Below is yet more answers you your questions. I am just confirming what
everybody else has already said 8-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toby Sheets [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
>
> Ok, in the last 2 days I've reinstalled about 4 times to try and sort
> out various bugs. Please be patient with me (this *is* a newbie group
> after all). Here are my problems:
>
> 1) SCSI.
> My system is using Adaptec 152x SCSI Host Adapter. When I do the
> install and try to have Linux probe the card it says it can't find one
> on my system. If I try to do the install manually it asks me for a
> module. What goes here so that I can try a manual install?
You choose the aha152x.o module.
> 2) Sound.
> Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio.
> Where/how do I configure audio??
run soundcfg at the # prompt as root.
> 3) Hard Drive.
> I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It
> is
> setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set
> up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for
> "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up
> as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the
> remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to
> save files on it and if so what format?
You have to assign the rest of the free space as a FAT32 partition for one
whole partition or if you choose just FAT you are limited to 2GB per
partition. Then you format the FAT partition and you should see it in
windoze.
> 4) CD-Rom.
> It must have found it during the install because it had no problems
> loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation
> CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them?
>
> I wanted to add, if there are any Mandrake employees reading, that the
> install documentation I received with the Deluxe Linux is pretty
> anemic. The install did not happen in the same order as it appeared in
> the install guide and some options which I ended up needing were not
> even covered.
I didn't even get any documentation except for what was on their website. I
chose to download the iso image file. Didn't really need the documentation,
so I can't comment on that.
> The user guide is about as helpful. It almost seems to assume some prior
> knowledge of working with in the Linux environment. Thank God Mandrake
> chose to include 3 other books on CD-Rom. Unfortunately, the user guide
> is so useless I can't get my CDRom to mount so I have to read the
> contents in Windows, memorize, then go to Linux and try what I read.
> I've been sitting at my computer for close to 8 hours today and I'm
> still right where I started.
If you need any help, all you have to do is ask.
< John May - Computer Technician >
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