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The other thought that I had, is if lilo was chosen to be installed on the MBR or the Mandrake partition, during the install. The recovery disk should have restored win and written over the master boot record. If it did not, then there is another issue. If it did and you are booting to win 98 then follow Dapper Dan's instructions using PartitionMagic. These HP systems are sometimes unique. HP chooses to use a small hidden partiton to store it's restore information and sometimes bios data. Since this is part of a C class, did you think to ask in class about the issue? Your teacher may be able to explain the problem and it will also benefit the class, as well. Mandrale generally stores the bootloader in the master boot record, unless you tell it to do otherwise during the install. It should have provided you with an option at the boot menu to get into Win or Mandrake, not the method of getting into windows that you described.

First, give a few detaila about your system, so we can understand what system that you have. I assume that you have a laptop, based on the CDROM drive that you are using, and that this is your first install on this system? Are you using disk #1 of the mandrake disks to install? Is the bios set to boot from CDROM first? Was the Mandrake disk burned on another computer system? Sometimes, older CDROM drives have trouble reading CDROM's burned with newer CD-RW drives. Or, if the burned CDROM disk is a CD-RW disk and not a CD-R disk, this can be an issue on some systems.

If you mean that you have a sata drive, you may be out of luck, unless you have good expereince with Linux in general. See this post; http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=986&view=previous

Agreed. Mandrake does this automatically for you. Hmm...Fedora core gives me a message that ntfs is not supported by the stock kernel, nor does the kernel 2.6.0 rpm that I installed, support it. Just to clarify and avoid confusion; Quote: mount -t ntfs /dev/hdc1 /mnt/cdrive In many systems, hda1 is the ist partition on the "C" drive, that is if the drive that contains the NTFS filesystem is on the first partition of the primary master drive. It's wise to know where the ntfs filesystem is to make the correct partition reference withh the mount command.

It looks like the one you downloaded is for Fedora Core version. I don't know if this will work on RedHat 9. Let me look at the page and see which one you may need. You don't need to burn it to a CD, just download it to your home directory and install it. Before you do that, let me look at the page. There may also be some dependency packages that you may need. The package that you most likely need to install is wine-20031212-1rh9winehq.i386.rpm. This is usually the safest bet, depending on what system that you have, athlon, pentium... The rh9 in the package name means RedHat 9 version. I believe the one that you tried to download is the fc = Fedora core version. Once downloaded to your home directory, use the file manager to go to the home directory. Double click on the file and you should bring up the RPM install utility. Follow the directions and see if the package installs without any errors.

Generally wine = applications and wineX is a good package for gamers. Look at the home pages for each and compare them to what you need. What are you trying to download? Wine? Then you only have to download the most recent package - they usually are labeled something like wine-20031212, which means the date of the release is December 12, 2003. Look at Wine HQ to get an idea of what wine is. My personal favorite page is Frank's World., Take a look at the following link; http://linuxresource.com/Emulation_and_Simulation/Windows_Emulation/index.php

If you but one at a local computer store, make sure that it does not say "winmodem" on the box. Look for one that has a linux compatible notice on it. External modems are hard modems and work very well in all linux distos. If you are unsure, ask the salesperson. That way, if it turns out (I hope not) incompatible, you can take it back. Be aware, most "cheapo" modems are winmodems. Ask or look on the box to determine if it has it's own controller built in.

Not bad at all. The instructions show you how to change the default language to english, if that is what you want. Add the relevent entries to grub or lilo and all is fine! Here is the how-to link; http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html ...and a more comprehensive one; http://www.hostclub.net/reviews/knxinstall.html

The issue is if it is a winmodem (designed to work in Windows only) or compatible with Linux (hardware modem). What exact model is it? This is a common issue since many current modems are winmodems. However, there has been progress with some so called softmodems.

First, you need to see if the modem is compatible, try looking at the following site; http://pctelcompdb.sourceforge.net/index.php Also; http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pctel-linux/

I'm not quite sure that i understand the question. Why not just set the bios to boot from the floppy first, then CD, then hard drive and just put the CD in when you need it?. Or install Knoppix on the hard drive and dual boot (have a choice to boot either Windows of Knoppix)?

Apparently not. From the IBM website; http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stforum.nsf/0/0bac89e4d78682c585256e060070b97c?OpenDocument

Interesting...I just had this happen to me. Mandrake did not like a zip disk inserted into the zip drive. It doesn't like some piece of hardware that you have. By any chance, do you have a zip disk or usb stick inserted when you boot? Did you insert a piece of hardware/medium like this after the install?

From what I have read, it looks like the installer is having trouble with something on the HP. It could be the partition stucture or a piece of hardware on the system.

Unfortunately, I could not get the NVIDIA drivers to install in Mandrake Cooker, as it uses kernel 2.6.0. I found that The nForce onboardLAN appears to be an issue. The only distros that accept the nForce onboard LAN for me has been Lindows and Mepis. Mandrake crapped out on sound for me, all I get is static. I am going to work on this over the weekend.

Did you install module-init-tools prior to compiling the kernel? This package is needed for this kernel series. In terms of the nForce drivers, if you are speaking of the NVIDIA drivers, the readme states that the drivers work with 2.4.XX kernel version. I ran into difficury trying to get source NVIDIA nForce drivers to install on the 2.6.0 kernel. I´m not sure that this is supported yet.

Quote: Explore2fs is a Windows program, which allows read support for Linux filesystems (Second Extended File System or ext2), and works under NT4, Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2000, and WinXP. Write support is still included, but is not recommended for use. According to the Freshmeat project page. Why not just move the files in RedHat? Or is your windows system on the NTFS filesystem?

I got Mandrake Cooker installed, which should be the same. It is apparently not unusual for the LAN not to work. I'm going to try the NVIDIA drivers and post back later.

What distro and version are you running? Redhat 9, SuSE... Are you trying to use the NVIDIA drivers? The nForce chipset motherboards requires some special configuration in many cases. You have souund working? Did it work on install, or did you have to do some work on this? I'm interested, as I just got one of these nForce boards and are having varying results, depending on the distro.

I will try. What distro and version are you using..RedHat, Debian, SuSE? Did you install wine from source, or is it pre-installed in the distro? This does make a difference. As Dapper Dan said, Codeweavers is probably the easiest, but it is not free. Depending how Wine was installed depends how well it works. What apps are you trying to run. It takes some special configuration to get some to run properly. See this link for examples; http://frankscorner.org/

Generally it appears that it may be due to one of a few problems; 1. The ISO image burned is bad, or the downloaded image is bad. 2. Burning the image at too fast speed. If you burned the image at the defaut speed, it may be too fast. If this happens with more than one distro, try burning the images at 8X or less. 3. Poor quality CD-R. Sometimes CDRW's cause this as well. Make sure your disks are good quality and if the CD-RW disk is an issue (consistent bad burns), burn the images on CD-R's. 4. Trying to install from an older CDROM drive that may not be able to properly read the image burned from a newer CDRW drive. For example, you burned the image from a new CDRW drive and tried to install using an older CDROM drive. Again, if your experience comes from burning an image on a CDRW drive and trying to install on another system with a very old or incompatible CDROM drive, the error occurs. I had a drive like this. When I installed from the same CDRW drive that I burned the image from, it worked fine. So, verifying the CD-R's at install is always a good idea.

Ohhh...you shouldn't have shown me this!

Very strange. I looked at my Fedora box. What I noticed is that I have parted-1.6.6 installed as source. Can't remember what the deal was with this, but it works. I then installed all the required sprogs.rpm's, then qtparted. For the hey of it, at root, does it come up if you type, as root, /usr/sbin/qtparted?

This is odd. What does the section say under LAN configuration it should show your network card as something like; etho <your local connection address..like 192.168.X.X> 8139too up If nothing is there, your card is not set up, I think. Try clicking on the ¨launch the wizard¨ and see if this brings up the card. Check ¨use auto detection.¨ > LAN Connection > then check ¨auto IP¨ Disregard the other questions by clicking next until it finishes. Reboot, then get into the Control Center and see if it comes up. If not, then the card is an issue, as Dapper Dan suggested, at least in Linux. I have one other idea..let me think on this. It may be a bios setting. If the above does not work, get into the bios and look for a menu PNP/PCI. Look and see if Plug and play OS is enabled. Disable this, save the results and reboot. See if the card comes up in Mandrake.

Hmm... I'm using Knoppix 3.3. As I mentioned, I can't find it in the start menu tree. But if I go to konsole, su (enter) - no password required, then type in qtparted it comes up. The problem is that qtparted is dependency hell, so I wonder if using apt-get causes issues. Qtparted requires a number of libraries, such as parted-1.6.6 (hard to find) installed as source first, as well as a number of others, such as xfsprogs... I assume you have Knoppix as a hard drive install? When I whereis qtparted it comes back as /sbin/qtparted.