Mandrake 9.2 a solution and a problem!!!!

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Hello all,

 

I am not new to this but the problems i faced are new to me yet i wont think of myself as expert at all in Linux so all your help will be difinitly appreciated

 

First it is Mandrake 9.2 the free edition which i have installed few times before on different machines and the only problem faced was cannot creat floppy boot disk during the installation (this pblm was persistant)

 

the machine i'm facing pblms with now is as follows

Mother Board Asus P2B-F

HD 15 GB

CPU Intel PIII 450 MHz

RAM 256

BIOS award modular

Graphic Card 3DFX voodoo3 (3000)

Audio Creative SB Live

 

When tried to install mandrake 9.2 I had the error

 

EE PCidata module does not exist

 

upon searching i found it was sort of popular error

reinstalled trying different settings

problem solved by using XFree 3.3.6 insted of 4 with 3D hardware acceleration

 

But, during the installation i had another errors (had the same during first install too)

the errors:

 

mdk-menue_messages-9.2-6mdk.i586

mdkkdm-9.2-9mdk.i586

XFree86-server-4.3-23mdk.i586

with each i get the question that it cannot be installed continue anyway? so i choosed yes

 

when i boot i get 2 errors

 

interface eth0 failed

cannot write controle 3.0.0 efx

 

after i get the localhost login

either by logging on as a root or any user i get the same strange problem which is

the system loads but there is a difference between choosing KDE or Gnome

with KDE i only get flashes and nothing else

with Gnome i got all fine except there is no start button (the star icon)

the programs do not exist

some as calculato and paint worked fine

all others say error cannot be launched or did not find them

 

i also did file system integrity check and it passed fine

 

Thank you all for any help you can provide

 

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Perhaps I should add that

 

in the first time i tried logging on as root and typing startx but it freezes everytime i tried that

 

now i do not get graphical interface for user login

i type the user name and password then startx for the GUI to load

 

I also tried the su command after logging on so the $ turns to # (root@localhostuser) then typing startx command to load the GUI

 

Thank You

[danleff 0]

Your getting too many errors on install that are affecting KDM (the login manager) and the X server. You should not get these. I suspect a bad disk (even if they seemed to check ok) or a funky cdrom drive.

 

What exact cdrom drive do you have? Are you having any other issues with data being read from the cdrom drive with oter disks? If you don't know, what speed cdrom is it?

 

Older cdrom drives sometimes have trouble reading burned disks from an iso. Did you burn the disks yourself?

 

What media are they on cdrw or cdr? Older cdrom disks sometimes have issues with cdrw burned disks.

 

It could even be a scratch on the disk, or just that the disk is slowly going bad.

 

 

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Thanks for the reply

 

I did not burn the CDs I bought them with a linux magazine and worked quite fine before.

 

You are right thou about the CD drive, it is quite old one the style that you have to put the CD in a box then insert it in the drive after yet its speed is kinda decent 12X.

The machine is not mine so i do not know if there is issues with the CD drive but seems there is not.

 

Should i replace it with another CD drive and try to install from there?

 

Also if the errors related to the log in manager, why I do not find the applications? or find some with Gnome less with other GUIs and none with KDE?

 

Thanks