-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Chadley Wilson spewed into the bitstream: CW>Hello My name is chad I had a bit of trouble with finding this list, CW>But here I am. CW> CW>I am completely focused on testing the Fedora product for end-users, CW>I work for the 3rd biggest manufacturer of computers in South Africa, CW>There is Mercer then HP then Pro-line and then Sahara CW> CW>Our company has just started a venture where we have just started a CW>Linux range of systems, CW>The first thing is to get all the nice stuff working, CW>Like games, easy access to drives and flask mem sticks, 4ch sound 5.2 CW>surround sound, dvd players, front-end burners for creating Cd's and all CW>those luxuries, CW> CW>Lets face it you cant expect the Miss Jone to learn terminal and stacks CW>of bash commands just so that she can download picks from the digital CW>cam. CW> CW>The first obstacle I encountered was with the on-board savage S3 km133 CW>driver, CW>It seems there's a bug in BIOS causing the screen to blank-out as X CW>starts, CW>The work around for install is on boot you type "linux lowres" but when CW>booting from cdrom for NFS or other media installation you need to pass CW>the "linux askmethod" option, the question is how do you pass both? CW>I have tried using kickstart but the boot disk doesn't support my CW>network card (rhinefet.so) where the CD does. CW>any suggestions, or work around? use a boot.iso and at the boot prompt type: linux ks=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/path/to/ks.cfg ksdevice=ethX Then just turn on your web server on your network install point and you're off and running. - -- csm Lunar Linux Project Lead Disclaimer: "I am not a curmudgeon! No... really..." Addendum: "Bwahahaha! Fire up the orbital mind-control lasers!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFADtz8q3bny/5+GAcRAuTTAJ9CFeX0fOKLwtywIxnTIZo4Lqqs5gCfU0gV RoqxGBb1ugKaNGGlnTNw3TU= =0jaX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
