Well, I've got pentium pro(200Mhz) CPU,
32M ram, ATI VT2 card, WD caviar 6G Hard drive,
And that's it,
I'm using kernel version 2.2.14-15.
I tried installing mandrake from the same CD on another computer,
and X didn't work also. The mandrake CD I'm using is distributed by
linuxnet.co.il. maybe they did somethig wrong?
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: &shin;&bet;&tav; 12 &alef;&vav;ℷ&vav;&samekh;&tet; 2000 13:26
Subject: Re: [newbie] Nothing works on mandrake.
>On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, you wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>> untill yesterday, I was using RedHat 6.1,
>> and everything worked great.
>> Yesterday I formatted everything, and installed mandraked 7.0,
>> and it loks like a big mistake, nothing works good,
>> first of all, I couldn't install Xserver,
>> I can't login as root, I need to login as a normal user and then to
su(This can probably be changed),
>> and I can't install mysql++(At least not the source distribution).
>> The mysql++ worked on the same computer for RedHat,
>> I even installed from the same tar file.
>> Can anyone help me?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Amir Hardon.
>
> Amir, generally, when your system has little or no problems
>with a distro like RedHat, but does with Mandrake, it's not good
>news. Most common reason is that RH is not optimized for i586/686
>and Mandrake is. Your hardware most likely isn't up to snuff to
>handle i586/686 timings in the code, or you've got some
>misconfigurations (eg, bios), or both.
>
> You'll prob'ly havt'a go back to a i386 distro like RH. If
>you really wanna stick with Mandrake, a 7.1 version optimized for
>i386/486 will be available shortly. You could also try recompiling
>the Mandrake kernel (from source) for i386. The source rpm's are on
>the CD. The first option in 'make (X)config' is i386... i586
>optimizations. If that helps, you'll prob'ly need to hunt down
>other problems (like mysql) and recompile them, or get
>....i386.rpm's to replace the Mandrake i586 ones. I'd think it
>would just be easier to stick with an i386 distro tho, 'specially
>if your problems are hardware/configuration related.
>
> How 'bout posting your hardware specs? we might be able to help
>--
>~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
