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Oh boy, I really messed up this time..

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TheQuirk:
Okay, this may sound a little strange, but this is what happened. Yesterday, I was really bored, and read alot of good stuff about FreeBSD. So I decided I'll give it a go. I downloaded the minimal installtion CD, and tried to install it. To my misfortune, the CD didn't have the driver for my ethernet card (or so it seems) so naturally I reformated my hard drive and tried to reinstall Mandrake on it. This is where the troubles started... When I was in the middle of the installation, it told me that XFree86 wasn't able to install. I tried it a few more times, and the same this happened. I installed windows, reburned the ISO for Disc1, tried to reinstall, and it still gave me the same problem. So I said "screw this," finished the install, and now I'm writin gthis from Lynx.

Anyone wants to help me ^_-?

I'm guessing I'll need to download XFree86 and compile it, but on their FTP server there are lots of differnt files. Which once do I download and compile?

voidmain:
I don't think yer going to want to compile XFree. It's HUGE. You definately want to install the binaries.  Didn't you already have Mandrake installed?  What's different?  what is the exact error message that it gave you?

Ctrl Alt Del 123:
So you're saying that Windows worked and Linux didn't?

psyjax:

quote:Originally posted by Ctrl Alt Del 123:
So you're saying that Windows worked and Linux didn't?
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That's a first!  :D

hoojchoons:
Did you use Nero in Windows to burn the ISO's? If you did, this could be your problem. A lot of people have had problems with image burning in Nero. Anyway, it sounds to me that this is a CD problem.

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