I was very successful in installing Mandrake 7.0.2 on my BP6 on the HDE drive.
Booted the CDROM, and followed instructions given for making the boot disk with
UDMA66 drivers, and installation went smooth.
My system has two drives on IDE3, one 20.5 GB, with NT4.0 and a 15.5 GB with
Linux. I boot Linux with Lilo as the default, and sometimes use NT4.0 for work
related booting from Lilo.
Steve Philp wrote:
> Christopher wrote:
> >
> > Howdy people, first off - Mandrake is my fav distro and I've tried quite a
> > few - bravo! Now, to my prob. Does the installer for Mandrake (I have 7.0)
> > detect for SMP support or is that something I add after installation? My
> > hardware is a Abit BP6 with two 500 mhz Celerons, 128 megs of RAM, VooDoo 3
> > 3000 AGP, ect. If it would work in SMP mode, I'd be very very happy :-)
> > Thnx!
> >
> > ~Christopher
>
> Yes, 7.0 will detect the SMP automatically during installation and
> install an SMP kernel. No worries there.
>
> 7.0 doesn't, out of the box, work the with UDMA/66 interfaces on the BP6
> board though. It'll make a boot disk during installation for you, but
> it won't let you install on those drives. A bit annoying, since the
> patches for the HPT366 interface have been available since the 6.1
> days...
>
> --
> Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
