Dapper Dan

Strangely enough, a few days ago I tried installing Suse Pro 9.0, and it hung on me too! What's with that?? I was very disappointed because I really want to check it out. This Redhat 6.2 under KDE, is not nearly as archaic as I had imagined! There are plenty of very useful programs there! The icons look way out of date, but it's all there! Gnome/Ennlightenment doesn't feel as comfortable as KDE, and doesn't seem to be as configurable. I'm starting to believe this wouldn't be a bad choice as a distro if you have a really old box you wanted to put Linux on. The install was very easy. Does anyone know if it's possible to configure 6.2 for high speed internet? I'm not seeing a way to configure it for that, only dial up. Surely there was a way to network it with other machines. Also, does anyone know when 6.2 first came out? Man! Had I known then what I do now, I might not have ever used Windows at all!

Shes a loadin! I have a six year old HP and tried to install 6.2 on but it wasn't familiar with the video card. I dusted off my trusty old ATI mach 64, and 6.2 found it and loves it! I had Gnome/Enlightenment running, but it seems there's no way to configure 10/100 NIC's. Luckily, I have an Actiontec 56 k serial modem that should do the job. I'm on my second install now, and decided to do "custom" and install everything. The install interface is not that different from Fedora Core 1! In fact, in some ways, it is even clearer! This is really fun! I'm getting to see Red Hat years before I ever got involved with it! It's kind of like paleo-computer science

Originally posted by martouf:BTW, why such a gigantic boot partition? 30MB for one kernel or 120MB for four kernels ought to be plenty enough. LOL, I had a feeling you'd notice that! No particular reason. It's just, I've got a 120 GB hard drive which is far more by double than I'll ever need. I think I originally had it at 1 GB and the partitioner rounded back down from that for some reason.

Since we've been seeing problems with the Fedora partitioning tool in Core 2 and, I do believe to some extent in Core 1, I decided to use QTparted to create my partition for RH 6.2. I thought ext2 would be a good choice since I wasn't sure if there was even a ext3 back then. My partitions (were to) look like this: /boot - ext3 - 980.5 mb (to boot between RH 6.2 and Fedora Core 1) / - ext3 - 26.5 GB (Fedora Core 1) /home - ext3 - 26.5 GB (shared between RH 6.2 and Fedora Core 1) / - ext2 - 6 GB (RH 6.2) You think 6.2 doesn't like that my /home and /boot partitions are formatted with ext3?

I'm not familiar with Win boot loader. If that by chance means you are thinking of using boot magic that comes with Partition Magic, please stop now! Boot magic is a piece of garbage! I would strongly urge you to use grub as your boot manager. Also, I've had much better luck installing grub at first sector than at the MBR. Just my personal preference though. If your machine is fairly new, the 1024 barrier shouldn't be an issue. I would get XP up and operational first, then move on to Linux. If for some reason you mess up the install to where grup won't work, Just put the install cd's back in as an upgrade, and when prompted, write an entirely new grub boot scenario. Be sure to create an XP boot floppy, and also a Linux boot floppy when prompted to do so. It can be a life saver to have an operational Linux OS from which to correct problems. Good Luck, and let us know if you need further help.

I would definately put XP first. You also are not showing a "/" partition. Here would be my suggestion: 15 GB ---- Win XP 10 GB ---- FAT32(accessible to Win & Linux) 100 MB ---- /boot 10 GB ---- / 1GB ---- Linux Swap 10 GB ---- /home Do you really need your fat32 partition that large? Depending of course, I would think 5 GB would be a gracious plenty. Then you can divide the other 5 GB between / and /home... 15 GB ---- Win XP 5 GB ---- FAT32(accessible to Win & Linux) 100 MB ---- /boot 12.5 GB ---- / 1GB ---- Linux Swap 12.5 GB ---- /home Unless you are using apps that need massive amounts of memory, you really don't even need the swap partition. I also have 512 MB, and my machine is noticably faster without a swap. Just my two cents worth: Go with Fedora Core 1. with the updates, it's a big improvement over "9."

My /boot partition is at the very beginning of the hard drive and well before where the barrier would have been. I was going to install 6.2, then afterwards, change /boot back to the one I presently have, which of course I've already saved, then tailor grub to give me the choice of booting 6.2. My machine is a relatively new Dell which to my knowledge doesn't have the barrier. Would Red Hat 6.2 still be looking for such a setup, and if it doesn't see the barrier, won't let me continue? I'm not even sure when 6.2 came out. Such a comparatively archaic version probably has a few lesson in it I can learn.

Originally posted by S2001LTD: Quote: it say that it can not find it i know i installed it right what do i do not sorry i need a lot of help newbie in linux Open a terminal and become root: su [enter] Enter password [enter] Then: urpmi xine [enter] Tell me what it says when you do that. If it installs xine, then doing what I wrote in my last post should open it up.

open a terminal and type: xine and press enter.

Did you get XFdrake up and running? It is a Mandrake utility for configuring video, monitors and resolutions. If so, what did you try? Tell me in detail what errors you are getting? Is it saying something about, "screens not found?"

S2001LTD I can't remember which distro you are using. If it's RPM based, you need to install Xine with an RPM to make your life with Linux much more enjoyable.

Another is Red flag Linux.

Become root by going: su [enter] enter your password, then [enter] You'll notice the $ sign will now be a # sign. Type: XFdrake [enter] This is a utility to set up your monitor, video card and resolution. You'll also be given a choice of two versions of "X." Try different settings and resolutions starting with 640x480. Make sure the make and model of your monitor corresponds with what is listed and chosen in the monitor section. What video are you using? is it "built in" or do you have a video card installed such as an Nvidia or ATI?

Before doing anything, make sure you defrag Windows like danleff suggested. Partition Magic is very intuitive and always gives you the option to "bail" if you don't think something is exactly right. Just right click on the NTFS partition and you'll be given an option to resize it. If you commit, PM will then tell you it will have to reboot to finish the operation. I wouldn't shrink the NTFS partition any smaller than half the size of your total hard drive, unless you are certain you can go smaller without clipping any on your Windows. Then after resizing, you can start creating Linux partitions with it. Actually, you can do all these operations at once, but why not take your time with it and learn. Partitioning is always a little scary the first time out but you'll do fine! Just watch, be careful and it will work out eventually.

You may want to read this..

iamroot, in case this is the trouble you're having, see my last post in this thread.

Anyone know if sfdisk only comes with Core 2? I don't seem to have it under Core 1. Wait a minute... Yep, as I figured. With RedHat/Fedora, if using "su", there are certain utilities that reside in /sbin and aren't symlinked in /usr/bin, thus, instead of going as su: sfdisk -d /dev/hda you have to go: /sbin/sfdisk -d /dev/hda Otherwise you get, "command not found."

laghail, you may want to consider an upgrade to Fedora Core 1. I used Red Hat 9 for a long time, and Fedora Core 1 is far better in many ways. It also come standard with XMMS MP3 player, although you'll have to download the xmms-mp3 plugin for it to work. K3B also comes standard with Fedora, and without a doubt, is the best burner I've ever used, in Linux or Windows.

That's one of those cables that looks like it has a big phone connector on both ends. See here.

Try running XFdrake as root and try a different configuration. There will be many choices you can make as to the monitor, resolution and video card. Mandrake 10 still uses Xfree86 right? It will also give you a choice of two different versions of "X."

That's an ADSL modem? If it doesn't work plugging straight into your NIC from the modem with a cat5 cable, you may have to use a router.

Well said blackpage. On the changing files business, if your files aren't too cumbersome, you could plug in a USB reader writer stick and use that since most come pre formatted with fat32. Just drop the files on the stick from Windows, then when booted into Linux change and write to them as necessary. Of course you can do the reverse too.

According to Transgaming.com, Halo doesn't work at all under Cedega/Winex. I don't know about the other. Just because a game works in single-player is no guarantee multi-player will work as well.

Thank you Mr. wizard. I'm sure no one would have had any idea what I was saying until you clarified all the mistakes you perceived in my post... :x [Edited by Dapper Dan on 2004-07-28 14:34:07]

I don't have a problem paying for some Linux OSs and software. Every dollar I may have to spend for Win4lin, Cedega/Winex or Lindspire is one less dollar I'll have to give Microsoft!