Hi, Jimmy,
That's quite a bummer that your Mandrake 6.0 machine is running so
sickly. We have three mandrake 5.3 machines, and they're all running
like greased lightning on skids. I'm quite a newbie myself, but I
suspect that the problems you're seeing are the rare exception. From
the description of your system, I can't see why it would be so slow. Do
you have a single 200 mb swap partition? I'm pretty sure the maximum
allowable single swap partition size is 128 mb. Well, I hope someone
can help you get your system running. If not, Windows isn't so bad at
all. Good luck,
Hidong
> Jimmy Garcia wrote:
>
> I've spent a week, unsuccessfully, trying to get Linux-Mandrake 6.0 to
> work properly. After getting through the install procedure, which went
> by with no real difficulty, I started Linux and was amazed at how slow
> it was. It kept accessing my hard drive for almost every little
> thing I did. I gave it a 3 Gig ext2 partition and a 200MB swap file
> partition from my 10Gig IBM 7200RPM ide hard drive. All my hardware
> is supposed to be compatible with it (except for my SB Live). It took
> like 3 minutes for Netscape to load, it took 3 minutes for a desktop
> theme to apply, and there was obviously something wrong with it. I
> tried to shut it down, but then it hung while "preparing a new
> session." When I rebooted, there were errors on my hard drive and I
> had to 'run fsck manually'. I did, and when I started it again, some
> programs wouldn't work like, Netcfg. Some Icons turned black in KDE
> and I couldn't even click on them. I had the same shutdown problem
> and decided to re-install it.
> The same things happened to me. I was told that I have to upgrade
> some kernal or something. But, I can't even load Linux without having
> to go through that lengthy fsck procedure at startup.
>
> I guess I just stick to windows :(
>
> For those Linux experts out there, someone should come up with a site
> or book that'll help people migrate from Windows to Linux.
> Just a suggestion.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> James Garcia
>
