"1389 Days 18 Hours Remaining"

[eyor]

umm... anyone know of a -faster- place to download Mandrake Linux from? lol...

 

[beer]

Let me see a screenshot of that!

 

[eyor]

While I was posting it went down to 64 days and 14 hours...

 

[BA]

what version you want? I've got a CD of 7.1 around here somewhere.

 

[eyor]

I want it now tho! lol... and the download time is now 114 days 12 hours... ?????? WTF?

 

[eyor]

screenshot

 

[eyor]

maybe I should just install red hat 6.2... I think I have a CD around here somewhere... what is the difference between redhat and mandrake?

 

[eyor]

I got all kinds of errors when I tried installing turbolinux...

 

[eyor]

that reminds me... it asked me where I wanted to write the LILO thing to... should that be on my main windows partition? the first one? or the normal linux one?

 

[eyor]

dammit... someone talk to me...

 

[Adul]

just make sure you have it add windows has a boot up option. Lilo should bemon the main windows partition. Unless you want to go into linux with aboot disk;

 

[eyor]

Cool. Thanks Adul!

 

[eyor]

Actually... how will it work then? When I boot up will I just type in whichever OS I want to load?

 

[Adul]

you get a menu, you can navigate iwth the arrow keys.

I am going to be redoing my linux install myself has well

 

[jaydee]

Yeah but you got to be quick. It defaults to Linux (unless you change it somewhere) when you install it, and when it boots up it takes about 5 seconds until it starts Linux (from when the screen of options come up). Sometimes (on mine anyway) it will default to Linux without even showing the options. It's wierd. Anyway also be sure to list boot-up disk, and safe-mode as options when you get to boot-up options (if it doesn't automatically).

 

[Damaged]

Jesus H! Ever think of trying a different site? And...you aren't trying to do this with a modem are you?

 

[eyor]

Damage: it was with a high-speed cable connection.

I am having MAJOR problems with the Redhat 6.2 install!

It seemed to install fine, but when I rebooted it got through the part about "DMI" or whatever it is, the part where it goes to the boot disk or starts to load the OS, and then just printed "LI" on the screen.
So I tried to type something. Nothing showed.
My keyboard was working, because I could CTRL+ALT+DEL, and change caps and num lock, but nothing was being typed. Then the keys started making that tic-tic noise like it was frozen.
Reboot. "LI". Same thing. HELP!!!

maybe I should start a new thread...