I would reluctantly have to agree. That will teach me to be lazy & not
build my computer this past time! ;) Oh well, It's more fun building
anyway... I'm sure that's what I'll do the next time I convince my wife it's
time to upgrade.
Thanks all for any help you have given.
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mcintosh, Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Rick Shear'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:31 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't work!!
looks to me as if there is a problem owning a GATEWAY
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Rick Shear [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Date: mercredi 9 mai 2001 15:53
> À: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't work!!
>
> My install basically did the same thing. Would go all the way through the
> installation process but wouldn't boot. My system ( A Gateway 800 Athlon)
> would hang just before the press I for interactive boot message. I went
> through everything I could think of even purchased a new video card which
> I
> knew to be X compatable all with the same results. Got a copy of Red Hat
> 7.1 installed it and it runs fine. I really wanted to get Mandrake to
> work
> but for some reason it just doesn't like my machine. I had heard such
> good
> about it. Oh well, I haven't given up I may try a later version &
> hopefully
> they will work out the bugs.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "nicholas allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:20 AM
> Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 doesn't work!!
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced this problem? I had Mandrake 7.0 working
> > fine and thought I would just install (not upgrade) to Mandrake 8.0 over
> > the top. The installation finsihed sucessfully and there were absolutely
> > no errors (event testing X worked). However, when I rebooted my machine
> > I see the message "welcome to Mandrake press I for interactive boot" and
> > then the system just freezes completely.
> >
> > I never had any problems before and my machine is less that a year old
> > (Gateway 650 MHz processor with 30 Gig hard drive and 384 MB RAM). May
> > be I'll just stick with RedHat as they seem to test theirs more
> > thoroughly. I think Mandrake install is very unprofessional - I really
> > don't know why everyone likes it. It looks bad and there are spelling
> > mistakes - it just doesn't look polished to me. Also why is X configured
> > at the end? This should be done way before you even install all the
> > software! The reason I like Mandrake though is the desktop environments
> > are better configured there is more software and it is up to date. If
> > only they had a decent installation program like RedHat's it would be
> > the best distro....
> >
> >
>
