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There are possible two basic issues here. What would be helpful to know, is what the system specs. are for your system. Mandrake will fail like this for two basic reasons, not enough memory in the system to run Mandrake in graphical mode and incompatible video card or monitor settings. Can you post some system specs, such as what system this is being installed on, laptop or desktop, how much memory is in the system and any infomation that you have about the video card. This will assist us in knowing what may have gone wrong with the graphical installation. Is this a self built or comercial system? When you say the choices don't apply, do you get a command prompt after choosing Linux? Remember, if the graphics did not work on install, then probably you won't get a GUI when booting into Mandrake, just a command prompt. Is this a dual boot install Next to Windows XP? What version of Mandrake are you using? This does make a difference if Mandrake 10 is installed next to Wndows XP.

Nice find! I guess all the partitoning and enabling is not fixed yet. I assume that you use the Fedora partitioning utility for all the installs?

Originally posted by adamvjackson: Quote: Just a note, if you're not familiar with ifconfig, it's similar to ipconfig in Windows 2000/XP. Invoke it by: /sbin/ifconfig Sorry, I missed the new to Linux part. As adamvjackson suggested, run it in a terminal. See if you get more than one line of output, other than a line with "lo" (local). If you do, post the result, if possible. Also, run lspci -vv -s in the terminal (thats 2 v's not a w) and see if the card model seems to be described in the text that results that remotely notes "wifi" or the card, such as; 0000:00:09.0 Network controller: RaLink Wireless PCI Adpator RT2400 / RT2460 Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 0126 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 0x40 (256 bytes) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at fde00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME Reference

Yes ! NVIDIA chipset based motherboard? Is the message the following; Quote: ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvsound.o'. This is most likely because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' commandline option. The kernel-source or kernel-headers package must be installed on the system, which is what the package is looking for. Do you have sound on the system currently? I would also try the newest version of the NVIDIA video card drivers.

Hmm.. I wonder about the Asus card in their specially designed wifi slot and legacy card. I just got an Asus A7N8X-E, which I am setting up today. Did you look on google? I did s small search and came up empty Linux wise. They don't mention what chipset that they are using. Any idea what chipset it is? Does it work in Windows..if so, is a special driver required? And..is the card support enabled in the bios? In Suse, does the control panel (yast) see the card? How about ifconfig run in a terminal?

I use KDE in all my higher performance systems, hands down winner for me. Dapper Dan clued me into IceWM for my low resource systems, but, on low resource Debian based systems, I really like XFCE.

yes, I saw it. I e-mailed Patrick yesterday. He seems to be on the right track with his illness. It is up to the physician that he will see Friday to follow-up with appropriate therapy. I offered him some support and encouragement to follow through and advocate for his needs. If he has what I think he has, then he will need to undergo several months of antibiotic therapy. If the infection has not progressed far enough to cause real problems, then he should be ok in several weeks. Let's all keep him on our thoughts and wish him a speedy recovery.

See if this post helps at all.

Is this a new install of XP as well? You just installed XP, then Mandrake right after? If so, try getting into the recovery console and do fixboot and see what happens. Again, if this is a fresh install of XP and you have no critical data on the XP system, try the above command. I assume that you installed both XP and Mandrake on the same hard drive? There is a problem with the Mandrake partitoning utility that affects how the bootloader/Mandrake sees the geometry of the hard drive on Mandrake installs that also have XP installed first using the NTFS filesystem, then Mandrake right after it to the free space or existing free space on the NTFS volume. So, if you used Mandrake's utility, this is the problem. The best solution is to use a partitioning utility like PartitionMagic to set up the Mandrake partitions ahead of time. But let's see if you can get XP up first.

Does the monitor shut off, or do you get a blank screen (the monitor indicator light is still on)? At what point does the monitor "shut off"? After the system runs through starting up (the terminal lists all the processes starting up), or when Mandrake tries to go into the GUI? What system is this installed on? Laptop, desktop...Dell, self built system?

Sure there is. First, let me ask a few questions. 1, What position is the new smaller drive going to be in relation to the curent drive in the system? In other words,are you planning on using the drive as an added drive in the system? Say, the original drive as master and the smaller as slave? 2. What method are you using to clone the drive? 3. Are there any other OS'es on the system? If so, do you know the partition designation of the current RedHat install? You will need to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to reflect the new position of the smaller drive, as well as edit the /etc/fstab file to tell it where root and other partitions are relative to the master drive. Meaning, if RedHat was on hda1 and now it is on hdb1 (because you moved the install to a primary slave drive) fstab needs to reflect this, as does the menu.lst file. Once that is sorted out, the command grub-install can be used to copy the grub to your boot partition, whether it be the MBR or whatever. If you planning leaving just the smaller drive in the system, the process is much easier. Once we know hoe the drive(s) are going to be set up, we can give more specifics.

To clarify a bit, as Mandrake goes through the install process, you will come to a partitioning menu. You will be given the option to allow Mandrake to set the partitions automatically or by hand. If you have no other operating systems on the hard drive, and want Mandrake to take over the entire hard drive, choose the auto option. If you have free space on the drive (not fotmatted), Mandrake will use this. If you have Windows on the system, Mandrake will opt to use the free space on the Windows partition, as a choice. If this is Mandrake 10 and not 10.1, then one word of caution. Defrag the windows drive first. This moves all data (hopefully) to the beginning of the drive, so data loss is at low risk. The back up any important data to be safe. If you have Windows XP with NTFS as the filesystem, and this is Mandrake 10, not 10.1, then I recommend making a small vfat partition between the NTFS partition and the space that you plan to install Mandrake to. There are some issues with NTFS volumes and Mandrake 10/Fedora Core 1 or 2 installs, so this prevents problems with this issue. Ask more questions if you need to, about this, if needed.

For download managers, Fedora and RedHat should have gftp. KBear is another. Both allow downloads of iso files and resumption if the connection gets interrupted.

Best distro for limited resource system, such as old Pentium 1 systems and lappys = Vector Linux and Libranet Easy hardware recognition package management and full featured interface = Mandrake 10.1 Rock solid and good hands on learning experience with good package management = Debian Sarge Easiest hands free distro that runs out-of-the-box = Linspire 4.5 Best Linux guru distro = Fedora Core 3 Best user friendly interface and system management Suse 9.1 Pro Best low resource usage and for speed = Puppy Linux Most feature packed and friendly cd live distro = Mepis

Your welcome! I should have diverted your attention to the reference more clearly. Glad it worked.

...and yet another answer from the Knoppix faq; Q: What is the root password? A: There is none; all passwords are locked by default. You can set it by going Knoppix Menu->Root Shell and typing "passwd", then enterting a root password, also there are several sections you can read dealing with this subject in KNOPPIX/README_Security.txt. You can also type "sudo su" or "sudo -s" in any console window, or use <ctr>--F2 to get at the text console with already opened root shell. Of course, this applies if you are using the LiveCD.

Did you try the suggestions from your original question on this located here?

Try clicking on style from Appearance and Themes section of Control Center, then click on effects tab and where is says menu effect pick the animate option from the drop down menu. Let us know if that works. Reference

Quote: I am very computer illeterate and would like specific steps please. tnx If this is really the case, let me ask a few questions. Do you have any idea what make hard drive that you have in the system? What version of Windows are you planning to use? Do you have a full version cd of Windows to do the install? If you have no experience using hard drive formatting utilities, the easiest way would be to use a utility that is made by the hard drive manufacturer to do the job for you. The other option would be to use the Fedora install disk to format the drive as vfat, so that Windows will see the space on the disk.

What exact model do you have? If it is the US Robotics 56k winmodem, it will not work.

bungalowbob, a couple of things come to mind. You have only 1 drive in the system? If so, look to see if the promise raid is set in the bios. If so, disable it and try the install again. If it is disabled, read on. Is the current drive formatted? If so, what utility did you use to format the drive? I have a board not unlike yours. If I remember right, I had to set acpi=off during the install. When you get the terminal window after booting the cd, try typing on at the prompt; linux acpi=off See if the install continues without error.

I have never used Slackware, but some of the concepts should be the same. Did you compile the kernel by hand, or through a Slackware package? I assume lilo does not have the old kernel entry anymore on boot? Is this by chamce on a reiserfs partition? If you give a link to the instructions on how you compiled the kernel, this will also help, to see what you did for the upgrade.

This is good to hear. So, the geometry issue seems to have been resolved, good!

That wa my second idea (pun intended). I should have posted that first! Good going!!

What are you trying to install? From source, or rpm? Go to the Mandrake Control Panel and install software section (I think it is start-->configure-->configure your computer-->install softare) and look to see if libstdc++5 rpm is installed. Also look for the devel package. If either or both are not installed, do so. When you installed Mandrake, I bet you did not choose to install the development files. These libraries are needed to compile packages.