On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 01:00, David Feldman wrote: > I'm evaluating various Linux distros in order to recommend one to > novice users, particularly Windows switchers. Mandrake has been > recommended to me, especially since it can resize NTFS partitions. > > I downloaded 10.1 Community and tried to install but have been unable > to do so. First I got a text-based installer instead of graphical, and > the best I was able to achieve was a system that booted to a text login > prompt instead of GNOME or KDE. Then I tried the low-res graphical > install, but the best I was able to achieve there was that it would > hang at the post-install configuration. Any thoughts? > > Also, hoping for some clarification: > - How does 10.1 Community differ from 10.1 Official? > - If 10.1 Official might work better for my purposes, is there any way > to download it for eval purposes? > - How does 10.1 Official differ from 10.1 Discovery? > - How does 10.1 PPC relate to the various Intel versions? > > Thanks, > Dave
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