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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:03:45 GMT, gaetano62@xoommail.com wrote:

>If your running Winblows you can go to your device manager and see
>what driver is loading for you video card and that is a start as to
>finding out which one you have. First of all their are prerequisites
>to installing linux. you have to know what you have before you can
>begin you install. Second by the method you are starting linux it
>doesnt seem like the full install of Mandrake, because usually on dual
>boot situations you get lilo boot screen. What kind of prompt you
>typing linux dos or linux ? Im new to administering linux but not new
>to using it as a user so I have some knowledge.


I never got a linux window.  I was at the Linux DOS prompt.  I
installed linux on my 2nd computer.  I cleaned the hard drive
completely before I installed linux.  Linux was the only OS that I had
on that computer.  

The driver is SiS597.drv -- chip type  5597 rev 65 - Manufacter is SIS
The adapter is SiS 5597/5598.   The video card is an on board the
mother board video card.  The mother board is a TX PRO II.

Thanks, I went to linux-mandrake web site my video adapter is
supported.  Richard

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>On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 02:49:52 GMT, rokeefe@ameritech.net (Richard
>O'Keefe) wrote:
>
>>I just reinstalled linux-mandrake 6.0.  I never got it working the
>>first time.  I got it installed on a 1 giga hard drive that was
>>completely clean when I started the installation process.  
>>
>>I got the installation cd from a magazine called Maximum Linux.  It
>>was the premiere issue that I purchased yesterday (Saturday 9/11/99).
>>Is it possibly a bugged version?
>>
>>According to the magazines' instructions, all I had to do after the
>>"successful installation" and reboot was type linux at the $prompt .
>>I tried typing linux at the $prompt and at the # prompt in several
>>different directories.  I always get a bad command message.
>>
>>I don't think that I had a successful installation of the software.  I
>>think there may have been video card and monitor config problems.  I
>>never saw the xconfigurator message.  My monitor was unlisted and my
>>video card is on board the mother board.  I don't know the name of my
>>video card.
>>
>>Thanks for any advice.       Richard
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