new2lunar

[Shern, Benjamin J]

The lunar kernel provides a patch for geforce4 in the native
fb driver, but I had no luck with it.  It honked up the display
when I tried to load it.  The nvidia driver worked very well
and flashes an oh-so nifty logo on the screen as it loads.
Choose one or the other, but don't try to load both! =)
Ben



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Nicholson [mailto:tomn at antelecom.net] 
> Sent: February 25, 2003 3:08 PM
> To: lunar at lunar-linux.org
> Subject: new2lunar
> 
> 
> Hi, I'd like to install Lunar to a hard disk partition and 
> have it boot from a 
> boot floppy (i.e., not write mbr to any hard disk). I looked at the 
> instructions on installing from a non-cdrom system and it's 
> interesting but 
> I don't think I'm expert enough to 'get' the significance of 
> everything the 
> author is saying.
> 
> My system has
> primary e-ide controller: master, 40 gig NTFS; slave 15 gig as 2 
> partitions 8 gig FAT32; 7 gig unallocated.
> 
> secondary ide controller: master Pioneer DVR-104; slave CDWRITER 
> 3212.
> 
> Rest of system is 1 gig ram, Athlon 1800XP; nVidia nforce chipset MSI 
> motherboard.
> 
> Any help / tips appreciated. I know I'm in for an experience getting 
> networking going because nVidia keeps the specs to its 
> network adapter 
> proprietary and won't let the gpl community have it. They 
> provide a built 
> module nvnet.o. Also what to do with xfree? is there a 
> framebuffer driver 
> like in suse? or go to nvidia's geforce2 driver.
> 
> I'm really impressed with the concepts behind Lunar. I found it while 
> looking about the net trying to decide if I wanted to build a Debian 
> system or try a Linux from Scratch. I've tried major distros 
> and want to 
> move away from them because they're aiming more at IT depts for their 
> economic survival than desktops.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
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