Dapper Dan

That's great news! Now you can eliminate the cd's as a possible cause of the problem. I use RH 9 and love it. I'll upgrade to Fedora when they work out some of the existing bugs.. Let us know how you come out! Good luck!

And it should do as you expect. I've never run into this before during many Linux installations.. If you have high speed internet access, try downloading the Red Hat 9 ISOs, burn and install. ftp://chuck.ucs.indiana.edu/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/ If the same problem occurs then we'll have to consult with other sources..

Here's a couple to look at... http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?productid=276724&affid=2165&afsrc=1 http://www.techdepot.com/product.asp?productid=429047

Just so I'm straight on this, you set your bios to boot first from cd, then you put the 1st cd in the tray and reboot the computer. What happens then?

Anaconda should be built in. Did you check the size of the ISO for the first cd after downloading to make sure it was the correct size?

I've run into the same problem in Mdk 9.0 and also when experimenting with 9.1 and 9.2. I now use RH 9 with IceWM. Still, it often happens when I try running KDE programs. I've never been able to figure it out..

It means everything should work for you!

Then you should be in business. This from the Mepis handbook... October 5 Found minor bug in MCC Network that could affect start at boot. Added more explanations in MCC Network messages. Added wlan0 config for Prism2 WiFi users. http://www.mepis.org/node/view/153

brenix don't ever be intimidated about asking a Linux question. All of us here had to ask questions when we started too. I haven't tried installing Fedora from cd so I'm not sure about how it installs but, if it's like Red Hat 8 and 9, the installation process should just start from boot if your bios is set to boot first from cdrom. If that's not happening, either there is something wrong with the cd's you burned, or Fedora installs in a different way I'm not familiar with. Did you burn the image onto your cd's? When you explore the first cd in Windows, does it show one iso image file or several labeled files and folders? I ask this only because I copied the iso to cd the first time I tried, as several others have. Brave of you to go Linux all the way from the start though! Once you get the installation going, make sure you put your /home directory on a separate partition, that way you can keep all your valuable files and preferences from installation to installation. If you need further help with that, just let me know..

As in create, or in making them work?

quest, this cost, but might be something to consider... http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/es

I run Mandrake 9.0 on two work boxes and RH 9 on two more. Both would be good choices WHEN you're ready to dive in. As a safety measure to potential beginners disaster partitioning your hard drive, (and all of us have experienced this in some way or other..), I highly recommend looking at a cd based distro of Linux first. That way you can check out a complete Linux operating system which you boot from a cd. It is also easily downloaded and "burned" in Windows. There will be 0% danger to your hard drive. Knoppix is the most famous of these, but I recommend Morphix-Gnome... http://morphix.sourceforge.net/modules/news/ If you like Morphix, you can then install it to HD, or decide on another distro. The Morphix installer is not easy but the advantage is Morphix is Debian based, which makes up[censored], deleting and installing packages via "apt-get" a snap. Here are some others cd based distros.. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=cd

Ooops! And you had a home partition?

I feel your pain. I ran MDK 9.0 a long time and tried to update to 9.1 having similar problems with my gforce. I had to run xf86config for the first time with 9.1. I finally gave up and went back to 9.0. When 9.2 came out I tried again with similar disappointments. I now run RH 9 as a result... Many other folks experiences have been different though. I've seen a lot of positive posts from happy users of 9.1 and 9.2.

Tell me what driver you need and I'll download it and send it to you, if your mail servier can handle the size...

Look for it in that list and see if it's supported. What kind is it?

Quote: Apparently you have not noticed that despite the fact I can "Select individual Packages" as such, there are tonnes that install regardless e.g. CUPS, various Games, etc. I have a redhat 9 work station that has no cups and no games. Another solution is to just manually uninstall packages you don't want after installation if you weren't successful at not selecting them before. Quote: Also now that Red Hat has stopped supporting it's downloadable vrsion, is it still viable to use in regards to it will longer issue patches, etc. You can always use apt-get rpm to update, after redhat stops support next April. In the future you can switch to enterprise or fedora. Redhat 6-9 is used successfully on thousands and thousands of servers worldwide, and is a proven leader in the server field. I can't see why it wouldn't be good enough to run your server too. Quote: I guess where I am coming from, a Windows User, if Linux would make it a lot more straight forward of it's workings I would move in a heartbeat but since being an administrator and having worked with the Windows environment for the past 10 years, Linux hasn't made it "easier" to move. Linux is not going to make it easier for you to move. It is up to you to learn how to use Linux. If you want "easy to use", stay with Windows with less security and less dependability. If you want more security and far greater dependability, take the time to learn Linux. If I can learn it, anyone can. Good Luck.

Your laptop should have a "PC" slot. There are several cards out there that will work, but, for my money, you can't beat the Proxism Orinoco Gold card. If there is 802.11b in the classroom, the Gold card will have no problem picking it up, provided Mepis has the Prism 2 modules in place to support it. Here's a really helpful list... http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html Here's more on the "Gold card"... http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getpr...473f4a5012ca81f Good luck..

Quote: both distributions don't have tools where I can easily setup email accounts, setup webmail, etc without it installing a thousand other packages I don't need e.g. games, etc which I don't control over despite selecting not to have them installed. Further more what's the easiest way to secure them and I mean really secure as i wish to run it as a live production server? Honestly, I don't understand why people keep saying you have to install packages you don't want with these distros. Both RH and MDK give you the opportunity to "select individual packages" so you can install exactly what you want and don't. It is incredibly easy to do this. Setting up email accounts and webmail is pretty straight forward if you work with it. NO distro is going to be easy enough to do it flawlessly the first time you try. As far as security goes, you are the one who controls the security of your server, not Redhat or Mandrake or Gentoo for that matter. With RedHat 9, you can make your box "wide open" or completely invulnerable all within the space of about 30 seconds. They give you easy to understand security programs right there in the menu to do this..

Redhat 9 should do the job. Mandrake 9.0 should work for you too.

Quote: The easiest way to see for yourself is to download the Gnoppix Live CD from http://www.gnoppix.org/ You may also want to try Morphix, another Debian-Knoppix-run-from-cd distro.. http://morphix.sourceforge.net

I ran into similar bootloader problems when upgrading our Toshiba Satellite from Morphix Gnome 4.0 to 4.1. I finally formatted the XP/NTFS partition to Fat32, and installed my old unused copy of 98. The best solution for us would be to have NO Windows partitions at all, but Morphix doesn't get along with the Satellite's winmodem, and we may need a 56k connection if we ever want to use it outside the range of our wireless network.

Lol! Yes, but I wanted to make sure you did! Did you run Xfdrake or xf86config?

"Drivers" are used with Windows. Linux uses Modules.

Just type "root" for username and type in your root password when it asks. Once you've got a GUI as root, run "userdrake", and repair the username to what you want it to be. I beleive it's in the Mandrake Control Center.