Virtual PC 2004, Slackware, and me

[Slackfumasta]

Hi everybody:

So I've been playing with VPC 2004 and Linux lately. I've got both Mandrake 10.1 and Slackware 10.1 installed and running under VPC, except that I cannot get X to launch on either one. I'm having the same problem with both; I suspect it is a video card problem, but I don't know enough about Linux to be sure.

I have a GF6800 Ultra (AGP). When I try to launch startx, it crashed with an error of 'Fatal IO error 104'. If I change video drivers, I can get startx to not actually crash, but rather just hang during launch with a blank screen.

I did download the latest nvidia drivers for Linux (for both my video card and my motherboard), but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to access a CDROM drive from the Linux command prompt.

If anybody has any suggestions, they would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[klingens]

Run lspci -v inside of VPC2004 and check what kind of VGA chip it emulates. If memory serves me right, it's a S3 Trio. Get an old XFree 3.3.x version, use the Trio driver or try the VESA one. Heck, try the original VGA one (640x480, 16 colors...)

For the CDROM: mount a ISO file in VPC, then start Linux.Run dmesg and check which device is the CDROM, then mount it. Might be /dev/hdc

a way to mount that is "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt"

[trailnut]

If you get an error message when trying to mount your cdrom, try su into root before mounting.

[Slackfumasta]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'm now running Mandrake Linux with KDE, and posting this from Mozilla, all in my Virtual PC :)

Now I'm going to go see if I can get Slackware's X to work!