Re: suSE novice

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> Thanks for the advice guys. You'll notice this answer is 5 days later than
> my first plea for help, It's cos I have been systemless due to botched
> instalations, Somehow damaged my windows setup & had to borrow some setup
> discs for that then have another go with Linux,God what a balls up!!!!.

If this Linux install is damaging your Windows setup, then you're asking it
to do something very strange or you have a problem with something, it's
pretty much unable to do that most of the time.

> I ended up doing sommat to the mbr & knackering everything up. So ok I'do
it

fdisk /mbr will usually restore something sane, although you have to run
lilo again to get a boot menu if you replace an mbr this way. A bit late for
that now though ;)

> again I thought borrow winders boot disk get that running & start again,
> Well I have tried The suSE disc I had success with (the cebit one) no
> chance!!!!! can't set xf86 no matter what I did keep getting message can't
> connect to xserver.

This can't be SuSE's fault!! If it worked once for you, it should work a
second time unless you change the hardware. I really can't offer any
guidance here, b'cos it sounds *very* odd. 'Can't connect to X-Server'
(errno 111?) usually means that the X-Server is unable to start (i.e., runs,
finds something odd has happened, and then quits).

>  Another day gone. Try the redhat 6.1 I also got at the
> meeting great easy looking interface. I'll say at this stage that my
system
> will not boot from cd so I am using bootdisks made with rawright. So all
> goes well till the message "system will reboot now" well it does. back to
> the installation boot looping back twice, another 2 days gone. Better
> exercise than the Times crossword this :))

By 'boot looping', I presume you mean RedHat never finished setting up and
you can't get out of the installer? Very strange...

> Decide it's a faulty cd so I'll try the suse 6.3 I also got at the
meeting.

Are you 100% sure with the hardware? You seem to be having odd problems,
esp. with a re-install of a version of linux you had working suddently not
working.

> Battered but not bowed!!!!!

Enthusiasm.. heh, don't let the computer see that, you'll be done for ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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