danleff

If you told Mandrake to take over the entire hard drive, then your hard drive is formatted at a Linux partition, that Windows can't identify. It sees no valid disk space to do an installation on. If this is the case, do you know what hard drive (make) that you have? There are a few solutions for you in this case. You need to format the hard drive back to fat32 for the Windows installer to be able to see the drive. Let us know if the whole hard drive was used for linux or not, then we can post a solution.

Could you be a little more specific? At what point did you have the problem. During the boot or once the distro tried to come up? What exactly happened? Can you tell us what distro and version of a live cd that you are using? Knoppix 3.3, Mepis.....?

Get to root user. I hope that you know your root password? If so, do this at the console. Type su (hit the enter key) type in your root password (enter key) Type in XFdrake (enter key) Make sure that the first two letters (XF)are capitalized. This will bring you to a utility. Set it back to 75. Test the resolution to make sure that it works. Finish Reboot.

If you have enough memory, you can allocate more memory to Open Office (OO) by opening it, selecting "tools" from the dropdown window-->options-->memory. Change the default memory usage for OO to 32. This will make OO open more quickly and be more responsive. Swap is needed/helpful for systems with limited memory. In the newer distros, if you have 256 mb of memory or less, swap space will improve performance. As you get over 512 mb of memory, the benefits decrease, as your ram will handle most tasks easily. Once Linux starts and completes it's startup sequence, it frees up memory automatically. If you find that the system slows once you multitask, the easiest solution is to add more memory or have sufficient swap space to handle the load.

The driver needs the kernel source. I just did an installation on Mandrake. The readme faqs speaks to this. At what point does the driver fail, on installation, or when you restart the system? ...and you did do the installation from init 3, not when "X" was running?

The users manual lists the highest rated processor for the board (UK79G-1394) as an Athlon XP 2800+. The bus setting is 333MHz @ 2.25 GHz. Did you install your own processor, or did it come with the system? This could explain a few thngs. In the bios, you picked "Load setup defaults" and saved the settings? Reference

A possible solution. See the real solution (last post) on this thread. Try using your old name of bill@localhost68 as noted in the example. Make sure you backup your hosts file first, as the example suggests.

This post is from January 2005. It looks like the poster has moved on.

I would forget the ncurses tar package and use the debian (knoppix) deb file installed as I noted above. The apt-get utility will solve any dependency problems and hopefully install such depedency packages automatically, without the error messages that you are getting trying to install the tar ncurses package. What is the package that you are wanting to install to add colors....?

Possibly a bad download of the file? Try downloading it again and see if you get the same error. Are you installing the drivers via console and as root user? Also, NVIDIA suggests that you install the drivers at init level 3, not with X running.

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX video chipet. Since the problem is a memory intensive one in XP and Fedora, I would suspect a bios memory setting as well. Did you change any bios settings? Philipp's points are well taken. I would also check that the memory is well seated. Did you add any memory to the system, other than the base memory that came with the system? If so, is the memory that you added the same brand and exact rating? If none of the above, I would try the default bios settings. What do you think, Philipp?

Try running the command in a console window; fdisk -l(the letter l)

I also found this compatibility report. So in "normal use" it should work fine.

What NVIDIA card (make and model) do you have? Generally, NVIDIA cards run very well in Linux, unless the card is newer than Fedora Core 3. Also, how much ram is in the system? This sounds very much like a bios problem.

No need to apologize. Let me just ask, what dvd/dvd burner drive do you have? Also, when you look at the contents of the dvd, is there just one file (the iso file) or a list of files and directories? And you chose to burn "as image" in your software, not as just a data file? There has to be something amiss with the iso image or the burn method. Possibly the dvd media? The downloaded iso image is over 2 gigs before burning?

It looks like you don't have the libgtk libraries installed that allow compiling packages (applications). Take a look at this post to see what the problem could be and a possible solution.

One of the problems could be the image file that you burned. There are three image (iso) files to burn. Can you give the name of the iso file(s) that you burned? Secondly, the speed of the burn is important. Burn iso images at 4X or 8X, no more. The download could be bad. Was this image downloaded via dialup or broadband? Finally, what system are you trying to install to? Some basic system specifications would be nice to help us guide you along.

I know nothing about this, but we do have a few expert members who know how to do this. Maybe this bump will catch their attention. Perhaps point them to the directions/ where you got the installer package (web page) that you are using for the installation.

Take a look at this thread posted about the problem over at LinuxQuestions.org. See if this helps at all.

Sorry I did not get back to you. I lost the post in the number that were sent recently. Anyway, glad to see that the internet is sorted out. I have Verizon DSL and connect directly through the modem.It took me a little while to figure it out, as well. To be honest, I never tried seeing my Linux box from XP. Always the other way around. Anyway, now is a good time as any. I will look into this. Perhaps someone else has an answer for this right off. Samba is a little hard to understand. I use LinNeighborhood or Smb4k to look at my Windows shares from Linux. Just as with Windows, the Linux folders have to be marked as shared. I'll look at this some more and post what I find.

I don't use MSN, but I did a google search and found this mention about the problem. Maybe try aMSN via an rpm package. I found a link to it here.

Great! They were the correct NVIDIA drivers, btw. So, on boot, you get the short NVIDIA splash screen? The sound...nice board. I have the A7N8X-E Deluxe. One of two problems. If the onboard sound is active in the bios, then you may need to disable it there, if using a PCI card. Or, the sound may be muted. Now that you are used to the console, get into a console as root user and get into alsamixer. Type in the console; alsamixer If the mixer comes up, what does it say at the top for the following values; card: (what is here)? chip: (what is here)? If it says; card: nvidia nForce2 Chip: Realtek ALC650F ..alsa is trying to use the onboard sound. In terms of Kopete, why not use the one that comes in the Mandrake cd disks? Remember, per the Kopete web page; version 0.9.3 works with kde 3.2 and above " " 0.10.1 works with kde 3.3 and above " " 0.10.2 works with kde 3.4.1 and above. Using the one provided in the mandrake CD disks will also resolve any dependency issues with development packages. [Edited by danleff on 2005-08-06 18:13:30]

Yes, use one utility for all Linux partitioning needs, especially if you do as I do and have multiple distros on your system. I would see if the Windows XP utility will allow a resize of the NTFS volume, leaving enough empty space for the Linux installation. Then tell Ubuntu to use the free space. If iamroot knows what brand hard drive is in the system, he could also use the Ultimate BootCD utility. It assists with Samsung, Seagate and Maxtor drives, as it has the manufacturer's partitioning utilities for each of these drives on the cd. I just downloaded a copy and have not tried it yet to see if it allows resizing, or just creating partitions.

Easy answer on the first count. The bios boots from the cdrom, not Mandrake. Then, at the install flash screen, Mandrake looks for the cdrom to start the installation. Often these issues can be caused by a faulty burned image. As long as you get the Mandrake splash screen, we know that you burned the cd as an image, not as a data disk with just the iso file on the cdrom disk. So... What make and model DVD drive is this? If it's a newer model, then the issue could be using too old a version of Mandrake. This is Mandrake 10, 10.1 or 10.2? Conversely, if the DVD drive is really old, it may have trouble. Did you burn the disk on the same system? If so, try booting from the cdrw drive instead. What speed did you burn the iso image at? ISO images must be burned at slow speeds, say 4X or 8X. Depending on the DVD drive, it may have a problem reading the cdrom disk. Did you use a cdrw disk, or a cd-r disk to burn the image? Using inexpensive cdrom disks can be an issue, as well. The third possibility is a bad download, especially if you are downloading using dialup. Did you check the md5sum of the disks that you burned? Giving us some answers to these questions will help track down the issue.

I always err on the side of caution. The Ubuntu users should be able to answer iamroot's question directly. Yes, Fedora's install disk can do this for him by just taking the installation far enough to format an ext3 partition. But remember the NTFS fiasco in Mandrake 10 and Fedora Core 1-2 when folks were finding that their NTFS filesystems were experiencing geometry problems after using the installation utility to format the partitions next to an NTFS volume? He can also use the Windows built-in utility to free up some space and then tell Ubuntu to take over that space. Again, specific advice from their users would be best - those who have trid it and can advise him on how to do it safely with their utility. I always use something that I know works, in my case PartitonMagic. At some point, you have to shell out some cash for a product you know works well. Especially when you are messing with someone else's system. Iamroot can share the cost of a utility with his friend. The friend gets a new Linux system with continuous free support and iamroot gets a nice utility. I recently worked on my sister's in-law's computer. A real mess of spyware and viruses. I spent severl hours cleaning it up, but did not expect to be paid for my time. They insisted and I charged them $30.00 for the utility that I bought (Spysweeper) which was the only one that rid the system of all the recurrent spyware on the system. But, I know, we all want a free utility. I have an older copy of 7Tools Partition Manager that is fully functional and free. I guess they changed their policy! Let me look around some more.