Sorry, I didn't mean to start a war over distros. But just for the record,
I did try Red Hat first and it wouldn't install. I also have SuSE 7.1 and
every time I try to install it, it just freezes at the partitioning
level. It's was probably me but Mandrake was the only one I have been able
to install and actually use. (started with 7.0) I was planning on putting
SuSE on as well as Mandrake. I have a 40GB drive and winblows only gets
6. I did use Mandrake to do the partitioning and only made three primary
partitions (something about only having 4).
I am using a 1st Mainborad AZ11E with an 850MHz AMD - I reflashed the bios
due to the problem with the VIA VT686B. I double checked my bios and I
have plug n play to no plug n play system installed. (winblows still
boots, surprise number one). I don't have the complete set of disks, only
the install and extensions that I bought from Linux Central store. I did
have trouble getting the extensions disk to work.
After initial install I downloaded the security updates, and then played
around with it a bit, (just checking out some of the programs, spredsheet,
Kword, and some of the games). I then had to reboot the machine and fix
something for my fiance in winblows. When I finished I rebooted and It
wouldn't let me go any farther than the Linuxconf hooks: I used the boot
disk I made at the install and did the fsck on the file system and then
rebooted and it stopped again at Linuxconf hooks:
Since I am a newbie I am at a loss, but I have been thinking and maybe
because I put the user partition on /dev/hdb5 and var on /dev/hdb6 with the
rest of the partitions, root, boot, and home on /dev/hda5, 7, and 8 and
swap on 6. Maybe this is the real problem? I never used partitioning
before and am still not knowledgeable enough in this area.
Sorry this is so long. TIA Moe
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