Thanks.... 'Preciate it. I've been building this system out of parts for the
last few months, when I could afford some more parts. This mboard has Sound
Blaster sound built-in, and I'm going to be using an Advansys SCSI card as
well as two 850 meg IDE drives. :-) Should make for an interesting system.
'Preciate all the help and suggestions. I'll do as you suggest and install
all the dev libs and such. FWIW, on RedHat at work, I did a custom install,
installing everything except the foreign language "how-to" files. :-)
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin, Darin W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 11:41 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 6.0 Question
> I have a dual P-Pro running Mandrake.. I downloaded the manrake60-2.iso
the
> night after it was posted. It automatically detected that I was running
an
> SMP system and installed the SMP kernel. Every piece of hardware in my
> system has worked flawlessly since this install. I have an Intel Ether
> Express Pro 100, Adaptec 2940 UW with two 7200 RPM Quantum drives, a 4 gig
> Seagate IDE, Mitsumi CD-Rom and CD-RW, I also have a CS4232 sound card.
> Mandrake has been a pleasant switch for me. I've tried Redhat, and SuSE
> installs before. And, while I was able to get them working properly, it
> took a lot of work. Especially with SuSE 6.0. Plus, SuSE had a nasty
habit
> of crashing when trying to access Vfat partitions. Mandrake has been the
> easiest Linux install I have ever done.
>
> The only thing I would recommend is that when you do the install, make
sure
> you install all of the development libraries. That way, if you need to
> compile something, you can.
>
> Darin Martin
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> LEXIS-NEXIS
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 10:52 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] Linux Mandrake 6.0 Question
> >
> > Hey, all.... just picked up my copy of Mandrake 6.0 from the computer
> > store
> > (figured I might as well, since no one is going to burn me a copy of the
> > ISO
> > image <G>)
> > My machine will be a Dual-PPro 200 with 192 Megs of ram and about 10.7
> > Gigs
> > of drivespace. I haven't picked up a video card yet, but that's the next
> > purchase, along with a "generic" PCI ethernet card.
> > Question is, what should I look out for with regards to installation
> > headaches on this system? I understand Mandrake has a 6.1 version out
now
> > (not available in the local stores, apparently.)
> > This is really going to be a "training" machine for me to teach myself
> > Linux
> > Admin skills. Anything I should watch out for with this?
> > Thanks...
> > John
> >
>
