Mandrake Linux Question

[Olger901]

Hi there Got a question about Mandrake Linux

Will it support my system? look at my signature for info on my pc



Cuz Im gonna try different versions of the program and want to see which one is most stable

[Hacktarux]

AFAIK all these components are compatible with linux.
The only problem is that with nvidia boards, if u want to have 3d acceleration you'll have to install detonator for linux manually (it's not packaged with any distribution but it can be found on nvidia.com).
To install you have to read the readme file provided by nvidia, you have to install two rpm files and modify manually two lines of XF86config-4 file and finally restart the XServer. All these steps are very well documented by nvidia so don't worry about it.

[iq_132]

Good luck olger Just remember to read every FAQ and piece of information you can before diving into linux.


Hactarux... I love your avatar (Is that how it's spelled?).

[mesman00]

last time i formatted my hard drive i partitioned it so i could install linux. so i installed windows 2000 on one partition first, and when i went to install linux on the other partitition, it just would let me do it. it kept seeing you need a swap partition. so i did the swap, but the it said i had to set the mouse pointer to '\' (or maybe '/', don't remember), but to do that i couldn't have a swap partition. why is this?? how am is upposed to do it?

[Slougi]

Err, I don't get the connection between a mouse pointer and the swap partition...... What distro where u installing? You sure the swap partition was linux swap, not ext2/3/fat/whatever?

[Hacktarux]

mesmann: i'm not sure of what you are talking about but maybe you have not understood how linux (and more generally unix) filesytem work.
Linux use two partition type generally, one for swap partition and one for file partition.
The swap partition is used like the swap file you have on windows, but it's stored in a dedicated partition for much better performances, some distribution absolutely require one. This swap partition should be something like 128mb.

Then you need to have at least one partition to store the linux files of course. Linux is using one big arborescence for all your partitions. And you have to define how the partition can be accessed by defining a mount point. The first partition to create is the root partition (the mount point is /). Then you can create other partitions for example you can mount one to '/home'. So when you will go to /home you will be on this another partition. The floppy disk can be accessed at /mnt/floppy when you mount it at this point....

Hope it will give you a general idea of the error you got

[Malcolm]

Originally posted by Olger901
Hi there Got a question about Mandrake Linux

Will it support my system? look at my signature for info on my pc

Cuz Im gonna try different versions of the program and want to see which one is most stable

Your hardware is completely compatible. The only thing is that your GeForce 4 card will be running under GeForce 3 drivers, this won't kill your card in any way but say you want to do FPS comparisons in Quake3, the Linux ones would be slightly lower then the ones in Windows because it isn't useing the new hardware for the GF4, but it wuld be running @ a higher FPS then the GF3 cards, it would be some where in the middle. Hopefully this will be resolved in the next set of source/RPMs that NVidia releases.

[Olger901]

Oh just wanted to know if mandrake would be compatible with my pc. I know how to install linux Ive used Red Hat, SuSe and Debian be4

BTW what do you guys think of my new sig?

[Olger901]

4got to mention I am still in some territories a linux n00b. Like how do I install Wine and WineX everytime I try that the RPM package manager says Im missing various files like Glide-i386.rpm and various other files. How can I get/install these? and how do I configure wine?

[iq_132]

So, i guess linux is very like windows in some ways When you try to install some files and programs it only installs half of them...
Nah!! that's just windows