[linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anne McCadden wrote:

>Let me know where the trash can is that you will be throwing the hard 
>drive into.  I could put it to good use and running RedHat 7.3 too.  
>
>I have had intermitten problems with installing RedHat on larger hard 
>drives (>40gb) and I am not sure as to why.  I have almost the same 
>hardware that you have, but I am not doing a dual boot system.  I have 
>reinstalled and have been able to get it straightened out.  Some of the 
>techs at work have been running into simular problems.  We installed 
>RedHat on a combo mobo and XWindows wouldn't load.   After the techs 
>reinstalled a couple of times, they finally decided to choose another 
>video chipset than RedHat 7.3 was saying that it was and it worked, they 
>were able to launch Xwindows.  
>
That sounds like the video drivers, not the OS.

It sometimes happens that a card is not correctly recognized, especially 
when a card is new and the drivers have not been updated yet. Or when 
the video is on the mobo, because drivers often are not specifically 
tailored for the chipset on the mobo due to the lower demand for that 
type setup.

Was the video card on the mobo or a PCI/AGP plug in card? And what type 
card was it?

>
>
>I was extremely happy that some of the techs at work have been doing 
>linux installs and using linux for web surfing and using Pan, my 
>favorite program.  We use Pan to download our favorite music and listen 
>to music while we work.  Things are looking better all the time.  
>
>Then they were trying to find the Device Mangler.  I couldn't find a 
>device manager of some sort on linux either.  I was able to find System 
>Information, but couldn't find details as to what video , sound, NIC, 
>modem, scsii cards and what IRQ's they are using.  Any  ideas?  ~Anne
>
>Jami wrote:
>
>>That didn't work either.  I have tried on two different sets of RH 7.3, and
>>still getting different errors  I guess that means that it is useless, and I
>>need to get a new HD, and throw that one away?
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "bruce" <bbales@xxxxxxx>
>>To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 7:18 PM
>>Subject: [linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup
>>
>>
>>>When you start the install, you get a page of options.  I
>>>believe the first one is "Press enter for a graphic
>>>installation."  One of the other choices is to type in "expert"
>>>as I recall.  Don't do that.  Type "linux mem=256m" and hit
>>>enter.  By the way, you said in your first post you had 512k of
>>>DDR memory - I assume that is 512M.
>>>
>>>Later in the install, you will be offered the opportunity to
>>>partition the disk with disk druid or let RedHat do it.  I
>>>would suggest one or two GB of swap and split the remainder of
>>>the disk about equally between "/"  and "/home", for
>>>simplicity.   I would use ext3 filesystem, rather than the
>>>older ext2 for / and /home; the swap filesystem will be "swap."
>>>120gb will take a while to format.
>>>
>>>Write down your root password.
>>>
>>>Good luck,
>>>bruce
>>>
>>>On Sunday 16 January 2000 05:00 am, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>I am using a box that I put together with Red hat 7.3 with an
>>>>AMD XP 1700 (1,47 Gig processor)
>>>>The Linux Mem=64, and the Linux mem=128 I have no idea what
>>>>that is, or how to use it.  The one thing I know is that
>>>>Linux is partioning this drive out from c to i, and has made
>>>>it almost impossible to access, with anything but Linux.
>>>>Some of the partitions are no bigger then 1 meg -----
>>>>Original Message -----
>>>>From: "bruce" <bbales@xxxxxxx>
>>>>To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 5:27 PM
>>>>Subject: [linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup
>>>>
>>>>>Jami,
>>>>>You didn't give any information on release (RH7.3?),
>>>>>machine (old Compaq?), CPU (486 Intel?).
>>>>>
>>>>>I had a similar problem installing RH 7.2 on a SIS box with
>>>>>AMD Athlon 800 MHZ CPU.   I got it to install using "linux
>>>>>mem=64m" to start the install.  Even though I had 128m of
>>>>>memory, part of it was used by the graphics card and "linux
>>>>>mem=128m" didn't work for me.
>>>>>
>>>>>This is fairly common - after I posted my question and got
>>>>>the answer, I got nine emails asking if I had a solution.
>>>>>I posted the solution several places in about February.
>>>>>Let me know if this works.
>>>>>bruce
>>>>>
>>>>>On Sunday 16 January 2000 03:26 am, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I am trying to install Linux for about the 20th time on
>>>>>>my machine, this is a new machine, with an AMD XP 1700
>>>>>>Processor, and 512K DDR memory.  this Box has a 120 Gig
>>>>>>Hard drive. On set up, it keeps giving me Errors, I would
>>>>>>tell you what errors I get, but it gives me new ones
>>>>>>every time.  Most of the time it says that Linux can not
>>>>>>install such and such file, but occasionally, it comes to
>>>>>>in and wants to debug it. Almost every time results in
>>>>>>the same thing happening, Linux installation Stops.  I
>>>>>>have been successful with getting it on 3 times now, and
>>>>>>all three times it never boots into Linux.  after the
>>>>>>boot up page is gone the screen sets there and flashes
>>>>>>for probably 5 to 10 minutes, then shuts down. Any
>>>>>>suggestions as to what is causing this?
>>>>>>
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