any major thing I should look out for?

[FotoPlasma]

If you post the error message you're getting, it'd be a lot easier to help you...

[MattK]

Originally posted by FotoPlasma
If you post the error message you're getting, it'd be a lot easier to help you...

Well, It was a issue with my partitions... but beleave it or not I had to use my windows 2k installer CD to make the partition. It seems to be working now

[Frank(Aflak)]

I would have suggested RedHat 9. Brand new, awesome. Free. And the install is like magic. If you have a free partition, you can set up a dual boot with a few clicks. Like I said, its magic.

[robot180]

I got a cd copy of Yellowdog Linux from a friend on the robotics team. I tried installing it on one of my computers. It is a Sony Vaio currently with Windows95, a 3 gig hard drive and a slow processor. It has one cd rom but does not auto-play a cd, which I will mention in a minute. The txt readme file says to insert the cd, reboot, and hold the "c" key while the computer boots. I did that and a screen said, "Error: a key on the keyboard is stuck in the down position. Please fix this problem and press Esc to continue." It said that I could press F1 for the setup screen so I did. I set the cd-rom as the primary drive and the hard drive as the secondary. It still booted Windows. I can't find any possible way to install Linux on that computer.

[fred]

Last time I got mad at my computer I intalled an ice-pick into its monitor.

[Frank(Aflak)]

robot180: What the readme probably means is that it wants you to boot from the CD. The press the 'c' key down probably will accomplish that on *some* motherboards, but not all.

What you need to do is this: get into the BIOS. once you here your mobo beep after pressing the button (the mobo beep, not your speakers) hit the delete key (you only need to do it once, but I usually mash it untill I see the BIOS come up) and then you will get into the BIOS. it looks like a really old school computer display. search through the options untill you find the boot order, usually its defaulted to floppy, then Hard drive. What you need to do is set it so that it boots from your CD drive first. Then, save and exit, put in your CD, turn it on, and it will boot to your CD.

[robot180]

I tried that already and it skipped the cd rom and looked for the floppy and then the hard drive. It just skips the cd rom.

[118 Tech]

Linux Newbie here. Just starting to learn Redhat 9. For my dual boot setup I used this tip from Kevin Rose from TechTV.

Basicly what i have is a switch that changes the master slave configuration on my hardrives. Its really easy to do and you dont have to mess with the Linux bootloader. That is a plus right now becuase i am a newbie.

so far
/me likes linux