On Friday 13 October 2006 08:10 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> Roland Hughes wrote:
Thanks
> > On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:53 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> >> Roland Hughes wrote:
> >
> > I have a nvidia pcie card. When you say a clean install was that
> > re-formatting the home partition?
> > Roly
> >
> >>> Just to give some feed back:
> >>> Will not set up a dual boot properly;
> >>> Tried this on a Dell270 at work a few times, I could boot into linux
> >>> but when I tried to boot into windows I would get a message about
> >>> starting windows 95 and then drop into a "a" prompt. I put 2006 back on
> >>> and it dual boots fine.
> >>>
> >>> Desktop messed up (no icons etc.);
> >>> On a install over 2006 but not formatting the home partition using kde
> >>> the desktop and menus were all messed up and when I rebooted I had no
> >>> task bar or desktop icons. I put 2006 back on it and when had that
> >>> going smooth I renamed the .kde folder before rebooting and doing the
> >>> 2007 install again. Seemed to work OK but had to do a lot of tweaking
> >>> on the desktop settings. This was on a amd athelon with a nevidia
> >>> gforce 128 video card.
> >>>
> >>> Still running 2007 on the test box but am real nerves about putting it
> >>> on, 64 bit, my main box, a x86_64 opteron.
> >>>
> >>> Roly
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cannot get java or flash to work;
> >>> Still working on this but it seems like the path is messed up.
> >>
> >> I installed on a x86-64 sempron and it installed fine. Only, the tv card
> >> would not work no matter what I did. On the 32bit version the card works
> >> on the first boot. So, I think there are some files missing, like, a
> >> v4l2 file of some sort. Anyway if you don't have a tv card and you do
> >> have an ati video card such as mine, Radeon 9550, then it seems like it
> >> works dandy. Oh, it was a clean install by the way, with the old .kde
> >> saved on a flash drive and migrated in after install. HTH
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> Yes, I did a backup of everything I wanted to save in /home to an
> external drive and then formatted the entire Linux portion of the drive.
>
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