I have installed Mandrake 8.1 in a few machines. I am using extended operating system loader(XOSL) which is free and also comes with ranish partition manager t partition your HDDs. I have installed lilo(linux boot loader) in the corresponding linux partition. I have winme, RH7.1, Caldera Openlinux and Mandrake 8.1. Out of all Mandrake is the best. I don't say this just I belong to this list. I am in many other linux lists too. Install Mandrake 8.1 in expert mode. You will get option what to install lilo or grub and where to install MBR or its own partition.
On Monday 17 December 2001 20:46, 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 > ============================== ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042
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