I thank you greatly. that is exactly what I was looking for. It will help me
with other packages in the future too.
The first thing I am doing is another download of the inst CD. I did it and
the size was different by 2 megs. I will try it again. It is much easier
that way. If it fails I will try your suggestion.
It sounds like a long day but maybe I will succeed. the only reason I am
going through this is that it seems to now support my viper 2 card for > 640
x 480. At least it does during install which it did not before. Without 1024
x 768 the use of any windowing system is just not practical.
Thanks again and wish me luck.
Another question, can you tell me why it takes 3-8 hours for a message to
show up. Is this thing moderated? It is too bad it is if that is it. It
takes so long to get messages. Most mailing lists I use show a message
within 30 seconds or less.
It is a sad commentary on behaviour when a list must be moderated.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 12:54 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] FW: xfree86 RPM not found
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gil Baron W0MN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: AA/MandrakeExpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sunday, July 09, 2000 5:35 AM
> Subject: [expert] FW: xfree86 RPM not found
>
>
> >I sent this to newbie list and perhaps that is where it
> belongs but the list
> >does not seem to be responding. I am in dire need of help
> here so I am
> >sending it here. Please excuse me if incorrect.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Gil Baron W0MN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 5:29 AM
> >To: AA/MandrakeNewbie
> >Subject: xfree86 RPM not found
> >
> >
> >I downloaded the inst and ext iso images for Mandrake 7.1
>
> Did you run md5sum?
> Well, if you didn't have linux already, you probably could not
> have.
>
>
> >I burned the cds
> >I created the Boot disk.
> >I did the install but when it got to the xfree86 configure
> portion I got
> >
> >Error found xfree86 RPM not found.
> >
> so continue the install to the end without X
> Then
> goto
> ftp://ftp/linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake
>
> but do it with an ftp program or netscape, not MSIE which will
> bomb.
>
> There under 7.1 under RPMS search for packages beginning with
> the name XF and download them then start linux (without X)
> login as root and copy the files to /root and
>
> # rpm -ivh XF*.rpm
>
> If you get complains about missing libraries try the same
> command line with --nodeps added after the -ivh and surrounded
> by spaces.
>
> Once that is complete
>
> # Xconfigurator
>
> will start installing the X
>
> What has happened is that your download is corrupted, or your
> media is bad or your cables are loose to the CD or the burner.
>
> I just finished an install of about 28 minutes where I was a
> spectator except to tell Linux-Mandrake's install program a
> few IPs and what printer I was using. And this was no
> ordinary hardware but some REALLY tough choices. Win98 would
> have called for no fewer than 5 driver disks and still messed
> up (I had two ethernet cards and 98 could see either one, but
> missed them both when they were both installed. And when I
> tried to use the install hardware wizard -- It revolted (no no
> no, I have to detect that for you)) 98 never did install.
>
> Civileme
>
>
> >Huuhhhh? where is it and what did I do wrong and can I
> recover without
> >another complete install.
> >This takes forever as it is over 1900 megs for the developer
> version.
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >
> >--
> >Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/
> >44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27
> >"Hierro candente, batir de repente"
> >
> >
>
