From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3F1046BD.8080708@amnet.co.cr> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:34:53 -0600 From: tama4 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030428 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: community-en@altlinux.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Comm-en] Followup AltJr2.2 dual boot with Mdk 9.1 X-BeenThere: community-en@altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: community-en@altlinux.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:35:38 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: Michael, just a follow up to the problems posted earlier with the attempt at a dual boot with a user of Mandrake 9.1: "Chadd, thanks for following up. I have a GeForce FX 5200 which is relatively new and probably the source of the problem. Re the install aborting, what actually happened is I would get the popup window reporting the no XFree rpm and asking if I wanted to try again or abort. I retried several times and kept getting the same error message so I finally aborted. Tried reinstalling again and this time made a boot floppy. Got the same result re configuring X, aborted, and rebooted with the floppy to a command line. Was able to install XFree using either apt-get or urpmi, can't recall which. I ran XFdrake which worked but I was unable to configure a working X configuration. Tried installing the nvidia drivers but apparently the kernel sources are not included on the alt linux cds. Got an error message re no binutils so the nvidia driver program was unable to compile the kernel. Tried installing binutils with both urpmi and apt-get, but no dice, the package was not found and apparently it's not on the install cds or otherwise available. Re the lilo problem, I beleive i was getting the same error messages when I would try to restore mandrake's lilo that I would get if I tried to restore mdk 9.1 lilo using an mdk 9.0 install cd1. That's what I meant by the rescue program's confusion. I think it sees the alt linux install as a new mandrake install and refuses to load the mdk9.1 lilo. Was able to bail out like I did last time and get back to mdk9.1 lilo. If you wish to pass this info on, feel free to do so if you beleive it would be of help to others. Thanks for your interest and concern."