Oh boy, I really messed up this time..

[TheQuirk]

Okay, this may sound a little strange, but this is what happened. Yesterday, I was really bored, and read alot of good stuff about FreeBSD. So I decided I'll give it a go. I downloaded the minimal installtion CD, and tried to install it. To my misfortune, the CD didn't have the driver for my ethernet card (or so it seems) so naturally I reformated my hard drive and tried to reinstall Mandrake on it. This is where the troubles started... When I was in the middle of the installation, it told me that XFree86 wasn't able to install. I tried it a few more times, and the same this happened. I installed windows, reburned the ISO for Disc1, tried to reinstall, and it still gave me the same problem. So I said "screw this," finished the install, and now I'm writin gthis from Lynx.

Anyone wants to help me ^_-?

I'm guessing I'll need to download XFree86 and compile it, but on their FTP server there are lots of differnt files. Which once do I download and compile?

[voidmain]

I don't think yer going to want to compile XFree. It's HUGE. You definately want to install the binaries.  Didn't you already have Mandrake installed?  What's different?  what is the exact error message that it gave you?

[Ctrl Alt Del 123]

So you're saying that Windows worked and Linux didn't?

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by Ctrl Alt Del 123:
So you're saying that Windows worked and Linux didn't?

That's a first!  

[hoojchoons]

Did you use Nero in Windows to burn the ISO's? If you did, this could be your problem. A lot of people have had problems with image burning in Nero. Anyway, it sounds to me that this is a CD problem.

[Master of Reality]

i always liked burning images with nero, never had a problem in it (except when windows froze while burning a cd).

[Calum]

i always use nero, but it relies on a decent aspi configuration, and on correct dlls. I find that it works perfectly, and any errors i get are windows' fault (maybe an average 0f 5% failure rate). HOWEVER, i find that if i install any other programs after i install nero, it breaks nero, until my next clean install of windows. no amount of un/reinstalling helps, it keeps eating holes through cds until i reformat and reinstall. (metaphorically.) Good program though, except for having to run on top of the fuckware that calls itself M$ windows...

[Master of Reality]

i have yet for Xcdroast to crash. I think i have screwed one burn so far, and i'm pretty sure its because i had something compiling, using mozilla, and trying to burn a cd with only 64M RAM with no swap in kde2.X

[Calum]

i would dearly love to burn a cd using linux, but i have a usb cdrw which cdrecord does not support, and no room in my laptop to install an ide one.

[TheQuirk]

Okay, you know what? This is really weird. I put in my Windows CD, tell it to start my computer "without CD support" and that I don't want to install windows, go into fdisk, delete the swap $ linux partions, and try to reinstall again. Works like a charm.

Very, very weird.

I am posting this from my dad's laptop- it runs XP, while Mandrake is installing on my computer right now   .

I really do see why people say XP is so bad. It kept crashing when I Was trying to log onto an FTP server =\