On 8 Jan 2002 at 6:57, Prasad Bijur wrote: >I have a PC with Windows XP preloaded. I have two HDDs. I installed Mandrake >Linux 8.1 in the second > hard disk's primary partition while keeping the other partition for Windows. >The >installation went on fine but >I am not able to mount either the CDRom or the floppy. Linux has identified >the modem but does not dial when asked to.
Is it a winmodem or external modem? >Now I am planning to switch to Red Hat Linux 7.0. But after installation of >Red Hat, the usual LILO graphical screen doesn't come up. Instead, the >graphical boot loader of Mandrake Linux (Aurora ???) is shown as > >before. Have you put redhat lilo on MBR? Try going into text mode and passing root=/dev/hdan option so that it finds the proper root partition for redhat? Switching distro for a modem? I thought there are better ways out.. HTH Shridhar P.S. Dump rediffmail and come to yahoo etc. where you can use POP, use your own mail client and format a message a bit. I am not sure I will format your message next time. I may choose to ignore it for no fault of yours.. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
