[wellylug] I have installed Linux Mandrake 9.1, Now what? : MDK installed Okay 4 me...

Mangee mangee at paradise.net.nz
Fri Apr 25 12:31:14 NZST 2003


Just finished installs of Mandrake 9.1 on two machines, with no major 
problems.  GUI booted okay - I think the trick with the install is no do a 
minimal install with only bare necessities, and then add the rest later - 
there are to many things that can go wrong if you get to ambitious at the 
install stage - Package Manager etc are good friendly tools for installing 
new software - but it annoys me that they have seperated out the install 
and remove software into two seperate utilities... I liked i think it was 
Mdk 8 where you could do both - and check what you have installed (you can 
use kpackage for that now tho - with a few fiddles)

One of the machines I installed Mdk on was a broken Redhat 8 DVD install 
(done by Quay computers - badly, twice) - the modem driver was broken, the 
AC'97 soundcard wouldn't work with the RH module, and even the 8139too 
ethernet module wouldn't always function.  It wouldn't boot into GUI, and 
couldn't even autologin. Had a few random freezes when booting and alsorts 
of quirks...  I spent about 3 days trying a variety of things to fix it, 
and in the end upgraded to MDK 9.1, never looked back... ethernet, sound 
all work.

Just a few quirks with the and the modem (intel HaM 536EP with intels 
binary only drivers) - if anyones been there, done that let me know.  The 
module loads okay, just can't seem to get MDK to recognise the modem.  
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In reply to:
>> From: Rose McGillicuddy <rmcgillicuddy at xtra.co.nz>
>> Subject: Re: [wellylug] I have installed Linux Mandrake 9.1, Now what?
>>  
>> Peter Jones wrote:
>>  
>> I recall Rose McG also had a problem when attempting to run startx with 
>> 9.1.
>>
>> Prety sure every Mandrake install I have tried (up to and including 9.0) 
>> had
>> the GUI as the default
>> option, has something been changed?

> Yes I had problems with GUI in Mandrake 9.1 - a local Linux person tried 
> to configure it for me but couldn't do it either.  I now have Red Hat 8 
> installed and finding my way  around that.
<snip> 
> So far the only problem is my lack of knowledge (which I am working on!), 
> and the sound card, which isn't major.  I liked the Package Manager in 
> Mandrake 9, so far haven't needed to install anything using that.  Did 
> download and get opera going.
<snip> 
> Rose
 
 
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