Help With Mandrake Install

[Livy]

me too, gonna take about 8hrs to get the iso's and ill have a go tomorrow and hopefully that will work.

[Livy]

jesus, just as im burning the 9.2 iso, i check the mandrake site and they've released 10-community to the public ftps,.

oph well. of to try installing 9.2 after my tea

[Livy]

Bollocks!!! the 9.2 cd doesnt even get that far, it comes up a fatal error and couldnt continue whne checking the pcmcia bus etc.

gonna get the 10-community and check that,

i was in abit of a hurry burning the 9.2 disks, mighta missed something.

[shn]

Originally posted by Livy@10 March 2004 - 18:43
Bollocks!!! the 9.2 cd doesnt even get that far, it comes up a fatal error and couldnt continue whne checking the pcmcia bus etc.

gonna get the 10-community and check that,

i was in abit of a hurry burning the 9.2 disks, mighta missed something.

Are you installing it on a laptop?

If not you can press F1 at the boot prompt when the cd boots and there should be an option you can pass to the kernel to disable pcmcia.

[Livy]

yeah, its a laptop, the 10rc1 disk went past that point easyly.

i'd prefer to have the 10-community version anyway, so im nto gonna muck bout with it the now, i'll have another go tomorrow sometime.

[Livy]

not having much luck here either, 10-comunity doesnt work either. im gonn atry another distro. or see if the mandrake move works.

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[shn]

Your not the only one on the board that has had problems with Mandrake on a laptop. They just do not seem to play well with laptops.

Im pretty sure another distro would work though.

The only thing about Mandrake move is you really cant save your settings unless you have a usb key, or another partition to save it to. But for a laptop that really shouldnt be a problem.

[Livy]

oh well. got any recomendations to another distro??? easy install for a newbie.

[LSA]

Fedora seems to be a easy install, a new veresion is going to be released soon, I think its in testing right now but I could be wrong.

fedora.redhat.com

Check out Slackware though

http://www.bitbenderforums.com/vb22/showth...p?postid=311808

[Livy]

might try fedora then, not at home the now, so cant get them yet. should be able to give installing a go on saturday.