0x0020 - Era Linux on The 98 Machine with Druaga1 

I love how Druaga's just there watching and that's enough for everything to go wrong

Top 10 anime crossovers.

Linux, generally, designates IDE drives with hdx (x=a, b, c, etc.) vs. SCSI and SATA drives as sdx.

I got into Linux around the year 2000 and I remember how difficult it was to get installed back then. However, there used to be a distro called Mepis (not sure if it's still around) that was actually really easy and a nice distro.

Your Socket A motherboard is too new for that Mandrake CD, it doesn't have the right HDD controller drivers for it, since it can't even mount the root FS. This is also a common problem when setting up a Hackintosh ("still waiting for root device").

i remember trying to install openlinux (and redhat) on my windows 98 computer when i was like 14 and had the same problem with not being able to get the mouse working, which is when i decided i hated linux. i love it now, but it was a good 10 years before i went back.

"experience" Also Druaga1 should do the microSD RAID that was featured on Linus Tech Tips

holy hecc akbkuku and duraga1 sounds the heccin same lol (cool vid btw)

Welcome to Linux Linux!

Also, the Kernel panic in the beginning failed to mount the rootfs. The rootfs is the first, temporary filesystem that linux uses to bootstrap the kernel while booting. You can reed more about it here: www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt The issue was not that it tried to mount the SD card adapter or the CD exchanger, although I don't know why it failed to mount the initial rootfs though...

Slackware is a real distro. I forget what release but I had reiserfs and compiled my own kernel from 2.6. That thing screamed for a pentium 3 450 and 256 megs of ram. Then I compiled vanilla kde 3 and it sucked the wind right out of the sails.

Colonel Panic strikes again!

*fkn hell you must be cousins or somethings*

Wait... aren't Druga1 and AkBKuKU the same person??

The thumbnail for this was confusing and almost looked fake because it basically just says "yeah, this is _Linux,_ everyone!" without specifying _which distro_ (until I saw the box in the video). Good going, Red Hat. :P

dude this is best video 2 great youtubers are here its great and kernal sanders was a thing

4:12 hd* is used for IDE drives and sd* is used for SATA drives

Man, talk about a throwback. Back in the days of headset mic AkBKukU. Hope all's well with Druaga.

My first experience was RedHat Linux, and I used PartitionMagic to set up the partitions before installing. Even with reading the manual, it took a while to get things right.

It says in the box "Deluxe Linux 6.5" based on "Mandrake Linux 6.1"

The reason why Mandrake didn't boot was likely the plug n play setting in the BIOS. If I recall, you need to set "plug n play OS installed" to no and the BIOS will initialize plug n play devices, such as the IDE controller. Failing that, you could boot Linux with slower hard drive and cdrom access by tying "linux ide=nodma" at the boot prompt. If I recall, this was all in the manual which, you know, you probably should have read. 90s Linux wasn't something you just jumped into, you read the manual first because there were lots of little gotchas like this. There's a reason why Linux user groups and installfests were a thing, just getting it installed was not easy.

8:20 "Let's do the correct language here... [points to french]" That made me chuckle.

7:03 My other car is a Linux.

That game of Pacman in the middle of the install reminds me of versions of DVDflick that had an integrated game of Tetris you could play during the rendering process.

haha i first installed Linux in 1998 (Caldera OpenLinux 1.3) on an NEC desktop with a Pentium 75 that had a "doubler chip" installed that bumped it to 120mhz. i had to tell XFree86 the horizontal and vertical frequencies of my monitor because it couldn't detect them. i blew away my MBR with LILO and it took me a month to figure out how to get it to see my Win98 partition again. oh, and... your "98 machine" has a 2001 CPU. a lot changed in those 3 years, might have something to do with your troubles.

I'm pretty sure all you had back then was ext2. 2GB was a common limitation for sizes of things because 32 bit computing. I'm much less sure there were even many 30+GB drives back then, but it has been a long time. There definitely were not many among consumers if they existed. There were a couple distributions that had games during the install - the first one I remember was Tetris.

Now this is quality ASMR right here folks

When Mandrake Linux 6.5, around 2005, and Caldera OpenLinux, around 1999, Flash drive media was just becoming available for purchase. SD cards came about around late 2006 but were very expensive. Once you get the either of the OS's up and running you might be able to copy the Linux image to the SD using the dd program.

The twist at the end was M. Night Shyamalan level. Excellent! Simply excellent!!

we have druaga 1 and 2 now we need 3 more to form the mega druaga zord

Unpacking and scattering OpenLinux's stuff around the desk without putting away Mandrake first made my eye twitch.

Oh shit, I think I was actually in this stream! Didn't know at first because of the first part, but I definitely remember them trying to install OpenLinux :P

I run that same full tower case for my retro WinXP build.... I believe it's an InWin Q500, and it originally contained my old Athlon 800/Matrox G400.... Also I got to experience pretty much what you're experiencing in this vid.... my first Linux was a boxed copy of Mandrake 7.0.... which coincidentally I was running on that very same Athlon in the InWin full tower case lol

Yay this sounds like fun! can't wait to watch!

Holy shit!!! I had that SAME ONE!!! I loved Mandrake 6.5. KDE was Amazing back then!

I suspect the reason you got this kernel panic error is either that a) your ram had a bad sector b) it tried to read from a particular ramslot which wasnt populated (rootfs is part of ramfs which essentially is a virtual partition installed on your ram)

Caldera was my first Linux, bought at compusa for $10. Mostly played the included Sokoban game.

The original Linux ballache! Millennials have NO CLUE how good they have it!

Kernel panic, in the PC case, with the hard drive controller!

So does Kernel Panic report to General Failure? I'm unsure on the command structure at work.

Anyone notice the 420 on the calculator?

The installation says To install OR upgrade a system running mandrake linux 5.1 Also, the error you kept running in to and then madly disconnected IDE drives - You have to create a filesystem on your SD card prior to installing. Fdisk - Create new partition. Druaga should have known that!

hda is an ide/ Hard drive controller sda is serial device/drive A

You know, I miss the idea of "boot floppies". Warts and all, it was an incredibly convenient way to boot a system. Not on a PC, but I had an old Power Mac 8600 and back in those days Apple's ROMs really didn't allow for a lot of opportunity to boot anything *but* the Mac OS. That isn't to say you couldn't boot Linux, you certainly could, just that you had to go through a few hoops compared to the much nicer 1999+ Power Macs whose ROMs were really open to booting almost anything which support the motherboards. There were programs like QUIK which could serve as a bootloader for those old Macs and back then Linux kernels were more than small enough they would fit on a 1.44 floppy and I kept that floppy whenever I wanted to boot into linux and then all I had to do was reboot *without* the floppy and it would automatically load the Mac OS as normal.

I love how this is literally installing LINUX on a sd, and not something based on it. Also, I´d love it if new Distro versions could be bought in stores, just so you don´t have to download it, and as a form of entertainment, so I´d have something to install without internet.

if you read correctly... pressing enter at boot prompt was for upgrading already installed one.... please read with open eyes!!

You guys are so cute together. I love it

Love the old Q500...wish I could find one for a modern build. Loved the one I had a while back.

I had an IDE HD and It was named hda, but my sata dvd drive was named sdb, so I always thought the h- meant IDE and the s- meant sata.

Druaga1 and AkBKukU togther again since the Xserve video. I like you guys and keep up the work.

I don't know about hotplugging - but when hacking the original xbox? you'd boot the xbox so it unlocked the drive, then leaving the power plugged in, disconnect the IDE, connect it to a PC and boot Linux - the BIOS probably has to detect the IDE devices but as far as plugging then in and out? you might crash the PC perhaps? but it's electrically safe (assuming your PC + Xbox share a common earth)

Shelby, when you're editing that, put that here. - AkBKukU 2018

Druaga 1 & 2. 😄😎 Perfect team.

Have you even heard of keyboard shortcuts? Or are the underlined letters just for show...

Wow, I literally had this exact box and version back in the day (Mandrake)! I even did my school science project on it. You could have booted it up if you removed the partition on the SD card. Just sayin. Old Linux was hardcore like that.

Well... I had these kind of kernel panics. To me it seems to be random, and totally not related to hdds, but with some really bizarre problem, maybe with the install media. With Ubuntu is totally normal to have that, just re-download its iso. Maybe your mandrake cd is broken/corrupted?

This deserves more views

what cpu is mounting? pentium 4?

I have to say that as much as Mandrake was popular those days (could have called it equivalent of Ubuntu for the time period) it was real shit..

i still have that linux distro, one of my first linux i used

God, have mercy... Not even the booloader...

Druaga1 and Druaga2

The calculator running in background is burning the tubes for no reason

FWI, It changed from hdx to sdx with the change to SATA from ATA / IDE

That version of Linux has only 1 disc - I have a version of it that is on 6 disc's and a floppy disk.

I love how you almost hot plugged your SD card adapter into the IDE port. Next step would be to (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ Never hot plug anything into IDE, you'll have a really bad time.

32Gb ain't much, but EXT2 formating is a bit more than writing a FAT table and it's copies. On top of that, it also is creating multiple partitions as usual on default installs, which always annoyed the crap out of me. Usually stuck with 2 or 3 on the main disk.

There was no Freedos to even try and boot back then iirc. hmmmm maybe it boots LiLo (linux loader). shoulda doned freebsd net install from the two floppies or maybe for video next time ! also _hd_ designation was for ide hdds, scsi's were _sd_ and for sata they also used _sd_. 13:50 check for h/w freeze with caps lock! [good tip] but if hdd indicator is active then wait. i think they recommend double size swap for ram. press alt or ctrl and the F1-F6 keys for virtual consoles and you should see what the gui is doing behind the scenes.. 23:00 So it says NOVELL NETWARE FIRMWARE at the top of the screen. ack

Is that a Radio Shack Realistic Mixer I see next to the monitor under the pink plushie toy?

Mannnnn I remember that Caldera installer

hdX is IDE/ATAPI. sdX is SCSI/SATA.

I'd like to see you install Slackware next. Haha

Curious how well modern Linux will handle that machine...

You two sound so similar...

should have tryed slackware ;)

These guys have the same voice, accent and everything, it's crazy xDDDD

15 seconds in and I'm already dumbfounded I thought Akbu dude was Druaga 1 but NO??

and people thought infinity wars was a great crossover

A comedy of errors. No troubleshooting. The video equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.

Peep the calculator the whole video.

YAY Oneplus 2 wohooo!

I used to have that same huge tower. I wish I still had it.

6:55 they are correct. I don't know what I am doing.

And this is why you read the manual, boys and girls.

The Linux file system is so confusing to me... It's like trying to understand WinFS... That's because WinFS isn't a file system.

How come you both sound the same?

420 YAY

I would love to sip whiskey and smoke a j with these guys!

love the inwin case

God you're making me cringe... Why don't you get OS2 Warp running there, right hardware for it... Question is, how well do you know your systems and hardware...

back in the days, we use windows first and format everything there before installing linux....

SDx was originally for SCSI

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maybe if you try with a ready hard disk that already has been partitioned and formatted? maybe the sd card thing doesn't have a partition and file system so it can't mount it? boot in dos/9x and use pqmagic 8 to create a fat16 partition just in case to see what happens. maybe that linux is so old it can't handle fat32.

Cool

Typo error in the box. There is no "Linux Operating System". Linux is just a kernel. The os is called "GNU/Linux". Good video.

holy shit you are 2 different people

That's some nice mic popping you got going on there.

lmao the 420 on the calc

21:17 I See a Kriby Plush