[dundee] broadband in newport

[Mordak5]

I hav mandrake set up fine on my other (slower)machine. I think my distro
may be to old for my hardware on the newer machine using mandrake 8.2.



-----Original Message-----
From: dundee-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:dundee-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Andrew Clayton
Sent: 14 June 2003 01:23
To: dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [dundee] broadband in newport


On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 00:37, Mordak5 wrote:
> I have to reinstall windows XP from a recovery disk, which rewrote my hard
> drive using a disk image, then fdisk the drive and format to reinstal
> windows 2000k. I tried putting my linux disk in as a second drive and
> booting from that, but I just get a black screen again.
>

Seems a bit drastic... ;)


> Looking online I think it may be a driver problem and the Nvidia site has
> linux kernals to download.

You got a nFroce chipset? Or are you talking graphics drivers? But you
installed Debian on it ok right? You just couldn't boot into it or
windows afterwards?

I'm afraid without a more detailed description of your setup/hardware
etc and what the exact problem you have is, I can't really persue this
any further...


>
> To be honest am sure its worth the bother to send a few emails etc. Much
as
> I hate to admit windows is a damn site easier to install.
>

Sometimes, but I've seen many a Linux install that is way simpler and
error and reboot free than Windows. Also the fact that a majority of the
drivers you need come with the OS, is a huge plus.

Unless you have some piece of crazy hardware... ;)


>


--
Andrew


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