Mandrake 6.0 XServer setup problem.

Olivier Croissant linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:51:39 -0400


why not having a double boot and have access to the net through win98 to get
the Xserver
and then underlinux do a mount of the C drive and get the file ?

olivier
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Lotter [mailto:lotter@math.lsa.umich.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 1:46 PM
> To: linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com
> Subject: Mandrake 6.0 XServer setup problem.
>
>
> Does anyone have a fairly detailed selection list for getting X to run
> (even unaccelerated would do for a start!) on a 770X/Z (13.7 Screen) using
> the standard Mandrake 6.0 installation package [apparently an almost
> direct clone of the RH 6.0 installation package].
>
>  While I know that the standard RH 6.0 Trident Cyber 9397 selection will
> not get X going, there was a message a few days claiming success (even
> accelerated!) with a standard Mandrake 6.0 installation. There are two
> 9397 choices and neither seems to work (though it might be my subsequent
> choices are screwing things up!).
>
>  Things are complicated slightly by my not having a working net connection
> on the 770 (I would otherwise just get RH and use Bill Mair's mods) -- I
> really would like to be able to use the Mandrake 6.0 cd to install a
> functional XServer. As it stands every attempt has ended with linux being
> unable to even boot.
>
>   Help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>   	 gl
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