h k ball wrote:
... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ...
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so far I have:
(1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition
with Partition Magic ...
(2) Using the Mandrake installation disks, got to "Congratulations installation
is complete!" ... installed about 400 meg of files, including KDE, GNOME
and associated graphics stuff ...
(3) have successfully logged on into what I call the "dos-like" mode,
been able to use
ls /bin -al |less, |more
linuxconf
man man
cd, su, exit
Xconfigurator (struggle picking a comparable video card, finally found one)
(4) can reboot back and forth between Windows 2000, XP and Linux on same
machine with no problem, everything still works just fine ...
(5) have not been able to get out of the "dos" mode and into the
"windows" mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ??????
(6) 700 mHz, 256meg ram, 20 gig hd, Nvidia Vanta video card, Intel ...
hk ball
Someone else can help you with the proper configuration of the Nvidia
card - from all the messages I have seen, it is "interesting" to
configure, but I have not had that "pleasure" yet. You can test your X
setup by logging in as a user from the CLI (dos) mode, and typing
"startx". This will put you in the GUI mode. I would hold off changing
to having Linux start in the GUI mode until after you have X working the
way you want it. When you boot in the CLI mode, you can try different X
configurations without rebooting. (Unless you manage a configuration
that blacks out the screen...)
Mikkel
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