I have an old pc with pentium 2 mmx,64 mb SDRAM @ 133 Mhz,Gfx:Tnt 4mb
6Gb hard disk
I added the Ram because myself the man that gave me the system had removed it.
Well here is the problem
When I turn it on and I have the keyboard connected the bios appears (without pressing any button !!! :o) and it selects an option randomly.After that the only buttons that work are the left arrow and the classic ones F1,F10… so I can do almost nothing with the bios.This reapets every time I turn it on with the keyboard connected and as a result it can not load the operating system .When I disconnect the keyboard the bios does not appear and I get this message “Unkown Flash Found” and after that the system halts. What can I do to fix this ?
i have no idea why you want to run a pc that old but thats ok try removing the Battery from the motherb- this should help clear the mem, if that dont work scrap it.
try setting reset to default from in the bios, if you can still move enough. have you tried a different keyboard?
it sounds like the keyboard is haywire and is sending out signals that arent there
It was a bad keyboard
I have installed damn small linux and I want to install windows xp(they work even with cpus @ 133Mhz !).However during the installation of windows xp the installer sets the windows partition as the partition that the pc will boot from(although the partition that I had set as bootable was the linux one.I have installed grub there.).How can make the linux partition bootable again without seting up new partitions ?
Well I got fed up with windows and damn small linux so I installed Mandrake
Linux 9.2 with KDE.
I don’t have much experience with linux so here is a very noobish question:
How can I add shortcuts of programs to the desktop ?
I dunno about KDE, in Gnome you could right-click on the desktop and hit “Create Launcher” or “Create Shortcut” or something like that… I’m guessing KDE has simething similar… I haven’t used a desktop environment in a while…
If all else fails you can proably open up a terminal and run
ln -s /usr/bin/blender ~/Desktop/Blender
or something like that… but one would assume there’s a feature in the GUI to do it for you.
BTW, with Windows and such, it’s best to install Windows first - most Linux distros will detect Windows and automagically set up the bootloader for dual-booting. If you need to install Windows second, then I suggest getting yourself a Knoppix CD, so you can go in and change the boot partition with fdisk and set up the MBR with grub-install. Knoppix is a good thing to have on-hand anyways, it’s saved me once when I’ve had a dead bootloader.