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Siplus:
quote:Originally posted by foolishpersonwhoknowsnothing:
while i am on my x p computer running big brother bill's window's xp-i have more problems
-----i downloaded mandrake 9.1 ISO - # 1 and # 2
i burnt both of them with NERO (mind you i burnt knoppix with nero 2 days ago and it worked fine_
i tried to insert the mandrake install (1) disk into my windows 98 computer while it boots
the screen pops up where it asks you what you want to do like it's supposed to, BUT then it asks where is the install disk and says that it can't find it in the c d rom drive!
please help and thx for reading
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hmm...i had this problem with slackware8 when i first tried to install it.
i never really figured out how to fix it, i just got slack9 when it came out.
hope someone else can help
blackphiber:
if you want and you have a fast broadband connection you can try a network install (I did cause I let a friend borrow my cd burner and still have not gotten it back yet, selling them for $10 on ebay so i don't really care). Please correct me if I mess up or if you have any extra comments.
first go here
and pick a mirror near you. i picked ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu cause it is pretty close to me. anyways go into the directory dosutils and download rawrite.exe into C:\ and also get network.img into C:\ too. put in a floppy, double click on rawrite.exe it will ask for a path i think, just type network.img
now reboot (make sure bios boots from floppy), and follow the instructions. now for me I put down for ftp site name ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu and for directory i put /linux/mandrake/9.1/i586 worked like a charm. hope you have success with it. I am typing this from mandrake 9.1 right now. I have a red hat box with 64 mb ram and it really needs 128 for the graphical environment, I have 128 on this laptop and it runs great, in my opinion it's much faster than win2k. and I love not crashing.
Faust:
Quake 3 runs natively with a patch and half life runs just dandy (Inquisitor Faust (LHL) is ranked 356 / 370 on my local dedicated cs server, yay! ). I've also heard that Warcraft 3 runs fine, but why would you want to play that? ???
edit :
Siplus:
To run Quake 3 grab and install the latest Linux patch. Install that and you should get a new executable that runs natively in Linux.
To run halflife, you should be *in* the halflife directory and start it with "wine -winver win98 -- hl.exe -opengl -noipx" or similar. You'll have to wait a bit when you join while it detects that your wavein doesnt work. (microphone.)
edit:
Just sshd to my box. Heres my "halflife" script:
#!/bin/bash
# The cd is necessary to find custom games
cd /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/games/half_life
wine -- hl.exe --console -gl -w 1024 -noipx -windowed# 1>/dev/null
[ August 16, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]
Great_Satan:
Some books I have.
I wrote most of this out before carefully reading this thread. After you figure out how to install Linux you might need to configure some things. They discuss things like this at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php
I have some more ideas I'll post later.
When I was looking for a good Linux book in the book store I decided to get this one since it explains a lot of things step by step in detail. I always avoided getting any book that say "for dummies" in the title, but I made an exception with this one.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764507443/qid=1061088123/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-8167960-133936 2?v=glance&s=books
I have the 1985 version of Mark Sobell's book (A Practical Guide to Unix System V) and found it provided me with a lot of insight into Unix and Linux. I took a class about 15 years ago where 90% of the time we learned Unix and worked on projects in Unix. The class I took was a 400 level chemistry course (Computer Applications to the Chemical and Biological Sciences). I later took some computer science courses and mainly used Ada, but never used Unix. We even learned Lisp and Prolog in one class. Lisp and Prolog are pretty strange. Learning about trees and graphs in computer science courses helped explain the Unix/Linux directory system. The basics of trees and graphs are simple. Reading my Unix book makes me think dynamic memory allocation and linked lists are being used with the Unix and Linux directory tree structure. Unix and Linux even use links to files (read these books to find out what I'm talking about). Learning MS-DOS helps, too. BTW, when I took Unix about 15 years ago there was no graphical user interface (GUI). We just used the command line. In Linux, KDE and GNOME are standard GUI's.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/102-8167960-1339362?tag=starshopc om-books-20&keyword=Mark%20G%20Sobell%20Unix%20System%20V&mode=books
Note the book that is selling for $1.95. Its well worth the money.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805389156/qid=1061092882/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-8167960-1339362?v=glance&s=books
I also have The Complete Linux Handbook.
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/
[ August 16, 2003: Message edited by: Great_Satan ]
[ August 16, 2003: Message edited by: Great_Satan ]
Great_Satan:
Instead of going with a dual boot system you might want to try:
http://www.technoyard.com/hardware/miscellaneous/Trios/page_1.html
http://www.romtecusa.com/trios/product/rom_t2_main.htm
Also see
http://forum.microsuck.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=002072
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