Hi All,
I just got back from a weekend away so this is the first time I've had
to read these responses. I have also saved the thread on the missing
ram (I am having that problem too).
Anyway, I did do a custom install and installed the entire shootin
match. But I am at a loss as to how to work LiLo. I want it to be my
boot manager. I have System Commander (and Partition Commander). I
bought it for just this purpose but I wanted to use Lilo this go
around.
My sound card is not Sound Blaster compatible as far as I know.
Windows will not recognize it without the supplied drivers. As a
matter of fact, I have no sound at all since I just reinstalled
Windows because I somehow corrupted my MBR and totally hosed
everything.
My recent goof:
I have a 13gig Western Digital HD in this machine with lots of
sensitive data that I cannot loose (yes it is backed up). So I
unhooked it and installed a spare 5gig Maxtor I had and installed
Linux on that one. It worked like a dream. I was extremely impressed
and loved it. My printer, CD's and dial-up worked at first boot up. My
monitor configured perfectly......I was just beside myself (ram and
sound where still out but I'm working on those). So I got this
hairbrained idea to slave that drive to my 13gig and let System
Commander find Linux at boot up and add it to the list. It did just
like it said it would. I booted into Windows. I shut down and booted
up again and chose Linux this time......that is when everything went
loopy. It gave me some sort of error (can't remember what though). I
rebooted and all I got was this error:
Run-Time error 381
Invalid property array index
I tinkered to no avail. So I installed Windows on my 5gig Maxtor
(erasing Linux in the process - boy was I bummed). Then slaved the
13gig WD to my Maxtor. Everything was still there on the 13gig, it
just wouldn't boot. So I just bit the bullet and reinstalled
everything. Took me about a day but I was up and running with only
minor losses. Now I am kinda gun shy about using System commander. It
worked before when I was playing with Caldera. I still don't know what
went wrong. Anyway, that's my story.
Now I have Mandrake installed and running on my 13 gig in the FAT
partition using Windows as my boot manager. I'd like to get it on it's
own partition though (will Mandrakes partiton tool handle HD's bigger
than 8 gigs?).
What I am still missing is:
ram (I have 128, Linux reads 64. I am following that thread about ram)
Sound (still tinkering)
floppy (I have two, Linux says I have one)
Thanks again
Russ
----- Original Message -----
Russ; Sounds like you did the quick install. Try the custom. It does a
better job of detecting sound cards, and it'll configure your dual
boot for
you. Quick Install won't . But you're right, it is a sweet O/S !! I
have the
same kind of dual O/S setup (Win98SE & LM7.0) with larger hard drives
(no
partitions), and mine did exactly the same thing. Re-do the install,
and
this time, select "Custom". Use common sense to answer the prompts,
and you
should be laughin'.
