cashman31

had similar problem but was able to recover windows mbr using mandrake cd1. if you are able to get your hands on mandrake 10.1 cd rom disc 1, just boot from that cd, at the boot prompt press F1, type rescue. in the options menu there will be restore windows boot loader. I think this should solve your problem

thanks will try out & get back.

tried vasm & nasm but did not detect the lancard. how to bring up the interface inet1 / eth0 or close the device using command line option from terminal window? ifdown & ifup commands are not recognised by vector

I agree with danleff as I had problems when i updated knoppix to the latest version & ended up formatting entire linux partition and re installing everything.

I am able to configure the lancard. on ifconfig it shows lo device. ifup eth0 command not found. what is the command for bringing up interface eth0? ok will try with NASM & get back to you.

when i type Lspci in the console i get following results: 00:0e Ethernet controller:Realtek Semiconductor co ltd RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev10)

vector not able to detect realtec lan card. installing lo only how to make vector linux detect & install the lancard?

I was once having win98, XP, mandrake 10.1 & knoppix on my system.All running fine without any conflict. First of all let me clarify that i have 2 hdd 80 GB each. 1 hdd was dedicated only to windows & the other to linux. I first installed knoppix then installed mandrake 10.1 on a different partition. this wrote out the MBR ofr knoppix. I coppied following files to /boot dir of mandrake from knoppix: system.map, initrd.img, vmlinuz edit /grub/menu.lst file as title "name of new distro" root(hd1,0) kernel/boot/vmlinuz "kernel no" ro root=LABEL=/initrd/boot/initrd "kernel no" .img try out. it worked fine for me.

Thanks a lot for the help. It took almost 36 hrs for me to install vector linux on the system, maybe because of low RAM. But it worked. the system is up & running. thanks a lot again.

thanks, will try out vector linux link & get back to you.

the configuration is as follows: i486 32mb ram video card i have no idea 4.1 GB hdd I was able to load win98se2 on the machine but it kept on getting courrupt.I am more interested in linux (any distro) as the system is stabel & is to be used primarily for data entry. Is it possible for me to create some sort of .bat file so as to load the iso image from the hdd itself? thanks

Hi, I am new to this, I have a machine i486 with trigem bios of 1990. My problem is that i want to install mandrake / knoppix on this system but the bios does not support cdrom booting. also the machine does not have a floppy drive. I can connect the hdd to another machine and copy the necessary files / format the hdd as reqd. can anyone please help me with this problem. thanks