Mandrake 7.2, help needed

[madeku]

Several things. I got Linux Mandrake 7.2 compleat for christmas, and since the 7th i've been fooling around with it in vain.

I'd get Drivers for questions 1 and 2. But how would I get them though? I'm on a shared modem, so I'd need the network card. Disks would be too small. I would prolly be able to burn a CD with them on it, my CDROM works, thank god.

1. It won't detect my soundcard. It's some Compaq motherboard. 4770 I think. It works under Windows98, but when I try to check harddrake, it says there's no info for my sound card. It will play CDs though. Not very well, but that's the CDROM. It's too damned user friendly IMO.

2. It won't recognize my network card. I put in the info, but under hardware it doesn't show up. Still says there's no information for it. It's a Novell/Anthem 2000 compatable ISA.

3. A little more tricky. Ok I had 3HDs. 1 master (C), one Slave (D), and one Partition of the master (E). Since installing linux on my slave drive, in windows "E" changed back to "D" and I can't access that drive Linux is on. Is there anything I can do to change that so I can browse while in Windows?

4. A small/stupid question, but what do CDs 2-4 do? There's tons of applications on the first CD. And how do I use what's on the other CDs?


thx for all your time.

[cyan]

Well, I can probably help you with some of those. First, did you check Mandrake's site to see if your hardware is supported? They should have a page there for it. I wouldn't know much about drivers, though. I wussed out and bought Linux compatible hardware. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

If there is still a Windows partition on the slave drive, Windows should still be able to see that. To my knowledge, Windows can't see any Linux partions due to it being a different file system.

If you want to install something from the rest of the cd's, log in as root, pop in the cd, and click on rpmdrake. I *think* that will work, though I've never bothered to try it myself.

Good luck.

[madeku]

Whoops, I forgot to save a small space on the slave for windows to recognise the drive. Heh I erased the whole drive. Didn't even think about that.

[gwenavirre]

make sure you have plug and play OS set to no in your BIOS. That might help with your sound card.

[madeku]

Ummm, how would disabling plug and play help? It can't detect any sound card with it. And I can't see any way to do anything about it that would be affected by plug and play.

Or do you mean when plug and play is disabled it will let me configure and set up my soundcard?

[kowalsky]

gwenavirre is talking about disabling plug-and-play in the bios; at boot hit DEL just after the mem test and you'll get into the BIOS settings. I'm not sure what section in the menu you should select but there should be an entry in one of the menus for plug-an-play on/off. Usually with the item selected you can switch on/off with PageDown from your keyboard.
try again,
kowalsky

[MentatTux]

4. cd's 2-4 have bunch more apps and stuff http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

eg/ libs, StarOffice in many languages, other international stuff I think, some games(? no sure whether they're on the first cd or not)

If you're using X, then open up RpmDrake, or DrakRpm, whatever it is. It should list all of the packages you have installed, and all of the ones you can get.
If not, then just poke around the cd's, and if you find something you want to install, do it with the command:
rpm -Uvh filename.rpm

Have fun!