I have taken the plunge...

#1 yakkob

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Posted 22 March 2003 - 04:08 AM

Yo Peeps,

I decided to ressurect my old HP Vectra P166

And am at this moment instaling Mandrake 9.1 Beta RC2.

So....I will let you know how it goes.

It is taking a while on this old system..hehe

Anyways...bedtime.

#2 yakkob

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Posted 22 March 2003 - 02:11 PM

Just done the first reboot, and received the message 'Operating system not found'...mint!

Bios seems to be detecting my 30.7 gb HD as 8455 mb too..Oh Well.

EDIT: Ahem..My bad...

lol, forgot to enable the hd in bios, and it was still trying to boot off the cd first.

/me skulks away..hehe

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Posted 22 March 2003 - 04:35 PM

ok..had a problem.

It seems that my onboard s3 trio is shagged.
Just been up to work and managed to find an old PCI S3 Virge.
Upgrading as we speak..
I must say, everything looks much tidier now. I was only getting 16 colours before.
Mandrake looks very professinal on the install with a proper functioning SVGA card.

heh

Anyways..back to it.

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Posted 24 March 2003 - 06:22 PM

System is running well....apart from the couple of hangs I have had (probably pushing the P166 a bit too hard)..

What I am going to try next is to install apache (if it isn't already installed) set up a basic webpage set up some portforwarding on my router and see if I can get to it from outside :x

One problem/annoyance I have encountered is the saving of my settings concerning my NIC. Reasons *I think* is because I changed my 10 NIC after the setup to a 10/100. And for whatever reason I have to manually enter my DNS IP into the settings each time. Not a showstopper I know, but annoying.