Guest albatros Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 ok, this was getting to complicated. looks like mandriva is difficult to install on my system. a pitty as i liked it most of all tried distributions that start from a cd. ubunto did it all by itself in about 30 minutes it was running from de hd. will try to learn as much as posible and take a decision about the final distribution later. thanks for all your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scorp3000 Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 i like your approach of doing things as simple as possible. but as a full novice i could find no way to "simply change desktop settings". how do i do that? what is "harddrake"? i run mandriva from the life cd. and i now do have a menu.lst file (different from the one i created earlier) You could try Knoppix Live CD. ( the best there is in live CD's ). Download it. Burn the iso as image. Knoppix mount all hard drives and partitions on startup. Become root ( user=root, passwd=root ). Navigate your way to the Linux partition and get /boot/grub/menu.lst with 'cat /boot/grub/menu.lst', copy and paste here. you can also do it with editor ( vi, gedit, etc ). Do the same with /etc/fstab and post it here. That way they can help you better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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