Last night we installed Mandrake 8.0 on a friend's computer. He does
not have a CDROM drive, but he does have a cable modem, so we tried
the network install. That is, we booted from a network.img floppy and
went through the whole program. It mostly worked, but we had a few
problems. Because all we did was boot from floppy, we don't know the
name of the program we were using.
After some fussing, we ended up with one unsolved problem.
X dumps core. This is weird because it was using X the whole time
we were installing. Mandrake is a graphical install! When we got to
the "Configuring X" portion of the installation, the only question I
recall answering was monitor type. Could putting in a monitor type
that it doesn't like cause it to dump core? In all my fussing with X
in the past, I've gotten all kinds of crazy screens. Why would this
simply exit? Anyway, I'd like to go through the X configuration again,
so I figured I would do this through the Mandrake setup (if I could
figure out what that's called...thus my question). I thought Mandrake
was based on Red Hat, which used to have something called
XConfigurator, but I couldn't find that. If nothing else, I will just
edit the XF86Config file, but I'd like to go through the setup again
to see what Mandrake's idea of what's going is.
Thanks in advance, Bruce
