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trc3:
Well i still havent gotten a GUI to work in freeBSD because i dont know what video card i have, and i cant get it to recognize my mouse. But anyways ive downloaded Mandrake8.2(the ISO disk Images) on my mac with osX, burned them to cd, i then put them in my other computer and rebooted. Nothing, is their a key you have to hold down to start from the cd like in mac OS(you know hold down the c key) or maybe did i burn them wrong is their a certian way you have to format the disk?i downloaded them through ftp cause it said something along the lines of them getting corrupted if i used netscape, also will i still have to figure out what video card i have when installing mandrake? Anyways thanks in advance to anyone that can help or that has any suggestions...

[ April 22, 2002: Message edited by: trc3 ]

Calum:
you'll only need to know what video card you have if the mandrake installer *doesn't* autodetect it, which is possible, but i gather it's on the slightly slimmer side of likely.
Re: your CDs, no it should just boot up, not sure what the problem is though,

anybody else?

trc3:
If i hold down f1 while freeBSD is starting up i get the promp


--- Code: ---
--- End code ---

could i load the mandrake Cd from here?

Sorry if some of my questions are naive or stupid but im just learning linux/unix so you have to exceuse the stupidity...

Master of Reality:
dont you set it in the BIOS to boot from CD.

trc3:
umm, i dunno...but i put the cd in and it just boots normal...

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