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Yes 98 and 2000 are on seperate partitions. I tried to add an entry to Lilo directing it to the partition with 98 and a seperate entry for the 2000 partition but, it still goes into to 2000 boot manager either way. It might have something to do with the boot.ini on the Windows systems. I haven't looked yet, but the boot.ini should be on the C: drive, which is Windows 98. I might play around with that and let you guys know what I find out. Don't worry, I'll make sure I backup the original boot.ini so I don't screw it up completey.

Hi, this question sounds like it should be simple, I hope. I have Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Mandrakelinux 10.0. When I turn on the computer, I get the Lilo boot manager. At the bottom is listed windows. If I select windows, I go into the Windows 2000 boot manager where 2000 and 98 are listed. Can I make Lilo list Win 2000 and Win 98 in it's menu and bypass the 2000 boot manager? Thanks!

Thanks fellas! I just installed Ubuntu and it solved all of my Mandrake problems.

I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I fixed my problem! The bad new is that I did it by installing Ubuntu :woops: Thanks for all the help in the mean time. You guys are a great community!

Thanks bvc. I do like PM8, but in this case, it didn't work. Anyway, I know this is off topic, but I see you support Ubuntu. Is that one good? I've read good things. Mandrake is giving me problems and if I can't figure it out, I'm thinking of trying another distro and Ubuntu was one I was considering. I don't want to fill this board with Ubuntu off topic posts, so feel free to email me at keithmj1026@yahoo.com with any pros and cons if you have a moment to do so. Thanks!

Hello. I want to put some kind of wirless adapter in my computer with Mandrake so I can connect to my network. I found this PCI card from D-Link for a good price: DWL-520 Air Wireless 2.4GHz PCI Adapter, 802.11b I looked it up in the hardware compatability database at mandrake.org for Mandrakelinux 10.0. It didn't find any information about any D-Link wirless components. Can anyone make a good guess if this hardware will work with Mandrake? Thanks! [moved back to Hardware by spinynorman :)]

Me again. I did as you guys suggested and used the Mandrake disk utility. Sure enough, it worked like a charm. Thanks a bunch, for now on when it comes to dealing with the Linux partitions, I'll go straight to that utility and forget PM.

Honestly Chris, I don't know. I was having problems with installation. During the install I eventually got to the part where I test my video. After a couple of tries I got to a blue screen with crosshairs that I could control with the mouse and that was it. I waited the 12 seconds, or whatever it said in the docs and pressed every key on the keyboard. Anyway, I rebooted and it went into the Mandrake text logon. I wanted to try again from scratch and make the whole drive one dos partition again. I had done this before, and PM saw everything fine. Just this time its not working. I will use the Mandrake tool, as you guys have suggested, tomorrow or as soon as I get a chance. I'll keep you posted... literally!

Hello. Due to some istallation trouble I'm having with 10.0 official, which is the subject of another forum, I am trying to completely remove all Linux partitions and start from scratch. I have 10 gig with Windows ME using 5 and ML on the other. I have done this before and it worked fine, but this time I am not as sucessful. On Win ME I have PartitionMagic 8.0 installed. I wanted to delete all Linux partitions and make the whole 10 gig one DOS primary partition again. When I booted into Win ME and started PM, I got several boot sector errors that PM said it fixed. After each error was fixed, I got and init error that it didn't recognize the drive letter and PM would not start. I rebooted with a Win 98 boot disk and started fdisk. It showed one primary partition of 5 gig and another extended partition. I told fdisk to delete the extended partition. I knew something wasn't right because I did't get the error that I had to delete logical partitions before the extended one. Afterwards, fdisk only showed the primary partition with Win ME. When I rebooted, it went into the Linux boot, which again was not expected. Finally it gave me an error that it couldn't boot so I hit a key, as told, and went into the boot manager and started Windows. I started PM again and it showed the one 5 gig partition as my whole drive and nothing more. I can't see the other 5 gig, it should at least be showing 10 gig overall with 5 partitioned and the other 5 unallocated. Do I need to format the drive and reinstall ME as well? If I do, will it format the whole 10 or just the 5? Would it help to restore the master boot record with fdisk? Thanks. :unsure:

Hello again. I don't have much time, but I took a second to look at what server was dying in the log. It said: Trying with server driver: fbdey Server died Starting step 'selectLanguage' This is where I get the DOS style box asking me to select the language, when I should be getting the fancy looking one in the docs. I'm not sure what the message means, but it doesn't look good. Also, I looked at the kernel log and I saw a warning. Something about a time out, I think, and recommended using e2fsck. I'm not sure if that is useful, but there it is. I will post more when I get back. I hope that might help. Thanks! :unsure:

AH YES SpikeyKlitske! You have reminded me. I did watch the logs during an install and I do remember seeing, towards the beginning of the install, a message about starting a server and then saying it failed. I had completely forgotten about that until you just mentioned it. Thanks! I'm not positive if it was the X Server that failed, but that would make sence and would explain why I got the DOS style GUI. I will review those logs and post them later today when I am by my computer. Also, if necessary, I will try to get some more specifics about my hardware. Assuming that is the problem, what would make it fail? I do have another old PCI video card that I could try, but have no idea who the manufaturer is. Other than that, I have an AGP ATI 7500 video card, but that will do no good because the motherboard doesn't even have an AGP slot.

Sure thing: -I just upgraded to 96 megs ram. 2 DIMM's one 32 meg, not sure of manufacturer, the other 64 meg Viking stick. -Just upgraded to a Quasar 10 gig hard drive from a 3 gig Fuji. -PCI video, the manufacturer is Jastor with Trident chip. The card type was automatically detected during the video setup. -ISA 56k modem that I'm not using and can remove if you think it might be a problem. I remember reading that there is incompatibility issues with Winmodems. -PCI Audio. Don't know manufacturer. -PCI PS/2 mouse card. Not sure of manufacturer -AT motherboard, Pentium with MMX at 200 mhz -PS/2 mouse with AT keyboard -I made the 10 gig hard drive one primary partition on which I installed Windows ME first. After, I installed Mandrake 10.0 telling it to use free space to create another partition for Mandrake. I instructed the installer to keep 5 gig for Windows so that it could use the other 5 gig for itself. There's 2 serial ports. I noticed that one of the ports was disconnected from the motherboard so I reconnected it. I assumed that I accidently unseated it, but perhaps it was supposed to be disconnected. That wouldn't really make sence, but I suppose its possible. It is an old system with turbo switch and all! There is one other thing I want to try that I will post on after doing so. I had burned 3 CD's of CD1. The first one must have been a bad burn because it was all f***ed up. The second one, the one I used for this install, seemed to work except for what I have been posting about. The 3rd CD I burned at a slower speed, but I haven't tried that one yet. I read that if you burn the ISO's at a slow speed, it burns better. I will uninstall the install I have now and try again with that CD and see if I get the same results.

Ok, now I got to the part where you set up the video. I selected the monitor resolution, video card and other settings. I went to test the settings to see if they worked and I got a blue screen with white crosshairs. I could move the crosshairs around with the mouse, but there was no option to continue or next or anything. I hit every key on the keyboard and nothing would get me out of the screen. Finally, I rebooted the computer and after some initialization, I got the login prompt for Mandrake. Can someone tell me what happend? :unsure:

Yep, I restarted the install several times and always the same thing. It all seems to work eventhough it doesn't look right. I am using an old Penttium 200mhz computer with AT motherboard and PCI video. I thought maybe it defaulted to a low graphics mode because it detected an antiquated video. But, it seems odd that the initial install screen was hi-res and looked fine. So far I told the installer to use the unused space from the Windows partition. I told it to save 5 gigs for Windows and use the other 5 for Mandrake. Everything is workind so far. I'm curious about the install GUI though. And yes, I am booting off CD 1. Thanks!

Its me again! I have a comment and a question. First the question. I booted from the CD and hit "Enter" to install, as I was supposed to. I didn't change any of the install modes. The documentation at mandrake.org walks you throught the install process showing nice dialog boxes with options and other nice GUI things. During my install, I got some DOS looking dialoge boxes that I had to TAB through and hit the space bar to make selections. Also, at some points, like during the partitioning part, I would get off centered lines of text, which looked like they were lines from the logs, and other random text scattered in the screen. The only nice pretty screen I got was the initial splash screen to start the install. Any idea what that was all about? Now the comment. I had a little 3Gig HD. I used half for Widows ME and was going to use the other half for Mandrake. Evidently 1.5 GIG is not enough for Mandrake. Is that correct? Or, did I do something wrong in the install? I tried several different scenarios. Either way, its not that inportant other than for my own knowledge. I replaced it with a 10gig and it is installing as I type. By the way, I just realized my comment has become a question!