danleff

The first question is, how many Linux partitions do you have on the system? Also remember that there is also probably a swap space or two as well. Do you have PartitionMagic? If so, you can view how many Linux partitions are on the system an dif you choose, reclaim the space. Don't forget that hidden partition that I spoke of. You DO NOT want to delete this. If you choose to install Linux again, use one of the already existing Linux partiions for the install. Also, I found that Asus motherboards (which you have) have trouble with acpi being set. From the following link; http://www.mithunc.net/NVIDIA/#graphics Quote: Important: A lot of people, especially those using Asus motherboards, have reported problems with Linux locking up randomly with nForce2 chipsets. If you're experiencing this problem, or just to be safe, add the following line to your lilo configuration file (/etc/lilo.conf on most systems): append="noapic nolapic" This will disable the APIC and local APIC function on your CPU. It looks like they are getting close to fixing this problem, but as of 2.6.0 I am still experiencing this problem when the local APIC is enabled. Asus users will also want to disable ACPI with append="noapic nolapic acpi=off" As it too has been causing the random lockups. Please correct me if the the ACPI problem has already been fixed.

What about the following; http://web.wt.net/%7ebillw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html

Yes, I forget that sometimes as well. More are getting the idea that the market is out there and listening to the customer. Time to set up that Lexmark Z-52 in the closet!

Take a look at the following; http://www.audiomulch.com/simulus/p5glove/ http://www.robotgroup.net/index.cgi/P5Glove

Yes, Lindows auto mounts the flash drive. Also, they have included in the kernel the LT winmodem driver. So, this is most likely what you need to get the modem working. What flash drive do you have? Are you sure that the flash drive is not mounted? It may not come up as an icon on the desktop. Look in /mnt and see if an entry is there for the drive, such as flash...stick...whatever. In a console, type dmesg and see if usb-storage is loaded. Look for a line that states the designation of the flash drive, like sda... If that is there and it is not mounted somewhere, then, as root, in a console, make a directory for the flash drive.. mkdir /mnt/flash Then try to mount it with... mount /dev/sda (whatever the number assigned is) /mnt/flash or maybe... mount -t vfat /dev/sda (whatever the number assigned is) /mnt/flash

Yep, once the bios let go of the mouse and Linux took over, this is where the issues began. It is possible to get it going, once installed on the hard drive, but it will require some work. Some report that the winmodem (designed as a softmodem to work in windows) will work, with the LT drivers. See the following; http://www.matrixlist.com/pipermail/leaplist/2001-March/010261.html

You may also want to look at the Mandrake live cd and see if it detects your hardware, especially the new chipset. This will also give you an indication if it will work.

I understand your questions. This issue, as I see it is how Mandrake sees the raid array and how it handles it. An axample, I had a raid board, but set up as IDE drives. No raid array, just three drives, one connected to the primary raid connector. Lindows saw the primary drive as hda (as most distros would see it). Mandrake saw the same drive as hde, in a sense, seeing the primary drive in reverse. It took me a while to figure this out and tell Lindow's Lilo to reverse the drive designations, after finding a solution searching Google. Quote: 1) advice on how I could diagnose the problem You already know this, Mandrake is seeing the raid array in a way that will not allow the distro to be installed. It doesn't work right now for your purposes. Quote: 2) obtain advice from the users who have got it running under 9.2 and how they achieved this. Hopefully someone here may have an answer, but, as you have already done, search for possible solutions and see if any are reasonable for your level of expertise in implementing the solutions. Usually when Mandrake staff say it isn't supported, what they mean is that there is no easy solution that is feasible for most users, or that is proven to work most of the time (is reliable enough to implement). The problem here is a failure on install, which often is more problematic than solving an issue once a system is up. Quote: 3) should I be even bothering and should consider another RAID card from another manufacturer? This depends on how determined you are to use Mandrake and find/implement a solution. Again, your comfort level in implementing the solution, if found. I am not a raid expert, but it looks like this will not be very easy to solve. Your best bet is to follow the leads, and if you are daring, try the solutions suggested. One word of caution - if this is your main box, be aware that you could trash or disable the data already on the drives in the process. So if you are going to experiment with an unproven solution, be careful. What I would be curious to know, is what happens when you try a cd live based distro? Can it ID your drives... this will give you an idea on how feasible it may be to proceed. Of course, use a recent version of a cd live based distro to give you a proper trial.

I have Lindows laptop edition (not the most recent) on my thinkpad. Besides, Mandrake, it is the most stable and all my hardware works, except, of course, the built-in AMR softmodem. On laptops, make sure you have a hardware modem, unless you have a built-in LAN card and are using this to connect to the web. I have the latest laptop version burned but not installed yet. However, they have been working on some of the softmodems (Lucent) so it may have improved. The Thinkpad also has a hidden recovery partition, which I described above, so this was an issue for me. Takeover partition install was fine. You may also want to do a Google search on your system linux Dell I4000 and see what others have experienced with Linux in general on their systems. Usually there is one hardware issue, mostly the modem or video card. Remember, most laptops have some legagcy hardware, so this could be an issue. Ditto on the Lindows forum. I was surprised that my touchpad worked out of the box, although I prefer a regular PS2 mouse on a laptop. Hm... depending on what you find, I will probably do an install over the weekend. One word of caution. Each new version generally wipes the previous install. Lindows has not yet offered upgrades between versions on their laptop editions. But this may have chnaged in recent months.

Nah...no distro war, just preferences depending on the needs of the user, which are varied and each person has a favorite. A matter of choice, which is what it is all about. However, Fedora has been the most stable and the easiest to add packages on my systems. I also have the following on my systems; Mandrake 10 - nice and stable with KDE 3.2 and kernel 2.6.0 Lindows - ease of use, especially for anyone who wants a less user intensive environment. Ease of package installation. Debian - takes some tweaking, but when you get it right... SUSE-PRO - ease of use Mepis and Knoppix - packed with features and utilities and the easiest way to install a Debian flavor distro on your hard disk. Linux from Scratch If you really want to dive in and build from scratch, a great way to learn the ins and outs of Linux. The issue is hardware compatibility and finding the distro that has the featues that you like and works on all your hardware! BTW I run Fedora with KDE 3.2, which a great! but, of course, takes effort to get it to work correctly.

Yes, except that I have the laptop version. Is this the free version that was offered, or are you an insider and have access to the development version. People have reported various results with the stock version on laptops. If you are an insider or a registered user, check the forum. You should able to be logged in as a guest. If not let me know. What I would suggest is if you do try it, do not use a takeover hard disk install. Create a seperate partition for Lindows to use at the end of the drive. Many Dell systems have system and recovery partitions at the begining of the hard drive that should not be overwritten. A takeover install will wipe Windows and possibly the recovery partition. So, I would suggest a dual boot configuration, so that Windows and the hidden recovery partition is untouched, usig takeover a partition. Let me know what you think.

From what I have read, this raid setup is not supported. See the following Mandrake bug report; https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1999

Leave it to Dapper Dan to find all the good ones! I'll have to give this a look see. And once again, he is right. The Knoppix and related distros are an easier way to get Debian on your system. I've done a few Debian installs and you need to tweak it quite a bit for some systems. It's more of a intermediate users distro, but when you get it right... But Debian is an older distro and has not had the base kernel updates, like Knoppix and other live cd's, which are a newer invention for most distros. Trust us on this one, you need a very recent distro to work on your system, since it has newer hardware. Less headaches. Remember, new hardware - new distro... More of a chance that the base kernel will recognize your hardware, especially the nForce chipset stuff.

Thanks to Dapper Dan and Mel... http://www.ss64.com/bash/ http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/

What version of Knoppix are you using? Try this; When the boot process starts and you get the initial startup screen with the boot prompt, type in Knoppix nosmp, then hit the enter key. Let the screen go black for a few minutes and see if the boot process kicks in. Be patient, but of course after 5 minutes if the process fails, report back. The other possibility (excuse me if I repeat myself) is the burn speed that the CDR's are burnt at. They should be burnt at 4X or 8X. Tis can cause all kinds of booting problems. Why does it work sometimes and not others? Good question. Try to see if you can note any error messages that come up during boot. Another thought, are you booting from the DVD drive or another CDROM drive?

I looked at distrowatch and the package components listed for this distro. The GUI/desktop is Enlightenment, this is what you get. You need to right click on the desktop to seee the menu options. This is how this distro is designed. It does not offer an easy KDE desktop with cooresponding packages, a start button and other amenities like other distros that you may have seen. Not a really good distro fro newbies who are used to a KDE or windows like environment. This is by design, fast and simple. I also wonder about the development packages that are available to install drivers and packages. Take a look at the home page and documentation. If you are looking for a Mandrake/RedHat like interface, then these are the distros that you need to look at. One with a KDE or Gnome desktop environment.

Yes, a new install is probably the best option, and the raid partitions will get properly configured.This way you can configure grub to boot from the floppy or the MBR and have a pristine system. But, if you want to tinker with the current install; http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialRecoveryAndBootDisk.html

Yes. If it is the first slot, then this will give the distro the opportunity to mount or recognize it. It should be sda...or something like that. If an icon is not automatically put on the desktp, type in dmesg in a konsole and see if you see a line with sda..or sdb.. that shows that it was recognized and assigned a drive/partition designation.

Ok no one has taken a bite, so I will try. This distro is one that I am not knowledgable about. I think that I spoke of this before, but you will need to install the NVIDIA nForce chipset drivers to get the LAN to work. Most distros have not caught up with these chipsets yet. By the way, at least you got a distro installed! The sound card...the OEM soundblasters are an issue. Look for the configuration/control panel information menu (KDE?) and see if the cad is recognized at all. Or,; Do you have aumix, or kmix on this distro? Is there a speaker icon on the bottom right? Right click on it and open the mixer window and see if it states what your card is, or if it is there at all. I assume no sound at all?

Ditto. In this system, look for a NVIDIA TNT2 card. Look for a card that is compatible with this older system, such as a 2x AGP if the system has an AGP slot. If no AGP slot, a PCI can be used, but on some systems, you need to set the bios to use PCI over the onboard. Consult the manual on this issue. As I mentioned in your other post thread, yea old Cirrus Logic (which is probably what you have onboard) is giving you the headache. Correct me if I am wrong.

OK, but is the internet connection working? If not; 1. Does your ISP Dynamically or statically assign your address? If dynamic, that no values are entered for the IP address. 2. The connections are as such?; modem --> cat 5 to the router primary connection system box --> router 3. What make and model is the router? wired or wireless router? 4. Look at the cat 5 connection to the motherboard, when the system is booted, do you see the green light next to the connection to the motherboard (the NIC connection)? 5. What motherboard/system is this? It is not an nforce chipset?

This confuses a lot of people. I wish I could remember all the details in Mandrake that I posted previously. In a nutshell, if the box is set up correctly and is working in XP, then you need to choose the option in the Mandrake network config. utility to auto detect the connection with DHCP. You do not need to enter any numerical values. This got me as well. The possible issues are the following; 1. Is the box connected to cable modem via USB, or through a router? There have been other posts about Mandrake 9.2 and direct connections to the cable modem via USB. Connecting trough a router works much better for most. take a look at the following thread; http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1233&highlight=mandrake+dhcp 2. During install, the card should have been detected, At this point you should have selected to auto detect with DHCP. 3. Is this a nForce motherboard? Special drivers are needed to get the onboard LAN working. Now the pleasant surprise, I took Mempis over to my step-dad's house to show him Linux. His is set up via a USB to the cable modem and it worked. So, this is getting better!

OK, I know that this is a Windows app. But, my step-father just sent me his PC profile with this tool that allowed me to quickly find upgraded ram and a second hard drive that matches his system. This utility gives all his system specs. on a web page layout. Great for those newbies that need to see what hardware in on their system before migrating to Linux. A good tool to let us see what is on their systems as well. If anyone knows of a Linux compatible utility like this one, please let me know. http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

I may get flamed for this, but 32 mb ram coupled with the processor ain't going to cut it. Besides, you want to run a live cd on a system that you will actually run it on. Pick another PC, run a live cd on it. This way you won't actually install the distro until you see if everything works. Check the system requirements for the distro that you choose, as well as your hardware against what is supported. The startx problem is telling you that it doesn't like the video card or monitor settings. To get it going, you will most likely need to know the monitor's horizontal and vertical resolutions. Apparently Mandrake could not find a usable configuration, or during the install, you did not choose the correct settings for the monitor and video card's capabilities.

Agreed Dapper Dan. Krusader is a fine file manager. OK, let's see what happens with the faq suggestion.