Originally posted by McoreD@Dec 1 2002, 04:27 AM
I installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 today. I have two physical drives 20GB and a 6GB (Prmary Master and Primary Slave, respectively). I booted from the CD1 and selected Install. Later I came to Erase Disk. How nervous was I at that moment, doubting whether to press OK or not. Who knows if it will erase the 20GB 
I know how stubborn Linux is 
Anyway I pressed OK and it kindly asked me which Hard Disk to erase. 
Phew!
I really laugh at myself now, as I spent like half an hour to configure how to connect to the Internet 
At last in K > What to do? > Use the Internet > Connect to the Internet was there. How easy was that? But wasn't expected it to be there
Everything is okay atm. There is a lot of stuff to learn from now on. However there are few awkward things happening/happened to me:
1. That nice boot loader of Linux (I have seen it in another dude's comp) doesn't not show in my comp 
it appears for a second and then disppears and comes to a text mode where I have to type Linux or Failsafe or NT or Floppy. 
I wished I had that nice boot menu with that cool blue screen.
2. During the linux boot, (you know those Setting network parameters [OK], Bringing up loopback interface [OK] etc are there). In mine, Bringing up interface eth0 [FAILED] That's the only one which failes. I got a Network Card and it is not connected the LAN. Prolly that should be the case.
3. You know I said, I got two Physical HDDs. But in Linux I can't see my 20GB HDD In Windows XP, I can't see my 6GB! But I know that's cos it is ext2 file system, and by Partition Magic it should be viewable.
Linux is cool I am lucky to experiece sound as well - lucky Soundblaster Live! Value. And also my LITEON and CREATIVE CD Burners are automatically detected as CDRWs.
In the future I would be asking help from you guys on suggestions to various substiture software I used in Windows. For example: in Windows, this FlashGet helped me very much. I know I can't use it anymore in Linux. So what will be a good download manager?
I hope you enjoy using Linux.
A few solutions to your problems.
1) I think you may need to reconfigure LiLo again in the Control Center.
2) That is exactly the reason. You can disable it at startup, and when you need it just type "ifconfig eth0 up".
3) You lost me there mate
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Have fun.