Real Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> i'd like to try cooker on my machine, but so far it is difficult. After
> downloading a mirror (with the excellent 'lftp'), i made an iso image
> (with the 'boot' image, not a 'mdkinstall...' ), burned a CD and was
> happily installed the thing until it arrived to the ethernet portion on
> the install.
>
> Instead of autodetecting my Intel-Pro100 hardware, it showed me a list
> of all possible cards. I specified the pro-100 and told it to
> 'autoprobe' the card (for its parameters), but the thing never
> acknowledged that i had such a card in my boxen.
>
> Slightly disturbed, i re-installed Mandrake 6.0, and this time burned a
> iso image with the 'mdkinstall_cdrom' boot image (i _really_ wanted to
> try out cooker). This is the Panoramix. With expectations, i tried
> again to install the thing. There were many many glitches, but i
> eventually discovered that the 'install ethernet' portion of the
> Panoramix tool did not actually do anything.
>
should be there now :)
as for your card, you're using the eepro100 module aren't you?
> At this point, i just reinstalled Mandrake 6.0-2, and i'll wait & see if
> anybody else has those problems.
>
> BTW, Panoramix is nice, but mucho slower than the text version of the
> install tool. Unless speed is greatly enhanced, this tool wil only be
> used by those who know no better.
>
can you tell me the memory size you have and your cdrom speed?
thanks, cu Pixel.
