Another "trick" I have found with Mandrake (certainly helped my success rate) is at the end of the full installation you get the option to "configure" several options - I always click every one now and it seem to help.
Once again, the upgraded video card was all that I needed to get the graphical installation. My problem with rc1 may be related to the fact this box has only scsi drives - although Beta 2 installed. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 February 2004 10:20 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mandrake 10 install question You'd defect if an RC didn't work?!? It's not supposed to work perfectly, thus the RC designator. I have installed RC1 and did not have the problems you had. Actually, I installed over my latest Cooker install when the kernel borked unstable on me. I had a graphical installer and it detected my kernel problem, installed the kernel from the ISO's and that fixed my problem without a full re-install, thankfully (thanks Robert for the CD's =). I'd say that perhaps there are some things on CD3 that got missed or your mix of hardware caused it to go into ncurses install. You can urpmi the rest from the cli if you need to. Also, Control Centre may have been installed but just not the graphical front end for it. Try running MMC from the cli and see how you go. Once you have done that, the CD's should have been automagically set up as sources for you and from the cli: 'urpmi packagename' is your friend. Don't give up, I have urpmi'd to the latest cooker today and it is very sharp indeed. Cheers Jason PS, once you have main and contrib sources set up, you want: urpmi --auto-select --force to stay updated. Steve Bell wrote: > Hi > > I installed (kind of) MDK10 RC1 at home last night, on dual boot XP PII350 > 320MB RAM. > > Has anyone else on list installed this? Reason I ask is the sucker did a > text based install on me (yuk). Did it do a graphical install for you? > > Next thing was I chose "internet computer" and "Multimedia computer" in > terms of packages to install. It installed pretty darn quick, and I saw > things like openoffice flick by, but upon first boot, KDE had next to > nothing in the menu. No Mandrake Control Center even! What to do? > > I only had CD's 1&2, cos I'd heard you could make do without three. It > asked for CD 3 at about 95% completion, but said click cancel (in my text > environment, yeah right) to avoid installation from this CD. Is this my > problem, or did something else go wrong? > > Thanks for your advice! > > Come on Mandrake camp, I don't want to have to defect to another distro > here!
