Just my 2 cents: never had a problem with a Celeron 433 on an oldie (and goldie) Shuttle 637 board; trying to "upgrade" to a cheap dual board (Asus 2P97DS) and a larger HD, Mandrake would hang in 2-nd stage install, except with a junkie 512k VGA card. The moral: for me, its Shuttle and not Asus; all the new crap I've seen, including BIOS-es soldered on the mobo, tells me Asus now plays the marketing games more than the technical game we were used to. Such a shame. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Second stage install hangs > Larry, > > Now that's what I call dancing on the razors edge. Clearly some folks are > able to do what you're doing. I've had nothing but trouble and torment > when trying to run Mandrake with Celeron/Intel hardware. WD is definately > falling behind...(another story). As a matter of fact RedHat didn't run > much better for me on my Celeron worstation. > > Now, my AMD at home is another story altogether. No worries at all. No > matter what I'm running. And believe it or not I didn't stop running > Windows because it ran crappy for me. I've found the secret to getting > Windows to settle down and run stable is keeping the registry sqeaky > clean. I just can't get Mandrake to run well with Celeron and Intel > hardware. > > -- > 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 Larry Marshall had this to say! > > > > > > 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 > > > > Gee Mark...for the first few months I played with Linux I had Corel, > > Mandrake, and Red Hat on a 300mhz Celeron and I'm currently running a > > Western Digital drive on my K6-2 machine without any problems unless I > > try to run 7.2 :-) The 7.2 problems seem more associated with XFree, > > CUPS and KDE than anything else. > > > > Cheers --- Larry > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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