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

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

It was a SIS combo mobo with onboard video.  We went 2 steps down on the 
video and that worked.

I will tell the tech about the cat command that you suggest and see how 
it goes.  Remember that we are a M$ based shop and me installing RedHat 
7.3 on a customer's computer created a little controversy and made the 
staff very nervous.  The customer was very happy and so everyone was 
cool.  Now they think that I am a linux faq person.  The staff in the 
shop are Win2k and XP pro fans.  ttyl ~Anne

james wrote:

>On Monday 23 September 2002 20:46, you 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.
>>
>
>What chipset was it, and what was redhat saying it was?
>
>>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
>>
>
>cat /proc/interrupts
>
>should give something like:
>           CPU0
>  0:     318046          XT-PIC  timer
>  1:       9619          XT-PIC  keyboard
>  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>  9:          0          XT-PIC  EMU10K1
> 10:     281271          XT-PIC  usb-uhci, eth0
> 11:     267635          XT-PIC  nvidia
> 14:      33216          XT-PIC  ide0
> 15:         31          XT-PIC  ide1
>NMI:          0
>ERR:          0
>
>some of which are easy to figure out.
>
>or lspci -v
>which will give something like:
><snip>
>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta] (rev 15) 
>(prog-if 00 [VGA])
>        Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0001
>        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
>        Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>        Memory at f2000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
>        Expansion ROM at fe9f0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
>        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
><snip>
>
>for all devices on the pci bus(es). (Generally more information here, than is 
>available under windows, especially lspci -vv, which will give all of the 
>capabilities the card reports via standard pci identification)
>
>
>>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.
>>>>
>
>Unless there is some problem with linux detecting memory, NEVER enter mem= I 
>have heard that doing that will cause problems if linux is detecting the 
>memory correctly.
>
>Basically, just hit enter, don't worry about mem= or even typing linux, 
>unless you know what you are doing, because the way redhat does it the expert 
>option disables all sorts of auto-probing, so you (in terms of figuring out 
>hardware) might as well be using Debian (at least one of the older ones, like 
>last release, haven't tried woody)
>
>
>>>>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
>>>>
>
><snip>
> 
>James L
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