Install issues

[PRinMD]

OK folks this noob, totally screwed the pooch, well windows screwed it for me, arrrrrrrrrrr

My major problem, here goes:
New PC, have 2 80gig HD'sone had Red Hat 9 other had win. Win crashed on me the classic Blue screen (@$%#@$#%#@)
ended up reinstalling windows and red hat, the issue is , my machine has a nvidia fx 5200 ultra card in it, the distro doesn't support that card yet, so all I see is black, don't know how to get drivers for it during installation, the guy that set it up for me just lives a few thousand miles away so he can't help and I don't know how to use the ssh thing that he had mentioned. So trying to symplify my life and not knowing much of linux, just a bit to get by. Is there any distro that you all might know of that supports the nvidia fx 5200 ultra right off the bat during instalation. I have used red hat 9, Mandrak 9.1 & SuSE8.2. Trying to see if the new SuSE9.0 coming out might support it, but haven't found anything yet.

Any input is greatly appreciated. Cause I gots to have my frozen bubble, and the wolfenstein for Linux just totally kicks A$$, and my red hat laptop can't handle that.

So please Help!!!!!!

[dalek]

I have that card and Mandrake 9.1 booted into it fine. No problems with the card at all. I'm :confused: , really :confused: .

Usually if you have problems it's after you install the drivers that make the card do the processing instead of the CPU.

I also know that Gentoo 1.4 supports it. I don't understand why you are having trouble.

It sound like you lost your boot loader, windoze does that when you install, and need to get it back. That should get you back to Linux.

Never had to do that so maybe someone can walk you through that.

:D :D :D

[PRinMD]

ok will try that

[dalek]

Check out these links.

http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109463&
http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111233&
http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=110123&
http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109041&

Info, when you install windoze it will write over the Master Boot Record (MBR) where lilo or Grub is stored. It will not ask so it's not your fault. I don't think there is a way to stop it. If it does that you need to reinstall lilo or grub to boot into Linux. Linux is still there you just can't get to it. Windoze can not see Linux.

When you get your bootloader back then all will be well. It may help to copy the lilo.conf file to a floppy. That way you will have it handy. When you get it fixed of course.

Redhat may be able to recover it too. Mandrake is boot from CD and hit F1 and type in rescue. That may work for Redhat too. How may be different so check the website for details.

Post back with what you get. You could always just reinstall Linux but since you use windoze and it will likely die again you may as well learn to do this little repair job.

Hope this helps.

:D :D :D :D

[PRinMD]

Well folks, I thank you for your replies. I took a gamble on this one and decided to go with SuSE 8.2 This thing does everything in graphic mode for the bew guy like me. It recognizes the card and knows about the drivers issue but doesn't enable the 3D acceleration off the bat, so you can still log on and everything untill you actually download the drivers and install them and also enable the 3D accelaration. w00t!!! back in business, till next week when 9.0 comes out, just so inpatient had to have my linux, damn almost feels like a drug all the headaches it gives me but then the satisfaction of when you accomplish something feels soooo good, LOL :D