Thanks for the compliments my friend, most people when can't install it they
blame it on the software
Fareed S
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 10:57 AM
Subject: [Cooker] tickled pink
> I just installed Mdk 7.0, the 'cheapbytes' version of air. It
> has most all files dated Jan. 10, 11, and 12th. Actually I did several
> installs, just playing around with it. All went smoothly, no problems.
> I was very impressed with the GUI install (not upgrade), particularly
> the re-partitioning. The main reason I gave up a perfectly fine 6.0
> install was to re-partition. Figured I might as well upgrade too.
>
> I was also pleasantly surprised to find that several of my favorite
> apps that I thought I'd need to re-install, were already installed! The
> only hardware that wasn't completely setup and functioning was my AWE64
> sound card, but that was no problem. A quick 'sndconfig' took care of it
> in seconds. As I said, I did several installs, trying 'recommended' to
full
> 'development', about 4 altogether.
>
> In 2 installs (tries) tho, Windows would not recognize a 2 gig fat32
> partition I was trying to leave on the end of the 8 gig HDD. NBD, I
> was sort'a on the fence about having that partition, or just giving the
> whole drive to Linux, which is what I ended up doing. In the first 3
> installs (about 40 mins. ea.) I also kept ending up with a 7mb blank
> space on the end of the drive. I read awhile back that setting the
> HDD from 'lba' to 'normal' in bios would eliminate this. So on the final
> install, that's what I did. No more blank space, DiskDrake allocated the
> entire drive (WD Caviar). On booting tho, I got the infamous 'LI....'.
> When I set the drive back to 'lba', that problem was fixed and 7.0
> booted without error.
>
> So thanks Mandrake, not everybody's havin problems with 7.0 ;-)
>
> [Hardware is a p3-450 oc'd to 608, on a soyo 6ba+III. 13.6 7200rpm IBM
> hda (W98) master, and the WD 8.4 5400rpm hdb (Mdk 7) as slave on ide0.
> SB AWE64 sound, Phoebe (TI chipset) 33,6 modem, pci Voodoo3]
>
> To comment on the recent 'oc'ing' discussion. Most oc'rs run some
> of the 'stablest' hardware. My 450 will run W98 at 621, and some
> oc'rs would call it stable. I run it at 608 because at that speed it
> will run the '16 hour' prime95 (Linux) self test with no errors.
> 'Cpuburn' wont' get the internal diode to go over 43C, no matter how
> long it runs. I suspect a lot of the problems some blame on their
> OS, compiler, Mandrake, etc., are really hardware problems, and
> often from brand new ready made systems like Dell, Gateway, .....
> --
> .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
