[newbie] installing 2006 on an older pc

[Christopher Taylor]

I am trying to install 2006 RC2 on an older PC.  I goal is to run IceWm or another lightweight wm that will allow the PC to become usable again.  It is an older Gateway with a 500 MHz And K6-2 with 256Megs of Ram - * are shared with a Trident CyberBlade on-board video.  The monitor is a KDS (Wal-Mart cheap) 17 in.  I have installed root and one user.  The system locks after boot.  When I say locked, a text based login screen appears, no matter what username I put in it never goes to the password step.  It always goes back to the  login.  I can boot in fail safe.  Running drakconf - video I get an error whenever I try the test.  I have tried various resolution settings and various monitor settings.  It was suggested on #mandriva that I try knoppix and see if that does better at setting up the video and capturing those settings.  I thought that I should post this to the group while I am at work so that I can have something to go with when I get home.  Thanks.

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Christopher Taylor - Registered Linux User #383327