🚀 go-pugleaf

Pay heed to what has been posted...

If you are looking at a "$" or "#" you are running linux...and "linux"
isn't a command...It sounds like the magazine is telling you how to boot
Lilo...but since there was no other OS it loaded automatically.

How about typing "startx" and seeing what happens?

(/nitpick on)

BTW..it ain't a DOS prompt in linux...it's the command line..but I knew
what you were saying

Lynrd

Richard O'Keefe wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> >
> >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
> >