Time to Try Linux

[icallmedan]

I've had so many problems trying to get that Mandrake 10 to load and nothign works...at kleast on my computer...maybe my HDD is corrupt or somethign.

[mikeL]

OK, i stole the 2nd hard drive from my wifes system

TrippinJedi, did you install the bootloader on the 2nd hard drive, If so you need to install it the primary partition ( /dev/hda ) and overwrite windows bootloader.

icallmedan, did you disable plug and play before you installed linux?

I see you downloaded Mandy, you may have a bad download, or burn, did you check the MD5 Sum, to make sure it was good.

Mike

[Karnevil9]

I have heard some people complain about problems with Mandrake 10. You may want to try an older version of Mandrake until they fix whatever bugs are in the newer Mandrake. If you want to save yourself a few headaches you may want to D/L and try Morphix Gnome, or Knoppix. They run from one CD and you don't have to install it to the harddrive unless you want it to. This way you can try Linux and see if you are going to be happy with it before you install it. Morphix and Knoppix are both fairly similar, but Morphix is a little easier to insatll if you decide to, because it gives you an icon that says Harddrive, and you just click it if you want decide to install it. They both have pretty good hard ware recognition. There are different versions of Morphix, but I would recommend the Gnome version because it comes with more applications on it.

[icallmedan]

What do you mean the MD5 sum?

[TrippinJedi]

k before i was just trying to put it on a partition on the drive, so i wiped out the whole drive just for linux, and got better results...sort of, i got the bootloader to work and it allows me to choose between windows and linux, but when i choose linux it starts is load/boot, only one item fails the one ending in "eth0" my guess is that its ethernet related, then the screen turns off and comes back black with nothing

any ideas?

[ZeratulsAvenger]

Not sure if you are already a member, but you may get faster and more in depth answers over at LinuxJunior.org. Nice place. Can't help ya with the eth0 failure and why it would shut off for that reason though, since that seems really stupid. My eth0 thing failed before and it all booted up fine and dandy, just with a lcak of internet.

[TrippinJedi]

well i took the hard drive out of my 2.8 P4 and put it into my wifes AMD2400XP system and just like the live cd of Suse it worked in her system and not mine, wonder why? anyway had trouble trying to set it up for internet but that will have to wait, she dont want me messing with her machine

[Karnevil9]

The MD5 sum is a prgram you use to check a downloaded Linux ISO and it will tell you if there are any errors on it. Check it out here for more info.

http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/verifyiso.html