Many folk have reported sluggish performance on their Mandrake 8.0 installations. Here are some reasons: 1. See the article on MandrakeForum. If you have a K6 with a VIA chipset, there is your explanation. 2. If you want to change that behavior, first choose whether you want reiserfs and full usb support or not. If you do not care and don't mind a possibly significant risk to your data, then put in CD2 open a terminal(superuser mode) rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-linus2.4-2.4.3-2mdk Open Mandrake Control Center Go to Boot Configuration and choose LILO or Graphical LILO Modify your linux boot change the boot image to vmlinuz-2.4.3-2mdklinus close reboot You will then have all the performance kernel2.4 is capable of delivering, though you might be able to improve it further by consulting man hdparm and tuning any ide drives you have. You may also have significant risk to your data, but that is another story. Civileme
