Olof Bjarnason wrote:
Hi all!
I hope this is the right mailing list to send this mail to;
I tried to find the accurate one.
I am relatively new to Linux, specifically to the Mandrake
distribution.
From what I have gathered so far about Mandrake, it has a strong
aim at beeing user-friendly and makes such bald statements as
beeing the "Best OS for the novice and expert".
So far some of what I have seen is quite user-friendly in my eyes,
eg. the installation was very clear and non-obfuscated, and the
autoconfiguring of window managers is really good. But best of all
is the Mandrake control central, which I view as the real key to
Mandrake's future. I have not yet tried the "download/install new
program"-system, which I've heard should be [quite] automated with
features such as automatic dependency analysis & download/install.
But: yesterday I wanted to access my old 4GB harddrive, which
contain an installation of Windows XP and is in ntfs file system
format. I put it in the computer and checked that BIOS found my
harddrive and all was clear; naively I though "Mandrake will
auto-configure my new hard drive".
Sadly, this wasn't the case. I had to read through 'mount'
documentationand hey - I am back in RedHat Linux, which was the
previous Linux dist I used and didn't like because of the *giant* load
of administrative work I had to perform just to install a single
program, for example.
Shouldn't an OS claiming "user-friendliness" auto configure new
hard drives installed in the system? Or am I doing something wrong,
perhaps the Control Center can help me out? If this is the case,
please give me a pointer, and I apologize for taking up your time.
See you,
/Olof
Does Windows *automatically* configure drives added that were previously
used with other OSs?
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Brant Fitzsimmons
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