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Hey everyone, Im having a nasty issue (Which is probably an EASY fix, but im brand new to linux!) I currently have Suse linux 10.2 installed and I recently added ...
  1. 01-17-2007 #1
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    mounting cd rom in command line

    Hey everyone,
    Im having a nasty issue (Which is probably an EASY fix, but im brand new to linux!) I currently have Suse linux 10.2 installed and I recently added a dedicated video card to my system - now i cant boot up, so i believe I have the correct Nvidia drivers but I can't figure out how to install them. I know I need to be in command line, and I've tried mounting the CD Rom but for some reason it wont work. I assume I need to mount the CD Rom so i can access the driver files that I have burned on a CD (or if putting them on a usb flash drive would be easier, I can do that too.)

    Any help to get me going in the right direction? =/

    Tom
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  2. 01-17-2007 #2
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    Can you post the content of /etc/fstab?
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  3. 01-17-2007 #3
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    Why not download the driver from here and install per the nvidia instructions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by celticshinobi
    Hey everyone,
    Im having a nasty issue (Which is probably an EASY fix, but im brand new to linux!) I currently have Suse linux 10.2 installed and I recently added a dedicated video card to my system - now i cant boot up, so i believe I have the correct Nvidia drivers but I can't figure out how to install them. I know I need to be in command line, and I've tried mounting the CD Rom but for some reason it wont work. I assume I need to mount the CD Rom so i can access the driver files that I have burned on a CD (or if putting them on a usb flash drive would be easier, I can do that too.)

    Any help to get me going in the right direction? =/

    Tom
    Can you get to the command line at all??

    Did you disable the old (I assume built in) Video in the BIOS??
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  5. 01-18-2007 #5
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    yeah, I can get to the command line actually. The old integrated card is disabled, i ASSUME. I uninstalled the drivers for it through windows (my system is dual booted) and now that you ask now I want to double check and make sure it is disabled, but im about 95% sure.

    I can post the content of fstab for ya once i get back home so I can view it, so itll be a few hours.
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    I WOULD follow the Nvidia instructions for installing but my main roadblock right now is actually getting the drivers themselves on the system somewhere so I can install them, hehe
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    okay, so i checked my BIOS and my integrated (old) card is disabled, so now...what next? How do I get to fstab now to post what that has in it?
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    The fstab file is under /etc

    Open it with whatever editor you use but I suggest that first you make a copy of fstab just in case: cp fstab fstab.bak
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    OR execute
    Code:
    less /etc/fstab
    post output here.





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    /dev/hdb2 / ext3 acl, user_xattr 1,1
    /dev/hdb3 / home acl, user_xattr 1,2
    /dev/hda1 / /windows/c users,gid=users,umask=0002,utfs=true 00
    /dev/hda2 / /windows/d users.gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 00
    /dev/hdb1 / /swap 00
    proc /proc 00
    sysfs /sys 00
    debugfs /syskerneldebug 00
    usbfs /proc/bus/usb 00
    devpts /dev/pts 00






    hopefully that's readable and hopefully i didnt put any typos in there - is that what you're looking for? =/
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