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I wouldn't touch it with your ten foot pole. I just have a really stupid idea that M$ would use all of your hard work in getting it running right just to sell it.

Maybe they need it running in BSD to use in the new foghorn OS?

What have you tried to do to get this card working?

Just a way to keep the judge from throwing out the case for a few more weeks. In the end i don't think anything will come of it. The judge will can it and SCO will be left looking like SCOlded children.

I really think that they finally realized that they had bought a "pig in a poke" just before everyone else went opensource. Now they are the last people only selling UNIX and have a hard time justifying selling linux since they blasted it so hard. Maybe M$ will feel sorry for them and buy them out in the end.

812 MB is really small. You are not going to have much room left after makinga swap partition on that. Your going to be stripping it down to a rather bare system. If you can get to the individuall package selectioin part start by unselecting almost everything. Mandrake might not fit on it at all. If I were you I would either find a larger drive or a smaller linux at Distrowatch.com

it might help if you asked for help in the Help section of this site. At this point all I know about your problem is that you couldn't figure out how to burn an ISO image in Roxio.

Its good that Mandrake is finally out of the red. No that they have finally cut the wheat from the chaff corporate wise maybe they can start consentraiting on the last things they need to to make a better distro.

In my opinion the desktop is the route they should go. The people need one and Mandrake is really the closest thing out there.

How they handled this release leaves a lot to be desired. Really the final should have been released to the public first and then the new repacked ISO's should have gone to the club members. They deserve the better final release and they should get it in the best packages as possible. The rest of us can keep doing the update thing just like we are.I just wish it didn't take them so long to get it out. Wasn't there a site giving out a fresh ISO someplace else a few weeks ago?

As for the Mandrake live ISO. Now thats something that should have been given the ability to be transfered to the harddrive. One ISO and if you like it you get to keep using it. What a nice idea for grabbing a widespread user base that might start paying for the latest stable releases.

Oh well just a few thoughts on this subject.

Keep the dummy FAT32 partition to keep things bug free.

As for the swap partitioin I would go with the 512mb one. Never had a problem with Mandrake even using my 256mb swap. I't never really come close to using it all and I only have 128 mb of mem.

Make sure your hardware is supported and make sure you read a little here on partitioning with XP. There are many posts on that one.

Dedication like that deserves a cookie.

Or a medal but since I don't have a medal you'll have to accept the cookie until then. Its chocolate chip by the way.

I find it humorous but that solution just sounds so M$ like. Not that i wouldn't do it if I knew about at the time. But just a little more round about than I am used to with linux.

Growler I have heard this is a problem with the xf86 packages thats been around on and off for a while now.

The best and easiest fix is to just do all the updates and if you have a problem use the above fix from the commandline. It worked for me and many others and I've had no problems since.

Open a commandline terminal if you still can. If not hit the ctrl-alt-f1 key. This will take you to a commandline and you should loggin as root.

type in the command:

update-menus -v

This should fix the problem. After the menues are updated type in the command(hit enter if it stops for over a minute. It stalled on me also.

logout

this will get you out of root on that screen. ( It's never good to leave a running login unused)

hit the ctrl-alt-f7 this should take you back to the GUI you were in.

Post back any trouble or questions.

Have you tried manually making the partitions during the install?

And if so how many? I run into this problem sometimes if I don't make a /user /home and /var partition.

Mandrake lumps them all together and sometimes only allocates 700 mb or room for the install leaving everything else for the /home directory.

/ = 2gig

/user = 5gig

/var = 1gig

/swap =500mb unformated

/home = as big as you want, mine is 10 gig

/win_s = 10 gig for sharing files between windows and linux. Formated as FAT32

unless otherwise noted all the formats are in rieserfs

Forsomereason this setup then gives me almost 3 gig of loadable area.

You can resize and reuse the old partitions without removing them totally.

Use the bios to turn it off not XP. Doing anything in XP has nothing to do with linux. XP is not really as powerfull as M$ claims it is.

It will ask you at the right time. Close to the end of the instalation.

Yes it is possible to not install any boot loader with Mandrake. Or you can do like I do and use a floppy with the lilo bootloader on it. That way I leave everything from my old boot loader intact untill I'm ready to change it.

Disable the winmodem in the bios if its an onboard type. if not just uninstall it.

Make sure you have all the updates installed and the Nvidia drivers also.

I don't beleive anything in Mandrake Move can be saved. Unless you buy it. Then it comes with its own usb storage key.

If you paid for Mandrake Move your best bet would probobly be to ask at the Mandrake site.

In the Mandrake Controle Center uder hardware you should be able to find out what soound module your running.

You have the exact same VIA chipset I do and i'm running snd-via82xx

Have you turned up the volume in the app

Aumix

or the app

Kmix

Mandrake defults to 0 when it is first loaded.

Does the bios recognize the cdrom correctly?

Maybe its an LG rom and it got fried before you got it?

What laptop and hardware do you have. All the info you can think of helps.

They should be able to be made to work. they do give a TAR file that should be able to be compiled. After any dependencies are handled. But have you asked them for any other source files? They might have a beta Mandrake driver and be willing to let you try it out.

Novel has also done the same. They threw in with everyone else. Great days indead!!!

I have an idea of what your shooting for but your missing a few things also.

First will you ever point the bios to anything other than the hard drive?

If nothing is in my MBR like on a new drive we're stuck right here now.

If so then it needs to have keyboard support before it points to the boot device. That way you can tell it were to boot from. Now what kind of keyboard. PS2 or USB. Well now it needs to know about PS2 and USB devices.

If it also points to a floppy drive it needs to know about those and how to use them. And what kind of floppy drive will that be?

What if I want to boot my machine from the cdrom to load my linux OS.

What if the owner wants to boot from a USB device. Good thing it already knows about those things.

What about a diskless machine? You know, boot from the network.

What about booting from a riad device. They are different than the normal IDE or even SATA.

What about memory maping? Can't load an OS without knowing how much memory you have to play with.

You also have to have built in error detection of some sort. And a form of error output so you have an idea of whats wrong. Maybe some kind of simple beep that can tell you by beep code.

Now you see we're right back to the same old AT style of bios that we already have. Unless all computers in the future are not upgradable in anyway. Changing the boot devices in anyway totaly screws up the old bios, unless flexability is written in.

Just how many of us have ever left a computer unupgraded?

Oh my god a flash bios? Can we say LG drive here.