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| exar07 2002-03-02, 5:56 pm |
| I need some assistance. I borrowed Mandrake linux from a friend (without book). I dont know squat about linux, but I am starting now.
The installation was going smoove until I got towards the last steps and the video card freaked out! Well I think I may have figured that out but the real problem is:
I have a 1.3 gig hard drive and when I got to the package part of the installation it only showed 500-something megs of space available.
How do I get the entire harddrive space to show during installation?
What did I miss? | |
| dagger 2002-03-02, 6:43 pm |
| I believe it was at the very start
of the installation.
It should of asked you to use
fdisk or some sort or partitioning
tool.
With the partitioning tool
you can make sure the whole hard drive has
been select for your main Linux partition
and a percentage of that is for the swap partition.
As for your video card
it might no be supported by that version your using.
Hope this helps some what.... | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-03-02, 7:18 pm |
| Make sure you know the details of your hardware. Not all video cards are supported but most of them will allow you to get a decent GUI up. You may want to consider the latest version of XFree86 if you don't have it with your distro. If you have "SuperProbe", you may want to use it to probe your video card so that you can get a working X server running. | |
| exar07 2002-03-05, 10:30 am |
| It worked guys thanks!
Another question:
What is a good speed pc for Linux? Keep in mind money is a factor....
Thanks again! | |
| wildscribe 2002-03-05, 11:53 am |
| One of the nice things about Linux is you don't need a fast processor to get good performance.
I'm running Mandrake 8.1 on a PIII 500 with 128 RAM, and although it's not blazing fast, it's fine for web browsing and web development with Perl and C programming. I also run the Apache server to check scripts.
I also recently built a box for a friend that is running Red Hat 7.2 and it flys. I spent a Saturday running around a computer show buying parts and here's the results:
950 Mhz AMD Duron $40
Gigabyte GA-7DX Motherboard $35
128 DDR RAM $45
GForce2 MX 200 32 VRAM video card $35
Generic case $35
40 Gig 7,200 RPM EIDE Western Digital hard drive $75
CD-ROM $25
Floppy $14
NIC $ 9
Cables $ 5
Total $318
(Note: The sound card is built into the motherboard.)
I could have saved even more by going with a smaller, slower hard drive, a 12 VRAM video card and even bought used CD-ROM and floppy drives, but as you can see it's possible to build a nice Linux box on the cheap. (Especially compared to Windows XP!)
Good Luck
- Wild | |
| ccieToBe 2002-03-05, 3:00 pm |
| IMO the most important thing to make sure you have a good amount of is RAM. Prices have been going up lately but it's still very inexpensive to get 128MB+. If you can afford it, start off with 512MB of DDR. Make sure you get name brand RAM (Kingston, PNY...).
For harddrives I recommend getting IBM Deskstars. I use them in a couple of my systems and they're great. They have the lowest latency I've ever seen on ATA drives. If you get a couple of them and hook them up in a RAID1 your latency goes down even more, plus you have some redundancy (that's how I have one of my systems setup). If you can't get these then Maxtor's harddrives are my secondary choice.
For a processor I suggest getting either a Duron or Athlon XP. The XPs are significantly faster so if you can afford one of these, go for it.
Make sure the power supply you end up getting is powerfull enough. I've seen more then a few components die because the weren't getting enough power. |
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