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Q: When I select 'Start BhavyaOS Now!!' from the autorun menu, It starts into MS-DOS mode and says invalid drive ?

A. This is because the CD-ROM driver and extensions for MS-DOS were not installed, kindly install those given by your vendor.

Q: The 'Rescue Disk ' button on the autorun menu starts a utility which asks me to locate the disk images, where are the disk images ?

A. There are three floppy disk images provided on the CD in the isolinux folder. There are:

sbootmgr.dsk : This disk hasthe best boot manager around on it, In case your computer cannot boot from the CD, write this image onto a floppy, restart your computer and boot into the CD-ROM from this menu.
fdos.img : This is the best alternative DOS available, all the essential is on this floppy image, there is the Ranish Partition Manager (part240.exe), and the Partition Resizer (presizer.exe), these programs require expert supervision, the manuals are provided on the floppy itself, do not execute these programs from the CD boot menu, write this image onto a clean formatted floppy and use them.
gujin.img : This is an excellent bootloader especially for linux, its works where others fail, it does not depend on the boot record but serches the disks for linux partitions and gives a menu of the detected partitions to boot from. This is especially useful in case of GRUB or LILO corruption.

Q: I have Installed from WindowsXP however I do not see any icons either on the desktop or on the start menu. Clicking on the bhavya.exe starts command prompt that exits ?

A: BhavyaOS cannot be started from Windows XP/2000/NT because there is no real MS-DOS , but BhavyaOS needs one, hence the icons are not created. also do not install on an NTFS ( native Win NT file system) system. If you have installed onto a FAT32 ( Win 95,98) from Win XP, you may boot into Win95/98 and start bhavya.exe or bhavya.bat from DOS. If you do not have either Win95/98 or DOS but installed onto a FAT32 from Win XP you may boot into the Free DOS provided either from the CD-ROM boot menu or from the fdos rescue disk, change to the directory where you installed BhavyaOS and run bhavya.bat.

Q: After doing a typical install when I start BhavyaOS by clicking the desktop shortcut, all goes well but I cannot see the mouse cursor on the BhavyaOS Desktop?

A: This problem has been observed on some Win 98 based systems, you may enter into DOS mode either by pressing F8 while booting Win98 and choose the last option ie."Safe mode MS-DOS prompt only" ,change to the directory where you installed and run bhavya.bat. this can be done even from the FreeDOS or MS-DOS boot floppy

Q: After doing a typical install when I start BhavyaOS by clicking the desktop shortcut, all goes well but all I see is a blank, coloured screen and it stops, I don't see any jumping icons ?

A: Follow the instructions suggested for the above question.

Q: My sound card does not work, also my internal modem is not detected?.

A: This might happen as not all hardware on the earth is supported, there is virtually no inbuilt support for the internal modems, kindly download the appropriate drivers from the vendors website or try to get some help from linmodems.org.

Q: How do I save my modified configuration settings ?

A: There are three ways this can be done:

If you have made a minimal or a typical install, you may copy the /etc directory onto your desktop right click on it and select compress to tar.gz, this will create etc.tar.gz on your desktop, now copy this file and place it in the custom directory in the BhavyaOS directory ( available in /mnt/onhd/BhavyaOS, or /mnt/bhavyacd/BhavyaOS ). Next time you start BhavyaOS you should see a message saying " Using custom configurations on HDD" while booting.

If you did not make any install , create the etc.tar.gz as described above,rename it to etc.tgz copy the etc.tgz file onto a clean DOS floppy in the primary floppy drive ( DOS A:). When you boot next time insert the floppy as soon as the boot menu appears and continue booting, BhavyaOS will detect the configuration on the floppy and load it. This should work.

If you always want to load your custom configuration and remove the floppy hassels, then you should make the etc.tar.gz as described above and place it in the custom directory on the CD, while mastering the CD-ROM, ensure that both the Rockridge and Joliet extensions are enabled, an excellent front-end for cdrtools is provided on the BhavyaOS CD, its GPL and free, use it to burn your CDs from Win or DOS.

Q: When I boot I get a message saying 'id:number:respawning, disabled for 5 seconds' or something like that?

A: This means your graphics configuration is wrong or was not auto detected, to correct this boot with the following options:

If you are booting from the CD type exactly the following at the command prompt linux init 3 initrd=binitrd.gz hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi

If you are booting from an installed version look fot the word init 4 in bhavya.bat and replace it with init 3 now start BhavyaOS.In either case above you should see a shell prompt, now run redhat-config-xfree86 then if all goes well type startx at the prompt and save your configuration as described above.

Q: I have a problem not listed here what do I do ?

A: Please write to us at bhavyasoft@yahoo.com with the exact nature of the problem along with the exact error message and the hardware configuration of the system. We will try to reach you as soon as we can, or look at the bhavyasoft group that should be soon started.


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	Q: When I select 'Start BhavyaOS Now!!' from the autorun menu, It starts into MS-DOS mode and says invalid drive ? A. This is because the CD-ROM driver and extensions for MS-DOS were not installed, kindly install those given by your vendor. Q: The 'Rescue Disk ' button on the autorun menu starts a utility which asks me to locate the disk images, where are the disk images ? A. There are three floppy disk images provided on the CD in the isolinux folder. There are: sbootmgr.dsk : This disk hasthe best boot manager around on it, In case your computer cannot boot from the CD, write this image onto a floppy, restart your computer and boot into the CD-ROM from this menu. fdos.img : This is the best alternative DOS available, all the essential is on this floppy image, there is the Ranish Partition Manager (part240.exe), and the Partition Resizer (presizer.exe), these programs require expert supervision, the manuals are provided on the floppy itself, do not execute these programs from the CD boot menu, write this image onto a clean formatted floppy and use them. gujin.img : This is an excellent bootloader especially for linux, its works where others fail, it does not depend on the boot record but serches the disks for linux partitions and gives a menu of the detected partitions to boot from. This is especially useful in case of GRUB or LILO corruption. Q: I have Installed from WindowsXP however I do not see any icons either on the desktop or on the start menu. Clicking on the bhavya.exe starts command prompt that exits ? A: BhavyaOS cannot be started from Windows XP/2000/NT because there is no real MS-DOS , but BhavyaOS needs one, hence the icons are not created. also do not install on an NTFS ( native Win NT file system) system. If you have installed onto a FAT32 ( Win 95,98) from Win XP, you may boot into Win95/98 and start bhavya.exe or bhavya.bat from DOS. If you do not have either Win95/98 or DOS but installed onto a FAT32 from Win XP you may boot into the Free DOS provided either from the CD-ROM boot menu or from the fdos rescue disk, change to the directory where you installed BhavyaOS and run bhavya.bat. Q: After doing a typical install when I start BhavyaOS by clicking the desktop shortcut, all goes well but I cannot see the mouse cursor on the BhavyaOS Desktop? A: This problem has been observed on some Win 98 based systems, you may enter into DOS mode either by pressing F8 while booting Win98 and choose the last option ie."Safe mode MS-DOS prompt only" ,change to the directory where you installed and run bhavya.bat. this can be done even from the FreeDOS or MS-DOS boot floppy Q: After doing a typical install when I start BhavyaOS by clicking the desktop shortcut, all goes well but all I see is a blank, coloured screen and it stops, I don't see any jumping icons ? A: Follow the instructions suggested for the above question. Q: My sound card does not work, also my internal modem is not detected?. A: This might happen as not all hardware on the earth is supported, there is virtually no inbuilt support for the internal modems, kindly download the appropriate drivers from the vendors website or try to get some help from linmodems.org. Q: How do I save my modified configuration settings ? A: There are three ways this can be done: If you have made a minimal or a typical install, you may copy the /etc directory onto your desktop right click on it and select compress to tar.gz, this will create etc.tar.gz on your desktop, now copy this file and place it in the custom directory in the BhavyaOS directory ( available in /mnt/onhd/BhavyaOS, or /mnt/bhavyacd/BhavyaOS ). Next time you start BhavyaOS you should see a message saying " Using custom configurations on HDD" while booting. If you did not make any install , create the etc.tar.gz as described above,rename it to etc.tgz copy the etc.tgz file onto a clean DOS floppy in the primary floppy drive ( DOS A:). When you boot next time insert the floppy as soon as the boot menu appears and continue booting, BhavyaOS will detect the configuration on the floppy and load it. This should work. If you always want to load your custom configuration and remove the floppy hassels, then you should make the etc.tar.gz as described above and place it in the custom directory on the CD, while mastering the CD-ROM, ensure that both the Rockridge and Joliet extensions are enabled, an excellent front-end for cdrtools is provided on the BhavyaOS CD, its GPL and free, use it to burn your CDs from Win or DOS. Q: When I boot I get a message saying 'id:number:respawning, disabled for 5 seconds' or something like that? A: This means your graphics configuration is wrong or was not auto detected, to correct this boot with the following options: If you are booting from the CD type exactly the following at the command prompt linux init 3 initrd=binitrd.gz hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi If you are booting from an installed version look fot the word init 4 in bhavya.bat and replace it with init 3 now start BhavyaOS.In either case above you should see a shell prompt, now run redhat-config-xfree86 then if all goes well type startx at the prompt and save your configuration as described above. Q: I have a problem not listed here what do I do ? A: Please write to us at bhavyasoft@yahoo.com with the exact nature of the problem along with the exact error message and the hardware configuration of the system. We will try to reach you as soon as we can, or look at the bhavyasoft group that should be soon started.