On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:33, M.Schild wrote: > Hello, > A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One > Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to > Linux but before installing it, I would like your opinion. > From what I found out on the net, her laptop has: RAM 256Mo , 1GHz ,HD > 20 Go. > What version would be best, MDK 9.1 or 10? Any foreseeable problems?( > she would assassinate me if things went ( more) wrong. > Thanks for your help > Maryse
I would suggest you go over to http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html?PHPSESSID=8fb36aeaa7ea05b6eacff6cbbc718acb and get yourself a copy of PCLOS. PCLOS is a bootable linux liveCD based on Mandrake 9.2 made by a guy called Texstar. Tex has for many years produced RPM packages for Mandrake, and now he has forked off his own distro. What is really nice about PCLOS is that you can boot it from CD just like knoppix and it comes up as a Mandrake desktop with everything already preconfigured with Nvidia drivers, Acrobat, Java etc, and with online update sources predefined. (Tex uses Synaptic instead of rpmdrake for updates) Tex has bundled in a sensible selection of applications all ready to go. Perfect for a Linux newbie. If your friend likes what she see. It is real simple to install PCLOS to hard drive as a dual boot with Windows. Or alternatively you could proceed with a standard Mandrake install knowing that if PCLOS runs then Mandrake will also install OK. I believe in the future all Linux distros will install like this. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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