Mandrake Linux n00b Questions

[craftyc]

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Originally posted by McoreD+Dec 5 2002, 08:51 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (McoreD @ Dec 5 2002, 08:51 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--oscar2043@Dec 2 2002, 03:28 AM
from linux:
lilo -u /dev/hda
from Xp :
boot into xp recovery console
run fixmbr
help (for help) about other commands

oscar2043, where do we type "lilo -u /dev/hda" in linux, please? is it in Interactive Mode"?

i tried to change the settings in LiLo to get back the graphical boot menu (also tried Grub but it was a text based boot menu) and it became worse

after i restarted, the screen was like this:

Verifying pool data....
99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99

the hard disk light was flashing till the "99"s were generated, but stopped after that. i booted from the XP CD and ran fixmbr, but the same thing happened so booted again with the XP CD and reinstalled XP. and after all those trouble, reinstalled Linux

i am still struggling to install VMWare. i managed to access the VMWare folder thanks to craftyc, using /mnt/nt but i have no idea what to do with ".tar.gz" (VMware-workstation-3.1.1-1790.tar.gz) i extracted them but couldn't see a file with the .rpm extension. (oh! btw, in windows: just dbl click the .exe and press next, next, next and finish. )

but i really like to try this challenging things. i am so embarrased at my performance. but anyway, all of us should learn some thing for the first time. [/b][/quote]
You type lilo -u /dev/hda in a terminal as root.

You can in Grub get a graphical boot menu, just add "splashimage=(hdx,x)/path/to/image/files" to your /boot/grub/menu.lst (I think that's where it's kept).

Anyway, for VMWare, you do the following in a terminal.

tar xfvz VMware-workstation-3.1.1-1790.tar.gz (You can use the <TAB> button on the keyboard to autocomplete the name)
cd vmware-distrib (change directory into the one created in the step above. Again you can use <TAB>)
./vmware-install.pl (The dot and forward slash are important. The wonderful <TAB> can be used here as well).

PM me if you need more detailed instructions.

The above steps are exactly the same as Windows. You unzip a file, change into the directory created, then execute the installation script.

You will soon get used to the way things work in Linux, so don't worry. We all were once new to Linux.