Wow I'm in LOVE with MEPIS!!

[JonnyBlaze]

how long should it take after that? it didnt seem to be doing anything.

my system is pretty normal. p4 3.0, gig of ram, 9800pro.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

try updating your bios for the motherboard.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

i have an abit ic7-g. im running bios 26. they are up to 28. ill upgrade when i get home.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
i tried running mepis. got to the boot screen, and none of the options would boot up. the first one said something about irq11 and no one cares, the second one stopped and said late registration of driver or something like that (ide related), and the minimum option wouldnt boot either.

anyone got any tips??

thanks

Whatever you do:

1. Don't give us the exact errors. That makes this game too easy.
2. Don't give us a hardware list (and no, your "myrig" link doesn't work). It might point out an issue.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
i tried running mepis. got to the boot screen, and none of the options would boot up. the first one said something about irq11 and no one cares, the second one stopped and said late registration of driver or something like that (ide related), and the minimum option wouldnt boot either.

anyone got any tips??

thanks

Whatever you do:

1. Don't give us the exact errors. That makes this game too easy.
2. Don't give us a hardware list (and no, your "myrig" link doesn't work). It might point out an issue.

well im at work now so i cant tell you the EXACT errors, but it wasnt much more than i wrote.

my system is a p43.0, abit ic7-g (bios 26), 2X512 megs corsair xms, 9800pro. 36gig raptor, a few pata drives.

ill have to fix my rig link

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
i tried running mepis. got to the boot screen, and none of the options would boot up. the first one said something about irq11 and no one cares, the second one stopped and said late registration of driver or something like that (ide related), and the minimum option wouldnt boot either.

anyone got any tips??

thanks

Whatever you do:

1. Don't give us the exact errors. That makes this game too easy.
2. Don't give us a hardware list (and no, your "myrig" link doesn't work). It might point out an issue.

well im at work now so i cant tell you the EXACT errors, but it wasnt much more than i wrote.

Don't worry, exact errors aren't important. Just make sure you don't give us enough information to even think about googling for a solution.

my system is a p43.0, abit ic7-g (bios 26), 2X512 megs corsair xms, 9800pro. 36gig raptor, a few pata drives.

IDE chipset? I couldn't find that information in your post or on abit.com.tw.

ill have to fix my rig link

 

[JonnyBlaze]

82801eb

 

[Shamrock]

possible error...

9800pro

ATI has HORRIBLE linux drivers.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

well true they are horrible, but if something was up with the ati drivers, he should still be able to get to the text login.

 

[DaveR]

Tried a d/l of 3.3.2test2 and when I burned it, I got block mismatch and it will not boot. What version is everyone using?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

I'm running 3.3.2.test2 just fine.

 

[imported_vdorta]

I am also using Mepis 3.3.2 test2 and it works perfectly in my old laptop.

 

[Jawadali]

Thanks for the feedback/rant. I made a MEPIS CD and was considering to install it as a second OS when I reformat my computer (which should be within a week or so), and this gives me encouragement.

The only "problem" I encountered with the liveCD is the ATI driver support, but I did not install the new drivers (I don't exactly know how, yet).

 

[DaveR]

Thanks all:

I tried 3.3.1 and it is fine. D/L site must have had a bad iso when I tried it.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: DaveR
Thanks all:

I tried 3.3.1 and it is fine. D/L site must have had a bad iso when I tried it.

Yeah I've found that the version 3.3.2.test2 on the ftp servers Mepis lists show the size as 701MB (around there) and then when I downloaded it from one of them the size was shown as 711MB (around there). So something is up with them. I just found a torrent for the iso at the tracker I listed above and the filesize was about 687MB. So I just downloaded the torrent, rechecked the file I've downloaded with the hash, and I had about 99.7 percent done, then just finished downloading it (I love bit torrent). If you guys are going to download the latest one, please download it through bit torrent. The ftp servers garbled it. But 3.3.1 works fine from the ftp servers.