jael

I posted awhile ago about trying to get Mandra 9.1 installed. It was the S3 86C25 Virge video card that was causing me the problem. I got some help on selecting Xfree4 and s3Virge and not selecting my specifice video card S3 86C25. So I'm finally at the graphic interface, what a relief. Now I can play :) Thanks for all the suggestions. Claire

I shut down, unplugged my zip and rebooted. My error message is gone, yeah. I'm still need help installing 9.1 ,please. Claire

I have a usb zip drive plugged in maybe that is why I am getting the error message. I cleared my hard drive and the mounted and formatted it I have 14% hd 2 / 8% swap 45% usr 32% hda 7 /home I reinstalled 9.1 and still came out to the shell interface where I logon as local user-claire I really think this machine aught to be able to run Mandrake Linux. It was working perfectly with Windows 98SE before I wiped it, 2 days ago, and put on linux. It's not like I don't have other computers, but I am hesitant to put Mandrake on my other two. I have them networked wirelessly and working well. I don't want to f___k that up. So I want to learn on my older computer, which right now has been rendered useless to me. I've spent a lot of time, these last 2 days of may vacation, trying to get Linux installed on my Pentium 200mmx. I want to learn and am willing to try any suggestions. I have bought several books, Linux for Dummies :),which comes with two red hat linux install disks. But I paid good money for this Mandrake 9.1 and manual, so I don't want to try red hat yet. I also bought an 1000 page book called The Complete Reference Linux. These books are pretty much useless to me until I get linux installed. I feel like I haven't even got "my foot in the door". Please help with any suggestions, I really want to get this installed. Claire

I typed in xf86config and went through the questions I tried it twice since I wasn't sure about some of my choices. But I got the same error message, both times, like I did before. When I typed "startx" these are the error messages that I received execve failed for /etc/x11/x (errno 2) giving up xinit: No such file or directory (errno2): unable to connect to x server xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error I'm not sure of some of the video choices that I made -31.5: Standard VGA 640x480 @60 HZ then 31.5- 35.1 Super VGA 800x600 @ 56Hz - I tried 8 bit/256 colors and I also tried 4 bit/16 color Please let me know what to try next. Thanks Claire

When I typed "startx" these are the error messages that I received execve failed for /etc/x11/x (errno 2) giving up xinit: No such file or directory (errno2): unable to connect to x server xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error Claire

Okay, I did a normal install and let linux pick everything. When it came to the configuration summary, and it said graphic interface not configured, I just went on without manually configuring it. I got a message that the installation was successful.When information was scrolling by, I saw the same error message as before - finding module dependencies "ldm_validate_partition table(): Disk read failed" Then I got to the place where it said Mandrake Linux release 9.1 Bamboo for 1586 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk on an i586/tty1 local host login: I typed "claire" password: I typed it in {claire@localhost claire}$ What do I type in next to get the GUI ? jael/Claire

I forgot to add that I have a Pentium 200MMX

Here is my hardware I have an old Packard Bell 680 that I am using for Mandrake Linux -6.4 gb drive -96 mb ram -Compaq 151 Fs monitor -S3 86C325 Virge graphics card 2mb -Rockwell sound card? -modem card (not sure of type) jael/Claire

I am definitely new to Linux and need a lot of help. I would appreciate any suggestions that you can provide. Below is my first message that I sent to Mandrake Linux expert. They suggested that I look for video configuration and go through the wizard to solve my problem. That didn't solve it , I had the same problem. The second message is the one I just wrote to see if there might be any other kind of problem besides video. -------------------------------------------------------------- Question # 1 I purchased the powerpack 9.1 and I can't get it to install correctly. I did have Windows 98SE working well on this Pentium 200MMx with 96Ram and 6.4 gb. I have tried several different combinations of installing Mandrake Linux. On about the second try, I erased Windows98 so there would be more room. I think the problems have something to do with my video configuration. The closest that I can get to a gui is a blue screen with 2 icons at the bottom, and the mouse arrow showing that it is still installing.(even though nothing is happening) Every combination I try notifies me that the video is not configured correctly. I tried vgalo and vga16 for 640 x 480 and 16 colors but this didn't work. Most of the time when I go through the whole install process,(a little over an hour) everything is going smoothly and then it freezes when I click"configure" at the video configuration. The best I have gotten it to work is where I get to the shell and then put in my name and password. ------------------------------------------- Question #2 I am still having problems installing Mandrake 9.1 I've tried several times to use the video configuration wizard but I am having the same problem that I wrote about earlier.Sometimes it freezes right at the Post-install configuration right when I click on the configure button next to graphical interface. Other times it lets me go all the way to the end and tells me I have successfully completed and lets me go through the Welcome First Time Wizard. I successfully go all the way through it and it tells me to reboot. When I reboot, it goes through a lot of information and finally gets to a two tone blue screen with a wavy line at the top and a wavy line at the bottom. This is completely blank except the two small icons at thel lower right corner. (one is a clipboard). The mouse arrow is frozen as a clock. If you click on one of the icons, the icon disappears. Maybe I did something wrong in my installation selections. Here are the things that I wasn't sure of 1. X Free 4.3 or X Free 3.6.6 -I tried both but I usually tried X Free 3.6.6 2. Install boot strap, First sector of drive MBR or First sector of root partition -Again I tried both, but I usually tried First sector of drive MBR 3.FDisk shows that I am partioned into the following 1 A Non Dos 3451 56% 2 Ext Dos 2698 44% This resulted from selecting erase all to install Linux 4. When I did the final reboot and lots of info was scrolling by, I saw one error message finding module dependencies "1dm_validate_partion_table ( ) Disk read failed Please give me some suggestions about what to try. Thanks. Claire