Mandrake 9.2 god please help end the madness

LostinLinux · 01-23-2004, 12:45 PM

Okay, heres how much I know about ANY lInux.

Nothing.

I have a friend in Italy who wants to open up a massive collection of Usenet servers, Im in the USA, and for some reason ( dont ask me) they (as in the people in Italy) are not allowed to run any kind of server that MAY have any kind of adult material on it.

Okay then, so I have been recieving tons of computer parts, cases and hard drives and such in ups now that he has been ordering for me.

Today Linux Mandrake 9.2 arrived on 3 discs all from a distributor.

I fired up my new hard drive ( 80 gig Seagate 7200rpm)

and went to install it.

Now 7 hours later Im still at trying to set partitions which... I have NO idea wtf Im doing.

I have tried to Clear then auto do the partitions and I use the setting of Server

It makes a

/
/swap
/usr
/var
/home

directories and then it says I keep getting the error

Error

NO Hdlists Found.

Any ideas anyone please?

I need to setup one as a dns server and 12 servers for a "usenet" server"

Peteatwork · 01-23-2004, 02:29 PM

I've not seen this error before, but from what I can gather from Google, it sounds like your installation media may be corrupt.
Hdlists (I gather) are the source for the rpms that are to be installed. I would suggest obtaining a boxed set of the distro you'd like to use, or go to linuxiso.org and downloading a new set of .iso images to install from.

Allen614 · 01-23-2004, 02:37 PM

Check the Mandrake site. They had a serious problem like that around version 8.2 and it may still be a bug with AMD processors. Look for a "Patch.PL". That was the fix last time.

LostinLinux · 01-23-2004, 02:52 PM

I got it to work but now when it loads it just goes to a black screen and does nothing else....

Peteatwork · 01-23-2004, 02:56 PM

You got what to work now? Please be a little more specific.

milir · 01-23-2004, 04:17 PM

Well u got it to work well if you mean that you have installed and tried booting again. Are you sure you got the right driver for the video card,I am sure mandrake pretty much detects any video output but it did fail in my laptop and i had to install the driver seperately(i had a similar balck out:-())-- milir

LostinLinux · 01-23-2004, 09:16 PM

Dont ask me what I did or how I did it, the screen was black I starting mashing keyboard buttons, all of a sudfden, it LOADS !!!!

WOW THIS IS COOOL !!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, so I go to http://localhost to try and track down where my "website" is eh?

Nothing there 8(

I installed DNS service and Web Station on this computer, I have 12 more to do 8(

Anyone tell me how to set name servers?

I already have the domain and everything I have 4 static Ip addresses, just... how do I do this ????

LostinLinux · 01-23-2004, 09:29 PM

Okay one more stupid question, with all of the computers I have running from one router, how do I find all of their ip addresses.

its wierd but on the one, I type in its ip address and its webserver comes up, on the other i type in the first computers ip address and nothing comes up...

Im so damn lost