[wellylug] Mandrake 9 / RedHat 8

Peter Jones PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz
Tue Dec 3 10:06:56 NZDT 2002


No, its not one of yours, also Mdk9 using the same CDs installs fine on
another PC which has onboard i810, but also has a voodoo2 PCI card (gotta
love this old shit)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damon Lynch [mailto:damon at dev-zone.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 09:59
> To: wlug
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Mandrake 9 / RedHat 8
> 
> 
> Did I give you a CD of Mdk9?  If so, the CD may have a problem!
> 
> Damon
> 
> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:40, Peter Jones wrote:
> > I have installed RH8 on a PC which has onboard Voodoo3 
> video. RH detected
> > the vid, installed necessary drivers and is good.
> > Trying to install mandrake9 on the same box and it craps 
> out very early in
> > the piece with messages about video.
> > Doing a text install gets it through to the end, but when 
> rebooting it fgets
> > to the point where (I guess) it would  be starting X and
> > blanks the screen.  
> > Are RH and Mdk that different?
> > Lycoris installs beautifully on this box, BTW
> > 
> > 
> >   .-.   Wellington
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