It took us a year to get around to it (partially due to not having a 2nd machine to put it on) but we installed Mandrake 7.2 today. We bought it last year and just sat on it until now ;o) We put it on a box that really has no other uses in life - a 100mhz Pentium with a recently upgraded 64MB SDRAM (MemTest runs fine), a Rage II+ video card, an old CTX monitor (1451ES), and a 3Com NIC card. No sound card (yet). That's about the sum of the components... a really dismal machine but without WinBloat loaded it should run fine, right? Maybe not. We have attempted installation a few different times, trying out a few different options, with the same result. The X Window System does not load. We just get the text screen and the login allows directory browsing and all that fun Unix stuff, but no GUI!!! We tried booting using the KDE and GNOME, neither worked. We tried using different monitors in the setup. Same result. Just as the text login prompt appears, the screen will go black for a second and then return to the text display. Although I have some Unix experience via Telnet/SSH, I am completely new to Linux on my own machine, and need some help here. The only obvious one I have thought of is the video card being on the fritz, but it displayed the installation GUI ok, and displays the bootup sequence in GUI format with no problems.
Anyone got any ideas? .me. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
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