Twisted Cranium and others..Zire Palm

Dodge · #1 July 2nd, 2003, 04:37 AM

I got mine to work in Mandrake 9.1.... When I get Red Hat 9 installed I'll see what i can do with it there.

All I had to do is to hook the cable to the USB slot, then turn the Pilot on. I opened KPilot(in KDE) and hit the Hot Sync(star) on the pilot and it did the Hot sync operation. Nothing special was done.

Just make sure that you have the Cable selection correct on the Pilot. Make sure you have cable/modem/etc... Selected correctly.:-S

twistedcranium · #2 July 2nd, 2003, 04:58 AM

Hrmmmmm....sounding good so far....waiting to see your RH results. USB on yours right?

Dodge · #3 July 2nd, 2003, 05:02 AM

Yeah mines a USB cable hookup...

twistedcranium · #4 July 2nd, 2003, 05:07 AM

This will be good news if yours works in RH. Although, not that I doubt you Dodge, I actually doubt my own darn luck in it working.....I've really been at this Palm Zire issue for two months now. LOL

Dodge · #5 July 3rd, 2003, 01:22 AM

Hey ya TC. I installed RH last night and done some testing. I got it to recognize the Palm, but wouldn't do anything. THe program in RH the best I can tell doesn't have any place for the information to be strored. Like in Mandrake, it has KPilot which is basically like the program that came with the Zire for Windows. It has the actual places for the information to be stored.

Have you looked for other programs other than Handheld that comes with RH? I think that would solve your problems.

Now on to the major problem I had last night. I installed RH and the installation went great. After doing alot of work on the Pilot, I decided to check something in Mandrake.... Not good. When I installed RH for some reason and somehow which i dont understand. It turned C: drive (My windows 98 drive) into a NON DOS partition. I couldn't activate it, change it or anything. Kept getting a Type the Command Interpertor Error WOuld not go any further than that. So Windows 98 and Mandrake were lost. Couldn't get into them.

I tried Bootmagic's rescue disk, win/98 bootdisk, PM's disk. Nothing worked. Could not get into C: drive at all. Got Invalid Media reading drive C:.... Finally I installed a fresh copy of Mandrake on a partition on my second HD. Was able to view C: drive and get all the information I needed off of it. Then Fdisked and formatted and installed windows again today.

Was a major pain in the ass... Not sure what RH doesn't like about my system, but that was the fourth time I had installed RH and it screwed with my system hard. First it was just with Win/2000 and XP. Which I was able to fix easily. This time it wiped out Win/98's drive........

Any Ideas on what happened?

Needless to say, I wont be installing Red Hat again. That was the final straw for me. So far Mandrake has installed without a hitch and worked great everytime. The only problems I've had with it was due to lack of knowledge, which thanks to you all I really knocked that problem down a bit.

twistedcranium · #6 July 5th, 2003, 05:49 AM

When installing RH, which install type did you choose, Desktop, Workstation, Server, or custom?

Sounds like the bootloader installed (grub by default) had taken some assumption just a little too far. Custom install on RH gives you the power to monitor what the installer is going to do and gives you the chance to change the assumptions.