SwiftDeath

Linux/BSD/Unix has to be running when apache is running. It cannot run in the background with windows over it. You should try to get your friend to do his tasks on linux. The upsides is you control the downtime of your server and you can make more direct changes. The downside is that the computer must always be on and that can add to your power bill.

Hmm thats messed up. Hopefully they'll fix this in the next kernel.

Ok I'll try that. Hopefully it won't lock up though. I got a ok fan that came with the processor.

I had a similiar problem with my mobo its a N2U400-A and it has a nforce chipset too. If those options don't fix it for you then you may want to try fedora. That fixed all my problems of freezing by switching to that distrobution. Then again, I never tried to update my nvidia chipset drivers cause when I checked on their official site, they only supported the 2.4 kernel.

make sure after editing lilo you run in the terminal lilo -v. It can be done like this. su <password> lilo -v

Yes, if you don't appreciate free help. Go back to windows and wait on their technical help service line for 5 hours for some stupid answer you already knew. Now if you do want to try and still get linux to work. You can insert the MDK 1 cd and instead of installing, pick the other option. Then just type rescue and press enter. Inside their there is a option to reload the bootloader.

Yeah a good reinstall would probably do the trick.

Whats your video card? You should do test when setting up your display. Before x starts, and in your still in the black or blue area, try typing XFdrake. That'll let you reconfigure your display and hope fix it. And remember XFdrake must be ran as root.

Yes, but how much slower does your computer run now?

I opened it up perfect with GGV. Sounds good, but then again you could do it super easy with webmin. :lol:

Hmm I have a 2500. Maybe I should overclock it, I have it set to 177 fsb I beleive, what do you guys think its best to raise it too.

looks pretty descent to me, but I still think I'll prefer distro-watch over this.

Why install pirated when they can just use the free stuff of linux?

Cyberjackle, what yum.conf are you using? You must have way better resportoires than me. lol. I do like fedora for detecting hardware, I beleive its way better than MDK at that. At least in my case.

Try other browsers too, and see if they hang up? Maybe its a bad java or flash plugin?

Yeah I got a lucky trading deal with my dad. How much does this thing overclock too? I beleive I have it at 177 fsb last time I checked.

Please don't give up on linux, I know you reinstalled but that was a very easy fix. Well anyways Best Of Luck and I hope you keep trying out linux.

I think I'll try yoper some time than. I never heard of it but I'm sure its fast if its i686 optimised. Yeah arch was just too hard (lazy :lol: ) for me when I had to manually configure all those files.

free phones, sounds nice. I beleive I'll look furthur into this.

You can burn it onto a cd, but I'm assumming you don't a burner. You could try to shrink part of your filesystem and create a new FAT one just for the insallation. Linux can write to a fat filesystem perfectlly fine. The most commonly used linux filesystems are eitheir ext3 and reiser. Best Of Luck, SwiftDeath

It probably will work but you etheir configured it wrong on you don't have a driver for you network card. Its most likely the first one, I urge you to not give up so easily. Its not as hard as you think.

Lol, fedora has the feature built right in ;).

I am using the yum.conf from fedorafaq.org and I noticed fedora has less packages. I also heard it runs a bit slower than MDK (but I dunno if thats true.)

Yeah I may have to switch back to Mandrake soon. I figured out that Yum isn't is that great. Other than that though Fedora is awesome.

nicely put 2 Thumbs Up!