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Linux scares me..........

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THis may help you....

It's how to use grub with windows.... you can do it with the w2k bootloader (probably xp's too) but I've never done it. Do a search for it, I know its somewher in one of Anandtechs FAQ discusions...

For a long time I used Lilo, but now grub is way I go 'cus I like the easy way grub can have them purty pictures on boot up, also being able to trick the windows installer on which HD and partition is the first one is pretty cool I thought.

Although the easiest and safeist way I found around the whole MBR mess is just to install windows and linux on seperate HD's and just detech the oposing OS's HD during the install. That way I found could just select which HD to boot up with with the selective boot up device option my motherboard has on boot up after POST...

That way I got both installs working well and then figured out how to get grub working well. Then i just had the Linux HD select automaticly during boot up....

now of course I only got one HD and I run 3 OS's on it. XP first, FreeBSD (with all of its freaky partition stuff), and Gentoo All go pretty much seemlessly thru Grub.
 
Originally posted by: crisp82
I'm impressed you have it down to 12 steps. I think I'm still on 15! I have a cd burner, neglicted to mention that. sorry. I think I have installed Mandrake around 6/7 times already, and only one of them booted and ran. Thats was the last one that screwed up my MBR me thinks......maybe it was my general stoopidness. Who knows?

Can I use the standard Windows multiboot loader, so much easier, u just press enter, no need to load it up then select.?
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The mandrake install does a good job of setting up LiLo, the last couple dual-boot installs I've done I've just let Mandrake detect and setup LiLo for me (than gone in later to remove/edit as I see fit). That's actually quite easy to get setup/configured (at least it is the 2nd or 3rd time 🙂)

-Spy
 

LInk to Inquirer easy install

This is a simple, easy to read instruction and anyone can follow these instructions .Professionally written on about a 6th grade reading level so most people, like me, who do not like to read instructions written by most geeks which are filled with terms without explanation or links which end up losing you.
Spend about 30 minutes reading this and you will get a good idea how simple linux can be.
BTW, Linux for Dummies was my instruction of choice. After reading the man pages on linux I was sure it would be too hard. Professional writers do a much better job of communicating instructions than geeks
 
Thanx guys. How about problems ith my hardware? I'm guessing that Linux doesn't come with the drivers I need for my modem because it wouldn't initialise it before?

P2 350mhz
Voodoo2 12mb PCI
RIVA TNT 16mb AGP
Aureal Vortex 2
Gigabyte GA-686BX
Supraexpress 56i pro
 
What you have there is a variation on the infamous winmodem. To bad for you...

It is not the decent lucent winmodem chipsets, but it's slighty cheaper (as in worse) breathrin the Rockwell/Connextent HCF chipset. At least it is not nearly as bad as the enemy of ISP phone techs everywhere the horrible, barely fucntional, very common, cpu sucking, line noise sensitive, PC-TEL modems (also the known as the HSP modems)

Be sure to visit modemhelp.net its windows based tech support, the AT commands and articles are usefull for this...

Another place to visit

and last but not least Mandrake's very own Hardware database

Good Luck!
 
be sure to double check, it could aslo be a ACF or a HSF based modem.. supraexpress names are very similar, also be sure to do a fireware upgrade to the latest version if you haven't already and get those more stable speeds in windows and linux....
 
err it may not be a winmodem now that I think about it.... Sorry but i am damn tired time for beddy bye can't think strait no more.... brain collasping... hrmphtzzzz..... been at work for 17 hours straight.... must die.... 2 jobs... mo money mo money mo money ftrrzzzzzzzz**** crap cya...

HCF are pretty nice stuff...
 
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