[Herefordshire] VectorLinux Finally installed !!

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

Thanks to Box I have now been totally brought up-to-date with Linux
desktops thanks to Mandrake Move.  I put it in when I got home, it
detected every piece of hardware I have in this box from the video and
sound boards, to the scanner, CDR and zip drive!!

I think what I will do now is probably invest in a hdd caddie, although
there are no IDE ports left on this mobo (the system in question uses
SATA), so not sure whether I can get such a caddie yet, but will look at
work tomorrow.  Still not sure whether I really want Mandrake, or
something which supports the CLI a bit more (Move didn't really have
many commands that I had previously used).

Although I got an IP address (or seemed to get my default of
192.168.1.13 (the DHCP rekognised the NIC MAC address), I couldn't do
any surfing, probably due to needing to specify our proxy settings,
which I didn't know where to put them.  Similarly, I really need to get
the resolution down, as currently it ran in quite a high res screen.

Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
Robbins
Sent: 20 January 2005 23:36
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: [Herefordshire] VectorLinux Finally installed !!

Hi

Good meeting again, nice to see so many there on such a horrible night.

Just to let any know - we managed to finally get the Vector Linux
install completed at precisely 9.30pm !!

What rather confused us was the fact that we had one problematic cdrom
drive and both had problems with using DMA  on the CDrom. Thsi gave soem
rather cryptic error messages regarding getting the installable files
off the cdrom drive. All we had to do to get it working was to add a
ide=nodma at the boot prompt!

Mind you, it take us about 1.5 hours to figure that out ;-)

Thanks to all for help and advice. Keith Roberts now has one Linux box,
only another 5 to go !!


Cheers

Julian

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