For anyone out there having problems installing Mandrake 7.1 beta
because of the ata/66 glitch, here are some suggestions.
First off I downloaded the cdrom.img file from the following
location: ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/pixel/cdrom.img
Once you have done this, I placed the Mandrake 7.1 beta
cdrom (by the way I am using beta 2) in my wifes
computer (win98 se) and went to my computer and selected
open for the mandrake cd, went to dosutils, and the ran
rawritewin and chose the download path to the source of
the cdrom.img file, inserted a blank floppy, then clicked
on write.
After this had completed I put the floppy in my computer
and the mandrake 7.1 beta 2 in my cdrom drive. Booted
off the floppy, when the install screen came up I selected
F1 so I could get to the boot prompt menu and then
typed text so I would get a text install (there is something
wrong with the graphical install, but you can try it -- the
video was all screwed up).
There are some issues with the text install, when you get
to partitions, it has a set number of dirs you can make..
so I couldn't make a /root directory, so I just used a
larger partition size for / so I could have room for /root
as well.
It will not install the second cdrom that is available
for download. After the installation had complete
I used DrakRPM to install the rest of the packages I
needed. Using this method I got Xfree86 4.0 setup
on my GeForce DDR at 1600x1200 with 32 bit
color depth. I had to use XFdrake, and change
the card to a DDR in order for it to let me use 32
bit, otherwise it would just let me use 16 bit.. I also
edited the XF86Config-4 and XF86Config to make
sure my default color depth used 32 bit..
Next I recompiled the kernel and enabled my
promise controller support under block devices,
and I also enabled use UDMA as default,
saved information and compiled. Did the proper
steps, rebooted and I had ata/66 support.
hdparm -itT /dev/hde reported 145mb/sec for 128mb
test, and 64mb was 28 mb/sec.
