Does anyone on here have experience with Mandrake 8.2? I am barely a competent user (so far) and something is seriously wrong with it, it froze several weeks ago, and now when I try to start it up, it runs through the startup, will not allow me to enter interactive, then freezes on "checking for new hardware" which is a function of harddrake. A friend with a lot more knowledge tried to modify harddrake to bypass this, but was unsuccessful. Anyone have a good idea? (other than chuck the system out the window) I would just wipe it and reinstall as I had not set up all that much, the thing I am concerned with is it's installed on a laptop, and it was kind of a pain to get the drivers -yay winmodems :P
Any suggestions would be great.
j
I have never used Mandrake. Can you hit alt-F2, F3, and F4? See if there are any error messages that are being displayed on one of these virtual consoles. If there are, then let us know what they say.
Victor
I remember having a problem like that with Mandrake. I gave up and just re-installed. Then Mandraked acted up over something else so I threw Mandrake in the Trash can and went to SuSE. SuSE never gave me problems. You can get version 8.0 free off their ftp sites. I eventually out-grew SuSE, so I switched to Gentoo, recently. I will say this before Grim does. Switch to FreeBSD. :-)
Jon
QuoteSwitch to FreeBSD.
Dang! I was beat. Oh well, here it goes... "Switch to FreeBSD!!!" :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:
I miss my FreeBSD :-x
I plan on buying SuSE 8.1 when it becomes available. I will be happy to share with others.
Victor
Professional or personal version? If you go for the Professional version, I (or we) could chip in. Just a thought. Thanks for the offer V.
Jon
I always go for the professional version. Don't worry about chipping in though. This time the Mrs and I are splitting the cost. If anyone wants me to burn copies, then I might ask for a couple of bucks to cover the cost of CDs.
Victor
People actually pay for linux?