i hate Linux

[eh?]

Ok i fried my 1.2 the other night so i had to resort to using my server wich is a pentium 3 500 and its running windows xp pro and i wanted to dual boot using linux mandrake 8.1. its has two 20 gig western digtal in and i added a 10 gig ibm to install linux on just so i can get use to using linux.. The version of linux is mandrake 8.1.
So i went into the install and configured and everything told it to install to the IBM 10 gig so it did and everything went fine. then when i tried to restart right after it got by the bios screen it before you could boot to a cd of floppy it would say "L 07 L 07 L 07 L 07 L 07" over and over and fill up the screen with it, thats the first problem. Since it didn't work i just took out the 10 gig so i could get back into windows but it didn't work. at first it wouldn't find the hard drives at all, i tried everything and it would not boot or it wouldn't see the harddirves. so i took the with windows xp out and put into a working computer and everything on it was fine. so i formatted and repartioned there and put it back in the server. It took like 4 minutes for the computer to finally see and then i was able to reinstall windows 2k on it. But i still wanna use linux onit but i don't want that to happen again so any reasons why it said L 07 over and over??? and what can i do to get it to install right?

[SpeeDj]

I was really hoping that wasn't true. It looks like WinXP does have a way around you installing anything other than it on a drive. An article was posted about a month ago about a Tech guy trying to run a dual boot with mandrake and winxp, something he had done with prior windows os' countless times over. He said the only solution was to format and either install one or the other. XP doesn't want to play nice with Linux. If you are running a clean install of 2000 try running a fdisk /mbr on the drive you want to dual boot off of. Make sure you save everything you want to save to another harddrive. Then re-install 2k and then mandrake and there should be no problems.

Otherwise I really don't know what else to tell you.

J - Hope that helps.

[eh?]

i tried installing on the clean IBM drive not the other two 20 gigs

[jbell]

when you booted to instal did you hit f1 then type ''lnx4win'' ???

minus the quotes?

[eh?]

no, ive never even heard of that. i just put the cd in and let it boot to the install screen, then i told it to install to that clean 10 gig

[jbell]

Originally posted by drdingo21
no, ive never even heard of that. i just put the cd in and let it boot to the install screen, then i told it to install to that clean 10 gig


type f1 and type lnx4win - it will create a dual boot record - so when you turn it on you can select XP or Linux - i had same prob!!

once windows is restored... install linux and from the install you can select where to install to.

[Yodums]

Well for me last time I had Win98, Win XP, Linux Mandrake and Redhat..

I think your chosing something wrong in the installation or something .. I've seen alot of peeps with XP and Linux though.

[David]

To fix the Mbr and let you get back into windows, use a DOS boot disk and type fdisk /mbr

If you can, get a seperate comp for linux. Min spec needed for a decent pc is probably about 300MHz, 48MB of RAM, 2GB HDD and 2MB Graphics.

[Yodums]

Originally posted by penguinfreak
To fix the Mbr and let you get back into windows, use a DOS boot disk and type fdisk /mbr

If you can, get a seperate comp for linux. Min spec needed for a decent pc is probably about 300MHz, 48MB of RAM, 2GB HDD and 2MB Graphics.

I'd really have to say 128 recommended... Ram is cheap right now and 2gig isn't really enough I would recommend 5.

[David]

This is BARE minimum. I had Linux (SuSE 7) on a winchip 180 machine, 48MB of RAM and 1.2GB HDD. It was quite sluggish.