Forum: Installation

I'm currenty using FC1 and I was trying to install Eterm-0.9-4. It then gave me these two messages: 1. libpng.so.2 is needed 2. libImlib.so.1 is...

does anyone have any experience installing Solaris alongside existing Linux partitions? the install suggested that it doesn't like to share a HDD......

hello everyone, I have been trying to install slackware9.1 on my dual boot laptop which runs already mandrake9.2 and winXP - I have already a...

I am very new to linux, I have the following question. What is Mandrake, is it a Red Hat Linux version? Thanks for help!

hi there i've got a slight problem... when i installed my gentoo linux i started working on it right away to get some stuff working. then my...

I am very new to linux, I have the following questions. 1. Are the fips, disk druid and fdisk all tools for disk partition? 2. I only have...

hey all, Im very new to linux (and this forum), but i've updated my redhat 8.1 installation with Fedora, but a problem came up after installation...

A couple of days I came across Whitebox Enterprise Linux. It's based on Redhat Enterprise Linux v3, completed with some stuff from Fedora. Any...

(installing mplayer) i've downloaded something like, "MPlayer-1.0pre3.tar.bz2" and if i open it and try to extract the files, after a while i...

Hi ! I have a RS6000 43P-150 machine wich i have installed SUSE Linux 7.1 on. The installation worked perfectly, but the machine won't boot of the...

kernal panic no init found this is the message i recieved in redhat linux 8.0 when i compile a new kernel version 2.6.0 the previous version...

hi all I have been contemplating installing linux on my puter. I have an AMD computer. do I use the intel distro? thanks! Richard

Hi ! I am using Slackware 9.1 on a Linux ext2 partition (the partition is called LINUX). When the system boots it gives displays a message LINUX:...

I have several os's installed win xp, 98 and rh 8.0 on hda (hard drive one) and just yesterday rh fedora core 1 on hdb (second hd). As part of...

on lilo, there it is enough to write where the kernel image is, but grub has an extra initrd parameter. i use grub now, am i have to set...

Hi ! I have recently installed Red Hat 9.0 on my IBM Intelli Station ehich has a MAtrox Millenium G200 card. Since install the system has booted...

hi to all I can't get my modem connected to the internet here are some data about my modem Internal PCI PCI Slot 4 (PCI bus 2, device 1,...

I had RH9 with kernel 2.4.? and I downloaded the .rpm for the 2.6.1 kernel. I ran it, it ran without any errors but a few module dependency problems,...

i've an HP notebook with ATI IGP 320M vga card. on ati's page,it says "you can get drivers from notebook manufacturers (hp)". however hp simply...

I was pleasantly suprised today finding out that my laptop runs x in knoppix just wonderfully. I have heard so many config nightmares with laptops...