[CALUG] Dual boot/install problems

[Greg Haase]

If you have the bandwidth to download a few CDs, I would recommend the
latest CentOS (http://centos.org/). CentOS is unbranded Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. They take the RHEL source packages, strip out the trademarked
material, and redistribute it for free. Of course, you don't get Red Hat
support, but you get the quality and stability of RHEL.

-Greg

> I think you helped me realize my problem.  I have had this same version on
> the system before, and it ran fine.  I screwed up and set the wrong video
> card probably.  How can I check and reset that?  And what would you
> recommend instead of the RH9?  I happen to have copies of Slackware 10.1,
> and a copy of Ubuntu that is very new.
>
> ty Russ
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Hugh Brown wrote:
>
>> On 9/6/06, Russ <rmain at polaris.umuc.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm taking a security class this semester and I'm dual booting RH9 and
>> > Windows Server 2k3.  The machine is a PII 333 MHZ 356M RAM HDD's are
>> 8G
>> > and 3G.  I have the 3G partitioned as NTFS,  The 8G has a 500M NTFS.
>> The
>> > Linux partition is on the remainder of the 8G drive.  The root
>> directory
>> > is ~5250M, hone is 1600M and 256 swap.  The hone and root are ext3.
>> > Everything seems to start fine but RH9 only boots to the local host
>> screen
>> > and does not start the RH9 login gui.  Windows boots to Server 2K3.
>> I'm
>> > fairly new to Linux, so bare with me.  I ran 'telinit 0' to shut down
>> and
>> > then restarted.  I logged in to the local host and tried to run
>> 'startx'
>> > the system output mentioned that I shoud report problems to XFree86.
>> org.
>> > Also, what should I look for in the Xfree86.0.log file.  I'll try and
>> send
>> > a copy of that file if I dont become everwhelmed with the two classes
>> I'm
>> > tkaing.
>> >
>> > ty
>> >
>> > Russ Main
>>
>>
>>
>> X either hasn't been configured or it was configured incorrectly or your
>> video card isn't supported.
>>
>> lspci | grep VGA
>>
>> will give you a hint toward what your video card is (you could also use
>> win2k3's device manager to get an idea too).  from there you'd check to
>> make
>> sure your video card is supported (web search/looking over the XFree86
>> website).
>>
>> you have also chosen a linux distribution that went End of Life in
>> Apr/May
>> 2004.  If this is for a security class, then you're fighting an uphill
>> battle because you can't easily patch your RH9 system (there are ~2.5
>> years
>> of security issues that will need to be addressed, I don't think the
>> Fedora
>> Legacy project has been able to keep up with all of them).
>>
>> Hugh
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>
> Sincerely,
>
> Russ Main
>
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