| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 84822 | 2007-11-20 02:45:00 | Anybody Want A Piece Of This? (PCLOS) | SurferJoe46 (51) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 613190 | 2007-11-20 02:45:00 | . . and another 'puter installation . . this has 98SE on the first 20g of a 40g, and I wanted to play with the wizard and let him access and do what he wanted with the other 20g for the PCLinuxOS part . OK . . it's been fun up to this point . . but now I get a new and very strange screen with some questions . Here's the lines as they stand . . . . . . . PCLinuxOS release 2007 (PCLinuxOS) for i586 Kernal 2 . 8 . 18 . 8 . tex5 on a dual=processor i686 / ttyl localhost: login: root Password:<I put "root" here> [root@localhost "]# root -bash: root: command not found {root@localhost "]# _ (this is a blinking curser) Did I do something wrong again? I'm gonna let this blink on the monitor until I get an answer tonight! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 613191 | 2007-11-20 03:22:00 | That is a normal commandline login - you can access TTY1 on any standard linux setup by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 613192 | 2007-11-20 03:26:00 | "root" is a username (the admin) not a command. I am guessing you are trying to start the desktop? Try startx, but you shouldn't be doing this as root. That is naughty. :eek: |
Jen (38) | ||
| 613193 | 2007-11-20 03:39:00 | You should be able to log in as "guest" with "guest" as yr password if you did not enter passwords dureing the installation.Stay away from root especially on the first boot of a new OS. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 613194 | 2007-11-20 03:39:00 | got a desktop...now to finish the installation Thanks youse guys! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 613195 | 2007-11-20 03:41:00 | I thought I had to install thru root...no? | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 613196 | 2007-11-20 04:09:00 | Well..I am nowhere again...all I can do is make it run the Live version...it won't install no matter how I tell it to format..take the whole drive or whatever Windows doesn't want or need or use custom partitions...just 'round and 'round in circles. I am fated to NEVER get this PCL running ever. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 613197 | 2007-11-20 05:48:00 | Well . . . good ol' Google to the rescue! Linus will NOT run on a P4 system . . . . at least without a lot of extra work . . . . C/P follows: Symptom(s): Linux* does not properly identify the processor; Linux* fails to install Cause: Linux* 2 . x CPUID database does not properly identify the Intel Pentium 4 processors, and fails to install . Solution: Some versions of Linux* do not recognize the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, and fail to complete installation Most versions of Linux* use a CPUID database that is incorporated into the Linux* Red Hat* Packet Manager (RPM) install mechanism . If you have an older version of RPM, the installation may halt, not completing the operating system install . The versions of the Linux* operating system that have been validated to work with Intel Pentium 4 processors are listed below: Red Hat* 7 . 0 should work out of the box with Intel Pentium 4 processor-based systems . Turbolinux* Workstation Pro 6 . 1 can be installed following a simple manual workaround . Turbolinux* Workstation Pro 6 . 1 (English version) workaround Step 1: At the screen where it says "Confirm Selection" (after you pick what kind of environment that you want to install) Step 2: Press "ALT-F2" to get to a shell prompt, Step 3: Edit "/usr/lib/rpmrc" file and go to "Architecture Compatibility" section Step 4: Add the line below to the Architecture Compatibility list: Add this line To This List arch_compat: i?86: i686 arch_compat: i986: i886 arch_compat: i886: i786 arch_compat: i786: i686 arch_compat: i686: i586 arch_compat: i586: i486 arch_compat: i486: i386 arch_compat: i386: noarch arch_compat: i?86: i686 Step 5: Save File Step 6: Press "ALT-F1" to resume install Intel Corporation is working closely with Linux* operating system vendors to make updates available . Please contact your Linux* vendor regarding an updated Linux* install with the correct CPUID database, for Intel Pentium 4 processor recognition . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 613198 | 2007-11-20 06:29:00 | Linux will NOT run on a P4 system....at least without a lot of extra work....Rubbish, almost any modern distro will run quite happily on a P4 with exactly the same ease as an AMD system - the only ones that won't are designed for specialist embedded platforms. The information you have pasted above is incredibly old - Redhat 7.0 was released the better part of a decade ago! |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 613199 | 2007-11-20 08:11:00 | I am not quite clear - so you are using the desktop icon to start the install? Are you using the custom partitioning option - always best I think so that you get to decide how your HDD is divided up. How much RAM do you have? |
johnd (85) | ||
| 1 2 3 | |||||