Mark
Sorry that I could not reply sooner but I work 3rd and did not have the
chance until this morning.
I see by some of your later post that you have either overcome or worked
around your problems but I will add my imput for future ref.
Other than checking the Abit site to see if there is a BIOS update for
your MOBO you should not have to do anything manually as to LBA.
As to your installation problems with the 4 Cds, not enough space, Grub
is not installed, can not make a boot disk here are my thoughts.
The full Devel. install takes 3GB. This does not mean that if you have 5GB
set aside for Linux that you have enough space. The partitions to which it
needs to be installed also must be large enough. By example here is the way
I have my partitions set up and to amount of space the installation used of
each.
/ 2GB......space used 400MB
/home 2GB......space used 246MB
/usr 8GB......space used 2.4GB
/swap 256MB
No boot partition
As you can see 85% of the installation is to /usr.
Grub, LBA, and Boot disk
When the installation reaches the boatloader stage you will be presented
with a default location, in my case it was dev/hda5 (my / partition). Accept
this location and Grub will be installed.
You will also note the LBA warnig, a yellow star means your BIOS supports
LBA greyed out means it does not, clicking on it will change it from one to
the other and the bootloader will be installed accordingly. If you are
unsure as to which your BIOS is your MOBO man will tell you. Make the
correct selection and you should have no problem making a boot disk.
I one time got the same boot disk error, I had not put a floppy in the drive
( (-: DA grin
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Thurston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] More C++ problems
> That being the case, I have a ABIT motherboard that is about 10 months old
> and it is made for a PIII. How can I change the installation so that it
> uses Grub or change the bios settings so that it supports Large
Harddrives?
> I had previously installed the automated version and it worked just fine,
> why is there a difference when I install the development version?
>
> Mark
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 8:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] More C++ problems
>
>
> > Mark
> > The LBA is causing your problem NOT the # of CDs you install from.
> > I did the Dev. install on 2 machines and on both used all 4 Cds with
no
> > problems.
> > If your BIOS does not support LBA(Large Block Address) which is a
fancy
> > way of saying Large Harddrives then the bootloader you choose to use and
> > were you install it are critical.
> > Grub has no problem with it but the LILO as shipped with 7.1 does.
> >
> > Charles (-:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Thurston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:50 AM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] More C++ problems
> >
> >
> > > That sounds like a good idea, I am using the Complete 7.1
installation.
> > So
> > > what packages are on the applications CD? I know that Star Office is
> > there,
> > > what else is on it?
> > > Thanks again.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Patti Wavinak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:28 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] More C++ problems
> > >
> > >
> > > Mark -- which distro are you using? Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe? ISO images?
> With
> > > the errors you are getting I am guessing the Deluxe package and using
> all
> > > 4 CD's (install, ext, application 1 and application 2) It has been my
> > > experience when you use all 4 CD's you will get this exact error. Try
> > > installing the developer version with only the install CD and the Ext
CD
> > > -- NOT any of the application CD's and you shouldn't have any problem.
> > > That is what I had to do anyhow on all 3 of our computers. :-)
> > > Let me know how it works out.
> > > Patti -- Registered Linux User #184611
> > >
> > > Original Message dated 9/12/00, 6:06:08 AM
> > > Author: Mark Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Re: [newbie] More C++ problems:
> > >
> > >
> > > This is Mark again, I tried to install the developer version of
> > > Mandrake-Linux so that I could get the developer utilities.
Everything
> > > went smoothly until I tried to make a bootdisk, it said that the
> bootdisk
> > > program had failed. I thought, well I will just make one later then.
> So
> > > on I go to the Bootloader... I tried every possible combination, and I
> > > tried installing it twice, the same problem came up, at the
Bootloader
> > > main options screen I got the following error: "LBA (doesn't work on
old
> > > BIOSse)" Now this is rather perplexing to me, because I installed
the
> > > "Automated" version before and I had no such problem. What am I doing
> > > wrong? I have to get this working as soon as possible.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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