About four years ago, I put a version of Mandrake Linux on a Windows ME computer. Every knows that ME was a 'virus' of a system. About a month after putting a Linux partition on it, I got a warning that an error had occurred in Linux which could destroy my Windows partition. This had happened several times before and nothing happened when I told it to continue. Bad move. It destroyed my HDD entirely.
Since then my wife has said no more Linux on your computers.
I recently hunted for a LIVE CD version of Linux and now have two. Mandrake Move - which looks really good, and Ubuntu Live, which is also great, but can access the HDD and has already changed my screen setting from 75hz to 60 and I cant change it back.
I think I'll go with the Mandrake - but - I cant get it to recognize my 56k internal Modem now my USB printer. It wont write to the USB memory stick either although it has located it.
Someone gave me some instructions for finding my modem, but I'm afraid I was too 'green' to go into action. I'm going to need a 'pictured painted' for me on this. However, if I cant get the setting written to the memory stick, what is the point in trying to use the system? I will have to put in my system and internet settings each time it loads. Not practical!
Where do I start? Linz
Rob Wood wrote:
Chris,
I am causing some confusion here. I have Ubuntu on my laptop, which although I have some problems with it, just installed like a dream, less problems than with XP, but Ubuntu doesn't like the laptop hardware. It fails to boot often with Fatal Error messages.
The machine on which I'm trying to install Xserver is just a 486 with Tiny Linux. I'm using it to teach myself a command line installation, from scratch. I think this is the only way to learn; having done the same thing with DOS. I only came to computers in the days of Win95 and it was obvious to me that I had missed out on all the basics so I got hold of scrapped 386, put DOS 5 on it and taught myself.
So I have 2 separate machines with Linux on them (3 if you count my Smoothwall firewall), each with separate problems.
Your stab in the dark was correct as I have now corrected the PATH problem and I have now got a basic XF86 configuration saved but when I did /startx /I got the message: /xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6'/ I could not find this on my system using the /locate/ command.
// So maybe your other idea that I don't have X-11server itself installed is correct. Any idea where I could get this?
Cheers - Woodsey
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