shane25119
MIS
Hello,
Recently I was installing Red Hat Linux on an older system I own (it originally ran Windows 98, and has worked with this same version of Linux). The install went smoothly until I went to start X. Thats when I encountered problems, an error message shows up telling me the problem resides in the XF86Config file, I go there with vi but have absolutly no idea what to do there. A friend of mine fixed this in the past, but he is off at college now. The system has a built in graphics card (which i have disabled in favor of a GeForce 2 MMX). Anyone that could give me a walkthrough on how to fix this I would be most greatful to.
A second problem:
I wanted to switch to Mandrake Linux, so I downloaded 9.2 and put it on a blank cd and loaded it into my Linux system. The disk launched the setup program just fine at boot but when it went to begin the install it could not read the disk. Any ideas as to why? There was a list of drivers that could be used to launch the cd but there were like 100 of them, I don't have the time (or patience) to try all of them. Again any help is greatly appreated.
~Shane
Recently I was installing Red Hat Linux on an older system I own (it originally ran Windows 98, and has worked with this same version of Linux). The install went smoothly until I went to start X. Thats when I encountered problems, an error message shows up telling me the problem resides in the XF86Config file, I go there with vi but have absolutly no idea what to do there. A friend of mine fixed this in the past, but he is off at college now. The system has a built in graphics card (which i have disabled in favor of a GeForce 2 MMX). Anyone that could give me a walkthrough on how to fix this I would be most greatful to.
A second problem:
I wanted to switch to Mandrake Linux, so I downloaded 9.2 and put it on a blank cd and loaded it into my Linux system. The disk launched the setup program just fine at boot but when it went to begin the install it could not read the disk. Any ideas as to why? There was a list of drivers that could be used to launch the cd but there were like 100 of them, I don't have the time (or patience) to try all of them. Again any help is greatly appreated.
~Shane