SwiftDeath

Can you give us more of you hardware specs please like your motherboard?

I beleive if your ISP is DCHP. then you'd be safe with just letting it auto-config itself using the MDK wizards.

Lol i'm running rythembox perfect. The only thing is fedora doesn't have as many packages. But it was the only distro that I tried to not freeze up on my computer.

I updated and I didn't have it check the burn. It seems to be working pretty good. Using your suggestions (Ohms) it checks the md5sum automatically.

Sounds good, I am gonna test it out later today. I am downloading the MDK cds right now to test it all.

Hmm. I switched to Fedora and I'm loving it so far. MDK kept failing me on the install. (may have been bad burn, but fedora checks that before you install it. ;) )

My dad let me use his AMD 2500 (barton) if I gave him my 2700 (thoroughbred). And I accepted. I reset the bios. Loaded Optimal Setting. Turned off onboard sound. (Nvidida only supports sound on 2.4 kernel) Put in a soundblaster Installed Fedora. Everything seems to be running so far. I haven't tried anything really intense like a game yet. BTW, FEDORA RULES. lol

Did you try fedora and suse? Those also support the AMD 64.

Hmm right now I'm trying redownloading the MDK cds.

Its a hella of a upgrade. Reinstalling MDK didn't help kept freezing I also tried putting in My dad's amd 2500. Which came with a fan, (we bought from AMD) so its their recommended fan. We thought it was a overheating problem but apparently not. The 2500 goes from 32 Cengrade to 43 Cenegrade in the bios after waiting a while but just about never goes higher. The werid thing is when reinstalling mdk it always get stuck formatiing hda5. I even tried a different harddrive and it got stuck formatting on hda5. I am guessing a problem might be with my hard drive but its the same one I did before the upgrade. (I was able to reinstall MDK fine with AMD 2700, but i did mess around with some BIOS settings) But LiquidZoo now suspects it an AGP problem. I have a NForce Ti 4200. I have AGP 8x support enabled in the bios. Liquidzoo had me disable it now though. My old motherboard before the upgrade was a ECS K7VTA3. Please help me get this problem solved. Thanks, SwiftDeath

That sounds nice, I'll do that when I decide to install Gentoo.

I reinstalled MDK 10. Luckily I had all my music on a backup paritions which I left untouched. I'll update ya on how everything goes.

I just upgraded my computer yesterday. And its been a very nasty upgrade. First it didn't detect the harddrive, and didn't boot but LiquidZoo helped me with that. Then half the time the mouse wouldn't work and x wouldn't start and stuff. I won't know if these are fixed because my /etc/modprobe.conf might not have added them. Half the time when I boot lilo freezes and it seems to freeze about every 15 mins. I dunno why. Linux supports Dual-Channel memory right? Here are the things I upgraded N2U400-A Motherboard (including onbard LAN and SOUND) AMD 2700 CD-Writer It seems my /etc/modprobe.conf is really messed up. But it may be ok but I can't tell since lilo is goofing up. I tried adding Option "NvAGP" "3'" under my Geforce 4 Ti 4200 device in xfree86config-4. But didn't help the freezing. Tyme suggessted doing Option "NvAGP" "1" instead but I cannot try that because lilo isn't working at the moment. This is a huge mess and any help would be appreciated. Review of current Problems are (to help you guys) Constant Freezing Inconsistent Lilo Forgetting Hardware chanes (such as fixing mouse and x) No Sound Thank You, SwiftDeath EDIT: I forgot to mention LILO has been working off and on, its like its deciding when it wants me to boot or not. LOL

Lol. Yeah if you game you gotta have self-control, or its gets WAY outta hand.

Lol and I just dled 2004.1 I gotta redl it now i guess. bad timing lol

Dang liquidzoo, crazy coincidence that you knew both problems right off the bat lol. Hopefully you can do that with mine :lol:

Eject /mnt/cdrom and eject -t /mnt/cdrom will open and close it. I know this because I've been working on a script that auto burns isos for you.

They may have gnome or kde so the safest bet is doing what Luis101 said but using Vim. Open up any terminal you want. Su to root. vim /etc/lilo.conf Press i to to insert stuff make necessary changes (what luis101 said sounds ok) Press ESQ then :WQ (write, quit) and then type cat /etc/lilo.conf to view and see if you changed it right then type "lilo -v" and see if it gets errors. then type exit twice. Congrats, hopefully everything will work now

Make sure its an image you burn (.iso) and make sure you burn it as a image in nero. Also try burning it at a slow speed like 8x. Thats my 2 cents. Best Of Luck, SwiftDeath

Yes CD 4 is just a bonus cd, but you can dl those rpms from urpmi anyways.

Ok, then possibly it wasn't a bad burn.

Yeah gladly I never had to resolve to that with my Canon i250.

That woulda been a really usefull comand for changing all those hdc's to hda's in my /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf lol.

I have a nVidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and its running very well on MDK 10. You just gotta be carefull when upgrading Mesa it can mess up or nVidia drivers.

I dont want to be mean and I don't have much time at the moment. But I beleive installing from source and rpms and urpmi are all covered in the FAQS on this site.