On Sunday 21 March 2004 07:49 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm Y'all might > wanna bookmark this site. The explainations are human readable ;) > > I was gonna stay out of this because I only have negative > sentiments for _any_ ready made for Windoze systems. It's not > just Gateway, Dell's no better. Think about it .... they put > Packard Bell out of business by sellin even cheaper junk than PB > did. While Zeus went out of business tryin to maintain and sell > quality ready made systems. 'Bout the only advice I can give > is .. _Never_ work on other peoples ready made systems. >
You have a good point there however this is the first system that I have ever seen that I could not make run on linux with the execption of 2 other systems that were just to old to have enough memory capacity or had a old odd ball chipset made for some older AMD processers Personaly I hate to tell a friend or neighbor that they are just stuck with a piece of crap until I at least give it my best shot. > The only thing I can think of is was the HDD set to "Auto"? > Sometimes setting to "LBA" clears things up. > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake10 > I Tried that > BUT IMO, the best sources for troubleshooting info at this > time for 10.0 is the cooker ML archive > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&; > and a bugzilla search > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ I will have a look Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0
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