Forum: Installation

after long and grueling hours of trying to discover my proper laptop settings to install linux and blow out windoze, i'd finally succeeded......

Please help me ! I would like to install SuSE 8.2 on a COMPAQ PRESARIO 5000. The installer report the following messages: cpp-3.3-23.i589rpm...

I need to resize my root-partition to perform up2date. But my / ist run full. I think parted can't help me out, because the partitions follow each...

Please can anyone help me, i have downloaded mandrake, and it is not an ISO, i burned te files to CD and it does not Boot, ow do i make it bootable?...

i installed linux on a computer today and it booted fine the first time, ie after isntallation. then i compiled a new kernel, and installed a LOT...

I finally left Mandrake, and in turn bought SuSE 9.0 Personal. So far the installation has gone well, until i got to the Internet/Network Setup in...

I cant get debian to recognise my scsi hd. The comp is quite old(5 or 6 years) .Help plz

I'm trying to make my system triple boot. I had a successful dual boot with Win98 and RH9 I added a hardrive and SuSE 7 Windows still boots fine....

a7n8x deluxe with nvidia geforce fx 5900, everything works fine but this agpgart issue.... how should it be configured ?? also i added the option to...

hi there just wondering, what should i add into the fstab (or some other *tab) to get my floppy working. i've checked the gentoo installation...

i installed the 2.6.3 kernel and grub as bootloader but grub doesnt load the kernel so that i have to config the kernel and boot manually. ...

Ive got a test system running and everything was fine until i tried something with dump. The directory i used it on (database which was on /dev/hda6)...

i can boot into the live cd and start my install. its not until i chroot where i run into problems. first i cant use nano. it gives me the error...

i've installed Gentoo 1.4 (From stage 1) to my laptop,everyting seemed to be fine. But it didnt boot. it says Executing all Device _STA and_INI...

Not sure if this post belongs here, but did not know where else to go. I have recently upgraded my hard drive on my linux box and now want to...

I changed my CDRW and CD-ROM cables to CDRW on IDE1 and CD-ROM on IDE2. On my original install both CD drives were in IDE2 with the CD-ROM being a...

When attempting to install Gentoo 1.4 on a workstation that I have at home. I am getting an Illegal Operation when I try to nano -w (file name). ...

I have Suse 8.1 running on an older 10G drive and have just added a new 120G drive that I would like to use as my main drive... meaning I want to...

My squid stable 2.5 is very slow on redhat 9. Redhat is installed on a primary slave 10 Go (slow HD..5000t/mn) Pentium 4, 256 DDR Config proxy :...

This takes forever to run from a 1.4 Gentoo build is that normal?