Greets all,
I purchased mandrake 7.1 disk 1 and 2 from www.lsl.com and installed
last night.
My question is, during the install (custom/workstation/install) I was
asked which of 3 additional disks did I have and none of the titles
given for the three matched that which was on either of my disks
(Mandrake 7.1 Install i586 and Mandrake 7.1 Extras i586). What gives
here, is this MandrakeSofts way of pushing their PowerPack product. One
would assume that they support their d/l version during their install -
very dissapointing and sounds a lot like that other OS. I must however
say that the install is much better and for the first time the X
configuration picked up my graphics card (Diamond S550 - I think) and
actuall tested. I usually have to simply specify the monitor,
resolution and test then cancel out with a Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and then
specify my graphics card then monitor and resolution and forget testing
because it ALWAYS fails - just accept the settings and pray for the
best. Why does Mandrake not give me the choice when I am installing to
verify/specify the graphics card before testing the first time through,
I spent 2 days the first time trying to figure out what was going wrong
before I said $%*! it and tried the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace thing and just
let it fly.
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