Probably a case of unsupprted (in native format) display card or Monitor. Since i tried it out on 2 machines and found that on one it gave a cool graphical install option much like as in RHL6.1. On the other(the first one i tried it on) it gave the drab RHL6.0 type interface. What I found is that you neeed to have atleast one swap partition of atmost 32Megs(124 etc does NOT help, as I find the machine with 124 Swap crawling whereas the one with 3 partitions of 32 megs each is doing a shade better... remember both are 200MhzPentium/16Meg boxes)if u r using something with less than 32 Megs . the native partition has to be specified as ext2/exfias since giving a option of linux native does not somehow result in the desired partition being detected by the installation automatically. I used Ranish Partition tool it's the best so far (find it on the August 99 Cd of Chip). What's more there's wine for the diehard Windoes addict. Thoough on my Boxes all I've been able to run using wine is the clumsy calc.exe. As expected any emulator for windoes will also be similarly resources HUNGRY! As I faced problem with the mandrake 7 installation, I made a kickstart file to automate the process and it makes hickless installation. If anyone is interested, then I can share it. Tell us more about your kickstart file Mrinal. Find it okai for the techies as well.the installion is simple enough for the non-techie enduser. Sthitaprajna wrote: > > This is some sort of an attempt at a review of MandLinux 7.0 and it may > well turn out to be long.. > > > The installation autoboots from the CD on restarting, but the promised > graphical DRAKX tool never started(this was also seen on 2 other > installs, though the distro promises it, of course-maybe some probs with > the h/w). Then it drops you into the Redhat type blue-screen install and > asks for all the nonsense about your keyboard, then type of install-and > here, you run into the first glitch, says "No partitions detected". So, > Mr/Ms Installer, exit install, and partition the disk for a swap(in my > case 32-hough not necessary) and a native /. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
