The Berr

This through Linux Spring and Firefox. Greg many thanks for all your support, can you recommend any books that deal with Mandriva as the one in the store is French only. Maybe I should try to learn a little about what I am doing. Best regards Berr

Hi Gregg, I have downloaded and made the bootable CD and it appears to be working, bear with me as I attempt to reconfigure..back soon!

System comprises MSI K9A2 Platinum MoBo and AMD Phenom processor, 4gig Geill Ram, 2x Western Digital 400 gig HDs and xfx 9600 GTS with 512 meg graphics. DVD is Sony NEC Optiarc AD 7200 dual layer 20x SATA. I purchased Powerpack 2008 in February, but it would not recognise the Graphics card so could only get vga type graphics. Some time in June (not at home machine so cant check) I bought Spring edition which I downloaded as an iso (64 bit version). Copied this to DVD and installed it successfully first time. I cannot remember whether I did a clean install or not. Every couple of weeks or so I check for updates and select all to be downloaded - even though I have no idea what most are about. Last attempt to download gave an error message when trying to install the packages and that is where I remain for the moment.

Hey Viking. thanks for that, but I am trying to follow the thread that Greg is on so can we wait till he responds

He may have unwittingly copied the contents to the hd during install but only if prompted. Walkman unplugged and tried again but hangs at same place. Copies of screen attached. So how does on do fdisk using Linux or is there a more complicated way to clear partitions.

Screen shots

Greg tried to reinstal but got this screen

4 Gig

4gig

Yes sorry I do have two hard drives, one runs MS stuff and the other is reserved to teach me how to kick the habit

Hi liquidzoo, I originally had a paid for version of 2008 but it wouldnt recognise my graphics card so after much frustration I accepted the hype and bought the Spring update. I just let it load itself, so whatever partitions are there were created by Spring or the earlier 2008. attached screen of your instruction set.

Hi Greg, ran df with attached result. Obviously need to repartition or something

G'day John, sorry I was not ignoring you but I am a Newbie and find one line instructions much easier to follow. Also had no idea what you were referring to. I am a PC man familiar with DOS but no experience of any programming whatsoever. I find Linux very frustrating as I do not know how to format or fdisk a disk and would welcome your thoughts on a book which explains this in simple terms especially if it specifies Mandriva or Mandrake. So I was not being a grumpy Jock though I can be especially when nothing works for me...

Tried what you said but still would not load so ran instruction and screen attached

Third time lucky. Hope this works, may have scrolled through one screen but this is final text