Mandrake and Proliant?!?!

gman4dx266 · Feb 12, 2004

I am in desperate need of some mandrake help!!
One of my friends gave me an old Compaq Proliant 2500 (Dual pen. pros @200mhz) and 256 MB of ram. My problem is when i try to install mandrake (or even run a linux on cd distro...) the machine comes up very very slow and either tells me i dont have enough memory to install or it tells me i only have 13,588 mb (13mb). I have also tried passing optional tag thingies to the kernel (i.e. mem=256 and mem=exactmap..blah blah blah)
and none of this works at all. It says that initrd stuff then it goes
uncompressing linux.....ok, booting the kernel... then halts and doesnt respond. Also,if this helps any, the system has an EISA bus; some ppl have told me that linux doesnt really like to "shake hands" with this kind of hardware; but would this really have something to do with memory?! Any and All Help will be greatly appreciated!!

gman4dx266 · Feb 17, 2004

AbbySue said:

@ gman4dx266 just an FYI...maybe you are not familiar with how forums work so I will give you the benefit of doubt and simply point out that I was neither nasty nor out of line in my previous reply to you in this thread, which in turn you reported. We like to keep a certain standard of organization around here which includes removal of duplicate threads, moving them to proper forums when posted in the wrong one so that members can get the answers they need, deleting, editing and what not when needed and intervening if someone steps out of line...that's what moderators and admins do. We are here to keep things running as smoothly as possible in an effort to maintain a respectable place to come to for help. We have some excellent members here who devote many hours of their free time in offering help and as I previously suggested, you may bump up your thread if it drops off the page by simply replying to it or if you can, provide even more information as to the problem you are having. We do have some people that stop by who use various flavors of linux....chances are they haven't stopped by in a few days so haven't seen your post so please, feel free to add to this thread and hopefully, someone who is more familiar with linux OS's will be more than glad to help you out when they drop in. Hope this explanation helps! Click Here
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Yes I am new here and im very sorry for reporting you. i didnt know what that feature was and realized what i did after i did it :-D. also is there anyway i can change my little thingie from sergant E-2? Thanks for anyhelp!

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