Julian, I can't help you with the boot manager problem, but I do recommend you use "exper" mode if you install Mandrake again. Initially, I worried about whether I was expert enough to use it, but it really gives you a lot of flexibility that is not present in the other modes. One example is control over your partitioning -- some of the other install modes will overwrite your existing partitions with no warning -- in expert you can avoid that, and it seemed fairly self explanatory *to me*. (You can also abort the installation before making any partition changes -- just don't do the last step on the partitioning dialog (labeled "done"??), or say no to any prompts which say anything like "the partition table will now be saved to disk", and, if you have to, reboot or shut your machine off.)
hope this helps, Randy Kramer Julian Opificius wrote: > Just to offer a contrasting and virtually worthless opinion here ... > I'm not sure about the "slicker install" or "souped up". I lost Windows > installs on two of my machines (Win98 and Win2000) because Mandrake 8.1's > installer trashed my partition tables without giving me a way out, so I > went back to Red Hat 7.2 and had a much better install experience. > I use System Commander 7 as a boot manager, but Mandrake's installer > wouldn't support writing the boot code on the Linux boot partition for > another boot manager to "pick up", it absolutely insisted on writing it's > boot block to the MBR, which is not polite, and more to the point, is not > compatible with System Commander. > > I'll try Mandrake again this week, because many people have a very high > opinion (I'm still subscribed to this list, obviously). > > If someone does know how to instruct Mandrake's installer to put it's boot > block on /boot (folks seem to call this a "superblock", apparently), please > tell me - I'd really like to give Mandrake a run - but please don't tell me > to trash System Commander: I've paid for it, I like it, and it's friendly > to my family users, who don't want to have to learn anything else :-) > > Thanks all ! > > Julian > ====================== > At 09:21 AM 12/17/01 -0600, you wrote: > > >---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > >Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake come from RedHat? > >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:20:17 -0600 > >From: David McGlone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >being an X-red hat user, I think Mandrake still runs and feels like Red Hat. > >It still handles like RH, it still uses a lot of files RH does and the > >convention RH does. > > > >to me it's clearly a souped up RH version with a different name. > > > >David M. > > > >On Monday 17 December 2001 07:02 am, you wrote: > > > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:06:00 -0500 > > > > > > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away Mandrake was "once" loosely > > > > based on the RedHat distro...it is no longer the case. Mandrake is > > > > clearly Mandrake.-- > > > > daRcmaTTeR > > > > > > ======================================== > > > I think at one time Mandrake was more than "loosely" based on RH. Back in > > > the 5.x days, I believe it was virtually RH w/ a slicker install and KDE > > > 1.x as a default desktop. You are quite correct that it is now a fully > > > independent (with some similarities, and still rpm based) distro all it's > > > own. Mike > > > >---------------------------------------- > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; name="message.footer" > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >Content-Description: > >---------------------------------------- > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > ============================== > Julian A. Opificius. > 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. > Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 > ============================== > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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