well it is very accurate as far as my experience is concerned, and frankly thats the only one that really matters to me since I'm the one that has to put up with it. Inferior hardware sucks! Celeron sucks! Intel sucks! seems pretty plain and simple to me. ;) -- Mark / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat * in order to get the rats up from below decks * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! * * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 */ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<*REPLY SEPERATOR*>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 Tom Berkley had this to say! > I'm running dual celerons with mandrake just fine and know a > few other who are too. So your statement about mandrake not > liking celerons is not very accurate. > > tom berkley > > Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > You know...if I didn't know better I'd say you both were trying to install > > Mandrake on Celeron processor machine with Western Digital hard > > drives. It's a hardware issue. You may want to look at the drives, or the > > chipsets on the mobo's themselves. Celerons and mandrake aren't known to > > get along all that well. Pure Pentium chips and AMD's fair much > > better. And yes, I know that Celeron chips are Intel, however, they're > > _not_ Pentiums. > > > > -- > > Mark > > > > / * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat > > * in order to get the rats up from below decks > > * so they can be kicked over the side and drowned! > > * > > * REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496 > > */ > > > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<*REPLY SEPERATOR*>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 EagleIce had this to say! > > > > > I've been having this very same problem at work and I haven't found a > > > solution 'yet'. But in that case it is not a LM-specific problem, I've tryed > > > 'almost all' the Linux dists on the market to install on that particular > > > computer and they all freeze when loading into ramdisk, except Caldera which > > > installs with the help of 'Lisa' the text-based install program. > > > > > > Please let me know if you find out. > > > > > > ei > > > > > > On Sunday 26 November 2000 07:10, Ed Ewing wrote: > > > > > > > > Not a newbie but certainly feeling like one. > > > > Burned a cd with the iso image and have tried every install option and > > > > always hangs when going to second stage. > > > > Hardware problem? Trying to load on Compaq. > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > > > > > Ed > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > Content-Description: > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > >
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