Initial setup and fears about Mandriva

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KillerByte wrote:Does that mean that i need two partitioins for linux, one main and one swap. That is frustrating and yet my linux is running fine on its own 10gig partition.
No, Linux will run fine on a single partition, but most distro's separate the different directories (eg the root, home and swap directories) for security-purposes.
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supertwit wrote:I tried installing Mandriva on my second Hard Drive this weekend and got as far as the installer trying to load drivers for "nVidia CK804 sata_nv , etc." when I got the following error message:

"An error ocurred. No valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware
for the cause of the problem."

Now I'm pretty sure that my hardware is not faulty
as Fedora Core 3 installs just fine and even picks up my display adapter ;)

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Nope thats the driver for your SATA HDD.....it's likely that your trying to install man on a SATA HDD.....because your can't load any OS direct to a SATA HDD without the proper drivers telling the setup to do so.
Installing the OS on a SATA your have to boot from a normal IDE harddrive or get a way to load the sata chipset driver....
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If it helps, I've been fiddling with Suse 9.3 for the past week - have it installed on my laptop and desktop. The laptop is fine (although trying to find wireless drivers for my Linksys PCMCIA card is a nightmare), but I've been battling on my desktop with SATA, mp3s and graphics (I have a 40Gb IDE & a 200Gb SATA on a m/board with an Nvidia4 controller).

I did a YAST update and it automatically sorted out the SATA and mp3 issues (yay!), but I still had to get the graphics-driver from ATI and install that - after a bit of tweaking, it works.

You can find Nforce Linux drivers here - hope it helps.
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Thanks, guys :)

I may as well go along and collect nvidia nforce drivers,not so?

Unfortunately I have only a SATA hard drive.....

What I ventually found helpful was to hit F1 when booting from the installation CD and typing in the following boot parameters:

linux noapic apm=off acpi=off

It works like a charm now.

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supertwit wrote:What I ventually found helpful was to hit F1 when booting from the installation CD and typing in the following boot parameters:

linux noapic apm=off acpi=off
Ooooh - now's that's handy. Thanks :thumbsup:
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My pleasure......glad I could help. :)
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Can somebody perhaps help? I messed up my Mandriva's display settings and can't change it back again coz I can't see what’s going on! I know the command for Suse is SAX2 but what should I use for Mandriva? Google is not my friend today so please help?
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Try xorgconf
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Thrall wrote:Try xorgconf
emm that command does not seem to work? :(
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Try Typing in "sudo" to get yourself some SuperUser Powers before typing in xorgconf.

....or you could try typing in "xf86config" to see whether it has been discontinued..........
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Mothman wrote:emm that command does not seem to work? :(
Ok, my bad - you first need to be logged-in as root. At the prompt, type su and when prompted, enter your root password. Then you can use the command I gave you earlier.
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Thrall wrote:
Mothman wrote:emm that command does not seem to work? :(
Ok, my bad - you first need to be logged-in as root. At the prompt, type su - when prompted, enter your root password. Then you can use the command I gave you earlier.
ok thanx I just gave up and formated everything.... shall remember it for the next time...
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I've done that a number of times myself :lol:
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