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madrake experience?

Started by Guest, 2002-09-19T21:46:07-05:00 (Thursday)

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Guest

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

Victor Cardona

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

Stiffler

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
Retired webmaster of CAOS.

William Grim

QuoteSwitch to FreeBSD.

Dang!  I was beat.  Oh well, here it goes... "Switch to FreeBSD!!!"  :hammer:  :hammer:  :hammer:
William Grim
IT Associate, Morgan Stanley

Victor Cardona

I miss my FreeBSD  :-x

Victor Cardona

I plan on buying SuSE 8.1 when it becomes available. I will be happy to share with others.

Victor

Stiffler

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
Retired webmaster of CAOS.

Victor Cardona

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

Guest

People actually pay for linux?