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Old 07-03-2004, 08:12 PM   #1
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Motherboard Problem?


My mother board is Asus P4P800-Delux, and after I tried to install Red Hat 9.0 I noticed it gave me two options to boot from as if I had dual boot setup. Both options were Red Hat 9.0. Also I could not install RPMs correctly.
 
Old 07-04-2004, 09:49 AM   #2
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I don't think your problem are related w motherboard. Please post your /etc/lilo, and some more details about you system, is windows installed?
Also give more details about your trouble w rpm install.
 
Old 07-04-2004, 02:15 PM   #3
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Okay, I thought it was my motherboard because in this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=197176 the guy is having the same problems I think. I didn't have windows installed. When I double click on an RPM Itloads files then just quits. Usually they promt for options and things right?
 
Old 07-05-2004, 09:52 AM   #4
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Things on Linux are a bit different from Windows!

Open a terminal, and do the following:
(type): su - it will be asked the root password, type this password, you will be as superuser, and the prompt will be changed to a # sign.
(type): rpm -i package_file.rpm [enter]

This will install the package in your system. Could happen some issues related with dependencies a true nightmare for newbies (like I). If you have this kind of problems, ask in the forum and someone will help you. Or try to install Mandrake it is a good distribution related to this problem because there is a tool (urpmi - Mandrake exclusive) to solve this dependencies issues.
 
  


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