Hi,
I wanted to write in and let everyone know that my first run through an
installation was this past Saturday night, it was pretty much a breeze, and
it went off without a hitch. :)
I know it took me forever to feel like I was ready, I wanted the expert
server install, and although I made a minor
misconfiguration, Mandrake's DrakX wasn't affected, by it. I did a lot of
reading, until I felt I was comfortable, before I did it.
I already want to do it again! :) It was actually FUN!
It was a beautiful sight, to open into a KDE desk top environment for the
first time. I feel as if I finally have FREEDOM in hand!
There is so much for me to learn and I am very excited about it all. Thank
you all, each and every one for your contributions, for they really are an
effort of a huge and awesome magnitude.
The docs on the Mandrake site are far better than the docs in the box at
least for certain aspects of a new installation, such as the DiskDrake. I
obviously have many configurations to make. I am unable, as of yet to make
an internet connection (a result of my assigning the wrong com port to my
modem during installation) yet when I change it in kppp to ttyS2 for com 3,
I get an error saying that the modem is busy, when it is not in use? I
tried to set the proper com port both as 'root' and also as 'user'.
Where is the best place to familiarize myself with the entire 'tree
structure' of my new Linux Mandrake installation?
Where can I get more advanced information regarding good disk partition set
ups?
Where is the best place to configure the overall Osystem?
Where is the best place to configure all of the servers?
My second cd drive an r-w went unrecongnized during the installation, and
although my first cd rom was recognized it is not recognized as a dvd
drive, which it is. DrakX found and recoginzed my printer, even though it
was not on its list, but it is not responding to test prints. My scanner
also appears to be undetected.
b/web
Wade
PS-To all those who put forth, publish, and promote the notion that a Linux
OS is hard to install, or "a daunting task of installing Linux", be it
known, that this is false and erroneous information, sounds like a m$ idea
to me. As a Linux Newbie who just did their First Installation, I found
that "Linux was VERY EASY to install". More than that I found that
installing Linux was actually FUN!
The 1024th cylinder limit, for dual boot systems that boot Linux and
windows, seems to confuse many people who are unfamiliar with partitioning
a hard drive, and indeed it served to confuse me. If intead it was referred
to as the '8 Gigabyte Limit', it may be easier for many people to
understand what is actually being conveyed. The 'BIG Secret' is that a
'pre-existing windows partition, condition' must begin and end on your hard
drive before it reaches the 8 Gigabyte Limit mark. In my instance windows
was on my 17 Gig hard drive alone and when I wanted to add Linux, I had to
shrink my windows partition down from 17 Gigs to 6 Gigs so that it was
smaller or below the 8 Gig Limit mark, in order to get Linux to install
with Boot Magic.
Also of particular note if you want to use Boot Magic, is that you must
re-install Boot Magic prior to installing Linux yet after shrinking your
windows partition down to a size below 8 Gigabytes in order to use it,
other wise you'll get Partition Magics version of LILO called PQ Boot, with
Partition Magic version 5.01 anyway, the older version may not have PQ Boot
included.
