Additional Info
Machine: HP Pavillion 7125 P133 64 megs ram
Graphics: S3 2megs vram
IDE Drives (2) 1.6 gig for boot (/), 2.1 gig for swap and /home
Boot from floppy since CD is not available for boot
Machine is dedicated to Linux, nothing else on either drive
Thanks,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Britton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 3:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Configure X Error
I'm a Mandrake newbie myself, but I have installed it on three
different machines without any problems. Could you give me more
info about the machine you are trying to install Linux on. The
type of hard drive (IDE or SCSI), the brand of video card (like
S3 Virge, Diamond Fire, Matrox, etc., and the amount of VRAM on
it), and how are you trying to boot? Are you trying to boot from
a floppy and then using a CD-ROM or are you trying to boot
from the CD.
And lastly, are you going to run Linux off a partitioned drive -
a machine with both Windows and Linux - or is this on a machine
that will be devoted solely to Linux.
- Steve
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, John Morris wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Brand new to Linux, I have unsuccessfuly tried to install
several times
> but halt at the following:
>
> Autoprobe of NIC (decieded to not install network to get
installation
> finished)
>
> Configure X error only allowing me to return to the previous
step which
> is boot loader.
>
> I am installing native, not other operating system and have
tried both
> Master boot record and First sector of boot partition but can
not get
> past the Configure X error.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
