[wellylug] Mandrake 10

[Jamie Baddeley]

yep. Best you get yer fine self to:

http://wellylug.org.nz/index.php?page=meetings/meetings.php

I hope there will be some mandrake peeps there that can help.

jamie

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 20:23, Steve Macdonald wrote:
> God this all seems pretty full on, is there anywhere one can go to get it 
> all installed?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pete Black" <pete at marchingcubes.com>
> To: <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 6:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Mandrake 10
> 
> 
> > It's very possible your laptop has a buggy ACPI implementation - I have 
> > seen this on both of my AMD systems with various kernels.
> >
> > You will probably be able to boot the machine by passing 'acpi=off noapic 
> > nolapic' arguments to the kernel - precisely how you do this in the 
> > mandrake installer I don't know (dropped mandrake after 9.0 or so), but 
> > this is the number 1 source of 'can't even boot the kernel' trouble I have 
> > seen.
> >
> > Someone else will likely be able to tell you in more detail how to pass 
> > kernel args in the mandrake installer, and it is by no means the only 
> > possible issue, but it would be my first guess.
> >
> > -Pete
> >
> >
> >
> >>--- Steve Macdonald <smar_tarse at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Ok have never used this before so dont know how I go about posting 
> >>>questions
> >>>or anything.
> >>>
> >>
> >>You've done OK so far :-)
> >>
> >>
> >>>I have just brought a copy of Mandrake 10 and went to install it on my 
> >>>laptop
> >>>which is an Packard Bell Easynote C3, has a athlon XP 2600 processor 512 
> >>>MB
> >>>Ram SIS 740 Graphics adaptor and the rest of the things that come with 
> >>>it. I
> >>>have never used or installed Linux before and was told that Mandrake was 
> >>>the
> >>>best place for me to start.
> >>
> >>Best is debateable, but it is certainly up there :-)
> >>
> >>>Unfortunatly when I run the set up I only get as
> >>>far as it asking if I want to install Mandrake and hit enter the screen 
> >>>then
> >>>goes blank and does nothing after this. I tried all the advanced options 
> >>>for
> >>>setup and the same thing happens or it appears to freeze.
> >>>
> >>>What am I doing wrong or can I not install it on my machine
> >>>
> >>
> >>Details from this web site (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/ab374/) give 
> >>some
> >>hints, but suggest that on that laptop, with SiS based graphics/lan/modem 
> >>you
> >>might have some problems with pretty much any version of Linux. It does at
> >>least prove that Linux can be installed & used on that Laptop.
> >>
> >>My normal approach in this sort of case is to try a LiveCD to check
> >>compatabilty first. My preferred one is PCLinuxOS. If this fires up OK, 
> >>the
> >>chances are that you'll get Mandrake installed OK.
> >>
> >>Let me know if you are interested in trying a copy.
> >>
> >>There are a number of things you can try to get around the problem, but 
> >>this is
> >>prob not the easiest thing to play with if you are not familiar with 
> >>Linux.
> >>
> >>It is something you may be best off bringing to a meeting to get some help
> >>working through it.
> >>
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>
> >>  Brent Wood
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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