With Mandrake 7.0's installation. I had mentioned earlier how it had included the XFree86 3.3.6, which now recognizes my S3 Savage 3D card, and my Maestro sound chip. Today, though, I was even more impressed. I used Partition Magic on a friend's machine to create a /boot partition for him (he's got a very big hard drive), making sure that it was within the first 8 gigabytes. He also has a cable modem (RoadRunner). I had read various sites on the web about how to work with DHCP and all that, and was prepared for an ordeal. Mandrake detected his ethernet card. When I told it that there were no others, it went on to the next selection. I though, uh-oh, I guess I'll have to deal with that stuff later. And, probably due to some installation decision I made (such as no dial-out modem support) it didn't seem to install Netscape. So, once everything appeared to be done, I rebooted, up came the desktop, I entered 'www.cnn.com' in KFM, and I was connected! I can't say everything went smoothly, as it seemed to have a problem with his RW CD-ROM until I removed the supermount from the line in mstab. But other than that, I am more than impressed. Mandrake, you guys make a great distribution! -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Powered by Linux!
