On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 21:56, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > DAMN!!! > > As some of you may recall, I tried installing drake on my fiances machine, > but was having troubles with the hard drive. Well...after testing a few > drives and cables in a couple different machines, we finally found one that > worked. So all is good...or so we thought! > > We thought what the heck...lets get naked and install mandrake. We got to > the point where it looked like it was configuring the booloader or x and the > mouse just froze right up. I don't know if I was just being impaitent or > what but I rebooted that beast. Was I wrong in doing so and have to > reinstall everything again or should it have enough to reboot and start OK?
What is the system again? A Pentium? It could be that Mandrake doesn't like the older hardware. You may want to try a distro with less hardware requirements. (That's pretty much any other save Knoppix which doesn't like some older hardware).
