new2lunar

[Tom Nicholson]

Will let you know how it goes when I get there.

> 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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