Well, Madrake certainly is easy to install... You just sit there watching it auto-configure everything, and hope that it works. So what happens when it doesn't? Do I dare venture my newbie ass into "expert" install? I guess I'll have to. Here's the deal: I picked up the Mandrake 7.2 retail box. (I was buying a new rolling chair, and feeling really good, so I figured I'd put red hat aside for a while. I ended up with a non-functioning laptop and the realization that my floor is amazingly far from level.) The laptop in question is a Fujitsu Lifebook 280DX, 32MB ram, 3.1GB hard disk. I boot from the CD into the graphical installer. I do a full install, erase the entire disk. I go through all the questions fine. Everything goes as the manual says except it skips the question on installation class and I can't pick what packages to install beyond the precision of "Office" "Internet" "Graphics" "Games" etc. Then after add a user, it skips the create a boot disk step, and doesn't ask me anything about installing a boot loader. (It installs grub, which seems to be fine.) Then it comes to configuring X. It asks for my monitor type. Then it is supposed to test the X settings and ask for confirmation that they are correct. It skips that part entirely and tells me instalation is complete and it will now reboot. I take the CD out, it boots to grub with linux/failsafe/floppy displayed. I pick linux. It gives me a command line login but switches to a solid black cursor-less screen after a second. No X login, no nothing. I can switch back to console 1 and log in without a problem. So I guess that X never got set up. I try to run XF86Setup - not found. ConfigXF86 - not found. more /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config - not found. I've got XF86Config-4.eg but I don't think that helps me any. So I'm stuck. I don't think I want to try an expert install at 3am, but I'll probably give it a try tomorrow if I have time. This is not the way to end an already bad weekend. If anyone can give me a nudge in the right direction, I'd be very much appreciative. -- Avery, feeling dumber than usual _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
