"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is
proof against all arguments and which one can not fail to keep a man in
everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
- Herbert Spencer
Tom you are absolutely correct. Every problem I have had thus far with
Mandrake installations have been self created due to ignorance of of the
subject or because of unsupported/conflicting hardware. In no case is the
problem a direct fault of a bad product released by Mandrake. There are too
many people successfully running 7.0-2 on machines similar to mine to
believe otherwise.
Pj
At 12:52 PM 8/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Gilbert Baron>
>
>>
>> If anyone can explain why I can load 7.0 but not 7.1 and can explain why
>> this should be so, perhaps I could be convinced, but I doubt it.
>>
>
> To paraphrase: nothin condemns a person to ignorance more than
>contempt prior to investigation. To place that idea into this
>situation, I've found that when faced with system problems it's
>much better if I suspect my own doings, the hardware (and it's
>config) I'm using, and then lastly, the OS. Those that have the most
>problems always seem to approach them in the reverse of that order,
>IMNSHO.
>
> Your hardware, particularly your HDD has been brought up in
>this thread. Just as important (prob'ly more so) is what motherboard
>you're using and it's bios and the configuration of both, not to
>mention all the other components that make up your system.
>
> As anecdotal proof that the last thing you should be accusing as
>the cause of your problem is the OS... consider how many people are
>_not_ having, or even able to reproduce the problem, and are
>successfully using Mdk 7.1 ??
>
> From what I've read on this thread, the user (attitude) and the
>hardware seem to be the most likely source(s) of the problem. Is
>this a 'Win' or 'ready made' system ?
>--
>~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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